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2 f7e0d707f0a7c0b7f0h 2 f$$e$d$f$e$f$e$f$ 2 DLLDddnLO\ 1 this. Well, what else do you do while watching a demo load (it'll take about 3 minutes...)? When it has, you can use the <SPACE BAR> to swop between background screens. This text also loops round, so it might get boring. But hey, you only live twice. 1 h<<00>=<<$H<RO<<<0d$$f$ 1 f7e0d707f0a7c0b7f0d7f07e0 1 f$$e$d$f$e$f$d$e$ 1 eq$d$$$f$$e$$ 1 To load from tape, delete all "d*" and change so:GOTO VAL "30" 1 SONG BY ST COMPILE 1 N#~2Dsy*tp 1 HI THERE. BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THIS! This demo (called, spookily enough, "demo c's") was written and generally coded by me, DATAsoft (alias John G.) and look for the address on one of the background screens. Which brings me on to controls: 1 ;"DEMO C's by DATAsoft"; 1 1984SNG&JAS| 1 1984SNG&JAS 1 07h755500. 1 - That's a lot better and now the musics perked up, get on down. Topics for this week (who am I beginning to sound like?) are erm 1 *y\#"y\2x\ 1 *D E M O C's 1 )&$0<0<:<<< 1 $$$""""$++ 1 well who cares anyway when there's someone as cool as me about (just listen to that modesty). Before you completely forget about reality, may I just point out that this is my first ever proper piece of programming, 100% pure machine code and I hope you like it enough to laugh. Greetings now. Hi to PENTAGRAM (in particular Agent-X for being such a good programmer), ESI for the same and thanks for Shock! Megademo, and to anybody else who wants one. Now I'll talk about the name. Well, were you wondering where DEMO C's came from? It just came to me one night ( - and the name, fnar fnar!). Yes, well... On a completely different note now, I've also written a spreadsheet in BASIC for you, and although the screen update is quite slow, it can handle 4 columns by 20 rows on screen at once (one cell = 7 characters) with a maximum of 20 rows by 24 columns altogether. You can have percentage signs, pounds, etc plus printer capabilities as long as you can print with a BASIC LPRINT statement, and all for the ridiculously 1 Yes it should load soon. 1 What on earth is Agent-X of PENTAGRAM trying to do - shame us all to death - he does know how good he is doesn't he??? Only joking there, if you're reading this Mr mysterious Agent-X (try saying that five times fast after you've just had a tooth filling!) (no thanks! (- my brother & sister have just had one. (HA - HA!))) (It's return of the Bracket-man, I said he would be). 1 So what else is there? DEFINITELY not politics - agree? Yes? Good. 1 SPOOK! You haven't. Heres a joke anyway. HOW MANY PROGRAMMERS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB? 1 PRESS SPACE (once loaded!) TO SWOP BETWEEN SCREENS IN THE LOWER THIRD OF THE SCREEN. Good, now go and find something to do while the rest of this 40K or more of demo, graphics, and music loads. Yes, I know the musics crap even though produced on Soundtracker. Thanks anyway t BZYK and Y.S. for putting it on the covertape... BYYYY 1 Okay, so 'DATAsoft' isn't a very weird pseudonym and I'm only a crap little demo-writer, but admit it - you are enjoying this really aren't you??. 1 Oh no, not more (You new this was coming didn't you) and at least I can spell (have you noticed one grammatical error yet?), and I'm ENGLISH, not Polish, German or French (they have good coders but noone as good as me (NOT!) - hey, lighten up, this is only a stupid scroller message). Will you remember this five minutes afterwards? I think not. I am bored. Are you bored? 1 No it's not the end yet - don't you dare turn me off. (Turn me on at once fnar fnar!) Oh dear, time for a quick break again. (after another five-minute-break). Hi again. That's better. But we're almost at the point at which I start to run out of interesting text. (wasn't that ages ago??). Perhaps you should reset this. 1 News now. I should be getting a +D disk drive soon and I'm sorry for S.U. magazine (it's finished if you didn't know). Now for the update which you always have to write after you've finished the text and before it's released to the world in general. Actually, this bit about no more demo's for a while should (hopefully) be a lie. This is because it's the start of the Easter Hols and aaaagh - I'm still writing this one. I just haven't done anything for ages. If you fancy forming a user group etc, or just sending letters to and fro, get writing - I could do with some fan mail... In case anyone's reading in Germany, Guten Tag! (It's the only language me and my brother know) This loops around again. Bye then. 1 NONE - IT'S A HARDWARE PROJECT!... (try and guess where I got it from - hint - it's cool and mentioned later on). Okay then, bye for now, seeya soon and all that - except I won't see you soon, there being no more hols for a while in which I can write things - I hope you like this one and the different screens through which you can flip at a flick of the SPACE bar. Hope I get a good mark if this is reviewed by that pratt (Whooops! - sorry) in the Public House section of the best magazine in the universe, Y.S. (and the coolest (that's enough hints for the joke earlier)). Here's another joke: 1 JOKE. Well, that was a 'joke' wasn't it? 1 I'm now going to tell a story. There's this SAD person at college who's best friend is a computer - An R.M. Nimbus (IBM compatible) to be exact. Virtually every lunch/free period, he's up there playing with them and what he doesn't know about IBM's you don't want to or ever will need to. Anyway, he linked up via a modem-thingy to a bulletin board and started TALKING to this computer running an artificial intelligence Eliza type program (via a keyboard of course) and he didn't even realise it until somebody got onto it afterwards and splashed it all over the news section... Somebody's got a copy of the text as well. Laugh - we nearly split our sides. How much memory left to go then? Can't be that much - or can it... 1 Here we go again with the zany DATAsoft logo whizzing about up above and a fair few Kilobytes yet to fill up with text in this double-height scrolly I've programmed, music and the like. CONTROLS: What exists that you can call a control, anyway. PRESS SPACE TO SWOP BETWEEN BACKGROUND SCREENS. Don't you think that logo's getting a bit boring, and besides, it's way too small. 1 Fishslice. Just wanted a word in edgeways, amongst the schizophrenic and split personalities (isn't that the same thing - Mr. Bracket Man?). Well. Aren't you glad there's an ENGLISH coder about after all these Polish and foreign people (joke, joke) Well are you? 1 BYEEEE!!! 1 (you sure???) This was written by ME (DATAsoft), with the help of the scroll-a-load by Nigel Grange you're reading and lots and lots of 'DATA' statements - lovely. Back to something you understand. So when's this piece of ?/`* gonna load eh? Don't ask me - I only wrote the thing. Getting a tad silly there weren't we. Also, don't you think my lack of spelling mistakes is good? Nobody else wants to talk about Speccy matters anymore - write to me if you can: (a) be bothered or (b) tell me how to do loadsa colours in a small space. Back to normal now (or as near as possible!). So you preferred this demo to all the other good ones you could have had did you? You must be MAD. I am the worst coder I have ever seen (and that includes me!). It's getting on for time to be signing off now as this really is rather annoying. Long live the Speccy, etc. etc. Bye 'till it's loaded... 1 HERE COMES THE BEGINNING AGAIN!!!: