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8 clear the screen
5 Lloyd Garland
5 By Paul Howard
4 By Miles Kinloch
4 Andy Davis
4 (R)IGHTSHIFT/(D)OWNSHIFT
3 Wolfgang & Monika Haller
3 Robert Skene
3 Paul Howard
3 Miles Kinloch
3 Mark Harris
3 Ben Douglas
3 ASCII code
3 &+.-+.+-+&%
2 |~~__OOGGCCAA
2 for count = 1 to 5 do
2 first number is the start of
2 current memory location
2 construct picture number 4
2 construct picture number 3
2 construct picture number 2
2 construct picture number 1
2 Used val C B A C B A
2 Use TASDFUE
2 Tony Jeenes
2 The reason for "good manners" is not justbecause some old professor says so - itlets others understand your programstructure. Even if you want your programto be really confusing (a la Pi Mania!),you will doubtless look at it in thefuture, and with GOTOs all over the placelike nobody's business you may use severalwell-chosen expletives as you track up anddown the listing on a GOTO trail. Clearstructure also helps debugging and makesthe program run faster. To slow down aprogram, use PAUSE or a FOR-NEXT loop(PAUSEs can be skipped by pressing a key,but PAUSE 0 waits for a keypress -sometimes it's needed twice to flush thebuffer first and forget all previous keyspressed).
2 TRADING POST
2 THE MIXING DESK: Register 7
2 SONG BY ST COMPILE
2 Roy Benson
2 Phil Glaves
2 Paul Westlake
2 Patrick Morriss
2 PCG: Convert to Tasword 2
2 OR J$>"5" THEN GOTO 10
2 Not I/O WHITE NOISE PITCH TONES
2 NETHERLANDS
2 MOVE WINDOW
2 LD A,(#5B5C)
2 LD (#5B5C),A
2 Justin Thorpe
2 John Elliot
2 James Waddington
2 J7:A?>A??>>BC
2 If you've written programs which read thekeyboard with INKEY$ (as opposed to INPUTor IN), you may have had occasions wherethe Spectrum says a key has been pressed,but it turns out to be CHR$ 0 - thecharacter for nothing! This is rare-ish,but happens when the Speccy realises a keyhas been pressed but is too slow toregister what it was. This problem can beobliterated forever like this (say youonly wanted to register keypresses from 1to 5 on the keyboard):
2 David Ledbury
2 Dave Fountain
2 Darren Randle
2 Connect ORANGE LEAD to LONG LEG.
2 Christian Aymard
2 Chic Computer Club
2 C) Is X+2 a character?
2 By Justin Thorpe
2 Brian Gaff
2 Bits: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0$
2 Bill Richardson
2 B) Is X+1 a space?
2 Albert Harper
2 Add header
2 ALCHEMIST TUTORIALS
2 ACCESSORIES
2 A) Is X a full stop?
2 A man called Martyn
2 ; Set the carry flag
2 36 Budges Road
2 100 IF A$="YES" THEN GOTO 200
2 10 LET J$=INKEY$:IF J$<"1"
2 (P)RINT h - - -
2 (F)ILL b - - -
2 "S'funny, I never realised you looked likethat."0
2 "Mirrors are very deceptive"
2 "If the experiment worked?"
2 "Ask you, erm... me, what?"
1 zero, then the data stored in the#
1 your life for reading this issue!!
1 your feedback.
1 you win some, you lose some.
1 yieldconsistent, repeatable results.$
1 y!"). The 128kSpectrums were released and bigger, moremusical games came out. But by mid-1991,it was clear that the Spectrum'spopularity was falling compared with thenew Sega and Nintendo lunchboxes andAmerican CD players with keyboards. Thestaunch supporters, Crash, SU and YS, raninto difficulties and had to hire editorswho couldn't spell and knew nothing aboutthe Speccy's history.
1 write to Mr Davis explaining
1 would be perhaps a better way of doing it.Also remember that if you want the Speccyto wait for a keypress, it can be done inone line with:
1 worrying now, Roy!
1 withneagtive actions of Prism PD. Be theybetrayed programmers, unhappy customers,innocent parties who have been snubbed,misled, lied to or asked to give up theirneutral stance in favour of Prism. Thislist does not contain any Prism customerswho have purchased illegal or faultyprograms who have not yet reported it.
1 with a 16 bit HEX number
1 with proof that he's been!
1 willinitialisize itself into the Opus-RAM andis resistent about a RANDOMIZE USR 0 orthe Spectrum reset button. Furtherinformation about the RAM (about 2 or 3Pound) will be given by Helge.
1 will give "Program...file" instead of"Program: file". Unfortunately in thiscase, your filename "file" can only befive letters. I used to know a trick tocompletely overwrite the "Program:" (Istole the routine from Players' "Thing")which involved some POKEs and CHR$ 0s, butI've forgotten it now so you'll have tobreak into the loader yourself.
1 wereconsequential when he returned to thepresent. When he returned he was shockedat the changes. Why was this? If he madethe changes then his parents would haveinfluenced these changes in and on hischildhood. This could have left twopossibilities:
1 waiting to hear - building the!
1 usual address or via MGPD.
1 usual address
1 useful guide to +D dangers by!
1 updated, plus Kevin
1 u&+.-+.+-+')
1 tutorial of Powerprint.
1 trying to place the blame on others#
1 tremendous tutorial guide by Dave!
1 to with 4000 added
1 to the frequency after each step; c#
1 to the end of the buffer (n=1); a#
1 to convert between them.
1 to be filled
1 to libellous
1 titles!Congratulations to Andy Davis. AR doessort of qualify as a software housebecause some of the programs arecopyright; anyway, I had to put anoptimistic one at the end to stop all youreaders sobbing!
1 title this is all DH could come!
1 time travelling.
1 threepossibilities:
1 threepossibilities at this time:
1 this issue some 17 parts larger!
1 thesequestions which clearly proved his quiltand would make him obviously squirm, heterminated Miles's subscription!y
1 then use TASDFUE
1 then use T2T3
1 then T2TP3
1 theexpansion port free for all those add-onsfor less than one pound!E
1 thedurability of the ribbon and printer head.The specifications of a good dot matrixink are:_
1 thede-generating service produced by PrismPD.0
1 theconstruction of cartridges such as: rubberdrive gears and rolls, styrene, ABS, nylonetc.[
1 thecomputer keyboard, tapping away. I waswriting the control program for themachine. I had almost finished whensuddenly the internal lighting fused. Theterminal was still operational, themonitor flickering in the darkness of thesmall chamber which had been my home andworkplace for the last two years. Iquickly pressed the "BACKUP" key and asplit second later, released the tiny discfrom the storage medium. I climbed out ofthe small hole into the dusty garage. Itook a torch from a cupboard and climbedback inside.
1 thecharacter
1 the second hand Spectrum market!
1 the protocol as featured in last!
1 the error occured
1 the block, second the length
1 the block would be loaded
1 the 128k AY-3-8912 sound chip by!
1 the way of the TV "Video!
1 the block, second is the
1 that PRISM PD never listed adult
1 thanks only to Martyn Sherwoods!
1 than issue 15 and to you the!
1 textadventures
1 telephones and the pitfalls to!
1 techniques.
1 suggestions
1 strikinglydifferent musical output. However, usageof these programs required a littleknowledge of musical notation in the firstplace, so writing a number one hit wasn'tthat easy!
1 store the screen data to memory page 4&
1 store the screen data to memory page 3&
1 store the screen data to memory page 2&
1 store the screen data to memory page 1&
1 stockan excellent range of 3.5" and 5.25"disks, boxes, ribbons and other office andcomputer supplies.k
1 steel, phosphor bronze, berillium copper, nylon,8
1 stealing and illegally selling!
1 start a new column called
1 sound buffer. It takes the form:#
1 sound buffer will be played only#
1 something new (n=0) or adds sound#
1 some nasties in the 128 Basic!
1 some different scenarios of!
1 solving.Technically, the graphics aren't too bad(colourful, and they match the game) andsound is reasonable where it occurs...
1 software AGAIN.
1 so-called'Exlusive' demo, he thought we wantednothing more to do with him! We wereEXTREMELY upset by this, so we sortedthings out with Andy, and then, what goesand happens?
1 snippets of news and info.
1 short story to be printed to!
1 sequence is to be repeated
1 screens and it would be nice to
1 sametransmission method.
1 routines to send accurate Morse!
1 ring name likeAERO, (isn't that a chocolate bar?!) <Yesand it's a trade mark and I had to pay aroyalty for mentioning it. Ed.>, but youand I know that PAPER is a Spectrumcommand. Find out its character setposition, which happens to be 218, andthen...
1 ribbons, by
1 ribbonmanufacturers specifically advise againstthe use of re-inked ribbons. This is validif the normal clay based inks are used.The solid particles can dry up in theneedle cylinder walls and jam up theprinter head. This will not occur with theuse of a proper dot matrix ink such asMaxiprint. In fact, as we will show,regular re-inking of fabric ribbons willcontribute to extending the life of theprint head.
1 restore": PAUSE 0
1 regular feature.
1 refractinggeometrical shape. (My apologies tofriendly glass prisms on the windowsillwho just like making rainbows on sheets ofpaper). By
1 reader for sparing 0.0003424% of!
1 rather than the blissfully memory-ignorant:3
1 questions and queries.
1 properapplication is the determinant of theultimate print quality as well as being animportantc
1 promise, surely?
1 programming, with Paul Howard.
1 programmers.
1 programmer
1 private letters to another
1 printutilities, ZX printer simulators for IF1 /128 / +D (which makes a full size Epsoncompatable printer behave like a ZXprinter), Spectrum ROMs for the SAM, pluslots of well programmed games andutilities.
1 pre-copyinitialisation instruction. If this is thecase answer 'yes' to question 3. you'llget a program BREAK. Now type in and entera new program line:-
1 polythilene, polypropilene, styrene.%
1 pointer by one byte
1 plays a pure sound (a=0) or white#
1 plans further expansion but wants!
1 permission
1 past a break-point
1 particular
1 panelsilluminated. Fastening my safety belt, Ilooked at my watch - 23:59. It would allsoon be over. Would it work? I laughed. Ofcourse it would, HE did it and lookedfine.
1 out of top 16K
1 orMultiface. Only try this if you know howto handle a soldering iron, have theproper tools to hand (multimeter etc) andknow how to build projects from a set ofinstructions.
1 or like this (although DATA statements useup more memory)::
1 or any other textfile which is!
1 once. If 1, the sound buffers#
1 on Scotland has passed on
1 ofinformation of complaints about Prism PD,Darren Randle awaited similar from Prismabout Alchemist Research, yet he COULDN'TSUPPLY ANY. Why? Because their is none.Forced into a corner, Mr Sherwood istrying to move the blame from himself.
1 of this corny title. Paul Howard!
1 of the second screen of the 128k.!
1 of the block, third is the
1 number with which the block is
1 noise from electrical equipment!
1 noise (a=1); b is the value added#
1 nobog-standard beat-'em-ups and platformershere!1
1 no of parts+1 (ie: 1-63+pt 0=64)
1 mymembership was quite uncalled for - an actof particular callousness, considering theway they 've benefitted from my pastcontributions. My intervention, as I madeclear from the outset, was aimed only atachieving peace, and this is how I amrepaid. I don't see what iota ofdifference it should make, what he thinksmy own personal views on the matter mightbe: where my role as would-be peacemakerwas concerned , I went out of my way toadopt a neutral, non-partisan position ,as he well knows. Apparently he would haveno objection to the spirit of my proposal,though, if it were coupled with themandatory apology... which more or lesssays it all, I think. Let no-one thereforebe fooled!
1 myappearance.
1 mw>CFECFCEC?A>
1 mw>>CCFFEECCFFCCEECC>>==<<apHJKJKJ
1 mw<<??==>>apJKJNJQ
1 mind an apology.
1 meeting and some interesting!
1 matically.Therefore, before any sound can be made,you must use 'SON' to re-enable the ISG.The more complex the sounds get, theslower your program will run.
1 making, Des finally gets round to!
1 main command used to manipulate the#
1 mCCEECCAAA?>>aMOMOMK
1 m>>AA>><<apKJKJHJ
1 location by one byte
1 location back by one byte
1 load the header to
1 laterreleases, especially the 3D games likePentagram and Knightlore. (Who needsFreescape?!).f
1 large can of worms"
1 laTransylvania Tower!) and Wizard Gamesbecame well known, and people bought gamesreleased by their favourite houses. Therewere lots of competitions and games werewritten by people who cared about theSpectrum's
1 l]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]X]XX]XX]hXl]hXX]XX
1 know that another apology will
1 it's own section, plus some last!
1 it was doing before being disabled"
1 issue, the man who "doesn't!
1 iscommandless, look for tiny commands likePI, OR, AND and IF within words. But therewill come a time when your filename iscompletely empty of commands. This iswhere another type of Funny Filename (Allrights reserved) comes into play...
1 is'SPEED_', which requires a single numericexpression to define speed of the programrun. 'SPEED_0'f
1 is the number of steps in sequence;#
1 is exactly equivalent to:
1 involving others in the process"
1 introduction into supressing RF!
1 initialinvestment was somewhat expensive, I musthave already saved `15 on replacementribbons for the cost of a 94p inkcartridge and, of course, am helping theenvironment by not throwing away theribbons.
1 influencing
1 incorruption.
1 inaccordance with instructions supplied withyour inker.7
1 inAshby de la Zouch, Leics. They spent thefirst six months concentrating on gettinga game called Jetpac ready. It sold330,000 copies at `4.95 which was a clearsign of their success. Following othergreat Spectrum classics on the Ultimatelabel they began working for Nintendo in1985 and Rare now has a workforce of 80 ata converted farmhouse near Twycross.
1 in"Ballbreaker II", with some controloptions, but for some reason, using thejoystick causes problems - ie you areunable to jump! On keys, however, theproblem disappears. It's very annoyingnevertheless.
1 important news regarding A.R.
1 immediately
1 i=b: LET o=a: LET f$=" ": GO SUB VAL%
1 i$$h$i$h$i$h$
1 how Prism doesn't have a good +3!
1 hope before Alchemist closes
1 hiscontinued
1 him to keep a log!
1 header says there are
1 hasobviously been written to try and saveface.2
1 happens,Alchemist Research shall continue toreport on the deplorable behaviour ofPrism PD until he sorts himself out. Inthe early period of this matter, chancesof who was right or wrong was 50-50because of little evidence. But, in thepast year the evidence against Mr Sherwoodhas mounted up.
1 group has now lost our support -
1 gettingrediculous, so we decided to go with theP.D. library which we trusted, the mostfriendly of the two and obviously this one(As I am writing this article in it!), asfor the reason we trusted Alchemist more?
1 get all Spectrum groups working!
1 generated by the Taswords and how!
1 g0f00g0f0g0f00g0f00g00f0g0f0g00f0g0f000g0f0
1 from the editor> guide you on!
1 from Robert Skene and Patrick!
1 formatequivalent.
1 for a block of code -
1 fonts,Commando-type games have bold blockyfonts, and so on.A
1 first of a multi issue feature on!
1 finishes off his
1 finer screens from the Clipart!
1 featurealtogether, do as follows:-"
1 f0g0f000g0f0
1 f0g00f0g0f0
1 f00g0f00g0f0g0f00g0
1 f&&o//i+o+i)o)((
1 extremely underestimated
1 externaldrives: problems are still being reportedand have only just been reported byOutlet, some three months after ourrevealations. Although Ben may not haveexperienced problems there is no excusefor the behaviour of Chris Box towardsmyself, Lloyd Garland or Chris Norfolk. Asfar as we are concerned, his drive kitswill not be recommended to our readers andneither will the supplied software. Ed>
1 expression (n). If the result is#
1 explains the properties and usage!
1 exist" (according to M. Sherwood)!
1 essentially
1 er, I was going to say something, but er,I've forgotten, er I don't know what tosay...Z
1 entirely in capital letters.
1 electro-magnetically activated metal needlesindividually encased in plastic cylindersand which respond to the commands of acomputer.
1 earliestopportunity; perhaps a good thing sincesome of their last releases were what isknown as "mediocre". A change of logo anda split into Gremlin Interactive and GBH(budget) completed the new image. Gremlinstill sell three Speccy games, but don'tbother writing as they are oldies and notworth the money. <I almost worked for themtoo. Ed>
1 eachre-programmed key into a line number andthen put the CLEAR - RAND USR at the end.It will execute a number of new commandsall at the same time. Please send any wildmodifications to me at the usual addressand I'll report next time. Who knows, theresults may go into APD.
1 dq+&+&+&+&+&+&+&r+
1 dq&+&+&+&+&+&+&+r&
1 down should that ever happen due
1 don't you?.
1 disappointingChristmas bonus prevented it.*
1 different types of textfile!
1 didn't see any point in thinking of my&
1 derogatoryreferences to other individuals or usergroups! Could this be mere coincidence, orare Prism in fact treating the copyrightlaws as a backstabbers' charter, usingthem to deprive people of their right toreply?
1 definer program. Order it NOW!
1 customers, credibility and respect.%
1 cousins,dogs-old-master was kidnapped by one ofthem Little Green Men once!" and to bequite honest, the only one I would beinclined to believe is the one of a manwho was kidnapped, and then he claims thathe was made to mate with a strange female,he later died of Radiation Poisoning anghad lots of un-identifiable burns all overhis body, but was it the truth or justwishfull thinking on his part.
1 could have called it BENS ZITS.
1 correspond with his section. Who!
1 copy memory from page 4 to screen!
1 copy memory from page 3 to screen!
1 copy memory from page 2 to screen!
1 copy memory from page 1 to screen!
1 continual lying. First report is!
1 contents will be repeated for ever"
1 containseducational and demos.
1 confusion.
1 computer music and the Spectrum.
1 communicationbreakdown! Anyway, I sent one more - towhich the letter was not replied to.[
1 comes up with some useful facts.
1 collections and the Theo Devil!
1 collection.
1 classic Spectrum games.
1 centre of the Universe: Worksop.
1 carriages?
1 call me Shirly.
1 c/o ALCHEMIST RESEARCH,
1 bytes in the header
1 bytes in the block the
1 byCAREFULLY tinning them with solder, orwith an extremely fine grade bit of wetand dry abrasive paper.s
1 by the way, I hate your english cheese. Itsmells nasty and there is no garlic insight.Z
1 by Richard Wilmot.
1 but this will have just the same effect:(
1 bug-fixamendments - it has to be in exactly thesame form as when you saved it with theCONFIG program.j
1 buffer before replacing it with#
1 brings us some top +3 features.!
1 begins a multi-part hackers!
1 be moved to, the third is the
1 be made towards Prism PD by Andy
1 b>CFECFCEC?A>
1 b&+.-+.+-+')
1 ax&+.-+.+-+')
1 avoid in this very competitive!
1 audiablecharacteristics. Namely the DRAGON andTANDY machines with a PLAY command. TheBBC with a similar system but farsuperior, the Commodores: even the Vic 20had a four channel sound system available,some five years before Sinclair, and theOric-1: extremely similar to the Spectrumin size and memory but was actually asuperior computer, with one heck of aspeaker inside, better graphics, betterBasic and better interfacing. If it werenot for the ZX-81 which had swayed usersearlier, perhaps we'd all be on Oric 128'snow!
1 at a given address nn
1 assemblers,
1 asappropriate) at the address below. (Aslong as you're not Martyn Sherwood, thatis)!Z
1 areexaggerations.
1 aparticular variable, you could use a'BRANCH' subroutine to print its valueduring the course of program execution.Another method of checking program flow isto have the current line number printed onscreen via the command 'TRON'; displaysline number at bottom left of screen.'TROFF' disables the display.
1 aonce-expensive icon now a reasonablypriced accessory within the reach ofanybody. Should you read any of thenational papers, you will hardly see apage without an advert for a mobile phone.
1 anything to go by!)
1 anycontributions to him or to AlchemistResearch, who are sending a bulkcollection.b
1 andwindow-captured before saving)."
1 andstraightforward to carry out. It is wellworth making the effort: you only have todo it once but you get the benefit everytime you switch on.
1 andhardware, such as monitors, keypaddevices, RS232 linking etc.H
1 andAN16.62: updated guide to the best in the-
1 and'SPEED_255' being similar to PAUSE 0.(
1 and"MULTISTORE" programs were not dealt within the way promised by Mr Sherwood.P
1 and would appear to be part of a
1 and where to pick up the bargains!
1 and inviting market.
1 and how to make them work for!
1 and d is the number of times the#
1 and Sinclair black 128K.
1 and Microdrives at Lloyd and told!
1 and 32000, but I've forgotten them now, sounless you know better, your font willhave to be located at 62000, for themoment anyway. Remember that if your fontis located above 48384, the characterswill go all funny and you'll have to typein the "standard" POKEs above while notbeing able to read the text. This onlyhappens in the 128 BASIC editor - don'task me why! For this reason, it'sadvisable to have the following line inyour BASIC program:
1 and self taughtawareness.
1 an incredible size it requires!
1 am I to argue, I'm only the!
1 always zero for a header
1 allDOS-resident patches and utilities, sincethey work by overwriting some redundantcode, rather than using the spare 2K atthe end. The only exception, in fact, isTHINGI, which also makes use of thislittle-known area of redundant code, soonly ever install the latter into anunmodified G+DOS.
1 all assisted by Alchemist PD.
1 afantastically extensive assortment ofhardware. One science-fiction film - TheLast Starfighter - relies on computerequipment to achieve 27 minutes ofbreathtaking images. But to do this neededa $12 million Cray X-MP interfaced to two$1 million mainframes. This massiveexpenditure was considered worthwhile asit allowed pictures to be constructedwhich would be difficult in the realworld.
1 address where the block is to
1 adding an Amiga drive.
1 add 256 =15616
1 add 0 =15360
1 acommunications device that connects to theedge connector of the standard 48Kmachine, or the original 128/+2. On theInterface 1 itself, a further edgeconnector connects to the Microdrivedevice via a short ribbon cable. The rearof the Interface is also equipped with a"through port", to allow you to plug ajoystick interface, Multiface or what haveyou.
1 accomplished
1 abused and
1 absorptioncharacteristics and resistance to wear.Generally, the ink absorption capacity ofnylon is infenior to natural fibres likecotton and silk although it's durabilityis much better.
1 above system to the +D disk!
1 a;"LOADING SCREEN$-IF FILE LOST OR%
1 a; PAPER VAL "6"; INK b;1$;: NEXT F#
1 a27:97:79735
1 ZENOBI SOFTWARE
1 ZEN AND THE ART OF NOISE
1 Yours Sincerely
1 Your interface/printer may require anintensive setting-up proceedure. Do thisbefore loading POWERPRINT II. Load anynecessary software, then set up yourequipment so that, on giving the usualcommand for a high- resolution screencopy, it will make the copy, then stopIMMEDIATELY, with no extra line feeds. (Ifyou have a choice , you would normally setfor maximum copy size). If you can'teliminate extra line feeds you may have tosettle for gaps in each vertical sectionof Superprinted output, which will have tobe trimmed out. Take note at this pointwhether your equipment copies 22 lines(the normal screen area) or 24 lines.
1 Your BASIC should also CLEAR to below49120, else the computer will crash. Thisis because BASIC will have lost it'sstack when the paging takes place.
1 You'll also find a "HALL OF SHAME"; a listof some people Mr Sherwood has lied to,misled, mis-represented, caused troublewith, upset, tried to drag into the battleonto sides, or generally created badfeeling in the Spectrum community. It canbe forgivable for one to have a list withabout three or four names on - takeSpectrum UK for example. But over a dozen?Makes you think doesn't it!
1 You would be well advised to order theTheo Devil disks from Andy, especially ifyou missed any of his work on thecovertapes mentioned earlier.
1 You will remember my silence proposal lastissue? How long did it hold? About a weekand once again, Martyn Sherwood broke it.I was hoping this section wouldn't have tobe written this issue and it would be thefirst step towards the end but once againhere we are.
1 You will rarely let the basic part of agame or utility you are hacking ever RUNfrom the intended area of memory it shouldbe loaded to, as your own assembler basicmay be there. It is a very good idea tocopy all the system variables to a safepart of memory where they can be loadedback if the need should arise.
1 You will find it on tape seven, side B.'
1 You should see:
1 You should have no problems identifyingthe pin numbers on the D socket, they areengraved on the plastic bit that holds thepins in place, both inside and out.
1 You should also be aware the basic editorwill correct any incorrect number forms ina line if you happen to press the EDIT keyand then ENTER that line back into thebasic program - try this out foryourselves.
1 You refer to "CLICKS" trying to put youout of business (its actually spelt"CLIQUES") I didn't realise that PD was abusiness, perhaps you meant PD POWERalthough you specifically state Prism PD,you tell me that, and again I quote
1 You rarely find accessories for sale ontheir own. In the past twelve months Ihave only seen two, one for a Multiface 1and the other for an Interface 1 withMicrodrives. It's far better to pick up amachine complete with lots of extras.
1 You must never allow this to be pokedunless you can at at some later stagereplace the orignal number that was therebefore a return to basic is made from m/cor an 'error' occurs in a running basicprogram.
1 You might also care to try and pick up acopy of 'Mastering Machine Code on your ZXSpectrum' by Toni Baker. The latter ofthese two books contains an assembler/disassembler I still use to the presentday and is what I shall be usingthroughout these pages.
1 You may like to compare these with thedetails on the keypad projects also inthis issue, relating to the output bitsand what values set them on or off.
1 You may be able to see the bit settingwhich works the lights. If the +2 hadthree input lines then OUT 49149,4 wouldhave turned on the third light and OUT49149,7 would have lit them all. If therewere FOUR lines, OUT 49149,8 would haveturned on number four and OUT 49149,15turns the lot on.
1 You may use whatever you are used to,though you should be aware that the spacetaken up by complex assemblers can be ofvital importance when hacking, as you willfind out in future editions.
1 You could even change the value of "x"with a Multiface if you have one, so longas your stack is below 49120, you don'treally need any BASIC at all.
1 You control Trashman with up, down, leftand right as he goes along the street(it's an aerial view) collecting the binsand emptying them into the slowly movingtruck. If you step on the house owners'carefully cultivated lawns, your bonustimer will decrease rapidly - and if therehappens to be a dog of the house, it willrun from around the corner and bite you,making you limp (ie you move slower). Youalso limp if you run out in front of abike, and if a car hits you, you're dead!
1 You can use this program to set up yourown two-frame animaton by changing thegraphics commands in lines 60 and 70, andlines 100 and 110 to make new images. Butunder the right circumstances it ispossible to get as many as eight pages torun in sequence. The program to do thisbecomes rather more complicated, and iscovered in detail next issue.
1 You can use this program as the basis foryour own experiments, by changing theimages that they draw. But next issueexplains the techniques involved in moredetail, and how to push the sophisticationof the animation to the limits of yourcomputer.
1 You can send donations c/o ROY BENSON at(
1 You can delete large pieces of programusing the 'DELETE_' command; followed bytwo numeric expressions - the start andfinish lines of the block to be deleted.
1 You can always get one of those fontcollections and nick the fonts! There arelots in PD libraries (along with the fonteditors!), such as Dave Fountain's"F-Fonts Collection" with 50 great ArtStudio fonts (these are stored in screensso must be loaded into AS
1 Yes. It's really worth getting hold ofOutlet's "REM Store" <UT19, APD. Freecopies for all. Ed> utility as this is aninvaluable tool. It lets you store machinecode up to 7 kilobytes per line ininnocuous-looking REM statements. SimplyGOSUB the line with the REM and your font,or indeed any machine code, is shiftedinto RAM and, if you said so, acted upon.
1 Yes, I'm back with Some More Reviews! Mytheme this time is general strangeness, soI'll be looking at original, unusual gamesfrom the Speccy's history
1 Yes, I quite agree. This is one of thereasons why I cancelled my subscription,along with the fact that my questions werenot being answered, nor anything else inmy INDUG membership.
1 YSMB provides two new ways in which youcan produce sound on your 48k Spectrum -the 'PLAY_' command and the interruptsound generator (ISG). PLAY_n,l,s,d,f.Where n produces pure notes (n=0) or whitenoise (n=1); l is the length of each step;s is the start frequency; d is the numberof steps; and f is the change of frequencyafter each step. Variables d and f may berepeated more than once if required.
1 YSMB provides the 'DOKE_' command to POKEtwo-byte values into memory. The first isthe address to be POKEd and the second,the data that's actually going to beplaced in memory. The data is stored usingthe standard Z80 convention - that is, LSBfirst, MSB second.
1 YS MEGABASIC TUTORIAL
1 YEAH! BRILLIANT!
1 Y TOO LARGE: You've tried to plot off thebottom of the screen.?
1 X TOO LARGE: You've tried to plot off theside of the screen.=
1 Womo said:
1 Womo have told us that it appears MrSherwood would like to become in closecontact with them, much in the same way wehave (copying us again?).
1 Womo and the SPC is a powerful computingforce in Germany and has suppliedAlchemist PD with 28 MEGABYTES ofprograms. Mr Sherwood only gets a smallfraction of these from his little "spies"who he uses to get PD from us! He hastried to become pally with them before,but to no avail.
1 Wolfgang Haller
1 WoMo-TEAM/Spectrum Profi Club
1 WoMo / Spectrum Profi Club
1 Without further ado, here is the letterwhich Mr Sherwood so deviously penned,obviously hoping for our downfall!v
1 With this out of the way the first of thetwo images for the two passes is drawn - amanu up in the air poised over atrampoline - and this is taken care of inLines 60 and 70. Line 80 first sends theprogram off to Line 270 where there is aroutine that puts the dest and srcenumbers into the machine-code program andthen calls the machine code to copy theportion of the screen in which the imageof the trampolinist is seen.
1 With this in mind, I'd like to put this totwo groups of people:?
1 With this in mind, I can think of twooptions:2
1 With the relatively large number of DOSpatches and +D resident utilities inexistence, plus the different guidelinesthat apply to using them in conjunctionwith G+DOS and Betados, I felt someclarification of this subject was badlyneeded, and decided to write this article.
1 With paged graphics, instead of buildingthe next picture up directly in the screenmemory, an area is reserved somewhere elsefor this purpose. Once the new picture hasbeen completed, it is copied to the RAMnormally associated with the screen. Theseextra screen areas are called pages, whichis why the techniue is known as pagedgraphics.
1 With Tasword 3, Tasword 128 and Tasword +3comes a converter program to change this.However, converting from Tasword 2 to anyof the others is certainly not the "be alland end all", what if you want to convertback, or to another format?
1 With some equipment you may need tore-instate the ability to copy after eachLPRINT, by repeating ther
1 Wirelessradio and TV? Extremely far fetched inthose days but commonplace today. So,who's to say that warp engines won't bediscovered (or already have been?). It'sfairly reasonable to say that ray guns andphasers are around, we can just refer toportable lasers and those cattle zappers.Although extremely primitive at themoment, theres nothing to say thattechnology advances won't make them moreportable.
1 Why is it that Kobrahsoft's DICE utilityallows you to format +3 3" disks to 203K,and their DB2 program won't back them upto tape?
1 White noise is just that - noise. It's thesort of noise that you may hear when youselect an unused channel on yourtelevision.
1 While needle impact pressure and frequencyare determined by the type of printerused, friction coefficient and impacttemperature are profoundly influenced bythe presence of ink.
1 Whereas 'PLAY_' is only a glorified BEEPcommand, YSMB provides a new feature,allowing sound to be produced while aprogram is still running. Fifty times asecond the normal program flow isinterrupted and a jump is made to a smallmachine code routine that scans thekeyboard. On the MB Spectrum, as well asscanning the keyboard, the machine coderoutine has been customised to producesounds. YSMB provides a number of commandsto handle the ISG and the sound buffer:
1 Where am I going? Nothing glamourous I'mafraid, only Bristol! Following LloydGarland's holiday in the wonderfulclean, modern and green Sheffield lastyear, the re-match is on his own turf!
1 Whenever I come across these in protectedsoftware, I just add a line to the basicprogram of my assembler.l
1 When you've got most of them (you can'tget all the characters Tasword shows),go to CUSTOMISE from the main menu andselect Y to CUSTOMISE SECOND CHARACTERSET. Now, simply press the correspondingkey for the character you want (takingcare to use or not to use CAPS SHIFT) andenter the value.
1 When you load the file or catalogue yourdisc, you have managed to create afilename of seemingly fifteen characters!(The space after PAPER appears because itis usually followed by a number).
1 When this happens, the ingredients counterwill change and Charlie will need to hurryup and get more of whatever he needs. (Itmust be an odd cake - apart from mixedpeel, chocolate and sugar, it alsocontains plenty of cheese and custard -yummy!!). The sonics suit the game and thegraphics are quite good, but I find thisgame too fast and frustrating. From thevery first level, you're pelted withcustard blobs, and I always end up hidingin the corner throwing a stream of flourbombs!
1 When the 'PLAY_' command is executed, theISG is disabled=
1 When sending Data
1 When replying to Miles Kinloch's letterabout distributing his PCG modifications with a bug in it he said:m
1 When receiving Data
1 When programming, the next line number canbe produced every time you press ENTER.The command 'AUTO_' requires two numericexpressions separated by a comma; thefirst is the start line number and thesecond the value each line number willincrease by. To stop auto line numbering,use EXTENDED SYM SHIFT 'L'.
1 When it came to the crunch, Andy hassupported us since we started, and hasalways given us all the help he could andhas never said anything bad about anyone,but when we phoned Martyn, he would onlytalk about Andy, and when we said that wewee going to make a final decision overwhich library we were going to use, hesaid that we were not likely to chooseAndy's library, and then when the nextissue of P.D. Power came out, he said thatwe were splitting up and that he, theeditor, would do everthing that he couldto stop us from leaving the spectrum!!
1 When all soldered up and neatly secured inyour little box, power up your Spectrumand put it in 48k mode.k
1 When you fit an interface 1 to yourSpectrum, mass storage, local networkingand RS232 communication become available.Of course, +3 users have had the massstorage for years now, and any 128Spectrum has an RS232 port, so what's allthe fuss about? Well, quite simply,unless you have a +D system, you don'topen files to a starage device! +3 DOSwon't let you do it, although the CP/Moperating system will.
1 When recieving any signals with acomputer, if you connect the receiver toyour computer directly, a substantialamount of noie is conducted along the wireand shows up as increased noise level onthe signal. The noise is usually greater,sometimes much greater, than the noisecaused by direct radiation.
1 When done, CLEAR 65022: RANDOMIZE USR65040 executes the code and stores the newcommand into memory.h
1 When all three mags went under, theSpectrum was doomed. Software was gettingharder to find; Boots, WH Smith and otherstores stopped ordering in Speccy, Amstradand Commodore games. The remainingfaithful software houses collapsed or fledto the CON-sole market... or did they?Here's a summary of what happened to someof the major software houses.
1 What you do is set up the ribbon on top ofthe case using the components inside. Youhave four little stands which the ribbonsits on and is gripped in place. You havea tall shaft which holds the ink reservoirand a final shaft onto which fits thehandle which is used to turn the ribbon.However, you can buy an electric versionwhich is the same but features anelectric motor for turning the ribbon, orupgrade your manual kit.
1 What wasn't so magnificent was that thechip used was a scaled down version of afar superior chip and even though thesound chip was stereo, it was wired to aMONO socket!!! Now, to me thats likewiring a colour monitor to a ZX-81!
1 What does the german coder scene? From the"Mad Guys" we saw the Xterminator andVision, but they have no answer if we allwill see the unfinished "Megalomania"demo. Xterminator has shown us some funnyscreens, where some persons from theSpectrum scene was seen with "specialweapons". So Visions "hardest weapon" wassociological reports and Wo's from WoMowas "Muehlen Koelsch" (a public beer sortin Cologne). Sorry to hear, that no demowith this is planned, it was very amused."The Unbelievables" promises to "stay onboard" and keep on coding further demos,and came out with a new one called "HollisBusters". Keep on coding guys, here andeverywhere!
1 What about ROYS RANTINGS - THE REHASH!.'
1 What If My Fonts Are Completely Useless?(
1 What I wanted to say, is that I'm severlydispleased over what he has done in thepast, and what he is doing now. In Dok'sarticle, he mentioned something about oneof our group members writing a sort of'naughty' letter to him? That was me. Isimply told him that our demos were not tobe distributed by him, that we didn't wantanything to do with him, and also, Icalled him stupid and deranged, which Iadmit, was a 'little' too strong for afirst letter.
1 What I shall endevour to do is to put youon the right road to what to watch outfor. It is up to you, through your ownefforts, to become familiar with theworkings of the 48K ROM and such things asunexpanded tokens in basic lines when youinspect them with your assemblers/disassemblers.
1 What Are Fonts?
1 What has your decision to abandonmarketing Adult Screens in Aug 93 have todo with what you were listing in May 93.|
1 What about the BBC comedy "GoodnightSweetheart"? Although not to be takenseriously (it is a comedy!), theres a lotof reference to modern day and popularsongs, supposedly written by our leadcharacter the time traveller, who playsthem to a 1940's audience who love it.
1 West Yorks LS22 4EN
1 Well, watch any sci-fi program or film,past or present and you'll noticefuturistic devices. In presently made sci-fi, these devices, such as warp drive asphasers may not be around today but it'sonly a matter of time before they will be.Look at past sci-fi films and programs.Rockets
1 Well, this is a blatantly obvious questionreally for anyone who reads AlchNews, butit's the sort of heading you have to startoff with, isn't it? Fonts are basicallycharacter sets which replace the normalSpectrum set. In just about every gameever which has been released since 1983there has been a new font - futuristicgames have futuristic fonts,
1 Well, mabye not then, but it's a lot morerealistic than a lot of the "Closeencounters of the third kind!" which aregoing about, now here is the point of thisarticle, are there beings from outer space(or even in middle space, or kind of inbetween outer and middle space??).
1 Well, it just so happens that you can havea joystick interface, leavingM
1 Well, in late May Kevin told me that theproject is finished. It's a fully casedunit and comes complete with microphoneand stand. The unit runs in BASIC and canunderstand upto four commands. In machinecode it's possible to double that.
1 Well, hopefully next time I will write anarticle on the Bermuda Triangle orsomething, if Andy will let me, I hearthat there is some good flying round thereat this time of year
1 Well, I've covered all the last softwarehouses I know about here - writing to themmay or may not elicit a response,depending on whether they're Dixons-typepeople ("Spectrum? What's that?"), JohnMenzies ("We don't support THAT sort ofcomputer") or nice blokes ("Good old8-bits, a pity there's no public marketleft"). I don't want to promote piracy,but it's really a lot easier to copy orswap games in the form of +D snapshotsthan write to some twat <language. Ed> whoknows as much about the origins ofcomputers as I do about speaking Koreanbackwards. (Not very much).
1 Well, I have always been told that trusthas to be earned, and Andy has ALWAYS hadour orders on time, has always held to hispromise over how long it would be beforethe P.D. will be returned, and has evengiven refunds for software when we did notneed to pay for it, (and occasionallygiven refunds when we DID need to pay forit!), Andy has frequently done things justout of his love of the spectrum P.D.scene, and I cannot say enough about howgood his service is (He even gave me someexcellent multiface pokes for Elite, taAndy!), so there are no prizes forguessing who I trust! (I am not a totalidiot, and would not like to lose money!),and HOW long did it take Chris Taylor toget his P.D. from Prism, and even then, itwas still not copied correctly. <And allthe other unsatisfied customers. Ed.>
1 Well, I don't want to fill up the whole ofAlchnews with my deranged witterings soI'll leave some other writers a bit ofspace. By the way, if you are interestedin swapping Speccy games and utilities on+D disc, or if you'd just like a BASICprogramming contact type person, feel freeto write to me at my Hollywood Mansion /Scary Castle / House (delete
1 Well worth the hassle converting them formy B: drive, although owners of the +Dwon't even have to convert them!t
1 We'll start with programs by TheoDevelegas. When Theo first got in touchwith me I sent him copies of AlchNews.After reading our reports, he decided itwould be better if he only let AlchemistResearch and WoMo distribute them. You'llalso recall our statements pointing outthey were NOT Public Domain, nor do theystate they are in the programs.
1 We'll also be combining this with anunofficial Spectrum meeting at the nearbyseaside town of Weston Super Mare. Extacy3, The United Minds and a couple of otherwell known Speccy celebs will be there.
1 We will send it to Andy Davis for hisPublic Domain.:
1 We was a bit in sorrow while we have heldthem the first time on a Saturday insteadas in the other years on Sundays. All inall we can say it was a very good meetingon a sunny day (we have had of coursealways sunny days at the meeting) and with35 visitors.
1 We could hardly stop laughing, and then werealised that it was not all that funny,and that this was realys
1 We are also looking for:
1 We apologised to M.Sherwood, and Dok wroteto him. Then, M.Sherwood told, notsuggested, actually TOLD us to write aletter to Andy, (Top Alchemist Bod TypePerson!), and even gave us some actualGUIDELINES on what to say to him!! So wewere having none of this of course.
1 We don't know if there are severalmeetings in the UK. If not, then someoneshould have the courage and try to manageone. It could be a day which willunforgetable for you.
1 Watch what happens when you use yourjoystick when connected to a SinclairInterface 2, (IF2 from now on) beforeloading a game. You should see a series ofnumbers, normally 6,7,8,9 and 0 if youpress fire. Each movement of the joystickis the same as pressing the appropriatekey on the keyboard and the keyboardmembrane, a joystick socket can beconnected to achieve the same results.
1 WINDOW TOO SMALL: You've made either thewidth or depth equal to zero.G
1 WINDOW TOO LARGE: Window is too wide ortoo deep.3
1 WHITE NOISE ON Channe C (B - A off)#
1 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE
1 WHAT ARE PAGED GRAPHICS?
1 W o k i n g h a m
1 Viscosity (Brookfield @70F): 350 / 400 CPSFinesse of grind (N.S.)A
1 Victoria Road
1 Vic Bishop is on the lookout for a W.H.SMITHS COMPUTER PROGRAM DATA RECORDER,measuring 10" * 8" * 2". If anyone canhelp, or wants to pester him about hisfindings with PowerPrint II contact:
1 Vic Bishop
1 Various Spectrum and QL books, manuals andover 100 magazines from 1984 onwards.O
1 VOICE CONTROLLER PROJECT
1 VODAFONE is the largest and most popular.It covers 98% of the UK. The phones use astandard analogue radio frequency.v
1 Usual Alchemist Research address.!
1 Using Spectrum 120+2 Grey with Datel DiskDrive.0
1 Users of Printers covered in PART 1 -Alchnews 15 can ignore this printingsection.\
1 Use T3TO2 (+D)
1 Upto line 90 simply converts the textfileinto lower case. You could save the filehere and edit it in Tasword to add capitalletters, but we'll let the computer do it!
1 Upon opening, I found a hard plasticcontainer, about the size of a lunchbox.The lid had a series of lines in it.Lifting off the lid revealed thecomponents of the unit all packaged andneatly presented in a foam base.
1 United Minds goes all spooky on!
1 United Minds
1 Unfortunately, this ridiculous idea fellflat on it's face because nobody did whathe wanted. Darren Randle found out ourside of the story and was sent a largeream of evidence proving the guilt of MrSherwood. Extacy 3 wished to remainneutral and have done so. Fish magazinehas now closed down, quite recently theeditor,
1 Unfortunately, these programs found theirway into Prism's slimy mitts in January.It's quite clear how they got there - weDO keep records you know!
1 UPDATE: Roelof Koning of the SGG hasagreed to be editor / compiler of thefirst document.e
1 UNRELIABLE. Again, this relates to affairsof the distant past, but such complaintswere certainly justified at the time.Among my own first order were unloadablefiles and multi-part programs where fileswere missing. I also know another person(no longer involved with the Spectrum) whoordered a +D disk, containing files thathad been snapshotted for no good reasonwhatsoever. I was actually sent the diskby this person, to try and sort everythingout, so I saw it all with my own eyes.Again, I stress, I'm only mentioning thesematters to put the record straight - I'mnot in any way trying to suggest that theynecessarily reflect Prism PD's present daystandards. Nevertheless, the fact thatthey DID actually happen is indisputable.It is therefore quite out of order foranyone to try to deny it for the purposesof procuring an apology.
1 UC&US & ALCHNEWS:
1 Two times in a year the both germanSpectrum Clubs held up meetings. Theopening in the springtime is done by theSPECTRUM PROFI CLUB in Cologne, the secondis in autumn from the SINCLAIR USER CLUBin Filderstadt. Unless Germany is not theUK, so a visitor rate over 20 persons isreally a success, as they came from allparts of the country (and sometimes fromforeign countries).
1 Trying to install the membrane back intoit's socket is very tricky. However, whatyou can do to make things easier is toplace a piece of foam between the twoparts, and use masking tape to keep themsecure.
1 Try to get one which has some sort of miniLCD screen built in, plus has a decentrange of features. Many mobiles offer amini address-book feature where you canstore lots of names and numbers. Have onewhich shows signal strength and batterylevel if possible.
1 Tom Summerfield
1 Today, equipment far more sophisticated,weighing less than a pound is availablefor less than `10!f
1 To show the screen, we would use thefollowing:-5
1 To recap, here are some of his grammaticalerrors:1
1 To make the first line of your programindelible and uneditable, enter POKE23755,0:POKE 23756,0. It turns into linezero and can be changed back by re-POKEingthe two values, but always turns into line256!
1 To make matters worse, he has now decidedto take on a committee, all allegedlylocal people (assuming they do exist - oneis called T.Kirk. Wouldn't be JAMES T.Kirk would it?) who are supposed to havesome sort of view and place in theSpectrum. (If they don't, then why arethey on the committee of a Spectrummagazine). No doubt this is to try andportray that Prism is run by severalpeople, therefore the opinions anddirection of the magazine is dictated bythem.
1 To improve the ink absorption on nylon ithas to undergo a process known astexturisation during the finishing processin which the fibres are subjected to athermal treatment which transform thefilaments into a highly twisted structureto improve it's porosity.
1 To explain the situation in his own words,the following paragraph is by FerryGroothedde:_
1 To bring things into perspective: the AYchip is controlled by fifteen registerswhich can be altered to manipulate theoutput from the chip.
1 To all the rest of you making plans, havea great holiday wherever you go! If you'restuck for a destination, Sheffield's not abad place! Seriously, if you're in thearea, please feel free to pop in. Quite afew of you already have in the past year:
1 Time for one more game - "Software House"by lesser-known company Cult. This issimilar to Incentive's oldie "Millionaire"in that you manage a software house. Youraim is to make a lot of money by sellingSpectrum games (some hope!) but your plansare foiled by the evil Arcade Actionmagazine and nasty shop owners who refuseto order your games.
1 Three wires you will use from the keypadport are:3
1 Three areas which would benefit from suchmanuals are the Spectrum 128, Spectrum +3& +D disk interface. Records show thatthere has been no such manuals or bookswritten before which cover all aspects ofthe Spectrum 128 since it was built. Thesame applies to the +D disk interface withit's hidden extras and many bugs! Thepossibility of a +D guide could be passedonto Datel Electronics for inclusion withsales of new +D's.
1 Thomas Eberle, SUC
1 Thomas Eberle says thats it can formatupto 2 Megabytes and is faster than anyother interface. It can also turn your128k Spectrum into a 256k model (no doubtwith extra sideways RAM). If you use thepossibilities of the interface it is alsoclaimed that in can increase the speedfrom 3.5MHz to 18MHz.
1 Thomas Eberle
1 This type of animation consists of drawinga shape on a piece of clear plastic, knownas a cell, and thn photographing two or soframes of film using a conventional cinecamera mounted on an overhead rostrum. Thecell is then replacd with one showing aslightly altered version of the shape, andthe whole process is repeated. As you canimaging, this type of animation requiresan incredible number of pictures to bepainstakingly drawn by hand, as abouttwenty-five frames are needed for everysecond of the finished film.
1 This stops you from having to shut wholeenvelopes down if you want the sound tostop momentarily. You can also synchroniseeffects this way.
1 This should eliminate the situation wheresomething did not happen , and you areleft wondering why not.k
1 This short bit of code will page in RAMpage 7 at the top of memory, and the DOSROM in at the bottom of memory. We cannow call our DOS routines.
1 This program may be used as an aid tolearning morse or brushing-up on yourmorse after a period away from it.v
1 This program only runs under the CP/Moperating system, and so it's +3 specificas only the +3 can run run CP/Ms
1 This means that the AY can produce a widerange of music and effects. Using the PLAYcommand from BASIC only scratches thesurface - real fun can be had by drivingthe chip directly.
1 This means that AlchNews will essentiallybe known as a Spectrum and SAM magazinebut will most likely to be seperateentities, Spectrum controlled by AlchemistResearch and the SAM side by Ferry.
1 This list comprises of people who havebeen connected in some wayL
1 This leads me to another important point,for Betados users in particular - ifanyone finds they do need to update,please start from scratch, using the BetaDos Maker program again. DON'T try to takea short-cut by running the new fixer onyour present, partially-fixed DOS - itcan't be done that way!
1 This issue: My Error Handler for the +3DOSlistings Complaints about my blisteredpinkies fom typing that in. Chernobyl'sOperating System. And probably some otherstuff...
1 This is what our example would give:$
1 This is what must be done. I have done itin three steps to show the stages of how aprogram like this works, but it could bedone in two.
1 This is what Theo's reply to me said on28th March:5
1 This is the first holiday closedown sinceAlchemist Research was opened in 1986! So,if you could please make arrangements withyour letters and orders for times beforeor after that. However, I will have themobile with me so any telephone queriesshould be directed to that number.
1 This is something you have to do beforeyou can use a font in one of your ownprograms (unless you "borrow" them fromthe Art Studio!). There are far too manyfont editors around, and they can be foundclogging up PD libraries around the world.However, there are a fair few professionalprograms to do this, so here's a briefglance at a couple.
1 This is part of the paradox theory. Youhave been given something from the futureby yourself so when you are at the time ofthe future sender, you become the futuresender and send it back to yourself so youcan send it back in the future!
1 This is all the code you really need inorder to set the default user area. Yousimply set the accumulator (A register) tohold the user number you require, and CALLthe DOS routine DOS SET USER.
1 This is a new game by BD DESIGNS. It hasbeen greatly enhanced. GASP at the 2DIsometric views GAZE at the atmosphericdomes, in which you have to cut the grassBOGGLE at the stunning choice of nextgeneration, high tech Mowers.
1 This is DEFINETLY the work of a guiltyman. In all my years I have been operating(far more than Mr Sherwood), I have NEVERhad to terminate a sub. nor have I lostONE customer, programmer, or writerthrough bad feelings. Yet, at Prismthey've lost dozens!
1 This is a compendium of the lies andgeneral untruths circulated by MartynSherwood and / or the team behind PDPOWER. Sources of the lies are given andany point in query should be sent to A.Davis where proved docuements can beprovided.
1 This information does not give claim to bean exhaustive treatment of the subject butcontains practical advice on dealing withany problems which may arise. In general,the
1 This holds the number of lines at thebottom of the screen allocated to theinterpreter for the printing of errors andthe such like (usually 2 = two lines).
1 This game is actually quite believable dueto its neat presentation and closeparallel with real life, and playing it at2 am in the morning you can imagine yourprogrammers busily typing in lines of codeand Arcade Action rolling off the pressinto the shops! (Stop laughing at theback). It's fun wondering what marks yourgames will get - normally bad ones, butthat's life as they say (who say?). Ifthis type of game is your cuppa, I'dsuggest finding a copy of "Software House"- all in all, a well written piece ofsoftware.
1 This example only goes to re-inforce thatthe recruitment of a committee is strictlynominal and it is clear that the membersare being used for their names only to tryand portray that Prism is being run byseveral independant people in a democraticfashion, which is clearly not the case.
1 This displays it in conjunction with thenormal ROM/RAM combination used by BASIC.When you press a key and return to the128K Editor, the standard screen will thenbe restored.
1 This byte could hold one of four valuesdepending on what type of save you loadedin.W
1 This begs the further question, why arePrism so afraid of their literature beingseen? It is perhaps worthy of note thatmany of the factsheets etc. which areconspicuously emblazoned with the words"Copyright Prism PD/Wallis Publishing",just happen to contain
1 This article refers to the grey +2"
1 This angered Miles somewhat and he tableda list of questions for Mr Sherwood toanswer.[
1 This would disable the NEW key andreprogram it to STOP:?
1 This technology is all very well forpeople who have access to motion-pictureor video recording equipment, powerfulcomputers and plenty of time. But for mostpeople who posess none of these thingsstill find computer generated graphics ofenormous use. Animated images are animportant part of all sorts of ComputerAided Design (CAD) packages, for example,and every good arcade game relies heavilyon smoothly-animated, attractive screendisplays.
1 This mobile can operate for 22 hoursbefore needing charging.B
1 This is a fault, although not life-threatening to your machine, as thesesymptoms are got rid of when you unplugthe external drive from the drive B:socket. <No, the fault is with a badlywired lead. Ed>
1 This society is dedicated to thepreservation of Roy Bensons, a sad anddejected creature in need of much love andattention, and money.
1 Thirdly, All information supplied tomyself about Prism PD and Martyn Sherwoodhas been found to be true. The onlyuntruth published was a mis-reference tohis contact with the United Minds. Thiswas rectified immediately with an apologyto Mr Sherwood and the United Minds. Sometime later, Mr Sherwood wrote demanding anapology - proof that he doesn't read(especially PROOF READ) anything! Onceagain, an apology was sent, twice, as wellas being featured in AlchNews.
1 Thirdly (oops!), it stops the listing whenreached, so all lines following it aremissed out. There's no error, it juststops with the OK message. This is sort ofprotection, but messing around near theselines sometimes causes a nasty freezecrash in 128 BASIC.
1 Think of the endless possibilities - for ascreen copier you could use SCREEN$ andCOPY - that's just two characters, leavingyou eight! If your
1 They said that the new SAM sections wouldbe fine if they didn't interefere with theSpectrum, nor reduced Spectrum content inany way.
1 They have also welcomed the idea.!
1 They can be saved to tape or +D disc, andare automatically located at my favouriteaddress, 62000! (You can relocate them, ofcourse). If you look at the "Font Box 1"BASIC program, you'll notice lots ofmachine code in REMs - the twenty fontsand a routine called Xecue for the smoothscroller.
1 These were detailed in one of their famousfactsheets. The point is, though, why didhe have to deny it in the first place,attacking people who had legitimategrounds for criticism? And why is heseemingly trying to deny these problemsYET AGAIN? Martyn should realise no-onecares now anyway, EXCEPT about the fact heis making out he is innocent, so he canclaim he is owed an apology.
1 These mentioned top right have either seenor heard the extract about MartynSherwood. Just to remind you, here is abrief summery of the content:
1 These games were written by people (what,not Martians?!) going solo at first, butsoon programmers began to group together(those who hadn't already done so in theZX81's heyday) and form the legendarySOFTWARE HOUSES. Such old names asAutomata, Richard Shepherd
1 These are like gold dust second hand.Nobody wants to pay `70 for one new, norbuy the FORMAT DX-1, for obvious reasons.Prices for +D's will hold for a long time.Disciples are a possible alternative butvery few of these appear.
1 These TV companies are loath to actuallycall these programs REPEATS, which letsface it, they are, no these progs arealways billed as 'another chance to see..'<and 'classic series' as if that justifiesit. Maybe we should get a rebate on ourlicence fees for all the repeats or justsend them a photocopy of last yearspayment. Ed>
1 Theres lots of Spectrum+ machines around,a fair few rubber keyboarded versions andthen the grey +2's. The original black128's do appear from time to time.
1 Theres a program at the end to do theopposite of this and tell you the POKEablevalues of 23606 and 23607 for a font. Ed>}
1 There you have it, written proof from athird party.6
1 There were two disks in the collection Igot, but that was because I ordered the +3B: drive version. One disk containsgames, whilst the
1 There were lots of disk drives going foraround `15 but all types of cables andleads.Z
1 There were a couple of music packages tolet the home user take advantage of thechip, namely MUSIC MASTER and MUSICMAESTRO. Both were remarkably similar inappearance but
1 There was, of course, the MARK TIME MUSICBOX, which was a follow up to the 48ksmash "WHAM MUSIC BOX". But, the programdidn't give much in the way of instrumentquality.
1 There was one 8 bit stand with a lot ofSpectrum software - not your budgetrubbish but lots of big boxed classics.Surprisingly, all were in great conditionand most were new. I was incredibly luckyto pick up HISOFT BASIC and HISOFT PASCALfor only `2!
1 There is the school of thought that talksof a paradox through time travel. Goingback to prehistoric times with the commoncold - did YOU kill the dinosaurs?!
1 There is one book I thoughly recommend youtry of obtain a copy of by any means atyour disposal.b
1 There is just enough room inside the caseof the +3 to allow for this.F
1 There is a wealth of utilities, articles,short programs and tips around for theSpectrum and it would be a simple andextremely popular undertaking to compilethem all into one simple booklet, whichwould become something of a "bible" to anyuser. This has been previously proven with"The Plus 3 Technical Source", oncepublished by Garner Designs.
1 There is a dinosoaur program too, justperfect if little Johhny is doing a schoolproject on them.d
1 There are trillions of ways of crashing onBREAK, but to disable BREAK you have touse a piece of machine code (why not storeit in a REM?!) - one is available fromAlchemist PD. Why not order it and a REMstorer now?!
1 There are four basic versions:
1 There are five versions of the program,all supplied when requested. However, themost useful version is DLS3X. The others:}
1 There are are two five byte number forms,the 'short' and the 'floating point'.O
1 There are a variety of chargers available,much in the same way as camcorders. Somecan charge the battery on the phone andupto two others at the same time. Thereare also rapid chargers and ones to chargeyour battery whilst in the car.
1 There are a few "quirks" though, like halfthe opening option menu vanishing beforeyou get a chance to read it etc, butthat's not a fault of the program, it'squite normal under CP/M. The only moanI've really got is that as this IS the+3 version, why couldn't the programmerhave sorted the screen display out?Still, as long as you read the DOC filethat comes with the program and takenotes, you won't really need the openingmenu so much. The program qouls have gota MUCH higher mark from me if this problemhad beed sorted out.
1 There is room for improvement in theprogram to make it more compatable withhigher sized disks we use today butwritten BEFORE Mr Davis got his disksystem shows insight and forward planning!
1 There is really nothing too difficultabout bits. They are used in two mainways. Namely, you can visualise each bitas an on/off switch, or as an indicator ofa certain state. The other way bits areused is for indicating numbers in binaryform.
1 There are usually lots of differentmonitors in these papers which are worth alook. I picked up a green screen Fergusonmonitor in excellent condition for only`12. Don't forget that the AMSTRAD CM-14monitor is one of the best Amstrad modelsyou can buy. Theres also the colourCTM-644 and the green GT-64. But, takecare on how much you spend. One advertiserwas selling a CTM-644 for `40 but when Ilooked further down, I noticed someoneelse was selling the same monitor as partof a deal with an Amstrad CPC-664 withlots of games for only `30!
1 There are two main classes of RS232devices, and these are DCE (DataCommunication Equipment) and DTE (DataTerminal Equipment).
1 There are lots of potential in thesescreens, from designing a calendar tosetting out a horoscope with a DTPpackage. All the signs of the Zodiac arein there somewhere, as are pictures ofanimals, pointy fingers, Garfield, MickeyMouse, Donald Duck, cars, planes, flagsetc. It's all in there somewhere!
1 There are black +2a's in abundance,ranging from reasonable `20 boxed withlots of games to ridiculous `90. Theresone advert for a +2a stll boxed and"hardly used" for `70 and has been in thepaper for weeks. Sometimes I feel likeringing up and saying:
1 Theo's address is available in all hisprograms should anyone wish to write tohim. You will all agree that his programsare more like works of art - wellprogrammed with presentation second tonone. These kind of abuses don't putconfidence in ANY programmer to write newprograms.
1 Theo Devil Disks
1 Theo Develegas
1 Then, prepare some wires as mentione inthe Multiface modification (above) andsolder a single wire to each of the pinsmentioned below.
1 Then, checks are made to see that the nextcharacter is a letter of the alphabet andnot a number as used in some mathematicalequation or other. If not, then remove 32from the value of this letter, making it acapital letter.
1 Then theres the "cause and effect". Likethe above, if you went back through timeand stepped on a flying insect, did youend it's evolvement and change the courseof the world? This may take someimagination. Lets say that we live in aworld dominated by giant flies. Now Idon't just mean hassling us in summer, butruling us. If you went back in time andkilled it's last remaining ancestor at thetime before it mated, you'd eliminate themand therefore the future you've just comefrom.
1 Then there was all that business with the'Exclusive' demo for him! We almost lostour friendship with Andy over that one, asat that time, we were a little busy, andwere delayed in writing back to Andy, andafter hearing about the
1 Then came SOUNDTRACKER, the Spectrumversion of the famous Amiga music writingprogram. It promised a simple and easy wayof entering music into the Spectrum andgetting good results. The only drawbackwas that there were no instructions forthe program and it was a case of work andresearch or leave it! As a result thereare a fir number of reasonable tunesaround but the most outstanding effortshave come from the now famous AGENT-X! Nodoubt you are listening to one of hisworks now as you read this.
1 Their catalogue contains thousands oftitles, all at very low prices. Besidesnew titles, he can also get some classicstoo. Theres even provision for +3,Microdrive, Opus and +D programs. For acatalogue, send an IRC.
1 Theinformation comes from Mr Sherwood's owndocuments and from lots of customers. Doesthat mean that his own reports are untrueand all his customers are liars? Therehas been no wrong information passed toAlchemist Research, all has been proven inone way or another and is available forscrutiny by anyone who so desires it.
1 The word "file" will be in a strangeplace, about one line down. Oh, I've justremembered the last one - printing overthe "Program:". Because "Program:" onlyappears on tape systems, don't use this ondisc unless you want to see a funny effectwhich you may find difficult to get ridof! Tape owners can use CHR$ 8 tobackspace without deleting, thus:
1 The whole point of DB2 is to give youthe power to back up all your disks toanother disk or tape. It doesn't copydisk based files to tape, it copies a diskimage, which is a far better way to goabout it.
1 The value 4095 occupies 12 bits, the upper4 in register 1, the lower 8 in register0. The same principle applies to channelB, using registers 3 and 2 and channel C,with registers 5 and 4.
1 The use of ribbons properly coated withlubricant based ink has also been shown toincrease the life of the print head if itis complemented by periodic cleaning toremove accumulations of paper and dustparticles.
1 The use of "esq" after his name. Onlyadopted when I decided to add my BSCqualification to my name!m
1 The two program illulstrate the use ofmachine code to send the morse withcorrect character durations and spacings.The speed may be preset.
1 The two control lines are used to selectthe required Microdrive device and turnthe correct motor on or off, and port #EFis used to control these lines, as well asto control the erase and write protectlines.
1 The two addresses in RAM which relate tothe position in memory of the font are23606 and 23607. By default, these are setat 0 and 60 respectively. I must admit atthis point that I have no idea how thesetwo numbers relate to the font's position;it's probably something to do with highand low bits but who cares?!
1 The trick with Funny Filenames is knowingwhich characters you are allowed to use.Well, it's all of them! Even the commandscan be used as filenames. Try saving afile as CHR$ 249+CHR$ 249+CHR$ 249+CHR$249, and when you reload it, presto! Youwill see a load of RANDOMIZEs. This maynot be a very useful filename, but as youwill see, some commands are...
1 The theme of the day was the harddiskinterface after the construction fromRoelof Koning (SGG). Everybody who wants acircuit plan of it should write us and wewill send this as a copy from our infoarticle in the july mag 1994. Workingharddisks was seen on the SAMs from Ian D.Spencer and Slowomir "Slawek" Grodkowskiin a bit modified form, the guy with aworking harddisk on the Spectrum couldn'tshow it, because he hadn't got free fromthe work (what an annoyance!). The mainproblem with the harddisk is the operationsystem, but Ian D. Spencer hopes to fit itinto MasterDos for the SAM, who does itfor our beloved Speccy?
1 The temerature at the inpact point is akey factor in the wear. A large share ofthe strike energy is transformed into heatand the material properties (of the nylon)are very sensistive to an increase intemerature. The printer itself may becomequite warm after a working day.
1 The surprise of the day came from FrankMeurer, who presented a very new harddiskinterface for the Spectrum. With this itshould be able to drive harddisks on SCSIbase (the interface from Roelof Koningworks with IDE harddisks). A test on themeeting failed because a cable wasmissing. Also a DOS is just missing.
1 The strike pressure of the needles canvary from 5 to 200 psi, while contact timewith the paper range from 10 to 200microseconds, the latter being a functionof the printing speed and strike pressure.
1 The start was very calm but at (high) noonthe hall was filled to the last place andfrom all sides you could hear the soundsfrom running demos, mostly on theSpectrums.
1 The special effects are really quite good,but the acting... come back CommanderPlywood, all is forgiven!. No seriously,bring back Commander Jeffery Sinclair!,BABALON 5 just is'nt the same without him!
1 The sophistication that can be achieved inthis is limited by the capabilities of thecomputer you use. The Cray operates at 100megaflops (100 million floating pointoperations per second). But as the imageshave to be swapped many times a second forrealistic animation, even the Cray couldnot generate film-quality images quicklyenough for real-time animation. Instead,the images that it generated were filmedseperately in a conventional stop-frameprocess.
1 The six solder connections are made to theunderside of the circuit board. Followingthe diagram, make the connections to thepins on the membrane sockets, usingsuitable lengths of wire. It is probablywise to lay a piece of insulation tapebetween the wires and circuit board tostop chafing when finished.
1 The situation with G+DOS 2a is somewhatdifferent, since with the standard,unmodified version, there is approximately2K of spare +D RAM, which can convenientlybe exploited for a variety of purposes.Few of the utilities and patches which doso, however, actually use the entire 2K,especially some of the smaller ones suchas the snapshot/key '0' interrupt patch,OPEN-3-OUT, ATTR +D etc., which take onlya few dozen bytes each. The difficultyarises if you want to install more thanone at the same time - which combinationscan safely be used together, and whichones would conflict in terms of memoryrequirements? The problem stems, ofcourse, from the fact they were allwritten by different people at differenttimes, and as a result, there is noorganised, mutually exclusive allocationof space to each item.
1 The silly thing is, A$<>"YES" must be trueif the program reaches line 110 -otherwise it would already have branchedto 200. Where you have a situation likethis, it's sometimes quicker to put thenon-YES part of the program (line 500 inmy example) straight after the YES check.So...
1 The screw hole is at the output end of thepower supply. That's the end with the leadthat goes to the +3. Using some sort ofmeter, a digital multimeter or somethinglike that, CAREFULLY check what voltagethe 5V output is outputting. I'd like tobet you that it's below 5V, and if it'sbelow 4.75V, I'm surprised that your +3functions at all. The same goes for peoplewho's 5V output is higher than about5.25V, as TTL logic will not functionabove about 5.25V. It will not have beendamaged, unless there has been more thanabout 6.75V across it.
1 The same letter also questions the realityof Ben Douglas. He said:B
1 The results were stunning. The quality wasexcellent, equal, if not better than a newribbon. There were no blobs or spots ofexcess ink at all.
1 The report established that:
1 The repetitive impact of the needles anresult in the needle temerature risingclose to the melting point of nylon (480degrees F) causing a softening of thefabric under the needles' strikes.Moreover, nylon is a poor heat conductor;however, the presence of ink on betweenthe filaments dissipates the impactenergy. Once the ribbon gets dry, theimpact temerature rises sharply causingrapid degradingation of the fabric.
1 The regular re-inking of nylon-type fabricribbons with proper dot matrix ink cansignificantly extend the useful life ofsuch ribbons.
1 The reason for J$ is to remember the keypressed (I always use J$ for this, but itreally doesn't matter). You can thensafely know that J$ must contain a numberfrom 1 to 5 and can go on like this:
1 The reason I mention this, is that thereseems to be at least one other version incirculation, which was apparently releasedin error to a few people at one stage, andcontains some bugs. (These were laterfixed in V2.3).
1 The reason for the difficulty of highspeed computer animation is the amount ofinformation required by a picture. Themore detaild the image, the more memory isneeded to store it. Increase the number ofcolours available and the amount of RAMrequired to store the colour informationis increased, too.
1 The quote is fair and I have admitted thatI made a mistake and apologised to allparties, both privately and publicly andoffered the apology for PD Power.
1 The protection although simple in conceptwas effective because they were diffult tocopy as the block of code loaded in wasthe same length as the available memory inthe 48K machine, C000 bytes long.
1 The proposal is this. Each invited groupwould submit any information on theparticular compilation booklet in questionto the designated compiler who will thencollate and compile all informationrecieved into one, or a series of,wordprocessor textfiles. The textfileswill have the names and addresses ofgroups who submitted work for thecompilation, along with credits forindividuals who also helped. The compileddocument will then be passed onto all whoworked on it, for production anddistribution / sale by their ownindividual groups.
1 The program which tells you the values toPOKE for 23606 and 23607 if you type inthe address:`
1 The program uses string and numeric arraysso whatever you do, DO NOT TYPE RUN.Always start with GOTO 10. Only use RUN ifyou want to "cold start" the program andclear the entire menu of data.
1 The program is very short and is, in fact,not necessary. When loaded it puts a newcommand into a key for a demonstration.Pressing @ (sym shift 2) will not print a"@" but tell you the amount of bytes free.
1 The program is longer and you still haveto go through the time consuming processof calculations and drawing the fourpictures, but animation does not startuntil this has been done. Once stored inmemory, the pictures can be reacalled veryquickly.
1 The program allows upto 12 filenames to bestored and features an option for 10.Although it may be outdated for a diskwhich may have 50 or 60 files on it, itcould be used for the 3" disk or a +D diskfeaturing 128 snapshots. As the program isin Basic it's easily modified.
1 The process is very simply demonstrated bythe "flicker-book", in which drawings oneach page of a book can be animated as thepages are flipped over at speed. A moresophisticated demonstration of the samething is the process of stop-frameanimation, which dates back to the earlyyears of this century.
1 The problem is that to produce a displayof the quality taken for granted by cinemaaudiences]
1 The print head on a dot matrix printerconsists2
1 The price was something of a pain in thewallet, costing `39.50 + VAT along with`4.80 for a spare pack of inks and thencarriage and packaging. The total came to`54.40.
1 The practical results of this is that youshould treat the TXD line of the +3 RS 232as the RXD line and visa versa. The TXDline is in fact an INPUT, not an output asyou may have expected. Similarly, RXD isin fact an output. So, you would connectTXD to the TXD line on the PC, RXD to RXD,DTR to DTR etc.
1 The pososity, roughness and absorbency ofthe ink and properties of paper areinfluenced by the type of fibre used aswell as the treatment process during it'smanufacture. Apart from special purposepapers, standard computer papers ofdifferent
1 The port used to control the RS232 port is#F7; data being sent serially on data line0. The condition of the DTR line can befound by reading bit 3 of the port #F7,and the condition of the CTS line byreading bit 4 of the same port. Settingbit 4 will also raise the CTS line.
1 The pitch controls how high the note thatyou hear is. The AY can accept pitchvalues from 0 (highest) to 4095 (lowest).}
1 The other system variable to keep an eyeon is DEFINE SIZE at 5C6B (23659 d).N
1 The other one of these packages which I amobliged to mention is one written by me!"Font Box 1" is a collection of 20 fontswith a viewer-saver program. There areEuropean, PC, Bold and lots of other fontstyles, all designed in the Art Studio.
1 The other notable "home-made font" programis Autochars. This consists of a singleline of BASIC which is a machine-code REMand can be merged with your own programsfor a bold font without "blockiness" inthe small M and W. Alchemist PD probablyhas most of these programs, so write toAndy for more info.
1 The other is T3TO2 which converts TaswordOPENTYPE +D serial files to Tasword2.O
1 The other events which gave rise to thiscomplaint are again things which happenedlong ago, but nevertheless completelyfactual and thus warranted it being saidat the time. When Andy Davis heardcomplaints from customers who wereaffected by Prism PD's slow service (seefirst point) and mentioned the matter inAlchNews to warn others, Martyn Sherwood'sreaction was to print an article in PDPower totally denying the problem, andblaming Andy Davis and Chris Taylor, whohad also been a victim, for "having theaudacity to suggest that Prism PD is slowin sending out orders".
1 The only other thing that should be notedhere is that on the Amiga drive, there osa line that should be held "high" at alltimes, else the drive won't work. Simplysolder a 100R resistor between pin 11 and12.
1 The only exception here is "h" which isfor the half fraction. I've been usingTasword 128 with the half symbol on thiskey for over two years and if I move itnow I'll never remember where I moved itto!
1 The one thing that I must say about theseprograms is that th quality is excellent.Years ago, Theo could have made an awfullot of money from software like this.Compared to some of the later offeringfrom major software houses, Theo's stuffshines out. These disks are far too goodto miss, go get them!
1 The number it contains is held in just twobytes of the five - byte three is theleast significant and byte four the mostsignificant. The sign of the number istaken from the basic line - if it ispreceeded by a minus sign then it isnegative. No sign indicates a positivenumber.
1 The noise is "coloured" by amplifying somefrequencies in the band more than others.Register 6 can accept values from 0 - forthe highest - to 31 for the lowestfrequency.
1 The next time round I will cover a verysimple form of protection favoured by suchpeople as Firebird before they settled fortheir 'BLEEP LOADER'.
1 The next ten bytes contain the name, orten spaces if no name.@
1 The next step is to creat the image forthe second page that is to be stored. Thetwo lines that achieve this are 100 and100 while Line 120 PRINTs a non-audiablesound effect! This second image is storeda by Line 130 which sends the program tothe subroutine at 270 and Line 150 swapsover the values of srce and dest which hasthe effect of downloading the imagefrom RAM onto the screen. Lines 150 to 210set up a loop that will alternate the twoimages that have been created. This willRUN until you press the BREAK key.
1 The next five pages cover Tasword and PCGWordmaster and give clear and concisedetails on how to swap and convert betweenthem all.
1 The nasty red <red? I thought it was blue.Ed.> cursor will beep at you (maybe it'sswearing!) as it flashes on the top line.Now suddenly switch to the down cursorkey. The cursor apparently gets fed up ofbeing moved around and takes a short breakright down to the bottom of the screen!(Once I managed to get it under the footerbar)! You can get back to your line ofdollars, but pressing the wrong keysinvariably causes a crash. Nasty eh?
1 The most recent version of the industrystandard RS232 communications interface isthe RS232 C standard. This standard isset by an organisation called theEIA (Electronic Industry Association). Itdefines a number of parameters concirningvoltage levels, loading characteristicsand timing constants.
1 The more memory used to store the picture,the more work the CPU has to do to updateit. The reason why most commercialcomputer-generated films use stop frameanimation is simply that the processoris not sufficiently powerful to updatelarge areas of memory quickly. If updatinggraphic displays is a slow process, evento people with powerful computers, how cana home programmer produce animation usinga micro? One solution is the use of pagedgraphics.
1 The method for accessing the memory banksinvolves POKEing a system variable 'BANKM'at 23388, but first, we must do somethingvery important - enter CLEAR 49151 (orlower) - otherwise the stack will be pagedout, causing a crash.
1 The mechanics of process is dependant on:)
1 The main other type of alien sightingsetc, seem to be based around the bunch ofaliens called "Humanoids!" this is purelybecause the press get a bit upset whenthey have to print "Little Green Men!".
1 The main component of computer noise isharmonics of the video signal, especiallyfrom the synch pulses. Noise radiated bythe computer is generally acceptable as,apart from the harminics of thelie synchpulse every 15,625 Hz, it is comparablewith H.F. band noise. The main exceptionis the noise produced by the RGB videooutput of the BBC computer. This shouldnot be used, or even left connected. Ifyou need colour from the composite PAL(BNC) output, short link 39 on thecomputer PCB (near the back of thesocket).
1 The magazine is really at the planningstage at the moment and Richard is lookingfor contributions and all kinds of help.Needless to say, Alchemist Research willbe helping out with disk conversions andmuch more.
1 The lower 4 bits of register 13 controlhow the envelope is to act: i.e. if itattacks or decays, whether it dies afterthe first shot, or whether it repeats adinfinitum. This is how the register islaid out.
1 The lower 4 bits hold the volume of thechannel which the register applies to.This can be from 0 to 15. All threeregisters are identical.
1 The list continues to grow by the month.(
1 The lines are:
1 The latest program is SQ TRACKER, andconsists of three modules, a tracker,linker and compiler program. Apparently,ordering a copy from the source costsaround `3, but is much more expensive fromother places.
1 The key elements that influence the lifeof the ribbons and printer head are:N
1 The interpreter does not use the numberyou see in a basic line as a reference,that is there purely for us humans, italways looks at the hidden five bytenumber form.
1 The interface should be available in Mayand average cost will be `135.50.K
1 The intention of these columns, as far asI'm concerned, is to try and teach thoseof you who have some basic and assemblylanguage knowledge, the concepts of usingthose skills to enable you to hack yourway past any of the protected Spectrumsoftware you have lying around your homes.
1 The instructions recommend re-inking whenfading becomes apparent. Only one cyclewas needed to ink the ribbon to fullstrength again. As the details state, itis usually a good idea to have threeribbons in use, one being used while theothers are re-inked. This way it givesequal use to each ribbon.
1 The ink is an all dye formulation andcontains no pigments. The vehicle iscomposed of fatty acids, vegetable andmineral oils, dispersing agents and apropriety synthetic lubricant blend toensure life long lubrication of the printhead. This ink is formulated to becompatable with all known print headlubricants and will not sludge or formvarnishes at print head temeratures.Furthermore, it is not harmful to anyknown print head materials, nor will reactwith any materials used
1 The idea is simple enough: the screen iscleared, each of the four pictures isdrawn in sequence and the process isrepeated until the cube has rotated fivetimes. The disadvantage of this method isthat it will draw each picture five times.The calculations each take some time, sopoor animation results - with anappreciable "jump" between each image.
1 The groups which have been invited to takepart are:3
1 The games? Well, PEKING by Dave Saunderswould be first choice. I simply never getbored with it although it does give me theodd headache. I've played many versions onPC's etc. but the stark "less is more"programming works best.
1 The game I have chosen to pull to piecesin front of your very eyes in the nextedition is a game called ZOOT.r
1 The former cannot contain a value outsidethe range of -65535 to a positive numberthat size and is easily understood.w
1 The following sections detail some morelies Mr Sherwood has tried to circulateand our report of the TRUTH of them. Allare documented with proof. There are alsoarticles by The United Minds team, MilesKinloch and N.R.A. Cattell to name butthree.
1 The following is an UP-DATE on
1 The following examples all assume that thewindow is not touching the right-hand edgeof the screen. Take care to distinguishbetween the lower and UPPER case letters.If you make an error, simply repeat theinstructions correctly. Most of theexamples shown have been Super-printed X2horizontally only. I haven't Super-printedthem!.
1 The following routines are anti-hackingones for your BASIC programs. Be careful,as misuse can crash the computer or losebits of your program. They also havedifferent effects in 48k and 128k mode insome cases, so experiment and use yourfavourites. They are good ideas forprotecting loaders of machine code games,like the old Alkatraz system.
1 The following program will give you asimple animation of a man bouncing on atrampoline. Although the majority of theprogram is in BASIC, there is some machinecode that gives the speed required to callthe pages from memory.
1 The first true musical Spectrum was theSpectrum 16k, the ZX82. Although the ZX-81was it's predecessor, only the use of anaftermarket add-on allowed music sodoesn't count.
1 The first program is T3T2 which convertsTasword 3 and Tasword 128 tape textfilesto Tasword 2 format.h
1 The first program should be entered tocreate the machine code. The secondprogram is the morse generator in full.You may light to combine your results withthe radio communications software inAlchemist PD which can receive and decodemorse.
1 The first original game in my little pileis "Trashman" from NewF
1 The first hidden feature of the Speccy +2(the grey one, I mean) is a set of editingkeys in BASIC. I don't mean the oldcursors or delete key, oh no - thesebeauties are much more obscure! Any BASICuser will have used the EXTEND MODE signs(copyright, tilde, backslash, squarebrackets, funny brackets and the leastused symbol in the character set, theInteresting Vertical Line). But, I askyou, have you ever used EXT MODE functionswithout SHIFT? In 48k mode, they could beused for extra commands and embeddedcolours, but in 128k mode, there are lotsof hidden editing features, rather likethe ones on the rare Spectrum keypad.
1 The first book will no doubt cover theSpectrum 128 and grey +2. It will featuresections on the extra memory, with lots ofsimple, working examples. Specialistprograms and other hints and tips will befeatured, along with projects
1 The first byte (at 7E00), if you haveloaded a basic program, will be zero.O
1 The final program is TP3TO2 which convertsTasword +3 textfiles to Tasword 2.L
1 The final quote is also laughable. Heclaims that the signees of this letter"give full support to Martyn". This hasbeen proved otherwise and can be checkedby writing to any of them.
1 The entire group of system variable in a48K machine begin at address 5C00 throughto address 5CCB, the first available byteon memory available for basic - unless aninterface 1 is connected, though, whenhacking it is advisable to remove it -again, you may need all the spare spaceyou can get your hands on.
1 The easiest way to percieve time is agigantic spiral, ever decreasing (orincreasing). Time continues round andaround, and that is the rate at which weexperience it. But, to jump to anothertime, we simply leap over onto anotherspiral either to the outside or inside.However, going from one to another wouldinvolve going through the fifth dimension,one which is undetectable. And if we can'tdetect it, how can we manipulate it? Andwe can't experiment with detecting itbecause we don't know what we are lookingfor!
1 The difficulty was not in persuading Andy- who was, in fact, more than willing togo along with it - but Martyn. Now, if thelatter's lukewarm (or rather, ice-cold)attitude had been based on genuinereservations, I might have had somesympathy and tried to reassure him, buthis refusal to co-operate was for entirelydifferent reasons, as he made abundantlyclear - namely, that he had no intentionof letting the matter end until hereceived a "public apology" from Andy; apoint about which he said he wasabsolutely "adamant". He then went on tolist a series of points on which heclaimed an apology was owing, makinghimself out to be entirely blameless onALL counts - somewhat 'holier than thou ',methinks!
1 The details on the previous page weretaken from a circular which has beendistributed to all customers since May.You will also find one with this issue. Ifyou have already filled one in, pleaseignore it. If not, pleasee try and returnit before 1ST NOVEMBER 1995. This gives ustime to collect them all and organise afeedback report for AlchNews 18, December1995.
1 The data passes between the Interface 1and the Microdrive in a serial manner,that is to say SEQUENTIAL. Port #E7 isthe input/output port used.
1 The cure is to reduce voltage to a levelwhere it no longer causes problems. Whatthis level is will depend on individualcircumstances but it should certainly bebelow 1 volt. First, make sure that yourreceiver is properly eathed. If you arenot usingthe mains earth, bear in mindthat a stake in the ground has to be bigand deep in good ground to be reallyeffective. Then turn your attention to theVDU. If you are using a monitor with anearthed metal case then there should be noproblem.. If you have a TV set, disconnectthe antenna lead from the computer andmeasure the voltage between the braidingand earth. If this is what is causing thetoule, you can either use another TV whichdoesn't exhibit the problem or trybreaking the braiding in the lead, whichhas been known to produce a complete cure.
1 The code assembles at 32768 (decimal), socalculate the address you need to POKE inorder to set the "x" in line 110 to thereal value you require.
1 The chip is the AY-3-8912 and is the sameone Atari uses in it's basic ST models...ahem!Y
1 The brackets act as "single expressionenclosers" and effectively tell theinterpreter to mind its own business andleave your line alone. Another famous bugsolved... but there's more! For example,if you enter a line so long that its startvanishes from the face of the earth, erm,top of the screen, the cursor scrolls allthe way back up and beeps as if your linecontained an error. Also, I've forgottenhow to do it but entering long linessometimes makes the cursor go down to thebottom of the screen (just above thefooter bar) where it will stay, beepingobstinately every time you move it up aline!
1 The biggest source for all bargains isyour local freeads paper. They are usuallyprinted on some vile colour and featurethousands of free adverts, you just payfor the newspaper.
1 The ball is in your court, as we are justfed up with you.:
1 The advent of the Spectrum 128k promised anew era (or should that be a new EAR) inmusic. The threeh
1 The adoption of a committee and supportstaff after Alchemist Research adopted thesame techniques, in particular when MsWeston took over the paperwork ofAlchemist Research, Prism had to get SusanSmith.
1 The adoption of a helpline service andenhancing their CP/M service, very shortlyafter ours were initiated and upgraded!{
1 The address ERROR STACK POINTER points tois always the same, relative to where themachine has been cleared to at the time -3bytes. When initially switched on, thatwill be FF54 and that address will containanother address to be jumped to when or ifan error occurs - STOP is treated as anerror, just as running out of lines is aswell!
1 The accessory market is VERY expensive.Replacement batteries can cost upto `40,but the original one supplied should lastwell over 3 years. You can get largercapacity batteries to give you longeroperating times.
1 The above modifications work for me, andthey should work for you too, but bear inmind that the above procedures are quitecomplex, and by their very nature,dangerous to the computer's health shouldyou make a mistake. It is worth pointingout again that you should ALWAYS checkyour work BEFORE you switch on thecomputer, and even then, be prepared topull the plug QUICKLY should something notwork the way it should. It is also worthyour while to look in the computerhandbook for details of the ports (pinnumbering etc), as I may have made amistake. Besides, it's always wise to beprepared and read everything you can onthe subject before you attempt to dabble.Like I said, these modifications work formy, but I accept no responsibility for anyerrors you may make, or indeed, any errorsI have made in this article. It is up toyou to take whatever precautions arenecessary BEFORE something goes wrong.
1 The United Minds Team
1 The Stamper brothers started out 13 yearsago-
1 The Spectrum's operating system is held inROM, at address 0 to 16383. When theInterface 1 is added, this ROM gets"extended" by the addition of theInterface 1's "shadow ROM". The new ROMis paged in over the already existig ROM,and is 8K in size. As you would expect,the Shadow ROM contains all the code forthe new instructions, control over theRS232 port, Local Network etc.
1 The Spectrum is looked at as a DCE devicewhen sending data, and a DTE device whenreceiving data. A byte of data is sent onthe RXD line when DTR is set high, and abyte of data is received on the TXD linewhen CTS is set high. This is not quitehow its done on a PC, but it does work ifyou have a correctly wired cable.
1 The SUC reports that production is not yetcomplete on this new disk interface butthe prototype shows real promise.u
1 The Rectory
1 The Rant Files
1 The RS232 connector is a standard 9 pin Dsocket, only it's a female socket ratherthan a male plug. You couldn't plug yourjoystick into it for example.
1 The RAM pages are assigned numbers 0-7,with page 0 being the one normally in situwhen running a program, and thus formingpart of the main memory. RAM pages 2 and 5have something of a dual role, for whileconstituting sections of the main memory(16384-
1 The Proposals
1 The Network only requires two lines, andthese are:4
1 The Network is dominent to the RS232 port;and RS232 is selected over the Network bysetting CTS to high (bit 4 of port #EF)during in/out operations.
1 The Microdrive connector is a 14 pin IDCtype device (7 over 7) and carries thefollowing "signals":h
1 The Maxiprint was the winner of the 19901st IES Inovators Award in Hannover andit's easy to see why. It's so remarkablysimple it's ingenious!
1 The Local Area connector are just a pairof sockets, much the same as the normalSave and Load sockets. The Network usesport #F7, and is set using data line 0 ofthis port.
1 The Legendary Coloured Filename! No, it'snot some obscure racial insult, it's aclever effect which you (Yes! You!) cannow use! (Beware disc owners - these maywell mess up your catalogue if you pickclashing colours!). The Spectrum characterset is normally thought of as being from32 (space) to 255 (last command). Thereason for this is that the charactersbefore 32 are unprintable - erm, no, thatmakes them sound like swear words. Theyare control characters (that's better!),used for setting colours and things. A lotof them are useless, but regard, if youwill, characters 16 and 17.
1 The IC can produce three sounds all atonce. Either a steady tone, or white noiseof whatever pitch you desire, can bepresent on any or all of the three soundchannels and each channel can operate atit's own volume.
1 The HOLD bit will, in effect, freeze theenvelope while it is running. Say, forexample, that a steam train arrived at astation. If you reset the HOLD bit thenthe effect would freeze. If you then setthe flag, the sound will carry on fromwhere it left off.
1 The Great Roy Benson Debate
1 The Front-panel is controlled by a numberof single letters commands ; these may befollowed by up to three HEX numbers. AllHEX numbers must be typed out in full; ifa 16 bit HEX number is required then afour digit number must be typed. Note thatn represents an 8 bit HEX number and nnrepresents a 16 bit number
1 The F.C. between the matrix needles andthe ribbon is very important. The ribbonstarts to wear out once the filamentsbegin to dry out. The ink plays a keylubricating role along the impact surface,prevents any adhesion between hot needlesand nylon fibres and also significantlyreduces wear.
1 The ERROR STACK POINTER, at address 5C3D(23613(d)).5
1 The Demon Hacker moans, groans, gripes andcomplaints section.=
1 The Daily Mirror also ran a story in lateApril about two dropout brothers whocreated "RARE" and have just signed amulti-million pound deal with Nintendofollowing the phenomenal success of"Donkey Kong Country", the consolesbiggest selling game of all time.
1 The DOS bug-fixers, including SNAPFIX, arecompletely safe;
1 The All Formats Show has now been runningfor years. In the olden days it coveredall formats but if the show I visted wasanything to go by, it should be renamedthe PC CD-ROM FORMAT SHOW. But, to befair, it did cover other things but PC'sand CD-ROMs were the order of the day.
1 The AY chip uses a 1 to indicate OFF and 0to indicate ON - the opposit of what wewould expect!a
1 The AY chip requires a great deal ofbitwise manipulation if you want toproduce any sound. You really need tounderstand the conceptof bits if you wantto use the sound chip to any great effect.
1 The AND statement is rarely seen withoutan IF, but in a different syntax (known as"binary AND") it can be useful in manyplaces where something happens to a stringdepending on a numeric value. For example,most people would use:
1 The +2 manual makes the somewhat misleadinclaim that the 128K's alternative screenin RAM 7 cannot be used directly fromBASIC. This article, however, seeks todemonstrate how this can in fact beachieved, provided certain precautions areobserved.
1 The 'floating point' five byte number formis not so easily understood and can holdvalues between -1.7014118E38 to a positivenumber of equal value.
1 The 'POP_' command will remove a valuefrom the stack, whereas, 'PUSH_' places avalue on the stack. 'PUSH_' is followed bytwo numeric expressions - the statementnumber followed by the line number. Anyoneincorporating procedures or 'REPEAT-UNTIL'loops in a YSMB program should use the'PCLEAR' command to reset the stack at thebeginning of the program.
1 The 'Front-panel' is provided to allowusers the opportunity to alter memory andregisters when using hexadecimal. Thefront- panel is activated either byexecuting the 'MON' command, or typing'Control F' while a program is running.The Front-panel uses window 3 and thisshould be at least 40 columns by 20 linesor the display won't function correctly.
1 The 'BROFF' command is used to disable theBREAK key, and is re-enabled with 'BRON'.The BREAK key will still function duringinput or output operations.
1 The 'BRANCH_' command will come in veryuseful when debugging programs. If, forinstance, you're interesteds
1 The 'BRANCH_' command makes the computerexecute a subroutine at the end of everyprogram line. The command is followed by asingle numeric expression pointing to thestart of the subroutine. If its value iszero, then the Spectrum acts as normal atthe end of each line. The end of thesubroutine is defined by 'ENDPROC_'
1 The unit comes complete with a game,calibration program and unique sound tolight unit. No doubt it will only be ashort time before many more games arewritten or modified for it.
1 The saddest thing of all, though, isMartyn Sherwood's continued intransigenceand refusal to let the AlchemistResearch/Prism PD matter drop - butremember, this is his choice entirely, soI hope we won't hear him complaining.
1 The reason is because they are stillsmarting from their loss of unity andsupport after trying to accuse us oftaking them over and are still makingaccusations in private letters to members,accusations which are "frankly, quiteridiculous", says one.
1 The program redefines any key on theboard, and allows you to put in anythingyou desire, from a different symbol, rightthrough to a complicated routine.
1 The other area I want to touch on,concerns DOS configuration and debugging.First of all, could I ask people to checkthat their G+DOS 2a 'CONFIG' program isversion no. 2.3, dated Feb. 1989.
1 The old Apple IIe only had capitalletters, much like the ZX-81. More andmore textfiles are finding their way ontoPC disks which eventually can end up onthe Spectrum. One file I came across wason HYPNOTISM! Anyway, printing such adocument in capital letters looks ratherunprofessional, so the best thing is toconvert it.
1 The most practical tariff is Lowcall.Monthly line rental is around `13 permonth and call charges are 17p per minute.~
1 The matter is indeed worsening, MrSherwood is continuing to badger people,mislead them and tell lies just to savehis face with his few remaining readerswho aren't aware of whats REALLYhappening. Mr Sherwood
1 The latter example is a bit morecomplicated. Basically, the lines whichthe program should jump to for options 1,2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively are stored inline 30. The correct line is then readfrom the list by line 20. This takes upfewer lines but uses more memory.Incidentally, don't use lots of variablesthat start with the same letter because itslows down the program - so A, B and Cwould be better names for three numericvariables than A1, A2 and A3. Of course,if you want an array, they have to beA(1), A(2) and A(3), but this is differentand arrays still gobble memory like Pacmanin a roomful of dots.
1 The ink is the key component in theprinting process andB
1 The following program demonstrates asimple application of paged graphics. Asthe program contains machine code to getthe required speed of exchanging theimages, SAVE them before RUNning, in caseof mishaps.
1 The elements involved in the printingprocess are:6
1 The continued presence of ink in theribbon had significantly delayed thewearing of the material under constantimpact of the needles.
1 The 'CALL_' command is used to callmachine code routines in memory and isfollowed by the address of the routine tobe called. This address can then, ifrequired, be followed by any number ofnumeric expressions. These expressions areevaluated and the result pushed on to themachine stack. This feature allowsparameters to be passed to machine coderoutines.
1 The Interface 1 is
1 Thats about as far as this article isgoing to go at the moment, I will returnnext issue with some practicalr
1 That's all from me, bye!
1 That's all for this article, methinks, sohere's my address for non-Prism people towrite to me:`
1 That was it! What the hell does it mean? Idont know about any of you but I do notunderstand this one bit! I don't think MrSherwood even knows what it means. Irecommend Mr Sherwood sits an examinationin GCSE English because his words do notmake sense!
1 Thanks. That really is it.
1 Thanks to: Albert Harper
1 Thanks to everyone for making!
1 Thankfully, there is a conversion you canmake to your computer which is very simpleand gives Stereo output. With some luckAndy will be making some announcements andarticles shortly.
1 Thankfully, there are three programs whichallow you to convert your textfiles backto Tasword 2. Essentially, Tasword 128 andTasword 3 are the same, they just usedifferent media. Tasword +3 is a bitdifferent because it saves to +3 disk andalso saves under it's own special filetype, just to make life more difficult.
1 Thank you.
1 Ten years ago mobiles were ugly greatthings. The handset was the size of avideo cassette and linked to a boxcontaining the humungous batteries andradio comms equipment. Cost was upwards of`2000.
1 Tel: 081 397 0763
1 Tel: 01952 462135
1 Tel: 0181 850 8344
1 Tel: 01625 617262
1 Tel: 01494 871319
1 Tel: 01353 777006
1 Taword 128 / +2 (128k)
1 Tasword 3: Use T2T3 program supplied.%
1 Tasword 3: Same format
1 Tasword 3: As Tasword 2
1 Tasword 3: Rename to filename.COM#
1 Tasword 3 (Microdrive)
1 Tasword 2: Use TASDFUE
1 Tasword 2: Use T3T2 (tape / Opus )"
1 Tasword 2: Use T3T2
1 Tasword 2: Rename to filename.COM!
1 Tasword 2 is the only one which operatesdifferently. It saves exactly whats seenon the screen. So, if you have a line with20 characters in it, it saves the 20characters of text, plus also the 44spaces after it. If you press ENTER afteryour text, it puts in an invisible markerto tell it that thats the end of the line.This way you save a great deal of memory.
1 Tasword 2 (48k)
1 Tasword 128: Same format.
1 Tasword 128: As above.
1 Tasword 128: As above
1 Tasword 128: As Tasword 3
1 Tasword 128 / +2 second character!
1 Tasword +3: Use T2TP3 program supplied.'
1 Tasword +3: Rename with HEADLOAD.BAS.%
1 Tasword +3: Rename with HEADLOAD.BAS$
1 Tasword +3: As Tasword 3
1 Tasword +3 (+3 disk)
1 Talking about sci fi (as you inevitably do- bored reader.), I've been glued to the2nd series of THE X FILES!, now I won'ttalk about it, for fear of spoiling it forthose readers who don't have satellite andwill catch it, when the Beeb screens it(thankfully without adverts every fiveminutes), but I just have to say it'sfantastic!.
1 Take a look at this example:
1 TYPICAL FEW SPOIL PROJECT
1 TRANSFERRING to 3.5 DISK.
1 TOLD YOU ABOUT THE SPECTRUM +2
1 TIPS FOR BASIC PROGRAMMERS!
1 THINGS THE MANUAL NEVER
1 THE VOLUME CONTROL: Registers 8-10"
1 THE THING MAGAZINE
1 THE ROY BENSON SELF-INTEREST SOCIETY,%
1 THE PROGRAM
1 THE PRINT HEAD
1 THE PITCH REGISTERS: 0 to 6
1 THE MECHANINCS OF RE-INKING
1 THE HALL OF SHAME
1 THE FRONT PANEL
1 THE FABRIC RIBBON
1 THE ENVELOPE LENGTH: Registers 11 & 12&
1 THE DOC's FILES?
1 THE ALL FORMATS SHOW
1 THE ADVENTURE WORKSHOP
1 TEST REPORT
1 TAU CETI 128 would be the second choicebecause of the depth and challenge of gameplay. I'd also plump for ELITE too forvery much the same reasons.
1 TASWORD TUTOR
1 TASWORD DOCUMENT CONVERSIONS
1 TASMAN, creators of the excellent TASWORDwordprocessors still sell their three besttitles. Contact them at:l
1 TASMAN SOFTWARE
1 TAPE / DISC MAGAZINES
1 T.A.W. supply adventure games for a widevariety of computers, including CP/M andthe Spectrum. Most software is writtenwith PAW, GAC or QUILL and can be suppliedon tape or disk. The 22 page A4Spectrum catalogue goes into great detailof all their available titles, giving awell written scenario, game type, partsand prices. This catalogue details seven128k adventures and over 64
1 Sutton-In-The-Isle
1 Suppose that you want to set up a simpleanimated sequence involving the rotationof a cube. You have decided that fourpictures will be sufficient to representone rotation of the cube, and you want thecube to rotate five times. A typicalprogram structure might look like this:
1 Supplier of ZX Microdrives,!
1 Super advanced lawnmower simulator 2000'
1 Suddenly, there was a blinding flash andthe vacuum brakes operated and thenstopped. The pod dimmed a little and Ireleased my belt. I climbed out of thehole and walked across the garage to anidentical pod, thirty feet away. I climbedin and looked at a chap tapping away at aterminal. He turned around.
1 Such routines, and the development of thestyle and form of hacking you eventuallyadopt will therefore be your own, albeitwith a little guidance from these pages.
1 Such a meeting is of course an importantday for exchanging experiences andsolutions about questions and problems. Itis this what makes this meetings a reallysuccess and all who came have made big useof it. But as often in live not allproblems could be solved. This is thepoint we will give on some open questionsto the AlchNews readers in the hope forhelp. If you can help then you can do itdirectly to the questioner or over AndyDavis, who will lead it to us or direct tous.
1 Subliminal Extacy magazine
1 Sub-Editor:
1 Style patterns are held as UDG's ataddresses 32600 (a to u) and 32624 (A toU). You can load your own patterns here ifyou wish. You can also substitute your ownSCREEN$ palette at 34816. To return toPOWERPRINT II GOTO 99 and restore thescreen if required with (U) N-DO.
1 Strange then, that DB2 won't cope withdisks formatted to 203K by DICE. It willcope with the vast majority of "protected"games disks, but not a disk formatted byDICE. Why?!
1 Str M. Kogalniceanu
1 Still, if you have a +3, an external 3.5"drive and CP/M, you could find thisprogram[
1 Still in this letter, Mr Sherwood requestsan apology in AlchNews 16 over falsearticles featured in 11,12,13,14 and 15.Perhaps if he told US of this we'd be ableto comply, especially when he goes onabout complaining customers not writing tohim. In reality, people complain and heignores them. Because he refuses to givedetails of any regulatory body he issupposed to be connected to, where elsemust people write. When the PSD find outhe's been withholding their address andthe other lies and trouble he has caused,no doubt justice will be done.
1 Steps the current memory
1 Stefan Ballerstaller
1 Star Micronics
1 Staffs. ST3 5BH
1 Staff Writers
1 Spectrum rubber keyboards - `1
1 Spectrum community.
1 Spectrum User Club
1 Spectrum UK
1 Spectrum Computerclub Benelux
1 Spectrum 128 "bible"
1 Spectrum - Birthplace of 21st
1 Spectrum +3 / +2a printer lead - `3.50&
1 Spectrum group. this coding
1 Special report by The Editor
1 Special Agent 'Spooky' Benson
1 Special "Clamps" go to :
1 South Wales
1 Source format: Tasword 128 / +2
1 Source format: Tasword +3
1 Source format: TASWORD 3
1 Source format: TASWORD 2
1 Source file: PCG Wordmaster
1 Sorry Ben, but your title is so good I&
1 Some screens have bizarre clues as tosolving the puzzles within (who's workedout "It's a whole hole!" ?) - others havenasty pits which you must jump over. Ifound this game quite addictive as I likeplatform games; although I'm useless at itI like exploring the screens and tryingout ideas as to puzzle
1 Some advice now about the procedure formaking the Betados system file. Althoughit doesn't mention this in the manual, itis vitally important to realise that whenyou run the BDM program and are asked toinsert a disk containing a normal G+DOSsystem file, the "+SYS 2a" file you usefor this purpose MUST BE COMPLETELYUNMODIFIED. Under no circumstances shouldyou use one that contains any patchesetc., including the G+DOS
1 Soft Options stock thousands of Spectrumgames, books and hardware at VERY lowprices. They also cater for most othereight bit machines.
1 So, you are free to make any comments /statements on his actions, stressing mydispleasure if he doesn't remove the stufffrom his catalogues."
1 So, with all this in mind. It is possibleto leave basic without using a statementalong the lines of RANDOMIZE USR(whatever).
1 So, what if our alien neighbours havealready come (Perhaps in the form of thejust recently acknowledged phenomenon ofball lightning) and have just decided toleave us alone, possibly they have readthe entry in the Hitch Hikers Guide to theGalaxy which reads "Earth.. MostlyHarmless" Now this may not seem veryrealistic to us, what with everyone alwaystalking about our capacity for war (thehuman race as a whole that is!) and thedestructivity of Nuclear weapons, butanyone who can travel through space ineither Energy, Light, or Radiation form isnot going to be scared by something whichis probably as low tech to them as the bowand arrow is compared to a Cruise Missile.(Uh-oh, we're going to need a biggerstick...)
1 So, the thing is, if you got your drivefrom Chris Box, 99% of the time you shouldbe alright. If not, adjust your powersupply, or put a new one on. If you arenot sure whether or not to put an extraPSU on, then go on, and do it, after allit can't do any harm. I just wanted toclear up one or two points.
1 So, the equipment is modern, the price ischeap and you're interested. Where do yougo?W
1 So, let this be an important lesson to allyou Amiga and ST types who sneer andpoo-poo the Spectrum at every opportunity.Will YOU be celebrating your first millionin ten years time, thanks to programmingskills learnt on your machine. methinksnot!
1 So, if you are a would-be-hacker, it canbe difficult to learn the tricks of thetrade as there are very few books around,if any, you can study to start you off.
1 So, here we go with the start of a seriesof articles detailing the Interface 1,it's capabilities and all sorts.t
1 So, from your comments so far it has madeour job far easier, without upsetting thereaders. Although the increased coverageand size would be very favourable, thereare other options to consider:
1 So, for example, to page in RAM 1, youwould POKE 23388,17; to page RAM 7, POKE23388,23 and so on.g
1 So, while we report on the lies andinaccuracies of Mr Sherwood and Prism PD,we cannot print the original version,merely quotes. If Mr Sherwood is willingto release ALL his previous letters intothe public domain, I would be happy tophotocopy and distribute them all toanyone who wished them. It would soonbecome apparent who was telling the truth.After all, who appears the more guilty -the one who is open or the one who mustcopyright his letters so others don't seethem?
1 So why not use computers to speed up theprocess? EVen the relatively humble homemicro can produce good pictures, whilepurpose-built manframes are capable ofstaggeringly sophisticated images.
1 So the english will not be too good, OK?(
1 So please, if you would like to save asmany of these furry-bearded creatures aspossible, then send as many financialdonations as you can - we accept anycurrency > dollars, gilders, rupples,anything (Bank of Baring notes, leesonsand Ken-Doddies excepted) - So please,
1 So here is where I take a rest and you getstuck in and make use of what you haveread to examine the lines of the basicprogram you loaded in using the loaderroutine.
1 So far, we have been assuming the use of128 BASIC, but there is, in fact, a way touse the extra memory from 48K, known inthe trade as USR 0 mode. This term comesfrom the fact that if you enter 48K bytyping USR 0 (as opposed to the openingmenu option or the SPECTRUM command), thenalthough you will be in 48 BASIC, the 128Kpaging mechanism will still be accessible.
1 So far, the feedback recieved has beenmost interesting and two sided.I
1 So here is a thought, what if thesightings of strange lights commonlyconnected with UFO sightings are REALLYUFOs and all the common military crieswhen they say stuff like "HELL BOB, ITJUST PULLED A 90 DEGREE TURN AT GOD KNOWSWHAT SPEED" are in fact due to the factthat light can change direction withoutaffecting its speed, (everyone rememberour old pals refraction and reflectionfrom high school physics?). <Yeah, justdon't mention PRISMS - Ed. Dodgy objectswhich BEND AND TWIST THINGS?> Yet anotherpossibility is the Alien Energy formregularly seen in my favorite TV,programme of all time, yep, you guessedit, STAR TREK, Now our old pal AlbertEinstien said "E=MC2!" which loosleytranslated means "Energy can neither becreated or destroyed, only converted fromone form to another!" (At last, a use forHigher Physics!).
1 So for example Roland Kaiser, AmTrutzenberg 44, D-50676 Koeln is askingfor someone who has typed in the graficadventure from the book
1 SinclairComputerclub Benelux and editor of theclub magazine "Uncle Clive & Uncle Sam"has approached us with proposition. Due tothe ever shrinking Spectrum population, heis considering closing the club in 1996but would like it to continue within theconfines of Alchemist Research.
1 Sinclair Gebruikersgroep Groningen"
1 Sinclair Express
1 Since it was never sent, what can I say?!This letter was conconcted just afterAlchNews 14 which was December 1994 - somesix months ago. In that time I havewritten and / or spoken to the names atthe top of the letter, who are notconnected with this letter in any way.
1 Since investing in the Maxiprint I havefound the ribbons to last far longer thanbuying new. Althoughl
1 Since Theo was adamant that Prism were notto distrbute the demos and AlchemistResearch is the only authorised supplierof the programs, I decided to write toTheo and just ask if he could confirm thathe'd decided to let Prism release them. Nodrama, no fuss, no sour grapes. Just aconfirmation.
1 Since Ben Douglas took the best!
1 Since we forgot the introduction lastissue, DESERT ISLAND TAPES is a ripoff ofthe famous Radio Four records version. Ifyou were to be stranded on a desert islandwith a solar powered Speccy and TV, whatfive fave games or programs would youtake? Take it away Dave
1 Silviu Stroie, RAMTOP magazine
1 Sigmasoft's "Games Aid" featured a fonteditor, which did its job but had lots ofproblems. It was very slow (I think itmight have been written in BASIC), andworse still, accidentally pressing BREAKlost all your work! I wouldn't recommendthis one unless you have more patiencethan me.
1 Shropshire
1 Should it be possible to have one day aharddisk in the size of gigabytes on theSpeccy? An exciting idea...!!! ThomasEberle and Fred Duerkes from the SUCpresented a first version of the MB02diskinterface. We have seen it working inFilderstadt last year, it is a very fastone and can store datas about 2 megabyte.While missing some ICs a demonstrationfailed also here in Cologne. So we hope tosee both systems (again) in full functionin Filderstadt this autumn.
1 Shortly after this, Miles recieved aletter which said:<
1 Sherwoods underhand activites,!
1 Sheepsoft PD
1 Sets the address of the
1 Sets a break-point at the
1 Serial printer lead - `4
1 Sept 16 Northumbria Centre, Glasgow#
1 Send an SAE for their comprehensive A5catalogue dealing with the Amiga, Amstrad,Atari, Commodore, PC and Spectrum. Lots ofSpectrum hardware and spares available atthe lowest prices.
1 Select C SET 5 - - - (P)RINT 1R 10. Select C SET 5 - - - (P)RINT 1RL
1 Select C SET 4 - - - (P)RINT 0C"
1 Select C SET 4 - - - (P)RINT 0C 11. (P)RINT a - - -:
1 Selanswei 25
1 See point above Mr Sherwood!
1 See SPECTRUM PROFI CLUB, previous page&
1 Secondly, the way he dismisses othercomplainants as "puppets". This is clearof how he treats people who make acomplaint. Alchemist Research can supply alist of dozens of people who have beenupset, misled, lied to, or complained withregard to Mr Sherwood and his service. Notone of these people has recieved anapology.
1 Say you've just written a game called"Paper Aeroplane". Most people would givethe BASIC loader a bi
1 Save this program with:
1 Save this onto the disc with
1 Same format
1 Sam users have welcomed the chance torecieve AlchNews on their standard format.T
1 SYNTAX ERROR: The MB doesn't understandyour input.5
1 SUTTON IN ASHFIELD
1 SUPERCODE 3: consists of 150 microdrivecompatable machine code utilities. Itcovers just about every practical routine.~
1 SUPER PLANNER, TRANSFORM HISTOGRAM, MICROLSPREADSHEET,6
1 SUC-CESSION
1 SUBLIMINAL EXTACY - INCLUDES S.CLASSIC&
1 STUDIO CORNER
1 STOP PRESS:
1 STOP BEING A PETTY MINDED
1 STOKE ON TRENT
1 STAR USERS CLUB
1 SREP_n Requires
1 SPECTRUM USER GROUPS COLLABORATION"
1 SPECTRUM UK SLUMP FURTHER
1 SPECTRUM PROFI CLUB
1 SPECTRUM ONLY USERS:
1 SOUTHAMPTON
1 SOUND_n,a,b,c,d. Where n clears the#
1 SOUND_ While quite complex, this is the*
1 SOME MORE REVIEWS!
1 SOFTWARE HOUSES ?
1 SOFT OPTIONS
1 SOFF Disables the ISG- any sound ceases*
1 SLOW SERVICE. To be fair, I'm not tryingto say it's still true these days, as Isimply don't know, but it CERTAINLY wastrue at the time the statement was made,which is all that matters. Has Martynforgotten he has even admitted thishimself before now, in his very ownfactsheets? When I placed my first orderwith Prism PD (shortly after it hadstarted up), it took approximately SIXWEEKS to arrive. Nor was I the onlyperson, as I know about several othercases - and I'm not talking about delaysof just a few days, but periods of manyweeks. Granted, these events may be pasthistory, but that DOESN'T give anyone theright to deny they ever happened, in orderto make out they were unfairly attackedand deserving an apology.
1 SKY are showing THE X FILES - REOPENED onon Saturdays, and BEVERLEY HILLS 90210 -THE EARLY YEARS on some other day (notthat I'll be watching it, it was a pile ofsteaming crap then, and it's a pile ofsteaming crap now). <Good news Roy, it'sEVERY DAY! Ed.>
1 SINCLAIR GEBRUIKERSGROUP GRONINGEN / ASSENJohan Koning6
1 SINCLAIR COMPUTERCLUB BENELUX
1 SIM CITY +3
1 SHOW LOCATIONS
1 SHEEPSOFT PD
1 SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER.
1 SEND MONEY TODAY & FEEL BETTER TOMORROW(c)*
1 SELLER: "Yes."
1 SELLER: "Erm..."
1 SAVE d1"" + CHR$ 6 + "File"
1 SAVE d1 CHR$ 6 + "File"
1 SAVE CHR$ 8 + CHR$ 8 + "...file"
1 SAVE CHR$ 6+CHR$ 22+CHR$ 1+
1 SAVE CHR$ 6 + CHR$ 6 + CHR$ 6 + "file"&
1 SAVE CHR$ 218 + "AEROPLANE"
1 SAVE *"m";1;"name" LINE 10.
1 SAVE *"m";1;"m" CODE 30665,11832:!
1 SAVE * "m";1;"b" LINE 99
1 SAVE "font" CODE 62000,768
1 SAVE "MORSE" LINE 96
1 SAMPLETRACKER was the follow up programand used samples of actual instruments tocreate songs. The results are incredibleand can be heard in many audio demos inAPD. The Sampletracker system is much likeSoundtracker but is tape only and ratheroff-putting! The system uses 4 but soundsamples to create a soundtrack. Version1.0 by SKYSOFT can create two-channeltracks but version 2.0 by CBM by createthree channel tracks. Version 2.0 can alsouse the AY chip, an external D/A soundinterface and even the Spectrum's BEEPspeaker.
1 SAM ONLY USERS:
1 SAM AND SPECTRUM USERS:
1 S.C. sells a wide range of Spectrum andSAm software, including an excellentwordprocessor,b
1 S$: LET Z=VAL "840": GO SUB W: LET%
1 Run this on your bug-fixed DOS, and itwill remove the calls to the spin routine.(Line 20 takes care of LOAD @, line 30deals with SAVE @.)
1 Roy Benson>
1 Roy Benson: Don't take me so literally,man..
1 Route De Bel Air
1 Ronald Raaijen
1 Romantic Robot
1 Roger G41DE
1 Roelof Koning, SGG
1 Robots?Horseless
1 Robert Skene &
1 Ring ring, ring ring, ring click!!
1 Rik Prowse
1 Right. Let me get one thing straight. Ifyou are not a BASIC programmer, you'dbetter skip this section. No Z80 M/Cprogrammers here, I'm afraid, and asimilar message applies for those whorevel in Fortran, Dos, Forth, C, C+, C++,C
1 Right- thanks for that marcel. I bet MrGrapefruit-Drink is turning in his grave.S
1 Right, open up the +3, taking care toremove the keyboard ribbon cables fromtheir sockets, and make sure you don'tpull too hard on the LED wires. Clean theedge connector contacts either
1 Right, onto the next. This game merits theinteresting title of "Action Farce II",and was featured as a reader game on theCrash cover tape of November 1989. This isdefinitely a very weird game from thestart. You control a tank - not anordinary tank, but one that can jump (!),and far from blowing up enemy instalments,your task is to solve various puzzles inwhat turns out to be a platform game ofsorts. (I can see why they calledthemselves Nutty Software!).
1 Right, after any function call you make tothe +3Dos routines, the carry flag will beset or reset depending on whether theoperation was OK or not. To test that theoperation went OK you should put the lineJP NC,ERROR after any CALL to the +3DOSROM. This basically means IF the carryflag is set GOTO error routine.
1 Right! Off we go, then!
1 Richard Wilson
1 Richard Wilmot
1 Richard Coles, author of a couple of newPD titles including MICRO MEGA DOS, auseful Microdrive utility, will soon belaunching a new tape and disk magazinecalled SINCLAIR EXPRESS.
1 Returns to BASIC
1 Restores a break-point
1 Research and customer enquiries have ledAlchemist Research to understand thatthere is a desire for in-depth andcollective guides on certain aspects ofthe Spectrum computer. This has beenstrengthened with the high number ofrequests for +D and 128k utilities from myown library, Alchemist PD.
1 Reprogramming a key is very simple. Justtype in 1 REM and then the key you wish toredefine. I like to use underline (symshift 0), but it's perfectly feasable toput in any keyword by typing it and thenpressing cursor left and then adding REM.
1 Report by the Editor
1 Remember, the two hex digit line number isin reverse order, in that the mostsignificant byte comes before the least.And, that the two byte number whichfollows the line number is the number ofbytes in the line - from the next byte, upto and including the final byte in theline, the ENTER character OD ... Both theline numbers and the number of bytespointer may hold illegal values inprotected software, or the ENTER charactermay be missing. Keep a sharp look-out forthis type of thing as they are just someof the tricks used to make the basicprogram MERGE proof!!!
1 Remember that you have to take the binsback once emptied, and if you go in thecafe to stuff yourself, don't overdo it! Ithink that this game has been very wellwritten for such a strange idea, withcolourful graphics and humorous commentsas you chat to the householders (includinga Manic Miner joke!), and although soundis limited, this game was written in 1984.
1 Remember that you can't load the RANDOMIZEfile with LOAD "RANDOMIZE etc" becauseit's the command, not the word. The Speccytakes RANDOMIZE as a single character.Filenames can have ten characters, so youcan occasionally be sneaky and usecommands to increase your filename length.
1 Remember that if you use machine code inREMs, the following program lines don'tlist, and rather than the customaryInvalid colour error, there's just an OKmessage. In 48k mode, machine code in REMsalso gives the flashing question mark allthe time; a sure sign of something nasty!Programs to embed code in REMs areavailable from Alchemist PD and they areWELL WORTH GETTING - cheap and very usefulfor storing fonts and screens in a singlefile, plus easy to use, even for thickieslike me who know sod all about machinecode! <Cheap. Cheap? They are free whenmentioned in articles in AlchNews. Ed>
1 Remember back in AlchNews 11 when werevealed Prism were selling illegal andfaulty software? Well, it's happeningAGAIN! Not just once, but TWICE!
1 Regular re-inking of fabric ribbons willcontribute to extending the life of theprint head._
1 Registers 8,9 and 10 control the volume ofthe sound channels A,B and C and alsodetermine if any envelope effects are tobe used on any or all of the soundchannels.
1 Registers 11 and 12 control the length ofany such envelope effects - more on thatlater too.^
1 Registers 11 and 12 hold the lower andhigher bytes of a 16-bit value. (Thatmeans 0 to 65535) This controls the lengthof any envelopes which you may haverunning. In simple terms, it controls theduration of the sound.
1 Registers 0 and 1 control the PITCH ofsound channel A. Likewise, registers 2 and3 do the same on channel B and 4 and 5 acton channel C. You will see why there aretwo for each later.
1 Register 8 controls channel A, 9 is forB, and 10 acts on channel C.F
1 Register 6 controls the pitch of the whitenoise, if it is being used on any of thethree channels.c
1 Register 6 controls how high or low thepitch of the white noise is.F
1 Register 13 controls the type of soundthat is heard if an envelope effect isbeing used, i.e. if the sound gets louderor dies away, this controls whether theeffect repeats or just sounds once.
1 Register 7 can be though of as the"mixing desk" - it controls what soundsare on or off and what they sound like.{
1 Re-ink your ribbon whenever the printdensity is noticeable reduced,N
1 Re-assemble the +3 and power it up.Should ANYTHING out of the ordinaryhappen, like smoke pouring out the back,loss of picture, keyboard not respondingor the like, disconnect the power RIGHTAWAY and recheck your work.
1 RS232 Things
1 REVIEW FROM THE COLOGNE MEETING
1 REMOVE DISC.
1 REM second screen
1 REDUCE WINDOW - - -
1 RECOMMENDED MAINTAINENCE PROCEDURES#
1 READ A : POKE N,A
1 RE: Prism PD Problem Page - AlchNews 14'
1 R G 4 0 1 P J .
1 Quite recently, our favourite computer hasbeen something of a headline maker! In theApril issue of ".net", a magazinededicated to the Internet (yawn) ran afeature primarilly on the Spectrum, it'scontinuig popularity and it's role on theInternet. Gerton Lunther, author of theZ80 emulator, was interviewed, andcoverage was given to the Speccy area ofthe Net and also the uplink site in Chile(original source of AlchNews on the Net),along with the old argument aboutcopyright of old Spectrum games. Thepublishers don't care or want to discussthe matter unless ridiculous money ininvolved, distribute it and they threatenlegal action.
1 Quite odd, for two reasons.
1 QL's,Spectrums, cartridges, keyboard membranes,disk drives, monitors and the Z88. Flyersusually go out with all letters toAlchemist Research, but send an SAE to theabove address for the latest catalogue &deals.
1 Publish my letter in PD Power in full, itwill give a whole new meaning to thephrase "Publish and be Dammed" becausethis time it's the Publisher who will beDammed. One last thought, never discloseall of your cards ALWAYS hold at least oneback, I ALWAYS DO,
1 Proposed "Essential Manuals" Project$
1 Proof that Mr Sherwood sells titles whichdo not work and I have to perform a DIYjob on them! He copied this program from"Program Pitstop" in Your Sinclair. It didnot work in the original listing. So he'seither:
1 Programmers: Once again, you have clearproof that Mr Sherwood has no regard orrespect for your work. Don't risk yourtitles to him.
1 Programmers learnt to squeeze more andmore out of the 16k and 48k Spectrums andthe software houses grew and grew, whilesome of the other minor ones disappearedfrom the scene ("Old software houses neverdie, they only fade aw
1 Program available from Alchemist PD#
1 Professor D.H. White.
1 Prof. D.H. White PhD
1 Probably the most effective application ofall this, as I say, is in controlling thesecond screen. This resides at address49152 in RAM 7, and can be displayed inplace of the normal screen by againPOKEing BANKM. First, you must decide onyour ROM/RAM combination needs, then add 8to this value if you want the new screentoo. Note, by the way, that the screen canbe shown quite independently of thecurrent RAM paging status - contrary topoplar belief, it is NOT necessary for RAM7 to be paged first. On the other hand,RAM 7 does need to be present before youcan alter its contents, so let's take alook now at how a SCREEN$ might be loadedinto this area:-
1 Prism's whole handling of the matter hasbeen at best incompetent, and at worst,deplorable. In view of recent events andthe fact that after informing them of achange to an item I contributed, it thentook them over two years to get back to meto supply them with an update, I felt thebest thing was to ask Prism to ceasedistributing my software altogether. Theirresponse was typically enigmatic - atotally blank compliment slip! However,even if they do lack the courtesy tofavour me with a proper reply, I hopethey'll at least have the decency tohonour my wishes.
1 Prism's response by cancelling$
1 Prism do not deserve life, never!
1 Prism customers: Beware, although you donot realise it, Mr Sherwood is sellingillegal titles AGAIN.i
1 Prism by N. Cattell
1 Printing these two will give you an"Invalid colour" error. By the way, neversave a file as CHR$ 16 or 17 on its ownbecause you'll never be able to load itoff tape, and if on disc, it will make therest of your catalogue unreadable (What aprotection system!). What they need is acolour code after them. As 16 representsink colour and 17 represents paper colour,you can use them instead of thesecommands, so that:
1 Price: `2 EACH.
1 Pressing a key from A to L will load thegame listed by it's side. Pressing *brings up the Utilities menu.q
1 Poking the five byte number form is acommon method used by software houses inan attempt to either create red herringsor side-track you into coming to the wrongconclusions.
1 Plus two C64's, five data recorders, Musicmaker hardware and software, lightgun and30 games.]
1 Please see sense and comply, as none of uswish to make a court appearence aswitnesses, which would happen if courtproceedings are carried out. Each of usgive full support to Martyn and he hasrecieved a copy of our letters to you.
1 Please do not ask questions on aspects ofhacking or of a particular protectionsystem until I get round to them ... Ishall cover in depth such problem loadersas ALCATRAZ and the later versions ofSPEEDLOCK.
1 Pleasant View
1 Placing B-C in brackets should cure it.'
1 Pins 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,21 and 22.4
1 Pin 7 - Ground 0V
1 Pin 5 - Clear to send
1 Pin 4 - Data Terminal Ready (DTR)!
1 Pin 3 - Data Out
1 Pin 23 +12V power
1 Pin 2 - Data in
1 Pin 12 +5V power
1 Pin 11 (D socket) should go to +5V via a100R resistor.8
1 Pigment content
1 Philipsstereo sound chip was a marvellous deviceand, boasted many, was the same chip as inthe Atari ST, and we all know how greatthat machine is (!).
1 Phil Dobson
1 Peter Beardwood
1 People's Phone
1 Pear Tree Cottage
1 PbRd u&e%`U
1 PbRd u&e%`TFE"
1 PbQD U&CEPU
1 PbQD U&CEPTFE"uDc
1 Paul mentioned some missing things in themanual. I'd like to add the pinouts forthe KEYPAD socket. Looking at the socket,it's wired from 6 to 1 from left to right,6 being on the left next to the littlelocking pin.
1 Paul Newman
1 Paul Fairman
1 Paul "Famous writer and PD person" Howard 36 Budges Road8
1 Patrick Morris
1 Part one: Spectrum Music
1 Part 2, continuing from "PROCEDURE /REPEAT UNTIL STACK" from part 1 inAlchNews 15.`
1 Paragraph 7 in the same letter. Here MrSherwood2
1 Paragraph 10 of the same letter. MrSherwood kindly supplies us with the"abuse" thrown at him. This is:s
1 PROJECT BY VIC BISHOP.
1 PROGRAM TWO
1 PROGRAM ONE
1 PROC STACK UNDERFLOW: The procedure stackis empty and you've executed 'ENDPROC_' or'POP_'.[
1 PROC STACK OVERFLOW: You've tried to nestmore than ten procedures or 'REPEAT'loops.Z
1 PRISM PROPAGANDA
1 PRISM PROBLEMS
1 PRISM PD IN ILLEGAL SOFTWARE SCAM!
1 PRISM PD - GROUNDS FOR AN APOLOGY?"
1 PRISM PD - A WASTED OPPORTUNITY
1 PRISM LIES
1 PRISM GRIPES
1 PRINTER HEAD LIFE
1 PRINT PEEK 23429 + 256 * PEEK 23430 +65536 * PEEK 23431<
1 PRINT INK 2;PAPER 6;"Hello!"
1 PRINT HEAD
1 PRINT CHR$ 16;CHR$ 2;
1 PRINT ("Player One Wins" AND A=1);(
1 POWERPRINT II is able to use up to 4 extracharacter-sets supplied by the user. BREAKfrom POWERPRINT II at any time and loadfrom 1 to 4 sets (each of 768 bytes) intoaddresses 58112, 58880, 59648 and 60416.Now enter as a direct command 'LET N =number' where 'number' is the total numberof character-sets now in use (up to amaximum of 9).
1 POP and PUSH
1 POKE x,PEEK (x)+32
1 POKE 23617,0 also does something, but I'veforgotten what! I think it causes a crashon BREAK, input STOP or input CAPS 6, butI'm not sure. And then again, it might bePOKE 23613,0. Sorry, I've forgotten!
1 POKE (x+2), PEEK (x+2)-32
1 PLUS D PITFALLS
1 PLOT 144,105: DRAW 8,-8
1 PLAN OF ACTION
1 PITCH TONES ON Channels B and A (c off)'
1 PICTURESQUE EDITOR & ASSEMBLER package&
1 PETER DEANE would like a +D or Disciplefor his Spectrum +2.>
1 PESTERING PEOPLE. Martyn Sherwood wrote tonumerous Spectrum organisations, with whomhe had no personal connection, 'tellingtales' on Alchemist Research, purely totry and discredit them (and if not, thenfor what other purpose?) Why should he getan apology when these events clearlyaren't in dispute?
1 PEEK (x+2)>64 AND PEEK (x+2)<128 THEN%
1 PD LIBRARIES
1 PD Clipart collection
1 PCW+ Magazine
1 PCG Wordmaster: Use TASDFUE.
1 PCG Wordmaster: Convert to Tasword 2$
1 PC Z80 library
1 PART 2 of POWER PRINT.
1 PAPER MAGAZINES
1 P.M. Reynolds
1 P a u l H o w a r d
1 P R R I L
1 Over the years I have enjoyed many of theaspects of owning a ZX Spectrum, though ofthem all, I would say hacking gives me thegreatest pleasure.
1 Over 100 games, software on tapes, disksand microdrive cartridges for all abovemachines. Also availablel
1 Other than the brief weekend in 1994 whenI visited Carlise, I shall be taking awell deserved weeks holiday at:s
1 Other hardware available fro Sintech is anew sound interface which, Thomas claims,"blasts your Spectrum with the same soundas Amiga", for only `35.50.
1 Orson, on your section, you mentioned theKNUCKLE GIRLS, well why?, what's sospecial about their knuckles? (and if it'sanything sexual, can you get me theirtelephone numbers?).
1 Original game number three is "Cookie"from Ultimate PTG. This is a real oldiefrom 1983 and runs in 16K. You are Charliethe Chef (in the game, I mean) and youhave to bake a cake. What an interestinggame! Actually, you have to daze theingredients (all with illustrations andnames in the tape inlay!) with flour bombsand knock them into the mixing bowl. Thisis quite difficult, as the ingredientskill you on contact, but to add to yourtroubles, the bins at the bottom of thescreen house a nasty Bin Monster, whosefavourite hobby is throwing bits ofrubbish around, generally into the bowl.
1 Original Programming: Dominic Morris$
1 Open questions
1 Oops, just remembered something. If youtry to SAVE CHR$ (n) and you have a Plus Ddisc system, the D1 or D2 syntax mustalways be followed by a quotes symbol. Youwill therefore have to put a null stringat the beginning. For instance, thiscommand:
1 Only two weeks ago I picked up a Spectrum+with tape deck, leads and over 30 gamesfor just `10! The machine was in excellentcondition.
1 Only a few days ago did I get a telephonecall from Darren Randle which is alongsimilar lines. He recruited Darren to tryand convince me that he had a great dealof support and that he would take courtaction, with Darren's testomony.
1 Only available from Alchemist ResearchNow..
1 One of the statements Martyn made in hisletter, was that Andy has never allowedPrism's side of the story to be told. Thisis not only untrue (I can think of atleast a couple of instances where Andy hasspecifically quoted whole letters fromPrism in previous issues of AlchNews), butthe fact that Martyn marks most of hiscorrespondence as 'copyright' is hardlyconducive to this end!
1 One benefit of Tasword 128 and the otherenhanced versions is the ability to havean extra character set to make use of thefull range of characters available on yourprinter. Tasword, in particular, allowsyou to use vowels which are common inforeign alphabets, such as accents aboveand below the letters. There are alsoother symbols, such as upside downquestion marks (common in Spain), plus arange of fractions and other notationmarks.
1 Once you've got a large printout (we onlydid this so you can see the charactersmore clearly.) you can compare eachcharacter with the one in the manual. Ifyou remember, we are using code page #850(Multi-lingual), which is on page 134 tousers of the blue manual. Simply jot downthe deciam number of the character (in thebox) next to the character on yourprintout.
1 Once you've done that, carefully solderthe wires from the multiface onto theextreme inside edge of the tinned contactsthat form the edge connector. The wholepoint of this is so that you can still usethe I/O port. If you are creful, youwon't actually stop an edge connector from(say) a joystick interface fittingproperly.
1 Once the edge connector has been removedand the holes clear of solder, prepare asmany lengths of wire as there are edgeconnector strips on the +3 circuit board(52 I think). By "prepare", I mean cut tolength, strip about 5mm of plastic offeach end and tin with solder. The lengthswill vary depending on where you intend tolocate the Multiface board, so start witharound 40 cms. Better still, get yourselforganised and measure the length you willneed first!
1 Once the Front-panel is activated, you'llbe greeted by columns of hexadecimalnumbers. On the left (in Cyan) is the listof registers with the accumulator at thetop; the flags register is shown inbinary. The asterisk indicates the currentregister. On the right is the currentpiece of memory with the current locationshown on the inverse strip; at the bottomis the input line (shown in green).
1 Once fitted, drill two 3mm holes so thatyou can bolt the socket in place! It'sreally the only way you will get a goodfit so that your socket doesn't wobbleabout all over the place!
1 Once every six months, remove the printhead and soak the print face in denaturedalcohol. Apply a light coating of oil("Slippit" lbricanat or equivalent) beforere-installing.
1 Once again, paraphrasing our commentsabout Susan Smith's letters having theMartyn Sherwood touch to them!r
1 On the software side is the new SQ-Trackerwhich is supposed to be easier and betterthan Soundtracker. Cost of this packagewith instructions is `21.50.
1 On the other hand, others have suggested anew name for an essentially new project.R
1 On exit from the ROM routine, the carryflag holds the error condition. If thecarry flag is true, then everything wentOK, and we need not bother with anythingelse at this stage. If the carry flag isfalse though, the A register will hold anerror number.
1 On a desert island you'd have to go for agood puzzle arcade game like TETRIS,but atthe time I'd probably choose THE DOUBLE byScanatron - probably the best footballmanagement sim as long as you don't mindnot having too much control over editingnames etc.
1 On the educational/demo disk are somereally good music demos. True, theyaren't up to the stuff we get now, butbear in mind the programs were written wayback in the mists of time, it's no wonder.
1 On 17th May we discovered some moreunderhand activites of Mr Sherwood. As wehave pointed out to him previously, goingbehind other peoples backs or usingpeople, he always gets found out, likethis time.
1 Okay. With all I have said in your minds,load up your assemblers and write thisshort routine to the address 7D00, so asto load in a protected basic program to asafe part of memory where it can beinspected and you can try and pick up onwhat may have been done to some of thelines, what variables have been poked andalso to check if the numbers in the linesare actually what they should be.
1 Okay, before I go, here's a message toM.Sherwood, if he ever reads this article,(which he probably will eventually) <Hewill because AlchNews Subscriptions sendshim a complimentary copy! Ed.>
1 Oh, the extra 2mm gap around the socket isso that when you plug in your Amiga drive,the metal flange doesn't get fouled by theSpectrum's case. Simple (and obvious)really! Happy "modding"
1 Oh, one more thing. Does this descriptionof a game I used to play on the spectrumtell anybody anything? If anyone couldtell me the name of it, I'd be reallygrateful- I've forgotten it's name, and Idon't know which tape it's on either.
1 Oh dear, what can I say about MartynSherwood then?8
1 Office World aren't the great discountersthey used to be. Disk prices have soaredmaking ARGOS an unlikely but cheapersource of branded disks. Steer WELL CLEARof their "Own Brand Consumable" packs offive 3" disks for `21! The quality wasextremely poor and no accepting formatshigher than normal +3 standard. The onlyrecommended service at Office World atpresent is their print shop which providesa wide range of copying facillities atreally cheap prices.
1 Of all the games, and there quite a few,the best has to be "Bombed". It's a sortof "Mined Out" game, although Theo'sversion is written in Machine code, hasbetter game play and is more addictive.In fact so addictive is this game I was upall night trying to get past the firstlevel! I'm not a games player, but thisone and Elite have to rank amongst my topten. Of course, Theo's better known gamesare on the disk too, like Twinz, TalkingHedz, Gunhead, Solaris, Nous and PiggyPunks.
1 Of course, I've written him a lettersaying that NOPE, it's NOT PD, and ALCH.RESEARCH are the sole distrbutors, alsoadvising him not to include my software onhis list.
1 Obviously, if you only want to draw onepicture, paged graphics may seem of littleuse. However, if you want to write aprogram in which a page of text isfollowed by a picture, say, think howconvenient it would be to be able to startcreating the first graphical displaysomewhere else in memory while the user isoccupied reading the page full ofinstructions. When the display is needed,time is saved as it is already present inanother area of RAM. If convenient you canactualy perform all the time consumingcalculations yourself, and just use thecomputer to display the pictures asquickly as necessary.
1 OUTLET did reply, but said only:
1 OUT 49149,3 turns on both
1 OUT 49149,2 turns on the other
1 OUT 49149,1 turns on one light
1 OUT 49149,0 turns them all off
1 OTHER SERVICES
1 ORDISTRIBUTION". After we showed how MrSherwood could not address or word asimple letter properly without grammarmistakes and lies, he decided to add thisto the top of any further!
1 ORANGE is a relatively new service.Coverage is increasing monthly andcustomer service is excellent but initialprices are off-putting. Orange phones usedigital encoding for a clearer and moresecure signal.
1 ON TRAIL: Maxiprint Re-inking system$
1 OK. Class dismissed.
1 OCEAN - Thought by many to have "goneunder", Ocean waded across to the PCmarket with games like Inferno, butmanaged to keep a low profile.
1 O) Copyright infringment
1 O) AlchNews. Programs by Theo Develegas,Miles Kinloch, Chris Taylor.F
1 Nylon fabric is the most widely usedmaterial for the printer ribbon industry.The important requirements of a printerribbon
1 Nr Longton
1 Now, you may be thinking "Who the hell isthis guy" and "Why does Andy Davis letthese people write for his fanzine?", wellthe truth is, a large alien space shipcame down from Sirius, and landed on astone circle near Sheffield, and then outcame these small men (Well, they wereactually called Humanoids but we wont goin to that just yet!) and grabbed Andy,who just happened to be compiling somedata on the local stone circles, and theysaid "Excuse me Earthman, can you tell uswhere the toilets are??" to which Andypromptly said "???"
1 Now, to the numbered comments, not tomention the mis-spelling of SUMMARY asSUMMERY!\
1 Now, it's going to be extremely difficultto explain or show each character so it'sgoing to be verbal description only!However, you will find two screens in thisarticle from Tasword, the first is theoriginal configuration of the secondcharacter set. The second screen is therevised configuration. Theres very littledifference, except in presentation.
1 Now, however, POKEing 23388 won't make anydifference - you must use the pagging portdirectly, in order to access the extraRAM. This is OUT 32765,n, with 'n' beingthe same value you would have POKEd into23388 in 128 BASIC. Apart from thisaspect, though, all the other commentsapply equally to paging when in USR 0mode, including the need to CLEAR 49151(or less) beforehand. For machine codeprogrammers, USR 0 mode confers certainadvantages, as it frees the printer buffermemory for use, while still exploiting thefull 128K RAM.
1 Now, as some of you may already know, Ihave one of Chris Box's external drives. Ihave had no trouble from it, except fortwo things: 1. In CP/M I cannot useDisckit because when it asks me to removethe disks from both drives, it does notrecognise that I have done so. 2. InBASIC, if there is no disk in the drive,an 'Infinite retry' is started, which willlock up the machine until you reset or puta disk in.
1 Now, I would also be the last to say thatall cases are exactly the same, namelythat some drives use a 12V supply, whileothers only use a 5V supply. My Externaldrive does not use 12V, and I can provethis because the 12V wires are not evenconnected to my drive. It is possible thatLloyd's drive uses 12V, and so he may needto connect an extra PSU to his drive.Actually, as far as I know, the only thingthat the +3 uses 12V for is the PALencoder, which outputs the TV Picture, andif it is starved of power, will begin tomalfunction, and cause the distortion andloss of colour that Lloyd mentioned in hisarticle last issue.
1 Now, I will leave you to make up your ownminds about wether there are any aliens,but I don't need convincing, I mean, I saythat the spectrum will never die, and mymates say "Oh yeah, and the aliens havejust taken over ASDA in the form of giantCabbages!" so now you know!
1 Now, I like to think of myself as afair-minded person, and if I thought forone moment that Martyn had genuine reasonto believe he'd been wronged, I would notbe writing this article. The points hecites, however, all refer to matters offact, many of which I can verify from myown experience; therefore I cannotpossibly see why he expects Andy toapologise and pretend they never happened.
1 Now, insulate the board against anypossible electrical shorts between the MFboard and the +3 board by fitting areasonably thick plastic bag around the MFboard. Use plenty of tape to make sure itdoesn't come loose, and then DOUBLE CHECKyour work. Make ABSOLUTELY sure that theMF board is wired correctly, and that noshort circuits can occur between the MFboard and the +3 board. Alsi check yoursoldering on the edge connector, andcorrect any possible short circuits.
1 Now you can assemble the program and saveit. We next need to write a short bit ofBASIC to take input from the user so thatwe can tell the routine what user numberwe would like to become the new defaultuser number.
1 Now to be perfectly honest, I'm not theleast bit interested in your argumentswith Andy Davis, Brian Gaff, MilesKinnloch or various Demo Groups or any oneelse (you do seem to upset a lot of peopledon't you?) My concern is for the poor oldSpeccy User who has been let down byeveryone from Alan Sugar to Daniel Garner.If it wasn't for "OUTLET" and the valiantefforts of the Cavers brothers were wouldthe Speccy be today ?
1 Now this came as a bit of a surprise, asone of the libraries was the one that wehad chosen to use and was recomended byVision of the Mad Guys (Ta Vision) and itseemed to start from around a time whenAndy Davis (Chief Honcho at Alchemist!)had
1 Now the term "Space Men" makes you thinkof small green men running aroundscreaming "You are an inferior race andmust be exterminated" or "Take me to yourleader" or even the occasional "We aretrying to help Mankind!" but this stilldoes not change the fact that if there areother life forms, that the chances of thembeing small, green, and male is a one inten trillion chance (Give or take a fewtrillon!) its much more likely that thefirst visitors from another planet havealready been and gone, in the form oneither light or some other kind ofradiation, as this type of thing travelsmuch faster than most forms of knownpropultion (Well, known to us anyway!).
1 Now lets be Crystal Clear on this onepoint, prior to Aug 93 you were offeringfor sale what you referred to as ADULTSCREENS, I have no idea of their contentsince from the list that you supplied on3" disc I didn't buy any, I wanted to knowwether on not the sreens could be printedout before I did, hence my letter.
1 Now if this is true, then there could beat least some aliens that look likehumans, but why would they go to suchtrouble? are there alien spys on Earth?perhaps your next door neighbours arereally aliens who are intent in cloningyou to join their army of zombies, I mean,I always thought that my neighbours wererealy strange (Or am I just paranoid!).
1 Now I know exactly what your reaction willbe, "Why didn't he complain about thissooner", and the answer is simple, I haveno complaint. If people were saved anymoney by reading the article, so much thebetter, I am merely pointing out that youhave quoted me in the past without mypermission, so do it now with my blessing,I repeat publish the whole of my letter,why ? because you will then be exposed forthe lying hypocrite that you are.
1 Now look at the alternative algorithmbelow, which shows the general procedurefor a program structured around pagedgraphics techniques:
1 Now load POWERPRINT II saved on Discpreviously as per Alchnews 15 instructions(or from tape). When loading is completeREMOVE THIS DISC. BREAK and LIST theprogram and retype lines 830, 840, 2000and 2010 as listed below. Now BREAK andRE-LOAD first DISC and SAVE as follows:-
1 Nothing much, except M.Sherwood sayingthat 'Certain individuals in Scotland'could not be trusted!! And seeing as itwas plural, and seeing as we are the onlyScottish group, well, could it perhaps beUS he was talking about?
1 Note, unlike Ben, I use HiSoft's DevpacV5.1, and so if your assembler won'taccept any of the following text, thenyou'll have to alter it slightly so thatit does.
1 Note that the ORANGE lead is the powerfeed line and will be required to serviceboth LED's._
1 Note the missing "@" symbol, this isbecause we don't want it to try and ENTERwhen we press it!e
1 Not strictly a computer related magazine,but an excellent read!@
1 Not only is this rather odd, it also makesas much sense as John Major, as the errormessage will confirm when the program isrun. However, this little problem can besolved by using brackets (this sort, notthe funny EXT MODE ones), and here's one Imade earlier (?):
1 Not only is there my comments on the Prismmatter this issue, but I have been givenno less than FIVE other independantarticles critical of Prism and MrSherwood, all by once-neutral parties.
1 Not for any particular reason other thanit was the first one of this type I cameacross in my pile of software.r
1 Not all of them appear to do much, buthere's the first ever (?) list of the onesthat have an effect on your listing:x
1 North Deighton
1 No matter which Spectrum service you arein touch with, the chances are that all ofthem are saying that Spectrum groupsshould work together, rather than againsteach other, to provide a stronger servicefor the Spectrum.
1 Next, drill a hole in the +3's case toaccept the push button, fit it, and breatha sigh of relief!e
1 Next you must choose the tariff. Thisdepends on how often you are going to usethe phone, when and for what purpose.y
1 Next issue we take a look at the MIDIsystem and it's uses with a computer. Lookout for Antony Purvis's ZEN AND THE ART OFNOISE SERIES in AlchNews this issue.
1 Next issue : AlchNews 17, Sep. 1995%
1 Next Service : PD Catalogue 9, July 1995(
1 Next issue? No idea yet! If you tellAndy what you'd like to see, I'll try mybest. This is your magazine, we're onlyhere to help!
1 Next issue Tasword Tutor will covermodifying the Tasword 128 help box to usethe symbol under "m" in the secondcharacter set as a symbol shift, ratherthan keywords such as "AND", "NOT" or "OR"which are, of course, not printed on +2keyboards!
1 New UK demos library
1 New Spectrum library in Romania
1 Nestling deep in the recesses of the morepowerful breeds of the Spectrum family,can be found a chip which gives us greatlyenhanced sound capability over theprevious 48k and 16k models.
1 Neil Thomson
1 Neil Thompson
1 NOW press ENTER and the program will besaved to disc; and will LOAD, SAVE andPRINT etc as per P/PRINT instructions.z
1 NOT USED Enable (4-Bit value)
1 NO.1 UNITED MINDS
1 NO WAIT, HOLD ON WHILE I DISENGAGE THECAPS LOCK aaah that's better.G
1 NO THANKS to : Prism PD
1 NEW TAPEZINE ARRIVING SHORTLY
1 NAME CHANGE:
1 N.R.A. Cattell
1 N.R.A. CATTELL
1 N) AlchNews.
1 My use of the words "Alchemist Researchapologises on behalf of Prism PD" - usedin their first "committee minutes" after Iapologised to James Waddington, BGServices and more on behalf of Prism PD.
1 My thanks to Agent-X for his help withthis article.7
1 My suggested strategy was as follows. Thefirst step would have been for both Andyand Martyn to agree to neither mentioningthe other, just for one issue to beginwith. The understanding would have beenthat if either party dishonoured theirpledge, the other would then have beenunder no obligation either, thus allay inganyone's potential fears about becoming asitting target. The way I saw it, no-onecould have had anything to lose by givingit a try, and if this first stage weresuccessful, a permanent commitment wouldthen have been within our grasp.Unfortunately, however, it was not to be.
1 My reply to you is very simple, don'tquote a small part of my letter dated 11MAY 93, publish ALL of it in PD POWER foreveryone to read.
1 My personal choice was the NOKIA 101. It'sa vert stylish phone with many features.Many mobile phone stores offer it at agenerous discount from `15-`30, comparedwith it's original cost of over `180.
1 My next point is one of style, or whatsome people call "good manners". Be verycareful where you use the GOTO statement.Try not to use it in a subroutine - onlyRETURN should be used here unless the GOTOis an internal subroutine one.
1 My fascinating monologue is now at an end,but if you want to swap or lend new gameson +D disc or to swap PD programs, or evenjust to chat about BASIC's shortcomings(you could write a whole novel on them!),feel free to write to me in myrose-bedecked cottage:
1 My colleague was quite taken aback atthem. It was clearly a severe case ofstress, possibly leading to a mental andnervous breakdown. Who was this friendwith the symptoms? No other than MartynSherwood.
1 Multiface 3 into the +3 and!
1 Multi-systems
1 Mr V. Bishop
1 Mr Staniford
1 Mr Sherwood then started to spread somerumours and some muck about Alchemist withclaims that Andy had started harrasingpeople with letters which were offensive.
1 Mr Sherwood has blown almost all of hischances in the Spectrum world. No doubt heis getting desperate for more support,hence this action. If there had been noreports of any wrong doings by him forquite a while, I can understand thishappening, but while he continues to causetrouble with so many people, nobody isgoing to give him a second, or should thatbe TWENTIETH, chance.
1 Mr Sherwood ends the letter by saying itisn't Miles's responsibility to beinvolved. He claims he no longer wishes todiscuss Mr Davis with Miles or others.Does this mean he will no longer featurelies and twisted facts in PD Power? Snideletters to other groups trying to breaksupport? Any comments in general to anyonewho gets in contact with him? I doubt it.
1 Mr Sherwood claims the matter has beengoing on approximately twelve months, notthe 18 as reported in AlchNews 15. Perhapshe should note his letter dated 10/10/93to myself, which is approximately when thematter started. We could go further backto 31/7/93 when he made the first publicattack on Alec Carswell. If you'd like togo back even FURTHER, we have a letterdated 22/10/92 where there was a delay foran order. The order had to be modifed toload from tape and there were missingfiles. I also ordered "U37" from hiscatalogue of the time. I got the programbut also this scribbled at the bottom:
1 Mr R. Coles
1 Mr P. Deane
1 Mr Kevin Gurd
1 Mr J. Thompson
1 Mr F. Ridout
1 Mr A. Marshall
1 Mr Sherwood accuses me of "backdooractivities". Perhaps he should note point5 above, sub point M. I am perfectlyentitled to pass on my comments topersonal friends but you did not see mewriting letters to Spectrum groups tryingto get support stopped. If any people wishto write to me and make complaints andpass on your letters, who am I to stopthem? I certainly do not encourage them todo so.
1 Moving away from keywords, how aboutmaking underline print a copyright symbol?T
1 Most people seem to have heard of thistype of sighting and it seems to be a bitof an urban myth, you know, "MyBrother-in-laws,
1 Most of the other unusual 128k tricks I'vespotted are bugs in the BASIC interpreter,which are never in short supply; it'salmost as bad as the original +D DOS! Fora start, BASIC is prone to crash and loseyour program (usually after an hour's workjust as you were preparing to save!) -this is nothing to do with the +D as I hadthis problem when I was using a tapesystem too. Now, three lines of dollarsigns are not something you'd usuallytype, but if you want to see somethingnasty (and potentially fatal, so don't doit with an unsaved program in memory!),fill the aforementioned three lines withthe aforementioned dollar signs and thenhold the up cursor key.
1 Most Spectrum software needs a basicprogram to control how the rest of thegame, utility or whatever is to be loadedin - that is with the exception of the +3machines which have the option of theboost sector, which I will not be coveringas that is something you should becompetent enough to tackle for yourselvesby the end of these columns.
1 More details can be found in the specialsection later this issue and you can berest assured that the project will be amore successful one with only dedicatedSpectrum groups working on it.
1 More dates in October and November, willbe featued in next issue.C
1 More 128 IF bugs. Enter:
1 Monika & Wolfgang Haller
1 Modifying Tasword 128 2nd Character Set'
1 Mobile phones have undergone rapid changesin this time:
1 Mind you, an irritating SKY announcer, isprobably the only job/experience, that Alhas never done! (regular viewers of QLwill know that Al has done every job underthe sun - soldier, astronaut, civil rightsactivist, drag racer, actor, boxing champ,dancer, lost his sister,girlfriend, wifeetc, and looked incrediably young in anepisode of MIAMI VICE a few weeks ago aswell!).
1 MilesKinloch, Johan Koning, Womo, Lloyd Garlandor anyone else who knows this extremelytalented programmer and writer.x
1 Miles Kinloch.
1 Miles has enjoyed being neutral andworking with both groups for some time butwas dismayed at some Prism propagandawhich was obviously wrong. So, being asubscriber with every right, he made acomplaint along with the "olive branch" oftruce once more.
1 Miles Kinloch
1 Miktor: Are you dead ? If so, send me amessage from beyond the grave.H
1 Mike Astbury, Beach Imaging
1 Michael Meyer
1 Maxiprint, or any further information canbe gained from:9
1 Matt Beal, Fish
1 Martyn refused to do this and as a result,told Chris that once a program had beenplaced in the public domain then it couldnot be taken out of it, obviously MrSherwood has never heard of DOOM! <Perhapshe'd also like to talk to John Wilson ofZenobi Software about removing Quest forthe Holy Snail from the public domain.Ed. Also, see this issue about Prismselling more illegal titles. Ed.>
1 Martyn also states that he "no longerwishes to discuss Mr. Davis with (myself)or anybody else". If only this were truein all senses, what more could one askfor; but reading between the lines, Isuspect what he's really saying is, he'llnot be discussing things to people'sfaces, but (no doubt with renewed vigour)in his publications instead. This isunacceptable by anybody's standards: if hehas anything to say, he should either doso directly - or shut up altogether.
1 Martyn Sherwood (because I DO exist!!)&
1 Mark Sturdy, Crashed
1 Marcus Prichard
1 Many BASICS have the 'ON ERROR GOTO'command. The equivalent in YSMB is'RESTART_', and it requires a singlenumeric expression indicating the line tobe jumped to when an error occurs.'RESTART_' will not trap either INTERFACE1 or new YSMB errors. When an error istrapped by the 'RESTART_' command, someuseful information is stored in thefollowing locations in memory: 59873/4 Theline at which the error occured
1 Malcolm Gent, MGPD
1 Malcolm Gent
1 Make the change.
1 Make sure that you get the numbers in line30 right - as it's a machine code routine,making a bodge can cause all sorts ofstrange effects from pretty patterns toweird scary noises!
1 Make sure that when you solder the wiresto the edge connector, you solder theright ones! You can check which ones arewhich by offering up the Multiface boardto the edge connector and labeling thewires. Don't get confused between theupper and lower set of contacts either!Like I said to strt with, if you don'tknow what you are doing, don't do it! Itis assumed that you will take adequateprecautions about which wire goes where.If you blow it up, don't blame me.
1 Make sure that all subroutines are lines1000 onwards, that they RETURN to the mainprogram before it ends and that you don'thave to break in - and this will turn thefont off just in time for the OK messageat the end of a program run. You candelete the line before saving the finishedversion, and remember you don't need itwith fonts below 48385 or for the 48kBASIC editor.
1 Make line 1 a REM statement and POKE23755,100. The program works but fails tolist until you POKE 23755,0. Thisoccasionally has problems as GOTOs, GOSUBsand DATA lines are inaccessible, beinginvisible! I wouldn't really recommendthis but it does work, so have a go if youlike the idea. A similar "vanishing trick"occurs with POKE 23636,150 and can bereversed with POKE 23636,92.
1 MUSIC, MICRO, PLEASE
1 MR SHERWOODS
1 MOVE WINDOW UP AND LEFT
1 MORSE CODE SENDER
1 MORE UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS
1 MORE SMALLS
1 MORE BACKDOOR ACTIVITIES EXPOSED
1 MOBILE MADNESS
1 MISSING PARAMETERS: You've not providedthe correct number of parameters whenusing a YSMB command.i
1 MILTON KEYNES
1 MERCURY operates a mobile service withinthe confines of the M25. Their hugelysuccessful one-2-one service offers freelocal calls. Mercury also uses digitalencoding.
1 MAXIPRINT re-inking system.
1 MAXIPRINT INK SPECIFICATION
1 MASTERTRONIC - Long time supporters of the8-bit market, Mastertronic had split up bythe end of the Spectrum's life of fame,but parent company Virgin now releasegames for the 16-bit machines.
1 MARKET TRADING
1 MACCLESFIELD
1 M) See any of Mr Sherwood's letters whenyou upset him!8
1 M) Acting immaturely
1 Lower levels of detail in the picturespermit frames to be generated morequickly. Indeed, there exists a flightsimulator in which reasonably accuraterepresentations of an aeroplane in flightare generated 50 times per second, givingrealistic animated effects.
1 Lorton Road
1 Looking back at the others in issues 11-15you'll see they've grown steadily in size.You'd think that Mr Sherwood would be morecareful and spot his mistakes but no -they just get bigger and more pathetic.
1 Looking back at the mail signed by MrSherwood and Susan Smith it seems thePrism theme tune should be from the JungleBook "I wanna be like you", as they'vecopied so many of our ideas and phrases!
1 Loads the current register
1 Lloyd: I hope I didn't offend you withthis article.7
1 Lines 10 and 20 are my identifiers, justin case a certain person types them in andclaims them as PD like he did with YourSinclair programs!
1 Line 80 is the end of the loop.
1 Line 70 checks to see if the character isa capital letter, if so, adds 32 to thevalue, making it a lower case ASCIIcharacter.
1 Line 60 sets up the loop.
1 Line 50 loads the textfile.
1 Line 30 asks for a filename.
1 Line 120 makes the check. Although itlooks complicated, it's rather simple. Itfirst looks for a full stop (46). If itfinds one, it looks to see if thecharacter after it is a space (32), justto confirm it is the end of a sentence.
1 Line 110 sets up the loop again.
1 Line 10 sets the colours of the screen,border and the displa: black, black andwhite respectively. Line 20 reserves a narea of memory for the machine code thatyou will be using and then Line 30 sendsthe program off to a subroutine at Lines220 to 260 that sets up the machine code.This subroutine reads off the DATA in Line220 and POKEs it into the memory areareserved by Line 20 before returning toLine 40. Line 40 defines two variables"srce" and "dest". srce is the high byteof the address where the DATA is to betaken fromand dest is the high byte of thetemporary address store. These tell thecomputer where to read the screen imagefrom and where to put it in memory.
1 Line 40 asks for the length of thetextfile. This just saves a bit of timeconverting blank spaces after the end of afile. Tasword tells you how long thetextfile is, so will a catalogue, shouldyou have disk drives.
1 Line 100 is a simple BEEP seperatorbetween the two parts of the program.O
1 Like many of the programs written by MrDavis, DLS is simple and well presentedwith a fine use of arrays. The doubleheight routine adds a further depth intitling but is just too slow to be anyuse, which is most likely why it's beendisabled, but can easily be re-instated.
1 Like St.John Swainson, Mark Harris andJohan Koning, Miles Kinloch has providedan excellent neutral opportunity to end itand Mr Sherwood has snubbed it, whereas Ihave welcomed it. To
1 Like New Generation, I don't have anyother games by Nutty Software, but I'mpretty sure they were a "home-grown"company. Again, I might like to swap forthese games - I have some good games like"Rodland" and "Switchblade" on tape anddisc.
1 Like BT and Mercury, there are four majortelephone companies which operate mobile(or Cellular) services.k
1 Lets say you set up your time machine in afield in 1995 and go forward to 2075.Who's to say that the field won't beturned into a motorway. Taking vehiclenumbers and speeds into account, Iwouldn't like to be there!
1 Lets say we go back in time. Since theearth is getting constantly worn down, howdo you know you won't arrive halfsubmerged under a foot of earth? If youtravel to the past on a path which youknow existed two hundred years ago, takeoff two hundred years of path wearing!But, even then you could re-materialiseinside somebody, or an object which wasthere at the time. The only thing to dowould be to go back at night, but thats noguarantee whatsoever.
1 Lets face it, time travel is just too tooimposible and dangerous because of thethousands of variables in the equation. Inthe meantime let's be entertained by thesheer bulk of it on our TV screens andpoo-poo it when it's on!
1 Let us end with a new program for all Opususers, written and presented by HelgeKeller, Herm.-Loens-Weg 51,s
1 Let me take you back in time, back to anera when the computer to have was - yes -the Spectrum! Remember that this was atime when people still talked aboutwirelesses and Charlie Chaplin - well,perhaps not THAT long ago, but in the1980s anyway - and so people wondered whatthis new machine could do. With eight-bitgraphics (whoo!) and sixteen colours(swoon!), this machine captured the heartsof the public and they flocked to theshops to buy the strange cassettes withnew age music, er, Speccy games, on them.
1 Let me assure those INTERNET users outsideof Britain (& Europe) that the RBS-IS is awidely respected organisation, and not awide-boy cowboy outfit in the slightest,oh no, sir-ree bob. <Oh no, and Prism is areputable, honest service. ED.>
1 Later, after begining work on our currentproject, The Beyond Help Super-Mega Demo,we offered Andy a part, and were going tooffer Martyn a part as well, but we cameto realise that we were not going to beable to have both of them in the demo, asif we had one, then the other would notdistribute the demo.
1 Later in this issue you will find twoarticles from the members of The UnitedMinds. You may recall that after I madethe mistake of mixing up the names of theteam in an article in issue 14.
1 Later Programming:
1 Last issue you will recall I wasconsidering investing in a re-inkingsystem and now I have. I made a call tothe company, Beach Imaging, on midSaturday afternoon and ordered one with mycredit card. Tuesday morning, the devicearrived, well protected in a largecardboard box.
1 Last but not least the WoMo-Team islooking for some grafic artist. We plan tocomplete some old basic games with abetter grafic, but we are alwaysoverworked to do all (the truth is we arevery bad grafic artists). We know aboutthe quality of some of the readers here,so if interested in a common work why notwrite us (adress at the end of thisarticle).
1 LOAD *"m";1;"b"
1 LOAD "font" CODE 62000
1 LINE NOT FOUND: A message that occurs whenusing the 'EDIT_' command... you've triedto edit a line which isn't there.u
1 LD BD,#7FFD
1 LD BC,#7FFD
1 LA LETTRE DU SPECTRUMANIC (French)"
1 L) Pestering people
1 L) Robert Skene was pestered by M.Sherwood to abandon support for AlchemistResearch and work exclusively with PrismPD. Also, James Waddington, Brian Gaff,Bob Brenchley, Joyce Cook, Alec Carswell,Darren Randle were also approached in asimilar manner.
1 L nn nn nn Moves a block of memory. The*
1 Kobrahsoft.
1 Kobrahsoft
1 Kinloch explains UNBIASEDLY why!
1 Kevin Gurd
1 Karen Moore
1 KOBRAHSOFT are suppliers of some of thebest software around for the Spectrum andSAM. Their biggest successes are the tapeto disk utilities, along with such +3applications like DICE, DB2 and so on.Send an SAE and a couple of stamps fortheir catalogue:
1 KOBRAHSOFT
1 KNOW ABOUT FONTS
1 KEYS CODE 65030,160
1 KEYDEFINE can be found on WOMO 5 or atUT32. Any of you who have ordered itbefore have the old version and arerecommended to request the new one, freeof charge (An Alchemist PD policy).
1 K) Not fulfilling orders
1 K) Andy Davis, Chris Taylor to name buttwo did not get the programs requested.Q
1 Just when you thought AlchNews couldn'tget any bigger, plans are underfoot to dojust that!^
1 Just to inform you, Mr Davis, Patrick isNOT on the phone!;
1 Just recently I examined approx. two A4pages of large texted propaganda and myletter of complaint took well over TWICEthat, highlighting dozens of errors whichare shown later.
1 Just look at computers ten years ago. 8inch floppy disks and tapes that couldhold little more than 100k. Now we can getremovable SCSI hard drives the size of acassette box which can hold 570 megabytesand beyond. Spectrum users wouldn't knowwhat to do with HALF that capacity!
1 Just because I've set the ORG of the aboveprogram so that it assembles to 32768decimal, there is no reason why you can'tassemble it to another address. Theroutine should be completely re-locatable,and so you can load it anywhere below49120, so long as you don't over write themachine stack.
1 Just a few quick notes,
1 June 3 Haydock Park Racecourse
1 July 15 Courage Hall, Brentwood Essex%
1 Judge A.J.Davis presiding
1 Joyce Cook, Softsell
1 Joyce Cook
1 Jonesteleprinter, the results using firstly anormal plain ink cartridge and then onewith an inking roller mounted inside,revealed that both the regular ribbon andthe re-inked ribbon had about the samelevel of wear with the format yielding 2.3million aceptable charaters while thelatter produced 2.6 million characters.
1 John Wilson
1 John Westhead
1 John Thompson would would any games andutilities for the Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32,ZX81 and Vic 20. He is also on the lookoutfor cartridges for the Commodore 64. He isselling off some Spectrum and Dragon 32games if anyone is interested. Write:
1 John Stowe
1 John Garner, Datasoft
1 Johan Koning, SGG
1 Johan Koning
1 JOYSTICK INTERFACE
1 JIM LEESON, makes and sells printer cablesfor the +2a / +3 to any Centronics printerfor `10 including P&P.j
1 J) Insulting customers
1 J) David Sinclair, Mark Harris, AndyDavis, Miles Kinloch, NRA Cattell ChrisTaylor plus many more. All previouscustomers - all insulted.
1 It's simple really, but you will have tobear in mind that I will not bear anyresposibility if you screw up and damageyour computer, external
1 It's not just RAM, incidentally, that'sselected in this way: the 128K machinesalso have an extra 16K ROM. However,there's not much point in paging thisshadow ROM from BASIC - on the contrary,great care must be taken to avoid thishappening, or a crash will result. Thevalue POKEd into BANKM must thereforereflect BOTH the ROM and the RAM required,and is calculated by adding the RAM pagenumber to 16 - the latter being the ROMcomponent. ( For those interested in thetechnical aspects, bits 0-2 of the bytegovern the RAM page; bit 3, the screen;and bit 4, the ROM.)
1 It's just such a shame that Mr Sherwoodcontinues to distort the facts to hisminority readership and has refused topublish my, and others', complaints in hismagazine. But, action has been taken onthis point and with my colleagues who aresubscribers of PD Power, they are actingto rectify the matter.
1 It's interesting to note that a lot of TVcompanies are now re-showing certain tvseries from the beginning ie. the veryfirst episode.
1 It's easy to use, but there are two slightproblems. Firstly, editing the lineinvariably renders the code unusable (theflashing text at the end stops flashingwhen listed in 128k mode). Secondly, itvery occasionally changes the last twosigns in the character set (tilde andcopyright) - I don't know why, but it doessometimes happen.
1 It's certainly a buyers market out there.Lots of people are selling their oldSpectrums to move onto consoles and so on,making it cheaper for us to expand andreplace rather than repair.
1 It's been a hectic few months, so I hopeyou will forgive me if the column appearsshorter this time around (although, peoplehave compared my column to a politiciansspeeches - you never know when they'regoing to end!).
1 It's a real pain to be honest, as the bestdisk sector editor program around is alsoproduced bya
1 It's still possible to run Z80 codeprograms alongside YSMB. The top sectionof memory above address 45000 is used byYSMB; any M/C routines of your own must beused below this address. YSMB usesinterrupt 2 mode, so any routines thatmess about with the interrupts willprobably need some attention beforeworking properly.
1 It's also been pointed out that anyletters sent will not be answered unlessan SAE is sent. That also re-inforces howserious he is about ending the matter. Ifan SAE was sent, would the questions askedbe answered? He once claimed that I wasgoing over the same things again, tryingto make them look like new matters. Thesame points may be brought up again,simply because they have NOT BEEN ANSWEREDYET! Take the Bradby Club matter. How oldis this now? I'll tell you how old. It wasdisclosed in a letter from Mr Sherwood toMiles Kinloch on 28/3/94, almost a WHOLEYEAR AGO, and he has still not admittedthat he lied, yet the proof is there forall to see!
1 It would not be feasible or possible forme to cover in detail the differingmethods of protection employed by all thesoftware houses.
1 It would be impossible to state that PrismPD is trustworthy when they are STILLselling illegal software! See later inthis issue for full details. I cannot saythat myself and Martyn have spoken andcleared the air because he ignores ALLletters and refuses to answer thetelephone - remember how I said that hehides behind his answering machine!
1 It would be great fun to see the entirekeyboard reprogrammed either for morebetter location of popular symbols, addinga well used command (CAT 1?) or just forsheer
1 It was with equal interest that I read thebit concerning ALCHNEWS 9 turning up onthe INTERNET, well, if in a couple ofmonths, this issue of AN turns up on theINTERNET, can I just get a little plug infor a very worthy char-a-deee -
1 It was about a quarter to midnight when Iheard the hiss of vacuum engines outsidethe pod. I turned round to see myselfclimb in through the opening.
1 It was 23:55. I had finished. I ran theprogram and typed in the co-ordinates...R
1 It really should be obvious, but my use ofthe hash (#) symbol denotes HEX numbers.HiSoft Devpac likes hex numbers presentedto it this way, and as I like the ideamuch more than I like a silly "h" afterthe number, I've used standard Devpacnotation. If your assembler differs inthis respect, you'll need to enter thehex numbers in your particular assembler'sown notation.
1 It really is that simple, although somecare has to be taken when removing thekeyboard and circuit board, prior tosoldering.
1 It is clear that the root of the problemis Mr Sherwood's attitude, which grew atthe approximate time when Alchemist PD waslarger that Prism PD. Makes you wonder ifthe root of all this is simply jealousy?After all, we all know who Yuri Gararin is- who remembered the name of the SECONDman in space?
1 It is NOT necessary to SAVE by taking ascreen dump. It is simpler and moresatisfying to alter the program so that itwill save SCREENS; so proceed as follows:-
1 It concluded:
1 It comes out every month(ish) and costsonly `1. It's in A4 format and is a great,easy read with no wildly stupid, unfunnyhumour. Buy a copy now and get 20 freecredits to APD!
1 It also pays to save your work on aregular basis as a oversight usually meansa crash isn't too far off or the programbeing hacked will regain control. Ineither case, all your hard work willprobably be lost.
1 It is 'The Complete Spectrum ROMDisassembly' by Dr. Ian Logan and Dr.Frank O'Hara.a
1 Is this his answer? People start askingquestions so either ignore them, terminatetheir subs or lie about them in his ownmagazine where people cannot have a fairsay? Of course not. We have welcomed anyletter from Mr Sherwood which I would behappy to publish, but how can we when heputs ridiculous copyrights on them andmakes them copyright of groups who nobodyknows and aren't even connected with theSpectrum?
1 Incidentally, it seems that the PSD is notthe great regulator that Mr Sherwood makesout. Check any Amiga magazine and you willnot find one library or group registeredto the PSD. It's also worth noting thatthe contact number of them is closed down!
1 In this sense and with all best wishes toall readers.6
1 In the same letter, again Mr Sherwood hasaccused AlchNews of slander! The word heis looking for is libel which would stillbe wrong, since the definition is"publishing of a false statement". Allstatements published in AlchNews have beenproven and have documented proof. Anyexceptions are ones which have apologiesprinted after them.
1 In the same factsheet is refers to "acoding group in Scotland" which cannot betrusted. A shame they cannot even revealtheir name, especially since previousissues of PD Power carried so manypromises about the projects that Prismwere going to do with the group! The truthof the matter is that the group inquestion, THE UNITED MINDS, decided tobreak all links with Prism PD long beforethis statement. The statement
1 In the dock this issue is the!
1 In the chair: DAVE FOUNTAIN
1 In the case above, "If the cap fits", wasused by Miles Kinloch in a previousletter, but when Miles used it there wassome sense to the phrase!
1 In the above routine, I've used "x" toshow you where to place whatever newdefault user area you require. Simplysubstitute the "x" for a dummy value fornow, between 0 and 15.
1 In my local area we are "lucky" enough toget over half a dozen. However, when itboils down to it, "Admag" in a nice shadeof pink, has the biggest range.
1 In each case you are prompted to press akey after each image has been drawn, and akey has to be pressed to start the imagesalternating.
1 In conclusion, my general advice would be,if you just want to keep things simple andavoid confusion, it's probably better tostick to the safe rule of only ever usingone DOS-resident item at a time. Providedyou re-boot before installing another, youthen can't possibly go wrong!
1 In a test that was conducted by Dr Whiteand Mr Jean Piere Lecame, OperationsManager for Armor, a major cartridgemanufacturer,
1 In a letter from Susan Smith to MilesKinloch, it says of Andy Davis:I
1 In a letter from M. Sherwood to MilesKinloch, dated 26/2/95, Mr Sherwoodstates:[
1 In a basic header, they indicate the autorun line. 8000 if there is no auto runline.Y
1 In a Sinclair Classic intervew he claimedhe wrote short stories, AFTER my writingtalents were known to the public.u
1 In a "PD Factsheet - February 1995", itrefers to a size increase in the magazine,full of "interesting articles, instead ofslanderous material". Slander is theSPOKEN WORD. I think the word they arelooking for is LIBEL. In any case, onlyone magazine has carried this kind ofmaterial - PD POWER. AlchNews has informedthe public of the "crimes" of Prism PDwhich are the truth and documents can besupplied to prove every single fact.
1 In MARCH, he ASKS FOR PERMISSION!!
1 In FERUARY, he starts distributing them'
1 In FACT, the only letter passed by TheUnited Minds to Alchemist Research wasthis "guideline" letter as detailedearlier. This letter was not markedprivate in any way and indeed wasaddressed to myself, so I take it that itwas for my viewing!
1 In AlchNews 14, Wolfgang Haller wrote thathe was glad to know you. Well, so am I.Andy gave us just enough publicity toattract a few new members (nice but notessential for our survival) who sent insome contributions for our club-magazine"Uncle Clive & Uncle Sam" (and that's justwhat we needed). Less than 6 months afterwe got to know each other, we joined handsto that we can both improve our magazines.Well, readers, in this context I have somenews for you: Andy will soon have a newcopywriter: me. In return for letting ourclub magazine survive, I gave Andy theidea of including the SAM in hisdisk-zine, and at the same time, I offeredto write about it, starting from the firstissue of 1996. When AlchNews will stopbeing for Spectrum users only, it willalso be renamed.
1 In 48K mode the ERROR address is always1301(h). This error address will differfor machines in 128K mode, though you willseldom find it necessary to hack in thatmode - you do all the donkey work in 48Kmode and only use 128K mode once this isdone and the 'hack' you are working onrequires this to be so.
1 In late January Prism circulated aninformation sheet, titled "PD FACTSFEBRUARY 1995". The main part of thissheet was to inform readers that Prism PDhas many "new" demos (new to Prism, butold to us!) and were now available. Out ofthis list of 51 demos (is that ALL? We getthat a week!), there were seven titleswhich should not have been there:
1 In conclusion, perhaps a parody ofShakespeare's immortal lines might sum itup rather well: "Hell hath no fury like acustomer scorned"!
1 In an effort to end the long-runningdispute between Alchemist R esearch andPrism PD, I put a proposal to bothparties, based on a two-stage plan, whichI hoped would lead to a truce. That was inJanuary. By March, not only had MartynSherwood rejected it point blank, but heterminated my subscription too, as if toadd insult to injury. I think it is onlyfair that you, the readers , should beaware of the stance Martyn Sherwood istaking, for I feel the truth needs to beexposed.
1 In JANUARY, he recieves and beginsadvertising the software.C
1 Impossible? But it's true, one 9 pinD-type socket and six wire connections areall you need.a
1 Impact Temerature.
1 Immense thanks to Dave Fountain for hisexcellent insight into this program.N
1 Imagine you go back a couple of hundredyears, meet some bloke called WolfgangBeethoven in a local bar and go "Hellomate, I've got this great tune for you"...
1 If your equipment needs a special command,other than COPY or RANDOMISE USR K
1 If your equipment also needs to re-instatethe ability to LPRINT after each COPY,then type in a second new line:-t
1 If you've enjoyed this article, you'll bepleased to know that this type ofinformation will be in the new 128Essential Manual project, along with tipsand advice on all aspects of the Spectrum128.
1 If you prefer, you can substitute 23 with31 (i.e. 23+8) in line 20: this would thenactually display the second screen area(initially black) while the screen isloaded into it. Line 40 is not strictlynecessary, in fact, as the 128K operatingsystem will restore the default pagingautomatically afterwards but I included itanyway for the sake of clarity.
1 If you only want it for emergencies, thetariff to choose is EmergencyCall. thismeans you only pay a small monthly linerental, but call charges are veryexpensive.
1 If you have tried to MERGE the basic of aprotected game, you will have found, moreoften than not, the machine either crashesout or the basic lines cannot be listed. The reason this happens is not importantand is a result of the programmer havingaltered lines within the program whichwill screw up the editor when it comesacross them while carrying out a MERGEcommand.
1 If you have any questions regarding what Ihave covered in this issue, send them inand I will do my utmost to answer themwithin these columns of the next editionof ALCNEWS - providing they are sensiblequestions, that is!
1 If you have any Spectrum equipment forsale, please let us know and we'll giveyou a mention in the next issue.t
1 If you connect together two Spectrums, youwon't have the above problem, and so youcan connect the RXD line of one computerto the TXD line of the other, the RXD ofone to the TXD of the other, CTS to DTRetc. In fact, you should use a "standard"null modem cable, detailed later in thearticle.
1 If you are a business user then there areseveral business tariffs to choose from.Contact your local mobile phone centre formore advice.
1 If you can follow everything up to thepoint where the program either leavesbasic or jumps to m/c within the basicprogram, don't be afraid to try and followthis as well - you will learn far morefrom the mistakes you make than those youdon't!
1 If this is the case, I could use the samereasoning to bring something back from thefuture. If I think sending back a disk ofplans for a 986 super processor chip fromthe future, it would appear on my deskwhere I could sell the design to Intel formillions and then be a very rich man.Then, in the future when time travel ispossible, send back the disk to this timeso I could make myself rich!
1 If this is the case I think we need tofind out who give The Troggs and Wet WetWet the idea for "Love is all around" anddo a "Terminator" on them.
1 If theres anyone not listed, LET US KNOW!We can't keep asking you if you want afree plug! You'll notice one or twoservices missing this issue. This isbecause they have closed down or are nolonger in the Spectrum readers interest.
1 If it is poked with with a zero then thereis nowhere for the reports to be printed.Once again, as for non standard lines, theinterpreter gets hung up and a crash willensue.
1 If anyone knows what the name of this gameis, and where I can buy a copy, I would bevery grateful. You can write to me at thenormal AlchNews address.
1 If anyone is interested, I have compiled acompatibility table, listing all thepatches and +D resident utilities I knowof, cross-referenced to show whichcombinations are feasible, and which onesaren't. I also managed to adapt some ofthe patches to work together, where theywouldn't in their original form, so it'simportant to realise that the entries forthem in this table ref er to these specialversions only. If anyone wants a copy ofit, they are welcome to write to me c/oAlchemist Research, or just contact medirectly if they already know my address.(Please note, by the way, I am unable togive any help with UNIDOS, as I don't haveit.)
1 If anyone is interested in the unit, itcosts a very reasonable `18 (at time ofprint) and will possibly come with anAlchemist Research disk or tape of theprograms. Any Alchemist Research customerwho buys one will also be registered forfree updates and further news of the unit,along with free new programs when theyappear.
1 If an end to the feud is really what hewants, no-one is actually standing in hisway.X
1 If all went well, the Multiface now worksas well as it ever did, with the addedbonus that you can now use your Kempstonjoystick interface! The Multiface is toolarge to allow connection of a KempstonInterface, I expect you've noticed thatyou simply can't plug the joystick in! Dothis modification, and you can!
1 If I was better at this game I might likeit more, but it's not really my sort ofgame, so I don't. QED. It's a pretty goodgame to squeeze into 16K of memory,though! I prefer Ultimate's
1 If the address in ERROR STACK POINTERpoints instead to say, an address withinthe basic program, then when an erroroccurs a JUMP is made to the addresspointed to by the address pointed to byERROR STACK POINTER - If say, ERROR STACKPOINTER held the addess 5D00, then when anerror came about, the two byte value at5D00 will become the address the errorroutine will jump to. Got that? Good!
1 If any of you would like any LC-100ribbons fading, I'd be happy to do so ifyou send the ribbon, SAE for return and50p to cover the ink cost.
1 IS YOUR INTERFACE/PRINTER ALREADY CAPABLEOF HIGH-RESOLUTION>
1 INTERRUPT SOUND GENERATOR
1 INSULTING CUSTOMERS. For a start, isn't ita trifle severe to cancel someone'smembership, just because they don't happento see eye to eye with him on every issue?Small wonder if people prefer to approachother user groups with their grievances -perhaps they want to hang on to theirsubscriptions!
1 INITIAL IDEAS:
1 ILLEGAL WINDOW: This occurs when using'CURRENT_' or 'FX_' you've tried to usemore than ten windows.j
1 II,STATISTICS II, PROJECTOR 1 and SPECFILE+.,
1 IF A=1 THEN PRINT "Player One Wins"#
1 IF A=0 THEN PRINT "Player One Loses"$
1 I) Abusing programs
1 I) Miles Kinloch's
1 I've got all annoyed now, so I'd bestleave before I write any naughty words.Bye!X
1 I've been putting it off long enough, butI'm now going to discuss time travel,theory or possibility?j
1 I'mblathering a bit here. Let me resume thisline of enquiry and get on with it.P
1 I'm sure there are trillions of otherbugs, so far undiscovered by me, but as myfinal point, you can make the 128k menuslook a right mess simply by turning FLASHon. The menus aren't affected by INVERSE,OVER, BRIGHT or any of the other colourcommands, but if you turn flashing on,then select the Edit menu, it's a majorheadache inducer and also looks somewhatsilly. If you then select Exit (whichreturns to the main menu without losingyour program - or resetting the FLASH!)you can see the main menu and theCalculator menu do the same thing. To addto this, even the footer bars startflashing (ooh, naughty!) and rather spoilthe coloured stripes that symbolise theSpectrum. (Blasphemy and sacrilege)!
1 I'll then poke the hidden five byte numberform with the floating point number I wishto know and then RUN the line - disregardthe fractional part of the number printedunless a multiplication follows in thenext or subsequent statements of theprotected program under inspection.
1 I'd cheat and take four games plus a C60of all my favourite utilities. Maybe a fewyears in isolation with the likes ofAdvanced Art Studio, Soundtracker, the PFNfont editor and a compiler of somedescription would see an improvement in myprogramming.
1 I will, however, show how to make use ofthe DOS routines to inspect not only thissector of a disc, but any sector and alsowhere and how to find any file on a disc,whether it has been erased or not,providing it has not been over-written.
1 I watched him climb back into his pod, anexact replica of my own and restarthis engines. After the vacuum enginesrefired and the craft disappeared in aflash of light, I got back to the program.
1 I was speaking to a doctor colleague ofmine the other day and I asked him for aspot diagnosis of a friend. He asked thesymptoms, which were:
1 I use and strongly recommend the Vodafonenetwork. It's coverage is second to noneand it's phones are cheap and the widelyavailable.
1 I travelled some 15 miles East to the townof Worksop to one of the shows.I
1 I think the funniest portrayal of timetravel must be in the "Bill and Ted"films. They wanted some keys, so said thatin the future they'd go back in time to acouple of minutes before their present andplace the keys there for them and laterwould go back in time!
1 I think it would be far better if Martynsimply swallowed his pride, forgot aboutthese points and just agreed to end thewhole affair, instead of stubbornlydigging in his heels. In my opinion, hewill have only himself to blame forwhatever may be said about him in thismagazine, for I offered him a goldenopportunity to prevent it, on which hepoured scorn. Let no-one therefore bedeceived if he tries to paint a picture ofhimself as the hapless victim, supposedlybeing forced into defending h himselfagainst attacks by Alchemist Research. Thefact of the matter is, he's prepared tohold us all to ransom over his demand forthis apology, and seems to regard 'truce'as almost a dirty word: a poignantrevelation of the true extent of hisloyalty and dedication to the Spectrumcommunity, which no-one should forget.
1 I take all and sundry to be the averageSpeccy User and , others, to include me.Well heres you chance, I have written notto Mr Davis but to you if you don't likethe reply you don't like the truth,
1 I strongly recommend that, if possible, you tackle the problem at it's source,following the advice above. If however, itis impractical or impossible to reduce thevoltage to an acceptable level, you canmake a direct connection between receiver& computer grounds. If you do this withwire, you will eliminate the problem. Itis best to make the connection with aresistor of 20-50 Kohm, which should below enough to reduce the voltagesufficiently but high enough not toincrease the noise.
1 I spent about five minutes re-inking eachribbon, giving the handle a gentle turn ofabout one turn per second. When you'vecycled the ribbon you close the lid of thelittle ink cartridge and give it half adozen turns to remove the excess ink. Theink consists of a little tube which standsupright. It has a hole in the bottomwhere the ink slowly seeps out and ontothe ribbon.
1 I sat back at the terminal, replaced thedisc and began typing immediately. Ilooked at my watch. I had about twentyminutes to go on the program. By midnightit will be complete and I can then try my"experiment".
1 I remember, as if it were just yesterday,sitting down in front of this little metalcased object, with strange looking symbolson the keys, thinking to myself there wasno way on this earth I would ever be ableto make it do what I wanted it to do.
1 I recently made this modification to my48k+ and found it to be faultless. Becausethe 48+ is physically larger than therubber keyboard version, you may have touse a lead as shown over.
1 I received your letter on the 16th of thismonth, and it has taken me until now tofirst of all, find out what on earth youwere talking about, and secondly, todecide wether or not it was worth the timeand trouble to answer you, 25p is 25pafter all, then again if you have spent 3months searching through your files tofind a letter of mine then you deserve areply, and lastly, calling me a liar wasprobably the deceiding factor.
1 I really don't know if us hackers are asecrective lot or not as very few of usever seem to come out of our homes to tellthe world what we do or the way in whichwe do it.
1 I realise, with a strong sense of guiltthat the PC has turned me into a Technolentil... So I have to tear my butt offthe PC seat and get on the spectrum so asI can write my contributions in time for10 days.
1 I quite frankly can't see the attractionin such screens unless they can be printedout and handed around in the LocalHostelry or the bookies for a laugh, youwould have to be a pretty sad person towant to gaze at such screens on a monitor.I also think that it's significant thatyou quote from my letter in May 93 andthen jump to August 93, I quote
1 I pressed the start button. The pod doorclosed0
1 I picked up some blue disk labels and aserial printer lead if anyone would likethem. I shall also be going to anothershow in a couple of months time so ifyou want anything picking up let me know.
1 I once saw a BBC program which containedthis delightfully wasteful piece ofprogramming:`
1 I nn nn n Fills a block of memory. The*
1 I moved the carpet of wires and cablesaside with my foot, lifted a hatch andclimbed inside the small void. I laid onmy back and slid down about three metresto the fuse section. I quickly reset thelighting system and increased the cutoutrating to +50x, previously set to +30x.The electrostatic memory of the terminalmust've released a quick burst ofelectrals back to the main power unit. Islid back to the now lit opening andclimbed out, replacing the cover.
1 I mentioned Des Taylor before hand, and Ihave to admit I found his column quiteoriginal and refreshing (right, thats afiver you owe me, Des!) <it's in the postRoy. DES> and I look forward to his columnon time travel, in fact I wonder what hethinks of QUANTUM LEAP!, because lets faceit, it's a miracle that Sam could travelas far as the post office, let alone intime with Ziggy the computer in charge!.
1 I make this the first line in the program,so it can be located with ease with adisassembler, and I input the folowing;{
1 I looked at my watch. It was exactly23:50. I sat up from my chair to get abetter look at my visitor: me!r
1 I know that I am probably the last personwho should be giving advice to anyone,<No. Anyone involved in the Spectrum hasan opinion and as a customer, your opinionshould be treated with respect and actedon. Ed.> but I think that this is reallygetting out of all proportions, and isgetting big enough to pollute theatmosphere of the community, and what isthe big problem, this could all be sortedout by talking about it, so don't be daftabout all this and just get it sorted out,everyone can see that Andy is willing tosort it out, but the whole thing fallsdown to one question..
1 I hope you enjoyed AN15, I know I did!, Ihave to say that I thought the speccysoftware market was dead - until I readthat excellent review of that brilliantnew speccy game - Advanced lawnmowersimulator adventure - I think it wascalled, anyway I urge you all to rush outand obtain a copy, who needs a Megadriveanyway? oh I do... they make excellentdoorstops!.
1 I hope my Skanna is up to skanning thislisting, because I'm not. I think what Iwill do is to just get Andy to put thelisting on the disk, so you don't have totype it in. (This is the advantage of amagnetic magazine- you shouldn't have totype out long listings) So I'll justexplain how you use it.
1 I have just upgraded my PC Slightly... Itis now 386DX-40 with VGA and SkannA.Letter from Andy arrives this morning.z
1 I have only just started to write thiscolumn, days before the deadline for AN16!I must be turning into a Des Taylor!x
1 I had you all fooled.
1 I had been working all day and it wasgetting late. The machine was completeexcept for the array of loose, trailingwires all around the floor. I was satinside
1 I had a quick flick through the section oncode breaking last issue, interesting, buthas anybody been able to decipher BritishRail platform announcers yet?.
1 I got out the half a dozen old ribbons I'dbeen keeping and set to work. Theinstructions suggest you put a drop ofTippex on the ribbon so you can see whenyou've made a complete cycle. I noticedthat Star LC-10 / 100 ribbons needapproximately 192 turns for a completecycle but this may change on the ribbonmake.
1 I entered 23:45 05/06/22
1 I entered 2263 4844 0040
1 I entered 00:00 06/06/22
1 I don't think Mr Sherwood was expectingthis because, if I had failed to print anapology, it would have given him groundsto take legal action - publishing aninaccurate statement and not publiclyrectifying it. If Mr Sherwood is soconfident that statements in AlchNews areuntrue, why has he not done anything aboutit in all this time?
1 I don't know how I fooled so many people,but I bet I didn't fool anyone french.Why, you ask? Well, here is my friendMarcel to explain--
1 I don't know about microdrive syntax 'cosmine doesn't work!!=
1 I do not intend to teach a particularstyle of hacking and will use no tailoredm/c routines to achieve the desired endswhen I do a live hack.
1 I ask you Martyn, how long can this go onfor, you have put things in letters abouteveryone having suffered from this in oneway or another, well thats true enough, sowhy not end all of this now and apologiseto Andy, no one really wants to see thiscontinue, and Andy has appologised for themistake over the names of the phone calls,and I think that this was more than fairon his part, is this just going to beanother one of the things that you aregoing to start screaming "CONSPIRACY!"over?
1 I also own this game's sequel, "Travelwith Trashman", but it's a very differentgame and nothing like as good. Briefly,you have to go around the world clearingup the countries - leaping frogs inFrance, roses in Spain (but look out forthe bull!), etc. However, it's difficultto earn enough to visit many of thecountries, and the game is ratherfrustrating and repetitive.
1 I also have something else for you finepeople. (If I can persuade Tas. 2 to mergeit in.)[
1 I wouldn't like to say that it'simpossible as I would dearly love totravel through time. But, as there isnothing to act as a guide, how can it bedone?
1 I will expand a little on this laststatement...6
1 I think that's all, but if you haveproblems, feel free to write to someoneelse! Alright then, me. My address forgames-swapping, BASIC programming contactsand annoying people who don't like myarticles, is:
1 I immediately apologised to Patrick,Robert and Mr Sherwood. Some time later Igot a letter from Mr Sherwood demanding anapology!
1 I hope you will find the PROGRAM ofinterest I was hesitant about taking onthe project but, I am now pleased that Idid as I have learned a great deal bydoing so. If you have any Questions I willdo my best to answer them. If I can't I'llask ARNOLD.
1 I have expermented with transmittingtextfiles from my 48K machine (viaInterface 1) to my PC lately, and I've hada fair amount of success. For some reasonthough, I cannot seem to get the PC and +3to talk to each other, so the details thatfollow of cable wiring should be treatedas a basis for experiment only. The datafrom the PC seems to get badly corruptedfor some reason, although I have set 8data bits, no parity and 2 stop bits.There is a mis-print in the Interface 1user manual by the way, the Interface 1needs two stop bits, not one as mentioned.Once I set the PC to 2 stop bits, datatransfer was completely reliable at 9600baud.
1 Hulme Lane
1 Hows about a "bytes free" routine for theRam disk? Try:8
1 However- this will only work if your codeis watertight, so make sure your paging iscorrect, and you are passing the rightparameters to your routine. An examplethat crashes the computer is dos set 1346,as if you don't leave 4 sectors for theRAMdrive the Computer locks up.
1 However, when Darren saw the wealth ofINDEPENDANT evidence against Prism hebecame very concerned. When Prism couldnot supply ONE PIECE against myself orAlchemist Research it was clear he wastrying to manipulate Darren for his ownneeds.
1 However, there are plenty of users sellingequipment privately, through the TradingPost section of AlchNews. These provide afar wider range of equipment at variedprices. Send an SAE for their list ofhardware and software for sale.
1 However, the instructions did state thatreally faded or previously un-inkedribbons may need two or three attempts.Also, these ribbons were EXTREMELY faded(take no notice of the old saying that theScots are mean, it's Yorkshire people!),so I gave them all two more coatings.
1 However, the inevitable question arises,what should someone do if they happen tosuffer from BOTH problems? Suppose youfind your LOAD @/SAVE @ routines areslowed down, but on the other hand, doingwithout the patch then leaves you with thecorruption symptom instead? Obviously,since the latter is more serious, theroutine would still have to be retained,but a possible compromise might be to keepthe drive-spin patch just for SAVE @, anddisable it in LOAD @. If you want to do itthis way, run the above, but omit line 30.
1 However, the high cost will be off puttingto most, especially as you'll have to addthe drives. Also, with the device beingnew, many will be unwilling to take theplunge and become a pioneer, as has beenclearly shown with the failures of the QL,SAM, and DX-1. But, when furtherinformation and, perhaps, a demo modelbecomes available, Alchemist Researchshall seriously consider investing in one.
1 However, the first recommended accessoryis some sort of wallet for it. There arelots available, almost all are made ofleather. I use one which allows the phonesuse whilst still in the case and has atransparent window to show the screen. Itprotects the phone from all weathers andis padded on the inside to prevent damageif knocked or dropped. It also has astrong and long belt clip for attaching toyour person.
1 However, rather than produce it alone, Iconsider it would be a great exercise toprove to the Spectrum community that theremaining groups can and will worktogether, rather than against each other.Although there has been evidence contraryto this in the past eighteen months by agreat many parties who are just interestedin their own successes, I believe thiswould be a good opportunity to alter thatand show that the remaining Spectrumgroups can continue with grace anddignity.
1 However, one said:
1 However, in the past you'd have to prit itout and re-type it. Something you wouldnot relish if the textfile was ratherlong!
1 However, as mentioned before, the +3 isawkward (have you ever used one?!). Wemust first put a header on the textfilesso they can be read!
1 However, I had experienced distortion ofthe picture, but no loss of colour BEFOREI even had the idea of getting an externaldrive. We put it down to a dodgy ULA, andreplaced this, and this cured the problem.I'm not saying that everyone should go outand buy a new ULA for two reasons: 1. TheULA costs about `17 ( I had a hell of ajob finding the ` sign there, I think I'vebeen using the Pc for too long!- TechnoLentil)
1 However, I can't help but wonder if everybody is flogging a dead horse, before it'seven dead!. I mean, before BBC2 hadfinished screening the 1st series of the XFILES, SKY started screening the 2nd!, andthen (on Saturdays) the 1st, fresh fromthe BBC!, and now they've released it onvideo!. <It's typical TV tactics. BBC arealso showing other second hand SKYproggies like DUE SOUTH and CHICAGO HOPE.Now, while these programs aren't tootypical of US 'quality' programming, whatconfuses me is why BBC chose to screenthem at prime time slots on BBC1 where theTOP rated US TV programmes: The X Filesand Star Trek:TNG are relegated to craptimes on BBC2. Then again, the BBC havenever been too up on sci-fi - rememberTRIPODS, DOCTOR WHO and now BUGS! Ed>
1 However, we should remember that MrSherwood is (supposedly) in charge and thebuck stops with him. Delegating complaintsand matters such as this one to hislackeys, such as Susan Smith, shows howconcerned he is with the matter. Tointroduce someone who has only one side ofthe story is just the same as him writingthe letters himself. In fact, on oneoccasion, one of these letters is writtenin exactly the same style as his, yet asignature of S. Smith ends it. Comparingthis signature with a previous one,supposedly by S. Smith, shows a cleardifference in handwriting styles!
1 However, now he has recruited AmandaPandagirl from Sinclair Classic to try andsing his praises because he has no meritof his own.
1 However, rather than answer!
1 Howard) gives the software houses!
1 How useless, eh? For printing, yes. Butfor filenames, these two characters arecompletely groovy!! You can't SAVE INK2;PAPER 6; "file" but you can SAVE CHR$16... etc! Each CHR$ statement counts as acharacter in your filename, but even withan ink and paper colour (you don't have tohave both, or either!) you still have sixcharacters left! BRIGHT and FLASH can alsobe done like this, but I've forgottentheir character codes (look in the userguide). My final filename trick is the"Ooh, how on earth did he get so manyspaces in it?" one.
1 How many times have you found yourself ina situation where you have loaded a gameinto your 48k Spectrum, to find that youhave the wrong joystick interface...? Orwish to connect a printer or disk drive,but have no through port.
1 How about if you go forward 50 years intime from 1995? What are the chances ofyou meeting yourself? One reasoning saysnone because in 1995 you went missing andnever re-appeared until 2045 where peoplesaw you and say you didn't age. But,return and live for another 50 years youwill be around to see yourself appear, sothe people who reported seeing you won'treport it, so the old version of you willhave experienced a different welcome, yetyou are looking at yourself!
1 How Do I Use A Font In BASIC?
1 How Can I Design A Font?
1 How many users have been forced todowngrade to an Amiga or Atari or Godforbid an IBM compat machine, my advice toyou is simple, put the feuding last andthe Speccy users first.
1 How fickle these people are. When aproject to take advantage of this isplanned, they soon show their truecolours.
1 Hiya peoples, the latest PD catalogue hasjust arrived, and with it came a "few"disks and a VERY short note telling me toreview them. I dunno, a hacker's life isnever a dull one!
1 His latest trick is now to terminate thesubscriptions of anyone who asks too manyquestions. Perhaps his next step will beto hire hitmen? Whatever
1 Hilton Court
1 Hi everyone! Just recently I've noticedloads of things about the +2 that seemnever to have been documented, so Idecided to compile them into a Taswordfile. This turned into an article ofsorts, and presto! Here it is in Alchnews.(Well, it isn't yet, but it must be ifyou're reading it)!
1 Hi I am Dok of the United Minds, and thisis my amazing article which is written inthe style of an article written forAlchnews! (Eh?)
1 Here, AND acts like an IF - but note thatit only works when a string is influencedby a numeric value. It doesn't have to bePRINT - PLAY can also be used like this,but remember that if neither condition istrue, the command PLAY on its own willgive a Nonsense in BASIC error. (PLAY is128k only of course; sorry 48k owners).It's worth experimenting with this as itis a way around lots of separate IF lines.
1 Here's another bug in 128 BASIC. I'mwriting this one from memory but it shouldwork. This is a more serious bug,affecting the IF statement. It firstcropped up when I was entering a 48ktype-in listing, but when I reentered theline in 48k mode it remained as it should.The line in question was something like:
1 Here goes then- You are in a helicopter,and at the left hand of the screen thereis a square window. You can see out of thewindow, and the landscape is composed ofbuildings and skyscrapers. You have toshoot an invader, which looks like a blackround circle. You fire at it using the 0key, and the screen tells you to fire byflashing a bar above the ammo meter. Theammo meter is underneath the window wherethe invader is. You could crash or getshot by the invader, and when thishappened your windscreen got cracks in it.If the crack got from one side of thewindscreen to the other, you were dead.
1 Here is a short program that flipsalternately between normal and secondscreens at the press of a key:-s
1 Hello, tis I, The Demon Hacker again! Assome readers of AlchNews already know, Ihave just been given an Interface 1 and apair of Microdrives. It was not entirelywithout a catch though!
1 Hello, my name is Dok, and although youmay not have heard of me, I am am memberof the Scottish demo group, the UnitedMinds. Since we started doing demos abouta year ago, one thing took our notice morethan anything else on the spectrum, itseemed that two rival P.D. libraries werehaving a bit of a fight between eachother, and whilst one was saying onething, the other was saying somethingelse.
1 Hello and welcome to a really interestingarticle about Funny Filenames! Do youremember how "Saboteur" loaded, with thered filename? And what about the gamesthat printed filenames over the "Program:"instead of after it? I bet you've spentweeks wondering how they did it! Well, nowthe secret is yours! You will soon be ableto amaze your friends with Funny Filenames(UK Patent Pending) on tape and disc!
1 Hello all you out there YET AGAIN! I don'tknow, a deputy editor's work is neverdone. With my recent promotion went allthis hard work. Life's a bitch, then youmarry one, then you die!
1 Hello again, and welcome to another'exciting' (and I use the term loosely)column.[
1 He sent them guidelines, which was in facta letter penned by himself, written fromthe view of The United Minds and possiblyDarren Randle, Extacy 3 and Fish magazine.No doubt this letter was to be sent tothese parties who would supposedly sign itand send it to me.
1 He claims to forget point A) as he isinnocent. Of ALL accusations? This is NOTtrue whatsoever. As stated before,evidence can be supplied to prove allstatements. He has admitted himself tohave made mistakes before, but now seemsto forget them! We, however, do not.
1 Having said that, though. Any program youdo use should preferably contain a BREAK -POINT routine, which can be called toprint out all the register values beforemaking a safe return to basic.
1 Having seen a recent issue of theirmagazine, it's easy to see why people aredeserting. At least two regular columnshave folded, due to lack of support and acouple of contributors have suddenlystopped sending material. Throughout themagazine are feeble and embarassingrequests for help while on the next pagethey try to make out there are no problemsat all.
1 Happy holidaying.
1 Happy Hacking...
1 Hahahahahahhahhaahaah!
1 HI TEC - Well known publishers of such"average" games as Scrappy Doo, BoulderDash and the excellent Potsworth, Hi Tecran into financial problems and finallysank without trace, leaving behind just afew bubbles in the form of Looney Tuneslicences. <I almost worked for Hi-Tec. Ed>
1 HACKER'S CORNER - PART ONE
1 H) Source: Thomas Eberle.
1 H) "Selling" PD for profit
1 Grindleton
1 Greetings to:
1 Greatful appreciation must go out to allwho helped in the production of this finepublication. Notable thanks must go to:{
1 Graham Collier.
1 Graham Collier
1 Good luck to those of you who stick withme and whatever is to come in this andsubsequent editions of ALCNEWS!s
1 George Imrie
1 GenerationSoftware, who previously wrote programsfor the ZX81 (not a very new generationthen!). This is doubtless a very originalgame and quite a groundbreaker. Anyway,this game is for one or two players (notsimultaneously). Each player is a dustman,er, trashman, and must empty the bins intothe dustcart as it chugs along the road,before the bonus timer reaches zero. Sucha task would be impossible, but you canmake the bonus timer increase by doingtasks for householders.
1 Gastackerstrasse 33
1 Gastackerstrasse 23
1 Garry Rowland
1 GREMLIN GRAPHICS - This popular companyturned out unfaithful, going straight overto the consoles at ther
1 GRAHPIC DEMONSTRATION
1 G) Subject of the watchdogs
1 G) Complaints were made to The TradingStandards Office and the Post Office UsersCouncil about Prism PD.k
1 G MISTAKE!
1 Furtherimprovement is made by the application ofa high polarity polymer coating to thefabric surface, which increases theaffinity to ink. The increasing use ofhigh speed printers and 24 pin print headsrequire the use of high density ribbons,which have less porosity but much betterwear resisitance.
1 Further details are explained later in themagazine. Feedback forms based on thisarticle have been in circulation sinceApril, your comments are most welcome.
1 From now on I will refer to this chip asthe AY or the sound chip. Now, lets getdown to business.e
1 From here there are a couple of tariffswhich raise the line rental but lower thecall charge, depending on how you use it.}
1 From Alchemist Research or
1 Frciction Coefficient.
1 Formats Computer Show at the!
1 Format Publications
1 For those of you who do not know whatinformation is contained with a header, Iwill explain it to you.k
1 For the sake of beginners, let's start byexplaining a little about how the extramemory is configured. The Z80 processorcan only handle 64K at any given time,i.e. addresses 0-65535, so this means notall the extra RAM can be available atonce. It has therefore been arranged in16K blocks, known as 'banks' or 'pages'.When one of these banks is required, it isswitched or 'paged in' to occupy addresses49152-65535 - in other words, it isswapped for the RAM that was there before.Since paging can only take place withinthis top 16K of the memory map, only onebank can ever be present at any singletime.
1 For some reason, the +2 manual didn'tinclude these, but they all work. Maybethey're in the later manuals for the 128kmachines (+2a and +3), but I'm not sure.<No. Ed.>
1 For more details, contact Richard at:%
1 For more details or to order, send an SAEto:-
1 For every ream of paper printed, blow awayaccumulated paper and dust particlesdeposited on and around the platen and theprint head carrier and holder.
1 For a long time now, we've seen lots ofinteresting and vital articles, ideas,tips and programs appear for certainhardware. The +D, +3 and Spectrum 128immediately spring to mind. AlchemistResearch had the idea of collating all ofthis into one big textfile. Anyone who hadanything of interest could contribute andin return would get a free copy of thistextfile to produce and market it as oneof their own products in any way theychoose. The textfile would be thecopyright of those who helped upon it.
1 For those of you rightfully taking aneutral stance, or have not been involvedin the Prism matter then things have takensuch nasty turns. It's gone far beyonddodgy software and poor quality. It'sdeveloped into tactics reserved forpoliticians.
1 For those of you interested, I haveincluded some of the screens from theclipart collection in this file, and a fewmore will follow it.
1 For more details, contact SUC whoseaddress is in Trading Post.E
1 For Betados users, the most importantpoint to realise is that this DOS uses thewhole +D RAM, with none to spare.Therefore, the ONLY such items that can beused with it (apart from the bug- fixingpatches) are SQUASH and SNAP OUT, both ofwhich are specially designed to overwritecertain facilities in a non-haphazard,non-destructive way. (Both SQUASH and SNAPOUT can be present simultaneously, by theway, but always install SNAP OUT last.)
1 Fonts are always 768 bytes long (eachredefinable character is on an 8 x 8grid), so make sure that the 767 bytesafter the start address you load it to arealso free of other code. (It's safest toleave a gap between blocks of code whichhave to be stored in RAM at the same time,as well as easier). I said earlier that Idon't know how 23606 and 23607 relate tothe RAM address, but the ones that I knowand use are:
1 Following comments made by a reader in aprevious issue of AlchNews, THREE MONTHSLATER Mr Sherwood decided to go on theattack by writing an offensive andill-researched letter to the reader inquestion without first checking his facts(or should that be lies?).
1 Following the editor's purchase of amobile, here's his brief guide andpointers on choosing a phone, thepleasures and pitfalls.
1 Following reports in last issue ofAlchNews, it appears that Spectrum UK isin danger of killing itself off as fast asit estabished itself.
1 Fish Magazine
1 Firstly, you should look at the header todetermine the start line.C
1 Firstly, loads of people are dribblingmindlessly for more info about the superspeccy. Well, if you want to know more,turn the Page =>
1 Firstly, how to build in a Multiface.%
1 First, we need to set up the memory mapthat +3DOS needs in order to operate.The user manual tells us that we need ROM2 (the DOS ROM) at the bottom of memory,page 7 at the top, and the machine stackmust be below 49120. This is very easy toachieve, and can be done in only a fewbytes of machine code. So, type this intoyour assembler.
1 First off then, I must say how impressed Iwas at seeing all these screens! Thereare LOTS of them as they come on twodisks! I was up all night converting the+D format disks so that I could look atthem, and it was well worth it.
1 First of all, you will need to fit a 23way Female D socket. This isn't difficulteither, simply cut out a hole at the rearof the +3, just above the external driveconnector. Measure the D socket to makesure you have it right, then allow anextra 2mm all round the cut-out. You willsee the purpose of this later.
1 First of all, you will need to open upyour Multiface and remove the edgeconnector. You can do this by using adesoldering pump or some desolder braid.Be careful though, too much heat will liftthe tracks off the circuit board, and youmay even end up causing damage to heatsensitive components. Before you do this,make sure that your soldering iron has anearthed bit, and that you ae wearing ananti-static wrist strap.
1 First of all, I'd just like to make thepoint that I am not trying to rubbishanyone else, who has aired their views onthis subject. I am merely writing down afew observations that I have made, while Iam sitting here with both of my bigtoenails just removed, and not being ableto walk very well. I'll spare you the gorydetails of that.
1 First and foremost, either select thefirst screen picture or load up Tasword.Then, making sure that your printable areais TYPE A, get a large +D screen dump ofthe set. If you don't have a +D, try anduse a printer driver which will allow somesort of large and / or sideways printing.
1 Finally, the phrase "The ball is in yourcourt". Used by Mr Sherwood in a letter tome over twelve months ago - can't he thinkof anything more original? In fact, MrSherwood has re-used old phrases quite alot recently. Not only his, but also thoseof Miles Kinloch and myself!
1 Finally, please note that care should betaken with the 128K's Ramdisk facilitieswhen the second screen is in use: aRamdisk file could well encroach upon thesecond screen area,
1 Finally, here's a short routine in BASICto create an instant bold font located at60094. To use it, RANDOMIZE USR 60094, andto turn it off, enter the "standard" POKEsat 23606 and 23607. The only problem withthis is that the aforementioned M and Wblockiness occurs, but it doesn't look toobad. Credit for the routine goes to JohnWesthead, who also wrote a font packagebut I've forgotten what it's called!
1 Finally, for 3" disks, I must recommendVIKING DIRECT. A box of ten 3" disks costsonly `19.99 with discounts of two and fivepounds per box if more than five or tenboxes are bought at the same time. If anyreaders would like to take advantage ofour business account with Viking, pleaselet us know. Viking
1 Finally, DAVID LEDBURY of Sam Prime has awide range of Spectrum software for saleranging from budgets to big boxedclassics. I've seen this collection and itis absolutely priceless! For more details,send an SAE to:
1 Finally, "m" is the copyright symbol (C).The smaller and proper symbol 184 is used.If you've used the normal copyright symbolin Tasword (Ext Sym Shift and P), you'llfid it's visible and different to @, butwon't print out as a copyright symbol. Youcan't modify it either as far as I cansee.
1 Finally, some +D users complain of aproblem with a sector sometimes beingwritten before the drive has time to reachfull speed, resulting in that sector beingcorrupted. From what I gather, it seems toaffect two DOS functions: printing to anopentype file, and SAVE @. (LOAD @ is alsoprone, but with less serious effects,since no writing to the disk is thentaking place.) Betados remedies theproblem by pre-spinning the disk beforeSAVE @ (a nd likewise in printing to afile opened RND), so when I wrote my DOSbug-fixers, I thought I'd include asimilar routine to overcome the problem inG+DOS too. (I added it to LOAD @ as well,for good measure.) However, while beingserious for some people, the phenomenon isnot one which is universally experienced.In my own case, for example, if my drivescome to rest, they will ALWAYS spin firstfor a second or so, before doing the nextread / write - WITH OR WITHOUT the specialroutine that's supposed to be required!I'm no expert
1 Ferry Groothedde, SCB.
1 Ferry Groothedde, SCB
1 Ferry Groothedde of the SCB and magazineUncle Clive & Uncle Sam has asked if I'dlike to merge his magazine with AlchNews.}
1 Ferry Groothedde
1 Ferry Groothedde of
1 Feeling tired after turning a little wheel3600 times in one evening, I retired. Thenext evening I gave each ribbon a try.z
1 Fax: 0181 850 5971
1 FX NOT IMPLEMENTED: Linked with the 'FX_'command... you've tried to use a callwhich doesn't exsist.i
1 FURTHER EXPANSION OF ALCHNEWS
1 FUNNY FILENAMES!
1 FULL CREDIT is due to my friend ARNOLDYATES for the LINE modifications. Myfunction is just to share the information.~
1 FOUNTAIN PD
1 FOR EXTENDED USAGE LIFE OF
1 FONTS... BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!
1 FLICKER-BOOK ANIMATION
1 FIVEopportunities to end it (including myself)clearly shows that Mr Sherwood has nointention of ending the matter and justwants it to drag on. Perhaps with nothingto complain about, Mr Sherwood doesn't seea future for himself in the Spectrumworld. This makes him a very sad andinsecure man. As has been stated before,perhaps Mr Sherwood is aware that hisservice is failing and will eventuallyfold in the near future. If this is thecase, perhaps he is wishing to continuethe fued so he has someone to blame forit's end.
1 FIRST: LOAD a Formatted disc and type inthe following short program:-G
1 FELIXSTOWE
1 FACTORS AFFECTING THE RIBBONS AND!
1 FABRIC RIBBONS
1 FABRIC RIBBON AND THE PRINT HEAD
1 F=b TO VAL "21": PRINT AT f, b; OVER%
1 F. Ridout is still selling an UNUSEDMultiface 128 with a copy of Lifeguard for`15. He is also looking for a completelist of EPSON Printer control codes andcommands if anyone can help. Please writeto:
1 F) Under police investigation
1 F) After lying to Miles Kinloch that PrismPD was run as a full time businesssponsored by the Bradby Boys Club, themanager informed me that he would becontacting the police and I may possiblybe contacted to provide evidence. I havebeen given NO information that the managerdid not take this course. Soon after, MrSherwood claimed he resigned from hisposition as TRAINEE there.
1 Extremely confusing isn't it!? Andy wrotea short story about time travel whichcovers this and I'm sure he explains itbetter than me. I'll get him to feature itlater in this issue.
1 Example: It's probably a good idea to addline 10 when using the LPRINT IIIinterface as an LPRINT instruction mayinterfere with the copy size you have set.Now enter the keyword RETURN. You will nowbe back into WINDOW MODE ready to startusing POWERPRINT II.
1 Example 2:
1 Everybody has some opinion on time travelso please send in your thoughts, ideas andcomments on it.c
1 Every week or two, there are at least twoSpectrum +3's complete with games andjoystick and, in some cases, still boxed,for only `30.
1 Every subject you could imagine is coveredand I had no problems using them with IconGraphix (48K) and Art Studio.q
1 Every home computer has an area of memoryassociated with the screen. It an eitherbe memory mapped, which meansthat for eachscreen location there is a correspondingmemory location, or it may be organisedusing a display file.
1 Evening all. The purpose of this articleis to answer the question, "WhateverHappened To The Software Houses?", hencethe title. So, whatever did happen to thesoftware houses? Ahem, sorry,
1 Even though the Spectrum's music, thesinlge channel BEEP was diabolical inBasic, great programmers made great use ofwhat little there was to play with. Fairlysoon, many understood how to manipulatethe ULA into getting a pseudo two channelsound system. Indeed, there are manygames and programs which show this. Twoextremely notable examples must be theAXEL-F sound demo and music from FUTUREGAMES. Alchemist PD has ten volumes of top48k music which may sound dull if you're a128k user, but is a marvel of programmingfrom an extremely limited device.
1 Escom have branches throughout the UK, thSheffield shop is on Pinstone Street.Phone number 0114 279 8800.o
1 Escom also sell good quality Germanprinter ribbons, price of an LC-100 monoribbon is `3.50 and `7.29 for a colourribbon.
1 Ernastrasse 33
1 Ernastr. 33
1 Erm. sorry that this column is so short.(
1 Erm, I did also know the ones for 6&
1 Entry to the show costs `4 but there arelots of free entry and discount entryvouchers knocking around in local papers.The following page gives dates andlocations of the shows.
1 Enables the ISG, resumes whatever#
1 Either way, we can now return to BASIC, sowe must get rid of RAM page 7 and the DOSROM, page our "normal" RAM page 0 back inat the top of memory, and put ROM 3 backat the bottom. This is easy too!
1 Either way, this is NOT how to run a PDlibrary.2
1 Eg: Spectrum font:
1 Eg. Before, the statement CAT 1 simplygave an error, but with the Interface 1present and a Microdrive attached (with acartridge fitted), the statement isexecuted, giving a list of the first 50named files held on the cart, along withthe number of free bytes (in K) available.
1 Ed's supplement:
1 East Sussex
1 Each register on the chip will control anindividual feature.=
1 EXTRA CHARACTER SETS
1 EXT MODE W - Delete word left
1 EXT MODE T - Go to bottom of program$
1 EXT MODE P - Move up ten lines
1 EXT MODE N - Go to top of program!
1 EXT MODE M - Go to end of line
1 EXT MODE K - Delete all to left
1 EXT MODE J - Delete all to right
1 EXT MODE I - Move to word left
1 EXT MODE E - Delete word left
1 EXPLAINATION
1 EXAMINE. This command displays the type,name, length and start of any files foundon tape. Use BREAK to escape.q
1 EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT(
1 ENVELOPE SHAPE AND CYCLE: Register 13%
1 ENVELOPE SHAPE & CYCLE Register 13"
1 EDITORS REPSONSE TO THE LETTER
1 EDITOR'S UPDATE
1 ED: "You obviously know that the Spectrumhas no major coverage now which is whyyou're selling it, but do you honestlythink you're going to get anywhere nearwhat you paid for it?!"
1 ED: "Do you still have the Spectrum forsale?"0
1 ED: "I'm not surprised. How can youjustify selling it for that price whenthere are countless others around it forless than HALF that?"
1 ED. He's lost more than that!, oh well,'
1 ED. Ahh yes, but which bits?. And don't'
1 ED'S UPDATE
1 E) In an "open letter" featured in FISHfanzine, Mr Sherwood made public thatAlchNews would be available from him ifmedia and stamp were sent. No permissionwas given and there is no indication thatAlchNews is a public domain program.
1 E) Distributing AlchNews without
1 E) "Duplication" of several statements andphrases used by myself and several others.T
1 Due to the vast amounts of printing we dofor letters and catalogues, ribbons onlyususally last a fortnight. The re-inkedribbon lasted quite a bit longer beforeshowing signs of slight fading.
1 Dok of the United Minds '95
1 Do not fool yourself into thinking I oranyone else can teach you all there is toknow about hacking. For one thing, nomatter how good a hacker you are, there isalways something new to investigate andconquer.
1 Disks are very competitively priced at themoment. The best value 3.5" ones are fromESCOM. Quite recently they opened many newbranches, taking the total to 100. Doubledensity disks are `2.32 for a box of tenwhereas High density are `2.11!
1 Diaries", we threw an Interface 1!
1 Despite the fact there were not too manybooks around at the time, I did manage tosort out what was what and after a year ortwo I became quite proficient in basicprogramming. Hacking was a natural followon when I got around to tackling machinecode.
1 Despite claims that analogue phones havepoorer reception, my experience provesotherwise - the reception has been clearerthan my BT line!
1 Desmond Tyler
1 Delegating others to do his dirty work isjust a prime example of how far he will goto avoid the issue. You can see this bytheir claim that out of my 22 letters in12 months, only SIX have been replied to.It's worth noting that in these six he hadsomething to say but did not answerimportant questions which he simply cannothave an answer without incriminatinghimself. He caused this entire problem andhe has the job of trying to sort it out,not passing the matter onto his lackeyswho have no understanding of the matterwhatsoever. Essentially, he is in chargeand he should answer for it. As you canalso see in the letter, no reference wasgiven to my "shut up or shut up" proposal.Obviously, he is unwilling to end thematter.
1 Dear Mr Sherwood,
1 Dear Mr Davis
1 Davis - one of many to come I
1 David Wood
1 David Crookes
1 Dave Ledbury
1 Dave Fountain.
1 Dave is well known for his excellentmagazine SINCLAIR CLASSIC, which recentlyfolded so he could concentrate on writingother software and write for SubliminalExtacy.
1 DRAW 5,-17: PLOT 118,125: DRAW 10,5:&
1 DRAW 15,4: PLOT 113,105: DRAW -8,-8:&
1 DRAW 11,-5
1 DRAW 0,-15: DRAW -5,-16: PLOT 128,120:&
1 DRAW -8,-8: PLOT 145,106: DRAW 8,-8#
1 DOMARK - Creators of many Speccy gamesincluding the TV Games series, Domark alsodared to release console software. Theyhave had a move and are now based inLondon.
1 DOKE and CALL
1 DO THISCAREFULLY!!
1 DLS: Disk Loading System
1 DLS: Original version. Comprises of afront end menu system only.E
1 DLS3X: Latest version, works in any mode.)
1 DLS3 : As above, but uses 128 ramdisk (!)DLS3B: for storing of a screen.I
1 DLS2: Simple shell of DLS3X.
1 DLS was written by Andy Davis some timebefore he actually invested in a disksystem. Trying to anticipate mass storageand the need for some organisation, hedevised this program. Although there arefar others on the market, it's a neat,well displayed program which may servesome purpose.
1 DLS program.
1 DLS is located at UT33 in the latestcatalogue but is not PD. The program cannot be duplicated or distriubted by anyother groups without the permission of A.Davis.
1 DLS 3X comes loaded will example filenamesand ID names. You can remove them bypressing BREAK and then RUN.p
1 DISTRIBUTING ALCHNEWS WITHOUT PERMISSION.Well, did Prism PD have permission?(Rhetorical question.)j
1 DICE, orDisk Information Copier Editor, has to bethe best sector editor around. It willeven format 3" disks to 42 tracks, givinga large increase in capacity.
1 DH. Well it could have been worse, you&
1 DH. Oh I don't know, BENS BITS, shows%
1 DH. I think he's definitely lost his edge,*
1 DH. Did you know that, PRISM PD, took up(
1 DESERT ISLAND TAPES
1 DB2 is by far the best disk back uputility produced for the +3, but it won'tfully back up disks that have beenformatted to greater than 40 tracks!
1 DAVE WOOD has some spare PC equipment tosell. It includes an SX386 motherboardwith AMI bios, 6 ISA slots and space forSIMM RAM to 16Mb. It also features aTRIDENT VGA board 512k with IDE I/O boardwith printer port / joystick etc.
1 DA7C2DDE1DD23FDCB016E28EADDE1C9"
1 D1SCREEN$ ": LET z=VAL "820": GO TO w%
1 D1SCREEN$ ": INPUT "SCREEN TITLE" ;%
1 D. Ledbury
1 D-76307Karlsbad. It is called "Noram" and willhelp to solve the problem that occurs whenthe RAMTOP in a program is so low, thatthe report "4 Out of memory" will beprinted, i.e. if you set CLEAR 24000. Thismakes often problems, i.e. when you willconvert demos with a low Ramtop to run onOpus disk or with games. All you need isan additional RAM in the Opus and theprogram.
1 D-51069 Koeln
1 D) Unreliable
1 D) Poor use of phrases, as detailed above.*
1 D) As above.
1 Crashed magazine
1 Craig Wilson
1 Craig Elder
1 Could I also ask people to make sure theyare using the latest versions of my DOSbug-fixers - the final versions are thesame as those given away with AlchNews 12.<Also on the +D Utilities Collection.> Ifanyone's not sure, by the way, there's aneasy way to tell - enter LOAD d1 - if thisgives an 'OK' report, you're using thecurrent ones, but if you get a 'Nonsensein G+DOS' error, you must be using one ofthe earlier versions; possibly those fromAlchNews 11, or maybe from another source.(This new command was one of the very lastthings I added.) The latest fixers are, ofcourse, available from Alchemist Research,if anyone needs them.
1 Copy 1 of 4:
1 Converting Apple IIe Textfiles
1 Contributions can range from shortarticles, tutorials, information on usefulsoftware and how to aquire it, hints, tipsand short programs which can be includedin the manual. For ease of processing, allinput should be submitted on +D disk, Opusdisk, Spectrum +3 disk, DSDD PC disk ortape as a popular wordprocessor textfile,such as Tasword. However, this can besorted at a later date by the compiler inquestion.
1 Continues program execution
1 Connect GREEN LEAD to SHORT LEG.
1 Connect BLUE LEAD to SHORT LEG.
1 Computers arenormally set to be Data Terminals, andModems and other such devices are normallyset to be Data Communications. Normallyyou would only interface DTE devices toDCE devices, but beware, the SpectrumInterface 1 and +3/+2a (and probably the+2/128) are set as DCE and NOT the normalDTE.
1 Commands that previously led to errormessages are now treated as correct, withthe appropriate action taken.q
1 Coming shortly:
1 Clean the external drive socket on the +3,because after all these years, it's boundto be a bit mucky.f
1 Chris Thomson
1 Chris Taylor, Triad
1 Chris Taylor
1 Chris Norfolk
1 Chris Habbersham
1 Chris Box: Used Tenners please B-)"
1 Chernobyl's Operating system:
1 Checks made:
1 Checks made by line 120:
1 Century Talent?
1 Cellphones direct (Advert in newspapers)Vodafone centres:
1 Catalin Russen, MicroCRIFS
1 Calls the machine code routine
1 CUBE ALGORITHM
1 CRACK CITY
1 CPC Undercover
1 CPC UNDERCOVER
1 CPC / PCW support
1 COPYRIGHTED - NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN!
1 COPY "filename.COM" to SPECTRUM
1 COPIES?.POWERPRINT II WILL NOT GIVE YOUR EQUIPMENTTHIS ABILITY IF IT LACKS IT.N
1 CONTENTS (7)
1 CONTENTS (6)
1 CONTENTS (5)
1 CONTENTS (4)
1 CONTENTS (3)
1 CONTENTS (2)
1 CONTENTS (1)
1 CONT controls whether the envelope repeatsor not: i.e. if the sound is a one-off -like a gunshot - then it won't, but ifit's a repeated effect, such as a steamtrain, then it will.
1 CONT ATT ALT HOLD
1 COMPUTER NOISE
1 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
1 COMPONENTS OF THE PRINTING PROCESS"
1 COMMERCIAL SHOPPING
1 CODE MASTERS - The name all Speccy ownersassociate with Dizzy the egg and simulatorgames, the "Codies" promptly switched tothe PC and unmentionable Japanese things.They even had the cheek to release Dizzygames on the PC and Megadrive - the abusedegg even features in the Sega "MicroMachines" on the title page. They stillhave very limited stocks of some games andcompilations, and have changed their oncefunky logo into a frankly crap pinkscribble. <C.M. won an award for "most useof words like excellent, brilliant,simulator, advanced, turbo and super". Ed>
1 COCKERMOUTH
1 CHRISTIAN AYMARD is on the lookout for thefollowing programs:=
1 CHR$ 6 is the same as the comma in PRINT"Hello","Hello". It moves the textposition across half a line. You can dothis in Funny Filenames (Registered trademark). Try this:
1 CHR$ 17;CHR$ 6; "Hello!"
1 CHR$ 0+ "name."+CHR$ 6
1 CHILDISH LITTLE GIMP!
1 CHESSINGTON
1 CHEESEY PEAS!
1 CHALFONT ST PETER
1 CELLNET is Vodafone's main rival. Theircoverage and customer base is slightlysmaller. They also use thev
1 CCEECCAAA?>>MOMOMK
1 CATALIN RUSSEN
1 CATALIN RUSSEN would like some Amigacontacts, wishing to swap tips, advice andsoftware for the Amiga. If you would likean Amiga penpal, please write to:
1 CAREFULLY solder the wires from the Dsocket, so that they match up with thischart.Z
1 CANNON BC01 inkjet cartridges, `5 each o14 for `50.5
1 CALL #0130
1 C) Very poor use of italics, underline,bold text and capital letters in variouspermutations to try and accent his words.Simply ONE is enough, If I wish tohighlight a word I would use CAPITALletters, not underlined, bold italicisedcapital letters!
1 C) Slow Service
1 C) Statements by Chris Taylor, MilesKinloch, Mark Harris, to name but three.R
1 C) Not researching wrong informationsupplied to Mr Davis.?
1 Bytes OD add 0E in a bytes header are thethe start address of where to beginloading the block of code.n
1 Bytes 0F and 10 are the offset to wherethe variables, if included with the save,begin - this two byte number is added tothe address held in the system variablePROG. at 5C53 (23635) and the systemvariable VARS is updated, along with allthe other system variables which must alsobe updated: eg; EDIT LINE.
1 Bytes 0B and 0C are common to all fourtypes of header and are the length of thedata block which follows the header.x
1 Bytes 0D and 0E contains informationrelevent to the type of header.I
1 Byte OE for number or character arraysholds the lower case letter of the arraywith 40 (h) added for numerical arrays and80 (h) added to the character arrayletter.
1 By the way, remember that you can relocateyour code in RAM by forcing it into adifferent location when you load it. So,if you wanted to relocate a font from32000 (Art Studio default) to 62000 (myfavourite address!), you'd do this, addingdisc syntax if appropriate:
1 By the way, never ever use CLEAR in asubroutine as it corrupts some stack orother and gives you a strange errorreferring to a line which often doesn'texist. CLEAR should always be at thebeginning of a program. The Spectrum,unlike many other versions of BASIC,allows you to redimension a DIM variablewithout having to CLEAR it first, soCLEARs should know their place. Or youshould know their place.
1 By The Demon Hacker, Feb 1995
1 By The Demon Hacker
1 By Richard Wilmot
1 By Professor Don H. White Ph.D
1 By Phil Glaves
1 By Phil Dobson
1 By Paul Howard.
1 By Orson, United Minds.
1 By Kevin Gurd
1 By Graham Collier
1 By Desmond Tyler
1 By Dave Fountain
1 By Antony Purvis
1 By Andy Davis
1 But, with a simple FOR..NEXT loop and alittle conditioning, you can convert itinto lower case in a few lines of BasicAND have capital letters at the start ofany new sentences!
1 But, they do say that imitation is thehighest form of flattery! I say that it'snecause an uneducated man cannot think ofthings for himself.
1 But, the real advantage of paged graphicsis if you wany to display more than oneimage in rapid succession. BASIC graphicscommands usually only write to the screenmemory. This means that pictures arebuilt up on the screen and then savedafterwards. While using paged graphicswill not make the physical construction ofa screen picture any quicker, once thecalculations have been performed, picturescan be recalled from memory to the screenvery quickly. Paged graphics thus retainthe simplicity of BASIC, combined withmuch greater display speeds. And if youset up several images in different areasof memory, they can be called up insequence rapidly to permit relativelycomplex displays.
1 But, the project is going ahead withoutthese sources. And when the manual isavailable and becomes something of a bibleWITHOUT their credits, maybe they'll lookbeyond their own personal gains.
1 But, the Spectrum 16k had a built inspeaker and simple sound output. To beperfectly honest, the system was pathetic.At the same time there were othercomputers available at similar priceswhich had
1 But, please keep your comments coming in.I'll keep discussing the matter with Ferryand the final plans will be discussed inAlchNews 17.
1 But, one thing is for sure. Never beforehas so much incriminating material beengathered against Mr Sherwood. He can go onlying to himself and others but itcertainly won't last forever. The net isclosing Mr Sherwood.
1 But, why doesn't he practise what hepreaches? I have asked many times for myletters to be published, as have others.The reply was a pathetic excuse that itwould take up "valuable space". Has he notheard of SCALING? Judging by the qualityof his letters and magazine I doubt he'seven heard of a spell checker. Steps havenow been taken in reporting PD POWER to amagazine regulatory body for biasedarticles without allowing the other sideto be published. Since Alchemist Researchhas welcomed any letters from Mr Sherwoodfor publishing, he cannot do the same!
1 But, while I was being ignored, MrSherwood was writing to The United Minds.He thought that this mix up could be usedto his advantage and to break up supportbetween The United Minds and AlchemistResearch.
1 But, lets say that time travel ISdiscovered, no doubt it could be in thefuture. Why hasn't anyone from the futurecome back in time to our day? Perhaps theyhave but are keeping extremely hidden orare perhaps "phased" and although they cansee us, we can't see them - ghosts?
1 But why do this? Writing to the other pagecertainly doesn't save any time. In fact,updating the display will take slightlylonger because of the time taken to copythe information into the screen memory.The advantage lies in the fact that whileupdating the "hidden" page, there is nochange on the current screen display.
1 But time travel. What basis of currenttechnology can we use as a reference forthat? Theres none. While we can say that aphaser is based upon a small laser andfuelled by a tiny power or chemical sourcein the unit itself, what can we say fortime travel?
1 But there have always been reports ofweird creatures which look nothing likehumans (Like my brother for example) e.g.the Dogons from africa, now, the Dogonsare an african tribe who beleive that fishlike beings called the Nommo's came fromSirius (Also known as the Dog Star forthose Fact finding bods!) and told themabout the system they lived in, forexample, the Dogons, an apparentlyun-civilised tribe, gave the correct totalof planets in the solar system, the factthat the Earth spun on its axis, the factthat there are two stars in the SiriusSystem although you can only see one (Andthis was only very recently proved!), andas well as this, they have very old starcharts, which are over a hundred years oldbut which are fairly accurate!
1 But first, enter the SECOND program if youare using tape. Make sure that it'scorrect as you cannot check it. Then, saveit and then enter the FIRST program whichwill create the machine code and save itto tape in continuation after the mainprogram.
1 But first this intro..
1 But Isn't There A Better Way?
1 But Dok, being the all-forgiving, personthat he is,(yeah right), didn't think thiswas fair on M.Sherwood, and decided togive him the benefit of the doubt, andsuggested that we use both libraries.Might I point out here that this was a:
1 Bridge (connect) together pins 3, 4, 5, 6and 7.0
1 Brian Watson, 8-BIT
1 Brian Watson
1 Brian Gaff, BG Services
1 Brandlesholme
1 Bradby Boys Club
1 Both of these problems, I have attributedto the lead that goes to the Drive B:socket, and I have grown accustomed tothem, And have found other ways of copyingdisks.
1 Both versions of the Art Studio alsocontained a font editor, identical but the128k version had some fonts on the RAMdisc. This is an excellent utility, evenapart from the art package itself. It'sfast, easy to use and has lots of optionssuch as Mirror, Invert, Rotate and Save todisc or tape.
1 Bl: L11 Ap: 86
1 Bits:7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0"
1 Bits 5, 4 and 3 control whether or not theappropriate sond channel will be givingout white noise or not. Bits 2, 1 and 0apply likewise for musical tones. Youcannot have both on the same channel atthe same time!
1 Bit 6 has no part in configuring theactual sound, so I will ignore it in thisexplaination.a
1 Bit 4 is the ENVELOPE ENABLE flag. Thiscontrols whether the volume of thatchannel should remain constant, or if itis to be controlled by the envelope. Iwill explain envelopes later on. Asbefore, a 0 here means that the enevlopecontroller is on and a 1 means that it isoff.
1 Bill Richardson, EEC
1 Bill Clark
1 Big supplier of Spectrum adventuresoftware, including?
1 Benson. <Sigh. Ed.>
1 Ben Douglas: Scream 'cos you just stubbedyour toe.3
1 Ben Douglas DOES exist. Any letters to himshould be passed via Roy Benson, DaveFountain, Alchemist Research,u
1 Below are some of the topics MartynSherwood quotes as being exmples ofunwarranted attacks on him, but where inreality, he has brought all the criticismon himself. Some of the others hementioned refer to situations where anapology has already been given, plus oneor two cases where, in all fairness, Ifeel I don't know enough to be able tocomment.
1 Before moving on, a word or two on acouple of system variables which may alsobe poked or used in some way or other toadd even more false trails or protection.
1 Because of this, Tasword 2 files will notload into any other model because thereare no invisible markers for it to see soit will just fill all characters on eachline with text!
1 Because of place problems the hardwarefleemarket was a bit small, but thankThomas Eberle (this time as manager fromSinTech) the software sell has become abig range. There was a high interest inthe new games "Atomix" and "Tango" (plus"Magic Dice" on the backside) from theCSFR and also in megapacks who contains acouple of games.
1 Because fonts are machine code, they mustbe loaded in at an address - make surethat this doesn't interfere with any othercode you are using or you'll have problemslater!
1 Because of Des Tyler's pestering tofeature this along with his article, hereis the short story I wrote based on timetravel a few years ago. I make myapologies now for it's poor quality!
1 Beach Imaging Ltd.
1 Beach Imaging
1 Basicallyspeaking, it allows you to format a 3.5"to MS DOS format. It does more than thattoo, it allows you to copy files (say)created with Tasword +3 onto the disk sotha your PC can load them! More thanthat, the program can copy files from a PCdisk onto a disk in the internal 3" drivetoo, so if you use a PC at work and needto edit some textfiles, then you can nowdo it. This is a brilliant piece ofsoftware, highly reccomended.
1 Barbara Gibb
1 Back to "Trashman", it's well worth a lookif you spot it at a car boot sale and isoverall a very fun game. I don't have anyother Spectrum games by New Generation -although I'm not a collector, I'd beinterested to hear from anyone who hasthem. <I've got some Dinosaur maze gameand 3D Tunnel. Ed> (If you'd like to swapgames, write to my address at the end ofthis section)
1 BUMPER SPECIAL THROUGH NO FAULT BUT#
1 BROFF, BRON and RESTART
1 BRANCH, TRON, TROFF and SPEED
1 BG SERVICES
1 BASIC Line 90
1 BACKUP. Used to copy tape files. You canbreak out of this command while the MB isexecuting but do note that if a file isover 20k, the system may crash. Alwaysexecute the NEW command after 'BACKUP' hasbeen executed.
1 B) Pornographic software
1 B) On THREE OCCASIONS, Mr Sherwood hasprinted a numbered series of points in hisletters which has either had a numbermissed out, numbers in incorrect order ornumbers repeated or a mixture of allthree!
1 B) Mr Davis is blackening his name via thehelp of "puppets" to try and end hisservice.\
1 B) GIRLS, GAGDISK, FEVER.
1 B) As above, but tested it and thought"Sod it".3
1 B e r k s h i r e
1 At the moment there are three phenominallygood lists of hardware, software and booksdoing the rounds. Should you want one,send an SAE to:
1 At the bottom of the screen is an optionsbar, in the style of the Multiface. Userswill see it's familliar with the one usedin the old AlchNews shell.
1 At present it doesn't appear to be in theUK at the moment, but be patient, it willbe soon and will no doubt take theSpectrum music scene by storm once againmuch like the AY sound chip did!
1 At first it looks very a daunting task ofsetting up but with the unit comes awell documented set of instructions, alongwith diagrams of settings for popularribbons. The setup is rather similar to areel to reel tape spooler. The ribbon ispulled a little way out of the cartridgeand it runs around the ink reservoir (thetape head?) and back again. The handleturns the ribbon so it gets re-inked.
1 Assuming I've got the bug right, theinterpreter promptly decides to do a spotof improvement and changes your line to:|
1 Associated with these commands$
1 As you know, there are several versions ofTasword for each type of Spectrum.Although each is different, there is agreat deal of compatability between them.
1 As the SPC also support the SAM Coupethere was 4 SAMs running this time, and onsome PCs and Notebooks Spectrum emulatorstried to do their job as good as possible(but never can beat that feeling you haveon the original. Speccy forever!).
1 As stated in the news section earlier,feedback from UK groups has beendisappointing to say the least. However,it was to be expected. INDUG seem to betoo high and mighty to work with anyone.Spectrum UK are too busy being "odd" to doanything else and of Prism, they can'teven think of an original idea or spellcorrectly so it's ridiculous to think ofthem helping.
1 As for other holidays, I'm planning a fewdays in France sometime later in the year.I was hoping to spend Christmas there lastyear but a severely
1 As briefly detailed earlier, Tasword +3textfiles are of their own format. We mustfirst rename them so that the inbuiltconverter program of +3DOS to give them aheader and then use the converter program.
1 As an example, this would put CAT 1 intothe underline key:<
1 As an example, the Verify command fromBASIC does not actually do anything. Youget the OK message at the bottom of yourscreen, but the drive isn't even accessed.In machine code, it is possible to writeyour own verify routine. The routine isthere is the DOS ROM, only Amstrad didn'timplement it. Why? Your guess is as goodas mine on that one. The manual sayssomething about the reliability of disksmaking the command "obsolete". Why thenis a verify command part of ANY diskoperating system, including CP/M, MS DOS,AmigaDOS etc. If disks are so reliable,then how is you can verify files on a +D?Even the operating system used onAmstrad's PCW machines will allow diskverification, and they use the same 3"drives and media the +3 does. Is it"reliability" or "couldn't be bothered" Iwonder. One thing's for sure though,+3DOS has the routines required forverification. Somebody somewhere spentthe time and effort writing theseroutines! Why
1 As already stated, this is the first in aseries of articles aimed at this usefuland extremely flexible bit of kit. Nextissue I will experiment further, and tryto give details of how to page in the newROM etc. See ya alll...
1 As I've mentioned, I've been quite busythese last few months, and so I've missedquite a bit of the 2nd series of BABALON 5! I have caught the odd episode though!,and I have to say I'm a bit disappointedwith it - it's improved!, but not much!.
1 As I say, there was a great amount ofCD-ROMs, plus a lot of PC and Amigasoftware. Although not much use to usthere were stands covering hardware andconsumables. To give you a brief idea,heres what I noticed:
1 As Ben said some while ago, once you haveand understand the routines for paging theROM and RAM about, the DOS ROM is at yourdisposal. For those who understand machinecode, the ability to use these DOSroutines makes more possible than you'dever imagine. DOS is not really fullyimplemented by the BASIC operating system,and so it's up to to use your +3 the wayit was intended.
1 As this document proves, the more MrSherwood says on the matter, the moremistakes he makes. The lengths of thePrism articles in AlchNews have grown,simply because he makes so many mistakes.This document is a classic example. It hasbeen compiled of the mistakes on justTHREE A4 sheets from Prism PD!
1 As promised last issue, here are theupdates for a two light device.I
1 As I said earlier, two screens areenclosed. This is because I have amendedthe screen because of a couple ofcharacters that this code page doesn'tinclude. You will see that this leavescharacters "a" to "g" blank for your ownuse. The final column, characters h-m havebeen altered for characters on the printerbut not on Tasword.
1 Arnold Yates
1 Anyway, we have been forced to make ourdemos Non-Pd, and they are licenced toWoMo and MgPd as well as Alchemist,(obviously!), so that M.Sherwood can'tdistribute them. We apologise for this,but the demos only cost 1p to buy, andanyway, if you dislike the idea of Non-Pddemos, whose fault is it? Oh, wow! It justHAPPENS to be M.Sherwood! So complain tohim about it. But I strongly suggest, ifyou are a subscriber of Pd.Power, dont sayanything to him, as he will just be apetty,(and I mean PETTY), person, andcancel your subscription. Like he did withMiles Kinloch, which I personally thinkwas a really REALLY crap thing forM.Sherwood to do.
1 Anyway, the purpose of these columns ispurely to give an insight into how hackingis done, not to teach it. If you are tobecome a hacker, you will do so by usingthe information I relay to you as a basisfor investigation
1 Anyway, suppose you have lots of files on(say) user area 1. Well, the default userarea is user area 0, so you'll have toaccess the files one by one. What we needis a program to allow us to alter thedefault user area! This is easy enoughreally, there is a DOS routine that willdo it for us. All we need to do is pagein the DOS ROM, set RAM bank 7 at the topof the memory map, supply parameters, callthe routine then page BASIC back andreturn. Sounds difficult, but it isn't.All those who have been able to followBen's excellent series of articles so farwill have no bother with this!
1 Anyway, it has turned out that with somepeople's set-ups, the drive-spin routinesmay actually be slowing down the LOAD @and SAVE @ routines, by making them pauselonger than normal. If anyone finds thisto be the case, and would prefer todisable
1 Anyway, here we go then. Hands up all you+3 users who have noticed that you can'tactually alter the default user area on adrive. You can set the default drive, butnot the user area. Not so bad if you onlyuse the low capacity internal drive, asmany people won't ever need to play withthem, but when you start using largecapacity drives, the ability to use userareas is very handy.
1 Anyway, armed with your Meter, tweak thisscrew until the meter reads about 5.15V.What happens is that when the PSU is underload, (having power drawn from it) thevoltage drops, and if it drops below about4.75V, strange things MAY start to happen,such as strange noises, locked machinesand programs that do not work, as well ascertain parts of your speccy being starvedof power, like the internal drive.
1 Anyway, I've gone off at a tangent again.Everything else about the +3 uses 5V. Ifanyone has had a look in their +3 powersupply, they may have noticed that thereis a small hole for a screw driver, toadjust the 5V output.
1 Anyway, Dok was made to look incredibly(and I mean REALLY incredibly) stupid, ashe was the only one who wanted to giveM.Sherwood the benefit of the doubt, but Ihate to say I told him so... but...
1 Any time you wish, you can BREAK fromPOWERPRINT II, give any direct commandsyou wish (or add/modify lines 10/20) thenreturn to WINDOW MODE with GOTO 99, thenrestore the display with (U) N - DO.
1 Any joystick which works with Kempston orIF2 will work with this circuit, butunfortunately the 128 joysticks do not.<Perhaps your next project could be apatch link for this? Ed> One of the realbenefits from this modification is when itcomes to playing in two player mode.Normally this means one player using ajoystick while the other operates thekeyboard. By connecting up your Kempston,and having your inbuilt IF2, both playerscan sit back and be on equal terms. Thisgives a whole new lease of life to gameslike "The way of the Exploding Fist" and"Bruce Lee".
1 Antony Purvis.
1 Antony Purvis
1 Another subject of interest, was Mike MeesCD-ROM of speccy games for PCs, maybe he'dbe interested in that Advanced lawnmowersimulator adventure
1 Another poor soul tried to intervene andsolve the problem. This time, MilesKinloch.\
1 Another point about the EXT MODE controlkeys that I mentioned earlier: some ofthem can be replicated with GRAPH followedby non-graphic letters. From memory, V andW move to the top and bottom of yourprogram, X and Y move to the ends of thecurrent line and Z plonks you in theutterly useless Small Screen mode, alsolosing any line you were in the middle oftyping in!
1 Another ex-member said:
1 Another thing about travelling throughtime is displacements of things. How doyou know that you aren't going to traveland re-materialise inside a car or a tree?
1 Another mixed reaction. Spectrum usershave said that AlchNews should keep it'sname. After all, it's now something of abrand name and a name most can immediatelyrecognise.
1 Another interesting solution about aworking harddisk came from Dirk Berghoeferwho connected a Commodore harddisk (CMDfrom the United States) per LogitekInterface with the Spectrum.
1 Andy, in the TRADING POST section of AN15,you've listed my name and address under'SMALLS' - how dare you, I'll have youknow that I'm quite well endowed, thankyou very much. <It was referring to yourbrain. Ed>
1 Andy was going to give me a slating forgoing off the rails a bit last issue andwas going to tell me to keep to theSpectrum, but it's since been discoveredthat most of you are in favour of more"unexplained" types of articles appearing,so changes are being made and some newareas will be introduced, so yah boo toyou editor!
1 Andy has a program called RS232_XL in thelibrary. This is an excellent piece ofsoftware if you want to have a play withwith the RS232 port on your Spectrum. Thisparticular version of the program willcope with all models of the Spectrum.
1 Andy Davis Bsc
1 Andrew Parish
1 And luckily enough, it is on one of thecompilation tapes which came with thepackaging when you bought a new Spectrum,so many of you will already have it tohand.
1 And if you've noticed, anything not taggedReopened, early years etc. is alwaysbilled as a NEW SERIES or my personalfavorite, 'A BRAND NEW/ALL NEW EPISODE OFHIGHLANDER, ROBOCOP, X FILES etc, ONLY ONSKY'.
1 And Lothar Ebelshaeuser, Grasegger Str.49, D-50737 Koeln (yeah, Cologne has themost questions! Or problems?) asked for agood public domain program, which shouldhelp him to transfer tapefiles tomicrodrive in an easy to handle way. Alltpyed in programs from magazines don'twork good or in a correct way he says andwould be very pleased for help. By the waythe WoMo-Team (that weself) has alsoalways an open eye for good microdrivepublic domain programs. In our not sosmall PD we have a lot for Opus, Plus D or+3, but the Microdrive section is not wellrepresented.
1 And I don't want to hear from any softwarethieves who Sher-Wood like to steal my PD(!), nor any representatives of a companynamed after a
1 And not to be outdone, QUANTUM LEAP(already on video) is being re-screened onBBC2 AND SKY as well!, Oh boy!. <I likethat new series, QUANTUM SHEEP, whereLarry the Lamb travels through time andhis catchphrase is 'Oh Baaah'! Ed>
1 And don't ask me how they did the"Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons" loaderwith only ten characters!!!o
1 An idea from Dirk Berghoefer, Am Kalkrain1, D-34549 Edertal Giflitz we will givefurther for discussion: If it is possibleto run CP/M programs on a Spectrum +3, whyshouldn't it be possible to run them onthe other 128K Spectrums (maybe with anadditional ROM)? If someone has someideas, tips or a real solution or onlyinterest in this, then contact Dirk.
1 An Erase line
1 Amy Pandagirl
1 Americancorporations out for a quick buck, likeM*cr*s*ft (who can it be?!).N
1 Although very promising, the sound chipproved rather limiting. In it's basic formit was extremely difficult to use it tosynthesize different instruments easily. A"piano" sound happened to be very muchlike a xlylophone!
1 Although the program is in Basic and theconditions in line 120 slow it down alittle, it's a fine little program whichsaves you hours of work at the keyboardand is typical of simple but ingenious PDprograms around. Still think Spectrum PDshould not be encouraged Mr Brenchley ofINDUG?
1 Although the drawing is still drawing isstill done in BASIC the actual piece ofprogram to move a particular picture inthe memory will be a short machine-coderoutine. This transfers an entire screenof information faster than the eye can see- the essence of animation.
1 Although this may not be an idealinvestment for everyone, if you use aprinter a bit more than the occasionalletter writing, it's certainly for you.The device caters for virtually anyribbon, even the long Epson ones, of anywidth and length. There is also an optionavailable for colour ribbons which may beour next investment.
1 Although primarilly aimed at Appletextfiles, it is appropriate for any filewhich is written entirely in capitals.Also, by using the advice elsewhere inthis issue, it's perfectly possible toconvert any other format.
1 Also, perhaps he could highlight any falsearticles in these issues. It is mostinteresting that he refuses to print ouraddress or an apology for dozens of errorsmade, including the questions featured inAlchNews 15. Mr Sherwood is more thanwelcome to an apology for any statementswhich are found to be untrue. But, beforehe dictates the terms, he should explainhis own untruths which he has constantlyignored, and failed to apologise for,hence their publishing in AlchNews.
1 Also, at one point, we were consideringquitting The United Minds, and somehow,M.Sherwood got hold of this information,(I dont know how!) and, as Dok said,printed in PD.Power that we were leaving!Not 'considering' leaving, but actuallySPLITTING UP! And that he would do what hecould to stop us from leaving. Might Ijust say that this is utter rubbish!! Thereason we were even considring leaving wasbecause of M.Sherwood in the first place!
1 Also, after receiving a mass$
1 Almost immediately, ever faithful Womo andthe other reliable groups responded givingfull support but typically, Prism,Spectrum UK, and INDUG ignored the projectaltogether. The fact that these groupscome from the birthplace of the Spectrumand that groups from other countries aremore willing to help is absolutelypathetic. It just goes to show where theirpriorities lie - with their backs to thewall thinking only of themselves.
1 Allo, all of you little fishes. The superspectrum, as she is called by all youenglisher people was just an , how yousay, "April fool"!. The clue was in thecompany name "poissons d'avril", becausein France we have no such thing as aprilfool, instead it is april fish, as near asI can translate. We try to stick largecomedy fish on each other's back on the1st of april instead.
1 Allie Weston
1 All you need to remember is the lineswhich control what the program does mustalways conform to the interpretersstringent rules - that does not say thereare not ways and means to confuse ushumans when we inspect these lines!
1 All versions come with a double heightprinter routine in high Basic, butdisabled for speed.g
1 All right all right, I give in!! A whileago, I wrote to Andy telling him of themodifications I've done to my +3 so thatit uses an Amiga external drive, and thefact that my Multiface 3 is now built in.
1 All points listed above have their proofsources and / or definitions below:M
1 All of this has got me thinking (you meanyou can actually do that? - bored reader)S
1 All lights should be off. This is becausethe address, OUT 49149 is zero.I
1 All input on this and the forthcomingmanuals projects are most welcome andcontributors will be generously rewarded!}
1 All EVEN numbered pins
1 All types of animation rely on aphenomenon of perspective known aspersistence of vision. In effect, thismeans that an image which we see is "held"in memory for an appreciable instant, evenafter the view is changed to somethingelse. If a sequence of still images isshown rapidly, the brain cannot keep upwith changes of picture occuring more thantwelve or so times a second. As a result,it ceases to see seperate images - thepictures blur into one another, and thebrain is fooled into seeing movement.
1 All numbers in a basic line, unlessthey are contained with quotes, have ahidden five byte number form immediatelyfollowing them - actually there are six ifyou take into account the OE byte whichtells the interpreter the next five bytesare a number form.
1 Alf Fairweather
1 Alec Carswell
1 Alchenews to all and sundry
1 AlchemistResearch and The United Minds decided tocease links with Prism.J
1 Alchemist Software has a growing number ofNON PUBLIC DOMAIN titles, all for theprice of media and postage. We have thechilling 128k adventure DOOMSDAY, manyutilities from the 007 series, plus titlesfrom BRADWAY SOFTWARE and our newexclusive in-house
1 Alchemist Research will not change in anyway but it is proposed that AlchNews runsthe features from the UC&US magazine andessentially turn it into a Spectrum andSam magazine, with Ferry being Sam editor.At present, AlchNews has no provision forthe SAM due to minimal readership andwriters on that machine. Ferry will solveboth parts of this problem.
1 Alchemist Research has offered the olivebranch on several occasions and statedthat this embarassing position need not beaired publicly, but they continue toignore or send back letters. The latestone was the information sheet about thelink up with UC&US and also the groupcollaboration to produce a Spectrum 128technical manual (see later). The envelopewas opened, material read and resealed andreturned with "NO MORE MAIL FROM YOU THANKYOU" written on the top!
1 Alchemist Research continues to welcomeex-readers and contrubutors from thismagazine which once showed potential, butnow shows failure.
1 Alchemist Research
1 AlchNews is more than happy to publish anycomplaints or letters from any member ofPrism PD. We could then add our replyafter it and point out further errors suchas these. Then why don't we? Simplybecause of six little words on the top ofthe letters we and many others haverecieved: "(C) NOT FOR PRINT
1 AlchNews 128k:
1 Ah, well, this is the big question really.First, a bit of theory about fonts in RAM.The Speccy standard font is built into theROM, making it unchangeable. What you haveto do to get another font is to make theSpeccy look somewhere else for itscharacter set - somewhere in RAM! (Theplot thickens!).
1 Ah, speaking of The Terminator, how aboutrather than creating a song, what aboutyourself? Go back in time, have a briefencounter with a lady who turns out to beyour mother or grandmother without yourknowledge. You've then, in effect, createdyourself and are stuck in a continual loopcreating yourself ad infinatum.
1 Ages and ages ago, before the demise ofthe "popular" Spectrum press, there wasthis bloke who seemed to always have someprogram or other on the cover tapes. Thatman was Theo Devil, widely recognised asTHE best coder to come from Greece.
1 After this, add a colon (:). Now type inthe symbol or statement you want to bedisplayed. If you want it to execute whenthe key is pressed, add an "@" at the endof it. Otherwise when you press a key, itwill upload your command into the inputarea and just wait for you to press ENTER.
1 After speaking to Darren Randle, he tellsme that Mr Sherwood hasn't spoken to himsince his telephone number was passed on.It just goes to show that HE doesn't likebeing placed on the spot, yet he's willingto do the same to others.
1 After removing the crosshead screws, adecision has to be made whether you wantto remove the keyboard from the circuitboard, or try to keep both parts togetherwhile soldering.
1 After one member of our group sent Martyna very agressive letter which was, to bequite honest, rather insulting, I clearedthe air with Martyn, and said that wewould send him our first couple of demos,and after I mentioned that we werepossibly going to do a Christmas demo andthat we would think about letting him do apart for it, he put an article in P.D.Power that we were now doing an exclusivedemo for him, now, although it would neverhave been an exclusive demo for him, hadwe done it, it would have more thanprobable that no-one elso would havedistributed it!
1 After inking you must wait a few hours forthe ink to spread to cover the ribbon.This I did and when I tried it the ribbonwas only half inked and quality wasextremely poor.
1 After all, you based an article in thevery first issue based entirely on anotherletter of mine, but you didn't give me anycredit for it. What on earth did you knowof the activities of Daniel Garner beforeyou read my letter on the subject.
1 After a few years, the active end user mayfind that his cumulative cost of theribbons will often surpass the originalcost of the printer. The future trend willbe towards improved ribbon life throughre-inking devices.
1 After Mr Sherwood was told The UnitedMinds were breaking off their support forPrism PD, he tried to hide this fact fromhis customers by LYING again. He printedan A4 information sheet called "PD FACTS -FEBRUARY 1995" (which actually containedNINE CLEAR LIES!) which said:
1 After contacting Chris Taylor of TheKnights, it was revealed that Andy hadbeen perfectly right to criticise theservice by Prism, and That Mr Sherwood hadbeen extremely unreasonable by refusing tocomply with Chris' request that he stoppeddistributing any demos made by him.
1 Advances the current register
1 Advances the current memory
1 Address on page 1
1 Address changing shortly - contact A.R. Fountain PD is run by Dave Fountain ofSinclair Classic. Although we supply theirprograms, you can also get them directfrom him on tape or 3" disk.
1 Adapting the +3 to accept a standard Amigadrive isn't all that difficult either, butyou will need an additional power supplyfor the drive.
1 Abiding by my rules laid down in AN15 Itold Miles that I welcomed his braveattempt and commented no further. Mileswrote to Prism a few more times trying tomake arangements but he seemed to beblocked at every opportunity. It appearedthat Mr Sherwood would do anything to getout of a truce, and also denying that someproblems Miles encountered in the pastnever existed!
1 Abandon change at this instance, characteis not a letter of the alphabet.J
1 AY-wise, white noise is used for thecreation of drum effects, explosions andeven trains!`
1 AUTO and DELETE
1 AUGUST 93"
1 ATT and ALT control whether the volumeattacks or decays. Envelopes only controlthe VOLUME of a sound, not the pitch.While this is limiting, it is not a majorobstacle to producing pleasing results.
1 AT b,b;"";: LOAD D1;S$SCREEN$ : FOR%
1 ARE YOU???
1 ANDREW MARSHALL has the following forsale:/
1 AND THE EFFECTS ON RIBBON
1 AND PRINT HEAD LIFE
1 AN16.D
1 AN16.C
1 AN16.9: GROUNDS FOR AN APOLOGY. Miles*
1 AN16.9
1 AN16.8: A WASTED OPPORTUNITY. How Prism*
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1 AN16.7: CALL ME A LIAR? Complaint about*
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1 AN16.6: PRISM PROBLEMS. A bumper issue,*
1 AN16.63: THE END. The credits list is now*
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1 AN16.62
1 AN16.61: TRADING POST.
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1 AN16.60: CLIPART EXAMPLES. Some of the*
1 AN16.60
1 AN16.6 J*
1 AN16.5: HARD TIMES. "Hey You" device*
1 AN16.59: PD WORLD. A look at the Clipart*
1 AN16.59
1 AN16.58: ROY'S ROASTINGS? Bet you're*
1 AN16.58 v
1 AN16.57: +3 PLETHORA. What you've all been*
1 AN16.57 ^
1 AN16.56: DEMON HACKERS +3 DOS EFFORT.*
1 AN16.56 $
1 AN16.55: RS232 BOO HOO. Revised musings on*
1 AN16.55
1 AN16.54: MICRODRIVE MICROGUIDE. Much in*
1 AN16.54
1 AN16.53: ODD GAMES? Paul Howard. A look at*
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1 AN16.52
1 AN16.51: HACKERS CORNER. Graham Collier, aAN16.52: new name to Alchemist ResearchT
1 AN16.51
1 AN16.50: MOBILE MADNESS. A look at mobile*
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1 AN16.5
1 AN16.4: COLLABORATION PROJECT. A plan to*
1 AN16.49 SCREEN SCENE.
1 AN16.49
1 AN16.48
1 AN16.47: BASIC TIPS. Lots of help andAN16.48: advice9
1 AN16.47
1 AN16.46: MUSIC MAESTRO. Phil Glaves on*
1 AN16.46
1 AN16.45: ZEN AND THE ART OF NOISE. The*
1 AN16.45
1 AN16.44: ALLS FAIR? A report on the All*
1 AN16.44
1 AN16.43: TIME TRAVEL. Des asked for this*
1 AN16.43 J
1 AN16.42: WOMO WORLD: A look at the SPC*
1 AN16.42 j
1 AN16.41: THE RANT FILES by Roy "Spooky"*
1 AN16.41
1 AN16.40
1 AN16.4
1 AN16.3: FUNNY FILENAMES. Paul Howard*
1 AN16.39: BENS BITS. Dangerously gettingAN16.40: more like ROY'S RANTINGS everyT
1 AN16.39 P
1 AN16.38: USING MORSE CODE. Machine code*
1 AN16.38
1 AN16.37: NOISE SUPPRESSION. A!
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1 AN16.35: PAGED GRAPHICS. A comprehensiveAN16.36: look at graphics techniquesT
1 AN16.35
1 AN16.34: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO*
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1 AN16.33: CRACK CITY. Six months in the*
1 AN16.33
1 AN16.32: APD TUTORIALS. A look at an*
1 AN16.32
1 AN16.31: APD TUTORIALS. Brief look at the*
1 AN16.31 4
1 AN16.30: WHAT AMSTRAD DIDN'T TELL YOU.*
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1 AN16.3
1 AN16.2: ALL CHANGE. Alchemist Research*
1 AN16.29 q
1 AN16.28: TAKE IT TO THE MAX. An articleAN16.29: about re-inkingD
1 AN16.28
1 AN16.27: ON TRIAL. No, it's not Brookside.*
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1 AN16.26: TO CAP IT ALL. Converting Tasword*
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1 AN16.25: STAR USERS CLUB.
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1 AN16.24 3
1 AN16.23: MEGABASIC MEGA TUTORIAL. TheAN16.24: final two partsF
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1 AN16.22: DESERT ISLAND SPECS. This issue:*
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1 AN16.21: EXAMPLES. Guide to converting the*
1 AN16.21
1 AN16.20: POWER TO THE PRINT? Vic Bishop*
1 AN16.20
1 AN16.2
1 AN16.1: NEWS. Spectrum guys do good)
1 AN16.19: THE STATE OF THE WORLD TODAY.*
1 AN16.19
1 AN16.18: TASTUTOR. A guide to#
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1 AN16.17: THE DOX's FILES? Dok of the*
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1 AN16.16: PLUS D DOS DO'S AND DON'TS. A*
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1 AN16.15: MARKET FORCES. A quick look at*
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1 AN16.10: YOU CAN'T WRIGGLE OUT OF THISAN16.11: ONE! More proof about MartynT
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1 AN16.0: This file.
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1 AN OPEN LETTER TO MARTYN SHERWOOD OF PRISMPD & PD POWER WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS ONDISTRIBUTION OR READERSHIP FROM N.R.A.CATTELL, 105 HAWBUSH ROAD, WALSALL, WESTMIDLANDS, WS3 1AE DATED 28 FEB 1995.
1 ALthough he is giving them a taste of thefuture, whos to say that HE didn'tinfluence other songwriters to write thesongs which eventually DO become classics!
1 ALCHNEWS16
1 ALCHEMIST SOFTWARE
1 ALCHEMIST RESEARCH - Still supporting theSpectrum with an excellent friendlyservice and loads of PDs
1 ALCHEMIST PD
1 ALCHEMIST RESEARCH has the followingdouble sized card boxed programs for sale:T
1 ALBHAR PC SHAREWARE
1 ADULT SCREENS AS PER DECISION IN
1 ADDITIONAL information on PRINTING ANDEXTRA-CHARACTER SETS from POWERPRINT II. Aprogram by Roy Butterfield.o
1 ACTING IMMATURELY. I don't think I evenneed comment on this one!C
1 ABUSING PROGRAMS. Chris Taylor deniedPrism PD permission to distribute his PDDemos. Prism did not comply, claiming theyhad a perfect right, as they were PD.Never mind the legality, though, whatabout the ETHICS? Unwritten protocoldictates that any reputable library simplywouldn't engage in this sort of activity.End of story.
1 A:NEXT N:GOTO A
1 A4catalogue of these wares availableshortly.4
1 A4 booklet of this tutorial available fromAlchemist Research. Send SAE & 20pL
1 A) Illegal software
1 A) Ill addressing of letters. He knows myname, so why did he print "To whom it mayconcern" on the envelope one occasion?z
1 A) AlchNews, all programs by C. Taylor,programs by Theo Develegas listed earlier.T
1 A) Typed it in and not tested it,therefore not testing the software helists.Z
1 A) He is completely guilty of allaccusations in AN11-15@
1 A write protect line
1 A word of caution now for Betados users:there are many programs which, althoughperfectly safe once the DOS bugs have beencured, can cause nasty effects if usedwith an 'unfixed' Betados. Do please makesure, therefore, your DOS is debuggedbefore using any of the following:-DISC-KIT, +D CONVERTED TASWORD 128 (AND+2), HACKERS WORKBENCH, PROFILE, +DCONVERTED ART STUDIO, BETTER- BYTES'SOFTWARE. There could well be more to addto this list - these are just the ones Iknow about!
1 A week before the deadline, Andy sends mea rather large book full of info! I canimagine him sat there at his dest laughinghis head off as I frantically read throughthe book and then type this article! ThatAndy eh?
1 A tricky subject as there are hundreds tochoose from. Some look downright cheap,tacky and like toys whereas others lookfirst rate. As there are so many, thechoice is down to you. Many perform thesame features but have different looks.
1 A suitable hole must be made into thelower casing for the joystick socket. Anideal position would be at the oppositeend from the reset switch. Once the socketis connected, it and the circuit board canbe lowered into the case. (Remembering toremove the foam if fitted). The joysticksocket is normally retained by two smallscrews (remember to fit these beforeclosing the lid). When finished, all thatremains is to test it.
1 A slap in the face indeed to any customerreading that, such as myself, who knew itwas only too true! Martyn Sherwood evenadmitted this himself at a later date,explaining the problems had been causedthrough a number of difficulties Prismwere experiencing at the time, which werebeyond their control.
1 A similar thing was done in the film "Backto the Future". Michael J. Fox madechanges in the pastm
1 A series on Computer Music
1 A regular guide to 2nd hand equipment%
1 A read/write line
1 A long established company in the Spectrumfield, also catering for the SAM. Lots ofuseful bits are available for theSpectrum, including leads and hardware. BGServices is also the official distributorof the Z80 Spectrum emulator for the PC.
1 A great deal of the input will come fromrevised articles previously covered inAlchNews and programs from APD, but willbe in one handy document.
1 A couple of months ago, Kevin got in touchto tell me his plans for a speechrecognition unit for the Spectrum. One wasmade in the early 80's called "BIG EARS"and allowed you to speak instructions intothe computer, rather than pressing keys!
1 A brief intro to Mobile Phones
1 A Compendium of lies to third parties%
1 A BREAK AT LAST!
1 A simple kind of multi-tasking isavailable. The 'MTASK_' command allows theprogram to be run from two separate placesat once. The first continues after the'MTASK_' command and the second starts atthe line specified by a single numericexpression following 'MTASK_'. If thevalue is zero, then the command isdisabled.
1 A few televisions also generate anappreciable amount of noise. You caneasily check this by switching it off andlistening for any improvement. The onlyeasy cure for this is to use another TVwhich is noise free.
1 A staticdischarge will DESTROY the multiface, sotake precautions.E
1 A number of printer
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1 <The main root of the problem also evolvesfrom when Roy Benson wrote some complaintsabout Prism in AlchNews 10. Mr Sherwoodresponded with a cocky letter withoutchecking his facts. The letter and replieswere placed in the subsequent issue whichleft him looking somewhat of a fool. Henever apologised for making these wrongassumptions, nor for any other mistakes hehas made. Ed.>
1 <Sher-wood? My God, another Roy Benson!Ed.>.
1 <Or a QL / SAM (Delete as appropriate)&
1 <If you'd like to be featured with yourfavourite five, simply jot them down andsend them to the usual address.>t
1 <I do! It's quite easy. The values in23606/7 tell the computer the address ofthe font. You can work this out bymultiplying the value in PEEK 23607 by 256and then adding the value in PEEK 23606.Now add 256 to the sum and there you haveit.
1 <He actually wrote out THE ENTIRE LETTERand it just needed Doc & Orson to sign itand send it to me! Letter is elsewhere inthis issue
1 <Because it has RAM 7 in area 49152-65535for the 128k editor scratchpad. Ed>M
1 <Altering the chosen key to it's ASCIIequivalent is also faster. Eg: 20 IFj$=CHR$ 48 THEN. Using CODE is also fasterstill. Ed>
1 <Additional note regarding
1 <Actually, Alchemist PD would have carriedthe demo with a non-agressive part by MrSherwood. Alchemist PD has also carriedissues of SINCLAIR CLASSIC which featurePrism adverts. These issues also featureAlchemist Research adverts but Mr Sherwoodtried to get them removed. Ed.>
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1 <<<I WILL ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANINJURY OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY PEOPLE DOINWHAT I AM ABOUT TO EXPLAIN>>> <Neither wilI. Ed>
1 ;"Next, Prev, Index or Choose:"
1 ;"M to change Music (+D)":
1 ;"LOADING PART ";CNT
1 ; load A with the flag byte
1 ; Try again if load error
1 ; Try again if an error
1 ; Return to basic or the
1 ; LOAD A with the flag byte-
1 : One year +
1 999 POKE 23606,0 : POKE 23607,60 : STOP'
1 9866 TM LUTJEGAST
1 98 LOAD "MORSE.C"CODE 49800,200
1 97 POKE 23658,8
1 96 CLEAR 49799
1 9012CM RAERD
1 90 PRINT AT 21,0;"any key when ready":)
1 90 POKE 23388,24: REM Show second screen 100 PAUSE 04
1 9 pages, last issue?, maybe you should&
1 9 West View
1 840 INPUT ;: PRINT #a; AT b,b; INVERSE)
1 830 SAVE D1; i$ SCREEN$ : GO TO s"
1 80 PAUSE 0
1 80 GOSUB 270: LET dest=dest+16
1 8 POKE 49871,INT (315/32/W)
1 8 End of File, 0:1
1 7D1D 30F0
1 7D1A CD5605 ; Call 'load bytes'!
1 7D17 ED5B0B7E; Load DE with the number of*
1 7D17 3EFF
1 7D13 DD21CB9C; Load IX with the address(
1 7D0D 30F1
1 7D0A CD5605 ; Call 'load bytes' in the(
1 7D07 3E00
1 7D00 DD21CB9C; Load IX with an address to*
1 78 Holtdale Avenue
1 70794 Filderstadt
1 70794 FILDERSTADT
1 70 POKE 23388,16: REM Show main screen&
1 70 PLOT 108,106: DRAW 40,0: PLOT 113,106:)
1 70 IF PEEK x>64 AND PEEK x<128 THEN#
1 7,5,15,22,27,10,8,3,12,24,14,@5,29,19 290 LET N=482
1 7 Manor Drive
1 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1 65 St Thomas' Square
1 64 Roebuck Road
1 60*256 =15360
1 60 REM FLIP
1 60 Queensfield
1 60 PRINT "23607:";b
1 60 FOR x=32000 to (32000+l)
1 60 CIRCLE 128,168,7: PLOT 128,161:DRAW 0,)
1 6 Ravensmead
1 6 POKE 49870, INT((315/32/W-INT
1 5: The paper properties (porosity, ink absorption)8
1 5: Input bit 5
1 59875 The statement within the line where*
1 59862 The code of the error that's*
1 51069 KOLN
1 510 PRINT "READY TO BACKUP THIS PROGRAM" 520 SAVE "CODE.BAS"=
1 500 SAVE "MORSE.C"CODE 49800,200
1 50 PRINT "23606:";l
1 50 LOAD a$ CODE 32000
1 50 LOAD "screen1" SCREEN$: REM main#
1 50 3.5" DSDD disks - `8
1 5 lines that are unused, all grounded.&
1 5 Various art packages
1 4E2346B928032318F7CB28C52828
1 4: The ink properties
1 4: Output bit 1
1 490 PRINT "READY TO SAVE MC"
1 48kadventures, plus many compilations. Printand presentation quality of this companyis outstanding, which reflects the highstandard it's software is. The CP/Mcatalogue is just as impressive, goinginto greater detail of each adventure!
1 46 High Road West
1 40 SAVE d1"+SYS 2a"CODE 8192,6656!
1 40 POKE 23388,16: REM 16 (ROM) +0 (RAM)'
1 40 LOAD "screen2" CODE 49152:
1 40 LET srce=64: LET dest=208
1 40 LET b=h-1
1 40 INPUT "Length of file ";l
1 4. It appears that he wants me to say thatthe information in the PRISM PROBLEMS inAlchNews 10-14d
1 4. According to Martyn, all you have to dois state quite clearly that over the last12 months, you were misled by wronginformation, and that you apologise toPrism PD for printing inaccurate articles.Then print his address stating that PrismPD is trustworthy and that both you andMartyn have spoken and cleared the air.
1 4 INPUT "WORDS PER MIN? ";W
1 4 Bethune Close
1 4 Assembly rooms, Harrogate
1 3: The ribbon properties (ink absorption, affinity)6
1 3: Input bit 4
1 39 High Street
1 37 Trimingham Drive
1 36 Grasmere Road
1 34680 ST GEORGES
1 330 DATA 44,115,46,85,63,76,56,120"
1 32768-49151respectively), they can also be paged intothe top 16K, if desired - though why onemight wish to do so, is another matter!(Has anyone found a use for this?) Anyway,that leaves us with pages 1,3,4,6 and partof page 7 at our disposal : the 128 BASICEditor uses areas of RAM 7 itself forvarious purposes, so not all of that pageis actually free.
1 325 READ B:POKE A,B:NEXT A
1 320 FOR A=49992 TO 3
1 31st July-6th August 1995
1 310 READ B:POKE A,B:NEXT A
1 302CDB503018011B0B79B020FBC118D8"!
1 300 RETURN
1 300 POKE A,N:LET N=N+1: NEXT A
1 30 Woodside Hall, Glasgow
1 30 RANDOMIZE USR 49800
1 30 POKE @4091,1797
1 30 POKE 23388,23: REM Page RAM 7
1 30 LET l=(a-(h*256))
1 30 INPUT "Enter Filename ";LINE a$"
1 30 IF J$="2" THEN ...
1 30 GOSUB 220
1 30 DATA 33,0,61,17,39,236,1,0,3,
1 30 DATA 100,200,300,400,500
1 30 ( Rest of program )
1 3. You have come very close in the past tobeing taken to court by Martyn, and if youcontinue, YOU WILL be taken to court,involving the rest of us due to your lies.We don't want this, nor does Martyn, hewill eventually lose patience - and whocould blame him.
1 3. Does your equipment need initialisingfor Hi-Res copy and /or LPRINT?. If youcan normally set your equipment up ONCE asdescribed in the earlier paragraph, andthen do repeated Hi-Res, COPY and LPRINTcommands, then answer 'no' to thisquestion.
1 3. Court threats don't mean anythingunless you can provide positive proof. Ihave had no letters from solicitorsconnected with Mr Sherwood, nor withSpectrum UK. If you're going to bluffpeople, you must be prepared to have yourbluff called.
1 3) SHUT YOUR MOUTH.
1 3) Re-scan the textfile. Change the initial letter of a word at the start of a new sentence to a capital.v
1 3) Filename should now have the ".HED" suffix.4
1 3" and 3.5" drive cleaners - `2
1 3 6 B u d g e s R o a d
1 2: The contact time of ribbon and paper'
1 2: Output bit 0
1 298 Holton Road
1 295 FOR A=49972 TO 49990 STEP 2
1 290 RANDOMIZE USR 53231
1 29 Northumbria Centre, Washington!
1 29 Barber Street
1 285 DATA 6,17,21,9,2,20,11,16,4,30,13,18,)
1 280 READ B:POKE A,N:NEXT A
1 280 POKE 53239,srce
1 28 PAUSE 0:CLS
1 27:97:79721
1 275 FOR A=49921 TO 49971 STEP 2
1 270 POKE A,N:LET N=N+1:NEXT A
1 270 POKE 53236,dest
1 27 The Millpond
1 265 FOR A=49920 TO 49970 STEP 2
1 260 RETURN
1 260 LET N=65
1 26 Spotland Tops
1 26 PRINT "PRESS A KEY TO TRANSMIT"$
1 250 NEXT i
1 250 DATA "C50603180206011100511B7BB220FB1)
1 25 Tolworth Rec Centre, Surbiton
1 240 READ byte: POKE i,byte
1 240 DATA "11A000215302CDB5031809113500215)
1 24 Tolworth Rec. Centre, Surbiton!
1 24 LET A$=(B$+CHR$ 255)
1 23:5705/06/22):"
1 235 DATA "F5F53E02CD0116F1D7F1FE202837210)
1 230 DATA "DDE5DD2A4B5CDD7E06DDE5CB7F200DC)
1 23 Statonbury Centre, Milton Keynes#
1 23 Nat. Motorcycle Museum, J6 M42!
1 23 Cleveland
1 220 NEXT C:NEXT L
1 220 DATA 1,0,16,17,0,0,33,0,0,237,176,201 230 FOR i=53231 TO 53231+11E
1 22 Haydock Park Racecourse
1 218 LET A=A+1
1 216 POKE A,16*X+Y
1 214 LET Y=CODE D$(C+1)-48-7*(D$(C+1)$
1 212 LET X=CODE D$(C)-48-7*(D$(C)>="A")&
1 210 GOTO 150
1 210 FOR C=1 TO LEN D$ STEP 2
1 205 Glenesk Road
1 204 FOR L=1 TO 4: READ D$
1 2010 If i$="L" THEN LET m$=" LOAD*
1 2000 IF i$="S" THEN LET m$=" SAVE*
1 200 NEXT n
1 200 CLEAR 49799: LET A=49800
1 20 THE PRE-LPRINT INSTRUCTION NEEDED BY YOUR EQUIPMENT.<
1 20 RESTORE 30:FOR N=1 TO VAL J$:READ$
1 20 REM (C) 1995 Andy Davis
1 20 POKE @4060,1797
1 20 POKE 23388,23: REM 16 (ROM) +7 (RAM) 30 LOAD "screen" CODE 49152E
1 20 PAUSE 0
1 20 NEXT N : RANDOMIZE USR 60094
1 20 LET h= INT (a/256)
1 20 IF J$="1" THEN ...
1 20 IF INT (A/6)=A/6 THEN LET B$(A)=CHR$ 3221 NEXT A3
1 20 GOTO 10
1 20 CLEAR 53230
1 20 CLEAR 49151
1 2. It is an utter swine to fit, because ithas about two hundred legs around theoutside, and the legs are about a quarterof a millimetre apart.
1 2. His claim that I will be repsonsiblefor destroying the Spectrum market isridiculous. The only section of the marketin danger of being destroyed is the tinyminority ruled by Prism PD. If this isdestroyed, this would be no great loss andwould probably BENEFIT the market!
1 2. Enough is enough. Your antics have goneon for a year, and it just cannotcontinue, or you will be responsible fordestroying what remains of the Spectrummarket.
1 2. Does your equipment use a RANDOMISE USR*
1 2) When they have the whales, how can theyexpect to re-populate the species with afamily of three - father, mother andchild? For a successful re-population,they would need a large number of whalesfor a wide gene pool.
1 2) There could be the possibility of apaper issue. UC&US was a paper magazineand if Ferry has the time and resources toconstruct a paper magazine, AlchNews couldbe available on paper or magnetic media.
1 2) Stefan Ballerstaller is an ex-customerof Prism. He, like so many others, told meabout the problems he experienced withpoor and expensive software. Stefan alsoinformed me that Amanda felt the same wayand that she was, I quote, "on your side".
1 2) Size. AlchNews is already growing to analmost uncontrollable size. Although wehave some free space on disks and tapes,it's not sure how long it will last. Ifthe finished magazine size goes beyond710k or a C90 cassette tape we may have toconsider capping it at that level.
1 2) He returned to a reality he didn'tknow. Since he wasn't constant to thisreality he disappeared (in a puff oflogic?).
1 2) Convert the file with the command:%
1 2) Convert ALL characters to lower case'
1 2) Continue lying and be exposed at every turn,2
1 2 nominal ground.
1 2 didirectional data lines
1 2 control lines
1 2 North Hill Road
1 2 Microdrive units
1 2 Joysticks
1 2 Cromwell Close
1 2 = Character array
1 2 "Twin" joystick / mouse interface#
1 1: The strike pressure of the print head needles4
1 1: Earth 0v
1 1995 A.Davis & Alch. Research
1 199 REM 34/04/05/90/05/95/TJ
1 190 GOSUB 270 : LET srce=srce+16
1 19. (F)ILL n - - -
1 19 Lyme Avenue
1 19 LET B$(A)=CHR$ (N)
1 18. (R)IGHTSHIFT/(D)OWNSHIFT
1 18 Woodside Hall, Glasgow
1 18 Tivoli Crescent
1 18 Clyde Grange
1 170 FOR n=0 TO 1
1 17 Northumria centre, Washington
1 17 Le Mas Blanc
1 17 LET N=65+(RND*25)
1 17 Haydock Park Racecourse
1 160 PRINT AT 17,0;"press any key to)
1 16 Tolworth Rec Centre, Surbiton
1 151 Balsusney Road
1 150 LET srce=208: LET dest=64
1 15. (R)IGHTSHIFT/(D)OWNSHIFT
1 15 FOR A=1 TO 36
1 140 PRINT AT 21,0;"any key when ready":*
1 14 POKE 49909,INT (1100/W)
1 14 De Verose Court
1 130 NEXT x
1 130 GOSUB 270
1 13. (P)RINT P - - -
1 128K Music:
1 126,203,47,182,18,19,35,11,
1 120,177,32,244,33,39,235,34,54,92,201%
1 120 PRINT AT 6,4;"!!BOING!!"
1 120 IF PEEK x=46 AND PEEK (x+1)=32 AND&
1 12. (F)ILL 1o - - -
1 12 blank MD cartridges
1 12 POKE 49891,INT (560/W)
1 12 Frederick Street
1 110 PLOT 108,106: DRAW 15,-4: DRAW 10,0:*
1 110 IF A$<>"YES" THEN GOTO 500
1 110 GO TO 70
1 110 FOR x=32000 TO (32000+l)
1 110 ( Routine for A$<>"YES" goes here )'
1 11 NAC Showground, Stoneleigh
1 100 capacity 3.5" disk boxes - `2.50$
1 100 CLS: CIRCLE 128,141,7: PLOT 128,134:*
1 100 BEEP .5,1
1 10,-10: PLOT 118,161: DRAW 11,-5: DRAW&
1 10 University, Bristol
1 10 THE PRE COPY INSTRUCTION NEEDED BY YOUR EQUIPMENT.7
1 10 RESTORE 30 : FOR N = 60094 TO 60121:)
1 10 REM Tasword converter
1 10 REM INSTALL
1 10 POKE 49881,INT (840/W)
1 10 POKE 23388,24: REM 16 (ROM)
1 10 LOAD d1"+SYS 2a" CODE 8192
1 10 INPUT "Address: ";a
1 10 IF INKEY$="" THEN GOTO 10
1 10 IF INKEY$<>"" THEN GOTO 30
1 10 IF AB>-C THEN STOP
1 10 IF AB>+2 THEN...
1 10 IF A>B+2 THEN...
1 10 IF A>(B+2) THEN...
1 10 IF A > B - C THEN STOP
1 10 CLEAR 49151: REM Move stack
1 10 CLEAR 30664: LOAD *"m";1;"m" CODE:%
1 10 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7:CLS
1 1. We know that you are lying. Martynknows you are lying - and the otherstatements about insulting United Mindsand
1 1. The insults to the United Minds andbegging for software has been proven. Thishas also been seen in other areas, such asthe false propaganda in PD POWER about TheUnited Minds working only with Prism andhow Mr Sherwood stopped them from splittinup. Mr Sherwood has also approached otherprogrammers begging for software.
1 1. How many screen lines does yourequipment copy?. Examples: LPRINT III andKempston E both copy all 24 lines.v
1 1) Why go back to the late 20th centurywhen the whales were almost extinct andthe chances of them being discovered wereextremely high? Why not go back to the1600's when whales were not nearextinction. Granted, it would spoil theplot!
1 1) The original Spectrum readers. Theseare my priority and you should be the oneskept most happy. I am not willing tosacrifice this under ANY circumstances.
1 1) Rename your filename by adding ".COM"(
1 1) Load in textfile
1 1) He returned, already knowing of thechanges as he grew up with them so wouldthink nothing of them.j
1 1) Getting Amanda to do his dirty work totry and persude Womo to take a chance andhear his side of the story.o
1 1) Create THREE versions of each issue. Astandard Spectrum version with Spectrumonly articles. A SAM version featuringeverything and a
1 1) Bow out now, while you still have some readers4
1 1 Spectrum 128k
1 1 Spectrum +3
1 1 Rubber keyed 48k
1 1 REM _: CAT 1 @
1 1 REM _: (C)
1 1 REM NEW: STOP @
1 1 QL computer and spare machine
1 1 Pelham Street
1 1 LET A = 1 : PRINT A : STOP
1 1 Interface one
1 1 DK Tronics keyboard
1 1 DIM A$(360): DIM B$(36)
1 1 = Numerical Array
1 1 +D interface
1 1 +D 3.5" drive (780k DSDD)
1 0600 ROSIORI DE VEDE
1 00 ; Load DE with the number of
1 0 = Basic Program
1 0 1 1 1 0 0
1 ...should be altered to the following:&
1 ...on an order form for the next issue!So, it appears that if I want a reply Ihave to pay `3.50 for it. How would youreaders feel if you had to pay `1 for areply to your letter and wait upto threemonths for it to be featured in AlchNews?Of course, I could make AlchNews monthlythis way because of the sheer volume ofyour letters, even weekly, and it would bewell over one megabyte! But, the layout ofAlchemist Research is to reply to yourletters personally and concentrate onarticles and features in AlchNews and, nodoubt, that has been the secret of oursuccess.
1 ...but there is one big ceiling! Erm,flaw. The controls are really reallystupid! At the start of the game there's asort of pointer system, like
1 ...Orson '95
1 -15: DRAW -10,-10: PLOT 128,146: DRAW&
1 , Xenix, Unix, Cobol or any othernon-Speccy BASIC language. Now, for thefaithful few (?), here are some usefultips for general neatness, efficiency andmemory-saving for pedantic byte-countingtypes.
1 +D Support:
1 +3DOS EFFORT!
1 +3 PSUS - `5
1 +3 Edge connector
1 +3 & CP/M Support:
1 +0 (RAM) +8 (Screen)
1 +.532533226
1 *** SOUND ***
1 *** PROGRAM DEBUGGING AND EDITING ***%
1 *** OTHER COMMANDS ***
1 *** NEW ERROR MESSAGES ***
1 *** MACHINE CODE ***
1 *** END OF TUTORIAL ***
1 ** THE ROY BENSON SELF-INTEREST SOCIETY **,
1 * Use permanent dye with a minimum of insoluble particles, which provides dark, uniform and crisp prints.u
1 * The print head needles
1 * The paper
1 * The nylon fabric ribbon
1 * Tendecy to make trivial mistakes"
1 * Split personality
1 * Print head impact temperature
1 * Poor covering up of these mistakes and(
1 * Paranoia
1 * PRESS CAPS-SHIFT N (NEW PRINTER ROUTINE)* RESPOND TO THE ON-SCREEN QUESTIONS:-P
1 * Needle impact pressure
1 * LOAD POWERPRINT II
1 * Irritation
1 * Insolubles must have particle size of less than 3 microns and are carefully selected to eliminate abrasion.u
1 * Friction coefficient between needles and ribbon2
1 * Frequency of impact
1 * Fabricating information to such a degree that the patient believes it to be true, despite such overwhelming evidence pointing the opposite.
1 * Evasive and irrational behaviour"
1 * Do not degrade the print head or chemically react with any of the following components involved in the inking process:
1 * Contain an ink-compatable lubrication additive that is stable and will not form gummy precipitates on the print head, but will form a thin protective coating on the metal surfaces and can provide it's lubricating qualities over the whole operating temperature range.
1 * Constant lying
1 * 30 Bassetlaw Les. Cent. Worksop"
1 (when do you need to do this?!)
1 (viscosity,
1 (Whats new?), plus some very!
1 (To alter the printable area to TYPE A,hold FONT, PITCH and PAPER FEED buttonswhilst turning on the printer. Press FONTonce, then press PITCH once then press ON-LINE. Now hold FONT and press PITCH andrelease them to hear the printer reset.)
1 (Sheffield if our experience is!
1 (See Yellow pages)
1 (See Yellow Pages)
1 (Save whole font at new addr.)
1 (Rather a co-incidence seeing as!
1 (P)RINT b - - -
1 (P)RINT U - - -
1 (P)RINT 1o - - -
1 (P)RINT 1P
1 (P)RINT 0A
1 (P)RINT 01J 17. (F)ILL b - - -#
1 (P)RINT j 9.
1 (P)RINT h 8.
1 (P)RINT b 16. (F)ILL J - - -#
1 (P)RINT I
1 (P)RINT 1E
1 (P)RINT 0r 5.
1 (P)RINT 0o 2.
1 (P)RINT 0n 4.
1 (P)RINT 01b 3.
1 (OR DOS DO'S AND DON'TS!)
1 (OPEN YOUR POWER SUPPLY AT YOUR OWN RISK,AND IF YOU DO, BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL. ANDKEEP AWAY FROM THE LIVE END <Unless you'reMartyn Sherwood? Ed> , IF IT'S PLUGGED IN.YOU REALLY SHOULD UNPLUG IT, BUT IT'SIMPOSSIBLE TO TWEAK THINGS UNLESS IT'SPLUGGED IN. LISTEN, DON'T BLAME ME IF YOUBLOW EITHER THE POWER SUPPLY OR YOURSELFUP, OKAY?)
1 (O)VER b 14. (P)RINT F
1 (No. 937). Paul Howard <with help!
1 (Force code to new address)
1 (Following VGA 04 in the list was theappropriately titled "STOLEN"!).J
1 (F)ILL h - - -
1 (F)ILL S - - -
1 (F)ILL C - - -
1 (F)ILL 1o - - -
1 (F)ILL 1h - - -
1 (Currently
1 (C) 1991 A. Davis
1 (According to Martyn Sherwood)
1 (315/32/W))*256)
1 ("Player One Loses" AND A=0)
1 'March 10th... EEC'93, VGA 1-4, DINOSAURS,B/W1.. The question is, do YOU say it'sPublic Domain? I would be most greatfulfor your clarification on this matter'
1 'HEY YOU' PROJECT UPDATE
1 'BAD LOAD', BREAK & RETURN. ": PRINT%
1 'Angry' from Wokingham (aka Paul!
1 &U&`Vfe"vTS
1 &&o&+i+((&
1 & Big thanks:
1 "l" looks like an @ but is in factsupposed to be the copyright symbol. Thisone, however, is the (R) symbol forRegistered.
1 "k" is shown with an "s". This representsthe double 's' used in German language,such as in strasse. This is value 225 andlooks a little like a B.
1 "j" is marked "f". I've used character 159which can be used for Francs.G
1 "i" is marked "U". This is the greekletter for "Micro", as used in CurrahSpeech. If you do a lot of electronicswork this will come in useful for writingMicrofarad in short. This is value 230.
1 "dunno yet, but I'll work on it."!
1 "Yes, go on."
1 "Yep, just one, before you press thebutton..."4
1 "Yeah? how?"
1 "Yeah, nevermind"
1 "Yeah, alright then, whilst you're at it,don't suppose you could do something onRS232 links could ya?"j
1 "Write an article about how you get onwith it" writes Andy when it all arrived.S
1 "Which one?"
1 "Well, about ten to midnight, 'I' camethrough the pod door and told me"K
1 "Well I suppose I'd better let you go. Youhave to finish the program by midnight tostart the test"c
1 "We did belong to Spectrum UK, untilthings went odd with them."E
1 "Uh, yeah, course I did!"
1 "U" brings up a further utilities menu. Onthe present version it allows you to setthe number of files shown, either 10 or12.
1 "The Sam data will be of no use to Specusers & vica-versa (see last few issues of'Format' - now 80% SAm information andpractically useless to Spec users".
1 "Thanks, but how did you know?",questioned the original me.E
1 "Thank you for your letter or contribution- we will reply or include this in afuture OUTLET as soon as possible."w
1 "TIMED JUMP (Enter time to depart or justENTER to skip)"9
1 "THE button!"
1 "Suggesting I provided a non workingprogram? Rubbish!"<
1 "Star Trek IV, the voyage home" was on ITVon the wekend of the 13th, where Kirk wentback in time to bring back some Hump BackWhales to save Earth in the 24th century. ERROR TIME:
1 "SpectrumAdventures" (Sunshine publishing), writtenfrom Tony Bridge and Roy Carnell.T
1 "Software House" is a text-only managementgame, but nonetheless quite addictive.It's easy to pick up how to play; my onlymoans are the lack of graphics (just bigtext on the magazine cover - even"Millionaire" had graphics in 1982!) andthe unfair magazine; every time you readit, something bad happens to your company!There are some puns in the softwarecharts, ie Pond for Ocean, which improvethe game in a miniscule way, and despitethe game all being text, it's verycolourful and I've just remembered thereis a telephone graphic and a nice loadingscreen (although the man looks scary!).
1 "So, arent you gonna ask me?"
1 "So arent you gonna ask me?"
1 "Sad to say, but a coding group
1 "S" shows all programs listed on the menu,their ID letter and filename.G
1 "Roy wassisname"
1 "Right, best be off Andy, I'll see aboutthe RS232 link"9
1 "READY. COMPUTER WILL INITIATE JUMP AT00:00. PRESS START"=
1 "R" closes the options menu and returns torequesting A-L to load.A
1 "PRISM PD NEVER DECIDED TO LIST
1 "Okay, well thanks for stopping by"#
1 "Oh, not for ages now, why d'ya ask?"%
1 "Oh, I dunno, I'm not watching it at themoment"1
1 "Of course!" My duplicate smiled
1 "No reason really, just wondered if it wasthe same bloke I just saw on telly"M
1 "Nevermind eh"
1 "Need more info Andy" was my reply.#
1 "LOCATION (Currently 2233 4844 0040):"&
1 "Just a quick note to remind you thatcontributions for AlchNews are welcomewithin the next 10 days. "n
1 "It would be decent of you to
1 "I reckon we should get him back you know"*
1 "I had to, it was on my way.", and withthat bade farewell and climbed out of thepod.X
1 "I got a letter from Mr Sherwood sayingthe following:8
1 "I enclose `4 refund on the remainder ofyour subscription. It is quite clear whatline you are taking, and I will play NOfurther part communicating directly toyourself or Mr Davis. Your last 2 lettershave that A. Davis touch to them, & it'sobvious you are working together. GoodbyteMr Kinloch."
1 "I dont need to ask, the proof is right infront of me"6
1 "Hullo, Alchemist Research"
1 "Hiya Andy, did you see Roy's bit in thelast AlchNews?"9
1 "Hi" replied the figure.
1 "Hi" I replied.
1 "Hello?" he spoke, questioning$
1 "Hello?" I spoke, questioning#
1 "HE HAS NEVER ONCE ALLOWED THE OTHER SIDEOF THE STORY TO BE TOLD TO HIS READERS!!WE WONDER WHY!!"d
1 "Erm, I'll give it a go."
1 "Enter Part:";cnt:
1 "DESTINATION TIME
1 "D" deletes a file from the list andleaves it blank.:
1 "Can you sort out RAMMAP for me. It loadsin (48k mode) but just freezes".J
1 "By the way, when did you last hear fromhim?"/
1 "Ben Douglas, (assuming he is a realperson) fired insults"@
1 "Apology? No can do - you misunderstood me- if the 'cap fits'=
1 "Anyway, in September the Minds got aletter from Martyn Sherwood asking forrights to distribute their software. Thefunny thing was that in one part of theletter he was insulting them, in anotherhe was being as nice as pie begging forthe software. The latest 'drama' is thathe is now ringing up Patrick Morris allthe time trying to befriend him so that hecan put in his magazine that they are thebest of friends. Poor old Patrick - I bethe'd prefer to be hassled by doubleglazing salesmen. Well, PD POWER can printwhat it likes, just remember which servicehas exclusive rights to their software!"
1 "Any problems?"
1 "Amanda has just send us a letter. Shewrotes us, to have good contact to you andPrism. She will bring us in contact toPrism too, that we can decide ourself whatis going on with Martin Sherwood. She saysshe never had trouble or problems with himand also not with you."
1 "Alright mate, see ya!"
1 "A" lets you add a file to the list, oroverwrite one currently in store. It asksyou for the letter where you wish to storeit, some details about the game for themenu display (DATA) and then the filenameof the game. It then checks if you aresure and makes the change if so.
1 "300": GO TO S
1 "..Well, just make sure that you type inthe landing co-ordinates exactly thirtyfeet to the side of this one. You'llreappear in here if you dont and break thetime-space continumn otherwise."
1 ! O InvalidScream 0:1
1 command to achieve a Hi-Res copy?(Example: Tasman interfaces do). If youanswer 'yes' you will be required toprovide the
1 and the rest
1 address (usually 23296).<In 48k mode. Ed>*
1 SETUP PARAMS
1 LOAD PART
1 LOAD INDEX
1 CHOOSE PART
1 toachieve Hi-Res copy, then instead of, ( orin addition to) entering new lines 10/20,edit line 8600 & replace the keyword COPYwith your special command.
1 USING THE 128K SECOND SCREEN FROM BASIC6
1 <<The 'Ben Douglas' Piece of Alchnews>>:
1 THE DEMON HACKER'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND9
1 JUNE 1995