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The computer that’s been giving you such a fun time with games now gives you the chance to earn some money. Helping you with word processmg, secretarial work and even runningyour own business. All because of the brilliant new word processing package, the makers of WordStar the world’s SuperScript from MicroPro best selling word processing packages for microcomputers. —

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At last, your computer can have an Epson printer. Even if it’s only supposed to be compatible with ‘own brand' printers (like Atari). Our latest printer, the GX—80, has a revolutionary new interface called PIC (it means Printer interface Cartridge and that's it on the right). The cartridge slips into the back of the GX—80 and enables the GX to understand commands from the host computer. j 80 if you’ve ever wanted to have an Epson 2};

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Rumours circulating in the trade during the count—down to the show said the firm was poised to announcea numberof new additions to its STfamily— among them a 1mbyte model, the 104OST. One report said the new machine would be offered here with a colour monitor for about £1,000, be upwardly com— patible with both the planned 2605T and existing 5205T,and feature a built—in 720k format— ted capacity disc drive. It was also thought that Atari W0U|d preview its 32 bit workstation, the TI', based 0“ the 32032 DFOCGSSOFBUt sales and marketing manager ROb Harding diSmissed the rumours 85 "pure

speculation, completely Uh“ founded". He toldAtar/User."'l have no knowledge of these products being shown at Comdex, but even if they were it wouldn’t necessarily mean we W0U|d bring them on to the market. "We tend to use exhibitions as Shop Windows to Show we “are capable of producing certain types of products.

”Mass production doesn't after all, necessarily follow look what happened to the —

13OST”.

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the UK micro market this Christmas as a result of striking a multi-million pound deal with Dixons.

It involves the sale of the entire stock of 800XLs some 100,000 machines to the High Street giant. Now Dixons are slashing the price of the 800XL package by —

—

50 per cent,

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operating

system should be available here before Christmas.Butitwillcost ST owners about £25 for the kit to upgrade their machines.

Although the ST

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originally expected to arrive on the market with a ROM system, the machines sold in the UK up tonow haveallbeen discbased. Many people who bought these machines did so believing they would eventually be ableto

bringing the

cassette version down to just £99.99 in the run up to the festive season. The cut price offer includes an 800XL, joystick, 1010 cass— ette recorder and five pieces of software, which would have usually retailed for a total of

£197. At the

same time the 800 stores in the Dixons chain which now also includes the will also be Currys outlets offering the 800XL with disc drive and three pieces of —

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software

bargain price of

£169.99, down from £300. ”They will be selling an awful lot of 800XLs in the run up to Christmas”, says Rob Harding, Atari UK's marketing boss. "In fact this will mean that this yearAtari will notsimply be

leader

but will

actually

dominate the entire market”. The company has gone to considerable lengths to ensure that independent dealers are not left with stocks of 800XLs and so be unable to compete withthe new High Street prices. ButAtari has retainedasmall stock ofthe machinesto ensure that any outstanding Christmas orders can be filled. However production of the

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A NEW utility enabling one or more RAM discs to be set up on Atari ST micros for increased speed of operation has been released by Kuma Computers. The company says its K—Ram package enables files to be accessed and written to between 40 and 50 times faster than with a normal disc drive. Additional features include 3 Help facility and an option for decreasing floppy disc write times by up to 50 per cent. K—Ram can also enable the user to gain more free RAM by configuring the operating system, says Kuma. Price: £29.95.

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make discs—for-ROMs trade-ins at little or no cost. But this is not to be the case. Atari UK marketing boss Rob Harding said: "There will be a small charge to existing ST owners for the upgrade kit. expect it to be about £25. ”I believe this to be reason— able. The disc operating system was never intended to be a stopgap until the ROM version became available. "It has always been an .

option, just as the ROMs Will be an option when they become available any day now. “Many existing ST owners aren'tinterested in running Gem programs—they are quite happy with the disc operating system in view of all the 808 software

800XL will now cease, with Atari concentrating on the 130XE as its ongoing machine in the 8 bit market. “We are currently looking into special packages involving 13OXE as well", Rob Harding told Atari User, “and these will be available any day

the

now”.

Production is also to end of the 1010 cassette recorder and this will be replaced by a new XCL model. Made in Japan, this will be powered internally from the 130XE, and will retail at the

price as the 1010 £34.95. Atari has also announced that it is to slash the price of its 1050 disc drive from £199 to £130 "With what we are now same

—

offering the public, there will be nothing to prevent Atari running away with the market this year", says Rob Harding.

— 1

2-3 clone released

AN enhanced Lotus 1-2—3 clone has been released in the United States for the SZOST. Called the VIP Professional, its extrasinclude GEM interface, 16 colours multiple windows, mouse compatibility and DU” down menus.

Available from VlP Tech-

nologies of Santa Barbara, California, its current $99 price claimed to be three times tag lower than that of its rival is d u e to rise to $149 in November. A full tutorial is included in the price. _

that

is available". An informed source says the 5208T ROM chips are currently

completing their Beta testing before going into full duplication and should be available soon.

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The usual instruction book and hints have been deliberately left out so once the computer has been given the logon command the user is on his 0W”-

Prices are {14-99 forthe diSC version and E999 for cassette.

house Software celebrating its first birthday this month.by giving presents to its customers.

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One is for the best birthday card designed by computer graphics and can be submitted either as a print out or screen photograph. In the seCOnd competition contestants have to guess the actual day in December on which the firm's birthday falls. The third competition involves identifying a product in the firm's catalogue with the

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currently negotiating for the rights.to the p-System, min/operating system for software de—

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main on the agenda at topics the eighth USUS—UK con— ference at Oxford Moat HOUSE, December 72 to 14.

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emulate hackers the electronic bur— glars who break into computer but without fear Of systems being caught. it is all thanks 10 a NEW adventure—type game called Hacker from Activision. The company claims it is a challeng— ing simulation of what a user might experience if he were 10 "accidentally stumble" into a foreign system, The aim of the game isforthe users

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Used in conjunction with a serial comms card the system allows the 800 to be used as a multiuser development system or to serVice several. incoming

December 7985

board buugt'n Price: £4995“

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TEACH_IN FOR THE ST PUBLISHERS Glentop are producing a range of teachyourself style books for the SZOST. Titles have yet to be finalised but five books are due, covering subjects such as an introduction to the machine, Basic, machine code, ST Logo, graphics and the advanced user.

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New l’nk to THE near letter quality GX—80 nine—pin dot matrix printerfrom Epson features a printer inter— face cartridge which makes it compatible with the Atari 600 and 800XL. Based on the LX—80 laun— ched earlierthisyear, the printer a

new

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connecting up to a computer. At its back, instead of the normal Centronics connector, there is a space for users to fit the PIC of their choice with a cable and plug all in one. An optional tractor feed and cut sheet feeder for word processing input are available.

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The printer incorporates fount selection from the front panel to give choice of Pica, Elite and Roman as well as condensed and emphasised, double strike Pica.

Italics, sub/superscript, emphasised, enlarged and underlining are also available through Epson software control. Price of the GX-80 is £249, the printer interface cartridge E50, sheet feeder £55 and tractor unit £20.

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products from Atari, including the new 8 bit 13OXE and 16 bit 5208T were demonstrated. Guests from as far south as Birmingham Viewed the new range of products now available to them courtesy of Eltecs recent contract With Atarigivmg it distribution rights throughout the North. Eltec sales and marketing director Roger Purssglove said .. afterwards. Both products .

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THE preSident of an Atarruser group has become the Victim of tech character assassinahigh tion. Ken Ward, leader of the Norwich User Group, says smear tactics are used to being his name W'th ”Rk software the Atari frater— piracy among

half a lot of years have put work into building up a respec— table group and newsletter. ”We have gained a status and respect that is the envy of other groups. “We have members all over the country and we are slowly gaining the confidence of the software industry. ..| don‘t intend to let a sick A ta” user U“ d “mme t h at respect and confidence, .. and am ma k'm9 my own e n qUirie etc try and track down this person and get more evidence so can take action against him. I

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F0 U R FOR TH E STs SOFTWAREhouse Microdea/has licensedfourprogramsfor the Atari ST range from American publisher Michtron and will be releasing them during the nextmonth. They are an arcade game, Mudpies, anda boardgame, F/ipside, each priced£79.95,a Ram disc emulator, M—Disc, and a print spooler, Softspool, each at

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SOFTWARE house Activision released its text/graphic adventure Mindshadow for the Atari 800XE and XL. The player finds himself on a deserted beach suffering from amnesia and must make a has

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WORD PROCESSING is almost certainly the most common appli— cation in business computing. Even f°f the “we a W“ pm... has become an essential package to possess. Gem Write is a basic word processor which offers the essential commands for writing documents. As a thrown-in part of the ST wasn't expecting too package, much. So how did it fare? As a technical journalist have probably used more word processors than care to remember, and one outstanding feature of most packages

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whoever that may be. It would not be an exaggeration to say that all of Gem Write's com— mands can be learned in the same time it would take to learn the basics of another package. This owes much to the Gem philosophy. user

the amount of time it takes to become acquainted with just the rudimentary commands, let alone all the facilities. Gem Write is almost unique in being delightfully simple to use yet powerful enough to offer sufficient facilities to provide for the average is

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commands using the keyboard function keys, sometimesin conjunction with the Control or Shift keys. But that’s old fashioned. Well, it’s there if you like it that way. In a similar way the Font menu can pull—down menus. These can be carried out by

to change the style of the text. This turned out to be quite a be used

disappointment, as there was little choice of styles, Gem Write only allowing the text to be printed in normal, bold or italic print, plus the facility of underlining. In comparison, Gem Draw reviewedbelow had more text variety on offer, which seemed slightly strange. It would have been no problem to provide a range of font styles, and this was certainly a weak point in this package. All changes made to text are shown on screen, which makes a pleasant change tojust seeing control codes all over the place, Howeverthese —

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GEM DRAW is one of two drawing packages to be released by Digital Reseamh, the other being e eeeie painting package, Gem Paint. Gem

Draw is intended as a computerised drawing board, allowing the user to mix text and graphics on-screen, to create diagrams or drawings. Like all Gem packages, Gem Draw takes full advantage of the Wimp (windows, icons, mouse,pointer) system andthe package is entirely controlled from

from the File menu, as can text from another document. Whereas inserted text appears in the document, graphics from Gem Draw or Gem Paint did not on my version. It seems that an embedded command is placed at the appropriate spot in the document and on printing the picture is cut into the document. The user can specify to see the picture

which was annoying. A Shortcuts option on the Options menu acted as a help guide to the function keys, which was necessary as there is no way to remember what each function key did on the ST keyboard.

VERDWT: As part Of the ST package Gem Write is a 900d

using the Turn Graphics On command, though l could not get this to work. Rulers, tabs and margins can all be set from the Page menu, as can the format of the document — justification, pagination, line spacing, page length, margin, etc. The Search menu allows text to be found and replaced, the user also being able to specify which page to be shown on screen. At the end of each physical page,

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notthe screen page,apage—breakline is shown. The arrow keys on the keyboard allow the document to be scrolled in either direction vertically, with jumps of a page facilitated by use of the arrow and Control key. However there didn’t appear to be a means Of scrolling by each screen,

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The menu bar runs across the top of the screen and offers eight pull—down menus, excluding the Desk one. They are used in conjunction with a range of drawing tools shown vertically on the left of the window. Options range from drawing cir— cles, ellipses, rectangles and squares to the user drawing in his own free—hand style. Text can also be

freely mixed into the drawing. But more of this later. When first loaded Gem Draw displays a blank area within the window on which the user draws. However it is not the entire area on which the final output will be printed,

but merely a window on a much larger drawing board. Moving the mouse pointer over the second option on the vertical menu causes Gem Draw to show a reduced version of the entire board. This is particularly useful on plans and diagrams that spill beyond the drawing area usually shown. It is also of assistance when using the Zoom facility (see later). When anything is drawn, regardless of size or shape, a box is immediately placed around it. The boxed area defined is determined by the end of a drawing action by the user. In other words, once the user

releases the mouse button which usuallytriggersthe particulardrawing event the last element drawn is —

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surrounded by a box. At a later stage the user can then place the mouse pointer over a certain part ofthe picture and find out how many elements make up that

area of the drawing. Each of these boxed areas can be moved independently on the screen. This means that a drawing of say, a camera, might be made up of several component parts, each of which can be separately manipulated.

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brick wall, vertical lines, and so on. Like all Gem commands, the mouse needs only to be clicked over the desired option and the shape is redrawn with the chosen pattern filling the area within the shape. The Line menu allows the user to choose how thick a line is drawn, whether it is broken, dotted or connected, and also adds a nice touch —

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A wide choice of lines available

button. The pointer then changes shape from an arrow to a cross—hair and the option chosen is highlighted by a black background. Executing the drawing action is then a case of holding down the left mouse button and dragging the

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surrounded by a boxed area the user can then remove the lens by pointing to the box and dragging the lens to another part of the drawing. In this way the user can breaka drawing into its smaller component parts and fit them together at a later stage to make a complete picture. The options for drawing ellipses, circles, rectangles and squares are activated by placing the pointer over

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pictures, and the output to a printer. The format of the page document size, etc— is changed using the Page menu,as is the use ofgrids and rulers. The size of the grid can be changed using one of six preset sizes and 3 ruler can be displayed horizontally along the top of the window if needed. The Page menu offers also a Zoom facility which, as the name suggests, allows a specific area of the drawing to be shown in closer detail. This is an excellent method of touching—up and examining the finer details of a —

drawing. As the zoom facility is used the picture often zooms into an area which the user does not wish to enlarge. This is where viewing the entire drawing board is useful, as the user can then see exactly what area is being magnified (shown by an outline box). The outline box represents the window in which the user works, and this window can then be placed over the area to be magnified. Text can be placed anywhere on the screen and the Font menu allows the user to specify different character

fonts, size, italics, and so on. It was interesting to note that the Font menu offered more choice than the equivalent option in Gem Write. Elements of a drawing can be deleted,and undeleted, using the Edit menu, which also has a Duplicate option to make a copy of any drawing element. Finally comes what wasfor me the best part of Gem Draw—the Arrange menu, which aids the user in placing

objects or elements of a picture wherever the user desires. Drawings can be specifically placed behind or in front of another drawing. The user merely has to identify the drawing element and then place it over another drawing. Thefacilitycan alsoaligndrawingson the screen, as well as centering drawings on the page.

VERD'CT: A“ in all, Gem Draw was a delight to use and like Gem Write could be put to work immediately. “3 useswill “0 doubt be varied, though it W3“ probably appeal to less

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a Plan Renewed proposed for the Nat'or-‘a' Pumse arid mtem'on '5 to use Pnsm to create and study the effects of this plan on a simulation of the W0“ 10 years hence. if this were an Ofdlnarv adventure, you would expect to play Perelman and the computer would follow your orders to gather. information. However this is no ordinary this is a e _ art n adventulref— statz—of— an gag}? a“33 ”5“ V°“ “ma V Pay must explore for yourself reporting back to Perelman via the keyboard. You can contact him, and '

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other members of the research

team, via communications outlets around the establish— ment (a little like Hal’s voice/ vision terminals in the film

2001). You may also communicate any one of the five

with

simulation control computers and give them new instruc~ tions. You can even tie into a vast library and into the world news network. received my instructions I

from Dr. Perelman, and activated the simulation mode. After entering the

cassette—based adventure, things would end there, but not with Infocom. Perelman also told me that had the information that provided had enabled his team to extend the simulation by a further 10 years. He seemed rather tbo busy to give me further detailed instructions, so, being the inquisitive computer I am, I set off to see for myself. .. And the world has become a shadowy place, full of gloom and suspicion. The secret I

relevant colour codes from the provided in the package, I was transported from my cosy world of 2031 into a simulation of 10 years hence. A map of Rockvil circa 2031 is provided, but this

with. Gone are the tricky prob— lems and funny solutions of Steve Meretzky's last game, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the an excellent game in Galaxy and in their its own right place isafrighteninglyrealistic view of a future we all hope we can prevent. I'll let you know how I get

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raid my house, and terrify Jill. My brother seems to be in some sort of trouble. The plan has obviously backfired, and it seems to be up to me to find out why, and warn Perelman before it's too late. police

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play back to Perelman later, and a meal at a rather had expensive restaurant. Qurckly finding out wherel |' I then tracked ived, down my “me and V's'ted J'” apartment and our little-baby. Those familiar With Infocom prose will know that the take place are that. vrvrdly described, and take 0" the same degree of reality that agood novel would as you lose

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and

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empties. There are also bonus

rounds when you must watch carefully. The Soda Bandit shakes ?ve of the six soda cans on the bar and shuffles them then around. You ve got to open the unshaken can. Success brings a big bonus, failure brings a faceful of soda. It's a frantic game which has you leaping about while trying to develop strategies. It's also slightly unusual for an arcade game in that it's essentially non—violent. The worst that happens is that glasses get broken~no worse than the average home. Up'n Down is a bit hard to

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describe. lt's a sort of car—driv— ing game, but not in the Pole Position mould. The road is a narrow latticework that scrolls down the screen and as soon as you press the joystick forward your car starts along the road. Every so often there are flags and as you pass them they turn white. Completing the “level" involves turning all the flags white. To hinder you there are trucks going in your direction. if you hit them you disintegrate. There are also wrecks sliding back down the screen, and ifthey hityou it's curtains. Because there isn‘t much of the road system on screen at any one time, you don't get

any warning of either the trucks or the wrecks. Also,

Since you're constantly moving forward, you don’t

thing.

Spy Hunter is another driving game, but more in the

have to worry about the third dimension. However you do have to worry about the many hazards, bOth passive and active. On

Fliver Raid genre. You are a world classspydrivingforyour life. The road is crawling with enemy agents bent on your destruction and they'll stop at nothing, so neither can you. What this means in practice is another vertically scrolling screen. The game starts with the weapons truck pulling over and your car sliding out of the back, armed with machine guns. The road branches as you move forward and you've got to be careful to stay on the road. The enemy agents will soon have you crashing off so there's a fair bit of dodging as well as shooting. Each time you enter a new

THERE was once

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anything for less than a ?ver is regarded with suspicion. So it was with some apprehension that l 3pm“ched Smart Art, a graphics picture—drawing utility from P.F. Software that retails at £3,50_ Could it really be any good for such a small amount? Well, Smart Art certainly lacks the sophistication of the Atari Touch Tablet and its accompanying graphics cartridge, but that does cost well over 10 times as much. included with the package is a demonstration picture Mickey Mouse in magician's uniform in a scene reminiscent of Disney's Fantasia which proves that it is possible with skill and practice to produce high quality graphic pictures with Smart Art. On loading the program a of cursor appears at the screen and a statuscecijwtrel ay isp the lS at the bottom. Usmg a ~—

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the passive side there are all sorts of things into which you can fly, with the resultin loss of life. On the active sidegthere are missile silos, enemy aircraft and lethal electronic barriers. The chances are that you've seen Zaxxon in one of the

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“SET ";SET

to mark off each set. Note this line is inside the outer loop but outside the inner loop, so it only appears each time the outer loop is done. I've also altered line 60 so that the variable LOOP is printed out as it cycles through its various values. To get a feel for nested loops, try changing the limits of the loops in lines 30 and 50, predicting what you'll get before you run the altered

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far. To see how Program VIII works, assume you've input 4, so we're the micro to do the sum we've asking just worked through.The actual work of adding is done in line 80, the body of the loop. This adds the integer we're considering to the total so far. INTEGER goes from to 4 successively. Since TOTAL is initially zero, the first time through the loop line 80 boils down to TOTAL = 0 + 1, so

so our total so far is one correct. We don't actually do this first 0+1 step when we do it in our heads, but the micro is a very formal beast.

Next time through the loop, INTEGER is 2, and the current value of TOTAL is one so, TOTAL: TOTAL+INTEGER,which boils down to TOTAL:1 +2 and TOTAL assumes is

three, so line 80 becomes in effect TOTAL:3+3 and TOTAL adopts the value six. The next time through—the final in this case line 80 is equivalent to TOTAL:6+4 and TOTAL becomes ten. We then drop through the loop and print the total out with line 100. Program lX uses exactly the same but time wrap the technique, this whole thing up in an outer loop that "does the input" for me, giving —

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and so on. I've also gone to some trouble to

of the improve the appearance output. Just before add lNTEGERto the running total (line 70) print it out, together with an accompanying + sign (line 60). Thus the effect of the I

inner loop is that not only do we calculate TOTAL, but all the integers being summed appear on the same line with + signs between them. When wedropoutoftheinnerloop we then print out the answer. However, we need to do a bit of tidying up first. You see, each integer is followed bya +,from line 60. After thelastintegerthough,wedon't want a +, we want :_ Well, once the cursor has printed the final + it moves on to the next space on that line of the screen (the effect of the semi-colon). All we do is to move the cursor back with the magical CHR$(30), overprint our + with an : and print TOTAL. Line 90 shows how it's done. Then, of course, line 100 loops us back if we haven't done all our totals. A final point. Before each rep— etition of the inner loop, in other words before we do each running total, we set TOTAL to zero. It's vital we set it back to scratch this way each time, otherwise we’ll be adding in the previous running total to our current one. Try leaving line 40 out and running the program if you don't see

what

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'SEASONS greetings to all you adventurers out there! This being the time of year when you may be contemplating either the pur— chase or receipt of some software here’s my own Atari Top Ten for

Cit a (disc

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, lnfocom

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only £29.95}.

As I've said before, and will keep saying until you all have them, if you do not own a disc drive then the purchase of an lnfocom adventure should be the reason for going out and

solution

of Time, Level _

(£995 cassette). Written by Sue Gazzard and _

programmed by the Austins, this game gives an authentic feel to each of the nine time zones portrayed. There is more meat in the plot than in some Of the other Level 9 offerings,

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International

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The Count, Adventure International (as Adventure—

settle for less. Fascmatmg problems and 9°°d W‘th the interaction WI“ meet on your you characters journey add to the fun.

discwith ra hics£1595l The orig in; micro adventure from Scott Adgams and still the best introductor Y one about It pro b 3 bl Y that long, bUt by WOhit keep Y0_U taxed ll be hooked, the time finish it you you and that ls the whole idea.

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Mask of the Sun, Broder— bund (£43.95 on disc).

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IN this, the last article in the series, I’d like to take a brief look at the remaining modes which XL and XE owners can access from Basic 12, 13, 14 and 15. Early Atari 400 and 800 models were capable of displaying these modes, but they required the building ofa custom display list. Since that'sa topic better suited to Mike Rowe's series, l'II confine myself to using the modes from Basic. Modes 12 and 13 are very similar in behaviour and only really differ from each other in pixel size. Both are split screen modes, with Mode 12 having 40 columns x 20 rows and Mode 13 having 40 columns x 10 rows. Both have a four—line Mode 0 ——

teXt WindOWif you type GRAPHICS 12 and

Return you'll be presented with a largely black screen. The familiar blue text window and the Ready prompt should be at the bottom. In many books on the Atari's graphics you’ll read that text is difficult to display in Modes 12 and 13. You can demonstrate this to yourself by typing PRINT#6:“ATARI USER" and pressing Return. With a knowledge of what it's press

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7! supposed to say on the screen, you might be able to decipher it. No prizes for Iegibility though. For this reason books that don't say these modes are difficult usually choose to ignore them completely. It makes you wonder why some books list them as text modes, doesn't it? Now, thanks to G. Thornton of Hordle, in Hampshire, we're able to bring you a method of putting legible text on a Mode 12 or Mode 13 screen.

Type in Programland run it. Voila! instant Mode 12 text without redefining characters. I've adapted Mr Thornton's original listing in order to encourage 1s GRQPHICS 12 29 SETCOLOR 30

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A December 1985 ATARI USER

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THIS game ls based on the well-known television game Countdown on Channel 4, which has nine rounds of three different kinds. First comes the word game, in which you pick nine letters, either C (consonant) or V (vowel), which are then

chosen

at random

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by the

computer. The computer will pick the more commonly used letters in preference and each time a letter is used it reduces the chances of it occurring again. After all nine letters are picked the computer will start a 30 second countdown during which time you must find the longest word you can make from those nine letters. Each letter can be used only once. At the end of the 30 seconds the computer will ask for the length of your word. It will then ask for your word. You have only a limited time to answer and if you delay too long the computer will show its annoyance with a tone and tell you that your taking too long. You must quickly press a key. After having typed in your word and pressed Return, the computer will check the word for validity of

length

and

letters

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used. if

the word isa real

word—butyou wouldn’tcheat,would you? Next comes the numbers game. Here you will be asked forthe number of high numbers you want. Try two initially. It will then choose, at random, six numbers, four of which will be between and 10. The two 1

high

numbers will be 25, 50, 75 or

100. The computer will then generate a random number between 100 and 1,000 as a target number. As you might guess, the object is to get as near to this number as you can using each number only once and the four functions + * /. will be Again a countdown presented. After it the program will ask for your number and you again have a limited time to enter it. If your number is within 10 of the target numberthe computer will want to check it. This is done calculator style using the numbers, the above four functions, and equals. Any other key, including Return will erase that line. As well as the six numbers given originally you can use the numbers calculated once each. Here is an example: —

100

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no points.

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is the conundrum. letter word isjumbled up and you have 30 seconds to unscramble the word and enter the correct original. Any round can be terminated early by pressing the key which you would

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nine

expect to press at the end of the round, for example the length of the word or the first figure in your

calculated number. The object of the game is to as many points as possible.

score

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game Basic

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THIS month's article, the last in the series, takes a look at some non-standard graphics modes and rounds off with a non-standard

display.

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using the operating system on XL and XE models only. Graphics modes 12—15 are avail— able on the 400 and 800 but omy by creating your own display list as demonstrated in the second article in the series. In reality it is possible to get many more modes than this would you believe over 100 different graphics —

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another Antic mode which is not supported directly by any of the current machines. This is Antic Mode 3, which can be obtained easily by creating your own display list. It is essentially similar to Graphics 0 but with one difference it allows true descenders. That is, thetail in the smallycomes properly below the rest of the letter. This is because it interprets the data for the character differently. A normal character is 8 pixels wide by 8 lines deep. In Antic Mode 3 it is 10 lines deep and the two bottom scan lines appear blank. In addition some characters, notablylower case as well as a few others, are displayed with the first two bytes of the character appearing at the bottom of the character (see figures to 5). As you might imagine, the standard character set would not be suitable for this mode. You really Firstly there

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have offset the character set one byte lower and moved the lower case set’s last bytes to the first bytes. This gives a workable version of the character set. In addition, to show the true lower have redefined some of the case, characters to give true descenders. Secondly several useful modes are based on Graphics 9, 10, 11.As Dave Russell mentioned last month, the first Ataris produced did not have Graphics 9—1 1. Before late 1979 the computer had a chip called CTIA, which provided Graphics 0 to 8 only. After thistheyfitted the GTIAchipaIIowing I

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modes. 'If in Graphics 8 you POKE 623,64 (bit 6) you get Graphics 9. POKE 623,128 (bit 7) gives Graphics 10, and POKE 623,192 (bits 6 and 7) gives Graphics 11. Leading on logically from this, the same could be donein any mode.This

theoretical maximum of 52 modes and a further 52 modes with text windows. That is a staggering 104 graphics modes. Don't get too excited. This is indeed possible, but most ofthem are quite useless, some are identical to others and all the text windows are illegible. The last point can be circum— gives

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window is easily obtained, however, by using a Display List lnterrupt to change back from the GTIA mode at the text window. This is shown in Demo IV, but the principle will work with any GTIA mode.

problem posed by Simon Crawley. He a display comprising one row of Mode 2, 112 rows of Mode 15 and eight rows of Mode 0. Although quite possible this is far from the easiest combination of

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programming on your Atari, especially when you compare it to the Amstrad models?

—

Micro

Well there's no need to hang your head in shame any longer. With the aid of Optimized Systems Software's Basic XL you too can turbocharge your Atari. Basic XL is an alternative Basic to the one you were supplied with by Atari, either in ROM form for the 400/800 series, or built in on the

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XL/XE series. Since Atari basic was written by in the first place, you can be sure Basic XL as fully compatible with any programs you already have. But more about that later. As supplied, Basic XL comes as a bright orange ROM cartridge, com— plemented by a beautifully—produced

088 that

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The manual is split into two parts. The first section, and also the largest, is a comprehensive tutorial on how to program in Basic for the complete novice upwards. The second half of

the manual details each of the commands available with Basic XL. When you think of the appalling documentation supplied with the XL machines, the manual supplied by 088 is welcome news indeed. As for the ROM cartridge, it's really a wolf in sheep's clothing. Basic XL is a full blown 16k ROM, but because of clever software and hardware engineering inside the cartridge, your Atari only loses 8k of RAM when installed. In other words, you get the benefit of 16k Basic, taking up no more memory than the standard Atari 8k Basic. Truly a case of squeezing a quart into a pint pot. So what’s special about Basic XL? Well you get 45 extra commands not included in Atari Basic for a start. If you’re a disc user bet there's been many a time you’ve cursed not been able to find out what files are on your disc without having to go into the l

DOS menu. With Basic XLaIlthe commandsto list a directory, lock and unlock files, rename files and deletefilesfrom disc

STE P H E N D0 N 06 H U E pUts an QXtended Bas._c language '

paCkage through

there at your fingertips. The ability to do those on their own is worth the purchase of the cartridge in itself. Still not convinced? Read on. Basic XL doesn't give a hoot about how you type in your commands. It will quite happily accept lower case, inverse video, or any combination of typing style that suits you, all without are all

‘

too

you

can

turbocharge your Atari ——

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lines of Basic program out as syntax errors. When you list your program, Basic XL has converted the textinto normal video with variables beginning with capital letters, and the remaining letters in lower case. Not only that,

throwing your

but

all

FOR

loops

are

lts

paces

indented for ease of reading. Program logic is more controlled. Besides IF also have lF .

TH EN statements, we ELSE ENDlF, and .

WHILE... ENDWHILEstatements to play with. The string statements, LEFT$,

RIGHT$, MID$, are supported, as as the normal Atari sub—string commands. String arrays are supported, and if

well

you intend to use a string variable in your program and its length will not exceed 40 characters, there is no need to DlMension it beforehand. Player/Missile commands direct from Basic are there to be explored. I'd never bothered with player graphics before, mainly due to the enormous amount of work needed to create the shape, place it in memory, then animate it. With no prior knowledge of player/missile graphics, picked up I

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—————— the manual and within 15 minutesl had a spaceship whizzing around the screen underjoystick control. It's that easy.

While we're joysticks, besides

subject of

on the

the normal STICK

command, we also have HSTICK and VSTICK.Thesecommands sense only the horizontal and vertical motions of the joystick respectively, and help simplify controlling movement. How many times have you written or had use of a p ro 9 ram that re q uests

the bene?t 7—— '

16k ROM for

memory Standard Ata"

than 8k

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input, and wish that irritating ? would disappear, or better still, replace it with something more user

useful? Once again, Basic XL has the answer. U sing on e of the 3 S ET comma?ds, you can have any character you like as the prompt to an INPUT statement, Jr if you desire, no character at all. 1

OtherSETcommandsaIlowyouto

disable theBreak key, set TAB stops for the comma in Print statements, choose how your program looks when it is LISTed, and decide whether you wish just error numbers to appear when you make a mistake, or to have printed a short message explaining the error as well. One other command that proves useful is MOVE which can copy blocks of memory at machine code

you've ever

needs.

wrote a program to compare the two methods and Basic XLwas about 57 times faster than its Atari I

counterpart. For program development you can have automatic line numbering, line re-numbering and block deletion of lines.

your program has a bug in it you can use the TRACE command which lets you see at which line number the If

December 7985

By the time de—bugged and

the program

fully functional it

was was

nearly 20k long. As an afterthought, decided to add another subroutine which madea nice presentation screen for the beginning of the program. Having nowhere else to put it, this subroutine I

‘

Wlth

prlor

knOWIedge Of

graphics

spaCGShlp WhlZZlng -

around Wlthln minutes

’

the program.That way,

’

counterpart

was at the very end of the program, and was the first one called. By use of the FAST command the opening screen appeared almost instantly and ran smoothly as designed it to be. As an experiment timed the opening subroutine to see how long it I

would take to execute with the FAST command removed from Basic XL. The difference was very noticeable Basic XL took 20 times longer to execute the subroutine. In other words, without this unique command my program could not run —

intended

without

major

re—write.

That covers some of the new commands of Basic XL. There are a whole lot more haven't even attempted to describe, but are just as I

| had a _

Basm XL Is about 57 tlmes faster than its Atari

_—

‘

subroutines.

Make FAST the first line of your program, and things really begin to move. In eneral, Basic XL runs about 20 per cant faster than Atari Basic when running standard benchtest programs. But that doesn't tell the whole story. If you understand anything about the way Basic works you'll know that it is an interpretive language. By that I mean it has to translate into machihe code each and everyline ofyour program at run time. Not only that, every time a GOTO or GOSUB statement is executed, in order to find the targetline referenced Basic must read all the line numbers from the beginning of the program to find out where it has to go. This is one of the main reasons that Basic is so slow, and also why Basic programmers keep all theirfrequently called subroutines at the beginning of

re—defined a charac~

ter set, you know that every character has to be moved byte by byte from ROM into RAM where you can then alter the characters to suit your

54 ATARI USER

does.

__-—

speed. If

is currently. If that's not enough,you can alsolisttothe screen or printer every variable and string variable used in your program, and what lines they were referenced on with the LVAR command. My favourite, and the one I've kept until last, is the FAST command. As it's name implies, that's just what it

program

Basic

finds its

way around much quicker. What the FAST command does is pre-compile every line number called in a GOTO, GOSUB,TRAP statement and so forth. When the program is

running‘each target line

found

instantly.

much fun to use.

Furthermore, if OSS's DOS XL

used in conjunction with Basic XL, some very interesting, and useful, new features come into play. But

that's another story. So is Basic XL worth buying? At a price of £75 or so, it's almost the cost of an Atari 800XL. However you do get a powerful Basic which is more friendly and if you're new to the programming game, the accompanying manual is an immense help. As for compatibility,95 per cent of your programs will still run but faster. —

To give an example, wrote a Basic program for my eight—year—old niece which helped her with simple addition, subtraction and multipli— I

cation sums. The program made extensive use of the Atari’s graphics 18 mode, and was made up almost entirely of

Don't forget,

Basic

was made

to be compatible with Atari Basic, not the other way around.

With

all

those wonderful

new

commands at your disposal, who wants to use old fashioned Atari Basic

anyway?

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HAVE you noticed how many “lefties" there are these days? No, I don't mean the sort that the Tory party rail against, I mean left-handed people. Joystick manufacturers seem largely to ignore the problems which

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users ofinght—han— ded joystlcks, and the Atari Joystlck 5 no exception.

Black

faceleft—handed

Blue

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Green

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the

Orange

_]' The original wiring

This means that lefties have to use their stronger hand to push the button and their weaker hand to move the stick. This is great if you're playing a

- .

left—handed person in competition, but not so great if you happen to be that left—handed person. If you have an Atari joystick, it can easily be converted for left—handed use as follows: Open the joystick by removing the four screws from the bottom and pulling the top off. In the base you'll a printed circuit board with six find er63 attached. In fact there are two types of board the type we’ve shown here with all six wires on one side, and another type with three wires on each side. In fact, it doesn't matter which type you have because they follow the same colour coding. Make the wiring changes by unclipping the wires from the circuit board and clipping them into the new positions. They should just pull off and push on the board with no problem. When you've got the wires in the new positions, screw the whole thing back together and ignore the word “Top" that's embossed into the case. Simply hold the joystick so that the firing button is on the right—hand side and move the stick in the normal way. There you have it a left—handed —

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your right—handed 56 ATAR/ USER

December 7985

of confusion for chums!

——————————Moilb

RECENTLY/ bought what

was

described as a business package consisting of an 800XL computer, a 7050 disc drive, a

7027 printer, Visicalc and tar/Writer. At the time it seemed an excellent bargain, and it turned out to be very good value, particularly the printer. However there was one

—

BllSiIIGSS p acka g0

—

snag.

The AtariWriter program came on a disc, the reverse side of which printed the manual. This contained no mention ofthe international characters,

which include the English pound sign, which is essential for business purposes. [learned that the cartridge

version

of this program

includes control commands which produce all the interna— tiana/ characters. For example Ctrl-08 produces the pound sin, but this does not work wilth the disc. Is the disc version an inferior program, or dyes it have commands for the pound sign and other international characters available but not c_o_ Dubourg, published? _.

Mansfield, 0 The disc version of AtariWriter does have the feature you mentioned, but in order to use a pound sign, which is Control—O followed by 8, as you say, you must first set the printer to use the international character set.

This

the

printer's

Inter

cannot find any reference to the pin configura— tions of either the serial or para/le/ports in eithertheAtari manual or any books available locally in the shops. I would be grateful if you could publish this information for the benefit of myself and other users interested in the

756,204

of POKE

screen.

To do this use Control—O, followed by 27,then Control-O and 23. Once you have done this

you

can

print any of the

international characters listed in the book. These codes apply equally to the cartridge and disc versions of AtariWriter, and are the equivalent to LPRlNTing the key sequence: ESC ESC W.

Missing some

games

l OWN an 800XL, but before that l had the 2600 VCS and some of the games, for example Starmaster by Act/vision, were good games but are not available for the home computer. Whyis this so?Aftera/lthey did it with River Raid, which is also a good game. Is there some problem with putting them on cassette, disc or another cartridge? 8. —

Lloyd, Brighton. 0 Not all games

from all

companies are brought out for all computers. The only way to get companies to bring out titles for the Atari is to make them know you want them. You can do that in two ways. Firstly write to them, and get your friends to do the same, telling them how many copies they'd sell if they did release it. The second, more general, point is this. When they do releaseagame you like, buy it, don't accept a copy of it. The last thing a company is to do is specially prepared. commussnon a game to be written costing tens of thousands of pounds then have it ripped off left, right and centre. -

Hall] the manual lT was with much interest that lread the letter by RB. Moss, in September’s Mailbag. I too had suffered the same prob— lem with my printerand Home Filing Manager.

Star Micron/cs 86-70, andl found upon further reading of the is

——

Huddersfield. 0 In order to interface a serial printer to the Atari you will need an RS-232 interface.The best is Atari's 850 module, but these are now very difficult to obtain. If you find one buy it! Otherwise a number of companies are bringing out their own modules, but we have not yet seen one on sale. if you are very technically —

minded, you could try to design your own interface via the joystick ports. However unless you are an experienced machine code programmer with a fairly good knowledge of electronics, our advice is: about it.

Don't

Antic magazine

3/12) carried

even

(Vol.

think 3/9 to of

series

articles about developing a serial interface for the FBI bus connector at the back ofthe XL computers.

So a simple LPRINT state— ment sets up the printer. Then boot Home Filing Manager

andno more weirdcharacters. The SG- 70 is Star's replacement for their Gemini 70X, one that many Atari owners will have heard of if they have access to the American magazines Antic andAna/og. / would enter one plea to Star Micron/cs. As they now

produce the 86—700, a Cammodore compatible version of

theSG-70,howaboutanAtari compatible version? That is, one that requires no separate interface. [1,5 {00 late f0f me, but/am sure it wouldboost theirsa/es to Atari owners. Final/y, thanks to Atari User and RB. Mass for the letter thCh prompted me 10 read my printer manual again. / have found several USEfU/ tips 7" Mai/bag. Bruce Allen, —

Burton-on—Trent.

ChBCk lt

again of

I WROTE to you a couple

to a rmter

more technical side of Atari C.L. Durkin, computing.

manual that it has the capability of 7 or 8 bit operation from software control.

My printer

printer Vll. I

equivalent

for the

/ HAVE recently bought an Atari 800XL and wish to interface it to other equip— ment, in particulara Tandy/inc

However

—

Munch game, and my dif?culty in getting it to work properly. we”: having (7901'de to take the advice You always other readers, l my typing by typing MUST 70 “ST 20 etc" through the complete pragram, and found "OM/779

give

10 ChEC/(ed

wrong. 50 / did the same again. Nothing. After doing this four (4) times, / EVehfua/ly founda letter 0 where there Shall/d have been a number 0 AIM

. December 7985 ATARI USER

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the game runs perfect/y. As I said in my earlier letter, lhave owned my 800XL only

/J"

now

week

owne’s

mistake, CHECK YOUR TYP/NG! Look for silly mistakes, not obvious ones. h W’h all be worth while i" the ehd‘ / have h'St fihiShed typing in Raider 7997 from the August Atari User although / don't '

errors. / don't

to do th’s

”he“

every time, but at least/know that all that checking is so very worth while. Peter Hunter, Norwich. —

Math paCk I0ck_up HA VE found on a few occasrons that while entering a program into my 600XL the computer Will 90 faulty. It doesn’t print any charac—

ters on the screen and does not carry out any instruction / give it. Howey” Whe" / press Reset the computer prints

READY and lets things in. But as press the Return

me type soon as / key / can’t

”7/31” anything again. Richard E- Newbould, Har— _

t t * I HAVE tried to program the Alphabet Train from your first issue on my 800XL. When I reach the end of line 490 the uter no Ion er responds to affy key pressegi,apart from Reset. This of course, clears the screen but then after typing LIST or RUN the same thing occurs. The keyboard gives no response to any combination of keys pressed. This problem is most fruscom

58 ATARI USER

December 7985

11)

DOS d’30 and prints fi/enames to the screen (2 on each line}. /OCB stands fOf input/out—

put contro/ b/ock. Porter, lsleworth-

—

trating as thereisno error/can correct andit results in the loss D.J. of many hours typing. —

Sharratt, Wolverhampton. .

sounds as though you both have a computer with the infamous math pack lock-up. This is due to a small problem with timing on the Atari 6502 chip, we gather, and can be easily fixed by replacing that chip with one of the newer versions. Consult your dealer and if it's still under guarantee they should replace the computer. a If similar anyone gets problem With an. old Atari solution even is 409/800 the in easrer. The problem your case is a bug in the Basnc cartrldge. |

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50 CLOSE 70

don'tlock

on toasignalaswell as the more expensive ones.

Also, the computer signal could well be drifting as it gets warm. Perhaps you should con— sider taking your computer back to your dealer, or better still contacting Atari's Service Department in Slough.

User group

sought trying to make withausergroup.l’ve

I’VE been contact

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in Wellington, Surrey, enclosing an sae but have received no reply from either. / can only think that both

groups, so perhaps you or your readers may know of a local

hag/f:£86k us '

..frxgzczzzc'tgzzsi the picture moving

about. / it was my TV and 100k ”70”th

group.—P.D. Little, Carshalton. 0 You've tried the only two addresses we have in that of has up-to—date

infor

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Kemp,

Farn-

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fault. Generally the cheaper TVS

2 SMCES

curse Inca

mums

plutures WHEN / got my 800?“ / only and White TV to

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HERE is a short program which will come in handy for any Atari owners who use a disc W” a“!

PO‘em’a’ ofAtariequipment

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Before takin the ZZdeltlfoughtyou hadgo be some kind ofwhjzz kid to usea computer. All/can saynowto all those .

AM startingaspecia/ interest

group forA tari computer users which wil/ concentrate on matters other than games music, robotics, computer art and other specialist activities. The idea is to promote the —

serious applications

Atari home computers. The group Will initial/y

Offer

two main services, a news/et— and a contact tar/magazine

serwce.

Members

lA/lSthQ article for

produce an publication Will not have it. refused on the grounds that It Is ofa too specialized nature, The contact service is for members who wish to exchange ideas With other members. if the basis Of the ideas fo the layout and programme Of rea thedgr07pnvagpffaéfn ers toovii/zit]; . to / a 68 for an enc osmg orm.— . L ea d er, app[7.8

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Puland l BOUGHT an Atari 800XL cassette starterpack andNoI Atari User magazine in London last month. The pack contains the Pole Position game, which appears to be defective. When /start to load after 1 5 seconds loading soundl hear “beep" and the cursor disap— pearg/can see I in the right bottom corner at the same time. The tape is rolling but/

don't hear a loading sound. After another 10 seconds the loading sound once again.

is heard

Other software, and the Atari Demo, which is on the other side of the cassette, works very well. / am a beginner in micros, so l'm very interested in your exciting magazine Atari User. Would you like to advise me if there is any possibility of getting other copies, because in Poland there isn’t anyAtari

service

M magazine. Witold, Gliwice, Poland. . YOU Wi” probably find that or

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the game is still loading quite correctly. The pause is simply while the computer CheCkS that the memory is OK to run Pole Position, then the rest of m

such units to an Atari are via the RS—232 port on the 850 module. Alternatively, use the joystick ports as simple parallel or 1-bit input/output ports to custom designed devices.

Try contacting any

com—

pany advertising such devices

for other machines to they would be RS—232

see if com—

patible.

Board open

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valid data to a file. This originating program would be run on several occasions before the secondary program was required. The handbooks I received with the computer and disc drive give me next to no information on writing data to and reading data from disc and into programs. Please could you advise me whether or not this can be done and also recommend a reference book on the subject.

M.C. Powell, Bristol. 0 You re rig ht, The handbooks provided with the 800XL are, shallwe say,a little lightweight. The program

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[AM writing to you on behalf of the Birmingham User Group, which has recently opened up a new bulletin board, the Central Bir— mingham Atari Bulletin Board

which you outline is, ofcourse, very simple to write given the

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software/hardware items are available by mail-order to anywhere in the world. Why not try Silica Shop or Software Express, or one of our other advertisers? You could also contact some of your own computer storesin Poland, and complain

Ma'lbag .

of Atari

Maze MUM” touwork.

get Er f or 8 th’s

llooked

$352thth

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variable" Can ou hel me clear thi 5 PyR ' . Ha?nI L elg h -onsizes u

can produce printed output, SO wouldn't/tbe niceiftheycou/d accept visual, printedand even

visual and

spoken input?

l would llke to develOP software to allowmy8OOXL to "see", "?ea"? Speak and lead and hape that you can provide the name of a company which and audio

dig/risers, voice synthesisers and optical character readers, compatible with theAtariZ—N. Buz—

zard0 The sort of items you ask about are available for many machines, but software is up to you, l'm afraid. You also will be talking of thousands of pounds worth of equipment.

Service, Our phone number is

027-430 3757, The board runs 24 hours a day, closed only on a Thursday. reapening again on Friday

7800

hours. Mick Coleman. sysop. Birming— at

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ham. _

nghtwelght handbOOk lBOUGHTanAtar/BOOXL and a 7050 disc drive in the hope

of writing programs that would be able to use data stored on disc by another program which accepted INPUT data, made certain checks on it and then write the

W/SH to write a small auto-run program that will load a Basic program which will be a menu to load more Basic programs. / hope to be able to boot straight in to my Atari 800. I have a 7050 disc drive. A.J.

—

Lowe, Leigh on Sea. O The

COMPUTERS

to connect

User, get [t

provuled

Inputs

The best way

game '” the September

Mailbag Editor Atari User Europa House 68 Chester Road Hazel Grove Stockport SK7 5NY

Williamson, Leighton

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P rogram

WE welcome letters from readers about your experiences using the Atari micros, about tips you would like to pass on to other users. and about what you would like to see in future issues. The address to write to is:

AIternatlve

makes

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productS! ,

the maze I HA

Oheck your listing! you cant stand to check it again, the cassette offer on Page 2818

Many magazines and

lack

L OSt In

minutes after the ..!.. appears, and you should be racing.

the

version, which has some extra information regarding the XL range.

magi/neelioacflzrln’gcgcrjnjet 83;

about

forget to ask for the updated

right information Basic uses the normal mm” and pmNT commands, but you will also need to know how to use OPEN, probably with both normal and random access files. The best book for this sort of information is "Your Atari

Computer", from Osborne/ McGraw Hill. This covers ri

Basic from first m

DOS 2.5 disc has a program on it which does what you want! See the order form at the back of this magazine to send for your COPY if you 9ff havent yet got one.

Co pyin 9

programs OWN an Atari 800 and lndus disc drive. / don‘t mind buying software but what I do mind is the chance of a speck of dust sending £75 hard I

GT,

earned 232,25“ggaZLiéjsaaéii’i?zgan: complex I/O control, which is what you want. It doesn't come cheap about £17 but it’s worth every penny. lf you can't get one from your local stores try one of our mail order advertisers. Don’t —

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cash down the drain.

Any respectable disc drive owner would make a back UP ofsuch programs andl WON/d lfl could, ”W theprogramsare protected. So could you POSSlblV _

. December 1985 ATARI USER

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Mailbag

review

copying pro-

some

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Also,

considering

n s I u

buying a printer, 80 a printer review would be useful. —

Parvin Bengal, Hartlepool.

s t rlng

m: mozfudzgaselzlspf?nzgeigf software industry. Because of the danger of misuse and impending legislation, we will not be publishing any reviews or adverts of products de-

for

ngigrgnmanly You have

raised

valid

point regarding personal back—ups of software, but until the public can be trusted not to .

arrays from character 10to character

St’i'79 arrays and I it foruse

D|MA$(1°°°)

23232?“ -

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wich ' 0 Atari ,

Stockton, North _

Basrc

have it string arrays such, but and does “long have 5_t”n95

be "sug-strinhgs" whichdcan use to t e same en A is simply 3 a gig/co“orega'cizgsenyvg:iz1ha%§long string of string set up for .

characters long whole of

Z?f?g?gr??m

have had problems with character de?ning. Another thing / would like to know IS ifmy can computer be upgraded With more memory, and if so, how high

can/go?

Congratulations

on a very only one

good magazine, suggestion / would make, 50 ATARI USER

December 7985

is a

P$,(S|_ZE) n With spaces:

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A$(1)=u

":A$(MAX

‘SIZE)=“ To set '

":A$(2l=l\$ element lTEM in our

INPUT B$

+1,ITEM‘SIZE)=B$ read element lTEM back To again, use:

B$=A$((ITEM—1)’ S'ZE+1"TEM'S'ZE) Thus, your example (assuming up to 40 characters per item) becomeS:

address of $4000 will not be useable, since that is actually beyond your machine's RAM

capacity. Try using

$3000

instead. Since the random numbers program is assembled at $4000, it will not run on a 16k machine as printed, and would need to be modified byte-by—

byte by

programmer

machine

code

in order to work.

Just changing the start won't make it run, unfortunately. You can upgrade a400 toa address

Memory update 'h to Wl/lfh an I get one,mezzo/CVOW mucer; can WI” It cost fOI' a RAM pack IO upgrade 1’0 48k? Where can/getandat what price a book explaining as fully as possible the POKE commands? HOW do you reload a tt program l' d me 5 C. using LIST [starry/706538. ._ kave eep get— eyeryth/ngnach/Iu'st ting ERR

HAVE

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ah600XL f e

upgrade

Brooker,

Poole,

the first _On two points, try Silica Shop ortrv ringing some our Pf advertisersfthey. cant include everything iii theiradSlike to Th? bOOKVOii’ mighl ls the Mapping investigate Atan by Ian Chadwuck at a COSt ofaround 515To reoload a LISTed pro— gram, try ENTER ”C1" _

IN the October issue of Atari User you published a letter from Mr Dunstan of Cornwall

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0 Most listings we print are for more than 16k, I'm afraid. Hexer will run on a 6k machine, but its default

Momtor

Tyne.

attempted

This is little than the but it a more complex TI verSion, the JOb' all Bas'°"_XL Microsoft Basrc, etc, have array operations bunt 'n', so th's technique becomes usmg any Of these _when redundant Andre Willey. languages.

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A$((|TEM—1)’SIZE

d°?s string

however. How about telling us poor folk with smaller machines how much memory is needed per listing? G. Davidson, Newcastle upon

.n°t the nowce.

I' e Bolznt

A rray”, use:

COUNTER*40)=BS

random

Then,

40 LsT COUNTER=COUNTER+1 50 GOTQ 20

run on an

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A$(MAX.SIZE)

10 DIM A$l1000*40l, B$(40l 20 A$(1)=“ ": A$(1000'40)=" ":A$(2)=A$ 30 INPUT as: A$((COUNTER—1)'40+1,

l have tried a number of times, only for the program to crash after printing very few random numbers. l would also like to know if the listings printed in your brilliantmagazine—BombI-?un and Frog Jump are suitable formyre/ic fromAzari’s pastas

of portion. any string, accessed by usmg two numbers m brackets after the string name. For example, A$(10,40l would mean a smaller string

you please whether your Hexer program

and the subsequent

thousands

an_array.

A sub—string

6k tell

DIM

does not

country.

Hexer on

string,array Letssay

‘

COULD

Of A$~

routines. want to DlMa we for up to Simulated string array MAX items, each of up to SIZE characters long. Let's use ITEM to indtcate which element we’re talking about (B$ will be a temporary holding string). First, you must DlM the string With:

22:23;

Running

The problem is, how to get in Basic, The format would be in a similar manner to this, but with a different approach:

string arrays

20 INPUT A3 (COUNTER) 30 L E T C 0 U N T E R =

protected, the company who make the program should provide you with a replace_ ment at nominal cost provid— ing You send them the faulty disc and a CODY ofyour receipt.

pu tTlt'iese?'tiwotfeatutres oge er 0 wri e ou031;vi

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It pirate software by. copying illegally for their friends, such "Ct only protection bUt Val“ ecome more

There are devices which can copy protected software none of which will fit an Indus GT— but due to the possibility of misuse, they are not generally imported into the

Showd

involves

internal,

Fitting

t e requires so isering on to arid so motherboard, computer's

IVE written a database program for my T799/4A which

copYinQ

full 48k, but you may ?nd it difficult to get the upgrade board these days. Try the major mail order companies, or a local Atari speCialist.

grams?

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800XL from Silica Shop and joined their user’s club he received no information or news—sheet from them and neither did his brother. In the reply to this letter,

you stated

that the Atari

Owners Monitor is only pubIished quarter/y. lwou/dlike to clarify some points here. First, Monitor is a magazine published by the UK Atari Computer Owners Club every quarter and has no association with Silica Shop. The Club isanindependent organisation set up in 7979

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