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W'” COSt £8995 machine run It M.“ be expandableto all ex'Shhg Ata” 8 b"‘ 5_°ft‘ ware on cassette. The loystick, data recorder and light gun come With a keyboard for about £40 This produces a fu” 64k compU‘er SYS‘em for 5129-95 Jack Atari chairman Tramiel said at the launch that more than 400 pieces of software were available for the machine even before it was launched. Because of the promotional effort Atari was putting into the machine around the world — particularly in the us

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"Effeh/thing being pluoged m; we are 90an to be a is

He told Journalists and dealers at the recent Atari Computer Show that he had just raised $75 million of long-term backing in Europe. This meant finances were in order and the product range was right. ”We are ready to go", he said. “We need your support but on the other hand we are spending $10 million promoting Atari in the us this year. We hope you software people will find a home there; if you try we will support you with everything we can. ,

majorforce”. The Atari chairman said he could smell success in the air in Britain now that Bob Gleadow was in charge. ”He has made all the difference”. Until Gleadow’s arrival, Atari UK was losing money. This year it was expected to break even and next move into profitability. he Gleadow revealed would expect to turn over £30 million this year. The least he Could exoect next year was £50

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ATARI Corporation earned more than four times as much inthefirstquarterof this year as it did in the same period last year. lncome was $9.3 million compared with $1.8 million in the first three months of 1986—3412per cent rise. Worldwide sales in the

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New mission

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AT last there is a sequel to Planetfa/l, featuring one of interactive fiction’s favourite characters, Floyd the lovable robot. American publisher lnfocom has released the Atari XL/XE version of Stationfa/l in which you are enlisted in the Stellar Patrol and sent on a mission with the playful Floyd.

SOFTWARE houses showed to C3"; their commltment tridge games for the new 8 b't machines'at the ShOW-100The pUth reSponded, They crowded lnto the to make _Novotel onlthe Frlday it the best flrstday ever, 1,000 Up 10” DfeVIOUS opening SGZS'OhS0 many peop e h a d wanted to exhibit that organisers, Database, had booked more space. The 70 0" 50 an exhibitors reported excellent response from an informed public. Software publishers gave a universal thumbs up to the new games machine pledgmg |0t$ Of support for it and |

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He is recruiting like-minded Atari users for a new special

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"The group was set up to combat what many people consider Atari computers to that is, purely games be machines”, he told Atari —

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Bubble Trouble Players

CREATIVE Sparks Distrlbution has just Signed a major deal with Atari because it believes the company now knows what it’s doing. Vince Holton, CSD marketing manager said: “We firmly believe that 1987 will be Atari’s year. "It is evident that both conand dealers are sumers becoming excited about the variety of Atari products." The deal, says Holton, is part of Atari’s attempt to

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FEARS that the US-Japan trade war would affect Atari’s _UK operation have been dispelled by British boss Bob Gleadow.

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AUTORUN.SYS file from Basic. Notice that in this case the header data must be included in the DATA statements (line 70). To round

things off let’s look at an AUTORUN.SYS file which will load and run a Basic program automatically on power-up. Program ”I is the source code forthose readers who are interested. It inserts a new editor handler which

Basic now takes

control, and

carries

out the instructions in the text Iine. Th'S clears the screen, makes text ViSIble then finally loads and runs agalnc the specnfied Basm The net p_r0_granj~ ls d'thUh to d'St‘hQU'Sh from a result Single-stage machine code autoboot. AQTORUN-SYS iS ideal for CUS' tomismg'the operating system, Of even add'hg extra facilities.to Basic itself, and we will be presenting a few interesting VOUt'heS in future lSSU€S~

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Minter might be more famous for his 064 games, but he's always had

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spot for the 8 bit Atari. Attack of the Mutant Camels the game that started it

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with all the best shoot— 'em-ups, Mutant Camels is easy to play but almost impossible to master. The As

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machines that now march relentlessly on their path of destruction. Your job is to stop them. The countries of the world have united to provide you withasmall but highly manoeuvrable ship to fly between the deadly beasts, blast them with neutron bolts (thus wearing down

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FIGHT Night offers five different modes of play main event, construction, train— ing, sparring and tournament. Control of your boxer is by joystick and you are limited to eight basic moves fake or throw a punch to the body or head, put your guard up or down, and move left or right. Although punches never actually seem to connect, the recipient nevertheless doubles up or jerks his head —

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the three, three minute rounds, you must either outpoint him or knock him out. Each time you land a blow your score goes up and the contender’s KO indicator increases. The greater the length of the K0 indicator, the closer to being knocked out. 18 Atari User June 1987

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other in a knockout competition. The graphics are ofafairly high standard although the animation is a little on the slow and jerky side.

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classic American steam a journey more hazardous than anything Casey Jones ever undertook. Most of the screen is taken upwithaside—onview of an impressive red steam

pushing up or pulling down on your joystick. There are other reasons why you’ll need to keep a weather eye open. A

train on

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tracks at frequent intervals. If it hits your train, you’re a

engine,

engine chugs away to the right along the track, or rather, it gives that impression. In fact, the train The

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you, there are other than evasive

action to deal with that particular peril. A quick pull to the right with your joystick fires a missile — very handy when you’re on a collision course with a handcart.

mountainous terrain) slides smoothly to the left. At the bottom of the screen is an overhead view of a criss-crossing, six lane railway system. This lets you see some distance ahead and behind and so

also comes from the skies in the form of planes and airships which drop red bombs. The best way to deal with this aerial bombardment is to fire a Danger

ANOTHER platform game, l’m afraid, and not a terribly good one at that even taking into account its cheapness. The main screen of House of Usher is supposed to repthe reception hall of resent this ill-famed house. ‘To enter a room, you srmply pOSl?Oh your small, rather nondescript, characterin front ofa door. By pushing forward on the joystick and pressing the fire button the screen will change to show the appropriate room. Every room offers a series of platform puzzles. Most

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last two rooms and what results when you discover the code word can only be guessed at, since i have not so far reached them _ due in equal parts to my lack of skill and the absence of interest or excitement

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preview of Gauntletin the April issue of Atari User you know that it is a conversionof the arcade game.

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the arcade title screen of Thor the Warrior and Thyra the Valkyrie in action. Then you choose betweena one or two player game, then which character or characters you are going to use

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and drink to replenish your health. But take care what you consume, as some food and drink is poisoned. The exits are marked with a large E, and transport you to the next level. One of the later levels is a dungeon

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WELCOME heroes everywhere to another visit to the world of Adventure. First of all | must announce a change of party members. My old pal Brillig has decided that the lure of the new ST has proven too much of a temptation even for him. He has gone off to concentrate on that for Atari St User. As

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drill box (the number is on the list) open box and get gem. The'answer comes from Chris Beard who says that J C Bradbury asks where to find the combination in Lapis Philosophorum. You need to clean up the sheet of copper using the rags from the monastery, then use the copper to reflect some hieroglyphics on a boulder in a swamp. Also, to enter the cave just

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By Nik Kiokpasoglou, Greece

Escape from Traam, by Jyym Pearson: If you have found the alien warrior, type TALK: The program will respond with some letters. Type TALK again: The program will respond again, with different letters. The letters are words, but they are written in code. The coded words are: TFRBY AW HXW YCOV SBV VFCD RH XWFW UORAT HXW YCOVWB HFWW SBV KSHUX ZCF wa HFSSAG...... I broke the code, and the final code was: BRING ME THE GOLD AND DROP IT HERE.CLIMB THE GOLDEN TREE AND WATCH FOR THE TRAMMS...THEY EAT EARTHLINGS.

0 Dallas Quest. The complete responses are: East, get envelope, north, get sunglasses, north, offer sunglasses, enter barn, drop owl, get shovel, south, south, south, south, west, get bugle, west, dig, dig, blow bugle, dig, read tombstone. Then: East, north, open desk, get pouch, close desk, drop money,

north, north, west, west, north, examine airplane, offer envelope, get knapsack, open knapsack, drop knapsack, get parachute, close knapsack, jump, open pouch, offer pouch, close pouch, drop parachute, south, south, south. Now: Tickle anaconda, south, south, enter dinghy, open pouch, offer pouch, close pouch, row dinghy, blow bugle, drop bugle, drop shovel, enter post, draw curtain, get flashlight, get mirror, open pouch, offer pouch, close pouch, drop photo, drop mirror, drop ring, drop pouch, light flashlight, climb ladder, drop flashlight, east. Then: Enter post, get ring, climb ladder, drop ring, east, enter post, get photo, climb ladder, drop photo, east, enter post, get pouch, climb ladder, drop pouch, east, enter post, get mirror. And finally: Climb ladder, get ring, get photo, get pouch, get flashlight, west, extinguish flashlight, show photo, get coconuts, west, open pouch, offer pouch, give eggs, offer mirror, wave ring, heat eggs, light flashlight, drop ring, get map. J.R will appear and make an offer to you.You don't want to accept it, so type NO. You will go back to Southfork Ranch. Type GIVE MAP and the game ends with 112 moves.

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money spiders. And these horrible little creatures get very annoyed when you try to take their savings. Luckily for you they are not very intelligent, and you can avoid them by confusing them at junctions. This can be done by watching which way they travel when they encounter a

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300 POSITION H,V:? #6;CHR$(33) 310 0H=H:OV=V 330 LOCATE X,Y+DY,Z:IF Z<>131 THEN +01 340 IF 350 IF 360 IF

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380 IF 390 IF 400 IF

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450 LOCATE XX,YY+DYY,ZZ:IF zz<>131 N YY=YY+DYY 460 IF ZZ=131 THEN DYY=-DYY 470 IF IZ=165 THEN B=165 480 IF IZ=33 OR ZZ=41 THEN 1280

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1710 1720

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BEFORE

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customising the operating system to your own requirements let's first answer the question left you with in the April issue of Atari topic

—

0“

—

Why should it take so much longer to send 1000 bytes of data when using the PUT command than it does with the Binary Put routine we gave you? Well, the reason is not all that hard to work out if you think about how the OS actually works when you give it a task. Each time you access it to send some data, it first needs to take care of a lot of internal calculations, such as working out the handler addresses and moving the Input/Output Control

rue

User:

Ine .

Block. Even at machine code speed this takes a little time, and while you won't notice it when you call a routine once, you will start to see the effect if you call the OS 1000 times and this is why the extra delay occurs. So far we’ve looked at the way that the operating system carries out your commands, but let's now examine the potential for expansion that it gives

Part 5 Of '

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—

genes

the

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you know, the OS has a number of internal device drivers such as those for the cassette, printer and screen available from the moment you switch on the machine. In addition, there are a number of extra peripherals you can add to your Atari each of which needs to add its own handler to the existing set. These include the disc operating system and the R3232 interface routines, both of which are capable of loading — or booting — their own handler routines as required. This facility gives us a very neat way to add our own routines to the OS, or indeed to —

—

customise the existing ones. is a simple machine code Program device driver. It is not designed to do anything especially useful, but it does I

demonstrate the basic principles required when constructing a new device handler.

In fact, all each of the six commands does is to change the screen colour so that you can see it has worked. The rest of the program is perfectly valid

for any driver, so you could insert your own routines quite easily by replacing the colour changing instructions such

at lines 540 to 560. you think back to the first part of this series you will recall that the OS uses a table of device names and handler addresses known as HATABS (at address $31A) to keep track of the currently available drivers. This table, shown in Figure I, consists ofa single Ascii byte forthe handler name C, P, D, S and so on plus a two byte number. This is the address of a further table which gives the actual memory locations of the various Open, Close, Put, Get and other data handling routines. If we want to patch our OWn driver into the OS, we must first look for a free space in HATABS. Since each three-byte entry starts with an Ascii character, we can check every third byte to find the names used by the OS so far. As soon as we find a zero entry as those If

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+ + + + + + + + + + + +

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Assumes _2-5 Unused emf'es are “mad pfésen’fW'“‘ 29'05‘ Figure ,_ The Hand/er Address Table (HATABS) at $37A (7.94) 38 Atari User June 7987

know that we have come to the end of the used portion of the table, so we and caansertrour a resst ere.otvn ines 50 to hagdler's‘lgame Odo this, adding the name X: tothe current HATABS list. In fact, the OS always starts searching from the end of the table, so you could even add a device name that already exists and the new version would then be used instead ofthe original one. The two-byte address should point to a 15 byte table (lines 150 to 210) within your machine code which contains six addresses—or vectors and a jumpinstruction.These addresses will we

—

point to the six major routines that the

OS can access— Open, Close, Get, Put, Status and Special. In fact, due to the internal workings of the OS,the addresses given in your table should be one byte lower than

the actual location of the machine code routine. The jump instruction is a simple JMP INlT which will only be used to initialise the handler, and often does nothing more than return

with an RTS, as in our example. When you access your device, the OS checks the ICCOM command byte to decide which of the six routines to use. Open, Close and Status (3, 12 and 13) are obvious, as are the various Put and Get commands (5, 7, 9 and 11), but what about the Special commands such as fill and rename file? Well, if the OS finds an ICCOM command number greater than the normal maximum of 13, it will use the Special vector at the end of the table, and your driver should check to see whether it can handle the command number requested. By the time your routines take control, the IOCB information will have been transferred into the Zero Page lCOB (ZIOCB) at $20. This means that you never need to

———————_O { |

worry which channel number the callall the inforing program is using mation you require will always be located in the ZIOCB. The ICCOM command byte will thus always be found at $22 (three bytes into the ZIOCB). In our example, lines 890 to 930 check whether this value is 100 the only command number that we will allow in this case. Of course, you can check for any numbers you want here, thus allowing a lot of flexibility beyond the normal data in/out —

—

i '

operations. After completing whatever tasks it needs to do, your routine should place any error code into the Y register and update the ZIOCB with any changes which have occurred. Normally the Y register should contain a value of if

‘

no error has occurred, as in the Open, Close, Get, Put and Status examples

shown. In the case of the Special command, any ICCOM number other than 100 should generate an error, and hence line 920 sets the Y register to 146—the error code for Function Not Implemented—and returns.

Channels

When writing new handlers you should always bear in mind that the System Reset button willwipe out any user-defined drivers and replace the original rom-based set. Programs that need to get around this problem must trap the Reset routines by means of the CASINl or DOSINI locations. When the system boots it sets a flag called BOOT? to indicate if any special will be required when initilisation Reset is pushed. If this flag is set to 1, the disc vector at DOSINI is used. If it is 2, then the cassette vector CASINl will be used and a value of 3 means that both cassette and disc software

code. In this case this is not necessary, because our driver is so short that it fits into page 6, which is always

protected anyway. For those of you who don’t have access to an assembler, Program u is a Basic version of the handler. It works in exactly the same way but is POKEd into page 6 and initialised via a USR

command. Lines 240 to 530 provide a full demonstration of what each command does, plus the effect of using a value other than 100 in an XIO command. This section may be typed in separately if you have already loaded the handlerfrom an assembled file. 0 Well that's it. You may /ike to experiment further to find out which types of error are handled by the 05 and which are handled by the device driveritse/f— you maybe surprised by how little the OS actually does. You could also have a go at LlSTing, LOADing or SAVEing with the X: driver and watch the screen colours change as the OS performs different

—

requires initialising. To avoid any complications with Dos you can always cheat the system little and put your initialise address into CASINl and alter the BOOT? flag a

to 3. This will fool the 05 into thinking that a cassette boot has also taken place, and thus initialise your code alongside that of Dos. This is done in lines 420 to 480. Normally, you would also need to adjust the LOMEM pointers to make sure that nothing overwrites your

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DATA

53,6,6A,6,75,6,86,6,97,6,108 6,76,129,6,160,0,185,26,3,240 8,200,200,200,192,30,208,244 0,169,88,153,26,3,169,0,153 27,3,169,6,153,28,3,169,131 133,2,169,6,133,3,96,169,0 141,198,2,141,200,2,160,1,96 169,52,141,198,2,141,200,2 160,1,96,169,132,141,198,2

600 610

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198,2,141,200,2',160,1,96,169 246,141,198,2,141,2IIO,2,16 1,96,165,34,201,100,240,3,160 146,96,169,196,141,198,2,141 200,2,160,1,96,96,1I4,32,15 6,165,9,9,2,133,9,96

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My problem is linked to the SETCOLOR statement. Before I read some data in from disc Iprint a message in Graphics mode 2. However, I, often find that the colours / have set do "Of appear immediately, bUt often take four or ?ve seconds to come onscreen. I understand that this has something to do with shadow registers, but I’m not too sure what these are—can you help?—A. Pratt, Sollhull, West Midlands. 0 You are indeed correct in what you say and the problem is ii?ked to these mysterious shadow colour registers. There are two types of colour regiS.

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computer display systems: if YOU change a colour value while the diSplay is being updated 0“ the television YOU Wiii see an annoying jump 0" the screen.Thisis most pronouncedwhen YOU are using flashing COiOUI’sTo avoid this, the Atari only updates the actual hardware colour registers during the blank period between each TV frame or the Vertical Blank period

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round this in one of two ways. Firstly you could use a simple FOR...NEXT loop to delay the program

until the next Vertical Blank has occurred - a loop of 50 times should be ample for this purpose. Alternatively, you could POKE the hardware register directly. Each of the software registers (708 to 712) has a hardware equivalent (53270 to 53274). All you need to do is POKE the hardware register with the value held in the shadow. If you have just set the colour _of the 708 shadow you could use: POKE

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extreme/ygrateful if you could supply a solution to this prob[am as the local computer clubs are unable to help, claiming that the Atari Mr A. P. is only a games machine. Tuite, Tyn-Y-Groes, Gwynedd, Wales. O The answer to your problem is —

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packages for the 48k Atari and more are on the way. We’re looking at three of them this

month

Midi Master, Replay and Digidrum/Synth. The first contains six programs — an eight track Midi sequencer, CZ voice editor, DX100/21 voice editor, CZ keyboard split utility and two programs which WIII play, Vla Midi, music created with the Music Composer and the Advanced Music, System. You get an interface, too, which lu s into one of the disc drive’s I/O gorge It even has six feet of wire attached with Midi DIN plugs on the end so you can connect it straight into your synth. The plugs are marked in pen with an and an 0 but these soon rub off, so it’s a good idea to tape on a couple of labels. The trade-off for all these programs is a general lack of facilities, but you do get lots to play with. The sequencer is controlled from one screen and operation is a piece of pie. You can record on up to eight tracks but each is monophonic, which means it can only record one note at a time. The tracks are listed down the left side of the screen with seven parameters across the top, REC, PLY, PGM, TRP, REP, LEAD and GAP. You alter parameters by moving the cursor on to them and typing in new values. Thankfully you don’t have to hold down Control to operate the

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you delay the start of a track and, finally, GAP wit! produce a delay beforethe track repeats. You can save and load a piece of music, wipe a track and play and record. There is also a time input option which lets you tap Out the rhythm of a recordedtrack. This is the nearest you get to step-time input, as all tracks must be recorded in realtime but see the Music Player pro—

grams. Let’s say

straight off that what the sequencer program does it does well but a comparison (however odious that may be) with almost any other piece of Midi software finds it lacking in the facilities department. For example, one ofthe main attrac46 Atari User June 1987

tions of Midi sequencing is the ability to record a piece slowly and speed it up on playback, but Midi Master can’t do this (although you can set the metronome speed to help you keep time as you record). Other features which you might expect to find are also missing. There are no editing or copying facilities, and it doesn’t record velocity or pitchbend information. The program doesn’t send a Notes Off message when you stop playback, and notes on your synthesiser will drone on until you reset it. It doesn’t transmit Midi sync messages, so controlling a drum machine could be

awkward. I’d love to be able to catalogue the disc, too. Okay, that’s a pretty big list, but there is good news. Apart from being easy to use, the program works a treat with Casio CZ synths. The CZ series are multitimbral instruments, which means they can sound more than one tone at the same time under computer control. It’s a doddle to record four parts and by altering the PGM parameter you can

experiment with different

sounds

playback.

Another bonus for Casio CZ owners voice editor. This shows all the synth’s parameters on screen at once and you alter them by moving the cursor and typing in new values. It has no frills and can only handle one sound at a time. If you have a C2230 this is perfect as is the C2

it lets you edit the otherwise inaccessible four programmable voices. A CZ menu program lets you instantly load any of the voices on disc. A new addition to the disc is the C2 split facility which lets you play one sound on the lower end of the key-

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The two final programs let you load in and play music produced with the Music Composer cartridge and the Advanced Music System. The manual admits there are limitations because of the way the programs handle music data but they can still produce excellent results. '

The most amazing part of Midi Master is the price. Even though it may be short on features in a few areas, if you want to make music with Midi and your Atari — and especially if you have a C2 synth — you really cannot afford to be without this package. It is terrific value for money, and if you have a C2230 it is a must. Replay is something different — a sound sampling system. The necessary circuitry is housed in a cartridge which plugs into the cartridge port, and there are five programs on the

support disc. A 15 inch flying lead ending in a mini jack plug runs from the cartridge and plugs into a sound source, such as a tape recorder or hi fi, for sampling wish this lead had been a purposes. I

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through your TV or monitor speaker and the sound quality suffers accordingly. An audio-out socket would have been nice, and would have made the

recording of your Replay experiments

easier and cleaner. The main program is called Replay and this lets you sample and playback a sound. You can select six sampling rates — 6KHz, 8KHz, 10KHz, 12KHz,

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speaker. Careful positioning of the start and end point markers can often get rid of unwanted noise, and good recording

procedure is very important, too. You have to set the output and recording levels carefully to get the

best results. The User program allows you to use samples in your own Basic routines: What makes this especially useful is that you don’t need the cartridge to play them back, so you can give

copies of your programs to your friends. Imagine your program saying, “Now press Fire!”—or whatever other words your mind can conjure up. The sample does occupy memory of course, but not so much that you

couldn’t write some interesting pro-

8. That missing C at the top is rather as, indeed, is the one restricting octave limitation — but you can enter —-

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Digidrum converts your Atari into a software-based drum machine which uses drum samples taken with Replay at a sample rate of 10KHz. You can program up to 29 patterns of up to 28 steps and chain them into a song. A song consists of up to 32 steps,

each step consisting of a pattern number and the number of times it is to be repeated. This construction is similar to the method used by many dedicated drum machines. Options are accessed from pulldown menus and you select the pattern (to be edited), then edit mode,followed by play, which is a bit fussy. It would be nice if you could hear the pattern and select patterns from the edit screen. You can't load in new samples in place of the- existing drum sounds, which would have been terrific, but perhaps that’s asking a bit much. (Watch out for 2 Bit’s Percussion Master, which lets you do just that!) Available sounds include bass drum, snare, mid tom, low tom, cowbell, hand clap and open and closed hi hats. You can only play two drums at once, and certain combinations can't sound at the same time (such as the hi hats and the cowbell) but you can produce some pretty good results with a little thought and careful programming. Digisynth, as you may gueSS from the name, does for sequencers what Digidrum does for drums. You can load new voices into Digisynth and use them to play a sequence of up to 256 notes within a single octave

and play back simple tunes quite effectively. It is interesting to hear how the character ofa tune can alter when played with different sounds. New to the package is Echo, which can produce a delay ranging from 2/ 100ths of a second to 1.3 seconds. It can do some rather funny things to recorded music, and it will work on your speech too, although you will

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significantly more powerful fea-

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the price. Buythese if you buy nothing else!

2 Bit is currently working on an enhanced version of Midi Master which will include a 16 track polyphonic sequencer and a score writer. Now that will be something.

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ACE .

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PAD(P): U39d_ to create multicharacter graphics. it '5 also used to deSign'animationframes “59d during the Animation section. To enter Pad press There are furP; .

cursor square. In Graphics 0 use the Caps and Inverse keys to select uppercase, Iowercase and inverse characters. In Graphics 1 and 2 these keys are used to select a colour from the palette of four foreground colours. Because of this,on|y 64 characters are availablein modes and 2 uppercase letters, numbers and symbols (screen codes 0 to 63). Screen codes 64 to 127 — Iowercase and Control+key graphic sym-

or 2 Pad display of space character using different colours. As if by magic more colours will appear. Switch to graphics 0 and what is normally a two colour mode (foreground and background) has acquired other colours. This effect is more dramatic with some colours than others try experimenting with this effect using the Colour option.

For Graphics 1 and 2 characters the four colours are selected by means of the Caps and Inverse video keys:

facility to hold up to nine separate Pad displays in memory for use in the Animation mode or for storing graphic designs. To switch from one screen to

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will appear on the Pad display. Any character key that you press will be printed to the Pad screen at the current cursor position. The cursor is moved around the screen by means of a joystick. in Graphics 0 do not use any noncharacter keys such as Delete, Tab or Insert. You should also avoid using the * key as it is used to make up the 48 Atari User June 1987

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Because the Escape key is accepted as a valid character in Graphics 1 and 2 it cannot be used to exit from the Print option. instead, press the Start function key to return to the Pad menu ‘ then press Escape if V?” want to return from Pad to the main menu.

WIPE(W): —

pressgv5. secon

Graphics

large blocks

—

SCREEN CHANGE(1-9): ACE has the

another

menu press Escape.

erase the Pad display this Operation takes a few

T°_

Wipe fills all the current Pad display with spaces. It is possible to edit the space character just like any other during the Edit option, but in normal circumstances this is not recommended unless you deliberately want to create a textured background. One interesting aspect of editing the space character is to create artifacting effects which take advantage of how your television handles colour information. Try editing the space character so that it resembles a chess board with alternate pixels plotted.

ress ke 1 t fr m P mode. viihen inytshe gr?nt/gadtii§o;g use the Option key to go up a screen and the Select key to go down. When saving Pad screens you will

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data, ACE also saves the colour registers so that, when loading screens from cassette or disc, the colour regist ers w' 'II b ec h ange d b ac k tot h esave d

values

ANIMATlONiA): The animation facility .

displays a quick succession of Pad screens to create graphic movies. This mode is entered by pressing key A from the main menu. A Pad screen (1 to 9) may be allocated for each frame Of the animation. Press Escape after entering the screen of the final in numltzer ion sequences frarrae your anima t ese need not be the maximum nine frames. The frames will then be display in quick succession. Animation speed is preset to (fast). To change speed move the joystick down(slower) or up(faster). The animation sequence will stop while the speed is being adjusted. Press the fire button to return to animation. To stop —

animation and return to the main

menu press Escape, The animation effect is handled by a Basic subroutine and achieves high

speed smooth

animation without

Utility 980 IF KEY=10 20:1(Eyzzss 990 IF KEY=63 10:KEY=255 5215 111511 ACE

1030:GOSUB

GOSUB

THEN

1030:GOSUB

GOSUB

THEN

6010 IF 31:7 1ng COL=C0L+1;CUR1:CUR1+ ”MODE" THEN

POKE

5220

REM

5230 521.0

GOSUB

2960:POSITION 2,8z?

GOSUB

2550

5250

POKE

—

53):RETURN 5560 IF KEY=48

”PAD"

764,255:POKE 209,1:POSITION

I=25 TO 31:POK DLISTFI,2:NEXT IzPOKE DLIST122,66:PA

THEN

FOR

IF PEEK(1548)=H THEN POSITION 27, 7:? "ATASCII" 5270 IF PEEK(1548)=224 THEN POSITION 2 7,7:? "ATASCII" 5280 POSITION 27,9z? "PRINT"

5260

27,8:7

5290 POSITION 5300 POSITION

THEN

GOSUB

1030:GOSUB

THEN

GOSUB

1030:GOSUB

49I:POKE 209,1:GOT0 5240 5370 IF Kgy=37 THEN GOSUB 1030:GOSUB 5 430:GOSUB 2550:GOT0 5240 5380 IF KEY=65 AND PEEK(1548)=224 THEN POKE 1548,M:GOSUB 1030:POKE 209,1:GOT 5240 5390 IF KEY=65

PEEK(1548)=H

AND

THEN

1030:POKE 209,1:GOT 1548,224:GOSUB 0 5240 5400 IF KEY=80 THEN GOSUB 1030:POKE’ 20 9,1:GOSU8 5610:GOTO 5240 5410 IF KEY>48 AND KEY<58 THEN 60508 1

OKE

030:POSITION 27,3:SCREEN=KEY-48:? EEN

5420 5430 5440

”;SCREEN:GOSUB 6780:GOTO ? CHRS(253):GOTO 5240 REM PAD NIPE GOSUB

"SCR

5240

2550:POSITION 27,10:?

5470

FOR

I=0

"RIPE

RETURN

SMSCREENHI,

320:POKE

0:115x1 1:11am 5480 REM HODE

S49I 1

GOSUB

2550:POSITION 27,8z? "GR.0,

2?"

using machine code. The data from each Pad screen is stored in a separate area Of ram. The screen d'Spl-ayl'St'sCUSto-m'sed so that the operating system ponnts to the area of ram where the first Pad '

screen .'5 '°°.a‘ed- BY SW'?'Y “pd?“"g this pomter In the display list usmg a technique known as page-flipping, an

animation effect 6210 to 6830 of operation. ~

KEY=50

THEN

is achieved. Lines ACE organise this -

DLIST+I,7:NEXT I:POKE

I=25 TO 28:POK DLIST+22,71:PA

Many commercial arcade games,

such as Gauntlet, use rede?ned characters, and you should qurckly find that ACE will become an inva_|uab'e Part Of .

THEN

ROH=14:CUR1=CUR1-4

ROH=17

THEN

ROH=15:CUR1=CUR1-4

6080 IF ST=14

RON>1

AND

:CUR1=CUR1-40 6090 POKE 84,ROH:POKE 6100 RETURN "PRINT”:POSITION

RON=ROH=2

THEN

85,COL

6110 REM CURSOR MODE 6120 IF ST=7 THEN COL=COL+1=CUR1=CURT+ 1

6130 IF COL=20 THEN COL=0:CUR1=CUR1-Z0 6140 IF 51:11 THEN COL=COL-1:CUR1=CUR1 -1

6150

cop-1

111511

c01=19:cua1=c11111+2

6160 1; 31:13

PAD=1

AND

RON=ROH+1:CUR1=CUR1+20 6170 11: 31:13 AND ”0:2 R011=ROH+1:CUR1=CUR1+20 6130 1; 31:14 AND RON>0 :CUR1=CUR1-20

AND

ROH<7

THEN

AND

RON<3

THEN

ROH=ROH-1

THEN

6210

REM

CC=202 5730 IF PAD>0

6220 903115 2540:GOSUB 2960:FOR 1:1 9:ORDER(I)=1:NEXT 1 6230 1703171011 2,0;7 "ANIHATE":I=1 6240 POSITION 27,7:7 "FRAME ",-1;" 7"; 6250 poxg 764,255

FLG=128

AND

SHF=64

CC=138 5740 IF PAD>0 AND FLG=0 AND SHF=0 THEN CC=74 CURT 5750 L=PEEK(CUR1+SH(SCREEN)):POKE 2:NEXT

D:POKE CUR1+SH(

84,ROH:POKE

6260

ANIMATE

GOSUB

6290 IF KEY<49

53mm

= 3 AND E 5020’IFREEUNH53279)

SCREEN <

SCREEN=SCREEN+1zGOSUB 6780:POKE 1030'GOTO 5670 54 I SCREEN+16'GOSUB

THE 511+1

THE

1115

5920

m=0

111511

PAD=1

eosue 6000 PAD=2 THEN 00808 6110

84,RON:POKE

85,COL

1151111111 REM

RETURN

87,0 HIBYTE=INT<SHI2561:L08YTE=SM-(HIB YTE*256) 5950 POKE 88,1.0BYTEzPOKE 89,HIBYTE 596” POKE 75211 5930 5940

POKE

2550 5970 GOSUB 5980 B-PEEKHZUR) 5990 6000

RETURN REM

CURSOR

11005

THEN

CHR$(2

I<10

THEN

ORDER(

I)=SCREEN

6320 6330 6340 6350

POSITION IF 1:10

27,3:?

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GOSUB

THEN

",'SCREEN;

103mm“) 6380

1=1+1

60508 6680 6360 GOSUB 678” 6370 GOTO 6240 6330 11511 MOVEMENT _ _ 6390 I-I-1:POKE 1652,0.IF 0RDER(1)-01 HEN

RETURN

6400 POSITION 26,7:? SPszPosmon 27,7 "

"SCREEN

“;ORDER(Z

)

6440

RETURN

5880 5890 5900 5910

6300 GOSUB 1030 6310 SCREEN=KEY-48:IF

n ;1;" runes

CURSOR

ROH=PEEK(84):COL=PEEK(85) 587i sr=snc1<<0):rr PEEK(764)<>255

KEY>57

6270

6410 SPEED=1 6420 F011 1:1 to 1 6430 POSITION 27,3:?

5700 MOVE

5830 IF PEEK(53279)-5 AND SCREEN>1 N SCREEN=SCREEN~1zeosus 678090“ 54,SCREEN+16:GOSUB 1030:GOTO 5670 REM

1030:GOT0

GOSUB

THEN

AND PEEK(84)=16 THEN POK 84,0:POKE 85,0:CUR1=0 5780 IF PAD=1 AND PEEK(84)=8 THEN POKE 84,0:POKE 85,0:CUR1=0 5790 IF PAD=2 AND PEEK484)=4 THEN POKE 84,0:POKE 85,0:CUR1=0 50808 5860 5800 IF STICK(0)<>15 THEN 5810 IF PEEK(53279)=6 THEN 60803 1030: GOSUB 5920=P0KE 702,64:POKE 694,0:P0KE

GOTO

6680

6270 GET #1,KEY 6280 IF KEY=27

5840 5850 5860

85,COL

RETURN

SCREEN),L 5770 IF PAD=0

POKE

to control.

ROH=16

POKE

0.f

—

ROH=ROH+2:CUR1=CUR1

THEN

6190 6200

0305331313033ng3120111325532 .

THEN COL=19zROH=ROH-1:I ROH=0:COL=0:CUR1=CUR1+T

764,255:CUR1=CUR1*1 5710 FLG=PEEK(694):SHF=PEEK(702):CC=10 5720 IF PAD>0 AND FLG=128 AND SHF=0 TH

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THEN

601=c01-1:cu111=c11111

111511

27,10:? "HIP? 5620 GOSUB 678II:CUR1= 5630 POKE 752,0:POKE 764,255 5640 ROH=0:COL=0:POKE 86,0 5650 POKE 764,255 566“ POKE BA'ROWPOKE 857m 5670 POKE 87,1.:HIBYTE=INT(SH(SCREEN)/2 56):LOBYTE=SH(SCREEN)-HIBYTE*256:POKE 88,LOBYTE:POKE 89,HIBYTE 5680 POKE 764,255 POKE 5690 IF PEEK(209)=2 THEN 209,1 5700 IF PEEK(764)<>255 THEN GET #1,KEY :IF KEY<>125 THEN ? #6;CHR$(KEY);:POKE

IF IF

FOR

RON=15zCUR1=CUR1-1:COL=‘I9

6070 IF

5580 IF E

ROH=-1

6060 IF

D=1

+SH(SCREEN),C€ 5760 FOR D=1 TO THEN

I=25 TO 31:POK DLIST+22,70:PA

HEN

5450 GOSUB 2000 5460 IF KEY<>89

FOR

5590 RETURN 5600 REM PRINT 5610 POSITION 27,9:?

POKE

5350 IF KEY=27 550:RETURN 5360 IF KEY???

THEN

DLIST+I,6:NEXT I:POKE

111111

COL=0:ROH=ROH+1:IF

THEN

+40

D=2

"HODE"

27,10z? ”HIPE" 764,255 5320 IF PEEK<2I9)=2 THEN POKE 209,1 5330 IF PEEK(764)=255 THEN 5330 5340 POKE 209,1:GET #1,KEY:POKE 209,1

5310

5570 IF KEY=49

ROH=16

COL=20

6050 IF 51:13

D=0

";SCREEN

6050 11 31:11 -1 6040 IF COL=-1 F

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27,3:?

6020

209,1

5530 11 PEEK(764)=255 111511 5520 551.0 POKE 209,1:GET #1,KEY:POKE 209,1 5550 IF KEY<48 OR KEY>50 THEN ? CHRS(2

PAD

5500 POKE 764,255 5510 POSITION 27,7:? 5520 IF PEEK(209)=2

27,4:?

POSITION

"SPEED

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6450 HIBYTE=INT<SH<ORDER(Z))/256) 6460 LOBYTE=SM(0RDER(Z))-HIBYTE*256 6470 pore 1650,LOBYTE 6480 POKE 1651,HIBYTE:POKE 1652,1 6490 IF PEEK(764)=28 111511 POKE 764,255 mm :Gosue 1030:SCREEN=0RDER(Z):POP N

6500 IF STICK(0)<>1S THEN 60508 6600 6510 FOR D=1 T0 spggpmgu 9

652i

6530 6540

GOTO

FOR

D—1

SPEED:NEXT

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next pay day. Before working out the calculation it needs to know what your tax code is, which tax period your next pay day will be in, how much you’ve earned, how much tax you’ve paid on those earnings and “OW much YO“ expect your next pay to be before any deductions. Your tax code is issued by the local tax office and is in the form 233L. The actual number can be almost anything but 233 is normal for single people or married women and 369 for married men or others who are claiming a married man’s allowance (forinstance a single parent). The letter following the number would normally be L as shown, H or T. None ofthese letters affects the way in which tax is calculated. Certain other Ietters however may affect calculation and are outside the scope of this '

tracted

out of the State pension

and under the current legal retirement age.

scheme

The way this program calculates your income tax is to start with your tax code. A tax code of 233 means that you may earn up to £2335 a year before you need to pay tax at all. This is just under £45 a week. A married man with a tax code of 369 can earn £3695 a year, just under £72 a week, without incurring tax liability. The amount of tax-free pay which you are entitled to for week X is calculated and this figure is deducted from the total wages earned for the current tax year, up to and including the week in which you will receive the amount entered in the input routine. If your total taxable earnings in any one tax year are less than £17,100 you will be taxed at the rate of 27 per cent. If you exceed that figure, you will have to pay tax at 40 per cent on all taxable

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Utility ,

ONE of the few things Atari left out of its touch tablet graphics package was

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artshow program, similar to that included in paint. This allows you to display your creations one after the other — in a specified order — an

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Lsot:dspictures, disintegrate routines.

FOR

VARIABLES

“Mo

time delay, then enter how long in seconds you wish the picture to remain on—screen. You will then be asked if you want to see the picture loading. Enter Y or N or press Return if you want to use the displayed default setting. Pictures will then load. When a picture is being displayed, press keys 0, 1, 2 and 4 to use the colour scroll facility —you cannot use this if you are using a time delay. Press any other key to load the next picture. Leave program: Returns you to Basic.

Loads the pictures automatically with a selected time delay if toggled on. Otherwise, you press a key to start each picture loading.

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PROGRAM BREAKDOWN

‘

Enter picture display order: Lists all the picture files you have on the disc. They must have the extension .PlC to be listed and be in compacted form, as this program will not operate with the 62 sector micropainter files. To enter the picture order, use the cursor keys to move up and down the columns. Press Return when you wish to include a picture and the display number will appear on the right of the filename. When finished, press Escape to return to the main menu. Set up colour scroll values: Replaces the rainbow colour option on the Atari Artist cartridge and is much more flexible in its use. It allows control over direction and speed of the colour scroll. There is also a random setting which creates interesting effects. The default setting is fast scroll up.

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5&9 DATA “MAMA,162,129,142,66,127 ,169,8ll,141,128,126,24,l?5,45,153,128, 126,144,1,232,138,153,64 SITE DATA l27,185,128,126,ZBE,T92,192, 146,235,169,27,166,G,32,38,‘l13,162,4,l 6&,17,185,8ll,159,157,l96 DATA DSBZD 2,136,262,16,246,16€,12,162, 3,185,80,159,157,‘l16,159,136,282,l6,26 6,169,B,141,112,159,174 5530 DATA 87,159,202,162,114,159,173,1 ‘l6,lS9,133,237,173,118,159,133,206,162 ILNZ,113,159,32;21611121291 5869 DATA 128,144,26,41,127,2B8,3,32,l 98,112,17?,32,216,112,133,205,32,153,l 12,202,208,245,2¢6,il3,159 sass om 16,240,481229'170,298,352]?

"98,112,32,216,112,133,205,32,153,l12,2 02,2?8,250,236,113,159,16 5269 DATA 245,48,196,165,2?7,205,117,1 S9,T?6,l4,165,206,255,119,159,176,7,32 ,183,112,165,255,145,2D3,32 5078 DATA 231A12,240,‘l,96,154,164,96, 164,296,185,128,126,133,203,185,64,127 ,133,2ll4,164,257,96,32,216 5085 DATA 112,48,233,141,113,159,32,21 6,112,l70,258,3,206,l14,159,96,142,115 ,159,169,0,168,32,38,113 SMD DATA 48,2D9,174,115,159,96,173,11 6,159,240,22,23B,2N,165,2B7,205,117,1 59,144,12,236,206,l73,116,159 51W DATA 133,2?7,164,256,294,119,159, 96,164,206,2M,2M,132,256,204,119,159 ,176,1,96,173,112,159,240,2 5119 DATA 23?,207,73,l,141,112,159,24, 159A18,159,133,296,164,297,2341117,15k

—————-——> June 7987 Atari User 53

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Utility

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9,96,162,80,157,72,3,152,157 5120 DATA 73,3,169,7,157,66,3,169,80,1 57,68,3,169,159,157,69,3,76,86,228 5130 DATA 104,74,74,170,134,207,104,10 4,149,205,104,104,149,203,104,104,149, 208,202,16,241,162,6,160,81 5140 DATA 173,36,2,72,173,37,2,72,169, 7,32,92,228,166,207,181,203,24,117,212 ,149,212,202,16,246 5150 DATA 141,10,212,166,207,180,205,1 81,212,153,22,208,202,16,246,173,252,2 ,74,176,223,104,170,104,168 5160 DATA 169,7,32,92,228,96,166,207,1 80,205,181,208,24,121,196,2,153,196,2, 149,212,202,16,240,76,98,228 5170 DATA 16,16,80,67,0,0,3,2,2,48,0,2

COL=COL-12:Y=19 7127 IF A=29 AND

Y:GOT0 7125 7140 IF A=155

5200

DATA

104,168,170,132,2|4,133,205, 165,89,72,173,10,2107201,31,176,249,13

3,203,165 5210

OCOL,OY:?

7152 IF 0RD<N10 THEN :? ”0";ORD:GOTO 7160

POSITION

7162

30004,PEEK(88):POKE 30005,PE EK(89):POKE 560,48:POKE 561,117zPOSITI

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7044 ”z?

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1987

COL-N2,Y

7560:GOTO 7515 IF PEEK(764)=28

GOSUB

7533 C

7540 7555

7050

R”? 7552

ENTER

SET

PICTURE DISPLAY COLOUR

ORDE

SCROLL VALUE

S”:? 7054 E

"H”

7055

7056

71c=1 0

PICTURE DISINTIGRATE

AUTO

THEN

"19.

";:IF

DELAY/-=GOT

’_IKEYPRESS”

? ”

”

7062

POSITION

START

SHOW?

ART

0110

A<N

PLEASE

‘z'é

THEN

7082

7085

GOTO

;=POKE 559,34 A<N1 OR 0>N6

7100,7205,7300,7500,750

“77360 7100 GOSUB 7350:POKE 1:POKE 561,0L2

559,N2POKE

7102

#N2:OPEN

TRAP

7110:CLOSE

560,131.

=6010

#N2,N6,N

OTO

5597N=INFUT #N2,T5=IF T5111, THEN 7153 POSITION COL“? TS(N3,N10):Y=Y*N Y>19 THEN COL=COL+12=Y=N4=IF C0L> POKE

12” 3“

711” 7106 6010 71'3

THEN

31515?

7111 M

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POKE

“3

A>N6

7350 FOR G=N1 TD 20:POSITIDN N,N4:? CH R$(157);NEXT G;RETURN 7360 GRAPHICS MM 7400 IF NPIC:N1 THEN NPIC:N:GOTO 7000 NPIC=N1:GOTO 7000 7500 005113 7350;1>05111011

[er

N,N6:IF 53:9

7590 NPIC 6070 7510:? Loaded one after

7502

"Pictures

1711

another

certain time delay_"

7502:P051T10N N,N9:? "Please

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enter time delay (in sec's)

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561H,117:POKE

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A<N1

H=79:S=N:GOTO 7250 H=N:RAN=N:GOTO 7250 7250 60808 7350:1=0KE 559,N:GOT0 7000 7300 IF AUTO=N THEN AUTO=N1:GOTO 7000 7301 AU70:N;GOTQ 7000

7501 I be

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NOT

559

"See LDR

picture

THEN

ORD:F5="" 7125 GET #N1,A:0N A<27 OR A>29 AND A<> 155 GOTO 7125:0=A:IF A=28 AND Y>N4 THE N Y=Y'N1=GOT0 7129 7126 IF A=28 AND Y=N4 AND COL>14 THEN

YeS";:IF

011115430);c1117$(30);01111

513077170"

#N1,A:IF

7120 COL=12:Y=N4:OCOL=COL:DY=Y:0RD=N1: POSITION 12,N4:? CHR$(27);CHR$(126):F=

54 Atari User June 7987

A=89 THEN

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(”SUN

LDR=N1:GOT

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CHSUH

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4 11

6312 4273 117.59

5060 5090

5070 5100

5120 5150 5171 5220 707.7.

7g” 7057 7062 7100 71m. 7111

14873 15165 10385 14841 5478 9363 9573 12811 3339 26800 8771 15388

33218

7126 7129

559,N:G

. LINE

CHSUH

5130 5160 5200 7000 7050 7055 7053 7082 7102 7106 7120 7127 7130

14575 14823 14784 15169 12122 17007 727.5 1097 5232 7425 9770 1878 15192 8821

2 5

5001 5005 5020

5298 871 7866 18578 77,02 14276 14369

5050 5080

14323

5110

15130

514l13613 5170

15896

5210 11430 707.0 7.7073 7052 7262 7056 17215 7030 7.250 7085 61165 7103 9040 711@ 327011 7125 16176 7128 5134

8788 2939 717.0 12301 7155 7.773

7150 7160

2933

7162

10110 13929

8045 17097

713515470 7152

7163

4732

720” ”$74

72“

18912

7207, 7211 7221

7641

7207

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7212 7222

27.739 8447

7210 7220

3679

3686

7223

3690

7300 7360

6321 3077,

77,110

3160 6211

7350 7701

10575 3181

7500 7503

8014

7501

24388

7510

16303

7502 7511

21094

7,995

7590

7525

5000 19123 5007. 3737 5010 14376 5040 17.518

TS(LEN(TS)+N1)=".

THEN

6.wit

20 3829 5003 7933 5009 14361 51mg 15018

7540 7557

91c";5=5+n1;0070

(50508

7000

7512 IF A=78 71.1511 “19:11:5010 7514 7513 011 0:15 (5070 7514;5010 7511 7514 TRAP 7514:F=N1 7515 T$=””:TS="D:":FF=N3 7520 T$(FT,FF)=F$(F,F):F=F+N1:FF=FF+N1

:IF F$(F,F)="."

7350:POKE

#N1,A:GOSUB

SET

6070 7220,7221,7222,7223,722

GOTO

4,7225:6010 7211 7220 H:79;S:62;GOTO 7250 7221 H=79:5=143:6010 7250 7222 U=79:S=130:GOT0 7250 7223 H=79:S=129:GOTO 7250

THEN

13)<>"PIC” 7104

AUTO

7592

7212

7555

LINE

7401

,”D:*.*":€0L=N1:Y=N4 7103

35251?

7210 RAN:N1 7211 GET #N1,A:A=A-48:IF 7211

A>N4 THEN

7515

7225

N72“?

#N1,0:A=A‘48:IF

GET

7207 1205111011 11,2“?

THEN

5000

#N1,A:A=A-48:ON A=-21

GET

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AUTO

:'?

7205 2 "1. FAST SCROLL UP":? :? "2. SL ow SCROLL um :'7 "3. FAST SCROLL 0017 N":? :? "4. SLOH SCROLL DOHN”:? 7206 2 "5. no HOVEHENT":? :? "6. RANDO SCROLL"

7224

6- LEAVE PROGRAM?

KEYS

PRESS

PICTURE

?"TIHE

THEN

7060

7082

"150W 7056

”OFF"

7058

7057 7058

"ON

TOGGL

18,N:POK

7532

GOTO

20,N:POKE

756,N256-N1 7532 TT=(PEEK(18)*65536+PEEK(19)*256+P E

7560 X=USR(1700):RETURN 7590 '? ”You have not entered the pictu re order yet!“:POSITION N,21

LOCATE 32:PLOT N, COL-G,Y,Z:COLOR 20:17 z<>32 THEN F$(F,F)=CHR$(Z):F=F+N 1:G=G-N1:GOT0 7162 7163 F$(F,F)=”.":F=F+N1:GOTO 7125 7200 150800 7350:POSITION N,6:? "Colour

Scroll Setup:":?

‘iE-E‘Wii‘i?

7555

THEN

19,N:POKE

lC‘o |D

7165

POKE

NPIC

POKE

1101 RAM THEN H=INT(RND(N)*256 _ ).S—INT(RND(N)*256) 7557 FOR G=N TO N4:CDL(G)=PEEK(708+G): NEXT G:X=USR(P6,A,H,S):FOR 0:11 TO 04:7 OKE 708+G,COL(G):NEXT G 7558 FOR G=1 TO 20:NEXT G:POKE 764,255

p05171011 COL-N2,Y:?

7000

IF POKE

560:GOTO 7556 17

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7155

DATA

LOCATE

716!

5220

7530 7531

THEN

LDR

EEK(20))/49:IF INT(TT)=T THEN THEN

89,24,101,203,133,89,169,0,1 72,10,210,145,88,104,133,89,72,230,204 DATA

559,

NOT

32:PLOT N,20:IF Z=32 THEN 7125 7150 LOCATE COL-N2,Y,Z:IF Z<>32 THEN OLOR 32:PLOT N,20:POSITION N,20:? CHRS (N256-N3):GOTO 7125

11m 65,48,117,255,255,0,112,64,1

,64:IF

OLOR

7520 GRAPHICS 31:POKE

GOTO

16,64:POKE 53774 559,N 7526 OPEN #N5,N4,N,T$:X=USR(SLD):CLOSE #N5:POKE 559,34

THEN

":POSITION CHR$(27);CHRS(126):0COL=COL:OY=

0L,Y:?

,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0 ,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,0,2,48,3,3,3,0, 5171 13

COL<30

AND

COL=COL+12:Y=N3 7128 IF A=29 AND Y<19 THEN Y=Y~FN1 7129 IF A=155 THEN 7140 7130 IF A=27 THEN GOSUB 7350:POKE N:GOTO 7000 7135 POSITION

7522 7525

Y=19

7301

1137

7327

521; 5152

15201252;

$253 1323

7525 7531

7526 9164 7532 16328 7555 15581 7558 7722 7591 22520

7530 7533 7556

11545 8638 1897 18076 15230

7560 7592

3046 4344 9485 3864 7553

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stands, has no ability to interprete speech patterns

and when you play Trivial

ST.

game does. Of course / may have got the wrong end of the stick, in which case could you inform me of the true meaning of this statement. Also, could you tell me if there is an 8 bit version of

If a

version comparable

with the ST one ever comes out for the 8 bit we will

certainly review it. .

MlSSlng swrtCh box

the Star Trek game you reviewed in Atari ST User last month. —

Pursuit you tell the other players ofyourTrue/False or to the Yes/No answer question. The game works this way on a truth basis, depending on your typed input. There is an old version of Star Trek about for the Atari 8 bit machines, but it is far cry from the one out for the

Swinton, Scunthorpe,

South Humberside. 0 When Bob Chappel reviewed Trivial Pursuit in the February issue of Atari User, he did say that all you have to do is speak aloud, but this was not meant to be taken too literally. The computer, as it

[BOUGHT my Atari

130XE

Sabri Ghasholit, Tripoli,

Libya.

OThe box referredto is only recommended for you to

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use, but you can manage fine without it. All it does is allow you to switch from the TV to computer without unplugging your aerial and you do not actually get one when you buy the computer. —

costly

will have to type the Iluminations program in again. A useful tip for the future is to ensure that you save your work several times. it may be that the tape you were using was of poor quality or that your tape heads may need cleaning.

Se arc h f Or

error

HAVE recent/y typed in II— the from luminations November issue of Atari User. / saved the program and checked it using Get-It— Right and/found some mistakes. But when I tried to load program to correct rror-27 came up. them,thEe I

This has also

five months ago from Athens but/have not found the Tszitch box which the manual makes reference to. —

tip/e answers”. / would like to know how the computer receives its voice input, what it uses for a microphone and whether it requires a voice print demonstration at the start so that it can understand your statements. I don’t know much about that side of the computer world, but if you don’t need for this extra hardware write could someone maybe a routine to let the computer monitor your voice print in the way the review says this

happened

with another program. Please could you tell me what is going wrong. —Evan Proudfoot, Ratho Station, Midlothian. 0 Unfortunately, Error-21 indicates that your file did not save correctly to tape, so unless you made more than one copy we’re afraid you

cartrldges

for 037 tthmhalWon the t degorafiogfcan you “05g the '

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problem. Could you

please tell me company which sells separate keys, because it

seems such a waste to buya new tape recorder. - Colin

Bryson, Kilmarnock, Scotland. 0 Your letter shows a standard fault with the 1010tape deck. The keys have a tendency to snap after a lot

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lHAVEa 1070 tape recorder which / use regularly, but recently the Record button broke in half. [know several people who have had this

cartridges on

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of use. The usual keys that break are Play and Record.

We don’t know where you can get new keys but you have a Pause key that has little if any use. So you can swap it with the broken one. To do this you unscrew the base of the tape deck and pull the front off very carefully, as two plastic lugs secure it. You will see a grey coloured plug on the circuit board. Unplug it and you now have an unrestricted view of the keys, which are

held in place by and circlip.

cartridges

include Galaxians, Gorf and Missile Command. Beach Head is not available on tape, as the program refers back to disc all the time.

metal bar

Remove the circlip, pull the bar through and pull the keys upwards. Remove your Pause key and the broken key and swop them over, remembering to replace the small metal spring behind the keys. Refit everything, and your will be tape recorder We recomworking again. mend you only do this job if your deck is out of warranty, otherwise take it back to where you bought it.

cable conundrum HAVE just had to shorten myAtari Touch Tablet, but now have the problem of which coloured /

the cable on

———_‘> June 1987 Atari User 55

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wire from inside the cable goes to which pin in the joystick socket in my 800XL. I would be grateful if you

couldprint the solution—D.

Solihull, West Midlands. 0 It is recommended that when disconnecting any wires you always keep a record on paper of where all the wires go instead of cutting them off straight away. Here are the pin numbers followed by the colour of the wires that go to the joystick Chatwin,

plug: (1) Brown (2) None (3) Orange (4) Yellow (5) Green

(6) None (7) Pink (8) Grey (9) White

Recorder troubles regularly have problems

loading games

our

800XL. Nearly all our games are good quality, and if we

go through a period where we cannot get a game to load, no other games load either. I’ve used a head cleaner on the 1010 recorder, but it didn’t improve the situation and l have checked that all wires are not crossed and that plugs and sockets are securely connected, / also

veryusefu/andnow include MENU .BAS together with the AUTORUNSYS?le on all my discs. There is, however, one disproblem with it. covered it when trying to load a rather large 1

machine code program which required Basic to be turned off. It that appeared although Basic was turned off the 8k of in which it memory resided was not available for use by other programs. This Program shows a

modification to the original MENU.BAS program to allow this area of memory to be used. Line 600 starts a

56 Atari User June 7987

problems, and thanks for a really ?rst class magazine. R.Masson, Castlemead,

would recommend you take the deck to a dealer for adjustment. We do not suggest that you undertake this action yourself, due to the

Bournemouth. Q It is not surprising that you are having problems, as these brackets do not exist on the Atari. When the line says “224 Spaces” it means that you open the quotes, press the space bar 224 times then close the quotes. You are not meant to enter the text, merely follow what it means. In answer to your second problem, this plagues most XL machines and the old 400/800 ones. it has to do with your operating system, and when a lot of text is edited it is possible for the Atari to get a bit confused and crash, thus losing all your work. It is highly recommended that before editing a program you should always

temperamental of

perfor-

much softer and to sound higher

Loading will normally fail before the tape counter

Terrace, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 582

ensure

tapesare woundjust beyond the leader before loading. When our machine does not load the loading tone

heard often

seems

through the TV

reaches 30. The screen will show Boot error or else the Atari will go into Self-check mode. the address 0 £40tan smce our guaryew/”Igow antee card has only the US address.

—

Paul

Heawood,

Fareham, Hants.

page 5' This is

initialised

GOSUB command inserted into line 70 and executed by X = USRl7536) in line 460. a

This modification

well

worth doing and the puts finishing touches to a very useful program. 10

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problems which

hope you

can solve for me. Firstly / have been

given Compute’s Atari Games Collection Vol. 1, and I am havmg problems typing in

Of the programs. This caused by the fact lam unable to fathom how to input the curly bracket C770“

Cha’aCtem

An these

example ofa/ine using Signs IS as follows: S

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lhave tried usmg ordinary brackets but to no avail. Have YOU any SUQQGS?OHS? Second/y, when typing in ”035 fme

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HAVING recently got into computing / bought an Atari 600XL expanded to 64k. l

subroutine to set up the new machine code in by

mance

pitched.

Menu maker update

to be

It could be that your tape heads are out of alignment, and if this is so then we

data recorders. You say you wind tapes just beyond the leader before loading. On most commercial software you should fully rewind the tape, or you will get a time out error on loading because Atari has a 19 second timer before data transmission. The address of Atari (UK)

/ WAS delighted when you published Menu Maker by Mark Cooker in the February issue of Atari User. lhave found it

program

the

computer sometimes seems

to freeze and has to be abandoned. This always happens when the Return key has been press” and the cursor returns to the next line but will then not move any further no matter what key is pressed. lhope YOU 0’ your readers can shed some ?ght 0” my

A It ernatlve

languages KEEP up the good work, and may Atari User continue to improve. As a relative newcomer to computing, although I am a very fast

learner, I find that the intricacies of machine code elude me. / am fair/V competent in Basic but I am becoming bored with it. So lbegan to [00k for 3/701th language. Action! was my ?fSt

chalce,bUtsad/y beyondmy budget, so I fell back on

Atari Logo. I’ve been using it for about a week now, and it’s fascinating. So how about running a page as a regular feature devoted to, ifnotAtariLogo, then alternative languages in general, with programin ming features, reviews 5/7003 3 mini "769321779? Aftera/l, D?adburn says the Atari is just made for Logo! / wonder if any other readers agree? — R- RObinson, Doncaster. 0 We are discussing the —

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idea of covering more languages. Contributions from readers are always welcome and would help us startsuch

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service

typing

issued you type it in exacty printed it, but the computer always comes UP With an

_can,you Of ”7'5 d"emma-

OUf Ellls, W.Glamorga_n.

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0 Your Pf°,b'em lsthaivou In an are attempting t0_ type assembler “sung from Thls Wl” hOt W0fk. as the _

cannot computer “demand the. syntax that you are enterlng. So you an assembler editor need. cartridge or some kind Of enter assemblerlanguageto the article you ml? Citing-ad .

WIll see that the |lStlll_9 0" 16 of‘the same issue page gives a BaSlC versron Of the program to emulate the one .

‘

that V°“ are. can”? em.“Your 800XL 18 working fine so you have no worries on that scene.

A memory pro blem HAVE recently bought an Atari 130xr5 anda 1010 tape I

recorder and I am having trouble saving programs that/have typed in.

Could you please tell me where I am going wrong. —

Miller, Middlesbrough 0 Unless you have got

fau|ty

instructions

BBC uses an Micro anologue input and the Atari digital. You need to buy a

standard Atari joystick.

you should not be having any

the Record and Play buttons at the same time on your 1010 then type CSAVE and press the Return key twice. The program will then be saved to tape. lf this does “Qt work then YOU must have a problem with your tape recorder or computer. lf this is the case YOU Sh0U|d 00m“ VOL" dea'e“

the SOCkEt IRECENTLYboughtan Atari computer system and joystick. When I tried the joy— stick on my computer I found to my horror that it would not fit, My joystick has a round connector on it with lots of pins inside and/cannot find a suitable SOC/(Gt 0" my Atari to put it in. —B. James, London. . It appears that you have a

How ta Get It R'lg ht

BBC joystick in the place of an Atari one. There is no way that this joystick will work because

apart from the fact that the sockets are different the

Expandlng

ex and into a n w area I haee decided to eurchase a

[think it would be a good idea to publish the listing for Get It Right again for those people who missed it when You printed the ”St/"93 Sharon Boodle, Manchester, Lancs. . In the AUQUSt 1986 issue of Atari User we printed a revised version of Get It Right and it is very simple to use. After you have typed in the program listing make two copies of it: A CSAVE version and an Ascii version. The latter is obtained LIST"D/C: the using

where

D/C

a disc or cassette

version. When YOU have. saved in this form your program

Slmp|y load In your G|R pl’Ogram and NP itWl” be displayed A _

and)“ JUS‘Ch°°se‘h.ef"S‘ WI” be Then option.

Yeu for the filename Of your program and the GlR asked

nggifg ghadnni‘x?swzz

program.

indicates

mOdem .

IOWN an Atari 130XE and! enjoy typing in the listings you publish in Atari User. But/would/ike to knowhow to use your Get It Right

command

also

“

No loy w|th

and appeared

“Stan

in the December 1985 and March 1986 issues of Atari User. Unfortunately it begins to be repetitive and annoying to readers if we publish it too often_ We have plans, however, to publish a new enhanced version in the near future.

equipment

problems. in With a program memory and the Ready prompt on the screen, press

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will then load it and display a checksum of the listing. has th'S _been Once obtained _Y°U Slmp|y compare this to the one In the magazine making a note of any that do not match. YOU can the“ reload your program and make any

modem and sawpa Modem 1000 advemsed ,-,, a maga_ zine With BBC cables W”, this connect'to my Atari without modi?cation? _ Co y le- ' Christo p her

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