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STV Software has slashed prices 0” ”3 current and future arcade-style programs Recently released doe 8‘ the Nuclear WlII now Caverns COSt £799 disc and £339 0.” on cassette instead Of £1099 and £7.99. The same new prices W'“ due out apply to Darg late .

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units were placed in the first weeks of the year. The company began talking about selling at |east.200,000 and possibly a quarter of a million - games machines in 1987. And: With orders for VCS machines currently standing at 90,000 units, even this

few

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project for us — consoles are going to be very big sellers this Christmas”. But Atari would appear to have the edge over the

competition. The Ninentendo Entertainment System marketed in the UK and Europe by Mattel costs £130 and the Sega Games Console £99 compared to the Atari XE at —

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And while the Sega machine will be launched

with only 12 games cartridges and the Nintendo with about 27, Jack Tramiel has already promised the XE will be backed by more than 400 pieces of software. In addition, Atari has the lead in persuading High Street stores to stock its new product. and Dixons, Currys

Woolworths are virtually certain to give shelf space to

the XE, and W H Smith another probable outlet.

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“we expect a major revival in the video console sector during the Iastquarter of 1987 if not before”, a company spokesman told Atari User. ”We believe the average age of prospective buyers is getting younger because the big market for sub-£100 hardware was not catered for

(021-770 1003). "A look at the latest charts shows that budget games are

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MINI OFFICE II is well on its way to becoming the biggest selling serious software package ever produced for the Atari 8-bit range. Launched at the Atari Computer Show in London in April, the product was an instant hit with the thousands of visitors who flocked to the Novotel. Several standholders stocked the package and they were impressed by its

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Compumart managing director Steve Burke told Atari User: “In one fell swoop Atari has pushed the recommended retail price of the 130XE from £99 to nearly £130 and at the same time stopped providing disc drives and printers. ”We are losing between £5,000 and £7,000 a week in lost sales because the 1050 disc drive and 1027 and 1029 printers are not available.

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customers can afford but without much luck”. To combat the Atari price —

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with micro switches and Atari 130XE handbook for £125 ~ £5 less than the official RRP for the machine alone. ”This adds up to a saving of over £60", said Steve Burke. “We have about 50 Atari 130XES to bundle, and after “12W are $0|d we are NOT gomg to carry on selling the machine on its own for 6 Atari User July 7987

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Atari UK spokesman Peter Walker defended the company’s decision to increase the price ofthe13OXE.“When the present management took over it inherited practices it didn't like", he told Atari User. “For instance, a word processing bundle including the 130XE, 1050 printer and 1029 printer with software

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output is inappropriate. It also has great novelty value. How about an adventure game with talking

relatively inexpensive, straightforward to construct and easy to program. You can use it as a signalling device for visually handicapped people, an educational aid for students with reading difficulties or in

Now we’ll describe how to build and test it and next month-we’ll cover its operation in detail, showing how you can easily add speech output to your own Basic programs.

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gram recorders will work satisfacand for this reason we’ve suggested using a power socket which will accept the plugs fitted as standard to those transformers. Don’t use the power pack which supplies your computer itself as there could be a danger of overload. In any case, the PSU supplied with XL/XE machines won’t work with this gadget, since it delivers 5v DC. A 6v or 8v bell

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database and your records are done from se arate screens and both are easy operations. Records can be scrolled forward and backwards either singuIarIy or in groups of 10 or 100. Individual records can be marked manually or automatically, and marked records can be used to create a sub database from your main one which can be saved to disc as a separate file. Searching for data follows the same easy style: Select on any field using standard operators such as equal to, not equal to, greater than or less than.

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office environment is the ability to forecast cash flow and financial viability. Spreadsheets are ideal for this and the one in the Mini Office II package is more than capable of looking after all that number crunching. You enter data into cells by placing the cursor on top of the cell, typing in your value and pressmg Return. Columns can be sized up to 18 characters wide and all the standard found In most spreadsheets operators are available. Calculations—the main — can be part Of any spreadsheet or camed °”t aUtomat'cf’HV m_a““_a_”y' Cells may be replicated, Justified and formatted to accept the USUEll types Of commands and styles 35300" numbers and With ated large monetary applications. Formulae can be replicated either

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long and complicated messages to the remote computer. Up to ten keys can be defined With 240 characters reserved for each macro. The module is ideal for accessing systems such as MicroLink or bulletin cant be

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Microlink/Telecom Gold at 300/300 and 1200/1200 baud rate are part of the main menu. Communication protocols between other systems can be customised and links to bulletin boards worldwide can be set up with

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MANY Atari flight simulators and

other games, such as Mercenary, use vector graphics to give the illusion of moving through three-dimensional — space. This program — 3D Animation demonstrates some of the techniques used to manipulate vector graphics. Type in the Basic listing and save it in the usual way. Unfortunately, because of the large area of ram used for storage and the use of Graphics 14, the ro ram will onl y work on an 800XpL ogXE.

When you run it you must first plot a shape on the screen by moving the cursor within the framed section using a joystick. To prevent an out of range error when the shape is plotted the cursor will not move to the far right or left of the screen. To plot a point simply press the fire button and after the first point has been plotted a line will be drawn back to the last one. Points can either be plotted as foreground or background: To change, press 1 for foreground or2 for background before plotting the point. After drawing a shape press Start to go to the plotting routine to set the number of plotting parameters. The first is the angle of rotation which is a value between 0.1 and 0.9. A value of 0.1 means that each shape plotted will rotate by a small amount and a value of 0.9 performs an almost complete rotation. Then set the direction in which the object rotates (forwards or backwards, clockwise or anti-clockwise). There are three types of axis rotation and all give the effect of the shape going into the distance and then coming closer again. Rotation spins the object on a flat plane and does not highlight the foreground/backgroundillusion. Rotation 2 makes the shape rotate through axis and rotation 3 a horizontal through a vertical axis, while rotation 4 is a combination of rotations 2 and 3. The computer calculates and draws the 13 individual shapes that make up the animation sequence. If the 1

a n I u a In

points

takes a is drawn a machine stores it in ram.

vecto

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shows STEPHEN WILLIAMSON how to ammate shapes -

ground and background points affect a shape by entering the pyramid

Let’s look at how the program works. By convention, in a two dimensional shape the horizontal position of a point is known as X and the vertical position as Y. So if you use the command PLOT 40,20, a pixel will be plotted at a point 40 pixels across the screen and 20 pixels from the top of the screen. In order to represent a third dimension depth we can use the letter 2. Without the benefit'of 3D Holograph TV we cannot actually plot 3D shapes using an Atari computer — but by clever use of perspectivethe mind can be fooledinto thinking thata3D object has appeared on the screen. Figure II shows the three coordinate principle. Line X of the cube drawing represents the horizontal X axis and line Y is the vertical Y axis. Line 2 is the depth orZaxis. Any point on lineZ can be thought of as a measure of how far away the point is from the observer. The program scales the Z axis so that a value of 0 gives the effect of an object on the surface of the screen. A negativeZvalue meansthatthe object has left the screen and is near your eye, while a positive one takes it behind the screen. So, theoretically, an object can hit you on the head or disappear into the innards of your TV. Such is the paradox of a two dimensional world trying to simulate a three

with all points as shown in Figure foreground — then animate it. Then return to the plotting section of the program and plot the shape again but with the points marked F as fore—

ground and point

B as

background.

To do this correctly make sure that you are in Foreground mode (FOREGROUND is highlighted by inverse Ietters) to begin with and plot point F1. Move and plot F2, then F3 and back again to F4, (previously F1) in order to

—

complete the outer triangle. Press 2 to change to background and move to 85. Then change to foreground before plotting F6 (the same position as F3). Return to background and plot B7 and finally change to foreground to move to F8. You’ll notice that the point in the centre of the triangle is a background point and lines F3, F1 and F2 are con-

nected to it. Because all lines are connected to each other it is often necessary to draw over a line more than once, just as if you were drawing the same shape on a piece of paper without your pen leaving the surface of the paper. When the pyramid with background point is animated, it will appear to be in three dimensions and not as the flat surface of the shape plotted without the background point. A maximum of can be plotted at any given 40 points time.

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maximum

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F1(F4) -

code routine

To animate the shape another machine code routine transfers the stored shape data from the ram storage area to the screen ram area. The high speed of machine code gives the smooth animation effect. To stop the animation press the spacebar and you can then either draw another shape or animate the same shape with different parameters. You can demonstrate how ‘fore—

F2<F8)

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rotations. Try altering the rotation equations (lines 1370 to 1490) or change the link relationships (variables LINK{N,7) and LINK(N,2)) and

complex 3D animation sequences can be displayed without using vast amounts of complicated machine code.

Experimentwith various

used to hold the X coordinate of each d d' at N,2 h Y IT‘heevaarlignglz?—ge{Lozrdiz‘gct’er kee p d 3 bl es [LINK/N' 7) E” LINKTN , 2) ”aCk OfWhPh ROW“, "nks ‘0 Wh'C h 1550 lines 1360 The routines

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500 SCALE=300/(300+z):8CALE1=300/4300+ 21) 510 520 530 540

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AXIS

FOR

N=1

NUM

LINK(N,1)=N:LINK(N,2)=N+1

1170

1180 1190

L1NK(NUM,1)=NUH:LINK(NUM,2)=NUH M1120+NUM)=NUM:M(160+NUM)=NUM

1200 1210 1220

RETURN

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710,0

1230 1240 1250 1260

POXE

752,255

RETURN REM

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PLOT

159,43

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1270

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0,43:ORAHTO

159,43:ORAHTO

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1290

PLOT

0,113

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1,44:ORAUTO

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NUM

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RETURN 3 TO

NUM

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N=1

1580 1590

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RETURN TO

NUM

0,43

158,44:ORANTO

ORANTO

REM

1600 1610

1620

REM

1630

DATA

RETURN MACHINE

COOE

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234,96

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50 990

N=1

COLOR

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AXIs

FOR

1550

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920

REM

1570

8,114

POXE

764,255:?"1

910

0):LINK(N,2)=M(N+160)

1280

START”

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890 900

NUM

PRAME

0,43:ORAUTO

DELAY:SOUN

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N=1

1500 1510 1520 1530

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BACKGROUND"

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N=1

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FOR

1480 1490

RETURN REN

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1370 1380

820 830 34g 850

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60808 1220zsosus 1260

810

1350 1360

1410

LINX<NUM,1)=NUM:LINX1NUM,2)=NUM+1

0,0,0,0

1420 1430 1440 1450

1300 1310 1320

DELAY=1

FOR

1100 1110

9,113

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0,128,10,15

SOUND

+79,PNT(NUH-1,Z)+79

9,113

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THEN

1150 M1N)=PNT(N,1):M140+N)=PNT(N,2) 1160 M180+N)=PNT(N,3):M1120+N)=LINK1N,

570 NEXT 1 580 A=U8R11536,STORE):STORE=STORE+5:RE M STORE SHAPES IN RAM

680

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1120 1130 1140

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1330 1340

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NUMBER

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Crisp, Braintree, Essex. The listings that we

print are taken directly from working copies of the programs, so we know that they are correct. So why didn’t this one work? Well, you don’t really go into enough detail in your letter about what type of error occurred, but I'd hazardaguess that it was most likely an error number 6 or

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TALK about exhausted — there I was, minding my own business when these five Nazguls came into the local

inn and started pushing and shoving people around. Well, not one to be slow in getting into a good fight, brought out my trusty sword and laid I

into them.

The actual fight lasted no more than few minutes —well I do have rather a lot of experience in these matters — but the real reason for my tiredness was because of all the free drinks that the landlord gave me. He was so grateful for my assistance that we celebrated all night. In fact I have just got back to my cave in time for the postbag and this month’s column, so without much more ado let’s see what’s new in the a

world of adventure. The first bit of good news have for you is that there is a new Infocom adventureabout to be released called The Lurking Horro and it's full of ghastly surprises and unspeakable I

fear. Any horror fans who haven’t quivered to the chilling classics of Steven King and H.P.Lovecraft or shrieked at the frightening images in The Shining and The Exorcust cannot call them selves horror fans. Now you can experience what horror is really like with Infocoms’s change from witty spoofs to interactive nightmare. As the main character in the story, you have enrolled at the George Edwards institute of Technology, and have heard nothing else except the stories about the old campus basements and storage rooms, some so ancient that they contain only rotting piles of unidentifiable junk. You have heard about the decrepit underground tunnels crumbling into hazardous piles of concrete, and have vowed never to set foot in any of them. You do, of course, one night with a blizzard raging and the wind howling, when a strange force draws You into the dark nether regions of the institute. Then an eerie sound grows closer...Stop, enough of this. l’m starting to get edgy myself. Suffice it to say that the adventure has been written by Dave (Zork, Spellbreaker, Suspect, and Starcross) Leblmg and all the usual bits and -

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pieces are in the package. Make sure you read Atari User for a full review in the future. The second bit of good news this month is that there is another new Infocom release imminent, and this

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tact with one of the holes you lose a life. You also lose a life if a spider eats you or if you run out of time when the 5t°"“ hitsAlso in the yard you'll find sticky pools of mud which trap you — briefly if you stand in them. They can also trap the spiders and this can add more gamesmanshlpto play. When you ?nally escape from the pool of mud which (shows on-screen as a white cross) it will change into either a hole or a safe square you can walk on. Two players can play the game with one player as the farmer plugged into port 1 and the other as the spider in port 2. This option can be selected from the main menu and _

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and 9. the start ke V' ca" °°"°°t — yellow dots — that are scattered around the yard. Once all the ducks on screen have been collected you are awarded bonus points for time remaining and you move on to the next screen which will have more ducks ' more coins ' . . “we St'cky P°°'s 3“ faSte’ SP'de’s' 'f “me '°“ 3 V°“ 3“ any "fe_ V°" continue on the same screen untll you game

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34 Atari User July 7987

or until all your lives are lost. The game then ends and you are returned to the main menu where you can select one of six levels. One is easy and six is very hard, with the bonus points at the end of each screen calculated according to skill level selected.

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430 440

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54mm

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PEEK(53279)=6

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GOTO 90 450 REM u SOUND EFFECTS ** 460 REM LOSE A LIFE 470 FOR N=0 TO 5:FOR x3=155 TO 255 STE P 7:SOUND 0,x3,10,8:NEXT x3:NEXT MON ND

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REM FOR

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0,0,0,?:RETURN

,8:SOUND 1,A+1,10,8:NEXT N:SOUND 0,0,0 ,0:SOUND 1,0,M:60T0 560 580 FOR N=0 TO 200:NEXT N:RETURN 590 REM n SPIDER MOVES ** 600 IF TNT(RND(0)*(7-SK>)+1=1 THEN 620 610 S=INT(RND(0)*4):RETURN 620 IF X>X3 THEN S=0:GOTO 660 630 IF x<x3 THEN S=1:GOTO 660 640 IF Y>Y3 THEN S=2:60T0 660 650 S=3 660

RETURN

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July 1987 Atari User 35

670

REM

680

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N=TIME

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1070 X=INT(RND(0)*18)+1:Y=INT(RND(0)*1 9)+4:LOCATE X,Y,A:IF A<>247 OR (X=9 AN

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720 IF SC>HISC THEN HISC=SC 730 GRAPHICS 2+16:LEV=1:LIV=5 740 RESTORE 1470 750 READ A:IF A=0 THEN 77I 760 READ X:FOR N=0 TO X/8:SOUND

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POS=CHACT+1CHAR*8):FOR x=0 A:POKE (POS+X),A:NEXT x NEXT

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36 Atari User July 1987

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1410 1420

DATA DATA

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1440 1450 1460

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19'LEN(BYTES),11:?

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1490 1500

121,50,96,50,96,25,108,50,12 41,50,91,50,121,50,91,100,121150,91,50, 91,25,96,50,121,50,91,S0 1480 DATA 121,50,182,10I,0

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SCREEN

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ERNIE LITTLE eases the task of wallpapermg WHEN buying your micro, did you ever think: ”It’ll even help with the housework"? And have since spent many hours trying to justify that very statement? In response to all those letters we get pleading for more domestic utilities, we've come up with a program to help you calculate how many rolls of wallpaper you Wl|| need when you decorate a room. When the program is run you are requested to input the size of the room that you wish to decorate, both in

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standards. It has also occurred to us that it’s no good our just knowing what we want: We have to tell you, our potential contributors. So here are our 18

commandments. Don’t be too daunted by the list— it’s and good mostly just commonsense programming practice. 0 Send us your programs on tape or There’s no point in just sending a disc. listlng and asklng |f we’re interested you can’t expect us to evaluate a program from that. We may be good, but we're not that good! A cassette or disc with the program on is a must. We rarely use two-part programs in the magazine. Games in two files may look professional, but they’re the kiss of death as far as the magazine is concerned. Too much can go wrong when people type them in. 0 Avoid using characters in variable names that lead to confusion such as as and /, 0 and O. Meaningful variable names help as well ALIENS is far more understandable than AL. 0 Tell us what the program is supposed to do and refer to it by name. You’d be amazed at the number of programs we get where the author forgets to tell us what it is all about. In any subsequent correspondence, reference to ”my program” can cause problems by it’s vagueness. Okay, we’d have the program on record somewhere, but life would be a lot easier all round if its author were less modest and admitted he was the genius behind Mega-invaders. 0 Label everything with the program's title and your own name and address. Keep your own copy, too. So far the only existing copy of one particular —

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38 Atari User July 7987

presentmg for

classic game hasn’t disappearedin the but there’s no reason to run the post risk of yours being the first. if it’s a game let us know how to “cheat” so we can test out the higher Ievels.We're getting ona bit here and our reactions aren’t as good as they used to be (not that they were up to much when they were as good as they used to be...) And an adventure-type game or whatnot should come with a map of the rooms and any other relevant crib sheet. Much as we’d like to, we just don’t have time to guess the name of Rumplestiltskin’s brother, no matter how much we admire your ingenuity. (Anyway, he works in our artroom.) 0 Put more than one copy of the program on your tape or disc. And if you wantyour submission back let us have a stamped addressed envelope with the name of the program on it. You won’t appreciate this unless —

run a computer magazine, but you use tape please send each program on a separate cassette. lf not, we just can’t handle them. The rule is, one program per cassette — though recorded several times on it. 0 Let us have a printed listing if possible. Screen dumps or off-screen photos are much appreciated,though not vital. Diagrams are always of use: Oftena point that’s difficult to putinto words becomes clear as crystal when you sketch it out. 0 Give a description of the program, what it does, why you wrote it, and outline the way it works and its vari-

you’ve

your

publlcatlon readers will.

Every subroutine must be titled clearly with a REM and should be referred to by it. Again, make the title

meaningful. Also, when you GOSUB,

REM to indicate which use a subroutine you're using. For example: 1”

GOSUB

WW:

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At first this may seem to be far too fuss, but it's not just for the readers' bene?t As your programs grow you’ll ?nd that such REMs more than repay the effort by allowing you to keep track of your work. When you write out your list of subroutines _ which is vita| —try to do it in this form; much

ables and

subroutines.

it's a game let us have a plot. You'll get an idea of the sort of thing by reading the instructions to one or two of our games. Maybe you could also give a few ideas for its improvement or expansion. Even if you can’t get your upgrades to work, there’s a good chance that one of our talented If

we EXAMPLE Shows how Holds tings 200 DELAY

we “ant. up...

where the line numbers refer to [the lines in which the subroutine is defined. Again, this helps by making things clearer to our readers — and you. We don’t expeCt your program descriptions to be classics of English literature, but it does help if they make sense and are easy to follow. Try reading them out loud — You'd be amazed how much such a simple technique can improve your writing. Also, if YOU get StUCk trying to pU'f something into words use this trick: Tell someone what it is you're trying to put into words —then write it down. Before you reject this hint,tryit-more than one professional writer owes his career to it. 0 Make sure that the program actually works. Try it out on your friends for

muttering through clenched teeth,

“How could anyone be that stupid?" — cast out (the answer is ”regularly”) the mote in your own eye and alter your program to take account of the feedback. It's not easy to do, as the all-toofrequent bloodfeuds among the editorial staff here testify, but it's worth it. Instructions can make or break a game. Make sure that yours really do instruct. They should be complete and it helps if the spelling and grammar are correct. Apart from causing confusion, such errors also make programs look amateurish. As well as misspellings, bad gramand general mar, split words untidiness are all to be avoided. Following even the simplest program can cause problems for the most

experiencedprogrammer

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don’t

work, include a

option. . One of the major grams

causes

is because

crashing

of prothe user

monochrome

TV—and vice-versa. If possible, try your program on both types of television. User groups are invaluable here, as they are in all

friends. 0 Another irritation for

SPACES

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Fettling

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telephone number ,

bOth and work ”W'th the correct STD home '3 really useful, and can save a |°t code

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aspects of program development. 0 Please do put lots of nice explanatory REMs in your programs. A couple of REM statements with nothing after them at the beginning of the program gives us room to put in our

messages without messing up all the line numbers you have referred to in

time.

work as it's supposed to that you just can’t make the mental leap needed to see it as the passively malevolent reader does — so try it out on your

in an

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. Tell “5 who you are. We “k? t? know 't '5 also your Chf‘St'a” name, and to know your_ age and interesting profession. After all,.we m'ght r91“)Ct your program, bUt ‘f we knew you were a fetlock fettler we d have been s Obscuresoft send able .to fetlocksY,°uon the 130XL for

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your program description. 0 Avoid having lines with just a REM and nothing else. It may make the program, look neater, but we won’t welcome letters asking what the missing words are. Remember, people will be spending hours typing your programsinto their micros. Make theirlife easier if you can. 0 Double space all your written matter. This means leaving a blank line between each line of text which is vital from our point of view - try to follow our style. We have our own ways of doing things: For example, we press the Return key, not the RETURN key as you might expect. Just look how we do it in the magazine. Our programs are Program I, Program II and so on, our diagrams Figure I, Figure II. Q If you must use long multiple lines don't go over 114 characters by using abbreviations for commands as

for

hOW many blanks is he to enter?

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telling

inputs something the programmer wasn't expecting. All right, the idiot shouldn’t type in -999 when you ask him his age, but believe us, they will, out of sheer peversity particularly if the program is educational. There is something about CAL programs that brings out the devil in us all... So try out all the unlikely options— if you don’t, some poor user will. Actually, it takesa lot of skillto idiotproof a program, as it is delicately known in the trade. Often you're so involved in getting the program to

modifications incompatibility. You can develop a beautiful program making use of all the splendid colour the Atari has to offer, only to impenetrable fog

Exactly supposed Use:

that it is your own work, has not been offered elsewhere and that we have your permission to print it. If you don’t we’ll have to return it. 0 It’s always nice if a program can have an alternative key or joystick

colour/monochrome

find that the action disappears

page

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to them unnecessarily. One major cause of having to return programs for is

when he sees something like:

people then complain the lines are too long. 0 Don't use abbreviations in text. — They’re exceptionally easy to miss for the sake of typing two extra characters you can save our readers hours of frustration. 0 Please, when you send us your

their criticism (painful though it may be). The acid test is to ask them to type it in. And — when you find yourself

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Entertainment from S.T.V. SOFTWARE

"WORLD CUP MANAGER" AN EXCITING TELEPRINTERTEXT GAME '

Lead Your team to the World Cup Final! (If you're good enough) Cass £8.39 Disk £11.19 including Post and Packing

"JOE 8: THE NUCLEAR CAVERNS" overheating and the only way to get to it is through the caverns below. Unfortunately,for security, they are protected by:— of Electronic Rays, Pools Acid, Radioactive Birds and many other hazards. Joe has the job of collecting from each cavern and reaching the core to shut it down. He needs your help badly. six uranium pods A new exciting arcade style game New Budget Price Cass £3.99 + 20p p&p Disk £7.99 + 20p p&p

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Supplier: Tynesoft, Addison Industrial Estate, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, NEZ74TE. Tel: 097—414 4611

occurrences. So whenlpicked up my copy of

creepy

Tynesoft's latest game Phantom, shivers ran down

my spine. You are a professor of astro-physics who happens to be interested in psychic

phenomena and builtaportable nuclear accelerator, presumably in his garage. hole

spooky

phantoms. So with reactor in hand you are well prepared for the horrors that face you, or are you? On loading l was greeted by the control panel featuring score, reactor level, heart rate (in beats per minute) and an electrocardiograph (ECG), which resides on the bottom right of the screen. Now it appears that you only have one life and the BPM indicator increases every time a ghost comes into contact with you—once this reaches 100 your old ticker will give out. You arrive at Ye Olde Inn, and are metwithaplan view that looks more like a maze.

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when settled completed the Inn and moved on to the Dungeon where a completely different set of nasties decided to

only

have me for breakfast. With 64 different rooms and the mansion and castle to exorcise there is plenty to keep you on your toes — especially as the difficulty

and

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Tel: 07-377 6880

ALTHOUGH Frenesis describes itself as a game guaranteed to bring you near total nervous collapse, my guess is that it is more likely to be caused by boredom from monotonous gameplay. You are armed with a Statron which is actually two thick bars, one running vertically down the screen, the other horizontally. Each bar can be moved

separately against a plain backdrop, the vertical one going left and right and the horizontal bar, up and

down. The movement is controlled by an appropriate tug on the joystick. Enterthe aliens, stage left, right, and all ways. These

are not

either circular, diamond or Other sharp-angled Shapes-

horde before progressing to the next level. The way to exterminate the infestation is by moving one of the bars across its path —the aliens explode on impact. If aliens are heading from the right, sweep the vertical bar from the left. Pink arrows on the bar point the direction the bar is currently facing. You also have some smart bombs at your disposal, triggered by pressing the fire button.They will rid you of all the aliens in the —

immediate vicinity.

And that’s it, really. There are40waves ofaliensto get through and while it gets faster and more furious, you are still simply waggling one of two bars back and forth. l grant that dextrous

you

pogo

(cassette), £9.95

Frigiécf7'95 Supplier: Red Hat Software, 77 Fennel Street, ManChester m4 aou Tel: 061-835 7055

THE

main

character in sort of demented Aussie jumping around on a pogostick. lt brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. Anyway, you set off to find the fabled Lost Golden Pogostick, spurred on by the wailing of Danny Boy. While l like to think have an open mind on musical matters, I was glad to be able to turn

Sprong

is some

this particular cacophony off.

You are given five lives to begin with and there are chances to win extra lives. Each screen has to be completed inside a time limit and there are 50 -

42 Atari User July 7987

screens to pogo

through. Movin from left to ri ht your pgogress may gbe

by a number Of obstacles and hazards. These include lava flows, raging fires, laser beams, acid rain, bomb-dropping helicopters, meteors and one or two others. These can be dodged by Cheeked

carefultiming ofyourmovement or avoided by hopping on to and across platforms, conveniently strewn about the place. The platforms can be of the rock-steady or dis-

tinctly temporary variety. You hop gently along, moving left or right. Pressing the fire button increases the height and length of the jump. The springing movement is good and bouncy and adds to the difficulty when trying to assess particularly tricky jumps. Should you lose your last life 38 screens into the , game, you dont have to go

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Better graphics, less simplicity and much more gameplay variety might

needed to make progress but the game failed to catch my imagination. It’s all too much of a muchness. Frenesis was written by Tony Takoushi, well-known arcade games fan. Despite his wide experience of arcade action, I’m afraid he hasn’t produced a stimuIating game. Frenesis doesn’t come

anywhere

near

have awakened my interest. As it is, although this game is cheap, you’d be advised to have a look at some others in the Mastertronic range. This is not one of their finer offerings. Bob Chappell Sound5

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than glowing embers, the background scenery could have come from Legoland and as for the lava flows , well lve seen more anim-

ationin our pumice stone on bath night.

There’s

nothing

new

under the sun, so goes an old adage — and Sprong by

Red Rat Software certainly does nothing to try to disprove it. On the other hand

Sprong is well put together is reasonably challenging.

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GAME about lawn mowing by Jeff Minter? What, he of the megatomic, all-action, rip-roaring, blastem—out-of—the-sky fame? No, it can’t be the same Minter. But it is. Hovver Bovver is not a new game — in fact it came out on the Commodore 64 way back in ‘83. The game has you A

neighbour’s

hover mower to cut a series You’ve barely started cutting your first swathe when the neighbour of lawns.

decides he wants his mower

back.

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begins the

Breakl

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the pursuit. One way of fending off pursuers is to set Rover, your faithful dog, on to them. The gardener and Rover, sensitive souls, will never

flower bed unless you have slashed a path through it. Not so the neighhour, who will trample anything in his desrre to cross

recover the mower. it pays to play the vandal to keep

seas.

5NS.

Tel; 067-832 6633

WHO would have thought that the game of ‘87 would be a relative of the Iegendary program Breakout? it has

winner with its latest release Arkanoid. it looks like Breakout but has many hidden surprises.

from

imagine has already converted the original arcade

version of Arkanoid on to other computers including the ST with considerable success but l’m sorry to say that the Atari 8 bit version is well below average. The game has a very simplistic form—you control a bat in the form of a short tube. This must be used to keep a bouncing ball from reaching the base of the screen. The ball must then be ricocheted among a

destroy appears

soon

you

one the capsule and falls down for

you to catch.

Each capsule has a different colour, identifying label and different effect. Catching a new capsule will negate the operation of any previously caught capsule. The best capsule in most cases is the Lfor Laser. Your bat turns into a double laser which can blast the bricks. The instructions do say that D capsule exists breaking the ball in to three — but never got one. a

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slots at the top of the screen are aliens that cause great confusion between you and the ball. If the ball collides and kills an alien the ballcan rebound in

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any direction. There are 32 screens to work through before the climax confrontation with the Dimension Changer, whoever or whateverthat is. Arkanoid can be played by one or two players and the bat is controlled by either paddles, joystick or the keyboard. lhaveseen and playedthe ST version and this makes me

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use the grams.

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Another limitation in the program is the fact that it spends all its time changing positions and checking for the Start key: To overcome this probIem you must use a feature called the Display List Interrupt (DLl). 0 Next month we’ll look at how to set up a DL/andgive you listings that will splitsprites and colours which will run independent of your Basic program.

Sets up 1k of space for PMGs and sets up A$ which holds the machine code. Tells the ANTIC chip-enable PMGs and sets the player address pointers. Ciears aII player graphics memory. Fills each player with some form of data. You can change this to your own require-

ments. Copies machine code data into A$. E

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how the machine code works, because the Basic program has been written so that you can use the code in your own programs. You could try altering the two angle variables ANGLE7 and ANGLEZ or change the widths of the player missiles and the data stored within them. Unfortunately, when you change graphics mode the PMG area becomes corrupted, so make sure you're in the correct mode when you

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OVER the past few months we’ve looking at facilities provided by the Central Input/Output System — or CIO. You should now be familiar with the way that the operating system uses CD to pass data to and from the various peripherals, and how you can use those same CIO handlers from within your own programs. One of its most powerful and useful facilities is to supply a common protocol for data transfer. This allows a program to send or receive bytes of data the W'thom been

knowing'anything about 't 's accessrng. hardware dev1_ce

accessed on each disc and these must be capable of being read or updated and then deleted again when they are finished. There should also be a set of housekeeping routines for such tasks as copying files, altering the names of files, making new or backup discs and so on. The disc drive is actually only cap-

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allows plenty of space in the Handler Address Table for just such a purpose. The most complex driver that you are likely to come across is the disc operating system (or Dos as it is better known), and over the next couple of months |'|| be showing you in more detail how it works. There are many different types of Dos available, but the most common is the well known Atari Dos 2.0. This has been expanded recently to give us Dos 2.5, but the main principles of operation are exactly the same. Various other manufacturers have produced their own Dos software but most of them use the same basic disc format. Many also add their own special facilities, but for the moment we'll concentrate on the standard Dos 2.0/2.5 format. The first thing to realise is that a disc drive differs from most other peripherals in that it is a random access device — it can read and write data at various different positions on the disc under software control. While a cassette must be set for record OR playback by the user, a disc is perfectly capable of being written to or read from whenever the computer requires. This opens up the possibility of transferring data between files on a single disc, or changing the data contained within one file — both of which are impossible when using tape. Any Dos must therefore provide a number of operations. It must allow many different files to be stored and

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operation it completed and the type of disc in the drive. In addition, you may recall from Len Golding's series on autobooting that the OS isonlycapableofaverysimple boot operation —that of loading a set of consecutive sectors from the start of whichever disc is in drive one when the power is turned on. All this leaves us with a picture which is a far cry from the all-singing Dos specifications outlined earlier. if all the computer can do is manipulate these sectors containing just 128 bytes, hOW can DOS ever do all those clever tasks we are by now used to? Perhaps now you understand why stated that Dos is probably the most complex — and largest of the device drivers. It’s also why Atari decided to load it in from the disc at powerup time rather than permanently use up an extra 10k of memory Space that would be completely wasted as far as tape users were concerned.Thewhole of the original 08 only took up 10k. so incorporating Dos as well would have doubled the rom space required. I

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The veryfirstAtariDos(DosI,would you believe?) loaded this entire 10k block of machine code into memory in one go, thus reducing your work space in Basic to a meagre 27k on a 48k machine. It was

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that not all that program code was needed all of the time. When programming in Basic all that you require are the raw Open/Close file and data transfer routines, plus a few XlO commands for other functions. Certainly

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addition this code will be run again whenever System Reset is pressed in order to reinitialise the disc handlers. Once the boot process is finished you will see the familiar READY prompt from Basic. If you type PRINT FRElO) you will get a result of 32,274 bytes — or about 32k. Without Dos this

figure would

once again.

At this point it’s worth mentioning one of the major differences between Dos 2.0 and Dos 2.5 —the ramdisc. As you will know if you use a 130XE, Dos 2.5 allows you to use that extra 64k of banked memory as a second disc drive. It also stores DUP.SYS and MEM.SAV on the ramdisc which means that there is no appreciable delay while the save/load operation

takes place.

you don’t have a 128k machine a normal ?oppy disc for the MEM.SAV file it takes a little over 21 seconds before the menu appears. Without MEM.SAV this is reduced to just seven seconds, so many people resort to simply SAVEing their programs before typing DOSTo understand the disc system a little better, let’s look at the way the |f

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drive and printer and wish to expand my system to include a modem. I was wondering if ljoined Micro-

Link would/be able to have it charged directly to me instead of to my parents on the phone bill. My other problem is that my system is in a converted attic and the phone is on the

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to be side by side? — N. Broadbent, West Yorkshire. O The only charge on your phone bill will be the cost of the telephone calls to the MicroLink computer. MicroLink charges are billed to you separately and payment is by a direct debit from your bank account. To work out how much you would owe your parents forthe use ofthe phone, the MicroLink bill specifies the

value

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connect time to the system at both peak time and off-

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system is in the attic, it will be necessary for you to get an extension from the tele-

phone socket downstairs to the attic. It is possible to buy such extensions from most electronics a socket in

shops.

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This came to mind when

tried to write a program to play some Christmas carols and found that/couldn’t get the hang of the sound channe/s so lgave up in (jasper. amen, Then / wondered

if it was possible to play and control music through the recorder and so solve my problem. 8. Buxton, London. . Yes, it is possible to play music through your 1010 _

tape recorder but the sound w speaker and may sound a little distorted depending on the age and quality of the speaker inside your TVThe way that this iS accomplished Wiii answer your second query as well. it is possible to control the recorder from Basic but it is

ever documented in manuals. To turn it 0" YOU simply type POKE 5401852 then press Return. if YOU put a music tape in,

hardly

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know more on the technical side of how it is done. Also, what is this Pokey chip that is often mentioned in artic/es. — A. J. T. Buckton, Manchester. c The way that the Atari writes information to the

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rgaster aroun as een SOftWBrs ountry20/700 much longer so I feel that Len the claim is invalid. Fett,Sunderland. tape recorder is length blocks at —

in fixed600 baud

(physical bits/second). Then

Atari

tape

serialtransmission is

tell me how the Atari micro writes information to the tape recorder. This point is of particular interest to me after reading your autoboot series and I would like to COULD you please

Ada ptlng

drives

are

single side,

double density, 40 track, 80 sectors per inch. Inside the drive there is a disc

analogue

card, so can

you please explain to me 56 Atari User July 1987

then by 128 data bytes and finally a checksum byte. The chip that you have heard referred to as Pokey is in fact the sound chip and was given this name when the machine was first built. The chip was new and is not available in any other micro and like the other new chips inside the micro such as Anticand GTlA was given 3 name. The Pokey chip also creates all the sound outputs that are available from Basic allowing you to obtain superb sound simply.

A pp le drlve

why I cannot use these drives on my micro. What modifications would I need to make and would/need to use the interface card? If so how would it connect to my 800XL. Would I also need a separate power supply as the drives take their power supply from the computer, and when connected would commercial software run on this drive? J. A. Oatham, —

This is why the interface card must be bought to use with the Apple II. Unfortunately an awful lot of work on the electronics would have to be done to make it compatable with an Atari computer. It would probably not be worth the trouble when you could sell the drives and put the a fully money towards compatable Atari 1050 disc

drive.

Essex.

O The disc drives on the

Apple

nificant bit first, The recorded block is 132 bytes long and is broken down into marker characters for measurement of speed followed by a control byte

card. I have one of these, and now know that the

used

to read or write data to the recorder. The sound chip inside your micro handles any data streams coming into or out of your Atari in a set order: 1 start bit (space), 8 data bits (0 space, 1 mark), then one stop bit (mark). Your sound chip sends or receives a byte by least sig-

’

IRECENTLYacquiredapair of Apple IlE disc drives which firm had my scrapped. When / tried to plug them into my 800XL I found that there appears to be no socket for it to ?t in. On the back ofthe disc drive there is a 20 way ribbon cable and a label giving a warning—connect the cable only to the Apple II interface

warnlng IN THE article “Check up on the taxman" published in the June issue ofAtari U ser there were some error s. Overall it would be unwise for your readers to rely on the accuracy of the routine for checking their PA YE tax deductions. For the majority the routine will be in error by pence only, but for those whose taxable pay averages over about £340 per week, the error could be quite large. G. 0. Lawton, Inland Revenue. —

that their chess program is the first 30 chess program for the 8 bit Atari. / WOU/d like to [30th (Wt that Chess-

Taxman

computers are rather different from most other drives as they usea lot of electronic interfacing.

You would get Dos, and the correct lead and a power supply and you would have no problem running any of the commercial software

available.

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ll?lngS? [READ yourmagazine GVGW month and find it very interesting. BUt whenever / type in one Of your listings it never works, 50 I retype It and retype it checking every character and they Sit/l never work 50 l have come to the conclusion that none Of them work and that your listings are all printed wrong. Could you please explain hOW the SOUhd channels W0fk- - G- Gulline, Fife. 0 All the listings are taken directly from working programs and they are checked before we publish them so that they are correct. The Problem is that_evenasmall WP")? error W'" StOP them WOT king. Take a lot of care when YOU type them if) and make use of the Get it Right program that we published in

the August 1986 issue of Atari User. This program will help you in your efforts, correct your typing errors and get a working program. There are many complex ways ofproducing sound on Atari home computers, but

it nearly always comes back to the Basic sound command. This takes the form Of SOUND 1.10110,10 and the numbers shown can

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changed to any other number within the parameters of the SOUND be

statement. The first numberindicates which sound channel you wish to use in the range 0 to 3 and the second number indicates the note you want to use. This can range from 0 to 255, giving you a lot of variety. third The number indicates the distortion level Of the note With the number 10 indicating a pure note. This number can range from 0 to 14 in even numbers only. Finally the fourth number indicates the volume level of the note and this ranges from O to 15 with 15 being the loudest. By experimentwith this command you ing W'” be_able to create some very interesting sound effeqts’ gmj ‘f YOU refer to the five liners section of this issue of Atari User you will ?nder program thatWIllturn your computer into an electronic organ

Unfortunately you cannot access Prestel through

MicroLink at present, but it may be possible in the

future although

no date has been set.

de?nite

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YOUR readers may be interested in an idea I recently used to help me enjoy my holiday better. One of the things I dislike most is

Add|ng a “10

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IAM interested in adding a

modem to my Atari 800 setup so that I can access MicroLink as advertised in Atari User. However, I am not clear exactly what sort / need and what additional software and interfaces will be

required. Can I access Prestel through MicroLink? Chris Read, Milton,

Keynes. O Addin a modem to your not as expensive system ices,g as many people think and can be very useful. There are several available for you to choose from. Prices range from £100 for a manual modem to a few

hundred pounds for ones which will dial the MicroLink number for you automatically. You will also need an 850 interface box or a lead to connect your Atari micro directly to a modem. You also

require a communi-

in the June issue of Atari User, the text is hidden in line 2 by POKE709,0. I suggest POKE709,10. I’ve also included a POKE 752,7 in line 5 to inhibit the cursor in the window when an error message is displayed. You seem to have used POKE 82,3 on these five-liners.

writing postcards

so I used Mini Of?ce II to help. Before Ideparted I set up

database file of my friends'names and used the label printer to print them a

out on sticky labels.

Then

printedoutanaqua/number Of labels With the following text on them'

Havtng

Heather

great/Lousy .

time.

sunny/raining/dull.

Hotel excellent/good/poor. Food scrumptious/enable! we just use the chip Sh0p_ Locals

I’ve hardly been able to get near my Atari for my wife playing on the bandit. It’s a great program, and if she paid me what she’s lost / could probably afford an ST

by now. Finally, in the mass formatter by Colin Froggat

will

cations program.

are

iriendly/hosti Le.

It was then just a matter of fixing two stickers and a stamp to the cards, deleting

support missin g [N the May issue of Atari User, which my son buys every month' there was a I etter f rom someone who

hadsent forsometh/ng from C omputer Support UK, advertised ”7 your maga.

Zine- They had "at rECEiVEd it.

[also sent for something from them costing £39.95. We have been trying to contact them since August

7986. Although we asked the _help of consumer fag 275,755’?,f’.§17,’e,”2‘2’,§’§ all we got was pro— servrces time saving idea will enable mISGSyour readers to enjoy their After letters sent bl’ OUf holidays rather than waste solrcrtor there was_still no them writing cards. And answer, 80 we applied for a when it comes to Christmas court summons. We were I’ve got the names on ?le; a judgement against 9M?" ready to address the Mr Lawson Of CompUtef _ of the cards. envelopes lain

Jones'

CI WV d '

converter converted G. WATSON’S ?ve-line decima/ to Hexadecimalconverter in the May issue ofAtari

User

rather

great. However, than

entering A=USHI7600,number), I ?nd that adding :GOTO50 to the end ofline 50 makes the routine more useful. Since typing in Dave White’s Fruit from the March issue of Atari User

Support UK

The bailiffs have told us

any thatdthere1 5 at £5?20arroc one};grtreet. 900 — Mrs. M- C. Sanderson,

Growthorpe, Rotherham, Yorks.

M ass

across was in the Five Liners Mass Formatter program. In lines 3 and5 the listing

showed three brackets which are not on the key-

board. They are meant to be the

clear screen character is (CHR$(725}) which obtained by pressing Escape+Control+Clear. A. B. O’Neill, Hants.

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HAVE had an Atari 800XL

for two years and would like to know what a display list is? I know it has something to do with the graphics mode but that seems to be the limit of my knowledge th's SUb/eCt‘ B' Wise, 0? Didsbury, Manchester . The display "St is a series of numbers that describes the way '” Wh'Ch the T

fa p hi CSC h''P —A n t'‘C dis p la y the screen.

formatter WHEN I received the June 1987 issue of Atari User / got

very great enjoyment out of reading it. Iwouldlike to say it is one of the best issuesl have read since its start. The only problem I came

”Enter

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is at location 560561 ($230‘$231)The July to December 1985 issues of Atari User con-

tained a comprehensive guide to the subject.

c lll‘SOI' ?aShlng .

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cursor

flashing routine

printed

in the

Five Liners

section of the June issue of Atari User. Unfortunately I have to admit there is a bug in the

as printed, WhiCh results in cassette users not

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