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All the latest from the ever-changing world of

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VOL 3

Liwng Daylights

How to keep the pirates off your tapes and discs.

AUQUSt 1987

Managing Editor: Derek Meakin Features Editor: Peter Davidson .

, Preduction Editor.

Peter Glover

Art Editor: Heather Sheldrick Reviews Editor Christ“p her Pa y“ e .

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An in-depth review of Domark’s latest release.

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GRAPHK'S Enter data directly or load data from the spreadsheet, produce pie charts, display bar charts side by side or stacked, overlay line graphs and more!

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GAMES for the new Atari VCS 2600 console are reported to in be plentiful supply according Atari’s Spokesman Peter Walker. More than 25 titles are currently being supported by the bUt the games base company, is much larger than that.

NEGOTIATIONS are under way With a number of ma|or High Street stores to secure distribution contracts for Atari computers and games consoles in time for the Christmas market. So far there has been a cautious response from some retailers, but Dixons and Currys have confirmed that they will be .

Crystal Castles, Solaris, Star Gate and Midnight Magic .

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Paul keting manager ,, Welch said. We are also .

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firm commitment to Atari as it is currently evalu. . ating the machines to see where they would fit in to their overall sales policy. A computer magazme report that Atari had done a deal to dump a large . quantity of machines With Dixons and Currys has been officially denied by Atari spokesman Peter Walker. .

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Audiogenic, US Gold, Imagine,_and Alligata soft-

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“The only way that we could make our presence felt was by reducing our prices. “And it’s notjust Spain_We are

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Atari's sponsorship is part an overall policy to increase the company’s public image. This year alone it plans on spending £3 million in press and TV advertising. Atari used the event to confirm that it is to relaunch the 130XE computer as a tutorial machine for first~time com-

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290 DATA 232,8,189,26,3,133,203,232,18 9,26,3,133,204,160,15,177,203,153,233, 8

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300 5

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BY the time you’ve finished developing a long Basic program, the chances are that your line numbers will be very untidy and difficult to follow. This utility will renumber any Basic program automatically, along with all GOTOf GOSUB and other embedded line references, at about 250 lines per second. Since it’s entirely in machine code, there’s no risk that it will invade the memory area used by your Basic program, and it’s not affected by Break or System Reset. It will also run on any Atari 8 bit computer, with any version of Atari Basic.

and II contain the Programs cassette and disc versions respectively. They both create a master file which loads automatically when you switch power on, and contain only the machine code routine. Let’s look at the cassette version first. Type in Program and save it. Insert a blank, fully rewound tape, type RUN and hit Return. In about 10 seconds you will hear the familiar double beep. Follow the usual CSAVE procedure, and the master file will be created automatically. Program can now be discarded. To use the renumber routine you must first load the master file. Since it's in autoboot format, switch power on while holding down Start then proceed as for CLOAD. It takes about 45 seconds, then READY will appear as usual. Check that the routine is safely installed by typing PRINT PEEK(1800)—you should get 76. Now load the program you want renumbering, type X=USR(1800)and hit Return. It will be instantly renumbered in increments of 10, starting at line 10. You can easily specify different values forthe starting line number and meementThe (“30 version IS even easrer to make and use. Once you have typed in and saved program lI, run it to create the master AUTORUNSYS?le Load it I

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renumber the Basic program starting going up in increments of 5. A few error-trapping facilities are built into the routine. If there is no Basic program in memory, or if the USR statement contains the wrong number of parameters, the routine hands control straight back to Basic, and a beep indicates a setting-up error.

This also happens if you choose parameterswhich would generateline numbers greater than 32767. If all is well, the routine starts by line checking every embedded

reference, to see that they all refer to lines which actually exist. If it finds an error, it prints the message “Nonexistent line reference at “, followed by the number of the line containing the fault, then exits to Basic without

renumberinganything.This

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,63

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173

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2.224 423 DATA 3,233,243,96,172,5,13,234,3,1

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decided to write to several local councillors expressing my concern.At last had a chance to put the Mini Office II mail merge facility and label I

printer to

real use. Talk about hiding your light under a bushel. The manual just skims the surface of the topic, which is a pity because it couldn’t be easier. For those of you tempted to try it here’s how it’s done. The first task is to set up a database of the names you want to write to. assume that you have read the Data Protection Act and are registered if

database to make it similarto Figure I. Note that three fields are used for the full name—title, initials and surname. This is so that when you merge the database into the word processor you Mr J. Smith can use the full name Mr Smith or part of the name by using the appropriate fields. Once you have edited the structure it is a good idea to save the database with no records entered, so that the structure can be used for other applications. You then enter the names, using edit records,and when you have entered them all save the database under, say, the filename “names". if you are entering a lot of names it would be wise to save every few —

necessary — mind you if you understand its complexities you’ll find mail merging a doddle. For those new to databases there are three terms you must understand before going any further: 0 File: All the names and addresses that you are using. 0 Record: One of those names and One part of a name address, such as the surname.

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entries. You can easily print the names from have disthe database but now covered how easy and flexible it is to use the word processor doubt if I’ll use the database printout routines for

addresses

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anything except a quick viewing of what have typed in. To print database files from the word use the processor you embedded command FL. Embedded commands are instructions to the micro to do something, but they do not appear when the actual text is printed out. You enter them by pressing the inverse video key before and after each command. They should then show highlighted on the screen. Each should be followed by a space to indicate the end of the command. FL is an abbreviation of FieLd and is followed by its number. So to do a mail merge you use FL several times throughoutthe text and ask for several copies of the letter. As the first is printed you will be prompted for the name of the file to use and the first

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record of the database specified is print the first field of the first record, FL2 the second field and used. FL1 wil

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Press Escape to return to the word processor menu. Make sure you’re now using the disc containing the file of names, then select Print Text. At the first sub-menu—PrintOptions —just press Return to select Print Text. You will then be asked how many copies you require. Suppose you have 30 names in your list answer 30 to this question. If you are not sure how many names there are in your file, just enter a large number such as 500 and printing will stop when all the records in the file have been printed. Now that you have discovered how easy it is to print a list of names from the database file the etters to a vii/ogd t e processor, printlng using people in your file is a very small step. Type in the letter as shown by the two screens of Figures II and III. Remember that the letters highlighted are embedded commands, and to get these just press the inverse video key before and after the command. You’ll notice that there are five tabs (each followed by a space) in front of the address lines. As the initial settings fortabs are 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 this causes the address to start at the 50th character space along the line. We have already discussed the embedded command FL. To make producing a tidy letter very easy Figures II and I” use several others. Here is what they do: LL65 sets the line length to 65 LM12 set the left margin to 12. This means that the printout, with line length 65 and paper width 80, will be approximately central. FJ sets full justification, so the letter will be evenly spaced between the left and right margins. FL1 prints field 1 of the present record, FLZ prints field 2 and so on. Once you have typed in your letter save it, and then print out several copies by following the same steps you used to print out the list of names.

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way is to feed your database file into the Label Printer. Load the Label Printer program into your micro and load the database file using the Load File option. Select Edit Format from the Label Printer menu, and then set up number of labels across the page and any other variables that you want to change from the Edit Format menu. Once these are set select Edit Label. In the Label Printer Edit mode fields are represented by a number in inverse video. Edit your label to look like Figure lV, then press Escape twice to return to the Label Printer menu. Select Print Labels and, from the menu, choose the Test Print option. This will show you the position of the printout and give you a chance to move the paper if necessary. Keep doing test prints until you are satisfied with the printout's position. You will notice that the number of labels will have been set automatically to the number of addresses in the file

you loaded.

If you want two labels for each address just double this number. You then select Print Labels and they

will print. Don’t let the fact that this feature of the word processor is called mail merge fool you into thinking that just because you have no letter to send you can’t use it. It is a far more powerful printout option for the database than the in-built one, allowing neat work even on preprinted forms such as invoices. Teachers can use it to produce personalised, worksheets for their pupils and hotels can use it to print out several different standard menus—the various print size options of Mini Office II are useful for these applications. Its possibilities seems endless. lf you’ve come up with an original application particularly if you have used the mail merge facility for uses other than letters or circulars—write and tell —

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the radiation has mutated strange jelly like creatures that creep out of the ground and radioactive birds which will attack anything that moves. And so Joe sets off in a desperate quest to save us all. must saywith that build up I was surprised that the opening scene was so tame measures,

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aliens live in our imaginations, exploding nuclear reactors live not only in our nightmares but the all too recent past.

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track of what's going on. Groundwork done, move on to the playing screen, a scrolling map of_London with the interesting buildings picked out. This toggles with a “helium-balloon” view of the whole city which reveals your opponents’ locations and lets you plan tactics. Each building contains a clue or a playing aid: Your job is to do the rounds,

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HERE'S a program that allows up to 80 players on the screen. Yes, that’s right, 80. In last month's FX program you’ll

notice that the routine limited you to four bent sprites and no other processing time was available. Let’s move on to setting up a Display List Interrupt that will do all the work, and leave your Basic program free to do other jobs. A Display List interrupt (DLl) will interrupt the processor flow for a few microseconds at any display line that has the DU bit set. It allows you to do small routines like sound, graphics or counters. This information is set up in the Display List, which describes the type of mode lines that make up the display and also tells the Antic chip where to fetch data that is to be displayed to the screen a function unique to the 8 bit Atari. It can also set any line for fine scrolling and set a line to indicate where a DLI is to take place. This isthe function we need. If

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middle line.

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change DLI to occur halfway down the screen, we would first find the Display List. lt can be found via the pointer at SDLSTL 560-561 ($0230-$0231). We would then add 128 to the mode byte in the display list which described the

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S changed and the Y register used without updating the start and end of

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registers. You can use this routine now to animate 80 Sprites but rememberthat only four can be on one line at a time. You can also change lines 750 to 770 to read the following for extra speed: ‘

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up into 720 or 1040 sectors, each of which contain 128 bytes of data. This time we will see how Dos 2.5 uses these sectors to store and keep track of programs and data files. There are basically three types of information which Dos can store in any given sector directory information, the files themselves or a special table of free space known as the Volume Table of Contents (or VTOC). The directory is restricted to sectors 361 to 368 and the VTOC data is in sector 360. We took a rather simplified look at the VTOC, but Figure gives a much better idea of the true Dos 2.5 disc layout including the special extended VTOC at sector 1024 ‘used in enhanced density mode. The first three sectors of a Dos disc are used for boot information only (see panel) and can’t be accessed for storage, but all other sectors from four onwards are used for files. Due to a quirk in the design of Dos 2.0, sector 720 was unused and so Dos 2.5 mimics this to maintain full compatibility. Sector 719 is thus the final available sector on a single density diSCi With 1023 being the maximum when using enhanced density. By the time. you subtract the eight directory sectors, three boot sectors, the VTOC table and sector 720 you are left with 707 or 1010 free sectors for file storage. Let’s now look at the way Dos handles these sectors. The VTOC data in sector 360 is probably the easiest to understand, and is shown in Figure ||. The first 10 bytes contain general information about the disc. Byte zero is a code digit to indicate the Dos type (normally 2 for Dos 2.0/2.5). Bytes one and two contain the total sector count

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rently free. On an enhanced density Dos 2.5 disc this VTOC information is extended into sector 1024, shown in Figure “I. Bytes 0 to 83 are simply copies of the last 84 bytes ofthe main VTOC table, with byte 0 referring to sectors 48 to 55 and byte 83 covering sectors 712 to 719. Byte 84, the first of the new entries, covers sectors 720 to 727 and thus the high bit (for sector 720) is always zero since it should never be written to. Byte 85 refers to sectors 728 to 735, right up to byte 121 which completes the disc with sectors 1016 to 1023. Bytes 122 and 123 of the Extended VTOC data supply the free sector count for the enhanced segment of the disc. This would be 303 ($12F) for an T"’"

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empty disc, which when added to 707 gives the expected 1010. When using Dos 2.5 the two sector count values must be added together before a true Free Sectors result can be obtained. Sectors 361 to 368 are always flag— ged as being unavailable for files because they contain the eight directory sectors. Each one of these can contain up to eight filenames, providing the 64—file limit experienced when using Dos 2 or 2.5. Each entry is made up of 16 bytes five for internal data, eight for the main filename and three for the extender. Byte 0 provides various bit—mapped information as shown in Figure IV. and 2 give the number of Bytes sectors used in the file (low/high format) and bytes 3 and 4 indicate the first sector used. Bytes 5 to 12 contain the main filename and bytes 13 to 15 contain the extender. When a file is erased Dos flags the entry in the directory as deleted and frees the relevant sectors from the VTOC table. The entire file will remain intact until another file is written over it, which enables you to recover an accidentally deleted file if you catch -

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holds the total number of bytes actually used, which is normally 125 ($70). The next two bytes contain two pieces of information. The highest six bits of byte 126 hold the file number (0—63), which corresponds to the number of the directory entry for the file. The first file in the directory, for

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70 POSITION

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3.9

be MEANINGFUL speech can generated from 64 different sounds, known as allophones. Let’s see how

we can program the voice box you

produced last month to generate sounds and string them together to produce any word in the these

English language.

Programming the box is just a matter of sending the appropriate code numbers in correct sequence. The full allophone set with descriptions of the sounds produced by each code is shown in Table II. These are since the only approximate, allophones will often behave differently when they are used at different posmons '” real words. Where posmble, the examples ShOW ‘n “5 each allophone "PS? USU?“ posD ‘3 best 1t|on. For example, an m't'?” produced by COde 33: Whlle code 21 sounds better at the end Of a word. Characters at the end Of words are shown by, for example, __DAllophones marked W'th asterlsks _

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the sixties pop groups such as Pink Floyd and Genesis used light to dramatic effect. At the back of the auditorium banks of slide and cine projectors threw images on to a giant screen behind the band. Swirling patterns of colour were created byatechnique using coloured oil that moved as if alive. Kaleidoscopes created symmetrical patterns of moving colour, while cine projectors provided images of candle flames or trails of speeded up car lights. By today's standards the techIN

to integrate music and light images in a far more flexible and spectacular way. Perhaps the state of the art in com-

puter light shows

Colourspace, described by its writer Jeff Minter as a light synthesiser. On the 8 bit Atari computer Colourspace is very impressive, especially when it's

linked to synthesiser music. Although Psychedelic Journey is

nowhere near as spectacular as Colourspace, it creates intriguing, hypnotic graphics that can be used to accompany your favourite music.

niques used were primitive. Using computer graphics it is now possible A

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When you first run the program

series of

symmetrical shapes

Switches on and off the change sequence which automatic co I 0"? colours to a random valuzhzcg'csfthe With this feature swicheedNoffyou fs'econds_ ave to make your own colour chan

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through the

colours.

Shift+B

128

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experiment with the various options. Mix shapes, colours and rotation directions to create various

effects. The program is liberally sprinkled with rem statements, so you should have no difficulty in working out how it works. Why not try changing the program to create other effects? 80 turn the lights down low, the stereo up high and run the program to enioy a Psychedelic Journey.

Switches 0 "St that puts "sea; 355117; interrupt routine the screen to give a to °_n '

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Medium wide ratio Medium wide ratio Medium wide ratio Medium wide ratio Medium wide ratio

2 3

4 5

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Shape control keys

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POKE

SCREEN

SET

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480

I 90 NEXT 100 GOSUB 690 OESIGN 110 REM INITIALISE START 120 XEX=94:O=1:GOSUB 830 130 KEY=117:GOSUB 830 140 XEX=51:O=0:GOSUB 830 830 150 KEX=27:O=1:GOSU8

490 500

COL=COL-1: COL=COL+1:

IE COL>8 THEN COL=1 260 COLOR COL:A=USR(1560) A=USR<1560) X:RETURN 270 NEXT REM

290 A=USR11560> 300 KEX=PEEXC764):IE KEY<>255 THEN GOS 340 US X X=0 TO OEL NEXT 310 A=USR11560):EOR 320 IE AUTO=1 THEN REP=REP+1 IE REP=60 REP=0:GOSUB 620 330 GOTO 280 REM

350 IE KEY=63 ANO EX=255:REP=59:REM 360 IE KEY=63 ANO EY=255 370 IE KEY=58 OAzzLE _ 380 IF DAZE-1

OA1E=1 _

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390

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410

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REM

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KEY

THEN

TURN

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CHANGE

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BACK

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570

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1040

COLOURS

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LINE

670 GOSUB 350 RETURN 680 REM SET UP OLI ROUTINE

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DATA

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760 RETURN 770 REM DISPLAY LIST INTERRUPT 780 REM MACHINE COOE OATA 790 OATA 72,24,173,203,2,105,2,141,10,

212,141,23,208,141,203,2,104,64 REM

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104,172,193,2,162,0,189,194,2 ,157,193,2,232,224,9,208,245,140,2??,2 OATA

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OATA THEN THEN THEN

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930

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v=124

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SINGLE COLOUR

630 640

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620 RAND=INT(RND(1)*3):BACK=BACK+2:IF PACR>255 THEN BACK=0

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710

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THEN

970 980 990

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700

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280

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your imagination and ingenuity. Minor changes to data and text of disc files is probably the most obvious serious application of the utility but there are many others. Perhaps a few off-beat examples will stimulate your imagination. The Dos 2.5 system is not wholly bug free and will accept quite illegal disc LIST filenames, thereafter refusing to allow them to be altered or loaded. Minor operations on the directory sectors (such as 361) rapidly reclaim them. For the unashamed cheat, try scanning the text of your disc based adventure games. You won't get all the answers, but you often find a fair number of clues. The intellectual might try perusing sectors as an aid to learning how programs are tokenised, numbered, Dzlisted. and so on. A lot of information on how your computer functions, and how to get the best from it can be found in this way. Much of the program is concerned with presenting the disc data in a satisfactory screen and printer layout. The heart is the disc sector read and write subroutines which are quite

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evolved appendage

known as a joystick. When young this kind is further identifiable by the fact that mother is continually warning that it will ruin eyesight or at the least end up with square eye balls—this warning seems to be based on fact. It is capable of making the most extraordinary claims, as are all homoatariusers. Such things as scoring 2,000,000 points at Drop Zone, or reaching level 96 on Fractalus. It has

limited regard for strategy, preferring to live on instinct and fast reactions. The Adventurers on the other hand are just the opposite. They worship_ strategy and attempt to live a life of calm, analytical problem solving. All too frequently, however, they suffer from bouts of extreme frustration, and at such times they are apt to write to Atari User demanding answers to their self-imposed dilemma. They use phrases like “I’m at my wit’s end and about to go completely crazy. Can somebody out there tell me how to get past the man eating bear in Moron’s pit of slime.” Or they may say: ”l’ve poisoned the mad dog by offering it my cheese first smeared with the sarni, which juice of the thorn that was growing on the ledge of the sheer rock face, which reached by climbing down the rope that cut from the rope bridge. And I've offered the dead dog to the angry bear but it won’t eat it. It just kicks the dog to one side and kills me.” Finally they complain: “I’m sure I'm doing everything right, do you think my copy has a bug in it.7 Or could it be a loading problem? Also is there any truth to the rumour that there is a secret door in the chamber of the mutant hamburger, and if so where is it?” Yet another distinct type of homoatariuser is the Programmer. Again, this can be further divided into two sorts. These are the Basic programmer and the Machine Code pro~ grammer. If seen together you can usually expect to hear the Basic sort saying

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to disc, as we all know that by the time the cassette has loaded you’ve forgotten what the games was. — Mr J. Sayers, Warden Bay, Kent.

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.... hours typing in the program Bounderfrom the June 1987 issue of Atari User and was

appeared at line 186. I checked and rechecked this line and found no error $0 lam {n my typing, writing ifthere {0 desperationf0 33/{ ”7 the is 3 misprint ’

error

magazme. Also in the

Moneybags program from the same issue / found an error in the listing. The Gil-7 checks out perfectly and so I was very surprised when I got an error on line 1820.

When Ichecked this line!

discovered that the line reads: an-THEN 185“ This confused me as there is no line 1850. So I took the

logical step

and

changed It to read. IF...THEN

1860

pleasure! found that this cured my problem. To my

Error

reports a

Your second point concerning Moneybags in the same issue is correct. Unfor-

tunately line

1850

was

out, but as it was only a REM statement it does not affect the running of the program providing you make the change you missed

mention. .

Q There are no misprints in the listing for Bounder, so it appears that you have made

a typing error. Remember that even though the error

message states line 1860 the be somewhere else in the program listing.

fault may

Once you have checked that line again and made sure that you have typed the control characters in the print statement correctly check that the variables in the line are receiving the

Prlntl “g a t I a st OWN an Atari 130XE and disc drive and an Atari 1029 graphics printer. In the July I

1987 issue of Atari User I was pleased to see the dump 15 printer utility for my printer. It caused great jubilation because for a long time I have found that all the prin— ter utilities on the market ignore my trusty printer. Now I will be able to produce some wonderful prints thanks to the superb program you printed. I would also like to say

EaSIEI“ -

llstlngs MY

READ the mailbag section User every month and ?nd it very interesting. But I found an error in the reply to Mr. Evan Proudfoot in the June 1987 issue about cassette his loading I

’

problems. Error 21 indicates that he is attempting to CLOAD a file that has been saved under the LIST"C:” or SAVE”C:" command. So if

Evan tries to ENTER”C:" or RUN”C:” the program he saved he may with luck get his ?le back. Also I was wondering if it is possible to use the international characterset on the

XL/XEwithin the Mini Of?ce ll word processor as I ?nd this would be very useful in Rob business. my Anthony, Surrey. 0 It is possible to use the —

butunfortunateiyl have

please

help? -PaulWebley,

Gosport.

friends and/alluse the

Oet 't R'gh.t' when we type your listings and ?nd that

have a little problem at ?rst, but with practice he will 500" use ’t expertly. £0 thank you for a great

”t’l’ty thathas made "ty task

Of WP’C'Q

lot easier. Glasgow.

"7 "

your listings

Richard Black,

A plt p roblem IN the May 1987 issue of Atari User there were some tips from Neil Richardson

for Spellbound by Master— tronics. I found that some of his instructions were not

ERROR LOADING PROBLEM SOL VED of Atari

The correct procedure is to go to to the secret tunnel entrance on the ground floor, summon Lady Rosmar and then command her to help. She will then blow the doorway of the secret tunnel

not ?gured how to get past the pit on the ground floor. So if any readers know how to get past this could they

—

quite right.

open

Wiggigglffl?gz;may

—

Wayne Page, Kent.

that Mini Of?ce II is a splendid piece of software. Since buying it I have hardly left it alone and coupled with the fact that it fully supports my 7029 printer and only costs £19.99 it is a superb bargain. Keith Pattison, Yorkshire.

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ways

correct values from the pmgram as it executes. The variables to check are N4, YB, N, and N8 as any Of these could be passing the wrong value and thus~cause the error. So look at references to these in other lines.

are

international character set from Mini Of?ce II. Look in your printer manual for the appropriate printer codes for the set you require and then go to the printer set up menu on Mini Office ll and enter the code string. For example, on an Epson

compatible printer selects the English set.

27, 82, 3

character

What a bounce I HAVE just typed in the game Bounder from the

June

1987 issue of Atari User and found to my horror that when the little man bounces up and down the screen he leaves a trail of

himself behind him. Mycomputeris an old800 and I use an 810 disc drive. Is there an errorin the listing or does the error lie within my equipment?—A.T.Allen, Essex.

Unfortunate“, the pro-

for XLIXE computers, and due to certain differences in the computers operating sys— tems the program will not "m coffec?v on old ones with the revision A, mm gram is written

8 y nth eSlser components IN the July 1987 issue of Atari User you published an article showing how to make a speech synthesiser. l decided to build this particular gadget and set about ordering the components Turn t° P399 56 ' August 1987 Atari User 55

from Map/in Electronics

spreadsheetwith more than

Supplies.

noticed that two of the components are not listed on the parts required table. I know a little about electron— ics and ?gured out that the item BFH isabridge recti?er but which one to order is Still

MO'lbog —

land.

. You

originally written

for the

error

available for the XL/XE range of computers. Could you also tell me if the game Shae-Lin Road is available for the XL/XEs. Bernard Hatton, Liverpool, 0 The answer to both of your questions is very simply no. Although many titles for the 2600 and the early VCS have been converted far the XL/XE computers unfortunately the games you mentioned

appreclated for the introducTHANKS . . "on Of the Palette page 1" Atari User. ltSh0W§CFIthSOf Atari computers lUSt what these m icros can_ do._ The pictures highlight the availability ofa multitude Of and the 001001’5. resolution Of thesuperb tan

machines.

I espeC/ally

liked

the Bonzo the dog picture in the June 1987 issue. Andrew Llewellyn, EbbW‘ Vale, Gwent.

No snoopy you tell me if Snoopy and the Red Baron, COULD

the llstlng?

Essex.

R.J.

Manningtree,

0 The listing of Dump 15 is correct and you will find that looking at the

gneb125dis or you to enter ey car

rs. This variable holds the of the file you are

name

loading' and it must entered in the form:

D:filename.extender.

letters and lf the name is not entered in this form then an error will occur at line 125.

characters an upward pointing arrow curling to the left on a black background —-

and a similar arrow without the black background. Could you please tell me how to get these characters 56 Atari User August 1987

Primer software

IWANTto buyadot matrix printer and I'm quite swayed towards the Star me I want to be able to pro duce a news / etter which includesgraphics patterned borders and V8;I'OUS text styles and sizes. Is my Atari 8 bit computer capable of

this? Also, I have looked at the bewildering array of printer

software available and I

am , '

TYPED in the listing for Dump 15 from the July 1987 issue of Atari User and when I ran ”7er9, am I got an error at line 125. Could you please explain to me the 1

problem

listing

according to your Get it Right! is correct. Is there an

Wider spreadsheets l RECENTLY bought Mini Of?ce II and lam amazed at its capabilities. It is possible to create 3

IN SEARCH OFA cmmcmr IN the Get it Right! listing in the August 7986 issue of Atari User/am having prob— lems finding two of the

0 The Atari 1029 is fully compatible with Mini Office ll in all ways and so it 'will print out the spreadsheet 80 characters wide. If the width of the spreadsheet exceeds this, Mini Office ll splits it into parts so that the printer can still handle it.

Filename can be up to eight Characters long and the extender up to three. They must both be in capital _

haven’t.

Why the emr’

Chandler,

2600game console, is

Yorks.

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

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Mailbag Editor

you please print the components codes and the Map/in order codes. Grahme Harding, Cleve-

Pictures

characterprintouts. If it doesn’t will I have to buy an Epson compatible M. printer to do so. Fairbum, Hambleton, North

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

mystery.

compatible with this pro-

gram, will accommodate 80

The second component is X7, WhiCh is a crystal Of some description. Could

are correct in your choice of component. BR1 is a Bridge Rectifier: Its component code is W005, its Maplin order code is QL37S and it costs 25p. The component X1 is a 3.2 MHz crystal: Order number FY86T costing £1.40.

40 characters in width so I am wondering if the Atari 7029 printer, which is fully

and what do they do withih the program? —- A Shortell, Cheshire.

O The first character is obtained by pressing InverseVideo which is at the bottom right button of the keyboard, then press Escape and finally the Control and 2

together. The second obtained

pressing

Escape followed by Control and Clear together. When you run the program the

?rst character will

make a beep sound when the character is encountered. The second character is the clear screen character and when you run the pro-

gram it simply clears the screen.

totaggvceogfggggh tablet and Atari/Artist software and was wondering if there is any way I could utilise it to create pictures to dump to D Murr ' the rinter Rainh?m' Keht ', start W'th software. Diets PW“ Shop from Broderbund Software Will allow you to create a multitude of differ__

large choice sizes.

of text

' ~

sssss

and text

Unfortunately it will not dump AtariArtist pictures, bUt YOU have the option 10 create certain graphics

within Print Shop using the“ touch tablet or joystick. These can then be printed in various sizes and in variOUS positions 0“ the paper. lf you use this packageyou should find your 8 bit

M oi lb o 9

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the tasks you want.

be Print Shop can several obtained from suppliers advertised in Atari

,J a") ,

Your other question is slightly more difficult to answer, due to the number of available printers and the quality of them. The Star NL—10 that you suggest is capable of what you want as are all Epson compatible printers. But remember that you will also need an interface box and cable.

ters and so the choice

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HAVE always been told

oncea disc has a ?ngerprint on it that it becomes unus-

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the mam

I found this to be untrue last week when my young son got hold of one of my

right

WOULD like

1’0

say how

much / enjoy the reviews section Of Atari User. I always read the comments ofreviewers before buyinga game as they are always very well pm and the marks given at the end usually describe the actual game very well.

Lee Goodchild,-

when I loaded the disc I found that/could retrieveall data. I was

across the visible disc

lfound that/could not retrieve any information, sol got a cotton bud, dampened it with fresh cold water and washed the disc surface. After leaving it for three minutes the disc was dry, the marks were gone and ll -' —|

Leicester. 0 The only comments we can make are don’t tumble dry, don't boil wash and don’t iron it! Also, it’s a good idea to try experiments like this on backup discs and remember that, even if discs still work, dirt on them can affect the heads in thé‘disc drive. -l| ' I -|

nght

hue ATARI .

7029

printer owners M’I' "7 Kev’" ford’s shaded printer dump from the July issue of Atari

who

typed

that User may have noticed .

it doesn’t set the prln ter_ t 0 nine linesperlnch,resultrng in gap between each ~

_asligl/rt

prITriteF£2?" [slustc h ange I'me 217211; .

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PRINT#2;CHR$(27); CHR5(57);CHR5(27);

FHst-?iCHR3(1)iCHR5(225)i “RETURN In

Andre Willey’s look at

having problems the fiveliner Space Invadersin the June issue of Atari User. Can you tell me what characters. are within the quotes on lines 10 and 30' I Inserted characters and the game .W or ks well b‘ft I would be interested to find Parkes out _what 'chhard D W originally Intended. T

lstead Rise, North-

flarions, ,

.eew 3 .

mg?

l'‘St' A

mtereste d

re Of

‘any length. a full

tenlmer mm atlon would

explan-

a small

make 50'

feature '" itse” dont have

they

although

a speCial

we WOUId love to sectro n, pUbI'Sh some. readers have Of if

our any any interesting programs send them in to Atari User, ,

Dos in the same Issue the sectors on the dISC are not qun‘e as shown In

arranged Figural.

order is 1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 17, 2, 4, 6, 8 so on. This is, I would

The correct

7, 9, 11,

some

Stockport, SK? .

about publishing ten/iners?

(éhester aze rove, gurodpaHoHuse,|68 oa

Northern Ireland. ‘

I USUALLY?nd the fiveliner programs intriguing, fascinating and very interesting. Keep it up. What

with

Tony Robson, Oakham,

and put fingerprints

discs

IIStlllg

quite pleased with my experiment. 80 I am now very interested in any comments you may have. —

des—

area.

troyed.

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able and should be

M'ss“|g

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5/1")\

5,"

User.

‘

nects to the parallel port but it is not for floppy discs. The Supra Drive isa20Mb hard disc and has very fast access times.

—

computer will easily handle

and imagine, minimise

to desi ned the gotational

Iatenc y.

However, srnce the phySlthe sectors on cal order -

the track IS transparent to the user, this is of little

importance Finally,

hope that Atari

had the sense to con— nect the new XSD551 drive through the parallel port. While this would alienate

has

400/800 users and would be more complicated to imple-

a serial drive, it would allow the drive to be far faster than any currently available, even with all the

ment than

various

high

speed

enhancements.

do this! don’t know. Atari seems to be taking the easy way out, '

Whether they will

for example with the awful joystick port method of connectin the XEP-80, so lam — A.W.R. not tog optimistic. ' 0 ra wt ord ' Pemcm “k ' Q The d|sc sectors are numbered as you say, but to illustratethe article and save

confusion we numbered them consecutively in the diagram. ‘

You are correct in your

assumption that the

numbers are spaced out so that after reading and process-

ing, for example, sector 1 the disc head will be in the position to read sector 2. It appears that the new Atari drive will be serial. A drive is available that con-

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Unfortunately

some

characters did not show in the listing [of Space lnvaders. The correct lines are: 1. POSITION In“? "***";:F0 I!“ W “N‘ZH'EI‘T WSW"

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