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to distinguish between fact and fantasy will vary according to their age and individual personality. ”With this in mind no

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it for the same reasons as we do not stock Lucifer’s Realm, Leather Godesses of Phobos or Strip Poker". Says Nadier: ”The French and Italians and Silica Distribution are all judging the book by its cover—I doubt if

any of them have played the games at all”.

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This means that the weather maps transmitted from outer space have been dramatically improved in quality offering perfect —

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Adventuring 4 From Page 9 featured the return of Floyd, that lovable little robot you first encountered in Planetfall. Stationfall contained superb puzzles, many very funny incidents the Windy Arcturian balloon creature immediately springs to mind a teasmg plot and qwte the best ending I’ve come across. Talk about bringing tears to the eyes , — WI 7, there wasn t a handkerchief in our house that wasn’t sopping! Stationfall wins my vote as one of the best adventures ever written. Running a close second was the eagerly awaited Magnetic Scrolls Guild of Thieves from Rainbird, the dazzling follow-up to The Pawn. In

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Thieves has won several awards already including PCW Adventure Of The Year and looks like remaining a steady seller for a long time to come. To conclude my review of some of the highlights of ‘87, there was Lurking Horror (lnfocom) and Knight Orc (Rainbird/Level9). Both started off promisingly but turned out to be a little disappointing. Lurking Horror had one or two illogicalities and was somewhat overrated as a horror story it turned out to be rather tame. Knight Orc was a major step forward for Level 9 but the '

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And so lastly to a few of the letters received. My belated thanks to Simon Cantrill (aged 12) of Stourport for his superb map of Mercenary, The Second City. Not in the traditional mould of adventures, know, but a splendid game for all that. Martin Tee would like some help with Golden Baton. He can’t find a lamp and cannot defeat the knight on the battlements. It's a long time sincel played this one and I’ve lost my solution documents. think the lamp is inside the castle somewhere perhaps you can find it after overcoming the knight?lseem to remember that you also have to make yourself invisible maybe that’s how you get past the knight. Can anyone say for certain? For Andrew Tonge of Leeds and other readers still troubled by The I

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Payoff, let me advise you to beg, buy or borrow the April 1987 issue ofAtari User, where a complete solution appeared. Andrew would also like some assistance with Earthquake. He has got to the fire blocking the path and has been down the drain but can’t make any further progress. Who can help this adventurer in distress? From Cwmbran, A.M. Norris and party have reached level 8 in Ultima lV but can’t find the mandrake. Another problem is in entering the codex (after the abyss sanctum) they are unable to get the symbols of the word of passage in order. Advice is required from other Ultima lV players, please. And so until next month, bid you all a fond farewell. Have a happy new year and may all your treasures be

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stand on one of these and press fire you will go to the

next level.

Though original, this game did not have much else going for it. The concept of The Search is to retrievea magic ring hidden somewhere in the frozen wastes. You have to return it to the blue castle from where you set out. Control is by joystick and in the process of playing you will encounter different When this characters. occurs you are offered four of action: Flee, courses attack, greet or bribe. There are various objects that you can?nd to help you in your quest. The game also has a save feature that will allow you to store your programs on tape or disc. Y et as far as graphic adventures go this one suffrom both fers poor graphics and sound. Few compilations contain games of equal value and no this is exception. However, for the price this Four Star Compilation does give you your money’s worth. Neil Fawcett 6 Sound.................................. Graphies.........................,....

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Taking command ofeither army against the computer or a human opponent, you have the choice of playing at of three levels: any Introductory, intermediate or advanced. There are 15turns in each

UNTIL April 1862, General Grant's ascendancy in the American Union army had been relatively uneventful. But then came

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representing 90

minutes of realtime.Aturn is made up of a number of phases which are played out

that fateful

dawn when he and his 45,000-strong force was caught in a surprise attack by Confederate General Johnston and his army of

over a two-level, 30 x 30 square-gridded, scrolling map of the battleground. The terrain includes light and heavy woods, clearings, roads, ridges, creeks,

the Mississippi. So began the Battle of Shiloh—two days that were to prove Grant’s first real trial by fire. In this latest wargame

ravines, swamps,

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from experts Strategic Simulations, you have the chance to determine the outcome of this historic

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fatigue,

rally, reinforcement,

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culminating

victory

determination phases. On the eighth turn only, an end-of-day phase also comes into play. Each phase offers

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complexity—and hence

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forcements may

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box and comes complete with a stiff map of the battlefield on the reverse of which is a handy reference guide. Shiloh is sure to be greeted with delight by all wargaming fans. It is flexible enough for beginners to play at a fairly basic level but true sophistication and challenge really becomes apparent at the higher

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mISSIlesmlssthe enemy WI” ram you. As well as avoiding the fighters you must negotiate tall pylons, buildings and shadowed objects. This addition makes the game extremely taxing. The inlay card outlines one of the features as very smooth bi~directional scrolling, but to the common mortal this means that the screen scrolls from left to right in a fashion very similarto Defender. The graphics are superb, the colours expertly used and together they make a stunning display. Intricate design work adds to the overall quality and style and a nice feature is that every time you lose a life the colours change. The sound effects are adequate but are lifted above the average by the digitised speech: On loading you are greeted With the message, “The battle begins”. .

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artwork. The sound, graphics and superb scrolling complement each other superbly. My only reservation is that, at times, movement was so fast had difficulty in telling what

opening message.

Even though the gameplay is difficult it is addictive. Billed as the ultimate shootA'em-up, with numerous levels featuring the very best of the Atari's graphic

The game has a oneplayer mode and usesajoystick plugged into port one. It’s response is very sharp, and this is necessary because at times you have to turn sharply to avoid the buildings or defence craft. Beware of too much acceleration or you’ll soon find yourself in deep trouble. Mirax Force is well pack— aged and the inlay card carries some very nice .

killed me.

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The evil sprites you encounter come in various forms and colours you need to destroy them all to progress to the next level.

You may recogniseacouple ofthe sprites too. This is a weird of kind. anu it a little game, does get boring afterawhile. Though original, it soon becomes rather than annoying amusing. Overall, there's not really much there. it’s basic blast-

everything-in-sight and this is made simple by holding down the fire button

and in

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and

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to sniff out his favourite nibble, cheese. Naturally, it isn't going to be made easyfor you and all sorts of hazards and obstacles must be overcome

including dragons, flying

fried eggs, toilet rolls and

Christmas puddings. In each screen you must collect what appear to be flasks in order to gain access to the next one. The final one holds the giant wedge of golden cheese. Mice and cheese are a

slight departure from the more usual explorers and gems, but Mousetrap is hardly original. Despite being described in the packaging blurb as incredible graphic animation, the graphics are

only average and the sound a continuous wailing discordant tune is poor. It is nonetheless playable and pretty tricky too. Space Hawk is a well put

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across devnls and of coursethey are all hostile well certainly never met a friendly one.

the actuality means that you must shoot anything that moves and just about anything that doesn’t. Captain Kirk would not have approved ”it sureYou start with a shield strength of 25 points which is gradually eroded by collisions with the kamikazi enemy space ships, each hit knocking off one point. To get to the next level the grounded space fleet must be destroyed, together with a substantial proportion of ground installations. The graphics are up to standard and the sound adequate, if not

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hasn’t improved. Armed with a rifle and a dozen hand grenades you have to single-handedly defeat the enemy. Working your way through a rather dismal landscape you must dodge lollipop trees, ponds and bullets on your way to the first enemy garrison. If you beat off its defences you will gain access to the next level for a bit more of the same. An extra life is awarded for each 10,000 points scored, but Who Dares didn’t hold my interest long enough to get that far. The pace is rather too slow, graphics poor and sound irritating in the extreme. Killa Cycle is altogether differentzThe visual presentation is simplistic to say the leastand the plot absolutely

minimal -just stay alive. It’s for one or two players, with

optional computer

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trolled opposition making the numbers up to four. Pressing Start clears the screen and four coloured lines appear, each moving at a steady pace. The computer-controlled lines move by their own volition and you control the direction and speed ofyour own, leaving a solid coloured trail in your wake. Neither you nor your

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early Atari

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CENTlpEDE In 1981 Atari Coin-Op introduced game in arcades. it was converted for the Atari 8 bit range was very popular indeed. You are in a garden with a

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quickly to inflate them until they explode a little bit gruesome per—

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MOST programs require input from you at some stage, even if it's only to select a game level, or supply 3 yes/no answer. Complex software often has a wide range of options to choose from, and in these circumstances a mouse-controlled menu offers significant advantages over standard keyboard input. The mouse moves a cursor around the screen, without affecting anything that's already printed there— usually a menu of available options. You position the cursor over the option you want, then pressa button to select it— there’s no keyboard entry whatsoever, so you can’t accidentally type something which will crash the program. A mouse can be used where keyboard input is difficult — for example on graphics screens without text windows so many people will find it much less daunting than an array of

The

ST series 3” contain an operating system which is specifically designed for mouse control. No such luck with the 8 bit range, unfortunately' but it is possible to emulate _

many mouse features using an ordinary Joystick- Atarl's artist pro— gram Paint employs this technique to select colours and textures.

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Basrc program IS The runningeursor's horizontal and vertical coordinates are returned in two addresses at the top of page 6, so there's no problem keeping track of a

position,and you can defineawindow anywhere on screen to confine it.

make letter-matching, word-finding, counting or other educational games 26 Atari User January 7988

fwd—

cursor

routines

for small children who cannot yet read or write. It's also valuable for applications involving the general public, such as fund-raising events or shop demonstrations, where the computer console can be locked well away from

marauding fingers. contains the main Program routine. It’s mainly machine code, so take great care typing the data stateI

and be sure to save a copy run it for the first time. Line 10 reserves eight pages above screen memory to hold all the data. The first four act as a buffer to protect the machine code from those commands which erase data above RAMTOP. Clear screen and Graphics commands will erase the first 64 bytes ments,

before you

man MOUSE

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SIMON

REM

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MILLER USER

10 S=PEEK(106)‘4:POKE l“6,s-4:GRAPHICS

B:SZ=S*256 23

X=B

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348:READ

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EXTX DATA 104,154,104,141,7,212,141,245, 6,26,”5,2,l33,284,133,206,169,B,133,2

03 49

in the reserved area, while scrolling a text window will erase a total of 800 bytes. If there is no risk from these commands in your Basic program you can change the second statement in line 10 to POKE 106,S and this saves you 1k of memory. The next four pages hold the playermissile table but, as always, the first 384 bytes are not used for player or missile data, so we can store all the machine code there. The routine wedges itself into the vertical blank interval and is therefore executed automatically every fiftieth of a second. This means that the routine does not steal any of Basic’s processing time, so program speed is not affected and the program will run happily no matter what Basic is doing.

4,ll9,253,6,2ll5,249,6,144,3,173,249 14A DATA 6,141,255,6,173,12D,2,41,4,ZD 8,20,173,254,6,56,237,253,6,2E5,248 15” Milk 6,176,3,l73,248,6,l4l,254,6,2 08,25,173,120,2,41,8,298,18,173,254 160 DATA 6,24,189,253,6,2E5,247,6,144, 3,173,2L7,6,141,254,6,172,255,6,169 170 DATA 32,145,205,2M,145,205,2M,16v 9,248,155,2ll5,2lil,169,32,165,205,2M,1

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The cursor can flash atarate ofyour choice, or remain unblinking, and it’s easy to switch the entire mouse system on Or Off at different pornts In your Basic prOQram. You could also use this routine to _

2,208

The routine described here will move a p|aye,_missi|e cursor, under mode, even while

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Line 210 starts everything off. The first number in brackets is the address of our machine code. The second is — of the the address high byte only player-missile table, and the final two parameters specify where the cursor will initially appear on screen, horizontal followed by the vertical position. The values shown will place it centrally. You will normally want to tailor the .. mouse parameters for your spelelc the 11 at top application, so addresses of page 6 are used as registers, and you can change the values in nine of these to suit yourself. Table shows the function of each address. 1781 and 1782 are used, along with page zero addresses 205 and 206, as counters and pomters. —

minimise this problem, keep the value below 4, and use the centre of the cross, not its arms, to indicate your target. Address 1788 controls the cursor flashing routine. Its default value is 0, which keepsthe cursor unblinking,but any other number will start it flashing at the rate specified by that number. Values between 2 and 8 should prove suitable. Theflash rate is also affected so address 1789 by cursor speed you will usually need to set these two

you’re on target. Rememberthatallthe initialisation for

two-line resolution PM graphics has to 3 been done for you, and players are available. 1

“51mg "3 _Add't'0n_a|_ program to add men“ Opt'ons to I-'5"‘9' _

parameterstogether.

Address 1789 controls the speed of the cursor movement, and it is initially set to 2. It governs the number of times the cursor moves during each vertical blanking interval, and you can

Counter (do not " ?tter) Counter (do not alter} Cursor window right border . lftb or d d C or er ursor Cursorwindowten w!" ow ° om 5rd Cursor Window top border Colour overlap detector Flash rate Cursor speed Current horizontal position Current vertical po sition

Table

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259

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page 6registers

Don’t alter any of these, or the program will crash. The default values in 1783 to 1786 allow the cursor to move anywhere on-screen, but you can use these registers to define a restricted window. For example, POKE 1783,91 will stop the cursor descending into the text window at the bottom of a

graphics screen.

Address 1787 lets you use colour, rather than cursor position, to detect which menu ltem has been chosen. When the cursor overlaps one of the four possible playfield colours—either a text mode letter or a map mode plxel — the number shown in Table H is

returned. This value is updated only once

menu item has been chosen. The values refer to positions on the player-missilegrid, and do not correspond to row or column numbers in any Graphlcs mode. Your BaSIC pro-

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playfield colour.

Slnce you can use any. Graphlcs mod-e, the chonces may be Indlcated by plctures, or icons, rather than words.

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FOLLOWING last month's overview of the new Atari XE games console and keyboard, let's take a more detailed look at how it performs and what you can expect if you decide to buy one. As you probably know by now the XE system is supplied in two versions The first is the straightforward games console with joystick and built-in Missile Command. In this configuration you could, in fact, add both a tape deck and a disc drive, but you'd Only be able to use them to load pre-

ettl ng |nS|de

most of the peripherals available for 8 bit range— but more ofthat later. Let’s start by looking at the console

the

from the outside. Most of the standard I/O connections are present, including the now obligatory two, rather than four, joystick sockets, the 13-pin serial l/O port and the 7-pin Din power socket which, incidentally, uses the same power supply module as the rest of the XL and XE range. Also present are the TV output — phono socket with detachable RF cable and two new sockets, composite video and audio out. These always used to be part of a 5-pin Din socket which also included chromiance and luminance (colour and brightness) signals but neither are all that likely to be missed. —

That said, the difference in my

between cassette and cartridge based software would quickly offsetthe price

of an XC12 tape deck. The second package comes with joystick, light gun, plug-in keyboard and the Bug Hunt cartridge game making a 64k 8 bit computer which, in practical terms, is almost identical to the old 800XL. In addition, you also

get the cartridge version of Flight Simulator ll a very well respected —

aircraft emulator game which uses both joystick and keyboard. Those interested in the games angle might like to note that Missile Command will run very effectively with a Track-Ball. What you don’t get, however, is a find a little tape deck, which surprising as this pack is being sold as a programmer-oriented item. But you do now have the basis of a complete computer system and you can add I

Convenient The cartridge socket is on the top of the machine as with the XL series, and is much more convenient than the awkward rear-mounted system used on the 130XE. it should take all XL/XE cartridges, including the sophisticated bank selecting ones such as Actionl, Mac/65 and Basic/XE. The final socket, which has never been featured on an Atari 8 bit machine before, is a 15-way D socket tp allow connection of the removable keyboard. Unfortunately for any serious com>

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find this to be an unacceptable cost-cutting exercise. After all, how much would it have cost to leave a I

or even the edge connector PCB itself protruding from the rear ofthe casing? In orderto save a few pence Atari has eliminated the possibility of using the XE console as a serious computer system. Other than this one little niggle found the new unit, with it’s elegant detachable keyboard, to be a marked over the older improvement machines. Certainlythe quality of both the television and composite video simple edge

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a marked improvement the rather faint and slightly blurred 130XE display. The sculptured keyboard has an excellent feel with a light but very positive action. The layout is the same as that of the 130XE, with the exception of the function keys which are now

over

round, pastel-shaded buttons along

the top of the unit. It would, however, have been nice if Atari had marked the keys with both the control key graphics and the international character set rather than just the graphic set. NOW let’s see what's under the [16W b°””e‘ ‘ s“"’”3i”9'y "me i” fa“ '” essence the only difference you're likely to notice at first is the fact that Missile Command is now built into the the operating system the self-test and a

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the default is to run Missile Command. Hold down Option and you’ll get the self-test mode, Select gives you Basic (for all the good it will do you without a keyboard) and Start givesa cassette boot. .

The Operating SYStem

show the correct XE layout, rather than that of the old 1200XL. This probably explains the major modifications to the OS which exist at $CA54 to $C855. However, the Break key still doesn’t show up correctly on the test. The power-up and system reset routines have some extra code patched in at $C865 to take note of the

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Option gives YOU self-test mode. Select gives Missile Command, Start requests a tape |oad and, as with previous Atari machines, the buttons may be used in combination —such as Start and Option to override Basic when you load a machine code game. The first thing did when received my console was to check which revision of the operating system was being used. Dated May 7, 1987 it has the same internal code as the 13ox|5 (BB/001), but is entitled Revision 4,o_| don't know what happened to Revision 3_ The differences between Revision 4_o and the XL/XE 03 are purely cosmetic - most of them being in the self-test routine. The latter's initialise locations at $5003 and $5000 have been moved to $5000 and $5006 respectively, and the keyboard template has been altered to Basic and

new

configurations such as booting with Missile Command. I’m not sure why Atari bothered, since the modified handler doesn’t seem to be able to cope correctly With the game in possible

par-

to interface with the XL/XE parallel bus is still present. All that seems to have been altered are some vectors at $E49E

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—

any case. For example, if you boot the system with Missile Command and then press Reset you will be dropped back into self-test, and the next time you try you'll be returned to either Missile Command or Basic depending upon Whether YOU have a keyboard attached. Fortunately, when you’re working in Basic the Reset handler seems pretty reliable. The only thing worth mentioning is the patch at $C890 which enables the cassette handler to look for the Start key as well as Return to start cassette I/O. This was added at the last moment after a frantic plea from Atari UK saying that users without the keyboard add-on wouldn’t be able to boot

commercial games

Strangely enough, most of the driver code designed

aIIel device

tapes.

The hght gun The only new item in the packageis the llght gun and this comes Wlth His — own Bug Hunt game cartridge the available. The game only currently firing range Will depend on your TV set, but managed to get a ‘comfort10feet away from my 27m screen able .

With

no problems. V we re to believe Atafl S adverts, It the appear gun would that fires_an InVISIble the teIeViSion beam oflight‘at — screen. This is not strictly true what the happens actually i_s_that TV_set fires a completely VISIble beam of light at the gun. .

As you will know if yo‘U’ve followed in some of the more technical articles Atari User, a TV set works by scanning 6 pinpoint of light across the screen, .

Turn to Page 30 > January 1988 Atari User 29

-————————R2VIGW few ideas for using the light gun in your own games programs. So much forthe hardware, but what does the Atari computer enthusiast who wants to keep up with the Joneses get for his or her money?

you have pulled the trigger or not.The trigger status shows up very simply as

4 From Pa g e29

movement on one of the joystick lines. The switch used is of the normally closed variety, so the trigger pressed condition will register a value of 15 at STICK(0), with the default result being 14 exactly the opposite a

it up as it goes along. This beam starts at the top left and moves across the screen until it reaches the end—at which point it goes backto the left hand edge and starts again one line lower down. Some fiftieth of a second later this process has reached the bottom and the whole things starts again. Because our eyes don’t react fast enough, we see it as one solid image

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Your ship is armed with the latest depth-charges,which you can use to destroy either enemy submarines or their projectiles—the choice is yours. At the beginning of the game you °h°°se one Of fou'.m'ss'°“5: Nov'ce' Commander,Captain or Admiral—the ha'd95t- PM“ are scored for de' stroying enemy vessels and a bonus number of depth-charges is also given. The subs lurk at four different depths, and the points and bonus -

322 ?liff§s°?f?de§3r 1312011423

5h°a's °f “5h t° h'de “hm?" and !f of your depth-charges hits one‘ it one W'“ explode and the enemy W'” escape. Each mission

lasts five minutes and if you survive you are awarded bonus points depending upon the number of depth-chargesyou’ve got left. If at any “me you are N by an enemy m'ss'le your depth-chargecount is reduced by it drops below _25 your ship and if_ 25_ w1|| begin to glow until the count reaches zero when ith“ eXplodeand your mission ends. You control the ship using a joystick .

h-hreis a g

The g ame features the smooth 20 o b'Jects an d movement of up to at one °."e' S'the".°°'°urs°n.S°'ee" time. This is accomplished by the clever use of player-missile graphics, Vertical Blank Interrupts and Display List Interrupts.

Extra

Sub

lJL/

bombs

699

2002003320020},

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110 CLOCK=CLOCK+1:GOSUB SHOllle PEEK(C THEN 400 120 IF CLOCK/PIP=INT<CLOCK/PIP) THEN G

750 POKE XTRA=0

POKE

01150007

oro 1~r<CLocK/p1p)*10+300 300 100 IF PEEK(HIT) THEN

110

THEN

220

11>185 280

FOR 1:0 T0 I:GOT0 28g

230 pop

2“

PW“

PEEK(XSPD

NOT

7:11 PEEK(HS+I)

THEN

501m 3,1,z,5

;

300 souno 3,20,I,15:M=PEEK(COL+4):N=PE EK(BACK):GOSUB $1100 320 FOR I=0 TO S:POKE COL+4,RND(0)*ZSS NOT PEEK(BOHS) THEN POKE 330 IF TIME, 55

6 8

‘

. .

‘

355 FREQ:7;G0‘|'0 11g 860 O=2-GOTO 110

m 3(3)=4;50r0

11g 880 S(6)=4:GOTO 11.

5(4)=4:50m 11.

COL+li,ll:POKE BACK,N:SOUND 3,0

3000P0KE , , 393 399 400

FOR

1:0

REM

GAME OVER

THEN

POKE

HIT,0:GOT0

200:NEXT I

HIT,1:POKE SHAP,0:GOSUB BUZZ: J=PEEK(PTSH)*256+PEEK(PTSL)+EXTRA POKE

ggg5353133010 965 mpmom 110 970 0010 110 980 1; "or our THEN 9911 FREQ=2:GOT0 110

110 FREQ=1:GOTO 110 IF DIFF=1 THEN 1110

132ggéi?igm

HI=J:GOSUB 51100111 IF J>HI THEN 43“ IF NOT EXTRA THEN Z=199=GOSUB 0VER":FOR I=0 T0 90I:NEXT :? "GAME

1999

PEN”

"1115310"

ACCOMPL

PEN:?

EXTRA;"

BONUS

151151)"

450 Z=219:GOSUB

01015" 460

FOR

I=0

1:30000

3,45,10,4:FOR

36:80UND

FOR

3,000

REM

suomosua

3110011

7115111]:

‘

311011

111511

SCORE

N$=STR$(HI):M$="0000I":M$(6-LEN(N 5))=N$:POSITION 17,9;7 mmuuan 2000

21.99

REM

250!

FOR

2900

Z=552

ERASE

2:41. .? B$:NEXT Z 2899 REM 0010

1.20 STEP 20:00300

PEN

2999 REM pg" 3000 I=SCR+Z:J=INT(I/256):POKE88,1-25 6*J:POKE 89 JzPOSITION 0 ' 0:RETURN 1.199 REii

DISPLAY OPTIONS

EXTRA=PEEK(BOMS)*15*(DIFF+1)£0101]

11:33

500 440 Z=170=GOSUB

11g

1059 Goro 110 1110 1060 IF DIFF=2 THEN 1070 Sm?HGOTO 110 1080 6010 110 1090 s(6)=5;Go'|'o 110 1100 S(4)=S:GOT0 11g

PTSL,J-256*I:POK

0010

1110

com

élgTéalliliégg?gégaggKE " PEN

111

1010 1020

SHOW

110 110

1000

BACK,RND(0)*255:NEXT 1:00308

PEEK(BOMS)

FREQ=1100TO gig GOTO

LEOEL

GAiiE

4200 Z=204:GOSUB PEN:IF DIFF THEN ? ”n ovice":GOT0 1,225 4210 'NOVICE":POKE BOHS,120:PIP=80:C '.’

510 POKE SHAPAGE,HYTOP+17 530 Z=52=GOSUB PEN=?

LOCK=0:POKE BEAT,1 1,220 z=251:sosua PEN:IF

01rr<>1

THEN

191

: Zi?si’géfwmtgasngngogtg?pTH)iPOKE , , , , ammo m ggg gggug?ggw”

500 GOSUB ERASE:GOSUB

63 127

PTSH,0:FREQ=999:E

PTSL,0:POKE

900 FREQ=6zGOTO 910 GOTO 110

380 IF 190

111

740 GOSUB snomosua SHOHHI:GOTO 1004553: ;: 799 REM DIFFICUUY LEVEL 81g 0=6:FOR 1:2 10 3 STEP 2:5(1)=3;N5xggi ' T I:FREO=10:GOTO 100 820 D=4:GOTO 110

gqg

POKE

XPOS,124:POKE

gig iggg?éfgig 1113

SHAP,56:POKE

HX+I,PEEK(XPOS+DEPTH)+(PEEK(S HAP+DEPTH)=208)*15 "5

340

2=M=PEEK<XP°

STEP

SggEg$z)DEPTH=D OR

THEN

190 COUNT=COUNT'1=IF COUNT FIRE MISSILE 199 RE“ SUBS T0

mm,

THEN 600 RE" BEGIN THE GAME 700 505113 ERASE:POKE SHAPAGE,MYTOP

J:NEXT 699 REM

$52,525; 655 mmmimp

70 N$=STR$(PEEK(BOMS)):H$="I00“:l‘l$(4-L EN(N$))=N$:POSITION 11,0:? M$:RETURN

600

660 eosua LEVEL 680 IF K<>START

2 3

H$="00000”:H$(6-LEN(NS))=N$:POSITION

132gguzgnggg I 10I 4 I

50 N$=STR$(PEEKlPTSH)*256+PEEK(PTSL)):

210 IF H<60 +D£PTH) THEN

game"

77'“'G°S”B BUZZ'” “05m”

420

rglegcsgdcbryepfensii:g??gt

SCORE TABLE

2 25110233511“ 1,9 m DISPLAY ,0:?

K=7 THEN

600 K=PEEK(CONSOL):IF

USER

BATTLE stations!...Battle stations! Enemy submarine detected on sonar, all hands on deck...! You are on a mission in hostile waters in command of one of Her Majesty’s finest battleships _ the Royal Oak. The enemy submarines are a constant threat and as you go about yourtask, you never have a moments

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540 Z=124:GOSUB

255

PEN:?

"RESET

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550 Z=196:GOSUB EVEL

PENz? "SELECT":GOSUB

”commander":GOT0

421.0

423g 7 ”COHHANDER”:POKE BOHS,100:PIP=5 3:0LOCK=1I:POKE BEAT,3

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REM

5000

SOUND

7760

T=0

9:NEX

T:SOUND 3,0,0,0:RETURN 6999 REM SETUP ROUTINE T

7000 MYTOP=PEEK(106)-24:POKE 106,MYTOP 7010 SDMCTL=559:PCOLR=704:COL=708:SIZE P=53256zSIZEM=S3260 7020

GRACTL=53277:CONSOL=53279:AUDCTL=

53768:SKCTL=53775:PMBAS=54279 SHAPAGE=206:ML00=207:MHIGH=208:PC =1559 7040 PX=1562:MX=1565:PY=1573:MY=1576:P S=1584:MS=1587 7030

7050

COLR=1600=XPOS=1610:YPOS=1620:SHA

P=1630zXSPD=1640 7060 BACK=1650:TIME=1670:HIT=1661:XX=1 690:YY=1695 7070 BOMS=1669:BEAT=1737:PTSL=1738:PTS H=1739:SELECT=5:START=6 7090 SHOH=50:SHOHHI=2000:ERASE=2500:0R IG=2900:PEN=3000:LEVEL=4200zBUZZ=5000

7399

7780 7790

TIMER

COUNTDOWN

REM

INSTRUCTIONS

4,9,2 :?

minutes

you"

?‘survive

you

get bonus points!" to move your

Joystick

8699

7999 REM MACHINE CODE ROUTINE 8000 DIM FILL$(17),COPY$(23),VBION$(10 ),VBIOFF$(10),DLION$(4S) 8020 FOR I=1 T0 17:READ J:FILL$(I)=CHR $(J):NEXT I 8030 DATA 104,104,104,133,208,160,0,13

2,207,104,104,145,207,200,208,251,96 8040

FOR

$(J):NEXT 8050 DATA

1=1 I

23:READ

J:COPY$(I)=CHR

8060 FOR I=1 T0 10:READ J:VBION$(1)=CH R$(J):NEXT I:VBION$(3,3)=CHR$(MYTOP+4) 8070 DATA 104,162,0,160,0,169,7,76,92, 228 I=1

protected

”Enemy subs

10:READ

underwater

"firing

?'You

warship

J:VBIOFF$(I)=C

differen

armed

'.’

45:READ

J:DLION$(I)=CH

49,169,0,141,47,2,141,124,6 DATA 169,164,141,48,2,169,204,141 ,0,2,169,6,141,49,2,141 8130 WA 1,2,169,63,141,47,2,169,192, 8120

REM

PAGE

FOR

POKE

1705,MYTOP+12:SCR=(MYTOP+12)

DATA

112,240,112,198,0,0,6,6,6,6,

*256 61134161134161134161134/6I134161134I61

134,6,6,134,6,6,65,164,6 REM

91-1

FOR

I=1740

1788:READ

J:POKE

JiNEXT I 8510

DATA

72,138,72,152,72,174,124,6,1

831741611891114,6169f79137,731141,10,2 12 3520

I=K+8

I=K+208

I,J:NEXT

8800

DATA

K+127:READ T0

J:POKE

K#223:READ

J:POKE

0,0,0,0,0,8,64,2,0,0,0,0,8,6

5,20,2 8810

DATA 32,0,18,72,33,20,2,72,0,8,82 ,1,108,150,9,80 8820 DATA 136,82,59,46,220,59,74,17,13,i_ 6,219,127,62,255,254,91,17 f}kk~ M; 8830 DATA 20,54,28,60,255,255,126,60,0f” ,0,40,56,16,0,0,0 8840 DATA 0,32,132,0,16,66,8,0,0,128,2 24,248,252,252,254,255 8850 DATA 0,1,3,31,63,127,255,255,0,0, 131,207,255,255,255,255 8860 DATA 62,255,255,255,255,255,255,2 55,0,0,225,241,251,255,255,255 8870 DATA 6,143,223,255,255,255,255,25 5,8,24,24,24,255,125,255,126 8880 DATA 16,24,24,24,255,190,255,126 '

VBI

8899

REM

8900 8920

K=K+1024 FOR

I=K

K+1100zREAD

J:POKE

I,J

9020

POKE

MLDH,0:POKE

MHIGH,MYTOP+19:P

SDMCTL,0:POKE GRACTL,3 9030 POKE 756,MYTOP:POKE SHAPAGE,MYTOP +17:POKE AUDCTL,0:POKE SKCTL,3 9050 FOR 1=SCR T0 SCR+4:POKE I,INT(RND (0)*4)+76:NEXT I:POKE SCR+5,74 OKE

9060 FOR I=SCR+20 TO sca+23zrm<e 1,1NT (RND(0)*4)+76:NEXT IzPOKE sca+19,75 9070 FOR I=SCR9504 T0 SCR+527:POKELI)I“D " NT(RND(0)*4)+140:NEXT I 0 Bones 9080 z=532:oosua PEN:? "PNTS ~

IGHh

3,12,48,192,252,243,207,63 I=0 TO 32POKE 1544+1,MYTOP*20

DATA

J:NEXT

3499 8500

FOR

JzNEXT I 8730 FOR

J:POKE

I=0 T0 4:READ J,K:POKE XX+1,J :POKE YY+I,K:NEXT I 8370 DATA 14,7,13,2,10,254,7,252,2,255 8399 REM DISPLAY LIST 8400 FOR I=1700 TO 1731:READ J:POKE I, 8410

K=MYTOP*256

leNEXT 8360

8710

8720

X=U3R(ADR(F1LL$),610) 8320 FOR I=1536 T0 1543:READ JiNEXT I 8330 8340

SET

8950 X=USR(ADR(VBIOFF$)) 8999 REM START 9000 POKE COL,26:POKE COL+1,166:POKE c 0L92,20:P0KE COL+3,122:POKE COL+4,56 9010 POKE PMBAS,MYTOP+16:POKE SIZEP+3, 1:POKE SIZEM,0:POKE 623,17

R$(J>:NEXT I 8110 DATA 104,173,11,212,201,122,208,2

8420

bombs.’

"There are 4 missions:Novice,Co mmander," 7690 ”Captain 8 Admiral (hardest). B ombs are" 7700 ? deducted and points gained a t a rate“ Ga on the mission. 7710 ? "depending in extra” 7720 ?'bombs and points by destroying subs:-" " = 80088 2 + POINTS DEPTH 773g 7 ?

T=1

FOR

CHARACTER

:NEXT I

92,228

8299 8300

th bombs“ 7640 ? Nosed for both attack and defe nce). 25" 7650 7 "bombs are lost every time your ship is" are destroyed if you 8 you 7660 ?'hit run out”

7'0f

meta,“

by shoals

missiles to the surface

command

141,14,212,96

fish”

7610 ?’pass t depths"

Thisis one of hundred. of program: now availablo FREE for downloading on

8100

REM

104,104,104,133,206,104,104, 133,208,160,0,132,205,132,207,177,205, 145,207,200,208,249,96

FOR

2,208,20 8599 REM TOP OF MEMORY 8600 FOR I=12 T0 23:X=USR(ADR(FILL$),M YTOP+I,0):NEXT I 8700 FOR I=0 TO 1:X=USR(ADR(COPY$),224 +I,MYTOP+I):NEXT I

-‘;:X=USR(TIMER,32)

by N.Pear

7670 7680

deepest

the trigger to release ombs."; ” 7900 GOSUB BUZZ:POSITION 24,0:?

DIM

7540

7630

124,114,140,114,156,112,172,112,188,11

REM

TCOLOR

7620

8080

7500 GRAPHICS g;p0KE 82,1:POKE 752,1 7520 SETCOLOR 1,0,10:SETCOLOR 2,9,2:SE

FOR I=0 T0 9:READ J,K:POKE YPOS+I ,J:POKE BACKTI,K:NEXT I 8550 DATA 32,58,76,116,90,114,108,114,

8540

HRSlJ):NEXT I 8090 DATA 104,162,228,160,98,169,7,76,

TIMER=K943:I=INT(K/256):TM$(61,61 )=CHR$(I):TM$(63,63)=CHRS(K-I*256) 7440 DATA 198,203,208,36,165,204,133,2 03,160,32,177,88,201,144,240,7,170 7450 DATA 202,138,145,88,48,17,136,177 ,88,201,144,240,10,170,202,138,145 7460 DATA 88,200,169,153,145,88,76,98, 228,104,104,104,133,204,133,203,160 7470 DATA 32,169,153,145,88,136,145,88 ,162,6,160,0,169,7,76,92,228

7600

"Use Ship and“ 7800 ? "press

7410

7499

7770 ?’A mission Lasts

TM$(68):FOR I=1 TO 68:READ J: TM$(I)=CHR$(J):NEXT I:K=ADR(TM$)

7400

DIM

M$(5),N$(5),S(8),B$(40):B$(1) ="":B$(20)="”:B$(2)=B$ 7300

255"

BUZZ

3,100,10,8:FOR

" '?

“

7750 191“

'.’

4999

24,6,104,168,104,170,104,64

63" 7740 127'

DATA

141126,208,140131208,189,64,

6,141,21,208 8530 DATA 232,224,10,208,2,162,0,142,1

9090 X=USR<ADR<VBION$>>:X=USR(ADR(DL10 N$)):GOT0 500 9199 REM VBI DATA DATA 216,173,84,6,24,105,8,133,20 4,162,3,188,8,208,152,41 9210 DATA 4,208,10,152,41,2,208,5,152, 41,1,240,54,74,168,185 9220 DATA 59,6,208,47,185,37,6,197,204 ,144,40,169,27,153,59,6 9230 DATA 152,10,168,169,8,153,0,210,1 53,1,210,165,20,41,1,208 9240 DATA 10,169,0,157,44,6,157,55,6,2 40,8,169,0,157,40,6 9250 DATA 157,51,6,202,16,181,173,74,6 ,24,105,3,133,209,105,9 9260 DATA 133,203,162,7,189,40,6,205,8 4,6,144,39,197,204,176,43 9270 DATA 189,29,6,197,209,144,36,197, 203,176,32,173,125,6,208,19 9280 DATA 238,125,6,173,133,6,56,233,2 5,141,133,6,176,5,169,0

9200

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— WHEN I bought my first modem — way back in 1983 — my choice was fairly limited, mostly in terms of price. In 1983 the modem market for Atari computers was split into the sub-£100 bracket for acoustic 300/300 and 1200/75 baud modems, while you had to look at spending £300 or more even for a simple direct-connect no frills

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Today the situation is very different. Modems are even being given away by some online services in a bid to get subscribers to sign on the dotted line

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So what criteria shouldthe beginner apply when he sets out to choose a

modem? To my mind (and would stress this is a personal opinion only— based on several year’s usage), the key factors to be borne in mind when choosing 3 modem are — in no particular order — price, Hayes compatibility, ease of use, and reliability of construction. I

As with most things, price isa major factor in the modem market. Ignoring the freebie modems (which are generally costed in with your first year’s subscription to the service offering it), the cheapest modems on the market today start at around the £20 mark, For your money you usually get a direct-connect unit (a modem that plugs straight into a telephone socket) that has a simple switch taking it on or A

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are list of the basic commands in the Hayes command Ianguage set is given in Figure l.

1200/75. For the beginner, such modems are ideal for the first few months, but automated Iogons — so necessary for

the smooth operation of communications programs save a lot of time and effort for the ex-novice. The route to automated Iogons is good -—

communications software compatibility.

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Unlike several other proprietary modem control systems of its genre, the Hayes command set was placed into the public domain by Hayes, so that other modem manufacturers might adopt the standard thereby making it universal. The idea caught on and by 1983 the majority of medium to high-priced modems on sale in the US had some form of Hayes command language built into them. At that time modems were only just beginning to penetrate the home and small business user market in the UK. As with most American originated ideas (good or bad) it took a few years for the idea of Hayes compatibility to —-

and Hayes

The Hayes standard — sometimes called the Hayes protocol—is a simple modern control languagefirst used by the Hayes modem corporation in the US. Developed by Dennis Hayes, the

modem company's owner, it first appeared in Hayes modems in the early part of this decade. As with all good ideas, the Hayes command language is fairly simple by design. All commands to the modem (while in an off-line state) are prefixed by the command AT (short for ATten-

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—_————————Review 4 From Page 37 percolate through to the UK modem By 1985, the Hayes command Ianguage was beginning to appear in several high-end (£300 DIUS) modems and _ at last— people were beginning to realise what a useful facility the Hayes command set is. Today, most modems priced above the budget market (£20 to £50) are Hayes compatible, or have a low-cost option forthe facility to be fitted by the modem manufacturer. Ease of use is another important criteria that is often overlooked by many modem buyers and, amazingly, modem designers themselves. Hayes

towards modems

compatibility iS a major step ease of use, but some

shall remain (Which have a front-panel control system that defies all logical explan— ation. Because the Hayes command Ianguage iS 30 comprehensive, most Of the modems on sale today only need one control switch on the unit itself— the on/off switch — the remainder of the modem controls can easily be handled by a series of Hayes commands piped down the modem's serial port. Like a good car, the quality of a nameIeSSl

modem’s construction—its pedigree if

can usually be spotted by you like careful examination of the case. Tell-tale signs such as slippage marks at the point where screws or retaining clips are fitted, along with a bad finish generally, tend to indicate a modem is not professionally produced. If it is relatively new on the market, the casing’s lack of finish may be due to the modem being hand— built, but you should question your dealer thoroughly as to the number sold and the number of satisfied customers. If the modem looks badly finished and has been on the market for some time, it is best to reject the unit in favour of a better one. The BABT modem approval regulations—aswell as your guarantee rights forbid you to open up the modem box, so the internal construction can only be easily assessed by its outward appearance. For illustrative purposes only I’ve chosen the Pace Linnet Hayes compatible modem to look _at and explain how the theory‘ behlnd thls artlcle comes lnto practice. The Linnet comes in a small beige box about half the height of a modern Atari disc drive, and with about the same footprint. On the front ofthe unit is a grey-green display panel along —

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single 16k eprom on the modem’s PCB —functions in a similar fashion to your Atari’s Basic interpreter, translating

the Hayes commands into direct instructions to the modem components. Modems are changing all the time and recently another manufacturer Miracle Technology unveiled an add-on, the Modem Maximiser. Designed to complement any modem, the Hayes-compatible Maximiser costs £225-00 (ESQ—00 extra for the data encryption option), and adds a range of features to even the most basic of Hayes-compatible —

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(possibly dueto a software limitation), the modem will buffer data down to its three speeds 300 baud full duplex, —

1200/75 baud and 75/1200 baud. The Linnet also features call moni— toring. Via an internal loudspeaker and semi-intelligent line sensing, the modern can recognise dial, engaged and number unobtainabletones found on the telephone network. By returning special result codes via its serial port, the modem can signal to your Atari micro the current state of the call. This option is used on some communications software packages

for unattended auto—diallng. As With many modems in the £139 to £195 price bracket, the Linnet is auto-answer and can thus be used in a bulletin board computer-based system. Also like several of the latest gener-

modems. Features

of the Maximiser include: Error~correction to Mpad, Epad and Xmodem protocols, data compression and encryption, data storage a 16k serial buffer comes as standard, 9600 baud speed buffering, and a centronics printer port for connection to a printer in the absence of your computer being switched on. Although the Maximiser is a rather pricey add-on for many modern owners, it does indicate the way that the modem market is going. It seems more than likely that at least some of the facilities found on the Maximiser will be incorporated in future generations of modems, in much the same way that the Hayes command set is a|mOSt universal in today’s quality —

modems. Further details are available from: Pace Micro Technology, Allerton Road, Bradford 3075 MG. Tel: 0274-4882”. Modern Maximiser: ‘Miracla Tech; "0/0914 St Peters Streét, [psi/”Ch, ”37 Pace Linnet:

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Every programline must start witha number, and the computer auto~ matically shuffles the lines around in its memory so that they are always arranged in numerical order, with the lowest first. This will happen regardless of the order in which you typed the lines. Every line number must be followed by at least one command, which might be a single word such as PRINT, LIST, REM or END, but will have extra letters or numbers usually tagged on to it. Some examples are:

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0 4 From page 39 command state that If you want It to print a group of characters as they appear on the programexactly line, you must enclose those characters in inverted commas. If you leave the “2mm“ OUt’ the computer W'” misunderstand your |ntention_and print the number 0‘ Why does n do .

th'S? Read on. There are two

. .

. . . . .

. .

other terms you need to understand before you can write any worthwhile programs: Numeric variable and string. Let’s look at numeric variables first. Every numeric variable has a SUCh as

0'003', ‘256 or 56000000' Remember “OW '” a'gebfa YOU 03" write Let X = 50? Well, to your computer the letter X would be a variable name, and the number 50 would be its

value. The

name

remains constant throughout your ”5 program,‘but value_can change as many times as you like. So whenever you tell the computer to print the value of X, it will give you the number that X represents at that particular moment. _A variable name need not P3 a 8!"qu letter, bUt 't must begin W'th a capital letter, and can contain only capital letters or numbers — symbols we" as % or # are "Ot allowed. 'f we 9° to back OUT, prevrous example PM!“ HELLO ' V0“ W'” we saw that recall leavmg out the inverted commas WOUId make the computer give you the number zero. can you see why? NOVj’ H S because the computer W'” _

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assume

— commas thatHELLOTwrthoutmverted IS a variable name, so It starts promptly t? search for the

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that the answer must be zero. You therefore get 0 printed on the screen, much to your annoyance. See how a small change can produce major differences in the computer’s behaviour? We'll return to variables next time, but now let's turn to the related subject of strings. A string is 3 sequence Of characters grouped together in any way YOU fancy. This month we’ll look at the two main types, literal strings and string vari-

ables. A literal string is a group of characters enclosed by inverted commas — like "HELLO", or “So far so good", or

“Useless". When told to print string, the computer will

literal

everything inside

the

inverted

commas, exactly as it appears in the program line. You can put almost anything in a literal string, apart from the double-quote character (”l itself. Experiment with a few and see. String variables are a bit trickier to understand,but like numeric variables they have names made up from tal letters and numbers, but all capistring names must end with a dollar sign $. For example:

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MONTHS

MESSAGE$

. characters. Lets say, for example, that you have a variable called A$ which contains the characters: ”READY FOR ACTION”. If you now tellthe computer to PRINT A$, it will respond by printing READY FOR ACTION, just as though you’d told it to print the characters themselves. The variable name and its contents are interchangeable, so as far as the computer is concerned. Suppose though you had told it to PRINT ”A$”’ What 30 you think you’d get, and why? As with numericvariables, the name which identifies a particular will remain constant, though itsstring value —

the characters

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the string can change. So at the beginning of your program, a string variable called LlVES$ could contain the words “ALL LlVESINTACT”,while atthe end ofthe program it could contain “NO LIVES in

LEFT".

The awkward thing about variables is that you can’t just string write them straight into a program. This is because your computer needs to know how much memory it must set aside to hold the string’s characters. If you had a program “he hke this. 1|

A$="so

far

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so good"

You would need to reserve space for at least 14 characters — 11 letters and three spaces. This process ofreserving memoryis called dimensioning—for obvious reasons—and there isaspecialcommand — DIM — for doing it. To reserve space for up to 20 characters in a variable called A$, you would type: 10 DIM

. . .

A$(2?)

For up to 50 characters in

variable

Turn ta Page 42 ’

' . January 7988 Atari User 47

one string varistrings and an you identify them? Line 30 e.litgral tavtigp — INPUT. a new command contains ‘0 W3“ until .

4 From P age 41 called MESSAGE$ you would type:

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iii

DIM

Th's,

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M$(2ll)

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M$=”NELL

DONE

program.

direct link between you and have the computer, and Whatever you the for NAME$ be called typed Will the ' d°“'t 3° Of program duration type Bananaface unless you're happy to be stuck with it! Numeric and string variables are to among the most difficult things at Out Whe” you’re Staf?ng them g‘aSte' "St: bUt you must understand before you can progress very far. So article why not read through this

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can be

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HAVE you ever wished that you could a poster out of a picture that you have drawn using your AtariArtist cartridge? Well here is a utility that will take a 62-sector, uncom. . pressed ?le and create one usmg an Atari 1029 dot matrix printer. The program will print out a poster approximately 38 by 43 centimetres — that’s larger than a sheet of A3 in four shades of grey that the computer automatically assigns to each of the colour registers for that particular picture. When the program is run you are prompted for the filename, which must be entered like this:

make

/ /

/ , 0

(Ill

7/7!”

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(a,

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GRANV,LLE

DANBY °nvertA ?’ tanArt-

Al“

,~ Return, to be . ”mmonwm'm'ff“— 9 ofthe disc. \lu es Z ISt presented with a directory /_/; / Pressing the spacebar will return you ”Z Z/ W / ft to the load file option. / / Z f Once a picture has been loaded 22, r/}'/‘f//,/ x Z/ / M4 }l\ g // ’ , ,, press Pto send ittothe printer, and let (h ’ the program do the rest. T /// / ,— //Q P The printout routine is wrltten in // ' Z / machine code and will only take about 10~ PRO //’Z .’y(ll,\ 740 // GRA M B 15 minutes to dump the poster in two 4/ Dis 150 D/ayt ext — // l\\ REA halves the bottom half first. and get Reads m 160.250 // Y theKDOWN Re?d t //’ a“Thine 26036 pi CtUI’e _‘ {7 % data 370.4600 Print thhepleturecaode filena ///' BLES l“ .

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159

THEN

320 330

2,0,0:POKE 82,0:POKE 752,1

OKE

85,0

80 DIM FN$(20),DA$(20) 90 POSITION 12,2:7 ”POSTER ”--------------" SITION

340

LPRINT

REM

50 REM ************************ 70 GRAPHICS 0:SETCOLOR 4,9,2:SETCOLOR

PRINTER”:PO

12,3:7

100 7 :? D:PICTURE” 110

1”

”

ENTER

PRESS

PICTURE FILENAME,eg, RETURN

DISK DIR

FOR

ECTORY”

120 TRAP 100 130 1 :INPUT FN$ 140 IF FN$="” THEN 150 FOR X=1536 TD

480 1708:READ

Y:POKE X,Y

:NEXT X IN PICTURE it“ READ 160 REM Hi 170 GRAPHICS 15+16 180 CLOSE #1:OPEN #1,4,0,FN$ 190

708,10:POKE 709,61POKE 712,13

POKE

200 Q=USR(1677) 210 GOSUB 570 22I IF K<>80 THEN 210 230 FOR S=20 TO 100 STEP 250 260 270 Kg

280 290

NEXT REM

710,0:

0.5

2,S,S/20,S/20+5

240 SOUND 5

POSTER

***

84,192:POKE 85,0:POKE 86,0:P0 1655,0:DY=192:X=0 POKE

CLOSE ?

#1:OPEN

Mach' ep/ctwe nd Wait {he Code Dis data Subc direCtOry ’°uri,,e to routine Wait fo

#1,8,0,"P:"

#1;CHR$(27);CHR$(57);CHR$(27);CH

280 DY=96 THEN

DY=96:POKE

REM

***

VDress

END

84,DY:POKE

:LPRINT

CONTINUE"

:LPRINT

165S,0:X=0:P :LPRINT

350 POKE 1542,255 360 GOTO 280 370 380

for a

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RS(65);CHR$(1);CHR$(224); 3I0 Z=USR(1536) 310 X=X+1:POKE 1655,X:POKE 84,DY:IF

GIANT POSTER PRINTER * * * BY GRANVILLE DANBY * * (c) ATARI USER *

REM

470,55 0 560.6 00

—

MACHINE

530 CLOSE #1:GOSUB 570 540 IF K<>32 THEN 570 SSI RUN 560 REM *** GET A 570 CLOSE #1:OPEN 580 GET #1,K 590 CLOSE #1 600 RETURN

KEY

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#1,4,0,"K:”

cope

DATA

164,84,136,132,84,192,95,208, 2,104,96,32,118,6,162,16,201,0,208,13 390 DATA 169,98,157,68,3,169,6,157,69, 3,76,77,6,201,1,208,13,169,103,157 1.00 DATA 68,3,169,6,157,69,3,76,77,6,2 01,2,208,13,169,108,1S7,68,3,169 410 um 6,157,69,3,76,77,6,169,113,15 7,68,3,169,6,157,69,3,169,11,157 420 DATA 66,3,169,5,157,72,3,169,0,157 ,73,3,32,86,228,76,0,6,0,0 430 DATA 0,0,0,34,72,34,72,20,108,87,5 7,87,90,127,127,127,127,127,169,7 440 DATA 133,85,162,96,169,7,157,66,3, 169,0,157,72,3,157,73,3,32,86,228 450 DATA 96,162,16,169,7,157,66,3,165, 88,157,68,3,165,89,157,69,3,169,0 46I DATA l57,72,3,169,30,157,73,3,32,8 6,228,104,96

f‘

DATA

1,70 REM 1m DISK DIRECTORY MM 520:OPEN #1,6,0,"D:*.*” 480 TRAP 490 INPUT #1,DA$ 500 7 DAS, 510 GOTO 490 " SPACE PRESS 520 ? :? :?

Get (t .

lét/ ,

10 CP1 20 cpz 30 CP3 40 CP4

(Y)

(3) (X) (4)

50 CPS (Y) 70 PV6 (C) 80 YVL (F) 90 12W (4)

(3) (1) (1) (J) 140 SVH (3) 150 PSC (A) 160 DLS (7) 170 510 (L) 180 FUM (9)

100 KRC 110 RY7 120 OAS 130 YFS

190 NPK 200 QKZ 210 WK

(R) (Q)

(6)

220 43V (2) 230 JCP (r) 240 45 250 rm 260 DLT 270 FO9 280 CQN 290 AV9

(E) (3) (E) (2) (G) (G)

(S) (K) (S) (7) 340 CDL (1) 350 SJ8 (X) 360 R99 (F) 370 DQU (1)

300 QLC 310 HZA 320 6llD 330 KS3

380 R57 (Y) 390 HYD (9) 400 F93 (K) 410 E“ (4)

420 ozu (Y) 430 D38 (5) 1.40 ice (0) 450 GV8 460 HY3 470 DQV 480 GFO 490 PDX

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540 550

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560 DLH 570 CSR 580 R60 590 NZD 600 R64)

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GRA PH'CS DUMP fr cm I. SUtcliffe

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ter HoeWeVe", OU 1020 Printer plotS' selecting thé Diggnsasjeleica 0” Scfree”

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program.

Load it and Ch ange the re to in the first line to thgerzznce of gRAfH you wish to prim Make"; re thee D i'iet 0 ter is swit and that you have fitted a gzid or? t 9" run the prOQram Th f' ile Will load _e and the p 0 t ter Wiii b egln to work taking abom an hourto complete a dump Th e e.xaCt time dept-Ends on the Cb .

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HAVE you ever wondered what day a particular date fell on? This useful little program will tell you the answer. It prompts you for a specific date, which you must enter in the form of day, month, and year with each separated either by a comma or Return. Note that the day should be a number from 0 to 31, the month from to 12 and the year should be four digits such as 1988. The day corresponding to that date Will then be -

output.

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value of Yinto

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DAY’F|NDER

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UNF ORTUNATELY

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BOMBS are falling from the sky and is to catch Your only hope of survival them in your bucket of water. Each successive missile descends faster than the last and if you miss one .

it W1” eXP'Ode and the. 96m? '3 °V.er' For each caught you W'!‘ 93m 3 att e Will be displayed pOIEt, and oft e gameend youLscore You can move the bucket from left a ''0 y stick p Iugged in

sound Channe' 4 — Checks for

x5 80 X

Captain of a subm?f,'ne I??? age thge Pole. A.CO||ISIOn withtgn iertt) Nhorth as resiilted in severe dam C?o era t e steering gear and en izge the sonar is no _

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power left and the Situggonaye 00ILmiLed opeless but you can still mov e goutsh or blow the tanks to 90 up. You also know there is an exit h

somewhere m the SUbtherged cavexperienced skipper could submarine but can you?

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SUB ZERO ESCAPE

Avolluaox an “(Mm o

21:13:03?"

Game over rounne'

PROGRAM BREAKDOWN Draws the screen assigns the rela1 tive values to the variables, reads the

erns. An save the

bomb and gets another random number for the bomb.

Sorft'g?‘efs'w

COlllSlOn, updates the increases the S p ee d 0 f th e .

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THE CATCH from Roy

House, Adlington Park, Adlington, Macclesfield

comn S 82d zpngs S Own or useftheGaObbreviated T0, INPUT and PRINT to allow four screen lines to be entered for each program line. However, once you have typed them in like this they Cannot be edited in the conventional way so if you make a mistake the whole line must be entered again. The lines will fit, so just take care as you type them in. The program is writt n B to avoid spoilin the eamInhas“; and g‘ 'e _y gl'vmg clues no detailed d escription is iven. However 't is wort h noting that9,lines 10 40 an ai 50 are used to set the game up, 20 'Lines and 30 control its oper,

ation, including sorting inputs, monitoring the position of the sub, the score and incrementing determining whether the game has

been finished Lines 40 and 50 check for lack of — power ending a game, or if another input can be accepted at line 20. Now you have the basic design of an adventure game you should have

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SELECT track one, the eight-lap race and at the beginning Of the game DOS' ition your car in the centre of the track. This way no cars can hit YOU and you can Sit back With the minimum Of effort and watch the points accumulate Uhtii all the laps have been

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AFTER getting the cheese—the fastest ship on Targ — go to the colony craft, then enter the kitchen and take the sink. It will allow you to pick up almost

any object you findYou can now pick up the spider’s web which will act as a skeleton key and you will be able to open any door. Because of this you can drop the rest of your keys as you don’t need them. On the edge of the city you should see

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a mechanoid installation you must collect the metal detector at location 09-05:This willcause Benson’s screen to change to blue when you are near an installation. The metal detector will also let you know when you are over a Palyar building by glowing green — if it glows red, the building is not owned by anybody. To avoid having your craft blown up when you are attacked on the ground, press L to leave it. You are shot but your craft is left intact. Finally, your escape craftis at location 3-15and you have to use the elevators at location 9-05 to get to it — Ruth James, Heaton

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The Pay-Off HERE is a cheat for the adventure game that came free with most Atari disc systems. Once the main program has loaded remove the disc from the drive. |f you are killed during play you will be asked if you want to try again. Entering Y will make the computer attempt to access the disc without success. Half the title screen will appear with the prompt What Now? and you have been returned to Luigi's betting shop. To refresh the screen and remove the title, type E to move east. All the

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switch appliances on or off without the help of your computer. We’ve chosen an ultrasonic system, for various reasons: It’s cheaper and simpler than radio control, and beats infra-red on range, cost of operation and susceptibility to extraneous fac-

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tors from the outside world. There’s also no risk that it will accidentally change channels on your IRcontrolled television or activate your video. It uses a single on/off channel, but this is adequate for many purposes, as we’ll explain later. Figure shows the transmitter. It’s a which can be simple oscillator adjusted by VRi to generate any frequency from around 35Khz to 45KHz, so it can be tuned precisely to the ultrasonic emitter’s optimum frequency. Figure II shows the receiver, I

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necessary. The switch is a high-quality pushbutton type, which is sturdy enough to hold the entire board firmly in place, but we’ve included four mounting holes in case you want to use a different switch or box. Make sure that lCl is inserted with in the correct position, but all the pin other transmitter components can go either way round. TD1 is the ultrasonic transmitter, and is marked with a T. You can attach it directly to a 2—way PCB terminal block as shown in Figure IV, by bending its leads slightly. Alternatively, solder on longer leads allowing enough space to allow for adjustment of its position in the handheld box. The battery leads must be

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components are TR1, TR2, lC2 and C2. The transistors will only fit one way round: lC2 has a small notch in one end, as shown in Figure V, and C2 has black chevrons to mark the Ov side. All other components can go either way round. As with the transmitter board, the ultrasonic transducer TD2 can be wired to a two-way terminal block, or Turn to Page 50 >

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constructional articles for each device. If you would prefer to use the

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machine code in this case like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. In fact, Basic’s own string handling functions have a rather convenient little side effect which will solve your problem much more easily. We have touched briefly on this technique before, but it's so that it could do With more useful Using

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When copying between tWO strings statement like lLET A$=B$, usmg a BaSic Simply takes the first character and places it in the first pOSB$ from men of A$, and then repeats the process for the second, third, fourth and so on until the whole string is copied. Alternatively, it is quite possible to copy the new string anywhere inside the original using the normal substring notation. For example, to copy B$ in at position two of A$ you would use A$(2)=B$._ ”you pause to_ think What’s happening here‘you WiII see

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There is no fault in the game, and it should run quite happily on a 64K 800XL. Also, there are not more than 128 variables in the program so why does the error occur? The answer lies in the way in which Atari Basic functions, using a system known as tokenisation. All this means ‘S that after YOU ve typed 'h each line, converts all that long-Winded Baa"? text into a much shorter set of symboIs. For example,_when you type__REM, BaSIC will store it as a Single Asmi byte zero. Similarly, DATA would give a

value of one, INPUT two, COLOR three, and so on. Another way in which it packs your program in into a smaller space is by

usingasimilartechniquewithvariable

Now a letter from Steven Taylor from Essex who seems to be having some difficulty with one of our longer programs:

ust aroun tchehanswerto e corner. éharacbtertbnelfrom B$ is copied in to [have a” 800)“ mm a 7,050 disc andhave b_een.buy/ng Ate” drive, two of then is B$(2) A$, position User from. the ve'ry'f/rst ’53Ue- lqu1te copied to A$(3), B${3) to A$l4l and so on until all B$ has been copied. often key ’h the listings, bf” / ve been havmg a “me d’ff’eU/ty W’th Chopper The sneaky trick comes when you Rescue from the September 7987 try copying a string into itself in this issue. manner using A$(2)=A$. Firstly cha— lhad been typing forsome time and racter one from A$ is copied to poshad almost t’h’Shed when / got an — ition two. Next character two which Error4 as / tf’ed to enter “he 6720- My we havejust transferred from position book says that th’s means TOO many is copied to position three. This one variables (greater than 128), bUt I’ve new character at position three is counted and there seem to be far less. copied to four, and so on until the end is th’s due to a fault ”7 my machine, of the string. more the” or does the game one The end effect is that character needs. that it does work 64k to is copied to position two, then three, run?./ assume correct/y mm the 800XLthen four and so on until the whole our

Although the solution to your probis straightforward, the cause is rather more complex. First of all let’s discount some of the possibilities. lem

—

Don't forget to set up the length of the string by writing to the very last character as shown in line 120, oth— erwise the string copy will stop as soon as it thinks there’s no more text giving only a copy of a single character. So there you have it— a very simple and rather elegant method of ?ning a string with anything you want instantly.

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names. You may find variables with names such as MYDISPLAYLIST and

CUSTOMERSTOCKCODE useful, but they waste an enormous amount of think, if you used

eac merrngayidust imes in our ro ram theirs ou have just wastedy halfpa Ei<ilobytte of ram. It is obviously far more convenient and compact for Basic to store the name just once, and use another one-byte token whenever it needs to refer to it. Each time you type in a new variable name as you key a program in, the computer will set up an entry in a special table called the variable name table and the tokenised line will just —

—

contain

reference number. This is always stored with the program when you save it and, in fact, there are only two ways to remove it— a

whole table

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Programming

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a new program or type NEW. assume you must have been working on another listing before you started typing in Chopper Rescue, so leaving all the variable references from that preVious program were

left memory. When you startedworking on Chopper Rescue you simply added your new variables to the end of the table, and eventually filled it up to the .

141),andfinallylocations142 and 143 point to Basic’s internal stack which

’D:TEMPF1LE

keeps track of GOSUBs and FOR NEXT loops.

Then type NEW to erase both the program and the variable name table from memory, leaving a clean slate

ready to accept the correct table. Now all you need do is use:

VER=pEEK(43234) VER=162 men

20 IF

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Speedier SOI‘t .

all the followmg entries. Then you just fill the gap with Smith. You will already be familiar with the commands used to modify portions of strings and to compare them, so all you need to know is how to make that extras p ace Onceag ain Basic’s strin g handler comes to the rescueTake as an example TXT$, which contains a number of 50 character sub-strings which make up your entries. If you want to make space for an extra one at position 201 you would use“ '

1070

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THEN

variable value table. This contains eight-byte values for each variable defined in the name table, and it is these entries which determine the type of variable (numeric, string or

RETURN

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This IS another problem where machine code is not the best solution, and a little bit oflateral thinking will let you do thejob much more elegantly What you really need to do in '5 Bas'c; redefine the problem.You have sorted list of names and addresses, '” surname 9'def- When adding a new entry to this you meet present adding it to the end of the list and then re—sorting the whole thing to get It back IMO order. But wait a moment there’s 00W one entry OUT of lsn't lt father a here, sequence 39 waste oftime re-sorting the whole i0t7 Instead, why not simply put the new entry in the correct position in the first place? If you do this every time a new record is added, the “St Wi” always you H never Err/1:1; lgosjzgftngga?:d Each time 0 u wan tit 0 a dd a Y new item to your list, search through until you find the entry Just after the pos— ition you want to place your new entry. Then move the rest of the text up in memory to make room for it and just drop it in to place. For example, if you wanted to add the name Smith to a list such as —

110 ? “VARIABLE NAME TABLE":? 120 ADDR=PEEK(13E)+PEEK(131”256 13“ BASE=128=°FFSET=9 149 GOSUB WOO 2M ? z? :? :? ”STATEMENT TOKEN TABLE" :?

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maXimum °.f 12.8 e’th'eSThe solution 'S Simple: Firstly _you ShOU|d “St the program to disc USInQI

ENTER

a machine code routine for string sorting that/cou/d use to speed things up?

LIST

mentsor additions to the information wr/l initiate a sorting of the surnames, and here lies the problem it takes

Finally this month a letter from Yearwood of Lincoln who writes:

TXT$(ZOT+SO)-TXT$(201) '

had my Atari 730XE fora

"Having few months,

/have progressed to the stage where I’m trying to write

programs ofmy own. / have written a database program of names and address of just about everyone/knowand it seems to work fine apart from one snag:Any amend-

That’s it for this month, but don't forget that solving problems with a computer is often a lot easier if you

can step back a couple of paces and think of an alternative way of asking the question. You might find that the answer is a lot simpler than it first looked,

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COCKTAILS are always popular, especially at this time of year, so here is a program to. help you create new and exciting drinks. Well, to be perfectly honest, some of the creations sound awful, but then, you never know until you try. ln the world of the cocktail bar, the rule is that almost anything goes, so this program is not terribly reticent about what it mixes. Every cocktail must have its own name, so lines 1000 to 1160 design one on a modified random basis. The so it can process is open—ended generate extremely long names on occasmns. However, they should all at least before be pronounceable trying the drink. And endless party fun can be had attempting to say the name after having imbibed. The program classifies drinks —

RUTH JAMES [Jr-"193 eye to the fest|V|t|es .

according to type, for example spirits, liqueurs, fortified wines and soft drinks. The recipe for the cocktail is generated by choosing a random number of items maybe zero from each category. Some drinks should never be mixed and these are separated into groups in the spirit and liqueur sections. The program will only match group A and B spirits and liqueurs, never drinks from the same group. Basically group A spirits are grain-based and group B grape-based. Similarly group A liqueurs are generally fruit-based with group B herb-based. The data statements defining the available ingredients can be modified to remove anything you disapprove —

—

bleary

of, or to add your own particular favourites. All sections begin with a

number which tells the program how many items are in the group. Therefore all you need to do is add or remove items from the data statements in the appropriate section and change the number at the start of the block.

That's mixing. 1

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before creating a final COPY~ _Jonathon Burg, London.

Simon London.

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0 No the software written for the 8 bit Atari micros is not compatible with the ST. The latter uses a Motorola 68000 CPU while the 8 bit Atari uses a 6502C microprocessor. The way to get the Atari to takea number from the keyboard without having to press Return is to use the OPEN and GET commands. to The simplest _way explain this |S to give you a

example program:

50 ?”YOU

RECENTLY ordered a 7050 ' disc drive from Com p umart , but I received a letter saying thatAtari have Withdrawnit. They also said that a new

processors available for use W’th a data recorder. 7 Marcus McCollum, BalvCO. Antnm' money, N.Ire|and. 0 The AtariWriter cartridge “

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OWN an Atari 800XL and have an annual subscription forAtari User. ltyped in Get It Right II! from the November issue, checked it with the old Get It Right! and saved it on cassette as instructed in the magazine. When loaded into memory/get on screen the message Get It Right II (in a box} and Loaded OK (not in a box) but I do not get the I

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0 You will find your probIem lies with the procedure to load the file into memory. If you hold the Option and the Start keys when booting the program, you will switch off Basic. When the GIR program attempts to go to Basic after

you are using

autoboot

new

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numberlng [HAVE recently bought‘an 800)“ and/am Sf’” learning how to use ”; It seems to autolacks the facility of mat/c h"? numbering and

renumbermg.

Have these subjects ever been featured in Ata r| User? D.M. Hill, Stranraer.

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excellent new Get—It—Rightll checksum program, and I think it’s really good. I especially like being able to call it up instantly rather than having to LIST and

ENTER

everything. However, [can’t seem to make it checksum itself correct/y either with the 0/0' or new versions. Both give me the same error/ines —

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730 and 3010. On GIR II I

get the wrong cumulat/ve check digit from line 130

also

onwards.

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are

only

PRINT lines and the pro— gram seems to work fine, I wasn't too worried — but I have checked the spacing of each line very carefully and I 58 Atari User January 1988

Still can’t get It to give the right checksum. I’m wondering — is it me, are the checksums or printed correct or not? — ,

Michael Hayston, Aston, Birmingham. 0 Andre Willey replies:

Some of you have noticed that the two checksums printed alongside the Basic version Of my GGt It Right ” program didn't quite match the listing. This was rather embarrassing and caused by a printing error which meant that two lines of the program containing inverse video text were inadvertently printed as normal characters. On line 130 the text inside

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r’g the quotes should have been shown as inverse video, including one extra inverse space on either side of the wording, Similarly line 3010 should also have had the whole of its PRlNT text string in inverse video. The program will still

work quite correctly without either of these changes, of course, but it did mean that

the checksum values for these lines didn’t match. Both checksu ms were printed out from my original program listing before the printers omitted the inverse

text.

So in fact the checksums are both correct it‘s the list— ing that’s wrong. I'm sorry for any confusion caused.

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August 1987 issue we published a utility to renumber Basic programs. It creates an autoboot disc or cassette file that loads into memory

and

remains

resident until the power is turned off We hope to cover auto ?ne numbering in a future issue. ~

Ba3|c facts in Basics ,

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Unfortunatly, Atari Basic differs from most of these, 3° V°U Wi" have t° m°dify the program listings to a style that Atari Basic will accept.

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and was intereted when it started making comments

about the PAL and NTSC

television systems. cou/ol you please explain the differences between the two and why would this effect the Atari computers? ‘ Pame'a 3°“iami“' W3"-

ington, Cheshire. 'Th e PAL system is one o f the European teleVlSlon standardsthatwe use. it has .

THE other day/was reading an American magazine for the Atari 8 bit computers

50Hz frame rate and uses 312 lines per frame to build a picture on the screen. The NTSC system is the

computer

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American equivalent to PAL.

ferences occur

the phy5l-_

cal design and layout of the micro. On the 300XLthe 03’— tridge socket is 0" the top, but on the 65XE it is positioned at the rear. The parallel bus that featured on the 800XL is not on the 65XE, nor does it have

expansion bus that appeared on the 130 x_E

the

Serlous searc h es IRECENTLYstarted writing adatabase program to store and my friends’ names addresses [on my Atari 800XL. The main program proved no problem, but when it came to writing a routine to search through the names individual to find one

However, it only

uses 252

the program almost slowed down to snall’s pace. Could you give me any help on this matter? — Alexander Cheadle Brook, . Hulme, Cheshire.

surname,

. When searchlng th‘.’°“9h

the surnames there ls, as a 5|°W way and _a “5143" q Ule wa Y The slow we V is the most obVlous—you start and at th? f'rSt entry number until you ?nd the contlnue one YO? re |°°km9 for. Th's '5 an ObY'OUS way, YOU bUt rather ted'IOUS. that t wouldn W_°'k certailnly way lfvou were tookmg _up a the dlteC' phone"U‘fgbef you.l?“ ory,wou A much faster method is to open the book in the middle and decide whether you’ve got to go fonivard or .

back. By looking at just one name you’ve already elimi-

nated half the directory. If you then turn to the middle of the section you now know the entry's in, and again decide whether it’s above or below the one you've selected, you will have quartered the book and so on until you find the name you’re after. Using this method the —

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Michael Davies, Braintree, Essex.

lines

This means that although the screen is up-datedfaster on the American television, the picture quality is not as good as that achieved by

CheCk

per frame to build a picture and uses a faster frame rate of 60Hz.

PAL.

Atari com uters were initiall desi needaround the NTSCysV stgem but when a t h ey were so Id" 'l'n E _urope hardware modlflcatlon was made so they would be compatible with the PAL system. So, the difference in the way the two systems work will not directly affect your own micro.

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After checking line it to

Merse y , Stock p ort.

0 All Basics are different, although most are based on a dialect of the language developed by the Microsoft Corporation. Nearly all PUb‘ those Iications outsidefor your dedicated purely computer feature programs

3070.

computer could find any one itemin an_orderedlistof at Just 10 1000 by looking

entries. This system is known as a binary chop, because each successive test chops the remainder of the list in half. Followmg this method you should have no prob— Iem m speedlng up the search routine, and the coding for it is relatively simple. .

error that-the. proThe? gram '5 encountering '3_“9t actually at “he 3010. bUtts I" fact located between lines Wlll prob3696 to 3890. You ably find that you have entered one or more of the data statements !"C°"e°?Y-

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