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YOU are down on our luck, standin looking at the routhte wheel, when 2 shady character tugs at your sleeve. After exchanging a few pleasantries he persuades you to slip outside where he will tell you something to your advantage. So after cashing your remaining chips you fouow him out to the alley behind the casino. He whispers in your ear: ”For just a pony, Guv, can tell you my foolproof plan to win”, Maybe it's the drink that softens your heart, or maybe it’s the six-inch stiletto knife you feel poking through his coat into yours, but you decide to give him his money and listen to his advice. he says, pus_”|t's 6” very simple", hing the money into his overcoat pocket without even bothering to count it. “Just bet on the red". Feeling cheated, you ask what happens if you lose. “Even simpler", he replies, “bet on the red again, but this time double your stake. If you lose ou again, double again, eventuall will win because red is an even nzoriey chance”, He continues: “When you count your Winnings you will find that you are up by your original stake. Drop your bet down again and do it all over again. You can’t lose". With that he slips into the night and you wander home to think about what he has said. Any bet on the red, or the black for that matter, pays even — what you bet plus your stake gwozey ac ._ So If you bet a pound and lose, then bet two pounds and win, you get four pounds but have only paid out three — I

readers

two for the

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fortune?'.

Wlt Etc; trelijtrotdijtf'ty |rs tAt'ahl mglinfe?gdgéze pretend money by writin to simulate a roulette whgee8I program an teSt

this strategy

ng$ $22; 12 gxshhls{pt

bUt

one? Iuke. You need to know hroewlWits nob ets It will take to recover y o ur Imatny‘ Ia outlay of £25 to the man What is the best size of b 0 Th e larger the bet the faster you W'?li make money but also th you will need when [dostzpore r'rltoneymuch stake money will ou lhng. ave tovy1 o ave m reserve? Is it p racilic a.p '

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the necessary programga; 535 7:26: PfOb/ems, next month ’s hints will help. March 1988 Atari User 9

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HAVE you ever been sitting at your keyboard at three o'clock in the morning, staring bleary-eyed at a somewhat fuzzy looking television? 10 PRUNT ”DONE" you type through

half-closed eyes... The result is error PRUNT indeed! And as you re-type the offending line, your faithful friend Basic continues to monitor your progress, letting you know whenever your fingers slip off the keys until finally sleep overtakes you and you slump over the keyboard. The other effect that post-midnight programming has on the cerebral

—

BaSIc be t t er No time

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and so it was one cold night about five years ago when suddenly thought ”How does it do it?”.

r|ght

speCifically,

how_does Bacs)irc 22,2: ge to check your typing so

quickly and, come to that, what does it do with the line you’ve typed anyway? _

After some research had established the fact that a process known as tokenisation was work. It seemed at that when you type. I

the computer actually stores the numbers 10, 0, 6: 5, 32 and 22 in memory. Hang 0“ a minute, hear YOU cry,that’s only six bytes of data stored and our program line is eight characters long. N0 WOHdef those programs only seem to work properly six out of eight times. Well, what Basic is doing is making up a much shorter, coded, version of your line. In fact, the word PRINT itself is representedbyjusta single number 32 _ known as a token. The first two bytes represent the ”he numbe, and are followed by two length indicator both are six in this case bytes because the coded line is a total of six bytes long. The line ends with a terminator byte _ the ?na| 22_ But why bother? What’s the matter with storing the whole line of text. Well, there are a number of advantages to tokenising. In fact you’ve already seen a couple of them. To start with the stored version of the line is shorter than the original text often by a considerable amount. Consider a |

line such as:

POSITION

piece

XDISTANCE,YDISTANCE

of text this line

70 Atari User March 7988

is 35

—

now

—

Speed advantage

operators

such as CHR$, INT, LEN, on — and variables. so

—

VAL and

SOR, We ll

operators

looking at statements,

and

functions

greater

detail next time, but for now let's see how Atari Basic deals with variables.

an example, consider this simple program.

LET NUMBER-120 10 PRINT NUMiiER

We” examine

bUt smce

line

”.1

moment,

10 Is so Similar to line the example we ve already looked at let S see What d'ffe'ence Fhe va”?b'e NUMBER makes to the final tokenised

line.

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10 ”°W

10' 9' 7' 7' mf‘en'ses If ve been 32’ so f°”‘?‘“.".”9 128322“ you far you ll remember the initial 10 that and 0 represent the line number, and the next tvyo numbers tell {is hoyv long

the tokenised statement is — in this case seven bytes. As before, the 32 means PRINT and the final 22 is an end-of-line marker 3° somehow 128 must representthe variable NUMBER. In fact, any token with a value over 127 represents some form Of variable — which may be a normal numeric type, an array or a string. Each time you refer to a new variable when typing in a program — such as NUMBER in our example a unique number is reserved for it. If you enter another line which contains a new variable name then it would be as129 in signed the next free number this case. Since a single byte can only store a value of up to 255 we find that Atari Basic can thus only cope with 128 variables in any given program. —

There is also an execution speed advantageto tokenised programs. The theory 9093 that the machine code routine to look up a single byte from a token table is very much faster than the codethat would have to be used to search an entire Ascii text line. However, this speed advantage is unfortunately lost when you consider Atari Basic’s maths routines, which could hardly be described as particularly efficient. As with everything else in life—you win some, you lose some.

tokenisation

We the present start with ANDRE WILLEY

characters long, including the carriage return at the end. Tokemsed it becomes iust nine bytes of data and so uses just one quarter of the memory space which would otherwise have been required. On average, a tokenised line is about one-half to two-thirds the size of the original text version — depending on such factors as the length of variable names and how long the command words are. Also, when thetokenisation process takes place any incorrect statements will immediately be flagged as ERROR lines, thus giving you an instant indication of both the factthat you madea mistake and also the position within the line where the tokeniser couldn’t find the syntax it was expecting. Many computers will let you enter anything at all as a program line even if it’s complete rubbish as is often the case at 3 o'clock in the morning _ and you won’t find out until you run the program

Basic's 14m

process

goes

much further than just coding PRINT, POSITION and the other major commands. It also tokenises functions and

—

Variable

table

name

The variable names are stored at the beginning of the program in a table known, rather originally, as the variable name table. Each time you use a variable name when typing in a program Basic scans through each entry in the table looking to see whether you’ve used that one before. If you have it works out the number of the entry and uses it in the tokenised line. If it comes to the end of the table before finding a match it assumes that you have used a brand new variable name and this will then be added to the end of the list and its number recorded for future reference. This does mean that a lot of mistyped lines can create an awful lot of useless extra entries in the variable name table, sometimes causing problems with more complex programs. The quick answer is to LIST your program to tape or disc, then type NEW and re-ENTER it into memory. This will force Basic to create a new table containing only the currently required variable names. While a program is actually running Basic never needs to look at the text in the name table—since every reference to a variable is now coded as a number between 128 and 255. In our example, each time the token 128 is found it knows that we are referring to the variable which we know as NUMBER. Let's now go back to that first line of our program: Wh'Ch

NUMBER=12I

LET

wifen'ses

the

f°”°W'”9

sequence.

5, 0, 15, 15, 6, 128, 45, 14, 65, 18, 0, 0, O, 0, 22

Looking at the bits

already know

about, the 5 and the 0 at the start must be the line number. The two 155 tell us that the coded line is 15 bytes long and the 22 at the end signals the finish of the tokenised line. Since we know that the 128 refers to the variable NUMBER you will probably have realised that the 6 preceeding it must

therefore mean LET. As it follows straight after the vari-

able name we can safely assume that the token 45 is the code forthe equals sign, which just leaves us with the strange sequence 14, 65, 18, 0, 0, 0, 0 to somehow represent the rather innocuous looking number 120.

numbers in a scientific form very like the exponential form you might have used for large numbers in your own programs. If you saw 1.5E4 in a listing you would know that it meant 1.5 x 104, or 1.5 times 10,000. The digit 14 in our tokenised line simply tells the computer that a floating point number follows, and this is composed of six bytes. The first of these gives sign information plus or minus — and the power of — exponent of the number. The other five bytes give the fractional part of the number using a system known as Binary Coded Decimal. This is not as tricky as it sounds and all it really means is that each byte holds two separate numbers one in the first four bits and the other in the second four. In our example, the first ofthese five BCD numbers is 18 which gives us the binary pattern 0001 0010. The first 0001 is a one in decimal while the second part, 0010, means two. 50 our fractional part is actually 0.12 — see, it really isn't as difficult as it looked. We finally have to subtract 64 from the exponent byte before we use it giving us 65 minus 64 — a grand total of one! Rather than using powers of 10 this system uses powers of 100 to make the work simpler so our final floating point number is 0.12 times 100 to the power of one. This is the same as 0.12 times 100 — or a value of 120, which is what we were hoping for. Perhaps you now see why floating —

—

where the Atari maths system’s compleXltles come into their own. Whereas mOSt micrOS allow US to store numbers in a couple Of different ways. Atari Basic allows only the most complex Of these methods. Some languages WOUld allow US to This is

place the number 120 into two bytes integer variable. All this means means the number iS stored in ls_that memory in much the same way as we access memory addresses like the diSplay iiSt- To get the final value we take the contents Of the first byte and then add on the second byte times 256- You might have seen lines such as: as an

DL=PEEK(560)+PEEK(561)*256

which use this very method. This integer system has the advantages of much greater speed and of usin less memory, but it can't handle num%ers Iargerthan 65335 or decimal fractions such as 1.5 or 0.37. The alternative system, the only one available in Atari Basic, is known as

floating point arithmetic which

Mapplng your

stores

mlcros

—

point maths takes so long With simple integers.

compared

this

mon?hA/W Coming/”9 oration 0 tanP5asrc Wlt a more expAI/eXt detailed look at the token/sing process, plus a fU/l breakdown Of all the available tokens and what they represent. lmight even manage to get some sleep in the meantime.

memory Now that you have a rough idea of take a look at where can be found ”7 YOU’ everything micro 3 memory. All the information we require is held in a table of nine two-byte addresses held in zero-page memory as shown in Figure I. Each these '5 referred to as gfecause you must use t7,epom/mi va ue Turn to Page 12 b up, let’s

128/129 130/131 132/133 134/135 136/137 138/139 140/141 142/143 144/145

Figure

LOMEM VNTP VNTD VVTP

STMTAB STMCUR STARP RUNSTK MEMTOP

user-accessible memory address Variable Name Table pointer (start address) Variable Name Table dummy (end address) Variable Value Table pointer (variable contents) Statement Table (first address of tokenised program) Lowest

direct con en 5 a gurrerxxstatemen:(L(astt trln rra 0ln er s rln arracommetandtling)d ress

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Basic’s Zero Page Pointer Table March 1988 Atari User

__“ 4 From Page

of the start of the Variable Value Table. it is here that the actual contents of your variables are stored. Each entry in this table is eightbytes long and maycontain

number M32,768. Try PEEKing the address given at 138/139 to find

address

1 1

contained within it to point you to another memory location. As i mentioned before, the second byte mUSt be multiplied by 255 before being added to the ?r St~ The resulting figure is then the address you actually require. Locations 723/729 point to the lowest address in memory that Basic is allowed to access ii-OME/W- This normally WOUid be either $700 for a cassette system or

$1CFC if Dos 2-5 is loaded. if you use another type Of Dos you Wiii find this location points to the fifSt free location beyond Dos’s memory. The next 256 bytes are reserved as a temporary work area

for the tokenising routines. Locations 730/737 point to the address Of the Variable Name Table, 255 bytes on from i-OME‘M- it is here that your table Of var ”bio

will be stored, in the same order that you first referred to them. It is worth noting here that string variableshave a $ sign stored after the name and array names are

names

out.

Locations 140/141 point to the first byte after the current statement tokens, and it is here that your arrays and strings are stored. The

either a floating point number in the case of normal variables or a further pointer to the actual address of strings or arrays. See Figure II for more information. —

Locations

136/137

Variable Value Table, in fact, contains offsets into this area in order to access the various elements of arrays and strings. Locations 142/143 point to Basic’s runtime stack which will hold the return line numbers for all the GOSUB statements and NEXT loops. FOR Finally, locations 144/145 point to the very last byte required for use by the program — which is also the end of the runtime stack. Figure I” brings all of this infor-

point to the

of the tokenised program itself. If you type in the two line program we have been considering then you can PEEK from this address onwards if you want to see the token structure for yourself. Locations 138/139 point to the first byte AFTER the tokenised program. It is here that Basic stores your direct command lines while it works out what to do with them. In fact, the last direct command line used will always be available here complete with an imaginary line address

mation together and shows how these pointers combine to keep track of our exampleprogram once

—

Byte number:

it has been tokenised.

va”able ,

type

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converted to inverse video in order m ?nishes

and another begins. Locations 732/733 POint to the ?rst byte after the Variable Name Tab/e which is normally a dummy

”umber

5m"?! (D'Med)

STARP

129

p'“5

Offset from

Entry number

Current length

STARP

taining a new variable name it will be stored here and this value moved upwards to the end of the

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734/735

point to the

DIMed length

“umber Entry number

128

new name.

Locations

pius

0 t

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Figure ll: Types of entry in the Variable Value Tab/e

-“—“ VNTP

Variable Name Table

78 85 77 66 69 210

Ascii for NUMBER

VNTD

Variable Name Table dummy

Zero byte at end of Variable Name Table

VVTP

Variable Value Table

0 0 65 18 0 0 0 0

BCD contents of variable

STMTAB

Tokenised program

STMCUR

Immediate Mode statement

01515 6128 4514 6518 100773212822

LET NUMBER=120

10 PRlNT NUMBER Last direct command used

85 77 66 69 82 46 66 65 83 22

Try working

String/Array contents

(None)

RUNSTK

Runtime stack

(None

MEMTOP

End of reserved

—

no program running)

(One byte beyond end of STMCUR)

Figure lll: Areas of memory after a program has been tokenised 72 Atari User March 1988

0 128 21 21 25 15 13 68 51 58 78

STARP

program area

0 0 0 0 22

out!

(NUMBER)

120

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IF, like me, you have numerous discs full of software ranging from utilities to arcade shoot-'em-ups you will find that keeping an ongoing list a bit of a toil. But with easy-to-use Alphabet.ABC that tedious chore is made simpler. You can easily create a mini database of the programs on in your discs and print them alphabetical order. When you first run the program you are presented with a menu of six categories — shown in Table I. When you have selected the appropriate one — to 6 — you are asked if using keys you want to use the international character set built-in to the XL/XE computers. You are then asked whether you want to load saved data or continue on to the edit mode. if you choose to load data type Y and all files on disc with the appropriate filename for that category will be loaded. For example, if the Utilities section is chosen, the computer will load all files with the name UT at the beginning. If you choose to go straight to the edit mode type N followed by Return and the edit screen will appear. The number of names that you have entered is shown at the top of the screen —this will be one when you first begin editing. Underneath is the filename the data will be saved under. You can now enter any information about the first file, but remember that you are restricted to 35 characters at a time. The edit line allows you to enter the program name followed by which disc it is on, the side of the disc and whether it is loaded from a menu or by _

Utilities

UT.

Adventures Arcades Strategy

AD. AR.

Simulations Music & Demos

ST. Sl.

MD.

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boot load. When you have entered six names the computer saves them to disc. If, for example, you chose to enter names under the utilities category, the first six would be saved a

under the filename UT1.SAV, the six under UT2.SAV and so

following on. If

at any time you want to finish

editing and have the data sorted in alphabetical order, type D: followed by Return.

The computer will load all files on the disc previously saved under this category and ask you if you want to merge them with the data in memory — just type Y or N. The data is then sorted alphabetically and you are if you want to edit any before asked movmg on to the next function. After this you have the option to print out the data. You are then asked how many columns you want _— 80 gives a very even and paper-saying printout. When the file has been printed YOU are

offered the option to save the newlyamended data file to disc. If you choose to do so you are prompted to format a blank disc before saving the data —just reply Y or N.Remembersaving the newdata will erase any files on the disc with the same filenames. If at any time during the creation of the data file you notice an error, it is possible to edit the data. Re-run the the program and select to load data from disc. Then select Y to edit it and enter the number of the file to edit. Make the new changes and re‘save it. The program is set up to work on an Atari 1029 printer, but if line 1340 is changed to: 1m PRINT .

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touching the kerb also slows you down dramatically, so take the bends at a comfortable speed and it will pay off in the long run. lfound that under 140 road or

kph was a safe speed for bends. After a race you are presented with the score table which shows

the best time for that particular track and the time you have just achieved. It also shows what position you finished the race and the best position you achieved. The graphics are superb and the scrolling exceptionally well executed. Sound effects could be better — a catchy little tune on the main menu would have been nice.

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lfyou are having problems playing the game and are losing lives fast, type in FANDA and the program will give you extra lives. — Owen Paget, Ross-OnWye, Herefordshire.

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LET’s start off this month's column with a letter I received recently from Brian Mclndoe from Bishops Cleevein Cheltenham. He has a few useful comments to make about the 1050 disc drive. /

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read with interest the letter in

Software Solutions ‘fromOctober’s A.W. Crawford who wanted to

know whether or not it was possible to find out the density ofa disc in a 7050 drive by interrogating the drive control/er. Recent/y / wanted to do this in a machine lan ua e program / was writing. lfounétyi that it does seem to be possible with an unmodi?ed 7050 to find the current disc density by issuing a Status command. First you should either read or write a sector on the disc — for example, sector one. Then issue a Status command. Bit 7 oflocation $2EA will be set to one ifthe drive has/ust read/written in dual density otherwise it will be set to zero. According to Mapping the Atari this bit indicates whetherornota device is intelligent, and it is always set to one. My program, however, can successful/y determine the density of a disc using this method. Readers accessing the 7050 drive without using Dos may also be inter6-5de in knowing hOW to format a disc in dual density as this is not documented in either Mapping the Atari or De Re Atari. You should use the command $22 instead of $21 for single density. The resident disc hand— ler does not seem to recognise this command at least, not in Revision A —which means you have to access 510 directly rather than by using DSKINV. The data direction byte $303 should be set to receive $40. You should also set the buffer address to a spare point in memory because the list ofany bad sectors — terminated by two $FF bytes will be returned there. A timeout value of $3F would seem to be adequate. Mapping the Atari or De Re Atari will give people more information on using 5/0. —

Your prog rammll‘g prOblems salved by ANDRE WILLEY dual density? This has the advantage of also working with other drive types —

even an old 810.

to formatting in dual density, you quite right in stating that the 5/0 command $22 will accomplish this As

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be fine for you but would mean that the program wouldn’t work on an old 400 or 800 — of which there are still a good number about. There is also one other much more serious problemThe standard character set is not designed for multicoloured characters in GRAPHICS 12, so you won’t be able to read the text easily. Luckily all these problems can be overcome with a little work. Let’s tackle the first two before oin on to the character set. Since thegscregen you want is 40 columns wide and 24 lines .

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toring the stock market, forecasting poo/s results and the usual round of general household uses. l have no interest in games, so my Atari is used for text programs only, usually in default graphics mode and colours. It would be useful if/ could have different coloured text on a 40 column screen at the same time, but / can’t figure out how to do it. Could you please tell me how to get one line of text in default white and another in a different colour?

The answer to your question is to select ANTIC mode $04 graphics otherwise known as GRAPHICS 12 on but this isn’t quite as an 800XL

command. The other thing to bear in mind is that, to be sure of the result, you recommend a sector read or write before issuing the status command. If you’re going to have to read a sector anyway, why not just read sector 1000 and if you don’t get an error 139 then you know for certain that you’re working in

simple To start with, GRAPHICS 12wi|l only allow access to the screen by means of PRINT #6 commands, and you also can’t get ordinary text on the screen at the same time, except for the default bottom four lines. Also GRAPHICS 12 is only available on XL and XE machines, which would

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memory location 712 otherused for the border colour). A value of01 selects SETCOLOR register 0 (location 708) and 10 will select SETCOLOR as used (location 709 4, or

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GRAPHICS 8 display would need 192

numbers. Program on the previous page will find out where this display list is located in memory line 30, then POKE into memory the 24 new numbers contained in the data statement on line 100. For each screen line you want to be in GRAPHICS 0 you should I

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graphics chip works, colour characters are made up on a 4 x 8 grid of dots, rather than the usual 8 x 8 characters you are used to. This means that a special character set must be devised to take account of the changes. Inthe normal set,a byte of character data is used to represent eight dots across the screen each bit con— trolling one pixel, on or off. However, in the case of coloured text each pixel must have colour information in addition to on and off, so two bits are used per pixel giving four possibilities: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Thus the limitation of four dots across each character each byte can now hold' the data for only four pixels. A binary value of 00 selects the background colour (SETCOLOR regis-

72,

is normally represented as bit data, and Figures 11, and IV show the same letter in three different colours for GRAPHICS 12. Note how I've left one pixel (two bitslof space at the side of the letter in each case, plus a space above and below the letter. This is to stop adjacent letters from butting into each other which would make them 111

GRAPHICS 0 text on the same screen

as multi-coloured textyou should alter your SETCOLOR registers so that the background and the border are both the same colour. For example, to

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ref con?guration. The manual informs me of the answers to three ofthe four questions, but/can’tanswer the third: What code do you send to set up your printer to receive one line—$3C0 or9601decrma/ bytes 7 Of double dens'fy 13" fmage

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bytes giving the bit-patterns to print. Each byte sent represents eight dots on the printed page. for reasons However, the 1029

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which the last bit of data is ignored by the printer. From this information it is fairly straightforward to deduce a number of pertinent facts regarding Atari’s marketing department none of which will go into here! Your best bet would be to convert the GAD pictures to an alternative form possibly a 62 sector bit image file — which can be handled by a screen dump program. You will find programs to do both of these tasks in the January 1988 issue of Atari User. —

Figure IV: CharacterA in Graphics SETCOLOR 243-599 text

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too dark or the writing will disappear. As you are limited to 128 different characters at any one time you must decide which ones are not likely to be used and convert them into coloured letters using a character set editor such as that given in our ACE series in the April, May and June 1987 issues of Atari User. would suggest that the Control keys Ctrl-A to Ctrl-Z are converted to coloured versions of A to Z, and the lower case letters converted eithertoa second colour alphabet or numbers and punctuation marks, whichever prove to be the most useful in your program. make

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THIS month we start exploring the mysteries of computer games, and show you some of the techniques you will need to write your own text and graphics adventures. We begin by looking at the various methods of printing text and graphics characters

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anywhere on

. .

print-

the screen full, everything scrolls make room for the next so you lose any inforwas stored at the top.

ing your text at that point.

already upwards to line of text mation that When printing is completed, Basic automatically returns the cursor to the left-hand margin on the next line, the screen upwards again if it

screen, and starts

positioned on

scrocllling t_°'5 "9121?

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several spaces between themarid Line 30: 0” the other hand, prints:

HELLOTHERE

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at all. The W'th. no gap

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and

obViously acting as extra instructions to modify the PRINT

semicolon comman d

a ou S a mg and“Lesemticrotlon ° orge commfa Baht”;_a5ic instruc line. A comma moves the a new cursor to the next available tabulator stop before printing anything else

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cou p |thefcursor’sI e 0 exam p es:

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10 DIM Asu?) PRINT “PLEASE TELL INPUT As 30!

VPLEASED

YOUR

NAME"

. YOU

MEET

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39 PRINT

Run the program above and you’ll find that line 10 prints what you would

are

or: 1a PRINT "HELLO THERE” 20 PRINT "HELLO",”THERE” PRINT HHELLOUV'THERE” 3G

52 Atari User March 7933

With the two words on the same line,

statement:

‘ .

HELLO

First let’s look at Basic's desire to start a new line with every PRINT

‘

expect, but line 20 prints:

screen.

Along the way we’ll encounter several punctuation marks with a personality of their own, the CHR$ funcand the Basic command tion POSITION , There 5 a 835m utility program which automatically converts a screen full of text or graphics characters into PRINT statements for you. Let's start by looking at the PRINT command in detail. Whenever Basic encounters a PRINT statement, it looks to see where the cursor is currently .

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Notice that if you use

semicolon

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0 between text strings, any spaces want leaving between words mustyou be printed as part of the strings them-

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single text line-

While we’re on the subject of punctuation marks, there are two others worth mentioning: The question mark I?) can be used instead of

the word PRINT,

And the colon

in:

as ?

”HELLO”

(z) lets

you put more than one Basic statement on a single line, as in:

. .

10 DIM

A$(40):INPUT

The 00|0h tells

A$=?"HELLO ”;A$ .

Basrc

where

one statement ends 80d the "GXt begins, and you can use it with any Basic command, not just PRINT. This can VGdUCG the number Of program lines, and also helps to Speed Up program execution. .Remember, though, that a program “he cannot OCCUPY more than three screen lines, so there’s a limit to the number of statements you

can squeeze inThe comma and semicolon are .

. ‘ . . .

fine when you’re faced with relatively simple printing tasks, bUt there are occasions when you have to print text

. .

. . .

at very precise locations on screen. The simplest way Of d0ih9 this IS to Use the Basic command POSITION. Here’s an example: 10 POSITION

14,ii:PRINT

"CENTRALISED".

The two numbers after POSlTl_ON tell the computer where to start printmg. The first is the number of columns in from the left, whilethe second IS the number of rows down from the top. In this example, the word CENTRAL/SED W'” be printed 14 columns m and H rows

For

example:

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imenting until you can be sure of printing exactly what you want on a

to re-print the whole lot whenever the

score changes.

down.

The screen mode we , re usrng at the moment has 40 columns and 24 rows, so you can 0 to US? any 39 for the horizontalnumber.from co-ordlnate, and any number from 0 to 23.f°r the vertlcal one. Remember that If you PRINT anything on the bottom line, Basic will normally scroll the screen upwards to make room for its READY message. Using POSITION YOU can send the cursor to any point within the screen’s boundaries, but it won’t move until the next PRINT statement is executed. The command lets you insert scores into a text line or table, without having .

10 POSITION 20 POSITION FROM

3“ INPUT

fPRINT

NUMBER

I'YOUR

GIVE

.I’RINT

IS”

NUMBE

999

l l

At POSITION 59 GOTO 29

l7,lS:PRINT

N;"

_|t'S_|mDOI13ht to type this in and play With it, to see the differences between this screen format and the one produced by conventional PRINT statements. You'll see that the words YOUR NUMBER 18 are printed only once, though the chosen number — _

which

is on

change

the

same

line

—

I ’

‘

I I

can

many times as you like. And there’s no need for commas or semicolons, because the POSITION statement moves the cursor to precisely where you want it, over-riding Basic’s natural tendencies. Also notice that two spaces are printed after the new value of N — on line 40. This ensures that all digits of the old number are thed out when the new number is printed. Leave out

‘ l

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the spaces, and see what happens when you type random numbers with one, two or three digits.

It’s worth taking time to master the POSITION command, as you’ll need it for all types of games, especially the arcade variety. Let's move on now to a more unusual use of PRINT: Producing pictures on screen_ You may have noticed that if you hold down the Control key, pressing most other keys will produce a graphics symbol which is different from the letter, number or symbol printed on the keytop. These are known as control characters, and you can use them to produce pictures, tables .’ graphs or any other kind of

. . .

twfhi'gezsg‘r’i’gadfrzmcg'?ers were in

shown

month’s issue, with the keystrokes which together produce them. Each has its own number known as its Ascii unique code and these can be used in conjuction with a function called CHR$, as an alternative way of selecting characters to print on screen For examplelast

. .

10 PRINT

CHRSW)

will give you the heart character, while: m PRINT CHkstz?)

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symbols directly into

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will produce a little

baII.

Try this:

10 PRINT CHR$(77);CHR$(65);CHR$(71); CHR5(73);CHR$(67)

A few of the control characters act we commands. For example, 'f you to PRINT CHR$(125)' tell the computer it Will clear the screen, while PRINT CHR$(253) will produce a short beep from the speaker. Table I shows the Command characters in more detail. Their symbols cannot normally be printed on screen, because any PRINT statement containing them will trigger the command .

‘ ‘

function.

There way, however, of temporarily disabling a command symbol, by printing the Esc character Ascii code 27 immediately in front of it. For example: is

press the Esc key once each character.

19 pRINT

The symbols will appear on the program line, but when that string is printed during program execution the will carry out their characters command functions. For example, a bent arrow in a literal string will clear the screen when that string is printed. Try this: 10 PRINT ”[ESC

CONTROL/CLEAR]

CHRSHZS)

will clear the screen, but:

CHR$(27);CHR$(125)

10 PRINT

will print the clear screen symbol -— without clearing a small bent arrow the screen. The Esc character does not appear " it’s interpreted simply as an instruction to disable the command symbol WhiCh immediately f0||0WSThe system works only once for each character, so if you want to print more than one command symbol, you must put the Esc code in front of each one, like this: —

cmm);cuks(za);cnas(z7);cnns<2

9);CHRS(27);CHR$(30);CHR$(27);CHR$(31) If

. .

27 28 29

Keystrokes

Symbol to print symbol E

<->

125 126 127 156 157 158 159 253 254 255

"\ 4 F

[I]

NB: D Denotes

. 54 Atari User March 7988

. .

The square brackets indicate that we talking about key presses, not actual words, so you press Esc followed by the ControI+CIear keys simultaneously, then the words SCREEN CLEARED. The result will look like this: 10 PRINT

SCREEN

‘ ’

‘

CLEARED" l

If you want a command character's to be not its function symbol is literal when string your generated printed, press the Esc key three times before typing the character.

After the second press, the Esc character .- a sort of double E — will appear, then the third press followed by ControI+Command will give you the command symbol. Now when you run your program, the symbol will be printed,just like an ordinary character. This all sounds a bit complicated, so compare this example with the one

above:

10 PRINT ”[ESC NOT

Table

ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC

CTRL+CTRL+= CTRL++ CTRL+* CTRL+CLEAR BACK S

CTRL+TAB SHIFT+BACK 3 SHIFT+> CTRL+TAB SHIFT+TAB CTRL+2 CTRL+BACK S CTRL+>

‘

—

ESC

. .

CTRL+CLEARJSCRE

CLEARED”

Using control characters you can

you want to type any command

Ascii code

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0 .

are

SCREEN

LEARED"

——

literal string, before typing

—

Function Disable command function (see text) Move cursor up one row Move cursor down one row Move cursor left one column Move cursor right one column Clear screen Erase character to left of cursor Advance to next tab stop Delete line containing cursor Insert a line above the cursor line Clear tab stop at cursor position Set tab stop at cursor position Generate a short beep Delete character under cursor Insert a blank space at cursor position

. .

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inverse character

Command characters

. .

. . . .

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32524 32526 32528 32530

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32568 IF FLAG=0 THEN LASTLINE=LASTLINE -1:GOTO 32586 32570 ? LNUM; ?;GOT0 32580 32572 IF LINE=23 THEN B$(38,38)=CHR$(2 32576 7):B$(39,39)=CHR$(28):GOT0 32574 IF B$(38,38)<> THEN B$(39,39) =CHR$(27):B$(40,40)=CHR$(28) 32576? LNUM; 7 ';CHR$(34);BS:B$=”

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32542

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SHORT

Before we leave the subject of command symbols, there’s one other technique you may find useful. You can permanently disable all the command functions with a single statement: POKE 766,1. Now the symbols will all behave like normal Ascii characters. This means that the control func— tions aren’t available from the keyboard either—for example, the cursor movement keys won’t work. You can restore the status quo by POKE 766,0, so it’s easy to switch the command functions on and offat different points in your program. 0 Next month we’ll look atsimp/e character animation and create the illusion of movement on screen.

32560

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32518

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32512

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32558

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32514

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BLANK$=

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0:POSITION

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”;CHR$(34);“C:‘;CHR$(34); ,;LSTART; , ”;LASTLINE*INC+LSTART 3261l POKE 764,12z? :? :? :? CONT 32612 POSITION 2,2:POKE 842,13:STOP :P OKE 842,12 32614 GOTO 32636 32616 REM SAVE T0 DISC: 32618? cnrsttzsm Enter fiLe name.. .":? 1? 32620 INPUT C$:IF C$=”‘ THEN 32618 32622? :? :? Insert disc to 11016 tern porary“:? file, then press START to

2218

"file,

32606? :? :? then press U8 32666:TRAP 32608:LPRINT

32634 POKE 842,12 32636? CHR$<125):POSITION 2,3:? "File 5 created in this way may be :? "merge d with your existing program” 32638 ? ‘using the command:" 32640 IF A=67 THEN 7 :? ENTER

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massive backing-up session when, suddenly, my trusty 810 disc drive emitted a and a clatter and ban pas/id up completely

fidence, while I had the drive exposed I checked several other adjustments which

may be made to ensure that I get the maximum couldfrom 513,32! r erVr‘i/Iotlf/lefsat’hznccbc—gf the disc. Signal covered what had one So far I have had no fur— There is a ngetal ther problems with this wron bandgwhich translates the drive. I can access all my rotar motion of at ca stan discs, as the head is reato my; linear movemeett of well aligned and I sonab/y the head carria 9 e—this had have learnt a lot about how broken a disc drive works. Fur— All that was needed was a thermore, if it happens — piece ofstain/ess steel shim again I know what to do. one thousandth of an inch M. R. Holland, Lower Penn, but the best that thick South Staffordshire. several Atari repair shops could offer was a replace”mt '

sorry, tape Ollly

gggstan 2235222855123; '

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I decided to repair it myself. I was able to get enough shim to last me from a local .

lifetime

supplier. broken I removed the old. band and taped it into my Atari notebook. Then_l measured it up and drew its exact shape on to the new shim using the sharp paint to score ofapaih ofsassors .

trait OSCI a/iiqningjwnh use in

e oscope t [$0

znorytortde’outputran;

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r: Czechsssszzrn N ever L an d moved the head carriage by '

hand

max1mum one on a disc.

of the painttrack from

signal spare formatted

I tightened the screw and checked the setting using a

number of other discs including a few commercial ones; _

Hawng gained some _

con-

HAVE an 800XL and have just finished entering in Snowball from the Decem— bar 1987 edition of Atari I

User.

ltyped

it all out correctly,

as there were no error it messages, .but when I ran

to my

grief three hours

EACH month we will award_£1o prizes for the most Interesting letters sent to us.

meant.

realised that I had before I saved it, although the article said if you run the game and there are any typing errors it may cause the computer to crash I

as the DL/ is used.

than ever to confe_aSOn t?bllte to our lively mailbag Pages.

Get vOur pens out, Writing and you could be one of the

w mners.

Sighilorringitsizfigg?cg’r?

puter crashing? Also

there’s

now

start

Could you tell me what the letters and numbers are

sadly,

£38332?

hojlels ‘eV' Essex if. s‘l??rfin‘fi’éif??icfsi . Although the program sags to cut round the outline comes up With the option to of the band which I then p ut save to disc or tape, it will in the disc drive only work with atape deck. The drive a. eared to is unfortunate but, This work but the hpegdneeded a fact.

TENNER.’

I tried Get It Right! but / could not understand what the letters and numbers

the OUT/“7a Icut the three fixmg

WIN A

shapes on it.

there any errors in the list7 Ball, Keynsham,

bought Boulderdash Construction Kit on tape because the shop didn’t have it on disc. designeda level and when! tried to save it to disc it reported “Check your drive". It has done this eversince. Can you tell me why this happens and how can I fix it? _Jamie Beszelzen, Hock-

A FEW weeks ago

typing went down the drain. All that appeared was 3 black screen with two green

Then run it

5'.

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The address:

Editor

a" Mailbag ser Euro

Adidas-3:23

Adlin gt on . When computer pro- MaccleSfield in each gram is typed line is assigned a |nd|v1dual numbers or a

unique set of checksum. The Get it right! program prints this. By referencing these numbers against the list in the magazine you will instantly know whether you have entered the line

SK10 4NP '

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wereere 355m;Zéeli'te?é’éi opu haven't made a that mistake For exam le if ou enter AI=8 when 8” shguld have entered A=yB the ro-

gram won’t work butpno i

e computer errcgr mall rr‘eported. t e or Irask_|ng ‘”9 system up 9°

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tell to..|f you that it

t rou bl es ;

BOUGHT an Atari 800Xl A? first a 7070 more“ W It worked OK but after a short time It damaged the /

coglrc‘actly h

Tape

doesnt

something like or lsn t supposed to do, it will wander offinto Never Never Land. And no matter what you do you can't get it back. This is

alwaysapossibility when typing in data stateform part of a ments that machine code routine.

tapes 50 /.COU/d ”Of play them again. / i00k the recorderbackto Dixons who sent it awa They thYen returned it .

saying their

nothing

was

wrong with it and it must be W... advise me to do? a 7050 disc / also own drive which works well,butl would like to still be able to playbudget tapes -Damien

Gipson ' Bideford

North

Devon.

. we get

I0t

about thls 50”

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letters

thing

hap, 58 Tum to Page Of

March 7988 Atari User 57

4 From Page 57

pening to 1010 tape decks The 1010 is usually a reliable recorder if used and looked after correctly, but if cheap

HAVE just bought an Atari 65XE and I would like to know how you would go about programming a professional game. Is there

Wk“

and

‘

errorgs, errors and more errors.0’9 0, Please can You he’l’ ‘?9

overhe7atwghconfugllon ?eV’ nd

“?rst: on eynes, “mg"no ke‘” 5.

Iished.

would be grateful If you could tell me how you type in the vertical bar'character that appeared In line 370 of Dicer in the January 1988 Issue of Atari User? C.P. Allen, Peterborough. O This is one of those elu.

Mailbag Editor Atari User Europa House _

to obtain. US Gold deals with a lot of Broderbund software and may be able to help you. The address IS Broderbund/US Gold, Units 2/3 Holbard Way, Holbard, 7AX. BS Birmingham,

Tel:021-3563388.

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get

A program called the Arcade Machine was written and released in America by a company called Broder-

bund.The utilitywas written in 1982 so it may be difficult

4NP

Smearlne

sunk A FORTNIGHTago / bought an Atari 65XEanda copy of Atari User. I have had an Atari 800XL before, so lam

familiar with the keyboard, but sad to say not with pro-

gramming. I

typed in Submarine

Hunter

and checked it carefully especially the —

but when I entered with it RUIV came up error.6 which applies to the data in line 8920. Could you help me out of this problem? Also do programs for the data

—

old48k work on the 65XE?—

J.G. Gibson, Cornwall.

Penzance,

Q There are no errors in the program as it is printed. Line 8920 contains a READ command that reads the data statements: You will need to check them all very carefully. Not all programs written for the 400/800 machines work on the 65XE. Some differences in the operating systems has cause a slight

incompatibility. However,

most programs publishedin AtariUserworkon aIlAtari8 bit computers.

Sharp for stereo, but not programs RECENTLY I acquired an Atari 400. My knowledge of Basic programming is minimal, but enough to write programs of suf?cient length to warrant the need for some peripheral storage device.

people have

advised me that my Sharp stereo cassette player should be compatible, butl do not have the required multiport ?ve pin DIN connectar. Could you let me know whether my stereo cassette 15 compatible and if so 58 Atari User March 7988.

—

Several

for. some "7.0mm; now and

Adlington Park Adllngton M acc lesfield smo

Atari 800XL

characters the

I ever

enjoyed typing m the programs that you have pub-

—

The pro a pp roach

A”

[HAVE had

WE about your welcome letters from readers experiences usmg 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 as:

y°ur area'

gfghfé’sjool’s'

vertical bar

tapes are used problems often arise. Your best solution is to get someone who knows what they're doing to check the head alignment and clean it and the pinchwheel. If the recorder still gives problems after this take it to a reliable service engineer in

F|nd|ng the

where could/purchase the connector or where I can find the necessary information needed to buildsuch

device? In future, when my knowledge of Basic and ?nancial circumstances have improved, I plan to purchase a disc drive. However, until a

such

time/hope you will

be an

able to help me find economical solution to my storageproblem. —TreforW Roberts, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd.

0 Unfortunately your tape

recorder will not plug directly into an Atari. An interface used to be available for converting the signal from a normal tape

ls\ive'control

Tgari)gramnpuitterppénssss trol+V.

you look in the February of Atari User you will find a table showing all the characters and the keystrokes required to get them. If

issue

P rogr

3913

appreCIated THE Picture Processor and in the POSt Printer January issue. of Atari User were two very good programs. They Will come in very useful to a lot Of 7029 owners who, like myself, do not ?nd a lOt Of Programs

the

for dumping pictures

Ipswuch,

Suffolk.

deck to one that your POKEY

Groans’

sound stand.

“0

chip could under-

However, we don’t know

if the

company

still

trading and so your only option is to buy an Atari deck. The XC12 is available for'around £30 from various advertisers in this issue. You could also take a look at the classified section of the magazine.

their printer. The ease with which you can convert different file formats is very useful. It shows other 1029 users just what be do... with a little bit of patience and ‘ J-ERice, practice.

grunts

OWN an Atari 800XL and was wondering when someone is going to release I

wrestling game for my computer. lthinka company like US Gold could write one, as it has produced them for other computers. I feel that the Atari has a

—————————-—Moilbog great capabilities for games, buta wrestling game seems to be just what it hasn ’t got

DIP

fOI' those 9|lISIVe

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gray/“0,3 iiivireiéfnasg?cisrz to be made future? John Alan Robin-

for

the

US Gold such a

Atari.

use

Mini

farm.

W, p rin the elus1ve f by Simply keying #. Yet no one seems to havebothered to mention this in reviews or the

son

game

that when I

2,726,413?“PH"T6”y

—

’ Whitle y Ba y. 0 We don’t know if is going to release

FllVD

the manual adwses print code strings to define it. There seems to be no reason why this should not work with other printers —have you anyidea whyit is

comgame called Bop ’n’ Wrestle, but it was only ever released in

In usmg

America.

fact

processor. However, the old AtariWriter cartridge will

with a tape deck. gigifs/V514”); I; hnatd int/7711.7 work The SMM804 printer is a la If," US Ggld’s Ga ntlete dot matrix model designed iear/ three hZurs l for the ST Personal com-

if“;

reached lev)e/I 710andlwas horrified to see the same sheet repeated over and over again after that. At level 730 boredom ?nal/y overcame me and I was forced to turn the com— puter off. Was my copy of the game at fault, was itmy . computer, oris ita fault With the actual game? Also, is us Gold planning to bring out International Karate II on the Atari?—G.J. Hagon, Dagenham, Essex. .

withhed?r 'Cso nog}'??eW525 y

the

SOOXL HAVE just bought an Atari 800XL and would_like to know iftheAtari 'Writer. Plus .

word processor is available

on tape for it. Also, can Atari SMM804 printers be con-

nected to my computer Without a Graphics AT _.

Charlton own,

Lnterfacei:

Lerzao, on on. E1gnnlng '

O The AtariWriter Plus program is a disc~based word

MiniOffice/lseemssuperior to Atari Writer Plus, and the only complaints can level are that there seems to be 1

built-in underline command so it consumes two of the 70 code strings no

Happy

Imp" se IN December I went to Curry’s to buy a Walkman for our nine year old son’s Christmas present. You guessed—[returned with an Atari 65XE computer pack.

quite intergsting.yTheyh avg opened 3 whole new W0’/d of interest for me which is quite amazing to a mere female! Rosemary Campbell, Kirkby Stephen, _

Get

it R.lg ht'

I OWN an Atari 800XL and am new to computing and very willing to learn. ltyped

—

puts a E sign depends on the DlP switch settings inside

the printer. Most printers can be setto do this, but it's not always automatic,

version, so we will just have to hope that another soft—

guage?—J.Chapman Peterlee, Co. Durham.

Replacement

Q The program

SW|tCh

written

You will find that you have made some typing error. Check the program very carefully using Get it

Right!

ware company takes up the

challenge.

whole/77x; a

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includes VAT and postage and packing — for two keys. Silica Shop can be contacted on 01-3091111.

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coin-op

have

0 Replacement keys for the 1010 tape deck can be obtained from Silica Shop. The price is £1.12 which

promised

by the end

’57”?l/was e ’9 ease

RaC|ng round .

the Atarl

Atari. am 'rath er d'isappomted _

that8 bit users seem to have been left out. Maybe we will be seeing it later in the year. . —J. Elliott, West Sussex. Q Domark Software unforits mind about releasing an 8 bit version of this superb game. It has no plans to bring out a

tunately changed

“gig” 0

game and as the end of_ the I noticed year it wasrolled_aroun/d being re eased for other computers but not for

Cumbria.

Doesanyoneknowhowto overcome these problems? J.E. Robinson, Millom, Cumbria. 0 Whether the # sign out-

in Bounder from the June 1987issue ofAtari User but, try as I may, it won’t run. Could it be the program uses machine code and do/ need an assembler lan-

in correctly.

not recommended? I would go on to say that, with Epson compatibles

entirely in Basic and works fine on an SOOXL if you key it

on an 800XL

at my impulse buying, and didn’t have a clue about computers at all. As time has gone by my . Uilt fee/in shave raduall feceded bqecausegof help, from friends and reading Atari User. Gradually i have learnt that computers are not borin , the 're reall

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puters or the IBM PC and compatibles it won't work

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American software pany did bring out a

£ Slgns allowed, and

LETTER

£10

£23251]; gtigogveefénintga:

games have been released for it. Could you please give me a list of them? _ Derek

Broad, Dorset.

Christchurch,

A IN .°f car games have been written for Atari 8 bit computers over the years They include Pole Position, Pitstop, Pitstop ll, Bal'a

Buggies, Rally Speedway,

Destruction Kit and many more.

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