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You play the part of Joe and armed only with a light, semi-automatic machine gun you must infiltrate Bloodfinger’s massive forti-

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army and underground henchmen. As you traverse the corridors, any contact with them will drain your strength until you eventually die. Also located within the stronghold, in random Iocations, are six boobytrapped explosives, all of which must be armed. When this has been done you will have 20 minutes before they detonate to find all the hostages and reach the exit. To arm the explosives you must rearrange the access

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uniforms, ood scattered around the

garrison. When you eat the food you will find your strength rating will go back upto full. A uniform allows you to walk among the enemy without being troops drained of strength and the ammunition will replenish your limited arsenal. The main action takes place within a scrolling window in the centre of the At the bottom, screen. reading from left to right, for men are indicators remaining, keys collected, bombs armed and the amount of ammunition you have left. In addition is the time

remaining indicator—which registers when all bombs and your are armed overall score. At the top of

left, right and fire on yourjoystick to swap the letters. If you don’t do this correctly they will detonate and kill you. will find You also

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menu screen. l first saw Joe Blade

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Mickey

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switching on. The program will load and you will be presented with the title

skills

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equation

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choice. AII Micky’s actions are controlled by a joystick plugged into port one, and the fire button will make his selection. Each action is always accompanied by an animated sequence so you know exactly what has happened throughout the 7

dangerous. Your little town has clubbed together and raised enough money to give you the choice of

a Porsche,

Corvette. As with nearly all

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cation and division. The second exercise—and to my mind the most difficult — challenges you to completea logical pattern of numbers. By recognising the correct series of digits and then identifying those

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decelerates it. Left and right move the vehicle in that direction. . The main screen IS Spllt into three major sections. At the top is your time left to complete a course and your speed in mph. At the bottom is the scrolling road you drive along and sandwiched between them is the land—

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numbers and multiplication signs on their backs with my index finger. They had to work the" answer out and write the answer on my back — great fun for the kids. Mickey in the Great Outdoors is an excellent packWell age. presented, superbly documented and, most importantly, very educational. Some of the ques-

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few weeks have been pretty quiet here at Atari User due to the postal strike, but I've still got a few letters in hand which present some quite interesting points. The first question comes from THE past

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He’s been working out complex graphical formulae using his trusty Atari, but has hit a slight snag when it comes to creating the neat useroriented front end he is attempting to

design: The most useful thing the program does is to draw the x axis, y

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axis and graph, then it allows you to

zoom in toapart ofthe curve in order to take a closer look, or to pull back and see the whole graph. The main loop of the program, the one which does all the calculation and plotting of the curve, is as follows: 695 RE" 615 RE" Fun?ion 615 RE"

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Turbo Basic which lalso use, do not have an ’evaluate string’ command, such as those provided on the Commodore 728 and MSX machines. This would allow the user to enter a string like Y=EXP(X) or Y=2* (X3)+5*(X2)—10and have the computer evaluate it like a program line. lfirst tried to use the VAL command, but it doesn’t seem to work the wayl wanted. Later I wrote each type of function into a special menu which would then ask the user to enter each parameter for the particular type of

the Graphics 8screen. How is it possible to enter a new formula into a variable or variables which will allow this kind of f/eX/b/l/ty?

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define the scale of the graph and the portion of the curve to plot. These would be set via a number of INPUT statements according to what view I currently require. The routine would be entered via a GOSUB command after the computer was put into Graphics 8 and the colours set accordingly. My big problem is that whenever I want to change the main equation I have to halt the program and edit the calculationson/ine640. AtariBasic, or

equation. However this method is still limited to the choices given in the menu —and also destroys the whole flurd/ty of the program since whenever I want to analyse a completely new function / have to change all the equations in the whole program. This includes the text on line 735 which is output directly to

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to evaluate a string

as though it were a mathematical formula the closest being the VAL function, which is only capable of converting a string full of numbers into an ordinary numeric variable. —

This iS ObViOUSiY Of no real use to YOU, bUt thankfully a little lateral thinking Wiii provide a rather elegant SO|Uti0fL simply by resorting to that Oid faithful known as Return key mode — WhiCh has cropped UP once or twice before 0" these pages. In fact what we Wiii create is a 39” modifying

program. i'” first explain hOW this system works, and then provide YOU With a practical example by way Of a subroutine WhiCh COUid easily be modified for use in many other PTOgrams. The

first thing required is to store the formula you wish to evaluate in 3 string EVAL$ in my example. This would normally be input at some other stage in your program, but i have defined a simple formula on line 10 to show how the system works. Don’t forget that whatever you type in this string must be a completely valid Basic statement — although you could try using the TRAP command to catch the Error 17 that would otherwise be created. Once this formula is in string form you can start to stored manlpulate it. Changing line 735 to contain EVAL$ is easy enough, but how do we enter the string as a command on line 640? This is where Return key mode comes into play, and we must first put the micro back into a standard text screen for the technique to work hence the Graphics 0 command. Next we move a couple of lines down the screen and print out the text of the modified line 640. This IS done on program line 1030. Note that the exact text you print is entirely up to you, just so long as it is —

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0 What you have come acros is known as floating point inaccuracy, and it is particularly severe 0" the 8 bit Atari. What has happened is that the formula used to calculate the result of raising a number to a given power is not accurate enough to give a full 8 ,

Next we must tell Basic what we want it to do after our new line has been accepted — which in this case is to continue running the program, hence the CONT command printed immediately after our new line. Finally, we move the cursor back up to the top of the screen and enter the Return key mode using POKE 842,13. When the program reaches a STOP command (line 1070), the micro tries to enter each line of text from the current screen, just as though you had typed them in from the keyboard, and

decimal places

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system is back into some sort oforder. trust you’ll all be putting pen to paper, or printhead to paper in this day and age, and sending me lots more programming questions and prob/ems.

Depending on the degree of accuracy you require you can get the micro to adjust the final result to round up or down to, say, six significant figures. The best way of doing this is to first

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640 accordingly. It the CONT across comes command and continues the program where it left off. All that” remains to be done now is to hence

fine detail in the final couple of deci-

[set about writing a program On my 800XL which would go through some of the possibilities and display them on the screen. All was going well and the program worked fine forpowers of2, for which I used the SQR function to calculate square roots. However, to work with other values of n I needed to use the general format of x ill/n), which seem very accurate. does_not US'"9 503/25lg’ves me the 00m?“

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chan: IOCB channel number (1-7) aux1: 4 for concurrent input, 8for block output, 9 for concurrent output, 13 for concurrent input/output (P:R: Connection uses 12 for |/0) aux2: unused (usually zero) chan: lOCB channel number (1-7)

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RS-232 interface functions, and what its needs and limitations are. If you recall, data is sent from the a

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chan: lOCB channel number(1-7), var$: string variable for returned text chan: lOCB channel number (1-7), numb: value or variable to send (0-255)

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(Get current status of RS-232 link)

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26 Atari User November 7988

you want to access devices such as modems and serial printers you must first buya separate interface box. Normally it will be Atari's own 850 module, and so we’ll concentrate on this device. The module contains its own rombased software which loads into the micro at boot time, in much the same was as Dos loads itself from disc. You'll find in practice that many third party interface units, such as ICD’s PzR: Connection, use exactly the same even down to the software system control codes so what follows should apply to most users. |f YOU are planning to use a modem, some form of communications software, such as that provided with Mini Office ”’ M” be invaluable, ht.“ there may well be occaSions on thICh you want to control the interface system directly. This is handled from Basic using x|o commands, but there are a few things you should understand before starting on your first RS-232 program. —

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Firstly, RS'232 is a_bi-directional data transfer system. Th's means that bytes must be able to Pass in what Of data direction and, more importantly, at any time. You might, for example, have to deal with received information at the same time as transmitting your own message. At 1200 baud this could _

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in

120 characters either to direction,.so_ the_software reqUired

the point, it must be monitoring the received-data line constantly so that no information is lost. This means that the micro will be completely tied up

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when full two way communication is required, but if you only need to send data you may select block mode, Wh'Ch frees en°ugh pr°°e.ss°r “me t° allow any other V0 functions to take place. In concurrent mode any information which is sent or received is dealt with .

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real-time

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INPUT, F’RlNT and 50 Oh- Also a wide range of XIO commands are used to adjust various aspects Of the data transfer. Although most XIO com-

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TOTALLY agree with the letter from Stephen Pratt in the September 1988 issue of Atari User in particular his reference to several conver— sations he had with different computer owners. So I have decided to give you my own list of other computer owners and list them in order of tolerence being the worst and 5 being the I

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expensive. Classic quote: ”Konami, Konami, Konamil”

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USER GUIDE load even on disc? Fighter Pilot takes two minutes and ——

27 seconds. Some owners even think Commodore is a

British company. Classic quote: ”I’m just loading a game, it’ll be ready in three weeks time". 4. The Spectrum owner: Barely sufferable. Like the Commodore owner he thinks his micro is the best because of the games for it. But he is at a loss for words when cornered on colour clash, poor sound and the C5. Classic quote: “The sound is very realistic, it reminds me of a fly”. 5. The Amstrad owner: Not too bad at least in my experience, my brother owns one and he’s all right. Owners tend to understand the lack of software because —

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READ with interest the . . rewew of the Atari PI anetar/um m the August 7988 issue of Atari User. I have had the program for some time now, hawng bought it because of my interest in astronomy. lhave discovered that it not only shows sights in the heavens, but depending on the city, italso shows local land— I

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not the rest of the building. Other cities I have discovered this interesting feature in are: Toronto (CN Tower}, New York (Empire State Building), San Fransisco {Golden Gate Bridge).

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haven’t yetfoundthem. I’m too busy wewmg astral events past, present and future. I own an 8 bit and ST I

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ON Monday September 12 l sat myself down in front of the television without the slightest intention of switching my computer on. The cult science—fiction movie Bladerunner was on and I wasn’t going to miss it. There I was enjoying the action when I caught sight

ofa neonAtarilogo.Atfirstl thought I was mistaken, but no, it was de?nitely there.

Around this time the ST wasn’t on the scene and the major Atari computer was the 8 bit. This shows just how

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still kept attached to your roots. But _we have found that a lot of ST owners were formally 8 bit enthusiasts who defected.

period of time I have spent more than £300 on good quality disc software. lam very proud of my all-original collection and I strongly speak against any form of computer software piracy. Which brings me to the point of my letter. During these four years of owning an Atari, the software supply has always been limited when compared to that available for many other machines. You could say I have, at times, envied some of these micro owners. This isn’t because the Atari can’t match the quality of these micros in fact it totally surpasses them in

the 8 bit is in_ advertised,’ America. Its a shame Atar/ , UK doesn I take heed of thls d l 90 k a ? er t.h e b est8 b'’t an l'ke ' ts Amer/can countMartin Wllkinson, erpart. . C attenc k ' V or k 5' .

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hardware design. It’s the fault of the software houses. They simply don’t bother to convert popular programs to run on the 8 bit Atari. Abouta month ago lcame across two absolutely fabulous pieces of games software for my Atari and they have had me glued to my television set ever since — Elite and The Last Ninja. The catch? Well, both gamesare pirated and, as far as I know, haven’t been released in the UK. I would like to know why they haven't been released? I’m not surprised some people are lured from buying originals. It is a shame that

quality software of this

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release. As to The Last Ninja we have heard nothing. it is a possibility that

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