Run Issue 44 1987 Aug
Run Issue 44 1987 Aug
Run Issue 44 1987 Aug
August 1987
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Input from our readers.
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Processing Words our language skills and an imperson- and the ability to include graphics in
I am grateful 10 the computing ex alizing factor in human correspon your documents.
plorer who discovered word processing, dence? {Witness form letters, which, For a closer look at today's crop of
which was thejustification for my initial when generated on a word processor, word processors, which vary widely
computer purchase. I reasoned that take on the appearance of having been in price (from $10 to $100), see uiis
when I grew weary of games acid wanted painstakingly crafted, when, in fact, month's cover story on page 38.
a more practical use for my computer, they have been effortlessly churned out We also include in ihis issue a C-128
I could always use it to type memos or by the thousands.) program that is both instructional and
generate letters, essays, reports, storks While misspellings and typos can he a lot of fun. "Typing Tachometer 128"
or anything that I would normally com corrected ([iiickly and easily on a word tests your typing speed and accuracy
mit to paper. processor, I'm leery of programs that by using witty quotations and quips
For many of us, word processing re also claim the ability to check my gram from famous personalities. You'll have
mains (he primary computer applica mar, punctuation and word choice (as fun while you improve your typing
tion. It saves lime, makes tcxl composi much as it may need to he checked proficiency.
tion easier and, in tome cases, improves sometimes). Also this month, we present an en
the quality of work. I also don't ihinkjohn Updike's work hancement to one of the most popular
If you haven't yet discovered the ben is any less insightful when produced on HUN programs. DFClone is a utility pro
efits of word processing, then you are a word processor. Nor do 1 think we gram that allows you lo modify your
unfamiliar with the ease with which you would have been better seiwd if our files created with the latest version of
can make changes, correct misspellings Founding Fathers had used a C-128 to Datafile 3.6.
and rearrange sentences in text quickly draft the Constitution. Be sure to check out the first install
and calily. No longer do you have to Word processing won't make you a ment of "gcoWatch," a new column that
suffer the drudgery and tedium of using better writer or improve your creativity, begins this month. Each month we will
a typewriter. but it will greatly reduce the time it takes examine the latest enhancements and
With just a few keystrokes, you can to produce your documents. new products (including third-party
manipulate text, make corrections and Word processing is simply another developments) for CEOS. The column,
produce copies. Especially where drafts tool we must learn to master to survive written by GEOS expert Matthew Stern,
and multiple copies arc needed, word in a world where time is money and provides readers with answers to their
processing makes writing easier. After speed in communication is so vital. questions and hints and tips on using
all, how many of us can write precisely In die mit-loo-distant future, I sup GEOS. With over 400,000 GEOS own
and fluently what we mean on the first pose we'll be using machines that un ers, this column will generally show
draft? derstand the spoken word, which will /{CW readers how to take full advantage
For even the most disorganized think make word processing obsolete. But, of this new operating system. Let us
er, word processing allows the thoughts until then, we have some new advances know if we're on the right track with
to be sifted and reordered later. It in word processing to look forward to. this new column.
doesn't matter in which order the cre So, if you've never been introduced If you find the prospect of using the
ative flow occurs—conclusion, middle to word processing—or even if you've CP/M mode on your C-128 too intimi
or beginning. Word processing allows— been using the same word processor dating, "A Beginner's Tour of CP/M"
and actually encourages—revision. happily now for the past few years— will lead you step by step into tiie world
As useful as word processing is, how you'll want to take a look at the current of CPfM, and you'll emerge with a better
ever, I've met some professional writers line of word processing software fea understandingofhow to take advantage
who wouldn't touch a word processor tured in this issue. of the promise of this useful operating
timidated by computers and maintain This Month This month you'll also encounter a
that, will] Us automatic spelling cor The latest generation of word pro simple yet challenging game (entitled
rection and the ease with which revi cessors for both the 64 and 128 feature "I'egboard") for your C-tH, as well as
sions can he made, word processing en compatibility and integration. Some RUN'S regular columns, reviews, appli
courages sloppy writing and thinking cations and utility programs.
are compatible with GKOS and [he new
habits. (We heard the same argument RAM expanders. Many word processors
regarding youngsters' math skills when that are part of so-called integrated
calculators were permitted in the class packages allow you to share data be
room years ago.) tween word processing and spreadsheet
Will processed words, like processed and database programs. Others include Dennis Brisson
food, dull our senses? Is it a threat to spelling checkers, thesauri, oulliners Editor-in-Chief
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S405 C-128 Sprite Printer If you'd like to send a note lo a friend who doesn't know
If you need an enlarged version of your sprite images on how to use your notepad program, just write your note, wilh
hard copy, just load your sprites and run lliis program. Sine numbers, as if il were a listing for a Basic program. Save
your nolc as ihe first program on your disk with a filename
0 REM SPRITE PRINTER-M.G.HAGELSIEB
such as Load & List.
10 FORI=2816TO2933:READA:POKEI,A:C=C+A:NEX
When your friend looks at the directory, he'll most likely
T:IFC<>1<1000THENPRINT"CHECK DATA!":END
load and list dial program. But, if he loads and runs the first
20 INPUT"{SHFT CLR1SPRITE H";S:S^3520+S*64
program, he'll gel a Syntax error. In that case, your friend will
:GOSUB60:POKE2827,D:POKE2831,B:S=S+63:G
list the program to find what caused the error, and your note
OSUB60
will pop onto the screen.
30 INPUT"SCREEN OR PRINTER (S/P)";P$:IFP$=
—Ed Adams. Grand Forks, ND
"P"THEN0PEN4,4:CMD4
40 POKE2914,D:POKE2923,B:SYS28V6
50 IF P$="P"THEN PRINT#4:CLOSE4:END: ELSE 5408 Disk File Counter
END Usually a disk fills to capacity long before its directory does,
60 B=INT(S/256):D=S-256*B:RETURN but if you've saved many short files, you may nol know how
70 DATA 169,0,141,116,11,169,7,141,117,11, full die directory actually is. If you use my program to read *-
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50 GET#2,T$,S$:T$=T$+ZS:S$=S$+Z$
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50 FORX=1TGW:TP$=TP$+"{COMD p)":NEXT
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120 T=ASC(T$):S=ASC(SS):IFT>0THEN40 80 FORX=1TOH:PRINT#4,CHR$(15)"{COMD J}"CHR
130 CL0SE2:CL0SEl $(16)W$"{COMD L)"CHR$(8}:NEXT
90 PRINTH,CHR$(15)BM$:CLOSE4
140 PRINT"(3 SPACEsJTHERE ARE"N"FILES ON T
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—Tom FONTANA, Kansas City, MO
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S40D C-128 Help-Key Caution
$409 C-64 Direct Mode Disk-Error Reader The reverse-video highlight on [he 40-column Help display
The next time you need to lead the disk error channel with can cause a problem within quotes. To sec why, run this
your C-64 ami you don't have the DOS Wedge in memory, try program:
The exact number of spaces isn't important, as long as you Now press the help key, move the cursor up to line 20 and
type in about 20. add a S after the letter B. Press return and run the program
again to see what happens. Use the help key to find the error,
—Richard Penn. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
but list the line to edit it in 40-Colimni mode.
—Jack Norvell, Memphis, tn
S40A C-64 Getspeed
This short machine language program prints a sequential
S40E Useful Goto
file to your monitor screen. It will prompt you for the file
name, then print and close [he file. Here's an easy way to put comments in your programs
without wasting time or using extra space typing REM. Put
10 REM 64 GETSPEED - IVO SALMRE your comments a! the start of your program, beginning with
20 FORA=82 0TOA+57:READB:POKEA,B:NEXT line 2. and put Ihe Goto command in line t:
30 DATA 169,005,162,241,160,003,032,189,25
1 GOTO20
5, 169
2 YOUR COMMENTS
40 DATA 003,162,008,160,003,032,186,255,03
3 ON LINES 2-19
2,192
50 DATA 255,162,003,032,198,255,032,159,25 If you use a renumber utility, you can include a Goto and
5,201 the line number in your comments, along with a brief name
60 DATA 032,240,016,032,183,255,201,064,24 for each subroutine. These will he renumbered, along with
the program, but will not cause any problems when you run
0,009
the program.
70 DATA 032,207,255,032,210,255,076,078,00
3,169 —Chance Agrella, PRESCOTT, AZ
80 DATA 003,032,195,255,032,204,255,096
90 INPUT"FILENAME TO READ";AS S40F Quick C-128 Function Key Disable
100 FORX=1T0LEN(AS):POKE1008+X,ASC(MIDS(AS Entering a single Poke command will convert your C-128"s
,X,1 ) }:NEXT function keys to (he C-f»4's function key values. To perform
110 POKE821,LEN(A$):SYS820 this magic, enter the incantation POKE H28.18S. 11 will change
the vector that's used to interpret all function keys. The Get
—Ivo Salmre, NORWALK, CT
command will now return the regular values for the C-64, but
the run key will give an ASCII value of 131 and the help key
S40B Saving Files on Q-Link will give a value of 132. Enter POKE 828,173 to get back your
You can save QuantumLink's on-screen files with the K3 key old definitions,
by simply using an existing sequential filename to append ihe —Charles Lavin, Coral Gables, FL
Q-Link file to it.
—Fred Maxes, Baktlesville, ok Contimiftl on p. 88.
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News and New Products
This month, consider a 64C replacement casefor your C-64;
designingyour own video productions; orfinding out what the
current events were in the year you were born.
Forward to the Past You can play a short game lasting iliirty titles are added to the series each month.
minutes or one lasting an afiernoon. Each disk is available for $9.95.
Time Traveler, for the C-64, finds out
Randomly generated maps make each Check Reader Service number 405.
the current events in the year you were
game a different strategic challenge. It's
born and gives a printout of the signifi
available for the C-64 for $30.
cant happenings as far back as 1900. Improve Your Chances
Check Reader Service number 410.
Who won and who lost the World Series,
Of Winning
the Academy Awards, prices on con
sumer goods and services. Presidents, POWERIOAD The Lotto Program (Soft-Byte, PO
the cost of an average house and the Box 5701, Dayton, OH 45405) performs
Powerload, fromjance Associates (I'O
average annual income are some of the an analysis of the past winning lotto
Box 234, Easi Texas, PA 18046), is a soft
items included. The program also prints numbers to show the probability of
ware package designed for users of the
a calendar the way it appeared the numbers likely to come up in future
X-10 Powerhouse Computer Interface
month you were born. It's available for drawings. It works for all six- and seven-
Controller Model #CP290. It's menu-
$39.95 from Nationwide Computer In number lotto games, including Cana
driven, loads 128 events in under three
dustries, 205 McCormick Ave., Hawkins- da's. The program also produces charts
minutes, provides hard copies of events,
ville, GA 31036. from which you pick "hot" and "cold"
gives your C-64 direct control of (he in
Check Reader Service number 406. numbers, patterns, sums of digits and
terface and loads all Powerhouse func
odd-even numbers. It's available for the
tions, with menu prompts to assist you.
C-64 for $24.95.
Storm Over Darkhorn It's available for $20.
Check Header Service number 403.
Darkhorn, a fantasy-strategy game Check Reader Service number 402.
from the Avalon Hill Game Company
(4517 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD Cover Me Spiff Up Your Videos
21214), allows up to four players to com Video Title Shop is a creativity pro
Grapevine Data Products of Canada
pete ai the same time without waiting gram thai allows you to design video
(PO Box 188G, Charlottetown, Prince
for one player to decide his next move. productions with your C-64. You can
Edward Island CIA 7N5) introduces the
Slim Line 64 Replacement Case, which choose from a variety of font styles and
replaces (he C-(i4 housing with the case sizes, create borders, edit your work, and
for tile new (i4C. The case is complete import picture backdrops from graphics
with all necessary parts and instructions, paint programs or use special effects
QWKHORN
l tix: 0
and the only tool required for assembly such as fizzles, wipes and scrolling to
create specialized video productions for
is a Philips head screwdriver. The case
is available for $34.95. home, school and business. It's avail
Check Reader Service number 401. able from Electronic Arts (1820 Gateway
Drive, San Mateo, CA 94404) and retails
for $29.95.
Play the Classics Check Reader Service number 404.
Chipmunk Software (PO Box 463,
Battleground, WA 98604) has released a
new line of software for the C-64. Stri- Four from Free Spirit
der's Computer Classics is a scries of Free Spirit Software (538 S. Edge-
classical music on computer disk. Each wood, LaGrange, IL 60525) has released
disk contains at least one hour of clas four new programs for the C-64 and
sical music selections, with a wide variety 1541 disk drive.
of instrumentation. Historical notes Super 64 Librarian is a disk-catalog
about the composers and the music are ing and library system that reads and
displayed on the screen as the music stores disk directories in 15 categories.
Gat set for tha plays. You can redefine the categories yourself
fight of your Ufa Current titles include Bacli: Two-Part or leave them at default. $29.95.
against tha Darklord, Inventions, Three-Part Inventions, Fa> The Weapon of Choice is a text-adven
In Auolon Hill's vorites and The Well-Tempered Clavier; ture game in which you become a young
Darkhorn. Mozart: Sonatas and Viennese Sonati man of the Plains seeking to build a
nas; Antigua (featuring different com reputation as a great warrior on a land
posers); and Clemente; Favorites. New not yet called America. $29.95.
Wheel & Deal is a game of conniving nenls. make slick passes and block shots.
and competition for two to six players, As the coach, you sel up and rotate your
who may cut deals for an exclusive piece players' lines. As general manager, you
of real estate, charge exorbitant rents, trade and draft players, send them to
speculate in the stock market, and more. training camp and aim to build a weak
$19.95. franchise into a contender for the
Fun Biorhylhms prinu personalized SportXime Cup. It's available for the
biorhythm charts by entering yourbirth- (MM for $34.95.
date and the present dale. Hard copies Check Reader Service number 41'2.
of die physical, emotional and intellec
tual cycles for ten to 100 days are pro
Now, That's Power!
vided. $9.95.
Check Reader Service number '100. More than half the world's computing you assume the role of a Sky Runner,
power is in the United States, according hired rebel protector of 24ih century
to estimates published in Computer In mankind, to remove the spell of the
Talking Software
dustry Almanac, a 780-page reference deadly and addictive drug Sky, which
Covox (673-D Conger Si., Eugene, OR volume. The figure is based on the esti keeps the masses in a docile stale. Your
97402) has released Voice Key, a mem mated number of mainframes, mini objective is to destroy the huge Sky har
ory-resident voice recognition program
computers and microcomputers in use vesting machines and their surrounding
for the C-64. It provides voice command anil on ihe estimated average processing defense towers. It's available for the
capabilities for word processing, game
power per computer in MIPS (millions C-64 for $29.95.
and utility programs when used in con
of Instructions per second). Check Reader Service number 411.
junction with the COmpany/s Voice Mas The Almanac ranks the U.S. first with
ter hardware. It's available for $20.95.
12.7 million MIPS—nearly 54 percent of
Check Reader Sen ice number 413. Commodore Names New
the world's computing power. Japan
places second with 2.5 million MIPS
General Manager
Slapshot (10.4 percent). The- United Kingdom has Jim Dionne has been appointed gen
almost 7 percent, while West Germany eral manager in charge of Canadian and
Superstar Ice Hockey, a conipuier-
and Trance account for !t.8 and 3.1 per Latin American operations for Com
hockcy simulation from Mindscape
cent, respectively. Rounding out the top modore International Limited, Irving
(3441 Dundee ltd., Northbrook, II.
ten arc Canada, Italy, Australia, the Gould, chairman and chief executive
60062), allows one or two players the
Netherlands and Brazil, officer, announced. Dionne will over
chance to battle the computer or each
see all activities of Commodore Busi
other, to coach a team and to manage a
ness Machines, Ltd., the Canadian sub
league. You take the ice as center or SSI Gets DaD sidiary, and supervise Latin American
goalie, fire slapshots, hip-chuck oppo-
Strategic Simulations, Inc., a pub distribution.
lisher of war-strategy and fantasy games, "Jim Dionne has a proven track rec
and TSR, Inc., producer of ihc Dun ord and wil! be a real asset to our Ca
geons & Dragons fantasy role-playing nadian and Latin American activities,"
game, have signed a letter of intent to Gould said.
enter into a strategic alliance. The five- Dionne, who will be based in Com
year leasing agreement gives SSI exclu modore's Canadian headquarters in
sive worldwide rights to produce and Agincourt, Ontario, was formerly in
market a series of games based on TSR's volved in a private venture with a To
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Ai least ronto-based distributor of Apricot
ten different role playing and several ac microcomputers.
tion game versions are planned for the
C-64. The games will appear on the mar Sail to New Ports
ket beginning in early 1988.
MicroProse Software (120 l.akefront
Drive, Hum Valley, MD 21030) has re
An Adventure in Speed leased Pirates! for the C-64. In this ad-
Manage your own team to win thn In Sky Runner, a joystick-controlled venlurc-simulaiLon game,you area 17th
SpnrtTimo Cup in Superstar lea arcade adventure from Spinnaker (One century pirate who plunders ships and
Hookey, from Mind scape. Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139), ports throughout the Caribbean, You t
AUGUST 1LIH7 K V N 17
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and your friends engage in simulated and Music Processor; learning & Teach ihe Stellar Patrol, and your life is as te
sword Qghts, ship-to-ship dmOs and land ing, with titles like Bassoon Fingerings, dious as ever. Your assignment: travel lo
buttles iii your roles ;is English, French, I2-Bar Tunesmiih and Keyboard Blues; a nearby space station and pick up a
DuiL'ti i»r S]>;iTiisli buccaneers trying to Sequencing & Recording (titles include supply of trivial forms. What a bore! Un
seize fortunes and build reputations. Super Sequencer, Muse and Track til you find lhat your companion for
You must also sail your ship through Star); Music Printing (Music Writer ri4 the journey is the mischievous, playful
constantly changing weather conditions ami The Music Shop); Voice Librarians; Floyd. You can get Stationfall and again
and deal with the unique railing prop- Sound Libraries; and Programming meet Floyd on your C-64 for $34.95, In
cities of the barques, sloops, frigates and Aids. The book is printed on heavy tercom, 125 Cambridgepark Drive, Cam
galleons "f ilic era. And don't be sur slock, with many colorful illustrations bridge, MA 02140.
prised it your crew decides 10 mutiny. throughout The lttH7 edition is avail Check Reader Service number 109.
PiratesI is available for $39.95. able for $4.
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Abacus, a publisher of software and
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If you're interested in music, or just Sumbody at Infokom asked Floyd to user, has increased its customer suppon
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waul a copy of Coda, from VVenger Corp. You cum with Floyd on new adventure QuaniuniLink, a telecommunications
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Run and the Amiga and 128, both of which are continuing to sell no cost to me, they replaced it with a
at a good rate, an indication that they are by version that is quieter and updated to
Concerning the RUNning Rumina-
no means obsolete. We expect that people include more programs. I couldn't be
lions editorial in last May's RUN, I find
will continue (0 use them and that there will more pleased.
ii difficult to understand why you don'i
l>e plenty to say about them for a long time
include the Amiga in your coverage. I —James C. Mann
to come.
realize that [he ratio of 64/128 users to Muixan, ID
Amiga users is presently about 20 to 1, —Editors
but the Amiga is liable to become more
common. If you covered the Amiga now, Looking for Hints
you'd have an established base of Amiga I think the Learn To Walk Before You
Owners among your readers at that later
Marching to Gettysburg
RUN page in RUN, with its review of
time. In addition, those of us who've After 25 years of miniature and board Bask procedures for typing in program
been enjoying RUN all along bul are gaming, 1 decided I'll iry a computer listings, is written in a helpful way. Most
upgrading to the Amiga would have rea game—Gettysburg: The Turning Point- "how to" articles in magazines such as
son to continue retching your maga on my son's C-64.1 was quite pleased: it yours are too esoteric.
zine. All in all, you'd have more readers. captured my avid interest for one or two However, as one who isn't interested
—PETE HENDLEH hours (one or two turns) a day over a in typing in programs, I'd like to see a
LlLLlNGTOM, NC two-week period. different sort of article—one on hints
Finally, those magic words flashed for running programs that are already
I think RUN should cover the Amiga. across the screen: "The computer wishes on disk. For instance, only recently I
Let's face it, we all must grow with tech to withdraw. Do you wish to contin learned that L followed by shift/O can
nology. It RUN doesn't, I'm afraid it'll ue?" My wife told me to save the disk. be substituted for the word LOAD.
go the way of other magazines that have "It'll be the only lime you ever beat a
—William D. Robert
refused to keep up with the limes. computer," she said. Of course. I had
Lakeland, FL
given the computer command of the
Also, many of RUN's advertisers sell
Amiga software and hardware along Rebels, who 1 believe arc historically at
The type of information you're looking for
with their C-64 and C-128 products, and, a disadvantage.
is in the O64 and C-128 manuals. The more
of Course, AmigaWorld advertises in your Gettysburg is a well-thought-out game.
you use your computer and the manual, the
pages. How can you ignore the Amiga My next goal is to take command of the
more of it you'll find. RUNS Magic column
and run these ads at the same time? Rebs and win!
also includes handy short cutsfairly often, and
Last but not least, I don't think you're —Lawrence r. lenz you 'II cume across even more by talking with
being faithful to your readers, as you Pompton Plains, NJ other computerists.
maintain in lasl May's editorial. I started
—Editors
with a VIC-20, then progressed to a
C-64, and now I have a C-128 and an
Amiga. Unfortunately, I'm forced to buy Berkeley on the Ball
two different magazines — RUN and
Better Electronic
I'd like to say a few words about an
AmigaWarld— to keep up on them both. Expressions
outstanding company—Berkeley Soft-
Instead of being faithful to your readers, works. I was an early user of CEOS; so I've found that Solutions Unlimited's
you're letting them down just to sell Icon Factory makes using Broderbund's
early, in fact, that it wasn't yet available
more magazines. Print Shop and Unison World's Print-
in stores in my area, and 1 had to order
—Bernard K. Kotciikowski it through the mail. Master on my C-64 much more effective,
Andover, nj I'd been using the program for a little because it lets me move graphics be
tween ilie two programs. It also lets me
over a year when it stopped loading. I
The main reason we don't include the tried it on other (Mils, and it still alter the size of the graphics and make
Amiga in our coverage is sjmre. RUN is tmiy wouldn't hoot. I wrote to Berkeley and other revisions. I recommend their Bill
so big, and when tite Amiga tame along, the board Maker program, too.
told them how much I liked GKOS. that
decision was made to caver it in a separate I knew ihc warranty had long since ex —KOLMAN GUCKSBERG
magazine. Otherwise, RUN mould not be able pired and that I didn't expect them to GLENCOE, IL
to deal adequately with the C-64 and C-128, replace it, although I was returning the
thus becoming of limited value to everyone. disk in hopes that they would. Icon Factory and Billboard Maker got good
We feel we must do full justice to the 6-f Not only did they replace the disk at review in Software Gallery in last May's
u N ■ aucust
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Saves wear on disk drive serial ports. Places monitor at ideal viewing level and
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RUN. They're availablefor $39.95 eachfrom myC-128 and 1571 disk drive in prepar fact that I had returned die warranty
Solutions Unlimited, I'O Box 177, Oobbi ing my 1985 Federal return. The soft card about three weeks earlier. Needless
Ferry, NY 10522. ware was being distributed at that time to say, I prepared my 1985 tax return
—EDITORS by Arrays, Inc., under the name Conti the old-fashioned way—by hand.
nental Software. —David C. Coi;fin
1 got nodiingformy money. The main
Tax Advantage Update Old Bethpage, NY
pan of the program wouldn't load, and
Joseph Shaughnessy's articles in RUN 1 knew there was nothing wrong with my
Henry Hilton and Harry Koons, the au
have added immeasurably lo my under equipment, because all my other C-64 thors of The Tax Advantage, slated to us tluit
standing and enjoyment of Commodore programs worked fine. A telephone call theyfounded Double Eagle Software lo market
computing, Last April's "Taxing Your (not loll-free) to Arrays elicited little their program after their relationship with
Co mm odd re," in which he reviewed sev help. All that the individual I spoke with
Continental Software/Arrays, Inc. had been
eral tax preparation programs, was no could say was the program had been terminatedfor non-payment of royalties.
exception. thoroughly tested on a 1541 disk drive, Henry Hilton said Double Eagle would try
In thai article, Mr. Shaughnessy ad and if I could get my hands on one to assist anyone who's had trouble with a Tax
mitted to a slight prejudice toward a pro of those, it would probably work fine. Advantage package marketed by Continental
gram called The Tax Advantage from He also said that if I returned the origi Software/Arrays and hasn't gotten satisfaction
Double Eagle Software, because it's the nal disk to them, they would send me a from tliat firm, becaUSS lUat problems reflect
one he uses. In this instance, I must dis new one.
poorly, although erroneously, on Double Eagle.
agree with him. In early 1986, I pur I returned llie disk, along with a letter He pointed out, however, tlial QmtincntaU
chased a copy of The Tax Advantage detailing die problems 1 was having. 1 Arrays is really the responsible party for the
(Commodore version 86.02) to use with never received an answer, despite the 1985 tax year and earlier editions.
Mr. Hilton also mentioned that tlie program
Continental/Arrays is now marketing as Tlie
Tax Advantage II is not a version of the
Hilton/Koons program, and that in any case
the 1986 tax year version of Tax Advantage
A Powerful Wordprocessor IIfor the Com modore was never released.
RUN readers who've had an experience
®
for the Commodore 128 similar to Air. Coffin's can contact Double
Eagle at 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 875,
Santa Monica, CA 90403, plume 213-459-
9748 and they'll see what they can da.
Selected —Editors
. ji. for the 1987
-,-CES Software Letter Perfect
-Showcase I would like to ihank you for publish
— Award. ing the PrintRite 6-1 program by Bob
Kodadck in last May's issue. For a long
time, I've been looking for a program
that would produce true descenders on
From the author of Fontmasterll comes Fontmaster 128, my printer. PrintRite 64 is a real plus for
an enhanced version for the Commodore 128. This those of us who have a Commodore
powerful word processor with its many different print 1525, MPS-801 or MPS-803 printer. By
the way, it'll also work with the Word
styles (fonts), turns your dot matrix printer into a more
Writei' word processor.
effectual tool. Term papers, newsletters, and foreign
In addition to PrintRite f>4, I particu
languages are just a few of its many applications. larly enjoy the program in the "Hashing
Off the Dots" article by Joe Novak in
* Program disk with no protection - uses hardware key
your November 1986 issue. It's the best
* Supplement disk includes foreign language fonts Morse code program I've used.
* 56 Fonts ready to use —Wallace B. Garner
* Font editor/creator included Big Spring, tx
* On screen Font preview
* 80 column only
A Call to Readers
* Supports more than 110 printers
77* it f'"ge " your stage, So stand u/i and
This package will soon be available with a spell checker. say a fan words. lixtttul praise, air grievances
or offer hands-on advice and information.
Commodore 128 is a registered irademaik of Commodore Business Machines, Inc
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address. RUN reserves tlie right to edit letters
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artwork from one screen to the other. Place report generator...hard to beat..." Tom Bonlorri, Commodore Magazine
Ted Salamone. Commodore Magazine
text in four sizes anywhere in the
picture—three extra fonts Included:
English, 3-D and Tech. "Try Again" allows
you to undo mistakes. Draw solid or dashed
Old interests (high tech, low risk, income, etc.)
and monitored individually. And tho versatile
report generator lets you produce any kind
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boxes. Design fill patterns, fonts and can even update your portfolio automatically Give your
objects. Cadpak is the full-featured design using Dow Jones or Warner Computer
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previous item to save repetitious typing. ing routine drove my C.-Wiz-interfaccd
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Worth? saves the latest records to disk— printed formal turned out to be ill-de
liy Listing Your
a sensible precaution that prevents pow signed as well.
Resources to Disk er interruptions or other problems from With less than 101) total characters In
destroying hours of work. each entry, What's Our Worth? could uti
What's Our Worth- will search lize compressed type fonts to print each
Home inventories are a good idea:
througli all records on the data disk to record on a single line. Instead, the
Everybody should have records of flic
serial numbers nf their computer, au find those items that meet any desig printout places each field on a separate
dio/video, photo and in itiin equipment. nated criteria, display them on-screen or line, complete with title, and prints
An itemized list of fill your possessions print them. The program will also sort the records two abreast. This cumber
thai also includes [he value of each item your entire inventory, either by cost or some format allows only 'JO items to he
would be priceless in the event of a alphabetical order. I don't believe you printed on a single page. Also, alpha
catastrophic loss. would want to sort a large Inventory too betized records must be read in a zig-zag
What's Our World? is a home inven often, because it took me 18 minutes to pattern from left lo right as you con
tory program for people who want to complete a 1500-item sort. tinue down each page.
use their C-128 (o maintain an account What's Our Worth? conies with two While data entry is simple, the one-
of personal properties, but don't know utility programs. One is designed to lei minute disk delays after every ten items
anything about using database software. anyone who used the O(V1 version con- lend to slow you down. The search rou
Whin's Our Worth? is so easy to me vert his existing data disk to C-12H tine is also rather sluggish: It took over
thai unless you've never seen a com format, and the other is intended to pro eight minutes to make a single search of
puter before, you can leave the instruc vide you with that all-important security 1000 records, Most database programs
tion booklet tucked safely away. Simply blanket—a backup of your data disk. designate one line of each record as a
plug the security dongle into port two, This is an excellent idea; however, the key field and maintain it in RAM to
insert the disk and turn on your com instructions reveal that it requires you facilitate rapid searches. What's Our
puter. If you forget to pul the comput to swap disks six times, a process that Worth? relies exclusively on its relative
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Worth? sounds off and tells you to Needless to say, 1 took my chances with If you're a novice or someone who
re-boot. the original disk. doesn'i want to be bothered designing a
The first time you use What's Our The problems with What's Our database, What's Our Worth? might be
Worth?, you'll be prompted to adjust Worth? stem from the very thing that just the thing to satisfy that need to "do
the screen colors lo your liking. Your makes this program attractive in the first something productive" with your com-1
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pmer. (Adita Enterprises, Inc., 116 Her- simplifies scheduling break-ins, which methodology and nerves of slecl need
mondsty Way N. W,, (Jtlgary, Alberta, Canada yield clues vital to the investigation. To ed to play chess. Add to this the re-
T3KlV4.C-128J$29.9S;G64f$24.95;dem search a room, however, you must first payability of traditional wHr games and
$3, applied to purchase price.) display the necessary sleuthing savvy by an excellent implementation of artifi
—John Premack correctly answering a multiple-choice cial intelligence, and you'll be prepared
Lexington. MA question on detective trivia. Miss it and to miss a few meals, burn a little mid
the break-in fails, closing die room for night oil, or toss this game down in utter
several critical minutes of game time be desperation.
Killed Until Dead _ b + fore you can try again. A rather ugly rock planetoid called
Success hinges on the information
Good Evening; Zeugma IV, which until recently was an
needed to crack a suspect's confident outpost for every conceivable pleasure
Tonight's Story Is facade during an inquisition. The feet known to man. is the setting for Tracker.
that your interrogation is conducted by At tli is outpost, known as Centrepoint
About a Murder phone presents no difficulties, because Complex, robotic police vehicles called
you can see the subject at all times. The Cycloids are dispatched to keep the
The setting is the venerable Gar- closer a question comes to unearthing peace. These laser-armed ziasties were
goyle Motel, meeting place of Agatha really meaty clues, the more flustered is deemed too irrational and loo unsafe
Maypole. Sidney Meanstrcei and three liis or her facial expression. Remember, to patrol crime-free worlds, so they
more of [he world's top mystery writers. no matter how much these characters were sent to maintain the hundreds of
Dubbed (lie "Midnighi Murder Club," loath one another, all live are deter trackways that are on Centrepoint.
mined to make a fool of the world's Things have gone seriously wrong
greatest detective! on Zeugma TV: An evil force has taken
Finally, to eliminate the need for la- over the computer-controlled Cycloids.
borious note-taking, the game supplies The inhabitants of the nearby planet
extensive recording and crime-busting Calibos have requested your help, and
computer facilities, All break-in, phone you have answered their call. Hastily
conversation and surveillance data is gathering together a group of bandits
not only saved, hul available for insiam and star pilots known as the Tactical Re
retrieval and can even be sorted under mote Assault Corps—Trackers—you are
several categories. off to destroy the communications cen
Grouped according to four levels of ter of Centrepoint.
challenge—from elementary through Easier said than done. The Centre-
super-sleuth—each scenario is a sepa point trackway complex is made up of
rate game, good For an hour or more of
very entertaining play. Unfortunately,
Phone, files, notes, tapes: Which five of the 21 listed cases wouldn't load
are the helpful cluaa in Killed from tny original copy. I obtained a
Until Dead? second copy from the vendor, fount!
exactly the same problem, and have no
they're gathered to present a most un tified Accolade. [Editor's note: Accord
usual series of murderous little br;iin ing CO Accolade's public relations firm,
twisters. In each of some 21 scenarios, the first batch 01 software that went
your challenge—as Hercule Holmes, out to reviewers was defective. Howev
tech-wise descendant of you know-who!— er, HUN was assured that the bug has
is to prevent a murder thai is scheduled been fixed in all copies going out to
for midnight. consumers.]
Beginning on that fateful morning, Despite diis technical problem, I en
you know only that both killer and vic joyed the good graphics, clever innova
tim are among the five writers. To suc tions and smooth, fast-moving action Use the Long Range Scanner to view
ceed, you must identify the intended of Killed Until Dead. (Accolade, 20863 the complete map in Tracker.
victim, weapon, location, murderer and Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. CA 95014,
motive before the clock sirikes 12. Pid C-64/$29.95.) 22 interconnected sectors split into
dle around, and the MMC loses a mem three main rings—Central, Inner anil
—Jeff hurlburt
ber; err on any of the five items in your Outer. You must successfully progress
Houston, tx
accusation, and you are the one Killed through all the other sectors to reach
Until Dead! the center ring.
Fortunately, your office in the hotel is Tracker a Your first task is to capture a sector,
well stocked with [be latest in high-tech which will make i< a safe zone against
Your Cliallenge: marauding Cycloids, This involves de
surveillance and information-retrieval
gadgetry. Pressing a buiion tan call up stroying the communication center of
Destroy or
hint-packed dossiers, initiate a phone diat sector. By careful use of indepen
call or display the goings-on at any im Be Destroyed dently controlled Skimmers, you can
portant location, including the suspects' slowly work toward Centrepoint.
rooms. Tracker is a paradox as far as strategy Take heed: The Cycloids won't stand
Aside from letting you eavesdrop on games go. It incorporates some of the idly by in your path. They'll do their best
juicy conversations, this la.st feature also aspects of flight simulation with the to catch you in the trackways and blow
your Skimmers into atoms. Inkwell Systems' Graphics Integrator changing it to Doodle! format and then
Energy and damage levels musi be 2 provides a solution to this problem to a GKOS photo scrap.
carefully watched. Cycloids are deadly !>y converting graphics from one formal When I tried to read a GEOS disk that
adversaries, and one encounter can to another. This program can change a didn't contain a photo scrap. I received
leave shield strength perilously low. high-resolution picture, like one from a "DISK ERROR 0 0 0" message. Trans
Bumping into the side of a trackway ;ilso Fiexidraw, so that it can be read by lation: "No photo scrap on disk"; I
drains a player's shield level, and crash a multicolor graphics program like thought my disk had been shredded!
ing into a node wall destroys Skimmers KoalaPad. Graphics Integrator 2 also This error isn't mentioned anywhere in
instantly. transforms pictures Into data files thai the manual. After I caught my breath
I was impressed with the level of in are printable by PaperClip and similar
telligence of the Cycloids. Up to 32 Cy word processors. As an added bonus,
cloids can be in the trackways at any Graphics Integrator 2 not only prints
given time. The nearer a Skimmer gets your pictures, but it also contains a slide
to Centrepoint, the more clever and show program that can display your
ruthless your opponents become. handiwork.
The graphics, while not outstand It's hard to find a graphic you can't
ing, are more than adequate to set the convert, because Graphics Integrator '1
stage for Tracker. Map representation covers most of the popular programs:
and first-person, scrolling views are CEOS, Doodle!, KoalaPad, Computer-
nicely done. The sount! Ironi within the Eyes, Newsroom, The Print Shop, Print-
trackways as you skim above the narrow Master, CADPAK 04, Super Sketch,
alleys conveys a feeling ofioncliness and Animation Station, Blazing Paddles,
desperation that is, at times, frightening. Fiexidraw and Billboard Maker.
Documentation is very good, giving Converting your graphics is easy, be
you more than enough to gel into (he cause the procedure is menu driven. You A map from Graphics Gallsrla
game without a lot of memorization. A select options with the keyboard or Flex- in Docidln! format, modified
key-command summary card and a short idraw liglitjicu. First, you choose the In gooPnint and pasted into a
novel are also included. format of the original picture—high res geaWrite document.
Succeeding at Tracker takes patience, olution, multicolor or clip art graph
guts and the ability to exploit occasional ic. Graphics Integrator 2 then shows and inserted the proper disk, the con
holes in the Cycloid's defense. At the you a list of graphics on your disk, and version worked well, and I was able to
end of each game, a running tally tells the picture you choose appears on the load my GEOS artwork into Doodle!.
you how well you've done throughout screen. After you convert the GEOS graphic to
the course of play. Each game is so to Once you've decided on your graphic, Doodle!, it's easy to turn it into some
tally different in strategy from the last you can save it in the same format for a thing else.
that your ratings—if you're like me— different program or change it into a With its External Print feature, the
will be disgustingly low for many games different format. If you're turning a pic Graphics Integrator 2's graphics file cre
to come. However, Tracker is still a ture into Print Shop or Newsroom for ator lets you produce a printing file that
worthwhile investment. (Firebird, Inc., PO mat, you have to crop the part of the can be used by PaperClip and other
Box 49, Ramsey, NJ 07446. C-64/$39.95.) picture you want to convert. Graphics word processors. This simply means that
—John V. Ryan Integrator 2 can save the convened the file is sent directly to the printer
APO, NY graphic under another name, leaving without being read or interpreted by the
your original file intact. word processor.
I had no problem with (he conversion: The graphics file has to be in Doodle!
Graphics I switched my Print Shop graphics Into or Fiexidraw format before converting.
Doodlel format and back again. When Depending on the type of printer you
Integrator 2 b convening from Print Shop to Doodle!, have, you can print one or two pictures
my art wasn't distorted; however, I did side by side. You can crop your graphic
Mix and Match
notice some distortion when changing vertically to ihe size you want. Graphics
As You Cut and Paste from Doodle! io Print Shop, This is a Integrator 2 tells you how many text
problem with changing resolutions rath lines it needs. In your PaperClip docu
While You Link and Insert er than with the software itself. If you ment, you adjust the page length by the
try to convert a high resolution picture number of lines for that graphic and
Have you ever wanted to load your into multicolor, the graphic is slightly type in the external print command
friend's Fiexidraw pictures in your Doo elongated. Changing a color picture where you want it to appear.
dle! program? Use your Doodle! art into Print Shop or Newsroom format I wasn't completely satisfied widi diis
work in geoPaint? Manipulate (he vast .strips out the color and requires touch- feature. Instead of getting menus, you
treasury of Print Shop and Newsroom ups, which is why Inkwell Systems rec gel lext prompts, but you can't use your
clip art into your Koalal'ad pictures? ommends that you don't do it. lightpen. 1 also noticed some printing
Add an illustration to a Paperclip Graphics can be changed into GEOS problems here in early versions of the
document? format, loo, but you can't convert a program.
The problem with Commodore geoPaint file directly into another for I was pleased with Graphics Integrator
graphics programs is that they use dif mat. You cut or copy a portion of the 2's printing and slide show features.
ferent file formats and resolutions. You graphic into a photo scrap and then With its wide variety of dot matrix, ink-
can'i load a picture from one program convert it into Doodle!. Transform jet, black-and-white or color printers.
into another. ing another graphic to geoPaint means Continued on p. 32.
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From p. 29. ulations I've seen, but Gunship's so- can even choose no-risk training duly
Graphics Integrator 2 can print any phisticated targeting system, instru in the U.S.
graphic If you've been frustrated by mentation and responsive controls You elect to lly a regular, volunteer
your graphics program's lack of printer make it (he kind of aircraft you'll feel or hazardous duly mission. You choose
drivers, Graphics Integrator 2 can give compelled to take up for "just one more realistic or easy flight performances,
you the printed copy you always warned. mission." Gunship is based on the AH- landings and weather conditions. Fi
The slide show- is a must for user's 64A Apache, a heavily armored attack nally, you decide whether you'll face
groups, small businesses, or anyone who helicopter, often referred to as a fly first-, second- or third-line enemies. Per
wants to show off artwork or make a ing tank. haps the most exciting thing about (Inn-
presentation. It uses a number of special Everything about the program looks ship is that even when all factors arc
effects and works with one or two 154! and feels exactly as you'd expect. As sci the same, no two missions are alike.
or compatible disk drives. Imagine what you cruise toward the enemy, yourcock- No matter what your orders, fulfil I ing
ii could do with a hard disk! hotii your primary and secondary mis
The real value of Graphics Integrator sions and returning to your home base
2 is seen in converting graphics from in one piece earns you a promotion. If
one format to another. You'll find this yovi do exceptionally well, you're even
especially useful with clip art collections awarded a medal or campaign ribbon.
like Inkwell Systems' own Graphics Unlike other simulations that only
Galleria, One collection, "Maps of the give you a place on the "high scores
World," includes state and internation board," Gunlhip lets you create a pilot
al maps and weather symbols. "Clip and chart his progress from a sergeant
Art Potpourri" contains miscellaneous in flight school up through the ranks
sports, music, computer and other sym to colonel—if he lives long enough!
bols. These art pieces come in Flexldraw Gunship is sufficiently challenging to
or Doodle! format, bui with Graphics keep most fighter pilots airborne until
Integrator 2, you dan convert them to MicroProse releases its next blockbllS-
o then. Jbr example, 1 tooksmapoj New ter. (Microt'roif, 120 LahefrontDrive, Hunt
England from (lie "Maps of the World" A viaw from the cockpit bb you pilot Valley, MI) 21030. G64&34.9S.)
Doodle! file, converted ii to a GEOS your Gunship. —Boii GUERBA
photo scrap with Graphics Integrator 2, CHARI.F.STOWN, MA
modified it with geoPaint and pasted it pit instrumentation accurately gauges
into my geoWrite 2.0 document. every aspect of the flight. The view from
Graphics Integrator 2's paphics con the pilot's seat shows hills, bases and
version feature makes it a worthwhile ground forces growing smoothly from The Official America's
program by Itself, and ihe printing and small specks on the horizon into rea
slide show functions make il even more sonably detailed shapes as you pass Cup Simulation b+
attractive. However, it needs more un overhead. When you fire your radar-
You Won't Need
derstandable error messages, a consis guided, air-to-ground missiles, or fold
tent user interface and some quirks ing-fin rockets, the red exhaust flash Dramamine on This
ironed out in the PaperClip printing blasts away wilh a hiss and settles into
files. (Inkwell System*. I'O Box 85152 a low flight path to the target, where it Yacht, Matey!
MI12<J0, San Diego, CA 92138. Graphics In explodes with a distant rumble. All (he
tegrator 2 for the C-6-I/S29.95;four disks of while, the unseen rotor blades beat au- For more than a century, the Ameri
Graphics Gaileria dip art, $2-1.95 each.) dibly above you. ca's Cup was a trophy that only coil'
Although the operating manual de cerned folks wilh saltwater in their
—MATTHEW Stern
tails everything from weaponry and tac veins. But three years ago, when Dennis
Irvine, CA
tics to flying techniques and advanced Connor became the first American skip
maneuvers, beginners needn't feel over per to lose yachting's most prestigious
whelmed by the complexity of the sim award, tiic battle between a United
GUNSHIP A + ulation. All you need to know to get States defender and an Australian chal
airborne and to use the weapons and lenger captured the attention of two
Here You Go, Into the defensive countermcasures is covered continents.
in two short tutorials. In addition, the The folks "down under" were so smit
Wild Blue Yonder, Flying High
controls are logically arranged along ten by the whole affair that they even
Into the Sun the perimeter of the keyboard, and a created a computer simulation of the
template makes finding the right key a competition. This program gives would-
For everyone who has eagerly awaited snap. be sailors a chance to suck in the
the arrival of Gnnship since it was first Gunship is a perfect simulation for salt air without leaving the comfort ol
announced two years ago, I'll answer novices and aerial combal veterans their Commodore keyboards. Be fore
the mosi important question first: Yes, alike, because virtually every parameter warned, however, that it's not really de
it was worth the wait! of the missions you lly can be custom signed for landlubbiug gamers; it's a
In fact, Gunship may be the best sim ized to your preferences and experi simulation that lakes itself seriously.
ulation of any type ever created for the ence level. For example, you select the A glance ai the manual makes il clear
C-64, Not only are the sound effects, part of the world where you'll fly—Cen thai the creators don't take their sailing
graphics and animation as good as tral America, Southeast Asia, Western lightly: It provides as much informal ion
those on any other aerial couibai sim Europe or the Middle East. New pilots on 12-meter yacht racing and the Ami'i ■ I
32 K V N ■ AUC5UST l'JB7
Get Your Moneys Worth
ica's Cup series as ii does on the op The three renowned links are Cy
eration of the program. Those things press Creek, one of the longest; Doral
are crucial to your enjoyment <>l this Country Club, where water hazards
program, because even engaging in its abound; and St. Andrews, noted for its
simplest version requires you to know double greens and narrow fairways.
something about sailing—if you don't The Gauntlet Country Club exists
want to end up dead in the water! only in the minds of Access program
I chose to test the waters by compet From its glossy, well-illustrated and mers. When Jack Nicklaus has night
ing against the computer, bu! you can highly informative manual to its handy mares, this must be what the Golden
opt to battle a human swabby aa well. command summary card, The Offi Hear sees in his mind's eye. Sand traps
You set sail on a course that simulates cial America's Cup Sailing Simulation yawn in unexpected places, and streams
the 24.3-mile America's Cup race, and shouts anchors aweigh. and lakes border fairways so narrow
you compete under International Yacht Ihe graphics aren't dazzling, but that golf carts surely must travel them
Racing Union Blue Book rules. they're adequate for the task at hand, single file.
If that doesn't make you seasick, and all the control functions operate The accompanying program booklet
maybe the rigors of command will. The smoothly, It certainly appears that this advises the golfer to develop the timing
most challenging Command mode for program captures the essence of 12- needed by warming up on the driving
the novice is Set Sail, which requires meter yacht racing as well as anyone range before playing each course. Heed
you to select the type and weight of has a right to expect a computer pro that recommendation, and be sure to
your yacht's headsail. Your decision gram to do. master the other three courses before
should be based on the wind strength However, my earlier warning bears teeing up to run the Gauntlet.
and direction, for that determines how repealing: If your greatest interest in I found the top view feature ex
quickly your yacht moves through ihe the water is the bubbles in your bath, tremely handy. Each hole is loaded sep
water. Good sailors will also change it's highly unlikely this program is for arately from disk, and hash marks every
headsails often during a race, and exich you. Stick to the rubber ducky and leave 50 yards along the fairway make it easy
time you do, you'll need to enter the this sailing simulation to someone with to estimate distances.
Winching mode. both oars in the water. (Electronic Arts, The crealc-your-own course feature
After learning how to select and hoist 1820 Gatnuay Drive, San Mateo, CA 9440-1. is nice, too. You can select any of the
your sails, steering your yacht seems like C-6-t/$24.9i.) 72 available holes for your course, but
a breeze. In the Helmsman mode, push unfortunately, it doesn't provide for
—Scott Wasser
ing your joystick to the port or star major editing changes like the slope of
Wilkes-Barre, PA
board side turns your yacht 45 degrees. the green or sandtrap placement. The
Tlie program contains two informa designer can, however, change ihe style
of trees, thereby substantially altering
tion-packed viewing screens. The main World Class
screen provides a view from just above n hole by replacing tall oaks with
the top of your mast and shows both Leader Board . ground-hugging foliage and making it
your yachl and the competition. If one more difficult to return a siray ball io
Move Over, Jack and Arnie; the fairway.
of you gets loo far ahead to remain in
the picture, [he screen automatically I have one complaint about this pro
We're Coming Through
splits to show both yachis in their re gram. Access still clings to the dongle
spective positions. With Our C-64! thai uses ihe cassette port for copypro
Jabbing your fire-button at any time tection. Ihis has both good and bad
while you're in the Helmsman mode It's been interesting to watch the points. The company permits unlimited
changes the screen into an overhead evolution of this golf simulation game backup using the device and even en
view of the entire race course. You'll from Access Software. It began with courages that praciice by including a
also gel die overview automatically Leadi-i Board, which, though advanced backup disk program. Unfortunately,
every 30 seconds or so, which is partic at the time, is now more akin to mini other Access games and products like
ularly useful if you want to sec where ature golf. Next came The Executive, Xctcc's Fontmaster 128 use dongles. If
you are in relation to the competition. an Improved Leader Board that offered you have many of these, it becomes
In addition, it helps you stay on course two new 18-hole courses, trees, roughs difficult lo keep track of which goes
in shifting wind conditions. and sand traps. with what. A misplaced dongle when
With either view, an indicator panel The latest version, World Class trad you're ready lo tee off becomes as an
for each boat is visible at the bottom er Board, is ready for the pro tour. This noying as a slow foursome that won't
corners of the screen, telling you the bag is so full of goodies, it would take let anyone play through.
wind speed and direction, boat speed two caddies to carry it. Features include Access's thoughtful touch to a well-
and direction, direction of the next a driving range; practice putting green; designed program is the scorecard,
buoy, current leg of the race and trees; traps; water; top views of each complete with signature lines fur the
the elapsed time. A changing message hole ihowing the position of balls in player, a witness and the caddy to sign.
screen Indicates how far ahead the lead play; replicas of three famous courses, Come Id think of it, it tnust've been the
boat is and lists any penalties. plus a fourth designed to he ihe ulti caddy's terrible advice dial caused me
At the end of a race, you have three mate test; the ability to pick holes and lo triple bogie on the fifth hole. (Access
options: You can start a new race, begin arrange and store them on disk to make Software, #A 2561 South 1560 West, Woods
a new seven-race series or review data your own course; an editor to select Cross, UT 84087. O64/$39.95.)
from the previous race. tree types; a printed score card at the
The attention to detail ihc creators end of the round; and the same smooth- —LONNiE BKOWN
invested in this program is amazing. swinging golfer with the perfect form. Lakeland, FL ■
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You access moat of Word Writer*! edit ing (unc program is capable of storing on one disk.
tions by pressing either the control key or the Each Personal Choice program has its own
Commodore key combined with ;i key from tlie advantages and, in some cases, disadvantages.
top row of the keyboard. Instead of on-screen The word processor, Writer's Choice, is relatively
help, Time works has provided keyboard overlays easy to learn and features powerful functions,
that list the specific functions of both the regular such as search and replace, test justification and
and function keys. centering, special typefaces, page numbering
Since this program offers nearly every feature and block functions. It also comes complete with
of some of the C-12H word processors, such as a 50,000-WOrd spelling checker that you can sup
Fleet System 4, it makes the main difference plement with your own dictionary, and it displays
between C-li'i and CM28 word processing the a graphic preview of what your document will
speed with which tasks can be accomplished. Tor look like before you print it. Writer's Choice also
example, using Word Writer 3 to spell-check the deserves high marks for its use of color to dif-
Gettysburg Address (approximately 270 words)
took me over seven minutes, while Fleet System
4 checked the same document in less than one
minute. Similarly, when I used the thesaurus disks
Word processing
of both systems to find1 synonyms for the word
"group," Word Writer look 55 seconds to com
with Word Writer
plete the search, while Fleet System took only
five. It's interesting to note, however, (hat Word
3 from Timeworks.
Writer found 67 synonyms, compared with only
40 for Fleet System 4, though Fleet System's
synonyms are presented in a more clearly or
ganized formal.
Surprisingly, an outline mode is a feature
found in few word processing systems for either
the C-64 or C-128, so this is a definite plus for
Word Writer 3. After entering the outline mode,
you just tab to one of five outline levels, press
Commodore/I to index the level and then cuter
a main topic, subtopic, heading, subheading, and
so forth. The computer labels main topics with
Roman numerals, subtopics with uppercase let-
Marking Mrittr
(crs and subsequent levels with arable numerals Edit screen from
and lowercase letters. As you work on your out
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Font master Fleet Trio Pocket Choice Word Working
128 System 4 128 2 Scries Collection Writer 3 Scries
Word Wrap N Y Y Y Y Y Y
Spell checker N Y N Y Y Y Y
Thesaurus N Y N N N Y N
Text Justification V Y Y Y Y Y Y
Copy Protection N1 Y Y Y Y N N
Upgrade Policy Y Y Y Y N Y Y
Dictionary N Y N Y Y Y Y
Ability to Insert
Graphics Y N N Y N N N
Into Text
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Search 8c replace Y Y Y Y
Move Y Y Y Y
Copy Y Y Y Y
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Spreadsheet/Da tabasc Y
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DFClone
Now you can easily organize files
made urith Datajile 3.6.
ByMIKEKONSHAK
pic, search fields 2, 3 and 4 to find all Field 2 is old #4, and Field 3 covers old Press N if you want to create a new
the boys in grades 5 and (i who got A fields 5, 6 and 7. After defining the structure with some of the fields from
(5) on iheir last lest Here's the search structure, you can transfer all ihe rec the Miiil List source file. For example,
input for this case: ords or just those found to have certain let's use the following format to create
Search Data
data in common. Not every field moves a special file for sending form letters
to the new file, but you can use the to any part of the world:
Field Operator (Criteria) Continue?
fields in the old file to search for the
2 (Sex) M AND # Field Name Content Length
records you need.
3 (Grade) > 4 AND 1 NAME Flnt, Last 32
■1 Scare) 5 END The Cloning Procedure
2 STREETBOX Street or Box 32
Type in Listing 1, using 64 Pcrfeci 3 CITYSTATF. Ciiy, State. Zip 32
The search input for finding all the Typist, and save it to disk. Next, type 4 COUNTRY Country 16
third-grade girls whose last names begin in Listing 2 and save it to disk. Listing
The new file includes most of the Mail
with K-R is: 2 lets you copy DOS 5.1 from your 1541
List fields, plus the addressee's country.
or 1571 Test Demo disk onlo your
Search Data Now that you've defined the new file
DFClone disk. Then run Listing 1, and,
Field Operator (Criteria) Continue? structure, examine the original screen
after some Introductory material, this
prompt will appear:
again. (Remember, you pressed N.)
1 (Name) > J AND
[ (Name] < S AND FIELD NAME(LENGTH) FOR MAIL LIST
PRESS CONTINUE, $ DIRECTORY OR
) [Grade] 3 END QUIT 1 LAST 15 5 CITY 23
DFClone can divide up a file that ex Pressing the S key displays the disk
2 FIRST 10 6 STATE 2
ceeds memory capacity. For example, directory, Q quits the program and C
•i CODE 5 7 ZIP 5
#FMd # Field If you press Y, DFClone accepts die ENTER FIELDS TO BE CLONED INTO
structure of this file as the structure for NEW FILE AS PROMPTED. ENTER 0 TO
I LAST (Name) 1 NAME
the new file as well. The program then LEAVE NEW FIELD EMPTY.
■1 FIRST (Name) 2 STREETBOX
advances to a screen that says TRANS
3 CODE 3 CITYSTATF. NEW FIELD I NAME
FER RECORD DATA TO NEW FILF..
■I STREETBOX OLD FIELD 1 ? 'J <reiurn> etc.
You can choose to move all records or
!> CITY a? l
to find just certain ones to move. I'll
(i STATE 3?0
elaborate on this option later.
7 ZIP
If you press F., the prompt you en NEW FIELD 2 STREETBOX
HPHONE
countered al ihe beginning of the pro OLD FIELD I ? 4
In the new structure. Field 1 contains gram reappears, giving you a chance to a?o
old fields '2 and 1 (first and last name), change your source file or quit. 3?0
4H M U N ■ AUGUS1 1087
Accomplish more.. .in less time
with the power and versatility of
the ReRUN Disk
NEW FIELD 3 C1TYSTATE cess starts, with the following screen: Find parameter that's used in other
OLD FIELD 1 ? 5
Datafile 3.6 programs, and it transfers
TRANSFER RECORD DATA TO NEW
all records in which the field you've
FILE
3?7 specified begins with the characters
NEW FIELD 4 COUNTRY CLONE ALL THE RECORDS FROM you've specified. For instance, if the
OLD FIFJ.D 1 ■ fl MAIL LIST characters arc SM-I-T-H, all records be
2?0 FIND RECORDS WITH COMMON DATA ginning with SMITH will be moved.
3? 0 FJtlT As I mentioned earlier, DFClone can
divide a file full of records into several
Noie that, to leave the record field PRESS THE APPROPRIATE KEY
smaller files. If you have two or more
blank, you must filter Os for the new Pressing K sends you back to the be files filled with data, you can even divide
fields.
ginning of the cloning process, A trans each into smaller files, then sort all the
Once you've entered all the data as fers every record in the Mail List file smaller files together.
shown, specifying which fields are to be into the new file and F moves to the When you're working with DFClone,
combined and their proper placement, search routines, so you can choose field, make sure the number of records in
the program will ask: data or search criteria and operators. your new file doesn't exceed the num
IS THIS THF. INTENDED CLONE? Y N If you press F, the program presents ber of possible records in your original
a breakdown of the old file Structure file structure. Also keep in mind dial
NEW FILE OLD RLE
and prompts you for the first search DFClone uses arrays and memory sim
1 NAME ■ [FIRST] [LAST]
Held. Then a sequence of prompts ap ilar to those that Datafile 3.6 uses, so
2 STREETBOX -[STREETBOX]
pears, asking specifically what data yon must be careful in cloning merged
3 CITYSTATE = [C1TV] [STATE] [ZIP]
you're looking for. Naturally, you may files. You couid get an Out of Memory
4 COUNTRY
have to experiment somewhat to get the
If everything's all right, press Y to results you want.
continue. If there's an error, press N. The only logical operator that might Mike Konshak is the author ofthe poivrrjtil
When you press Y, the transferring pro confuse you is ??. It represents the same and popular DalafiU series of programs.
)ES {CTRL 9)(CTRL 2)N{COMD 370 G0TO355 :REM*45 487 PRINT"{SHFT CLRHCOHD 6)AVA
6HCTRL 0)0 [CTRL 9){CTRL 2 375 REM--CLONE FIELDS :REM*236 ILABLE RECORD FILES ARE:(CT
)E(CDMD 6HCTRL 0)XIT{CTRL 380 GOSUB160:PRINT"{COMD 6)(CRS HL 8){CRSR DfJ)":@"$0:DF]»"
B)" :REM'80 R DN] UP TO THREE OF THE OL :REM'58
225 GOSU320:IFAS="Y"THEN24S D FIELDS MAY BE" :REM*23 490 PRINT"(CRSR DN)(COMD 6JPRES
:KEM»6 9 385 PRINT" COMBINED INTO ONE OF S (CTRL 9){CTRL 2)RETURN(CT
230 IFA$="N"THEN255 :REM*158 THE NEW FIELDS." :REM*176 RL 0){COMD 6) WITHOUT AN EN
235 IFA$="E"THEN130 :REM*185 390 PRINT"(CRSR DN} ENTER FIELD TRY TO EXIT" :REM*125
240 G0TO22S :HEM*114 S TO BE CLONED INTO NEW" 495 INPUT"{CRSR DN) NAME OF DAT
245 F0=F:FORI=1TOF:F0$(I)=F$(I) :REM*147 AFILE {CTRL 8)";NFI:IFNF$="
:L0%(I)=L%fI):ML(1,1)»I:NBX 395 PRINT" FILE AS PROMPTED. EN "T1IEN130 :REM*122
TI:GOTO785 :REM*89 TER (CTRL 9){CTRL 2)0(COMD 500 OPEN15,8,15:OPEN5,8,5,"0:DF
250 REM--CREATE NEW FILE 6}(CTRL 0) TO LEAVE" ] "♦NFI-t",S,R":GOSUB35:IFET
:REM*206 :REK*ia0 =8THEN130 :REM*245
255 GOSUB160:PRINT"{COMD 6}{CRS 400 PRINT" NEW FIELD EMPTY.{CRS 505 IFEN=6 2THENGOSUB4 0:GOTO130
R DN) NUMBER OF FIELDS PER R DN)" :REM*91 :REM*5 4
RECORD(CTRL 8)?"F0 :REM«107 405 FORI=1TOF0:FORJ=1TQ3 510 INPUTfl5,R,F,X:NR=R:GOSUB35:
260 PRINT"(CRSR UP)"TAB(28 I;:IN :REM*152 IFET=8THEN130 :REM*175
PUTF0:IFF0=0THEN130:REM«235 410 PRINT" (CTRL 9){C0MD 61NEW 515 DIM K%{Rt1),F$(F+1,
265 FORI-1TOF0:PRINT"(CRSR DN) FIELD{CTRL 0){CTRL 8)"I;TAB ,RECS|H*1,F+1),F05(31
(COMD 6)(CTRL 9)FIELD#{CTRL (t5)F0$( I)"{10 SPACEsHCRER 31),ML{31,4),RC$(31)
8}"I :REM«152 DN)" :HEM*3 :REM*125
270 PRINT" ICOMD 6)(CTRL 9)TITL 415 F0RJ=1T03:PRINT" {COMD 6}(C 520 FORN=1TOF:INPUT05,FS(N),L%{
E(CTRL 0)(3 SPACES}{CTRL 8} TRL 9)0LD FIELD{CTRL 0)(CTR N):NEXTN:G0SUB3 5:IFET=8THEN
? 'rF0$(I>"(13 SPACES}" L 8)"J;TAB(12)"? 0(2 CRSR L 130 :REM*230
:REM*155 Fs)"ML(I,J)"(2 SPACES)" 535 F0RI=1T0X:PRINT"{CRSR DN) R
275 PRINT" (COMD GJfCTRL 9)LENG :REM«172 EADING RECORD #";I;"(2 CRSR
Til (CTRL 0}(2 SPACES) (CTRL 8 420 I'RINT"(CRSR UP) "TAB( 5 3 ); : IN UPs)" :REM*177
)?"I,0%(I)"(CRSR LF){6 SPACE PUTML(I,J) :REM*127 530 FORN = 1TOF:INPUTS 5,RECS(I,N)
s)" :REM*192 ■125 PRINT"(2 CRSR UPs ) " : NEXTJ: P :NEXTN:NEXTI:PRINT:GOSUB35:
280 PRINT"(2 CRSR UPs ) "TAEJ< 9 ); : RINT"{3 CRSR UPs)":NEXTI IFET=8THEN130 :REM*196
INPUTF0$(I) :REM*29 :REM*72 535 CLOSE5:CLOSE15:GOTO215
285 PRINTTABO) ;:INPUTL0%(I):IF 430 PRINT"(SHFT CLR) {COMD 6}{C :REM*215
L0%(I)=0THEN215 :REH*232 TRL 9}IS THIS THE INTENDED 540 REM--SAVE CLONED FILE
290 PRINT"(5 CRSR UPs)":NEXTI CLONE?(CTRL 0) {CTRL 9)(CTR :REM*176
:REM*121 L 2)Y(CTRL 0] {CTRL 9)N(CTR 545 CRS^CUR$(13):PRINT"(C0MD 6)
295 REM--CALCULATE H RECORDS L 0)(CRSR DN((COMD 6)" (SIIFT CLR) INSERT THE DISK
:REM*212 :REM*169 TO RECEIVE THE FILE."
300 M(1)=29293:M(2)=60000:C=0 435 PRINT" {CTRL 9)(C0MD 6)NEW :REM*13
:REM*187 FILE14 SPACEsHCTRL 0}{4 SP 550 PRINT" ENTER NAME OF {CTRL
305 C=C+1:IFC=3THEN335 :REM*134 ACEs)(CTRL 9)0LD FILE{13 SP 8)NEW(COMD 6) CLONED FILE T
310 RL=0:FORJ=0TOF0 :REM*99 ACES)(CTRL 0) (CRSR D.N}" 0 BE" :REM*122
315 RL=RL+L0%(J) :REM*20 :REM*88 555 PRINT" SAVED (12 CHARACTERS
320 NEXTJ :REM*157 440 FORI=1TOF0:PRINT"(CTRL 2}"I MAX). IF THE OLD" ;REM*197
325 RL=RLt3*(F0tl)+5 :REM*128 "{CTRL 8)"F0$(I)TAB(12)"{CO 560 PRINT" FILE NAME IS CHOSEN,
330 NR(C)sINT{(M(C)-l2*(F0 + 1 )-2 MD 6)={C0MD 6)";:FORJ=1T03 THE OLD FILE" :REM*20f)
100)/RL):GOTO305 :REM*247 :REM*75 5(55 PRINT" WILL BE RENAMED WITH
335 PRINT"{COMD 6}(SHFT CLR}{CR 4 45IFML( I,J)O0TI!ENPRINT"(CTRL (CTRL 8)1OLD.{2 CRSR DNs)"
SR DN) YOUR SELECTIONS WILL 8)(CTRL 9)"FS(ML(I,J))"{CT :REM*133
ALLOW:(CRSR DN){CTRL 8}" RL 0) ";:NEXTJ :REM*e 570 PRINT"{2 SPACEs)";FF$:INPUT
:REM*116 450 PRINT:NEXTI :RSM*77 "(CRSR UP)"jFF$:IFFF$=""THE
340 PRINTNR(1)"{COMD 61REC0RDS 455 GOSUB20:IFAS="N"THEN380 N215 :REM"192
IN A C-64 COMPUTER(CTRL 8)" :REM*16 575 OPEN!5,8,15:PRINT#15,"S0:DF
:REM*177 460 IFA$="Y"THEN78S :REM*53 1 "+LEFT$(FF$,B)t";OLD"
345 PRINTNR(2I"(COMD 6JREC0RDS 465 GOTO455 :REM*148 :REM«33
IN A C-128 COMPUTER" 470 REM--OPEN FILE - READ RECOR 580 GOSUB35:IFET = 8THEN21 5
:REM*250 DS :REW*233 :REM*166
350 PRINT"(CRSR DN) PRESS {CTRL 475 CLR:PRINT"(CTRL 8HSHFT CLR 585 PRINTS15,"R0:DF] "+LEFTS(FF
9)(CTRL 2)R{COMD 6}{CTRL 0 ) (CTRL 9){7 SPACEslCLONE D $,8)+"!0LD = DF) "--FFS:G0SUB3
1EJECT OR ACCEPT (CTRL 9)(C ATAFILE RECORD FILE(5 SPACE 5:IFET=8THEN215 :REM*237
TRL 2}1(C0MD 6}(CTRL 0} C64 SMCTRL 0)" :REM«42 590 OPEN5,8,5,"0:DF| "*FF$t",S,
(2 SPACEs)[CTRL 9) (CTRL 2)2 480 PRINT"(COMD 6J1CRSR DN) INS W":GOSUB35:IFET=8THEN215
(COMD 6)(CTRL 0} C128(CTRL ERT DISK CONTAINING THE {CT :REM*14
8)" :REM*53 RI. 8)OLD(C0MD 6} DATAFILE" 595 PRINTS 5,NR;CR$;F0;CRI;XR
353 GOSUB20:IFA$="R"THEN255 :REM*73 :REM*185
:REM*16 485 PRINT" RECORD FILE TO BE (C 600 FORN = 1TOF0 :P,EM*162
36 0 IFAI = "1"THENNR=WR(1 ):GOTO3 8 TRL 8)CL0NED(COMD 6}.":PRIN S05 PRINT#5,F0$(N);CRS;L0%(N)
0 :REM* 5 3 T"(CRSR DN) PRESS (CTRL 2){ :REM*7
3 65 IFA$="2"THENNR=NR(2):GOTO3 8 CTRL 9(ANY KEY(COMD 6)":G0S 610 NEXTN: :REM*132
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30 PRINT"{COMD 6)(SHFT CLR) INS 70 IFFL=0THENFL=1:LOAD"DOS 5.1" 130 SAVE"DP] DOS5.1",8,1
ERT 1541 DEMO DISK OR ANY DI ,8,1 :REM*172 :REM*112
SK THAT :REM*170 80 IFFL=1THENSYS52224 :REM*246 140 POKE43,!:POKE44,8:POKE46 , 8 :
40 PRINT"{CRSR DN) CONTAINS (CT 90 PRINT"(CRSR DN) INSERT DATAF NEW :REH*2 4
RL 9){CTRL 8)DOE 5.11COMD 6) ILE DISK IN DRIVE" :REM*138 150 GETA$:IFAS^""THEN150:REM*92
(CTRL 0) IN DISK DRIVE." 100 PRINT"(CRSR DN) PRESS (CTRL 160 RETURN :REM*21B
:REM*7G 2){CTRL 9}ANY KEY(CTRL 0}(
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Using CP/M mode an your 128 isn't as difficult as you might
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key plus the right- and left-arrow keys with it, you'll want a 1571 or equivalent. umentation. Chapter IV of the C-128
at the top of ihc keyboard 10 stroll Most Cl'/M software is designed for dou Syslrrn Guide is devoted to a brief de
horizontally past die -10th column and ble-sided drives, so boot-up lime is sig- scription of CP/M on the 128. Skim
buck, hut ihis quickly gets tiresome. If niflcandy less on a 1571. If you hope through sections I I-I4 to get an over
you're planning to get an 80-columii Ici use major applications software like view. (Section 15. cm keyboard enhance
monitor to use with 12H mode anyway, dBasell, you may want to consider mul ments, can wait until later.) Also study
consider waiting until then to tackle tiple drives as well. the table on mode changes on page 13
CP/M in earnest. of the guide.
A IM1 diskdrive won't hold up your When in Doubt, Unfortunately, ihis chapter contains
beginning explorations. However, just Read the Instructions some minor errors and omissions. For
as with the monitor, if you like Cl'/M The first step in learning any new example, the section on copying disks
and expect lo become more involved computer application is to read the doc- says to use the COI'YSYS command for
dual drives, bill this command isn't
available in the C-128 implementation.
Table 1. Help files of particular use to the CP/M beginner. The guide also says that Erase. Rename
and Type arc built-in commands (resi
dent in DOS), but it doesn't mention
ci;>8cp/m DIR
thai the programs that enable them ate
g128 cp/m command line DIR BUILT-IN
hidden on side 2 of the system disk. In
c128 cp/m disk status DIR BUILT-IN EXAMPLES
addition, nowhere in the documenta
c128 cp/m keybrd defs DIR WlTl lOl'TlONS
tion does it say that the system disk is
c128 cp/m keybrd defs DIR WITHOPTIONS OPTIONS
formatted for a 1 511 drive—as two sin
alphnum keys DIR WITHOPTIONS EXAMPLES
gle-sided disks. A 1571 can't read the
c128 cp/m keybrd defs FILESPEC
directory on the second side unless you
arrow keys HELP
flip the disk over.
c128 cp/m keybrd defs PIP
Nevertheless, poor documentation is
extra keys PIP EXAMPLES
better than no documentation. Don't
ci28 cp/m special fnct PIP OPTIONS
worry if you have trouble understand
CA2H CPffii VIRTUAL DISK SHOW
ing everything. Your purpose is lo get
CNTRLCHARS SHOW EXAMPLES
a feel for how CP/M differs from your
COMMANDS TYPE
Commodore operating system.
COMMANDS CONVENTIONS TYPE EXAMPLES
COPYSYS BACKING UP
The first step to take in exploring
CP/M is a practical one—making a
backup copy of the system disk lhat
came with your C-128. This is basically
Table 2. Help files useful for more advanced CP/M
an easy task, but, as in many computer
operations.
operations, there's lots of room for mis
DEVICE ERASE OPTION takes, and I think 1 made them all.
DEVICE OPTIONS ERASE EXAMPLES What follows is the procedure 1 even
DEVICE EXAMPLES KEYFIG tually learned. Keep in mind as you step
DEVICE CI28 DEVICES KEYFIG KEY VALUES through it that the system disk is two-
ED sided. Also, remember that many Cl'/M
RENAME
ED COMMANDS RENAME EXAMPLES commands arc separate programs, called
ED EXAMPLES SAVE transient utilities, thai must be loaded
ERASE USER from disk to be used. You load and run
such a utility by typing its name after
the A> prompt and pressing the relurn
key. A list of the transient utilities ap
pears in the Cl'/M chapter of the C-128
Table 3. CP/M line-oditing control characters that have System Guide. (There are other "built-in"
Commodore equivalents. utilities that reside in memory with the
main CP/M operating system. They are
56 K U N ■ AUGUST l')S7
C P M
for your hardware configuration from duplicated and safely tucked away, you Absolutely everything is echoed to
the screen display and press return; can really start with your exploration the printer, including half a screen of
thru press $ when prompted. of CP/M. The next logical step is to carriage returns above the file text This
4. If you're using a 1571 drive, remove display, read and possibly print out scrolling seems to be Cl'/M's way of
the backup disk from the drive when some of the Help files. They'll give you clearing the screen, but when control/
the formatting is done and insert the an idea of the capabilities of this classic P is on, it wastes a lot of paper.
system disk again. If you're using a 1541, operating system. I circumvent these carriage returns
make a second formatted disk for (tic At the A> prompt, type HELP and by using the List option. To activate this
backup (because the system disk is two- press return, and a list of filenames will option, type LIST in square brackets
sided), and number the backup disks appear. These are the files in the first after the name of the file you want to
for later reference. Then reinsert the level of the Help-file hierarchy. Many print. Tor example:
system disk. of those files subsume other files, called
HELI'XXIMMANDS [LIST]
5. Type I'll' and press return. subtopics, and some of these, in turn,
6. After the PIP program has loaded subsume further subtopics. The List option also disables the dis
and run, the screen will display an as You'll notice that the prompt has play hold at the end of each screen of
terisk. If you have a single-drive sys changed to HELP> instead of an A>. text. Of course, this means you won't
tem, lype: To exit the Help files and return to the be able to catch all the text of files that
A> prompt, you can press return again— are more than one screen long. II you
but don't do it yet. Choose a Help file wain to read all of a long file before
Don't press return until you make and enter its filename to display it on you print it out, toggle control/P off,
sure the system disk is in ihe drive. the screen. Note that the underline tliL'u turn it hack on for printing.
This step sets up a virtual disk drive character in filenames like C128 CP/M 1 printed out all the Help files, one
designated as F. and tells die computer is inserted with the back-arrow key in file to a page, and ended up with a slack
you want to copy every file on the sys the upper-left corner of your keyboard. of paper over half an inch thick. (A
tem disk to it. The virtual drive is a Once the Help file appears, you'll manual form-feed after each file cre
logical convention in which your single probably find that it has subtopics, ated the separate pages.) However, you
drive becomes, in turn, drive A and lype (lie name of a subtopic and press won't need all the files, as many de
drive E, The asterisk wild Ciird works return. You can also go directly from scribe commands or programming
almost as it does in the Commodore the HELP> prompt to a subtopic by aides you won't use immediately.
operating syslem, typing the sub topic's name after (lie As a beginner, you should peruse,
7. The system disk contains a lot of topic name. You can go directly to Help either onscreen or in hard copy, the
files, which must be loaded and copied files from the A> prompt, too, by typing Help files listed in Table 1. Other Help
separately. The I'll* program will step HELP, followed by the topic name and files you'll want to study if you decide
you through the process, instructing then the suhtopic name. to use CP/M seriously are listed in Table
you lo swap disks when needed. Jusl This raises a problem I had when I 2. The two KEYFIG files in Table 2 apply
follow the screen prompts, pressing the was exploring the Help files: I couldn't particularly to the special Commodore
return key each lime you insert a dif get subtopics to appear when 1 tried to keyboard enhancements to CP/M.
ferent disk. Remember dial disk A is access them directly from (he HELP> My printer had prohlcms reproduc
your source disk (the system disk), and prompt. The instructions in the C-128 ing some of the screen characters in die
disk E is your destination disk (the Syslem Guide say to enter ".subtopic" Help files, especially the braces that sur
backup). after the name of the topic, but 1 dis round optional parameters for CP/M
ESCh time a file has heen copied, its covered that you must separate the sub commands. When I couldn't figure out
filename is added to a list on the screen. topic from the topic with a space instead what a character should be from the
Large files, like (he 1 lelp files, take quite of a period, I'br example, if the topic is printout, I displayed the file on the
a while to copy, and copying all the files COMMANDS and the subtopic CON screen again, and wrote the character
may take over half an hour. Don't start VENTIONS, lype: on the printout by hand.
this project if you're leaving for the There are other Help files I haven't
HELP>COMMANnS CONVENTIONS
movies in 15 minutes. listed in the tables. You might check
Eventually another asterisk will ap or them, loo. for a further idea of the
pear, Indicating that all the files on the potential of CP/M. For instance. I'm in
A>HELP COMMANDS CONVENTIONS
first side of the system disk have heen trigued by the possibility of date-stamp-
copied. If you have a 1541, flip the 1 recommend that you print out Help iog my word processing files or devel
system disk over and repeat steps 6 and files containing information you'll prob oping a sequence of commands that I
7 to copy the utilities from the second ably be needing, as some of die files are can execute by using only one Submit
side to the second formatted disk. If you packed with too many details to recall command.
have a 1571 and formatted your backup once they scroll off-screen. You can Some of the Help files describe pro
disk as double-si dec!, flip the original but print the files easily because of one of grams that don't come with the system
not your backup, so transient utilities like the joys of CI'/M— its ability to echo the disk, if you order the Cl'/M manual and
Erase and Rename will be accessible from screen display to tile printer, just press extra utilities from Digital Research,
a single directory. control/I', and everything that's on you'll acquire LIB, LINK, DUMP, MAC,
8. When you finish the backup, .store screen will also be printed out until you KMAC, IIKXCOM. SID and XREE
your original system disk in a safe place, execute another control/I'. If you have
and use the backup instead. the sound turned up on your monitor,
Line-Editing Controls
you'll notice that the control/P is accom Our third and last exploration is play
Going Forward panied by a beep to alert you that the ing with the line-editing control char
Now that your syslem disk has been print-echo function is On. acters that are basic to Cl'/M operation, t
Attention
and make notes of Commodore keys for CP/M machines. Hundreds of other
that have the same effect as the CP/M CP/M programs, many of them for busi
line-editing controls; then try them out. ness or programming applications, are
Subscribers
I came up with the equivalents listed in available in the public domain or at
Table 3. Use whichever keys—CP/M or modest prices. On (he other band, CP/M
Commodore—that arc most comfort doesn't provide color and sound, so it
able for you. makes games and educational applica
We (rccuitmjily imkc ihjf mailing list jvjiLiblir lu
tions seem lacklustre.
ciitnjJiiiin nt urganitiiinni wiili ptoducii or Same Case, Different Computer
If these preliminary explorations of
prefer lh.it >our njiuc Ltc dcleletl from such 3 lisu When you boot CP/M, you literally CP/M have excited you, you tnighi do
pfca«- fill on( ihrtonpon brioworafllx a copy of your access a different computer. Its heart is well to find knowledgeable CP/M users,
in.iilnii! l-sln I null lii nl i: lo: aZ 80 microprocessor chip that behaves such as owners of Osborne, Kay-Pro and
differently than the familiar Commo Epson QX-10 computers, or members
dore central processing units, which be of a CP/M user's group. Ask them lo put
RUN long 10 a different chip family. Some their systems through their paces and
m lim i)M
of my first feelings ihat lliings weren't show you (he software that's available
Faimlnjdale, NY 11737
going right were probably caused by for them.
these unexpected differences. I'm going to continue learning CP/M.
For example, I've owned at least half- I think Commodore computers are ex
Please delete my n.iiric from mailing tins sent In niher
romp.inicsor orjfini/.nlitui^. RUN a-dozen Commodore computers and citing and, for the home user, the best
have never had a problem with key computing value available, bar none, in
Name.
bounce (when you hit a key, azid it stut spite of the fact that the mainstream of
ters on the screen). The Z-80 tends 10 new ideas and computer power has
add letters you didn't intend. On (he sometimes bypassed them. CP/M on the
other hand, the space bar doesn't seem C-128 provides a chance to live in both
Qly .Zip. to repeat when 1 hold it down in CP/M worlds. ■
mode, as it does in 64 or 128 mode.
The CPIM keyboard buffer works dif Annette Hinshaw, founder of the TuUa
ferently, also. When I turn on control/ Area Commodore Users Group, has written
P, some characters (hat activate the extensively for computer magazines.
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sure they're enclosed in quotation marks, to disk, so you don't lose all your work Typetle program and did the basic writing,
Inn thai they don't contain any quotation when you turn off the computer. E while friend and collaborator Doug Iarson,
marks, When (he replacements are cor an engineer with industrial programming
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(he listing. Finally, save the revised listing sion, a \uicker by avocation. Hi' conceived the and repaired and polished the rest.
D IJfSHFT SPACE} fCOHD DiSil {SHFT W)ARD" :REM*85 MD 8HSHFT UH16 SHFT *s)(S
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4J{SHPT E)ND";TAB(58);"{CT 570 FOREN=1TO10 :REM*214 ;"{COMD Mj" :REM*206
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AMUT OF EMOTIONS FROM (SHFT G00 S=54272:POKES+24,25:POKES+1 D M)" :REM*224
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490 S$(5)="{SHFT A) FISHING ROD RL 2}(SHFT S1UMMARY AND {SH M)" :REM*193
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Once you're done with thai key, you time you desire to reaccess Keycodes. between the C-64's character sets.
can go on to others. When you've found In Keycodes mode, nearly all the nor One limitation of the program is
;ill the codes you need, press the restore mal keyboard functions are disabled. that it reports a keycode of 15 for both
key to cxil Keycodes and continue pro However, the shift, control and Com shift keys, but the keycode value for
gramming, or press the run-stop'restore modore keys still work, so you can sec the right shift key is actually 52. The
combination fora Basic warm start. You the values of almost all key combina ASCII and screen codes are the s;une for
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Pegboard
Young and old alike milljump at tfie chance to play this
challenging, traditional game.
♦
By JOHN OLSEN
The pegboard game has been with several pegs stranded in different joystick to place the yellow cursor on the
around in various forms for parts of the board with DO adjacent peg position where you want the peg to go.
years. It's played on aboard per to jump over. Avoiding this downfall Pressing die fire-button a second time
forated by 33 holes arranged in takes a combination of strategy and luck. moves the peg from its original position
a plus-sign shape, as in Figure 1, below, My Pegboarcl program simulates the to the newly chosen one and eliminates
and in the illustration. At the start, traditional board game. The playing sur the peg it jumped over. You can move
pegs are placed in all the holes but the face is displayed on the screen, along horizontally or vertically, but not on a
center one. with a summary of the rules. The pro- diagonal,
The object of the game is to remove grain uses graphics, color and sound to Pegboard checks your moves and per
from play as many pegs as possible by enhance play. mits only legal ones. It also scans the
jumping over them, one at a time, with You move the pegs with a joystick, board coniinously to see when no more
other pegs. Piay continues until you plugged into port 2, that places a yellow moves are possible. When that occurs,
can't move any more. cursor in any desired position on the die game is over, and die computer
You win if you eliminate all the pegs board. When it's over the peg you want counts ihe remaining pegs to see if
but one—a (ask that's more difficult to move, press the fire-button, and that you've won.
than it sounds. Usually you'll cud up peg turns into an asterisk. Then use the In writing Pegboard, I employed a
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of the Pegboard
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quire arrays, lakes lilllc memory and program needs lokeep track only of (he mill good luck! El
makes the program run quickly. Since cursor position. Nearly everything else
the game board is constantly displayed is kept in die screen memory. John Olsen has been a user and program
on the screen, I have (he program Peek When you play Pegboiird, you'll fine! mer sitl£6 the late 1960s. He has taught
the screen memory to determine which that it's fairly easy to leave fewer than computer and mathematics courses for 13
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trolled cursor where the edges of the three, However, it will take real skill to and programs published.
1 REM PEGBOARD 64 (C) 1986 JOHN 240 PRINTTAB(12)"ICOHD A){SHFT B(17)"(CTRL 8 HSHFT QHCRSR
OLSEN :REM*207 •HCOMD RHSHFT *HSHFT +) ( RTHCOMD 3)(SHFT QHCRSR R
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SM%«B1:O%=80:P%=160:Q%=156:R T +}{SHFT *}(SHFT +KSHFT * 370 PRINTTAB(17)"{SHFT QHCRSR
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20 POKE53265,PEEK(53265)AND239 :REH»46 )(CRSR DM)" :REM*81
:REM'220 250 PRINTTABI11)"(CTRL 1)*(CTRL 3B0 PRINTTAB(13)"(SHFT QHCRSR
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S(142)CHRSI8)TAB(14)"(COMD A -} {SHFT -) {SHFT -} {SHFT HCRSR RTHSHFT QHCRSR RT)
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40 PRINTTABI14)"{SHFT -)(CTRL B 260 PRINTTAB(12)"(COMD QHSHFT :REM*219
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60 PRINTTAB(13)"{CTRL 8HCRSR D :REM*18 3 {SHFT QHCRSR DN) " :REM*121
N)BY JOHN OLSEN{2 CRSR DNS}" 270 PRINTTABI11)"{CTRL 1)+{CTRL 400 PRINTTAB(13)"{SHFT QHCRSR
:REM*236 6}(SHFT -} {SHFT -) (SHFT RTHSHFT QHCRSR RTHSHFT Q
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(31)"DIAGONAL" :REM*22 -} (SHFT -) {SHFT -HCTRL 1 (SHFT QHCRSR RTHSHFT Q) {C
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:REM*78 280 PRINTTAB(12)"{COMD Q)(SHFT :REM*239
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By MATTHEW STERN
Welcome lo geoWatch, RUN'?. ing, against future need, file segments onto the screen, the 128 version of
new monthly column for that have been loaded from disk. For geol'aint 1.3 lets you hide the toolbox
users of Berkeley Soft works' example, when you select a new font, on the left side of the screen, thus cre
GEOS, the increasingly popular alter it's read in from the disk. Then, the ating even more drawing space.
native operating system for the C-64 next time you specify that font, it's The 80-Column mode docs have some
and C-128. The column will provide all instantly available from memory in limitations. It can handle only two colors
kinds of information about GEOS, such stead of having to be read again from at a time (normally, light and dark gray,
as reviews of the latest GEOS programs disk. This feature enhances GEOS'J per but other combinations are possible).
and third-party products designed to formance and speeds up applications Also, the aspect ratio (height lo width) is
work with them; tips on using GEOS considerably. different than in 40 columns, so the 80-
effectively; and warnings about GEOS- column graphics arc taller and thinner
related problems, along with sugges GEOS 64 Compatibility and less representational of a printout
tions for solving them and where to get You won't have to throw away your than are the ■10-column.
more help. Your questions and com GEOS 64 programs when you get GEOS Fortunately, GEOS 128 lets you toggle
ments may be included, too, so don't 128, because the 128 version is com between 40 and 80 columns. To change
hesitate to send them along. patible with the 64 applications. It the display, select Switch 40(80 from the
works fine with geoWrite L.S and geo GEOS menu and flick your RGB moni
GEOS 128 Makes Its Debut
l'aint 1.2, as well as the newer GEOS 64 tor's composite/RGB switch. You can
This month, I'm going to tell you applications, such as Writer's Work change the display at any time—even in
about an important new addition to shop, geoDex and the recently released the middle of a program.
the GEOS landscape: the long-awaited geoFile and geoCalc. Unfortunately,
C-128 version of the program. Priced Hardware Compatibility
these programs run only in 40 columns;
at S69.95, CEOS 128 includes a new if you launch them in HO columns, I've received a lot of mail since I first
version of geol'aint, called version 1,3, GEOS 128 automatically changes the wrote about GEOS in the June HI8fi
which, unfortunately inviting confu screen display. issue of /(ON, and most of the questions
sion, is the same number as the 64 ver You'll also find that GEOS 128 ap have been about hardware compatibil
sion. GeoPaint 128 (version 1.3) differs plications are compatible with GEOS ity. With all the printers, interfaces, disk
from the 64 version 1.3 in that you can 64 data files, except for those ofWriter's drives and input devices on the Com
hide the toolbox used for drawing. Workshop. I can use my geol'aint 1.2 modore market, it isn't easy for a soft-
GEOS 128 also Includes an 80-col- files with geoPaini 128 1,3, and my ware developer lo ensure compatibility
umn, 128-mode update of the C-64 geoWrite 1.2 and C-64-generated geo with everything. However, I feel Berke
geoWrite version 1.3. Also referred lo Write 1.3 files with the 128 version of ley has done well in coming mil wiih
as version 1.3, geoWrilc 128 is the func geoWrite 1.3. new drivers and in fixing problems with
tional equivalent of the 64 1.3 version, Berkeley plans to release C-128 ver die existing ones.
except that it takes advantage of both sions of all their C-64 programs to take Printers have raised die largest com
the 80-Column mode and the faster disk advantage of GEOS 128's additional fea patibility questions. GEOS is designed
access. The GEOS package also contains tures and its 80-column display. One of to print fonts and graphics at 80 dots
the latest printer and input drivers, the first of these will be a Writer's Work per inch (dpi), but some printers can
plus the notepad, calculator, preference shop upgrade. All the upgrades will be produce only (50 dpi. Whik this doesn't
file and text and graphics scrapbook available to GEOS users at low cost. pose a problem for most applications,
desk accessories. Like GEOS 64, the with geoPaint, the right quarter ofa full-
boot disk is copyprotected, but not the The Monitor page picture gets cut off. If you're using
applications. I recommend using an RGB or a geoPaint with a 60-dpi printer, don't fill
GEOS 128 takes advantage of many monochrome 80-column monitor with the right-hand quarter of the page.
of the C-128's enhanced features, such GEOS 128, because the GEOS screen is In Table i, you'll find a list that Berke
as additional keys (including tab and crisp, bright and easier to read in 80 ley sent me of GEOS-compatihlc hard
caps lock, but, alas, not help). It uses columns. Of course, more will lit in the ware, These products were either tested
the C-128's 2-MHz Fast mode, so it runs display, too. With geoWrite, you'll see by Berkeley or confirmed as compatible
faster than the 04 version, and it can the lull width of a page Instead of half, with GEOS by users. The printer and
use the C-128's 1700 and 1750 memory and with geoPaint you'll see one-fifth input drivers arc available on the C1KOS
expanders as RAM disks. of a drawing instead of only one-four distribution disks, or you can find them
GF.OS 128 assigns 64 of the C-J28's teenth. This means you can use the en in the public domain.
12SK to data and program storage. It tire width of a picture as a phuto scrap, Of course, this list will expand as
uses the other 64K as a buffer for stor hi addition to fitting more of a picture more products arc released. In future
Commodore 1541, 1541Cand 1571; FSD-1; Indus GT. {GEOS might not work
The monthly geoWatch rolumn addresses
with drives modified with fast-loading hardware or software.)
the needs of RUN readers who use GEOS,
Berkeley Soft works' alternative operating
system for the C-64 and the C-128. Your
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One of the many letters I received I've received a number of letters from still the output isn't loo good. When 1
from readers this pas[ month leaders wondering if I'm the David first got my C-{>4 in 1982, I used a TV
was from Clarence R. Pierce, in Bradley who wrote the book No Place to as a monitor and found it barely ade
forming me that Boh Lentini, author of Hide, published back in the 1940s. Hav quate for 40 columns, so I bought a
BobsTenn Pro 128, may complete the ing been born in the '60s. I'm pretty monochrome monitor. That was better,
VT100 emulation par! of the program much ruled out as the author—but I and I still use that monitor, although
If enough users show interest by leaving have read the book! I've since upgraded to a 1701 for the
S message on hi.s bulletin hoard, The Many readers have written in with color,
number is 702-731-3178. questions about dialing programs, like I don'l think there's a way to get a
George Shirinian sent along an arti the one featured in the movie War- display on your TV that you'll he happy
cle entitled "Scientists Scrutinizing Flam Games. If you have a program like this, with. I'd say either stick to 40-Colutnn
ing Computer Talk," by Erik Eckliolm, please don't use it. Such programs upset mode or buy a monitor.
that appeared in the Toronto Globe and people and give all modem users a bad
Mail on October 5, 1984. Eckholm dis name. Besides, if you attempt to break
cusses how people seem more apl to be Into computer systems where you have ■ I'm trying lo use a Total Telecommu
rude, profane or have outright emo no business, you can gel into a loi of nications modem with my CM. I get
tional Outbursts online than in person. trouble. a carrier anil then /Up the D-T switch from
1 see good and bad in this. On the bad I've received numerous letters asking D to T, but all I get on the screen is garbage.
side, some people just want to attack and what's the best terminal program avail The manual that cavie with the modevi is
insult others to gel attention. On the able. I'm afraid I can't answer that ques inadequate and doesn't help at nil. I suspert
good side, online communication gives tion, because the best one for you the software is at fault. What do you think?
shy people an opportunity to be more depends on your needs. You may be —Doug hornkr
open with others than they normally able to gel along wilh a fairly hum Clakemont, CA
would. ble one, like Wilf Mcissner of North
A letter from it Captain KuStet relates York, Ontario, who uses a program my • The D-T switch needs to be on T
how he and ihe members of his crew brother Richard and I put together over .when you want lo talk by voice
on a European commercial ship all have three years ago. It's very simple, wilh and on D when you want to send and
Commodores at home, so they got an lew features, bui i! works, does every receive rfaia. You've been switching your
SX-64 in hopes of communicating with thing Wilf wants, and he's happy with modem to T when it should be on 1).
their families at home via the Marisat it, so he sees no reason lo change.
1TT satellite. Unfortunately, they have My advice is this: Kind a program you
not been able to get the data transfer like, and use it as long as it satisfies your / have an unusual problem I hope you
going. I've sent them an assortment of needs, but keep an open mind and look I can help me with. I have both a MC
terminal programs to try, bin I haven't over other programs now and again, so and a C-128, along with lw<> Commodore
yet heard if any of them work. If you've you'll have an idea of what's available 1670 modems. Neither of the 1670s will work
had experience with satellite commu if your needs change. If you don't change with the C-128 in any mode. However, they
nications and think you might be able programs willy-nilly, you'll spend a lot both work fine with the 6-tC I've tested the
to help, please lei me know, less lime dealing with problems and modems with other 128 systems and get the
Steve DiSorbo wrote wilh a sugges have more fun telecomputing. same results.
tion for Richard Ott, who I mentioned Now lei's get on to some questions When I first bought the modems, they
in last February1* column as having and answers. worked fine with my 128. However, it seems
trouble with his 1670 modem. Kichartl that after they've been \vted with a 6-fC, they
had an Epson RX-80 printer and a won't work with it 128. Has anyone else
Cardco-G + interface hooked to his My computer system includes a C-128 experienced this problem? Do you have any
computer system, and sometimes the and an old Panasonic color television, idea what's going on? Help!
modem would work only with the and I can't get a readable 80-column display —Richard Pope
printer on and sometimes only with it either online or with my word processor. Is Madison, TN
off. Steve suggests that Richard find out then a way to make the TV work belter?
the voltage and amperage his printer —Peter votlucka I have a ](>70, and il works flue
interface requires and then connect it Long Island City, NY with my 61, my 128, my VlC-20
to an appropriate external power sup and my Plus/4, so I doubt the problem
ply, instead of plugging it into the cas I I use a 1702 monitor and a Bat- is wilh your computer. You might try
sette port ami drawing power from the leries Included cable (that came somebody else's modem on your system
computer, wilh PaperClip II) with my C-128, and as a further check on your equipment.
H U N AUGUST M.IM7
Resource Center
User's groups can play an important role
in promoting computers in education, and you can get
In lasi April's Resource Center, 1 dis Here are some educational activities their wares. Such companies should be
cussed various ways lo obtain low- PCG has undertaken. Your user's group encouraged lo stress the educational
cosi educational software. That ar can implement similar activities to pro applications of their products.
ticle struck a chord, and many readers mote computers in education. Many programs thai aren't lagged as
have sent letters of thanks. I suggested "educational" have educational merit.
;ii that time that user's groups could Donate Public Domain PCG members are on the lookout for
make an important contribution to pro Software
latent learning possibilities in game
moting the use of good, yet affordable. One of my goals for the Resource programs. Tor instance, they've noted
programs by evaluating public domain Center has been to disseminate free and lhat Tass Times in Tonctown (reviewed
educational software and distributing low-cost public domain educational in RUN'S Software Gallery, February
their findings lo schools and parents. software to teachers and parents, and 1987) has potential for developing vo
In response, I heard from Dr. Robert user's groups can do the same. cabulary and skills in gathering evi
Agostino, a professor at Duquesne Uni Like many user's groups. PCG has a dence and making inferences.
versity's School of Education in Pills- library of programs it sells to its mem
burgh, Pennsylvania. Robert is an ardent bers for low prices. Periodically, the Involve Children in Club
Commodore user and is active in the group donates selected disks to educa Activities
Pittsburgh Commodore Group (I'CG), tions) institutions. Their first major do User's groups should look for ways
where he's the software librarian. nation was to the famous Carnegie to involve children in club activities.
Agostino says thai user's groups can Library in Pittsburgh, lo enhance its Bar instance, youngsters can gain ex
help in many ways lo promote educa newly established software lending li perience in speaking to groups by giv
tional use of computers within [heir brary. Your user's group can play a ing software demonstrations at monthly
groups and within the community. For similar role in helping local libraries meetings, thus perhaps Inspiring adults
example, school districts using Com establish software collections by Follow in the audience who are new io com-
modores often maintain lists of the ing leads for public domain software. puling to try new software.
educational software their schools use. PCG has also presented educational Agostino further suggests lhat chil
These lists can be Collected by user's software to several local children's cen dren gel involved in newsletter pro
groups and made available lo parents ters and a Christian school. duction, perhaps by helping to fold,
who want to use a computer at home for staple and label the finished product.
education. PCG has compiled a five- Feature Educational Software
'Ihis kind of activity brings young peo
page list of such materials from the Pitts At Meetings
ple into contact with adults, as they
burgh-area schools. Anoiher way user's groups can pro share in a project of benefit lo ihe whole
The PCG has also been instrumental mote computers in education is by fea group. Says Agostino, '■There's no bet
in evaluating the CBM educational soft turing educational products at their ter social studies lesson aboiu democ
ware series that I mentioned in my April meetings, along with the usual business, racy in action than a good newsletter
column. Club members Dan and Nora programming and entertainment prod production team on folding night!"
Siewiorak have classified many of the ucts. Agostino's group sent for copies Helping to serve refreshments at
programs in the series according to of the Resource Center's public domain meetings is another way lo incorporate
grades K, 1 and 5 and have compiled a educaiion disks last year. Members im children into group activities. They'll
disk based on ihis classification. The mediately acclaimed two programs learn about selling, handling money,
disk was offered by PCG as a disk of the from Volume 1—Lexikos, by Robert maintaining inventory and records.
month, and it's now helping parents fig Croswell, and the Junior High Math Se Serving food in a sanitary manner and
ure out which programs do what for a ries, by Ricky Brewer, a junior high even cleaning up. PCG "coffee kids"
given grade level. teacher. (By the way, I now have an earn money for their work and some
Agostino points out that many user's updated version of lexikos.) These times use il to buy [heir own software
groups get so caught up in mainstream disks were featured by PCG in a dem from the club's store and library. Fur
activities, such as monthly meetings, onstration at one of their meetings and thermore, they're recognized by the
BBSs and local computer shows, lhat in a write-up in their monthly newslet club at meetings and in the newslet
they relegate education to the back burn ter. Copies of the programs were also ter—a powerful motivator and confi
er. However, education should be a made available lo members. dence builder.
mainstream activity of user's groups, Commercial software can be featured
and it can easily be incorporated into at meetings, too. Agostino points out Assist Teachers
existing group activities. All you need that some of the larger user's groups Teachers are certainly aware thai
are some members with lime, energy attract commercial software sales rep computers can help in educating their
and interest in education. resentatives who come lo demonstrate Students, but many still need guidance ■
AUGUST 10H7 ■ R L! N 87
RESOURCE CENTER
and training in computers and ilie use User's groups can play an on-going and would like to share your experiences
of software. Your user's group can be role in promoting computer use in local through the Resource Center, write me a letter
a valuable support vehicle for local schools and educational computing in detailing the ei/uipment you're using, subject
school teachers who arc interested in the home. If your group isn't active in areas you teach, grade level or age of your
learning about computers. This support this area yet. gel it started with some students, software you 're using and any other
might consist of sharing software from ideas from the Pittsburgh Commodore information you feel like including.
the public domain, doing demonstra Group. Also, ifyou'd tike to dnnate public domain
tions for teachers and students, and rec The Pittsburgh Commodore Group educational programs to the Resource Center
ommending commercial and public is offering Resource Center readers its for sharing with other educators or parents,
domain programs of merit. Siewiorak CBM educational disk for please send along a disk with a brief descrip
The PCG has found that three kinds grades K. I and 5 ($'!) and its five-page tion of the program. Send correspondence and
of commercial programs initially attract list of educational software used in disks to:
teachers to computers; lJrini Shop-type schools (44C). To get them, write to PCG,
Margaret Morabito
programs and those that create word- I'O Box 16126. Green Tree, PA 15242.
Resource Center
search and crossword puzzles. Once You can contact Robert Agostino on
do RUN Magazine
teachers get interested in the applica Quanta m Link under the name Robert
80 Elm Si.
tions of these programs, they quickly A!7, or by letter at 701 Reamer Drive,
Peterborough, NH 03458
move on to more sophisticated soft Carnegie. PA 15106. ■
ware, such as word processors, database You can also leave mail in my online mail
managers and programs for specific If you're using Commodore computers fir boxes: CompuServe (70616,714) or Quan
areas of study. educational purposes (at home or in sellout) tumLink (MARGM).
MAGIC
From p. 14. turn, then wiped out, and the student types in the correct
spelling. The program displays any misspelled word to give
the student a second chance before advancing to the
S410 Is This Your Exit?
next word.
When I add a menu to a program I'm working on, I include
To change the word list, enter your new words in the Data
a Quit option. I also put in Print statements to remind me of statement in line 200 of the listing. Add extra Data statements
lines I'll need to change, the values of variables, and so on.
to accommodate additional words. To save the listing in 128
When I'm finished with the program. I remove any .statements mode, list the directory, move the cursor to the filename, enter
I used while 1 was debugging. By putting this option's code at DSAVK" ©FILENAME": and press the return key. For 64
the end of the listing, deleting such lines will not disturb the mode: SAVE"©FILENAME",8: and press return.
order of line numbers in the main program.
10 REM SPELLING PRACTICE-JOE CHARNETSKI
—Bob Day. Monrovia. CA
20 INPUT"{SHFT CLR}DISPLAY SPEED 1-12";S
30 READW$:R=1
$411 Simple No-Prompt Input 40 PRINT" (SHFT CLR) {CRSR DN) {CRSR DN) {
Once in a while, the question mark prompt gets In lite way CTRL 9) "W$
when I'm using the Input Statement My two-liner puts an end 50 IFW$="END"GOTO150
to this pest 60 X = 1:FORZ=1TO1400-50*S:NEXT
10 PRINT "PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME":PRINT ":"; 70 FORZ=1TO10:GET A$:NEXT
20 OPEN1,0:1NPUT#1.\S:CLOSE1:1'RINT 80 T=T+1:INPUT"{SHFT CLR}(2 CRSR DNsJTHE W
ORD IS";A$:PRINT
The Print statement at the end of line 10 prints a prompt,
90 IFA$=W$THENW$="<<OKAY>>":C=C+1:R=0
but you may drop the line if you wish. The I'rini statement in
100 PRINTTABM3)W$"{CRSR UP}"
line 20 moves the cursor to the next line when you're done
110 FORZ=1TO150:NEXT:X=X+1:IFXAND1GOTO100
with the Input statement.
120 IFX<12THENPRINT"(CTRL 9)";:GOTO100
—Dave Biunno, Jackson Heights, NY
130 IFRTHENR=0:GOTO40
140 GOTO3 0
5412 No-Scroll Key Disable 150 PRINT"{CRSR DN}RIGHT=";C
You can disable the no-scroll key on the C-128 by entering 160 PRINT"{CRSR DN}WRONG="T-C
POKE 247,PEEK(247)OR64. 170 INPUT"(CRSR DNJWANT TO PRACTICE MORE {
—Daihung Do, East Moline. IL Y/Nt";K$
180 IFK$="Y"THENRUN
190 PRINT"(CRSR DNJBYE..."
5413 Spelling Practice
200 DATA ACCOMMODATE,WEIRD,SUPERSEDE,PSYCH
Students of all ages will enjoy this program as they improve
OLOGY
their typing, spelling and word-recognition skills. It should
999 DATA END
run on any Commodore computer.
A word from the word lisi is displayed on the screen in —JOSEPH R. CHARNETSKI. DALLAS, PA
5414 Page Printer copy. The range is the same as that used after the Basic List
command.
When printing program listings on my MPS-801 printer, 1
To send output to your printer, type in PR1NT#4;CLOSF.4
find it difficult tO line up the paper so that sonic lint" of text
to clear the channel. You should press run-stop/restore when
isn't cut in half by the perforations, The short program below
[he listing is finished, to restore the pointers used by (he
allows you 10 set a bottom margin to overcome this problem.
Kernal CHROUT routine.
10 REM PAGE - MICHAEL MYERS If you want to double-space your listing, use a page length
20 PORI=5310OTO531S9:READQ:POKEI,Q:CK=CK+Q of 2 and a bottom margin of 1.
:NEXT —MICHAEL MYERS, BEARDSTOWN, EL ■
30 IFCK<>13039THENPRINT"ERROR IN DATA"
40 DATA 169,157,141,38,3,169,207,141,39,3,
Magic is the original column of reader-submitted hints ami tips.
169,3,133,252,32,253
Each month we present brief, useful computer tricks to help you get the
50 DATA 174,32,107,169,165,20,72,198,252,2 most out of your Commodore system—whether you're a beginning or
08,243,104,141,172,207,1 04 advanced computerist, a C-64 or C-128 owner. Magic is a forum for
60 DATA 141,166,207,104,141,148,207,169,66 RUNi imaginative and inventive readers to share their programming
,133,251,32,253,174,76,164 tips, brief software or hardware modifications, shortcuts or items of
70 DATA 166,201,13,208,31,198,251,165,251, general interest. Ifyou have an idea to make computing easier, faster,
201,2,208,21,138,72,162 more exciting and enjoyable, send it to:
80 DATA 3,189,192,207,32,210,255,198,251,2
08,249,104,170,173,148,207 Magic
Mega-Magic
Now you have a search and locatefeaturefor your O64.
C-64 LOCATOR
One feature possessed by screen editors on many com distinguish between tokenized and tin tokenized strings. If,
puters more powerful than the C-64 is a locator function for for example, you type in LOC GOTO, the program locates
finding all occurrences of a specific siring in a listing. String all lokenized occurrences of GOTO, whereas typing in LOC
Locator (Listing 1) fills this gap by locating all the lines 1GOTO finds all instances of GOTO within quotes.
containing a specified string of characters and printing their Yout computer then asks if you want the line numbers
numbers to the screen or printer. where a string's been found to be sent to the screen (press S)
After you've typed in and saved Listing l.run the program or the printer (press P).
to activate the Locate function. You can then type in or load The function occupies memory locations 49152-49797
a program and use this function to help you debug or analyze (SCO00-SC285). So, if you're using a machine language rou
a program. tine with your Basic program, make sure that it doesn't occupy
Each Basic command is stored in memory as a single this area. If it does, deactivate the Locate function before you
character, if you cuuld peek inside memory for the word run your progTam by entering SYS 49155 and pressing the
PRINT, for example, you wouldn't find it, because the editor return key.
automatically tokenb.es the word to one character. How The moTe you use this program, the more you'll wonder
ever, Basic doesn't tokenize any word enclosed in quotation how you ever got along without it! B
marks.
It's obvious, then, that the locate function must be able to —Alton C. Williams. Hunts vili.k. ALi
SOFTWARE C-128 problems described in the same Your besl bet may be programs that
document. That's the bad news. The are designed to work together, but that
good news is that, according to the same are not actually sold as one package.
QWhen I upgraded from a C-64 to a document, these faults were corrected For instance, Precision Software's Super
C-128, my troubles began. When I in an unrcleased set of four Version 3 Office for (he 8096 was both better and
transferred database records, first to Con ROMs. The remaining problem is how cheaper than Silicon Office, and all of
sultant 128 and later In Superbase 128, the to convince Commodore to admit there its constituent parts (Superbase, Super
programs Itad great difficulty sorting my is a problem with the existing ROMs script and Superspell) are currently
3000 records. Progressive ftripherals told and (0 make llie updated ROMs available lor both the C-64 and C-128,
me the problem is in a 1571 disk chip and available. although not yet as a single, integrated
that they haven't been able to program around program.
[ractorfeed or sheet feeder, get one precisely, as a pair of game paddles, cluded an odd and an even number.
when you buy a printer, Lateryou might since at heart your joystick is a pair of (They gave odd numbers to men and
find boih more costly to buy and very potentiometers, the same as a Com even numbers to women.) Here's Dad's
difficult to locate. modore or Atari paddle. algorithm, converted to Basic:
The Transactor article mentioned a-
100 REM BRIDGE- PAIRINGS BY ROY
hove gives details for wiring up an an
STRASMA
o
How do 1 we the right hand button on my alog joystick, and a sample assembly
110 DEVICE = 3:REM 4 FOR PRINTER
1350 mouse with the OI2S? language program to use with it.
120 OI'EN 4.DEVICE
—BOX LEACANS You can also use the unaltered joy-
130 FOR 1= 1 TO 15 STEP 2
Prattville, AL slick with all available software for the
140 ; PRINT*-!,"Player tt";l
Commodore PC-10 IBM-compatible
ISO : FORJ-1 TO 7
A The light-hand button on your computer.
160 :: READ WTTH.TABU:
mouse is connected to pin 9 of the
170 :: PRINT#4,"WUh Player #";W1TH;
control port, which was originally in
180 :: IF WITH < 10 THEN PRINTS'!," ";
tended to be used by the potentiometer ■ I'm looking for a color monitor for my
190 : ; PRINT#4,"ut Table #":TABLE
on one of a pair of game paddles. The \ SX-64. Any suggestions?
200 :NEXTJ
May 1!(87 issue of The Transactor (416- —Rupert Tobisch
210 : PRINT*-!
H78-H438) details the procedure for add Walnutport, pa
220 NEXT I
ing ;i '!7K piill-up resistor between pins
280 CLOSE 4
7 and 9 to make the right button read A I've used the Commodore 1702
240 DATA 02.L, 10,1,06,'1,08,4.01,3,16,3,12,1
able at address $D419; the issue also monitor with excellent results, but
250 DATA 04,I,I2.'.),08,2,00,3,02,4T14,2,10,1
gives you the needed assembly language if I were to buy one now, I'd probably
260 DATA 06,2,14.1,02,3,04,2,08.4,12,1,16,2
programming to use the button (and get the 1902 for its color capability in
270 DATA 08,2.1f>.2.04,!,02.1,06.3,10.4,]4,2
the rest of the mouse). It's not written 80-Column mode.
280 DATA 10,3,1)2,3,14.!;. l<i.2,12. [.08,3.04.3
for beginners, but it should solve your
290 DATA I",3.04.4,10.4.14.1.10,2.0(1.2.02.3
problem nicely, as long as you know
300 DATA 14.4.06.3.10,1.12,4.10.2,04.1,08.4
bow to use both a soldering iron and Qlowna VIC-20anda 1540 disk drive.
310 DATA l(i,-t,08.4,l2,3,lO,:l,Rl,O2,4,0li,4
an assembler. I've upgraded to a C-128, but 1 can't
use the drive with it. Are there any chips If anyone has a shorter program for
available to turn the 1540 into a 1541? a variable-sized group, I'd like to hear
QMy computer system and lights are all —Luis Ramos Margin from you.
plugged into the same circuit, the com Mexico d.f., Mexico
puter system via a surgeprotector power strip,
and both lights and equipment dim whenever All you need (o upgrade your 1540
thefitrnaa kicks on. Sojar, therirruit breaker > to a 1541 is a replacement Rental
has tripped twice. Is there an uninterruptible ROM for the 1541. You should be able OTHER
power supply (UPS) for the Commodore* I to get one from any authorized Com
don't want to relocate my system or reroute modore service center. If not, order one O Do you have a book for beginners, begin
the wiring if I can avoid it. from The Transactor (see above) for $60 ning with funv tu turn the computer on?
—KAREN LANDRETH Canadian. —Mary hyre
Camden, SC Chattanooga, TN
A Yes, there is. However, the least A We sure do. My wife. Ellen, and 1
expensive UPS I could find is the have written two books for begin
UPS-210, a S250 unii from Power Gen PROGRAMMING ners. One is the Consumer Guide User's
eral Corp. (617-828-6216), Typical UPS Guide to Commodore 64 and V1C-20 Com
prices run to several thousand dollars. I Can you give me any leads to a bridge- puters, Software, & Rripherah, from Pub
I can't recommend a UPS, however, P* tournament program that pairs each lications International of Skokie, Illinois.
even without considering its eost. You'd of 20 players as a partner with every other The other is The Time/Life Step-by-Step
be better off installing a new circuit for player once in a cycle, and that pits each Guide to the Commodore 64, from Random
your computer system and lights. V.vcn player against every other player twice? House, New York. You can order them
using an extension cord plugged into —doug haller from your local bookstore. ■
an outlet on a separate circuit would capac, mi
probably be safer than your current
Do you have a problem or question about
setup. Two bridge players assure me that
your Commodore compuler? Commodore
, you can only do this for groups
Clinic can help, just send your question on
whose size is an even power of 2; hence,
a postcard to:
QMy Apple- and IBM-compatible joy the closest solution to your request is
stick uses x- andy-axis trimmers. Can for a group of 16, or, if you can add Jim Stnisma
it be adapted for the C-64? more players, a group of 32. Commodore Clinic
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same problem for his bridge club, ar Queries are answered only through this
A Yes, but not as a regular digital ranging a progression that not only ful column, and, due to the volume of mail, only
joystick. It could, however, be con filled the conditions you mention, but questions that appeal to the majority of our
nected as an analog joystick, or more m:\tlf sure each pair of partners in readers can be published.
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