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This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
Tape/disk: | Home » CEEFAX disks » telesoftware15.adl |
Filename: | 14-04-89/Guide |
Read OK: | ✔ |
File size: | 0F77 bytes |
Load address: | 0000 |
Exec address: | FFFFFFFF |
File contents
Guidelines for Telesoftware authors: We are always happy to consider your software for transmission on Telesoftware. If you have written software, utilities or procedures you think would be of value to other BBC micro or IBM pc owners, and would like to send your programs to us, please address them to: BBC Telesoftware, CEEFAX, BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ Because our audience uses a wide range of hardware, we request that all programs follow a few basic rules. These notes should help you. _________________________________________________________________________ Software for the BBC micro: 1. Wherever possible, the software should be compatible with BASIC 1. This involves replacing the keyword OSCLI by the procedure as given in the User Guide, page 455; ensuring INPUT commands do not include a semi-colon; and avoiding the use of EQU instructions in Assembly Language. 2. Do not assume the computer will be in Mode 7. Your program should select the required mode. 3. The program must run correctly with any 'legally' written filing system. Do not include coding that directly accesses the filing system or by-passes the correct O.S. calls unless you make it clear that the program is for a particular hardware configuration. 4. For Teletext-Interactive software, the program must work correctly with the BBC Advanced Teletext System. 5. Programs should be compatible, as far as possible, with: BBC Model B BBC B+ BBC Master 128 Acorn DFS Acorn ADFS 6. For compatibility between ADFS and DFS, any filenames referred to in the program should not include the following: Directory specification Characters & (ampersand) - (minus) More than seven characters 7. Any workspace claimed by the program (e.g. machine-code assembly) should not be in reserved areas. 8. Tape-based programs should be written for use by disc systems. Either: (a) ensure the program loads and runs when PAGE is set to &1900 or (b) use a 'relocator' to move the program in memory when loaded from disc if PAGE is set higher than required by the program. 9. Please try and avoid making the program unnecessarily complicated. It is very tempting to include routines that are very cleverly designed, having taken a long time to write and look particularly impressive, but are not particularly advantageous to the program as a whole. 10. The program should be self-documenting, or have a separate text file or BASIC program describing how to use it. 11. Please check your programs carefully, and in particular that any newcomer to the program can operate it without difficulty. 12. Please send your programs, preferably on 80 track 5.25 inch discs, formatted for ADFS, to the address above. Listings are not needed. Please state the make and model of any equipment that the program uses, including details of your micro. __________________________________________________________________________ IBM PC: 1. Although IBM software will run on a very wide range of machines, we can only test routines using one specific make - the IBM PS2 Model 30 with VGA graphics. If you suspect your programs may not operate on this machine, please give full details of the system you have used for its development. 2. Shareware type software from the original authors can be accepted, but advertising of other products cannot. Please ensure your program does not require the recipient to make further purchases in order to use the program, unless it is a routine specifically for use with a particular software package they already own. 3. Programs should be self-documenting, or accompanied by a text file describing its use and operation. 4. Please send your programs on PCDOS (or MSDOS) format 360k 5.25 inch or 720k 3.5 inch discs.
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