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<�"variety of issue 4. But it is a very different board."
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>�"The 205,000 number is common to all elks that I've met."
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G�"SIM CITY .... Reading Alan Davies letter made me dig out my copy"
H�"of Sim City to remind myself what a good game it was. I bought it"
B�"some time ago and for some reason failed to follow my usual"
	H�"practise of making a backup. Imagine the horror when I discovered"

G�"the elk version was shot to ribbons with 'bad block' and 'data?'"
G�"messages all over the shop. Eventually (Hours later, diarists) I"
E�"cleaned it up enough to make a backup and restore the original"

C�"source tape to a usable state.  I suspect Alan has a similar"
E�"problem. Sim City packs a lot into the Elk, making it prone to"
G�"'Bad Program' messages at an uncommon stage. If the city file is"
D�"corrupted it might throw a 'Bad Program' error where a 'data'"
G�"would usually be. I've also  noticed that sometimes it will load"
E�"in Turbo mode, but occasionally gets no further than the first"
J�"loader. Any one else had this?                                     "
�
I�"UPGRADES.... I've spent considerable time with an Acorn Archimedes"
G�"and they are infinitely preferable to the badly thought out PC. "
I�"The sad fact is however that without a PC emulator on board, and  "
J�"very often with, they will not run the packaged software that it   "
J�"is becoming necessary to be familiar with if you want an office    "
F�"job. Lotus 1-2-3 for example. The reasons for upgrading to a 32"
G�"bit Acorn must make allowance for the fact that even after      "
E�"spending all that money you still won't be able to run most PC"
E�"software. Wicked but true. As for buying an Archie for the BBC"
@�"emulator this has to be a bit like buying a Mercedes and "
 K�"installing posh Esgrot seats, surely?                               "
!�
"G�"It is this de facto PC standard that drove me to such a vigorous"
#I�"denouncement of DFS. MS-DOS is the standard for all PC's (Windows "
$G�"not withstanding) and the concept of sub-directories and their  "
%J�"efficient management is quite demanding. I benefitted enormously   "
&J�"from my exposure to ADFS when first faced with a PC, had I only    "
'C�"known DFS I would have been reduced to tears within seconds."
(�
)I�"All Acorns are belting good little machines and elks are a joy for"
*H�"their ease of use and friendly interfaces. I wish I could use my "
+K�"elk at work, really I do.                                           "
,�
-A�"For this reason I am waiting expectantly on Derek Hilton's"
.I�"research into DOS-COPY for the elk. The ability to read/write DOS "
/H�"format discs would be of immeasurable use to me, professionally  "
0E�"and socially. In general terms it would give the old elk an   "
1M�"enormous boost for would-be awfers like moi.                          "
2�
3I�"VIEW...  I really reckon to this WP, but am I the only one who was"
4J�"a bit confused by Bill Woodall's opening para to VIEW in EUG 8? As "
5K�"far as I know View for the Elk came in one version only (E1.0) and  "
6I�"contained the same functionality as View 3.00 for the Master. A   "
7L�"summary of the differences wouldn't amount to much, but View 3/E1    "
8M�"is much more usable than  the common Beeb versions (2.1 and 1.4).     "
9M�"The NAME command exists in View 3/E1 and is useful with skeleton      "
:I�"files (eg LOAD skel - NAME bank5), easily handling the path       "
;Q�"structures of ADFS.                                                       "
<�
=G�"I've used View 2.1 on the Beeb and it's nothing like as friendly"
>E�"without the FUNC key. There are three possible combinations of"
?C�"Shift, CTRL and F key to get the functions available in one "
@J�"combination on the elk.  It also  lacks the features I rely on in  "
AJ�"View E1. Moreover it has irritations such as the need to issue a   "
BM�"NEW command before anything can begin!                                "
C�
DC�"I suspect the Master implementation of View 3 also calls for"
EG�"varying key presses to get a command, making E1 the friendliest "
FK�"version around!                                                     "
G�
HH�"F keys, along with screen mode and colours, can be defined from a"
IJ�"BASIC program that ends by calling up View. I've included a sample "
JJ�"menu program to show what I mean. It assumes a PRES AP2 and an at  "
KE�"least a med.res monitor. Change '*Lang 2' to *W. if you are   "
LL�"without an AP2 rom, tape users may want to edit the references to    "
MM�"external files (Printer driver, *BACKUP etc). I make no apologies     "
NO�"for its quick and dirty look.                                           "
O�
PH�"COBOL... Yeah. I'm supposed to speak this for a living and when I"
QA�"retrained I was given excellent instruction in the use of "
RK�"structured COBOL and remain convinced that it is ideally suited to  "
SL�"complex systems when used in a structured fashion. Sadly it rarely   "
TK�"is, and my life is made miserable by meeting COBOL code that has    "
UN�"been written in the most obtuse way imaginable, riddled with GO TO     "
VM�"commands, illustrated by such comments as '@*~$! knows what this      "
W8�"bit does, but it looks pretty damn meaty to me!'."
X�
YG�"The situation is not helped by the current obsession with C and "
ZJ�"variants which are prettier but much weaker than COBOL. (The Land  "
[B�"Rover of computer languages - it goes anywhere but consider"
\F�"yourself stuffed if you have an  accident involving one). As a "
]G�"professional programmer my advice to Christian Weber is by all  "
^H�"means learn COBOL but get some C as well. I recommend 'Parkin'   "
_M�"available from Smiths.                                                "
`I�"Through no fault of my own, I am now running the south west branch"
aH�"of the retirement home for shagged out old 8-bit Acorn computers."
bF�"One of the more pleasureable aspects of this philantropy is the"
c3�"software my patients often bring with them. "
d�
eI�"Such is the history of this version of 'Mornington Crescent' which"
fJ�"is a fair implementation of the old parlour game. It was originally"
gJ�"a Beeb only effort running in boring black and white in Mode 7 from"
h,�"the Micro User sometime in the 80's. "
i�
jK�"I have converted it to run on a 64k Elk in dazzling London Transport"
kK�"livery, with a slightly more human text interface, an explanation of"
lD�"the simple rules and removed the more irritating routines the"
mI�"original author thought fit to include. I've also debugged it to a"
nJ�"degree which meant correcting a couple of typing errors in the data"
oG�"statements that make up the bulk of this program and make it too"
p(�"large for ordinary 32k machines. "
q�
rI�"There  are still two points where it doesn't run too smoothly, one"
sG�"invariably the other more periodic. Bit like the service on LT I"
tG�"suppose. Have fun finding them. Oh yes, and it's not the current"
u&�"version of the tube map either."
v�
wH�"For those of you who may have picked up on the 'Sorry I Haven't A"
xC�"Clue' radio panel game version of this game this is entirely"
yF�"seperate and uses few of the gambits frequently heard there. In"
zH�"particular I regret the absence of the Took double-twist, and the"
{I�"Rushton grumble is unplayable in any non-radio format of the game."
|F�"However, I think on this occasion a computer implementation has"
}B�"managed to capture the basic flavour of the game-play and I"
~E�"anticipate cheery EUG members spending a deliriously happy few"
1�"minutes before getting bored stupid by it."
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