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LETTS3
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Filename: | LETTS3 |
Read OK: | ✔ |
File size: | 12EE bytes |
Load address: | FFFF1D00 |
Exec address: | FFFF8023 |
File contents
10MODE3:VDU23,1,0;0;0;0;:VDU14:PRINT''"PRESS <SHIFT> TO SCROLL"'' 20PROCtext 30REPEAT:REPEAT:PRINT''"PLEASE PRESS <F> FOR NEXT FILE, <P> TO PRINT TEXT, <M> FOR MAIN MENU":UNTIL GET$="F" OR GET$="M" OR GET$="P" 40IF GET$="F" THEN CHAIN"$.LETTS4" 50IF GET$="M" THEN CHAIN"$.MENU" 60VDU15:VDU2:PROCtext:VDU3:UNTIL FALSE 70END 80DEF PROCtext 90PRINT"SHOW DISAPPOINTMENT" 100PRINT"*******************" 110PRINT"I Was disappointed on arrival at the Harrogate BAU show to find the stand" 120PRINT"allocated to Pres was occupied by another firm, leaving it an all-32 bit" 130PRINT"circus. Electro Music Research put on their (his?) usual impressive" 140PRINT"demonstration, Acorn had their Notebook to Arc link running, and having" 150PRINT"gone on the Friday I even got to see Dominic Diamond ( who ? ). He was" 160PRINT"there to present prizes for some very good winning entries in a ""Design an" 170PRINT"Acorn User Show Poster"" competition run amongst local schools, and giving" 180PRINT"away models of Lotus cars to anyone who beat him on the new Arc Lotus" 190PRINT"racing game. " 200PRINT 210PRINT"Still, got a free disc for entering the treasure trail competition even" 220PRINT"though my brain, usually good with anagrams, froze and I couldn't see the" 230PRINT"solution. Until 5 minutes after I got home, that is. If you want to try" 240PRINT"it, the letters were:-" 250PRINT 260PRINT" A A C C D E E I I L N N N O O R R S S S T T U Y" 270PRINT 280PRINT"and had to fit into seven words as:-" 290PRINT 300PRINT" _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _" 310PRINT 320PRINT 330PRINT"I'd like to take issue with ""Chadders"" on a couple of points in his letter" 340PRINT"in EUG 9. By definition, anything produced by Acorn (ie the Plus 3 with" 350PRINT"ADFS on 3.5"" Discs) IS the standard, which other add-on manufacturers need" 360PRINT"to follow. Yes I am aware that with so few made / sold, it made little" 370PRINT"enough impression but must still be treated as the standard." 380PRINT 390PRINT"Also I understood that because of variations in disc tolerances, flexing" 400PRINT"of discs etc, floppy disc heads DO rub the disc surface like a tape" 410PRINT"recorder to ensure a good signal. Thus a floppy drive has to stop after" 420PRINT"each access to stop the head wearing away. Only the rigid and" 430PRINT"non-removable nature of a hard disc gives the accuracy needed to allow the" 440PRINT"heads to ""fly"" microns above the disc rather than touching it, in turn" 450PRINT"allowing the platters to be spun faster and continuously." 460PRINT 470PRINT"Apologies to Chis Chadwick and anyone else, but the DOSCOPY routine left" 480PRINT"little space for buffers on a BEEB, and there were other machine" 490PRINT"differences so instead of converting it I embarked on a machine-code only" 500PRINT"Elk version. So far this does a *CAT (or DIR in MSDOS) of the root" 510PRINT"directory (as long as there aren't too many entries), but further" 520PRINT"development is slowing down somewhat. Why do I always seem to have" 530PRINT"trouble finishing any......." 540PRINT 550PRINT"Derek Hilton, Penwortham, Preston." 560PRINT"**************************************************************************" 570PRINT"COULD BE BETTER" 580PRINT"***************" 590PRINT"Thanks for Issue 9 of the magazine. I'll agree with your statement about" 600PRINT"its shortcomings, although the pictures transferred from the Arc looked" 610PRINT"surprisingly good in Elk black and white." 620PRINT 630PRINT"By the way, I didn't select the ""Last Bit"" first (what happened to the" 640PRINT"First Bit?). Also, the second side of the disc has come in very useful," 650PRINT"though it could be used for increasing the contents of the disc in the" 660PRINT"future." 670PRINT 680PRINT"Finally, what happened to make those silly dots (or CTRL codes to be" 690PRINT"technical) appear instead of ""$""'s on the disc. " 700PRINT 710PRINT"James Treadwell, HeadFirst P.D., Southport." 720PRINT"**************************************************************************" 730PRINT"AS I HOPE YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS DISC, THE STANDARD IS ON THE CLIMB" 740PRINT"(NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!) AND THINGS SHOULD IMPROVE STILL FURTHER IN THE" 750PRINT"FUTURE. THERE NEVER WAS A 'FIRST BIT', I THINK YOU ALL GET ENOUGH OF MY" 760PRINT"SPIEL WHEN I INCLUDE REPLIES LIKE THIS, WITHOUT ME HOGGING EXTRA SPACE!" 770PRINT"TALKINGOFSPACE, YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT NOT EVERYONE HAS A DOUBLE SIDED" 780PRINT"DRIVE SO I AM HAVING TO AIM AT THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR (SINGLE SIDED" 790PRINT"DFS) SO EACH ISSUE WILL NOT CONTAIN MORE THAN 200k OF CODING. THE SILLY" 800PRINT"DOTS CAME ABOUT BECAUSE THE SILLY EDITOR USED SLOGGER'S SILLY (OR PERHAPS" 810PRINT"SUPERIOR) PEGASUS DFS SYSTEM WHICH DOESN'T SEEM TO NEED THE CTRL CODE" 820PRINT"PREFIXES, BUT WILL RECOGNISE THEM IF THEY ARE INCLUDED. THE MAJORITY OF" 830PRINT"THE ISSUE 9 DFS DISCS HAD TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE OF THIS, BUT OBVIOUSLY A" 840PRINT"FEW OF YOU WERE ABLE TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM YOURSELVES. I KNOW DEREK" 850PRINT"WALKER USED A DISC EDITOR FOR THIS PURPOSE. WE LIVE AND LEARN EH?........." 860PRINT"**************************************************************************" 870ENDPROC
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