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!Pinboards/Notepad/ModeApps

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Filename: !Pinboards/Notepad/ModeApps
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File size: 0440 bytes
Load address: 0000
Exec address: 0000
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File contents
Mode Apps

There are many things than can be stuck on to the pinboard. My Risc PC has a few mode change icons there now. Changing the mode can be quite a fiddle theses days, there are so many of them to choose from. Once a particular set of X and Y sizes has been selected with an appropriate number of colours clicking on the Icon Bar�s Display icon will show a long row of numbers and letters coding just what these settings are. If this code is typed in to !Edit with the word �WimpMode� or Con.WimpMode in front of it and if this file is saved with an Obey filetype and stuck on the pinboard then whenever it is clicked the mode changes instantly. This can be very handy when swapping between programs than won�t run in 32k colours correctly, like First Word Plus or My World for example. I have made a set of these obey files which will give all the possible modes available from an un-enhanced machine. These are also on the cover disc in as a special mode changer mini-app (which opens to show one mini-app for each mode). This is also to be found within the finished !Pinboard


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00000030  75 63 6b 20 6f 6e 20 74  6f 20 74 68 65 20 70 69  |uck on to the pi|
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00000050  50 43 20 68 61 73 20 61  20 66 65 77 20 6d 6f 64  |PC has a few mod|
00000060  65 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65  20 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 74  |e change icons t|
00000070  68 65 72 65 20 6e 6f 77  2e 20 43 68 61 6e 67 69  |here now. Changi|
00000080  6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 6d  6f 64 65 20 63 61 6e 20  |ng the mode can |
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000000f0  66 20 58 20 61 6e 64 20  59 20 73 69 7a 65 73 20  |f X and Y sizes |
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00000330  68 65 73 65 20 6f 62 65  79 20 66 69 6c 65 73 20  |hese obey files |
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00000400  6d 6f 64 65 29 2e 20 54  68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61  |mode). This is a|
00000410  6c 73 6f 20 74 6f 20 62  65 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 20  |lso to be found |
00000420  77 69 74 68 69 6e 20 74  68 65 20 66 69 6e 69 73  |within the finis|
00000430  68 65 64 20 21 50 69 6e  62 6f 61 72 64 0a 0a 0a  |hed !Pinboard...|
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