NEW TBI ARRANGEMENTS The TBI section is now split up into a number of different areas. Each disk has its own special code. Please note that to order TBI software you must: (i) Enclose enough extra disks for the software you want (ii) Enclose an ADDITIONAL 10p for each disk you want copied (iii) Send enough return P&P to get the whole lot back to you. Note that if an item is listed as "DFS 80T SS" and you are using an 80T DS drive, you can order another DFS 80T SS item on the other side of the same disk. Unless you send a SECOND set of postage and packing, as well as the disk and P&P for the next issue, to return your TBI order in, I will send it whenever the next issue disk is completed. THE GLM PD SECTION See GLM PD catalogue for additional details on these disks. GLM-01 Sound Disk 6 (S06) DFS 80T SS GLM-02 Arcade Games 3 (A03) DFS 80T SS GLM-03 Forth Compiler (L03) DFS 80T SS GLM-04 Miscellaneous 2 (R02) DFS 80T SS GLM-05 Graphics 2 (G02) DFS 80T DS GLM-06 Sound Disk 12 (S12) DFS 80T DS THE YORKSHIRE BOYS SECTION The Yorkshire Boys' software became famous because of (among other things), the quality of its presentation, the humorous nature of much of it, and the amount produced (virtually every disk was almost a full 400K). If you are easily offended then DO NOT order TYB-01, TYB-05, or TYB-06. I would like to hear from anyone who has any more Yorkshire Boys productions, or who can throw any more light on the question of hardware requirements for each disk. TYB-01 Mixmania TYB-02 Samples Disk 01 TYB-03 Samples Disk 02 TYB-04 Samples Disk 03 TYB-05 Mixmania II Vol.1 TYB-06 Mixmania II Vol.2 TYB-07 Retribution Demo Demo All these disks require DFS 80T DS and will not run on any other format. Mixmania contains a number of "mixes" of sampled sound, a menu with (very long) scrolltext, and graphical screens for each mix. Some of the mixes should run without sideways RAM, but most of them require at least one 16K bank - all of them run fine on my Master, but were originally written on and for the BBC B. Mixmania II Vols. 1/2 are in much the same style, although the scrolltexts become increasingly incoherent, which is more than made up for by the presence of a large frog/troll/something-or-other. They run OK on my Master, and presumably on the BBC B as well, though most (?) of the mixes require one 16K SRAM bank. The samples disks each contain a selection of short sound samples (mostly musical), which can be loaded in and played, speeded up and slowed down, and stuttered by the menu program supplied. The results can be quite amusing. I think these will run on both B and Master, and they don't require any SRAM. There are no scrolltexts and no graphics of any real importance. The Retribution Demo Demo contains a mixture of music, scrolltexts and graphics in a totally different style (including a vast slide-show of all the MODE 7 screens they have ever done, and a furry creature that bounces up and down). I am not at all sure about compatibility for this one, but it runs OK on my Master. THE CATALOGUE DISK This will contain the latest updates of the disk-based catalogues from BBC PD and GLM PD, plus any other PD libraries which I can get a disk-based catalogue off (possibly Mad Rabbit PD and Purple Domain PD). Its code is CAT-1. THE OLD TBI DISKS These will hopefully have arrived from Duncan Webster within a week or so. They are as follows (all DFS 80T DS): TBI-01 John Lyons Religious Software - Fidei Defensor TBI-03 Small C compiler and notes - 2 DISCS REQUIRED (despite what everyone says, it's a lot easier than writing in assembly language, and a lot faster, and supposedly more structured, than BASIC!) TBI-04 6502 Macro Assembler & Manual (also supports 65C02 commands if you have a Master) TBI-05 Maths Educational Software - Primary Education TBI-06 TAS BASIC Animation Sequences TBI-07 Chris Richardson Cheats and Utils - REQUIRES 2 DISCS TBI-10 John Lyons Nutritional Software Demo Disc TBI-13 C. Ince Digitised Pictures - REQUIRES 3 DISCS THE XBI SECTION XBI stands for "Xtra Big for Issue", and this section consists of software for ADFS L users (i.e. ADFS 80T DS). This really is a very cheap way of getting PD software - the smallest of the XBI disks contains just over 400K, and most of them contain over 550K. The details of the disks from BBC PD, indicated by their catalogue numbers below, will be found in the BBC PD catalogue, available from the software menu - I suggest you look through it and work out what you want. Bear in mind that if you order XBI 04 through 12, you will be getting (for 90p + disks + return postage & packing) what would originally have cost over #30.00 if ordered from BBC PD. [ Note : one XBI disk has been temporarily removed. ] Note : Alan Blundell has asked me to insert disclaimers for any of the BBC PD disks which I have, or will, alter in any way. I have removed XBI-06 because it is missing several files which I lost - hopefully I will get around to obtaining a new copy very shortly. I have altered BBC PD disk 6 to make it compatible with ADFS, but this is not included anyway (yet). Finally, I have replaced the machine code header programs on two of the disks, which displayed an instructions file, with a simple !BOOT file which displays the same instructions file. If anyone finds anything else which is out of place, please let me know. If you particularly want any software which is listed as "unavailable", I suggest you order it anyway, as I will probably have got around to sorting it out by the time I distribute issue 21. XBI-01 Mad Rabbit PD's MR-17 - Big Disk of BASIC Music -about 110 tunes, well over 600K of music XBI-02 NOT YET AVAILABLE - will hopefully be MR-18, another 110 tunes XBI-03 Massive US shareware C tutorial (BBC PD 48) + X-TEL, a MODE 7 system (screen designer etc.) originally from Red Shift PD XBI-04 BBC PD 70, 92, 107 XBI-05 BBC PD 7, 39, 94 XBI-06 BBC PD 12, 55, 83 - NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE XBI-07 BBC PD 38, 71, 105 XBI-08 BBC PD 49, 96 XBI-09 BBC PD 108, 109 XBI-10 BBC PD 29, 47, 62, 101 XBI-11 BBC PD 2, 33, 106 XBI-12 BBC PD 18, 54, 110 If you order any of XBI-04 to XBI-12, you will have to use DIRCOPY or any other similar program to copy each BBC PD catalogue item from its separate directory on the disk into the $ directory of another ADFS disk in order to use the BBC PD menus. For example, the $ directory of XBI-08 contains two directories, $.49 and $.96. $.49 contains everything from BBC PD disk 49 and $.96 contains everything from BBC PD disk 96.