USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. 8 Bit Hello again all you lucky ADFS users. I have spent an unusually large amount of time selecting the software from the pool this time. There should be a nice mix of software here. 1. Clip Art. Air Transport. Submitted by K2O Stephan Richardson. Stephan promises more pictures on different themes. The clips are loaded in by the program "WEPrev". Select the file to view by typing its name and then pressing "Y" or "N" to invert the picture or view normally. 2. The Acorn Hackers Purity Test. This is a text file taken from TBI-61 Comm-edy, a disc packed with similar text files. I tested myself on this to find that I scored 01101100, a Hacker apparently. There are some very interesting questions in the test. The question "Have you ever voided warranty on the day of purchase?" for instance. 3. "Shawty" of Digital Solutions has submitted a DFS disc full of software shortly to be put into the TBI-pool. I have included the whole of side 2 of the disc in the ADFS version of issue 37. Here is the info file by Shawty: File List --------- Loader & Loadscr ---------------- A Loader Routine for the 8BS Magazine Disks, Music is in noige format and it can display a screen in all modes. Files in the R Directory ------------------------ Just a small demo I did when I first started programming the BBC a long time ago. Type *DIR R then Chain RayRun Files in the S Directory ------------------------ Sideways ram images of 3 pieces of music *SRLOAD them or use your SWR load utility then use :- *MUSICON to turn on the tune *MUSICOFF to turn it off *MUSICNAME to display the title Files in the T Directory ------------------------ My Library of useful procedures (Well part of it anyway), all are in text format and all start at line 10000, use *EXEC to load them. That's Shawty's info file, it documents the software quite well for me. Please note that the only items from the above list available from the main 8BS menu are the loader screen and RayRUN. All the other programs (music Roms and SPOOLed utilities) must be loaded in the manner described in Shawty's info. Please also bear in mind that when Shawty refers to a directory, you must preface that with $.ADFSEXTRA.DigiSol. When viewing the title screen on demo 1 please do not get confused. Yes, I know the screen says Issue 34 and this is really issue 37. Why not use the loader to display your own screen? 4. Included on this issue is a questionnaire summary. Some of the answers are blanked out as they would be of no interest to anyone but myself. 5. A game that I found on the disc I used at the Acorn User Show. It is an interesting puzzle that some of you may have seen before. I shall give you no info as half the fun is discovering what you are supposed to do and how to do it. 6. A TBI pool summary, taken directly from the software that I use to analyse the catalogue, the file that I have saved to this disc is the first stage of the 3 page summary catalogue sent out to enquiries. The next stage is to separate this summary into pages, take every odd page out and join them together. Then I take every even page, reverse the order and save them. A short program then dumps the files to the printer in the correct order for the number of summaries required. There, wasn't that interesting! 7. Word Builder By Dave Carlos Taken from FAC-1-6 available from the 8BS TBI pool There seems to be a lot of interest in jumbled words at the moment, so I have had a dig about in the library and found this. WORD - BASIC file Young children who are learning to spell will find this program a joy to use. It has bright colourful graphics and plenty of jingles. This helps to keep their interest in what could otherwise be a boring learning task. Some instructions on how to play the game are displayed for the student to read. The program first asks which group of words the student wishes to be tested on. It then asks which level of difficulty is required. Next, the computer asks if sound is wanted or not. When the selections are made a word is displayed on the screen. The letters are jumbled up. The student presses the letter they want to place. Then he/she moves an arrow under the place where they think the letter should be to build the word. If it is positioned correctly they then select the second letter and so on until the whole word is completed. As correct letters are selected and placed a picture of a house is built up on the screen. This provides the student with an instant picture of how well they are doing. A jolly tune and the full picture of the house reward the student when they have completed the word. A few bytes left spare, so just a few facts and figures to pad out: 175 Names on the membership list with about 20 of those probably gone forever and about 100 very active, the rest write once every 3 or 4 months. New members joining at the rate of up to 3 a day but on average probably 2 a week. The accounts look pretty sad at the moment, mainly because I have just shelled out a fair bit for the copyright on Fast Access. No problem though, no chance of any changes to charges yet. There have been 3691 discs issued from the TBI pool. Of which 52 are Fast Access discs, so they should pay for themselves in a year or so. My sister bought me a noticeboard for my birthday. That's it. I have run out of things to say. Must read my little Peter a bedtime story. Well that's it for another issue, have fun. Thanks for all your support. PRESS BREAK PRESS BREAK MADE YOU LOOK!