USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. USE CURSOR KEYS TO SCROLL TEXT. GENERAL MESSAGES GENERAL MESSAGES The 8-Bit Software Disaster! The 8 Bit Software Disaster! It was a dark and stormy night. Actually it had stopped raining when disaster struck. A small quantity of beer spilt into the drawer, not just any drawer but the drawer that holds the 8-Bit Software pool. Well, things were certainly swimming now! Never has so little gone so far. The keeper of the 8-Bit Software pool was by now doing a fair impression of a headless chicken. The settled children were now being summoned to do various tasks, tell Stephan I've had a disaster! Get me some towels! JOHN (This is the third shout and the poor lad's in bed). The house is now well disturbed and in turmoil, but what can we mere mortals do? In fairness the air was not blue but despondency abounded, "Oh no! OH NO! Oh, I don't belive this!" was repeated frequently. One thing I have learned in 15 years is keep your head down. It's often not as bad as it seems. I decided my first priority was to resettle the children into bed whilst the keeper wrung his hands over dripping disks and repeated "Oh no!" a few more times. Well, it's an hour later and the disaster is not of the magnitude first thought, but is still being mopped up. Many disks are very wet and sticky, the keeper has declared he needs a can! I'd have thought he's seen more than enough for one day. I've got a pile of towels to wash, an exhausted hair dryer and the keeper has the remains of a mess to sort out that will take a week, only he will try to do it before he goes to bed! Still it's given me a bit of typing practice. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: D5B (Jon Ripley) Subject: Hi! Hello all 8BS members out there! My name is Jon Ripley and I have been subscribing for a couple of issues and I am very impressed by 8BS (and the fact that there are other BBC users out there! I own BBC B, BBC B+, Master 128, Electron, Spectrum 48k, C16+4, Amstrad CPC464, IBM286PC. (Among others) And a EPSON FX-80 and NEC Pinwriter P6+ printers. Everything apart from the BBC stuff is piled up against a wall of my home. (Well apart from the BBC stuff I use anyway!) Some of you may receive personal messages from me with this issue (answers to help, etc!). I have quite an extensive knowledge on most aspects of the BBC/Elk/Master/Arc and general computing as well! Please, if you have any programming queries or suggestions for things you would like to see whether they are programs or articles or just general queries/questions. I am willing to help people debug their programs (ADFS/DFS/Tape) for a small charge if you actually send me the program. (No printouts of listings please unless accompanied by the tape/disc when printouts are welcomed!) If you send me a query by post then include return postage/packing (I am only a student!) I am 18 years old and have a 150+IQ, I would like to also correspond with any other high-IQ members! (If we live in the same area then possibly meet for a game of 10 dimensional noughts and crosses!) I would especially like to correspond with other high-IQ younger people to discuss the problems of growing up with a high IQ. Thanks for reading my long, long message and I hope you like my software (hopefully Chris has put it on this disc!) Please contact me if you have any comments, criticisms or suggestions for improvements/changes to any of my submitted articles/programs! My address is; ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: D5B (Jon Ripley) Subject: Planet Earth If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it precious because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would become the greatest wonder known, and people would come to it to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives, because they would know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If only the Earth were only a few feet in diameter. By Unknown ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: D5B (Jon Ripley) Subject: Adventure Game Creator I am currently developing an adventure game creator for the BBC, Master and Electron computers tape/disc based. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions for features that you would like to see included in the program. I shall be submitting it to 8BS in a few issues time and would appreciate any comments or suggestions in advance! My main focus is on ease of use and user-friendliness, (in the creator! I intend to make the adventures for all abilities of adventurer, from the easy to the difficult and impossible (almost!)) I would also like to correspond with any other members interested in adventuring, I have a collection of games and am always looking to increase my collection! Or just talking with other users who are interested in creating adventures. I am especially interested in obtaining copies of The Quill, Graphic Adventure Creator and ALPS (adventure language programming system). ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, From: 0E7 (F.W.Nevin) Subject: TRENDS It would now appear that to find a packet of 5.25" floppy discs on the average computer dealers shelf is as difficult as the water companies preventing water leaking from their mains.(In this part of the world at least) One is left wondering in the present climate of multi-media how long it will be before the 3.5" floppy goes down the same road leaving the CD as King. Then one has to ask oneself the question 'For how long'.What will be the next innovation. Obviously programable CDs but what some ten years or so on.All very nice and tempting but if all our Beebs have packed up by then who will be able to afford the latest technology Obsolecense will have triumphed once again. I only hope our EDITOR has a large stock of floppies on hand to keep us all going Cheers from Fred EDITOR... Ordering disc is always a nightmare, I always seen to have great difficulty. However, there is usually a stock of around 1000 discs in my bedroom! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, From: D2G (Neil Parry) Subject: The 8Bit Universe Do you want to be part of the biggest adventure ever created for BBC, well you can now. If you read the editorial in last months magazine, you would have seen that I was gonig to write an adventure, then I thought, how can I make it different, !BANG! then it hit me one of the kids toys, don't you just love them. I know nearly 200 people who might help, yes It could be you. What I need is all your adventures, everything, big or small, so I can compile them into one BIG adventure. If you send me your adventures (and I hope you will) I will add a code at the end, but will not change it in any other way. Your adventure can be anything you like, as I said above I will add a code at the end thats all. The main program is set in space, you are Sam Peckitt a Pollymorphing Humanoid who travels around space looking for adventure, and with any luck he will find it. The code that I will put at the end of your adventure is the co-ordinate for your onboard computer, which will (Hopefully) take you to your next destination. So you can see the adventure can be never-ending ( Ha Never-ending story get it ) and you could be part of it. If you send an adventure to me you can still play because you wont know where you adventure is in, THEeee 8BITttttt UNIVERSEsssss...... If you decide to send me your adventure(s) I will need to add the code mentioned above, so send the source code please as well. If you fancy a bit of the other I dont want to know, But if you want to be part of THEeee 8BITtttt UNIVERSEsss then send me your adventure now..... DON'T DELAY POST TODAY Neil Parry ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: 20G (Roy Dickens) Subject: SEASON'S GREETINGS /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/ With all good wishes for CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS and the NEW YEAR NEW YEAR To all members and especially all the contributors. Roy /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/ And a big thanks to Chris, our ED.for putting it all together.THANK YOU. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: 20G (Roy Dickens) Subject: My List of items for sale, (a couple of issues ago). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I would like to thank all of you who POP enquired/purchased from my'for sale'list including Ron,Chris, Tim,Paul,Charles,Ray, Roger,Brian,John and many many more. Every thing has been sold now so it pays to advertise. I think that all members should note that .......... Five wanted the Eprom Programer so there maybe four out there who would like one. Four wanted the Zif socket so there maybe three who wish that they had one. Four wanted the Master File DB so again perhaps three need one. I could go on and on,(my incoming phone calls did). So if you have items no longer required why not help some one who may need them. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: 3SQ (Tim Parsons) Subject: JOHN ADAMS D4T Early this year I helped the above Gentleman, he lives at Abbey Gardens in Belfast. I saw a plea for help from him in the Micro Mart. I duly loaned him a Copy of the Disc Doctor Manual and also several disc's full of Master Goodies. Despite several letters that I have since written to him, he has NOT replied AT ALL, nor has he returned or said thank YOU for anything I have sent him !. I see he is NOW a member of our ESTEEMED Club, SO PLEASE let me WARN you in advance, if you have any dealings with this fellow, take note of my previous experience. I have taken the opportunity to send John Adams a message, whether this will bring any better response than my letters I KNOW NOT !! John has specified he doesnt want his phone number known. Tim Parsons 40 Coniston Road Flitwick BEDS MK45 1QH 01525-715013 after 6pm ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, To: 999 (all members) From: 4WL (Martin Wilson) Subject: Elite I'd be interested to hear from people who have encountered the so called space dredgers mentioned in the manuals and completed all the missions in the BBC version. I'd also be interested to hear from any hackers who have looked at the Elite code and found anything interesting? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, PRESS SPACE