Arrow Keys Move Text ! and 0 Arrow Keys Move Text 0 and f Hello again. Well, it's been about 14 years since the last 8BS disc was issued (29/10/1998), doesn't time fly? So, why another one? No reason really, other than finding a couple of messages on the Winchester disc image when I was looking for something else. It's been a long time since I last looked at that image, for quite a few years, I was unable to read it. Even now I have only found one program that will read it, a simple split program by Wouter Hobers X ADFS. I found the unused messages and thought it would be a pity not to use them (even though there were only a couple). I don't think there is any point in a detailed recap of what has gone on in the intervening years between 1998 and 2013 as it is all documented on the 8BS website on the 'History' page there. Main changes since 8BS-66 are: Lost all my BBC equipment to a condensation disaster in the loft. Recently acquired a new setup, a Master 128 using John Kortink's GoSDC and my TV. Hopefully K8G will help me out with some other bits I am after. As I write this bit in 2012, I have put an announcement on the 8BS website that 8BS-67 is under construction and sent a similar message to the BBC Mailing List asking for submissions. I was amazed to get a response from a couple of people requesting User IDs. Even some submissions from CNC. I suppose it all started when I was trying to put the old magazines on line. For a few years, I had been thinking about the best way to do it and had written a script to present the raw extracted teletext files from the disc images in HTML. It worked to an extent but my programming skills didn't extend to making a decent job of it, it was difficult getting all of the teletext codes converted. It would have been a massive job defining all of the characters. Instead, I put a 'cover all' graphic where any of the graphic codes were, so a lot of the content of the magazine went unseen. Another option tried was an on-line emulator, that as I write this is still on the 8BS website, but it doesn't work very well at all. There is a website at http://8bs.nerdoftheherd.com/about.html where Matt Robinson has converted 8BS-51 to 8BS-66 to HTML. His conversion gave me a few ideas with what is the current conversion page on the 8BS website. On the 8BS website now are all of the 8BS magazines up to and (hopefully if I remember) including this one. The plain text files are displayed as such. Teletext *RUN files were painstakingly screen dumped from Beebem 4 and joined into png images. I adapted the *RUN code so it would display a page at a time rather than a line at a time which speeded up the process considerably, then using Irfanview 'Create Panorama' vertically to join the dumps. Double height went a bit odd if it was at the top or bottom of a page so that needed fixing. The text of those Teletext *RUN files was converted and placed alongside the png images. BASIC listings were made and images converted. Some sounds were recorded. Some video was created too, animated Christmas menus, other things like the Star Wars demos and the Musical Snowmen were turned into movies. An advantage of all this is that the whole 8BS magazine library is now searchable using the 8BS website search. A disadvantage was that there were large quantities of telephone numbers and addresses amongst this stuff that I am fairly sure folks would not be happy about being available on the internet, so the longest job was (hopefully) removing all of these. I discovered two of the disc images had become corrupted at some stage. 8BS 36 and 39 had their side 2s messed up. Fortunately I had backups from very early on that were OK but there must be several hundred of these bad copies milling around the place. Something else I noticed was that Steven Flintham's Prisoner's Dilemma competition didn't ever elicit a response from anyone. I have added that to this magazine disc in an effort to revitalise it. This last magazine is a bit sparse really, despite the heroic efforts of a few contributors to who I am very grateful. So my apologies for that, it has been in the pipeline for almost a year. There are new submissions from a couple of members. There are no messages such as adverts and help that appeared in the earlier magazines although there are some new messages there. There are a couple of messages that I found on my Winchester disc image, it was these that gave me the idea to produce this last magazine. The magazine is padded out with games that I found on the internet. They required the text at this URL to accompany them: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ but that was not really possible due to the file size, it more than filled a DFS disc on its own. Instead I have placed a copy of the text in the zip file along with the magazine disc image. Thank you to Joel for the space for the 8BS website on courgette. Thank you to the dedicated band of contributors that in the past and currently send stuff to 8BS for the website. As I type this, there are 45.7 gigabytes of downloads available on the 8BS website. Keep it coming, there are a lot of people that appreciate it. Well, that's all folks! I hope you find a few minutes entertainment on here. PRESS SPACE PRESS SPACE