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^C^1Blue Notes

To: BBD

   I found your April Fool joke, in fact I am returning the current issue disks
to you all.  Think you have a bad sector on disk #1.  At least I couldn't get it
to run.  (you all is southern for the whole bunch)

   Would appreciate new disks without the April Fool sector on them.  Or was
this a test to see if we could solve the bad sector problem.  Well it was fun.

   The magazine has been very interesting.  I have an EGA monitor at home and
was glad you fixed the problem with the screen, because every time it bounced,
strange things happened.  All is well now with the "Go E" command.

    Bye for now and may all your Aprils be foolish.

PS:  How do I remove all those ---------.100 etc from the directories ?

^RR. Lenz
^RWaunakee, WI

^1>   We're sorry about the bad sectors; such things sometimes creep in despite
^1>our best efforts at quality control.  We always replace such disks free.
^1>   Regarding the zero-length delimiter files, "DEL --------.*" will work, but
^1>why do you want to remove them?  They're there to separate files related to
^1>different programs in the directory, so that the DIR listing is more attractive
^1>and informative than the usual random bunch of files all lumped together.
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Dear Big Blue Disk:

   I was a little cautious when I bought your issue #13.  I have a Sanyo MBC-555
with a monochrome monitor which I have reconfigured (by changing dip switches)
so it thinks it is a color monitor.  I do not have a Color/Graphics adapter.
For months, I have drooled over IBM and compatible software that required CGA,
but for $9.95 I figured it was worth a chance.

   I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to run the WORDS OF FORTUNE pro-
gram after telling it I DID have a color monitor.  One problem: when "bankrupt"
came up on a spin, my computer hung up and I had to shut it off to recover
control.  Any idea why?  Also, I was not able to get any sound.

   Do all of your Big Blue Disks require CGA?  Any idea what kind of problems I
might encounter with other programs while using a monochrome monitor (Zenith)
that thinks it's a color monitor?  My Sanyo supports RGB monitors without any
modifications.

^RAlan D. Hoeschen
^RP.O. Box 7515
^RPueblo West, CO.  81007

P.S.  What about some pen pals out there?  If permissible, please print my
address.  I would be interested in corresponding with other hackers out there
and maybe swap some program ideas, etc.

^1>   Apparently, your system IS CGA-compatible, since Words Of Fortune requires
^1>graphics capability.
^1>   Not all of our programs require a CGA, but some do, particularly "Picture
^1>This" graphics programs.
^1>   Your comment is the first I've heard about Words Of Fortune locking up the
^1>system.  I'll check into it.  Any other users have that problem?  Could be an
^1>obscure bug, or maybe a random glitch that will never occur again.  We'll see.
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Dear Big Blue,

   I wrote to you about putting Big Blue Disk on high capacity 5 1/4" floppies.
You wrote to me and told me how to do it.  I don't need to know how to do it. I
know that already!  If I wanted to do that I wouldn't have asked you to make
that option available.  Just think, if you had gone with that option, I would
have gotten all the documentation for the spreadsheet.  I would pay 2 dollars a
month more just to have your magazine on the high capacity floppies.  Would you
think about adding this option??  What about the new computers that only have a
3 1/2" floppy. Will they be left out in the cold??

   Why not have a batch file on the disk so your readers could print out all the
text files on your disk.  I don't have the time to sit at the computer and read
all the text files on disk.  That would keep my bulletin board down too long. I
am proud to annouce that I have gone multi-user on my bbs.

^RJerry Scherer
^RWichita, KS

^1>   We now offer BIG BLUE DISK on 3 1/2" disks as well as 5 1/4".  However, we
^1>have no plans to offer it on high-capacity 5 1/4" floppies, since that is a
^1>fairly small market, and those drives can read the normal 5 1/4" disks anyway.
^1>   A program to print all text from an issue is a good idea, and we'll consider
^1>publishing one in the future.