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- BASIC.BIN
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-
- You will be well-familiar by now with the blue/yellow glowing of the
- cursor from within STOS. By making a minor alteration to the file
- BASIC.BIN you can actually change the colours. Here's how:
-
- 6208 bytes from the beginning of the file, the data for the cursor
- flash is held. By writing a simple program you can reprogramme the
- colour of the cursor to anything you like. There is a program included
- on the disk which does it for you.
-
- 4383 bytes from the beginning of the file holds the information about
- the file selector. This includes the text down the right hand side of
- the window: PREVIOUS, DIR, QUIT, RETURN, and the UP and DOWN. The
- program on this disk also allows you to alter these.
-
- 8676 bytes from the beginning of the file holds the word 'Ok' and can
- be changed to any other two-letter phrase, like 'Yo' or '>?' or
- whatever. You can alter this from within the program.
-
- Later on in the file, the names of every single command are held, along
- with a few error statements, and the structure of the Program Editor
- (from pressing <HELP>). Try your hand at changing these yourself.
-
- REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACK-UP OF THE ORIGINAL BASIC.BIN FILE BEFORE DOING
- ALL OF THIS! The program in the 'source' folder automatically renames
- the current BASIC.BIN file to BASIC.ZZZ
-
- Article: BLACK EAGLE 24/7/93
-