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  3.                           THE DATTRAX DISK FOR THE STOS                         
  4.                              USER CLUB... CONTENTS...                           
  5.                                                                                 
  6.  I MUST FIRST SAY WHAT A GREAT PLEASURE IT IS TO BE IN THE STOS USER CLUB (NOT  
  7. TOO MUCH GROVELLING!) AND THAT THE CONTENTS OF THIS DISK IS SET OUT IN ITS OWN  
  8. ORDER. THE ENDINGS OF THE FILES TELL YOU WHAT THE FILE IS LIKE, THERE ARE FOUR  
  9. DIFFERENT FILE ENDINGS:                                                         
  10.      FILE ENDING                                 WHAT IT STANDS FOR             
  11. -------------------------------------------------------------------------       
  12.        LMW                                            LET ME WIN!               
  13.        ACB                                            ACCESSORY                 
  14.        DMO                                            DEMO                      
  15.        STS                                       DOES SOMETHING WITH THE STOS   
  16.                                                       PICTURE (ON THE DISK)     
  17.                                                                                 
  18.                                                                                 
  19.                                                                                 
  20.                                                                                 
  21.  10LINER!.LMW :                                                                 
  22.      THIS IS MY SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO THE 10 LINER COMPETITION. IT USES NO      
  23.  SPRITES AND NO SCREENS, JUST SIMPLE CHARECTERS. THE IDEA IS TO CATCH AS MANY   
  24.  EGGS IN YOUR CUP AS POSSIBLE. THE CUP IS CONTROLLED BY THE MOUSE AND THE EGGS  
  25.  CAN COME DOWN AT THREE DIFFERENT SPEEDS.                                       
  26.                                                                                 
  27.                                                                                 
  28. 3D.ACB:                                                                         
  29.     A SHORT PROGRAM (AREN'T THEY ALL?!?) THAT PRODUCES A BOX ZOOMING OFF TO THE 
  30. VANISHING POINT. THE VANISHING POINT IS CONTROLLED BY THE MOUSE AND THE SIZE OF 
  31. THE BOX BY THE LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS.                                    
  32.                                                                                 
  33. BOUNCE.STS:                                                                     
  34.     IN YOUR CALL FOR NEW APPEARS I HAVE COME UP WITH A FEW. THIS ONE BOUNCES    
  35. THE STOS PICTURE WITH A NICE LITTLE PING AS IT LANDS.                           
  36.                                                                                 
  37. COLLDEMO.ACB:                                                                   
  38.     WE ALL KNOW STOS GIVES A WIERD NUMBER WHEN YOU DO A COLLIDE STATEMENT,      
  39. WELL, WITH THIS ROUTINE AND FORMULAR YOU RECIVE THE SPRITE NUMBER HITTING A     
  40. PERTICULLAR SPRITE. UNFORTUNATELY IT ONLY WORKS WITH ONE SPRITE HITTING ANOTHER 
  41. BUT THATS THE WAY THE BISCUIT FALL TO BITS.                                     
  42.                                                                                 
  43. COPIER.ACB:                                                                     
  44.     I BET YOUR SAT THERE THINKING, "NOW WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS DO?" WELL, IT   
  45. COPIES FILES FROM ONE DISK TO ANOTHER! WOW! "BUT THERE'S ONE OF THEM ON THE     
  46. STOS WORD DISK" YOU SAY, "AH!" I REPLY, "BUT I MADE THIS ONE MONTHS BEFORE BUT  
  47. COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO SEND YOU IT!"                                           
  48.                                                                                 
  49. COS/SIN.ACB:                                                                    
  50.     YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WANT A SPRITE TO ROTATE ROUND ANOTHER WHERE EVER IT GOES? 
  51. WELL USING COS AND SIN YOU CAN DO THAT!                                         
  52.                                                                                 
  53. DIRECT.ACB:                                                                     
  54.     IF YOUR'E LIKE ME AND CAN'T BE BLEEPED AT PUTTING THE DIR ON THE DISK LABEL 
  55. THEN THIS COULD BE USELESS...OOPS! I MEAN USEFUL!                               
  56.  SIMPLY NUMBER YOUR DISK AND PLACE IT IN THE DRIVE. LOAD IN THE DIR INTO THE    
  57. TABLE AND SAVE THE TABLE. YOU CAN LOAD TABLES AND PRINT SO YOU CAN FLICK YOUR   
  58. FINGER AT THE PIECE OF PAPER AND KNOW WHAT DISK A FILES ON. I'VE BEEN A GOON    
  59. AND SAVED A TABLE ON DISK FOR YOUR PEEPERS!                                     
  60.                                                                                 
  61. ECOLER.ACB:                                                                     
  62.     I WAS SAT THERE USING STOS TO MAKE A LITTLE BLAST SHMUCK OUT OF POOR        
  63. DEFENSLESS BLEBS WHEN I THOUGHT "WHY NOT SEND IT IN!" SO I STUCK IT ON THIS     
  64. DISK AND CALLED IT COCA COLA! THEN I CHANGED MY MIND AND CALLED IT E-COLA OR    
  65. ECOLLER.                                                                        
  66.                                                                                 
  67. FLY.ACB+FLY.CMP:                                                                
  68.     PRETTY POO REALLY. I WAS FIDDLING ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE ONE OF THOSE STAR    
  69. FEILDS THAT FLY TOWARDS YOU BUT ITS REALLY SLOW, SO I COMPILED IT! BUT IT WAS   
  70. STILL PRETTY SLOW. (HAVE A LOOK AT THE STARZ AND TURBO STARZ AND LOADS A STARZ, 
  71. THERE PRETTY GOOD.)                                                             
  72.                                                                                 
  73. GAME 1-4.ACB                                                                    
  74.     JUST SOME GAME MODULES ( PRETTY GOOD WORDS CONSIDERING I'M 13! ) FEEL FREE  
  75. TO USE...                                                                       
  76.                                                                                 
  77. GRID.ACB:                                                                       
  78.     ANYONE WANT A GRID FOR SOMETHING?                                           
  79.                                                                                 
  80. HOMEIN.ACB:                                                                     
  81.     RUN THIS AND MOVE YOUR MOUSE BEFORE THE DREADED...ERM...POLYMARK GETS YOU!  
  82.                                                                                 
  83. KALLIDER.ACB:                                                                   
  84.     NOW THIS MED RES COLLIDERSCOPE IS SMART, RUN IT AND USE THE MOUSE TO        
  85. CONTROL A LINE (LENGTH CONTROLLED BY VARIABLE F IN LINE 10) WHICH IS COPIED TO  
  86. ANOTHER 4 PLACES OF THE SCREEN.                                                 
  87.                                                                                 
  88. LOSTARS.ACB:                                                                    
  89.     LOADS OF STARS PRODUCES LOADS OF STARS ON THE SCREEN, SCROLLING!. ITS       
  90. ACTUALLY A SCREEN COPY BUT IT PRODUCES QUITE A GOOD EFFECT. (NO IT DOESN'T!     
  91. DONT LIE!)                                                                      
  92.                                                                                 
  93. MODECONV.ACB:                                                                   
  94.     THIS CONVERTS YOUR PI1'S INTO PI2'S AND BACK, ALTHOUGH IT LOOSES THE        
  95. QUALITY, BUT IT DOES ITS BIT.                                                   
  96.                                                                                 
  97. MTCLETT.ACB:                                                                    
  98.     GIVES MULTI COLOURED LETTERING, ALTHOUGH IT IS A BIT SLOW FOR GAMES.        
  99.                                                                                 
  100. PUPPETS.STS:                                                                    
  101.    BOUNCES MY STOS PICTURE LIKE PUPPETS.(MY PICTURE IS UNCOPYRIGHTED LIKE       
  102. EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS DISK SO USE IT FREELY)                                  
  103.                                                                                 
  104. RANDOM.ACB:                                                                     
  105.     MY BROTHER WANTED 16 NUMBERS ALL JUMBLED UP BUT NOT REPEATED SO, BEING THE  
  106. AMAZING PERSON I AM, I OBLIGED!                                                 
  107.                                                                                 
  108. SCRNFLP.STS:                                                                    
  109.     FLIPS MY PICTURE HALF WAY HORIZONTALLY.TRY IT!                              
  110.                                                                                 
  111. SCROLL.STS:                                                                     
  112.     SCROLLS MY PICTURE ON...SOME HOW! (I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW COS I'M WRITING     
  113. THIS ON THE GEM VERSION OF STOS WORD AND I CAN'T LOAD IT UP!)                   
  114.                                                                                 
  115. SCROLLER.ACB:                                                                   
  116.     MY SCROLLER THAT SCROLLS TEXT IN A HUMP!                                    
  117.                                                                                 
  118. SEASICK.STS:                                                                    
  119.     BRINGS MY PICTURE ON LIKE OCEAN WAVES...OH ! A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVES, A   
  120. LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVES...                                                      
  121.                                                                                 
  122. SPREAD.STS:                                                                     
  123.     I COULDN'T PERFECT THIS IN TIME SO I'VE JUST SENT YOU IT REGARDLESS. IT'S   
  124. MEANT TO SPREAD MY PICCY ON LIKE IT DOES WHEN IT COMES ON AS STOS IS LOADING    
  125. UP. (PLEASE GET CHRIS TO ASK OUR PAL FRANCIOUS HOW HE DID IT...)                
  126.                                                                                 
  127. STARZ.ACB+STARZ.CMP:                                                            
  128.     NOW THIS IS WORTH A LOOK (ESPECIALLY THE COMPILED VERSION) BECAUSE 50 STARS 
  129. GO PARRALLAXILY SCROLLING ACROSS THE SCREEN CONTROLLED BY THE CURSOR KEYS. (I   
  130. MADE THIS ABOUT A MONTH AGO WITH EVERY THING ELSE BUT LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I     
  131. COULDN'T BE BLEEPED TO SEND IT TO YOU)                                          
  132.                                                                                 
  133. TRI3D.ACB:                                                                      
  134.     DOES A NICE TRIANGLE. SEE 3D.ACB FOR CONTROLS.                              
  135.                                                                                 
  136. TURBSTAR.ACB+TURBSTAR.CMP:                                                      
  137.     AFTER MAKING THE STARZ.ACB+CMP I WANTED THEM FASTER, SO I MADE THEM FASTER, 
  138. IN FACT I'VE MADE THEM AS FAST AS I COULD! PLEASE HACK AND IF YOU FIND A FASTER 
  139. WAY PLEASE SEND IT TO ME.                                                       
  140.                                                                                 
  141. WIERD.ACB:                                                                      
  142.     WHEN RUN YOU ARE PRESENTED WITH A BLACK SCREEN. PRESS THE MOUSE KEY (1) AND 
  143. HOLD DOWN. NOW MOVE THE MOUSE AROUND. PRESS SPACE OR OTHER MOUSE KEY OR BOTH    
  144. MOUSE KEYS (I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH!) TO CLS.                                    
  145.                                                                                 
  146. WIZER.ACB:                                                                      
  147.     A LITTLE DEMO OF MY EXELLANT FIVE MINIUTE PROGRAMMING SKILL. I ACTUALLY     
  148. TIMED MY SELF TO MAKING A DEMO IN FIVE MINS! (THE SCREEN AT THE END TOOK ABOUT  
  149. 3 MINS EXTRA , I USED SIN AND COS IF YOUR WONDERING, BUT WE WON'T COUNT THAT!)  
  150. . HAVE A GO AT SLOWING DOWN AND SPEEDING UP THE COLOUR CHANGE. ITS SOMEWHERE IN 
  151. THE FIRST SCREEN OF LISTING. IT SAYS SOMETHING LIKE WAIT X: READ A: COLOUR      
  152. WHATEVER.                                                                       
  153.                                                                                 
  154. WORM.ACB:                                                                       
  155.     USE THE MOUSE TO PLACE AND ERASE CIRCLES IN WORM LIKE FASHION. (I HOPE YOU  
  156. DON'T THINK ME A BIG HEAD BUT I KNEW HOW TO CREATE THE WORM EFFECT BEFORE YOU   
  157. MENTIONED IT IN A PREVIOUS ISSUE.) PRESS T TO TYPE IN TEXT OR E TO ERASE OR ESC 
  158. TO QUIT.                                                                        
  159.                                                                                 
  160.  ALSO ON THE DISK THERE IS A LITTLE GAME FOR YOU TO PLAY. IT IS CALLED CHOPPER  
  161. PILOT AND IS A COMPLETE RIP OFF OF SILKWORM. IT FEATURES A HORIZONTAL SCROLLING 
  162. LANDSCAPE AND ... ERM ... THATS ABOUT IT REALLY!                                
  163.                                                                                 
  164. ALL OF THE GAMES/UTILITIES ON THIS DISK HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ME ON STOS V 2.4   
  165. AND ARE ALL PUBLIC DOMAIN. YOU MAY PUBLISH ANY CODING AT ALL WHEREVER (IF ITS   
  166. WORTH IT!)                                                                      
  167.                                                                                 
  168.  MY ADDRESS:                                                                    
  169.                                                                                 
  170.             TONY PORRITT (THE 13 YEAR OLD WIZZ KID!)                            
  171.              32 CLIFTON AVENUE,                                                 
  172.               HARTLEPOOL,                                                       
  173.                CLEVELAND,                                                       
  174.                 ENGLAND,                                                        
  175.             TS-26-9QN.                                                          
  176.