┴ FEW MONTHS AGO, ╔ DOWNLOADED A CHECKING ACCOUNT PROGRAM FROM ╤-╠INK. ┴FTER USING FOR JUST A FEW MINUTES, ╔ DISCOVERED THAT IT JUST WOULD NOT MEET MY NEEDS. ╔T SEEMED THAT, AT TIMES, IT WOULD GIVE REDICULOUS FIGURES FOR THE BALANCES ON THE REGISTER. ┴FTER A FEW ATTEMPTS OF TRY TO FIX THE PROGRAM, ╔ DECIDED THAT ╔ JUST WASN'T UP TO THE TASK OF FOLLOWING THE PROGRAMER'S THOUGHTS. ╙O, ╔ DECIDED TO WRITE MY OWN PROGRAM.
┴FTER A LITTLE TESTING OF MY PROGRAM, ╔ DECIDED THAT PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM ╔ DOWNLOADED WAS THE WAY THE 64 HANDLES NUMBERS (AT LEAST FROM WITHIN A BASIC PROGRAM). ╔ SOON DISCOVERED THAT THIS WAS A FAIRLY WELL KNOWN FACT (╙O WHERE HAVE ╔ BEEN ALL THIS TIME! ┬Y THE WAY IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF THIS RUN THIS LITTLE PROGRAM: 10 A=100: B=95.55: C=A-B: PRINT C). ─ETERMINED THAT THERE MUST BE A WAY TO OVERCOME THESE PROBLEMS, ╔ BEGAN THE LONG PROCESS OF RESEARCHING, TESTING, DEBUGGING, RESEARCHING, RE-WRITING, TESTING, DEBUGGING, RE-WRITING, TESTING, RESEARCHING...(YOU GET THE IDEA). ╫ELL, ╔ BELIEVE ╔ HAVE INDEED COME UP WITH A CHECKBOOK PROGRAM THAT CAN BE COUNTED ON TO KEEP TRACK OF A SINGLE CHECKING ACCOUNT: FAITHFULLY, AND ACCURATELY. ╔T DOES OF COURSE HAVE IT'S LIMITATIONS (╔'LL DISCUSS THESE IN A MOMENT), BUT AT LEAST IT WILL DO THE ADDING AND SUBTRACTING RIGHT.
├=HECKBOOK 64 (NOT A VERY ORIGINAL NAME TO SAY THE LEAST) WAS WRITTEN IN BASIC; THEN COMPILED TO ADD A BIT OF SPEED. ╘HERE ARE 3 FILES NEEDED TO RUN ├=HECKBOOK 64: ├HECKBOOK64 (THE BOOT), ├┬.═┴╔╬, AND ╥╘╠-64. ╔N ACTUAL FACT, YOU CAN LOAD ├┬.═┴╔╬ WITH ",8,1" THEN "RUN", HOWEVER, THE BOOT PERFORMS THE VERY IMPORTANT FUNCTION OF DISABLING STOP/RESTORE (SO THAT YOU DON'T LOSE ALL YOUR NEWLY RECORDED DATA). ╙O PLEASE, ╠╧┴─ ╫╔╘╚ ╘╚┼ ┬╧╧╘. (╔NCIDENTLY, ╔ TRIED TO DISABLE STOP/RESTORE FROM WITHIN THE MAIN PROGRAM, BUT NO MATTER WHAT ╔ DID THE COMPILER WOULDN'T LET ME BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ENDEAVOR).
╠IMITATIONS
╘HE ONLY REAL LIMITATIONS OF ├=HECKBOOK 64 IS THE NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS THAT IT CAN HANDLE. ╔F YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT HAS MORE THAN 100 TRANSACTIONS PER MONTH, THEN THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT SUIT YOU. ╔F YOUR ACCOUNT HAS MORE THAN 50 OUTSTANDING TRANSACTIONS PER MONTH, AGAIN THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT MEET YOUR NEEDS. ┴T THE POINT THAT YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER MORE THAN 100 TRANSACTIONS INTO THE REGISTER CREATED BY THIS PROGRAM IT WILL CRASH WITH A BAD SUBSCRIPT ERROR. ─URING RECONCILIATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT, IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 50 OUTSTANDING TRANSACTIONS, AGAIN THE PROGRAM WILL CRASH WITH A BAD SUBSCRIPT ERROR. (╔ HAVE PLANS TO PUT OUT A VERSION 1.1, IF THERE IS ENOUGH INTEREST, TO ALLOW FOR MORE THAN THE 100/50 LIMIT. ╧R, TO AT LEAST WRITE AROUND THE BAD SUBSCRIPT PROBLEM, AGAIN, IF THERE IS ENOUGH INTEREST.) ╔ FEEL THAT THE CURRENT LIMITS OF THE PROGRAM WILL SUIT THE AVERAGE PERSON. ─URING THIS PAST ├HRISTMAS SEASON, MY ACCOUNT HAD 83 TRANSACTIONS.
╧NE OTHER LIMITATION, WHEN DEFINING YOUR BILLS FILE, DO NOT EXCEED 20 BILLS. (╙AME STORY AS ABOVE.)
╘O THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THESE ARE THE ONLY REAL LIMITAIONS TO THE PROGRAM. ═OST (NOT WANTING TO GO TOO FAR OUT ON A LIMB WITH "ALL") DISK ERRORS WILL NOT CRASH THIS PROGRAM. ╘HERE IS PROVISION MADE TO BACKUP YOUR DATA ON EXITING THE PROGRAM, AND THERE IS PROVISION WITHIN THE PROGRAM TO USE YOUR BACKUP DATA DISK IN CASE OF DISK ERRORS.
─OCUMENTAION
├=HECKBOOK 64 IS ENTIRELY MENU DRIVEN, BUT TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, ╔'VE INCLUDED A THOROUGH "DOC" FILE. ╔F YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ╔ MAY BE REACHED ON ╤-╠INK ("─╧├╘╧╥ 99"), OR AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
