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GREETZ to U all - as far as I can make out this is Amiga PD speak for Hello
COLOUR THE ALPHABET
and
SIMPLE SUMS
by Duncan Moran
Both of these programmes were written with AMOS for my children. If they
are of use to you and yours please feel free to do with them what you will
providing that -
The programmes are supplied FREE of charge. You may ask for a SMALL fee
if you provide a disc copying service or Public Domain library service.
Copies of this disc must be supplied complete and the programmes must not
be altered in anyway. Yes - I know you could make a better job of them!
But if I am to be moaned at - it should be because of my own shortcomings
and not those of someone else.
If you are supplying copies of this disc make sure you have Narrator in
Devs and Translator in Libs.
Simple Sums:
============
(A misnomer I'm afraid)
Was the first thing I wrote with the (almost) ever-so-wonderful AMOS. It
was the first programming I had done for a number of years and started out
as a LET C=A+B type programme to which I added a sprite from the Amos disc
to see how they worked. Pretty impressive eh! The music(!?!) was done
with MED (version 3) as an experiment to see how that worked. Simple Sums
is included here to encourage the many would be programmers I know to
persevere and put something simple together themselves. I was somewhat
disappointed to see that the new (March 1992) "Amiga Shopper" course on
programming, in common with too many "introductory" texts, has introduced
binary & hexadecimal notation in the very first section. I would have
thought that this is unnecessary and more likely to discourage rather than
encourage the beginner. But then - what do I know?
Colour The Alphabet:
====================
This went through various stages and the present version is number 3. The
code for the earlier version became such a mess that I started from
scratch and made it all nice and neat with those dinky procedure thingys.
PROBLEMS: My youngest can cause all manner of problems to appear which I
am unable to reproduce - perhaps I should chew the discs too!
The speech (especially - phonetic mode) can be unclear; adults
may want to clarify this for the younger user. I am not sure
that the phonetic bit is accurate but was the nearest I could
manage. The sprite animation is frozen when the computer is
talking - this seemed the safest option when the programme was
being tested by such enthusiastic clickers!
VERSION 4: I had planned a further level which tested spelling - colour
the right letters in the right order. If anyone would like
this feature please let me know.
I had planned to have an option on level one which named the
colours in French German Welsh whatever. It was hard enough to
get the Amiga to speak in clear English and will obviously take
some experimentation to get the pronunciation right for other
languages. Any suggestions?
THIS: Document reader was a last minute addition. I could not run
the regular readers from within the compiled programmes - you
probably can but I couldn't - so I wrote this to read a
straight ASCII file. I will do a better one, if no one else has
done it, and put it out seperately. If you want to use this one
you should COPY READDOC onto your disc and have an ASCII file
called DOC (as in Bugs Bunny) on the same disc.
HINT: Dont WASTE too much time preparing your DOC (Tee Hee!)
This may work better on the 1st of the 4th.
NEXT: will be First Typing a simple typing programme which allows your
young typist to concentrate on getting the words right without
getting too upset and kicking her dad when "itdoesntlookright".
Craymos is a CRAY emulator written with AMOS. Of course I had
to wait until the AMOS COMPILER was released so as to get the
whole thing ticking over at an acceptable rate. This will be a
six disc set and will include an MS DOS compatible COBOL
compiler - just what you have been waiting for!
Compute A Sketch is a simple drawing programme which can be used
to create simple programmes OR a simple programming programme
which can be used to create simple drawings. Confused? Think
of it as a cut down LOGO or an upgraded CESIL (remember CESIL?)
Any comments or ideas or money or discs or stamps or unwanted gifts can be
simply sent to this simple address -
Duncan Moran
24 First Avenue
Colwyn Bay
Clwyd
LL28 4DQ
UK
BYE - Amiga PD speak for bye!
P.S. Some or all of the above may not be true.