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DUNNO WHAT TO CALL THIS ARTICLE
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By Tony Greenwood
25/10/93 : 1.21 p.m.
Just a few bit's and bat's from inside my head!. First off, if you are
looking for or expecting the second part of the exellent article by Billy
Allen of Top Notch on the Missing Link Commands, then i am afraid you are
going to be dissapointed. Unfortunatly Billy has'nt as yet sent a second
part. Keefy has tried to get in touch with him but unfortunatly he has'nt
replied. This is by no means a moan as it was very good of him to submit
the articles he did send us. But i am sure you where all looking for more.
If we cannot obtain any more then i will try to explain some of the
commands for you in future issue's of STOSSER.
You will have hopefully seen in this issue of STOSSER a Guest screen. This
is something i would like to continue every month. So if you can write a
small routine with a little message such as Hello to STOSSER and all that
are involved with it. Plus your own personal message to your own Friends,
Contacts, etc, or even just a picture will do. Something colourfull and
containing some sort of message etc. Only PI1's please, I will of course
pack it or whatever. Just dont make any routine too large, plus the usual
rules, ie: Offensive material either Artwork or Language will NOT be
accepted.
Talking of artwork ( Were we ? ), can someone out there make us a LOGO
that can be used in every edition of STOSSER. It must of course have the
word STOSSER in it. In fact just the word STOSSER, but make it
interesting. Such as a snake intertwined in it, or or or or whatever you
like really. Anything at all so long as its eye catching. You will of
course be credited in every issue and it will become our Official STOSSER
Logo!,
As you should all know by now, STOSSER is a STOS Diskzine. The idea
hopefully is to offer a service as much as a diskzine. The tutorials,
Contax, Giveaway's and of course Programming help from Martin Cubitt's
Problem Solving Service should all go to helping you with your STOS
programs. If anything at all has been gained from STOSSER and you are
releasing your program into the world of P.D. then why not enter STOSSER
diskzine into your Credits. I have actually seen quite a few programs
released with STOSSER in the credits, I have also seen such things as
" The programmer of this Game/Utility etc is a Regular reader of STOSSER
Diskzine. A must for all STOS user's, available on the 20th of every
month from all good P.D.L's "
So many thanks to those of you who took the time out to put that small
message in your programs.
There are thousand's of STOS users out there, and the more of them that
find out about STOSSER then the more Routines, Articles etc will be sent
in. Therefore the better STOSSER will get,
THANK YOU!. A Couple of months ago i was sent a copy of a disk magazine
called P.B. Well the actual name was a little longer PURE BOL%$£$%, Well
in this zine was an article on what makes a good Diskzine. Due to the fact
that i am involved in making a zine i found this a very interesting
article. Well it opened my eyes to a few thing's. In fact it was the
most interesting article i had read in a long time. At this point i was
about half way through making issue five of STOSSER. After reading there
comments on " What makes a good Diskzine " I immediatly went to work on a
new doc displayer. As you know the shell for STOSSER is different every
month and up to issue five the displayer was also different. I decided to
make a displayer that was easy to use and eeeerm well basicly incorperate
all the things mentioned in the article. Well this couldn't be done in
one month and make a shell as well, therefore it has been improved each
month. I am now at the end of the road and the displayer in this issue is
i think the finished version. Unless you can think of anything to add.
Its not the fastest displayer when you want to scroll one line at a time.
But it's fast enough, it also has more options than you could throw a cat
at!. The printer options must be the easiest yet, I personally still cant
figure out all the Block commands in other displayers. There are also a
few options that are very handy but cannot be found on other displayer's
( yet ). Anyway the jist of the matter is that i would like to say a big
thank you to P.B. Diskzine for the exellent article and the insperation.
By the way, apart from the bad language P.B. Is an exellent Diskzine and
well worth getting hold of. ( If your reading this lad's and thinking of
reviewing us , Then please remember the good things i said about P.B. !! )
EXTENSIONS : I Would like to compile a list of all known extensions. I
will give you a list of the ones i have. If you have anything thats not
on this list then will you please send it to me with the documentation for
it, extensions aren't a lot of use without a doc file. If you send me one
i havent got then let me know what you are into or what you would like in
return, i allways send full disks out to people so let me know what you
want. I have set my list out as EXTENSION:BASIC:COMPILER:DOCS, if you can
fill in any of the no's for me i would also be very gratefull. Once i
have what i think is all extensions then i can write an indepth article on
the subject.........heres my list.
EXTENSION : BASIC : COMPILER : DOCS
(1) BLITTER YES YES YES
(2) MAESTRO YES YES NO
(3) MISTY YES YES YES
(4) SQUASHER YES YES YES
(5) STARS YES YES YES
(6) TRACKER 7,10,14 YES YES YES
(7) USEFULL YES YES YES
(8) MUSICIAN YES NO YES
(9) STOS VIDI YES NO NO
(10) STE YES YES YES
(11) STEEXT YES YES YES
(12) SIXSTICKS YES YES YES
(13) MISSING LINK YES YES YES
(14) QUICK YES YES YES
(15) FRS YES NO YES
(16) CODETEXT YES YES NO
(17) EXTRA YES YES YES
(18) STOS 3D YES YES YES
(19) BITCOPY YES NO NO
(20) MONST YES YES NO
(21) TOME21 YES YES NO
(22) RASTER YES NO NO
(23) EXTRACT YES YES NO
So if you have anything for me then please write a.s.a.p.
Right i think i have managed to waste enough disk space!
This is Tony Greenwood Signing off..........Bye!