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Questions & Answers, Part 2
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From STEPHEN SMALLEY
My copy of MEMGRAPH does not seem to
be working on Loadstar 23. I have been
typing:
LOAD"MEMGRAPH",8,1
NEW
SYS 51456
But when I hit SHIFT RESTORE all
that happens is that the screen
clears and the computer resets.
I therefore deleted MEMGRAPH and
used MEMGRAPH.BAS in an attempt to
resave the data. After MEMGRAPH.BAS
has been run, MEMGRAPH will operate
correctly but the newly saved copy
of it still does not work. This seems
to indicate an error in the saving of
the ML data. What can I do to correct
this?
> Hey, guess what?? You found a real,
> honest-to-goodness bug! It seems
> that the BASIC program which SAVES
> the machine-language program
> MEMGRAPH does not save enough data.
>
> To correct this short-savedness,
>
>
> 1. LOAD"MEMGRAPH.BAS",8
>
> 2. LIST line 35
>
> 3. Change the 203 at the end of the
> line to be 204.
>
> 4. Re-save your new version of
> MEMGRAPH.BAS
>
> Thanks for catching that one...
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From Brown 45013
Dear Sir:
I have a Commodore C-64 and a 1541
Disk drive with a Panasonic KX-P1080
printer using a G-Wiz Parallel
Printer interface for Commodore
Computers.
I have purchased the Loadstar disk
No. 22 & 23. When I received them I
loaded the Loadstar #23 disk and
printed the Contents Map. The printer
handled this job very well. When I
tried to run the program 'Assignment
Sheet' it would not print. Also I
tried to run the program "Cheapsheet"
and it does not print.
> The question of incompatability of
> non-standard printers, disk drives,
> etc... has been a huge problem since
> the beginning of time. Obviously,
> LOADSTAR prints fine on your system.
> The problem comes when running
> the individual programs. The best
> thing to do is to LOAD the programs
> that give you trouble, look for
> where the progam opens the printer.
> This will look something like:
> OPEN 4,4 or OPEN 3,4
>
> I would suggest changing this to
> OPEN 4,4,7 or OPEN 3,4,7
>
> If this doesn't solve your troubles,
> try toying around with the third
> number. Since LOADSTAR works, then
> some combination is bound to work.
> By the way, LOADSTAR uses OPEN4,4,7.
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From Temple 31993
I enjoy your LOADSTAR every month
very much. Keep up the good work and
try to expand the user tips and
FEEDBACK segments. The ART segments
are the least interesting to me.
Could you also produce an Accounting
system and maybe present portions of
it each month?
> Our programmers have enough trouble
> keeping their checkbooks balanced.
> You probably wouldn't want them
> writing your Accounting program...
> Usually, for business-type software,
> we count on our business-oriented
> readers and submitting authors to
> provide us with such material. We
> check our mailboxes every day for
> that kind of material...just seems
> that most of our readers and authors
> are more into recreational and
> educational things these days...
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From De Witt 95121
HI! This is GREAT!!! I was
erroneous evidently in my existence
without LOADSTAR. I had read about it
in COMMODORE MICROCOMPUTERS & POWER/
PLAY and never pursued it. Now I
revel in video stationery, games and
art. Brilliant!! I thank you for
releasing the prodigal bonds of sad
vestige from my limbs.
> Errr...Thanks, I think. Have you
> seen a doctor about that vestige in
> your limbs?
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From Hollier 70001
I have been a subscriber of Loadstar
for over a year and still look
forward to each issue. I need some
help this time.
I enjoy very much my Koala Pad and
Painter and thru the Painter disk I
have made a data disk with a program
for displaying the pictures. This
program is published in the Koala
Painter Manual. I would very much
like to copy your graphic pictures to
this data disk in order that I may
view them with my other pictures. I'm
no programmer and at best a novice at
all this but I feel if you can produce
a picture with the Koala Pad and
transfer it to Loadstar, there must be
a way to transfer a picture from
Loadstar to the Koala Painter
environment.
> Well, Hollier, first the good news.
> You're basically correct in your
> anaylsis of the situation. And,
> now, the bad news. First, not all
> of our hi-res graphics are done
> with the Koala Pad format. In
> fact, most are not. Second, and
> most critical, we run our graphics
> through a "packing" program that
> makes the pictures take up less
> memory and disk space by
> compressing repetitive data into
> fewer bytes of memory. Thus, a
> picture file found on our disk is
> no longer in "normal" picture form.
> When we want to show the graphic, we
> load and SYS to an "unpacker" that
> re-creates the picture onto the
> screen.
>
> The bottom line is that we can run
> more graphics while using less disk
> space, thus producing a richer
> magazine.
>
> Your bottom line is that you can't
> directly load and display our
> graphics with Koala Painter.
> Sorry...
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From Sessanna 14057
On one issue of Loadstar somebody
said that you could re-ink a printer
with an ink pad, how do you do it on
the MPS 803?
> The article was talking about
> ribbons that were on reels, not
> cartridges, like the MPS 803 uses.
> You could try applying some ink a
> little bit at a time, turning the
> blue knob. But, don't blame us if
> you ruin your clothes and get ink
> in your eyes and all over your new
> car and furniture and cat.
Is making a feedback disk rough on
the disk drive like formatting is?
> The Feedback maker IS formatting the
> disk, but this is not a problem
> except on the very earliest disk
> drives Commodore made.
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