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D I S K O V E R Y: My Gun Is Brief
by Fender Tucker
Gotta be quick. Talk like George if I want it to fit. Sixteen blocks.
A lot to say.
I'm afraid I can't keep that up; the adjectives and adverbs just won't
keep from rearing their ugly heads. Judging by the label, this issue may
not look like 1328 blocks of hyperdense code, but it is. It's just that the
programs are all solid and full-featured and the documentation is
comprehensive. Side Two doesn't even have room for our operating system.
This means that you can boot any of the three programs on Side Two from the
LOADSTAR menu but they won't return. It also means that you can't do a Copy
It for that side. Use any file copier to copy the programs to another disk.
DISK WHIZ on LOADSTAR 128 #2 is a good one.
I didn't have room for a FORUM this issue -- although it's probably
listed on the label -- but then I haven't received a lot of mail about the
128 recently. I'm hoping that having a Critique program will make it easier
for you to comment upon the contents of an issue -- or just talk about
whatever you want. After this issue, the critique will be under the
LOADSTAR FILES section.
You may notice that LOADSTAR 128 Index is missing, too. Another victim
of the editor's cleaver. Don't worry, next issue we'll have a LOADSTAR 128
LIBRARY written by Barbara Schulak that will be easily updatable for every
issue. It's a fast database of every LOADSTAR 128 disk that allows you to
search, mark and print out information about our programs, authors and
issues. It's like Jeff Jones' LOADSTAR LIBRARY for the 64, if you're
familiar with that.
There's a program on the disk that's probably not on the label since I
added it just recently. I bought a refurbished C128D for under $300 total
from Software Hut, out of Philadelphia (1-800-848-0079), for use at home and
I was inspired to write a little puzzle program. It's called NAMYSTICS and
I hope you find it mildly intriguing. In a sense it's a demo of how a
programmer might use a very handy ML routine by Scott Resh that we call
WINDOWPRINT. It allows a program to print out any size window (or
rectangle) from a hi-res graphic screen to a 1525-emulating printer. I hope
you 128 programmers out there will see its usefulness (and ease-of-use) and
will incorporate it into any program that can be improved by dumping hi-res
data to printer.
For LOADSTAR 128 #12 Bob Cook provides a couple of his super-friendly
databases: VIDEOPHILE, for keeping track of your videotapes, and COUPON
CACHE, for getting the most out of store coupons. Bells and whistles
included.
You'll also find Ian Adams' DARWIN'S BUGS, a fascinating, graphic
program that illustrates and explains just how things work in this
bug-eat-bug world of ours. There'll also be a couple of BASIC 8 programs to
support our ongoing foray into 80-column graphics. When you're in
80-columns you've got 128,000 pixels to work with and LOADSTAR 128 wants you
to be in control of each one of them.
Gotta go. Must be prudent. Only so much space. Just remember.
128,000 points of light. They're all yours. Bye.
FT
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