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Sig/M Volume 53 Updated SAM76 -CATALOG.053 contents of Sig/M volume 53 released January 2, 1982 ABSTRACT.053 SAM76 documentation index name size crc description 53.01 ASTRO .FNT 8K AC 16 Astrological signs for graphics 53.02 BONUS .DOC 1K BC 4B Function documentation 53.03 BOOK .DOC 1K 35 77 How to order SAM76 manual 53.04 CPMSETL .COM 1K 9D 9A Part of SAM76 setup procedure 53.05 DEMO .SAM 3K A1 F7 Some interesting demo programs 53.06 DIRFIX .SAM 1K AB F3 Disk directory routines 53.07 EXTF .ASM 19K 5E 47 Various routines, including 53.08 EXTF .DOC 1K CF C0 ..a clock driver. 53.09 FRIEND .DOC 1K 3C 3D oops!! Applies to something not supplied on disk: a vers of SAM76 that runs at 8000H 53.10 G .SAM 2K A4 E2 Sets up SAM for load-and-go 53.11 HOOH .SAM 1K 3C 88 Hex to octal to hex 53.12 IDUMP .COM 1K D4 15 Interpreted file dump (**) 53.13 ILRAW .COM 13K 81 B2 Raw copy of SAM76. See READ-ME.DOC and S.DOC 53.14 INFO .SAM 10K CD BB Creates following .DOC files 53.15 INFO1 .DOC 1K DB 37 <<Empty>> ?? 53.16 INFO2 .DOC 1K A0 83 Misc. DOC 53.17 INFO3 .DOC 2K 73 12 Misc. DOC 53.18 INFO4 .DOC 1K 5C 62 <<Empty>> ?? 53.19 INFO5 .DOC 2K BF 1B Misc. DOC 53.20 LABEL .SAM 3K 1D D9 Demo prog. 53.21 LOOP .SAM 1K 4B 5E Demo prog. 53.22 MOVE2 .SAM 1K 37 A9 Demo prog. 53.23 MULT .SAM 1K DC 6D Multiplies long decimal #'s 53.24 NEWS .SAM 5K EE FF Random news story generator. 53.25 P1UR .FNT 10K F0 1A Used with graphics 53.26 PLOT .ASM 15K 72 6E For graphics on Poly/TRS-80 53.27 PLOT .DOC 1K 87 03 ..type board, or plotter. 53.28 PRINT .SAM 7K 14 36 Print SAM files 53.29 READ-ME .DOC 3K 6B D4 One user's experiences. 53.30 S .DOC 2K 89 67 Doc on creating S.COM 53.31 SIZE .SAM 1K 4A 34 Demo 53.32 SIZLST .SAM 1K 4A 13 Demo 53.33 SLED .SAM 4K 9A 65 Demo 53.34 THREED .SAM 4K 70 56 Demo 53.35 UPD051 .TXT 7K B6 1E ??? 53.36 UPD052 .TXT 7K 36 C6 ??? 53.37 VERIFY .SAM 1K 5A D8 Demo 53.38 VOLSAM .DOC 6K B2 9B Volume documentation ("extended abstract") 53.39 X$UTIL .SAM 3K C2 67 Demoè SAM7╢ wa≤ submitteΣ b∙ thσ autho≥ t∩ Sig/═ witΦ correction≤ t∩ ì CPMU╟ volumσ 34« "SAM7╢ Thσ Firs⌠ Languagσ Manualó i≤ availablσ ì from║ SAM76 Inc. Box 257 RR1 Pennington, N. J., 08534 * reference PRICES.DOC file for more information Seσá Dr«á Dobb≤á Journa∞ #2╢ (Volumσ 3¼á Issuσ 1⌐ fo≥ ßá looδá a⌠ ì SAM76¼ bu⌠ conside≥ thσ abovσ booδ a≤ thσ "realó reference. *¬á .SA═á file≤á arσ no⌠ printablσ duσ t∩á control-┌á a⌠á thei≥ ì start¼á s∩ IDUM╨ wa≤ includeΣ oε thi≤ disδ "fo≥ thσ curious"«á I⌠ ì i≤ aε hex-asciΘ interpreteΣ filσ dum≡ program. Copyright (c) 1982 by Sig/M-Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey Inc., Box 97, Iselin NJ, 08830-0097 The SAM76 language deals mainly with the manipulation of text, which contain expressions, scripts and procedures written by the user. They can contain both character strings and program instructions. SAM76 is an interactive, surprisingly powerful language, which appears to be good for gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Powerful, recursive macros or procedures may be constructed. It is a language which encourages intellectual juggling. reviewed by Stan Ericson, Rockford, Il. A 240 page text book entitled: SAM76 The First Language Manual is available {perhaps} from your computer store and {surely} from the publisher: SAM76 Inc. Box 257 RR1 Pennington, N. J., 08534 U.S.A. Price is $15.00 postpaid if cash with order. Otherwise terms are: $30.00 net 30 days (postpaid) plus $5.00 for each copy of the invoice required by the purchaser in addition to the original one which is furnished free of charge. {U. of FLA. please Note}. Details of the language may be found in back issues of Dr. Dobbs', and Creative Computing. Send a Self Addressed Stamped envelope for a free reference sheet which lists the commands and gives some examples. SAM76 Inc. Box 257, R.R.1 Pennington, N. J., 08534, U.S.A. - Available materials and prices effective May 1, 1980 Printed Matter: SAM76 Language Manual - 240 pps. $20.00 SAM76 Beginners Tutorial booklet $ 5.00 Machine Readable materials: SAM76 Distribution Disk - $20.00 Contains object code for 8080 and Z80 Source code for graphics functions, real time clock and some miscellaneous other functions; variety of applications scripts, and demonstrations as well as miscellaneous tutorial material. Available formats (see NOTE A,B,C,D) SAM76 Distribution TRS80 cassette $20.00 Contains object code for TRS80, and some demonstration scripts. Included with cassette is brochure for TRS-80. SAM76 Adventure Game $25.00 Available formats are "A,B,D" SAM76 "Hershey" graphic incremental vector tables I - Occidental Fonts excluding Gothic $20.00 II - Gothic Fonts and Oriental Index $20.00 III - Oriental Fonts $20.00 Set of three disks $50.00 Available formats are "A,B" SAM76 Distribution and Adventure for North Star - Single Density system - 2 disks $40.00 Notes: A - 8inch single density CP/M format B - 5 1/4 inch - Micropolis MOD II CP/M C - 5 1/4 inch - TRS-80 CP/M or TP/M D - 5 1/4 inch - TRS-80 standalone For other formats contact SAM76 by phone (609) 466-1129 TERMS: All above prices are net - payment with order cash, money order or personal check - no credit cards. Prices include shipping postpaid fourth class for printed matter unless disks included in which case first class. Add $2.00 for first class for books alone. Overseas add $7.00 for AIR book rate. Net 30 prices are those quoted above multiplied by two. One copy of invoice furnished gratis, if additional copies are required add $5.00 for each desired copy. By Ward Christensen: Whenever you get a new piece of software, you want to see it WORK. You don't want to have to do a lot of reading. Trouble with that attitude, you might miss some of the more interesting things available. SAM76 falls into that category. I'm going to tell you enough to at least see your computer spit somethng back at you under SAM76. Then I'm going to tell you to read "BOOK.DOC" and get the documentation. I found that copies of S.COM which were generated on one system were not necessarily transportable to another system. Trying it, my disks performed some unnatural acts with the head load solenoid until I smashed reset. So I therefore have (wrongly or rightly) deleted the S.COM file from the disk, and instead suggest you generate your own. You generate your own copy of SAM76.COM via the following procedure (this somewhat duplicates S.DOC): A>ILRAW which brings in a "raw" SAM76 A>CPMSETL set up for CP/M running SAM at 100. SAM76 comes to life at this point. %bf,g/= Reads in G.SAM. If it accesses the wrong disk (I was actually running on B: for example, and it went to A: to get "G.SAM") then type: %sdu,1/= Select disk unit 1 (B:) %bf,g/= %G/= Will run G (upper case - case matters almost everywher in SAM76 - incorrectly specifying a name due to having the wrong case might cause an error message, or might just "cr/lf") SAVE 63 S.COM or B:S.COM You now have a copy of SAM76 to run. Try the demo program: S %bf,news/= Bring in file "news". If it goes to a: and you want b: %sdu,1/= then try the %bf,news/= again %lt, /= Will list the texts in memory. The ' ' after the comma is the delimiter to use when listing. %vt,P/= View the text of "P", which is the mainline function of NEWS. It calls p1, p2, p3, and p4, then itself again. %A/= Runs news itself. CP/M users might find SAM76 a little "unfriendly" in that it uses control-x for line delete instead of control-U, and that control-s to suspend output, is not implemented. But one of the ideas of this language it to experiment, dissect, see what makes a program tick. Within 1 hour's experience with SAM76, I rewrote "P" in "NEWS" to pause for character input before re-executing itself. Thus the lack of ^S didn't seem so serious. The more I see the more interesting I get. I have decided I'm interested, so the next step will be to send in an order for the book. Have fun... P.S. I was unable to generate a copy of a COM file which would successfully run "S NEWS". It always tried to go to drive A, while SAM was on drive B:. I diddled with "%sdu,1/=" to select the B: drive, but was unsuccessful. Mind you, I DIDN'T try very hard - just an hours diddling or so. I'll await the book before getting more serious. The DDJ article from volume 3, issue 1, is a start, but doesn't have everything, and I'm sure some things have changed since then. ---------------- Now, about that book: If you have successfully gotten this far, you must be serious, so get the book! Here's a copy of "BOOK.DOC": A 240 page text book entitled: SAM76 The First Language Manual is available {perhaps} from your computer store and {surely} from the publisher: SAM76 Inc. Box 257 RR1 Pennington, N. J., 08534 U.S.A. Price is $15.00 postpaid if cash with order. Otherwise terms are: $30.00 net 30 days (postpaid) plus $5.00 for each copy of the invoice required by the purchaser in addition to the original one which is furnished free of charge. {U. of FLA. please Note}. Details of the language may be found in back issues of Dr. Dobbs', and Creative Computing. Send a Self Addressed Stamped envelope for a free reference sheet which lists the commands and gives some examples. The file with the "h" in its name is as the name suggests a version of the SAM76 language assembled to operate at 8000 HEX. You may chose to put this in rom or ram above a 32 K CPM system, or better yet give copies of it to your diskless impecunious friends and sucker them in to get the book and learn all about SAM76. Don't forget to zeroize the "POA" location if your friend does not really have a disk or he will get strange things when doing the "@@f" function. "S.COM" is an example of the use of SAM76 in autorun mode of operation. In effect "S.COM" is nothing more than (in this case ILRAW primed with CPMSETL) a version of the SAM76 interpreter which has been reloaded prior to saving with a script written to recognize a command string and act on it. Procedure is as follows: 1. Bring in a copy of SAM76, either through the sequence ZLRAW/ILRAW and CPMSETL/ZAPSETL or if you prefer just S. 2. Bring the file "G.SAM" thus: %bf,g.sam/= 3. Examine the text "G" that has been brought in and desirably analyze it - use %vt,G/=. 4. Execute G thus: %G/= 5. This will take you back to the operating system and now save the file thus: SAVE 63 xxx.COM. Use of xxx.COM allows you to specify a command string which is examined by "G" in the following manner: xxx yyy drive where xxx is the name of the file you saved, and yyy is a file (yyy.sam) which contains the script you wish to invoke, the first of which must be named upper case "A" (at least as long as you do not change G). and drive is the drive number on which yyy.sam exists. If you omit drive, then drive 0 is assumed, if you omit yyy then you will get SAM76 in its normal form.