TRY  THIS


This section of BITS & BYTES will offer
simple public domain basic programs
which you can key in yourself, thus
giving you workable productions plus
experience in entering your own code.

We'll start with a display program
which will generate colorful patterns
in a random fashion.  Check each line
as you key it in; if you make an error,
merely repeat the line number and do it
over again.  The error line will be 
replaced. Print out this chapter and
enter the code at your leisure after 
finishing this newsletter.

10 HOME
20 REM: MOIRE DISPLAY
50 IMPUT A$
100 HGR2
110 HCOLOR=0: HPLOT 0,0
120 CALL 62454
130 C(0) = INT (RND (1) * 8): C (1) =
 INT (RND (1) * 8): IF ((C(0) = 0 AND C
 (1) = 4) OR (C(1) = 0 AND C(0) = 4))
 THEN 130
140 A = RND (1) * 279
160 B = RND (1) * 191
180 I% = (RND (1) * 4) + 2
220 FOR X = 0 TO 278 STEP I%
240 FOR S = 0 TO 1
260 HCOLOR = C(S)
300 HPLOT X + S,O TO A,B TO 279 - X
 - S,191
310 IF PEEK ( - 16384) > 127 THEN 31111
320 NEXT S,X
340 FOR Y = 0 TO 191 STEP I%
360 FOR S = 0 TO 1
380 HCOLOR = C (S)
420 HPLOT 279,Y + S TO A,B TO 0,191
 - Y - S
430 IF PEEK ( -16384) > 127 THEN 31111
440 NEXT S,Y
460 FOR P = 1 TO 1500: NEXT P
480 GOTO 120
31111 TEXT
31112 POKE - 16368,0
31115 TEXT : HOME : PRINT : PRINT :
PRINT "BYE.....":END

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For you LOTTO fans:  a program to select
six numbers for you to try.  Contributed
by Julian Rozner, he admits this will,
however, show a Zero and may repeat a
number in the display of six. He  
challenges a programmer out there to
correct the two "glitches" and send us 
the revision to print! 

10 FOR I = 1 TO 6
20 LET N = INT (50 * RND (1))
30 PRINT N
40 NEXT I
50 END

Can we split the winnings as a result 
of these numbers??????

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Another cutey!  This is a two-liner. No
screen display on this one, but play
the keyboard organ by command RUN after
you've finished keying it in.

10 TEXT : HOME : PRINT TAB (13) ;
 "KEYBOARD ORGAN": FOR X = 24576 TO
 24591: READ Y: POKE X,Y: NEXT X: DATA
 172,0,192,173,48,192,234,234,234,234,
 136,208,249,76,0,96
20 CALL 24576

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This one is directed to those users
who have Appleworks on 3.5" disks.
Here's a patch that will bring you
straight to the Main Menu.  This patch 
will load the start-up with no space or
return needed until you reach the choice
of "ADD FILES TO THE DESKTOP".

From Basic, enter the following (on a
backup copy, of course):

BLOAD APLWORKS SYSTEM, TSYS,A$2000
POKE 14468,44
POKE 14148,208
POKE 14149,19
BSAVE APLWORKS.SYSTEM,TSYS,A$2000

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If you have a favorite simple basic
program you'd like to share, please
upload it as indicated under menu item
"HOW TO SUBMIT ARTICLES." If you lack a
modem, sending a hard copy of your 
material to me would be perfectly fine.

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