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BASIC.BIN
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You will be well-familiar by now with the blue/yellow glowing of the
cursor from within STOS. By making a minor alteration to the file
BASIC.BIN you can actually change the colours. Here's how:
6208 bytes from the beginning of the file, the data for the cursor
flash is held. By writing a simple program you can reprogramme the
colour of the cursor to anything you like. There is a program included
on the disk which does it for you.
4383 bytes from the beginning of the file holds the information about
the file selector. This includes the text down the right hand side of
the window: PREVIOUS, DIR, QUIT, RETURN, and the UP and DOWN. The
program on this disk also allows you to alter these.
8676 bytes from the beginning of the file holds the word 'Ok' and can
be changed to any other two-letter phrase, like 'Yo' or '>?' or
whatever. You can alter this from within the program.
Later on in the file, the names of every single command are held, along
with a few error statements, and the structure of the Program Editor
(from pressing <HELP>). Try your hand at changing these yourself.
REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACK-UP OF THE ORIGINAL BASIC.BIN FILE BEFORE DOING
ALL OF THIS! The program in the 'source' folder automatically renames
the current BASIC.BIN file to BASIC.ZZZ
Article: BLACK EAGLE 24/7/93