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WORLD'S GREATEST MENU
by
Alan Reed
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There are probably a million "menu"
programs out there. If the menu is
the first program on your disk, users
can LOAD"*",8:RUN and be presented
with a list of programs on the disk.
I've always been fascinated by these
programs -- I've humbly called my
attempt "World's Greatest Menu." I
think it surpasses most of the old
generic menus you've seen before in a
few ways.
WGM is written entirely in DotBASIC
plus and has the following features:
* Works with all drives/device numbers
* Looks nice. Uses a custom character
set, and is generic enough to be
suitable for any collection of
programs or text.
* Uses a mouse in port 1, a joystick
in port two, or CRSR keys and RETURN.
Press 'Q' to QUIT if you are using
the keyboard only.
* If the selected file is of the
Mr.Edstar persuasion (prefixed with a
'T.' the program will let you read
and/or print the text file.
* If you place a SID music file on
your disk (prefixed with a 'M.') WGM
will play the music. The SID must be
less than 15 disk blocks long.
WGM is the natural evolution of the
simple menu program I presented as a
tutorial in the DotBASIC Plus manual.
The main differences are the addition
of an FTS screen, a second clean
character set for the text reader, and
a few lines of code to play the first
SID file found on the disk.
There are lots of REM statements in
the program listing detailing what WGM
is doing. I invite you to take a look
to see how simple programming in
DotBASIC Plus can be.
Enjoy!
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