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- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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- Neiman 06111
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- On some programs where I would
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- like to make a few changes, such as a
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- device number, is there any way to
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- make the change permanent on the
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- Loadstar disk, or must I list and
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- change each time?
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- >There is a way to make the change
- permanent. Here's how you can do it:
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- 1. LOAD the file you want to
- change. You do this with the
- common LOAD"filename",8
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- 2. LIST the program and make
- whatever changes you want.
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- 3. Lastly, we have to save your new
- version back onto the disk. To
- do this, do the following with
- the disk in the drive:
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- OPEN 15,8,15
- PRINT#15,"S0:filename"
- CLOSE 15
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- SAVE "filename",8
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- Be sure to use the same 'filename'
- throughout this process.
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- Coffen 21740
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- Can a picture made with the KOALA
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- PAD be loaded on by DOODLE? Is there
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- a program I can type in that will
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- print out my KOALA PAD picture on to
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- my 1525 printer?
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- >There are rumors that KOALA is
- working on a program that will allow
- you to print-out your KOALA pictures.
- Until then... We do not know of any
- programs currently on the market
- that allow you to transfer KOALA
- pics to DOODLE pics. We have seen
- one program, in the alpha-test form,
- that permits it. However, KOALA pics
- are in Multi-Color format and DOODLE
- pics are in Hi-Res format. The
- result of the transfer between
- formats is pretty weird.
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- Is it possible to change the name of
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- my disk? If so how?
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- >Yes, it is possible. There is a
- header changer program on Issue #7 of
- LOADSTAR which will make the
- technical work easy for you! Or, you
- can change the name by altering bytes
- 144-161 of Track 18, Sector 0.
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- Vella 07090
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- For some reason, there has been no
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- music on the last few issues of
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- LOADSTAR that I have received. In
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- Paperless Pages and Influx, there is
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- nothing but silence. Did I receive
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- defective copies?
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- >Our copies of the last few issues
- have music on them, so you might want
- to check out your SID chip. There
- may be something wrong with it. You
- also might try running some other
- programs which have sound and see
- (uh, hear) what happens. To make sure
- that you will have music in LOADSTAR,
- be sure to start by either loading
- STAR or '!'. If you start any other
- way, the music may not load properly.
- If other programs give you sound and
- music, you did get a defective disk.
- We'll gladly replace it free if you
- return it to us.
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- I have an OKIMATE 10 color printer
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- which has proven to be very useful
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- in helping print out beautiful color
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- pictures, some of which are from
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- LOADSTAR. But there is a small pro-
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- blem. You see, a disk comes with the
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- printer which allows me to print
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- pictures that are drawn on almost any
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- major graphics program (KOALA, DOODLE,
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- Chalkboard, etc..). This program works
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- fine when printing a LOADSTAR pixel
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- page, if I can figure out where the
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- picture was drawn. The way the
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- program works is that it searches for
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- the specific format that each program
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- gives to its pictures. Thus, it
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- is unable to recognize Koala pictures
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- on LOADSTAR that have been 'packed'.
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- Is there any way to 'unpack' a picture
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- and then resave it so that this
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- program will recognize it? I'm really
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- interested in finding a way so I'll
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- take any suggestions.
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- >After the picture is unpacked, say in
- the PIXEL PAGE section of the
- magazine, you may attempt to do a
- binary save of the normal areas for a
- KOALA picture (Hi-res, Color Ram, and
- Screen-Color). There is a program
- on Issue #1 of LOADSTAR called
- BSAVE which should help you to save
- these areas.
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- MOZAK 48228
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- I just bought SIMON'S BASIC and want
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- to use it with TINKERTOOLS and EFIG on
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- LOADSTAR #10. I need some help. When
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- I load EFIG and merge it with
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- TINKERTOOLS, I get a BAD SUBSCRIPT
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- ERROR line 61 when I attempt to run
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- it.
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- >First, LOAD EFIG. Next, MERGE
- TINKERTOOLS. If you RUN at this
- point, you get your BAD SUBSCRIPT
- ERROR. To fix this, simply change
- line 500 to be line 0 and make
- line 502 be line 2. Delete lines
- 500 and 502. Now the program should
- work fine.
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- Kober 75831
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- HELP! HELP! HELP!
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- When entering my FEEDBACK, I get an
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- an error and am dumped back to BASIC
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- after about 300 lines. What am I doing
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- wrong? Have I filled the BUFFER?
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- >That's exactly what you have done!
- The Starline text editor has a
- capacity of 300 lines. Any attempt
- to enter more that this crashes the
- the program (Sorry... we're working
- on expanding the file capacity.)
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- Coffen 21740
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- Is it possible to get more than
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- eight sprites?
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- >Yes! To get more than eight sprites
- on the screen, you must use a complex
- screen raster interrupt routine. Ick!
- The idea is to compare the TV raster
- with a location on the screen. When
- the raster is equal to the position,
- you change sprites. Since the screen
- raster is so fast, your eyes never
- really see the first sprites go off
- or the new sprites come on. Needless
- to say, this is a very complicated
- idea. Who knows, we may do a
- tutorial based on it!
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- What is a good book and/or assembler/
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- dissasembler for a beginner?
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- >In the way of books, we would
- recommend Jim Butterfield's book
- 'Machine Language for the Commodore
- 64 and other Commodore Computers'.
- It is published by Prentice-Hall
- Publishing Company. It covers every-
- thing from the architecture of the
- microcomputer to every form of
- addressing. Not only is it a good
- learning aid, but the back contains
- many appendices which will help you
- in your further attempts to master
- assembly language.
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- In the way of assemblers, we would
- recommend MERLIN, by Glen Bredon. It
- is published by Roger Wagner
- Publishing. It allows easy assembly
- of your source files. You can save
- the source and/or the object code.
- MERLIN also includes a disassembler
- called SOURCEROR.
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- Cleveland 75975
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- I heard about Donna's checkbook
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- program and would like some more
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- information on it.
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- >Donna's checkbook program appeared on
- Issue #3 of LOADSTAR. The program
- allows for outstanding checks and
- outstanding deposits. The program
- allows you to enter your information
- along with appropriate dates. The
- program will then allow you to try
- and balance your checkbook.
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