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- Questions & Answers, Part 2
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- From STEPHEN SMALLEY
-
- My copy of MEMGRAPH does not seem to
- be working on Loadstar 23. I have been
- typing:
-
- LOAD"MEMGRAPH",8,1
- NEW
- SYS 51456
-
- But when I hit SHIFT RESTORE all
- that happens is that the screen
- clears and the computer resets.
- I therefore deleted MEMGRAPH and
- used MEMGRAPH.BAS in an attempt to
- resave the data. After MEMGRAPH.BAS
- has been run, MEMGRAPH will operate
- correctly but the newly saved copy
- of it still does not work. This seems
- to indicate an error in the saving of
- the ML data. What can I do to correct
- this?
-
- > Hey, guess what?? You found a real,
- > honest-to-goodness bug! It seems
- > that the BASIC program which SAVES
- > the machine-language program
- > MEMGRAPH does not save enough data.
- >
- > To correct this short-savedness,
- >
- >
- > 1. LOAD"MEMGRAPH.BAS",8
- >
- > 2. LIST line 35
- >
- > 3. Change the 203 at the end of the
- > line to be 204.
- >
- > 4. Re-save your new version of
- > MEMGRAPH.BAS
- >
- > Thanks for catching that one...
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- From Brown 45013
-
- Dear Sir:
-
- I have a Commodore C-64 and a 1541
- Disk drive with a Panasonic KX-P1080
- printer using a G-Wiz Parallel
- Printer interface for Commodore
- Computers.
-
- I have purchased the Loadstar disk
- No. 22 & 23. When I received them I
- loaded the Loadstar #23 disk and
- printed the Contents Map. The printer
- handled this job very well. When I
- tried to run the program 'Assignment
- Sheet' it would not print. Also I
- tried to run the program "Cheapsheet"
- and it does not print.
-
- > The question of incompatability of
- > non-standard printers, disk drives,
- > etc... has been a huge problem since
- > the beginning of time. Obviously,
- > LOADSTAR prints fine on your system.
- > The problem comes when running
- > the individual programs. The best
- > thing to do is to LOAD the programs
- > that give you trouble, look for
- > where the progam opens the printer.
- > This will look something like:
- > OPEN 4,4 or OPEN 3,4
- >
- > I would suggest changing this to
- > OPEN 4,4,7 or OPEN 3,4,7
- >
- > If this doesn't solve your troubles,
- > try toying around with the third
- > number. Since LOADSTAR works, then
- > some combination is bound to work.
- > By the way, LOADSTAR uses OPEN4,4,7.
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- From Temple 31993
-
- I enjoy your LOADSTAR every month
- very much. Keep up the good work and
- try to expand the user tips and
- FEEDBACK segments. The ART segments
- are the least interesting to me.
-
- Could you also produce an Accounting
- system and maybe present portions of
- it each month?
-
- > Our programmers have enough trouble
- > keeping their checkbooks balanced.
- > You probably wouldn't want them
- > writing your Accounting program...
- > Usually, for business-type software,
- > we count on our business-oriented
- > readers and submitting authors to
- > provide us with such material. We
- > check our mailboxes every day for
- > that kind of material...just seems
- > that most of our readers and authors
- > are more into recreational and
- > educational things these days...
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- From De Witt 95121
-
- HI! This is GREAT!!! I was
- erroneous evidently in my existence
- without LOADSTAR. I had read about it
- in COMMODORE MICROCOMPUTERS & POWER/
- PLAY and never pursued it. Now I
- revel in video stationery, games and
- art. Brilliant!! I thank you for
- releasing the prodigal bonds of sad
- vestige from my limbs.
-
- > Errr...Thanks, I think. Have you
- > seen a doctor about that vestige in
- > your limbs?
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- From Hollier 70001
-
- I have been a subscriber of Loadstar
- for over a year and still look
- forward to each issue. I need some
- help this time.
-
- I enjoy very much my Koala Pad and
- Painter and thru the Painter disk I
- have made a data disk with a program
- for displaying the pictures. This
- program is published in the Koala
- Painter Manual. I would very much
- like to copy your graphic pictures to
- this data disk in order that I may
- view them with my other pictures. I'm
- no programmer and at best a novice at
- all this but I feel if you can produce
- a picture with the Koala Pad and
- transfer it to Loadstar, there must be
- a way to transfer a picture from
- Loadstar to the Koala Painter
- environment.
-
- > Well, Hollier, first the good news.
- > You're basically correct in your
- > anaylsis of the situation. And,
- > now, the bad news. First, not all
- > of our hi-res graphics are done
- > with the Koala Pad format. In
- > fact, most are not. Second, and
- > most critical, we run our graphics
- > through a "packing" program that
- > makes the pictures take up less
- > memory and disk space by
- > compressing repetitive data into
- > fewer bytes of memory. Thus, a
- > picture file found on our disk is
- > no longer in "normal" picture form.
- > When we want to show the graphic, we
- > load and SYS to an "unpacker" that
- > re-creates the picture onto the
- > screen.
- >
- > The bottom line is that we can run
- > more graphics while using less disk
- > space, thus producing a richer
- > magazine.
- >
- > Your bottom line is that you can't
- > directly load and display our
- > graphics with Koala Painter.
- > Sorry...
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- From Sessanna 14057
-
- On one issue of Loadstar somebody
- said that you could re-ink a printer
- with an ink pad, how do you do it on
- the MPS 803?
-
- > The article was talking about
- > ribbons that were on reels, not
- > cartridges, like the MPS 803 uses.
- > You could try applying some ink a
- > little bit at a time, turning the
- > blue knob. But, don't blame us if
- > you ruin your clothes and get ink
- > in your eyes and all over your new
- > car and furniture and cat.
-
- Is making a feedback disk rough on
- the disk drive like formatting is?
-
- > The Feedback maker IS formatting the
- > disk, but this is not a problem
- > except on the very earliest disk
- > drives Commodore made.
-
- ----------< end of Q & A 2 >----------
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