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| Articles in section: ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE |
| "ABOUT
CFDM" ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE |
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"ABOUT CFDM" COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is dedicated to those who still enjoy running under RS DOS. It will deal with that format exclusively. A primary goal is to keep the COCO community strong. By providing a unique means of communication, maybe old fires will be rekindled as you and I share our knowledge and experiences! The success of this effort depends on each one who becomes a subscriber. Everyone must contribute his/ her two cents in the form of articles, programs, opinions, experiences, etc. If this happens we will all look forward to the next issue. (Check out the manual with your starter kit for details on how to submit material.) Now let's have some fun!!! =* |
ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is the creation and property of Rick Cooper. It is distributed solely by RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE. The material which makes up each issue remains the property of the author(s) or contributor(s) unless an agreement has been made otherwise. COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is dedicated exclusively to those who enjoy the COCO3 operating under RS DOS. It is hoped that this publication will encourage the continued usage of our favorite computer. Neither CFDM nor RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE will be responsible for the submission or publication of any material that does not belong to the submitter. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE OR SUPPORT PIRACY! =* |
| Articles in section: ABOUT THIS ISSUE |
| CONTENTS...PART
1 (v1 i13) CONTENTS...PART 2 (v1 i13) PROGRAM DIRECTORY (v1 i13) THIS MONTH'S COVER |
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ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE (2) 1 "ABOUT CFDM" 2 ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE ABOUT THIS ISSUE (4) 1 CONTENTS...PART 1 (v1 i13) 2 CONTENTS...PART 2 (v1 i13) 3 PROGRAM DIRECTORY (v1 i13) 4 THIS MONTH'S COVER ACTIVE COCO (2) 1 Second Annual Last Coco Fest 2 WINDOW TOOLS (NEW PRODUCT) ADVERTISEMENTS (4) 1 CFDM SUBSCRIPTION => ____________________________________________________ 2 Need More Patience?? 3 SURPLUS SOFTWARE 4 WANTED/FOR SALE ARTICLES OF THE MONTH (2) 1 POLISHING YOUR BOOT(/BAS) 2 PT.2-POLISHINGG YOUR BOOT(/BAS) COCO FRIENDS ART GALLERY (4) 1 CFDM COMICS by Art 2 OPINIONS 3 THE OLD MILL STREAM 4 The Space Shuttle FAMILY TREE (3) 1 Elad, you say? => ____________________________________________________ 2 JOHN B SAYEWICH 3 ROBERT OBERLIN FORUM (6) 1 CFDM BBS 2 For Rainbow Magazine Subscribers 3 HELP RAINBOW!!! 4 Help for my Belorussian friend? 5 How I view my computer 6 Reply to R.A.T. on the TC9. FROM THE EDITOR (4) 1 !!!! RED FLASH !!!! 2 A TRYING TIME 3 KUDOS <g> 4 WELCOME NEW FRIENDS =* |
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (8)
1 *** AMAZING!!!
2 KUDOS to Rick
3 Letter to Rick
4 MICC Newsletter
5 More Acknowledgements
6 Re-upping
7 VIDEO
8 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VENDORS?
POTPOURRI (5)
1 BUBBLE GUM MACHINE <g>
2 HRIDDLE
3 LOGO #1
4 Programming Puzzle Answer
5 The ORGANIST =>
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PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH (10)
1 CALCULATOR, A SOLITAIRE GAME.
2 DISK FILER
3 DISK FILER (Part 2)
4 Diskette Jackets
5 Draw Poker on HSCREEN4
6 Joystick Cursor Routine
7 LOGIC, LOGIC2 & LOGIC3
8 MELT down
9 digital recording
10 digital recording PART 2
REVIEWS (1)
1 3-D PACDUDE
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (8)
1 /GIF to /CM3 ??
2 ANSWERS
3 Auto Key Repeat
4 CHESS
5 Copyrights
6 LOOKING FOR VIP UPGRADE
7 ML-ADDR BUG
8 Question for Jim Gibbons
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Here's a description of the files on the PROGRAM/
SIDE. File names preceded by an asterisk are data
files and not to be RUN or EXECed!
NAME.........COMMAND..SECTION OR DESCRIPTION......
C .BAS..RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH.........
C* .BAS..RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH.........
C1 .BAS..RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH.........
C2 .BAS..RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH.........
CALC .BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
* CALC .DOC........RUN "PRINTME".(docs for CALC).
* CFDMPROG.DAT........DATA FILE FOR "DISKFILE.BAS"..
* CHANSON .BIN........DATA FILE FOR "ORGANIST.BAS"..
DIGITAL .BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
DISKCAS2.BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
DISKCASE.BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH....=>
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DISKFILE.BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
DRAWPOKR.BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
* FONT .BIN........FONT FOR CALC.BAS.............
GALLERY .BAS..RUN...DRIVER FOR THIS MONTH'S ART...
* HRIDDLE .BAS........POTPOURRI..RUN "GALLERY.BAS"..
* INTERLUD.BIN........DATA FILE FOR "ORGANIST.BAS"..
JOYSTICK.BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
LOGIC2 .BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
MELT .BAS..RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH.........
* NIBLOADR.BIN........PIX LOADER UTILITY............
* OLD MILL.NIB........PIX FILE FOR "GALLERY.BAS"....
* OPINIONS.NIB........PIX FILE FOR "GALLERY.BAS"....
ORGANIST.BAS..RUN...POTPOURRI...MUSIC.............
* PLAY .BIN........DATA FILE FOR "DIGITAL.BAS"...
PRINTME .BAS..RUN...PRINTS DOCS FOR "CALC.BAS"....
PROGPUZL.BAS..RUN...POTPOURRI.............. =>
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* RECORD .BIN........DATA FILE FOR "DIGITAL.BAS"...
* SHUTTLE .NIB........PIX FILE FOR "GALLERY.BAS"....
* TRANQUIL.BIN........DATA FILE FOR "ORGANIST.BAS"..
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Winter Road Winter has to be about my favorite time of
year. The first snow of the year, which happened
on the first week of December spurred me on to
paint a winter scene of a rural road here in
Pennsylvania. Next to the silhouette painting,
a winter scene painting is the next easiest.
I hope you will all be taking in the
wonderful scenes that this winter season gives
us this year and I hope you will enjoy this
particular picture.
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| Articles in section: ACTIVE COCO |
| Second
Annual Last Coco Fest WINDOW TOOLS (NEW PRODUCT) |
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Second Annual Last Coco Fest ALRIGHT! LET'S KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!!!
Here are the 5 "W's"
WHO? The Glenside Color Computer Club of Illinois
WHAT? The Second Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest
WHEN? May 1st & 2nd, 1993
WHERE? HOLIDAY INN ELGIN
345 W. River Road
Elgin, Illinois
(A Holidome Indoor Recreation Center)
(A city block from I-90 & IL-31S)
(18 minutes driving time from the "Fest"
location of the late 1980's)
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Overnight room rate: $52.00 plus 10% tax
Call 1-708-695-5000 or 1-800-HOLIDAY for
reservations. Be sure to ask for the
"Glenside" or "CoCoFEST!" rate.
WHY? A To provide vendor support to the CoCo
Community
B To provide Community support to vendors
C To provide educational support to new
users
D TO HAVE AN OUTRAGEOUSLY GOOD TIME!!!!!
And now, the "H" word.
HOW MUCH? Admission: $10 at the door
2-day pass only; sorry, no 1-day pass
Advance tickets: $8 + SASE or =>
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$8 + $.50 postage & handling
Contact: George Schneeweiss, Treasurer
Glenside Color Computer Club
RR #2 Box 67
Forrest, IL 61741-9629
For further information, general or exhibitor:
Tony Podraza, President, GCCCI
708-428-3576, VOICE or 708-428-0436, BBS
Carl Boll, Vice President, GCCCI
312-735-6087, VOICE or 312-735-3355, BBS
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WINDOW TOOLS (NEW PRODUCT) Window Tools is a Disk Utility & Repair Program for
the Window Master system, similar to our Coco Tools
program for the Standard RS-Dos version. It has been
re-designed to take advantage of the Window Master
point and click environment, with Pull Down Menus,
Dialog Boxes, etc. to make it into a true Windows
Compatible program. It still provides the most
complete set of functions available for the standard
RS-Dos disk system user comparable to that of the
famous utility available for MS-Dos computers
"PC-TOOLS".
Window Tools provides fast and easy operation of
standard DOS commands like Copy, Rename, Kill, Disk
Initialize and Directory thru a consistent and easy
to use interface. Copy, Rename, and Kill =>
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provide easy visual selection of files, so that
multiple file operations can be carried out with
very few keystrokes. Disk Directories show the
actual number of bytes used by all the files as well
as the number of used and free grans on the disk.
Window Tools is also the most comprehensive disk re-
pair program available for the CC3. It quickly and
automatically diagnoses and repairs file allocation
errors and corrupt directory information. It locates
cross linked files automatically and allows you to
view all the grans associated with a file with a
simple command. Fast and easy recovery of deleted
files is provided.
Window Tools provides many other disk functions =>
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at very fast speeds. Window Tools has Arciving,
Un-archiving and Test Archiving functions that allow
you to compress multiple files into a single disk
file.
You may configure Window Tools to your preferences
like display colors, printer baud rate, drive step
rate, and directory sorting preference.
CoCo III/512K and disk drive are required. The price
of Window Tools is $34.95.
Cer-Comp Ltd.
5566 Ricochet Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89110
Telephone (702) 452-0632 =*
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| Articles in section: ADVERTISEMENTS |
| CFDM
SUBSCRIPTION Need More Patience?? SURPLUS SOFTWARE WANTED/FOR SALE |
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CFDM SUBSCRIPTION Is your subscription running out? Here's how to check: On your mailing label next to your name is a number. The number after the last dash (-) is the last issue on your present subscription. Please don't let your subscription expire. WHEN YOU RESUBSCRIBE PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR ENTIRE SUBSCRIPTION NUMBER. THIS HELPS ME LOCATE YOU IN MY DATABASE! A single issue of CFDM is $6. Or get 3 issues for only $16. A 6 issue subscription is only $30 (a savings of 6$). Back issues are available at the same rates. COCOs FOREVER!! =* |
Need More Patience?? Patience Pair #2 is now available. It consists of
the games, GOOD MEASURE and POKER SOLITAIRE. You do
NOT need to know how to play POKER to play the non-
gambling game POKER SOLITAIRE.
The Price:
$5 for Patience Pair #2 plus $1 for postage/handling
If you don't already have Patience Pair (two pyramid
style solitaires),it can be also be purchased for $5
plus $1 for postage and handling. You can save $1
postage cost by buying both Patience Pair and
Patience Pair #2 for $10 plus $1 for p/h. Either or
both game disks can be purchased from:
H. Allen Curtis
172 Dennis Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185 =*
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SURPLUS SOFTWARE Dear Friends,
I have purchased about 5 CoCo systems during
the last year. Usually these systems came with some
software, books, etc. I'm listing 7 groups of this
surplus which you may be interested in. Since I only
have one of each of these, please call 606 787-5783
or send me a post card to reserve the group you
want. First response gets the surplus.
PACKAGE #1 - $15
Original MAX-10 plus MAX-10 DICTIONARY DISK.
PACKAGE #2 - $15
Original COCO MAX III plus COCO MAX III DEMO DISK.
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PACKAGE #3 - $30 (This is OS9.)
MULTI-VU, HOME PUBLISHER, T/S SPELL, BASIC09 TOUR
GUIDE (book), CAVE WALKER (game), DESKMATE, and
EPYX SUB BATTLE SIMULATOR.
PACKAGE #4 - $20
QUICKPRO + II and INVESTOGRAPH + 20 assorted disks
(The assorted disks have data on them. You can
explore the data or format them to use for your own
purposes.)
PACKAGE #5 - $20
5 BDS DISKS (Christian software), a program called
NINE DIGIT CALCULATOR, MENU MAKER (program), BDS's
MICRO MESSAGE #1 (Christian software) + 50 assorted
disks (see description above). =>
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PACKAGE #6 - $15
SPRINGSTER (ROMPAK), TELEWRITER 64, + 20 assorted
disks (see description above).
PACKAGE #7 - $20
25 T & D SUBSRIPTION SOFTWARE DISKS
4 T & D PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS
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The above is sold as is. Sorry no refunds. Remember
to not send money for these packages until you have
verified availability with me by phone or mail.
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If you have surplus that you wish to sell or if
there's something you need, send me a card and I'll
put it in this section. Please limit this service
to three items. Rick
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If anyone needs a CoCo II, let me know. Send an
offer and address and we'll see. I've got two of
them and they work great!
Shane & Debbie Spires
701 S. Tremont St.
Kewanee, IL 61443
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| Articles in section: ARTICLES OF THE MONTH |
| POLISHING
YOUR BOOT(/BAS) PT.2-POLISHING YOUR BOOT(/BAS) |
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POLISHING YOUR BOOT(/BAS) If you have a double-sided disk drive(s), you
probably discovered that BOOT/BAS would only boot a
program from drive 0. Perhaps you noticed when you
made a listing of BOOT/BAS that it specifies drive 0
in the Basic program lines. Why not make an already-
great little program even more useful? Why not
enable BOOT/BAS to work from any drive? And why not
also add the POKES to set up your drives as 40 track
and double sided? And why not also add the POKES to
set our printer baud rate, and any other enhancement
POKES - PLUS make it possible to access the opposite
side of the disk with a single keypress?
You will find 4 programs on the back of this
disk that will enable you to do all of the above,
when used together on a disk. The programs are:
C/BAS (not to be confused with the CFDM driver), =>
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C2/BAS, C1/BAS, and C*/BAS. The programs C and C*
are both modified forms of BOOT/BAS. You may tailor
them to suit your own special system needs, or you
can modify the original BOOT program by simply
loading BOOT/BAS from CFDM #7 and using the EDIT
functions of the COCO. The only catch seems to be
that the changes should be made ahead of the "EXEC
A" line, and that your save of your edited program
must be made in Binary format. An ASCII save will
drop the ML part of the program and then it won't
work.
The four provided programs are interactive, so
if you choose to rename them you will have to change
lines 420 in C, 160 in C*, and lines 30 in C2 and C1
to reflect the name changes you make.
The program C is the main boot program and =>
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goes on side 1 of the disk. It contains all of the
system setup pokes. C2 also goes on side 1 of the
disk. It is made up of a few lines that transfer you
to the opposite drive (disk) side and runs C*, which
has been placed on side 2 of the disk. C* is the
same as C except that the setup pokes are excluded
from C*. And C1, which is placed on disk side 2, is
the equivalent of C2.
To set up a disk as described above, perform the
following steps:
1. Load C/BAS from the back of this disk, RUN it,
press BREAK, and then initialize a fresh disk.
Use DSKINI0 and then DSKINI2 without flipping
the disk. (Remember, drive 2 is the disk back)
Continued in Part 2 > =*
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PT.2-POLISHING YOUR BOOT(/BAS) < Continued from Part 1 >
2. Type DRIVE0 and press ENTER to make sure drive
0 is active. Then COPY "C2/BAS" from the back
of your CFFDM disk to your new 40 track disk.
3. Insert the CFDM disk again and type LOAD"C and
press ENTER. Then LIST. Re-insert the 40 track
disk. If your printer is not set for 2400 baud
change the POKE150,18 in line 140 to your baud
rate poke. I have intentionally left blank
lines to make the separate system setup parts
easy to locate. You will also see that I have
made REM statements out of command lines 10,
90-110, and 270. The pokes in line 270 will be
needed if you want to use cassette I/O. Line
10 is part of the routine in lines 90-110. You
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feature, but be forewarned that if you use it,
the CLEAR 200,32400 interferes with some
programs and remains in memory until you turn
your COCO off! (If someone knows how to get
around that bug, I'd sure like to know, too!)
Delete the extra lines, make any additions you
want, do a RENUM if you like, and SAVE"C to
the 40 track disk. (Remember to reset your
printer if you changed the POKE150,18).
3. Insert the CFDM disk again. Type LOAD"C1/BAS:0"
and press ENTER. Re-insert the 40 track disk,
type SAVE"C1/BAS:2" and press enter.
4. Finally, insert the CFDM disk once more, type
LOAD"C*/BAS:0" and press ENTER, re-insert the
40 track disk and type SAVE"C/BAS:2" and press
ENTER. NOTE leave off the * from C*/BAS =>
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when you make this final save - the * was used
in order to save two different programs with
the same name in the same directory.
Your disk is now set up for use in a double
sided 40 track format and is ready to COPY or SAVE
some programs. By entering RUN"C it will set up your
system and also tell you the drive # that is active
and which disk side you are accessing when the "BOOT
/BAS" screen comes up. If you have saved the four
provided programs in the order given, the pointer
will be lined up so that pressing ENTER without
moving the arrow will access side 2 of the disk.
Special thanks to both the author and the sub-
mitter of BOOT/BAS, and to all who have provided
PEEKS or POKES through CFDM! Les =*
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| Articles in section: COCO FRIENDS ART GALLERY |
| CFDM
COMICS by Art OPINIONS THE OLD MILL STREAM The Space Shuttle |
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OPINIONS
One of my favorite parts of CFDM is the KUDOS
section by RICK COOPER. I always like to see what
he is going to come up with next! So as a response
I drew "OPINIONS" with COCO MAX III to show
graphically what my thoughts are of CFDM.
The center of everything is RS-DOS. Seeing
the programs found in CFDM has renewed my sights on
the possibilities using EXTENDED COLOR BASIC. I
hope this drawing is an inspiration.
Thanks Rick, for starting something wonderful. =*
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THE OLD MILL STREAM
In searching for inspiration for a picture, I
happened to look up at a calendar on the wall. The
photo seemed to be a likely candidate, and OLD MILL
is the result after several days' work. There was no
indication of the site at which the photo was taken,
but it appears it would be worth seeing.
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The Space Shuttle
LOAD and RUN "SHUTTLE". The program uses a file
titled "SHUTTLE.DAT" so leave the disk in the drive
until the graphic is complete (the last thing drawn
is the high-light on the tail verticle stabilizer).
I used "Leonardo's Paintbox" to create this graphic
program.
For me the space shuttle is a symbol of the search
for new possibilities. I hope you like my version.
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RICK: Jim's SHUTTLE picture has been NIBbed and is
included in the GALLERY this month. RUN "GALLERY"
and select 3) SHUTTLE for viewing.
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| Articles in section: FAMILY TREE |
| Elad,
you say? JOHN B SAYEWICH ROBERT OBERLIN |
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Elad, you say? Mr. Elad Remark is none other than than Dale Kramer
of Heflin, Alabama. I suspect he also likes
palindromes! Elementary, my dear Watson!!
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FAMILY TREE MY NAME IS JOHN B. SAYEWICH AND I LIVE IN CAMP
VERDE, AZ 86322 (HC 62 BOX 396, IS THE MAILING
ADDRESS). I MOVED TO ARIZONA IN 1962 AND LIVED IN
PHOENIX FOR A YEAR AND THEN BOUGHT A HOUSE IN
TEMPE. I HAVE BEEN IN SALES ALL MY LIFE, WHOLESALE
AND AS A MANUFACTURER'S REPRESENTATIVE. I WAS
INJURED IN 1977 AND HAD TO RETIRE IN 1980 AFTER
SURGERY TO MY BACK. MY WIFE, NANCY AND I MOVED TO
CAMP VERDE IN 1983,(THE KIDS ARE GROWN AND RAISING
THEIR FAMILIES). OUR HOME IS 5 MILES OUT OF TOWN ON
THE VERDE RIVER. I BOUGHT MY FIRST COCO2 AT A FLEA
MARKET AND USED A SMALL TV FOR A MONITOR. XMAS '87
I BOUGHT MYSELF A COCO3, CM-8 MONITOR AND DMP105
PRINTER. I USED THE TAPE RECORDER THAT I GOT WITH
THE COCO2. I NEXT BOUGHT A FD-502 SINGLE DISK DRIVE
AND SOON ADDED THE 2ND DRIVE AND THEN UPGRADED =>
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TO 512K. I STUDIED MUSIC BASIC(?) AT THE COMMUNITY
COLLEGE WHEN I WAS RECUPERATING IN 1980. I AM NOT
VERY GOOD AT PROGRAMMING. I AM A USER, I USE OTHER
PEOPLES PROGRAMS AND REWRITE THEM TO FIT MY NEEDS.
I USE QUIKPRO+II TO MAKE UP PROGRAMS TO USE TO HELP
ME TRACK MY INCOME, EXPENSES AND MEDCAL. I RECENTLY
BOUGHT OUT A COMPLETE OS9 LEVEL TWO SYSTEM INCLUDING
DYNACALC (WHICH I CAN'T GET TO RUN), HOME PUBLISHER
AND FLIGHT SIMULATOR. I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GRASP
OS9 AS YET. I AM 66 YEARS OLD AND I FIND IT HARD TO
UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE. I DO HOWEVER, KEEP TRYING.
I WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND YOU ON THE CFDM AND ENCLOSED
YOU WILL FIND MY CHECK TO EXTEND MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR
SIX ADDITIONAL MONTHS. I LOOK FORWARD TO EACH ISSUE
AND GO THROUGH IT COMPLETELY AS SOON AS I GET IT. I
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BUT I KEPT FOULING IT UP AND I WOULD ABORT. THIS
TIME I HOPE I HAVE IT.
*****THANKS AGAIN FOR CFDM*****
BY THE WAY MY WIFE AND I ARE ORIGINALLY FROM
FRANKLIN, NH =====*****
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ROBERT OBERLIN HI, MY NAME IS ROBERT OBERLIN, I AM 54 YEARS OLD AND
AM A RETIRED U.S. POSTAL CLERK. MY WIFE A I LIVE ON
A FARM 10 MILES FROM THE SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. WE
HAVE ONE DAUGHTER MARRIED WITH FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. I
HAVE BEEN POKING KEYS ON A COCO SINCE 1983, WHEN I
GOT MY FIRST SILVER CASED COCO. I NOW HAVE A COCO3
WITH DOUBLE DISK DRIVE, A RS DMP 130 AND TANDY RGB
CM-8 MONITOR. I ALSO HAVE A COCO2 AS A BACKUP THAT
I BOUGHT AT A YARD SALE, IN CASE MY COCO3 DIES. I
HAVE JUST SUBSCRIBED TO CFDM HAVING HAD THE INFO
AROUND FOR A LONG TIME, BUT NEVER SENT IT IN. I AM
THRILLED THAT RICK IS DOING SOMETHING TO SAVE THE
COCO FAMILY. I HAVE BEEN VERY ISOLATED HERE AS
THERE WAS ONE YOUNG BOY THAT USED TO GET RAINBOW,
BUT NOW HAS GONE OVER TO I.B.M. =>
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HAVING RETIRED FROM MY JOB OF 32 YEARS, I NOW HAVE
MORE TIME TO DEVOTE TO MY FIRST LOVE OF BEEKEEPIIG.
I HAVE ALMOST 200 COLONIES OF HONEY BEES, AND WILL
UPGRADE TO 275 NEXT SPRING. ALL MY COLONIES ARE
RENTED TO AREA FRUIT GROWERS IN THE SPRING TO HELP
MAKE BETTER CROPS OF FRUIT, SO I GET PRETTY BUSY
COME APRIL. I USE MY COCO FOR PRINTING BILLINGS
AND ADDRESS LABELS FOR MY BEE BUSINESS. I DO NOT
DO ANY PROGRAMMING MYSELF EXCEPT FOR SIMPLE THINGS
LIKE ADDRESS LABELS, OR SINGLE LETTERS, ALL IN
BASIC. I HAVE NO DESIRE TO GO TO OS9 OR EVER
GO OVER TO AN I.B.M. AND START ALL OVER. I AM SO
GLAD THAT THERE IS A CFDM TO HELP KEEP THINGS
ALIVE. RAINBOW HAS GONE DOWN THE TUBES AS FAR
AS ANY HELP GOES. =>
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AND T&D FROM HOLLAND MICH HAS JUST PULLED OUT
OF THE COCO FIELD. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HELP I
COULD BE TO ANYONE ELSE, AS I SEEM TO BE A USER
AND NOT A PROGRAMMER. AGAIN, KUDOS TO RICK FOR
HELPING KEEP THE COCO FAMILY ALIVE.
ROBERT OBERLIN
2850 W BUCHANAN RD
SHELBY MI 49455-9604
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| Articles in section: FORUM |
| CFDM
BBS For Rainbow Magazine Subscribers HELP RAINBOW!!! Help for my Belorussian friend? How I view my computer Reply to R.A.T. on the TC9. |
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CFDM BBS ALTHOUGH WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT MEDIUM FOR COCO ENTHUSIASTS IN CFDM OUR PRESENT SIZE MAY INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN PUT ON A DISK (SEE ISSUE #11). IF A BBS FOR CFDM WERE STARTED IT MIGHT PROVIDE ANOTHER MEANS OF CONTACT BETWEEN MEMBERS. THE BBS WOULD HAVE TO HAVE AN 800 # TO CALL TO SAVE ON THE PHONE BILL. ALSO, MEMBERS WOULD HAVE TO BE WILLING TO SPEND THE MONEY FOR A MODEM & TERMINAL PROGRAM. I SUGGESTED IN AN EARLIER ISSUE THAT THOSE WHO POSSESS A MODEM AND/OR HARD DRIVE SUBMIT AN ARTICLE EXPLAINING THEIR SET-UPS . THIS INFO IS HARD TO COME BY. SO FAR "RAMBASE" IS THE ONLY ARTICLE I'VE SEEN ON EITHER SUBJECT. PERHAPS FEW CFDM MEMBERS HAVE THESE ITEMS. IF SO THEN A BBS MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE. =* |
For Rainbow Magazine Subscribers For you Rainbow Magazine subscribers, I'd like
to refer you to page 14 of January, 1993 issue.
It is the best reason, so far, for my belief
that the CoCo is still the most adequate home com-
puter for all who do not NEED to use it for huge
business transactions.
In short, OVER FEATURED is the best description
for why most "home" programs do NOT need to have
such huge memories. 'Nuf said. =*
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HELP RAINBOW!!! I NOTICED THAT ONLY 5 DIFFERENT RETAILERS HAD
ADS IN THE JAN,93 ISSUE OF RAINBOW. I WAS ACTUALLY
AFRAID TO SEND IN MY RENEWAL REQUEST FOR FEAR OF
THE RAINBOW FOLDING!
SOME NEW IDEAS NEED TO SPRING UP IF LONNIE IS
GOING TO KEEP THINGS GOING. I'VE HEARD THAT AD
PRICES ARE HIGH AND CAN'T BLAME RICK, COCOPRO!,
AND OTHERS FOR NOT ADVERTISING AS MUCH AS IN THE
PAST. THE DWINDLING CIRCULATION PUTS PRESSURE ON
LONNIE TO RAISE AD RATES AND THUS THE VICIOUS
SPIRAL FORMS.
I HAVE HEARD THAT SOME OF US WOULD LIKE TO SELL
SOME EXTRA STUFF THEY HAVE WITH A 'CLASSIFIED AD'
IN THE RAINBOW. IT WOULD SEEM THAT WE HAVE THIS
CAPABILITY AT CFDM SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD HELP
THE RAINBOW. =>
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IT MAY VERY WELL WIND UP LIKE THE FIRST ISSUE AND
BECOME JUST A NEWSLETTER! I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT. A
DISK MAGAZINE (LIKE CFDM) WOULD BE BETTER.
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Help for my Belorussian friend? I am strongly in favor of Mr. Kitsos's suggestion
that we open the FORUM section of CFDM to all sub-
jects. In this regard, I would like to request
information from the CoCo Friends concerning how I
can help my friend who lives in Minsk, Belorussia to
immigrate to the US and find a job in the medical
profession. As I indicated in a submission to CFDM
("CoCo-ing to the C.I.S."), my friend is a doctor
with a 5 year old son. He cannot afford to buy food
or clothing. He is intelligent, witty, kind, and
ambitious. He is a devout Christian.
I am trying to get a visa for him and his son. I am
prepared to provide them with a place to live, so
that is not a problem. I have no experience in the
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advice that anyone can give me.
Also, I am trying to get information about how and
where my friend can eventually get a job in a hospi-
tal or medical research center. Any information on
this subject would be greatly appreciated.
I have no motivation for helping this man other than
my desire to help another human being who is truly
needy. I realize that there are also many needy
Americans and I do what I can to help in that area
too. But unlike needy Americans, my friend in Minsk
has no hope of receiving help from any other source
than me.
So, I am asking for your help. If you have any =>
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advice on obtaining a visa or you know of a person
in the medical profession that my friend may contact
to talk about possible employment opportunities,
your help would be greatly appreciated.
My address is: 118 Corlies Ave.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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How I view my computer As I read and re-read the first 10 issues of
CFDM, I notice that there is a wide range of ages
in our membership, with most members under 30 or
over 60. (Perhaps an age survey like "Where in the
World? could be done?) I am right in the middle
of the gap (47) and perhaps because of this I view
my computer differently. I do not approach it
with the wild-eyed enthusiasm of youth in that I
do not care how it works as long as it does work.
I also do not approach it with the awe of an older
generation discovering a new technology (toy?).
To me my computer is an appliance that can
be useful at times. I use DESKMATE3 to write
letters and handle my simple filing needs. COCO
GRAPHICS DESIGNER + takes care of signs and I
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Trust me, I can balance my checkbook faster
than a computer and I have a wonderful filing
system for my recipes-it's called a cookbook.
I have about 200 disks that I have not ever
looked at because the few that I use keep me
fully occupied for now. Not to mention the 350+
disks that I have for my Commodore 64 of which
I use maybe 15-16.
Most of this attitude comes from having
worked with computers for 24 years and having
a personal computer for almost 15 years. I know
how they work, both hardware and software and I
can sit down and program almost anything that I
might need and can dig into the innards of BASIC
if I need to. But I don't have to if I don't
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My point, if any, is that the COCO3 does
what I want it to and is very cost effective.
Any other computer would work just as well but
the COCO3 is the one I found at a yard sale first.
I intend to use it until it and its 2 backup
systems die and then think about something else.
I hope I haven't offended anyone with my
generalizations about age groups, but if I have
then get busy and write a response to this article
and send it in to CFDM!
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Reply to R.A.T. on the TC9. I was stupid enough to order a TC9 after reading
the ads and questions and answers etc. sent to me by
Frank Hogg. I bought the TC9 with a keyboard and
after I totalled up my costs, i.e. handling, insur-
ance, UPS, dollar exchange, Federal sales tax, Prov-
incial sales tax, brokers charges and phone calls,
it came to over $970 Canadian. I waited about four
months until it finally came. I set it up put in my
drives and away we go, or so I thought, there was no
RS-DOS no joystick or mouse ports and it wouldn't
run OS9 correctly. After inumerable phone calls I
got the OS9 to function but what good is it without
a mouse. I wrote Hogg five letters and a year later
he finally replied. He wants $900 dollars more to
exchange my motherboard for a new motherboard to a
new computer that he has designed. --> CTRL 2
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All I have to do is add 4 Simm chips and a video
board and I will have a working computer. Brother,
I never had it so good. What I have learned from
this expensive fiasco is, only buy from a reputable
mail order company or better still spend a bit more
and shop at your local store, at least you will be
able to control the situation better.
Fred Morgan
1033 Maple Lane
Parksville
B.C. V9P 1T3
Canada
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| Articles in section: FROM THE EDITOR |
| !!!!
RED FLASH !!!! A TRYING TIME KUDOS <g> WELCOME NEW FRIENDS |
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!!!! RED FLASH !!!! You may have recently read that CoCoPRO! is running
a (seemingly) close-out sale! This may be bad news
for the CoCo Community but it could be good news for
those wanting a good deal on quality software.
PLEASE READ ON!
I have contemplated contacting Dave Myers a number
of times during the last year. The purpose was to
ask about obtaining the rights to SIMPLY BETTER, a
word-processor written by Bill Daniels and thought
by many to be the best word-processor the CoCo has
ever known! I did not contact him because I really
felt he would not part with the rights to this
SUPER STAR program. My thoughts were to get SIMPLY
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a bargain price thereby making it our STANDARD word-
processor.
Now it seems this deal is possible. I received the
announcement today and immediately called Dave. I
made him an offer which allows me to offer for sale
all fourteen of the packages owned by him. Since I
have not yet received the software and the deal is
verbal only, you'll have to wait just a little while
to see what UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #4 is going to be
like.
I will tell you that my offer will be just as good
as Dave's (and more than likely better since his is
not guaranteed) and I'll list the software. Keep in
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that may interest many of you anyway. The two RSDos
packages will be worth the total price of my sale
anyway! Here's the lot with their regular prices.
DATA WINDOWS ($39.95)os9 DATA MERGER ($12.95) os9
NEWSPAPERO9 ($34.95)os9 NEWSFONTSO9 ($9.95) os9
SIMPLY BETTER ($24.95) rs V-TERM ($24.95) rs dos
COCOPRO! SOLITAIRE ($9.95) os9
ZAPPER ($14.95) os9 LV 2 TOOLS ($19.95) os9
PRESTO PARTNER ($19.95) os9
TOOLS 2 ($24.95) os9 MULTIMENU ($14.95) os9
OS9 LV 2 BBS ($19.95) os9 DISK MGR TREE ($18.95)os9
I hope you'll help me keep these programs available
to the community. Prices may accompany this issue
or sent as soon as possible!! =*
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A TRYING TIME January 27th, 1993
Dear Friends,
I'm writing this entry on paper while sitting
next to my Mom's hospital bed in Louisville, Ky. For
the last few months, Mom has been experiencing
weight loss and lack of energy. On January 4th she
was admitted to a hospital near her home in southern
Kentucky. She was diagnosed as having a lymphoma
cancer. Meanwhile it was found that she had a con-
siderable amount of fluid in one lung and an her
mouth was infected which prevented her from eating.
Since Mom entered the hospital, the hopes of
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very low at other times. Today we almost gave in to
her wishes to go home and die in her bed.
What's the purpose of this article? I don't
really know! I've been so fortunate in my life that
I've never been in this situation before. Decisions
that must be made are difficult and most trying!
We will all probably face this sometime in our
lives. You may already have confronted it. In my
situation I have the consolation of knowing that if
Mom dies, she has prepared herself! If she lives,
she will continue to prepare others!
Pray for my family that the right decisions
will be made. =>
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When Mom's illness became apparent to us, Dad
printed the following verse on a paper and hung it
in the living room. Now (January 29th) Mom's death
is very near. The morning following the above
writings, her condition worsened and the decision
was made to grant her final request. I do believe
the following is true!
"And we know that all things work together for good
to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose."
- Romans 8:28
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KUDOS NORM BARSON JIM BENNETT RAY BERNEY H ALLEN CURTIS JOHN DANIELS PERRY FRIESEN JAMES GIBBONS JIM GROGAN VIC KELLS KEIRAN KENNY DALE KRAMER GODFREY J MOLL FRED MORGAN ROBERT OBERLIN RICHARD M POTTS GEORGE QUELLHORST LEROY J RAFALSKI ELAD REMARK JOHN B SAYEWICH HERB SCHULER SHANE & DEBBIE SPIRES LESLIE WALTZ ARTHUR WILLIAMS STUART WYSS-GALLIFENT HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL THE FRIENDS |
WELCOME NEW FRIENDS The following is a list of our newest Friends. This
includes all those who joined us during December 1st
thru January 31.
Phillip Renteria - CA Marc Springer - IN
Norman Thode - TX Bob Bonilla - SC
Roger Hamrick - WV Carl Sayles - CA
D MaCander - IL Reggie Rollins - NY
Frank Durso - MA William Rosenfeld - NY
Natalio Munoz - PR Charles Wiggins - AZ
Robert Weddle - IN Orval Carden - OK
Joe Noble - OK Tony Mahan - IN
Dr. W F Richardson - Canada
>>>>>>> WELCOME FRIENDS <<<<<<<
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| Articles in section: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
| ***
AMAZING!!! KUDOS to Rick Letter to Rick MICC Newsletter More Acknowledgements Re-upping VIDEO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VENDORS? |
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*** AMAZING!!! RICK: You never cease to AMAZE me with your pro-
gramming abilities! On the flip side of CFDM Issue
#11 you found a way to hide 22 granules to accommo-
date the ART GALLERY and Herb Schuler's GREAT Music.
You should have warned me that to 'restore' the pro-
grams took a considerable amount of time - I thought
that me DRIVE was never going to stop.
I also classify the LOGOPRO program as AMAZING!
A painting program that only occupies two granules
and is capable of creating such neat pictures. I've
included my first three submissions on this disk and
hopefully will create a few more before the deadline
for the MARCH 1993 Issue.
The ability to put our submissions on a Single
sided disk is also AMAZING -- using it on this disk
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James Gibbons' MISTY MORNING created using only
one color -- my favorite BLUE -- which he called a
Monochromatic Painting -- AMAZING
If we can obtain some downloads from DELPHI as
Ray Peterson suggested, I will call that AMAZING as
I have never been very successful in downloading.
Maybe we could have an article on 'HOW TO' download
and then clean up the 'MESS' obtained. Especially
for ML programs.
And LAST but NOT LEAST is YOUR FAMILY - AMAZING
that they can allow you to do the things that make
so many of us COCONUTS HAPPY -- MANY THANKS to DONNA
and the GIRLS!!
Keep up the good work in the New Year and don't
hesitate to call on YOUR FRIENDS for any assistance
that we can give to you. =>
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Hope that You and Yours had a wonderful Christ-
mas and that a Healthy New Year will follow.
COCONUT
Godfrey (Moll)
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RICK:
thanks GODFREY!
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KUDOS to Rick Rick, I am enclosing a check for $60 to ex-
tend my subscription for a whole year. I do this
for two reasons:
One, I'd feel lost if I missed an issue.
Two, to help keep you going with 'capital'
to work with and insure you can continue your good
work for us.
Actually, Rick, you might need us, to continue,
but we need you MORE; if we are all to be able to
feel that the CoCo will live!
It might interest you, and some CFDMers, that
T&D subscription has ended. With the remaining
disks I had coming they sent me 2 of their Public
domain disks, so I feel they were most fair. =>
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RICK: Vic, thanks for the kind words. The fact is we
all need each other to continue our enjoyment. It is
indeed a fragile arrangement. Due to the sickness
of my dear mom, this last month has provided meager
time for CFDM. It made me realize that we are really
running on a fine line made up of time and numbers!
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Letter to Rick Dear Rick,
I enjoyed meeting you at the recent Atlanta
COCOFEST. I look forward to meeting the rest of the
family when you can get down to visit the aquarium
here in Chattanooga.
I have recently changed jobs and one of the
ladies at my new place told me that her daughter
is enrolled in a correspondence school for business
and that they sent her a COCO3 with a tape system
to do the computer work. It uses a TV for output.
I am going to sell her one of my spare disk drives
so she can do much more with the system. I will
introduce her to CFDM and maybe we will have a
new friend!
John
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RICK: John, it was a great pleasure meeting you too!
I'm really looking forward to visiting your aquarium
and have you give us a tour! I'm also looking to go
to Newport News, Virginia, and tour Bob Griffard's
museum, whenever time permits.
Thanks for your great entries in this issue!
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MICC Newsletter After subscribing to Mid Iowa & Country CoCo's
"UPGRADE" Newsletter I wish to comment that it is
an excellent way for us CoCoNuts to further stay
abreast of conditions in the CoCo world we so much
enjoy.
However, the last issue did not allow printing
out of the newsletter, and I did find that part of
it disappointing. Hope Terry Simons can improve on
that part of it. =*
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More Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge two more CFDM responses
by members, since my Bio was published.
First, Jim Mills sent me a disk with a story he
had programmed. His tale provided an entertaining
diversion for me and my fellow area CoCo club mem-
bers. Jim, if you're listening, maybe you might
consider submitting the same tale to CFDM...
Second, and another Jim, Jim Sternett, whose ad
was in CFDM; my response to it resulted in a friend-
ly exchange of CoCo stuff I had that he needed, and
vice/versa.
Thanks again, Rick, for CFDM!
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Re-upping Hi Rick: I hope you and your staff (family) have
survived the Holiday without incident. From this
end we wish you all the best for 1993.
By now you have received my re-subscription for
issues 14 thru 19. Money well spent, I'd say! Boy,
have I gotten a lot from the first 11 issues. You
really have done a great job. I like the new logo
idea and the sample in issue 11. I'm sending you two
candidates for consideration. Also, I'm trying to
keep up with George Quellhorst in his programming
series. But, I'm finding that starting something new
to this depth at my age (67) is frustrating. By the
time the next installment gets here I've forgotten
half that I read the previous month. I'll probably
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complete. Ah, well! Could be worse. Could be no CFDM
at all! Wouldn't that be horrible.
Thanks for all your sacrifices for our benefit. We
do appreciate it!
Herb Schuler
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RICK: Thanks for the kind words Herb! And...I think
I can speak for everyone we really enjoy your
musical entries. I have received a number of cards
and letters from Friends who mention your work as
some of their favorite parts of CFDM. I'm really
looking forward to your next entries and hope you'll
continue to favor us with your work!!
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VIDEO JUST WANTED TO THANK RAY PETERSON FOR THE NEAT
WHITE ON BLUE 32-COLUMN DISPLAY IN "VIDEO.BAS". IN
CASE OTHERS ARE INTERESTED LINE 100 CONTAINS TWO
POKES THAT GIVES THE ABOVE SCREEN.
POKE 65469,9:POKE 65468,63. (TYPE RGB FOR NORMAL).
I RAN THE PROGRAM THROUGH SOME OF THE FONTS AND
NOTICED THAT FONT #4 GETS SQUEEZED ON THE RIGHT SIDE
OF THE SCREEN. I'M NOT A T.V. OR VIDEO NUT SO I
DON'T KNOW IF IT IS NORMAL. I JUST THOUGHT I'D
MENTION IT.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VENDORS? The new year has started and my subscription is
getting near end, so I had better renew it. Here is
my check for another great 6 months.
I enjoy CoCo Friends very much. Keep up the good
work.
Rick, I'm curious, what happened to all the CoCo
vendors? Looking back 6 to 8 years ago there were
hundreds of them in the RAINBOW magazine. Does the
RAINBOW magazine have a conflict of interest. I
know they have 2 or 3 other magazines out like PCM
and POWER USER. RAINBOW is no longer a magazine.
Has anyone ever investigated as what has happened
to all the good old software.....If any are still in
existence, maybe you could get them to advertise in
CFDM.
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I'm enclosing a small list of CoCo vendors I have
done business with last year maybe someone will be
interested.
Sometimes when I'm running my CoCo and I want a
little music I put a tape in the cassette. I enter
AUDIO ON, then MOTOR ON, then RUN my program from
disk. It sometimes relaxes me if the program itself
has no sound.
Keep up the good work. LeRoy J Rafalski
P.O. Box 688
Silver Lake, WI
53170
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RICK: LeRoy, your query about the "hidden" vendors
and the possiblity of recovering their software
would certainly be a great project! =>
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As a matter of fact, at least a couple of Friends
have followed up on a few sources. Don Good has
been successful in one such quest and the Friends
will be receiving the fruits thereof in issue #14.
Godfrey Moll endeavored to contact a couple of folks
to get permission to use their pictures in last
issue's puzzle collection. He met limited success. I
have also attempted to contact Dennis Kitz, Leonard
Hyre, and Logan Ward. Hyre and Ward promised to send
some of their work (that was about 1 year ago, no
response to date). Kitz is in Europe and my missive
to him was returned.
I hope others will give this project a try, for the
benefit of all!
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| Articles in section: POTPOURRI |
| BUBBLE
GUM MACHINE <g> HRIDDLE LOGO #1 Programming Puzzle Answer The ORGANIST |
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HRIDDLE
"HRIDDLE" displays a graphic which contains numerous
clues to a secret message. The message is a word,
name, etc. which is familiar to all CoCo Friends.
Study the picture and try to figure out the correct
answer. I will give the correct answer with an ex-
planation of the clues in the next issue of CFDM.
I think that this first HRIDDLE is not too difficult
to solve. Can you solve this HRIDDLE??
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RICK: A small (but nice) prize will be awarded to
the winner of this contest. All correct entries will
be elgible and a winner drawn from those correct
entries received by April 1st (no fooling).
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LOGO #1 THIS IS MY FIRST TRY AT RICK'S "LOGOPRO" FROM
ISSUE #11. I AM NO ARTIST BUT THE LOGO ENTRY I'VE
SUBMITTED HAS ALL 57 KEYS ON THE KEYBOARD. THIS
HAPPENED MORE BY ACCIDENT THAN ANYTHING BUT IT
GAVE ME THE IDEA TO PUT THE 'RED, GREEN, AND BLUE'
IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES ON THE COCO 3 AND CM-8.
THE LOGO ENTRY IS CALLED "LOGO #1/BIN". I HOPE
OTHERS CAN GET SOME IDEAS FROM THIS EXAMPLE. IF
SO THEN...
EGAD! I'M GLAD!!
P.S. I RENAMED LOGO #1 TO "CFDMLOGO/BIN" AND USED IT
IN PLACE OF ISSUE #11'S "CFDMLOGO/BIN" TO SEE WHAT
IT LOOKED LIKE. NOT BAD!
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RICK: You won't find Dale's logo entry in this issue
but I thought you might like to try his idea of
replacing the CFDMLOGO.BIN file with your own. That
way you can see how your logo would look on CFDM's
startup screen.
By the way, we do have quite a good collection of
logos which have been entered in our contest. Next
month we'll include them on our 3rd bonus disk! I
hope we'll still receive more entries from our
Friends!
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Programming Puzzle Answer In issue 10 I submitted a programming puzzle
that wanted to know (given that the equation
A*B*AB=1992) when the next year will occur that
satisfies the equation. The key to the correct
calculation is the method of figuring the value
of a number in the decimal system. The number 59
is figured as 5*10+7. The program "PROGPUZL.BAS"
on the flip side will print all pairs of numbers
that satisfy the equation. The hint about the next
year being within 20 years just eliminates a lot
of printout.
If you like this kind of puzzle, contact
Dr. Michael W. Ecker, 909 Violet Terrace, Clarks
Summit, PA 18411. He publishes a newsletter called
"Recreational & Educational Computing" devoted to
mathematical puzzles and computers, etc. =>
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John Daniels
648 Pleasant Grove Rd. SW
McDonald, TN 37353
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The ORGANIST I still have two issues of a publication called 'The
ORGANIST'. Volume 63 Issue 3 is dated July 1959 and
Volume 63 Issue 4 is dated September 1959. We can
deduce from the Volume number that the magazine was
probably started in the late 1800's. It bills itself
as "A Bi-Monthly Magazine for Church Organists". The
issues contain about 30 pages each and are full of
music currently written at the time, probably by
some church organists of the day. Kind of a CFDM for
organists and they supported it the same way we do;
by submitting their own compositions for consider-
ation. It was published by Lorenz Publishing Company
of 501 E. Third Street, Dayton, Ohio. It wouldn't
surprise me to find it is still in publication.
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are from these two issues. First is 'INTERLUDE',
then 'CHANSON' and finally 'TRANQUILLITY'. These
are incidental pieces for the church organist to use
as 'fillers' before, during and after a service. I
think you'll enjoy them. Just lean back in your
chair, close your eyes and RELAX!
This is the eighth of my promised twelve music
submissions to CFDM. I'm pretty sure that the
remaining four will be '40s and early '50s music.
As soon as I find the sheet music for "CHARIOTS OF
FIRE" I'll do that one too....either as one of the
last four or an extra. I hope you enjoy these as
much as I do transcribing them for you.
Herb Schuler =*
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CALCULATOR, A SOLITAIRE GAME. Another one by George, by George.
CALC/BAS:
Calculator is yet another solitaire game taken from
Esther's book. To print out the instructions for the
game you must load in PRINTME/BAS and edit lines 20
and 21. as follows:
type: EDIT20 and press ENTER. Line 20 will be
displayed on the screen. like this:
20 ' F$="CALC/BAS":RETURN
20 - The cursor will be directly
under the hyphen or REM statement. Press the letter
"D" and press ENTER. Now type LIST20 and press ENTER
The hyphen should be removed from the line. Now type
EDIT 21 - ENTER Once line 21 is on the screen,
press the letter "I" and insert a hyphen by pressing
SHIFT-7. Now press ENTER again. Type LIST21-ENTER =>
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Line 21 should now have a hyphen in it and look like
this: 21 ' F$="CONFIG/DOC":RETURN
If all is well, run PRINTME/BAS and follow the
instructions on the screen to print the instructions
for CALC/BAS
Calculation is a challenging game on the order of
La Belle Lucie. I think you will like it.
Once again the rules were taken from Esther Millards
book. "The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience
Games" Published in the year 1949.
On the flipside of the disk you will find CALC/BAS
the program, FONT/BIN a font used by CALC/BAS and
CALC/DOC, the instructions for playing the game.
ENJOY: GEORGE =>
> JOHN 14:27 <
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Due to space limitations LABELPRC has been held
until next issue. The PRINTME.BAS program has been
edited and is ready for you to RUN to print out the
documentation for George's newest game. (Maybe this
is another hit like ACE'S UP!).
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DISK FILER DISK FILER allows you to load disk directories
from any drive, sort the file of programs, delete
single records, scan the file on-screen, save the
file, load an old file, add new disk directories,
and print out a 3-column catalog. It is a greatly-
expanded enhancement of Paul Selig's program in THE
RAINBOW, December 1983, p. 163.
If you don't have Rick's Master Catalog 3, this
program will let you bring some order to the usual
chaos of having too many disks full of programs.
Even if you use Master Catalog 3, you will find the
capability of printing out an alphabetized catalog
useful.
DISK FILER is menu-driven and self-explanatory.
The data is stored in the form of strings, which
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limitation is the time required to sort the file. A
maximum of 650-700 records (programs) is allowed,
which takes about 30 minutes to sort. Shorter files
sort much faster: 200 records take about 1 minute;
400 records about 6 minutes.
When typing in the name of a disk, you will get
into trouble if you use more than 8 characters
(letters, numbers and punctuation), however, this
should be more than ample. Since the program mani-
pulates data in the form of strings, there will be
times in loading disks when the disk drive stops but
nothing happens on the screen. This is the infamous
"garbage collection" at work. Be patient! DO NOT re-
move a disk until the cursor appears for mounting
and naming the new disk! Typing "END" for the next
disk name will terminate the data entry. =>
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You can save the file to disk in its unsorted
form or can sort it first. If you plan to add more
records later, save the file without sorting. It
doesn't seem to shorten the sort time appreciably to
sort it piecemeal.
Whenever you break out of the program, all data
is still intact. However, DO NOT use RUN!. To re-
enter the program, type GOTO800, which puts you back
to the menu without CLEARing the memory. This can be
useful if, for instance, you realize you entered the
wrong name for a disk, but have not yet typed in the
drive number. Press BREAK. Type GOTO800. Type 8
(scan the catalog). Continue scanning to locate the
last record number in the file. Other than the num-
ber, the entry will be blank. Remember that number.
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DISK FILER (Part 2) Return to the menu, and press 4 (delete a record). Then follow the steps for deleting. While not neces- sary, it would be wise, at this point, to save the file. You can then use option 7 (add new records) to continue loading disks. Sometimes, inexplicably, you will get an OM (out of memory) error when adding new records to an old file, even when there is plenty of space available. Use the above procedure (BREAK, GOTO800, etc. to re- cover the file, and delete the blank entry if there is one. Then, with option 7, resume loading disks. There is no quick way to delete more than a single record at a time (for example, if you erro- neously entered a disk twice or entered the wrong disk name). First, scan the catalog and jot down all the numbers of entries you wish to delete. => ____________________________________________________ Then, one at a time, delete the numbered records in reverse order: highest number first, then next high- est, etc. This sequence is necessary since the file is renumbered after each delete. If you delete the lowest number first, the numbers of the following records will be changed, and you will be deleting the wrong records or will have to scan the catalog again for the new numbers. While it would be possi- ble to program an option to search out the records of a whole disk and proceed to delete them, this feature has not been incorporated. When you print the catalog, the file in memory is destroyed. Therefore, you are cautioned to save the file before printing it! You may wish to change se- veral parameters to tailor the print section to your printer. Line 580 sets the baud rate to 9600. => ____________________________________________________ Change it to suit your normal practice. Line 620 sets expanded print using Epson-compatible control codes. Change these to whatever makes your printer happy. CFDMPROG is a sample file containing the CFDM programs through issue 7. Try loading it into DISKFILE and scanning the file. You can then add subsequent issues, sort the file and print out the catalog. We hope you will find DISK FILER useful in orga- nizing your collection of disks. If you have so many disks that you will exceed the capacity of one cata- log (don't we all?) you can create multiple catalogs by subject category: utilities, games, adventures, etc. (if your programs are collected on disks this way). =* |
Diskette Jackets These programs will make a jacket for a flippy disk
or a two sided disk. DISKCASE is to make a jacket
for a flippy disk, just follow the instructions.
DISKCAS2 is for a two sided disk, again just follow
the instructions. The original program was written
by Grant Wilson of Peterborough Ontario, I have
tried to get in touch with him but have not had any
luck. I modified his program to enable it to make
the case for a two sided disk.
Fred Morgan
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Draw Poker on HSCREEN4 DRAWPOKR started off as an experiment: I wanted to write a poker program on HSCREEN4 and use "speed" HGET/HPUT statements. Normally, getting and putting on HSCREEN4 can be slow but execution can be speeded up by ensuring that the left horizontal and upper vertical parameters of the area you buffer are a multiple of eight and the paramaters for the right horizontal and lower vertical corner are one less than a multiple of eight. Further, the parameters for your HGET and HPUT statements should observe the same protocol. When you run the program, I'm sure you will agree that the HGET and HPUT statements execute quite quickly. That was as far as I got with the program as I failed to put together an effective scoring => ____________________________________________________ routine. So I gave the program a trial run in the Australian CoCo-Link magazine and invited other readers to add a scoring routine. Enter Richard grumbling justifiably about pro- grammers who neglect to give their variables labels that make it clear what they stand for. Despite the fact that I made it much harder for him than need be, Richard succeeded in unravelling my spaghetti and produced a very effective scoring routine. After the title screen, the second screen dis- plays the instructions for the game and the payments for winning hands. The text remains on the screen during the game. Hands are dealt below the text. The deal, discard and draw routines are indicated by REM statements in the listing. Richard's scoring routine begins at line 1000. => ____________________________________________________ There are a few points that you might find inter- esting. The RND statements in lines 610, 620, 840 and 850 are an attempt to get a good distribution of random values. If any Friend can improve on these, glad to hear from you. The HGET statement in line 190 (labelled 5), buffers an area of blank screen 64 by 64 to be used as an eraser for discards. The HGET statements (labelled 1 to 4), in lines 200 to 340 buffer the rectangles and suit cards on the first screen as they are drawn. Once more, thanks to Richard for a difficult job well done! =* |
Joystick Cursor Routine As part of a larger graphics-oriented project,
I had to develop a routine to control a cursor with
the joystick. Here is a stand-alone program that
demonstrates what is involved with doing that.
The program "JOYSTICK.BAS" on the flip side is
a simple program to move a cursor around the screen,
place a point where the cursor is located when
button 1 is pressed, and if a point is in the wrong
spot, clear the screen and start over. I used
HSCREEN3 for the 640x192 resolution and because I
only needed 2 colors. It should be relatively easy
to change hscreens if you would like.
The initialization routine (2000-2180) sets up
the palettes, establishes 2 hbuffs-1 to hold the
cursor character and 1 to hold the data that was
under the cursor on the screen, changes the =>
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hprint character "!" to the cursor character-data
for the cursor is in line 2160, and loads the
cursor into the hbuff.
The joystick routine (1000-1090) handles the
reading of the joystick co-ordinates and calls the
subroutines (700, 800, and 900) to do the necessary
processing. This makes it easier to change what
happens when a button is pushed, just re-write the
appropriate subroutine. The joystick co-ordinates
are read in line 1030. A few explanations are in
order about the computations here. The joystick
input is in 64 discrete steps. This translates to
10 pixels/step horizontally and 3 pixels/step
vertically. That is the limit with the regular
joysticks. The vertical spacing is no problem as
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spacing but the horizontal spacing causes problems
because the HPUT/HGET works on byte boundaries, ie
every 8 pixels. I chose to work around that by
translating the 10 pixels/step to 8. This causes
the cursor to skip 1 byte location every 5 steps
across the screen. This will work fine for my needs
but is not technically a clean operation. Perhaps
some of you graphics-oriented members can change it
to allow even 10-pixel resolution. I have thought
of creating a larger cursor area (2x2 bytes) and
moving the actual cursor representation around in
this area to point to the exact location but I don't
have the graphics experience to try that right now.
I hope this program will help some of you and I
expect to see cursors in any new projects for CFDM.
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LOGIC, LOGIC2 & LOGIC3 This is a series of Game/Simulations along with a
few accompanying programs to help set up the main 3
programs. The first program is called TITLE, a
PCLEAR0, company trademark drawing and select
program. The second program is called LGCINTRC, a
detailed instruction file that can be scrolled thru
at your leisure. LGCINTRC also shows you what the
logic gates look like and what color they are. It
starts as simply as RUN"#". From TITLE, you can load
any of the other programs:
LOGIC, the first and easiest level. Set scoring.
Few difficult challenges. Set Bonus scores.
LOGIC2, the second and middle level. More random
scoring. Many difficult challenges. Set Bonus Scores
LOGIC3, the third and most difficult level. A lot
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Tricks to learn and master. Progressively additive
Bonus scoring.
After you run the title screen, reading the
instruction file (LGCINTRC) will give you a much
better idea on how to play LOGIC, LOGIC2 or LOGIC3.
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RICK: Due to space limitations, the 3 files LOGIC,
LOGIC2, and LOGIC3 will be presented as a series.
The first, LOGIC, appeared in issue #12, along with
the startup program "#.BAS" and the instructional
file "LGCINTRC.BAS". All these files boot from
"#.BAS" or as independent programs. This month we
include the second program of the series, LOGIC2.
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MELT down I have seen a neat IBM program called MELT. It was
a batch file that made the text all disappear in a
neat way. I achieved the same effect with a little
assembly code. The MELT program is poked onto the
old PMODE 0,1 screen (memory 3584 to about 3630)
To use it in your program, you just need to MERGE or
somehow copy 2 or 3 lines from MELT.BAS. The rest
is an explanation of it.
To call MELT, anywhere in your program, or from the
command line, type A=USR0(x) where x is any number.
(And I mean, ANY number)
The best numbers are: 1 or -1 -->a slow melt
2 or -2 -->medium melt
3 or -3 -->quick melt
anything else is like a CLS command. =*
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digital recording After many trials with a digitizer that sampled through the cassette port (1 bit) I struck up the 6-bit sampler, that uses the Joystick port. You will need to add a few wires to a joystick in order to use this program. So, open up a joystick and have it upside down in front of you, so you can see its guts. The fire button should be at the top. Now, connect one wire to the terminal on the horiz- ontal pot. where the yellow wire is (middle terminal ) and connect another wire to the terminal just to the left of it. You should somehow feed those two wires outside the case, so that you can put the joy stick back together (cut a little hole?). To those two wires, you should connect your sound source. I have a phono plug on the end of those two wires. The source should be a low-wattage type device, => ____________________________________________________ like a cd-walkman, cassette walkman, cassette player or little radio. NEVER connect a high power stereo YOU can BLOW the Analog-to-Digital converter chip. I know, I did it ($50). Run the program called DIGITAL. It will load two little assembly programs called PLAY.BIN and RECORD.BIN. It must have these files to work. Put a tape in, or whatever, and set the volume pretty low. Position the joystick stick all the way to the right. The Menu of DIGITAL will appear. You must first set the volume correctly of the source in order to make good recordings. So select option 5 (the choose the blocks option) and enter 48 for a start and 50 for an end block. Then select option 6.(continuous record and play) As the coco records and then plays, slowly move => ____________________________________________________ the joystick stick to the left (SLOWLY) You will begin to hear sound (make sure the monitor is turned up!). You should hear it become clearer. If you move the stick too far left, the sound will become VERY loud/crackly and distored. Move the stick back to the right. It is a little time consuming setting everything. If it still sounds awful, try setting the source volume a little louder or softer and repeating the stick positioning. Once it sounds pretty good (It won't sound AWESOME because we only have 6 bits), press BREAK to get the menu back. You may have to hold it down if the coco is in the middle of playing or recording. SEE more INSTRUCTIONS in digital PART 2 =* |
digital recording PART 2 Okay, you've set the volume and the stick, and the
menu is in front of you.
Option 1-record: records the source
Option 2-playback: plays the source
Option 3-speed change: deterimes if hi-speed poke
is on or not. Pressing 3 when the speed is low will
make the speed high, and vice versa.
Option 4-sampling rate: a delay loop between samples
A rate of 1 is the best, a rate of 5 is pretty good
10=okay 20=bad 30=terrible 30+=UGH!
Option 5-select blocks of memory. Allows you to
select which memory blocks will be used to save the
sound. 128k users have blocks 48-53 available (6
blocks *8k=48k of storage) 512k users have blocks
0-53 available (54 *8k=432k)
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Here are some settings to help you:
# of blocks sample rate time quality
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0 - 54 1 1 min great
0 - 54 10 1:27 okay
0 - 54 20 1:50 bad
0 - 54 30 2:16 terrible
48- 53 1 :07 great
48- 53 10 :11 okay
These times are for a speed of low. With the hi
speed poke on, the times are cut in half, and the
quality goes up. So, for BEST quality, a rate of 1
a speed of high, a 512k machine = only 30 seconds!
A 128k machine = only 3.5 seconds =>
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The program uses a slightly modified joystick
routine to read only the right-x value very
quickly (the ROM routine is too slow) I borrowed
the code for this from a COCO Ocilloscope by
William Barden Jr. in the RAINBOW. The GIME chip
is accessed in order to use as much of the 512k as
possible.
NEAT effects:
Try recording at one sampling rate, changing it and
playing back.
Try recording at one speed, and playing back at
another.
You could also store part of a sound in blocks 48-
50, select blocks 51-53, save another sound, and
then playback 48-53.
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| Articles in section: REVIEWS |
| 3-D
PACDUDE |
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3-D PACDUDE I WAS ASKED WHAT I WANTED FOR XMAS FOR MY COCO
THAT WAS CHEAP (UNDER $25) AND DECIDED THAT A
GAME WOULD BE OK."3-D PACDUDE" BY BRIAN O'NEILL IS
DISTRIBUTED BY EVERSOFT GAMES, LTD..
THE IDEA OF A 3-D GAME INTRIGUED ME. I WAS SOON
TO DISCOVER THAT NINTENDO QUALITY GAMES ARE HERE
FOR THE COCO 3! THIS PROGRAM IS GREAT!!
SIMPLY INSERT YOUR BACKUP COPY OF 3-D PACDUDE
INTO DRIVE 0 AND LOADM "PAC3D". THE GAME USES THE
LEFT JOYSTICK FOR PLAYING SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO UNPLUG
MY HI-RES INTERFACE & MOUSE. THIS GAME REQUIRES A
512K COCO3 TO PERFORM ITS AMAZING GRAPHICS. THE MAZE
MOVES SMOOTHLY ACROSS THE SCREEN AS YOU HEAD TOWARDS
THE BORDERS AS IT IS LARGER THAN THE T.V. OR MONITOR
SCREEN.
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YOU VIEW THE SCREEN AT AN ANGLE DURING PLAY FOR
"3-D" REALIZISM. IF THE GHOSTS ARE GETTING TO0 CLOSE
YOU PUSH THE JOYSTICK BUTTON TO 'JUMP'. I FOUND THIS
A JOY TO DO BUT IT TAKES PRACTICE TO JUMP GHOSTS. ON
SOME JUMPS CERTAIN GHOSTS CAN JUMP AND EAT YOU IN
MID-AIR!
I'VE ONLY PLAYED 3-D PACDUDE ON THE FIRST MAZE OF
LEVEL ONE. THERE ARE 6 MAZES ON EACH OF THE TWELVE
LEVELS (GROAN). THIS IS AN ADDICTING GAME AND I AM
HAPPY TO SEE SUCH HIGH QUALITY FOR THE PRICE.
A PICTURE OF THE GAME IS ON PAGE 15 IN THE AD
BY EVERSOFT IN THE SEPT RAINBOW. FOR $19.95 + $2.50
S&H YOU CAN'T BEAT IT.
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| Articles in section: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
| /GIF
to /CM3 ?? ANSWERS Auto Key Repeat CHESS Copyrights LOOKING FOR VIP UPGRADE ML-ADDR BUG Question for Jim Gibbons |
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/GIF to /CM3 ?? I have a friend that can download PC pictures
from various Bulletin Boards and then convert them
to /GIF files on a CoCo3 formatted disk. I am able
to view these pictures using THE PROJECTOR program,
but I would really like to be able to translate them
into /CM3 files.
Has anyone heard of such a conversion program?
Godfrey J. Moll
1571 East Erie Apt 103
Springfield, MO 65804
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ANSWERS Charles Gibson asked a question about the RS-DOS
disk FAT table. The most thorough explanation of
this is Bill Barden's article "Delving Into The CoCo
Disk" - RAINBOW Jan. 1988.
Larry Bryant asked if there is a program which will
convert OS-9 files into RS-DOS ASCII files. I think
that Granite Computer Systems' FILE TRANSFER UTILI-
TY is the program you are looking for. I've used it
and it's great!
Michael Lewis asked if there is an all-purpose data
base that he can use to organize his Sega game file.
I would like to recommend my "DATA FORM III" program
which is such a program. DF3 enables the user to
custom design his own data base - and it's easy =>
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to use! He can order DF3 from me (complete with
instructions and tutorial) for just $10 (original
cost was $19.95)
Ray Smith asked if there was a program to translate
HSCREEN2 graphics into PMODE 4 graphics. The follow
ing program (although it's slow) will do the job:
10 'LOAD HSCREEN2 GRAPHICS THEN RUN THIS PROGRAM
20 INPUT"BEGIN AT COLUMN (0 - 64)";FH:POKE&HE6E4,&HE
6:HSCREEN2:POKE65497,0
30 FORV=0TO191:FORH=FH TOFH+255STEP8
40 T=1:R=0:FORI=7TO0STEP-1:D=INT(HPOINT(H+I,V)/15):D
=D*T:R=R+D:T=T*2:NEXT:POKE3584+Z,255-R:Z=Z+1
50 NEXT:NEXT:POKE65496,0:HSCREEN0:PMODE4,1:SCREEN1,1
:EXEC44539:END
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Since PMODE 4 graphics are 256 pixels wide and
HSCREEN 2 graphics are 320 wide, the image will be
"cropped". Also, only the color in palette 15 (the
location of Black in CoCo Max 3) will be transfered;
all other colors will convert back to white. This
is because PMODE 4 is black and white only.
Jim Bennett
E.Z.Friendly Software
118 Corlies Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Auto Key Repeat I have a startup program that I run when I turn
on the computer. It lets me use both sides of
the disks and 40 tracks instead of 35. It also
sets the printer baud rate and colors for the
text screens. I would like to be able to have
automatic key repeat but have been unable to
find a way to do it. Can anyone help?
James Grogan
9890 Grover Ave S W
Howard Lake, MN 55349
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CHESS DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET A CHESS GAME FOR
THE COCO 3 & CM-8? I MISS PLAYING AGAINST THE
COMPUTER ON THE COCO 2 VERSION I USED TO HAVE. ANY
HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
ALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK STUART FOR HELP WITH
EDTASM AND JIM STERNETT FOR MULTI-VUE. AND THANKS
RICK FOR THE FONT EDITER FROM STRONGWARE!
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Copyrights Many of the big-name and not-so-big-name companies which once sold CoCo software are gone. I realize that their copyrights on their software are still completely valid. My question is, would it be feasible to try to contact some of these defunct vendors and get them to release their copyrights? Perhaps, they could even be talked into putting some of their software into public domain. The reason I ask this question is that I wanted a program that had been sold by Computize. I managed to locate the owner by phone. He told me that he was completely out of the CoCo market, had given away all his CoCo stuff, and encouraged me to try to find a pirated copy of his program!!!! What do you think about that? =* |
LOOKING FOR VIP UPGRADE Dear Friends,
I received a call from Richard Eickholtz this
evening. Richard asked "Do you know if VIP was ever
upgraded for the CoCo3 and where could I get a
copy?" He said he thought that at least part of the
VIP package had been modified to use the 80 column
screen of the CoCo3. If anyone has any information
regarding this question, please contact Richard at
the address below. He is not currently a member of
CFDM, but hopefully he will find that being a Friend
is beneficial when he receives your help! Although
Richard receives RAINBOW (and had the current issue)
he was not aware of CFDM. It makes me wonder if
some RAINBOW subscribers even look at their monthly
copy! =>
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Richard Eickholtz
1345 Crest Court
Plainfield, IN 46168
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ML-ADDR BUG I REALLY LIKED THE PROGRAM CALLED "ML-ADDR". I
HAVE USED IT TO FIND STARTING AND EXECUTION ADDRESS'
FOR M/L PROGRAMS.
HOWEVER, THE FIRST TIME I RAN THE PROGRAM IT
RETURNED AN 'AO ERROR' IF I WANTED MORE THAN ONE
M/L ADDRESS. LOOKING AT THE PROGRAM I DECIDED TO
EDIT LINE 53 BY ADDING ':CLOSE' TO THE END OF IT.
THIS CURED THE PROBLEM.
EGAD! =*
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Question for Jim Gibbons I really appreciated your lessons and I hope that you won't leave it at that. I'm sure you have a lot more to teach us. I had CoCo Max 3 for about three years and never bothered to use it until I saw what you and others were doing on CFDM Gallery. I have now developed a degree of confidence in using CM3 but I would be glad if you would give us a rundown on Color Mix options in the Colors Menu. I just haven't been able to make sense of them or work out how to apply them. Keep up the good work! =* |
