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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 |
| ABOUT
THIS MONTH'S COVER BONUS DIRECTORY (#24) CONTENTS...PART 1 (i62) CONTENTS...PART 2 (i62) CONTENTS...PART 3 (i62) PROGRAM DIRECTORY (i62) |
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ABOUT THIS MONTH'S COVER I thought that fishing was a good summer/autumn
activity and would make a suitable cover picture for
the September issue. Although I don't happen to be
a fisherman, maybe some of you are. But, even if you
are not, enjoy the picture.
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Here's a description of the files on the BONUS DISK.
File names preceded by an asterisk are data files
or program files used by other programs. Do not RUN
or EXEC these files.
- SIDE 1 -
NAME.........COMMAND..SECTION OR DESCRIPTION
* 2X2 .MAZ........ These
* 3X3 .MAZ........ files
* 4X4HARD .MAZ........ are for
* 9X9 .MAZ........ MAKER.BAS
* HAUNTED .NIB.........POTPOURRI
* HAWAII .NIB.........ART GALLERY
KLONDKE3.BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* LIKELOTS.NIB.........ART GALLERY
MAKER .BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH =>
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MAZING .BAS.........PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* NIBLOADR.BIN.........NIB PICTURE LOADER
NIBSHOW .BAS...RUN...ART GALLERY
NUMBERS .BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* ONEWORD .NIB.........ART GALLERY
* SCREEN1 .HR0......... ALL
* SCREEN1 .HR1......... of
* SCREEN2 .HR0......... these
* SCREEN2 .HR1......... are
* SCREEN3 .HR0......... for
* SCREEN3 .HR1......... SLIDE.BAS
SLIDE .BAS.........PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
SOCK .BAS.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* THE MAGI.NIB.........ART GALLERY
* WINE .NIB.........POTPOURRI
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- SIDE 2 -
* BUTTERFL.BMP.........picture for HICOLOR.BAS
HICOLOR .BAS...RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* HICOLOR .BIN.........used by HICOLOR.BAS
* HICOLOR .TXT.........used by HICOLOR.BAS
* LITTLE .BIN.........used by MINITREE.BAS
MINITREE.BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* MIRRI3 .BMP.........picture for HICOLOR.BAS
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ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE "ABOUT CFDM" ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE ABOUT THIS ISSUE ABOUT THIS MONTH'S COVER BONUS DIRECTORY (#24) CONTENTS...PART 1 (i62) CONTENTS...PART 2 (i62) CONTENTS...PART 3 (i62) PROGRAM DIRECTORY (i62) ACTIVE COCO CFDM SUBMISSION DISK TEMPLATE CHICAGO COCO FEST => ____________________________________________________ CoCoFest West Report The Christmas Card Project WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS ADVERTISEMENTS C-III PAGES DESKTOP PUBLISHING CFDM SUBSCRIPTION Complete System For Sale PAC-MAN BY NICKOLAS MARENTES SUNDOG/COCOPRO! SOFTWARE ARTICLES OF THE MONTH Assembly Language Programming 9 COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 1 COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 2 JOHN KOWALSKI INTERVIEW => ____________________________________________________ Playing with Video Part 3 COCO FRIENDS ART GALLERY ANOTHER "WHATISIT" DRAWING DAWG #4 I like LOTS! Kailua-Kona REFLECTIONS THE MAGI: a serious collage The Hick Brothers VIEWING THE CFDM ART GALLERY shadow.NIB FAMILY TREE FAMILY TREE Roger's CoCo World! (See PART 2.) =* |
Roger's CoCo World! (pt.2) Trip to Panama UPDATE ON THE MOLL'S Who me? :) FORUM MORE Thanks to Rick... THANKS, RICK TOPIC OF IMPORTANCE FROM THE EDITOR A Special Thanks! CFDM Renewals in PA! CFDM UPDATE KUDOS FOR ISSUE #61 New Members Welcome! => ____________________________________________________ THIS MONTH'S HOLY SCRIPTURE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Hard Decision Comments RENEWAL THANKS DOC but... Where do we send our submission? POTPOURRI A CFDM THIKING PUZZLE A SIGN OF THE TIMES ANSWER to 'What kind recipe' AUNTY'S ELECTRONIC WIZARDRY Haunted Halloween MURPHY'S LAWS ADDENDUM :) => ____________________________________________________ Novel progress report WINE PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH C-III PAGES SLIDE SHOW! KLONDIKE SOLITAIRE LOTOGRAF: results in a row LOTOLUK2 - a slight improvement MINI TREE NUMBERS.BAS Sherlock Holmes in Pananma aMAZING - try these mazes! maze MAKER REVIEWS FROM THE TOMBS OF PHOTON! (See PART 3.) =* |
PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.1)
PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.2)
PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.3)
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
COCO HARDWARE/RAINBOWS WANTED
FRACTALS/PC
WHERE'S IT @? !!
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Here's a description of the files located on the
PROGRAM SIDE. Files names preceded by an asterisk
are DATA files and are not to be RUN or EXECed!
NAME.........COMMAND..SECTION OR DESCRIPTION
* DAWG .NIB.........ART GALLERY
* HICK72 .NIB.........ART GALLERY
LOTOGRAF.BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
LOTOLUK2.BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* MACROS .ASM.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* MACROS .LST.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* NIBLOADR.BIN.........NIB PICTURE LOADER
NIBSHOW .BAS...RUN...ART GALLERY
* PART9 .ASM.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* PART9 .LST.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* PART9 .TXT.........USE READFILE.BAS to read =>
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* PART9A .ASM.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* PART9A .LST.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* PART9B .ASM.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* PART9B .LST.........ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
PHOPATCH.BAS...RUN...REVIEWS
READFILE.BAS...RUN...ARTICLES OF THE MONTH
* REFLECT .NIB.........ART GALLERY
* SIGN .NIB.........POTPOURRI
TREASURE.BAS...RUN...PROGRAMS OF THE MONTH
* TREASURE.TXT.........USE TREASURE.BAS to read
* shadow .NIB.........ART GALLERY
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| Articles in section: ACTIVE COCO |
| CFDM
SUBMISSION DISK TEMPLATE CHICAGO COCO FEST CoCoFest West Report The Christmas Card Project WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS |
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CFDM SUBMISSION DISK TEMPLATE Over the years I have made pleas for material for CFDM. You have always responded and we always enjoy your submissions. But now with our numbers falling and sometimes our creative spirits taking a respite, we need your help more than ever...and I'm sure you will respond. We need programs......we need Family Trees.....we need articles.....we need reviews...... we need music and graphics. Please help where you can! In order to make it easier to submit material, we will include a Submission Disk Template from time to time on the Bonus Disk. Many of you have used it to submit material. Others who joined us later, may not have this disk. So now there's no excuse for you to put off submitting your material! => ____________________________________________________ If you need some instructions, here's some tips on how to submit material. (See CFDM docs for more.) - MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE SUBMISSION DISK TEMPLATE - USE THE BACKUP COPY TO SEND IN YOUR MATERIAL - RUN "C.BAS" (if you use RGB) OR "M.BAS" (TV/CMP) - WHEN THE MENU IS DISPLAYED, ENTER THE SECTION THAT BEST FITS YOUR ENTRY. - WHEN YOU ARE IN THE APPROPRIATE SECTION, HIGHLIGHT 'ENTRY WRITER' AND PRESS ENTER. - ANSWER THE EACH PROMPT AND PRESS BREAK => ____________________________________________________ - PRESS SHIFT/0 TO GET IN LOWERCASE LETTERS. - TYPE IN YOUR ENTRY AND PRESS BREAK WHEN COMPLETE. Please note that the Submission Disk Template has 39 FREE granules. Use the same side of the disk to place any programs, graphic, etc. files. A note to all: Please send an entry explaining your contributed programs, graphics, etc. by using the Entry Writer. I cannot include material in CFDM without your explanations. Although I attempt to do some editing of text entries, I sometimes leave it basically as you send it. Be careful not to use more words than necessary to explain your work. =* |
CHICAGO COCO FEST Let me be the first to let you all know that May
First and May Second, 1999...have been reserved for
the Eight Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
The affiliation of the Hotel will change but the
location remains the same.
I'll let you all know about reservations and phone
numbers in the not-too-distant future.
BUT MARK YOUR CALENDARS N O W!!!
and send me your intentions...it'll help build the
excitement. I will post a who's coming from time to
time...but I'll try to be less obnoxious about it
this year. =>
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Tony Podraza, Sysop, Glenside's Cup of CoCo BBS;
(847)428-0436
VP, Special Events; Glenside Color Computer Club,
INC.
Sponsor of the Seventh Annual "Last" Chicago
CoCoFEST!
April 18 & 19, 1998; Holiday Inn of Elgin, IL.
WE HAD A GREAT TIME>>>>>WHERE WERE YOU?
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CoCoFest West Report LA CoCoFest West Report:
We met at a coffee shop under construction and found
a common ground in the CoCo. One CoCo3 w/6309 & a
half meg of RAM connected to two 5-1/4 inch drives
showed off a 2000 color picture in the Windows BMP
format. It was of a butterfly...very pretty...then
another BMP was shown of a cute little kitty. Chet
Simpson's Gold Runner was played along with the
PAC-MAN programmed by Nick Marentes of Australia.
Along side the CoCo was a Dragon 64 and Fujitsu
FM-7. Larry Greenfield showed how sophisticated the
FM-7 is with graphics and text. I brought 7 games to
play on the Tano Dragon (3 of which I bought at
Radio Shack for the CoCo 1). =>
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No door prizes this time, but one CoCoer got a trial
copy of Projector and some CM3 pictures.
All in all we all had a good time. There were 8 of
us including Richard Albers and Rose Nedrow. We may
have a gathering in the fall!
-= Cosmonaut =-
Steve Secord - Owner of CoCo's since 1983.
cosmonaut@earthlink.net
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The Christmas Card Project Over the last several years, many of you have
participated in the Annual Christmas Card Project.
This was the chance for those who participated...to
send a Holiday Greeting to a CFDM friend and receive
one in return from another.
Well, once again you have the chance to be apart of
this special holiday fun! Here's how it works, send
a postcard by December 1, 1998...with your name and
address to:
Jim Davis
c/o Christmas Card Project
P.O. BOX 1704
NIXA, MO. 65714
When I send out the December issue, I will put =>
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your postcard in a participant's mailer and in
return I'll put another participant's in yours! When
the postcard arrives with your December issue, you
will need to send a Greeting Card to the participant
listed on the postcard you receive!
This is a great way to say "Happy Holidays" to a
fellow CoCo friend and get into the holiday spirit!
Thanks to all who participate!!
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WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS Please send CFDM submissions to:
JIM DAVIS
c/o CFDM
P.O. BOX 1704
NIXA, MO. 65714
You may also send them via my E-Mail address at:
gearboxed@geocities.com
Help continue to make CFDM possible by sending in
your submission today!!
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| Articles in section: ADVERTISEMENTS |
| C-III
PAGES DESKTOP PUBLISHING CFDM SUBSCRIPTION Complete System For Sale PAC-MAN BY NICKOLAS MARENTES SUNDOG/COCOPRO! SOFTWARE |
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C-III PAGES DESKTOP PUBLISHING A Note from Roger Hallman:
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I am pleased to offer this product to the CoCo
Community. I put so many hours of work into it, that
I felt it would be a waste if it wasn't shared with
everyone.
What is C-III Pages? C-III Pages is a program that
pulls together TEXT and GRAPHICS and gives one on
screen tools to format and layout the content. C-III
Pages has easy to use pull down menus, icons and
dialog boxes. It also has many useful drawing tools,
such as boxes, lines, polygons, rays, circles,
elipses, brush shapes or free draw.
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You can also cut, copy, stamp or paste, flip,
enlarge, reduce, rotate, stretch, import any ASCII,
text, create columns, change fonts or invert text.
With C-III Pages you'll be able to create great
** PAGES **
** FORMS **
** FLYERS **
** DOCUMENTS **
** GREETING CARDS **
** HANDOUT MATERIAL **
** AND CLUB MAGAZINES **
Supports: MAX-10, PMODE1-4, Color Max 3, Color Max
Deluxe, RAT, Digitizer and now BMP! =>
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- CoCo 3 w/128k/512k
- RGB or Composite/Monochrome Monitor
- A Minimum of 1 disk drive (two recommended)
- RSDOS, ADOS3, EXTENDED ADOS3, OWLDOS, 1meg Upgrade
- Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Interface
- Joystick or Mouse (mouse recommended)
- Printer, Epson, Gemini, Panasonic, DMP 105/106,
NX-1000 Series, CGP-220 b/w and others.
PRICE: $25 + $2 shipping for (3)Disks/55 page manual
Send check or money order to: JIM DAVIS
P.O. BOX 1704
NIXA, MO. 65714 =*
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CFDM SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ------------------------ CFDM Subscriptions are offered on an annual basis. You will receive 4 issues per year, which will be delivered to you quarterly. The quarterly year runs from September of the current year, to June of the following year. Each issue will include 2 "flippie" disks and you will also get HARDCOPY, the magazine side of CFDM printed by Arthur S. Hallock. CFDM/HARDCOPY - $30 per year. *Your mailing label will have a membership number as follows: ##-##-Q3. The Q3 means that the last issue on your subscription is June, 1999. Please don't let your subscription expire! We need you in our group!* |
Complete System For Sale 1 CoCo 512k Computer
1 CM-8 RGB Monitor
1 5-1/4 Disk Drive (full height)
1 Disto Disk Controller
1 DMP 130 Printer
1 Multi-Pak Interface
ROMPAK GAMES w/manuals
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Thexder, Predator, Tetris, RoboCop, Rampage, Malcom
Mortar, Silpheed, Rad Warrior, Castle of Tharoggad,
Downland, Dungeons of Daggorath, Mega-Bug, Monster
Maze, Sokoban, Castle Guard, Androne, Color Scripsit
2, Mind-Roll, Shanghai, Color File.
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DISKS w/manuals
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Sub Battle, Outhouse, Home Publisher, Gems, Contras,
Rainbow Adventures on Disk Vol. 2-4, Simply Better,
Mine Rescue, Cave Walker, Paladins Legacy, Sands of
Eqypt, War Monger, Wizards Den, Soviet Bloc, Zenix,
Rush-n-Assault, Pinball Factory, Cashman, Crystal
City, Ghana Bwana, Rogue, Snake Pit, Photon, Shamus,
The King(donkey kong), Sinistaar, Gold Finder, Coco
Pro Solitar, Variations of Solitair, Kings Quest 3
(2 copies), Powers of Ard 1&2, Bouncing Boulders,
Split-n-Image and TW-128.
I'm asking a total selling price of $350.
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George Bruhl
616 N Farmington Rd.
Jackson, MO 63755
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Ph: 573-243-2991
E-Mail: gbruhl@clas.net
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PAC-MAN BY NICKOLAS MARENTES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* P A C - M A N BY NICKOLAS MARENTES *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- COCO 3 W/512k
- RGB/CMP MONITOR
- DISK DRIVE
- JOYSTICK (keyboard supported)
PRICE: $20
SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: JIM DAVIS
P.O. BOX 1704
NIXA, MO. 65714 =*
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SUNDOG/COCOPRO! SOFTWARE Just a reminder that the Sundog/CoCoPro! software is
still available to CFDM Members for $5 ea. + ($2 s/h
for entire order) Here's what's available:
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CRYSTAL CITY, PHOTON, ZENIX, THE CONTRAS, QUEST FOR
THELDA, IN QUEST OF THE STARLORD, KYUM-GAI(RSDOS),
KYUM-GAI(OS9), WARRIOR KING, WAR MONGER, SOUNDTRAX,
SOUNDTRAX INSTRUMENT(3)DISK SET AND GRAFEXPRESS 2.0.
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MULTI-MENU, DATA WINDOWS, DATA MERGER, THE ZAPPER,
TOOLS II, LEVEL II TOOLS, DISK MANAGER TREE, V-TERM,
PRESTO PARTNER, OS9 LEVEL II BBS, NEWSPAPER09, NEWS
FONTS(for NEWSPAPER09), SIMPLY BETTER AND SOLTAIRE.
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JIM DAVIS
P.O. BOX 1704 NIXA, MO. 65714 =*
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| Assembly
Language Programming 9 COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 1 COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 2 JOHN KOWALSKI INTERVIEW Playing With Video Part 3 |
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Assembly Language Programming 9 View text file associated with this article Well, here is part 9 in the assembly language series you have all been following so avidly. :) To read this installment, use READFILE.BAS to read PART9.TXT. Other pertinent files are: PART9.ASM PART9A.ASM PART9B.ASM MACROS.ASM PART9.LST PART9A.LST PART9B.LST MACROS.LST As always, you can send feedback of any sort by email to astlew@bigfoot.com. Bugfixes and ideas are welcome. Destructive criticism and various other kinds of feedback are also welcome. Enjoy. (See side 2 of this disk for these files.) =* |
COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 1 THE FOURTH YEAR (JUL'83 - JUN'84) Does it seem like I'm being too hard on CCN? Well in July, their was a full-cover photo of the Dragon/32 but, nothing on the inside about the computer. RAINBOW magazine, now supporting the MC-10, celebra- ted its second anniversary with a 308 page issue containing a two year index, a record with some BASIC programs, a look at the "new" MC-10, and a review of April's RAINBOWFEST. Marketing began for UN-DISK from DR. PREBLE, ELITE CALC from ELITE SOFTWARE, and PBJ's 80 COLUMN CARD. If 64K wasn't enough for your CoCo, you could => ____________________________________________________ always try DENNIS KITSZ's 128K bubble memory upgrade which appeared in July's TCCM. A new CoCo magazine, 68 COLOR MICRO JOURNAL, was an- nounced in August, which brought to 5, the number of dedicated magazines for the CoCo. Just about all magazines carried articles on the MC- 10. My personal favorite is the one in CCN! New product announcements in August include a new CoCo keyboard from HJL, the MULTI-PAK INTERFACE from Radio Shack, PIRATECTOR from Sugar Software, and Chromasette goes to disk. SOFT SECTOR MARKETING stops marketing CoCo => ____________________________________________________ software. Always on the leading edge, Star-Kits starts its software AMNESTY program. Who but Peter Stark would be bold enough to give software pirates a chance to cleanse their soul? Star-Kits also markets the first MC-10 software. HUMBUG. If you missed the first RAINBOWFEST, take heart, their is a very strong possibility of three more. If you needed a new computer to take back to school with you in September, you might try the newly released CoCo II but, don't bother subscribing to CNN because, unknown to its subscribers, the September issue, is its last. (See Part 2) =* |
COCO CHRONICLES 13 PART 2 Reports circulate the THE COLOR COMPUTER MAGAZINE
will hold COLOR EXPO'83 in Pasadena, CA. November
4-6.
New products released include COLOR MICRO JOURNALS
32 page debut issue, POOYAN from Datasoft, a
keyboard from KEYTRONICS, PRO-COLOR FORMS from
DERRINGER SOFTWARE, and the DRAGON/64 from TANO.
The following was to have appeared in CCN but....
"Enter The DRAGON/64"
by: alfredo(!) September 30, 1983
The DRAGON/64 Computer, which is enjoying great
success in England, is now available in America. =>
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What makes the DRAGON worthy of mention in this
magazine is the fact that it uses a 6809E micropro-
cessor and MICROSOFT BASIC just like our friend the
TRS-80 Color Computer.
When I first heard about the DRAGON/64 (and little
brother DRAGON/32) my first question was:
"Will Color Computer programs run on the DRAGON?".
The answer is YES......and NO!
The incompatibility of "BASIC WORD TOKENS" between
the 2 machines prevent CoCo programs from working
on the DRAGON/64 but, not to worry!
If you save a CoCo program using ASCII format (ie:
CSAVE"filename",A) it will CLOAD and RUN on the =>
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DRAGON/64 with little or no problem. Problems may
occur if any memory locations in LOW RAM are PEEKed
or POKEd and problems will occur for sure if any
CoCo ROM routines are called. Here's why:
DRAGON's COLOR BASIC and EXTENDED COLOR BASIC are
identical to CoCo's in many ways with one major exe-
ception: They are both on A SINGLE HN4827128G-30 28
pin EPROM. While DRAGON's BASIC chip (IC 18) occu-
pies memory locations $8000-$BFFF (like the CoCo),
ROM entry points are not the same. CoCo's POLLCAT
routine, for instance, is at $A1C1 while on the
DRAGON it's at $BBE5. This fact prevents Color
Computer machine language programs from running on
the Dragon.
More CoCo Chronicles next issue... =*
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JOHN KOWALSKI INTERVIEW Here is a recent interview of a most talented CoCo
Programmer: John Kowalski - "Sock Master"
- Conducted by Nickolas Marentes.
Internet users can also read this interview at:
Nickolas Marentes' Color Computer Workshop
http://www.launch.net.au/-nickm/coco/
*Remember to replace the "-" hyphen with a tilde
symbol in the above address.
(RUN "SOCK.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk to read
the interview.)
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Playing With Video Part 3 View text file associated with this article * This program does not function correctly on the * * CoCo3 Emulator and requires an RGB monitor. * Last time, I demonstrated 64 color displays on the CoCo3 with a few images that were converted into 64 color format. I also mentioned that my next article would likely feature 343 color display. Well, I missed the last issue of CFDM so I decided to do one better this time around and do a 1000 color display. (You can also see the 343 color mode if you select it in the program settings menu.) I decided to make the program actually USEFUL this time.Instead of me supplying preconverted images for you to look at, I made a converter built into the program and included two .BMP images to display. => ____________________________________________________ The two images are a butterfly and a cat. I picked them because they were generally cute, but more importantly - they had LOTS of colors. These are 256 color 320x200 BMP files. You can use a PC to convert virtually any image into BMP format and then view it on the CoCo with the program. (the catch is that the program ONLY recognises 256 color, 320x200 files. Any other size will get a mess on the screen) The reason I had to settle for only 256 color BMP files is because 16 million color BMP files are just too large to fit on a CoCo disk! It's unfortunate, the program could have been made to handle them. Oh, did I mention that it takes 2 minutes to convert into 343 colors and 10 minutes to convert a BMP file to 1000 color display? Be prepared to wait while => ____________________________________________________ it's converting the images to 'hicolor' CoCo format (it does show you some stuff changing on the screen so you won't be too bored waiting :) How does it work? You can read the text file on the bonus disk for a better explanation, but it's gotten a bit hard to explain everything in detail because the whole thing is a lot more complicated than the 64 color viewer in the last article. files on Bonus disk side 2 HICOLOR.BAS (RUN it to start) HICOLOR.BIN (The machine language subroutines) HICOLOR.TXT (The longer text article) MIRRI3.BMP (BMP picture of a cat) BUTTERFL.BMP (BMP picture of a butterfly) Happy viewing! * |
ANOTHER "WHATISIT"
DRAWING
Here's another one of Ben's "whatisit" brain teaser
pictures. This is a tricky one! See if you can solve
it without looking at page 2 of this entry.
(RUN "NIBSHOW.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk to
view "ONEWORD.NIB".)
(Answer on page 2 if you get stumped!)
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ANSWER: JUSTONEWORD
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DAWG #4
This time out, DAWG tips his hat to the changes that have occured at CFDM -- THANX to RICK and HI to JIM. DAWG also pays tribute to one of his favor- ite stories/movies and to one of the BEST comic series EVER (maybe inspiration for some of DAWG'S antics -- hmm?) ;-> As DAWG would say "MAY ALL YOUR DAYS BE FULL OF BONES AND CAT-FREE!" * *TRANSLATION -- I WISH ALL THINGS GOOD FOR YOU AND THAT YOU BE WORRY FREE! -- JOHN (See John's DAWG4.NIB on side 2 of this disk.) =* |
I like LOTS!
For many years now I have often been asked...
"Jim Davis...are you the creator of Garfield?"
Well I can FINALLY say YES I AM!! While I'm not the
"real" creator of Garfield...I am the creator of
this one! :)
(Select "LIKELOTS" in NIBSHOW on side 1 of the Bonus
Disk.)
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Kailua-Kona
JIM: Here's a neat little picture that CoCo Friend
Godfrey Moll had sent to me, just before leaving for
Hawaii. We hope he and Muriel have a wonderful time
and wish them well on their 50th. Anniversary!!
We also hope to hear of their travels when they
return!
This picture was drawn in CoCoMax3 on the Emulator
and converted to a NIB.
(Select "HAWAII" in NIBSHOW on side 1 of the Bonus
Disk.)
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REFLECTIONS
Here is yet another picture suggested by a
calendar photo. At first glance, it looked fairly
straightforward, but once I got into it, it took
more time than I anticipated. Still, worth the
effort.
Select REFLECT in NIBSHOW on the back of this disk.
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THE MAGI: a serious collage
I have always honestly admitted when a masterwork of mine includes items from the work of others, and better, CoCo artists. I would like to be able, as some can, to set out to draw a scene with horses that look like horses and people that do not look like evolutionary throwbacks. But still, I pride myself sometimes on my ability to begin with an idea and end with a satisfactory collage of elements from the work of others. I hope that those work I snitch will see this as a compliment. When I saw Victor Neufeldt's 3WISEMEN/NIB in CFDM #60, I thought that's just what I will need come Christmastide. I have long learned to do my Christ- mas collaging early. So THE MAGI began with a crib full of straw, a straw-strewn stable ground, a blue sky, a star and=> ____________________________________________________ a rough leanto that offered meager shelter that first Christmas. Getting the other elements into the scene was not as easy as it may seem. The cow and the horse and Mary and her baby were figures "cut" form CGD+ pix translated to CM3 scrap- book pix. Each figure was pasted into the scene, placed as high as possible, sized, moved carefully into position and colored. The original Mary was nursing a baby on her arm but her figure was altered to disguise this. The baby was rotated from a vertical to a supine posit- ion. Vic's 3WISEMEN/NIB was translated into a /CM3 file using NIB>CM3/BAS, loaded into CoCo Max 3, re- duced in size and cut into the EDIT clip file. The main picture was loaded again and the wise men pas- ted into the scene. => ____________________________________________________ It isn't always as easy as it may seem. Most fig- ures imported from the clipboard or the scrapbook require some repair when they are pasted onto the screen and the surrounds have to be touched up to disguise blank space left here and there as their positions are adjusted. Thus, modestly, I would suggest that copycatting calls for talent of a spec- ial order. If you examine the scene carefully I hope you will be able to concede that that is little to suggest that its elements are borrowings. Finally, let me say that Vic's 3WISEMEN is a fine example of draughtsmanship that knows where it wants to go and gets there! If only I had a milligram of that sort of talent! (Select "THE MAGI" in NIBSHOW on side 1 of the Bonus Disk to view Keiran's picture.) =* |
The Hick Brothers
Well, they are back. Those lovable two hillbillies
from the deep South are thinking about all their
friends out there in the CoCo world. In their own
unique way of thinking, of course.
(See HICK72.NIB on the back of this disk.)
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VIEWING THE CFDM ART GALLERY In order to view the .NIB pictures in this month's
Art Gallery, please RUN "NIBSHOW.BAS".
After RUNing NIBSHOW, you will need to press the <D>
key for the directory listing of NIB pictures on the
disk. Use the <ARROW KEYS> to choose a picture and
press the <SPACE BAR> to view it. After viewing a
picture, use the <BREAK> key to clear it. To leave
NIBSHOW, press the <X> key from the MAIN SCREEN.
NIBSHOW is a contribution by Stuart Wyss-Gallifent
and was featured on CFDM Issue #18, along with more
complete documentation. Thanks Stuart!
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shadow.NIB
Diehard CoCo 3 users know that when you spend too
much time at your beloved computer, you can get a
real bad case of blurry vision. Please don't let
this happen or else you'll be seeing lettering like
shadow.NIB
(See Ray's "shadow.NIB" on the back of this disk.)
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| Articles in section: FAMILY TREE |
| FAMILY
TREE Roger's CoCo World! Roger's CoCo World! (pt.2) Trip to Panama UPDATE ON THE MOLL'S Who me? :) |
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FAMILY TREE Hi Rick,
I have intended to do this for some time and
today seems to be the day since my wife is out
shopping. So I am sending in my renewal for one more
year. 05/21/98
So that you will have something to take up
space, I will bring you up todate about my wife and
I. On the 8th of May we celebrated our 53rd
anniversary and on the 27th of Nov.97 I celebrated
my 80th birthday. So far we are both in pretty good
health and are able to get out quite abit.
I want you to know that I have enjoyed all
the articles that others and you have submitted and
am sorry to see that it all might come to an end.
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I hope for the best for you and your family.
Sincerely,
R.V.ENSMINGER
5111 GLENRIDGE APT L-12
SAN ANTONIO TX. 78229
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JIM: Hi R.V. Congratulations on your anniversary and
birthday! As far as CFDM goes, I will do my very
best to make sure that things don't come to an end
just yet! Thanks for the renewal and your continued
support!
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Roger's CoCo World! I wanted to make a contribution to the CoCo Friends,
so here goes...I've been working on this for a month
or so. Did you ever try writing something and all of
a sudden you can't think of one thing worth sharing
about a CoCo.
Well I've been in the coco world since the early
80's. Now we're talkin' about the period of time
when pong was a neat game to play! I got my CoCo-1
with 16k of memory and extended color basic! Wow,
now I can create my own games and programs etc.
Printers back then were cheap (if you had tons of
money to throw away). I bought one of those cool
Radio Shack thermal printers. You know the one, it
printed on silver colored paper that looked like it
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was a must almost right away...needed to save those
cool programs! Well after a few months 16k just
wasn't enough, gotta get 32k upgrade. At about this
point a floppy was available for the CoCo. It took a
few months to save up the money for that upgrade!
I ran across a book on 6800 microprocessor
programming (still have it!!!) and tried poking in a
mini ML program. I couldn't believe it, the program
actually worked! It ran so fast that I almost didn't
see it run! All of a sudden I was hooked...I'd get
off work and the CoCo got turned on along with the
"tv" monitor. I can go on and on.
Once the CoCo3 came out everything changed, this
computer blew the doors off the old CoCo(1/2). =>
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I had the "basic unravelled" series of books so "my"
CoCo was somewhat different than most people's. I
customized my CoCo to do some things I felt it
should have come with from the factory. I bought an
EPROM burner from DISTO products and the adventure
was on...
It's amazing what the CoCo can do. All you need is
lotsa documentation and an imagination! I felt that
I had max'ed out every thing the CoCo could do...and
then someone "had to" come along with a cheap hard
drive interface for the CoCo. I had 80 track floppy
drives on my CoCo already, how hard could it be to
use a hard drive. A few "pokes" to the routines and
we should be up and running, right?
(see Pt.2) =*
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Roger's CoCo World! (pt.2) Wrong, I found that a hard drive was similar to a floppy but definitely not the same! Well I got my interface card at the Chicago CoCofest, that pretty much shot a month of free time just playing with it. You know how it is...I'll spend one hour a day on the CoCo. Hmmm, seems like a Warp Field surrounds the "computer room". You've spent 10 minutes in the room and the rest of the world gained 4 hours or so! So why are there so many people still playing with their CoCo? Well I have finally figured it out!!! It's that darn Warp Field, yeah that's the ticket! You get on your CoCo and even the worst day at work just melts away...Now, I still haven't come up with anything to write about the CoCo so... "Beam me up Scotty!" -Roger =* |
Trip to Panama I recently had the opportunity to visit Panama for two weeks over the beginning of July. It was great! The first week was spent within the Canal Zone, hiking through trails in the rainforest, studying the flora and fauna. I had the opportunity to eat termites, fresh pineapple and banana, mango, etc. and try new drinks like passion-fruit juice. I saw parrots, monkeys, parakeets, storks, hawks, leaf-cutter ants, sloths, and other exotic creatures in the wild. One highlight was a visit to Chiquita Banana, to watch how bananas are grown, picked, cut, and boxed for shipment to the U.S. It happens so fast! And it's all done by hand! We also tasted fresh cut sugar cane, saw tarantulas and basilisks, and went to an iguana farm. -> ____________________________________________________ The second week was spent on the island of Bocas del Toro in the Carribean. It's one of Panama's islands and very delightful. We snorkeled every day on the coral reefs, seeing barracuda, puffer fish, silver sides, rays, trumpet fish, dolphins, sea anenomes, sea urchins, starfish, sand dollars, etc. We also went to several deserted beaches with sun, surf, and sand, and at one place, I held a poison dart frog. We also visited a cave full of bats; thousands! On one evening, we went walking along a beach, looking for turtles laying their eggs. We didn't see any, but the stars that were out were FANTASTIC. It was worth it. We did visit the Panama Canal, also. Did you know that a typical supertanker pays about $43,000 to use the Canal? Although that's a lot of money, it's -> ____________________________________________________ far cheaper and far quicker (12 hours) than going around South America. Panama City is a mix of very old, old, and new. The first city, built around 1590 was sacked by the pirate Henry Morgan. Only ruins exist. Then there is the city, and center city. Skyscrapers tower over the center, while houses 200 years old surround the city. We learned so much, saw so much, that I could not possibly write about it all here. BUT... I did type out my whole journal, and scan several pictures from the trip, into MY WEB PAGE. If you have internet access, visit and read about my trip. http://www.voicenet.com/-swyss (don't forget, that hyphen is supposed to be a tilde, or wavy hyphen.)-* |
UPDATE ON THE MOLL'S Since a few years ago we've been without a
CoCo3 -- the Disk Drive died in Florida -- and the
first person to call about purchasing all of my CoCo
Stuff was our New Editor Jim Davis!! Since then I
have tried several times to make an Entry for CFDM
using the EMULATOR...today I plan to stay with it
until I have this completed.
The newest "happening" with Muriel & I is
that we will be celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniv-
ersary in Kailue-Kona, Hawaii on the 11th of Sept-
ember. We also have a Web Page on the Internet at:
http//www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1418/
If you have a PC, be sure to visit our site
and enjoy the MANY Links to our other pages -- see
Muriel's Teddy Bear collection! You'll also be able
to visit the Air & Military Museum of the Ozarks ==>
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where we spend some of our time.
We still go "almost" South for the Winter --
Panama City Beach and now Destin, Florida -- usually
from November to April, but this year we will be go-
ing down in January. Plan to spend more time visit-
ing our children in Cohasset, MA., San Antonio, TX.,
and Taos, NM. during October, November and December.
We had a delightful visit from Rick, Donna and
the three girls on July 1st as they were returning
home from their visit to many National Parks and
Disneyland in California -- had a late Lunch at the
Golden Corral -- Jim Davis joined us by driving up
from Nixa (about 10 miles away) - lots of CoCo talk!
With Rick, Art Hallock and Jim - we should see
the CFDM continue until the Year 2000 -- we need to
get all of the idle CoCo3's running again! ==>
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I will try to test many of the old CoCo3 Pro-
grams on the PC using the Emulator and will report
any +'s and -'s that I find along the way. I wanted
to convert some photo scans to CM3 format, but ran
into trouble with the ColorMax Program in trying to
go from GIF to CM3 -- the cursor would not go low
enough on the screen to save the file.. will hope-
fully find another method of converting pictures.
I spend about an hour a day on the Internet
enjoying the many Home Web Pages -- I have a Digital
Camera and a Scanner so that I do most of my Photos
in Galleries to send to our children. If anyone is
interested in this -- just drop us a line at:
Muriel & Godfrey Moll
4355 S. National Apt 1001
Springfield, Mo 65810 =*
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Who me? :) Many of you know me already, but for those who don't
here's a little bit about myself.
I'm 26 years old and live in Nixa, Missouri. I, like
many of you have enjoyed using the CoCo for a number
of years. I was first attracted to the CoCo during
the early 80's. I had always enjoyed playing around
with electronic gadgets and hand-helds, but what I
wanted to be apart of was that select group that had
a "Home Computer". Boy how I remember that catch
phrase back then!
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to use a Home
Computer for, but one pitch I used to get one was,
that it would help me with my homework!
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After a few more month's I finally convinced my
family, that a computer would benefit us ALL! The
next BIG decision was, what kind should we get?
After trying various types of systems, we finally
decided on the TRS-80 Color Computer 2. Not very
long after, for Christmas in 1983...we finally had
our 16k Color Computer 2!
We picked the CoCo for a number of reasons.
(1) Price, compared to many of the other computers
we looked at, it seemed inexpensive...somewhat!
(2) Convenience, having so many Radio Shack's near
us...getting things for it was easy. If any trouble
occured, it was close by. Also the fact that it
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(3) Ease of use. It was quick to setup and you had
to simply insert a ROM PAK to bring it alive!
The excitement really took off after discovering the
RAINBOW! Like many, I spent a fair amount of time
typing in program listings and always looked forward
to learning something new. Towards the end of the
80's I ended up pursuing the PC and of course got
caught up with all the new technolgy that was
quickly becoming available. Fear NOT! I NEVER...took
my trusty CoCo for granted! It ALWAYS has played a
role in my life in some way and will continue too!
I still enjoy making graphics, programming, playing
games and attending Fests! The unique community that
has evolved from the CoCo is really something! =*
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| Articles in section: FORUM |
| MORE
Thanks to Rick... THANKS, RICK TOPIC OF IMPORTANCE! |
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MORE Thanks to Rick... LAST TIME you'll have to hear me talk in this section...maybe! :) Alas an EASY topic to comment on! It goes without saying how much Rick and his family have done for CFDM over the years. All the hard work that has been put into CFDM has certainly brought enjoyment to many CoCo Users over the years. I hope my efforts along with others, will help in giving thanks to Rick and Family for bringing all of us CoCo Users together! We wish them SUCCESS in whatever ventures they may choose to pursue in the future! =* |
THANKS, RICK With Rick relinquishing the reins of CFDM, I think
he is due a great vote of thanks. CFDM was conceived
and implemented when most of the CoCo magazines had
folded, and Rainbow was also clearly headed for
extinction. So, the CoCo Community (or at least part
of it) was spared from fading away.
For over six years, Rick provided us with 61
quality issues and 23 Bonus disks. For many of us,
CFDM was the incentive to be creative and share our
ideas, programs, graphics and music.
Thru CFDM, we made a lot of new friends and are
still corresponding with them. Rick's Picnics made
it possible for us to meet many of these friends
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What is most appreciated is that Rick did all this
while working full time and at the expense of taking
valuable time from his family life. It is clear that
keeping CFDM going was more a labor of love than
merely a money-making proposition.
As Rick finds it necessary to step down, we are
fortunate that Jim Davis is willing and eager to
take over the editorship of CFDM so that it can
continue. But, it is up to all of us to see that he
has the material to make up future issues. Now, more
than ever, we should be sending in our submissions.
A lot of regular contributors haven't been heard
from in a while. Recent subscribers may have been
thinking of sending in their work, but haven't yet
gotten around to it. Let's support Jim. =>
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So, once again, for all he has done for us, thank
you, Rick. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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TOPIC OF IMPORTANCE! With so many available CoCo topics of disscussion to
choose from, what's the most important one with
regard to CFDM? The most important thing I can think
of off hand is, SUBMISSIONS!!
First...let me clarify some misconceptions people
might have at times, with regard to submissions.
Often times one might think they have to be an
accomplished ARTIST, a world class PROGRAMMER,
renowned COMPOSER or a famous WRITER to have
something meaningful to contribute to CFDM.
HOGWASH! Personally speaking I'm NONE of the above!
I would however like to think that I STILL have
something meaningful to share with the group. =>
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We all have one thing in common for SURE, we are all
using a CoCo or CoCo Emulator. I'm sure most of us
have a particular area of the CoCo we like. Maybe
PROGRAMMING, GRAPHICS, HARDWARE PROJECTS, GAMES or
MUSIC/SOUND is one of your interests? What about
other hobbies or interests you might have? Is it
possible to use your talent in a non-CoCo related
interest you have and somehow adapt your interest
into something that can be done on the CoCo?
There is ALSO the HUMAN FACTOR itself! Tell us about
yourself. Share some of your experiences with us.
What do you use you CoCo for? Maybe you've learned
something that someone else might benefit from? We
want to hear from you!
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The MORE input we get from members, the more likely
we're going to have a good time.
Often times the toughest hurdle to overcome ISN'T
always related to TALENT or MEANINGFULNESS. It's
just GETTING STARTED!! :)
Not only will you be bringing enjoyment to others,
you will likely feel a great sense of accomplishment
when your finished!!
It certainly DOESN'T hurt to try...and there's
nothing WORSE than saying I WISH I would have done
THIS or tried THAT...AFTER it's too late!!
Respectfully Submitted... -Jim Davis =*
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| A
Special Thanks! CFDM Renewals in PA! CFDM UPDATE KUDOS FOR ISSUE #62 New Members Welcome! THIS MONTH'S HOLY SCRIPTURE |
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A Special Thanks! I want to say a special thanks to the following CFDM
Friends...
Cal Wilcox - for all the help he gave me at the PA
Fest! After driving 1000 miles to a state I had
never been, in addition to having to setup a booth,
it was nice to have Cal's help when I got there! I
very much appreciated him for pitching in at the
Fest! I had a great time and Cal's company made the
Fest even more enjoyable for me!
Ray Watts - I very much enjoyed meeting Ray...I do
believe Ray and I could easily sit down and talk for
hours...OH...and if we talk COCO...tack on a few
more hours!!
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I also appreciated Norm Barson's support! Not only
has Norm supported both Rick and CFDM, he continues
to lend a helping hand to me as well...AND even took
the time to attend the PA Fest!!
So what is it that "fuels" my CoCo Spirit on?
No further explanation needed!! :-)
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CFDM Renewals in PA! ** The following CFDM friends renewed in PA! **
Cal Wilcox - I certainly enjoyed meeting Cal and am
glad to have him in our group.
Karl Sefcik - it was great to see Karl again and I'm
happy to have him with us. Karl is also a long time
Fest supporter and an all around nice guy!
Jerry Combes - I enjoyed meeting Jerry & Carolyn
and appreciate their renewal.
John Riddle - I was only able to talk to John for a
short time...but it was nice to meet him and thanks
for your renewal!
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CFDM UPDATE First and foremost I would like to thank all who
have renewed and welcome to issue #62! I greatly
appreciate your continued support and interest in
keeping CFDM and the CoCo alive!
I'm sure the news of Rick passing the torch was a
surprise to many of you. When Rick first told me
that he wanted to make issue #61 the last issue, I
could fully understand his decision. I wasn't sure
of just what action I needed to take, but felt I had
to do something. I volunteered to take the reins.
There were a few reasons that helped me make that
decision.
1) We still seem to have enough people interested in
the CoCo and willing to retain membership. =>
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2) There is still a considerable amount of talent
left in the CoCo Community, that continues to
support the CoCo.
3) We continue to have CoCo Fests, despite the fact
that their attendance's have been small.
4) Many users still have ideas they would like to
express in the form of programs, articles and such.
There are others who want to continue to learn and
expand on their knowledge, while some just want to
continue having fun!
5) CFDM has provided us with the chance to be a part
of a unique form of communication that has allowed
the latter above. =>
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6) From my own perspective, I truly believe that it
is very unlikely that another disk magazine would
surface after CFDM stopped.(?)
So it's my hope that many of you feel the same and
that we can move full steam ahead. Lets do our best
to accomplish our goal and indeed make it to the
year 2000.
While I'm sure there are others MORE qualified for
the role of "editor" than me, I will certainly give
it my best effort and hopefully maintain the same
standards that we've grown accustomed to. The
success of CFDM doesn't depend on just any one
person, It will take all of us to make it happen.
-Jim =*
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KUDOS FOR ISSUE #62 A big THANKS goes out to the following CFDM friends
who have made yet another issue possible!
William Astle, Norm Barson, Ray Berney, George
Bruhl, Orval Carden, John Clemons, Rick Cooper,
Malcolm Scott Donahue, Raman Ensminger, Herb Forger,
Roger Hallman, Steve Hatcher, Keiran Kenny, John
Kowalski, Nickolas Marentes, Harold Moenich, Godfrey
Moll, Tony Podraza, Stuart Roberts, Al Santos, Steve
Secord, Paul Shoemaker, Ben Walker and Stuart Wyss-
Gallifent.
THANK-YOU! - THANK-YOU! - THANK-YOU! - THANK-YOU!
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New Members Welcome! ** Please welcome the following new members! **
David & Susan Poitras - I enjoyed meeting David &
Susan at the PA Fest. The main thing that comes to
mind...David was a man with a plan...support the
CoCo and get involved! Not only did these folks'
support many of the products I offered, but they
ALSO showed support and interest in many other areas
at the Fest! This is what helps keep the CoCo alive!
Daniel Montalvo & Family - Yet another nice CoCo
family I had the chance to meet! Daniel and his
family made a point to attend the Fest AND joined
CFDM too! Please welcome them!
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Ray Smith - Ray has once again re-joined us and we
welcome him back! Ray is from Great Britain and is
ALSO the Editor of the Dragon Disk Magazine
UP-2-DATE. So Ray knows all about keeping a Disk
Magazine alive!
Roger Hallman - I first met Roger at the Chicago
CoCo Fest this past April. After talking with Roger,
I finally twisted...err...make that CONVINCED him to
join our group! As some of you may know, he is the
Author of C-III Pages...one of the best Desktop
Publishing programs for the CoCo 3. We'll have to
dig up some interesting stories from the CoCo's Hey
Days and Coless Computer Design from Roger!
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THIS MONTH'S HOLY SCRIPTURE This month's scripture comes from II Chronicles. It
is one of my favorites. Although I don't claim to
understand everything about it, it seems that a
priest (Hilkiah) had found a missing "book of the
law of the Lord given by Moses." He took it to the
beloved King Josiah and read it to him...
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
- II Chronicles 34:19
It is good to acknowledge the truth when we hear it.
And it's good to act accordingly. I feel that Josiah
was saddened when he heard the words of the book
because they condemned him (showed him that wrong
was being committed in his country). But, he =>
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was probably also happy to know the truth, and he
immediately set out to right the wrongs that were
going on.
Not only did Josiah want to know the "truth," but
he wanted his people to know it too.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the
elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And the king went
up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great
and small: and he read in their ears all the words
of the book of the covenant that was found in the
house of the Lord.
- II Chronicles 34:29-30 =*
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| Articles in section: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
| A
Hard Decision Comments RENEWAL THANKS DOC but... Where do we send our submission? |
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A Hard Decision After a long and difficult thought process, I have decided to continue to subscribe to CFDM. The cost part of it is so minor, it never entered into my thinking. I am SO into my PC system and my writing, I have neglected my CoCo. Since my last major entry, I have written a second manuscript and am presently working on my third and fourth. A few new ideas have popped into my head recently and I am still trying to think up new ideas. My first manuscript is scheduled to be published by October 1998 at the latest and I would like to offer my book in CFDM to the surviving CFDM subscribers. It has a passage about the CoCo 3 and George Quell- horst's MUSIC3+. Since I have used M3+, I just had to put it in my manuscript. => ____________________________________________________ When I get my book, I'll tell everyone the suggested retail price. Please do not contact me until then. With Jim Davis taking over the reins of CFDM and the quarterly release of issues, it would be Issue 63 at the earliest that you would hear about my book. The proposed title is "Who is Mister Charity?", a fictitious Christian adventure. Ray Berney June 15, 1998 ---- JIM: Hi Ray, thanks for your continued support! Congratulations and good luck with your book. We look forward to hearing more about it. =* |
Comments I have to admit that I am pleasantly surprised that
CFDM has continued as long as it has. I would like
to state how much I appreciate looking at each new
issue of CFDM whether it came by post or by email.
I would like to, but there are no sufficient words
for it (unless that statement counts).
It is a massive undertaking to get a whole issue out
each quarter (and even more so to do it monthly as
in the past).
Let me take this opportunity to extend my thanks to
ALL people who have helped edit, publish, or
contribute material to CFDM. I would like to
encourage all of you to submit more material, or
even submit some if you haven't yet. =>
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Nobody is going to publicly laugh at you submissions
as we are all responsible human beings. In fact, all
you have to do is look through your back issues to
see how most of us who have made submissions have
suffered from "foot/mouth/insert" disease. Don't be
bashful! We all want to see your stuff.
Well, that's my tirade for the moment. Again, kudos
to everyone who is involved in the publication of
this wonderful publication. (A little redundant
isn't it?)
Well, with that, I'll leave you with a word you
might use to sound intelligent in conversation:
floccinaucinihilipilification
William Astle =>
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Jim: I couldn't have said it better myself William!
I would also like to extend thanks to you for your
many contributions to CFDM in the past. I also look
forward to what's yet to come!
It would be just my luck to use a word such as the
one you mentioned...then have someone ask me how to
spell it! :)
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RENEWAL Hi Rick!
Yes I am still around by being careful,too much
gardening,mowing and keeping cool.
I am sending a check for the next years CFDM.
Keep up the GOOD WORK.
BUCK *
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JIM: Hi Buck! Thanks for the renewal and I hope to
continue the Good Work that Rick has done in the
past. =*
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THANKS DOC but... RICK: Your response to my query in CFDM #60 with
DOCTOR was gratifyingly prompt. However, my "but..."
means that there is a fault somewhere in the copy on
my disk. I can select the section I want to work on
but then the action stops and does not list the ent-
ries in the section. Glad to hear from you when and
as convenient.
Sorry to hear that you will be leaving the post
you have filled so competently and enthusiastically
for so many busy years.
I welcome Jim Davis and promise my support in any
and every way possible. I am assuming that we sub-
scribers and contributors can continue to use the
Liberty KY postbox until advised otherwise.
When you arrive in Californiay, say hello to "my"
blue Pacific Ocean for me. =>
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JIM: Thanks Keiran for the welcome and your support
is greatly appreciated!
(See Active CoCo for information on where to send
future submission disks.)
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Where do we send our submission? If Jim Davis of Nixa, Missouri is taking over the
publishing of CFDM, do we have to send our
submissions to his address now? You didn't make that
clear in Issue 61.
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JIM: A most important question...that I will answer
for you here!
Send Submissions to:
Jim Davis
c/o CFDM
PO BOX 1704
NIXA, MO. 65714
(See Active CoCo for more information.) =*
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A CFDM THINKING PUZZLE Try this puzzle, which did appear in a syndicated
newspaper article some months ago, but for those of
you that didn't see it, I thought you might like to
try it. None of this is mine. So try it. The answer
works almost every time.
1) Pick a number from 1 through 9
2) Subtract 5 from the number. (Negetive results are
okay)
3) Multiply the result by 3
4) Square the result.(Multiply the number by itself)
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5) Add the digits of the result until there's only
one digit.(Example: 64. 6+4=10. 1+0=1.)
6) If the result is less than 5, add 5; if not, sub-
tract 4.
7) Multiply the result by 2.
8) Subtract 6 from the result.
9) Locate the corresponding letter of the alphabet.
(Example: 1=A, 2=B.)
10) Pick a country that begins with that letter.
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11) Note the second letter in that country's name.
Think of a mammal that begins with that letter.
12) Now think of the color of that mammal.
What do you have? (See Bottom of Page for Answer)
This article was initially published in a "Dear
Marilyn" column in many syndicated newspapers. The
purpose of this article's reproduction is strictly
for the enjoyment of the CFDM members.
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Answer: a gray elephant from Denmark =*
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A SIGN OF THE TIMES
I think this picture speaks for itself and needs
no further comment.
(Select "SIGN" in NIBSHOW on the back of this disk.)
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ANSWER to 'What kind of recipe' What kind of bizarre concoction is this mixture?
1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
1/4 cup Baking Soda
1 teaspoon liquid dish soap
Mix well. Use immediately.
ANSWER:
This is a skunk descenting solution.
(How many of you used this mixture without first
knowing what this stuff does?)
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AUNTY'S ELECTRONIC WIZARDRY In my article, CRICKET IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, CFDM #58, I described some of the electronic trick- ery used in live cricket by the British Broadcasting Corporation (affectionately known to its faithful viewers as Aunty or Beeb). I have not seen anything to rival it in live sports broadcasts from any other country. In many of its live transmissions, Aunty provides subtitles similtaneous to the spoken word. These can be selected in CEFAX (Teletext). Spoken phonemes are digitized and printed as text at screen bottom prac- tically as fast as a speaker can mouth them. This is a great help to the hard-of-hearing, and the texts are printed in a fairly large font for the benefit of the weak-sighted. This has a minus side as the text window takes a lot of screen space. => ____________________________________________________ The printed text and speech are similtaneous and this does not allow time for correction. Thus an oc- casional howler can occur when the digitizer fails to interpret a sound correctly, e.g: fels lowly(for fell slowly); depreys yat (depreciate); penisula (peninsular); MIEF (MI5); clareful (careful); a hos- tel for the holeless (homeless); and do you to (due to) technology. I have some hearing loss and difficulty in under- standing high pitched voices and I am glad Aunty thinks about people like me. The facility shows weak points in "forum" pro- grams when too many participants are shouting to be heard all at once and the digitizer seems to give up trying or produces garbled garbage! =* |
Haunted Halloween
Since most of us are a little to old to go trick or
treating on Halloween...I guess many of us will have
to make do with the holiday spirit through means of
a Halloween picture instead!
(See HAUNTED.NIB on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.)
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MURPHY'S LAWS ADDENDUM :) These aren't Murphy's Laws but some should be! :)
"The Law of Volunteering"
If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let
him lead.
"The Law of Avoiding Oversell"
When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave
room for the mouse.
"The Law of Common Sense"
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
"The Law of Reality"
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have
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"The Law of Self Sacrifice"
When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last
"Iron Law of Distribution"
Them that has, gets.
"Boob's Law"
You always find something in the last place you
look.
"Weller's Law"
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have
to do it himself.
"Osborne's Law"
Variables wont; constants aren't. =>
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"Main's Law"
For every action there is an equal and opposite
government program.
"Law of Cybernetic Entomology"
There is always one more bug.
"Heller's Law"
The first myth of management is that it exists.
"Weinberg's Second Law"
If builders built buildings the way programmers
wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along
would have destroyed civilization.
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Novel progress report January 1998 Receieved first subsidy publisher's
amount. Too high, rejected.
1-10-98 Second subsidy publisher. Offer far
better, accepted.
Dec 97-May 98 Completed second manuscript. Started
third manuscript.
5-12-98 Contract signed and sent to
publisher.
Aug-Oct 1998 Target date for release.
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WINE
So much has been said about this "PILL" lately that
I thought I will NOT say ANYTHING---I will just put
my thoughts in an animated graphic and then SHUT UP.
I hope I don't offend anyone---PERIOD, and I do mean
PERIOD.
HAVE A GOOD DAY ALL---HJM 08-23-98
(See "WINE.NIB" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.)
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C-III PAGES SLIDE SHOW! Here's a slide show demo that shows a few screen
shots from my C-III Pages Destop Publishing Program
found in the advertisements section of CFDM.
(RUN "SLIDE.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.)
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KLONDIKE SOLITAIRE JIM: Not long ago I asked fellow CoCo user, Paul
Shoemaker if I could include his Klondike Solitaire
game in CFDM...he was kind enough to give me the
go ahead!
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(RUN "KLONDKE3.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.)
COMMANDS:
<arrow keys> moves card selector left, right, up or
down.
<1> thru <7> jumps quickly to that row on the
playing field.
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<ENTER> picks up / puts down card(s).
<SPACE BAR> flips over hidden card.
<SHIFT up-arrow> moves card to ace pile.
<P> moves card selector to pile.
<D> adds next three cards to pile, or <R> flips pile
over to start again.
<Q> quits current game.
NOTES:
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accidentally slected from the playing field, if you
accidentally pick up a card from the pile (and can't
play it), you CANNOT put it back down. You will have
to <BREAK> the game to start over. Sorry.
(2) Only the bottom row of the deck choices have
pictures, the top are simply solid colors. I ran out
of ideas for card backs.
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JIM: Please stop by and visit Paul's web page on the
internet and THANK him for his contribution!
http://pages.prodigy.net/paulshoe/PAULS.HTM
E-Mail: PaulShoe@prodigy.net =*
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LOTOGRAF: results in a row I like to let CoCo pick lotto entry numbers for
me. I am sure he can't do it better than I, but cer-
tainly no worse. But sometimes I am tempted to try
my own choices based on a suspicion that some num-
bers are luckier than others.
Lines 80-130 print the numbers 1-45 vertically in
a row at screen bottom.
My local lotto calls for 6 out of 45 and I have
entered numbers from the last 26 weekly draws as in
data lines 1000-1260. I intend to add to these data
lines each week as 26 is a rather small number to
draw conclusions from. Perhaps you could try this
with your local lotto.
The data values are read in batches of six in
line 150 and printed in the space at screen left.
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print the previous batch. The value 999 in line 2000
flags the end of data.
As a value is read, line 170 scans the vertical
space above that value in the bottom row and, if a
HPOINT is not set, it draws a rectangle R6UL6UR6UL6
at that point. From the graph on the screen I note
that numbers 7, 26, 32 and 40 have rolled out of the
machine more frequently than others. Maybe "lucky
seven" is really lucky!
I will try the "lucky" numbers in my next lotto
entry. If you want to include a "try" of your own
choice in a LOTOLUK2 choice, let CoCo choose eleven
tries and then enter your own choices manually into
try nunber 12 on your card and into data line 840 of
your listing. After typing your numbers in the data
line, type spaces through to the end of the line. =>
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(See LOTOGRAF.BAS on the back of this disk.)
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LOTOLUK2 - a slight improvement I would like to think that somewhere, some lucky
CoConut grabbed the megabucks using my program,
LOTOLUCK (CFDM #58). It has never happened to me!
But my main intention in that program was to show
that (within limits) programs that depend on reading
data are most convenient in use if the basic code
and the data are combined in a single listing. Jeff
Harper's Basic Self Programmer and Interpreter in
subroutine 1000 pokes my data lines into the listing
for me as they are written!
Further, I have always been searching for a RND
statement that will give me a good spread of values
within a given range (1 to 45 as in the Dutch lotto)
and I have always been reasonably satisfied with the
equation in line 160 of LOTOLUCK:
R=INT(RND(-TIMER)*45)+1 =>
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After further study and reading I have arrived at
a variation that seems just as effective as the eq-
uation above. Position 280 in CoCo's memory gives
access to the RND command and the nearby position
275 is a "dynamic" position in that its value is
continually changing. Try the following shortie to
display and visible characters and the values occur-
ring in the position 275 (a=CHR$(64)):
10 CLS
20 PRINT@256,"PEEKING AT LOCATION 275 ";
30 PRINTCHR$(PEEK(275))PEEK(275)
40 FORDL=1TO300:NEXT
50 GOTO20
Each round of the LOTOLUK2 loop (lines 230-310)
pokes a fresh value from position 275 into position
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There are other dynamic positions in CoCo's memo-
ry (e.g. 428) but not all of them will function as
position 275 in the LOTOLUK2 listing. You could dis-
cover a few more if you have A V Reinhardt's MEMSCAN
program (Rainbow, April 84).
In my CFDM #58 listing I went to some length to
limit the occurrence of consecutive values and clus-
tering of values (weak points in computer randomiz-
ing). I think that with the POKE280,PEEK(275) state-
ment these do not occur more frequently than they
would in any chance draw. Also, it does not involve
much tinkering with the RND routine. Some may be
acceptable as, according to some experts, it is only
a pseudo RND at best.
Line 70 establishes high/low speed poke values to
suit a CoCo2 or CoCo3. =*
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MINI TREE Here's a simple program that basically goes along
with my Family Tree entry. No special instructions
are needed, simply RUN "MINITREE.BAS" and press <C>
to read the text. The program loads a FONT called
LITTLE.BIN, which can be deleted out of line 20 if
you don't want it to load.
(See side 2 of the Bonus Disk for these files.)
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NUMBERS.BAS Here's a short little program sent in by one of our
CoCo Friends, Stuart Roberts.
Simply RUN "NUMBERS.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk
to see Stuart's program.
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Sherlock Holmes in Panama View text file associated with this article Here's another thrilling and funny Sherlock adventure that takes place in Panama. Since I just got back from there, I included some of the things I learned and saw within the story. The solution to the crime is rather interesting, perhaps even unique. Just run "TREASURE" and read the story, or load the file "TREASURE.TXT" into your favorite word- processor. Enjoy! (See TREASURE.BAS on the back of this disk.) =* |
aMAZING - try these mazes! aMAZING is a maze program, but it's not like any
other featured in CFDM before. It's a cross between
DOOM, GLOOM, and Dungeons of Daggorath. There are
mazes to get through, but the perspective is a
little different.
The perspective is "first person". When you load a
maze, it's as though you are in the room, looking at
the doors ahead and to the sides of you (if there
are doors, that is). You can't see doors behind you
until you turn around, using the arrow keys.
To try and keep things fast, but in BASIC, I used a
very low graphic resolution. You'll need a little
imagination, but the principle is there.
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When you run the program, it will ask for a MAZ file
name. I have included four of them. In order of
difficulty, they are: 2X2 3X3 4X4HARD and 9X9.
(You can also create or edit your own. See the
other entry.) Enter the name of maze, and let the
computer do a little math.
You'll first see a "rounded" room, and you are
facing a certain direction. You will only be able
to see doors that are in front, or on either side.
Doors that are behind you cannot be seen unless you
turn.
To turn right a quarter turn, press the right-arrow,
and to turn left a quarter turn, press left-arrow.
The doors will move as your perspective changes.->
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To go through a door, press the up-arrow.
You'll know if you finish the maze. You'll get a
message.
TWO SUGGESTIONS:
1. As the mazes get bigger, try mapping them on
paper
2. The maze called 4X4HARD is harder because some
of the doors are "one-way". You'll see the door
and can go through it,but if you turn around,
you can't see it or go back through it!
You can edit these mazes using the other program.
(RUN "MAZING.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.) =*
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maze MAKER This program is to be used with the aMAZING program.
It will allow you to load, edit, save, or create
mazes for the aMAZING program. If you've made a
stumper, why not send it in to CFDM?
The maze MAKER program is a rather crude program,
because I originally wrote to make my life easier.
I've tried to "neaten" it a little so everyone can
use it.
When you first run the program, you'll be asked if
you want to load a maze, or create a new one. If
you create a new one, you'll need to choose the size
which can be up to 15 by 9. The maze will be drawn
and you can start adding doors.
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To add a door, press the letter, then the number of
the room (for example A 4). That room will be high-
lighted. If you accidentally entered the wrong room
just press ENTER. Once the room is highlighted, you
can make doors appear and disappear by pressing
either N, E, S, or W (the four directions of doors).
When you first press a direction (N for example),a
door to the north will appear. If you press N again
the door will vanish.
If you want people to be able to go BACK through the
door, you'll need to go to the next room, and create
a door back again (South, in this example).
At least for now, don't try any one-way doors! It's
very easy to accidentally make a one-way door, ->
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and leave the person stuck there forever with no way
to return!
To change the starting room, press X, and to change
the ending room (where you win), press Y.
To save or quit, press the Q key. The mazes can
then be tested with the aMAZING program.
You may want to load 4X4HARD into the editor so you
can see how the one-way doors work. Take a look
also at the 9X9 one. This is a basic, no-tricks
maze. So is 3X3. 2X2 is so easy, but you can look
and play with it in the editor if you want to.
(RUN "MAKER.BAS" on side 1 of the Bonus Disk.) =*
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| Articles in section: REVIEWS |
| FROM
THE TOMBS OF PHOTON! PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.1) PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.2) PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.3) |
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FROM THE TOMBS OF PHOTON! For years now I have been saying that PHOTON is one
of the best, if not the best, programs ever written
for the CoCo3. I've not changed my mind. As a
matter of fact I have a little tinge of regret in
my recent selling of the rights to this program to
Jim!
After turning over the reins of CFDM to Jim, I have
felt like I have a little more time. Some of this
has been used to play PHOTON ... and to study the
code! It is a very complicated program as well as
being copy protected!
One of the things I didn't appreciate about the
program is that you are limited to starting the
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you've progressed to the higher levels of the game,
you don't exactly relish having to start at level
15, then spending two or more hours getting back to
where you left off. As a matter of fact I did make
it to level 53 one time. My recent efforts took me
there again...but when I failed I was forced to
start at 15 again! We are about to "fix" that little
problem...read on!
Another thing...no one seems to know how many levels
the game has. I believe I can now tell you that
there are at least 63. I do believe that is the
final level, unless others appear if/when you win
level 63. (I can't say for sure since I haven't
been able to solve that one yet!)
SECRET REVEALED.......READ ON...... =>
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After searching through the code I have been able to
find a way to patch the disk so that you can start
AT ANY LEVEL!!! Here's the simple patch to run with
your PHOTON disk in drive zero. (Please remove any
write-protect notch that is taped.)
10 CLEAR 1000
20 DSKI$ 0,22,5,A$,B$
30 MID$(B$,31,1)=CHR$(63)
40 DSKO$ 0,22,5,A$,B$
To avoid the chance of your making a mistake typing
in this code, we'll include it in this issue. RUN
"PHOPATCH.BAS" located on side 2 of this disk.
Enjoy! =*
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PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.1) Well once again I decided to make the trip to yet
another CoCo Fest. I began the journey in the wee
hours of Thursday morning around 1:30a.m. To be on
the safe side, I thought I'd leave a day earlier
since I was traveling from Missouri to PA. by auto.
As luck would have it...I missed most all of the
construction and had very few delays, so I managed
to get near Harrisburg, PA. Thursday evening. After
15+ hours of travel, I decided to lodge in Carlise.
Since I arrived a day early, I spent most of Friday
just killing time. I visited some of the neighboring
towns and just seeing sites so to speak. Friday
evening I went over to the Holiday Inn to check out
where the Fest was going to take place. Later that
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Cal Wilcox, and started bringing things in and
setting up. Several hours later a few of us went
into the restaurant area and ate. Since I was
splitting the cost of a room with someone, I stayed
at the Holiday Inn.
Early the next morning a few of us went out for a
quick breakfast and afterwards resumed setting up.
About this time many of the other vendors began
arriving. It was good to see Allen Huffman, Jenna
Brackmann, Karl Sefcik, Boisy Pitre, Brother Jeremy,
Mike Guzzi and the Glenside bunch! It wasn't long
before some of other Fest notables began arriving...
like R.C. Smith, Al Dages and James Jones to name a
few.
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Despite the fact that there were only a small number
of vendors at the Fest, there were in fact a lot of
products represented. Allen Huffman had T-Shirts and
Buttons...along with his new Book, "The CoCoFest
Chronicles". Allen was also taking memberships for
the CoCoPS. Karl Sefcik had a number of magazines on
hand with various articles and information on CD-i.
Glenside CoCo Club was taking memberships and had
information on the IDE Interface. Mike Guzzi had an
impressive demonstration that consisted of the CoCo
controlling the environment of reptiles...he also
hosted an IRC session. Brother Jeremy had the long
awaited OS-9 Level II Upgrade available. Boisy Pitre
was selling a ROM Kit which allowed one to plug OS-9
Level I or II into the CoCo ROM Socket. Ron Bull had
items from Farna Systems... (See pt.2) =*
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PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.2) hardware upgrades from Cloud-9/Mark Marlette, an
OS-9 archives CD-ROM from RTSI, ADOS from Art Flexer
and other misc. items. I also had a fair amount of
wares in my booth as well. Items such as... Nick's
Pac-man Tribute, Roger Hallman's C-III Pages, items
from Rick and of course CFDM Subscriptions along
with a good assortment of Sundog and CoCoPro stuff.
Unlike the Chicago Fest...there were a good number
of CFDM friends on hand. It was nice to see Cal
Wilcox, Ray Watts, Jerry & Carolyn Combes, Joe
Semenik, John Riddle, Paul Hanke and R.C Smith.
I was also glad to finally meet our own Norm Barson!
The schedule for Saturday included SEMINARS from
Boisy on ROMing OS-9, COCOFEST HISTORY by Allen =>
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Huffman and FAQs with Ron Bull. It looked like most
of the attendees were having a good time and seemed
to be finding "goodies" to purchase. The overall
enthusiasm level was very good, even with the
relatively small number of attendees present. Most
of the day was spent with people talking and roaming
about. I was keep busy for most of the day and time
seemed to slip by rather quickly.
After the showroom closed on Saturday, most of us
went out for dinner and had both CoCo and NON-CoCo
related chit-chat. Later during the evening a small
group gathered back in the showroom area for a
musical sort of get together. Eventually people
began to head back to their rooms, while some headed
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Sunday morning...a number of us gathered for Brother
Jeremy's Morning Services, which I'm sure was
enjoyed by all who attended. The showroom was once
again re-opened at 9:00a.m....which was a half hour
BEFORE the services ended! Things were alot more
quiet on Sunday, with people mostly moving from
table to table...trying to go home "Offically Broke"
:-) Brother Jeremy later gave a spirited Seminar on
how he got Kevin Darling to release the OS-9 Level
II Upgrade...which was very entertaining! The rest
of the day was spent with the No-Minimum Bid Auction
and the Raffle Drawing. A few of us spent time over
at the IRC setup chatting with Nick Marentes, John
Kowalski(Sock Master), Larry Greenfield, Dennis
Kitsz, Roger Taylor and Adam Deitrick and others.
(See pt.3) =*
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PA CoCo Fest Report (pt.3) After the showroom closed on Sunday afternoon, most
of us ONCE AGAIN went out to eat and talk. We also
devoted a portion of the evening for packing up and
a few headed home. I left VERY early Monday morning
to begin making the journey towards home. I made a
few pit-stops on the way home and was glad to return
home. Like they say...it's nice to go...but it's
nice to get back!
All and all I had a VERY good time. I really enjoyed
seeing both new and old CoCo friends alike. I think
the IRC Chat session was a GREAT way for those who
couldn't attend to participate in the Fest. Thanks
to those who made this feature possible(Mike/Allen),
it was a really nice touch! Hats off to Ron Bull and
family for pulling off YET ANOTHER PA CoCo Fest! =>
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The indication was that Ron would like to hold
another CoCo Fest of some kind...but the details and
further discussions would need to take place. He
would ALSO need commitment from BOTH Vendors and
Attendees first! So hopefully another PA Fest will
take place in the future. For now make plans to
attend the 8th. Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest on
May 1st. & 2nd., 1999! This may very well be the
LAST Fest...so make plans NOW!!
I hope this report gives someone an idea of what
went on at the PA Fest. Any omissions I made (which
I'm SURE I did!)...were not intentional...2,000+
miles of travel can make one forgetful! :)
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| Articles in section: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
| COCO
HARDWARE/RAINBOWS WANTED FRACTALS/PC WHERE'S IT @? !! |
| Back to top |
COCO HARDWARE/RAINBOWS WANTED I am in search of a Radio Shack disk drive(s) for
the CoCo 2, modem/rs-232 and parallel adaptors for
the CoCo 2. Also any Rainbow magazines as well.
Please send snail mail to:
Malcolm Scott Donahue
6904 Hollow Creek Court
Louisville, KY 40228
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FRACTALS/PC I now have a PC (a gift from my son)
Q 1 For Stuart Wyss, do you have a program
for the PC that you enter the paramaters
like you do with CoCo3?
Q 2 Is there a program to convert GIF files to
NIB or CM3 files?
I am sending a check for the next four issues.
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STUART: Yes, FRACTINT is FAST and BETTER for
fractals. It will run on any PC. It's FREE. Just
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and you'll be able to download it.
Converting GIFs to NIBs is a pain. I don't have a
good converter.
-Stuart =*
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WHERE'S IT @? !! A couple of days before Jim Davis made his trip to
Liberty (July 12th), he sent me an email asking a
question that I had heard before. "How do you get
the @ (at sign) to print in a CFDM entry?"
He had noticed it in a few of the entries in some
recent CFDM issues. I replied that it was rather
hard to explain, and that I would show him when he
arrived.
Although the @ has been appearing of late, it has
never been truly "printed" until this issue! As
many of you know, the @ key has been used to invoke
the CFDM "help screen." That means "You can't enter
it from the keyboard." The trick that I have been
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the little explanations (i.e. "at sign") that some
of us had been using. This is a tricky and tedious
method at best.
When Jim showed up I started to explain how to do
it...and then added, "If I dared to look at the
CUTILS.BIN source code, I might be able to enable
the @ sign." But that would mean we would no longer
be able to use the "help screen."
Then the idea came. Why not just use it on the
submission disk template and not the regular CFDM
issues? That would be the best of both worlds! We
could print the @ sign with the sub template and use
the "help screen" from the CFDM issues!
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So...a quick look at the CFDM source code (for the
first time in years, and years...) proved that a
simple poke implemented by adding one short line to
the C.BAS program on the submission disk template
would do the trick.
Here's the line to add: (Remember, do this only on
your submission disk template for best results.)
515 POKE &H707D,1
Save the amended program and you can enter info like
this:
Rick's email address is: rcooper@kih.net
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