RISC User Magazine Disc

Volume 2 Issue 8

July/August 1989

ARCHIMEDES PROCEDURE LIBRARY

This month's procedure is a generalised input routine which allows textual data to be entered with formatting and error checking.

ARCHIMEDES VISUALS

A demonstration of the effects that can be achieved by directly reprogramming the video controller chip - VIDC.

MULTI-TASKING DISC FORMATTER

A Desktop utility which can format a floppy disc while you continue with other applications.

CROSS REFERENCER

A utility to list the names of all variables, procedures and functions used in a program, together with the numbers of the lines on which they occur.

BASIC SQUEEZE

A procedure which will remove unnecessary spaces, and optionally REMs, from a Basic program.

BBC SCREEN CONVERTER

This program will take a saved screen from a model B or Master, and convert it into an Archimedes format screen.

DESKTOP BASIC HANDLER

A useful Desktop Utility which converts Basic programs to text files and vice versa. This enables programs to be examined and altered without leaving the Desktop.

* BONUS ITEMS *

BESTCOPY

A utility from Acorn which will help you recover files from a corrupted disc. The utility will take a named file and will try and transfer as much of it as possible to a new disc.

KEYBOARD UTILITY

This Desktop utility, also from Acorn, simplifies the entering of special characters, such as foreign letters. Trying to remember the necessary ALT key combination for all the characters can be fairly hard. This utility will display all the special characters on the screen, and allow them to be entered simply by clicking on the appropriate one.

ARCSCAN DATA

Index entries for this issue of RISC User and the latest BEEBUG (Vol.8 No.2) to be used with Arcscan.