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- CONTENTS -- LOADSTAR #27
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- > THE FEATURE PROGRAM
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- GLORY QUEST....................Side 1
- by Joe Garrett
-
- WANTED: Treasure hunters to explore
- the dungeons of a haunted castle.
- Experience with joystick preferred but
- not essential. The faint of heart
- need not apply.
-
-
- > HELP WARE
-
- APPOINTMENT SECRETARY..........Side 1
- by D. J. B. Shibley
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- This computerized calendar will keep
- track of birthdays, anniversaries, and
- other important dates-- through the
- year 2099.
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- > THE HAPPY HACKER
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- ALL BASE CALCULATOR............Side 1
- by Tom Phelps
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- ALL BASE CALCULATOR adds, subtracts,
- multiplies, and divides numbers of
- different bases and displays the
- answer in the base you specify.
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- SAVING AND LOADING THE C-128 GRAPHIC
- BIT MAP........................Side 2
- by Morton Kevelson
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- Saving graphics as binary program
- files saves space and speeds loading.
- This program provides the subroutines
- necessary to save and load hi-res bit
- maps.
-
- 128 ESCAPE SEQUENCES...........Side 2
- by Ian Adam
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- This tutorial demonstrates some of the
- escape sequences made possible by the
- C-128's ESCAPE feature.
-
- SCREEN BANNER..................Side 2
- by Ian Adam
-
- Scroll a message banner across your
- computer's screen while another
- program runs unaffected.
-
- 3-D SPRITE SCROLLING...........Side 1
- by David Stephens
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- This program gives you the tools to
- make sprites appear to move toward the
- viewer or vanish toward the horizon.
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- CURSOR BYTER...................Side 2
- by Ian Adam
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- With this program, you can use a
- simple command to move the cursor to
- any position on the screen, regardless
- of its present position or other
- material on the screen.
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- PREBASE........................Side 2
- by Michael Leidle
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- PREBASE adds some of the desirable
- features found in structured languages
- to BASIC.
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- DISK MASTER '86................Side 2
- by Robert Baker
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- With this program, you can put over
- 100 disk directories into a single
- master directory.
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- MUZIK MAKER....................Side 2
- by Mark Jordan
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- This music editor can be used to add
- interrupt-driven music to your
- programs or to create the tunes
- themselves.
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- STRINGS ATTACHED...............Side 2
- by Matthew Oldham
-
- Two programs that demonstrate the
- usefulness of string concatenation.
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- > FUN AND GAMES
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- THE SEARCH FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES
- by Dick Caron................Side 1
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- In this text adventure, the world's
- greatest detective has been kidnapped.
- You, a lowly street urchin, are
- Holmes' only hope.
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- > NOVELTIES
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- THE MAD POET...................Side 2
- by William Barton
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- Welcome to the strange world of
- computer-generated poetry!
-
- PHONE WORDS....................Side 1
- by B. J. Fontenot
-
- This neat little program will convert
- letters found in telephone numbers to
- their numerical equivalents and
- vice-versa.
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- COLLECTION OF MAGIC............Side 2
- by Louis F. Sander, et al.
-
- These short programs come from a new
- Commodore magazine feature-- neat
- graphics, sound effects, and utilities
- solicited from readers.
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- MAGAZINE ENTRY
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- Allows bug-free entry of Commodore
- magazine programs.
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- INFLUX....................Sides 1 & 2
- by all of you!
-
- This is the section where you talk to
- each other and to us. Sound off! Tell
- us what you think!
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