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- D I S K O V E R Y: My Gun Is Brief
-
- by Fender Tucker
-
- Gotta be quick. Talk like George if I want it to fit. Sixteen blocks.
- A lot to say.
-
- I'm afraid I can't keep that up; the adjectives and adverbs just won't
- keep from rearing their ugly heads. Judging by the label, this issue may
- not look like 1328 blocks of hyperdense code, but it is. It's just that the
- programs are all solid and full-featured and the documentation is
- comprehensive. Side Two doesn't even have room for our operating system.
- This means that you can boot any of the three programs on Side Two from the
- LOADSTAR menu but they won't return. It also means that you can't do a Copy
- It for that side. Use any file copier to copy the programs to another disk.
- DISK WHIZ on LOADSTAR 128 #2 is a good one.
-
- I didn't have room for a FORUM this issue -- although it's probably
- listed on the label -- but then I haven't received a lot of mail about the
- 128 recently. I'm hoping that having a Critique program will make it easier
- for you to comment upon the contents of an issue -- or just talk about
- whatever you want. After this issue, the critique will be under the
- LOADSTAR FILES section.
-
- You may notice that LOADSTAR 128 Index is missing, too. Another victim
- of the editor's cleaver. Don't worry, next issue we'll have a LOADSTAR 128
- LIBRARY written by Barbara Schulak that will be easily updatable for every
- issue. It's a fast database of every LOADSTAR 128 disk that allows you to
- search, mark and print out information about our programs, authors and
- issues. It's like Jeff Jones' LOADSTAR LIBRARY for the 64, if you're
- familiar with that.
-
- There's a program on the disk that's probably not on the label since I
- added it just recently. I bought a refurbished C128D for under $300 total
- from Software Hut, out of Philadelphia (1-800-848-0079), for use at home and
- I was inspired to write a little puzzle program. It's called NAMYSTICS and
- I hope you find it mildly intriguing. In a sense it's a demo of how a
- programmer might use a very handy ML routine by Scott Resh that we call
- WINDOWPRINT. It allows a program to print out any size window (or
- rectangle) from a hi-res graphic screen to a 1525-emulating printer. I hope
- you 128 programmers out there will see its usefulness (and ease-of-use) and
- will incorporate it into any program that can be improved by dumping hi-res
- data to printer.
-
- For LOADSTAR 128 #12 Bob Cook provides a couple of his super-friendly
- databases: VIDEOPHILE, for keeping track of your videotapes, and COUPON
- CACHE, for getting the most out of store coupons. Bells and whistles
- included.
-
- You'll also find Ian Adams' DARWIN'S BUGS, a fascinating, graphic
- program that illustrates and explains just how things work in this
- bug-eat-bug world of ours. There'll also be a couple of BASIC 8 programs to
- support our ongoing foray into 80-column graphics. When you're in
- 80-columns you've got 128,000 pixels to work with and LOADSTAR 128 wants you
- to be in control of each one of them.
-
- Gotta go. Must be prudent. Only so much space. Just remember.
- 128,000 points of light. They're all yours. Bye.
-
- FT
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