Filer, The - Lea Pearson (Sinclair User-September 86)


Here's a really neat little program from Lea Pearson of Nottingham.
As you may have guessed, it's a filing program. This program stores
files in memory which can be saved to tape for future use. Also the
program will allow you to destroy files, view the file of your choice,
and even print out a hard copy. Text can only be about one screen
long though.
To alter the number of files which can be stored, you can change the
values of the DIM statements in lines 3, 4 and 5. The first number is
the number of files, the second is the number of characters.

[I expect that "really neat" is a euphemism for "really crap", as]
[this program is an awful mess, with lots of redundant code and  ]
[the screen presentation is very untidy - plus it's of no        ]
[practical use whatsoever.                                       ]
[Notes:                                                          ]
[The program expects a password of "GVTTT" at the start.         ]
[The PROG system variable is corrupted with POKE 23635,0 if the  ]
[wrong password is entered, or if Space is pressed on one of the ]
[menu screens, which will cause a Spectrum crash sooner or later.]
[As with many other programs of this ilk, it incorrectly uses the]
[term "file" when it means "record", of which it only handles 10.]
[You'd be better off using a pencil and paper.              JimG ]

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This info file was typed by Jim Grimwood

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Megatron
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We didn't have a game last month, so here's one from Steven Day of the
West Midlands.

Megatron isn't that complex and it doesn't even have stunnning arcade-
quality graphics.  But it is addictive!!!  And it's not that long.

All you have to do is collect the fruit, and that's it!  Oh, you must
mind out for the other sort of crate things, because they kill you ...

All controls are explained in the program, and it's simple to play, so
what are you waiting for?  Type it in.


Typed by Jonathan Kay (Jonathan@kay026.freeserve.co.uk)



Text Printer
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Text Printer -- from Stuart Box in Oxon -- is, as you may have guessed, a
text printer.  It can be used to design pages of text with large or small
characters, underlined or not.  You can even load in screenms from Painbox
and write over them, or so the instructions say.  John Gilbert ran off with
our copy so we couldn't test that bit.

It's dead simple.  All you have to do is use the commands which you can
read in the listing.


