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1. COMPUSTAR 96 MB CDC 96 MB DISK DRIVES FOR INTERTEC COMPUSTAR SYSTEM Industry standard fixed removable disk drive provides large system disk perfor mance and backup capability for your COMPUSTAR system Disk drive is available with or without INTERTEC disk controller and can be rail mounted in standard 19 inch wide com puter cabinets Single unit price 7 200 Quantity prices available EQUIPMENT RESOURCES INC P O Box 723368 Atlanta Georgia 30339 800 241 3574 404 955 0313 in Georgia Letters to the Editor continued from page 4 DEAR SUPERLETTER I have been driven crazy trying to get my SuperBrain to work with a Hayes Smart Modem 1200 Everything seemed to be set up right but there appeared to be no com munication between the computer and Programs continued from page 6 ASCII characters modem CR EQU LF EQU A call to Intertec yielded a test for com ESE BQU ee TILDE EQU munication from the main port Use paper clips into the main ouput socket and jumper pins 2 to 3 and pin 20 to5 With ATTRB EQU Secondary set CR EQU the Master disk brought up type PIP OUT CON SPACE CR The screen shows ae S ECHO Y N Answer Y Then everything TILDE EQU typed on the keyboard is shown twice on the ATTRB EQU screen If this works the main port is O K Next they suggested opening the case and inspecting the dip switch on the processo2. PIP W INP and DIR the remote When you see some thing interesting TYPE it and then end with a control Z It is now written to your disk Short BAS les will come across this way and some suort DOC files also Some boards will chastise you for using TYPE for any files except the MBOOTS file but if it works it works Prepare a separate PIP ufn ext INP for each file you transfer over This means going in and out of local CP M but you know how todo that The main task however lies ahead Capturing and Reconfiguring MBOOTS ASM for your Modem The simplest way to do this is to capture the MBOOTS ASM from the SuperBrain RCPM at the above number This is fully con figured for the SuperBrain and requires only a little installation work What needs to be done is to install it for your particular modem If your modem is connected to the main port you will need to know that the Main Port Data address on the SuperBrain is 58H and the Main Port Status Port is 59H For the Auxiliary Port these addresses are Date 40H Status 41H Use your word processor to list the MBOOT3 ASM pro gram Notice that about 24 lines into the program there are the lines IF NOT PMMI AND NOT DCH AND NOT VT180 MODCTLP EQU 3DH_ Put your modem control _ port here MODSNDB EQU 04H Your bit to test for send MODSNDR EQU 04H Your value when ready MODRCVB EQU 01H Your bit to test for receive MODRCVR EQU 01H Your value when ready MODDATP EQU 3C
3. system and PROM Cambridge Micros S100bus adapter Rostronics S100 clock calendar Phonelog Epson MX 80F T printer Maplin modem 300 Baud CCITT Anchor Auto 300Baud Bell 103 Xtec 75 1200 Baud modem Phone answer hardware and it is used to operate the FIRST CBBS Ward Christensen s this side of the Atlantic It is one of only 5 boards in Britain and there is only 1 other operational board in Europe We are CBBS NORTH EAST Tel 0207 43555 14 30 09 00 CCITT tones but will be adding Bell 103 in the near future Plus tel 0207 32447 19 00 00 00 CCITT 00 00 08 00 Bell 103 I would like you to give publicity to this because from what we can gather there are a growing number on your side of the pond who wish to communicate with Europe A CCITT modem kit for 39 95 a really excellent job we use it is obtainable from Maplin Electronic Supplies Ltd P O Box 3 Rayleigh Essex SS6 8LR Tel 0702 552911 Part No LW99H Trevor Smith 12 Tollgate Road Hamsterley Mill Rowlands Gill Tyne amp Wear NE39 1HF ENGLAND DEAR SUPERLETTER Id like to know how in MBASIC ver 5 1 I can have an input at the keyboard tested without having to press CR I know only partly how to do it with one let ter tapped but the problem is I return to CP M at MBASIC Perhaps one of Superletter s readers can help me Thanks Normand Beaudoin 3479 A St Dominique Montreal P Q H2X 2X5 Continued on page 6 T
4. and it became slightly irritating to see those editing space consuming explanatory prompts that I already knew by heart very well One can of course set the HELP level to another lower value but this change has to be made EACH time by using theAJH com mand when you start up WORDSTAR because standard HELP level is 3 Here s a HOW TO description to patch your per sonal HELP level into WORDSTAR HOW TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT HELP LEVEL You have to patch in your personal standard HELP level and what you need is a A diskette with WORDSTAR any version and INSTALL COM and b Just 5 minutes of your time Boot up CP M with the above mentioned diskette in drive A and wait for the A gt prompt Now type INSTALL and press the lt RE TURN gt button Answer the next question Do you want a first time installation of WORDSTAR by typing N o Now the INSTALL program asks how you like to install WORDSTAR There are four possibilities A B C D Press C Answer WS COM to the question Filename of WORDSTAR to be installed and give a lt RETURN gt Give this filename ONLY if your WORDSTAR has the filename WS COM but if your WORDSTAR has another FILENAME then enter this other name Answer WS COM to the question Filename for saving installed WORDSTAR and give a lt RETURN gt The saved name of your WORDSTAR will then be WS COM Now answer the next
5. Herksen 27 van Karnebeeklaan 4102 BZ CULEMBORG THE NETHERLANDS EUROPE DEAR SUPERLETTER I would like to bring your attention to JRT Systems PASCAL package At 39 95 it is one of the truly great bargains of the per sonal computing industry It is not the fas test nor the best Pascal on the market but it has such a low price that it is a great way to learn about Pascal It comes in the Super Brain format and has a nice although not perfect manual You might want to alert your readers to this bargain JRT Systems P O Box 22365 San Francisco CA 94122 Thank you Richard Ross 3631 E Flower Apt G Tuscon AZ 85716 DEAR SUPERLETTER We market the SuperBrain and its derivatives and find your Superletter extremely useful and enlightening We would be grateful if you would permit us to copy extracts from the Superletter on occasion to include in our own newsletter which we circulate free of charge to our customers Please let us know Yours faithfully Peter E Beckles Interactive Systems Ltd 6 Stanmore Avenue Port of Spain Trinidad amp Tobago West Indies Editor s Note Yes you may Thanks for asking DEAR SUPERLETTER When I received the April May Vol 3 No 2 issue I was very surprised to see my letter published I thought that you would like an update The current configuration of my machine is SuperBrain I S S D D modified to 2X800K 1X200K drives Johnathan Platt s SOS operating
6. a high pitched whistle and the satisfying sound of a con nection being made Other modems simply print on the screen Ring Ring Ring Connect The remote board will now take over and prompt you for various bits of information Some of it at the very beginning is trivial but technical Just brave your way through How many nulls answer 0 Is lower case OK those poor Apple users they could have had SuperBrains for the same price answer Y Then give them whatever par ticulars about yourself that the Sysop System Operator desires If they assign you a password or a user number start your notebook recording that information Shortly you will have a great deal of infor mation making it highly practical to keep a looseleaf notebook for data transmissions After the remote gives you a great deal of information about itself and how to avoid this information in the future it will give you a command line This looks something like Command A B C D E F Q W E R T Y 2 4 etc ending with the option of HE or HELP for help Choose the expedient alternative and type HELP Experiment with the board read messages search out levels of messages enter messages do whatever you like This by the way is all _ you can do with most commercial modem software play around with the bulletin board material and information They assume your desire for remote computing will be exhausted by contact
7. or CompuStar I and II Stand Alone Systems 190 00 INCLUDES SOS BIOS SOS BOOT PROM System Manual a System Confi iguration Software Formatter Drive Tachometer Program WordStar Patch File Character Set EPROMs Available SOS BOOT PROMs also Sold Separately KN tpa 3 For more information call noon to midnight EST or write JPI SYSTEMS 2804 Fairway Drive Melbourne FL 32901 305 724 6148 Attn Jonathan Platt SYSTEMS WordStar is a registered trademark of Micropro International Corporation SuperBrain and CompuStar are registered trademarks of Intertec Data Systems Technical Corner continued from page 2 will prepare a space on your local disk for the program It will also get you back to the remote CP M prompt Once you have the remote A0 CP M prompt go to the drive that has MBOOTS ASM probably the B drive since most remotes keep their interest ing files on B Type TYPE MBOOT3 ASM CR and watch it flash by on your screen Remember that you have prepared a disk file called MBOOTS ASM and everything that is read into your RAM will be written to the disk file after you type control Z Don t forget the control Z or all will be lost When the whole file has flashed by type control Z Now you have captured MBOOTS3 ASM You can use the above procedure to get a few more files once you are connected and in order to practice Go back to the remote with some dummy file name
8. with the Source and the like The interesting command however is the one that precipitates you to the remote sys tem s CP M level Type Help again and find the command that puts you in the remote system s CP M Here just as when you are at your own computer you can use the DIR command to list to screen the files available on the remote system Now you can see what you have been after lots and lots of new software just there for the pluck ing DIR both the A and the B disks Try C and D to see how extensive the library of programs available is Some systems have User Levels more on that later but if they do they will instruct you at the beginning 1 how to view the directories on the various levels More information to record in the notebook These commands will take something like the form DIR A ADL note the space between the and the Capturing Information from Remote Systems Some magic you can at any time once you have established modem contact and con nected with a remote system reboot your system without breaking the connection with the remote system This is extremely useful for the following kinds of tricks Remember the PIP Q INP command above Remember the effect of control Z afterwards Before you give the remote board the DIR command when you are at the remote CP M prompt A reboot your system and enter PIP Q INP At the query ECHO Y N choose what you
9. CII file without expanding it Format A TYPESQ Fn Ft cr UNSPOOL COM 2k Allows you to use your computer while listing a file on the printer It will send data to the printer when the keyboard is inactive Caution it may crash with certain programs which over write UNSPOOL Format A UNSPOOL Fn Ft cr USQ COM 14k Reverses the file compres sion process Use on any file with a Q inthe second letter of the filetype OTERM404 COM 32k Modem program designed for the Osborne Version 4 04 OTERM4 DOC 50k Documentation for the above OSETAUTO COM 8k This file is for add ing extended function keys This allows automatic signon and dialing routines This prog used with OTERM OTSET4 DOC 4k Document for the above COMM7 ASM 125k Current version of the MODEM program at its greatest state written in 8080 source code that can be modified for virtually any CP M computer COMM7 DOC 48k Document for the above SMODEMS3 ASM 96k Modem program for SmartModem users Takes advantage of many of the features of the Smart Modem Present version is 3 8 SMODEMS3 DOC 38k Documentation for the above y RESOURCE COM 6k 8080 disassem bler Produces INTEL mnemonics RESOURCE DOC 30k Document for the above ZESOURCE COM 8k Z80 disassembler Produces ZILOG mnemonics ZESOURCE DOC 4k Document for the above AMORT BAS 4k MBASIC program that figures amortization rates OZCPRGEN COM4k Generates th
10. ERLETIE Serving SuperBrain and CompuStar Users Around The World M odem communications continues to grow as an important use of microcom puters It forms the third part of the triad we feel is the foundation of a contemporary micro s main use i e word processing financial spreadsheets and telecommuni cations Hayes has set the standard with its 1200 Baud model the SmartModem Now even its features are being surpassed the new Cermetek InfoMate for example Prices are dropping as well Speaking of prices we re having our very first sale for Superletter subscribers Take 10 off any hardware or software product except WordStar until October 30th You can use this discount on 10 and 20MB hard disks modems cables diskettes com puters printers and CP M software Just mention the Superletter Fall Special But you must be a subscriber Naturally all regular tax and shipping costs still apply Maxtek is participating with a special sale on their high resolution graphics product 995 gets you the entire package hardware and software for either the SuperBrain or CompuStar system An excellent deal through the end of November Finally the rumor mill about Intertec has started up again regarding a new line of pro ducts to be released soon At this point any comments or hunches would be pure specula tion An IBM PC DOS compatible machine wouldn t be a bad idea But that s
11. H Your modem data port ENDIF ete For the SuperBrain the date and status ports are as listed above 58H and 59H or 40H and 41H The transmit empty buffer mask and the receive buffer full mask for that is what they are asking for are 01 and 02 respectively They don t ask but some modems require this info The polarity of the Transmit and Receive masks are 1 and there are no initialization bytes So over type 59 01 01 02 02 58 after the EQU and before the H and then save this version as per your word processor s command to save a file Next Steps Use ASM COM to create a HEX file of MBOOT3 ASM Type ASM MBOOTS and wait When the program is finished there will be a MBOOT3 HEX file on disk and a PRN file Use LOAD COM to create a COM file from the HEX file Type LOAD MBOOTS and wait When the LOAD pro gram is finished there will be a COM file on disk Lovely Now the door is open Through the Looking Glass This file is most useful for obtaining remote COM files called OBJ files so you are pre vented from running them on the remote system and screwing everything up The one file you are looking for however is MODEM7xx AQM If you have the Hayes SmartModem you are looking for SMODEM 7xx AQM Notice the Q in the middle slot of the remote file s extension This means that the files is squeezed to save remote direc tory space Notice the strange extensions on almostall the remote files You are goin
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13. RG THE NETHERLANDS Phone 08450 14379 Dated May 9th 1983 Function Switch on PRIMARY or SECONDARY character set can be modified to switch p ON OFF other video attributes Algorithm Send string Primary ESC 7E hex 47H CR LF Secondary ESC 7E hex 67H CR LF to CON sole by BDOS call S and return to CCP WARM BOOT akao k ookoo AEE k REE ER AREER NOTE In order to switch ON OFF another video attribute 47 hex secondary 67 hex in the string has to be replaced by another ATTRIBUTE code see your SUPERBRAIN II manual 42H blinking ON 62H blinking OFF 48H half intensity ON 68H half intensity OFF 47H primary character rom 67H secondary character rom etc For instance you want a routine for switching on the BLINKING attribute then a Copy this file ROM1 ASM to BLINKON ASM PIP BLINKON ASM ROM1 ASM IF you like to keep THIS routine b Change ATTRB EQU 47H to ATTRB EQU 42H useWORDSTAR or any EDITOR Secondary ATTRB EQU 67H to ATTRB EQU 42H c Assemble it with the CPM assembler ASM BLINKON d Change the BLINKON HEX file into BLINKON COM by loading it LOAD BLINKON e Try it out by typing BLINKON and you ll see the characters on the screen in blinking mode KEKRRAKKEREKER ARE EERE RE EK REE k EE RR ER EK k BDOS expects the character in register E and the BDOS function in register C Continued on page 7
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15. dis tinguish my intentions for if you are merely getting back as it were you will not end that portion of your session with the remote board with a command of control Z Thus your local directory depending on how many times you enter the remote and exit by rebooting locally will fill up with files Iuse the one file dopala Q3 because it matters little if the empty file is written to again and again But since it is sometimes necessary to enter and exit a number of times this bit of housekeeping keeps your local disks relatively clean At the end of the session to complete your disk housekeep ing chores you can erase all files If you use the conventions herein described there will be only the one Q3 What you don t want to do is overwrite a saved to disk file of information which ended with a con trol Z with an empty file just used to get back to the remote system Perhaps the first time around you should create every file with a different directory title Q W E R T Y etc and then only ERA the ones with the extension at the end of the session Capturing a Copy of MBOOT3 ASM At this point however you are going back to _ retrieve MBOOTS ASM Therefore use a command such as PIP MBOOTS AS M INP Remember any ufn This Continued on page 3 INCREASE YOUR SYSTEM S PERFORMANCE amp VERSATILITY WITH SuperBrain Operating System SOS BIOS For all SuperBrain
16. e ZCPR environment on the current system diskette for the Osborne 1 Z80ASM COM_10k Assembler for the Z80 Works just ASM Z80ASM DOC 6k Document for the above ADVENTUR COM 24k The Original Ad venture game with the colossal cave and all its myths and adversaries ADVENTUR WRK 24k Work data file for the above program You have to have both ADVENTUR files on the same disk to play the game On most RCP M systems all of the COM files are renamed to have an OBJ filetype so they cannot be executed on the host sys tem Everything else will more than likely be squeezed to conserve space and will be evident by the Q in the middle of the filetype extension x x x till November 30th only MAXTEK SALE High Resolution Graphics for the CompuStar and SuperBrain Computer 995 complete YOU GET XCEL HARDWARE 16K add on graphics PC memory board XCEL SOFTWARE Symbol generator 3 D generator Surface plotter Graphics terminal Screen printer ZAN MAXTEK INC 2908Oregon Court Torrance CA 90503 213 320 6604 Prosrams PATCH YOUR PERSONAL HELP LEVEL INTO WORDSTAR When I used WORDSTAR for the first time I was very pleased to find all those HELPing menu s on the screen because then it wasn t necessary to look up the most used command codes in the manual But after I had worked with this word processing program many times I got used to all codes
17. echnical Corner continued from page 3 Work only with copies of your system disk for if you have a non standard PIP for SuperBrain there is no telling what may happen There are more explicit instruc tions and another approach in the July 1983 issue of Microsystems in an article on PIPMODEM Editor s Note PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE FOR CP M There are thousands of programs and utilities available free to anyone able to down load them from most RCP M s Generally no single system has them all but many of the more useful or popular programs are available on the Intertec The following is a partial list of the 100 plus public domain programs found on Software Centres RCP M 213 296 5927 Listed is the program name as it may appear its approximate size and a brief description of its use DU V77 6k Disk Utility program allows direct modification of disk files DU V75 DOC 8k Documentation for above ERAQ COM 2k Erases files but asks first one at a time FILEFND8 ASM 16k Searches all user areas and drives for the specified file Wild cards are accepted FBAD V54 ASM 24k This program checks for bad sectors and if found locks them out saving the rest of the diskette Version 5 4 SCRAMBLE COM 2k This can encrypt a file using a password of 8 unique characters The file must be run through a second time to restore it Note encrypted COM files may cause crashes SCRAMBLE ASM 8k 8080 assemble
18. eight questions by only hitting RETURN So hit RETURN eight times In any case stop giving lt RETURN gt if you see the question ARE THE MODIFICATIONS NOW COMPLETE Answer N to this question and you will see the following text YOU MAY MODIFY ANY LOCATION DESCRIBED etc and the prompt LOCATION TO BE CHANGED 0O END Now type 0360 and give lt RETURN gt You will see OLD VALUE 03H 03 the HELPlevel a cautio n See SSR oe ok ok oh ae ok oe sok ok ok ok ak kek a ek eK KEE EEE KEE If you DON T see 03 or 02 or 01 or 00 HERE THEN CHECK IF YOU ENTERED THE CORRECT LOCATION 0360 HERA RRR EEE EE EER ERE EEE EE Enter YOUR favorite standard HELP LEVEL 03 02 01 or 00 by typing 03 02 01 or 00 you have to enter TWO decimals the first decimal is always ZERO Then givea RETURN and answer Y es to OK Y N Drive A activates and your patched wordstar will be saved on disk After this WORDSTAR will come up now within 10 seconds TESTING THE NEW HELP LEVEL Edit a text now and WATCH YOUR SCREEN If you entered an other HELP level then THREE now you ll see that the whole screen can be used to edit a text and HELPING explanations will only be dis played if you really want them to see by typ ing AQ orAK orAJ orAP orAO ROMI See alse ROM2 Made for INTERTEC SuperBrain II DESIGN Robbert J van Herksen PA3BKL F 27 van Karnebeeklaan 4102 BZ CULEMBO
19. g to need some new software to handle these strange extensions One of the first programs you will need to bring over is USQxxx OBJ or any such ver sion Any OBJ file brought over can be renamed to make it runable on your system Ren UFN COM UFN OBJ That is suffi cient to make it a COM file which your sys tem will recognize The USQ COM file is necessary to unsqueeze files that have been compressed on the remote system Type USQ UFN xQx and the program will res pond POOFOO xQx POOFOO ASM The resulting program is ready for further processing Other files you will want to bring over can be best determined either by the existence of DQC files compressed DOCument files or by the DISKMENU program on the remote The DISKMENU program des cribes all files on the remote system and _makes very good bedtim gt reading These are the goodies in the candy store yours for the plucking The DOC files are your manuals Take a few of these first to see if you want the corresponding programs Things you should look at beside the MODEM or SMODEM and USQ sine qua nons are SWEEP NEWCAT LU xxx ZCPR ZESOURCE and the like Transferring Files Now you are armed with MBOOT3 COM configured for your system Big Guns indeed but not the biggest To bring over files go into the remote directory Choose what you like While in the remote type XMODEM S UFN EXT The remote will call up its Xmodem program and tell you h
20. interface expands your capabilities Enter numbers with the fastest sweetest full screen Editor you ve ever used Print formal reports or quick lists Sort Data Total Columns load and save disk data files effortlessly Fully integrated menu driven applica tions CHECKBOOK Unique new concept for small business or personal checkbook See and correct mistakes as you go instead of spending hours searching afterward TAX ADVISOR Track tax deductible expenses by type of expense using data generated automatically by CHECKBOOK You ll love this on April 15th WHAT IF Predict future values from current data linear or log with Regression Analysis DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS With 1 keystroke you get 18 calculations ranging in complexity from mean and standard deviation thru skewness and kurtosis BONUS DISK SUPERGAMES 9 professionally written games Blackjack displays cards complete Las Vegas rules New games Watergate Il Crown and Anchor Star Fight Delight friends with Chinese Zodiac Puzzle Maker more FREE MODEM7 Allows SuperBrain to access computer bulletin boards Swap software Dial up directions and hundreds of phone numbers ACT TODAY 33 00 PRICE DRAMATICALLY HIGHER AFTER 9 20 83 Postpaid Check or Money Order N J add 6 Outside U S add 3 Sorry no super density format at this price OMNITECH Inc 50 Baltusrol Way Short Hills N J 201 376 6406 Z1Z06 VO STITH ApzeA0g IZTE X
21. just wish ful thinking Meut orans Mbut A Or is it Superletter is Technical Corner File Transmission Using the SuperBrain By Steve R Riskin For a long time now SuperBrain users have been searching for ways to enter the fas cinating world of free software The CPMUG groups have nearly a hundred volumes of free software available but not for Super Brain 5 1 4 disks From time to time some one offers to sell the entire library in SuperBrain format but such a purchase is an expensive way to gain access to what is and should remain free software Also everyone has some computer buddy with whom for a variety of reasons one would like to transfer files Commercial file transfer programs are notoriously better at advertising their benefits than providing them and of course the classic example of free software is the Ward Christiansen series of Modem programs available from your local RCPM Remote CP M system Bootstrapping Your Way to the New World Unlike other commercial CP M s Super Brain s CP M comes with an enhanced PIP utility Prepare a disk with STAT PIP LOAD ASM and the editing part of your word processor Test PIP by entering PIP Q INP Your screen should delay for a fraction of a second and then ask you ECHO Y N Wonderful Answer Y and then write some letters to the screen End with a control Z Did your disk drive turn on Did it write your words to a disk file Sp
22. lendid The Q can be replaced by an ufn unambiguous file name and this will be extremely useful in the processes that follow Aug Sept Vol 3 No 4 Reboot and try PIP OUT CON watch the apostrophes they are required Does nothing happen Excellent now hit CR The ECHO Y N should now appear If all this has worked you now have access to the wonderful world of free software If not get a proper copy of PIP or buy one from Super Letter You may patch one by using the explicit instructions in the July 1983 issue of MicroSystems the article on PIP MODEM or by using the instructions appended to this article Getting Started To get started Turn on your modem I use the Hayes SmartModem connected to my _ SuperBrain s main port Enter the com mand PIP OUT CON The screen remains blank and nothing happens Enter a CR and PIP will ask ECHO Y N Answer Y Later when you become an experienced user you will want to avoid the ECHO having everything you enter at the keyboard appear twice on your screen but now that is preferable to having nothing appear at all You are now connected to your modem through the main port All commands entered at the keyboard will either address your modem depending on whether they are recognized by your mod em s command structure or if they are transparent to the modem will be sent out through the modem to your destination Enter comma
23. n advance Another thing is this SEEK AND SEARCH A Disk Edit and Repair Utility RESTORE ERASED FILES REPAIR DAMAGED FILES APPEND TO FILES LOCATE FILES BY TRACK SECTOR MOVE DATA WITHIN A FILE SEARCH FORWARD BACKWARD FOR SPECIFIC DATA ASCII AND OR HEX DIRECT DATA TO A PRINTER MOVE DATA OR FILES FROM DRIVE TO DRIVE e MAP REMAINING FREE SPACE e DISPLAY DIRECTORIES EDIT USING EITHER HEX OR ASCII CHARACTERS LIMITED ABILITY TO BACKUP UNCOPYABLE DISKS FULL DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE FOR INTERTEC JR INTERTEC QD NORTHSTAR ADVANTAGE TELEVIDEO 802 APPLE WITH CP M CARD PRICE 29 95 CA residents please add 612 tax Signature Software 841 Sheldon El Segundo Ca 90245 213 640 8189 Try our new BBS at 213 675 1001 24 hours 300 1200 baud In the SB manual there is no description of the ASM COM CP M assembler error messages U and S My system diskette came with an ASM COM the CP M assem bler on it that prompts CP M ASSEMBLER VER 2 0 But in the odd manual on page 18 in the chapter 8 sample session the CP M assembler prompts CP M ASSEMBLER VER 1 0 So Intertec forgot to update the manual when the new 2 0 ASM came out Therefore I say This manual needs to be updated by Intertec Can a reader give me all new error codes plus their meanings including the errors E U that I discovered by myself Thanks again Yours sincerely Robert Jan van
24. nds your modem requires to dialanumber The Hayes requires AT DT 1 xyz abe defg CR It is useful at this point to have a list of RCPM Systems or CBBS s CP M Bulletin Boards The July issue of Microsystems has an updated list A useful number is the SuperBrain remote bulletin board at 1 617 862 0781 in Massachusetts or the dBASE II bulletin board at 1 408 378 8733 in Campbell California near San Jose For starters of course a local number is best It will take a Continued on Page 2 blished bi monthly by Abrams Creative Services Mailing address P O Box 3121 Beverly Hills CA 90212 Phone 213 277 2410 Copyright 1983 by Abrams Creative Services All Rights Reserved No part of this newsletter can be copied by any means without prior written permission from the publisher Editor Albert Abrams Advertising amp Subscrip tion Linda Patchell SuperBrain and CompuStar are registered trademarks of Intertec Data Systems Inc CP M is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc Technical Corner continued from page 1 few hours to get these routines down pat and with long distance rates being what they are you will not want to practice on a long distance board If you are successful in reaching the remote source your modem will indicate that it has made a connection If you are using the Hayes you will be able to hear the connec tion being made through the modem speaker There will be a few rings
25. ow large the file is and how long it will take to transmit it Then it waits If you watch your modem and your modem has indicator LEDs to show you you will see that the remote board tries every ten seconds to send the program Reboot your system and type MBOOT3 UFN EXT and get a prompt line that says ESC to start When you hit the ESC key the program says FILE OPEN READY TO RECEIVE But noth ing happens Wait a bit remember the sending program only tries once every ten seconds After a few moments everything should be flowing splendidly Go have some coffee but return within the time the XMODEM program said the transmission would take Watch the transmission end and the whole file written to your disk After the local disk write you are in local CP M Write another INP file to get back and XMODEM something else You can proceed in this fashion as long as you like but you will want to bring over MODEM7xx or SMODEM 7xx and their corresponding DQC files to learn how to use them Appendix One Reconfiguring PIP Use DDT to patch PIP to support the INP and OUT functions These are procedures reserved at beginning addresses from 110H to 1FFH inthe PIP program For input PIP will jump to location 110H from 103H and for output to 120H from 106H A byte received is put in location 109H and output it at 128H This routine is set for Super Brain s Main Port The status and data port addresses are therefore 59H and 58H res pecti
26. r source code for above OSETAUTO COM 2k Sets the autostart section of system tracks on single density disks for the Osborne 1 SHOW COM 2k Lists files on the screen with pauses every 24 lines Spacebar to view next page UNERA COM 2k Restores files that were accidentally erased If there have been files added it will try to determine if the erased file is lost WASH14 COM 4k Self documented multifunction utility Combination of PIP and various CP M commands Menu driven RAMDRIVE ASM 8k Allows you to use 1 F selected portions of RAM memory as an additional high speed disk drive RAMDRIVE DOC 4k Documentation for setting up the above D 27A ASM 16k A directory utility that keeps track of changes in the directory Usually found on RCP M s as WHATSNEW CRCK COM 2k Gives a checksum value to verify accurate reception of files from RCP M s DIF COM 16k Part of system that allows ymin a TRE NR updates by separating only the changes in a file to reduce transfer time PRNTSQ COM Prints squeezed files without unsqueezing the disk file SQ COM 16k File compression utility Can save 30 40 on transmission time or storage space Most files on RCP M s are squeezed using this program SQ USQ15 DOC 2k Brief document about the squeeze files SQUEEZER DOC 24k Documentation on the finer points of squeezing and unsqueez ing of various files TYPESQ COM 8k This file allows you to view a squeezed AS
27. r EONS le board under the disk drive 3 and 4 should CP M addresses be on 1 2 and 5 off Mine were all on Cor i Vorian rected this plugged in Li modem and all BDOS EQU works fine TPA EQU ORG TPA gt MN Estridge M D 399 East Highland Ave Suite 520 San Bernardino California 92404 LXI HSTRING CALL COSTR 0ODH 0AH 1BH TEH 47H ODH OAH 1BH TEH 67H CP M BDOS write to CONsole 2 3 5 100H tilde attribute characterset 2 see also note warm boot system call entry STRING DB ESC TILDE ATTRB CR LF O output string Subroutine for sending 1 character to CON CHROUT PUSH B PUSH D PUSH H MVI CWCONS BDOS functioncode in C save registers MOV E A character in E CALL BDOS use CP M BDOS POP H restore registers POP D POP B RET Main routine COSTR MOV AM ORA A O end of the string stop RZ z check for 0 CALL CHROUT send a character INX H to CON Increment JMP COSTR counter Loop back JMP WBOOT Ready generate a WARM BOOT END R J van Herksen RO V Karnebeeklaan 27 Culemborg S O _ oe Netherlands om ee el aa DON T LET THE LOW PRICE FOOL YOU 230K OF SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE BY PROS OMNIPAC 33 INTRODUCTORY OFFER ENDS SEPT 20 NUMBER PROCESSOR Solve problems involving lists of numbers in 1 or 2 columns Functions and commands are single keystrokes No difficult command language to learn Simple BASIC and dBASE I
28. vely Change this if your modem is set to the Auxiliary port 103H JMP 110H Jump to input 106H JMP 120H Jump to output 110H IN 58H Get Status 112H ANI 2 Mask bit 114H JZ 110H Loop 117H IN 59H Get data 119H ANI 7FH 11BH STA 109H 11EH RET Clear the high bit Save the data Return to PIP 120H IN 58H Get status 122H ANI 1 Mask it 124H JZ 120H Loop 127H MOV A C Place the char in a register 128H OUT 59H Move it out 12AH RET Return to PIP Continued on page 5 Letters to the Editor DEAR SUPERLETTER First thanks for sending the BASIC test programs written by Dr Kelly from Boston Only it s a pity that the SuperBrain DIS PLAY EXERCISER program is not com patible with SuperBrain II Most of the OUT PPIA XXXX statements give strange effects and do not work so I had to change the above mentioned statements into escape control sequences Second when the SuperBrain II came on the market I had an arrangement with my dealer to give back my old SuperBrain I and change it for a new SuperBrain IL Enclosed in the box I found a 14 page pre liminary SB J manual from Intertec say ing This bulletin will serve as interim documentation of these new products until the SuperBrain II User s Manual is avail able Now my dealer still says that there is no SuperBrain IJ manual And I don t believe him Can you please tell me if there is anew SuperBrain manual Thanks i
29. will hit CR and your system will respond with the remote CP M prompt That is you are now backin contact with the remote system You can tell it is the remote prompt because it will shimmer literally it sort of bounces and is sometimes followed by a 0 thus it looks like AO Now type DIR go on to B and when you get the BO type DIR wait and then write to your own disk all the pre ceding information by typing control Z You will write to your own disk whatever transpired between the time you issued the command PIP Q INP and the control Z There on your disk under the appellation Q will be the remote board s directories for you to dump to hard copy at your leisure and not at long distance rates After this maneuver you are back on your local system but your remote connection has not been broken Going In and Out of the Remote System At various times you will want to go back to the remote directory from local CP M Any time you wish to do this after you have rebooted your system to issue local CP M commands or have precipitated to your local CP M by typing control Z you can do so by typing PIP Q3 INP Be careful here for sometimes you will be doing this command to end with the control Z to pre serve instructions directories files etc received from the remote system and sometimes merely to get yourself back to the remote system after rebooting your own system I use a number addition to
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