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The Rainbow Vol. 11 No. 09 - April 1992 - TRS

1. 1 FF 1060 A INKEY 1070 IF A B AND T AND Q 199 THEN I 200 1I91 A SOUND75 3 60701090 ELSE IF AND T 1 AND V gt 199 THEN 1 200 11 1 SOUND75 3 GOT01090 ELSE 1080 1080 IF A THEN 830 ELSE 1120 1090 0 14 6 0 RINTC19 7 U HPRINT 55 6 V HPRI 60 7 1100 IF THEN 0 0 1 0 0 1 EL SE IF T91 THEN VeV I YY YY II 1110 HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT 14 6 0 HP RINT 19 7 U HPRINT 55 6 V HPRI NT 60 7 YY GOT0830 1120 HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT E EE F H PRINT E EE 1 FF FORF 1T06 HCOL 0R3 8 HL INE CHEF X F CY F Z F9 P SET B FORSZ1TO0255STEP60 SOUNDS 1 0 NEXTS F HCOLORI1 1 FOR F 6TOISTEP 1 HLINE W F X F Y F of FJ ACOLORG B HE NE W X Y Z PSET B 1130 HCOLOR1 1 HPRINT E Poet PRINT E EE 1 FF HCOLOR3 3 1140 60701320 1150 IF A71 THEN E 3 EE 1 F 7K FF KK 1160 IF A22 THEN E 14 EE 1 F L FF S LL 1170 IF A 3 THEN E 26 EE 1 F M FF MM 1180 IF A 4 THEN E 38 EE 1 F N THE RAINBOW FFS NN 1190 IF A 5 THEN E 5 EE 1 F 0 FF 200 1200 IF A26 THEN E 70 EE 1 F 2P FF PP 1210 IF A 7 THEN E270 EE 6 F 0 FF QQ 1220 IF A 8 THEN E 70 EE 11 F R FF RR 1230 IF A 9 THEN 0 20 5 FF SS 1240 IF A 10 THEN E 58 EE 20 F T FFS TT 1250 IF A 11 THEN E 46 EE 20 F U FF UU 1260 IF A 12 THEN E 34
2. QQ 8ANKRUPT 740 R YOU LOSE RR e 5 750 S YOU GAIN SS A TURN 160 15 VYOU LOSE TT 45 770 U YOU RE UU BANKRUPT 780 V YOU WIN VV 110 790 W YOU LOSE WW 90 800 X YOU WIN XX _ 35 810 Y YOU WIN YY 125 820 Z Y0U BOSE ZZS 65 830 B RND 16 C RND 16 D RND 16 A D C B IF A 1 OR 216 THEN 83 0 840 IF U 0 THEN 1550 850 IF YY THEN 1610 860 IF 0 gt 1000 THEN 1610 870 IF gt 1000 THEN 1550 880 IF A 1 THEN W 0 X 0 Y 96 2 4 0 890 IF A 2 THEN W 96 X70 Y 192 7 40 900 IF A 3 THEN W 192 X 0 Y 288 2 40 910 IF A 4 THEN W 288 X 0 Y 384 2 40 920 IF A 5 THEN 384 0 480 2 40 930 IF A 6 THEN W 543 X 0 Y 639 7 40 940 IF A 7 THEN W 543 X 40 Y 639 2 80 950 IF 8 THEN W 543 80 639 79120 960 IF A 9 THEN W 543 X 151 Y 63 9 77191 970 IF 10 THEN W 447 X 151 Y 5 43 7 191 980 IF 11 THEN W 351 X 151 Y 4 47 77191 990 IF A212 THEN W 255 X 151 Y 3 51 7 191 1000 IF 13 THEN W 159 X 151 Y 255 2 191 1010 IF 14 THEN W 0 X 151 Y 96 27191 1020 IF A215 THEN W X 111 Y 96 7 151 1030 IF A 16 THEN W 0 X 71 Y 96 4 111 1040 GOSUB1150 HCOLOR3 3 HLINE CM X CY PSET B FORG 1T01 HLINE 6 6 6 2 6 PSET 8 NEXTG 4 2550 5 6 FFFF HCOLOR0 0 HLINE W X Y 2 PSET B HCOLORI 1 FORG91TO1 HLIN E W G X G Y G Z G PSET B NEXT G 1050
3. 900 FOR 0 1 TO 50 D 910 NEXT X 920 PLAY T3 L16 02 8 AGLAF 930 HCOLDR 8 940 HPRINT 34 21 950 HLINEC272 176 293 L 6 PSE 960 GDTO960 970 POKE 65496 0 WIDTH32 HSCREEN DiPAEETTE GMP CLS e Building a Serial Cable Sidebar March 1992 Page 20 Because of a production oversight we inadvertently omitted a figure showing how to con struct a serial cable for computer modem connections While the text should be sufficient they say a picture is worth a thousand words The miss ing figure appears below DB25 DIN Color Signal Green Transmit Data Red Receive Data Yellow Data Set Ready Black Ground Carrier Detect Data Terminal Ready Energy is everything your home world depends on il However someone or something is slowly siphoning it away As your world s champion you must climb inta tha experimental Power Tank to challange this nemesis and his minions Your key lies with the ability to teleport solid mass Use this to manipulate and explore the endless stronghold of the enemy and to exploit the free floating DUPES Danse Units of Photon Energy to destroy the menacing Plasma Droids Be cautious though those DUPES can be deadly too Photon a fantastic new arcade game tor your contains spec tacular 320x200 resolution 16 color graphics ultra smooth 60 Hz animation and loads of real time music and sound effects IT will send your mind racing over endless possibil
4. format I decided to use a boxed header like I used in the aforementioned article Look at Figure 1 to see how the screen should look E P Jp Oat GOLFER GOLFER GAME NAME NUMBER NO TENG gma 731 Segara WEE DATE CDURSE COURSE GROSS Dynacalc s replicate feature though its label entry modeworks well too Position the cursor in Cell A1 press the equals sign 10 times thenpressSENTER Type Rto initiate the replicate command and the computer displays Rep Source Range onscreen Either press ENTER by itself or QoS ee Gate DEFA BEST PLAYED RATING SCORE 10 et Seed eer gu v ME 5 3 Figure 1 Column Widths for Golf Handicapper Included in Figure 1 are the widths I used for each column These widths are fairly simple to set Use the arrow keys to position the cursor in the first column Dy nacalc calls this Column A and type AW This command is used to alter the width at tribute The prompt CW appears onscreen asking if you want to change the width of the current column or the entire window Press C for column and the screen shows Width 1s D The D which stands for Default is nine spaces Since 10 spaces is the required width for the first column Type 10 and press ENTER Follow a simi lar procedure for columns B through I for now use the column widths I specify you may later change them to your liking Now itistimetoenter the column head ings Position the cursor in Cell A2
5. 410 DATA 314 13 313 12 312 11 31 1 10 310 9 309 9 308 8 307 7 306 6 305 6 304 5 303 4 302 3 301 2 300 2 300 3 300 4 300 5 300 6 3 00 7 300 8 300 9 300 10 299 10 2 98 10 297 10 296 10 295 9 294 8 293 7 292 6 291 7 291 8 420 DATA 291 9 291 10 291 11 291 12 291 13 291 14 291 15 291 16 291 17 291 18 291 19 291 20 292 21 293 20 294 19 295 18 296 17 2 97 17 298 17 299 17 300 17 300 1 8 300 19 300 20 300 21 300 22 30 0 23 300 24 300 25 430 DATA 301 25 302 24 303 23 30 4 22 305 21 306 21 307 20 308 19 309 18 31 0 18 311 17 312 16 313 15 314 14 440 DATA 100 5 100 6 100 7 100 8 100 9 101 9 102 9 103 9 103 8 1 03 7 450 DATA 210 5 211 5 212 5 213 5 214 5 215 5 216 5 217 5 217 6 2 17 T 217 8 217 9 217 18 217 11 2 17 12 217 13 217 14 217 15 216 1 55215 15 214 15 213 15 2 F3 14 21 3 13 214 13 211 4 210 15 209 15 208 15 207 15 206 15 460 DATA 205 15 204 15 203 15 20 2 15 201 14 201 13 201 12 201 11 202 10 203 9 204 9 205 9 206 9 207 9 208 9 209 9 210 9 210 8 21 0 7 210 6 210 5 e April 1992 EC Advertisers Index Call Kim Lewis Advertising Representative Cail Belinda Kirby Advertising Representative The Falsoft Building 9509 U S Highway 42 P O Box 385 Prospect KY 40059 502 228 4492 FAX 502 228 5121 We appreciate your mentioning THE RAINBOW when you contact these advertisers Dore amp Bore P O Box 733 Maple Valley WA 98038 U S ORDER DESK 800 237 2409 INT L a
6. April 1992 Vol xi 9 THE COLOR COMPUTER MONTHLY MAGAZINE Canada 4 95 U S 3 95 General Information The Computer Will Spread sheet n the Cou rse A s we grow older many of us write wills as a means of ensuring our intentions are carried out after we pass on If you have invested a lotin your computer system you will more than likely want an interested heir to receive and care for your CoCo a will provides a way of seeing that this happens But what about a usage will Items to Address cr description of the equipment sey how the system is set up instructions for powering up r r program loading directions a location s of personal data c operating hints and tips sr usernames and passwords resources and manuals Some time ago Lee Deuell posted on Delphi a document titled Color Computer 3 Users Guide Manual This article de scribes how his CoCo is set up what soft ware he has and how to use the system When we saw a copy we began to think how useful such a guide could be for some one who hasn t used the computer Lee starts the guide by giving some background information history about the Color Computer He then describes the physical aspects of the CoCo the ports switches etc and how they are used After the groundwork 1s laid Lee explains how to use the various alternate DOSs he has He closes by naming a support person someone who can answer questions and solve p
7. Prices subjecrro change without notice MV Systems P O Box 818 Arvada C 8 80001 303 420 7777 The OS9 and Multi Vue Specialists 8 April 1992 THE RAINBOW Feature Program rawing a star with more than five points is pretty difficult and ketching a respectable five pointed star is even a challenge Varistar draws perfect multi pointed stars on the CoCo 3 s HSCREEN2 After you run the program you are asked for the number of points to use You may enterany number from4 to 36 as long as the number you enter is a factor of 360 there are 360 degrees in a circle Factors of 360 in this rangeare 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 18 20 24 30 and 36 Any other numbers are rejected Line 70 The trigonometry functions in the first loop lines 100 130 S establish he hori zontal and vertical coordi nates for points around the circumference of an imaginary circle of radius 95 These locations become the points on the finished star Lines 150 through 190 set Feature Program Tear Into any newer CoCo users are begin ning to dabble with assembly language yct thcy have had trouble locating an assembler William Barden Jr helped solve this with his EZASM program THERAINBOW April and May 1991 issues To take machine lan guage programs in the other direction however Iwrote EZDASM EZDASM is an easy to use disassembler a program that produces an assembly language sourc
8. 08 86 10 4 210 27 02 04 86 20 4 4 Ela 220 CB 02 B6 40 44 84 27 0 CBs 230 01 240 BU B9 E7 84 8C P3 9C 275 04 80 e The Trading Post P O BOX 3453 CARBONDALE IL 62902 From E Z Friendly Software Leonardo s Paintbox Super Comics Picture Bingo Data Form III Letter Form Ill Math Games Keyboard Commander Jack Rabbit Story Writer From Forrest Enterprises Inventory Manager From 5 Star Software File Conversions CoCo to MSDOS and MSDOS to CoCo per disk Question amp Answer Game Baseball Stats Quick Stats Ball Scoreboard Ball Cards Database Check Writer Bankman Checkbook Keeper Envelope Writer CoCo Labels Printing Calculator General Statistics Brainbusters Test Writer HI amp LO RES JOYSTICK ADAPTER Specify CoCo 1 2 or 3 Disk Only Send Check or Money Order Add 3 00 S H Canadian amp Overseas M O in US currency welcome COD 2 00 extra Feature Program April 1992 25 Quick Reflexes Are a Must T estYourLuckisatwo playergame that requires a little patience fast reflexes and a lot of luck When it is run this CoCo 3 program draws 16 blocksaroundthe out side edge of the screen In each box is a phrase such as You Win 100 or You Lose a Turn but the phrases don t immediately appear onscreen The goal is to be the first player whose total winnings meet orexceed 1000 and both players start with an empty bank Achieving this goal
9. 200 _ 2 00 3 50 695 _ 6 95 11 95 695 __ 6 95 _ 7 95 11 95 12 95 Prospect KY 40059 To order by phone credit card orders only call 800 817 0309 8 a m to 5 p m EST y p tered t screen because of the massive amount of string space it needs Bo not chauge the WIDTH Statement to 40 or 80 If you press BREAK to abort the program however the string space is deallocated and you can safely use the 40 or 80 calumn screen The string space is also deallocated when the program finishes printing and exits Restrictions and Modifications As stated before you can use just about any Hi Res font for prinung you must supply your own fonts The restriction is that any font you use should not have the left most bit set in any of the character forming bytes The left most bit or vertical line in the character will not be printed To use an alternate font with Sideways simply load it before running the program The above restriction is based on the fact that the Tandy graphics printing mode Listing 1 SIDEWAYS SIDEWAYS 2 BY JEFF HAMELUCK 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 6 7 FOR THE COCO 3 AND DMP 120 8 E rzkbkidhbt dhPb bdddddddddddddJsdddddi 80 POKE 65497 0 SET PRINTER BA UD RATE TO 1 2 OF NORMAL 90 POKE 150 88 THIS GIVES 120 0 NOT 600 BAUD 100 WIDTH 32 MUST BE 32 DUE TO CLEAR HI RES TEXT SCREEN BUG 110 PC
10. 240 FDR X 1 TD 2 250 HCLS 0 260 65497 0 270 FDR 9 TD 315 STEP 20 280 SDUND1 1 SDUND120 1 290 PALETTE 8 RND 6Q 300 C 15 PALETTE C RND 60 310 HCIRCLE A 11 10 8 40 320 HCIRCLE A 182 10 8 40 330 HPAINT A 11 C 8 340 HPAINT A 182 C 8 350 HCIRCLE A 11 10 8 60 360 HCIRCLE A 182 10 8 60 370 HCIRCLE A 11 10 8 70 380 182 10 8 70 390 NEXT A 400 65496 0 410 FOR 0 170500 D 420 PALETTE 8 0 430 HCDLDR 8 440 HPRINT 7 4 THE EEN SY WEEN SY SPIDER 450 PLAY T3 V20 D2L8CLAFLBFLAFLB GL4 AL4A 460 HPRINT 8 6 WENT UP THE WAT ER SPOUT 470 PLAY LBALAGLBFLAGLBALA4FP2L16 file on your hard drive and vice versa This is primarily uscful for making mul tiple copies of a disk with one pass per disk Since the disk to be copied is read only once the copy process is much faster Label is used to print address labels on standard 1 inch continuous feed address labeis Up to five lines can be printed on each label LoginB09 is a 51 09 version of the login command which is included with the OS 9 Development System LoginB09 uses the same dd sys password file Mail is a spin off of the VMS mail system found on VAX systems including Delphi One primary difference is that Folders which are similar to directories are not supported by Mail However I doubt many people willever need to store mail in multiple folders so this shouldn t be a problem Me
11. 30 0 1 SBF 30 BA GE AO 5C 11 B2 30 94 2 6 B GE A9 0 F F 30 BB 3 3 41 F F 30 7 v9 85 29 5 1 06 d 80 2 6 D 7D 30 D 26 17 7D 30 B3 27 1C 02 FID m 17 1004 DATA 5 5D CC 0 CF F0 30 D5 156 1 16 7D 30 83 10 86 Le 16 4 86 AD 9F AQ A 8E E B6 1 5D 81 A 24 2 86 A C6 3 3D C1 A0 23 2 C 6 86 20 30 30 88 6 1 5 54 3 0 85 30 6 30 8 60 84 26 12 86 AA A7 1005 DATA 84 86 28 A7 88 E0 A7 8 8 0 7 88 20 7 88 40 70 24 70 10 27 1 67 7D 30 D0 26 28 B6 FF B 8AF F 65 5 FS BaD r amp b Gd BFF 3000 265 1 48481 FD 20 2 980 170 27 Aloe oe aP C ae 07 86 1 90 1006 DATA 81 24 2 86 6 3 30 3E 190A05 29 47 C5 AU SESS RAT al DV LA lu Eos PO T 45654 Ud 18 574 30 A0 C1 0 27 23 26 158 A2 5F 4E F680 Al IF D EO dB UNS AS GO A8 aO I 7 4 65 4 1 10 7 1007 DATA 30 4 20 6 6 30 1 7 30 4 10 8 31 0 4 60 0 27 1 4C 81 9 10 27 0 D7 10 8C 31 B 426 EF 16 0 CE BE 3 50 FO 30 A FD 38 AE B6 30 A4 87 30 AC B6 3 0 A0 87 30 84 FC 30 2 6 30 83 BF 90 BL T0 5E 1008 DATA 0 0 10 30 85 7 30 AD BE 30 B1 F6 30 AD 10 BE 30 85 6F 88 E0 6F 84 6F 88 20 F1 30 A 66 16 10 BC 3B AE 27 047 D388 Gy 2 Bub I7 SOO 6L 2D 0 A0 3 88 E0 A6 88 E0 81 FF 27 37 56 18 4766 96 1009 DATA 7 84 86 18 7 88 2 0 17 4 8 70
12. 4 Shipping cna cgesto Canada P R AK APO FPO are double Triple charge to all other Countries Price and Specificatians ara subject lo change without netice All Dayton Associate s products have a 30 day moneyback guarantee 20 April 1992 THE RAINBOW Feature Program Patriot Command Desert Warfare for Al CoGos A cool wind stirs the desert dunes as you and your soldiers scttle down for a quiet evening meal Suddenly the crewman on duty sticks his head out of the Patriot Missile command center and yells Scuds incoming You run to the command center and quickly scan the radar screen It looks like the biggest attack so far You wonder why thc Patriots haven t launched yet and dis cover the Patriot guidance computer has blown a fuse and there isn t enough time to locate a spare Knowing you are the last line of defense you remember your trusty CoCo joystick in your duffel bag and you quickly wire it into the targeting system Now it s just you against them Arc you quick enough Patriot Command is a machine language arcade game in which you pit your reflexes against incoming missiles The program works on any CoCo with at least 16K and Extended BASIC Readers with 16K Standard BASIC CoCos can load the execut able program frorn tape as long as the file was created using an Extended BASIC Color Computer To create Patriot Command enter the BASIC program and carefully check it for errors After y
13. ED LOAD ADDRESS IS amp H356F o 3r PP 500 PRINT USE A LOAD OFFSET TO POSITION IN ANY AREA 510 PRINT A LOAD OFFSET OF amp H400 0 WILL PUT IT amp H756F amp H7FFF 520 END 1000 DATA 2038000000000000000000 QOFFFFFFFFOQQ000O DFFFFFFFFOO0000 QOFFFFFFFFOOQ00000DOFFFFFFFFOO0000 QOFFFFFFFFOQ0000ODFFFFFFFF2OQ0017 017A308D08 6551 1001 DATA 9170168 6061701831701 683080090 170159338 8002207 30 8 17015 8108272781002736813025 F181392308814125E9814622E534109E 888C041235 4950 1002 DATA 1022DAA780AD9FAQ0220D 34109E888C040F351023C7301FAD9FAQ Q220BFA780AD9FAQQ26FC46F41308DFF 5 6808100271 813923028007 60480 0220 6841 6372 1003 DATA 69C425085A26F78030A841 A7413939351616FF66338DFF2A10AECA4 308DFF29863EAD9FA002170006810 10 2700E9815E273281412738814A1027FF 4081502761 6186 1004 DATA 8153102700988151102701 6F813F270220D31700A2308008801700 901700 61700952080313 1 20170405 1600FE1F201704CD1701A8E6A0342034 041704C717 4475 1005 DATA 019617019335043520C178 2400 1222709 1202505 780160002 6 Feature Program 2 7801600 86 780 04 3080 08018030805481592705804016F F5ABD 3830800809 5984 1006 DATA 8D2A338DFE7E17FED186FE A78DFE778026338DFE6D308DFE6F10AE C420398D174FA78DFE62A78DFE5D16FF 28A46802706AD9FA00220F6393414B8DA9 2835943414 7859 1007 DATA BDA1813594AD9FA00027FA 398E0000301F26FC5A26F6393420ECE4 1704221700FD3520E6A01F988580102B 04 184 0102700808110102701088120 1027009281 5839 1008 DATA
14. FILENAME F 410 ON ERR GOTO 460 I M ASSUM NG THE ONLY ERROR THAT MILL POP UP HERE 420 POKE 65496 0 BE TH E NE ERROR OR FILE NOT FOUND 430 OPEN I fH F 440 POKE 65497 0 450 GOTO 480 460 PRINT Filename doesn t exi st 470 GOTO 400 480 POKE amp 0 RESETS ON ER ROR POINTER SO THAT ANY FURTHER ERRORS 490 POKE amp HFE F WILL ABORT E The PC Compatible Magazine Special Back Issue Offer Magazines 1 each Disks 6 each while supplies last The PC Compatible Magazine _ SOFT SysStat Understanding Memory Printer Control The PC Compatible Magazine SECTOR SOFT File Manipulations 18 with style and more Patriotic Maze Escape 4 Stellar Blast Scrolling To order call 800 847 0309 9 a m 5 p m EST A Look at Memory BONUS OFFER Soft Sector Binders 3 Each THE RAINBOW XECUTION OF THE PROGRAM 500 LINEINPUT LINE BETWEEN PAGE Ss 9 510 IF A THEN LP 5 PRINT 3 39 LP 520 LP VAL A 530 IF LP lt l THEN LP 1 540 PRINT cONDENSED OR STANDARD 550 A INKEY 560 IF A THEN 550 570 IF OR THEN PRI NT 2 CHR 30 CHR 27 20 CHR 18 W 79 PRINT C GOTO 5 90 580 IF A lt gt S ANO A s THEN 550 ELSE PRINT 2 CHR 27 CHRS 19 CHR C I8 W 47 PRINT S 598 CLS 0 600 11 0 610 FOR 0 TO W 620 8 X 630 NEXT X 640 FOR X
15. HAWKsoft keyboard extension cable Domination wargame MyDOS full featured DOS extension lawksoft PO Box 7112 Elgin L 60121 7112 708 742 3084 eves amp ends US and S amp H always included Terms check COD CHR 18 CHR 30 CHR 27 CHR 19 CHR 27 CHR C20 88 41 18 Start graphics mode End graphics mode With the DMP 120 Sideways lets you print in two styles standard and condensed The Standard mode allows 47 lines of up to 115 characters each on onc page n thc Condensed mode Sideways can handle 79 lines of 115 characters And if you use fanfold or continuous roll paper you can increase the length of the lines up to 255 characters Up and Running The Sideways system consists of two programs SIDEWAYS 8AS Listing 1 and BITTEST BIN a machinc language program Select standard 10 cpi character Select condensed 17 cpi character that you create by running the BASIC program shown in Listing 2 Enter and save both programs to disk When entering Listing I make sure you use the correct printer speed poke in Line 90 Since the program puts the CoCo in the high speed mode effec tively doubling thc I O rate you must use the value that would ordinarily set thc computer for halfthe speed at which your printer is sct For instance if your printer is set for 9600 baud use the poke value for 4800 baud Standard values are shown in Fig
16. IF K THEN 485 735 BPUT X1 Y1 X2 Y2 1 NOT another program 240 BF N LEFT EN 8 490 IF K CHR 8 THEN 535 740 RETURN 245 N N 1 495 IF K CHR 9 THEN 575 745 250 32 500 IF K H THEN 615 750 ON BRK DESTINATION nee c Me pe 6 510 IF K CHR 13 THEN 685 Geoff Friesen has a bachelor of science 265 GOTO 275 515 GOTO 485 765 POKE amp HFFD8 0 degree incomputer science and mathemat 270 S 13 520 ics He is the author of several published 275 NEXT S 525 LEFT articles about computers He may be con i d M 315 530 tac D in 535 GOSUB 710 290 PRINT NO AVAILABLE FILES 540 CF CF 1 R7N 2T3 Canada 204 636 7302 295 END 545 IF CF Q THEN CF N 1 300 550 GOSUB 710 305 SPEED UP amp SORT FILENAMES 555 GOTO 485 Ao 560 315 POKE amp HFFD9 0 565 RIGHT 320 IF 1 THEN 375 570 The Listing LAUNCHER 325 FOR TO N 2 575 GOSUB 710 330 FOR 1 0 TO N P 2 580 CF CF 1 1 LAUNCHER 335 IF 8F 1 lt BF I 1 THEN 355 585 IF CF N THEN 2 BY GEOFF FRIESEN 340 T 8F I 590 GOSUB 710 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 345 1 1 1 595 GOTO 485 4 BY FALSOFT INC 350 BF I 1 9T z 600 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 355 NEXT 1 2 605 HOME 110 INITIALIZE 360 610 365 DRAW SCREEN 615 GOSUB 710 gt Optimize your disks by eliminating fragmented files and compacting your directories for faster file access Running time averages one hour Also includes a utility to assess file
17. SARA IB F430 BA JT 21 18 8F 38 B5 BC 30 AA 10 22 0 47 6 88 6 84 6 88 20 8 30 Ac BE S38 AO 7F SDuBS 244 E MF 20 8 3 6F 88 E0 6F 84 6F 88 20 BF 3 A6 10 8E 31 A0 5F 6D A4 0 DATA TUB Ea nob 480 986 31 B8 27 14 80 F1 34 24 10 8E 31 B 0 58 31 5 80 6 ED A4 35 24 20 40 06 3 1 30 8 07 0 70 380 B C a Dy SOMET 6 4 85 76 0 48 7 P 30 8C 10 0E 91 AD F6 30 08 31 5 6D 86 26 18 56 C1 10 1011 DATA 26 D 7F 30 D8 7D 30 E7 410 45 5 G0 16 0 96 F7 30 DB ZD 30 E7 10 26 4 60 20 7A 34 24 10 8E 31 80 58 31 45 AE A4 30 89 0 86 30 09 4 10 8 31 0 54 31 5 6 44 34 4 86 21 30 10 8 221 DB XT ABS 30289 FF 1012 DATA 5F CC 8 0 A6 A0 B7 30 05 35 2 94 2 81 8 a2 6 CABG B DD 40 27 17 84 7 84 20 11 A6 84 01 55 2 B 8T ANa27 7 86 30 0D 7 9032 052 530 DL 37b EF UNT 49048815 Ber 80 Dn 23 CO So et 99 24 6 4 6 4 1013 DATA 81 7 26 2 6 4 16 68 7 0 20 86 1 Bel 3920 00 1 26 2 80 7 30 360 86 2 81 30 7 101827 0 CB 0 4255 04 80 8E 31 4F 656 50 BE 58 31 07 16 31 02 CB 2 1008 31 SF Zeb F2 35 1 B C8 1014 DATA 16 0 31 3 7 30 528305 4 OE 34 FA JB 6 30 BF 48 33 C5 60 04 26 D 33 4 2 1483 81 Bu 2b PM LUE 30 PA 20 UE F AE C4 10 8E 31 5F 31 A5 AF 4 34 20 10 8E 31 25 31 A5 30 88 80 AF A4 35 20 CE 31 4F
18. amp Desk Acc Pak 69 95 VISA MASTERCARD or COD Call Toll Free 1 800 383 8529 Monday thru Saturday 8am to 5pm PST To order by mail send check or money order for the amount of the program plus 4 00 for shipping to Cer Comp Ltd 5566 Ricochet Avenue Las Vegas NV 89110 702 452 0632 THE RAINBOW April 1992 y Product Review MV Banner Flair for all Occasions Using banners adds pizazz to special events birthdays homecomings com pany parties or farewells and your mes sage gets across loud and clear MV Banner is an easy to use banner making program if you have access to a CoCo 3 256K minimum OS 9 Level II Multi Vue and an 80 column monitor then you have all the required ingredients for MV Banner creations MV Banner runsin the Multi V ue GShell environment It features pull down menus pop up windows editing and saving of banner messages two fonts ready to use images an image creator and editor indi vidually configurable characters and on screen viewing of completed banners The manual provides instructions for configuring the program forhard drive use Unfortunately the instructions for running MV Banner fromfloppy disk are sparse I seldom useM ulti Vueand wasn t sureif my blunderings were stemming from misuse of it or MV Banner phoned ColorSystems and everything was ironed out in minutes However I ve come to the conclusion that well written manuals teach how to us
19. change all dd to d 004 DIM path byt BYTE 0059 DIM count INTEGER 806 PRINT Creating salvage 0078 CREATE path dd cmds salvage WRITE 0096 FOR count 1 TO 233 6 READ byt 00A8 PUT path byt 0085 NEXT count BACA CLOSE path 00C6 PRINT 00 8 SHELL attr dd cmds salvage pe 00 6 END 00 8 DATA 135 205 0 233 0 13 17 129 193 0 41 2 151 83 97 0119 DATA 108 118 97 103 229 1 40 99 41 49 57 56 57 32 83 014A DATA 46 66 46 71 111 108 100 98 101 114 103 90 39 85 0178 DATA 79 95 221 3 221 5 159 2 134 1 16 63 132 37 89 01A9 DATA 151 0 159 2 166 132 129 13 39 60 204 2 11 16 63 01DA DATA 131 37 1 151 1 220 4 195 0 1 221 4 48 71 16 142 020E DATA 1 0 150 0 16 63 137 37 9 150 1 16 63 138 37 29 0242 DATA 32 227 193 211 39 22 52 64 158 3 222 5 150 0 16 THE RAINBOW April 1992 19 63 136 37 10 53 64 32 206 48 140 43 141 4 95 16 63 6 16 142 0 100 134 1 16 63 140 57 48 140 61 16 142 0 18 141 241 158 2 166 128 129 32 34 250 134 13 167 21 188 2 141 221 32 216 85 115 101 58 32 115 97 108 118 97 103 101 32 60 115 111 117 114 99 101 62 32 60 10 115 116 1052110 97 116 105 111 110 62 7 13 42 42 42 42 32 67 97 118 39 116 32 111 112 101 110 58 32 7 1 236 38 The next phase after entering your latest BASIC creation is that of debug ging and editing the program While BASIC s EDI T command is not the slick est editor ever designed it s still quite powerful and functional The EDIT command prov
20. that all Radio Shack and most other floppy disk controllers use addresses in the range of FF40 through FF4F but do not fully decode the special SCS address line For this reason they also respond in the FF50 through FF5Frange Thisnaturally causes problems when used on a Y cable with a Burke and Burke hard drive system The solution consists of ORing the SCS line with the A4 address line on the disk controller then sending the result of the logically ORed SCS and A4 lines to where the SCS line used to go This can be accomplished with a 741502 chip which hasfourtwo input OR gates You use only one of these f our gates so tie the inputs of the unused three gates high leaving the outputs of the unused gates not connected As a construction trick I suggest mounting the 741 502 chip piggyback on top of an other 14 pin TTL logic chip on the disk controller with its power pins down sup plying powerto the chip and mechanically mounting it and all other pins bent up Martin H Goodman M D a physician trained in anesthesiology is a longtime electronics tinkerer and outspoken com mentator sort of the Howard Cosell of the CoCo world On Delphi Marty is the SIGop of THE RAINBOW s CoCo SIG His non computer passions include running mountaineering and outdoor photography Marty lives in San Pablo California THE RAINBOW April 1992 18 Received and Certified The following products have recently been
21. 0 HLINE 288 0 384 40 160 0 480 0 480 40 170 0 _ 480 0 543 40 PSET B 180 481 1 2 0 190 0 543 0 639 40 200 HCOLOR O HLINE 543 40 639 210 HCOLOR O HLINE 543 80 639 120 PSET B 220 HCOLOR HLINE 543 128 63 Sell 51 ASET JB 230 544 121 2 0 240 HCOLORAO 0 HLINE 543 151 63 95194 RSET B 250 HCOLORO 37 91 RSET 260 HCOLORO 1191 PSE T4 Q HLINE 447 151 54 B 0 B 270 HCOLOF2 0 HLINE 255 151 35 B 0 8 0 HLINE 351 151 44 121841 280 HCOLORO 9 191 JESET 290 HCOLOR 491 AP SET 300 HPAINT 97 152 2 0 310 HCOLOR HLINE 151 96 1 grey PS BT B 320 HCOLORO 0 HLINE CO 111 96 1 BID 330 0 71 96 11 I9 ESEL48 HEINECIBS 1919 ab et NCS 8 154 C159 340 HCOLOR O HLINE 40 96 71 1 FSET B 350 HPAINT 1 41 2 0 360 97 41 0 0 370 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 195 56 251 b69 PET 380 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 223 56 223 gu da IST 390 HCOLOR2 27HLINE 257 556 257 a800 SET 400 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 257 56 291 450 410 2 2 257 67 280 67 RSET 420 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 257 80 291 80 PSET 430 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 335 56 301 96 PSET 440 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 301 56 297 BD P SE 450 HC
22. 0 TO W 650 POKE 65496 0 660 IF EOF 1 THEN CLOSE 1 D0 1 P 65497 0 GOTO 710 670 LINEINPUT 1 B X 680 POKE 65497 0 69 IF LEN B X gt LL THEN LL LEN B X 700 NEXT X 710 E W 720 P 1 730 FOR X E TO B STEP 1 740 IF LEN B X lt P THEN PRINT 2 STRING 18 12B GOTO B20 750 A ASC MID B X P 10 760 IF lt 33 OR 2122 THEN PRINT 2 STRING 18 128 GOTO 820 770 33 780 FOR TO STEP T 790 PRINT 2 61605 8 T 128 800 NEXT T 810 PRINT 2 STRING 2 128 820 NEXT X 830 PRINT 2 840 IF P lt gt LL THEN P P 1 GOTO 730 850 IF D lt gt 1 THEN PRINT 2 STRIN G LP 13 GOTO 560 860 PRINT 2 CHR 30 CHR 27 CHR 19 870 0560 0 880 POKE 65496 0 890 RGB 900 CLEAR 109 910 UNLOAD 920 ENO Listing 2 BITTEST 1 BITTEST FOR SIDEWAYS 2 BY JEFF HAMELUCK 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOM MAGAZINE 6 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 7 TO CREATE BITTEST BIN FOR B USE WITH SIDEWAYS BAS 90 FOR X amp HE00 TO amp HE47 100 READ A 110 POKE X VAL amp H A 120 A A VALCA 130 NEXT X 140 IF A lt gt 1798 THEN PRINT CHECK SUM ERROR DATA WRONG GOTO 16 0 150 SAVEM BITTEST BIN amp HE Q amp H E47 amp HEOQ 160 ENO 170 DATA 8E F0 A5 5F 86 01 A4 B4 27 02 180 DATA 40 86 02 4 84 27 02 0018 190 86 04 4 84 27 02 10 86 200 4 4 27 02
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24. ASCII representation J jump to a new addrcss P printer mode The Listing E2DASM 1 EZ DISASSEMBLER 2 BY JOHN COLLYER 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 10 GOTO 1050 20 CLEAR 50 amp H356E CLS LN 1000 ST amp H356F P ST READ L C S 0 PRINT WORKING ON LINE LN 100 FOR X 0 TO 63 110 V VAL amp H MI0 L X 24 1 2 120 POKE P V 130 S S V 200 HLINECHCX2 VCX Q X eal HLINE CHCX 1 V X 1 PSET NEXT HPRINT 15 12 STRS CP Poin HPRINT 23 Press any key EXEC44539 C 70 D 0 WIDTH32 GO Q quit S screen only mode command key reminder If you don thave aprinter becarefulnot to use the P command The program will hang waiting for a printer to come online If you accidently press P answer No to the Automatic Mode prompt Then press S at the prompt to enter the Screen Only mode Learning assembly and machine lan guage can be fun if you have the proper tools I hope EZDASM helps you John Collyer has been programming since he got his first Color Computer in 1987 He may be contacted at 323 W Union Street 6 Medina OH 44256 140 P P 1 150 NEXT X 160 IF C lt gt S THEN PRINT DATA ERRO R IN LINE EN END 170 LN LN 1 180 IF P ST amp HA4Q THEN 70 198 CLS 200 PRINT SAVE TO O ISK OR C A 210 K INKEY 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 IF K THEN 210 IF K D THEN 260 IF K C THEN 420 GOT
25. BOB KIMBALL 3 COPYRIGH C 1992 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 6 kkkkkkkkkkk xkk xkkkkkkkkkkkkk k 7 REQUIRES 32K EXTENDED 8 Vok kc ck o oe ke koe kk ck e e kk x x 120 PCLEAR8 130 FORX amp H2607 TO amp H35BC 140 READ A A VALC amp H A 150 POKE X A 160 PRINTX A NEXT 170 IF PEEK 188 14 THEN 180 ELS E 190 180 CLS PRINT READY DISK THEN PR ESS KEY EXEC44539 SAVEM PATCOM BIN amp H2607 amp H35BC amp H2607 END 190 CLS PRINT READY CASSETTE THE N PRESS KEY EXEC44539 MOTOR ON FORX QTD2000 CSAVEM PATCOM amp H26 07 amp H358C amp H2607 MOTORON FORX OT 02000 MOTOROFF ENO 1000 DATA 10 663 FaF sie 30 25 7F aCe 8bE 30 DF 4F A7 A0 10 8C 30 E5 26 F8 7F 30 E8 7C 30 Bb 10 BE 80 F 24 64 0 1 3 0 4 10 83 24 4B 0 brod 0 OE 88 SF SC EB A 1 Cone 4 1001 DATA 10 83 60 26 5 86 30 10 8 ST UAE 2000120 amp 1 10 80 31 8F 26 F3 85 30 BD 87 22 86 2 96 SE 7 80 86 255 uds 7 3 00 80 77 30 08 17 5 40 17 7 65 17 7 BAA 10 8 32 96 7 0 1002 DATA 10 8C 32 87 26 F8 10 8 1 4 7 10 8 31 0 26 F8 20 32 7C 30 BE B6 30 BE 81 8 20 3 7F BO ME 7C 30 BIR ohh 8078F 81 7 26 3 7F 30 BF BE 30 AB B6 A A A1 84 26 F 4F A7 84 A7 88 E0 A 7 88 0 7 88 20 7 88 1003 DATA 40 10 8E 31 A8 6D A0 2 7 25 920 88 80 1
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27. Col umn Row 2 and type GOLFER as shown in Figure 1 You can use leading spaces to centerthe heading After you type GOLFER don t press ENTER press the down arrow instead This is one of Dynacalc s shortcuts when you have an entry for a cell and you press an arrow key Dynacalc automatically enters the contents into the current cell then moves in the specified direction This means you don t have to press ENTER and an arrow key every time Enter NAME into Cell A3 and continue placing the indicated labels in the appropriate cells You can spice up the display a bit like I did by adding borders To do this I used LA The electronic spreadsheet is one of the most powerful tools ever developed for computer applications Using one al lows us to quickly manipulate numbers perform numerous repetitive caluclations and obtain results Spreadsheets also al low us to ask what if questions giving us the ability to plan for the future Computertexts often define electronic spreadsheet using a phrase such as emu lates an accountant s worksheet While it is true spreadsheets are extremely well type Al and press ENTER The screen now shows Rep Source Range Al Al Dest Range Press the period key then type 11 and press ENTER This copies the contents of Cell Al to all cells from Al to I1 Move to Row 4 and repeat the procedure At this point it 1s a good idea to save your works so
28. The paper had to be cut to about 5 inches wide so there really wasn t a whole lot of news But being in the news busi ness got us both pretty interested in world events we followed the Korean Conflict and the political conventions that year and were unabashedly pro Eisenhower Since the Brownell News the street we lived on in Glendale Missouri was Brownell Avenue managed about 10 lines a week we did not have pages devoted to specific topics but we did have lines Our editorial line was WIN WITHIKENOVEMBER 6 this was about all the space we had for a single line Sports was usually something like CARDS WIN 5 2 BROWNS LOSE 4 0 and it did not matter if the scores were several days old Jim and I sold about a dozen subscriptions to the Brownell News for five cents apiece each issue was hand delivered to your door once a week usu ally after a rainy day You all are better off than thosc sub scribers were since we never bothered to specify how long the subscriptions were for And interest flagged somewhat when we gotin trouble for getting ink all over our hands while taking the letters out of the little metal things so we could resetthem for the following week Besides Ike won the election Letters to the RAINBOW 2 Connecting With the Past Editor I congratulate you for how long you ve lasted I man old timer I ve had a CoCo since December 1982 when I bought a 16K F board CoCo on sa
29. a document is certainly betterthan having to start from scratch The program begins execution at the label entry by decrementing the contents of Register B which contains the length of the parameter string passed on the com mand line If no parameters are found program execution branches to syntax to print the command line syntax of the pro gram which is salvage source destination If parameters are entered on the com mand line the program clears Register D cl ra and c1 rb and stores theresult in the variables hipoint and lopoint The next step opens the input file for reading and creates the output file for writing If either file cannot be opened the program prints an error message and aborts The transfer loop reads one sector from the input file and writesit to the output file incrementing seccount on each pass through the loop This loop continues until Listing 1 Salvage asm an is encountered in which case the program branches to error if it is a read error Or to out to exit the program with the error status stored in Register B if it is a write error The error routine branches to out ifit has reached theend ofthe input file Otherwise the current offset stored in hi point and 1 opoi nt is loaded into regis ters X and U the F Seek system call is used to seek beyond the unreadable sector and program execution returns to the transfer routine Look closely atthe variable declarations for
30. between cells A1 and 128 eee AJ Sabel isaretiredArmy colonel who has a bachelor s degree in electrical engi neering He has been an amateur radio operator for over 50 years and operates under the Extra Class license KA4M He may be contacted at 4948 South Shore Drive New Port Richey FL 34652 Okay it comes as no big secret that there are fewer folks in the CoCo Community than there used to be There are fewer active vendors There is less magazine coverage But in spite of the fact that the big guys wrote us off to history years ago we re still here And we will be for as long as we choose to be for the CoCo Community is a rare and special breed P indeed In celebration of the unique sense of kinship that CoCo OS9 OSk users share we T invite you to join us for what we ll affectionally call the Ist Annual Last CoCoFest If enough of us continue toenjoy the fun and fellowship that sets us apart from many other computer users there will bea2nd and3rd and4th annual last CoCoFest Only time will tell But just in case we re putting every possible effort into making sure that this show is more than just a show that it is indeed a celebration of the Community We won t ask you to come just out of a sense of loyalty to the Community although if that s what will motivate you to join us consider yourself askedl We d prefer for you to come prepared to join in the fun as we plan a non stop CoCo party Joi
31. by 8 or 256K by 9 SIMMs for a 512K or t Meg upgrade board It is also true that the prices especially on used SIMMs is ex tremely low in the vicinity of 5 or so per SIMM Indeed Frank Hogg s Tomcat uses SIPPs identical to SIMMs except for using pins instead of an edge connector for its 512K and 1 memory options How ever there is a substantial development cost in designing anew memory board for the CoCo involving cost of layout and photo masters This cost has already been amortized with the older 512K boards that use DIP chips so they are available very economically at around 25 or so per board with no memory installed Further used 256K by I chips are virtually as inexpen sive on a per bit basis as are used SIMM s of 65centsandless per chip for 41256 12 chips from surplus chip ven dors Thus while 256K SIMMs would work if you look closely they offer too small a cost advantage over 256K DIP chips to justify the cost in time and money of laying out a different style memory board espc cially in the case of the usual 512K boards If 1 and 2 Meg CoCo upgrades had been more popular we might well haveseen use of 256K SIMMs or SIPPs in order to save physical space given the number of 256K chips required for those memory upgrades Where is Extended BASIC Whatare the addresses I need to save Extended Color BASIC to a disk or tape file Mike Nelson Lancaste
32. damaged and that these are not the critical sectors containing the directory or file allocation table So format another disk then copy each file from the damaged disk If you are lucky you will be able to copy all files to the back up disk If that is the case it means that the damaged sector is one that is not assigned to any of your files If you are not that lucky you will likely find that only one file fails to copy the copy process for that file will fail with an Error Still you will likely be able to copy most if not all of the files on that disk After copying all the files you can do not use the suspect disk Since one sector went bad it is possible the media itself is defective Disks are cheapenough that you can probably afford to discard the suspect disk and start with fresh disks after copying all files you can If the file you can t copy is critical a disk zapper and knowledge of Disk BASIC file structure will likely allow you tosave most of the damaged file Cer Comp produces an excellent set of utilities called CoCo Tools that can help you with this and other disk related problems Using SIMMs for Memory Upgrades Given the low price 256K by 8 and 256K by 9 SIMMs might it not make sense to design a 512K board for the CoCo 3 thatused them instead of 256K by l DIP chips Bob Williams BAWILLIAMS Cedar Hill Montana It is true that electronically there is nothing to prevent the use of 256K
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34. far Type SS and Dynacalc prompts with FILE We ll use the filename FORMAT just type this name and press ENTER If a file with this name already exists you ll be asked if you want to delete the old file respond accordingly To load a previously saved spreadsheet file or tem plate type SL and press ENTER Enter the desired filename and press ENTER when prompted Before going further let s take a quick look at how Dynacalc and most other spreadsheets handles the text and values we enter There are three types of legal data label denoted by L value V and expres sion E Alabelis pretty much whatit says text used to create a heading or convey some instruction or explanation to the user Any time you start an entry with an alpha betic or other text character Dynacalc as sumes you want to put a label in the current cell If you press a number key as the first character in an entry Dynacalc assumes you want a numeric value or constant placed in the current cell For this reason you must fool the program if you want to use numbers for creating borders Over the past 11 years THERAINBOW has published several articles describing spreadsheets and discussing ways they can be used Some of the uses are perhaps a little more esoteric than others But in sparking our inventiveness all are equally important Listed below are the most no table entries from the past Where pro gram listings are indicated the article incl
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36. from the Buffer Macro Key Buffers or Disk Display on Screen or Printthe contents of the Buffer e Freeze Display amp Review information On line e Built in Command Menu Help Display Supports Modem Pak amp Deluxe Pak or Serial Port Specify Coco 1 2 3 Disk 49 95 EDT ASM Ill is a Disk based co resident Text Editor amp Assembler It is designed to take advantage of the new features of the COCO 3 t has 8 Display for mats from 32 40 64 80 columns The disk also con tains a free standing ML Debug Monitor EDT ASM lli has the most powerful easy to use Text Editor available in and Editor Assembler package for the Color Computer Local and Global string search and or replace Full Screen line editing Load and Save standard ASCII formatted files Block Moce amp Copy Insert Delete Overtype Create and Edit files larger than memory The Assembler features include Conditional If Then Else assembly Disk Library files up to 9 levels deep Supports standard Motorola directives Allows multiple values in FCB FDB directives Allows assembly from Buffer Disk or both Specify Coco 1 2 or 3 Disk 59 95 Inildallze Bist abel Dist till Files Files BRenase Files ICONS DAT WINDOWS 73M FONTS CONFIG BAS RGBSETUP COH FINDER BAS CONFIG DAT GFXDENO IAS OA The Ultimate User Friendly Point amp Click operating System for your Coco 3 Simple enou
37. hipoint seccount and lopoint and the beginning of the transfer routine The F Seek system call uses a four byte offset to indicate the desired position in the file to which to seek This four byte offset is stored collectively in these three variables and Stephen uses a very cute trick to keep track ofthisoffset Atthe beginning of the trans fer routine the current value of seccount is increment by one but seccount is handled as a 16 bit two byte variable If you could peek into memory you would see the variables stored somewhat as follows hi point 00 seccount 11 lopoint 2200 In this example I am assuming that the current offset is 801 12200 When seccount is loaded via the 1 dd instruction the value 1122 is retrieved from memory This re trieves the one byte value representing seccount and the upper byte of lopoint This value is then incremented to 1123 and stored back in seccount The four byte offset is now represented in memory as hipoint 00 seccount 11 lopoint 2300 which represents an offset of 00112300 This wick saves considerable processing time by working with 16 bit values which can be represented in Register D rather 00001 Fe Fe He e e Fe Fe e He Fe He He e Fe He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He e He He He He He He He He He He He ke ke He He ke ke e e ke 00002 00003 SALVAGE c 1989 by STEPHEN B GOLDBERG 00004 00005 Retrieves data from defective text files 00006 00007
38. language you are already familiar with Extended Disk Color Basic into fast efficient machine language programs easily and quickly The most complete Editor Compiier have seen for the CoCo The RAINBOW March 1986 CBASIC is a powerful tool for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Basic or M L programmer CBASIC features well over 150 compiled Basic Commands and Functions that fully support Disk Sequential and Direct access files Tape Printer and Screen l O CBASIC supports ALL the High and Low Resolution Graphics Sound Play and String Operations available in Enhanced Color Basic including Graphics H GET H PUT PLAY and H DRAW all with 98 syntax compatibility speed Coco 1 2 or 3 Disk n 49 00 AUTOPILOT T and AUTO LOG Brocedsor X MODEM DIRECT DISK FILE TRANSFER VT 100 amp VT 52 TERMINAL EMULATION No lost data even at 2400 Baud on the Serial port 8 Selectable Display Formats 32 40 64 80 columns ASCII amp BINARY disk file transfer via XMODEM Directly record receive data Data Logging VT 100 emulationfor VAX UNIX and other systems VT 100 52 cursor keys position PF amp Alt Kbd keys Programmable Word Length Parity Stop Bits Complete Ful and Half Duplex operation Send full 128 character set from Keyboard Complete Editor Insert Delete Change or Add 9 Variable length Programmable Macro Key buffers Programmable Printer rates from 110 to 9600 Baud SendFiles
39. memdri 145 ON BRK GOTO 760 395 HLINE 0 9 319 181 PSET 8 645 the pixels in a rectangle surrounding the REMIT 14009 0 RN ng p li 155 PALETTE 0 0 405 DISPLAY FILENAMES 655 CF N 1 current filename the selected filename 160 PALETTE 15 63 410 660 GOSUB 710 The HPUT statement in Line 735 creates the 165 HCOLOR 15 0 415 C LC R TR 665 GOTO 485 highlight effect Notice the NOT operator is 170 HSCREEN 2 420 FOR I 0 TO N 1 pe ENTER SLOWDOWN amp LAUNCH usedtoflip each bit if a pixel is represented die READ BAS FILE NAMES 22 UNT C R BF CI 680 by Palette 15 binary 1111 NOT opera 185 435 IF CRC THEN C LC ReR 1 685 POKE amp HFFDB tor toggles all the bits to zero selecting 190 0 0 440 NEXT I 690 LOAD BF CF R Palette 0 for the HPUT command If you 195 FOR S 3 TO 12 445 695 alere let IB for tie 2 OM Lge 45 HILITE UPPER LEFT FILENAME Ud HILITE UNHILITE FILENAME foreground color the NOT operator would 210 EN MID S8 SB P 11 460 CF 0 710 Xl LC CF AND 3 10 8 cause the pixel to represented by Palette 14 215 X LEFT EN 1 465 GOSUB 710 715 X2 X1 7 8 7 instead of 0 Keepthis in mind if you want 220 IF X CHR THEN 250 470 720 Yle TR INT CF 4 8 to use other HSCREE Nsorpalette registers or n M resp T eM 270 475 MAIN LOOP E mrt CO EO Nu 4 5 9 480 v if ri want to use the highlight effect in 235 IF X C BAS THEN 250 485 K eINKEY
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41. ofthe last 20 and compute handicaps in accordance with the rules of the U S Golf Association USGA It is also a simple matter to update the file and print the results making the CoCoa handy toolfor golf clubs as well as personal use This article describes step by stephow you can use a CoCo spreadsheet to build a golf handicapping template Even though I developed it using Dynacalc the template uses only simple mathand functions that should be supported hy most Color Computer spread sheets The instructions that fol low arc aimed at users of Dy nacalc both the Disk BASIC and OS 9 versions but I explain what I am doing at all times with a little study you should be Activities for a Rainy Day by Ruth E Golias Back Issue Information amp BreakPoint Salvage Files by Greg Law amp CoCo 3 Sees Stars by Keiran Kenny CoCo Consultations by Marty Goodman The Computer Will THE RAINBOW Staff Corrections amp EZ Disassembler by John R Collver amp Gone Fishin by Roger Severs Letters to Rainbow amp Multi Column Directories by John A Coldwell amp Patriot Command by Bob Kimball gt Things vf able to duplicate my work t XS YU with other spreadsheets Let s sheet for golf handicapping get started Setting Up the Template When you are building a spreadsheet template ithelps to decideona yr screen layout that fits your needs To do this you need to know what calculations a
42. system straights 12 points are more valuable than flushes five points The American system also supported assigns point values that more accurately reflect poker hands 121 TP ES si OE E Like Klondike in Canfield cards can be moved around the tableau placed onto anothercard if ithappensto beonelowerin rank and of the opposite color of the card it is placed upon This variation like the others except Poker tracks the number of games won and the number of games lost as well as a percentage of games won Aside from the background color scheme of red and white on black which I disliked the game screen is well laid out The cards look like cards There s a Multi Vue like pull down menu bar across the top of the screen though Muiti Vue is not required THE RAINBOW 5 40 256 9 39 1 47 9 BE M7 90 0 Zr 9300059127 690 1052 DATA 00 39 3 0 0 3 3 3C xd CMT EG 8G 2086 20 06 20 3 SC ISC PF REST LED SE a9 Cyd ri OF PEU up OySC Bedl ST blk POP 36 80 3C 385 To aC MR S EDS FFC 1053 DATA 30 0 3 0 3 0 30 0 Sah Gs Ot FRE TP PCLS 0B 34 0305 3 COIF OF FC 36 3Cy3 Crit Ds 3 Cu GO C BC 3 5 3C 00 3004 36 D 56 0736 Ts p C dF PEC 3 3C Pe APES 430 1054 DATA C 8C 36 36436 3C 8C 3 D BOSE BF 3C ELE
43. that only cards notcovered by any in the row below are available to be paired You have to work your way up and it gets tougher as you go Spider deals two decks of cards onto its tableau which is huge 10 cards in a row LikeKlondike a face up card can be moved to the bottom of a different row providing its value is one lower than the card upon which it is placed The ultimate goal is to arrange all cight suits from kings to aces and remove them from the tableau Need less to say I was not successful in my many attempts I could get really hooked on Poker a variation in which you lay out 25 cards in a matrix offiverows and columns Each row and column equals a hand and you get 1 9 2C 58 D 30 37 32 35 30 20 9 4 44 42 9 28 1043 DATA 33 2C 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 FF CO F FF FO 3 3C 0 0 0 1044 DATA 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 FF CO F FF F 3F FF FC FF FF F F 3F FF FC F FF F0 3 FF CO Q FF 0 0 3C 0 0 3C 0 0 FF 0 3 FF F C F FF FQ 3 FF CO 0 FF 0 0 3C 0 1045 DATA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 F 0 3 FF A4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q 54 41 1046 DATA 9 2 58 0 30 37 33 37 30 20 9 53 54 41 9 20 31 2 58 0 30 37 33 38 30 20 9 53 54 0 O 3F Cad 3 30 8 80 3 2 36 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3C 0 3C 10
44. to 9600 baud It has a Full Screen Text Editor X Y Modem File transfer support Split Screen Conference Mode Macro Keys Full Disk Support including Multifile Copy Kill Rename Arc Un Arc and Disk Initialize and it is Completely Compatible with ADOS Requires 128K Disk amp 80 Col Dis bl Pr File Commands Arcive Copy Kill Rename Erase V ew Edit Print Compare Salvage Search Verify Teat Arcive Un Arcive Xmodem Send Rec The Disk Utility Program that you always dreamed of is now a Heality Coco Tools is a comprehensive set of disk utilities providing the most complete set of functions available for the standard R S DOS disk system Comparable in scope and functionality to that of the famous utility available for MS DOS computers PC TOOLS I Coco Tools is also the most Comprehensive Disk Repair program available it Automatically diagnosis and repairs file allocation errors locates corrupt directory information and cross linked files It provides fast and easy recovery of deleted files without the drudgery normally associated with killed file recovery Requires 128K Disk and 80 col display 49 95 Disk Commands Backup Initialize Directory Verify Compare Search Edit Erase Speed Test Step Rate Teat Gran Tabie amp Repair ELT To 3 35 Coco Hl Tel Kit eene 39 95 EDT ASM and The Source 89 95 CBASIC Editor Compiler 99 95 Window Master
45. want For example to load EZDASM starting at 7000 you would enterthe following lines CLEAR 200 amp H6999 LOAD EZDASM amp H7000 Make sure you use an offset that will load The Listing VARISTAR 1 VARISTAR 2 BY KEIRAN KENNY 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 10 POKE65497 0 20 ONBRKGOTO 260 30 OIMHC95 V 95 XC95 1 95 PC 47 0 47 40 63 PALETTE1 0 SU 2957751 60 CLS INPUT HOM MANY POINTS 4 5 picada 70 IFP 40R360 P INT 360 P 0R360 lt 10 60 80 PC 360 P 90 HSCREEN2 100 2 0 03605 2 0 T1 118 HCC 160 95 COS A V C 96 9 5 SINCA 128 HSETCHCC 130 NEXT 140 HY 47 150 FORZ PC 2T0360 PC 2STEPPC A Z R0 0 D 1 160 P D 160 HY COS A Q D 96 H Y SIN CA 170 HSETCPCD QCD 180 NEXT 190 FORX 1TOP EZDASM into an area that won t interfere with the program you want to examine Once EZDASM is loaded enter EXEC to start the program After the title message appears you are asked for the starting memory address where you want to ex plore This is where the disassembly starts All input to and output from EZDASM is in hexadecimal format but no radix symbols or amp H are used or required The disas sembler supports the following single key commands Down Arrow disassemble current address Up Arrow set the current address back one byte A current address hex byte and
46. was a fix Within two weeks I hada response He was aware of the problem which stems from the fact that authors use different methods for storing the palette colors He had previously tried unsuc cesfully to solve the problem After receiv ing my letter hetook another crack at it and came up with a partial solution He sent me afix that worked perfectly with VUMaster a universal public domain viewing pro gram I use Subsequently I ordered Rick s Treasure Chest Unbelievable Offer 3 and it too was shipped promptly I was surprised to get a personal phone call from Rick a week later asking if I had received my order and if everything was all right That friendly follow up was most appreciated Inciden tally the programs are all enjoyable color ful and well done There is something for everyone Norman Barson 7 Ridge Court East Brunswick NJ 08816 Looking for Level II Editor been trying to locate OS 9 Level 11 for my CoCo 3 system Please send me any information on where I can purchase it Can you also give me information on how to hook up a Nintendo Entertainment System to my CM 8 Color Monitor Thanks for all the help you have given me over the years Before I got THE RAIN BOW 1 didn t know the vast capabilities of my little CoCo Brandon Broyles 4901 Wheeler Drive The Colony TX 75056 CoCo PRO has had several copies of OS 9 Level II in the past You might call Dave Myers there to see if he can help An
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48. 016 8881 985934041 89318001 AE20AB342034041F98C4F05827145827 3D35g41F98 5539 1027 DATA 59280 3180019 34041 89 208 318001 520 4818027283180018 840 810 2408810327071 89860617 E14A17FEE68623A780350416FB8F318D 01C9200C35 6230 1028 DATA 04318D00AB860317FECC35 2016FB84455B4 72020544 6522020001E 00011 00021 00031800041600051480 0813000911000A0F800B0E8044585955 5350434142 3408 1029 DATA 434344504 4 5053594 43 4441415345584F524343202023414E44 434320234 425241204 425352205055 4 505348504380558059805844508042 8041434343 4745 1030 DATA 4380418042445080588059 80555043435741492023395254533 41 4258385254493040554 3 5357 494 45 4158595355425352504352004E454701 3F3F20023F 4697 1031 DATA 3 2003434 40044 535205 3F3F2006524F52074153520841534C09 524F4C0A4445430B3F3F200C494E430D 5453540 44 40500 434 522042524121 42524E2242 3659 1032 DATA 484923424 532442485325 424C4F26424E45274245512842564329 4256532A42504C2B4240492C4247452D 424C542E4247542F424C4503434D5044 200C434D50 4093 1033 DATA 59200E4C445920200F5354 5920200E4C445320200F535453202003 43405055200 43405053200053554241 20014340504120025342434120035355 4244200441 3470 1034 DATA 4E44412005424954412006 4C4441202007535441202008454F5241 200941444341200A4F52412020084144 4441200 4340505820004 535220200 4 44582020 3382 1035 DATA 0 53545820200053554242 20014340504220025342434220034144 44442004414E44422005424954422006 4C4442202007535442202008454F52 42 2
49. 098653A7808620A7 8039865520 53520301 16 0 4 13 27 1231800325860417 58441701503520 16 0 180 5610 1018 DATA 030D860617014F16FDFE31 8003188603340417014135025 840 34 02 1 427035 20 93410308003033 6 843510A78017FE2835023520E6A08D03 16FD6E3404 4927 1019 DATA 502819 5102711 05017 FE201701361700FE3504804839C40F20 F158585858102500FA27612B808582819 58282120605810270093282058102800 8458102800 4508 1020 DATA 961600F4582871276B582B 701600 95828 5727481600 158102700 921600483404C460270FC120270FC140 270FC160270F1600C486582004865920 0686552002 4693 1021 DATA 8653A78035043935048D0F 862BA7803935048D0 6CC 2B2BEDB1398D 7580C1398D7 0862 DA7 803504 20B68D66 CC2D2DED81 350420AB350420E2864120 0686422002 5881 1022 DATA 8644478035042002E6A050 2A045017FD5C8D73350420C3ECA14D2A 0C4353C30001340217F04735028D5635 0420 6 4 1 03420 48048801731 8D01F58603 6118 1023 DATA 80143520350439 13420 E3E48D3120E7862CA7B039E6A0E7804A 26F9393504865BA780C19F270ACA4EF17 018650478039 1800 20 5 081350439 7559 1024 DATA 1 8980021 893404 4 054 54545480043504 40 1092302 07 30E780393520E6A03420C1302510C13F 271D22103520CC3F3FEDB116FBF3C120 25F2864CA7 6253 1025 DATA 8017FC5717FC9716FD8620 1 9859282 34041 89318001008606 C40F17FC6D4A17FF723504592B0C5919 2BFC188623478016FC41591028F C3A16 FE3834041F 6085 1026 DATA 89318D01C920D23520E6A0 3420C13F259E220E318D028F860417FF 3 352
50. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1040 DATA 42 4 45 9 iO 45 455 30 32 34 D 30 059 3 11 98 0 1 90 7871 5 090 51250 0 51 53 0 51 91 5 59 55 9855 55 95 55 5 5 99 95 80 41 2090 3 5D D A3 3 7 31 37 30 20 9 42 4 45 9 53 48 50 30 37 30 0 1041 30 37 31 38 30 20 9 42 53 52 9 43 48 47 43 4C 52 D 30 37 31 39 30 20 9 42 52 41 9 50 4 F 46 30 81 30 0 30 87 32 30 30 2 0 53 48 50 30 37 30 9 4 42 52 4 19 53 54 520 30 43 9 30 37 92 31 30 20 52 45 53 1042 DATA 45 54 9 43 4 52 41 30 37 32 32 30 0 9 4 45 47 9 4 46 46 53 45 54 D 90 37 329 33 30 20 9 4C 44 58 9 49 4E 56 30 37 30 D 30 37 32 34 30 20 9 53 54 4 a C 0 3 FF variation found particularly addicting The tableau is laid out in a pyramid fashion which you must disassemble so that no cards are left in the tableau Each card is assigned a point value face value for cards 1 Oand under 11 for jacks 12 forqueens 13 for kings and you take cards off the tab leau in pairs that equal 13 points a 9 with a4 forexamplc If no matches can be made between one card on the tableau and any other users can look for a possible match from the deck Two modes are supported one in which you go through the deck one card at a time but only one trip through and one in which the cards are turned three at atime Kings being worth 13 points can be removed all by themselves The catch with Pyramid is
51. 22 DE 8910 1027 DATA 8E 31 4F 6D A1 26 37 1 D DS 31 9 P 25 R6 MF 3D GB Boman B1 38 02 20 7 82 162 18 08 ESL AD 0D AD 26 G 1058C 3T B0 260F6 7iF pone GAB ET UD SE 2 EN LT FE DA TORIS B 2 9 Jil PF DEA 1028 DATA 39 C6 E5 F1 3B 8D 27 B BE 8 0 7 E2208 B C 6n ED BE O F 7 38 80 7E 25 B 66 2 1530 80274 65 CO BJ 8D LOC t5 PY 85 39 BE DB 39 47 27 6 AD 9F AQ 0 27 F6 39 84 76 30 E21L MBE 1029 DATA 30 E5 1C FE C6 3 A6 82 A9 A2 19 A7 A4 5A 26 F6 7F 30 E 6 CC 0 0 10 8E 30 E5 A6 2 34 22 04 8 70 3 P6 80 7 SE F 7C ODE 6 20 9 6 4 44 5 26 7 30 6 2 6 PO ISD GE 32 B BE 3 GBoGBE B 4 35 4 34 4 58 30 1030 DATA 85 34 10 10 84 31 9 1 0 10 8F 33 C035 38 10 AF 84 4 31 8 20 10 8 33 0 25 P3 35 A 35 2250 Dia EO 6 4C 10 8C 30 2 26 4 10 30 EQ 6F A4 6F 21 35 76 39 34 36 86 OO 19 06 10 3D VD BE 97 1831 DATA 31 12 80 89 pkg BF 14 804 16 BE F TA 30 89 1 0 8F 35 00 E14 1 0 BE 43 59878D 35395 1304 39 EG ATE D B4 3088 a8 BC 38 CD 25 F439 38 80 CC 10 C FD 83 0D Bb A0 34 20 86 10 3D 1032 DATA 10 33 68 31 31 00 20 89 1 20 8 33 B2 UE 33 UD EC A1 ED B4 30 88 20 8C 33 2 2 94 4 95 20 FC 898 4 C3 0 2 FU 33 CB 10 BIC 39
52. 30102701E18160102700E7 81701027009834043420 40 1700 635 203504 4 0 1502704864120028642 7 8010AFBDFDD1CCOD22EDB1308DFDCE30 1FBDB99C6D 6230 1009 DATA 8DFDC42B0316FE8C86FE97 6F308DFDB8301FBDB99C4F976F6D8DFD AA280316FE73338DFD9DECC419A38DFD 98250316 633080 09310 416 5 35067 027 8290 1010 DATA 3420803 805280583520 6 A017037720988D088D43E6A2010160139 34203180055586048028441703203520 39C40F34208D0EBD248D323520ECA117 034316FF6C 5151 1011 DATA 318004 2860480054 1703 0 39 1442704314620 8312139 2020 ED81398620A78039863CA78039863EA7 80398620A78039C40F342080C88DDE35 20 6 01701 6285 1012 DATA 8016 283420 110102703 13 112102503752768 113276 11910 2500 452772 1101025008727758605 1 1F2726318D03001702A13520E6A03420 3404C4F054 5095 1013 DATA 5454548D15862CA7803504 40 8008352016 08318003 200 1 12308D0389E1842704300320F8E6013A 60022806E68B4E7AQ2004ECB4EDA11F21 39318003 4 6184 1014 DATA 86031702512021318003 860417024620163180038 58603170238 20083180034086031702302000352016 FE7FC11A260C318D039C860717021C16 FECB318D03 4194 1015 DATA 9720 2 116261931800394 86051702063520ECA13420E3E4170225 352016 4 3180038020 53420 13822 7CC134102500981F9854241A318D036E 8D473520E6 5416 1016 DATA A03420318D03788608548D 1F4A26FA2050318D03578D2D3520E6A0 34203180034 86085880054 26 2036 25033122393406 1402809 081862 780350639 5268 1017 DATA E78020F53402860317018B 35048D0139C40226
53. 33 1815 DATA C5 AE C4 34 4 EC A4 A3 4 44 56 44 56 44 56 44 56 44 5 6 0 30 2 35 4 34 4 10 8 31 6 98 391 5 44 1 10283 40 4 dU BF ERI SLODE abd EC C4 B3 24 60 4F F0 31 BF 10 BE 3 1 90 86 30 31 6 86 1016 DATA 4 30 7 4 50 27 5 2 4 90 20 1 9C LP 8 BE 30 A 17 1 65 1F 10 10 8E 31 6F B6 9D BE 4 8 4 22 AE EL I2 MOF 2m 10 86 80 4F CE 31 90 5 F600 A4 205 19 MP 2 22 33 81 10 8031 5F 2695087 S38 UD B 20 20 Bh 20 1017 DATA 2 03 16 1 86 34 24 10 8E 31 23 31 A45 AE A4 BF 30 C9 10 8 31 6 58 31 5 4 6 84 8 4 0 81 0 27 60 6 84 84 81 27 65 60 84 26 4 86 8 7 84 6 84 6 84 6 88 0 6 88 0 6 88 1 30 88 40 84 7 1018 DATA 84 7 88 20 6 23 1 2 2 26 1 60 4 27 14 2 69 84 2 4 30 1 69 84 20 8 66 84 24 4 30 1 66 84 6F 23 AF A4 BC 30 C9 LA 460 28 95 204 18 EF 74 947 D 10 30 09 21 9 0 80 10 86 4 70 27 19 10 30 6 1019 DATA 35 20 20 13 6 10 6 3 6 5 2 P9 38 0 30 0 1 4 2 20 2 35 20 35 24 6F A4 6F 21 B F BOAO TE 2 OSD 27 6 aL bU BE 30 PMA 7F 33 A8 5F 86 55 AE Al Al B4 26 B 7C 33 A8 10 8C 31 8 47 Er BC 24 120 DATA 70 27 F3 6F 3E 6F 3F 5 Gub TEATE EB hb s Wage 7 Ia UE gee Sid Dy 30 A5 27 F AP 30 A5 B6 30 E5981 0127 Bal 5 70 Seen PCy 0 5 5 197 9 41 16 FA 8E 7C 39 D4 B6 80 C1 48 81 30 04 2
54. 366 38 BCaSC Fs FU a Pied Cod C 52 Cy 3559636 306 Fos FaF OF SED SPREC OE F SSE D SC ED 3P DE S636 sr OUS Fine ur Ob SC 20 50 1089 DATA F oF 0 3T eFG 8C DUST 209 8C 3C 36 Jo CxS Cob BE 3 CMe Se FC 8260860 3 00 3 C0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3C 3C 3 1056 DATA 3C 3C 3 pa OO 0 6 9 sO Bul 4 0 D L0 40 PA Cebu E ET C5 17 er A CB ly GO 17 GF a 7D Ts LU Ly O92 DE 1708 ie 43 1057 DATA 1 45 1 47 1 49 1 4 Cd eel e cb lU 3 ll Cub I up Colt OS D625 B B DT 1 0 P E 0 0 0 G Ci 1 C C The only menu item on the bar is called Action Selecting it allows you to read onscreen help and thankfully turn off the animation Animation can also be turned off with a command line option when the program is first executed The cards ani mate by default but they take so much time moving from onc side of thc screen to another I was relieved to find a way to stop them Without animation the spced of play is decently quick There is a minor problem of text in the Action menu overwriting other menu options but it s livable Edi tor s Note ColorSystems reports this prob lem has been fixed Variations of Solitaire s authors de signed the games after researching solitaire variations in the books Ho yle s Rules of the Games and According to Hoyle A lo
55. 47 DATA FC F F 3F FC 3F FC F F0 3F FC 0 3C 3 FC 3 FC 0 3C 3 F FC F F0 3 F0 F FO 3C FO 3F FC 0 F0 0 F0 0 F0 3F FC 3F FC 3C FO 3F FC 3C 3F FC 3F 3 3 0 3 3 3 6 800 200 1048 DATA 3 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 0 3 3 3 3 0 3 3 3 3 FO P FB 9C 3C 9C 36 3E FC F FC 0 3C 3C 3C F F 30 C 30 C C 30 3 C0 3 C0 C 30 30 C 30 C 3 1049 DATA 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 3F FC 3F FC 3C 0 3F CO 3F C0 3C 0 3C 0 3C 0 3C 3C 3C 3 C AP 35 3F 3C 86 FE BC FC 36 36 3C 3C F F0 3F FC 3C 0 3F CO FO FC 3F FC F F0 0 A 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 1050 DATA 0 0 8 6 E 4 0 0 0 86 1 87 FF CB 87 FF 7 7 5 87 FF C3 4A B7 FF CO 86 30 80 87 22 4 8 0 7 0 8 26 0 26 9 17 0 17 1 35 7 10 8 35 60 4 30 89 1 1051 DATA 0 8F 35 84 AE C1 E6 A4 86 10 30 34 20 10 8 34 40 31 1 0 84 30 88 20 8 35 84 25 4 35 20 31 21 10 8 35 7 26 02 8 0 0 0 9 0 81 44 27 1 D 2397 57 92 30 0 0 0 0 3C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OG dd GFF 0 F C0 0 FF 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 3 points for pairs three of a kinds straights etc Royal flushes of course give the most points 30 A lowly pair yiclds one point When playingthe English
56. 6 N 11 1 2 NEXTN 310 FORP 290 TO 186 5 2 320 100 25 125 1 HPU T 1 7 290 P 182 296 P 4 HPUTI 177 298 P 182 296 P 2 HBUTCP 100 25 P 125 2 HSET 178 290 P B NEXTP 330 HPUT 177 105 182 111 4 HP UT 186 100 211 125 1 FORT 1TO Also if the program starts with a blue background then fills with another color you ll find the problem in the data state ments lines 190 through 225 The nexttime someone asks you about the one that got away you can show them how it happened Roger Severs joined the CoCo Commu nity in 1982 He enjoys writing programs in BASIC and is currently learning 6809 as sembly language and BASICO9 He may be contacted at HCR7 Box 218 Doniphan 63935 300 NEXTT PUT 186 100 212 126 dost 340 168 108 186 120 5 350 FORS 186 TO 290 STEP 2 360 HPUT S 138 25 S 155 3 FOR T 1T050 NEXTT HPUT S 138 26 5 156 2 5 370 HCLS2 GOTO260 380 POKE65496 0 END 390 DATA 5 13 6 12 7 11 8 10 9 9 218050 11 8 12 7 14 06 F426 15s 1 6 0 17 3 18 2 09 2 19 3 19 4 19 5 19 6 19 7 19 8 19 9 19 10 20 1 0 21 10 22 10 23 10 24 9 25 8 26 7 27 6 28 7 28 8 28 9 28 10 28 11 28 12 28 13 28 14 400 OATA 28 15 28 16 28 17 28 18 28 19 28 20 27 21 26 20 25 19 4 19573 17 22 17 21 17 20 17 18 17 79 18 19 19 19 280 19 21 19 22 19 23 19 24 19 25 18 25 17 24 1 56 28 15 22 14 21 13 21 12 28 11 19 10 18 9 18 8 17 7 16 6 15 5 1 4
57. 7 1821 DATA 3 16 0 19 7 30 04 10 BE S LUBT OE MT 4 F PO gO 13 ills Dg 081 30 Mog 86 31 0 8 CE 31 4F 704 90 035 609 04 2 7 8 12 0 05 37 80 20 Ie OW ALF 80 85 P 207 1 EC A4 83 30 81 58 57 1 1082 DATA 5C EC A4 83 E 1F 1 8 6 60 17 0 1 10 20 26 26 2 gk V By 20 DSL BEES BOIS IB FB Bs 0 S CB 2 F 7520 05 1 6 FC AA AD 9F A0 0 81 3 10 27 4 BO 8 1 IB 26 9410 A 7 F9 B8D 16 FA 1023 DATA 56 34 12 4F E6 61 8D B Eb JE 2 80155 JE 52 35 4 39 8 0 8 58 49 1 24 4 0 62 20 8 0 62 24 4 4 8 62 30 1 5 29 7058 050 24 21 10 8023 0 D5 26 FB 39 34 95b BB FF 1 84 F Bog F 1024 DATA 3 84 F7 B7 FF 3 86 FF 23 8 8 7 28 30 80 BE 3P 88 A46 80 84 FC B7 FF 20 80 BC 30 BA 25 h2 8 26 EC 35 36 39 86 30 B7 4A 26 39 8E 24 60 86 A AvA7 B8 86 125 0 26 F9 10 BP 90 af A 6D A4 27 30 EC A4 10 1025 DATA 83 24 70 27 28 10 8 3 1 8 21 2 A AE A394 2 B Tae B9 E EF F 10 8E 31 8 5T A6 A0 A7 80 56 Being Online Never Felt So Fine 5 Free to Explore Discover a worldwide community on DELPHI Download from thousands of programs for your PC Join groups for nearly every type of computer and many other special interests Partici pate in discussions with other members in conference and message fo rum
58. 82 75 09 39 6E 33 4 B CO POR Ba DD do OO NOB ES 2 BBE 6 0 86 10 30 31 8 8 1833 DATA 38 3 69 1 0 0 43 82 8E 33 C0 EC A1 ED 84 30 88 20 BC 39 82 25 P4 FU 3 00 363 L FD 33 0 11 B3 99 4D 26 D F6 39 AB 8E 0 0 30 89 1 0 5A 26 F9 BF 430 17 FESALSBO38 B0 F6 80 8 7 BE 30 8B 10 BE 30 Product Review OS 9 Variations of Solitaire Solitaire has taken over my life sit in front ofthe computer for hours playing onc variation after another usually never winning Hundreds of hands whirl by on screen without one hurrah yet still play Just until I win one just until I win one is my mantra I wasn t this obsessive over solitaire when my parents first taught me to play the simple Klondike variation I guess shuffling and arranging the cards was too much hassle to stay with it for long But the computer makes it so easy to play solitaire and I spend hours glued to the computer If you decide to add solitaire to your collection of vices don t overlook Color Systems 05 9 Variations of Solitaire which offers five versions of the addicting card game Klondike Pyramid Spider Poker and Canfield Klondike is afamiliar friend It s the one withthe seven stacks of cards in the tableau the layout and the four foundations that build from aces to kings in each suit In Klondike s tableau you arrange the cards so they descend from high to low in alter nating colors re
59. 95 8492 VIP Calc a full featured spread sheet program Supports screen widths greater than 32 columns Also supports embedded printer codes Reviewed February 1985 Page 222 Also avail able as part of the VIP Integrated Li brary Thelastaddress weknow for SD Enterprises the copyright holder is P O Box 621 Carpinteria CA 93013 However we were unable to confirm the availability of this product at press time VIP Calc same as VIP Calc except supports the CoCo 3 40 and 80 column screens Reviewed July 1989 Page 116 The last address we know for SD Enterprises the copyright holder is P O Box 621 Carpinteria CA 93013 However we were unable to confirm the availability of this prod uct at press time Some of these products are carried by several vendors If you have trouble locating one of them check the ads in THE RAINBOW Two likely distributors of these products are CoCo PRO and Computer Plus THE RAINBOW April 1992 15 nacalc to multiply the average differential by 96 percent The 96 percent is my handi cap as defined in the USGA rules Weare finished with the template Save it using a unique name it can be used for handicapping several individual golfers Individual Entries After loading the template file from disk you are ready to create the first individual file Move to Cell D5 and enter the date for the first scorefor an individual golfer I use a YYMMDD format for the
60. 96 0 before sav ing it to tape or disk wish you the best of luck with Test Your Luck John A Saya is 14 years ol d and enjoys programming theColor Computer He may be contacted at 618 N Townsend Street Syracuse NY 13203 The Listing TESTLUCK L TEST YOUR LUCK 2 JOHN A SAYA 3 COPYRIGHT C 1992 UNBELIEVABLE OFFER 3 Twenty Programs From Hick O RN Lr 20 00 PLUS 52 00 Shipping Handling RICK S TREASURE CHEST EDUCATION 2 MYMICRO Learn the parts of a microscope 1 CIRMATH For young studenta Practice single digit addition 5 TUTOR Laarn about lat tude longitude equator prime meridian 6 LOCATE Practica latitude amp countries cities continents landforms 10 NUMSLIDE Childhood number slide puzzle 14 DISCOVER New game using SCRABBLE type ameboard 9 HANGMAN An old favorita colortui format 13 CONNECTS Fun game based on game show 1 18 TRANSP X Transter your 4 pictures to HSC longitude cails Includes Print your HSCREEN 2 picturas in color with your NX STAR 1000 NO REEN 2 MORE MIXING COLORS Uses bullt in tabie for easv use 4 USDRILL A great states and capitals tutor Identify amp locate options 3 SPELLING A colortul speiling program Use your awn spelling warda 8 TICTACMATH Play tic tac toe while you practice single amp double digitmath 7 PRESIDENTS A challenging two part educational
61. CHANGE FIELD WI DTH 110 POKE 47449 32 CHANGE ENTER TO SPACE 120 CLS PRINT DRIVE DR DIRECT ORY PRINT 130 DIR POKE 153 16 P0KE47449 13 140 PRINT PRINT PRINT FREE GRAN UlEbSs PREEGOR 150 PRINT PRINT PRINT PRINT PRE SS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE 160 ASSINKEY IF A THEN 160 170 GOTO 10 180 WIDTH 32 190 LOAD FL R fe 2 ewe eee ESSE SS In 10 Year A DECADE OF SERVICE TO THE COMPUTER USER 486SX 20 SYSTEMS 1795 00 Now You can enter the world of 486 computing at a reasonable cost High Powered Computing from a local well established company 33MHz 60MHz 1486 based Systems with Socket for Weltek CoProcessor e System and Video BIOS in Cache Large Tower Case 33M4Hz FCC Class B 50MHz FCC Class e 230 Watt Power Supply amp 8 Option Slots L System Price includev 40MB HD 4MB RAM Std Resolution Color VGA Monitor High Resolution VGA Card 2 High Density FD s MS DOS 5 0 1795 52095 2695 3595 486SX 20 ISA 486DX 33 ISA 486DX 50 ISA 486DX 50 FISA e 106MB HD Upgrade Add 160 00 Super VGA Upgrade Add 95 00 3 YEAR WARRANTY Including One Full Yur on und Labor on all systems OWL SUPER ATOM SX e 25 40MHz 386DX Based 1 25MHz 3869X Based Small Footprint Case Small Footprint Case e FCC Class B Approved FCC Class BApproved e 200 Watt Power Supply s 200 Watt Power Supply 7 Expa
62. EE 20 F V FF VV 1270 IF A 13 THEN E 22 EE 20 F W FF WW 1280 IF A 14 THEN E 2 EE 20 F X 1290 IF A 15 THEN E 2 EE 15 F Y FF YY 1300 IF A 16 THEN E 2 EE 10 F Z FF ZZ 1310 HOOLOR3 3 HPRINT E BE eF H EE 1 FF RETURN 1320 HCOLORO HPRINT 14 6 Q HP RINT 19 7 U HPRINT 55 6 V HPRI NT 60 7 YY 1330 I20 II20 IF A21 THEN 1 200 1340 IF 2 THEN 150 1350 IF 3 THEN II 1 1360 IF A24 THEN 12225 1370 IF A 5 THEN 1 1380 IF A96 THEN 1 50 1390 IF A27 THEN 2 1400 IF A 8 THEN I 75 1410 IF 9 THEN 11 1 1420 IF A 10 THEN I 45 1430 IF A211 THEN 2 1440 IF A 12 THEN 1 110 1450 IF A713 THEN 1 90 1460 IF A 14 THEN 35 1470 IF A 15 THEN 125 1480 IF 16 THEN 65 1490 IF 0 AND 11 1 THEN U U 1 1 00701520 ELSE IF T 1 AND II 1 THEN YY2YY 1 T20 G0T01520 1500 IF T AND 1 2 AND Q 0 THE Q70 T71 1 70 G0T01520 ELSE IF T AND I 2 THEN T 1 I 0 G0T0152 ELSE IF T91 AND I 2 AND V 0 HEN V90 T90 190 G0TO1520 ELSE IF T 1 AND I 2 THEN 0 1 0 60 01 520 1510 IF T THEN 0 0 1 0 0 11 EL SE IF T21 THEN V V I YY YY II 1520 HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT 14 6 0 HP RINT 19 7 U HPRINT 55 6 V HPRI NTC60 7 YY 1530 IF T THEN HCOLOR3 3 HPRIN TQUO 18 254 4HCOLLORT J SHPRITNT CI 3 18 1 PLAY T5QO04CDFG ELSE IF T91 THEN HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT 13 18 1 gt 1 PRINT 50 18 U2 PLAY T5004CDFG 1540 GOT0830 1550
63. GOSUB1670 1560 HCOLOR1 1 HPRINT 12 8 CON GRATULATIONS 1570 HPRINT 7 10 8 HPRINT 21 1 YOU WON 1580 W 0 X 70 Y 7320 7 192 S 710 F0 RFe1T020 S 9S 10 H 7RND 8 HCOLORH HLINE WTF X F2 CY F Z F PSET B SOUNDS 1 NEXTF FORFe20TOISTEP 1 8595 10 H RND C8 HCOLORH HL INECW CP F2 gt P PSEN Be SOUNDS 1 1590 5 1580 E 5 1600 1600 PLAY T804A03A02A01A01A02A03 AT104A END 1610 605081670 1620 1 1 12 8 GRATULATIONS 1630 HPRINT 7 10 AA HPRINT 21 10 YOU WON 11 1640 W 0 X 0 Y 320 2 192 S 10 F0 RF 1T02 S S 10 H RND 8 HCOLORH amr IWEGW EF LT dee SET JB SOUNDS 1 NEXTF FORF 20TOISTEP 1 S S 10 H RNDCB HCOLORH HLINE CM TF X F CY F Z F PSET B SOUNDS 1 NEXTF 1650 A INKEY IFA THEN1640 LSE 1660 1660 PLAY T804A03A02A01A01A02A03 AT104A END 1670 PALETTE PALETTE1 63 PALE 2 36 PA EETTES I8 PALETTEA 1d i PALETTES 7 PALETTE6 31 PALETTE7 9 PALETTE8 38 HSCREEN2 HCLSQ RET URN THE RAINBOW Feature Program E veryone to fish has at some time had to tell of the one that got away Thanks to the power of the CoCo 3 we can now see what s going on down there This short program uses animation to take us below the surface where we begin to understand the cunning nature of our adversary As an aid to beginners entering this program I want to p
64. LEAR 1 120 CLEAR 21000 130 DIM 8 79 140 ON BRK GOTO 880 150 PALETTE 1 0 160 HSCREEN 1 1 0 HPRINT 0 0 SIDEWAYS by Jeff Hameluck 180 HPRINT 0 2 715 this revers ed Y N 190 A INKEYS 200 IF A THEN 190 210 IF A Y OR A 2 y THEN 270 220 IF A N AND A n THEN 190 230 IF PEEKCAIEOQ 7142 AND PEEK amp HE01 240 THEN 290 240 POKE 65496 0 supports onlv seven bits only seven printer pins are used to print graphics data The purpose of BITTEST BIN is to flip the order of the first seven bits to put them in the correct order lor printing by Tandy printers and to resct the left most eighth bit to zero The contro codes used in the program appear in lines 570 580 and 860 Their functions are shown in Figure 2 While Sideways is designed to work with the DMP 120 you should be able to use it with most older Radio Shack dot matrix printers with out modifying the control codes Jeff Hameluck isa student at the Univer sity of Regina and works as a computer operator at the Regina Public Librar v He has been a member ofthe CoCo Community for 11 years 250 LOADM BITTEST 260 POKE 65497 0 270 DEFUSRO amp HEOQ 280 IF A Y OR A y THEN 300 290 A USRO O 300 ON BRK GOTO 870 310 HSCREEN 0 320 FOR X 8 TO 1 STEP I 330 PRINT TAB X 1 SIDEWAYS 340 NEXT X 350 A sideways 360 FOR Y20 TO 7 370 PRINT 32 Y49 MIDS S A Y 1 1 13 380 NEXT Y 390 PRINT 256 400 LINEINPUT
65. North Glendale School Bursting with pride my mom popped for about 50 for a mimeo graph machine so it would be easier to put out the Brownell News Thus my pub lishing career was reborn Rose Marion Burmeister and Carl Sonny Thorpe were the typists and the paper usually had six to eight pages We honored all our subscriptions and even sold more Our biggest story was what would be called investigative reporting today we discovered who among the kids in the neigh borhood dressed up as a ghost from time to time and scared the little kids The most difficult job of course was getting Rose Marion and Sonny to do the typing They were the only people in the neighborhood who could type so they had to do it We used those old blue stencils you had to through then Jim and I would proofread the stencils and try to fix the mistakes The Brownell News lasted for many issues and at onc point had a staff of about a dozen kids I guess the adults thought we were cute Heck weeven sold an ad to the Glendale Market though it probably helped that Mom bought all her groceries there mention all of this hecause the Brownell News was really a huge undertaking espe cially fora bunch of kidsranging in age from eight to about 10 with the exception of Rose Marion and Sonny who were in Kirkwood High School Was I born 40 years too soon Well 30 maybe Consider that you or your children can du
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67. OLOR2 2 HLINE 297 60 336 09 460 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 336 68 336 AO VBSET 470 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 336 76 328 60 J PSET 480 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 328 80 303 OB PSEE 490 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 346 56 404 496 PSET 500 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 375 56 3 5 P SET 510 HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT 34 11 Y 0 U R 52 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 177 102 17 74126 Poe 53 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 177 126 21 1 428 540 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 223 102 22 daB UPS 550 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 261 102 26 1 1 560 HCOLGR2Z 2 HLINECA228 126 626 1 1265 uP SET 570 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 273 102 27 Md ZO SET 580 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE C273 102 31 24109 590 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE C273 126 31 1 126 PSET 600 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 324 102 32 441 267 POE 610 HCOLOR2 2 HLINE 365 102 32 4 114 PSET 620 HCOLOR2 HLINE 325 113 36 5 126 PSET 630 HCOLOR3 3 HPRINT 47 15 642 U 3 YY 3 650 1 HPRINT 32 18 By John A Saya HCOLOR1 1 HPRINT 1 3 18 L oHEDLORQS 3s HP RELNTCID I Y 8 AA HPRINT 5 18 2 gt HPRINT 53 18 0 660 HPRINT 13 6 HPRINT 14 6 0 54 6 HPRINT 55 6 V HPRINT 13 7 TURNS HPRINT 19 7 54 7 TURNS H PRINT 60 7 YY 670 K YOU WIN KK 200 680 L YDU LOSE LL 150 690 M YOU GAIN MM A TURN 700 N YOU WIN NN 225 710 0 YOU LOSE 00 A TURN 720 P YOU WIN PP 50 730 Q YOU
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69. TER to place an expression into a cell the results may or may not be calculated and displayed de pending on how you have set up Dynacalc Isthe automatic recalculation mode turned on It is important to remember that the displayed contents of any cell that contains expressionarethe result of that formula not the expression itself O K let s continue with our template Since we want to be able to display our last 20 games onscreen we need to put the numbersfrom 1 to 20 inrows 5 through 24 of Column C Remember we used the first four rows for the headings Move to Cell CS type 1 and press the downarrow In Cell C6 type 2 and press the down arrow Con tinue this process until you have put the value 20 in Cell C24 Now let s enter the expression to calcu late the differential Move to Cell H5 and enter 65 F5 This expression subtracts the course rating Cell F5 from the gross score Cell G5 Use the replicate command to copy this expression to cells H6 through H24 Keep the cursor on Cell H5 and type R Now press ENTER or type H5 and press ENTER When Dynacalc asks for the des tination type H6 H24 and press ENTER The period is very important as it separates the first destination cell from the last defin ing the range of cells into which you want to copy the expression Dynacalc next asks whether you want the contents copied ex actly Same or Relative Press R for relative Dynacalc willcopy the expression
70. alf off factory new game software you ll never find a better deal PO Box 766 Manassas VA 22111 JWT Enterprises Technical Assistance amp Inquiries fff NW 703 330 8989 5755 Lockwood Blvd 216 758 7694 RAINBOW i CEATIFICATION Visa MC check MO and COD US only please accepted All foreign E Youngstown OH 44512 SEAL ordersmust besentin US currency MO s Include 2 50 for shippingin USA i Foreign amiada 155 Terr nriss Danada AE for Bi Level T amp Canada 5 foreign 3 extra for COD orders PA residents add 6 tax Sorry no C O D s or credit cards Foreign amp Canadian orders please use U S money orders U S checks allow 6 8 weeks for receipt of first issue back issue Copyright C 1991 05 9 a trademark of Microware Systems Corp and Motorola Inc 18 April 1992 THE RAINBOW BreakPoint Recover Trashed Text Files Salvage is a short assembly language program written by Stephen Goldberg that works almost exactly like the standard copy command included with OS 9 The differ encebetweenSalvage and is that copy aborts with an error message if it encoun ters an unreadable sector where the file is stored on disk Salvage on the other hand ignores the bad sector and copies all read able data from the specified file to a new file This can be very handy for recovering text files Salvage will not recover execut able modules and recovering most of
71. alue in this location tells the computer how much space to put between data separated by commas in PRINT type statements it works much like tab zones on a typewriter Normally this valueissetto 16 which is halfthe width of the 32 column screen Since a disk directory entry takes up 19 characters plus acarriagereturn we ll use POKE 153 2010 set the ficld width to 20 spaces half the width of the 40 column screen The carriage return at the end of cach directory entry presents another problem the CoCo will still print only one entry on each screcn line To counteract this we ll use POKE 47449 32 47449 decimal is the sameas B959 tochangethe carriage return to a space Now when the computer displays the first entry it seesthe space and moves one position to the right Then it displays the secondentry After printing the second entry the computer again prints a space and because it is at the right edge of the screen jumps back to the left edge to print the third entry Summarizing what we have learned to seca two column directory on the CoCo 3 enter the following command line WIDTH 40 449 32 POKE 163 20 DIR POKE 47 The directory listing will appear in two columns To get back to normal operation you must immediately change the altered Carriage return character hack by poking its original value into location 47449 Do this by entering POKE 47449 13 It isn t necessary that you change the field width ba
72. and alter the cell addresses involved each time This keeps you from getting G5 F5 in all the cells In other words the differential will accurately reflect the data unique to each spreadsheet row To get the average differential first move the cursor to Cell G26 and enter AVERAGE DIFF Then move the cursor to Cell 126 andenterthe formula 8SUM H5 H14 10 This adds the best 10 scores assuming you sort them first and divides by the number of scores to get the average Move to Cell E pectaculator Gives Spectacular Statistics February 1983 Page 10 2 c Reed Bill Plottin and Plannin April 1987 Page 184 program listing ES Spencer Barry MoCalc Mini Calc Gets a Big Brother pos 1984 Rage 186 ZA Steiner John Using Elite Calc to Track Automobile PE Mech 1984 Pags 178 5 gt Stewart John d 1 ure February 1990 Page 26 program listing for Disk BASIC 1 1 and 2 1 ERA Walters Francis M Spread a Sheet for Heat Loss September 1990 Page 60 z White Richard Bits nBytesof BASIC and Accessible Applications April 1985 through January 1986 We strongly recommend you read this series of tutorial discussion of Color Computer spreadsheets and their applications G28 and enter HANDICAP Now move to Cell 128 and enter the formula 126 96 This expression which calculates the actual handicap instructs Dy Many electronic spreadsheets hav
73. ation for the utilities is included on the disk and instructions for printing the documentation is includedina readme file Connect essentially copies all data from one port to another bidirectionally in much the same fashion as a terminal program Its purpose according to the author is to allow a terminal connected to one serial port to communicate with modem on another serial port Connect can also be used to interactively route data between a window and a serial port A nice advan tage of Connect is that it can transfer all 256 ASCII codes extended characters included between two devices The CoCo version exits when you press the mouse button and an alternate version exits when yeu press CTRL ImageCpy copies a 40 track DSDD double sided double density disk to a 40 A H2U3E2BR2F2D3G2L2 BU7H1U2 E1R2F1D26G1 8L3H2U2E3 8D7BG1L1H3U 4E5 BD11BG2L1H505E3 BD14BR3L1G4D 3F1 BE7BR3F2R1U1H3 BD3F3D3G1L1 B L1BU11E4U5H4 BL2BD3r3D4G2 50 A1 D126 R2 G44 60 HCLS 0 70 HCDLDR 1 80 HLINECI2 10 310 182 90 PALETTE 2 RND 60 100 HPAINT 2 2 2 1 110 HCDLDR 1 120 HDRAW BM197 11 XA1 130 HDRAW BM193 11 XA1 140 HPAINT 195 12 5 1 150 58 8 8 193 145 6 160 HPAINT 193 136 8 8 17 FDR X 1 TD 8 180 HCDLDR RND B 190 HPRINT 9 10 EENSEY WEENSEY SPIDER FDR 0 1 TD 50 D NEXT X 3 20 02 116 0314 200 210 220 et 230 FOR Del TD 1500 D
74. aved to disk It is my hope that the manual is pre sented moreclearly in the future Even so I still recommend MV Banner Making banners is easy once you get the hang of it ColorSystems P O Box 540 4616 Castle Hayne Castle Hayne NC 28429 9 9 675 1706 22 Tony Olive it s part magazine part BBS and part shareware COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is dedicated exclusively to those who still enjoy running their COCOs under RS DOS This new product will rekindle the fire in your COCO computing iite Articles programs opinions reviews and more presented in a more personal way than you have ever experienced before Come and Join your COCO friends Get better acquainted Share your views and reviews See never before seen programs graphics and more You and your COCO deserve it We llsee that you get it If this sounds good to you invite you to investigate now Dive in and get ready to have FUN Send 6 00 check cash or money order now You ll receive the COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE STARTUP KIT Browse this shell and give us your input with the built in ENTRY WRITER Make any other contribution in the nature of your original work Send a copy back to RICK S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE and we ll send you the next issue The startup kit and the firstissue cost only 6 00 If you what you see become a reguiar subscriber at the low cost of 30 for 6 issues If It S not for you well that s okay too There s no further obl
75. ck unless you have another reason to do 50 If you use these pokes with an 80 col umn scrcen the directorv listing appcars in four columns This happens because 80 is evenly divisible by 20 Entering these pokes at the OK prompt every time you want to see a directory listing can be a waste of time and effort However using them in a program can rcally make the CoCo 3 shine The listing shown here SHORTCUT is a simple launcher for BASIC programs At the same time it shows how you can use these pokes in a program When you run SHORTCUT answer the prompt for which drive Then you may enter a filename for a BASIC program which will be executed or a question mark to see isi The Listing SHORTCUT 1 DIRECTORY SHORTCUT 2 8Y JOHN A COLDWELL jJ COPYRIGHT QC 1892 4 BY FALSOFT INC 5 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 10 WIDTH 40 CLS 20 CCS 30 PRINT AN EXAMPLE OF TWO CO LUMN DIRECTORY PRINT PRINT PRIN T 40 PRINT PRINT WHICH DRIVE 50 AST INKEYS IF A THEN 50 60 IF A D OR A gt 3 THEN 10 70 DR VALCA DRIVE DR PRINT DR 80 PRINT PRINT ENTER AN EIGHT CH ARACTER BASIC FILENAME OR PRESS TWO A DIRECTORY g INPUT FLE 90 IF FL 4 THEN 180 the disk directory Torunthe programonan 80 column screen simply change WIDTH 40 inLine 10 to WIDTH 80 John A Coldwell may be contacted at Island Lightstation Bag 3670 Prince Rupert BC V8 3R1 Canada 100 POKE 153 20
76. cluded the 6800 series of micro processors Could you print a list of the programs and books that you as the best for a software developer Or perhaps your readers could suggest something they do without I would greatly appreciate it Any reader programmer who is interested in helping me catch up on the current pro gramming trends and techniques for the CoCois welcome to write I will answer all letters Matthew Hudson P O Box 287 Doran VA 24612 use a hard drive with the CoCo you ll need a host adapter controller cables and device drivers An excellent choice for the ST 225 drive is the CoCo XT interface from Burke amp Burke For more informa tion see A Hard Drive for Your CoCo THE RAINBOW March 1989 Page 44 by Marty Goodman At one time several assembly language books were available for the 6809 Unfor tunately these books are out of print and are pretty hard to find Check your local librar ies used book stores two good books to look for are 6809 Assembly Language Programming Lance Levanthal and TRS 80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming by William Barden Jr Thicker Spreads Anyone Editor Although my devotion to the CoCo has withstood the test of time I m still very frustrated at the lack of some needed power in the spreadsheet arena know of no spreadsheet software that makes full use of the 512K in my CoCo 3 Does anybody know of a CoCo spread
77. correction and data compression much higher effective throughput as much as 9600 BPS Two Year Warranty External 149 9 S amp H NEW PRODUCT 9600 BPS ZOOM Send Receive Fax modems Send Receive text graphics files from to your computer any Fax machine in the world Full 2400BPS data modem capabilitiy Seven Year Warranty Includes PC or MAC FAX software External 139 Internal 129 6 S amp H NEW LOWER PRICE 2400 BPS ZOOM Data modems Seven Year Warranty External 85 Internal 75 6 S amp H These are all high quality modems made by Zoom Tclephonics in the USA Fully Hayes compatible Terminal and Windows Fax softwarc available Cables available S amp H Canada Air PP and Ins V 32 V 42 V 42bis 13 00 Send Receive Fax Data 9 00 GCS FILE TRANSFER UTILITIES Version 3 0 The GCS File Transfer Utilities provide a simple and quick method to transfer text binary files from to a variety of floppy disk formats Commands PC RS FLEX disks Dir Dump Read Write PC disks Rename Delete Formal Handles most 5 25 and 3 5 formats Any level sub directories PC Binary files Use pipes for multiple file transfers Multi Vuc version can be used under Multi Vue or as stand alone Shell commands Requires OS 9 L2 for COCO 3 L1 for COCO 1 or 2 2 drives one can be hard ramdisk one floppy 40 T DD DS Multi Vue for Multi Vue version SDISK3 for COCO3 SDISK for COCO 1 or 2 OSK version price Multi V
78. d nine black eight red seven etc ColorSystems makes Klon dike more challenging by supporting Las Vegas rules you re advised to pay up when you lose Pyramid is a new one to me and a 1034 DATA 34 36 86 33 8 87 3 0 80 86 0 87 30 87 CC 5 BB CEIA ISSC ED SP BA 17 RD IB 85 95 8 3D 80 F7 230B7 8F 30 B8 10 8 30 39 10 8 30 2 6 2 1 06 2 44 5A 706 FC 81 52 Set A4 C4 F F1 30 CD 26 5 1035 DATA 7 30 0 20 6 4 84 iP G1 3B EE h0 7 0 09 B7 20 10 8 30 8 24 64 8 24 70 27 y 5D BB UDB 2 Dub BC 30 08 22 63 0 4 31 22 8C 24 B0 26 E8 16 0 84 AT36C 55 55 EDB ED BBC OC B 69 167 CG a L6 B FD 1036 DATA 33 0 10 8 34 40 6 0 86 OSD 51 4 848 E3 59 60 30 89 1 898F 39 B87 BE 2325 0 BG oA JED B 4 30 08 2D BC 375 B2 25 F A PC 355 GOWC 320 2 FD 989 D L1 B3 35 BG 2 6 CD 86 30 80 F6 30 87 10 8E 30 BA 30 88 34 36 86 4B 1037 DATA 87 30 80 86 7 87 30 87 4 BESBALA BE 30 BB 38 89 0 RF BF 30 8A 17 P6 4E 35 96 87 30 8D F7 30 87 8 30 88 10 8 30 70 3 D CF 20 21 39 10 85 3D PA BE 44 64 8 24 70 27 7 60 88 0 10 27 FF 69 31 22 30 4 8BC 24 1088 DATA 80 26 E8 C 80 F 39 7 D 30 CF 27 DA 10 8E 30 FA BE 24 64 8 24 70 27 8 60 88 0 26 6 7 30 16 40 31 22 30 4 8 2 4 80 26 7 39 10 7 27 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1039 9
79. date see Fig ure 2 This makes it much easier should you want to sort by date later Now move to Cell E5 and enter the initials for the course played As shown in Figure 2 I used QH for Quail Hollow use whatever initials you use for the courses played Move to Cell F5 and enter the course rating as designated by the USGA This column is right justified Unless you specify using the format command all cells containing numeric data are right justified Next enter the score for that game into Cell G5 When youenterthe gross scoresforany golfer you must omit any values not al lowed under USGA rules For example a Golfer with a 20 Handicap is allowed no more than two triple bogies Continueentering data until youhaveall the games listed for that individual When you reach 20 games it is time to sort the spreadsheet so that the 10 best games ap pear in rows 5 through 14 Type MA to initiate an ascending sort When asked for the range respond by typing G5 G24 again the period is important D ynacalc will sort rows 5 through 24 all cells in each row are moved accordingly For various rea sons you may decide to sort the spreadsheet on other criteria However the average differential and calculated handicap are accurate only as long as the spreadsheet is sorted like this Caution Sorting the rows of the spreadsheet may change the cell addresses used in the formula in Cell I26 Goto that cell and check the equat
80. e come and gone in this market How ever several are still available Fol lowing isa list of programs you should beable tolocate and use with the Color Computer DeskMate an integrated soft ware package designed for OS 9 The Ledger module is useful for standard row column manipulations but lacks many functions and features available from other entries Reviewed 1986 Page 198 and May 1986 Page 219 Available through Tandy Express Order 1 800 321 3133 DeskMate 3 similar to Desk Mate but designed for OS 9 Level II and the CoCo 3 Supports 40 and 80 column screens Reviewed December 1987 Page 129 Available through Tandy Express Order 1 800 321 3133 Disk Spectaculator useful for many standard row column manipula tions but lacks many functions and features supported by other spread sheets Available through Tandy Ex press Order 1 800 321 3133 o Dynacalc for OS 9 a full fea tured spreadsheet program that works under OS 9 Level I and Level II Re viewed November 1985 Page 208 While the Disk BASIC version is no longer available see its review in the September 1984 issue Page 210 Available through Tandy Express Order 1 800 321 3133 amp Elite Calc a full featured spread sheet program that supports multiple screen widths Comes on disk or cas sette Reviewed August 1983 Page 262 Available from Elite Software Box 11224 Pittsburgh PA 15238 412 7
81. e RGB in Line 260 to CMP While drawing stars may seem like a waste of a perfectly good computer Vari star provides a concrete illustration of trig concepts which is very important for be ginning students Once you dissect the math involved you can also use the formulas for drawing stars in other programs Keiran Kenny s interests lie mainly with the Color Computer s graphics and math capabilities But in Keiran s ownwords I like to try everything He may be con tacted at 11 5 Milson Road Cremorne NSW 2090 Australia SM Memory chine language disassembler program from DATA stalements EZDASM checks the data while it runs if you make anytyping errors the program will let you know When the program has finished poking data you arc prompted for whether you want the disas sembler savedto disk orcassette press D or C accordingly Once the machine language version has been saved to tape or disk you can load it and begin to explore other machine lan guage programs Before loading E7DASM however make sure the binary program you want to examine is already in memory load it if necessary and that you know its starting address Of course you don t have to use EZDASM to look at programs only you can use it to examine the contents of any memory location in the CoCo f you are using a disk based system EZDASM is saved with a load address of 0000 you must use an offset to load it into whatever area of memory you
82. e a program sparse manuals are unclear unless you already know how to use the software With my questions answered running MV Banner from GShell became easy After setting the execution directory and printer port options clicking on the appropriate drive icon displays file icons Clicking on the I Love MV Banner icon executes MV Banner and clicking on the Welcome screen brings up the editing and banncr viewing screen In only a few minutes you can create an attractive banner and it s easy Thereare many optionsfrom which to chose normal bold outlined or inverted text white on black Computer or Roman fonts and use of 24 supplied graphics images or the abil ity tocreate new ones with the image editor Combining text and graphics is simple and the results can be saved to disk Font sup port is lacking but the many text style op tions do offer varicty Character attributes can be set in two different fashions by default settings or by changes to the current character settings The easiest way to enter a message is by changing default settings as each letter or image is entered Current character settings are uscful after a message has been com pleted and slight modifications are needed At first was stymied when the current character attributes wouldn t change Then discovered there must be an entry in the current character ficld before you can change its attributes One other area caused minor dismay The number
83. e de he he dec dd n I x x 00049 TRANSFER DATA TO NEW FILE 00050 e he he de he e de e de he e de e de e dee e dee dee ehe x 00051 9004 04 transfer 144 seccount sector count 00052 90051 C30001 addd 1 bump to next sector 00053 0054 0004 std seccount save it 00054 80056 3047 leax buffer u sector buffer 00055 0058 108 0100 ldy 256 sector byte count 00056 005 9600 lda inpath input path number 00057 005 103 89 059 i read read one sector 00058 0061 2509 bcs error branch on error 00059 90063 9601 lda outpath output path number 00060 0065 103FBA 059 i write sector to destination file 00061 0068 2510 bes exit with error 00062 006A 20E3 bra transfer transfer another sector 00063 e he he de he e de e de he e de e de e ehe oe dee dee 3533 00064 SKIP DEFECTIVE SECTOR 00065 e he he de he e de e de he e de e de e e 33 00066 006 C1D3 error cmpb eseof end of file 00067 006 2716 beq noerr if yes quit 00068 0070 3440 pshs save U register 00069 10072 9E03 ldx hipoint get file position pointer 00070 0074 DEBS Idu lopoint pointing to next sector 00071 0076 9600 lda input path number 00072 0078 103F88 059 i seek skip defective sector 00073 0078 250A bes exit with error 00074 0070 3540 puls u retrieve U register 00075 007 20 bra transfer transfer next sector 00076 e de e de e de de de de de de ke he k k k kkk 00077 ERROR PROMPTS 00078 Y oe hee nhe ee he ee hee e heh
84. e e e e e ee I 00079 0081 308C28 syntax leax lt prompt pcr syntax prompt 00080 10084 8004 bsr print prompt to screen 00081 6086 5F noerr clear error 00082 0087 103F06 out 059 f exit quit 00083 00084 008 108E0064 print idy 100 maximum prompt length 00085 008 8601 printl 1 1 standard output path 00086 0090 103 8 059 i writin prompt to screen 00087 0093 39 rts 00088 io 00089 0094 308C3D cant leax lt message pcr can t open file message 00090 0097 108 0012 lidy msglen message length 00091 0098 bsr printl message to screen 00092 0040 9EQ pointer filename pointer 00093 009 A680 cantloop lda QXT filename character 00094 8120 4320 end of filename 00095 22FA bhi cantloop took some more 00096 00 5 8600 lda yes carriage return 00097 00 7 sta 1 x to end of filename 00098 00 9 9EB2 ldx pointer filename pointer 00099 8000 bsr print filename to screen 00100 0 2008 bra out exit with error 20101 00102 5573653A prompt fcc Use salvage lt source gt lt destination gt 00103 0002 0700 fdb 30704 00144 0004 2A2A2A2A message fcc Can t open 090105 00 5 07 fcb 7 00106 0012 msglen 80107 00108 00 6 01 26 emod 00109 9 Ten equ 00110 end Listing 2 MakeSa vage b89 PROCEDURE MakeSalvage 0000 Generates the binary module salvage 0029 Level I
85. e typc listing in ASCII format from an assembled machinc language program Using a disassembler allows you to see how other programmers write and gives you many hints and tips for your own pro grams Once you gain a bit of experience with machine language a disassembler helps you alter programs for your own needs But you don t haveto be a program mer to find EZDASM a useful addition to your library Furthermore EZDASM s system requirements are minimal it works with 16K Extended BASIC any TV or monitor and a disk drive or cassctte rc corder The program is designed to work with the 32 column screen To get EZDASM running first enter the program shown in Listing then save it and run it This program builds the ma a sccond set of points on a circle of radius 47 Finally the loop from Line 190 to 220 draws lines connecting the points on the two circles It isn t necessary to set the points on screen but I decided to have Varistar do this to help you better understand what is happening For amore comprehensive dis cussion on the trigonometry of stars see A Perfect Star THE RAINBOW March 1990 Page 92 by Steve Ostrom Varistar requires a CoCo 3 and uses the high speed poke Line 10 Make sure the computer is at low speed POKE 65496 0 before saving the program to tape or disk Varistar does this for you if you press BREAK while the program is running Line 20 Users without RGB monitors should chang
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87. er plays his 21st game you need to update his individual file To do this load the file from disk move to what Join us for the Ist Annual last CoCofest ever row in Column C holds the data for his first game and enter the new data You may notice the game numbers shown in Figure 2 are not to 20 l enter new games with the next higher number deleting the lowest game number Now sort the spread sheet as indicated above For m y own edification I type an aster isk in the first 10 rows for the 10 best games of Column I I haven t figured out a way for Dynacalc to do this automatically so I simply enter the asterisks manually after each time I sort the file When you save a worksheet to disk all cells in the sheet are written to disk even if they are currently out of sight In addition column widths titles current cursor loca tion formats labels entry modes and row column flags are saved Each of the work sheets you save will take about two grans of disk space if you are working with a large group of golfers it might be best to use a separate disk for the worksheet data Getting Printed Results A printout is the ultimate goal for the golf league handicapper and getting one is a simple process Make sure you have saved the sheet on disk before you print it To print the spreadsheet type P You are prompted for the range to be printed Enter 1 128 and the printer will print hardcopy of all data
88. es Inc a corporation in the state of Michigan 16 April 1992 THE RAINBOW Feature Program Program Launcher Helps Users Get Started L auncheris a BASIC program that displays an onscreen menu of all the BASIC pro grams on a particular disk You can select any program that appears on the menu and Launcher will run it for you The program works on the CoCo 3 and requires Disk BASIC Launcher works only with disksthat store no more than 68 files When you run the program it reads the disk and prints the filenames of all BASIC programs or any files with a BAS exten sion on that disk The filenames are sorted before they are displayed making it easy to find a specific program The first filename in the list is highlighted and will be exe cuted if you press ENTER Use the right and left arrows H for Home and E for End to select other files To exit from Launcher without launching another pro gram press BREAK As stated before displayed filenaines are sorted in ascending order However the sort a simple bubbie sort slows down if there are many filenames to be sorted The sort process can be bypassed if you want You can also increase its speed by using machine language or the BASIC REPEAT UNTIL and SWAP statements THERAINBOW June 1991 Page 32 I chose to use black and white on a 40 column screen to give the highest contrast and readability on any video device The PALETTE command in Line 155 defi
89. ge with Disk 2 The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS 9 I2 Rainbow Guide to OS 9 Disk Set 2 disks IJ Rainbow Guide to OS 9 Package IJ The Windows amp Applications Disk for i Charge to 2 American Express 9 95 9 85 19 90 9395 9 95 10 95 919 90 20 90 19 95 31 00 47 95 3 50 3 50 6 00 __ 495 _ 495 495 _ 895 _ 8 95 1295 19 95 29 95 _ The Complete Rainbow Guideto OS 9 Level l Vol 19 95 J The Rainbow Book of Adventures first Rainbow Adventures Tape first First Adventure Package 4 The Second Rainbow Book of Adventures _ Second Rainbow Adventures Tape 2 Second Adventure Package J Third Adventures Tape 2 Third Adventures Disk Set 2 disks Third Adventure Package with Tape J Third Adventure Package with Disk The Fourth Rainbow Book of Adventures J Fourth Adventures Tape C Fourth Adventures Disk Q Fourth Adventure Package with Tape 2 Fourth Adventure Package with Disk Full Turn of the Screw J Introductory Guide to Statistics Guide to Statistics Tape or Disk indicate choice 2 Guide to Statistics Package indicate choice of tape or disk hail ta Hainbow Bookshelf The Falsaft Building P O For olher inquiries call 502 228 1492 2 The Third Rainbow Book of Adventures 7 95 2 95 15 90 13 95 13 95 27 90 11 95 9 95 14 95 21 90 26 90 10 95 9 95 14 95 20 80 25 90 5 55 5 95 1230 Bow 385
90. gh even for children to use just point and click to run programs select files do disk or file maintenance or almost any task you currently do by typing commands You also get things like a print spooler Programmable Function Keys a Buffered Keyboard Ramdisk Serial VO port and Deluxe Pak support along with Windows Icons Buttons Pull Down Menus Edit Fields and Mouse functions all in one program It has multiple fonts In 54 possible sizes and styles Enhanced Basic Editing and much much more It add over 50 commands and Functions to Basic to fully supportthe Point amp Click System without OSS9 it offers so many features that It s probably underpriced recommend this software to all CoCo3 owners The Rainbow Feburary 1989 It is completely compatible with existing Basic programs and takes absolutely no memory away from basic Itrequires t Disk Drive R S hires interface amp Joystick or Mouse includes 128 amp 512K Versions Only 69 95 FILIP DOO DODGE E eter els ee The SOURCE will allow you to easily and quickly Disassemble machine language programs directly from disk and generate beautiful Assembler Source Code And The Source has all the features and functions you are looking for in a Disassembler Automatic Label generation Allows specifying FCB FCC and FDB areas Disassembles programs directly from Disk Automatically locates addresses Output listing to the Printer Screen or both Ge
91. hat does not have the redor blue stripe This is the Pin 34 side Count five wires from this side then put a nick in the plastic betwcen the fifth and sixth wires from the Pin 34 end Count another five wires and put another nick in the plastic Peel back a few inches of the five wire segment starting with the sixth wire from the Pin 34 end and ending with the tenth wire Put a half twist in this seg ment Nowreinsert this segment back in thc cable and carefully crimp on another 34 pin connector What you have done is made a special two connector cable that has a five wire segment with a half twist in it Now hook the second hard drive to this second connector and of course hook the 20 pin connector on the drive to the 20 pin connector on your controller board If all your harddrivesare jumpered as Drive 0 this special cable will force the drive con Sha ate ea aha A Completely New and Easy to use Terminal Program designed specifically for the CoCo III With advanced features you would expect to find only in Hi Priced MS Dos programs It has a 26 Entry Phone Directory with complete Configuration information for Communications and Automatic Logon It supports the Serial I O port up to 2400 baud Deluxe amp Modem Pak and the Disto Serial I O board up to 9600 baud It has a Full Screen Text Editor X Y Modem and ASCII file transfer support Split Screen Conference Mode Programmab
92. he index file created by MesSel Setpass is used in conjunction with LoginBO9 to change your password TSMonB09 is BASICO9 version of TSMon a time sharing monitor included with the OS 9 Development System UnFormat converts a formatted ASCII text file to an unformatted ASCII text file In other words carriage returns at the end of each line are replaced witha space and carriage returns at the end of cach para graph are retained For example Dynas tar stores a carriage retum at the end of each line while Ved stores a carriage re turn only at the end of the paragraph UnFormat allows you to easily transfer documents between Dynastar and Ved without having to manually reformat the document The Warped Drive 54 Martindale Drive NE Calgary AB T3J 2V4 Canada 403 280 8870 12 U S 14 Greg Law Activities for a Rainy Day 670 182 10 0 40 680 15 C RND 31 690 11 0 700 HPAINT A 182 C 0 710 NEXT 720 FOR 0 1 TD 1000 NEXT D 730 POKE65496 0 740 NEXT X 750 150 760 HCDLOR 1 778 HLINECI8 10 310 82 PSET B 780 PALETTE 2 RND 60 299 HPAINT 2 2 2 1 800 HCDLDR 1 810 HDRAW AQ 54 BM197 11 D117 F5 dn 820 HDRAW BM193 11 D117 F53 830 HPAINT I95 16 5 4 iuste N 840 PALETTE 8 0 850 HDRAW S8 A2 C8 197 96 860 197 108 8 8 870 FOR X 1 TD 8 880 HCDLOR RND 7 890 HPRINT 3 8 DOWN THE WATER SPOUT
93. her parameter 00043 0043 273C beq syntax if not prompt and quit 00044 10045 0208 144 828b write mode amp attr r wr 00045 10048 103 83 059 i create create destination file than working with 32 bit values To show the difference the routine could have been written in the longer form as follows transfer idd lopoint add 256 std lopoint bcc xfr 1dd hipoint addd 1 std hi point xfr leax buffer u This routine first loads the initial value of lopoint increments it by 256 and then stores the result back in lopoint If the carry flag is set meaning the value over flowed beyond FFFF the value of hipoint isincremented by one The drawbacktothe technique used by Stephen Goldberg is that the maximum file size is limited to 00FFFFFF or roughly 16 megabytes However I doubt many of us have files anywhere near that large much less a need to copy them from disk to disk If you don t have an OS 9 assembler or subscribe to RAINBOW ON DISK the BASICO9 program in Listing 2 MakeSalvage b09 can be used to create the executable version of Salvage In addition to being OS9 Online SIGop Greg Lawenjoys programming on all types of computers and has worked on systems ranging from the CoCo to the Burroughs B6700 super mainframe He lives in Louis ville Kentucky 00046 0048 2547 bcs cant message and quit on error 00047 4 9701 sta outpath save output path number 00048 dr e e e he he he de e he he he e e he h
94. ides subcommands you can use as you revise each line to acti vate a subcommand simply press the appropriate letter However not all the subcommands are documented in the CoCo manual from Tandy Following are three such commands A cancels all changes made in the line being edited relists theoriginal line and lets you continue editing Q cancels all changes made in the line beingeditedand exitsfromthe EDIT command E keeps all changes and exits from the EDIT command this is the same as pressing ENTER The A and Q subcommandsarereally helpful if you lose track of what you are doing You can either abort the current changes and get afresh look at the origi nal linc or quit the editor altogether Many CoCo 3 owners still use TVs for their monitors Therefore despite the CoCo 3 s enhanced capabilities these people often use the 32 column screen for their programs You can dress up those screens using a few simple pokes To invert the entire screen green char acters on a black background enter POKE amp H95AC 57 POKE amp HFF22 PEEK amp HFF22 OR amp H10 To activate true lowercase mode on the 32 column screen enter POKE amp H95AC 57 POKE amp HFF22 PEEK amp HFF22 OR amp H20 These lines can be combined as POKE amp H95AC 57 POKE amp HFF22 PEEK amp HFF22 OR amp H30 Press SHIFT 0 to toggle between upper and lowercase characters Within a program you can use POKE 282 0 t
95. ifpi 00008 use dd defs os9defs 00009 endc 00010 D 0000 87CDOOE9 mod len nane prgormtobjct reent l entry dsiz 1 00013 D 0000 inpath rmb 1 input path number 00014 D 0001 outpath rmb 1 output path number 00015 D 0002 pointer rmb 1 parameter pointer 00016 D 0003 hipoint rmb 1 position pointer ms bytes 90017 D 0004 seccount rmb 1 sector count 00018 D 0005 lopoint rmb 2 position pointer 15 bytes 00019 D 0007 buffer rmb 256 sector buffer 00020 D 0107 rmb 200 stack 00021 D 01CF rmb 200 parameters 00022 D 0297 dsiz equ 00023 0000 53616C76 name fcs Salvage 00024 0014 01 fcb 1 edition number 00025 0015 28632931 fcc 1989 S B Goldberg 00026 e e he e e he e he e he he e he e he he de he de he he ke he he he k k k kk 00027 INITIALIZE 00028 e he he e he e he e he e he he de he de he e de oe dee ehe k k 00029 0029 SA entry decb parameters 00030 662A 2755 beq syntax if not prompt and quit 00031 9002 clra 00032 0020 5F clrb 00033 002E 0003 std hipoint zero file position pointer 00034 0030 0005 std lopoint 00035 0032 9 02 stx pointer save parameter pointer 00036 0034 8601 lda f read read mode 00037 10036 103 84 059 15 open defective file to read 00038 0039 2559 bcs cant message and quit on error 00039 10038 9700 sta inpath save input path number 00040 0030 9 02 stx pointer pointer to next parameter 00041 003 A684 1da X next parameter character 00042 0041 8100 8d anot
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97. ion If it no longer specifies cells H5 through H14 H5 H14 edit itso that it does D De 1 GOLFER GOLFER GAME NAME NUMBER NO DATE above Ofcourse I couldenter the name and number on every line but that would be tedious and unnecessary If you want to compare scores for different golfers you might fully use columns A and B I use the template to create a different spreadsheet file for each golfer and each E Vier 6 T JE AMA COURSE COURSE GROSS DIFF BEST PLAYED RATING SCORE 10 901206 901220 910111 901218 910129 910207 910205 901211 901223 910119 910221 910131 910117 901227 910103 901213 901230 910108 910122 910214 FILE lt BUD gt BUD SABEL NO 1 QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH QH o x X x oxk xo x o X AVERAGE DIFF 20 7 HANDICAP 19 Figure 2 Working Golf Handicapping Spreadsheet Finishing Touches and Operating Notes As you will notice from Figure 2 I decided to put the golfer s name and num ber in Row 26 As youenterand sortdiffer ent scores all cells for the moving rows change places Using the last row for the name allows it to remain undisturbed since Row 26 is not within the sort range given file uses the golfer s name forits filename As a reminder for working with the print outs I enter the filename into columns A and B abouthalf way down thenIsaveeach individual file to disk When a golf
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101. keys and their shifted characters aren t printed when us ing the Roman font Printing results vary depending on the printer you use and the modes it supports MV Banner supports normal double width compressed and double density modes You can define which characters are used to print the banners Upto four text characters can be used to obtaina solid graphics block The printing process is quicker if your printer allows for use of a graphics block character The manual gives advice on which text combinations or graphics blocks work best The maximum field length for a banner is A charactersand or images 40 charac ters handles most banner needs By print ing a banner and entering and printing another without tearing them apart any size banner can be created Three modes are available for viewing banners normal compressed and elongated The bottom half of the screen is used to display and scroll through banners prior to printing this is a major plus Imagine printing a 15 foot banner and then realizing the last character is wrong The MV Banner feature Hike mostof all is thcone for using graphics images Ban ners from programs which don t support graphics usually look very plain The sup plied images are good and cover topics ranging from holidays to parties from baby bottles to graduation caps Better yet if you can t find an image to fit the occasion just createit in the image editor Created images can be s
102. l aspects With a CoCo the Brownell News could have been adaily exe eK ok I am pleased to report that some of the preliminary comments about our new for mat are more than generally positive This pleases us a lot here at THE RAINBOW be cause we worked very hard to make the new look useful and easy to use for all of you We have received a couple of nega tives too But not very many And as think you will see we believe our new format will get better as we get more used to doing things with it One footnote I said last month that we would have near a 9 percent increase in editorial space because of the new format At what was pretty much the last minute and after that column was written I de cided to make the cover newspaper like rather than like a magazine That added a whole page of editorial material to your RAINBOW And I think it looks nice too Lonnie Falk worlds In my opinion it is good that the systems inheriting the title CoCo IV run OS 9 68000 and I am glad to see that the producers of these computers are aiming for the CoCo market I also think software producers in the CoCo market who decide to develop products for one of these ma chines would do wellto set up the software so it works with all the machines This does not seem too difficult and in the long run could save the community if it does frac ture Despite the many different MS DOS computers with their miscellaneous
103. l warlords are readying their forces 1 falis to you to lead your people against these armies and only your best stralegic plans can save the day Fight ihe good fight in any era or locale Play a simple game of capture the flag armed with water balloons or climb into the cockpil of a 100 foot high armored warrier Explore the deepest dungeons defend your galaxy or create your own scenarios with this incredible war game construction set simulator Your imagination is your only limit You will deploy your forces with total control over hostile terrain while you scroll a graphic bird s eye window Over an immense world War Monger has terrific 320x200 resolution 16 color graphics and in cludes tile editor to create or edit your own Play against the com puter with another player or simply watch the computer plot agains itself The enemy is everywhere Are you ready to take on the challenge as the War Monger Reg 128K CoCo 3 and disk drive Lightning fast arcade game for the 128 CoCo 3 Tarritic 320x225 graphics back ground music score and sound affects and out of sight game play 29 95 Ee EE HIE rite errs es ee pais E EL c a z 7 A polyphonic digital sound sequencing systmm for your 12BK 517K Cote 3 with a user friendly pori and clink graphice editar Create music scores wilh Dragon Blade CoCo 1 3 Champion CoCo 1 3 Paladin s Legacy CoCo 1 3 19 95 19
104. lable for us I m sure many of us would like to hear from Frank Hogg on this point Keiran Kenny 11 5 Milson Road Cremorne NSW 2090 Australia THE RAINBOW staff is not in a position to decide for others which of the new comput ers is the best to have We can however listen to what others have to say and direct our content appropriately We have re ceived very little mail offering thoughts and opinions from those who have actually pur chased one of the new machines If people are buying the computers we d like to hear from them regarding their dis satisfaction with their purchases In any case we have Jorwarded your letter to Frank Hogg Per haps he can shed some light on the 110 versus 220 volt issue Kudos for Rick Cooper Editor I believe that when one of RAINBOW s advertisers provides his customers with service above and beyond the call of duty he is entitled to public acknowledgment I recently ordered All Rick s Software Un believable Offer st 1 from Rick s Computer Enterprise After receiving the package about a week later I immediately set out to try all the programs I experienced some difficulty with N B Compressor which is designed to com press graphic displays so they occupy less disk space With the source files and dis play programs was using the palette col ors were always changed when loaded into the compressor I wrote a letter to Rick Cooper asking if I did something wrong or if there
105. le Macro Keys Full Disk Support including Multifile Copy Kill Rename Arcive Un Arcive and Disk Initialize and it is completely compatible with ADOS It allows complete customization of Display Colors Printer amp Serial Communications Drive Step Rates and Directory Sorting preference Column display Special It requires a 128K Coco III 1 Disk drive and an 80 Introductory price of 34 95 To order by VISA MASTERCARD or COD Call Toll Free 1 800 383 8529 Monday thru Saturday 8am to 5pm PST To order by mail send check or money order for the amount of the program plus 4 00 for shipping and handling 1o Cer Comp 5566 Ricochet NV Las Vegas Ltd Avenue 89110 702 452 0632 nected to the second connector to be Drive 1 Note that this arragement is similar to the one IBM uses to select drives A and B though the position and size of the twisted cable in this case is very different The advantage of thisapproach is that you never need to know what the jumpers on your hard drive do in order to add Drive 0 and Drive 1 Backing u p Damaged Disks I have a disk with text files which 1 cannot back up using the BACKUP command The process just stops at some pointwithanl O Error But i findi can read most of the files on this disk with a word processor What is going on here How can I copy this disk Alain Pilon ALPILON Brossard Quebec Canada It seems that one or more sectors on that disk are
106. le Recovery Sys 24 RSB 39 ZClock 10 PertASCII 19 Wild amp MV 19 ORDERS ONLY SUB ETHA MiniBanners 19 Multi BA SIC 29 Checkbook RSDOS 24 DANOSOFT Big BASIC 512k 39 One Meg Big BASIC 49 Utilities Pak 18 Big RAMDisk 15 Memory Master 24 CoCo Archiver 18 COCOPRO 0S9 Data Windows 59 Data Merger 19 Tools 11 35 Presto Partner 29 Level Il Tools 25 Disk Manager Tree 29 Zapper 20 Multi Menu 20 059 Lv ll BBS 30 KALASOFT Ultimuse S12k 059 55 KBCom 059 term 45 Shellmate req 25 NewspaperO9 48 COCOPRO DECB _ Simply Better 2 0 35 V Term 3 04 35 DMA 1 1 29 E Art Deli 440 pix 79 Art Deli 220 39 RGB DOS 30 RGB OS9 Utils 25 1 313 482 8128 TECH SUPPORT 1 313 481 3283 1O AM 6 30 PM EST MON FRI icum 24 HRS 3 12 2400 8 N 1 1 313 292 4713 10 April 1992 THE RAINBOW 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 INPUT E SAVEM EZDASM ST ST amp HA18 0 OPEN R 1 EZDASM BIN 1 FIELD 1 1 AS B LSET 8 CHR PUT 1 4 LSET B CHR PUT 1 5 380 CLOSE 390 PRINT THE EZDASM BINARY FILE HAS A LOAD ADDRESS OF ZERO 400 PRINT YOU MUST ALWAYS USE A LOAD OFFSET WHEN LOADING EZ DASM BIN 410 END 420 CLS 430 PRINT PRESS ENTER WHEN REA DY TO SAVETO CASETTE 440 INPUT E 450 CLS 460 PRINT SAVING TD CASETTE 470 CSAVEM EZDASM ST ST amp HA18 S T 480 CLS 490 PRINT THE BINARY FILE IS SAV
107. le for 299 Not many magazines have lasted as long as THERAIN BOW Who remembers Hot CoCo or The Color Computer Magazine sincerely hope you continue for years to come I ve gottoo much invested in my CoCo to buy anything else I need some help I am trying to contact five people The first two are Dave Shew chun and Roland Knight They were con test winners from The Color Computer Magazine with a game called Bugs They also wrote several other programs includ ing PenPal I recently came across that program and I nced help with it The third person I want to locate is Roger S Young who wrote a shareware chess and checkers program about five years ago I gave a copy to somebody and My father was a staunch supporter of Adlai Stevenson so the politics were hot and heavy at home that fall Bad put up a life sized poster of Stevenson on his bed room door but it scared the dog Spot who thought a stranger was in the house and barkedat it constantly Mom made him take itdown It wasn tthat she didn t like Steven son she just couldn t stand the barking My political reward was a trip to Wash ington for Ike s inauguration My cousin Louis who lives in Washington invited me and gave me a marvelous tour of thecity for the three days before the inauguration though he supported Stevenson too We went to the parade I took a million pictures When I got home I gave a presentation about Washington D C for the whole
108. lishing fundamentals and laser printers This section is an excellent resource for those who are involved with any form of publishing that involves com puters Is there any other kind In the last section The Printer Bible provides a step by stepapproach to finding and solving printerproblems and includes a complete discussion of serial and parallel interfaces Most common and some not so common problem areas are addressed Rounding out The Printer Bible are appendices for printer commands included are Hewlett Packard Epson ISO and DIABLO a printer vendor list a font vendor list and symbol names for many printed characters Like earlier parts of the book these appendices are relatively ex tensive It is likely most users will spend more time with them than with the rest of the book It is obvious The Printer Bible is in tended mainly for users of Macintosh and MS DOS computers However the infor mation it contains is a gold mine for users of any personal computer and it appears the author has gone to great lengths to ensure this Because of the broad spectrum of as pects associated with today s printer tech nology this softbound 682 page book doesn t provide individual coverage of specific printers This might seem a dis advantage to those who want specific de tails but thatinformationshouldcome with your individual printer On the positive side The Printer Bible is written in fairly non technical terms maki
109. lore Both systems include standard graphics commands CIRCLE FILL etc hat blow away the competilion For example Ihe BOX command peaks al over 2 MagaPixels secand that 300 times taster than BASIC 255 separale sprites of upto 100 100 pixels are sup ported with window clipping and high res pixel level collision check ing The B octave 4 voice music synthesizer has independent envelope wavetorm and volume controls a 7 KHz sampling rate and much Other features include text graphics mixing dil ferant loni sizes tast window copying and scrolling picture savB laad easy implementation from both BASIC and assembly language multiple screen animation and support for 128K 512K double speed and the high res joystick interface The package also contains supporl programs thal are worth the purchase price of GrafExpress alone These include an introductory demo a picture editor a waveform editor and an art program that Supports 256 Co ors GralExpress also comes with a 50 page manual that fully pains all of its incredivie Tealures you do any graphics program ming or simply want to see what your litte CoCo is capable of GrafExpress a musi 128K CoCo 3 and disk drive This was THE game of 91 Uitra tast space action with hardware scrolling on a 128 CoCo 3 Wild sound effects and over 30 MagaBytes of amazing graphics 34 95 The world is in unrest Power hungry villains and evi
110. mp TECHNICAL 206 432 1814 Burhe 6 Burke congratulates The Rainbow on their new format 059 Software gt 2564 gt 512154 WORLD CLASS CHESS Use Cyrus Chess w Level 2 FILE SYSTEM REPACK 1 1 Faster disk defragmenter FILE RECOVERY SYSTEM Helps rebuild crashed disks R S B Disk BASIC for Level 2 BASIC ROM required EZGEN 1 09 Handy amp powerful OS9 bootfile editor CYBERVOICE S W only Use Super Voice w Level 2 PERTASCII Multi user scrambled letter word game WILD amp MV Wildcard amp move directory entry utilities ZCLOCK Continuous time date display on Level 2 screen BASIC Software gt 256K gt 51211 DAGGORPATCH Moves your Dungeons of Daggorath to disk 9 95 Use B amp B hard disk with many BASIC programs 29 95 Affordable Color Computer Hardware COCO XT Use PC hard drivew CoCo OS9 S W incl 69 95 COCO XT RTC CoCo XT plus real time clock 99 95 XT ROM Boots OS9 from B amp B hard disk automatically 19 95 WATCH FOR OSK VERSIONS OF YOUR FAVORITE gt WA RESIDENTS ADD 8 2 SALES TAX MasterCard amp VISA accepted U S COD s add 3 75 Min U S shipping 4 00 Min to Canada 5 00 Please allow 2 weeks for delivery Overnight or 2nd day available for in stock items Software upgrades 5 00 each w receipt including U S shipping Call or write for our free catalog From Computer Plus to YO ls Tand
111. mputer Plus to get upgraded copies of these programs The upgrades support the 40 and 80 column text screens of the CoCo J The problem with the earlier versions is that their internal memory tests overwrite some vectors at the top of the CoCo J s memory To patch VIP Writer use a disk zap program to change the value at offset 6817 from F FOO to 8 00 Perhaps other readers can offer more patches for the VIP series OS9 Gamc Pack The OSK version of this CoCo favorite includes FIVE fun games Sea Battle Minefield KnightsBridge Dice Poker and CoCothello All five feature spectacular graphics and point amp click interface Only 47 95 Variations of Soliteirc Includes FIVE solitaire card games Pyramid Klondike Spider Poker and Canfield All five feature beautiful graphics and point amp click interface Just 47 95 Both programs require an MMI or 100 MMI compatible OS9 68000 computer disk drive OS9 68000 and a mouse joystick More OSK software coming soon All products carry the Rainbow Certification Seal VISA and MasterCard orders accepted Please add 2 50 U S or 5 00 foreign for shipping and handling to all orders Colorado residents please add applicable sales tax Prices subject to change without notice MV Systems P O Box 818 Arvada CO 80001 303 420 7777 089 and Multi Vue Specialists 4 April 1992 THE RAINBOW Feature Program I esee young children
112. n us and meet the faces behind the names such as Marty Goodman Kevin Darling and more Meet fellow CoCoists that you ve corresponded with over time but never met face to face Enjoy the E hospitality of the Glenside CoCo Club Share and learn at informative seminars hosted by the best names in the biz Get a chance to win one of dozens of door prizes valued at over 1000 Take in exhibits of all your favorite soft and hardware with live hands on demos and great show specials from leading vendors And to get things off to a roaring start join us for the pre fest Party with Marty on Friday nite separate admission required There s something to be said for saving the best for last and that s what we plan to do with the 1st Annual Last CoCoFest So join us in a show of support for the Community enjoy aweekend of fun frolic and fellowship and makeus start worrying about how we can possibly top this show next year MAY 30 31 1992 INLAND MEETING CENTER WESTMONT IL Tickets for the Chicago CoCoFest are availabte now ata special presale price of 14 for a one day pass or 17 for a two day pass prices at door 3 higher Add 1 handling per order For ticket ordering using VISA or MC or for information on hotel accomodations 52 95 tax per nite incl full breakfast and cocktail hour call 313 482 8128 or write CoCoFest PO Box 763 Ypsilanti MI 48197 CoCoFest is a division o f DNM Enterpris
113. nerates Assembler source directly to disk Built in Hex ASCII dump display 8 Selectable Display formats 32 40 60 80 Built in Disk Directory and Kill fle commands Menu display with single key commands Written in Ultra fast machine language Specify Coco 1 2 or 3 Disk 49 95 57 PRINTER D amp Window Writer A point amp click Word Processor powerful formatting capability works with any printer On screen Italic bold etc WYSIWYG 59 95 Window Writer is a powerful word processor that is fun to use very user friendly The Enviornment compares favorably to that of Microsoft Windows RAINBOW Dec 1989 Window Writer W for non W M owners 79 95 Window Basic Compiler similar to CBASIC 99 00 Window Edt Asm A full featured Assembler 49 95 Editors Basic amp MLL versions 19 95 Advanced Programmers Gulde 24 95 Ihe Memory game Concentration game 19 95 Desk Accessory Pak 7 resident programs 39 95 A Completely New and Easy to use Terminal Program designed specifically for the Coco lll With advanced features you would expect to find only in a Hi Priced MS Dos program It has a 26 Entry Phone Directory with complete Configuration information for Communications and Automatic logon Supports the Serial VO Port up to 2400 baud Deluxe amp Modem Pak and the Disto Serial VO board up
114. nes the background color black and the com mand in Line 160 defines the foreground color white You can change the colors assigned to these palettes but don t change the palette numbers themselves RAINBOW Birthday Party wilh games pu7ries and mo d w E d Bitto Bit d Shades of CoCo RAINBOW INDEX A com index for July 1981 through June 1984 is printed in DEC 84 Holiday 395Q FEB89 Home Help 53 95 0 plete ee r July 1 8 hroug a i f i SP ted JAN 85 Beginners 3 950 MAR 89 Hardware 3 95 Q the July 1984 issue Separate copies are available for 2 50 plus 502 Fees ulities 3 95 Q APR89 Business 3 95 Q handling Indexes for subsequent years are published annually inthe 86 Business 3 950 MAY89 Printer 3 95 Q July issues of THE RAINBOW APRES 1 NSO poun en 23908 y i MAY 85 Printer 3 95 0 JUL89 Anniversary 3 95 O TOTAL JUN 85 Music 2036 JUL 85 Anniversary 950 KY RESIDENTS ADD 6 meee Beyond BASIC 3392 VOLUME P89 cation 95 Q CANADIAN RESIDENTS ADD 796 GST AUG 85 cones 3 95Q OCT89 crus 3 SEP85 Education 3950 NOV 69 Data Comm 95 0 U S MAIL CHARGE OCTB5 Graphics 53952 DEC89 Holiday 53552 NOV 85 Data Comm 3 95 Q JAN 90 Beginners 95 SHIPPING amp HANDLING DEC 85 Holiday 3 95 d Home Help 3 95 a JAN 86 inners 95 0 90 Hardware 95 0 U P S CHARGE FEB 86 Ti 3950 90 Business 395 0 TOTAL AMOUNT MAR86 Busines
115. ng it easy to ex tend its contents to just about any printer And it includes a1 excellent glossary of printing and publishing terms The world of printers is often fraught with confusion and misinformation As a complete resource I find The Printer Bible a welcome addition to my library Que Corporation 11711 N College Carmel IN 46032 800 428 5331 ext ORDR 24 95 31 95 Cdn plus 2 50 S H Cray Augsburg cCA Plug n imid a Your NX 1020 This CoCo compatible NX 1020 system sets new standards in color printer performance 225 cps 4 NLQ fonts including Script plus a high speed draft font but the enhancements don t stop there Add a 16k butfer a special quiet mode top feed bottom and rear tractor and the list goes on Seven on demand colors 8 color graphic modes Epson and IBM emulation for maximum software compatibility Virtually everything desired in a printer is here speed color and versatility at an affordable price with a 2 year warranty Our Plug n Go for the Coco system includes PINAN yey Asser Blue Streak Ultima e NX 1020 Multi Font Color l e Blue Streak Ultima 95 Software Support Disk e Software Support Disk e Color Graphics Utilities 10 Shipping amp Insurance sit NX 1001 This CoCo compatible NX 1001 system is fully featured with 4 NLO plus a draft font 10 character sizes from subscript to quadruple size 4k buffer 180 cps friction and
116. nical Director Calvin Shields Customer Service Manager Beverly Bearden Customer Service Representative Patricia Eaton Chief of Printing Services Melba Smith Business Assistant Wendy Falk Barsky Chief of Building Security and Maintenance Lawrence Johnson Asst General Manager for Advertising Development and Production Ira Barsky Advertsing Representatives Belinda Kirby Kim Lewis Advertising Assistant Carolyn Fenwick 302 228 4492 For RAINBOW Advertising and Marketing Office Information see Page 31 22 THEBAINBOW svarymonthaftha yaar by FALSOFL Ine toe Fateot 4509 1 8 doe RAINBOW est ar monay order in L S of A refund of 10712183 the subscnp tor amount after two issues mailed Ho refund ater magazines malling ct three or mone Where It All Started It was 40 years ago this fall that the Brownell News my very first effort at being a publisher was born I had found a little printing press that my mother bought me It used rubber letters for type and as you filled lines of type you hooked them onto the press and fed the paper through by hand It wasn t very fancy but it worked So Jim Burmeister my next door neighbor actually there was an empty lot next door and he was next doorto that and I decided we would publish a newspaper If you worked at it pretty hard you could get 10 or 12 lines of type on a single sheet of paper
117. nsion Slots 7 Expansion Slots e 4MB of RAM 2MB of RAM 40MB Hard Drive e 40MB Hard Drive Std Resolution VGA e Std Resolution VGA Color Monitor Color Monitor 1565 1645 2HighDensityFD s 5129551349 2High Density FD s e 101 Keyboard 25MHz 40MHz 101 Keyboard 16MHz 25MHz 20MHz 60MB HD 1 4MB FD 2MB RAM exp to 33MHz 120MB HD 1 44MB FD 32KB CACHE 4MB 5MB 640X480 LCD w 32 shades of gray 2 RAM exp to 16MB Std VGA LCD w 22 gray Ext Ser 1 Par 1 VGA DOS amp Windows 7 7LBS Keypad inc DOS amp Windows 7 7LBS 1545 1995 OWL COMPUTER SERVICES 5950 Keystone Drive Bath PA 215 837 1917 Wescosville Muhlenberg Shopping Plaza Cati f or Appt 215 481 9775 Reading 215 929 0540 Kids amp Us RadioShack Pottstown Ave 663 Pennsburg 215 679 3389 Munutaclures 3 Yeur Warranty on Allard Drives Floppy Drive Systems Proven Technology On the Razor s Edge of the Color Computer Frontier Honus 1 al Buudied Software with any Dish Drive Purchase The Highest Quality for Years of Service Drive 0 Systems Height Double Sided SOLD OUT WE NEED CONTROLLERS IF YOU HAVE 502 CONTROLLERS CALL US Drive 1 Systems Halt Height Double Sided Direct Drives 1 1 9 New 3 5 720K Drives for OS 9 win case amp Power Supply 1 29 SALE Drive 1 Systems have drive case power supply You may require op tional cable and or D
118. o THE RAINBOW Falsoft Building P O Box 385 DEC87 Hoy 2009 92 Home Help 395 Q JAN B8 inners 3 95 2 92 Hardware 3 95 O Prospect KY 40059 FEB88 Utilities 3950 APR92 Music 3 95 0 t 1 MAR8B Business 3 95 0 Please send me the following back issues APR 8B Help 3 95 O MAY B8 Printer 3 95 2 VOLUME 1 APR84 Gaming 3 95 JUN 88 Music 3 95 0 JUL 81 Premier Issue 2000 MAYB4 Printer 3 95 2 JUL 88 Anniversary 3 95 D FEB82 2 00 Q JUN 84 Music 3 95 VOLUME 2 JUL84 Anniversary 3 95 Q VOLUME 8 JUN 83 Printers 92950 AUG 88 Games 3 95 9 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4 SEP88 Educatien 3 95 2 AUG 83 Games 295 AUG B4 Games 3 95 0 OCT88 Graphics 3 95 U SEP83 Education 2950 SEP84 Educalion 395 0 NOV B8 Data Comm 3 95 0 OCT 83 Graphics 3 95 0 OCT84 Graphics 3 95 Q DEC88 Holiday 53950 84 Business 3 95 Q NOV 84 Data Comm 3 95 Q JAN 89 Beginners 3 950 THE RAINBOW April 1992 17 Launcher uses HSCREEN2 the 320 by 192 pixel 16 color graphics screen In this d CEU Ra OAM holds 129 CLEAR 2000 370 620 0 7 C Pena mad ach 422 DIN 375 HPRINT 16 0 LAUNCHER 625 GOSUB 710 two pixels four bits per pixel Each group 130 LC 1 380 HPRINT 0 23 ENTER 630 GOTO 485 of four bits specifies which palette register 135 RC LC 30 385 HPRINT 15 23 ARROW KEYS 635 to use when coloring the pixel 140 TR 3 390 HPRINT 32 23 E BREAK 640 END Tihe lGETicemitiandam t
119. o select lowercase and POKE 282 255 to select uppercase Product Review The Printer Bible Answers to Your Prayers The Printer Biblefrom Que Corporation is designed to answer all your questions about printers Whether you are planning to purchase a new printer need to solve prob lems with a printer you already own or just wantto know how printers work this book covers most aspects of past and present printer technology Written by Scott Foerster The Printer Bible isorganized into fourma jor sections The Basics Printer Setup and Manage ment The Publishing Challenge and Main tenance and Troubleshooting After giving a brief history of printers thefirst section discusses such topics as how text and graph ics are printed the differences between printer fonts and styles and the hardware and software features available Hints and tips for getting the most from a printer appear on nearly every page The second section covers aspects to consider when making a purchase decision how to install and test a printer and config uring PC applications for use with printers Although the book does mention both Macintosh and MS DOS naturally appli cations it does not cover CoCo specific topics The third section deals with the particu lars of typesetting and the topic of Post Script printers While much of this section is aimed at users of specific MS DOS prod ucts a great deal of information is provided on desktop pub
120. oint amp click desk top companion Includes card file note pad phone list dialer amp scheduling system Req Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 512k disk drive OS9 Level 2 amp Windint Modem req to use phone dialer 34 95 OS9 Budget System Track amp analyze financial transactions amp prepare reports Req Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 256k disk drive amp OS9 Level 2 19 95 059 Level 2 Game Pack Sea Battle Mincfield KnightsBridge CoCothello amp Dice Poker Color graphics amp mouse support Req Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 256k disk drive amp OS9 Level 2 RGB monitor recommended 32 95 Variations of Solitaire Pyramid Klondike Spider Poker and Canfield Color graphics amp mouse support Reg Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 256k disk drive OS9 Level 2 amp mouse joystick 32 95 High Finance Financial analysis software Reg Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 128k 256k recommended disk drive mouse joystick amp OS9 Level 2 w Windint 24 95 Banner Multi Vue banner program Req Color Computer 3 or 100 compatible w 256k OSY Level 2 disk drive Mulii Vue 80 col monitor amp mouse Joystick 18 95 Send for free catalog All products carry the Rainbow Cerfification Seal VISA and MasterCard orders accepted Please add 2 50 U S or 5 00 foreign for shipping and handling Colorado residents please add applicable sales
121. oint out a few minor pitfalls The program is designed for use with a television or composite color moni tor If you re using an RGB monitor you ll have to change the PALETTE commands in lines 20 and 125 to get the right colors The Listing FISHIN 1 FISHIN BY ROGER SEVERS COPYRIGHT C 1992 BY FALSOFT INC RAINBOW MAGAZINE 10 ON BRK GOTO 380 20 H8UFF 1 363 H8UFF 2 380 3 363 HBUFF 4 27 H8UFF 5 130 30 HSCREEN2 POKE65497 0 HCLS2 PALETTE 4 11 PALETTE 8 PALETTE 6 11 FORX 1T0153 READ B READ C 5 4 100 HPAINT 15 12 4 4 HPAINT 303 12 4 4 110 HSET 9 12 2 HSET 310 12 2 120 10 12 8 2 1 89 14 310 12 8 2 1 38 64 130 HLINE 5 14 7 14 PRESET HL INE 312 14 314 14 PRESET 140 FORQ 1TO9 150 READ D 160 READ E 170 HSET D E 8 180 FORR 1T052 190 READ F 200 READ G 210 HSET F G 6 NEXTR 220 HPAINT 214 7 6 6 230 HGET 4 1 29 26 1 HGET 32 1 58 27 2 HGET 290 1 315 26 3 6 99 4 104 10 4 240 200 4 218 16 5 250 HPUT 4 1 29 26 2 HPUT 290 139 315 26 2 HPUTC99 35 125 2 9 2 HPUT 199 3 225 29 2 PALE TTE4 63 PALETTE 8 0 PALETTE 6 9 260 FORH 28 TO 300 STEP 10 180 11 8 1 04 48 270 FORM 298 TO 1 STEP 6 280 HPUT M 60 25 M 85 1 FORT 1T054 NEXTT HPUT M 60 26M 86 2 NEXTM 290 FORN 2 TO 298 STEP 6 300 HPUT N 85 25 N 110 3 FORT 1T054 NEXTT HPUT N 85 2
122. op tions printers and chips most MS DOS software runs on most of them Further the user can customize a program for his computer simply by running an installa tion program that asks him what equip ment he has This saves time for the user and is convenient I contrast this with my recent experi ences playing around with Tandy software for the CoCo 3 Our system is set up for OS 9 Level and double sided disks When I attempted to work with Multi Vue I had to either copy files one at atime from single sided disks to double sided for which I have no time or format single sided disks and attempt to run the program THE RAINBOW April 1992 3 which still failed to work I have given up in frustration The ability toenter instal and have the software set itself up would have made life much easier Ialso wanttoemphasize the importance of hard drives they are quick conven ient and of great use The manufacturers of the System IV the MM 1 and the Tomcat should take note of this few users would mind paying a couple extra hundred dollars for a system with a hard drive At any rate I hope I have contributed to the discourse If the CoCo community is going to survive a serious approach will have to be taken to making software easy to use for everyone not just the typical CoCo hacker And these companies will have to advertise in THERAINBOW not just when their system is being reviewed but con stantly The
123. other possible source is Tandy s Express Order line call 800 321 3133 We for warded your question regarding the NES to Marty Goodman Ham Hawks Editor l ve seenseverallettersin THERAINBOW inquiring about the availability of CoCo software for amateur radio There is a company that has advertised in Radio Magazine amateur radio software and hardware for the CoCo The address is Dynamic Electronics Box 896 Hartselle AL 35640 Robert Brown 2689 Pimlico Crescent Gloucester ON KIT 2A7 Canada Thanks for the tip Robert A Fast Start Editor I own a Color Computer 3 with 128K of memory a Radio Shack disk controller and two 80 track 5 disk drives I also have a 20 Meg hard drive an extra Seagate ST 225 hard drive from my MS DOS com puter and want to know what I need to use this drive with the CoCo I do not have OS 9 Level II but I am planning to purchase it when I purchase the 512K upgrade board Also where get a copy of the manual for the Tandy floppy drive system I pur chased my disk controller second hand and it didn t come with a manual After getting the system up to par I plan to write programs for the CoCo For several years I have written software for other computers and want to expand my work to include this amazing computer I like pro gramming in assembly language and know several processors already the 6809 shouldn t be too difficult my college training in
124. ou save lhe program to tape or disk as POKECOM BAS run it POKECOM BAS pokes the machine language code into memory and saves it to lape or disk as PATCOM The program automatically saves to disk if a disk drive is connected so make sure you have a formatted disk in Drive O To start Patriot Command first connect a Joystick to the ef Joystick port Then insert the disk or tape that contains PATCOM and enter LOADM PATCOM EXEC tape users enter CLOADM PATCOM EXEC When thc title scrcen appcars press D to see a demo or press any other key to slart a game Pressing S at any time starts a new gamc pressing P pauses and unpauses the game To return to BASIC press BREAK When the game starts you ll see your allied defenses as bases at the bottom of the screcn the scudsfall from the top Usc the left joystick to position the onscreen crosshairs on an incoming missile and press the firebutton te launch a Patriot Remem ber it is important to lead your targets before firing CoCo 3 Users Note For an added challenge set the computer to high specd POKE 65497 0 after loading but before executing Patriot Command Bob Kimball is a process control engi neer working in the chemical industry He is married and has two teenage boys The Color Computer has been his hobby since 1985 Mr Kimball may becontacted at fi 2 Spring Valley Woodward OK 73801 405 256 3901 The Listing PATRIOT 1 PATRIOT COMMAND 2 BY
125. plicate this neighborhood newspaper feat they triedto send money to himas requested but he was no longer at the address given with his program The fourth person is author of Chess D I don t know who he she is but I need some help patching the program to work with the ColorComputer3 Finally I d like tocontact the author of VOX Chess but I don t know who wrote it or where he lives Idon thaveamodem so Ican tcheck for these people on Delphi Any help would be greatly appreciated Carey Bloodworth 1601 N Hills Beulevard Van Buren AR 72956 Software Unification Editer I like many others was a CoCo fanatic during the early and middle 1980s My fa ther owned a CoCo 1 two disk drives and a printer I bought a CoCo 3 back when it was a deal to getthem for 179 95 When I went away to college my interest waned and I ended up purchasing an MS BOS compat ible What I want to address is the subject Mr Wilcox addressed in his letter in the Bccem ber 1991 issue am relying on my ence with both the CoCo and MS DOS THE RAINBOW quitc casily using your CoCo Our prob lems were the physical production of the paper yours would be merely to collect the news You think your CoCo is not worth every penny you ve sunk into it And more This is what the Color Computer or any computer for that matter is for it gives you the timc to do the creative things without having to take the time for the mechanica
126. r Pennsylvania Extended Color BASIC occupies the ROM area from 8000 through S9FFF Thus to save Extended Color BASIC to tape enter CSAVEM EXBASIC amp H8000 amp H9FFF amp HA027 Use SAVEM if you are saving to disk Note that the file you create has five bytes at the beginning and five bytes at the end that tell BASIC where to load the file in memory and where to start executing it In this case I had you specify A027 as the execution address which would result in a harmless warm start if execution was at tempted If you transfer this file to another type of computer for manipulation you d have to trim the first and last five bytes of the file to get a pure image ofthe Extended BASIC ROM Unghosting for Y Cables have friend who wants to use Burke and Burke hard drive inter face on a Y cable with a Tandy disk control ler He has already arranged to supply power to the Burke and Burke controller via a separate power supply but he is having problems because attempts by the Burke and Burke software to talk to the controller in the 50 through FFSF address range result in the Tandy floppy controller being triggered understand that a simple modification to the Tandy controller can fix this problem Mike Dalene MDALENE Winsted Connecticut What an odd coincidence just fin ished writing an article for THE RAIN BOW that answers your question March 1992 Page 8 In summary the problem is
127. r one side of which is the index pulse and the other side of which is 45 volts Check this part of the circuit very carefully on the disk controller board Likely as not you will find this line accidentally grounded perhaps a solder bridge somewhere or find the pull up re sistor not properly connected Microscience Information I have a Microscience hard drive but no documentation for its jumpers I want toadda second hard drive as Drive 1 second physical hard drive Do you have aa tat ata aeaa Ca act pene ara nra Nara Nara Ta Tae Fur any information on Microscience drive select jumpers Andrew Thibdeau TITB Lewiston Maine No I don t have the specs for Micro science hard drives However I do have information on how to set drive selec tion for almost any ST 506 hard drive Virtually all ST 506 hard drives come de livered properly jumpered for Drive 0 Keep the drives jumpered this way If you wantto put two drives on the same controller just make a special cable as follows Crimp a 34 pin dual row connector to one end of a 34 pinribbon cable This is the side that will go to your controller At an appropriate distancefor your setup crimpa 34 pin female edge connector to the cable This will of course be the connector forthe firsthard drive Beyone this point again at an appropriate distance for your setup you must customize the end of the cable Look at the side of the ribbon cable t
128. re involved and how the spreadsheet should flow Since the golf handicapper uses fairly simple arithmetic See Spreadsheet on Page 14 by Lonnie Falk 2 amp Printing Sideways by Jeff Hameluck 23 Program Launcher by Geoff Friesen 16 Quick Reflexes Are a Must by John A Sava _ 25 Received and Certified 13 Spreadsheet for Golf by AJ Sabel Product Reviews Goodies Disk Two from The Warped Drive MV Banner from ColorS vstems OS 9 Variations of Solitaire from ColorSystems The Printer Bible from Que Corporation 2 April 1992 THE RAINBOW Editor and Publisher Lawrence C Falk Managing Editor Cray Augsburg Associate Editor Sue Famby Submissions Reviews Editor Tony Olive Technical Editor Greg Law Technical Assistants Ed Ellers Gregory Shultz Editorial Assistant Julie Hutchinson Contributing Editors Tony DiStefano Martin Goodman M D Eddie Kuns Art Director Heidi Nelson Designers Sharon Adams Teri Kays Consulting Editors Judi Hutchinson Laurie D Falk Typesetter Debbee Diamond Falsoft Inc President Lawrence C Falk General Manager Peggy Lowry Daniels Asst General Mgr for Finance Donna Shuck Admin Asst to the Publisher Kim Thompson Editorial Director John Crawley Director of Creative Services O Neil Arnold Chief Bookkeeper Diane Moore Dealer Accounts Toni George Asst Gen Manager For Administration Tim Whelan Corporate Business Tech
129. received by THF RAINBOW examined by our staff and issued the Rainbow Seal of Certification your assurance that we have seen the product and have ascertained that it is what it purports to be 1991 CoCo Federal Tax a federal income tax software package that allows you to produce fullyformatted tax returns on your printer ready to file with the Internal Revenue Service It covers Form 1040 and schedules A B C D E EIC and SE It also handles Forms 2106 2441 8615 and three separate 4562s Runs ona 64K CoCo 1 2 or 3 system with a disk drive Puritas Springs Software 17140 Lorain Avenue Cleveland OH 44111 216 251 8085 39 95 CF83 7 aControlled Reference Words Set forthe CF83 Forth System Requires CF83 Forth also available from BDS Software BDS Software P O Box 485 Glenview IL 60025 0485 708 988 1656 11 for the program and a four page printed manual 10 for the program witha manual sup plied on disk CoCo Cassette 112 a variety of pro grams presented monthly for the CoCo 1 2 and 3 This issue contains Bowlers Helper which keeps stats for 40teams with up to six bowlers per team Pool Player a joystick driven pool game for one or two players Music Man a music program Guest List helps organize your guest list data can be saved to disk or tape and printed Serpent a game featuring a hungry snake Forward Tandy Dice a game of luck CoCo Tools a pro gram to help with repetiti
130. roblems as they arise Sprinkled throughout Lee s article are many hints and tips such as how to set the printer speed and how to load machine language programs Also included arc explanations of where each piece of equip ment is located how the disks are organ ized and where to find his RAINBOW library and software manuals Mostimportant Lee includes his Delphi username and tells wherehis password can be found After all nobody else should know these things and Delphi will continue to bill It could be vital that certain others know where to find this information While such a usage will could be very important when the inevitable happens its usefulness doesn t end there Suppose you have an accident and are stuck in the hospi tal Your spouse may then need to handle your personal affairs and the necessary information might be stored on your disks Or perhaps you are away on an extended business trip What happens if your teenage child needs to use your computer for the firsttime to write a book report Wethink Lec s idea isexcellent It gives youa way of describing your specific CoCo setup to others who may ncedor want to use it a perfect CoCo legacy We doubt whoever first said Where there s a will there sa had computers in mind But it certainly fits CoCo PRO Aquires Howard Medical Ross Litton president of Howard Medical Company recently announced that Howard Medical has sold its busi ness
131. s 3 95 MAY 90 Printer 3 95 0 APR 86 Home Help 3950 JUN90 Summer Fun 3 95 ENCLOSED MAY BG Printer 3950 JUL90 Anniversary 3 95 O Article Reprints JUN86 Music 3 95 0 In instances where a given issue is now out of print and not available tor 086 Anniversary Pss AUG 90 3 95 Q purchase we do provide photocopies of specific articles The cost for this VOLUME 6 SEP90 Education 3 95 Q service is 1 50 plus 50 cents S H per article This service is provided AUG B6 Games 3 950 OCT 90 Graphics 3 95 Q the case of out of stock issues SEP86 Education 53950 NOV 90 Data Comm 3 95 O Name OCT 86 Graphics 3 95 0 DEC 90 Holiday 3 95 Q NOV B6 Data Comm 3 950 JAN91 Beginners 395 Q Address DEC86 Hotiday 395Q 91 Home Help 3 95 Q JAN 87 Beginners 3249 MAR 91 Hardware 22 5 j j FEB87 Utilities 3 950 91 Music 3 95 Slate 2 _ MAR87 Business 3 95 MAY91 Printer 3 95 O Payment Enclosed orCharge tomy VISA APR87 Help 53952 JUN 91 Summer Fun 3 95 MAY 87 Printer 3 95 Q JUL 91 Anniversary 3 95 Card JUN87 Music 3 95 0 reat JUL87 Anniversary 3 95 2 VOLUME 11 Expiration Date Phone AUG91 Graphics 3 95 0 Sanat VOLUME 7 SEP 91 Education 3 95 Q ignature l M SI AUGB7 Games 3950 OCT91 OS 9 3 95 0 TO ORDER BY PHONE credit card orders only call BOO 847 pane coe den a ON Date Comm E ed toe olgay send t
132. s Challenge your skills in lively multi player games Free to Choose Choose from two low cost membership options 6 an hour or 1 an hour with the 20 20 Advantage Plan Free Hour Join DELPHI today and your first 5 95 fee will be waived This means you ll receive a membership and your first evening weekend hour of use for free Free to Decide With DELPHI there s no risk Take an hour to ex plore and if you decide DELPHI is not for you simply contact Member Services and request your account be cancelled Rates apply for evening and weekend access via Tymnet from within the mainland U S DELPHI s Basic Plan is 5 95 month including the first hour of use The 20 20 Advantage Plan is 20 month including the first 20 hours of 9 use There is also a 19 entry fee for members who choose the 20 20 option Yo u Y f st h O u T 1 S FREE Sign on now Dial 1 800 365 4636 by modem When connected press RETURN At password enter RB23 Questions Call 1 800 695 4005 vioce DELPHI The online service with personality 22 April 1992 25 AG cob oe BB RD TE B 31 2 3226 R0535 20 391 X2 1p 9C 31 B 2 0 0 10 BE 30 EB JB 2 9 DF AIF A S AD AY 80 566 3 26 F7 1026 DATA 5 30 88 10 8 24 8 2 6 39 9 0 26 4 80 73 20 6 16 8 02 4 70 30 0 8 30 3 A7 B4 E6 23 F1 30 A4 26 E 7D 3 OAD 279 2A 480 iFa 0 23 Biel 25 30 88 0 7 84 7 1 7 1 5 8 CS0 85
133. sSel is primarily intended for Del phi users who capture Forum messages using a terminal program MesSe begins by creating an index file of the messages It then displays the first message in the file or the message after the one you read last This allows you to read new mes sages in multiple sessions without having to start at the beginning each time Op tions available as you read cach message 0314 40 480 HPRINT 19 8 DOWN CAME THE RAIN 490 PLAY D2L4 AL4AL8B D3L2C 500 HPRINT 7 10 AND WASHED THE SPIOER OUT 510 PLAY L8CD2L4B L8AL4B 03L8CO2 L4AP2D3L16CD2B AGL4FP3 520 11 12 00 CAME THE SUN 530 PLAY LAFPSFL8GL2A 540 HPRINTC7 14 ANO DRIED UP A LL THE RAIN 550 PLAY L8AL4GLBFLA4GL8ALA4FP10P3 560 HPRINT 7 16 NDM EEN SY MEE N SY SPIDER 570 PLAY L8CL4FL8FL4FL8GL4 AL4A 580 HPRINT 8 18 WENT UP THE SP OUT AGAIN 590 PLAY L8AL4GL8FL4GL8AL4FP203L 16CC4DELAF 600 FOR D TO 1000 D 610 POKE 65497 0 680 FDR 300 TD 5 5 20 630 SDUND1 1 SOUND1 1 640 PALETTE 8 RND 31 650 C 15 PALETTE C RND 15 660 11 10 0 40 include saving the message printing the message extracting the message to a sepa rate file replying to the message or delet ing the message Once you ve finished reading all the messages MesPrc is used to actually carry out the orders you gave to MesSel reads and processes the commands stored in t
134. sheet program that provides for using more thanthe usual 30K or so supported by Dynacalc and VI PCalc I d like to be able to save large spreadsheets to DSDD disks so I need something that supports at least 360K of memory this would give me a 10 fold increase in utility Richard Strong 7514 Belleplaine Drive Huber Heights OH 45424 3229 CoCo 2 CoCo 3 Incompatibilities Editor I m a relatively late comer to the world of the Color Computers I started with a 16K ECB CoCo II in 1988 After blowing the CPU in that computer I went to Radio Shack to get repair parts and found the CoCo 3 onsale for 69 I boughtit thinking it would be better than repairing my old CoCo 2 1 found out later that V P Writer VIP Database and VIP Caic would not work on it have since repaired my old CoCo but it s a pain switching back and forth between the two Could someone tell me how to remedy this I recently purchased two old 4K ma chines and a box of software from a friend going into the IBM business I am getting more and more into the world of CoCo each day I expanded the old CoCos and sold them at a bargain price I also have several CoCo 2 memory chips 8040016 and 64K RAM chips Ineeda pen pal to tell me whatto do with all this stuff and also how to get the Home Publisher software to work Any advice or correspondence is welcome Terry Stafford Route One Box 81 A Elora TN 37328 One option is to contact SD Enterprises or Co
135. t of that research shows up in the manual s informative explanation of rules and game play You can learn a lot by reading it But you can also leam to play just by diving in The Action menu s help screens give you enough information to get started Toplay you ll need OS 9 Level II along with a CoCo 3 having at least 256K of memory While the keyboard can be used to control play I recommend a joystick or a mousc Both RGB and composite modes are supported ColorSystems P O 540 Castle Hayne NC 28429 0540 919 675 1706 34 95 Lauren Willoughby THE RAINBOW April 1992 23 Feature Program PRINTING SIDEWAYS ave you ever needed to print text across the length of a piece of paper maybe you re creating a folded bulletin but discovered 8 4 by 11 inch paper won t fit into the printer sideways Or perhaps you vc just developed a spreadsheet but it s too wide to fit across one page and taping two pages together doesn t produce a very profes sional look besides it s a pain Sideways is a printer utility that accepts text from a standard ASCII file rotates it and prints it side ways down the paper instead of across As written Side waysrequires a CoCo 3 and a disk drive and it is dc signed to work with the Radio Shack DMP 120 printer However with some minor changes Sideways will work with just about any dot matrix printer that supports Tandy mode graphics printing Newer Tandy prin
136. takes some work though One at a time in random fashion the phrases are brie fly flashed onscreen where their associated boxes are located When a phrase is displayed any keypress selects that box and the player wins or loses accordingly The flashing cursor moves quickly so you ll have toread fast to catch il with a keypress This is where patience comes in handy once you know whcre the phrases are located you can wait for the good ones to light up Player 1 always goes first Youcantell whose turn it is by looking at the numbers next to players names the current player s number is highlighted If a player selects Lose a Turn or Bankrupt the other player gets a turn However while control is transferred selecting Bankrupt does not cause you to lose a turn Each player starts with three turns lives If you have at least 200 in your bank you can buy another tum by pressing B The first person to reach 1000 wins You also win if your opponent runs out of lives One last note An empty bank zero dollars is not the lowest amount you can get If you drop below zero you ll have to work your way out of the red one chunk at a time the CoCo 3 knows better than to think you could save yourself with a Bank rupt at this point Test Your Luck is written for the CoCo 3 and does not require a disk drive The program doesusethehigh speed poke POKE 65497 0 make sure the computer is at normal speed POKE 654
137. ters that support only son codes won t work with the Sidewavs system The reason Sideways requires a CoCo 3 is that the program uses the Hi Res font built into the computer to create the rotated characters This limitation is actually bonus the CoCo 378 built in font can he changed and you can use different fonts for printing In fact you can use just about any font created with a font editor such as Fons Creator THE RAINBOW May 1987 Page 99 or Font Master THT RAINBOW October 1988 Page 41 Professional Results 65 The next programming language for 05 9 Icon 09 is a graphical user interface GUI to BasicO9 which will make programming easier than ever Icon 09 takes an innovative approach by using graphic representations or icons to represent statements and keywords for writing BasicO9 programs and procedures Instead of constantly typing while writing a program the user can simply point amp click to choose the desired statement Icon 09 can also be very useful in studying procedures and programs written by others to learn how they operate The package contains a full set of icons or you may edit or create icons using the included icon editor Icon BasicO9 requires a CoCo 3 with at least 256k mouse or joystick and OS 9 lv 2 2 0 40 27 25 18 15 Dual hi res joystick adapter Hi amp Lo res joystick adapter
138. to CoCo PRO The transaction includes inventory present and future customers and priority products In a press release dated January 3 1992 Ross stated Ihave worked with Dave Myers for the last several years and have found his commitment to the Color Computer as wellashis ability as a businessman to be unsurpassed Ross also said This hobby has brought me more happi ness and fun than I can express Support will continue for current own ers of Howard Medical products Ac cording to Dave Myers president of CoCo PRO Existing warranties on Howard Medical products will be hon In addition CoCo PRO intends to pick up production of the Slot Pak and Puppo Keyboard Interface products Regarding this business move Dave said Medical has provided fantas tic service to the CoCo Community and we are proud that we have the opportu nity to continue that tradition Tutorial Right W hen wrote my first article on using spread Spectaculator Golf Handicapping Hot CoCo May 1985 I noted that a serious shortcoming was Spectaculator s inability to sort data Since that time I have aquired the Disk BASIC version of the Dynacalc spreadsheet and have developed a new golf handicapping template With this template can sort my scores list the last 20 games played in chronological order or by low high score determine the best 10 games out
139. to learn how to use computers is fast becoming an important step in their education While some children seem to be naturals others may not see much use in learning about computers By connecting computers with activities children enjoy we can often overcome this hurdle Eensey Weensey Spider is a program that combines graphics with the music for the children s song of the same name As the CoCo sounds the notes the words to the tune appear onscreen further enhancing the educational process This short program is designed to work on the CoCo 3 Enter the program from the listing and save it on tape or disk before running it Now assist your child with running Eensey Weensey Spider and encouragehim to sing along with the CoCo Ruth E Golias is retired and likes to write Color Computer programs that chil dren might enjoy She may be contacted at 2826 Pacific Coast Hwy Tarrance CA 90505 310 325 1384 2 The Listing EWSPIDER 1 BENSEY WEBNSEY SPIDER 2 BY RUTH GOLIAS 2 2826 PACIFIC COAST HWY 4 TORRANCE 90505 5 COPYRIGHT C 1992 6 BY FALSDFT INC 7 RAINBOW MAGAZINE 10 ON BRK GD TD 970 20 X RND C TIMER 30 HSCREEN2 PALETTE CMP PALETTE Orol PALETTE O20 PALETTE 432 Product Review Goodies Disk Two An OS 9 Potpourri Goodies Disk Two isa collection of 11 OS 9 programs mostof which are written in BASICO9 Gne exception is Connect which is written in assembly language Document
140. tractor feed and much much more Backed by a 2 Year warranty Epson and IBM emulation modes for maximum software compatibility A performer so versatile you may never exhaust its creative possibilities Our Plug n Go for the Coco system includes e NX 1001 Multi Font Printer T 24 WIRE PRINTER SYSTEMS ALSO AVAILABLE CoCo compatible Color and Monochrome Call for pricing 51988 10 Shipping amp Insurance The Ultimate Serial to Parallel Interface The Blue Streak Ultima 7 Switchable Baud Rates 300 thru 19200 An interface cable that converts the serial output of a CoCo 1 2 ar 3 toa standard parallel format compatible with modern parallel printers Connecting the Ultima isas easy as plugging in the cable The four pin din plugs into the serial 1 0 port of your CoCo and the other end a 36 pin connector connects to the parallel port of the printer The Ultima is powered with the 5V supplied by most printers on pin 18 If your printer does not have 5V on pin 18 you ll need to add the power option when ordering 9995 2 Shipping FOE UA Order Your boc DRE Call 513 885 5999 DAYTON ASSOCIATES z INC 9644 uailwood Trail Spring Valley Ohio 45370 Epson is a registered irage mark of Seiko Epson Corp Isa registered trade mark of International Business Machines Corp Visa amp Mastercard Accepted Ohio residents add 6 5 sales tax COD add 4 00 MosterCord gt
141. uc version 54 95 Standard version V3 0 updates provide disk number 99 95 44 95 25 00 15 00 D P Johnson Software SDISK er SDISK3 29 95 114412 Utils 75 00 Shipping and handlling any software 2 50 U S A 3 00 Canada Orders must be prepaid or COD VISA MC accepted COD is additional 571 Center Road Hillsboro NH 03244 USA 603 464 3850 OS 9 is a v ademaik ef Microware Systems Corporation and Masrola Inc MS DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corp FLEX is a trademark of TSC Inc 24 April 1982 THE RAINBOW The Rainbow Bookshelf lhe Kiminin Book ol Mhe iniii WI RTT TC tu The Rainhow wile to 05 4 Level WD VA is The First Rainbow Ronk of Adventures The Second Kainlocw Bonk of Adhentures The Third Ruinhow Howk af Adventures The Fourth Book of Adventures ipii i 3 111 Full Turn of Lhe Rainhow ta j i li is Address City State Zip _ Payment Enclosed or J VISA 3 MasterCard Account Number Card Exp Date Signature 1 The Rainbow Book of Simulations first J Rainbow Simulations Tape first J First Simulations Package J The Second Rainbow Book of Simulations I Second Rainbow Simulations Tape 2 Second Rainbow Simulations Disk J Second Simulations Package with Tape 3 Second Simulations Packa
142. udes a listing you can enter to build Apure own TE e program suited for business and financial tasks their power and versatility potential takes them far beyond the confines of dollars and cents Electronic spreadsheets are usefulin a wide variety of applications including but certainly not limited to statistics struc tural analysis circuit design and sports the golf handicapper here is but one example The various engineering disci plines involve many applications where spreadsheets can be used to great advan tage Further in additionto being idealfor number crunching applications spread sheets also make handy databases Suf fice it to say the utility of spreadsheets is limited only by our own imaginations Archer hue CoCo 3 Number Cruncher ma Joss Pest 146 pro gram listing pae f reor s NV Spectaculator Shells April 1983 Page 74 lt gt Mitchell Dennis Business Soft ware and the CoCo March 1984 Page 28 Mooallem Saul Spreading It On a Little Thicker March 1988 Page 54 program updates to Bill Reed s program see Reed s entry below c Posner Judd To enter a formula or mathematical expression into a cell you must use a des ignator as the firstcharacter If the expres sion involves only simple arithmetic use the plus sign However to use a built in math function start the expression with an sign When you press EN
143. ure If the value does not work try increasing or decreasing it by one Now run the pro gram in Listing 2 it pokes the object code into memory and saves BITTEST BIN to disk Le With S IDEMAY S BAS and BITTEST BIN on a disk in Drive 0 enter RUN SIDE WAYS to start the program The first prompt that appears onscreen asks this reversed If the text is reversed or otherwise garbled press Y otherwise press N Next you arc prompted for a filename enter the name of the file you want to print any ASCITtext file When you are asked for the number of lines between pages enter any value or press ENTER to accept the default five lines Finally you are asked whether you want standard or con densed printing press S or C accordingly During printing the monitor is hlanked to prevent burn in Sidewaysmust bc run from a 32 column GRANITE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ZOOM MODEMS NEW 14 400 BPS ZOOM V 32bis V 42 V 42bis data modems MNP1 5 LAPM Error Correction and data compression much higher effective throughput as much as 57 600 BPS Two Year Warranty External 339 Internal 299 9 S amp H NEWLOWERPRICE 9600 BPS ZOOM V 32 V 42 V 42bis datamodems MNP1 5 LAPM Error Correction and data compression much higher effective throughput as much as 38400 BPS Two Ycar Warranty External 299 Internal 279 9 S amp H NEW LOWER PRICE 2400 BPS ZOOM V 42 V 42bis data modems MNP1 5 LAPM Error
144. ve tasks such as viewing directories copying or formatting disks killing copying and renaming files Pakfix help for those having problems getting their CoCo 3 to work with a modem Gnome Quest a CoCo 3 graphics adven ture and Birds a Tom Mix machine lan guage graphics game 7 amp D Software 2490 Miles Standish Drive Holland MI 49424 616 399 9466 8 Desk Tamer a point and click integrated software package It includes a text editor a calculator a phone book and a filing system Desk Tamer also includes a full featured scheduling system to keeptrack of appointments and activities Requires a 512K CoCo3 OS 9 Level II the windint module from Multi Vue the tmd module available with Desk Tamer and the enhanced gfx2 module created with the public domain patch by Kevin Darling and available from information services or MV Systems a disk drive and a mouse or joystick MV Systems P O Box 618 Ar vada CO 80001 0818 303 420 7777 34 95 plus 2 50 S H U S 5 foreign Photon an arcade action game for the CoCo 3 Features 62 challenging rooms through which you must maneuver a power tank Y ou must move to avoid Dupes and Plasma Droids and rearrange the different shaped building blocks to reach strategically placed transporters Contains 320 by 200 pixel 16 color animated graphics along with real time music and sound effects For one or two players Requires a CoCo 3 and a disk drive Sundog Systems P O
145. x Green or Amber Monitor 99 00 Thexderby Sierra CoCo 3 22 45 Tandy DMP 240 192 CPS 8color 399 00 CoCo 3 Gime Chip 29 95 Kings Quest III by Sierra CoCo 3 31 45 Panasonic KXP 1180 192 CPS 189 00 Tandy Pistol Grip Joystick 26 95 Flight Sim Il by SubLogic CoCo 3 31 45 Panasonic 112324Wirehead 259 00 PBJ OK COCO 3Upgrade Board 29 95 OS 9 Level Il by Tandy 71 95 Panasonic 1 1241300 CPS 329 00 PBJ512K COCO 3 Upgrade 89 00 OS 9 Development System 89 95 Okidata 320 300 CPS 369 00 TandyOKCOCO S3Upgrade Board 39 95 Multi View by Tandy 44 95 Okidata 380 180 CPS 24 Wire HD 239 00 Tandy 512K COCO 3 Upgrade 99 00 VIP Writer disk only 69 95 OKI Laser 400 4PPM 679 00 E E VIP Integrated Library disk 149 95 MODEMS R E 1 ps DISK Prices are subject to change without notice Please call for Tandy DCM 6 5200 TheWildWest COCO3 Tug eer amie addi iod Tandy DCM 7 85 00 Worlds of Flight 34 95 34 95 Cardinal 1200 Baud External 99 00 Mustang P 51 Flight Simul 34 95 34 95 Sale prices through 8 10 92 Cardinal 2400 Baud External 129 00 Flight 16 Flight Simul 34 95 34 95 CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 343 8124 e LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES e BEST POSSIBLE WARRANTY KNOWLEDGEABLE SALES STAFF e TIMELY DELIVERY P O Box 1094 e SHOPPING CONVENIENCE 5 King al oT ittleton 1 223 IN MASSACHUSETTS CALL 508 486 3193 Tandy is a registered trademark of T andy Corp SINCE 1973
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147. y need to make a real effort to sell these systems and keep the software coming So I agree with you that there is no one replacement for the CoCo But at the same time there must be unification in morethan just new options Good luck John Perry lli Marymount University Box 480 Arlington VA 22207 4299 We agree The points you make regard ing the installation of applications soft ware hold true not only for the newer computers but for existing CoCos as well Picking and Choosing Editor I was interested in your reviews of the new computers offered as a way to go for CoCo users It s early for judgments of course but at first reading the TC9 seems to be the machine for home hobby users likc myself and perhaps for a large majority of readers out there The implication that we may be able to continue to use our precious Color Computer BASIC programs and pe ripherals on the foreshadowed virtual machine is the sort of morale booster we needed so much so that I have decided to wait and see and delay going the MS DOS route as I was seriously thinking of doing I guess THERAINBOW will eventually be faced with the unenviable task of selecting arunning mate for the CoCo I am sure that you will give due weight to the issue of CoCo compatibility both software and hardware before you make a decision For us out in the 220 240 volt 50 hertz belt the question remains as to whether there will be a version avai

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