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COMMODORE

Editor: Stuart Cooke

Assistant Editor: Sue Joyce

Editorial Assistant.: Kirk Rutter

Senior Advertising Manager: Pete

Chandler

Advertisement Manager: Stuart

Taylor

Advertisement Copy Control: Laura

Champion

Typesetting: Project. 3

Design: ASP Art Studio

SERIOUS

USERS

GUIDE CO

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NEW CHARACTERS ON THE

MPS 801/3 4 9

Give your MPS801/3 a character set. of

your own design.

YC WRITER 5 6

A superb 80 column wordprocessor for

C64 owners.

CONTENTS

CHARACTER SCROLLER 18

Scrolling character sets for C64 owners.

TRANS-SCRIPT 21

Convert your Plus/4 3plus 1 ﬁles to

Script Plus.

PLUS/4 EXTENDED BASIC 23

A host of new commands for Plus."4

owners.

WORDPROCESSOR ROUND UP

What's the best wordpmcessor for the

money?

EVERY MANS GUIDE TO

GRAPHICS 3 4

Everything you wanted to know about

C64 graphi

TECHNICAL INFORMATION 71

All you ever wanted to know about your

computer.

LISTINGS 4

How to type in the programme in this

magazine.

HASHING IT WITH CBM 6

Using relative ﬁles with your disk drive.

FAST FORMATTER 8

Format a disk in under 10 seconds

(C64).

MULTIFILE 1 0

Customize this C64 database to suit.

your own requirements.

DISK FILE DESCRIBER 16

Keep track of the programmes on your

C64 disks.

FOREIGN FORMATS 85

Using your 1571 to read strange disks.

PRINT MASTER 87

Produce Sprite, character and screen

grids with this handy C64 program.

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PROGRAM LOCK 89

Keep prying eyes out of your latest.

programming masterpiece.

SWAPPER 64 4 1

Swap between two programmes at. the

press of a key.

128 DISK UTILITY 43

A utility no C128 owner should be

without.

SOFTWARE FOR SALE 90

How to buy these programmes on disk

or cassettes.

wealth of technical information

provided in our Technical

Appendix, an invaluable ref-

erence. Here you will ﬁ nd

memory maps for all of the

popular Commodore computers.

ROM calls are also listed so that

you can ﬁnd out, at a glance, in-

formation that you need when

programming. Aids such as the

hex-decimal convertor and the

list of useful POKE commands

will also prove extremely useful.

can now use descenders and

user-deﬁned character sets on

their prilzters. Plus/4 owners can

add a wealth of new conunands

with our extended Basic. Disk

owners will ﬁnd the fast format-

ter and ﬁle describer in

The lbw

User Guide is packed full of vital

information and program:nes for

all types of Commodore owners.

If you use your computer for

'home ofﬁce' purposes then the

80 column 064 wordprocessor

will no doubt come in extremely

handy (tape and disk supported).

If you need to keep lists of in-

formation, the database Multiﬁle

will be very useful. Multiﬁle is

customized to suit your speciﬁc

needs and it can be used for any-

thing from running a stock

control to keeping a list of names

and addresses.

Many utility programmes are

also included. MPS801/3 owners

utilities.

If you write your own pro-

grammes then there's plenty in

the Guide for you too. Program

Lock will protect your pm-

grammes and keep plying eyes

from reading your code. A char-

acter scroller for the C64 will

help to improve the visual effect

of your programs.

Beginners and hardened pro-

grammers alike will ﬁ nd the

The Your Commodore Serious

Users Guide is something that no

Commodore owner should be

without.

Easy Entry C64

Listings

irst time with our deluxe program Spieln

for the C64.

Get it right

:CC=2*[PI]KR:

Ignore the square brackets and just

type in a shifted upward pointing

arrow (ie. the pi symbol),

down the CTRL key as you press N,

press the cursor key down twice. the

cursor left key ﬁve times, press the key

marked BLUE while holding down the

CTRL key, press the F3 key and.

ﬁnally hold the Commodore key down

while pressing the number two key (C2

would of course make the computer

print in brown).

Always remember that you should

only have a row of graphics characters

on your screen with no square brackets

and no commas. unless something like

this appears:

[ SS],[C*1

In this case the two characters should

have a comma between them.

On rare occasions [REV T I will

appear in a listing. This is a delete

symbol and is created by entering the

line up to this mnemonic. Then type a

closing quotation mark (SHIFT & 2)

and delete it. This gets the computer

out of quotes mode. Hold down CTRL

and press the number nine key

( RVSON ), type the relevant number of

reversed T's and then hold down

CTRL and press zero (RVSOFF).

Next type another quotation mark and

delete it again. Now ﬁnish the line and

press RETURN.

A list of these special cases is given

in the table but remember that only

one of these mnemonics will appear

outside of a PRINT string: the symbol

for pi. This may appear when its value

is needed in a calculation so this

look something like:

listings are free of those horrible little

black blobs which send you searching

around the keyboard for a suitable

graphic symbol. You may also have

noticed the funny numbers by the side

of each line of the listing. Fret no more.

it's all part of our easy entry aid.

Instead of those nasty graphics and

rows of countless spaces in PRINT

statements and strings we use a special

coding system. The code, or

mnemonic. is always contained in

square brackets and you'll soon learn

to decipher their meanings.

For example, [SA] would mean

type in a Shifted A, or an ace of spades

in layman's terms, and [SA101 would

mean a row of ten of these symbols.

[S+.2] means hold down the shift

key and press the plus key twice. It

doesn't take a great leap of logic to

realise that (C-I-21 means exactly the

same thirw, except that the Commo-

dore key (bottom left of the keyboard)

is held down instead of the shift key.

It' more than two spaces appear in a

statement then this will be printed as

[SPCA] or, exceptionally, [SSPC4].

Translated into English this means

press the spacebar four times or in the

latter case hold the shift key down

while you do it.

A string of special characters could

appear as:

[CTRL N

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5 REM SYTAX CHECKER - ERIC 1:MYLE

IC EiL...10 :5A...48162

20 FOR 1..0 TO 131.:CXO:FOR 0...0 T3

30 READ A:IF A>2SSTHENPRINT"NUM0

ER TO L4RGE";LN.tL*10),ST0P

40 CX•CN•A;POKE 5A

50 READ A:IF A)(CK THENPRINT"ERR

OR IN LINE";LN.CL°10),STOP

60 NEXT L:SYS 491S2:NEW

70 DATA 173,5,3.201,165.208,31,1

20,169,9,141,32,208,141,33,208.1

847

80 DATA 169,7,141,134.2,169,13,3

2.210,855,169,64,141,4,3,1E9.16B

90 DATA 192,141,5,3,88,86,120,16

6,124,141,4,3,169,165,141,5.1566

100 DATA 3,169,14,141,134.2.141,

32, 208, 169,6, 141 , 33,208,88, 96,15

110 DATA 32.184,165,72,13E1,72,15

2, 72, 162,0, 165, 20, 133, ?5Li. 1.55

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1797

24.101,254,133,254.189,

0,2,240,18,69,254,133,254,232,18

9,2346

130 DATA 0,2,240,8.24,101,254,13

3,254, 232, 208,233, 165, 1 , 141 134 ,

2134

140 DATA 2.165.254,74.74,74,74,3

2,156,192.32.210,255,1E5,254.41,

2054

1S0 DATA 15,32,156,198,32,210,25

5, 169, 13, 32,210, 2SS, 169, 13.32, 81

0,1995

150 DATA 255,169,7,141,134,2.104

,168,104,170,104,96,24,105,48,20

1,1832

170 DATA 58,16,1,96,24,105,7,96,

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by Eric Doyle

F3,C3]

This would be achieved by holding

YOUR COMMODORE SERIOUS USERS GUIDE

Easy Entry C64

Mnemonic Sy mbol

Keypress

Mnemonic Symbol Key press

[RIGHT]

CTRL & I

CRSR left/right

zrzii

[BLACK]

CTRL & 2

[LEFT]

SHIFT & CRSR left/right

[WHITE]

[ DOWN]

CTRL & 3

CRSR up/down

[RED!

[UP]

CTRL & 4

SHIFT & CRSR up/down

[CYAN]

ﬁ key

CTRL & 5

[PURPLE]

CTRL & 6

SHIFT & II key

(GREEN]

[F3]

f3 key

CTRL & 7

[ BLUE]

[F4]

CTRL & 8

SHIFT & f3 key

[YELLOW]

[T5]

f5 key

[POUND'

[F6]

SHIFT & f5 key

[LARROW]

r key

UPARROW]

[F8]

SHIFT & 17 key

[PII

SHIFT &

CER/HOME

[HOME!

[INST]

SHIFT & INST/DEL

S II I FT & CLR/HOME

[CLR]

see text

[REV T]

CTRL & 9

I RVSON1

CBM + letter

[Cletteri

CTRL & 0

RVSOFFJ

[Sletterl

SHIFT + letter

Checksum Program

immediately because it will be used

with most of the present and future

listings appearing in Your

Commodore.

At the start of each programming

session, load Checksum and run it.

The screen will turn brown with yellow

characters and each time you type in a

line and press the RETURN key a

number will appear on the screen in

white. This should be the same as the

corresponding value in the magazine.

lithe two values don't relate to one

another, you have not copied the line

exactly as printed so go back and check

each character carefully. When you

ﬁnd the error simply correct it and

press RETURN again.

If you want to turn ()lithe checker

simply type SYS49I52 and the screen

will return to the familiar blue colours.

You can then do whatever it was you

wanted to do and if this doesn't use the

area where Checksum lies you can go

back to it with the same SYS

command.

No system is foolproof but the

chances of two errors cancelling one

another out arc so remote that we

believe our listings are more reliable

than any other magazine in the world.

So get typing!

The hexadecimal numbers appearing

in a column to the left of the listing

should not be typed in with the

program. These are merely checksum

values and are there to help you get

each line right. Don't worry if you

don't understand the hexadecimal

System, as long as you can compare

two characters on the screen with the

corresponding two characters in the

magazine you can use our line

checking program.

Type in the Checksum Program,

make sure that you've not made any

mistakes and save it to tape or disk

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