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VOLUME 15, NO. 7, ISSUE 154 JULY 1993

FEATURES 76
6 GAME INSIDER
TOP 10 WINDOWS TOOLS By Shay Addams
By Kimberly Havlena The hottest new
Power users name their top entertainment software.
Windows applications and
78
tell how they use them. ENTERTAINMENT CHOICE
16 By Peter Olafson
TEST LAB Alone in the Dark from
Edited by Mike Hudnall I • Motion/Interplay.
We corral ten 66-MHz local-
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them through their paces. By Paul C. Schuytema
60 A look at some game
WHERE HARDWARE MEETS programs that are off the
SOFTWARE beaten path.
By Richard C. Letnecker
83
How does your hardware HITTING THE LINKS
communicate with your By Paul C. Schuytema
software? When the masters tee up,
66 which ones can drive a hole
PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE in one?
By George Campbell
Visual Basic 2.0 from REVIEWS
Microsoft. 89
Sony Desktop Library,
COLUMNS Dashboard for Windows 1.0,
4 Smith Corona Coronajet 200j,
EDITORIAL LICENSE DEC 433DX LP,
By Clifton Karnes Cover photo by Mark Wagoner. Computer from Gateway 2000. AutoCAD Release 12,
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Top computer news. INTRODOS MULTIMEDIA PC Suncom FX 2000,
46 By Tony Roberts By David English Insight,
FEEDBACK DOS is alive and well. Encarta is tops. Grandmaster Chess,
Answers to tough questions. 56 Air Force Commander,
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READERSHIP SURVEY By Mark Minasi By Robert Bixby FP Traveler Fax/Modem,
Tell us what you think! Special report on Intel's new Finding that special paper. Mutanoid Math Challenge,
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 EDITORIAL LICENSE
Clifton Karnes

'hat's ahead for Win Chicago project. Windows and a high-perform

dows and DOS? That's The last Windows family is ance, security-intensive work
'a question we all ask Windows NT, which most of station version.
(ourselves, and those of us have heard a lot about in This is good news for all of
us in the business of following the last year. NT, which us. It means that in order to
the PC industry ask it more of stands for New Technology, move up to high-performance
ten than anyone else. This is the corporate branch of the 32-bit computing, we can sim
past April, at the Windows De Windows family tree. ply upgrade to Windows 4.
velopers Conference in Bos One thing that's worried And what will Windows 4
ton, we received an answer. some of us is the future of Win be like? It's certain to be
At the conference, Micro dows 3.1. Will it be replaced more object-oriented than its
soft made a presentation that by NT? From the evidence at predecessors. And here, ob
focused on two things: OLE the conference, it doesn't ject-oriented means "easier to
2.0 and 32-bit Windows. How look as if it will be. Microsoft use." Drag and drop will be
ever, the talk ranged over top said that 89 percent of its fu the primary vocabulary, and
ics that included NT, Win ture business is planned to perhaps most important, the
dows for TVs, and Chicago come from its persona! Win emphasis will switch from ap
(Microsoft's newest hush- dows products—Windows 3.1 plications to documents.
hush project). and its successors—with the As documents become
rest divided between Modular more integrated (containing
Windows and Windows NT. text, graphics, sound, and vid
So if personal Windows is eo), each document will be
so important, why the empha created by a suite of applica
sis on 32-bit Windows? Most tions. The document, then,
of us think of NT as the 32-bit will become the focus of our at
version of Windows. Although tention, and the applications
that's true now, NT won't be that create it will become
the only 32-bit Windows more transparent.
around by 1994. Windows 4, This application transparen
planned for release next cy is one of the goals of OLE
year, will be a full 32-bit oper 2.0, v/hich I discussed six
ating system. Interestingly, months ago. With the new
DOS 7 will be part of Win OLE, as you work in a com
dows 4. And the Chicago pro pound document and as you
ject, mentioned above, con move from application to ap
sists of both Windows 4 and plication, your document
It's clear that First off, Microsoft sees DOS 7. And what about Win stays the same, but the frame
OLE Is an three Windows families. The dows for Workgroups? Micro window changes (usually as lit
extremely important first family is Modular Win soft plans to include all the net tle as possible) to reflect the
technology to dows, which includes Tandy's working capability of WFWG proper editing environment
Windows' future. VIS (the only shipping prod in Windows 4, so WFWG will for the current part of your doc
uct built on Modular Windows disappear as a separate prod ument. This is a powerful
to date), the as-yet-to-be-devel uct, just as Multimedia Win tool, and something we can
oped WinPad operating sys dows did when 3.1 included look forward to in the very
tem for PDAs (Personal Digi multimedia support. near future.
tal Assistants), Windows for As you might expect, DOS Interestingly, this emphasis
TVs (a joint venture with Intel 7 will be a full 32-bit operating on OLE 2.0 doesn't come
and General Instruments), system. It may even come from some ivory tower philos
and Windows Telephony (an close to the "DOS NT" colum ophy cooked up at Micro
other joint venture with Intel). nist Mark Minasi talked about soft's Redmond headquar
You could call this family con in his May "Hardware Clinic" ters, but from user surveys.
sumer Windows, because column. According to figures present
that's clearly the market Micro One thing's for sure: The dif ed by Microsoft, end users
soft is going after. ference between personal Win have told the company that
The next family is called per dows and Windows NT won't what they really want from Win
sonal Windows, and this be the difference between 16- dows applications is better in
group includes Windows 3.1, and 32-bit operating systems. tegration. And with Windows
Windows for Workgroups, It will be the difference be 4, DOS 7, and OLE 2.0. well
and the yet-to-be-announced tween an end-user version of all have it. □
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 ower users name

the top
Windows
applications and
tell how
they put them
to use.

y Kimberly Havlena

Looking for the Windows applications

that offer the most in terms of tools,
speed, and intuitiveness? Here are the
experts' opinions to help you in your
search for the programs that will best
meet your needs.
The experts whose opinions we
solicited have reviewed hundreds of
programs and identified the ones that
they like best. Whatever sparks your
interest—word processing, spread
sheets, databases, or graphics—here
are the Windows application programs
that will provide the greatest ease,
efficiency, and enjoyment.

Getting the Words on Paper

Word processing took a long time to
come to Windows. Once it arrived, the
word-processing arena suddenly filled
with contenders. There is hardly a
major word processor that doesn't have
a Windows version available. With all
that software to choose from, which
programs are the most popular among
users who spend hours a day making
their living by writing?
Leslie Eiser has been writing in
 COMPUTE and elsewhere about edu an add-on for word processing. This does a few more things than Excel. But
cational computing for ten years. Eiser electronic library comes with handy the features race will continue.
says Microsoft Word for Windows is reference tools, including a dictionary Quattro Pro gives you a three-
her pick as the best word processor. and an encyclopedia. Bookshelf is a dimensional spreadsheet which
She likes it not only because it's pow CD-ROM product. In fact, Microsoft allows you to work not only in rows
erful and easy to use, but also Bookshelf now comes as a premium and columns but also in stacks of
because it's heipfui in a school envi with Multimedia Word for Windows pages. The 3-D metaphor resembles
ronment. It has well-integrated tools, and Bookshelf. If you find a quotation a three-ring binder with tabs at the
such as a style checker and the in the dictionary or encyclopedia that bottom of each page that you can
saurus, that make it a great help to you want to use in your text, you click on to move back and forth
teachers. Another advantage is that merely highlight it and, with the click between all the pages in your spread
it's a word processor equally power of a button, it's inserted into your sheet. Quattro Pro also has graphic
ful—and popular—in its PC and Word for Windows document. In ad tools for drawing and making slides
Macintosh versions. And in compari dition to this, an automatic footnote is that give a professional touch. "It's not
son to WordPerfect, Word for Windows inserted to tell which reference book only a spreadsheet, but it's a little pre
is much easier to use, Eiser finds. the material came from. sentation-building package as well,"
Tom Campbell owns and operates Steven Anzovin spends most of his says Mann.
the South Bay Company, which devel time writing books, but he's also a free George Campbell thinks that Excel
ops software; he writes the "Program lance writer, an editor, a computer con is the best Windows application. With
ming Power" column for COMPUTE. sultant, and a database programmer. its intuitiveness, it simplifies complica
Campbell uses Word for Windows Anzovin uses MacLinkPlus as his prin tions, and the final output is easily
because it's the best word processor cipal word-processing add-on. Mac made to look presentable.
he can find for large documents. He LinkPlus transfers files between the
uses it for creating everything from Macintosh and PC over a modem con The World of Publishing
brochures to 800-page manuals. nection, automatically translating be Is ease of use your prime considera
Desktop publishing expert William tween various PC and Mac file formats. tion when you're looking for a desktop
Harrel has written five books about Tony Roberts operates a desktop publishing and layout program?
publishing and hundreds of articles publishing business and is a COM William Harrel says that in his opinion,
for COMPUTE and other magazines. PUTE contributing editor. To Roberts, Aldus PageMaker is the easiest desk
When it comes to word processing, helpfulness means OmniPage Direct. top publishing software to use. It has
Harrel prefers Ami Pro. "As a review OmniPage Direct allows him to place a pasteboard metaphor that Harrel
er, with my extensive knowledge of a typewritten page on the scanner likens to working on a layout table.
the three top Windows word proc and read it into a word-processing Anybody familiar with laying out
essors, Ami Pro is the most so file. With OmniPage Direct, you can pages on a drafting table or a paste
phisticated and the most useful," says do the scanning from within your own up table would be more comfortable
Harrel. Ami Pro, a full-featured word applications without having to exit to with PageMaker than with some of the
processor, excels in its page layout another program. frame-based programs. If price is
features. While it can be used as a It's so easy to lose the cursor on more important than ease of use,
simple word processor for typing and your computer screen. ArrowSmith is a Harrel recommends Microsoft
creating documents, it can also han cursor enlargement program that will Publisher or Express Publisher.
dle "relatively sophisticated page lay be sure to catch your eye and add Tony Roberts uses PageMaker in
outs, such as newsletters," says some fun to computer input. Not only his desktop publishing business to
Harrel. The advantage of using your does it enlarge the cursor, but it allows create newsletters, brochures, and
word processor for layouts is that you you to choose what form you want the books. He prefers it to other desktop
don't have to do any extra work to cursor to take. You could choose an publishing software because of its
transfer text between your word ordinary arrow or opt for something many options. Roberts says that he
processor and your layout program. with a little pizazz such as a syringe, a has never liked Aldus PageMaker's
George Campbell is a contributing heart, a flag, or a magnifying glass. keenest competitor, Ventura Publish
editor for another computer magazine ArrowSmith also allows you to modify er, in any other incarnation (Macin
and a shareware author. Campbell is the wait symbol to a picture of a stop tosh and DOS) and that he is going to
also a fan of Ami Pro; he thinks that it sign, a stoplight, a don't-walk sign, a stay away from it in Windows.
makes the best use of the Windows snowflake, a smiley face, even a com Ever the contrarian, Robert Bixby,
environment and offers outstanding puter in jail. "I like ArrowSmith because features editor of COMPUTE and
tools for page design. Campbell feels it's the best cursor enlargement pro author of "Art Works," COMPUTE'S
that Ami Pro is easier to use than its gram I could find. Plus, it's lots of fun to desktop publishing column, prefers
competitors (specifically Word for use," says Tom Campbell. Ventura Publisher because it keeps the
Windows and WordPerfect for text closer to its original condition, eas
Windows). He uses Ami Pro for every Crunching Numbers ily editable by a DOS or Windows word
thing from basic correspondence to Spreadsheets were an early port to processor. He finds PageMaker unintu
high-end desktop publishing. Windows. First and foremost was itive and difficult to use.
Word processing is more than get Microsoft Excel. Recently, publishers
ting words down on paper, though. have been creating and porting spread Using Data
What kinds of word-processing add sheets to Windows in increasing num When it comes to managing data, the
ons do our experts rely on? bers. Which are the cream of the cop? options for Windows users have multiplied
Regular COMPUTE contributor Richard Mann says that Excel and over the past few months with the intro
Richard Mann is a certified public Quattro Pro are both excellent spread duction of Microsoft Access and Microsoft
accountant as well as a writer. Mann sheets for Windows. Because Quattro FoxPro for Windows. How does our panel
recommends Microsoft Bookshelf as Pro has the newest version, it currently of experts rate these packages?
8 COMPUTE JULY 1993
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 George Campbell uses Access to choice for beginners? "When dBASE II directory that's easy to set up and
manage his data. In addition to being came out, it was a lot easier than any works well at high communication
easy to use and having powerful out thing else available, but it took a lot of speeds.
put, "it uses a subset of the Visual work to learn to use it. It's the same in Robert Bixby recommends WinFax
Basic language for development, the case of Access. I simply don't think Pro as the foremost product in the
which . . . makes it easy to work with," it's as easy to use as FileMaker Pro field of direct faxing. Sending a fax
Campbell says. when you first start using it. If you're with Winfax Is exactly like printing to a
Tom Campbell uses Access for the willing to work to learn Access, though, local printer. When you select Winfax
databases to run his business. One your efforts will be richly repaid. If your as your printing device under
reason he likes it is that it has a pro time is limited, stick to FileMaker Pro or Windows, it pauses to get the sending
gramming language similar to ones Instant Database." information (recipient, fax number,
that he already knew. He warns, how and cover page), then formats the
ever, that Microsoft tries to market Ac Making Contact page as a fax. It dials the remote fax
cess as a product that is supposedly Windows has always been an excel machine and sends the file automati
so easy that even a beginner could lent environment for telecommunica cally. Many similar programs are
start working with it right away. "I think tions. In these days of instant faxes appearing, including programs that
Access is a tremendous program— and high-speed interchange of data, receive faxes and convert their graph
I'm even writing a book on it—but it is it makes even more sense to do your ic information into ASCII text for easy
not for beginners," says Campbell. communicating in Windows. William editing and compact storage. Among
"FileMaker Pro 2.0 from Claris is much Harrel stands by Procomm Plus for these is Caere's FaxMaster.
better for beginners than Access or Windows because he's found it to be Keith Ferrell, editor of Omni maga
FoxPro for Windows. Instant Database powerful and easy to use. He says zine, says, "RapidFAX for Windows
from Asymmetrix is another easy and that Procomm is the telecommunica [from The Complete PC] handles my
inexpensive alternative. FoxPro is tions product that has something for fax material more efficiently than any
great if you're already familiar with everybody. thing else I've tried. It certainly beats
FoxPro for DOS or dBASE, but it George Campbell joins in the printing it out, walking to the fax
doesn't do things in an intuitive way praise for Procomm. He says that it's machine, and transmitting it manually.
for a seasoned Windows user," easy to script for logging on and other Seriously, the program is almost
Why isn't Access Campbell's first functions. It also has a good dialing effortless to use, resides nicely in the

Just for Fun

Fun and Windows don't seem to go in adult productivity software]. Windows has always been aimed
together for most people. But the Children are not little adults ... they at productivity, but important
fact is that some of the most innova need to be ... talked to differently," Windows entertainment software for
tive educational and entertainment says Eiser. These programs ap grownups has begun to appear. "A
software is beginning to appear proach children in a completely dif lot of [Windows] games are just
ready to run in the formerly all-busi ferent way from a lot of other chil rehashes of DOS games," says Paul
ness Windows environment. dren's software. Schuytema. But Microsoft Golf, a
Parents quickly learn the names Arthur's Teacher Trouble, written version of the Links golf games, uti
of good children's stories and their by Marc Brown, is for older children. lizes the Windows format and comes
authors. Broderbund's Just Grand It focuses on human relationships complete with digitized sound and
ma and Me and Arthur's Teacher rather than reading skills. The plot excellent graphics. Instead of cram
Trouble are two computer programs that moves the program is that ming everything into one window, as
based on the popular children's sto Arthur is having problems with his a lot of the DOS games do,
ries of the same names. "These are teacher at school and is contemplat Microsoft Golf uses full windowing to
well-known, well-respected chil ing how to solve his dilemma without show you such things as your power
dren's stories, which makes them upsetting everyone. bar and information on how far your
very appealing to the parents," says THE ANIMALS!, developed by clubs can hit. (See "Hitting the
Leslie Eiser. the San Diego Zoo, is another espe Links" elsewhere in this issue.)
Just Grandma and Me, by cially appealing children's program. Maxis has recently released a
Mercer Mayer, is designed for chil It's an encyclopedic view of animals. Windows version of SimCity—The
dren who are learning to read. A Its interface uses the multimedia City Simulator. It's another game
page of the storybook comes up on extensions that come with Windows that follows the Windows format of
the screen, and the computer reads to provide a colorful picture of the opening and closing windows and
the story in beautiful, accented voic zoo. When you click your mouse on being able to pile them on top of
es. Behind the pictures on the a certain section of the zoo, you are each other. By doing so, it gives a
screen, animated sequences are given information on the animals liv new perspective to SimCity. It's easy
hiding. Once you think you know ing in that habitat. THE ANIMALS! is to switch back and forth between a
what to expect, the animated meant to be used in a classroom sit world view and a city view, and
sequences change. uation with children who are either graphs can also be brought up.
The animation of Just Grandma planning to visit the zoo or are "Once you've played SimCity on
and Me resembles the author's illus putting together projects on animals. Windows, you can't go back to the
trations and style. "For children, one (THE ANIMALS! is reviewed else DOS version because it's just so
doesn't use the same graphics [as where in this issue.) good," says Schuytema.

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 FOR 1HE DISCRMMITNG MOVIE FAN.
Death Becomes Her * 1071; -
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Sneakers * 1071604
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Top Gun 0426908 The Search For Spock •0201608
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Aliens 0360909

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Boomerang * 1064005
Star Trek VI: The
Dune 0211102
Undiscovered Country * 1001007
The Blues Brothers 0211706
Ghost •0326008
Goodfellas *0969608
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 0681106
Hook •0854307
Scarface (1983) 0216804
Back To The Future • 0211409
Chinatown •0202507
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North By Northwest •0844209
Future Part II "0921304
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Future Part III *0497008 Beverly Hills Cop II 0431908

Field O( Dreams 0320306 Wayne's World *O8;j3?O5

Fried Green Tomatoes 1005404 Conan The Barbarian •0220509

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The Addams Family •1000900 Henry V (1990) 0040303

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Animal House 0211508 Caddyshack 0602300
Bugs Bunny Classics 0297705 Black Rain •0311701
Fata) Attraction 0439307 The Alrlcan Queen 0051102
Always * 0921502 SEE DETAILS BELOW. Hard To Kill 0953505
Bugsy •0853408
Ham Jet (1990) 0970608
The Bible * 0074708 Memphis Belle *0983502
Casablanca 0050708 Superman: The Movie •0001305
It's A Wonderful Lite Beetlejuice 0633008
(45th Anniversary Ed.) 0392308
Dangerous Liaisons •0638700
New Jack City yj>*if-c7
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Be King "0085303 Road Warrior 0602805
3* The Last Of The Mohicans (1.
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Patriot Games •1051309 American Graffiti 0211300
The Godfather 0000802
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The Silence Of Batman (1989) •0642504
The Lambs 0805309
Batman Returns •1029909
Robin Hood:
Return ot the Jedi' Star Wars* The Empire Strikes Back Home Alone •0104208
Prince Of Thieves •0976803
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Die Hard •0367607 The Last Boy Scout •0779108

Die Hard 2 •0041806 2001:A Space Odyssey *0844308 Predator *036J901 Lethal Weapon 0630806

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which I have grown quite dependent." comes out strongly in favor of listings that would enable readers to
CorelDRAW!. "The reason I use it is create their own word processors,
Out in Public [that] I'm not a graphics artist, and it spreadsheets, databases, and graph
Presentation software is one of the has a lot of features that make me look ics programs. Now that programming
fastest-growing areas in Windows. like one," says Harrel. CorelDRAW! is a is largely the province of profession
What do our Windows pros like when vector drawing program that excels for als, what tools do the pros like to use?
it comes to taking information to the nonillustrators because it has a lot of George Campbell chooses Visual
people? automatic features for creating 3-D Basic 2.0 for programming. Accord
For presentations, William Harrel objects, for mirroring objects, and for ing to Campbell, it's easy to use, pow
prefers Microsoft PowerPoint because wrapping text along a path; it can also erful, and by far the best way to cre
it's both feature rich and easy to use. give an object perspective to make it ate Windows applications.
Harrel says that the approximately 20 look more three-dimensional. Co Tom Campbell uses Borland C++
Windows presentation programs relDRAW! comes with about 250 type to write programs. The reasoning
available right now all work with basi faces and 14,000 pieces of clip art, behind his programming choice is
cally the same idea. You create an along with a charting application, a that Borland C++ happens to be the
outline, and from the outline the pro bitmap application, a slide-show appli only C compiler that currently has a
gram automatically generates slides. cation, and other utilities. "So it's not Windows-integrated environment,
PowerPoint, however, imports Word only powerful—it's a great value," says which makes it easier and more
for Windows outlines. Linked to Excel Harrel. pleasant to use. And when it comes
and Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, Pow Tom Campbell joins in the praise time to test one of his Windows pro
erPoint creates graphs and charts. for CorelDRAW!, mostly for technical grams, he's already in Windows, so
"It's just all-around versatile," says illustration. "I have to admit [that] it's he doesn't have to take the time to
Harrel. kind of fun to play with, too," says start up the environment.
Aldus Persuasion is Tony Roberts's Campbell. His reason for choosing
choice among presentation pro CorelDRAW! is that it has the best Windows Productivity Suite
grams. His desktop publishing busi combination of features and price. Windows has come a long way. The
ness uses Persuasion extensively to Tony Roberts uses Aldus Free- environment that once utilized only
create slides, overheads, and presen Hand and PhotoStyler in conjunction applications designed for graphics
tation material for speeches. with PageMaker when he draws maps and spreadsheets now supports soft
or diagrams or scans in photographs. ware of virtually every variety. In fact,
Every Picture Tells a Story The programs work hand in hand in there are so many applications avail
Creating graphics of all kinds was the production of Roberts's books and able today that it's sometimes difficult
earliest use of graphical environ brochures. to decide which one to buy. That's
ments. Windows and the Macintosh You may have noticed that the pro why experts were called in to heip
operating system made it easy to cre grams Roberts uses are generally narrow the selection.
ate a standard interface and a stan Aldus products. He says that that has The programs most recommended
dard set of graphics tools, and the something to do with why he has cho include Microsoft Word for Windows,
mouse—though not perfect—was still sen to use these applications. Page Ami Pro, Microsoft Excel, Ouattro Pro,
a very good drawing too!. While over Maker was the first Aldus application Aldus PageMaker, Microsoft Access,
the past couple of years Windows he owned, and he felt so comfortable Procomm Plus for Windows, Microsoft
software has taken great strides with it that when he began to add PowerPoint, Aldus Persuasion, and
beyond drawing and painting, and drawing tools and tools for scanning CorelDRAW!, with minority support for
now includes virtually every kind of and photo manipulation, he decided Microsoft Bookshelf, MacLinkPlus,
software, graphics remain the heart of to go with the Aldus products as they OmniPage Direct, ArrowSmith, Ven
the Windows experience and the prin came out. The programs are tura Publisher, Instant Database, File
cipal attraction of the graphical user designed to work together. Roberts Maker Pro, Microsoft FoxPro for
interface for many users. But which says, "I felt confident that if I was Windows, Aldus FreeHand, Aldus
graphics programs are the best? working in one program, I would be PhotoStyler, FaxMaster, WinFax Pro,
Steven Anzovin considers Adobe able to use the output of it in the other RapidFAX, Adobe Illustrator, Fractal
Illustrator the standard in the field of without too much trouble. And that's Design Painter, Arts & Letters Graphic
graphics: "It may not have every tool been fairly true." Editor, and Micrografx Designer.
that you want, but it has the great ad "CorelDRAW! and Arts & Letters When it comes to programming lan
vantage of being a standard that Graphic Editor are fine products," guages, our experts like Visual Basic
many other artists are familiar with Robert Bixby says, "but if you're look and Borland C++.
and use." Adobe Illustrator is geared ing for a complete professional vector How can you choose between
to the professional artist, and so is graphics package with a robust trac such powerful programs as Word for
Fractal Design Painter, which Anzovin ing program, Micrografx Designer is Windows and Ami Pro or between
says is an excellent paint program. It second to none. It has most of the Excel and Quattro Pro? If you have
gives you tools that don't exist in other tools of the other programs, plus that some specific application in mind,
programs, such as watercolor, oil incredibly powerful trace that no one look for the program with the feature
paint, and charcoal. For the best else can match. It suffers slightly from set that most closely matches your
effects in painting, Anzovin says having an outdated interface, but needs. Word for Windows is better for
Painter is the only choice. Anzovin those who use it swear by it." writing, while Ami Pro is better suited
also admires the program Arts & to publishing (though it's also very
Letters Graphic Editor for its extensive Programming good for general writing). If you
typeface and clip art libraries. COMPUTE was built on programming. choose any one of the best products
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Edited by Mike Hudnall row's consumer technologies, al size for these machines.
Reviews by Tom Benford and with the current dizzying All ten of the systems in this
pace of change in the computer month's Test Lab come with Win
Combine the blazing speed industry, tomorrow will probably dows 3.1 and DOS, and they're
and colossal computing pow be here sooner than you think- all, of course, 486DX2/66 sys
er of Intel's 486DX2/66 with Already, Intel has announced its tems with local-bus video.
(he latest local-bus technolo new Pentium chip, which by all ac Beyond those common elements,
gy, and you've got a computer counts significantly outperforms you'll find a variety of prices and
ready for the most demanding the 486DX2/66 but is likely to features. While most of these com
applications. Windows programs cost significantly more, and I sus puters, for example, use stan
that seem sluggish on older com pect that by the time this issue dard VESA local bus, some com
puters are downright snappy on hits the stands, most computer panies use proprietary local-bus
these systems, so you can companies will offer VESA local video. At least a few include a
spend less of your time waiting bus as a standard feature rather local-bus drive controller along
for the Windows hourglass and than as an option. with the local-bus video adapter.
more of it taking care of business. In setting up this month's And in some cases the video
Not inexpensive by any means, lineup of systems, we asked for card is accelerated for optimized
these systems nevertheless deliv Industry Standard Architecture Windows performance.
er lots of value, especially when (ISA) because it's less expensive For the specifics of configura
you consider what you couid get than Extended Industry Standard tion, expandability, and other fea
for the same price a year ago, how Architecture (EISA) and because tures, you should find the fea
much time you can save, and how most of our readers won't need EI tures grid helpful. Whether or not
expandable they are. SA's performance benefits. We you understand the differences
You may be asking yourself asked for 8MB of RAM because among local-bus video stan
whether you realfy need this many of the systems include 8MB dards, you'll appreciate the bench
much power and speed right as the standard complement and mark graphs, which provide not
now—a fair question. Here at because some of the more only Norton index data but also
COMPUTE, we see today's cut demanding applications that real-world performance data—
ting-edge technologies as tomor would benefit from the extra horse how long a particular computer re
power of 486DX2/66 chips also quired to find and replace text in
require more than 4MB. We also a word processor, index and sort
asked the manufacturers to install a database, play back video, and
whatever cache was part of the so forth. These systems were so
standard configuration, since fast that our lab had to redesign
many COMPUTE readers will opt the benchmark test suite to pro
for standard packages. Because duce more statistically significant
these high-powered computers data. In fact, we had to drop a
are likely to handle high-powered planned spreadsheet benchmark
applications and mountains of because even a Windows spread
data, we requested hard drives of sheet proved too small a chal
at least 200MB, not at all an unusu- lenge for these machines. Tom
Benford's reviews home in on sig
nificant features of these comput
ers, whether it's their strategies
for handling the heat given off by
their microprocessors, their mem
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DELL SYSTEM
The company offers six varieties than six inches from the CPU
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of the machine, ranging from a 40-
MHz 386DXL-based system to case vents. A deeply finned heat Dell has built its reputation on
486SX models and the 466/DX2 sink and a miniature fan mounted high-quality, dependable PC sys
model reviewed here. atop the CPU itself also help; tems that are popularly priced.
You'll find many of the essen under this arrangement, the heat Maintaining that reputation, the
tial system functions integrated sink dissipates the chip's heat and Dell System 466/M proves itself to
right into the motherboard itself: the fan keeps cool air circulating be a sterling performer.
the IDE controller, the floppy over the heat sink to further aid in The baby-AT-sized desktop
drive controller, the parallel and keeping the interior case temper case provides a surprising
serial ports, the keyboard connec ature "comfortable" for the compo amount of expansion room,
tion, and local-bus video for fast nents. The design apparently thanks to large-scale integration
er video performance. works well, as I didn't experience of components on the system's
The full-profile case occupies any problems or anomalies during motherboard. Components critical
a baby-AT footprint and provides the time I spent using this system to the system, including the video
three bays accessible from the for the review. adapter, input and output ports,
front: two half-height 51/t-inch A three-button mouse supplied and disk controllers, are all integrat
bays and a vertical 31/2-inch bay. with the system has a switch that ed rather than requiring separate
A hidden 31/2-inch bay is also avail lets you select either a Microsoft expansion cards. As a result, you
able. To power any additional (two-button) mode or a Mouse Sys have five full-length 16-bit expan
drives you might install, just use tems (three-button) mode. While sion slots available for user-
the three available connectors the mouse itself resembles a Mi installed peripherals, in addition to
from the 200-watt power supply. crosoft mouse in style, feel, and a single three-quarter-length 16-
A Western Digital Caviar 2340 shape, the clicking action could bit slot for shorter boards.
(333MB formatted) hard drive pro best be described as erratic; fre Looking for room to add
vides the mass storage for the sys quently, several rapid clicks drives? The system has two avail
tem, while a combination 31/a- were required to enter a Windows able exposed half-height bays
inch/5!A-inch half-height unit command or function. and an internal 31/3-inch bay.
occupies the uppermost bay and I wasn't entirely satisfied with Dual floppy drives are provided
the keyboard (made by Lexmark as standard equipment on the sys
provides floppy disk I/O.
Because the Express inte here in the USA), either. I found the tem, but rather than being individ
grates so much into the mother action quite stiff, there was no au ual units that require separate
board, all of its full-length 16-bit dible click, and it had a straight bays, the two floppy drives are
cable (which looked very similar to integrated into one half-height
slots are available. A proprietary
RJ-14 telephone cable) rather combination drive—a nice touch
slot holds a proprietary video adapt
than the heavier, coiled cords usu that conserves space and
er card and is, apparently, the
ally found on keyboards. improves expansion capabilities.
local-bus connection; Tseng Labs
Aside from the mouse and key A 240-watt power supply pro
manufactures the video BIOS. I
board difficulties, the CompuAdd vides more than enough power
found no other local-bus slots.
The high-speed, high-pow Express 466/DX2 local-bus sys for the system and sports three "pig
tem provides good performance, tail" connectors available for pow
ered 66-MHz i486DX2 CPU gen
features, and expandability. ering any additional drive devices
erates an enormous amount of
you might install in the system.
heat, the archnemesis of electron- Circle Reader Service Number 371

JULY 1993 COMPUTE 17

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An extra-large finned heat sink DIAMOND TECHNOLOGIES

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ly in front of the CPU provides configuration)
excellent air flow inside the case. Warranty: one year on monitor,
Dell uses a proprietary local- floppy drives, and hard drives; 15
bus standard which is not VESA months on all other pads
compliant, and there is no local-
bus slot available for user-instal
lable cards, since the local-bus soon as you plug it in. The motherboard, a fairly com
features are integrated into the Dell has an excellent system pact unit manufactured by S&A
motherboard's circuitry. Dell han here in the 466/M, and it Labs, uses an American
dles video through this local bus, deserves your serious consider Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) BIOS.
using the popular S3 accelerated ation if you're in the market for a Eight SIMM sockets on the mother
video chip set, which can gener 486DX2/66 local-bus system. board accept either 1MB or 4MB
ate 1024x768 noninterlaced res Circle Reader Service Number 372 SIMMs, yielding a maximum
olution with a maximum color pal configuration of 32MB on the moth
ette of over 32,000 colors.
The integrated IDE interface fea DIAMOND erboard itself.
The system came with two
tures a 32K cache buffer, which
helps to keep things moving at a
486DX2/66 local-bus slots on the mother
board, both occupied; a Dia
brisk pace in the system. You can Smart styling, good expansion mond Viper SVGA card is
also get an optional 128K internal potential, and snappy local-bus installed in one, while the IDE
system cache. performance make the DT 486DX2/ caching disk controller resides in
Knowing that users naturally 66 system from Diamond Technol the other. Five of the six full-
upgrade their systems as their ogies a pleasing package. length 16-bit slots are available
needs for power and speed A full-height baby-AT case pro for adding expansion boards (the
grow, Dell offers a motherboard vides expandability while maintain sixth slot contains the multi I/O
with a 238-pin (low insertion ing a reasonably small footprint card, which provides the parallel
force press-pin) socket that can for the desktop. For adding and serial ports).
accommodate future upgrades, drives, this system includes two At the front of the case, above
such as higher-speed 486 chips half-height bays accessible from two flush-mounted push-button
or the P24T (Pentium Overdrive) the front of the machine. No switches for changing to and
when they become available. The additional unexposed bays are from turbo mode and resetting the
flash memory Phoenix/Dell BIOS available, but since the Diamond system, you'll find three LEDs for
is disk upgradable, another fea comes equipped with dual flop signaling power on, hard drive
ture which ensures the system's pies, two bays should suffice for activity, and turbo status. The 3Vfe-
longevity. the vast majority of users. The inch high-density drive is vertical
The review system contained 200-watt power supply is also ly mounted next to the 1.2MB 5V< -
8MB of RAM, but you can up adequate for such expansion, inch drive which occupies the
grade the memory to a maximum although it comes with only one topmost bay in the case. Look for
of 64MB using 16MB SIMMs in extra "pigtail" connector for power the power switch on the rear pan
the four sockets provided on the ing another drive. el of the case at the right side.
motherboard. Dell also included The i486DX2/66 CPU. mount A comfortable enhanced key
a Maxtor LXT-340A 320MB IDE ed in a standard press-pin sock board (no audible click) comes
hard drive and a Dell UltraScan et, has a deeply finned heat sink as part of the standard package,
14C SVGA monitor as part of the to minimize heat buildup and the along with a three-button Micro
standard equipment. problems associated with it. soft-compatible serial mouse.
A Microsoft two-button mouse Since the AT-sized case affords While considerably larger and
supplied with the system plugs plenty of internal "breathing" bulkier than a Microsoft unit, the
into the built-in PS/2-style mouse room for air to circulate, this mouse is still quite serviceable.
port. MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, arrangement works well, keeping The system delivers excellent
and an enhanced keyboard the CPU and other components video performance, thanks to the
round out the system and ensure cool and thus contributing to combination of the Diamond Viper
that it's ready to go to work as system reliability. board equipped with 2MB of vid-
18 COMPUTE JULY 1993
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Circle Reader Service Number 373

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eo RAM and the local-bus slot. If ics-intensive work- DECPC 466D2 LP
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at a screen, you'll appreciate the lishing, database operations, and Corporation's DECpc 466d2 LP
CTX CMS-1561 SVGA monitor spreadsheet work all benefit exemplifies how good expansion
that came with this review system; from the overall power of the DX2/ possibilities can be incorporated
the monitor can display 1024 x 66 CPU and the local-bus archi in a diminutive case.
768 noninterlaced resolution with tecture, resulting in overall per The footprint of the PC approx
256 colors. This combination of a formance that is above average imates that of a baby AT, but the
high-powered SVGA card, a local in all respects. case has a much lower profile
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TEST LAB

measuring less than four inches stall. There are no 8-bit or local-
from the top of the desk to the top bus slots provided in the system. A NOTE ON PRICES
of the case. On the front of the ma The 66-MHz 486DX2 CPU and With computer products changing
chine, you'll find recessed LEDs related performance components more rapidly than ever and with
for power, hard drive activity, and reside on a separate board options more plentiful than ever,
turbo status. The reset button and computer prices can be a tricky busi
(referred to as a CPU module in
ness, indeed.
power switches, similarly unobtru DEC's manual) attached via an
It pays to keep the following
sive, contribute to the streamlined interlocking connector to the points in mind:
appearance of the machine. main system board. This module Street and direct prices can be
A single 31/2-inch high-density permits quickly changing the sys considerably lower than list prices.
drive comes installed as standard tem's configuration, presumably Shopping around helps you find the
equipment on the DECpc 466d2 allowing upgrades. The module's best price.
LP, but there's a front-accessible vacant 238-pin socket certainly Because computer technology
5Vi-inch half-height bay available seems to support such a conclu evolves rapidly, a product may
underneath the drive for accepting have changed by the time our re
sion. The CPU itself resides in a
view sees print. A manufacturer may
another device of your choice. By press-pin socket on the module
decide to change the video card or
virtue of its dual-sized plastic bay board.
the hard drive, for example.
cover plate, this bay can also I was somewhat surprised to Because consumers are more
accommodate a 3'/2-inch drive. find that the only means of dissi sophisticated than ever about what
DEC has provided a hidden 3Vfe- pating heat generated by the they want in computer products and
inch bay inside the machine, and CPU was a deeply finned heat because manufacturers have
two power connectors are availa sink attached to the top of the responded with more options and
ble for powering any user- chip. There was no cooling fan to configurations than ever, one com
installed drives. puter model may be subject to doz
circulate air within the case inte
ens of variations, each with a slightly
DEC has integrated the paral rior which, compared with the oth
different price.
lel, serial, mouse, and keyboard er systems reviewed, was much
At COMPUTE, we make every ef
ports; the video adapter; and the less spacious. However, heat fort to verify prices and differentiate
floppy and hard drive controllers buildup didn't seem to be a prob between the price for a review con
into the motherboard itself to lem; the system performed as ex figuration and the price for a stan
keep the design compact and pected during the review period. dard configuration. It's still a good
leave as many expansion slots The system's integrated local- idea, however, to call the manufac
free as possible. An extension bus video adapter, based on the turer or vendor to make sure that the

card inserted vertically into the sys popular S3 accelerated chip set, configuration you want matches the
price you have in mind.
tem board provides three full- comes with 512K of video RAM in
—MIKE HUDNALL
length 16-bit expansion slots for stalled. Even though the review
any peripherals you choose to in unit came with an additional
512K of video RAM installed (yield
ing 1 MB total), I was unable to in
WINWORD 2.0 TEXT SEARCH & REPLACE itiate or use Windows in 1024 x
768 256-color mode. Since run
ning in 800 x 640 256-color
mode wasn't a problem, that's the
mode I used. DEC provided a Dig
ital PC7XV-DE monitor with the re
view unit, and I suspect that the
monitor, and not the video card,
prevented accessing the 1024 x
768 mode successfully.
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3,1
come supplied with the system,
as does a copy of Diagsoft's
QAPIus software.
If your expansion requirements
aren't too demanding and you
like the idea of a slimline case,
this DEC machine may be worth
a closer look.
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Suggested retail price: $3,976 for
Epson has taken a modular ap review configuration with monitor
proach with its Progression series and 12MB RAM ($3,353 estimated
of computers, and the Progression street price); $3,398 for standard
486DX2/66 PC model is represen configuration with monitor and 4MB
tative of this design trend. RAM ($2,862 estimated street iJkXacaXwrifcatscfcjSfl
The Progression's full-height price)
baby-AT case provides room for Warranty: one year, Including on- ■
expansion without requiring lots of site service within 75 miles of
desktop real estate. The review authorized service center would operate with the monitor sup
unit came with a single one-third- plied for review, a 14-inch Epson
height high-density 5%-inch T1183A extended VGA model.
drive, leaving three front-accessi to the i486 chip on the CPU card Curiously, Epson lists the 17-inch
ble bays (one one-third-height and itself, presumably for future Professional Series monitor as the
two half-height bays) available for upgrade options. The proprietary standard unit for this system.
additional devices. Two half- slot that accepts the CPU card A two-button mouse and a com
height internal bays are also avail looks like a local-bus slot, but it fortable enhanced keyboard pro
able for upgrading the system. is not one; it is a slot designed to vide the means for inputting data
There's lots of room for expand accept the modular Epson CPU and controlling system and appli
ing RAM beyond the system's cards only. cation functions.
standard complement of 4MB. You'll find all of the I/O ports The Progression provides a
With four SIMM sockets, you can (parallel, single serial, mouse, vid workable alternative to the local-
expand up to a maximum of eo, keyboard) integrated into the bus technology of this month's oth
128MB using 16MB SIMMs. The motherboard. This leaves six full- er systems, and it provides some
review unit came equipped with length 16-bit slots open and avail appealing features that make it
12MB of RAM; the lab removed able for use. A 200-watt power sup worthy of consideration.
one 4MB SIMM so that this sys ply provides the essential Circle Reader Service Number 375
tem could meet the 8MB config operating voltages for the system.
uration requirement for the bench Instead of the local-bus archi
mark testing. During the review, tecture found in other systems cov GATEWAY
however, I used the full 12MB con
figuration and found performance
ered in this issue, the Progression
uses its own Wingine Graphics
4DX2-66V
to be respectable for all types of Acceleration Technology for Gateway 2000's 4DX2-66V is a
general computing work. improved video performance. local-bus PC in an attractive, stan
The i486DX2/66 CPU resides The heart of the Wingine is a dard-sized AT desktop case with
on a separate card which plugs CHIPS and Technologies display reasonable expansion options. A
into a special slot on the mother controller equipped with 1MB of vacant front-accessible half-
board. Under this modular video RAM {upgradable to 2MB) height bay beneath the dual flop
arrangement, someone with a Pro and a BrookTree RAMDAC. Rath py drives is ready to accept a CD-
gression 486SX/25 or 486DX/33 er than using an expansion card, ROM drive or tape backup unit,
machine could upgrade to a Epson's Wingine integrates the vid and two additional half-height
486DX2/66 simply by replacing eo controller into the mother bays are available at the front of
the CPU card rather than chang board itself. the case adjacent to the drives, if
ing the chip itself. Future Another unusual aspect of you want to mount additional in
upgrades to more powerful Epson's Wingine technology is ternal devices. (Editor's note: A CD-
CPUs as they become available that the total amount of system ROM drive now comes standard.)
will also be easy to perform under RAM can also affect the video In this system, Gateway uses
this design scheme. performance. For example, with a standard-sized, highly integrat
The review system's CPU, only 8MB of RAM installed, the sys ed motherboard that incorpo
installed in a low-force press-pin tem could not support 1024 x rates the floppy drive controller
socket, has a deeply finned heat 768256-color noninterlaced resolu and a local-bus IDE hard disk
sink, A vacant ZIF (Zero Insertion tion in Windows; 800 x 640 was interface. The motherboard can
Force) socket is located adjacent the highest video mode that support up to 64MB of RAM direct-
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GATEWAY 2000 The reset and turbo selector

610 Gateway Dr. switches, flush mounted on the
N. SIOUX City. SD 57049 front of the case, reside next to
(800) 846-2000 the key lock, just above the illu
Direct price: $2,995 minated power, hard drive activi
Warranty: one year, parts and labor ty, and turbo LEDs. The power
switch is located at the right rear
corner of the machine.
The machine comes with a spe
cial 124-key keyboard, but you
can order a traditional AT-stan-
dard 101-key keyboard if you pre
fer. The 124-key keyboard has an
there is no advantage or benefit enhanced cursor-control station
to be derived by adding an Over with extra keys, which I found con
ly using 16MB modules in its four drive chip at this point in time. fusing. I found that both key
SIMM sockets. The system includes two local- boards, made for Gateway by
The 66-MHz Intel 486DX2 CPU bus expansion slots, one holding MaxiSwitch, feel great.
resides in a standard press-pin the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro video Gateway's 1572 FS 15-inch
socket and is fitted with a heat card. Of the five 16-bit expansion CrystalScan SVGA monitor accom
sink with crosshatched fins to dis slots available, four can accom panied the system unit and pro
sipate its heat. An upgrade sock modate full-length cards; the oth vided an excellent display for the
et next to the CPU lets you add er 16-bit slot can only accept a half- high-speed graphics processed
an upgrade chip, such as the length card. Of course, you can through the ATI video card and
Intel Overdrive accelerator. How use the remaining local-bus slot as the local bus.
ever, since the 486DX2/66 is the a 16-bit slot for non-local-bus Overall, the performance of this
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Ttueiype is a trademark of Apple Computer. Inc. Windows is a irademark o( Microsoft Corporation. Circle Hsader Service Number 203
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when running Windows. Even with INSIGHT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 1912 W. Fourth St.
with 256 colors, Windows was fast Tempe, AZ 85281
and snappy. And the Mach32 con (800) 927-7848
trol panel, which is a dedicated (602) 902-1176
front end that manages the ATI Direct price: $2,779 lor review
local-bus controller, makes it very configuration; $2,199 lor standard
easy to change resolutions, colors, configuration
and system fonts.
All in all, the Gateway 4DX2-
66V is a first-rate local-bus system drive installed. If you need addi
in a well-designed package. It's def
initely worth considering.
tional mounting room, there's
also a concealed full-height bay.
^PWiWtk
Circle Reader Service Number 376 A beefy 250-watt power supply
should adequately power any

INSIGHT drives or expansion boards you

add to the Isy stem. The Intel 80486DX2 CPU is
486DX2-66 VL The motherboard, manufac
tured by ASUS, is one of the small
mounted in a ZIF socket for easy
removal or upgrading. I found no
Need a 486DX2/66 local-bus est 486 motherboards I've seen heat sink on the chip (to help dis
system with plenty of expansion to date, and it looks out of place sipate heat); however, owing to
possibilities as your needs grow? in the gargantuan cavity of this the spacious area of the tower
Well, then, you'll want to take a tower configuration. Small size not case, heat buildup doesn't seem
closer look at this tower configu withstanding, the motherboard to be a problem. The large front-
ration from Insight, still provides five available full- mounted cooling fan does a
The full-size tower case has a length 16-bit expansion slots, good job of circulating the air with
base that pulls out laterally, (ram which should prove to be more in the case to keep things cool,
both sides, to provide stability. than adequate for most users. and I didn't experience any prob
The full vertical configuration The motherboard also contains lems usually associated with over
affords lots of room for adding two full-length local-bus slots, heating during my review.
drives or tape backup units, with which are already occupied; the The manufacturer integrates
three half-height front-accessible video controller occupies one the drive controller and I/O ports
bays still available even with the local-bus slot, and the combina all on a single board, which
system's dual floppies and tion multi l/O-drive controller occupies one of the VESA local-
210MB Western Digital hard card resides in the other. bus slots. In addition to the par
allel, game, and dual serial ports,
this card also provides an IDE
VIDEO FOR WINDOWS interface for the hard drive as well
as control for the dual floppies.
VIDEO PLAYBACK
A comfortable enhanced key
WORSE
board (no audible click) comes
with the system, along with a
Microsoft-compatible Insight three-
button serial mouse. Software sup
plied with and installed on the sys
tem consists of MS-DOS 5.0, Win
dows 3.1, Dr. Solomon's Anti-
Virus, and Stacker 2.0.
The Insight machine had a qual

11
ity assurance sticker plainly
affixed to the rear of the case, yet
I was greeted with a HDD control
ler failure message when I first
BETTER 6 turned the machine on. I decid
\\A ed to remove the system cover to
look for any obvious problems be
fore calling Insight's tech support
number, and as soon as the cov-

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slots I found a Genoa Systems
with a 15-inch Viewsonic 6FS mon If you're looking for 66 MHz of local- Windows VGA 24 video card
itor, which provided excellent view bus speed and power but prefer (model 8500VL) with 1MB of RAM
ing and enabled the STB Power- full-size tower computers, you'll be and a Cirrus Logic chip set.
graph video card (S3-based) with interested in Keydata's 486DX2- Keep in mind, however, that Key-
1MB of RAM to show its stuff (aid 66 VL Bus WindowStation. data may furnish a different vid
ed in the express department by Like the Insight tower also eo adapter.
the system's 32-bit local bus). covered here, the Keydata uses The second local-bus slot pro
Performance for today with the Taiwan-manufactured ASUS vides a home for the IDE disk
room for expansion is what the In local-bus motherboard. This com controller card, which also
sight 486DX2-66 VL delivers. pact motherboard provides two includes the parallel port, two seri
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using these two local-bus slots for MICRO EXPRESS

the video, disk functions, and I/O, 1801 Carnegie Ave.
the manufacturer leaves five full- Santa Ana, CA 92705
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Four front-accessible half- (standard configuration)
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as well as an additional hidden labor; 30-day money-back
half-height bay. All of these avail guarantee; optional on-site service
able bays are located above the
31/2-inch and 5%-inch floppy
drives and the 250MB Conner and so forth—it's comforting to with 2MB of video RAM ensures
30254 IDE hard drive. A particu know that the Keydata's 250-watt speedy graphics processing.
larly nice feature of the Keydata power supply has plenty of mus The card resides in one of the
case is its use of a hinged door cle and three available power con 486-VL's two local-bus slots, leav
that conceals all of the drives and nectors to service these addition ing one vacant and available for
drive bays, giving the case an al devices. Clearly, this system a user-installable local-bus expan
extra-clean, streamlined look. delivers plenty of performance for sion card. This slot can also be
The flush-mounted power, tur today while affording great poten pressed into service as a stan
bo, and reset switches, as well as tial for tomorrow's expansion. dard 16-bit slot if needed.
their related LEDs and the three- Circle Reader Service Number 378 Of the six 16-bit expansion
place speed LED, are all mounted slots built into the motherboard, on
at the top of the case at an angle,
which makes them easily accessi MICRO EXPRESS ly four are available for accepting
expansion cards. Of the available
ble. I consider the Keydata case
one of the best-looking tower units
486-VL/DX2/66 slots, two are full-length and the oth
er two are three-quarter-length.
I've seen, with lots of eye appeal Building upon the success of its One 16-bit slot has the IDE cach
in addition to its functionality. 486-Local Bus, which used a pro ing hard and floppy controller
The i486DX2/66 CPU mounted prietary local-bus implementation board inserted in it, and another 16-
in a ZIF socket is directly in the for high-speed graphics process bit slot holds the I/O board with par
line of air flow coming from the ing, Micro Express now offers the allel, game, and serial ports.
front-mounted cooiing fan. The 486-VL/DX2/66 for your purchas The system includes dual flop
manufacturer doesn't use a heat ing consideration. This model fea py drives (a 31/2-inch and a 51/t-
sink on the massive chip, and the tures two VESA-compliant local- inch), leaving two 51/i-inch bays
chip apparently doesn't need bus slots for accommodating a and one 31/2-inch bay available
one, thanks to the excellent circu graphics processor and another for adding drives. For mass stor
lation provided by the fan and the local-bus expansion card, such age, the system uses a Western
large open area of the case. I as a disk controller. Digital Caviar 2200 (210MB)
didn't experience any heat-relat The minitower configuration of hard drive. Micro Express installs
ed problems while using the ma the Micro Express case provides Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 on
chine for extended periods. a nice compromise between stan the drive for you, and you get flop
The CTX Model 1560 ProScan dard desktop cases, which eat py copies along with manuals.
SVGA monitor I used with this up lots of desktop space, and a The system comes with 8MB of
system provided excellent color full tower case, which sits on the RAM as the standard comple
and definition. Other standard floor. The minitower should work ment, but you can expand the
equipment includes an equally well either on a desktop memory up to a maximum of
enhanced Chicony 5181KT key or next to it. 32MB by replacing the 1MB
board with audible click and a You'll find flush-mounted pow
three-button serial mouse. Keyda er, turbo, and reset switches Benchmark/performance testing
ta preinstalls MS-DOS 5.0 and Win aligned vertically on the front of was conducted by Computer Prod
dows 3.1 on the system and sup the case, just above the key lock. uct Testing Services Inc. CRTS is an
independent testing and evaluation
plies floppy backup copies. LEDs indicate power on, hard
laboratory based in Manasquan, NJ.
If you expect to expand your drive activity, and turbo status, Every effort has been made to en
system's capabilities as your and another LED display indi sure the accuracy and complete
requirements grow—perhaps add cates the current CPU speed. ness of this dala as of the date of test
ing a CD-ROM drive, a tape back ing. Performance may vary among
An ATI Graphics Ultra local-
samples.
up unit, a sound card, a digitizer, bus SVGA video card equipped

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SIMMs with 4MB units in the ZEOS INTERNATIONAL

eight SIMM slots. The review unit 1301 Industrial Blvd.
came with 512K of cache memo Minneapolis, MN 55413
ry, and this, too, can be upgrad (800] 423-5891
ed to a full megabyte. Direct price: $2,893 (review
The manufacturer uses two configuration)
methods of dissipating heat from Warranty: one year, parts and labor;
the i486DX2/66 CPU: a deeply 30-day money-bach guarantee
finned heat sink mounted atop
the CPU chip and a miniature fan
attached to the top of the heat In addition to a detailed pack room to add two additional 5Vi-
sink. The fan serves two func ing slip with a complete invento inch half-height drives.
tions: It dissipates the heat which ry of the system components ZEOS uses its own mother
is transmitted through the heat (both internal and external) and board, which provides a total of sev
sink's fins, and it also pulls cool their associated part numbers, en full-length 16-bit expansion
er air through the fins to keep the ZEOS also included a quality slots and a single three-quarter-
chip's operating temperature with assurance checklist with the sys length 8-bit slot. Two of the 16-bit
in reasonable limits. Since heat tem. This checklist confirms that slots have local-bus extensions on
buildup is the major cause of all aspects of system preparation them as well. In the review unit,
CPU and component failure, it's and component quality assur one of the iocal-bus slots was oc
reassuring to see that the Micro ance checking have been per cupied by the Diamond Viper
Express folks have taken the bull formed—not just once but twice— SVGA card, while all of the other
by the horns, so to speak, with and that everything passed. slots were vacant and available.
these preemptive measures. There's even a parts check sec To dissipate the excess heat gen
I liked everything about this sys tion that ensures all required erated by the CPU, ZEOS
tem except for the mouse. A three- cables, manuals, power cords, installed a large heat sink about an
button serial mouse from XOA, I and other required elements are inch longer than the 80486 chip it
found it to be a bit too bulky and also present and accounted for pri self. A ZIF socket makes removing
stiff for my liking, but this is a or to sealing the box and ship the CPU for future upgrades an ef
minor point and purely one of ping the system. Kudos to ZEOS fortless procedure that consists of
taste. The enhanced keyboard sup for going the extra mile here. lifting the socket's locking lever,
plied with the system is available Every computer system is the replacing the chip, and pushing
in either audible-click or silent ver sum total of all its component the locking lever back down again.
sions (a silent model came with the parts, and ZEOS has supplied a I found the system's perform
reviewmachine), and it has a nice shining example of what a good ance beyond reproach, handling
slope and comfortable action. system is made of. The 200-watt both text- and graphics-based
The minitower configuration pro power supply with built-in surge pro applications quickly and without
vides lots of installation flexibility, tection provides the operating volt a whimper. A comfortable
and the 486-VL should prove to be age to power the system's dual flop enhanced keyboard with audible
adequate for the needs of most py drives, its 245MB Seagate ST- click and a Microsoft serial
users. It certainly merits a closer 3283AT hard drive, and the sys mouse make using the system a
look if you're interested in moving tem board. pleasure, and Lotus Organizer
your data on the focal bus. The spacious case provides software, DOS 5.0, and Windows
Circle Reader Service Number 379 lots of expansion room. Flush- 3.1 all come standard. And if
mounted push-button reset, pow that's not enough, you can

ZEOS 486DX2-66 er, and turbo switches have LED

status indicators, and a system
choose either Lotus 1-2-3 for Win
dows, Ami Pro, or Lotus
When you unpack and set up as key lock is also mounted at the Freelance as an additional includ
many computer systems as I do, front of the case. A snap-off plas ed software package.
you really appreciate it when the tic cover conceals the screws ZEOS builds a solid machine
manufacturer has done a good securing the case cover to the chas that should deliver excellent, trou
job of preparing and testing the sis and gives the rear of the ma ble-free performance for many
machine before it leaves the fac chine a smooth and uncluttered years to come. If you're thinking
tory. The folks at ZEOS deserve appearance. As far as vacant of purchasing a 486DX2/66 local-
some kind words in recognition of bays go, you'll find a 5%-inch bay bus system, this one should be
the exemplary job they do in mak and a vertical 314-incri bay, both high on your list of potential
ing sure everything's right with a accessible from the front of the ma candidates.
system before they ship it. chine; inside the case there's Circle Reader Service Number 380

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Width 17,00 24 40 16 25 16.00 17.00

CompuAdd 51118 Dell UllraScan 14C CTX 156NI Digital PC7XV-de Epson 17-inch
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Haid drive
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Model Caviar 2340 LXT 340A LXT213A Digital PraDrive LPS

Formatted capacity -■■:■■ 320MB 213MB 240MB

Controller IDE integrated IDE IDE integrated IDE IDE

Controller cache 32K 32K 4K to NA

Other drives
1.2MB

1.44MB

MOTHERBOARD

Manufacturer BCM Advanced Research Dell S&A Labs Digital Epson Portland
Standard RAM 4MB BM8 8MB 4MB 4MB
Max RAM 32MB 64MB 32MB 6-iMB 12SME

No. of 8-bit slots

No. of 16-bit Slots

No. of VESA local-bus slots 0

BIOS Phoenix/Dell AMI Phoenix Epson

External cache 128K 128K (optional) 256K 128K ves'

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CPU socket press-pin press-pin press-pin press-pin press-pin

Upgrade socket yes yes no yes yes

Power supply 200 W 240 W 200 W 200 W

INPUT OUTPUT

Parallel ports

Serial ports

Ste mouse port

Game port

Mouse supplied yes yes yes yes

SUPPLIED SOFTWARE

DOS yes yes yes

Windows 3.1 yes yes yes

Floppy backups yes yes yes

Other software Ciose-up 4.0 and choice of NA QAPIus NA

one: Lotus Organizer, Lotus 1-
2-3 for Home. Lotus Write,
Lotus Works

NA=not applicable or information about this feature not available

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SYSTEM FEATURES
Micro
Gateway Insight Keydata Express ZEOS

DIMENSIONS (in inches)

Length 16.00 17.50 17.00 16.50 18.25

Width 16.25 7.75 7 20 8.00 18.75

Height J T 25.25 2^.80 24.60 6.25

VIDEO

Monitor CryslalScan 1572 FS ViewSonic 6FS CTX 1560 ME FM 360 ZEOS 14-inch SVGA
Video adapter AT! Graphics Ultra Pro ST8 Power Graph Genoa Windows VGA 24 ATI Graphics Ultra Diamond Viper VLB
Local Bus Local Bus

Adapter max Nl' resfcolors 1024 x 768/256 1024 x 768/16.7 million 1024 x 768/16.7 million 800 x 600/32,768 1024 x 768/16.7
million

DRIVES
!
Hard drive
Make Western Digital Western Digital Conner Western Digital Seagaie
Mods Caviar Caviar 22G0 30254 Caviar 2200 ST 3283AI"

Formatted capacity 333M8 210MB 250MB 210MB 245MB

Controller integrated IDE VL-bus IDE VL-bus IDE IDE VL-bus IDE

Controller cache 128K no no 256K no

Other drives
1.2MB 1 1 1 1 1

1.44MB 1 1 1 1 1

MOTHERBOARD

Manufacturer Gateway ASUS ASUS Micro Express ZEOS International

Standard RAM 8MB BMB 8MB 8MB 4MB
Max RAM 64MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 64MB
No. of 8-bit slots 0 0 0 0 1

No. of 16-bit slots 6 5 5 6 5

No. of VESA local-bus stots 2 2 2 2 2

BIOS Phoenix AMI AMI AMI Phoenix

External cache 256K 256K 256K 512K 12SK
Max cache 256K 256K 256K 1MB 256K

CPU socket press-pin ZIF ZIF press-pin ZIF

Upgrade socket yes yes yes no yes

Power supply 200 W 250 W ,y. :. 200 W 200W

INPUT OUTPUT

Parallel ports 1 1 1 1 2
Serial ports 2 2 2 2 1

PS/2 mouse port 0 0 0 0 0

Game port 0 1 1 0

Mouse supplied yes yes yes yes yes

SUPPLIED SOFTWARE

DOS yes yes yss yes yes

Windows 3.1 yes yes yss yss yes

Floppy backups yes yes yes yes yes

Other software Cool Tools. PC Tools, Dr. Solomon's Choice of one. Norton Desktop NA Lotus Organizer and
QAPIus Anli-Virus, Stacker for Windows. Object Vision. one: Ami Pro or
Sidekick. Turbo C++. Paradox, Freelance
dBASE IV

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 NEWS & NOTES
Jill Champion

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There's nothing like gridlock. decades ago, remote commu is scheduled for release later
While small businesses hold nications in sci-fi programs this year. For more informa
the greatest potential for cre and flicks involved visual as tion, contact Voyager, 1351
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Lybrand), the fact that only 1 lets PC users communicate Decrypting the Code
in 100 business plans ever with each other through tele The Computer Museum in Bos
shows promise of being seri conferencing while they collab ton opened From Words to
ously considered because it orate on files and documents Code: How People Make Com
is concise and well written, in realtime. puters Work this April, the
and you can see that hope "NCR TeleMedia Connec first exhibit to reveal in a light-
tion will change the way we hearted, interactive way the
work," says Neil Whittington, mysterious world of program
assistant vice president of ming and how it affects daily
NCR's Multimedia Products lives.
PLANMaker business unit. Using video, computer sta
helps you The product consists of tions, and 3-D objects, the ex
put together two 16-bit ISA bus plug-in hibit takes visitors on a jour
a winning cards to support video and ney into a "land of languag
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unit. As a result of all this tech gramming languages. Visitors
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group of people can work to own programs. The grand fina
gether as if they were in the le, a nine-foot-high 3-D tower,
fuls with poorly constructed same room. graphically illustrates the vari
plans are working against a NCR plans to introduce ety of programming languag
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A new software package Connection technology later the early 1950s. The exhibit is
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 FEEDBACK

Keyed Up swered quite a few questions ed guns. They're all too easi
Some lime ago, you showed for me, but can you answer ly put to use. Viruses, like
how to set or reset the Caps these? guns, will not disappear un
Lock key and other control Is it theoretically possible der stricter controls, but by re
keys. But what about ordinary for a compiler, if infected with stricting their availability, few
keys? Is there a way to tell any of the viruses the article er people will suffer.
which key has been described, to generate an in JOSEPH LEWIS LOUTZENHISER
pressed? fected EXE file? ASHLAND. OR

JOHN JACKSON Is it theoretically possible

DETROIT, Ml to write a virus that would in Taking Control
fect a compiler and cause it I wish to point out a miscon
This program might work for to generate an infected EXE ception regarding virtual real
you. It's written in QBASIC. file? ity and aviation. In "Virtual Re
If the answer is no to both ality" (February 1993), Jeffrey
CLS questions, can a newly com Hsu suggests that "air-traffic
DEF SEG = 0 piled and not yet executed controllers may one day take
top: EXE file be considered virus direct control of the planes on
LOCATE 1, 1 free, assuming the source their radar scope through
FOR i = 1049 TO 1088 code contains no viruses? VR." In fact, it's more likely
Key depression, PRINT (PEEK(i)); RICHARD M. SANDERS that pilots will one day re
a$ = INKEY$ BURNSVILLE. MN
specialty viruses, NEXT
place the ground controllers.
Technology currently exists
virtual air GOTO top Anything is possible. Some of (GPS navigation and data
the viruses described in the ar
traffic, high-flying link transponders) which
This program displays the key ticle install themselves as TSR
would allow pilots to provide
memory, colorful board buffer (bytes 1053 files which constantly scan
their own separation and se
forms, easy virus de through 1085), a pointer that the hard disk for uninfected
quencing. It should be noted
keeps track of the current char files. A new EXE file (one that
tection, and more. acter in the buffer (byte
that these are the services cur
was just created) would be vul
rently offered by ground con
1052). and a pointer that nerable to the Dark Avenger,
trollers,
keeps track of the most re for example. As far as we c. seberg
cent character read (1050). have been able to determine, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
When increasing the value of no virus currently in circula
1050 will make it equal to the tion specializes in infecting
Infection Control
value in 1052, your computer compilers in such a way that
I would like to take issue with
beeps to alert you that your they would generate dis
one of Philip Chien's com
keyboard buffer is full. To eased EXE files (although
ments in "The Great Virus
print onscreen the ASCII val now that you've raised the
Scare" (February 1993). He
ue of the most recent question, someone some
states, "In all cases, viruses
keypress, use this program. where will probably try circu
are programs that were writ
(The line that reads a$=IN- lating one). Such a virus
ten by an outlaw—a hacker
KEYS keeps the beginning would be too specialized to
who specifically sets out to
and end pointers in the same spread and would quickly be
damage other people's com
position.) isolated and destroyed. The
puters." In all deference to
answer to your final question
Mr. Chien, this is simply not
CLS is that no file can be assumed
true. Paul Mungo and Brian
DEF SEG = 0 to be virus free.
Clough, discussing Teodor
top:
Prevalsky, a Bulgarian engi
q = (PEEK(1052) - 32) Rights and Wrongs neer who was an early virus
IF q = -2 THEN q = 30 In response to the "News writer, state, ". . . for Teodor,
LOCATE 1, 1: PRINT PEEK(1054 + Bits" item called Controlling destruction of data or pro
q) the Infectious (December grams was never the point.
a$ = INKEYS 1992), I believe that there He wrote viruses as an intellec
NEXT should be controls both on tual challenge. None of his
GOTO top weapons and virus construc viruses had ever been inten
tion kits. Nobody sets a load tionally damaging . . ." (from
Viral Spiral ed and cocked gun in a room Approaching Zero, 1992).
The article on viruses in your and then says, "Be careful." Vi SCOTT MOSER
February 1993 issue an rus construction kits are load DANVILLE, IN
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Edlior Ciiltan Karnes
Art Director Robin C. Case
Managing Editor David Englisi
Features Editor Robert BixDy
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Editor, Gazette Tom Nelsel
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that viruses did, no one would care Traffic Manager Barbara A. Williams

about them. Unfortunately, most virus Drafted into Service PROGRAMMING & ONLINE SERVICES
Manager Troy Tucker
writers go that extra mile to make their I'm a deputy sheriff and editor of a Programmers Bruce M Bowden
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Executive Vice President, William Tynan
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forget the damage that resulted from have PCs rather than Macintoshes, I'm Editorial Director Keith Ferrell
Operations Manager David Hensley Jr.
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 WINDOWS WORKSHOP
Clifton Karnes

COMPILER WARS dows' project by copying the

canonical Generic, you'll real
back and forth between the de
bugger and Windows.
Back in January, I talked ly appreciate AppWizard. It's Other debugging aids in
about Borland's C++ 3.1 and an application generator that clude HeapWalker, DDESpy,
what a great Windows devel lets you create a program's Spy, Stress, Zoomln, and
opment environment it was. source files based on a series Hotspot Editor.
The quality of Borland's new en of options. You can create pro In addition to all this, Micro
try in the compiler market grams with an MDI interface, soft's online help, which has al
wasn't loston anyone, especial a toolbar, printing and print pre ways been good, is even bet
ly Microsoft. Now Microsoft view functions, custom VBX ter now. The entire API refer
has countered Borland's C+ + controls, context-sensitive ence is online, and you'll find
3.1 with Visual C++, a superb help, and OLE client support. tons of TechNotes—articles
development environment AppWizard can also create on programming problems.
that has just about everything. external makefiles, and it will The documentation is excel
There are lots of modules to generate source comments. lent, but all the 3.1 SDK docs
Visual C++, and they all work What language does aren't included. You can get
together. The heart of the sys AppWizard use? C++ and Vis the missing ones for an extra
tem is Visual Workbench, ual C++'s new Microsoft Foun $99. I consider them a neces
which is the Windows-based dation Class 2.0 library. It's sity, and they're a steal at $99.
Visual C++ is a integrated environment. It worth noting that you use Other useful features in
superb development boasts an interface much like AppWizard only once—when clude a first-rate Browser and
QuickC for Windows but with you create your program. It's precompiled headers that are
environment many added features. There's not a CASE tool, like Windows- finally easy to use.
that has just about a toolbar for quick access to MAKER or Caseworks, that Visual C++ comes in two ver
common commands; a syntax you can return to in the devel sions: a Standard Edition (or
everything.
highlighting editor; and a Tool opment process. $199 and a Professional Edi
menu, to which you can add After creating your program tion for $495. The Standard Edi
your own commands. skeleton, ClassWizard lets you tion has everything in the Pro
The editor is not configura make connections between us fessional Edition except for
ble (you can't remap the key er-interface elements, messag the Windows debugging appli
board), but it's fairly powerful es, and code by pointing and cations, DOS program gener
and has lots of useful com clicking. ation, and the optimizing com
mands such as one that lets When it comes to debug piler.
you change the case of text ging, Visual C++ really packs The Standard Edition replac
and another that indents and the Raid. It boasts a Windows- es QuickC for Windows, and
unindents blocks. hosted debugger that's inte the Professional Edition replac
Next on the list is App Stu grated with the Visual Work es C 7.0 and the SDK.
dio, which you can use to edit bench editor. Just press F8 or The bottom line with a devel
all your resources, including di click on the step button on the opment environment is how
alog boxes, icons, cursors, toolbar, and you're debug fast it compiles and how small
menus, and bitmaps. You can ging. Find an error? Just start the executables are. With a
also edit resources in EXEs, typing to correct it. This is the few informal tests on medium-
DRVs, and DLLs. App Studio way Windows debugging sized programs with 1000-
is like Borland's pioneering Re ought to work! 4000 lines, I found Visual C++
source Workshop, but it's eas The integrated debugger to be slower at compiling than
ier to use and more powerful. features normal and condition Borland C+ + , but the EXEs
App Studio is written entirely al breakpoints, watches, and were considerably smaller
in Visual C++, too, which register display. If you need (the in-memory images were
brings us to this product's cen more powerful debugging, the same as those generated
tral theme: C++. there's CodeView for Win by Borland's compiler).
One of the reasons that Mi dows, which, using technolo One thing that has won me
crosoft created Visual C + + gy from Nu-Mega, runs as a over to Visual C++ is the small
was to make it easier for C pro nonmovable Windows app in er executables. Another thing
grammers to move to C+ + , one corner of your screen. It's is the integrated debugger.
and two of Visual C++'s mod not as convenient as the inte This feature alone saves
ules— AppWizard and Class- grated debugger, but it's a hours and hours with every pro
Wizard—focus on that task. heck of a lot easier to use ject. Visual C + + is hard to
If you've misspent your than Borland's full-screen de beat, but I'm sure Borland's go
youth starting each new Win- bugger that makes you flip ing to try. a
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 TIPS & TOOLS
Edited by Richard C. Leinecker

Checksum Redux No Scroll directory, but only files from

Here is a new Checksum De In your December 1992 is the given date forward. The
bug script. The original Check sue, you had a batch file batch file is called X.BAT.
sum was published in the Ju called M.BAT that lists sever For it to work, you must
ly 1992 "Tips & Tools" column al different file specs in a di give it the date from which
in COMPUTE. In this column rectory. It also lists the vol to start backups in the form
and in future columns, this is ume name and free disk mm/dd/yy.
the Checksum program that space after each file spec,
will be used to verify the accu and this can make the listings ECHO OFF
racy of COM files. scroll off the top of the IF"%1"="" GOTO NOPARAM
Make sure the DOS pro screen. I added the /b switch XCOPY V A:/M/V/D:%1
gram called Debug is in your to Dir to eliminate these super GOTO END
path or the current directory. fluous items. Here's my ver
In these examples, the italic sion, called DIRR.BAT :NOPARAM
text represents what the com ECHO Usage: X mm/dtf/yy
puter prints; the roman text ECHO OFF ECHO Files from the given date
represents what you should IF"%1"=""GOTO NOPARAM ECHO forward will be backed up to
type. One way to be sure you ECHO the destination drive.
get these programs exactly :LOOP :END
Checking COM files right is to have someone DIR %1 /b
with a new read the numbers to you as SHIFT You can modify this batch file
you type them in. Another IF"%1"="" GOTO END to include subdirectories by
Checksum, finding way suggested by one of our GOTO LOOP adding a /s switch to the
files from any readers is to read the num Xcopy line. Here's X.BAT re
bers into a tape recorder and :N0PARAM worked slightly to include
directory, and using
then play them back as you ECHO Parameter missing subdirectories.
the extended enter the program code. ECHO Usage: DIRR file sjiec 1
power of Xcopy file_spec_2. . . file_spec_9 ECHO OFF
debug checksum .com :END IF"%1"="" GOTO NOPARAM
and M.BAT File no! found XCOPY \*A:/M/V/S/D:%1
-e100 bd 70 01 be 80 00 ac 0a I also wrote a batch file that GOTO END
■e108 cO 74 61 ac 3c Od 74 5c will find a file anywhere on a
-e110 3c 20 74 f7 8b d6 4a ac disk from any directory. You : NOPARAM
-e118 3c Qd 74 04 3c 20 75 f7 can add the /b switch to the di ECHO Usage: X mm/dd/yy
-e120 c6 44 ft 00 2 b ff 8b 15 rectory to get rid of everything ECHO Files from the given date
-e128 b8 DO 3d cd 21 72 3d 8 b except the found files and ECHO forward will be backed up to
-e13D d8 1)4 3f b1 01 8b d5 cd their paths. I call it FF.BAT. ECHO the destination drive.
-e138 21 0a cO 74 06 8a 04 03 :END
-e140 f8 eb ee b4 3e cd 21 8b
ECHO OFF
-e!48 c7 bb 10 27 8b fd 2b d2 You can also do a selective
IF "%!"="" GOTO NOPARAM
-e150 f7 f3 04 30 an 52 2b d2 backup and get prompted for
DIR \%1 /s
-e158 8b c3 bb Oa 00 f7 13 81) each file by adding the /p
GOTO END
-e160 (i a 58 Ob db 75 e8 8b d5 switch. Here's X.BAT with the
-e 168 b4 09 cd 21 l)4 4c cd 21 /p switch so that you're prompt
:N0PARAM
-e170 00 00 00 00 00 0d 0a 24 ed for each file.
ECHO Parameter missing
-RCX
ECHO Usage: FF filename
CX 0000 ECHO OFF
:78 IF "%r="" GOTO NOPARAM
:END
-W XCOPY V A:/M/V/P/D:%1
JIM KROON
Writim 10078 bytes GOTO END
WALLINGFORD, CT
-Q
: NOPARAM
To use Checksum, type check Even Easier Backups ECHO Usage: X mm/dd/yy
sum filename.com. If you run In your December issue, you ECHO Files from the given date
Checksum on Checksum, you showed how to do easy back ECHO forward will be backed up to
will see the number 13907 on ups. There's an easier way ECHO the destination drive.
your screen. with Xcopy and the right :END
RICHARD C. LEINECKER switches. The following batch BARRY L REHEARD SR.
MIAMI, FL file backs up the current LANCASTER. PA

52 COMPUTE JULY 1993

 If you run Checksum on this :NOFILES
Clearing Keys ECHO %1 file(s) not found
file, you will see the number
I've used GETKEY.COM from IF EXIST CHECK.DIR DEL
02480 on your screen.
the October 1991 issue many
You might want to clear the CHECK.DIR
times in my batch files. Once
keyboard buffer and then GOTO END
in a while, users press keys be
wait for a key, all in one step.
fore my screens are dis
Here's a program that does :NQDIR
played. This can lead to the
just that. It returns the same ECHO Directory of %2 not found
wrong input. The way I
values as GETKEY.COM. IF EXIST CHECK.DIR DEL
solved this problem was to
CHECK.DIR
write a short file called debug clgetkey.com GOTO END
CLKEY.COM that clears the File not found
keyboard. Then, GETKEY-
-i! 11)0 1)4 01 cd 16 74 06 2a e4 :SAMEDIR
.COM can wait for a key -e 108 cd 16 eb (4 be 80 00 2a ECHO Files cannot be
when the display appears.
-e 110 e4 cd 16 8D 3c 00 74 Oa ECHO COPYMOVED into the
You can type in Clkey us -e 118 3c 61 7c 06 3c 7a 71 02 ECHO current directory.
ing the DOS Debug com
-e120 24 dl b4 4c cd 21 ECHO Change to
mand. You will type in the
-RCX ECHO any other directory
text in roman. The italic text is
CX 0000 ECHO and try again.
provided by Debug. :26 Three batch-file-
IF EXIST CHECK.DIR DEL
-W
debug clkey.com
CHECK.DIR enhancing COM files
Writing 0026 bytes GOTO END
File not found ■Q and a safer
-u 100 b4 01 (ill 16 74 06 2a e4 If you run Checksum on this :N0PARAM Hie moving program
-e 108 cti 16 eb 14 b4 4c cd 21 file, you will see the number ECHO Missing parameter
-RCX 03986 on your screen. ECHO Usage:
CX 0000 VINCENT D. O'CONNOR
ECHO COPYMOVE
:10 BABBITT, MN
ECHO filespec
-W
ECHO destinationjath
Writing 0010 bytes Safer File Moves GOTO END
-Q I've read a number of batch
files that move files from one :C0PYM0VE
If you run the new Checksum directory to another. Ultimate IF EXIST CHECK.DIR DEL
on this file, you will see the ly, the file is copied to the des CHECK.DIR
number 02000 appear on tination and then removed COPY %1 %2
your screen.
from the source. FOR %%F IN (%1) DO DEL %%F
In case you missed the Oc Unfortunately, a few mis ECHO %1 file(s) COPYMOVED
tober 1991 issue, here's takes can cause a user to ECHO to the %2
GETKEY.COM. It returns the lose the file. That's why I ECHO directory
keypress as an errorlevel wrote a batch file called COP-
code; this code is the ASCII YMOVE.BAT that makes sev :END
value of the key. If A was eral checks and tries to pre
pressed, it would return 65. if vent accidents. DENNIS T. MILLER
you want it to capitalize all re DALLAS, TX
turn values, pass it any com ECHO OFF
mand line parameter. IF"%1"="" GOTO N0PARAM
IF "%2"=""G0T0 NOPARAM If you have an interesting tip
debug gelkey.com IF EXIST CHECK.DIR DEL that you think would help oth
File not found CHECK.DIR er PC users, send it along
i:: 100 be 80 00 2a e4 cd 16 80 IF NOT EXIST %1 GOTO NOFILES with your name, address, and
-e 108 3c 00 74 0a 3c 61 7c 06 IF NOT EXIST %2\NUL GOTO Social Security number to
-e 110 3c 7a 7f 02 24 df b4 4c N0DIR COMPUTE'S Tips & Tools,
-e 118 cd 21 324 West Wendover Avenue,
-RCX IF EXIST %2\CHECK.DIR DEL Suite 200, Greensboro, North
CX 0000 %2\CHECK.DIR Carolina 27408. For each tip
:1a ECHO TESTING > CHECK.DIR we publish, we II pay you $25-
-W IF EXIST %2\CHECK.DIR GOTO $50. All tips submitted be
Writing 001a bytes SAMEDIR come the property of General
■Q GOTO C0PYM0VE Media International. n
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 INTRODOS
Tony Roberts

GRASPING POWER ter just as much as one

gussied up with fancy fonts
on autopilot. The operator is re
quired to use judgment, make
Windows may get all the atten and dingbats. decisions, and decide what
tion these days, but DOS- Telecommunications. Even steps will be completed in
based computing is still alive if you have the fastest comput what order.
and well. Just because a com er on earth, your telecommu Computer users get in troub
puter doesn't have the horse nications progress is meas le with the DOS prompt when
power to run Windows applica ured by the speed of your mo they try to engage the autopi
tions doesn't mean it's a can dem—1200, 2400, or 9600 lot—they try to memorize com
didate for the landfill. Jay At bps. A modem and telecommu mands rather than to under
las, a reader who is a profes nications software provide a stand processes. For exam
sor of philosophy at Pomona gateway to vast quantities of ple, I'm continually amazed at
College in Claremont, Califor information. Sign up for GEnie how troublesome the DOS sub
nia, made this point to me re or CompuServe and tap into directory structure is for most
cently during an exchange we whatever field of data interests computer users. Let's look at
had over Internet. you there. For example, own a simple example. On our
Atlas contends that most ers of small businesses can disk, we have the root directo
homeowners, small business learn to avoid numerous stum ry, C:\, and two subdirecto
es, and students in particular bling blocks and pitfalls with in ries, DIR-1 and DIR-2.
Overcoming fear of can get by just fine without get formation found on GEnie's Assume you're working in
the DOS prompt ting all wrapped up in Win Home Office/Small Business DIR-1 and you want to get to
dows. I have to agree. Al RoundTable. DOS computers DIR-2. If you enter cd dir-2, all
just takes a little though the point-and-click en telecommunicate so well that you'll get is the message Inva
understanding. vironment makes a computer several Windows users I know lid Directory because there's
a little easier to use, there's a have set up their older, slower no subdirectory named DIR-2
great deal of overhead (fast computers as telecommunica that branches off the current
processor, fast hard disk, lots tions stations. subdirectory {DIR-1). To avoid
of RAM) involved in attaining Database applications. To this frustration, you've learned
that ease of use. day's newest database soft that when changing directo
If you're into desktop pub ware has gone graphical, allow ries, you must first go back to
lishing, multimedia, CAD, or ing you to include a digitized the root directory and then
graphics design, then you photo with each employee re change to the target directory.
probably need Windows and cord, but most of us have da- So you type cd \ to get to the
Windows software. But if your ■abase needs that are far less root directory and then cd dt'r-
computing needs are less demanding. Mainly, we want to 2 to change to DIR-2.
lofty and you're willing to es manage an address and Mission accomplished, but
chew the glitz and glamour phone list for a few friends, as without full understanding of
that the latest machines offer, sociates, and customers. what's happening. What you re
you'll discover that even an There are numerous DOS ap ally need to know is that the
80286 with 1MB of memory plications that do this well— full name for DIR-2 is C:\DIR-
can be a powerful workhorse. and fast. 2. The backslash is important;
Let's look at what a DOS ma So there's still plenty that it represents your disk's root di
chine can do. can be done at the DOS rectory. When you know that
Word processing. Most peo prompt, but therein lies the DIR-2 is a branch of the root
ple I know use their computers problem; the DOS prompt, the directory, you can easily
for writing, and as far as I'm C:\with the bad reputation. switch to it from any subdirec
concerned, no graphical appli I won't deny that DOS can tory by typing cd \dir-2. In this
cation compares with DOS be cumbersome and difficult case, the CD command uses
when it comes to word process to use, but the same can be the root directory (\) instead of
ing. I'm not talking about type said for a sewing machine or the current directory as the
styles and headlines; I'm talk a power saw. Using any tool starting point in looking for the
ing about content. A student properly requires an under DIR-2 subdirectory.
writing a term paper should be standing of the process and If you're computing at the
more concerned with what the expected outcome. For ex DOS prompt and feeling blue,
words say than how they look. ample, a seamstress under it's time to snap out of it. Com
The same can be said for a stands how to use a sewing ma mit yourself to understanding
businessperson preparing a chine to assemble a garment. the processes, and you'll dis
business plan. Parents will ap The sewing machine is a cover you have a most helpful
preciate a plain and simple let great tool, but it can't be put tool at hand. a
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and you're, well, on the air. Cur
rently, anyone can design a
By now, you've heard a lot cult to make? For one thing, it's motherboard with a few chips
about Intel's new microproces much bigger than the 486. The and a processor. That won't be
sor, the Pentium. Wondering 486 contains 1.2 million transis true with Pentium-based sys
how much of the stuff that tors; the Pentium contains 3.1 tems. Don't be surprised if the
you're hearing is actually true? million—over two-and-a-half early 66-MHz Pentium-based
Well, the Pentium is a good times as many. (That's not the PCs vary in usable speed by
chip in many ways, although biggest jump we've seen, how as much as 50 percent.
not the amazing world-beater ever. The 386 is only a quarter Smarter cache. Since the 20-
that some of the (ahem) compet million transistors.) The Pentium MHz 80386DX's introduction,
ing computer magazines claim is also a hot chip in the literal PC designers have been
it to be. This month, let's take sense. The Pentium overview faced with a difficult choice—
a very quick look at what's fact document from Intel says that what kind of memory to use in
and what's not concerning In the chip should be expected to their machines. The majority of
tel's newest engine. run at up to 85 degrees Centi PC RAM is called dynamic
I said you'd probably heard grade—that's 185 degrees Fahr RAM (DRAM): It's relatively
a lot about the Pentium; actu enheit—prompting the inevita cheap, but it's not available in
ally, hearing is about all you'll ble observation that it'll not only the kind of speeds needed to
Why is a Pentium be doing about the Pentium crunch your numbers, but it'll al keep up with systems of 20+
faster than for a while, as Intel will be so cook your dinner. Look for MHz. You can't get DRAMs in
lucky to be able to produce makers of Pentium-based com 40, 25, 20, or 15 nanosecond
a 486, and how 200,000 of them by the end of puters to tout their unique cool access times, the times re
fast is it? the year. While 200,000 may ing facilities. quired by those systems.
sound like a lot of chips, it's on The greater raw speed re There's a different kind of RAM
ly about 1 percent of Intel's pro fers to the fact that the 66-MHz called static RAM (SRAM)
duction run for this year's 386 clock rate is a pure clock rate, that's available in those higher
and 486 chips, and an even unlike the 486DX2/66 chip, speeds, but SRAM is much
smaller percentage when you which runs at 66 MHz internal more expensive than DRAM.
add in the folks like Cyrix, ly but interacts with the out How do manufacturers build
AMD, and IBM who make side world at only 33 MHz. A high-speed machines and still
clones of those CPUs. 486DX2/66 is a relatively sim find RAM that won't drive the
There are lots of things to ple chip to design a PC price of the PCs out of sight?
like about the Pentium, and around; that it communicates By using a lot of DRAM and a
not a lot of space to describe at 33 MHz externaily means little SRAM. The DRAM serves
them. Here's a whirlwind tour. that all a designer needs to do as main memory, and most sys
Greater raw speed. The Pen is to mate a DX2/66 CPU chip tems have megabytes of it. But
tium comes in 60-MHz and 66- with a run-of-the-mill 33-MHz many motherboards have be
MHz flavors. If offering two motherboard, and it's an in tween 64K and 512K of SRAM
speeds that are so close togeth stant 66-MHz computer. called cache RAM. When the
er seems odd, it is—usually. With a Pentium-66, on the oth CPU needs the next item of da
The Pentium is such a difficult er hand, both internal and ex ta from the system RAM, it
chip to make, however, that the ternal communication is at 66 looks first in the fast SRAM
percentage of manufactured MHz, requiring a motherboard cache to see if it's there. If the
chips that can operate at the that runs at 66 MHz. While it data is in the SRAM cache,
goal rate of 66 percent—the may seem that building a 66- then the CPU gets it from the
yield, in chip talk—is much low MHz motherboard would be a SRAM without delay.
er than it is for, say, 386 or 486 small incremental change from If, on the other hand, the re
chips. Lowering the bar of ac the currently available 33-MHz quired data isn't in the SRAM,
ceptability to 60 MHz allows In and 50-MHz motherboards, it's the CPU must go to DRAM for
tel to sell the chips that almost not—the task gets harder as the data, which slows the sys
made it. That means that the 60- the speed gets greater. It turns tem down considerably. The
MHz Pentiums failed the 66- out that 66 MHz is around the whole idea of a cache is that
MHz test but passed the 60- frequency of TV channel 4, so some smart hardware called a
MHz test, whereas the 66-MHz a Pentium-equipped PC has a cache controller {it's built into
Pentiums passed both tests, Per serious potential noise prob the 486, and it's an optional
sonally, I'd look closely at a re lem. Run one without the prop chip with the 386) must essen
turn and service policy before er shielding (with the cover off tially look into the future,
buying a PC based on a 60- or with an inadequate cover), guess which data the CPU will
56 COMPUTE JULY 1993
soon need, and go get that da need isn't a straightforward Pentium constantly monitors
ta before the CPU asks for it. task, particularly when there the first. If the main Pentium
While many 386 mother are decisions to be made. Sup malfunctions, the other one
boards incorporate some kind pose the cache sees that the jumps right in and takes up
of cache memory and cache CPU is currently executing without skipping a beat.
controller, the 486 actually some instructions that mean;
builds a cache and cache con "Compare value A with value B. Benchmarking the Pentium
trolling into the CPU. The 486 If A is greater than B, then set How much faster is a Penti
chip contains 8K of cache, and the value MAXIMUM to A; oth um, really? As I said, the ac
most 486 systems have addition erwise, set the value MAXI tual speed of a Pentium-
al cache on the motherboard. MUM to B." That simple state based PC will depend heavily
The Pentium's cache system ment boils down to a bunch of on motherboard design, as
is better than the 486's in four instructions that had better be the Pentium relies upon the
ways. First, the Pentium has in the cache if the Pentium is go motherboard to access both
twice as much cache, with two ing to continue to run without de its DRAM and its external
8K caches—one for data, one lays. But since the cache con SRAM cache. If those re
for program code. Second, the troller can't know whether the spond slowly, the Pentium
cache's method of organizing CPU will take the "A is greater can only run slowly.
its cached data is more effi than B" or "B is greater than A" Simple small benchmarks,
cient, employing a write-back al fork in the road, it doesn't know on the other hand, will run like
gorithm. The opposite of a write- which result's code to go grab greased lightning because
back algorithm, a write-through and put in the cache. For they'll fit entirely into the Penti
algorithm, forces data written to years, mainframe cache control um's 16K cache. They'll return
the SRAM cache memory to be lers have used a technique some great numbers, but
immediately written to the slow called branch prediction to those numbers will be of very
er DRAM memory. That means guess which way the CPU will little real-world value in judging
that memory reads can come go, and now a PC chip—the system effectiveness. After all,
out of the cache quickly, but Pentium—has a cache control how many applications do you
memory writes must always oc ler built into it with branch predic run that will fit in 16K?
cur at the slower DRAM time. Be tion capabilities. I should also mention that
cause not every piece of infor Two processors in one. modern benchmarks don't ex
mation written to memory stays There are essentially two CPUs ploit multiprocessor capabili
in memory very long, the Penti in this chip. The first one is a sim ties, so any benchmark values
um's cache algorithm puts off ple 386-like CPU: It does inte on the Pentium are values de
writing data from SRAM to ger operations, not floating termined while it works with
DRAM for as long as possible, point operations. The second is one hand tied behind its
unlike the 486, which uses a like the 486—a 386 with floating back—that is, while the V pipe
write-through cache. point capabilities built right into line isn't doing anything. Using
Third, there's the time wast it. That means that the Pentium a common set of benchmarks,
ed by the cache controller in is essentially a parallel-process the Pentium-based PC built by
searching to see if an item is ing CPU, with the ability to do Intel (who should, after all,
in the cache. The Pentium re two things at once. Those two know how to make a Pentium-
duces that time by dividing CPUs-within-a-CPU are called based PC) turns in a perform
the cache into smaller caches, the U and V pipelines, and the ance 76 percent faster than a
each of which can be fact that the Pentium has more DX2/66 on basic processor op
searched more quickly; that than one pipeline makes it a su erations, with memory through
technique is called a two-way perscalar CPU. Without special put almost exactly the same
set associative cache. programming, only the 486 as the fastest current DX2/66s.
To explain the fourth v/ay in pipe (the U pipe) is active. New This underscores my previ
which the Pentium's cache is programs and operating sys ous point: The CPU performs
better than the 486's, I have to tems, such as Windows NT amazingly well in a vacuum,
first make an important point and OS/2 3.0, will be required but hook it up to peripherals
about what a cache must do. to make use of these multiple on a motherboard—such as
Recall that a cache has to processors. RAM chips—and you'll see
guess which data and pro Fault tolerance. The Penti that while the Pentium is a very
gram code the CPU will need um is designed to be linked special chip, it will need some
soon, and then go get that da with another Pentium on the very special hardware surround
ta before the CPU asks for it. motherboard that's dedicated ing it before it can soar to com
Guessing what the CPU will to fault tolerance. The second puting heaven. G
JULY 1993 COMPUTE 57
 PROGRAMMING POWER
Tom Campbell

POWERBASIC 3.0 to embed assembly language

statements right into the BA
there are scores of other fea
tures you'll find it hard to resist,
There's a sparkling "new" BA SIC code, such as byte, word, and dou
SIC on the scene, one that A less sexy feature (but per ble-word types (all unsigned,
might be familiar to old haps a more important one) is at last!); ON ERROR LOCAL
hands. PowerBASIC 3.0 from the ability to create huge ar for intraroutine error trapping;
Spectra Publishing (1030-D rays, which may contain more an editor that can handle
East Duane Avenue, Sun than 64K of data. Unlike "the huge files and, finally, mice;
nyvale, California 94086, 408- other BASIC," PowerBASIC reasonably good hypertext
730-9616) has just been re lets you create these huge ar help; and a stand-alone debug
leased, and it's very hot. If the rays in any size, not just a ger. But call for a brochure—
name doesn't ring a bell, it space-wasting power-of-two di there are even more.
used to be Borland's Turbo Ba mension. Hand in hand with This month's program is writ
sic two versions ago. PowerBA huge arrays is the ability to cre ten in PowerBASIC and is avail
SIC 2.0 was the first release ate compound data types— able on CompuServe in the
from Spectra, and I loved it. not only the TYPE variety, but IBMPRO forum under the file
Uppermost in many peo the UNION variety as well, name DBFDIR.BAS. If you
ple's minds is: How compati which lets you overlap similar have any trouble finding it,
ble is PowerBASIC with Micro data structures, like the variant you can send me E-mail at
There's a sparkling soft's QuickBASIC? The an records of Pascal or the union 75530,3607. It both highlights
"new" BASIC swer is that they're fairly close. of C. And anyone who writes and improves one of Power-
on the scene, one But any large program will prob directly to the screen or reads BASIC's most useful features,
that might be ably require major rewriting, from the BIOS frequently will ap the DIR$ function. DIR$ is
familiar to old hands. PowerBASIC is a lightning- preciate the ability to declare meant to be called once with
fast native code compiler, just arrays at an absolute memory a file specification, such as
like QuickBASIC's Make EXE location. Ever since Turbo Pas "C:\DBF\\DBF", and after
file option. But this one always cal added this one, I've been that in a loop without the file
compiles, and it compiles in champing at the bit for a bet specification. The first time it's
sanely fast. For large projects, ter DEF SEG. called, it returns the first file
you can break programs up in Last on the list of my favor matching the specification;
to precompiled versions ite new features is the addition the second time, and on sub
called units, just like Turbo Pas of a deceptively simple option sequent invocations without
cal's. You can also use OBJ that requires you to declare a parameter, it returns the re
files, but they aren't as good variables before using them. maining matches. The prob
as units. Although this seems like a lem is that it only returns a
PowerBASIC has a ton of cruel trick on BASIC program filename and extension, not
new features. My favorite by a mers, I have found it absolute the drive and path. So, in the
landslide is its ability to create ly essential on large projects. example of "C:\DBF\\DBF", it
any kind of TSR imaginable. Until now I haven't been able might return "TODO.DBF",
TSRs can be triggered by hot to use BASIC for programs "ACCTS.DBF", and so on, but
keys, by interrupts, by timer over a thousand lines or so be not "C:\DBF\TODO.DBF", and
ticks, and by a few less obvi cause BASIC will simply initial so forth. DBFDIR.BAS, the
ous methods. You can swap ize to zero any new variable it PowerBASIC program I wrote,
them out to EMS memory or a finds. Too many times, my de acts like dBASE's Dir com
disk file, so that the executa velopment has ground to a mand and lists database char
ble can be 200K yet still con halt at 2:00 in the morning acteristics (last update and re
sume only 4.5K of convention while I read and reread my cord size) of all the dBASE
al memory. The TSRs are quite code, missing every time that data files in the specified direc
stable, working well under my an array called SymTable has tory, I ported SplitFilenameS
rather strenuous test condi quietly transmogrified into from an earlier column with no
tions. In all, this feature alone SymbolTable. That C and Pas effort at all; it's used to recon
is worth buying the product if cal require variable declara struct the matching filenames
you need to develop TSRs. It's tions went from an onerous bur so they can be opened and
cheaper than many C libraries den to a basic requirement. the DBF header data read in.
that offer the same feature, yet Now I can look forward to us As usual, this is modular
it offers the convenience of BA ing PowerBASIC even in seri code, so you can easily hollow
SIC. Related to that is the new ous development. out the dBASE-specific por
ASM statement (with the alias Besides these major new ad tion and just use the frame
.'for brevity), which allows you ditions that hit home with me, work for your own files. □
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mere mortals can comprehend. Power-On Self Test PC. The three major companies that
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Application software has to run on 1. The microprocessor begins Technologies. Each one licenses its
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configurations. That's why each IBM- an area almost at the end of the Selecting a BIOS for motherboards
compatible computer has a liaison ROM BIOS area. isn't easy. A list of questions has to be
layer that acts as a compatibility- 2. The microprocessor is tested, addressed in order to choose a BIOS
assurance arbitrator between the usually with a self-test mode that's that's already been designed or to
application software and the hard built into the microprocessor. custom-develop a BIOS.
ware. This layer is called the BIOS The system board, the system The AM! BIOS has a built-in setup
(Basic Input/Output System). It usually buses, and the system memory program activated by pressing the
resides in two ROM chips on a com containing the POST code are Delete key in the first few seconds
puter's motherboard. tested, too. after the boot procedure begins. In
Imagine the difficulty software 3. The system timers are tested. addition to the setup program, the
developers would face if they had to 4. The video display system is AMI BIOS features a built-in, menu-
worry about whether their products tested, usually the video memory driven diagnostics package.
were saving data to a 20MB or a and the signals that drive the dis The Award BIOS has a built-in
200MB hard drive. They'd need to play. ■ setup program activated by pressing
treat each variation as a different 5. All memory is tested. Ctrl-Alt-Esc. Award is unique among
case. Or worse yet, what if they had 6. The keyboard is tested. BIOS manufacturers in that it provides
the additional difficulty of providing 7. The disk drives are tested for its code to hardware manufacturers
separate routines to deal with each their status. and allows them to customize the
drive type, whether it was an IDE, BIOS themselves. Because of this
MFM, SCSI, or RLL drive? If not for the customization, the hardware compa
BIOS, applications would be many it involves checking the microproces nies can fine-tune the BIOS to work
times larger than they are. The BIOS sor, memory, video system, and other best with their computers.
shields developers from these internals. Not all installed options are The Phoenix BIOS has been the
headaches by providing a standard tested. For example, printers and standard by which others are judged.
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Some peripherals, like video cards, ment of third-party BIOSs that made it support from these BIOS manufactur
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tions you'll be using and make sure To get this information, open your
they perform the way you expect Mash BIOS computer's case and start taking
before laying your money down. For notes. It only takes a few minutes.
You've probably heard the term
new equipment, you should install With this information you can accu
Flash BIOS at some point and won
your applications and put them rately order BIOS upgrades.
dered what it meant. It doesn't
through their paces as soon as you There are some alternatives to
mean an uitrafast BIOS. It's just an
can. If you find a problem, contact the upgrading your BIOS. Some compa
alternate way of placing informa
source that sold you the computer. nies (Washburn & Company, for
tion in the BIOS. A BIOS is simply
example) supply accessory ROMs to
an EPROM (Erasable Program
BIOS Upgrading augment the existing BIOS. They can
mable Read Only Memory). Flash
You'll rarely be in the position of need fit in the two empty sockets that are
BIOS is a special kind of EPROM
ing a BIOS upgrade. Here's a list of found on most AT motherboards, or
that can be erased and rewritten
reasons why you might want to con they can go on a card that fits in any
while it's still on the motherboard.
sider it. 8-or 16-bit slot.
That allows manufacturers to make
■ Adding support for 720K 31/2- If you've identified a specific prob
minor changes in the BIOS to con
inch, 1.2MB 51/4-inch, and 1.44MB lem, some technicians are well versed
form to new computer designs.
31/2-inch drives. at patching BIOSs. But it may be risky
Don't think you can simply go into
• Allowing a user-definable hard if the person doing it doesn't possess
your Flash BIOS and start chang
drive type that matches an MFM, RLL, the skills. (I don't think I've ever heard
ing things, though. Altering the
IDE, or ESDI drive. a technician admit he or she couldn't
BIOS requires specialized equip
• Adding support for 101-key do something until it was too late.)
ment. The Award spokesperson
enhanced keyboards. Unless you have complete confidence
told me that eventually the BIOS
• Correcting known conflicts or in a technician, ieave this option out.
could be available in CMOS, which
bugs. It's best if you contact the hard
would allow you to upgrade your
ware or software vendor's technical Don't Be Fooled by Imitations
BIOS in place with a manufacturer-
support to verify that there is a prob Just because your computer boots
supplied utility.
lem with your particular BIOS. and shows you the copyright of a
—ROBERT BIXBV
• Adding features and perfor major BIOS manufacturer doesn't
mance found in newer BIOS versions. mean you're home free. If you bought
Before you go shopping, you'll existing BIOS ROMs. Locate the part your system used, bought it from a
need some information. number on one of the ROM chips. You cut-rate source, or have had it ser
• Make and model of the system. may have to pee! back a label. The viced by cut-rate technicians, there's a
For many popular systems this is all part number will usually start with 27. small chance you have an illegal BIOS
that's needed to find the right BIOS. • Check for an integrated chip set. copy. I've heard of more than one per
For less common clones you'll need This will consist of square, flat, large- son who, having experienced system-
more information. scale integration chips with pins level bugs and incompatibilities,
• The CPU type (286, 386SX, 386, around all four sides. They'll usually inspected the motherboard and found
486SX, 486). have a manufacturer's name or logo. a BIOS copy—not the real thing.
• The make and version of the Some examples are CHIPS, SUNTAC. This is illegal and dilutes the BIOS
existing BIOS. This is necessary VLSI, and OPTI. An integrated chip manufacturer's ability to provide the
because some revisions will require set performs the functions of hun best possible product for paying cus
that the keyboard controller be dreds of smaller chips. Even IBM uses tomers. Besides that, those BIOS
replaced, too. third-party integrated chip sets on copies may not be the best fit for the
• The type and number of the some models. systems.

Ending BIOS Fear

Compaq actually created the first principal differences among BIOS turers (in the industry, this is called
BIOS clone, but it was only interested makers are their market niches and opening the kimono), which would
in providing BIOSs for its own small utilities and improvements that allow non-IBM computer makers to
machines. Only when Phoenix intro are quickly incorporated by the com advertise an even higher level of IBM
duced its version of the PC BIOS did petition. compatibility. Since a system's
the clones and compatibles war really For example, a spokesperson for design is such an integral factor in
begin. Since then, many other makers Award stated that the Award BIOS is BIOS design (virtually all BIOSs are
have entered the market, notably the outfitted with a boot-sector virus customized at least a little to match
makers mentioned in the article. One detector which is expected to appear the system they serve) and since no
additional BIOS maker, Quadtel, was soon in new BIOSs from other manu OEM wants to provide detailed sys
recently purchased by Phoenix. facturers. tem design information to IBM, an
I called various BIOS makers and AMI sells primarily to motherboard avid competitor, IBM has decided to
asked them about their products. I makers while Phoenix sells primarily market its BIOS through Phoenix, the
was surprised by their responses. to OEMs {Original Equipment Man first company to release an IBM-
The question Why is your product ufacturers—companies that make compatible BIOS. This will allow
better than the competition? usually the whole computer and some Phoenix, a disinterested third party,
invites a fusillade of marketing peripherals). to make the tweaks necessary to
squibs, but this time, most of the One irony of the modern BIOS has allow the IBM BIOS to work with an
people I spoke with echoed the resulted from IBM's decision to mar individual system.
statement, "A BIOS is a BIOS." The ket its BIOS to compatibles manufac —ROBERT BIXBY

64 COMPUTE JULY 1993

 Beep Beep
1 Here's the scenario. Your computer won't boot, but you Phoenix
hear beeps. Interpreting those beeps might mean the The Phoenix BIOS beep codes are three groups of beep
difference between rectifying the situation yourself and counts.
calling a technician. Here's a list of the error beep codes 1-1-3 CMOS write/read failure
for AMI, Award, BM, and Phoenix BtOSs. 1-1-4 ROM BIOS checksum failure
1-2-1 Programmable interval timer failure
AMI 1-2-2 DMA initialization failure
1 short DRAM refresh failure 1-2-3 DMA page register write/read failure
2 short Parity circuit failure 1-3-1 RAM refresh verification failure
3 short Base 64K RAM failure 1-3-3 First 64K RAM chip or data line failure,
4 short System timer failure multibit
5 short Processor failure 1-4-2 Parity failure first 64K RAM
6 short Keyboard controller gate A20 error 1-4-3 Fail-safe timer feature (only EISA
7 short Virtual mode exception error BIOS)
8 short Display memory read/write test failure 1-4-4 Software NMI port failure (only EISA
9 short ROM BIOS checksum failure BIOS)
1 long, 3 short Conventional/extended memory failure 2-1-1, 2-1-2, First 64K RAM chip or data line failure
1 long, 8 short Display/retrace test failed 2-1-3,2-1-4, on bit 0-F
2-2-1.2-2-2.
Award 2-2-3, 2-2-4,
All Processors 2-3-1, 2-3-2,
1 long, 2 short Video error 2-3-3, 2-3-4,
2 short Any nonfatai error 2-4-1, 2-4-2,
1 short No error during POST 2-4-3, 2-4-4
3-1-1 Slave DMA register test failure
80286/80386/80486 Processors 3-1-2 Master DMA register test failure
1 long, 3 short Keyboard controller error 3-1-3 Master interrupt mask register failure
3-1-4 Slave interrupt mask register failure
IBM 3-2-4 Keyboard controller failure
1 short Normal POST system OK 3-3-4 Screen memory failure
2 short POST error—error code displayed on 3-4-2 Screen retrace failure
CRT 4-2-1 Timer tick failure
No beep Power supply, system board 4-2-2 Shutdown failure
Continuous Power supply, system board 4-2-3 Gate A20 failure
Repeating short Power supply, system board 4-2-4 Unexpected interrupt in protected
1 long, 1 short System board mode
1 long, 2 short Display adapter (mono/CGA) 4-3-1 RAM test of memory above 64K failed
1 long, 3 short Enhanced graphics adapter (EGA) 4-3-2 Programmable interval timer channel 2
3 long 3270 keyboard card test failed
4-3-4 Realtime clock test failed
4-4-1 Serial port test failed
4-4-2 Parallel port test failed
4-4-3 Math coprocessor test failed

It's pretty easy to distinguish the nent is carefully checked by the sys
real McCoy from a fake. Take a look tem manufacturer for correct opera

SPEAK UP!
at the ROM BIOS chips on the moth tion, and it almost always is. But as a
erboard. You should clearly see the system ages and newer peripherals
name of the manufacturer, along with become available, you need to be
a serial number, usually on a label. If thinking about a BIOS upgrade to Is there a feature topic
you buy a new system with a fake, support newer hardware. Generally, a
BIOS upgrade is a step involved in
you'd like to see covered in
report the supplier to the manufactur
er of the BIOS cloned on the fake some other kind of major equipment COMPUTE? Let us know by
chips, and return the system for a full upgrade. If you install the hardware calling (900) 884-8681, ext.
refund. If you're looking at a used sys correctly and it still won't work, your 7010101. The call will cost
tem with a copied BIOS, tell the seller BIOS automatically becomes the
95 cents per minute, you
you're not interested. Even if you buy prime suspect.
it at a bargain price, you're in for trou The guidelines I've presented must be 18 or older, and you
ble in the future. should help you make your purchase must use a touch-tone
and upgrade decisions now and in the phone. Sponsored by Pure
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JULY 1993 COMPUTE 65
 PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE
The improvements to this development system
keep it the preferred choice for Windows programmers
who value ease of use and extendible power.

George Campbell

VISUAL BASIC 2.0

Microsoft brought about a rev
olution when it introduced Vis
ual Basic 1.0, making Win
dows programming accessi
ble to just about anyone with
some BASIC programming ex
perience. With the introduc
tion of version 2.0, program
mers get even more of a
good thing.
Like version 1.0, VB 2.0
gives you a quick way to de
sign the interface for your Win
dows programming project.
Since interface design has al
ways been the most difficult
part of programming for Win
dows, using VB lets you get ties. Since you can also ac and size of objects (such as
down to the business of the cess most of the commands command buttons, list box
working part of your program embedded in the Windows es). Since this window can al
with very little delay. You sim API, you can even extend VB ways be onscreen, setting an
ply draw your interface on the far beyond its own internal object's properties is fast. An
screen, much like using an ob statements. icon-based toolbar also
ject-oriented paint program, There are two VB packag makes programming easier—
and then write code to tell the es: Standard and Profession you click on an icon to carry
program what to do when al. The Standard Edition, de out most functions in the devel
something happens. For exam signed for casual or personal opment environment.
ple, if a user clicks on a com use, lists for $199. The Profes New graphics controls let
mand button in your program, sional Edition, listed at $495, you insert bitmapped images
you need only write the code includes enhancements more in your program or draw
for that button click. List box advanced programs need. lines, boxes, and circles with
es, text-editing windows, and You can begin with the Stan out using as much precious
all other interface objects dard Edition and upgrade if Windows memory as needed
work in the same way. you want. Both packages with version 1.0. The program
This event-oriented program have good documentation also offers support for Win
ming style is the key to VB's and extensive online help. An dows OLE (Object Linking
ease of use. Since you write online tutorial and plenty of and Embedding) plus a
less code to make your pro sample code and applica spreadsheetlike grid control
gram work, you can concen tions also ease the transition from the earlier Professional
trate on the important code, from DOS programming. Toolkit. You also get support
rather than on code that sim Both editions offer im for the Multiple Document In
ply displays your program. Us proved performance over the terface (MDI), a huge array li
ing language syntax familiar original VB. Programs general brary for arrays larger than
to all BASIC programmers, ly run about 20 percent fast 64K, and tools to create auto
VB makes writing simple pro er. A program's EXE file is mated installation systems for
grams fast and easy. While now smaller, although the your applications.
Windows programming was VBRUN200.DLL runtime li Other programming tasks,
once the province of dedicat brary needed for all programs too, get a boost, with im
ed C or C++ experts, anyone has grown. The program de proved debugging features
willing to learn some new sign environment is also im like watch and break expres
rules can use VB 2.0 to cre proved; you now get a sepa sions. You can also select mul
ate professional-quality Win rate window for setting the tiple controls and set com
dows applications and utili properties, like color, fonts, mon properties for all of them
66 COMPUTE JULY 1993
in a single step. A new varia tools, such as setting printer brary from another source.
ble type, called Variant, can options without user input. Fur Fortunately, an entire indus
substitute for any variable ther technical limitations in try has already grown up
type, such as Integer or clude an inability to use point around VB. Vendors like Cres
String; and you can shift be ers to memory locations and cent Software and MicroHelp IBM PC or
tween variable types automat a requirement that a runtime li offer extensive add-on librar compatible (80266
ically when needed. Using Var brary be included with each ies. These libraries, which be compatible); 1MB
iant, you don't have to con program. While VB can use Dy come part of the VB develop BAM; Hercules,
vert a numerical variable to a namic Link Libraries (DLL) to ment environment, extend the EGA, VGA, or belter
string variable to display it in extend the language, it can language and fill in the gaps graphics; one high-
a text area onscreen. not create them—a particular Microsoft left. VB's popularity density floppy
With the Professional Edi ly annoying limitation for ad also means that support on fo drive and one hard
tion, you get additional tools, vanced programmers, who rums such as MSBASIC on drive with 18MB
such as a communications must turn to other languages CompuServe is excellent, with free; Windows 3.0
module, a help compiler for to create modular extensions many advanced users offering or higher; mouse
creating full-scale hypertext to VB.
help systems, support for the Then, too, while Microsoft
MAPI E-mail system, ODBC fixed some bugs that
database libraries, and more. plagued VB 1.0, it introduced
Custom controls available on some new problems in 2.0. Es
ly in the Professional Edition in pecially irritating is a bug
clude a group of 3-D controls which sometimes causes pro
like command buttons and grams that run perfectly in the
check boxes, an animated development environment to
command button, access to crash after being compiled.
the Windows Common Dialog There's an easy way to work
windows, multimedia controls, around this bug, but it's a both
controls specific to pen- er. A bug in the Professional
based computers, plus a hand- Edition's Common Dialog
ful of other useful additions. tools makes the Printer dialog
For programming profession difficult to use, requiring addi
als, the additional features tional code to change the de
are well worth the cost. fault printer from within a VB
Overall, the additional fea program. Microsoft acknowl
tures and improvements in edges these problems and of solutions for VB problems and recommended—
both VB 2.0 editions are very fers work-around solutions, even free add-on libraries. Mi $199 (Standard
welcome and help keep VB but the company apparently crosoft, too, is active on the Edition], $495
well ahead of competitors has no plans to issue an inter CompuServe support forum, of (Pro less ion;)!
like GFA Basic and Turbo Pas im version of the language. fering solutions for many prob Edition)
cal for Windows. It's still by A final limitation can cause lems and answers to tough
far the easiest development problems for some users. technical questions. MICROSOFT
system you can find (or Win While you can effortlessly dis All in all, Visual Basic 2.0 is One Microsoft Way
dows, and it's a pleasure to play bitmapped graphics on the ideal way to get started in Redmond, WA
work with. screen, it's very difficult to Windows programming. Its 98052-6399
That said, however, VB is send them to the printer. In ease of use and extendible (800) 426-9400
not the be-all and end-all for deed, there's no direct meth power may make it the per
Windows programming. A od in VB itself to print graph fect platform for most program
number of limitations keep it ics and text on the same mers, especially for creating
from becoming the only lan page. Printing bitmaps uncomplicated applications
guage Windows program means using a complicated and utilities. If you have any
mers need. First, its inability set of Windows API com desire to create personal or
to use Windows AP! functions mands and, even then, it's al professional applications for
that require callbacks keeps most impossible to print graph Windows, definitely look into
VB programmers from access ics on a PostScript printer with this development system. D
ing some important Windows out purchasing an add-on li Circle Reader Service Number 391

JULY f993 COMPUTE 67

 PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
Rosalind Resnick

LEASING VERSUS
deal? Not really. example, you can pay off the
In preparing this story, I computer more quickly. If

BUYING asked my accountant,

Berkowitz of Mission Viejo, Cal
Art sales are sluggish for a while,
you have the option of making
Flip through just about any ifornia, to crunch the numbers only the minimum monthly pay
newspaper or magazine and compare the two options. ments until things get rolling.
these days, and you're sure to What he found out amazed Under the terms of most leas
find ads for cut-rate comput me. Leasing the computer for es, Berkowitz says, you're
ers. With computer prices in a three years would cost stuck making the same month
virtual free fall, millions of com $1,532.80 (including the $1.00 ly payments until the lease
puter users are finding it diffi you'd pay at the end of the term is up, forcing you to con
cult to justify not upgrading to lease to buy it)—only $0.08 tinue financing your purchase
an 80386 or 80486 with the lat less than you'd pay to finance at high interest rates even
est features. And no matter it with a credit card at the stan when you can afford to pay it
what computer you buy or dard 21-percent interest rate! off completely.
where you make your pur (In fact, Berkowitz says, what Another option is a home eq
chase, it's hard to overpay. the chain bills as a lease is ac uity line of credit. Because a
Even sor there's more to tually more like a financing ar home equity credit line is se
shopping for computers than rangement than a true lease, cured (that is, the equity in
When it comes to simply deciding how much in which you pay only for the your house acts as collateral
RAM you want and how big a use of the computer and not for the loan), banks are willing
financing your beast
hard drive to get. To entice the retail cost.) to lend you money at lower
take the time to shoppers to part with their mon That's why, Berkowitz says, rates than you'd get with a cred
crunch the numbers. ey, computer dealers nation the most economical way to it card. In fact, many banks
wide are offering not only low buy a new computer is with are so eager to lend you mon
You might be prices but seductive lease cash, unless your business is ey that they'll waive all the
surprised at the deals, too. Let's face it: If so hot that you can invest the fees and costs involved in do
you're just starting a business, money in your company and ing the paperwork and assess
hidden costs.
you may not have enough mon reap double-digit returns. ing your homes value. While
ey to buy a new computer "For the person who has it doesn't make sense to mort
with cash, but you might easi the funds available, cash is gage your house just to buy a
ly be able to afford a monthly the best way to buy almost all computer, a home equity cred
payment that costs little more of the time," Berkowitz says. it line might make sense if
than a business lunch with a "Only if you're making more you're starting a business and
new client. from your business than you'd need, say, $10,000 in working
The trouble is that some pay out in interest, [or] if you're capital.
computer leases are far more squeezed for cash, does it "A home equity loan makes
costly than they first appear. make sense to finance your sense as long as you remem
Recently, one national comput computer purchase." ber the biggest caveat of all,
er chain ran a newspaper ad Even if you don't have the which is that you could lose
offering a brand-new 25-MHz money, Berkowitz says, there your home," Berkowitz says.
386SX IBM-compatible com are some other options to con "And frankly, that scares me to
puter for $1,150. It also of sider. Your credit card, for death."
fered buyers the option of fi one. Though many credit The bottom line: When shop
nancing their purchase with a cards charge interest as high ping for a computer, it's just as
three-year, $42.55-a-month as 21 percent, some cards of important to check out the
lease—and buying the comput fer lower rates, occasionally fine print on the financing con
er for $1.00 when the lease as low as 10 to 15 percent, to tract as it is to read the reviews
term was up. customers who have good in the computer magazines.
The beauty of the lease, of credit ratings. Many newspa And if you're not so handy
course, is that you don't have pers publish a list of low-rate with a calculator, there are plen
to tie up that $1,150 right now credit cards in their business ty of software programs (and
(assuming that you have the sections. accountants) that can crunch
money in the first place). And By charging the computer the numbers for you.
you don't have to tie up your on your credit card, you can Remember: The old adage
credit cards, either, leaving pay off your purchase as fast "Let the buyer beware" ap
you free to spend on other or as slowly as you like. If your plies not just to shopping for
things. business kicks inio high gear computers but aiso to paying
So is leasing the better sooner than you expected, for for them. n
68 COMPUTE JULY 1993
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 MULTIMEDIA PC
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ca!-order approach). Language, and Literature; Per

THE WORLD Just when things had settled forming Arts; and Sports,

ON A PLATTER into a predictable two-way com

petition, along comes Microsoft
Games, Hobbies, and Pets)
and 84 subcategories. For in
Until recently, you could sum to shake everything up. Micro stance, the primary category of
up the major CD-ROM encyclo soft's entry in the world-on-a- Performing Arts includes the
pedias like this: One has bet platter sweepstakes is called subcategories of Music; Musi
ter multimedia, while the other Microsoft Encarta Multimedia cal Instruments; Musicians and
has better text. The better mul Encyclopedia (Microsoft, One Composers; Dance; Theater;
timedia encyclopedia has Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash and Cinema, Television, and
been Compton's Interactive ington 98052; 800-426-9400; Broadcasting. Once in a subcat-
Encyclopedia (Compton's New- $395). Quite simply, it's one of egory, it's easy to view a list of
Media, 2320 Camino Vida the best multimedia applica each entry in that subcategory,
Roble, Carlsbad, California tions I've seen. While the browse each entry in alphabet
92009; 619-929-2500; $395). 25,000 articles that Microsoft ical order, or switch to a new cat
Formerly called Compton's has taken from the Funk & Wag- egory or subcategory. By stress
MultiMedia Encyclopedia, it nails' Encyclopedia may not be ing a categorical organization,
has introduced several innova as strong as the 33,000 articles Microsoft has recognized how
contained in Gro we learn best: by exploring a
Encarta Is so good lier, Microsoft group of associated ideas and
you no longer has added so then jumping to a related
have an excuse for much additional group of associated ideas.
not owning a information and Wherever possible, Micro
CD-ROM drive and organized the soft has added material to
sound card. material so well Funk & Wagnalls' Encyclope
that Encarta is dia to exploit the new medium
easily the most of multimedia. Fully half the CD-
browsable and ROM is made up of images
usable of the and audio, with another 10 per
three products. cent devoted to animations and
Like Comp videos.
ton's and Groli For example, the Gallery sec
er, Encarta of tion, where you can quickly
tive techniques for gathering fers a time line for a chronologi browse Encarta's 7000 photo
up electronic information. cal view of events, an atlas for graphs and seven hours of au
The better text encyclope a geographical view of events, dio, includes a Special Lists but
dia has been The New Grolier and a knowledge tree for a con ton. Included among the spe
Multimedia Encyclopedia (Gro ceptual view of events. All cial lists is a Foreign Language
lier Electronic Publishing, Sher three CD-ROM encyclopedias Samples list, which, when com
man Turnpike, Danbury, Con let you get at their vast bodies bined with the automatic slide
necticut 06816; 800-356- of knowledge by letting you show, lets you sample common
5590; $395). Its text is written choose the most appropriate words and phrases (spoken by
on a higher grade level than path. This multiple-path ap native speakers) from 46 na
Compton's, with many of its ar proach lets you follow from one tions and cultures. A slide
ticles penned by experts in fact to another until you've ex show of World and Folk Music
their respective fields. plored a series of connections offers a similar tour with a gen
During the last nine months, guided by your own interests. erous helping of musical exam
Grolier has worked hard to Encarta improves on the mul ples and stunning pictures.
close the interface gap by final tiple-path approach by offering I could go on and on about
ly introducing a Windows ver a more logical structure and the gems of wisdom you'll dis
sion of its encyclopedia. It's building up the components cover as you explore Encarta.
much easier to use than the ear that are best suited to multime Suffice it to say. if you're the
lier DOS version. Compton's dia. The overriding structure for type who can spend hours in
has responded with its new Vir Encarta is its 93 categories, a library moving from one refer
tual Workspace technology which include 9 primary catego ence book to another, this is
that more closely approximates ries (Physical Science and Tech the one product that will make
how we collect information in nology; Life Science; Geogra it worth your while to buy a CD-
the real world (sort of a books- phy; History; Social Science; ROM drive and sound card.
open-and-scattered-in-a-logi- Religion and Philosophy; Art, It's that good. □
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Robert Bixby

ers are desktop publishers, Pa

WHO ARE YOU?
gray because those were the
most attractive cardstocks per Direct also provides tips
As the hit song by The Who available from my printer. on using its papers, mainte
says, "I really want to know." What finally drove me to nance supplies for Hewlett-
I'd be interested to know what search for alternative sources Packard laser printers, and in
software you're using and of paper was a book I was put teresting, hard-to-find items
what you're using it for. If you ting together for a poet who like foil, a pamphlet folder, and
have a moment to spare, drop used very long lines. I decid a paper recycler you can use
me a letter or postcard to tip ed the easiest way to present to make your own paper out of
me off. Desktop publishing her material was by using sad- scrap. A minimum order is $30
has become so widespread, die-stitched legal-size paper (plus S6 for UPS shipping; the
and desktop publishers are en to yield a 7- x 8'/2-inch page charge is slightly more for over
gaged in such a broad array (as opposed to my standard night delivery). With your first
of activities, I feel the need to 5V2- x 81/2-inch page. I could order, you can request a
focus on the things that are of find legal-size paper in many sampler containing a sheet of
most benefit to you. I want to different colors and textures, each type of paper offered by
provide information that will but I also needed cardstock in the company and a fan of pa
directly assist you in the kinds a precut &V?.- x 14-inch size to per strips to simplify ordering.
of projects you are pursuing. make the cover. I couldn't find A couple of months ago, I
If you have tips or ideas that anyone who stocked it, and no mentioned the nVIEW line of
make publishing easier or one would provide it in the video projectors. Since then a
more rewarding, I'm interested quantity needed (75 sheets). couple of other very interest
in hearing those, too. If I use Finally, serendipity took a ing product announcements
your tip in the column, I'll give hand in my quest when I re have crossed my desk. The
you full credit (and maybe ceived, unsolicited, the Paper Eiki (pronounced "achy" as in
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publishing protect kinds of paper. In the begin cialty papers, you're in for a with a computer, you would al
easier and ning, I simply used a card- treat. All you need to do is call so need a VGA-to-composite
more attractive. stock cover, usually in buff or to get a free catalog. converter. The LC-200 pro
About half of the catalog is vides a 200-inch picture for
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per for letterhead, invitations, video display 15 x 20 feet in
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 DISCOVERY CHOICE
See strange and exotic creatures
from around the world when you visit the San
Diego Zoo—in your own living room.

David Sears

THE ANIMALS!
See lions and tigers and
bears and more when you vis
it the world-famous San Die
go Zoo. Don't think you can af
ford the plane fare and hotel
accomodations (not to men
tion the time off from work)? If
you own a CD-ROM drive,
you can send your favorite
youngsters all the way to San
Diego without their having to
leave your home—for a very
reasonable fee. The Animals!,
a true multimedia tour de
force featuring the San Diego Montane, Tundra, Desert, is
Zoo, makes this trip possible, land, Grassland, Savanna, you selected, and summon ex
and it's more than worth its Temperate Forest, Taiga—all tensive online help related to
price of admission. the earth's biomes. The Ani your situation. A Copy to Disk
The Software Toolworks mals!, like the San Diego Zoo, option allows you to fifi the Win
took advantage of the vast displays its animals in sur dows Clipboard with text or
world available on a CD-ROM roundings that approximate graphics data from The Ani
drive and made The Animals! their natural habitats. The mals!. If you ever seem lost,
almost as much fun and as map also includes the Center it's very easy to retrace your
easy to explore as the real for the Reproduction of Endan footsteps: You simply click on
zoo. After loading the pro gered Species (CRES), a the Go Back icon (which dis
gram but before you even Kids section, a Storybook The plays a list of all the places
reach the Main menu, you ater, a Nursery, and a Tours you've visited so far).
have the option to browse booth, among other things. At You may also locate ani
through exhibits by looking the CRES, you can learn mals by searching for key
up animals by name. You sim what the zoo does to repopu- words such as bird or tiger.
ply click on the appropriate late dwindling species. At the Clicking on the Media Library
icon on the title screen, and a Storybook Theater, you can icon presents you with a list
windowful of animal names, watch films about the zoo and of all the pictures, video
all alphabetically listed, ap its inhabitants. The Kids sec clips, and sounds found on
pears. Click on the name of tion even contains a few quiz the disc.
any animal, and you'll see the zes. There are hours of fun When you discover an inter
animal beautifully and very and learning to be spent esting animal, you may read
sharply digitized before you. here. about it in the text window or
The Animals! creators did a Navigating The Animals! view the snapshots and vide
fantastic job both collecting does not consume much of os of it in the picture window.
and transferring the visual da your time—it's faster than walk Just click on the necessary
ta to disk. From the title ing to exhibits at the actual icons, and in a second or
screen, you can also click on San Diego Zoo. At the top of two, the show begins. Other
the Sky Tram icon for an over the Main Menu, you'll find the icons include the Information
view of the zoo's exhibits, or Navigation Palette, which Profile, which offers a summa
you can click on the Main holds a band of command but ry of the exhibit; a Kid's Plan
Menu icon, which opens the tons that allow you to travel et, which features a simplified
Main Menu map. On to the quickly to any point in the overview for younger zoogo-
zoo! zoo. These are simple ers; an Endangered Species
The Main Menu is essential enough to operate, and you section; and more.
ly a large map divided into can move forward or back Before any of this matters,
sections. These sections in ward one exhibit, jump to any though, you have to choose a
clude Tropical Rain Forest, exhibit within the biome that section of the zoo to visit. To
74 COMPUTE JULY 1993
do this, examine the Main pled sound in the A/V Links Certainly the extensive on
Menu map, choose a biome, menu. The meerkats did get line bibliography will aid any
and click on it. The Animals! to star in their own short vid one who is interested in re
transports you to the first ex eo, however, and their exhibit searching meerkats or other Windows version: IBM
hibit in that particular section. sported four additional snap of the less-famous zoo ani PC or compatible
Now, the fun really begins. shots besides. mals, but much more informa (80386 compatible),
The San Diego Zoo is home The playback panel for the tion could've gone onto this 2MB RAM, SVGA,
to more than just lions and el video clips appears after you CD-ROM program than the Windows 3.1, CD-ROM
ephants, and finding these click on a video clip's icon. It amount that goes onto the ex drive, MPC-
more unusual creatures can offers Play, Pause, Frame Ad hibit placards at the actual compatible sound
prove enlightening as well as vance, Frame Rewind, Re zoo in San Diego. card, mouse—$119.95
entertaining as you use the wind, and Fast Forward but Don't think The Animals! is OQS version: IBM PC
Text and Audio/Visual options tons—and all work exactly as run-of-the-mill, would-be mul or compatible (16-
to explore links between one you'd expect, though the timedia PC (MPC) fare, MHz 80286 or faster),
animal and another. Frame Forward and Frame Re though: The Software 1MB RAM or higher
For instance, while I was vis wind do cause the otherwise Toolworks did an outstanding with extended
iting the grasslands, I came smooth playback to jar and
across the greater prairie display some disorganized pix
chicken exhibit. This less pop els for a moment.
ular animal had only a single Also, the playback can be
color snapshot and a single viewed in any of three
sound on disc. The text win modes: 160 x 120, 320 x
dow did little to liven up the 240. or full screen. The larger
display with its brief summary, the display area, the blockier
but it did mention that the prai the images become. If you
rie chicken and the blue pea want the finest resolution, you
cock are related. So, I ex should select the smallest dis
plored the text-media link by play area option on the Cus
first clicking on the A/V Links tomization menu. But if you
icon; this led me to the Califor want to view a reasonably
nia quail. I went to the top of sized movie, you should go
the screen to click on the with the 320 x 240 display
Next Exhibit icon, passed by mode. The fantastic, high-qual
a number of exhibits that wer ity sounds remain synchro
en't particularly interesting to nized with the images, no mat
me—all still in the grasslands, ter what image size you've job of packaging more than memory. VGA card
of course—and stopped to selected. 82 short films on a single CD- with 256K, hard drive
stare at a peculiar bunch of an The meerkat exhibit aiso ROM, along with 1300 256- with 2MB free, CD-
imals, the meerkats. contains a Kid's World icon la color pictures, 2500 pages of ROM drive with 135-
Cute and ferretlike, they war beled Crazy Ways. I clicked text, and 2V6 hours of sound Kbs transfer rate,
ranted a few minutes study on this and read some of the data. The DOS (non-CD) ver Microsoft Extensions
and observation time. I click more amusing and peculiar de sion offers fewer options but re for CD-ROM 2.1 or
ed on the Facts and Figures tails of meerkat life. The text tains all the educational val higher—SH9.95
icon to quickly read up on the seems considerate of young ue. But the real deal is the CD-
little creatures. It turns out readers and contains as ROM version. Its incredible im THE SOFTWARE
that they're related to the slen much information as kids prob ages, animation, and sound TOOLWORKS
der-tailed mongoose; are na ably could retain from a visit will motivate you to learn GO Leveroni Ct.
tive to Angola, Namibia, to the zoo. This is, alas, also about all the animals in the Novato, CA 94949
Botswana, and South Africa; the major weakness of The An San Diego Zoo. (800) 234-3088
and love to eat eggs. imals!: It provides as much in If The Animals! is any indi
The Animals! let me down formation as a trip to the zoo cation of the next wave of
a bit at this point, however. and can show you pictures of MPC products, an upgrade to
The meerkats' "chitchat," the animals there, but it often CD-ROM would make a most
which is mentioned in the doesn't include an overwhelm worthy investment. n
text, wasn't used as a sam ing amount of factual detail. Circle Reader Service Number 392

JULY 1993 COMPUTE 75

 GAME INSIDER
Shay Addams

EVERYTHING'S ing the nature of the war in

Europe, and that the dogfights
light fighters to employ Be
yond Visual Range capability,
COMING UP ACES are even more stomach churn
ing than in the original Aces.
a capability which the F-16
doesn't possess. What may
Following up on last year's hit, Improved polygon graphics prove even more fun than the
Aces of the Pacific, ace design now show legible insignia on new missions is the opportuni
er Damon Slye has turned in the planes, so you'll know ty to choose either the F-16 or
his latest tour de force with which enemy squadron you're MiG-29 in a head-to-head
Aces over Europe. The P-51 fighting. And each enemy game played via modem.
Mustang, the Me 109 and Me plane in an engagement is A pair of new mission disks
262 fighters, and many other now numbered, enabling you for X-Wing offers more chal
war birds seen in World War II to know which pilot you're chas lenges for veterans who have
games are incfuded. One nov ing—or which is about to already completed the first
el addition is the German Ara- shoot you out of the sky. two Tours of Duty. LucasArts
do, a light jet bomber. Surpris While most games released is calling the new mission
ingly missing, though, is the Ju- for CD-ROM have been mini disks Space Combat Tours.
87 Stuka, Nazi Germany's mally enhanced versions of The first of these, which pro
main dive bomber. the programs available first on vides another series of mis
floppy disks, Spectrum Holo- sions set in the Star Wars uni
Byte's new Iron Helix was de verse, should be out by the
signed specifically for CD- time you read this. By early
ROM by Drew Pictures. It's an fall, look for another mission
action adventure with a sci disk that will include a new
ence-fiction scenario reminis craft—the B-Wing—in addi
cent of Suspended, Infocom's tion to a new Tour of Duty. And
classic all-text adventure. if they prove popular with the
The goal in Iron Helix is to public, LucasArts will turn out
track down certain DNA sam at least one more X-Wing mis
ples on an abandoned space sion disk. (There is, however,
ship. To explore the six-level no truth to the rumor that X-
ship, you must direct the ac Wing designer Lawrence Hol
tions of a remote-control land and Wing Commander de
probe as it travels throughout signer Chris Roberts are team
the corridors and rooms. The ing up for a joint production
obstacle is the ship's security called X-Wing Commander.)
probe. The security probe de For X-Wing and the super-
Aces incorporates The action, spanning tects your probe's every move realistic air combat sims of the
more ground action events from D-day to the end and tries to blow it away. 1990s, a new breed of joystick
as It moves of the war in Europe, unfolds Graphics and animation look has emerged with lots more
from the Pacific to across your screen in much sharp on a screen divided in buttons for all the sophisticat
the European the same manner as in Aces to four quadrants. One quad ed flight commands. The lat
theater, but you'll of the Pacific. You choose a rant depicts a television view est entry is the Gravis Pro, dis
still see plenty side and the branch of service- of the probe's vicinity, the oth tinguished by adjustable ten
of stomach-churning and then begin a series of mis er quadrants show icon- sion and a pair of extra but
dogfights. sions based on the historical based commands and other el tons. The buttons correspond
research of Dynamix's in- ements of the interface. Iron to the buttons on a second joys
house war historian, John Brun- Helix is available for Macin tick (which many major flight
ing. Another part of the pro tosh as well as the PC. sims support for various fea
gram allows you to practice With the recent release of a tures). The tightest of the ad
specific mission types or dog MiG-29 mission disk, Spec justable-tension settings
fights on either side. trum HoioByte has added yet makes it far easier to fly jets
Aces over Europe employs more life to what remains the that require a light touch (like
new flight models and an en world's top jet flight sim. The the Harrier in Domark's AV-8B
hanced version of Slye's 3- new missions are set in the Harrier Assault), especially if
Space graphics system. Major same theaters that appear in you tend to overcontrol and
differences in the new game the original game. This time, wind up like me: out of control.
are that it incorporates a great however, you can fly one of When set at one of the four loos
er and more detailed empha the other side's craft—the MiG- er positions, the Gravis Pro is
sis on ground attacks, reflect 29 Fulcrum, one of the few at home in action games. D
76 COMPUTE JULY 1993
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Circle Reader Service Number 157

 ENTERTAINMENT CHOICE
You'll want to sleep with a
night-light on after playing this scary
action-adventure game.
Peter Olafson

ALONE IN THE
DARK
I sense that some line has
been crossed; I can't leave
now—even if I wish to. Even
the most innocent volume on
[he bookshelf fills me with dis
quiet. A rocking horse seems
to move on its own, and I
don't like the look of that
trapdoor.
I finally spot the piano in a
distant, shadowed corner of
the attic and am on my way to
ward it when I notice a sugges
tion of movement outside the tween horror and terror: One Cthulhu Mythos, which postu
window: something tattered is as easy as turning your eye lates an ancient monstrous
and ungainly fluttering in the lids inside out; the other is the race of creatures lying in
air. A wrecked flag, perhaps, art of setting you on pins and wait, creatures who can be
I imagine, though I recall no needles. The Elvira games gated into this world, invaria
flagpole. I look more closely. may make you recoil at their bly with disastrous conse
It's not a Nag. The fluttering carnage, but they aren't gen quences for the gate opener.
form looks back at me. It has uinely scary. As Alone opens, the gate
teeth—many teeth. It's almost Alone is genuinely frighten is wide open and swinging.
at the window. Help! The ing without ever being grisly. You're cast as either Edward
stairs! The stairs! When you run from its horrible Carnby, who is a private detec
I wish a thousand bless creatures, you'll do so in shud tive, or Emily Hartwood, who
ings upon anyone trapped in dering terror. The first time is the niece of the last ten
the wonderful, terrifying you open a door and find ant—who killed himself. You'll
place that is Alone in the something unspeakable wait quickly find that the vague
Dark. This three-dimensional ing for you on the other side, agendas found in the docu
adventure game from the something which proceeds to mentation have little bearing
French company I " Motion is advance on you with arms out on the task at hand. In no
the first computer game I've stretched, you'll feel a genu time you'll be exploring, fight
seen that has fear running ine shock. ing for your life, solving puz
through it like an electric cur The game blurs the line be zles, reading books, and enjoy
rent. Raw emotion is a rare tween actually being there ing a good deal of stimulating
enough quality in real life, and and being at home, safely in action-adventuring.
its appearance in this virtual front of a computer. Play it in You get to explore the
world definitely defines Alone the dark for maximum effect. three-story house and its un
as a breakthrough product. Even writing about it two derpinnings, and they are a
A line has indeed been weeks after playing gives me delightful hybrid of filled poly
crossed: Alone is the first of a the creeps. It's that good. gons and bitmaps. They're as
raft of fright bytes that were to The adventure is based on solid and real a place as
hit the market in the first half the works of the author H. P. we've visited this side of Ulti
of 1993. But it isn't the first of Lovecraft, who penned won ma Underworld. Actually, it is
the breed, of course. We derful horror and fantasy sto not all that dark in this world,
have Accolade's now-niter-en ries back in the early part of and you're hardly alone. The
crusted role-playing game the century. They aren't the house comes fully equipped
Don't Go Alone, and Horror- best stories ever written, but with a staff of splendid terrors
soft's two Elviras and the qua they are responsible for cre ranging from the mundane
si Elvira, Waxworks. But ating the foundation for a won (like spiders and rats) to the
there's a delicate line be derful cosmology called completely outrageous (such
78 COMPUTE JULY 1993
as a rabbit with a ferocious rent mode (Fight, Open/ the adventure, when you
Tyrannosaurus rex head). Search, Close, or Push), and have to explore a decent-
When you begin your adven hit Enter to change it or in sized maze, the game sudden
ture, you're armed with noth spect your inventory. The com ly abandons its multiple cam
ing more than your wits and a mands available are keyed to era angles and adopts an over
passing knowledge of karate. the designated object, and head perspective similar to IBM PC or
But if you're nosy enough, it's easy to change gears on that used in games like Lu- compatible (80286
you'll eventually come across the fly. casArts' Indiana Jones and compatible, 80386
more conventional weapons. You'll quickly acquire a thor the Last Crusade. It's a bit jar recommended),
Combat is fun even when ough sense of being a real ring, and it's unnecessary; the B40K RAM, MCGA
your weapon of choice character inhabiting a real designers at I * Motion might or 256-color VGA,
doesn't quite do what you place. It's a quality that have had a bit more respect hard disk with
had hoped. The aiming is fun, seeps into the opening copy for the purity of their other 5MB tree; supports
and the enemy's recoil and protection (picking the wise impeccable creation. Sound Blaster,
the fine mist of blood are game's 3-D objects from a But these complaints are a Covox Sound
nice rewards when you do book) and is sustained into
make contact. And your op the save-game mechanism
ponent's collapse and disinte (each save is accompanied
gration into a hail of polygon by miniature screen cap
circles—to the distant crackle tures).
of thunder—are truly satisfy Alone is very much of a
ing. {I prefer to play the piece; it even possesses a
game with the theme music properly apocalyptic, roof-com
turned off, but the sound ef ing-down Lovecraftian end
fects and spot musical effects ing. And when the game's
are quite superb.) over, delightfully, it's not
Quite different from that of quite over. You'll still need to
any other game, the perspec make your way back up to
tive in Alone is as if you're more civilized surroundings
watching your character from and out the front door. Since
a trapdoor just above and to all the unearthly critters have
the side. What's especially been pacified, this is a per
nice is that the view shifts, fect opportunity for unbridled
sometimes a number of exploration. As you play,
times, depending on where you'll discover lots of books small exception rather than Master 2+, Ad Lib,
you're standing. Finding the and documents that are use the rule. and Disney Sound
different views is fun and ful but not exactly essential in I truly had a fantastic time Source—$59.95
lends a sense of the house as the solution. It's easy to over playing this game—so fantas
an environment rather than as look them when you're run tic, in fact, that 1 not only fin I * MOTION
a series of snapshots. This ning for your life. (Save your ished the adventure but also Distributed by
haunted house really seems game anyway; a couple of went back a second time to Interplay
to occupy space, inside and books have decidedly nasty see if I had missed anything. Productions
out: Fights started in one properties.) Now's your time And the morning after I fin 17922 Fitch Ave.
room can spill through a door to enjoy them. ished playing it, after a rest Irvine, CA 92710
way into another, and the pro At the same time, Alone's less night of dark and unre- (800] 969-GAIYIE
gram takes up over 5.5MB of very consistency of tone membered dreams, I thought
hard disk space. makes doubly disconcerting twice every time I had to
Alone is very easy to con the occasional hiccup in the open a door.
trol. The keyboard interface is program engine. For in Alone in the Dark has been
almost as transparent as the stance, while your character described as "a poor man's
game's ethereal critters. Char may be standing immediately 7th Guest." We should all be
acters move around smoothly in front of a cabinet, both of so poor! This game is a tri
and realistically on a 33-MHz his arms extend to the left of umph of the spirit—in more
80486. You simply hold the it when you move to open it. ways than one. D
space bar to invoke your cur Likewise, toward the end of Circle Reader Service Number 393

JULY 1993 COMPUTE 79

 GAMEPLAY
Paul C. Schuytema

PANT YOUR WAY steering with the joystick. For

a high-speed sprint, you'll
right increases the speed.
When I long for the snows
TO VICTORY want to switch hands midped-
al, since bashing the Enter key
of winter, I dive into Winter Chal
lenge (Accolade; $54.95),
When I think of the Olympics, is remarkably exhausting. which is easily the most addic
the sports that excite me are In the kayaking event, you tive of all the Olympic games
the individual ones like pole paddle by pushing the joy I've played. Players compete
vaulting and the javelin throw. stick forward and turn by mov in the luge, the downhill, cross
On my PC, I have the oppor ing the stick left and right. The country, giant slalom, two-man
tunity to play superathlete, graphics are smoothly scroll bobsled, and the biathlon.
trained in a variety of Olympic ing 3-D polygons. You can also compete at
sports and honed to take on The Carl Lewis Challenge speed skating and ski jump
the best. Summer Challenge (Psygnosis; 617-731-3553; ing. The wide array of wildly
(Accolade; 800-245-7744; $49.99} is another take on the different sports makes play
$54.95) gives me the chance Summer Olympic events. In it, exciting, and there are so
to be the track-and-field ath you control not only the ac many different types of con
lete I've always wanted to be. tions of the athlete but also the trols that my hands don't
It encompasses a wide array rigorous prematch training. cramp up on me.

You play coach to a team of The downhill, with its breath

Experience the athletes, and training can vary taking background and fast
rush of victory as from isometrics and circuit train polygon graphics, conveys
you streak ing to several methods of the illusion of superspeed. As
past the finish line stretching. The individual train I whip down the course, I
ing activities aren't controlled; have visions of Franz Klam-
or outshoot,
instead, you assign workouts mer's brilliant, out-of-control
outski, and outiump
with varying levels of intensity gold-medal run in the 1976
the best and time spent on each meth Innsbruck games. Fortunately,
Olympic athletes. od of training. The goal is to Accolade's games feature a
produce a team of perfectly VCR which allows you to relive
trained athletes, either all gen- your brilliant runs.
eralists or specialists trained in Probably my favorite Winter
specific events. Challenge event is the expert
Once trained, the athletes ly modeled biathlon, that curi
compete in sprints, hurdles, ous marriage of cross-country
javelin, high jump, and long skiing and marksmanship.
jump. Performance depends Smooth graphics give the illu
not only on how well you con sion of skiing through the Eu
trol the athletes but also on ropean countryside, and as
how well you've trained them. you control every stroke, you
The graphics consist of a must watch the stamina meter,
scrolling side view and feature which shows a combination of
fluidly animated competitors. breath and heart rate. When
As a departure from the typi your skier reaches the shoot
cal stab-the-keys-as-fast-as- ing range, the steadiness of
you-can approach, Psygnosis the aim is determined by how
offers three control options. exhausted your skier is; if your
One is the typical key-bashing skier is frazzled, the aiming reti
of sports, including pole vault (which is nice since it simu cle bounces up and down
ing, throwing the javelin, kay lates exhaustion so well); the with every labored breath.
aking, cycling, and hurdling. others are rhythm control and These games are great for
You can even try your abilities gearing control. Rhythm con parties. Four players can com
in archery, the high jump, and trol challenges you to tap the pete in The Carl Lewis Chal
an equestrian jumping event. Ctrl key as a pendulum pass lenge, while ten can go head-
Control is simple—you use the es the center of its path. The to-head in Accolade's games.
joystick, mouse, or keyboard more accurate your control, Sports games aren't limited
or a combination of the three. the faster the athlete. In gear to baseball, football, and golf.
In cycling, for example, you ing control, you tap the Ctrl Go beyond the standard fare
can use your fingers to tap the key as the athlete reaches cer and see if you have what it
Enter key for pedaling while tain strides; hitting the strides takes to be an Olympian. O
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 Ifgoifers and caddies be not better neighbours
Than abbots and soldiers, with crosses and sabres,
Let such fancies remain with the fool who so thinks,
While we toast old St. Andrews, its Golfers, and Links.
—Andrew Carnegie, from a toast delivered in Chicago in 1874

BY PAUL C. SCHUYTEMA
Golf is a game with a long, rich heritage. objects, but the level of realism is
Golf enjoys such popularity as to have quite acceptable. The natural scenery
become a staple of our popular culture surrounding the course is a little on
and iconography. It's no wonder, then, the sparse side, but there are enough
that golf simulators have been chipping trees to get in the way of nearly every
around computer screens as long as golfer. The game features four cours
there have been CRTs. es: PGA West, Sterling Shores, the
In the early days, aspiring comput Tournament Player's Club at Avenel,
er golfers had to work with blocky, and the Tournament Player's Club at
unrealistic graphics and limited play Sawgrass.
options. As computer technology This game's hallmarks are its
evolved, so did golf simulations. Now, speed, its challenge, and its playabili-
players enjoy stunningly realistic PGA Tour Golf: fast and fun ty. The courses may look easier than
scenes, compensate for wind and the those in games with more visually
slope of the green, and choose from a complicated graphics, but the play is
variety of options. They can play extremely demanding. One thing lack
against PGA pros in a tournament, ing, though, is the sense of rolling ter
play against other computer golfers rain: The fairways are flat and expan
over the phone, play a skins game for sive, without either visual or play-
a million-dollar purse, shoot for par in affecting slope.
Hawaii, or even design a golf course. This changes when you reach the
Indeed, the modern computer golfer green, however. A window appears
can play under the blustery, overcast that models the green in 3-D with an
skies of Scotland without even leaving imposed grid. You can rotate the pic
home. ture to judge the break and adjust
In addition, golf simulators have your aim accordingly. The view then
reached the level where they can Links 386 Pro: many views shifts back to the playing screen to
actually assist players in their real- allow you to attempt the putt.
world golf games. Players who had 1(4)
Far and away the most notable fea
never before picked up a real club ■ ■ ToFlaj : 267 Yards ture of PGA Tour Golf is the PGA tour
Club: 2 Wood 4
are now hitting the links after discov Ainu 579 Yards nament. The game proceeds in tele
ering the fun of golf via a computer vised fashion, with an announcer com
simulator, and computer users who "Mk menting on each shot and giving
don't play ordinary computer games reports from other holes. It's very tough
discover that computer golf offers to beat the pros, but it's extremely sat
something different from the run of the isfying when you start to win.
mill and become hooked on the virtual Electronic Arts also sells a DOS
country club on their hard disk. version of PGA Tour Golf, which dif
fers from the Windows version only in
Different Strokes David Leadbetter's Greens: dynamic that it doesn't require Windows. PGA
There are a wide variety of golf simu Tour Golf Limited Edition is a special
lations, each with a different spin on packaging of the DOS version of PGA
the game. Links 386 Pro strives for the ance can lead to a hook or a slice. Tour Golf that includes the tournament
ultimate in visual realism, while PGA You may enjoy having such control course disk (normally sold separate
Tour Golf lets players play in a PGA over your strokes. Or you may prefer ly), plus a VHS tape containing a doc
tournament and go head to head spending your time designing the per umentary history of PGA tour golf,
against the tour's best players. The fect course or playing against the including interviews with players.
Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition masters. Whatever simulation you
allows players to design a fantasy choose, the addiction level is bound Links 386 Pro
course and share it with people to be high. Each of the games dis The Links simulation has been with us
around the world. David Leadbetter's cussed here will lead you to many for a while, but only recently has 386
Greens is an expert-level tutorial that late-night playing sessions and to true Pro, the flagship of the Access
features dynamic camera tracking, bragging rights for that one-in-a-mil- Software line, made an appearance.
which makes the experience seem lion shot. A visually stunning achievement, 386
more like televised coverage than a Pro requires Super VGA, at least an
computer game. PGA Tour Golf 80386 processor, and a whole lot of
Most of the games employ some Electronic Arts' entry in the golfing RAM (Access suggests 8MB, but
type of power meter to judge the shot competition, PGA Tour Golf for 4MB seems to work just fine). With all
and generally require three actions Windows, satisfies that deep need to of that computing power behind the
from the player. In a drive, you might go up against really expert competi game, the results are incredible.
tap the space bar once to begin the tors—the best the sport has to offer— The play window, a view from
swing. The power meter then moves and to beat them at their own game. behind the golfer, approaches photo
to reflect your backswing. Then, you In this simulation, the only PGA- realism, with varying textures in the
tap again at the power point—the top licensed product, the pros are the real grass, subtly rolling hills, and gently
of the stroke—and the power meter McCoy: Their abilities are modeled on shaded sand bunkers. Access allows
begins to recede. You must time your PGA players' actual performances. you to set up many viewing options,
third tap to fall at a precise moment to PGA Tour Golf uses stylized ren from a full-screen window of the
strike the ball straight on; any vari- derings of the players, courses, and course to a split screen featuring a
84 COMPUTE JULY 1993
front view and a view from the pin. Greens is the view. There are a number Golf for Windows 1.0 is a true
Other windows include a top view, a of different camera angles, and if you Windows program and takes full
slope window, a stance window, and select the intelligent camera, a shot is advantage of the operating system.
a scorecard. visualized more like television footage Windows can be dragged and
To aim your shot, you use a unique than a static view: The camera cuts, resized, and the game can wait in the
"barber pole" that you move around pans, and follows the ball in 12-frame- background while you switch to a
the course with the mouse. When the per-second animation. As a result, the spreadsheet when your supervisor
shot is set, you use the mouse to con quality of the graphics is a far cry from walks in.
trol your swing. As in the other two that of those in Links 386 Pro, but the Microsoft Golf also borrowed the
Links products, the power bar is way MicroProse executes the cuts golfer animation from Links 386 Pro,
curved to simulate the arc of the golf makes up for the lack of resolution. giving the swing animation greater
swing, and there's a realistic time-lag Greens also features an amazing depth than that of Links. All original
from the moment you attempt to stop amount of player control over the Links courses are fully compatibfe
the swing until the club reacts. This shots. Golfers can experiment with with Microsoft Golf- The game can
takes getting used to, but it accurately handle eight players simultaneously,
reflects an actual swing. but there are no options for tourna
There are no tournaments in 386 ment play or any of the other varia
Pro, but you can play against several tions (such as a skins game, a record
friends or a recorded player shot for ed player, or an Al opponent).
shot for some heated competition. As in the original Links and Links
If there are any weaknesses in 386 386 Pro, you have complete control
Pro, the foremost would be its speed. over your golfer's stance, swing
The game really needs an 80486 to plane, and ball position. As in Links
play as fast as the other games. With 386 Pro, you have the option to step
an 80386SX, the redraw time can take back from the ball and swing the club
quite a while. The other weaknesses a few times before addressing the ball
are poor-quality sounds and no golfer fora solid hit.
animation when the shot is viewed Microsoft Go!': Links for Windows
The game plays very smoothly, but
from the green in reverse angle. It's a aiming the ball is a little awkward,
little odd to just see the ball leap from since your golfer disappears when the
the fairway with no golfer in sight. barber pole appears. Occasionally,
There's no course-design feature the windows seem to get in the way of
in 386 Pro, but Access is providing an each other, and you have to make
ever-increasing array of courses, and sure that the swing window is active
original Links courses can be convert before attempting a swing; otherwise,
ed for play with 386 Pro (the resolu the delay as the window pops to the
tion isn't as good as that of the 386 forefront will play havoc with any
Pro courses, but the quality is still attempts at timing.
high). I had the opportunity to play Microsoft Golf, like Links and Links
golf in Hawaii (via the computer, of 386 Pro, enables you to print out a
course} using the Mauna Kea course scorecard (which must be signed and
disk. The Championship disk contains Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition: solid attested to be valid, of course).
files to play this course with Links 386
Pro, Links, or Microsoft Golf for stance and tee placement beyond the Links
Windows 1.0—and it's a gorgeous usual club selection. The power meter The most venerable of all the versions
course. Playing the third hole in 386 in Greens is also different: As you mentioned, the original Links is still a
Pro, a par-three iron shot over a vol twist into a backswing, the "sweet solid game that can be played ade
canic Pacific inlet, is arguably reason spot" where you must hit the ball quately on an 80286, and up until the
enough to go out and buy a PC. shrinks, which corresponds with the recent explosion of quality golf
increasing difficulty of hitting a power games, it was the king of the heap.
David Leadbetter's Greens shot accurately. Links and Microsoft Golf have a
Greens takes two different approach On the green, Greens allows a library of over eight courses to choose
es to simulating golf: it strives for real- golfer-to-hole view, a hole-to-ball from, including Troon North, set in the
world instruction, and it uses dynamic view, and a perpendicular view. Using deserts of Arizona, and the Dorado
views of play. these different angles gives you a Beach East Course in the heart of the
The game is endorsed and heavily wealth of information about the lay of Caribbean.
influenced by David Leadbetter, the green.
arguably the preeminent professional Greens features tournament and Jack Nicklaus Signature
golfing instructor. The manual includ skins game options as well as modem Edition
ed with Greens consists of a richly or direct-connect play, allowing two The Signature Edition is a significant
detailed instructional course, featuring players to battle against each other in rewrite of Accolade's Jack Nicklaus
everything from club selection to realtime via phone. Ultimate Golf and is a youthful
stance and play strategies. Micro- descendent of the old Mean 18 golf
Prose sets up the game as a vehicle Microsoft Golf for Windows 1.0 simulation.

for players to learn more and improve Microsoft, in an arrangement with Signature Edition is an extremely
their regular game of golf, as well as Access, ported the original Links solid program and features 256-color
for entertainment. game to the Windows environment. graphics; while the resolution doesn't
The second unique aspect of More than just a quick fit, Microsoft approach that of 386 Pro, the sense of
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Accolade chose to use a deep, rich gallery replay, focusing on where the intervals, making it easy to gauge how
palette of colors that seem to drip ball lands. The graphics are well ren much force to put on a pitch or a
right off the screen. dered and have something of the choke shot. Konami has also
The gameplay is solid, with most of same flavor as the graphics in PGA rethought the basic power-bar
the features you'd expect from a top- Tour Golf and Greens. approach to hitting the ball. The game
of-the-line golf simulator. One item it ProStaff Golf features a very nice features a circular bar for the power
lacks, however, is player control of the overhead view of each hole, showing stroke, similar to the power bar in the
golfer's stance or ball position. where the ball will probably land if hit Links games. But when a player
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64/128 VIEW
Gazette celebrates its tenth
birthday with this issue—and launches a
new column to help celebrate.

Tom Netsel

fhat were you doing modore-related information

ten years ago this and entertainment has not

GAZETTE
month? If you hap changed. In large measure,
pened to visit a news each Gazette editor has re
stand, you may have picked lied on 64 and 128 owners
up a new magazine called who are willing to share
COMPUTED Gazette.
64/128 VIEW G-1
their knowledge with our
I was working at the Uni readers. From that first issue Gazette marks a milestone with this issue—ten years

versity of Central Florida in through the one you read to of serving the 8-bit Commodore market.
Orlando, and I had just day, we've encouraged you By Tom Netsel.
bought a 64. I was wonder to submit articles and pro
ing what to do with it when I grams for publication. That 11 YEARS IN 8-BIT HEAVEN G-3
spotted a Gazette at my lo need is just as strong today In 1982, dozens of home computers were struggling
cal grocery store. I'll have to as it was a decade ago. to pull ahead of the pack—then, along came the
confess that I missed the Some things don't change. Commodore 64.
first issue. I didn't see Ga Change is inevitable, how By Larry Cotton.
zette until the second issue ever, and you'll see it in this
hit the newsstand, but I've issue with the addition of a REVIEWS G-8
been hooked ever since. new column. Over the years
Jara-Tava, Math booster, and Flyer.
Gazette was billed original we've published original pro
ly as being "for owners and grams and reviewed com
FEEDBACK G-14
users of Commodore VIC-20 mercial software, but we've
and 64 personal comput seldom covered public do
Questions, answers, and comments.
ers." As time passed and main programs and share
Commodore introduced the ware—until now. GEOS col PD PICKS G-16
Plus/4, the 16, and the 128, umnist Steve Vander Ark ex This new column focuses on the best of public
Gazette's coverage expand amines this vast source of domain and shareware programs.
ed to those machines. But programs in his new col By Steve Vander Ark.
when the smoke finally set umn, "PD Picks."
tled over the personal com The programs Steve will re MACHINE LANGUAGE G-18
puter battlefield, the 64 and view and recommend can To read a file successfully, you must know how it ( mds.
128 emerged as the survi be found on bulletin By Jim Butterfield.
vors, and Gazette narrowed boards, commercial online
its editorial focus to those services, user group librar PROGRAMMER'S PAGE G-20
Commodore veterans. ies, and elsewhere. If you
More great programming tips from readers.
Speaking of veterans, as can't locate a convenient
By Randy Thompson.
! browse through the mast source for these programs,
head of that first issue, I see look for them on our month
BEGINNER BASIC G-22
the names of four people ly Gazette Disks. These pro
who are still associated with grams—unlike the Gazette Here's how to activate your user port.
the magazine. Regular read type-ins—are not copyright By Larry Cotton.
ers will recognize colum ed, and you may distribute
nists Jim Butterfield and them freely. All we ask is DIVERSIONS G-24
Fred D'lgnazio, but two oth that you honor the fee re The 64 can be a toddler's ideal first computer.
er veterans may not be as quests of shareware authors By Fred D'lgnazio.
familiar. Terry Cash is now if you use their programs.
copy production manager, In closing, I'd like to PROGRAMS
and De Potter is production thank all of you devoted Ultimate ML Monitor (64) G-25
manager. Without their val Commodore users for your G-31
Rascals (64)
ued assistance, there support over the past ten
Scud (64) G-33
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 YEARS IN 8-BIT HEAVEN
BY LARRY COTTON

THE YEAR WAS 1982.

The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

England and Argentina fought over the Falkland Islands.

The Equal Rights Amendment lapsed without ratification.

The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series.

Barney Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart,

the Jarvik'7.

And in the autumn of that year, the Commodore 64 personal

computer was born.
Commodore International, a dar Commodore had introduced the 64
ling of Wall Street investors at TUNNELS with virtually no available software.
that time, was known primarily The company's first ads had vaguely
Larry Cotton is the author of
for its calculators; the PET series of promised a word processor; a data
Gazette's popular and long-running
computers; and a successful, albeit base; a spreadsheet; and several
"Beginner BASIC" column. The fol
memory-deficient older sibling of the games, including Gorf, Visible Solar
lowing program is the first one that
64, the VIC-20. The company was run System, Radar Rat Race, Mole Attack,
he wrote for the 64 and was among
by the inimitable Jack Tramiel and Avenger, Ace of Aces, and Jupiter
the first that he sold to Gazette.
sons, a team famous for squeezing Lander.
the most bang from a buck. With a dearth of software, we duti
10 PRINT POKE 53280,0: POKE
The personal computer market was fully turned to the user's guide and
53281,0: PRINTCHR$(147)
in a frenzy at the time, and Tramiel began teaching ourselves to program
20 A=1: B=-1: C=40: D=-40: N=1:
brazenly introduced a new computer in BASIC. My first program (beyond
P=54272: V=1984
called the Commodore 64. This new the sophisticated 10 PRINT "HELLO")
30 FORZ=1TO12: GOSUB 110
machine was priced at $595, a ridicu was one I called Tunnels. This gem
40 V=V-39: N=N+1
lously low price for that time. A disk printed multicolored rectangles to the
50 NEXT
drive or a monitor were extra. screen that overlapped in increasing
60 V=V+42: N=N-1
and decreasing sizes. It was eventual
70 FORZ=1TO12: GOSUB 110
The Field ly published in a series of demos
80V=V+42:N=N-1
The 64's major competitors were the called "Baker's Dozen" that were pub
90 NEXT
Apple 11+ ($1,530), Atari 800 ($899), lished in the January and February
100 END
IBM PC ($1,565), and TRS-80 Model 1985 issues of COMPUTEI's Gazette.
110Q=INT(15*RND(1))+1
III ($999). The 64 was exactly the (That was back when COMPUTE had
120 FORX=1TON:POKEV+A,67:
machine the world had been holding an exclamation point.)
POKE V+A+P.Q: V=V+A: NEXT
its breath for, with a third more built-in
130 POKEV.75: POKEV+P.Q
memory than the Apple II+—four Magazine Scene
140 FORX=1TON: POKEV+D.66:
times more than the Atari 800—yet After tiring of driving 45 miles every
POKEV+D+P.Q: V=V+D: NEXT
priced at two to three times less than month to my dealer, I started a sub
150 POKEV,73: POKEV+P,Q
the Apple and a third less than the scription to COMPUTE! in February
160 FORX=1TON: POKEV+B,67:
Atari. 1983 and voraciously read every word
POKEV+B+P,Q: V=V+B: NEXT
The 64 featured (as it does today) written about the 64. That was when
170 POKEV.85: POKEV+P,Q
a breathtaking 16 colors; 40 charac COMPUTE carried articles and type-in
180 FORX=1TON: POKEV+C,66:
ters per screen row; eight Movable programs for all of the popular PCs of
POKEV+C+P,Q: V=V+C: NEXT
Object Blocks (sprites); and, best of the day. Charles Brannon, Jim
190 POKEV,74: POKEV+P.Q
all, an unbelievable 64K of random Butterfield, and Richard Mansfield
200 RETURN
access memory, 39K of which was became my gurus of the 64r educat
available for BASIC programs. Even ing me on every aspect and minutiae
without a drive and color monitor, the cedes to raise the cash to finance it. of video, inputs, outputs, machine lan
64 was still far and away the feature In addition to the computer, I proudly guage, and math. I snipped hundreds
leader with outstanding color, graph took home a disk drive (instead of the of articles from that magazine and
ics, and an integral three-voice music more common Datassette tape drive), from Gazette after it premiered in July
synthesizer. Its musical talents alone a printer, and a 13-inch color televi 1983.
rivaled those of many dedicated key sion to use as a monitor.My sons, Articles in that first Gazette includ
board synthesizers at the time. David and Michael (then 13 and 10), ed a review of the strange Exatron
I must confess that I was not one of and I cleared some working space Stringy Floppy, a mass storage device
the original personal computer enthu and unpacked each component with that's sort of halfway between a cas
siasts. I hadn't assembled an Altair in loving care. With great anticipation sette recorder and a disk drive. There
my basement back in the 1970s. My and excitement, we connected the was a column by Fred D'lgnazio
computer-related background consist parts with cables, plugged them into called "Computing for Kids," and tuto
ed of occasionally perusing Byte mag the wall, and gingerly threw the power rials on sound, reading paddles in
azine and assembling a few Circuit switches. Everything worked beautiful BASIC, accelerated IF statements,
Cellar projects. Later, my interest ly! We were thrilled! and joysticks. I still have my volume 1,
expanded into creating some original, As we tentatively put our new toy number 1 safely stashed away with
but primitive, rats-nest circuits around through its paces, we marveled at its other prized memorabilia.
various Radio Shack chips. One such wondrous capabilities. The only Many other Commodore-specific
device featured four toggle switches demonstration program our Com magazines have appeared—and dis
to input data to a tone-generating modore dealer supplied with the 64 (in appeared—during the past 11 years,
chip. It could play tunes stored in its anticipation of.a wildly successful among them Ahoy!, Commander,
minuscule 1K of memory! I began to Christmas selling season) showed Transactor, Midnight Gazette,
see the need for a real computer. Santa Claus sailing around a chimney Commodore Magazine, Power Play,
and surrounded by flurrying snow, all and RUN. Today, only the Gazette
Full List Price the while accompanied by back section of COMPUTE remains.
After extensive comparative research, ground music playing "Jingle Bells."
I decided to invest in a 64. I bought Software at Last
the shiny little machine (serial number Software Shortage Commercial software soon started to
10917, with no colored bars in the Our giddiness soon diminished with catch up with 64 sales, and I could
logo) from a nearby dealer for full list the slow dawning that, however won finally put my 64 to work. Among the
price. I sold my prized 1959 Mer- derful the computer itself was, first programs I bought for the 64 were
G-4 COMPUTE JULY 1993
 ing price was the onslaught of other
low-priced competitive machines
which vied for the computerphile's
attention: APF Imagination Machine,
the Apple-compatible Franklin Ace
1000 and 1200, Timex/Sinclair 1000
and 2000, Apple Me, more Tandy
machines, Texas Instruments 99/4A,
Coleco Adam, Atari 520ST, and IBM
PCjr {born November 1983 and died
March 1985). When used 64s began
to hit the want ads at rock-bottom
prices, I bought a spare.
Meanwhile, Commodore wasn't
resting on its laurels. While simultane
ously boosting production and cutting
the price of the 64, Commodore was
trotting out the portable SX-64; the
anomalous Plus/4 and 16; the 128 and
Since the Commodore 64 's debut in 1982, worldwide sales of it and the 64C, shown here,
128D; the breakthrough Amiga family;
have topped 10 million.
and the IBM compatibles, variants of
the Commodore Macro Assembler four disks—and these probably went which became especially popular in
Development System, Editor Pak, to my 64-owning friends. Europe. None of those computers
Word Machine, Name Machine and, Meanwhile, back on the hardware approached the sales of the 64, which
Totl Time Manager 2.6. Although it has front, finding the television hookup is still being built and sold internation
long been excelled by other assem inadequate, I bought my one and only ally today as the cosmetically
blers, I still use MADS for my feeble upgrade for the 64—a 1702 monitor. enhanced 64C.
attempts at machine language pro I'm staring at it still. What a wonderful
gramming. The first BASIC program I improvement! No more zigzag lines Software Bonanxa
ever typed in was a sprite editor by and blurry characters. Within 18 months after its splashy
Donald A. Pitts. It appeared in an arti introduction, more and more software
cle called "A Shape Generator for the Rabbits and Snails companies had climbed aboard the
Commodore 64" that was published in Although it represented a quantum lucrative 64 bandwagon. Ads for pro
COMPUTE (November 1982). leap in data transfer speeds over the grams like EasyCalc, Sprite-Magic,
interminably slow tape cassette, the Mail Mate, Choplifter, Sargon II,
SpeedSuipt 1541 disk drive soon earned a reputa General Ledger, Busiwriter 64,
Perhaps The most famous type-in pro tion of its own for snail-like loading Monopoly, Centropod, Software
gram ever published in any computer and saving (90 blocks—23K—in Automatic Mouth (an amazing voice-
magazine is SpeedScript, the pro about a minute) and an easy-to-mis- synthesis program known as SAM),
gram that I'm using to write this article. align read-write head. Script 64, Typing Tutor, SuperTerm,
It was written by Charles Brannon and To alleviate the first problem, I and WordPro Plus/64 proliferated in
first appeared for the VIC-20 and 64 in bought an Epyx Fastload cartridge. If Commodore-specific magazines.
the January 1984 Gazette. Updated there ever was a 64 accessory that's Programmers who knew the 64
several times over the years, its latest deserved to become a classic, it's this were in demand. Even Br0derbund
version, SpeedScript 3.2, was pub cartridge. Soon thereafter, I read an Software was advertising for software
lished in May 1987. The program has article on how to add an on-off switch authors in December 1983.
been enhanced many times, allowing to avoid plugging and unplugging the
users to customize the program to cartridge to accommodate programs A New Operating System
their liking. Among these programs which did or didn't use it. My In March 1986, Berkeley Softworks—
are SpeedScript-80, an 80-coiumn Fastload's been sticking out of its port now GeoWorks—introduced GEOS,
version; SpeedCheck, a spelling ever since. the Graphic Environment Operating
checker; SpeedSearch, a fast utility The head alignment problem was System. Although I'm not a GEOS fan
for finding any phrase within a much more frustrating. I read many (without an REU and extra drives,
SpeedScript file on disk; SpeedCount, articles, sent the 1541 to several molasses is fast in comparison), I
a word-counting enhancement; repair shops, and drilled holes in the seem to be in the minority. Com
ScriptRead, a fast SpeedScript file bottom housing to access the stepper modore quickly adopted GEOS as its
reader; and Instant 80, a true WYSI motor's adjustment screws. Finally, "official operating system" for the 64,
WYG preview for SpeedScript- Some someone managed to fix it, and it's and many apparently excellent soft
of these enhancements were pub been fine ever since. ware products have greatly helped
lished in Gazette and others appeared the 64 stay alive and kicking.
in COMPUTE when it stiil published Price Wars Gazette's GEOS column first ap
type-in programs. (All of these pro As the years flew by, the 64's price peared in September 1987.
grams are still available on the plummeted. By June 1983, the 64's
SpeedScript disk.JWhen I considered mail-order price was $395; a year Applications
myself proficient in BASIC (I wasn't), I later, it had slipped to $199; in May By November 1988, 64's were being
wrote a 92-block program called 1987, $169.95. Today you can buy pressed into service for almost every
Muzic! which I attempted to package one for about $150. thing but cleaning the kitchen sink. A
and sell. I think I sold a grand total of Part of the reason for its decreas radio station in Phoenix used one to
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-5
report activities on a call-in talk show. (Commodore) tion, along with an interface box which
Many people, such as one avid user • 1581 3vinch drive (Commodore) connects to a joystick port. The box
in Niceville, Florida, used their 64's to • Bodylink fitness system (Bodylog) accepts either a photocell or an accu
track stock market investments. One rate temperature probe—also fur
commercial application used 128s to Perhaps the most bizarre peripher nished! What a find!
monitor and control furnace settings in al of all was the heavily advertised
a large apartment complex. Spartan adapter for interfacing the 64 Gadgets
Teachers calculated students' to Apple II/II+ peripherals (Mimic Over the last decade-plus, I've whiled
grades with them in Richmond, Systems). I'm not sure it ever attained away quite a few hours building and
Virginia. A fireman in Tulare Country, volume production. writing supporting software for my
California, used his for eliminating own collection of miscellaneous gad
some of the paperwork involved in Software gets that connect to the user, car
running a fire department. A preacher Here are some of my favorite pro tridge, or joystick ports. Some of these
in Asheville, North Carolina, tracked grams and applications for the 64. include the following.
the recreational activities of his church Chances are you probably have some
with his 64. A Union, Iowa, farmer of these, too. • A numeric keypad
used a spreadsheet running on a 64 • A plotter (although plodder would
to keep an eye on his farm's financial SpeedScript 3.2 word processor be a better name), which could
condition. At Bosch Power Tools, (COMPUTE Publications) draw with four felt pens whatever
where I work, we used a 64 for years Instant 80 80-column preview appeared on the monitor screen
to calculate and generate graphs of (COMPUTE Publications) • A MIDI interface (I still use it almost
motor-performance curves. Print Shop card/sign maker daily with my spare 64)
(Br0derbund) • A relay interface which controls
Hardware Doodle drawing program (City small electrical devices
While millions of owners were putting Software) • A room measurer which uses an old
their 64s to creative uses, hardware Fiexidraw (Inkwell Systems) Wico trackball mechanism to roll
manufacturers were busy as well. Here's Generic Librarian MIDI software around the periphery of a room, tak
a short list of peripherals that have made (The Music Software Exchange) ing the room's measurements
life easier and more interesting. Simon's BASIC cartridge • A model "drummer boy" which uses
(Commodore) relay-switched solenoids to control
• Card? printer interface (Cardco) PractiCalc spreadsheet (Computer drumsticks
• VIC-1520 plotter/printer Software Associates) • A device to synchronize taped
(Commodore) CADPAK-64 drawing program music and kaleidoscopic images
• Fastload cartridge (Epyx) (Abacus) (works with a four-track tape deck)
• Command Control Trackball (Wico) Screen Graphics-64 graphics • A talker, based on a Radio Shack
• The Voice Box voice synthesizer enhancement to BASIC (Abacus) voice synthesis chip
(The Alien Group) Tax Master (Master Software)
• Hearsay 1000 voice Datafile (RUN magazine) In Retrospect
synthesizer/recognizer (Hearsay) I've spent literally thousands of pleas
• Minimodem-C (Aprotek) How about a few games? ant hours with my 64 over the past 11
• Super Graphix printer interface years. The computer is still perfect for
(Xetec) Space Taxi (Muse) the vast majority of my purposes.
• SWL shortwave listener cartridge Summer Games II (Epyx) Back in May 1988, Rich Mclntyre, then
(Microlog) Impossible Mission ("Stay awhile; Commodore's senior vice president of
• Fiexidraw 170-C light pen (Inkwell stay forever!") (Epyx) sales and marketing said, "Eight-bit?
Systems) Raid on BungelingBay Who cares? You're buying a machine
• Stringy Floppy storage device (Brsderbund) for a specific reason. If it satisfies that
(Exatron) Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte) need, it's never obsolete. Only your
• Ultimate Interface (Schnedler Advanced Dungeons & Dragons requirements become obsolete. ... If
System) (Strategic Simulations) the need continues to exist until the
• Lt. Kernal hard drive (Xetec) Bard's Tale (Electronic Arts) year 2000, that machine is still satis
• ComputerEyes video digitizer Pinball Construction Set factory."
(Digital Vision) (Electronic Arts) Maybe Jim Hilty said it best in last
• MW-302 printer interface (Micro Zork series (Infocom) December's issue of Gazette. "The 64
World Electronix) Dragonworld (Trillium) has always been kind of a barnstorm
• Home Control Interface (X-10) Flight Simulator II (subLOGIC) ing computer.. . just plug it in and fly
• Interpod interface between comput Chopiifter (Braderbund)- Where in by the seat of your pants. It's a fun
er and various peripherals the World Is Carmen Sandiego? computer, a truly personal computer, a
(Limbic Systems) (Broderbund) computer that an individual can enjoy
• VIC 1650 modem (300 bps, original programming, a welcome friend."
ly $150) (Commodore) In a Babbage's one day, I ran Thank you, Commodore. Thanks
1750 RAM expander (Commodore) across Light and Temperature Labs, also to everyone who builds the hard
Sonus MIDI interface (SOFTpacific) scientific experiments from Hayden ware, writes the software, and publish
Video Byte II video digitizer (The Software. They were on sale for $10 es information about this marvelous
Soft Group) each. In case you missed these sadly machine that is the Commodore 64.
1351 mouse (Commodore) underpromoted products, each one is Here's to 11 more happy, productive,
Ten Key Pad (Quality Computer) a series of scientific experiments on profitable, educational, and entertain
Super Expander 64 cartridge disk, supported by great documenta ing years in 8-bit heaven. Ii
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a computer screen with a de rocket to restore it to orbit. game. When you view a the actual game, controlling
sire to stop them, to be the Points are accumulated for problem, the screen lists the how fast the satellites and
good guy, the hero. Witness boosting satellites and the type of operation that's be shuttle fall, how quickly that
the fact that even kids who shuttle back into space. If a ing displayed: addition, sub speed increases, when the
own videogames and satellite or the shuttle reach- traction, addition and sub- first shuttle appears, how
whose parents won't give many times per wave it ap
them quarters can't resist pears, and whether or not
checking out the games in the sound effects are
mails and stores. turned on. With these you
What does this have to can customize a game to
do with an arithmetic drill— best challenge students with
and-practice program for out overwhelming them.
the 64? Boosting falling sat The manual is thorough.
ellites back into space is the Aside from a couple of ty
premise behind Mathboos- pos, it provides helpful in
ter, a program imported sight and guidance in devis
from Australia. ing games that will provide
To prevent these satel the kind of drill that will
lites from tumbling down most benefit your children
and crashing into the earth, or students. Included are
students must quickly and some appendices describ
correctly solve math equa ing the ten sample games al
tions. This program provides ready on the disk and provid
a drill with positive reinforce ing some examples of how
ment that's fun. to set up game formats.
Mathbooster is not a teach Mathbooster also carries its
ing program. It's designed own copying program to al
to reinforce through practice low you to make backups.
the math skills that the stu Boost falling satellites back into space with Mathbooster. a Mathbooster is the sec
dents have learned in class. program that combines arcade action with math drill. ond Free Spirit import from
When the game starts, sat Australia that we've re
ellites are strung across the es the ground, the game traction, multiplication, divi viewed. These two pro
sky, and a booster rocket ends. As in arcade games, sion, or multiplication and grams by Satchel Software
waits atop its launch pad. Be the program keeps track of division. are copyrighted by the Min
low each satellite is an equa current high scores. Next, it tells you what ister of Education and are
tion. This first wave of satel Mathbooster comes with form the equation will take, used by the school systems
lites begins to fall. Using the ten sample games already such as A + B = C. Then, in South Australia. (Mathboos-
appropriate keys, you place prepared. However, its pow for each A, B, C, or other var ter's manual even makes ref
the launch pad beneath a er comes in the variations iable, the program sets the erence to the South Austra
satellite and type in an an you can create by altering parameters. For example, if lian curriculum modules.) As
swer to the equation. Press the type of problems. The you're practicing addition with the first program, Dr.
ing Return or the space bar main menu lists three op where the sum, C, never ex Spellingstein, we are im
launches the booster rock tions: Start the game, Load ceeds 12, then A's parame pressed by the solid pro
et—only if the answer is cor different problems, and ters would be 1-6, and B's gramming that provides the
rect. If so, the booster rock Change problems. The first would be 1-6 also. actual computer game yet al
et then pushes the satellite one is self-explanatory. The The next option is to lows you to create and mod
back into space. If the an second option lets you load change the problem type. ify within the program to
swer is incorrect, the satel other files of problems al The Operations List lets you make it fit your needs. It's
lite continues its fall toward ready created and saved on do this. For each operation powerful, flexible, and easy
earth. Once you've success disk. The third option lets there's a screen that guides to operate.
fully propelled the first wave your create these other you through the steps of Kids love computers and
back into orbit, a second math files. choosing the parameters for computer games. Most kids
wave begins to fall—at a fast The first menu under op the variables. This requires also love learning, although
er rate than the first! tion 3 allows you to view the care and thought, but it isn't they'd deny it if you'd ask
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Circle Reader Service Number 242 Jara-Tava begins, like many good ad
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sure-time players new ideas for ways
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from it. MAPPING
The game itself offers several choic
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and over again, trying to beat your pre
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But there's more to it than just the
guide for beginning and advanced programmers.
game. Like other software packages
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The Tree of Knowledge game pits
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disk that you can select: Animals. Pi
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Polar bears, musk-ox, grizzlies, region, we would jeopardize the New information can be added to the
existing trees to make a more complex
caribou — more animals than you'd culture of the native Alaskans and
guessing game. These can be saved
find in Yellowstone — can be found untold wildlife, including a herd of and replayed again and again.
The resource disk takes the Jara-
on the magnificent 180,000 caribou. Our
Tava package far beyond mere game
coastal plain of the Arc last arctic wilderness software. In my opinion, this one disk is
worth the modest price of the package
tic Refuge in Alaska. would be despoiled.
all by itself.
Unfortunately, this por The Sierra Club works And there's still more. Take a look at
the extensive, spiral-bound instruction
tion of our last arctic to save wildlife by sav
manual. Tucked in the center of the'
wilderness has caught ing the wilderness. We manual is a 68-page section that is
filled with activities related to the
the eye of the oil in have a history of vic
themes found in the Jara-Tava game.
dustry. Right now Con tories. And we believe, There are word games, crossword puz
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ucates them. That's not a bad return pick up speed- Control is rather limited clear the bed, and then swish! Back to
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 FEEDBACK

Character ROM Chip both the 64 and 128. there's no such thing as a
Can you possibly tell me square root of a negative num
where I can get the 9011225- Math Errors ber, at least among the real
01 chip for my 64? I have When using my 64 for math numbers. Mathematicians use
been looking since 1991 but homework, I keep running in imaginary numbers to handle
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one in my country. variable containing a negative bers, but your 64 isn't built to
DAVID SANIEL SUAREZ LOPEZ number to a fractional expo handle imaginary numbers.
VERACRUZ. VER. nent, the computer returns an
MEXICO
ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR. A Teacher's Thanks
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chip in my Commodore 64 is added in. grams supplied language
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this be caused by misusing tion has a higher precedence tions, science, social studies,
the chip? For instance, is than the negation (-) function, and telecommunications re
there such a thing as exces as you'll see if you PRINT-4 f sources.
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DONALD DRAPER swer. But squaring -4 should grading, many educators felt
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sidered normal use and will minus sign is appended. ers are already in the system,
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A NEW COLUMN, bulletin boards or at your user

group, you'll find the programs
(I never survive that long).
This is the third incarnation
VERSION 2 mentioned here on the Gazette
Disk. Now, let's take a look at
of this game. The fine-tuning
has made it a real corker. So
Yep, version 2. This is the sec this month's programs—a cou flex that thumb a bit, slam
ond time I've written this col ple of fast and furious, arcade- back Mountain Dews until
umn. If you feel as though style shoot-'em-ups. your eyes bug out, and face
you've just walked into the mid the endless hordes in Astra.
dle of a movie, let me explain. Astra
This is a new column that By Chris Batcheior Odin
deals with public domain pro QuantumLink filename: AS- By Frank Lindsey
grams and shareware. I wrote TRA3.SDA, uploaded by Chris- QuantumLink filename: ODIN,
the first version a few weeks EMM. uploaded by Mondain.
ago, but when I reread the intro OK, for you 128 users out OK, alt of you 64 users
duction, I just shook my head. there, here's an 80-column pro who've been reading this and
It was boring. gram that will cost you hours growling nasty things about
Oh, it was OK. I might use of sleep. The way i see it, those 128 users and their fan
it as part of an article some Chris Batcheior, the sadist cy graphics, here's a game
where along the line. It defines who created this arcade tor that will make a red-eyed,
Explore the exciting shareware and a few other re ture, must lie awake nights him thumb-happy zombie out of
lated terms, chatters about self, chortling like the Wicked you, too.
world of public
how nice it is to be writing this Witch of the West as he imag Odin is one of those
domain and shareware new column, and warns ines poor joystick jockeys like games that put you in a space
programming everyone—in no uncertain me with crippled thumbs and ship at the bottom of the
terms—to pay their shareware glazed eyes, trying desperate screen, armed with an end
in this new Gazette fees. It ends with a flourish ly to fight off these endless less supply of energy bolts or
column. about how shareware is on the waves of death. After playing whatever. As usual, the de
cutting edge of Commodore this fast-paced shoot-'em-up, tails are unimportant What is
programming today. I know I need a continuous important is that all those
I'm talking bold, new, and ex fire button on my joystick, an crazed blobs plummeting to
citing programs that push the ything to save my left hand ward you will turn your space
limits of Commodore's 8-bit from being twisted into a per ship into pixel dust if you
wonder! I've got to be spitting manent claw. don't keep pounding that fire
a little flame. I don't want you Astra starts innocently button. There's no continual
to read this column once and enough. It seems so easy to fire here (the one major flaw
then next time decide to save pour merciless fire into those in an otherwise outstanding
it until you've read the part little bugs that swoop into game), so plan on some actu
again about how to type in the those little chutes. But then al finger or thumb pain as you
programs. I want you to turn to there are more and more of try to clear a path in the weav
this column first' them. Before long, bugs are ing mess.
I'll be covering programs hurtling down in droves, piling Odin does Astra one better
that I hope will provide some up like spilled gummy bears. by hurling a nifty variety of
of the old spark that made the There just aren't enough nasties down the screen.
64 so exciting—and made its blasts per second to clear They're all animated with blink
owners so gung-ho, so (let's them all out. Before long, ing lights and flapping wings,
face it) nuts about their ma they get you. And then you making them nice to look at
chines. That spark is what play it again, and again, and for that split second before
keeps me coming back to this again. you obliterate them or vice ver
great little machine. You'll love this game, espe sa. Once you get past the
I've been rummaging in cially if you get a rush out of first level, they fire back, lob
some of the stranger corners annihilating all those little bing little bombs your way.
of QuantumLink's libraries, bugs like I do. It works its hor Once again, I have to ad
tracking down programs to rors in 80 columns, which mit that I can't vouch for the
throw at you. Feel free to down means that you won't be able higher levels. I count myself
load them. I've provided file to complain at all about the lucky to live past level 2.
names and uploader names graphics. As far as speed Launch yourself into either
for easy downloading. If goes, well, just try to keep up of these games. Have fun
you're not on Q-Link and you with it. I can't honestly say and let me know how you
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120 PR!NT#1,"JANGLE" stream to logical file 1. CLRCHN, which restores the
have to know what's 130 PRINT#1 input stream to its default
at its end. 140 CLOSE 1 2200 LDX #$01 path (screen/keyboard).
JSR $FFC6
Line 130 creates the prob JMP $FFCC
lem by writing a blank line at Our plan is to store the last
the end of the file. In other character of the file at ad It's a small program, a fast pro
words, there will be more dress $2101 and the previous gram—and it will leave the
than one Return character at character in $2100. As a pre last two bytes of the file in
the end. Now for the doomed caution, we'll prepare to store addresses $2100 and $2101
reading program. 0 in this last address. and 8448 and 8449 respective
ly. BASIC should now close
100 OPEN 1,8,2,"0:BADFILE" LDA #$00 the file and test these bytes.
110INPUT#1,A$ Here's the program in the for
120 PRINT A$ As we go around our loop, mat of a BASIC loader.
CJ 100 PRINT"FILE END CHECKER
130 IF ST=D GOTO 110 the A register will contain the
(SPACE)- jrM BUTTERFIEL
140 CLOSE 1 last character received from D"
XR 110 DATA 162,1,32,198,255,1
the file. Store this, and read an
69,8,141,0,33,32,228,25
The program will read "reg other character. 5
GS 120 DATA 164,144,240,246,14
ular" files without trouble. But
1,1,33,76,204,255
on our bad file, the program 2207 STA $2100 PC 160 DATA 72,32,204,255,162,
2,32,201,255,174,3,33
will read JINGLE and JAN
JF 200 FOR J=8704 TO 8726
GLE and then lock up. To read a character from a EJ 213 READ X:T-T+X

Why does this happen? It's file, we may use a subroutine BP 220 POKE J,X
AE 2 30 HEXT J
a conflict of two system rules. call to either $FFCF (INPUT) XS 240 IF TO301O THEN STOP

Rule 1: The INPUT# com or $FFE4 (GET). The result is XF 303 INPUT "NAME OF FILE";FS
JQ 310 OPEH 15,8,L5
mand always reads to the the same either way. FJ 129 OPEN 1,8,2,PS

next Return character. If it GB 330 INPUTtl5,E,ES:IF EOfl T

HEN PRINT E$:STOP
finds a blank line, it immediate JSR $FFE4 QH 340 SYS 8704

ly goes back for another SB 350 CLOSE 1

SD 360 CLOSE 15
read. Rule 2: If the file han The received character is in GC 370 IF PEEK(8449)O13 THEN

dler is asked to deliver data A. We may test for end-of-file (SPACE}PRINT"FILE DOES
(SPACE)NOT END WITH <RE
beyond the end of the file, it by looking at our system stat TURN>.": END

will supply a Return charac us variable ST That variable SE 3BH IF PEEK(8448>on THEN
{SPACE)PFINT"FILE ENDS
ter. Combine these rules, and is located at hex address 90. [SPACEJWITH A SINGLE <R
you'll see that if the last line of In Commodore machines pri ETURN>.": END
XS 390 PRINT"FILE ENDS WITH MV
a file is blank, the !NPUT# or to the VIC-20, it's located LTIPLE <RETURN> CHARS."
statement will continue to at address $96.
G-18 COMPUTE JULY 1993
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 PROGRAMMER'S PAGE
Randy Thompson

SNOOPERS AND
2,76,51,165,192,3,240
your program recognizes. For
PP 200 DftTA 1,136,152,32,219,1
example, I recently wrote a 92,160,0,177,253,240,4

REMOVERS game that lets me press G at

any time to access a game-
KK 210 DATA 200,76,92,192,152,
141,239,192,173,240,192
,201

Readers have come through control menu. From that BK 220 DATA 0,239,22,24,173,23
9,192,105,5,141,239,192
again with some great tips. menu, I can press L to load a GB 230 DATA 56,165,253,233,5,1

Let's get right to them. game or S to save a game, af 33,253,165,254,233,0

PX 240 DATA 13 3,254,24,165,253
ter which the program dis ,72,109,239,192,133,251
Memory Snooper plays the prompt Are you ,165,254
GH 253 DATA 72,105,0,133,252,1
Here's a simple BASIC pro sure (Y/N)?beiore continuing. 60,0,177,251,145,253,32

gram that searches an area To simplify the selection of PA 263 DATA 191,192,32,204,192
,176,3,76,151,192,194
of memory for text messages. the game-save option, I pro AH 270 DATA 133,254,104,133,25

SO 10 S=41118:E-41865 grammed the f1 key to simu 3,56,165,45,237,239,192

,133,45,165,46
PF 28 FOR I=S TO S late pressing the G, S, and Y GR 280 DATA 233 , 0,133,46,160,0
US 30 C=PEEK(If:IF C>31 AND C<
123 THEN PRINT CHRS(C); keys with this command: ,76,48,192,230
BB 290 DATA 251,208,2,230,252,
EX 43 GET K$:IF KS=CHR$(13) TH
233,253,208,2,230,254,9
EN PRINT
KEY1,"GSY" 6
MP 50 IF KS<>"<" THEN NEXT I
MQ 308 DATA 24,165,254,197,46,
20B,7,165,253,197,45
As listed, this program scans Now when I press the fi DC 310 DATA 208,1,56,96,141,23

Use these the area of ROM that contains key while the game is run 9,192,24,165,253,109,23
9,192
BASIC keywords and error ning, the character codes for
readers' tips to
GF 320 DATA 13 3,253,165,254,10

messages. You might try the G, S, and Y keys are put 5,0,133,254,396,0,0,0,3

read your searching the area of memo into the keyboard buffer and
64's memory, ry that contains BASIC pro read by the game's GET state Besides making a program
grams: 2049-40959. To do ment. This calls up the game- smaller, removing REM state
remove REM this, in line 10 make S equal control menu, selects the ments can make a program
statements, and to 2049 and E equal to save-game option, and an run faster because the comput
40959. I find this program use swers Y in response to the er no longer has to skip over
more.
ful in searching for and read Are you sure (Y/N)? prompt. those descriptive but nonfunc
ing E-mail that I have neglect This gives me three keypress tional lines of code.
ed to read completely before es in one! At first glance, line 100
logging off QuantumLink. RICHARD R. HARVEL may appear to be missing a
FORT WORTH, TX
You can make the text eas REM statement before the pro
ier to read as it prints to the REMover gram's name. Of course,
screen by pressing Return. when the program runs, BA
The following program re
This forces the program to SIC will interpret the first
moves all REM statements
print a carriage return. To three letters of the word as
from 64 BASIC programs. To
stop the program before it fin REM and pass on to the next
use this handy utility, load
ishes searching memory,
and run the program shown
line. This means you can test
press the back arrow key. the program on itself.
below. Then load the BASIC
BRIAN KISSINGER Be careful not to run this util
program containing the un
EVANSVILLE, IN ity on programs that have
wanted REM statements, and
GOTO or GOSUB commands
type SYS 49152.
Function Keys 128 that jump to iines that begin
When programming in BASIC SH 100 REMOVER
with a remark. Those tines
AJ 110 FOR 1=49152 TO 49392:RE
on the 128, the GET state ad D:POKE I,D:C=C+D:HEX will also be deleted.
ment doesn't return the Com T I VINCE TAGLE
JF 120 IF CO33534 THEN PRINT
GRANADA HILLS. CA
modore 64 character codes {SPACE)"ERROR IN DATA S
for function keys (133-140) un TATEMENTS"
CA 130 DATA 24,165,43,105,2,13
less you execute a POKE 3,253,155,44,105,0,133

828,183 first, thus disabling JP 140 DATA 254,32,234,192,176 "Programmer's Page" is inter
,60,24,165,253,135,2
the keys' preprogrammed def MK 150 DATA 133,253,165,254,10 ested in your programming
initions. (POKE 828,173 re 5,0,133,254,160,0,143,2 tips and tricks. Send all sub
40,192,177,253
turns the 128's function keys XK 160 DATA 240,9,201,143,240, missions to Programmer's
to normal.) 37,200,76,33,192 Page, COMPUTE'S Gazette,
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 BEGINNER BASIC
Larry Cotton

USER PORT CLOCK

so have a basic knowledge of When you run this, press
digital electronics or know ing C, for instance, turns pin
(PART 2) someone who does.
Please remember two
C on. (In the jargon of electron
ics, the voltage on pin C
The 64 is blessed with four things: that all ports are con goes high or jumps from 0 to
ports to connect with the out nected to the innards of your +5 volts DC.) This voltage is
side world. Two of them are computer and that their out enough to power a Light Emit
quite well known: joystick puts are rather feeble and sen ting Diode (LED) or trigger a
ports 1 and 2, which are locat sitive to abuse. Avoid static sensitive transistor or relay,
ed on the right side of the com electric charges like ihe which must be connected be
puter next to the power plague, and always connect tween the controlled pin and
switch. As we learned some ports to low-voltage circuits by a ground (pin 1, 12. A, or N).
time back, those ports can be means of properly matched op- Now let's finish last
used for output as well as for to-isolators, transistors, and/ month's program. Add lines
normal joystick input. or relays. 10-30 from the above pro
The other two ports may not The figure below shows the gram, change line 420, and
be quite as familiar to you. Fac user port as you face the rear add lines 430-470.
ing the computer as you nor- of the computer. The pins
420 PRINT"ICLR][DOWN]USER
Here's how to PORT PIN C ON.
USER PORTS LOOKING AT REAR OF COMPUTER 430 PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS ANY
activate your 64's
(GROUNDS AT PINS 1, 12,A, H) KEY TO TURN OFF.
user port at 440 P0KEP.1
.156" —>
any time of day. TYP
450 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN450
460 PUKEP.O
;I 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 470 PRINT"[D0WN]USER PORT
PIN C OFF.
ABCDEFHJ KLMN
Now when you run the pro
gram, enter the times as you
POKE: 12 4 8 16 32 64 128 did last month. When the
"alarm" goes off, pin C in the
user port is turned on. Poking
mally do, the port at the ex which we can control easily other values to P in line 440 ac
treme right rear is the car are those on the bottom row let tivates other pins as follows.
tridge port. It normally accepts tered C through L (skipping G
game and other types of car and I). Poking Turns On
tridges, such as the common Here's a very simple pro 1 C
fastload cartridge. The port on gram that looks at the key 2 D
the extreme left rear is the us board to see if C, D, E, or F is 4 E
er port, to which I referred last pressed. 8 F
month. When you want to 16 H
make a connection to the out 10 P=56577: REM USER PORT 32 J
side world, that's the one to 20 POKEP+2,255: REM ALL PINS 64 K
think of first. This port is easy OUTPUT 128 L
to program in BASIC. I'll show 30 POKEP.0: REM ALL PINS OFF
you how to turn on and off 40GETA$: !FA$=" "THEN40 Combinations of pins can
each of its pins. 50 IFA$="C"THEN POKEP.1 be activated by adding the val
In fact, the programming is 60 IFA$="D"THEN POKEP,2 ues in the left column corre
easier than wiring the hard 70 IFA$="E'THEN P0KEP,4 sponding to the pins you
ware. As I warned you last 80 IFAS="F"THEN P0KEP,8 want to turn on. For instance,
month, I won't go into a iot of 90 GOT040 to turn on pins C and H, poke
detail about user-port connec 17 (1 + 16) to P (56577). To
tions. If you decide on a pro Line 20 sets up the user turn on pins J, K, and L, poke
ject, you'll need a card-edge port so that all subsequent 224.
connector with .156-inch termi- POKEs are interpreted as out I've just about run out of
nal-to-termina! spacings, avail puts, line 30 turns all pins off, space for this month, but I'll
able at Radio Shack or Mous- and line 40 waits for a key to mention some of the pro
er Electronics. You should al- be pressed. gram's highlights.
G-22 COMPUTE JULY 1993
 ATE USER PORT AT:
The subroutine in lines 290- (DOWN}" HD 370 GETIS:IFISO"A"TH
410 gathers user input in FD 110 R=18:GOSUB290 ENIFI$O"P"THEN37

hours, minutes, and seconds HS 120 IFI$="PM"THENY=K 0

JB 130 B=Y+T(1)*3600+T(2 EE 380 IFIS="A"THENIS="A
to set the clock and the M":GOTO400
}*60+T(3)
alarm. Line 90 pokes values SK 140 PRINT"{DOWN)PRESS FH 390 I$="PM"
based on this user-supplied ANY KEY TO START JD 400 POKE214,R:PRINT:P
information to three clock regis CLOCK.{DOWN} OKE211,24:PRINTI$
RE 153 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN EX 410 RETURN
ters 56329-56331. Line 130
150 AQ 420 PRINT"{CLR}(DOWN}
forms a variable B which is USER PORT PIN C 0
SB 163 POKEC-3,0
calculated from these values. PH 170 H=PEEK{C):M=PEEK(
B is the number of seconds C-l):S = PEEK(C-2) : XK 430 PRINT"{DOWN)PRESS
from midnight to when the T=PEEK(C-3) ANY KEY TO TURN
XG 180 C1S=CHRS((16ANDH) {SPACE}OFF.
clock's alarm is set—when
/16+48)+CHR$((15A GS 440 POKEP,1:REH TURNS
the user port is to be activat NDH)+48) ON PIN C
ed. For example, B would XH 190 H=VAL(C1S)*3600 HD 450 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN
have a value of 25,200 for GJ 200 IFC1$="00"THENC1S 450
7:00 a.m. Line 160 starts the = "12" HF 460 POKEP,0
HD 210 C2$=CHR$((240ANDM HB 470 PRINT"{DOWN}USER
clock by poking a 0 to the {SPACEjPORT PIN C
)/16+48)+CHR$((15
tenths-of-seconds register ANDM)+48):M=VAL(C OFF." O
56328. 2S)*60
The clock is updated and FD 220 C3S=CHRS((240ANDS

printed to the screen in a )/16+48)+CHR$((15

loop in lines 170-280. The

ANDSJ+48):S=VAL(C ATTENTION
33)
same registers we poked are HA 230 A=X+H+H+S:IFA=2*K WRITERS,
continually peeked in line THENPOKEC,0:POKEC
170, from which printable val -3,0:X=0 PROGRAMMERS
ues are derived in lines 180- SG 240 IFA=BTHEN420

220. A in line 230 is the actu

BJ 250 IFA<KTHENJ$="AM": Gazette is looking for utili
GOTO270 ties, applications, games,
al time of day in seconds XX 260 J$="PM" educational programs, and
from midnight. Line 240 con MD 270 PRINT"{WHT}TIME I
tutorial articles. If you've cre
tinually compares A to B. S "ClS+":"+C2$+":
"+C3S+":"T;JS+" ated a program that you
When they're equal, the alarm
{UP!" think other readers might en
goes off; control zips to line
HG 280 GOTO170 joy or find useful, send it
420 which turns on pin C in DE 290 HS="":INPUT"HOURS and the documentation on
the user port. Here's the en ";HS:IFHS<"0"ORH$
disk to
>"9"THENPRINT"
tire listing in case you missed
{2 UP}":GOTO290
last month's column. Remem Gazette Submissions
KE 300 T{1)=VAL{HS) :I FT(
ber, always set the user port 1)<0ORT(1)>12THEN Reviewer
to activate within 24 hours of PRINT"{2 UP}":GOT COMPUTE Publications
starting the clock. 0290 324 W. Wendover,
RA 310 IFT(1)=12THENT(1)
BM 10 P=56577:REM USER P Ste. 200
ORT Greensboro, NC 27408
HP 320 M$="":INPUT"
BF 20 POKEP+2,255:REM AL
{DOWN}MINUTES";MS
L PINS OUTPUT Please enclose an SASE if
:IFM$<"0"ORM$>"9"
CC 30 POKEP,0:REM ALL PI
THEMPRINT"{3 UP}"
you want your materials re
NS LOW
:GOTO320 turned.
DS 40 PRINTCHRS(147) :P0K
PG 330 T(2)=VAL(MS) :IFT(
E53281,14:POKE646,
2)<0ORT(2)>59THEN
6
PRINT"(3 UP}":G0T
KR 50 PRINT"SET CLOCK AT
0320
:{D0WN}" Send New Product
CE 340 SS="":INPUT"
PK 60 R=8:GOSUB290:K=432
{DOWN}SECONDS";SS Announcements
00:REM 43200 SECON
:IFSS<"fl"ORS$>"9"
DS IN 12 HOURS and/or Press Releases
THENPRINT"{3 UP}"
GX 70 IFI$="PM"THENX=K on your
:GOTO340
ER 80 FORI=1TO3:H=INT(T(
GG 350 T(3)=VAL(S$):IFT( Commodore 64/128
IJ/10):L=T(I)-10*H 3)<0ORT(3)>59THEN
:T (I)=16*H+L:NEXT products to:
PRINT"(3 UP}":GOT
MC 90 C=56331:POKEC,T(1)
0340
Tom Netsel c/o
:POKEC-1,T(2):P0KE COMPUTE
DC 360 PRINT"{DOWN}AM OR
C-2,T(3) PM (PRESS A OR P
FA 100 PRINT"{DOWNjACTIV
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-23
 DIVERSIONS
Fred D'lgnazio

TODDLER'S CHOICE Keith. "Tommy just turned

three. While he was still two, us
ber-, and letter-recognition pro
grams perfectly suited for
For a recent Public Broadcast ing the Commodore 64, he your toddler computer whiz.
ing Service show, "Learning learned how to write his own • Astro Graver (CTW-Sesa-
Matters," we videotaped my name, his friend Laura's me Street). Same as above,
segment, Technology Corner name, my name, his mommy' featuring the lovable Sesame
in my family's study. We re name (Leanne), and the Street muppet Graver.
viewed the newest multimedia names of all four family cats. • Ernie's Magic Shapes
CD-ROM titles for toddlers, in "Also, while he was two (CTW-Sesame Street). Shape-
cluding Just Grandma and Me Tommy used the computer to recognition program featuring
(Braderbund); Mother Goose learn how to count to 39, Ernie.
(Sierra On-Line); Silly, Noisy count objects on the comput • Big Bird's Special Deliv
House (Voyager); and Millie's er screen and press the cor ery (CTW-Sesame Street).
Math House (Edmark). Our re rect number on the keyboard, More early learning programs
viewers were my three-year- and recognize and find every featuring Big Bird. All three pro
old daughter Laura and her number from 0 to 9 and every grams (Graver, Ernie, and Big
one-year-old buddy Alex. letter in the alphabet." Bird) can be found in a single
At the end of the segment, "Do you have any advice package entitled The Sesame
the show's producer, John Mer- for fellow parents who have tod Street Learning Library.
row, noted that the equipment dlers?" we asked Keith.
A 64 can be an ideal • Kids on Keys (Spinnaker
and software we used was "Tell them to find or buy a Software). Helps with key
first computer "expensive and possibiy out Commodore 64," said Keith. board recognition.
of reach" for many families. He "If the parents buy an expen
for toddlers—as well • Alphabet Zoo (Spinnaker
wanted to know if there was an sive computer, they'll be so wor Software). Letter recognition.
as a great other toddler we could inter ried about its safety they'll nev • Learning with Leeper (Si
view who had a more down-to- er be relaxed around it with
teaching tool. erra On-Line). Fun, education
earth computer setup. their two-year-old, and they'll al games hosted by cute little
I thought of Tommy Kurek, be afraid to turn their child onscreen characters such as
Laura's next-door neighbor, loose on the computer. The Leeper.
and we called Tommy's par great thing about this comput • Design-a-Saurus (Britan-
ents and scheduled a visit. er is it's 100 percent Tommy's nica Software). Dinosaur rec
Tommy's computer, it computer. He can do anything ognition and naming program.
turned out, was a perfect tod he wants, and the Commo (Tommy is a dinosaur nut. He
dler configuration: a second dore can take it. carries a Tyrannosaurus Rex
hand Commodore 64. Most of "The other good thing doll to bed with him instead of
the software titles and extra about the 64," Keith contin a blanket.)
equipment were purchased at ued, "is that lots of Tommy's ed • Dinosaurs Are Forever
yard sales or flea markets. The ucational programs come on (Polarware). More reptiles for
price of Tommy's entire setup cartridges. When we go visit young dinosaur enthusiasts.
was well under $400—the Grandma on weekends, we • Kermit's Electronic Story
price of a single CD-ROM ust throw the computer into Maker (Simon & Schuster).
drive. :he car along with a couple of You and your children can
The computer station was Tommy's favorite cartridges. ook up your own online pic
on a small table in the corner At Grandma's we plug into her ture books.
of the family living room sur elevision set, and Tommy is
rounded by books, Tommy's busy for hours working on his The cost of these programs?
toys, and two or three loung number, shape, and letter 'At worst, under a hundred dol-
ing cats. When the family did games. When it comes time to ars," Keith says. "The impor-
their computing, Tommy sat in go home, it takes about ten sec ant thing is to watch for yard
his chair, and his mom and onds to unplug the computer ;ales where you can pick up
dad sat on each side of him and toss it back into the car." children's software for just a cou
on the floor. This made them We asked Tommy to pick ple of dollars. Also, sign onto lo
all about the same size. out his favorite 64 programs to cal bulletin boards where you
To begin the interview, we ecommend to other toddlers ;an pick up lots of freeware edu-
asked Tommy's daddy, Keith, who are just starting to com- :ational programs. Join a 64 us
if Tommy had suffered from xitey. Here's his list: er group, and you're sure to run
not having the latest multime nto other young parents who
dia computer equipment. • KinderComp (Spinnaker are eager to share with you and
"I don't think so," said Software). A set of shape-, num vour kids." a
-24 COMPUTE JULY 1993
PROGRAMS

ROM (BASIC or Kernal) is possible, but

ULTIMATE ML MONITOR
is written entirely in machine language
for speed and compactness. You not recommended, except for ad
By Ted Green and Ed Balchick must enter this program with MLX. vanced users. The most important fac
Examining and debugging troublesome When MLX prompts you, respond with tor in choosing the load address is de
machine language (ML) routines or trying the following values. termining where there will be 4K of
to see how well machine code actually memory that won't be used by the pro
works is usually a struggle. ML programs Starting address: 8000 gram to be monitored.
run so quickly that it's difficult to Ending address: 8EBF Don't forget about BASIC variables.
determine exactly what happens and If they are a problem, protect 4K for Ulti
when it happens without altering the pro Be sure to save a copy to disk with the mate first. Ultimate will protect itself
gram. A standard monitor's breakpoint re filename ULTIMON.O. from any memory access commands
turns are not much help because the dis while in any mode except full speed.
play is corrupted and the program halts. Loading the Program This protective feature will cause the
Now, with the Ultimate ML Monitor, you Ultimate is very easy to use. Load and monitored program not to execute
can execute any piece of ML code in run Ultimon.B as you would any BASIC those commands, possibly causing an
slow motion or single step through it one program. Before you run it, however, infinite loop in the monitored program.
command at a time! A special user inter you should have the program available If this happens, it's best to start over
face lets you interact directly with the ML that contains the ML code that you and choose a new load address.
program. You can view and control the ac wish to examine. This program should You'll then be prompted for a pro
tual operation of the program in text or hi be copied onto the same disk as the Ul gram to monitor and a drive number
res mode as it runs; examine and modify timate system if you are using a single from which to load. If you enter the
the program, data, or register values; and drive. If you are using Ultimate with a same drive as the current drive, you
allow the Kernal serial bus to access rou two-drive system, have each disk in a must copy your program to the disk
tines while in the single-step mode. drive before running Ultimate. with the Ultimate system on it because
These and many other features, such as As for what kind of program to look there is no time to switch disks.
full implementation of 6502 quasi-op- at, the possibilities are almost limitless. You'll then be asked whether you
codes, make the Ultimate ML Monitor a You aren't limited to looking at a pure want to run the program in single-step
powerful programming utility that you'll ML program, the kind you load with the mode or at full speed. Enter Sfor sin
wonder how you did without. ,8,1 extension and start with a SYS com gle step or Ffor full speed. You'll usu
mand that you often forget. Ultimate ally want to start in single-step mode
Getting Started wil! examine an ML program that for most small programs or anytime
Ultimate ML Monitor consists of three loads like BASIC or even a BASIC pro you want complete control over the
programs: two small programs that gram that reads the ML from data state whole monitored program. Full-speed
make up the loader system and the ments and pokes them to memory and mode is a good choice when you
main program. These three files must then calls them with a SYS command. want to monitor a large program, and
all be saved to the same disk, but the in the latter two cases, Ultimate can the piece of code that you're interest
program that you wish to monitor can catch the ML portion just as BASIC ed in is executed sometime after the
be on any disk, even another drive. tries to execute it (if you start in single program begins.
The setup portion of the loader sys step). This means that for BASIC pro If you select full speed, hitting the Re
tem is written in BASIC. To avoid typ grams in general, all of the BASIC is ac store key at anytime will break into the
ing errors, use The Automatic Proofread tually run by the interpreter. However, program in the single-step mode (un
er to enter the program. See "Typing once you are in the ML routine, you can less the program changes the NMI vec
Aids" elsewhere in this section. When not go back to the BASIC program. tor at $0318 while in full speed). When
you finish typing this portion in, save it When you have selected the pro the single-step mode is activated, the
to disk with the filename ULTIMON.B. gram that you wish to examine, load status line will be displayed at the bot
Next, the smart portion of the loader the drive(s) and run Ultimon.B. The tom of the screen.
system is written in machine language, screen will clear and display the follow
and you will need MLX, our machine lan ing prompt. Using the Program
guage entry program, Again, see "Typ Once you enter the single-step mode
ing Aids." When MLX prompts, re ADDRESS TO LOAD MONITOR: of Ultimate, the main program interface
spond with the following values. is the interactive status line. Note that
The address must be entered as a dec all numbers on the status line are
Starling address: CC13 imal value. The Ultimate program can shown in hex. The main features of the
Ending address: CFFE be put at any unused area from 2048 status line are the following: PC
($0800) up to and including 36864 (which shows the contents of the emu
After you type in the loader program, ($9000). It can also be put at 49152 lated program counter of the program
be sure to save a copy to disk with the (SC000). If you try to place it above you are examining) and A, X, Y, and
filename ULTIMON.L 49152, you will get an error message. SR (which are the current contents of
The monitor portion of the program Placing the monitor in the RAM under the emulated accumulator and the X,
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-25
PROGRAMS

Y, and status [flag] registers). runs the monitored program in full ing to try to stop it by hand at the right
To the left of PC is the space for the speed (real execution). Ultimate may spot. This mode can be canceled at an
full-speed Kernal routine indicator, an be corrupted if set at a bad address. ytime by pressing the @ (At) key.
asterisk (*). More about that later. This key is good for running through a
The most important feature of the stat large piece of code to get to a particu
us line is the command display field. lar point. It also sets up the Restore Use the J key to run through a subrou
This contains the opcode mnemonic of key to go to single-step mode. tine in slow motion until the correspond
the current instruction and the operand ing RTS is encountered. This means
field. The operand field can be toggled Restore that all nested subroutines will be exe
between two different types of displays Restore triggers Ultimate from full- cuted and normally the program will dis
for some commands. The secondary speed mode, breaks into the program, play the RTS command when it returns
mode is like a standard disassembler and enters single-step mode at the cur to single-step mode. Since this com
listing of the command. rent command. mand triggers off the emulated stack
The main display mode is what level, the program could also drop
gives Ultimate its powerful debugging back into single-step mode if two val
features. It has the ability to convert the The asterisk toggles the operand field ues are pulled from the stack or the
addressing mode into the actual mem display between disassembly mode stack pointer is incremented by 2 be
ory location used by the CPU and to dis and address-calculation mode. fore an RTS is encountered. This is use
play it on the status line. For example, ful in allowing you to see if the routine
if locations OE = 75, OF = 10, and f1 pulls its return address off the stack so
Y = AF, then the command above This function key toggles the status it can jump somewhere else. It's safe
would display as LDA $1124. You can line on and off without running the pro to enter J-mode anytime after a JSR. If
toggle between these two modes at an gram. It's used to view the current vid it's used outside of a subroutine, it may
ytime with the asterisk key, even view eo display area under the status line. never drop back into single-step
the two modes of the same command Single step (f7) and slow motion (S) mode on its own, but you can exit at an
without stepping. There are some com are the only valid keys while the status ytime with the @ (At) key.
mands that will show an address line is off.
(branches, RTS, JSR, and so on) that
look identical. The command field also H P sets the emulated PC to a new ad
indicates the address of the destina Hunt allows you to enter an address dress; the beginning of a program; or
tion if a branch is taken. An RTS will dis that is the actual computed address op the end of a loop, subroutine, or wher
play the actual address of the com erand of a command. The program ever. The new address is entered in
mand after the JSR, not the address 1 runs in slow motion until it finds a com the PC space on the status line. After
that it pulls off the stack. There are mand that uses that address. This is the address has been entered, the val
some other features used in the status useful for seeing when a particular mem ue will reverse to show that you have to
display, but these will be discussed in ory location is accessed in a program. make a decision. You must either
the appropriate key description below. If the hunt is successful and the status press Return or f3. Return resets the em
line displays the command line and ulated stack pointer to the top of the
Key Functions PC, you can toggle the display mode stack, $FF. This is useful when restart
A single keystroke activates many of Ul- (*) or look at the source code listing. ing the monitored program so that
timate's key features. Hunt can also be exited at anytime stack doesn't wrap around. Pressing f3
with the @ (At) key. will not change the current stack point
F7 er. This is useful for going to the begin
Pressing f7 executes the next program R ning of a loop or jumping over some
instruction and displays the results on The R key will let the program run until code where you may need the values
the status line. an address is reached. Enter the PC of that are on the program's stack. Noth
any command in the code and then ing changes but the location of where
the program will run in slow motion un the monitor reads the next command.
Press S to enter slow motion program til the command is ready to be execut
emulation from single-step mode. The ed. This means that when the single- D
approximate execution speed of this step mode display comes on, the com Dump has the same usage as Hunt ex
mode varies greatly, but generally mand before the one you selected will cept that all occurrences of the desired
takes about 150 times longer than real be on the display line. That is because address usage (PC) are sent to the
execution speed. If there are a lot of when a command is shown, it has al printer. This will not stop until the @ (At)
Kernal routines, the Kernal mode can ready been executed and the new PC key is pressed to cancel the mode.
speed up the program considerably. has been calculated. This is useful to
get the program to the beginning of a K
specific subroutine or section of code This key toggles Kernal mode, the de
The back arrow exits the monitor and that you are interested in without hav sired execution mode of calls to Kernal
G-26 COMPUTE JULY 1993
subroutines listed in the Kernal jump ta you loaded the monitor to at the begin modes. You may find it useful to turn
ble ($FF81-$FFF3). The default mode ning of the session. If you do this, you off multicolor mode to read the status
is step-by-step emulation (in single- must change it back before you contin line clearly and then turn it back on.
step or slow mode). The special mode ue, or the monitored program may
is full-speed execution, which is desig crash.
nated by an asterisk to the left of PC G toggles hi-res display between text
on the status line. A, X, orY mode and hi-res mode. This is for see
This mode is useful for speeding up Enter a new value into a CPU register. ing the status line should the display
programs with heavy Kernal usage After a value is entered, it will reverse mode change while single stepping
where you are only concerned with the to show that you have to make a deci (like W key). Note that the proper
routine's net effect on the program. It al sion. Return will modify the emulated mode will be selected automatically
so allows serial bus I/O routines such status register like an LDA command, when changing between single-step,
as disk access even in single-step while 13 will leave the flags unchanged. slow, and full-speed modes.
mode. Most Kernal routines that use These features may be useful for alter
the serial bus cannot be successfully ing loop indexes or putting a keycode Del
single stepped. Note that if the Kernal into A to be checked when letting the The Delete key has two functions. It re
LOAD is used, the monitor program program go to the routine that handles prints the current status line with the
could be corrupted because the self- the key. command after using M or F keys, and
protection feature is temporarily disa cancels data-entry modes of any keys
bled. W requiring hex input, such as H or P.
If the Kernal mode is off, single- W redisplays the status line in the cur
step mode will still let you choose how rent screen configuration. This is use
to execute each Kernal call. When you ful in single-step mode when stepping The @ (At) key cancels any slow-mo
get to a Kernal call, the address of the through code that alters VIC parame tion mode (from S, J, R, H, or D) back
routine will reverse. Return will execute ters and the screen changes so you to single-step mode.
the routine in full speed, and f3 will can't see the status line anymore. Press
take it out of reverse mode and allow ing W will recover it without stepping. Operational Notes
you to continue to single step through Not only are the regular 56 commands
the routine. of the 6502 interpreted, but also the 14
If you press Return, the routine will ex C cycles the color of the status line quasi-opcodes as defined by Raeto Col-
ecute, and the next command shown text for text mode and hi-res mode stat lin West in "Programming the 64" by
will be the RTS of the routine. Also, the us line displays independently. All 16 COMPUTE books. Most of these op
PC will show the address of the routine colors are available. A separate color codes have reproducible results, al
itself and will be reversed to show that can be locked in for each mode and though many don't seem to lend them
you just executed that Kernal routine. will stay the same even if you toggle be selves to most programming tasks.
The RTS shows where the program is tween monitor and full-speed modes. The new mnemonics that you may en
returning to. If Kernal mode is on, then You won't have to change it after switch counter while experimenting are ASO,
all Kernal routines will be executed in ing modes. RLA, LSE, RRA, AXS, LAX, DCMh INS,
full speed with results as mentioned In hi-res mode, the foreground and ALR, ARR, OAL, SAX, SKB, and SKW.
above. background colors are changed. Whiie there isn't enough space to dis
Since the background color changes cuss quasi-ops at length, most of
only after all 16 foreground colors them essentially decode in a way that
Fill lets you change the contents of any have changed, it may take a while to is similar to the LDA-type commands.
memory location. Note that the monitor get the desired color combination. If SKB branches over (skips) one byte,
will not protect itself, so use caution you know the color codes that you and SKW skips two.
when altering any monitor parameters want for the foreground and back These codes are included here
given in the article. ground, you can put the proper value when most other monitors ignore them
into START + S052D. (See F key because some software may use them
M above.) The value should be in the fol to hide codes.
Memory will let you examine the con lowing format: High nybble equals back Another debugging feature is that Ul
tents of a memory location. For areas ground; low nybble equals foreground. timate stops automatically at a BRK or
that have layers of memory such as See any 64 reference book for more de any invalid commands. BRK com
SD000 (character ROM and I/O device tails. To actually implement the color af mands can be continued normally, but
RAM), the memory configuration used ter changing the memory value, hit f1 invalid opcodes will display three
by the monitored program determines twice. back arrows (*~«~*~) and the hex value
where the value comes from. To view a of the invalid opcode that has been en
different area, alter the offset value, V countered. At this point, reset the PC
START + $0055, with the Fill com V toggles multicolor mode. This key to a new piece of code to continue.
mand. START is equal to the address will have effects in both text and hi-res Ultimate executes quasi-ops like it ex-
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-27
PROGRAMS

ecutes all other commands. They are ex SETNAM = SFFBD CC93:CD CD 3E CD B0 0A A2 09 28

ecuted by the 6502 after any address LOAD = $FFD5 CC9B:A0 00 20 F0 FF 4C F0 CD 79
es are decoded. DEVICE = $BA CCA3:A8 84 02 A2 00 BD 22 CD 26
CCAB:20 D2 FF E8 EC 3E CD 90 25
The program works by emulating ma
CCB3:F4 B9 22 CD 20 D2 FF C8 6C
jor features of the 6502 and 64. The re
iijcnpc i nji 4J4
WtUub LUA #1
CCBB:C0 0E 90 F5 A2 08 38 A9 F9
al stack and CPU registers are copied LDX #<NAME+1 ;!d byte CCC3:14 ED 3E CD A8 18 20 F0 5E
to a protected area of memory within LDY #>NAME+1 ;hi bytel JSR SET CCCB:FF A4 02 A2 00 BD 30 CD IE
the monitor, and all memory activity is NAM CCD3:20 D2 FF £8 EC 3E CD 90 4D
CCDB:F4 B9 30 CD 20 D2 FF C8 56
monitored in protected mode so that
CCE3:C0 0E 90 F5 20 EF CC EE 1C
the monitored program behaves as if it NAME LDA #69 ;decimal CCEB:3E CD D0 92 A2 D0 A0 00 F4
were running in real mode. Also, win LDX DEVICE CCF3:C8 D0 FD E8 D0 F8 60 20 BF
dow space is maintained and protect LDY #0 relocate CCFB:54 48 45 20 55 4C 54 49 4A
ed for the text screen line, color mem JSR SETLFS CD03:4D 41 54 45 20 4D 41 43 70
CD0B:48 49 4E 45 20 4C 44. 4E 3E
ory line, and one hi-res line so that the
CD13:47 55 41 47 45 20 4D 4F D8
status line may be displayed while any 1 nil un
LUA #U ill).Hi
itnifj
CD1B:4E 49 54 4F 52 59 42 45 71
program access to the real memory ar TAX CD23:2E 20 4A 2E 20 42 41 4C E2
ea is sent to the window. All of this win LDY #>BEGINI JSR LOAD CD2B:43 48 49 43 4B 20 20 54 47
dowing is generally transparent to the JMP BEGIN CD33:2E 20 4A 2E 20 47 52 45 22
CD3B:45 4E 20 00 20 60 A5 A9 SB
user and the monitored program.
CD43:00 85 7A A9 02 85 7B 20 67
For example, an access to the first lo This loader will load, relocate, and kick CD4B:79 00 20 F3 BC 4C 9B BC Fl
cation of the status line LDA S07C0, in start into single-step mode any ML pro CD53:A9 0D 4C D2 FF 55 4C 54 PE
default area, is shown as such, al gram as long as Ultimon.O is saved as CD5B:49 4D 4F 4E 2E 4F <3F 41 EC
though the real load comes from the filename E, BEGIN = safe area CD63:44 44 52 45 53 53 20 46 3F
CD6B:4F 52 20 4D 4F 4E 49 54 B6
screen window maintained by the mon (bitmap). Just find free memory for
CD73:4F 52 20 00 9F 4E 41 4D 55
itor. If a command tries to access the WEDGE and insert JSR WEDGE into CD7B:45 20 4F 46 20 50 52 4F 46
monitor's protected memory, the com code. Another technique is to load Ul CD83:47 52 41 4D 20 54 4F 20 65
mand will not be executed. In singie- timate ML Monitor with a standard mon CD8B:42 45 20 4D 4F 4E 49 54 0D
step mode the operand field will be re itor that can perform a relocatable CD93:4F 52 45 44 0D 00 9F 4E 4E
CD9B:55 4D 42 45 52 20 4F 46 C9
versed to alert you of this condition. load to any address. Then run Ultimate
CDA3:20 44 52 49 56 45 20 00 47
so that it initializes itself to the new ad CDAB:9F 53 49 4E 47 4C 45 20 10
Advanced Uses dress. The initialization routine ends CDB3:53 54 45 50 20 4F 52 20 BE
The Ultimon.O program is a stand with an RTS. Now Ultimate is ready to CDBB:46 55 4C 4C 20 53 50 45 52
alone program. It contains the routine use or can be resaved from the new ad CDC3:45 44 20 00 05 45 52 52 4B
CDCB:4F 52 20 21 21 20 45 4D IB
that actually performs the absolute ad dress with a length of 4K. To call it,
CDD3:55 4C 41 54 4F 52 20 57 F5
dress conversions necessary to relo just use JSR or SYS to go to the new ad
CDDB:49 4C 4C 20 4F 56 45 52 6B
cate the program to the new address. dress. CDE3:57 52 49 54 45 20 4C 4F C0
This makes it very useful to load and CDEB:41 44 45 52 00 A9 C0 20 4F
run after another program has already ULTIMON.B CDF3:90 FF A5 BA 8D 33 CF 20 31
been loaded. HG 5 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COMP CDFS:CC FF 20 53 CD 20 53 CD 9A
CE03:A9 61 A0 CD 20 IE AB 2(3 AF
During the first call, Ultimon.O mod UTE PUBLICATIONS - ALL RI
CE03:3F CD A4 64 C0 C0 90 0E CE
ifies itself so that later calls to the start GHTS RESERVED
CE13:A6 65 F0 0A A9 C7 A0 CD 97
address enter the monitor mode. This MP 10 IFATHENS*S52243
CE1B:20 IE AB 4C F0 CD A2 00 8E
feature may be useful when a program KD 20 D=PEEK(186):A»-1:LOAD"UL CE23:8E 18 03 8C 19 03 20 53 9F
i 1 HUN * Lj fU/L
that you wish to monitor is so large CE2B:CD A9 77 A0 CD 20 IE AB
CE33:A9 00 85 C6 20 60 A5 A0 31
that it would overwrite Ultimate. Usual ULTIMON.L CE3B:00 B9 00 02 F0 06 99 0B 45
ly programs using some hi-res graph CC13:A9 93 20 D2 FF A9 00 8D CB CE43:01 C8 D0 F5 8C 34 CF 20 02
ics are like this. The solution would be CC1B:21 D0 8D 3E CD A9 06 8D BD CE4B:53 CD A9 99 A0 CD 20 IE 6F
to load the monitor over a 4K section of CC23:20 D0 A9 0D 8D 86 02 A2 34 CE53IAB 20 3F CD A5 65 8D 32 A3
a bitmap that may not be needed CC2B:02 38 A9 13 ED 3E CD A8 E6 CE5B:CF 20 53 CD A9 0F AE 32 49
CC33:18 20 F0 FF 38 A9 26 ED Al CE63:CF A0 0F 20 BA FF A9 00 IE
while you are trying to figure out some
CC3B:3E CD CD 3E CD 90 22 A8 A2 CE6B:23 BD FF 20 C0 FF 20 IE EE
portion of the program. The loading
CC43:A2 00 BD FA CC 20 D2 FF 22 CE73:CF 20 C0 FF A9 00 85 02 73
could be performed by replacing a CC4B:E8 EC 3E CD 90 F4 B9 FA FF CE7B:A2 0F 20 C6 FF 20 CF FF BE
small piece of code with a JSR to the CC53:CC 20 D2 FF C8 C0 26 90 DB CE83:C9 2C F0 07 05 02 85 02 DC
following routine (WEDGE). Then, the CC5B:F5 20 EF CC EE 3E CD D0 9F CE8B:4C 80 CE A0 FF C3 20 CF 86
wedge routine would have to be piggy CC63:C6 A2 04 A0 13 18 20 F0 BD CE93:FF 99 00 02 C9 2C D0 F5 4E
CC6B:FF A2 01 BD 20 CD 20 D2 F4 CE9B:A9 00 99 00 02 A9 01 8D 87
backed onto another piece of the mon
CC73:FF CA 10 F7 A9 00 8D 3E E7 CEA3:86 02 A9 00 A0 02 20 IE A5
itored program. CC7B:CD A9 01 8D 86 02 A2 06 E6 CEAB:AB AS 32 C9 30 D0 0F A2 EA
CC83:38 A9 14 ED 3E CD A8 18 97 CEB3:45 20 C6 FF 20 CF FF 85 9A
SETLFS = $FFBA CC8B:20 F0 FF 38 A9 0E ED 3E 94 CEBB:FB 20 CF FF 85 FC A9 45 12

G-28 COMPUTE JULY 1993

CEC3:20 C3 FF A9 0F 20 C3 FF 7D 80E0:92 86 30 E4 54 47 45 42 AD 8310:D8 82 60 AD D2 82 8D 44 0B
CECB:20 cc FF A5 02 C9 30 F0 8F 80E8:C9 0D D0 04 A9 40 D0 13 6F 8318:8D AD Dl 82 8D 45 80 60 BC
CED3:03 4C 29 CE 20 53 CD A9 AB 80F0:AE 86 85 D0 D3 C9 22 D0 83 8320:AD 49 8D 48 AC 48 80 AE D6
CEDB:AB A0 CD 20 IE AB 20 E4 F7 80F8:18 AC B2 82 C8 C8 8C DC 0F 8328:47 8D AD 46 8D 28 60 08 26
CEE3:FF AA F3 FA C9 53 F0 04 7B 8100:82 A9 80 8D 8C 80 AD 86 DF 8330:8D 46 8D 8E 47 8D 8C 48 FB
CEEB:C9 46 D0 F2 85 02 A0 CA 89 8108:85 DO 03 20 92 86 4C 53 FE 8338:8D 68 8D 49 BD 60 A5 01 A0
CEF3:B9 34 CF 99 33 03 88 D0 96 8110:80 C9 11 D0 0B 8A 48 20 28 8340:8D 55 80 A9 36 85 01 60 38
CEFB:F7 A9 09 A2 58 A0 CD 20 4C 8118:D9 86 68 AA A9 01 D0 E3 38 8348:20 36 87 C9 01 F0 04 C9 18
CF03:BD FF A9 45 AE 33 CF A0 8D 8120:C9 29 D0 2B A2 04 20 90 15 B350:05 D0 F5 4A 60 A2 00 AD AC
CF0B:00 20 BA FF A2 00 AC 19 91 8128:84 A2 04 20 DE 86 AD DC El 8358:8C 80 4A B0 0E A0 07 AD C8
CF13:03 8A 20 D5 FF 20 44 FE 40 8130:82 8D Dl 82 AD DD 82 8D Bl 8360:61 84 C9 80 D0 2A A2 00 EE
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G-30 COMPUTE JULY 1993

8BD0:C6 36 81 48 C6 4B 81 63 57 8E00: 80 18 65 03 91 FD 18 A5 9A Be sure to save a copy of the program
8BD8:AB 36 81 48 C6 0F 81 AB 29 8E08: FD 65 04 85 FD 90 9A E6 A4
before you exit MLX. Although Rascals
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8BE8:C6 A8 81 48 C6 09 06 00 AS 8E18: A5 03 69 0E 85 FE A2 19 5D
is written in machine language, it
8BF0:0B 38 00 0C D8 02 10 C6 26 8E20: 8A 0A AS Bl FD 85 FB C8 FB loads and runs tike a BASIC program.
8BF8:06 10 E6 06 11 62 06 12 84 8E28: Bl FD 18 65 03 85 FC A0 BF
8C00:68 00 13 52 06 13 8A 06 6C 8E30: 00 Bl FB 38 E9 80 18 65 A3 Playing the Game
8C08:14 18 06 14 96 10 15 86 D8 8E38: 03 91 FB CA 10 E2 A0 16 CA As the brave freighter captain, you con
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trol the figure in the lower right-hand cor
8C18:08 08 IB 12 08 IB 2C 08 C8 8E48: F7 68 85 28 68 85 04 68 78
8C20:LB 60 00 1C 30 02 1C 32 94 8E50: 85 02 68 85 26 68 35 27 IB ner of the screen. Use keys I, J, L, and
8C28:02 21 46 02 21 70 08 21 6F 8E58: 68 85 24 68 85 25 68 85 20 K to move it up, left, right, and down,
8C30:72 08 2B E4 00 4B 86 02 74 8E60: 22 68 85 23 68 85 FB 68 45 respectively. The object is to trap all
8C38:4B B0 08 4B B2 08 53 60 95 8E68- 8 5 FC 68 85 FD 68 B5 FE 88 the moving creatures on the screen. To
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do this, you must push crates that are
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scattered around the screen to form a
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cape. You can move as many crates at
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one time as you like.
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8C88:08 A4 F0 0C A6 02 08 A6 Al 8EB8: 0C DF 0C 42 0E 45 0E 00 IB Warning! This is a serious game.
8C90:26 0C A6 42 08 9A EF 12 55 You have one life and can lose it by
8C98:FF FE 14 9A C5 16 0C DF 1C coming in contact with a rascal. If all
Ed Balchick is an electrical engineer
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from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who en the rascals have been boxed in, you've
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8CB0:20 DB 00 4B A7 00 0B 25 FD joys programming in machine lan won the game. After each game, type
8CB8:00 0C A5 00 78 59 00 98 4B guage and in C. Ted Green is an un Vto play again or Wto end.
8CC0:71 00 60 71 02 0E 27 02 4E employed painter from Cleveland,
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Ohio, who also enjoys programming. A Few Questions
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They both enjoy modifying other peo However, before you can begin play,
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8CE0:C0 07 E8 07 C0 DB E8 DB CC ple's games so they (Ed and Ted) can you must answer the questions on the
8CE8:00 00 40 00 00 01 00 02 10 win them. opening screen. The first question will
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8CF8:1A D0 IB D0 81 FF FA FF C5 loose in the hold. Enter a number from
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RASCALS
1 to 7. Remember, the fewer rascals
8D08:00 00 71 86 73 86 23 38 ED
8D10:3B 08 0B 10 13 18 IB 20 7C there are, the faster they'll go!
8D18:0A 1C 14 12 0E 15 39 31 39 By Bob Broderick The next question regards the num
8D20:32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 33 Just before dozing off during another bor ber of crates available to you. A high
8D28:01 02 03 04 05 06 02 02 2B ing haul of galactic space animals in er number will give you more boxes,
8D30:02 03 02 02 03 03 00 0C 9D
your freighter, you notice a red light on making the game easier. A setting of 1
BD38:0C 0C 06 0F 06 0E 04 06 84
8D40:16 IB 20 26 A5 FE 48 AS F2 the control panel. Uh-oh! That warning will give you the least amount of
8D48:FD 48 A5 FC 48 A5 FB 48 12 light means there's been a power failure crates.
8D50:A5 23 48 A5 22 48 A5 25 0D in the cargo hold, and all of the animals The third question regulates the
8D58:48 A5 24 48 A5 27 48 A5 0A have escaped from their electric holding speed at which the rascals move. A set
8D60:26 48 A5 02 48 A5 04 48 9E
cells. They are a wild and dangerous ting of 1 is the fastest, while 9 is the
8D68:A5 28 48 A9 00 85 FD A6 BC
8D70:03 86 FE A9 9E 85 FB
bunch, but you've got to get them cor slowest. Finally, you will need to con
A9 D5
8078:17 8D 18 03 8D 16 03 18 98 ralled. Without a moment's hesitation, you firm your answers to begin play.
8D83:8A 8D 19 03 8D 16 03 69 CB suit up and set out to recapture those in- A timer at the top of the screen
BD88:0A 85 FC A9 ED 85 22 18 26 tergalactic rascals! counts the number of moves the ras
BD90:8A 69 0A 85 23 A9 EF 85 0A Rascals combines arcade action with cals have made, so you can compete
8D98:24 18 8A 69 0B 85 25 A9 16
strategy in a fast-paced game for the 64 against your best efforts. Enjoy—and
BDA0:2E 85 26 18 8A 69 0D 85 14
8DA8:27 38 A5 FB E5 FD A5 FC 49 that is written entirely in machine lan get those rascals!
8DB0:E5 FE 90 5F A3 00 Bl FD EC guage. To enter it, you'll have to use
8DB8:85 28 A3 Bl 22 A8 Bl 24 0C MLX, our machine language entry pro RASCALS
8DC0:C9 04 90 14 C9 05 B0 04 DC gram. See "Typing Aids" elsewhere in 0801:0C 08 0A 00 9E 20 32 30 64
8DC8:A9 03 D0 20 C9 07 90 03 24 0809:36 34 00 00 00 00 FF A2 E3
this section. When MLX prompts for start
8DO0:A9 01 2C A9 02 AA D0 14 91 0811:00 BD 49 08 9D EB IF E8 FD
8DD8:AA A5 28 29 1C 4A 4A 85 6E
ing and ending addresses, respond 0819:D0 F7 EE 14 08 EE 17 08 E0
8DE0:28 A8 Bl 26 C0 02 D0 04 86 with the following. 0821:AD 17 08 C9 29 D0 E8 A9 73
8DE8:E0 02 F0 E4 85 04 C9 03 34 0829:38 A2 31 A0 39 8D 07 08 44
8DF0:D0 14 A0 02 Bl FD C9 80 47 Starting address: 0801 0831:8E 08 08 8C 09 08 E8 8E ID
8DF8:90 0C C9 90 B0 08 38 E9 Al 0839:0A 08 4C 00 20 00 00 00 DA
Ending address: 10B8
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-31
PROGRAMS

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0A51 :4C 34 24 AD B8 21 38 E9 9C 0C81: FF 8D B9 21 18 69 D4 85 DB 0EBl:68 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 CD
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G-32 COMPUTE JULY 1993

0ED1 :88 88 88 86 In order to modify the game,
SCUD
88 88 88 20 85
0ED9 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 F5 change this data to whatever group
0EE1 :23 20 0F 06 20 52 01 13 39
By William F. Snow you wish to work with. Then, the follow
0EE9 :03 01 0C 13 3F 20 B7 20 84
0EF1 :20 28 31 2D 37 29 20 20 DF There has been a lot of discussion over ing code should be changed to reflect
0EF9 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 16 the past few years about how little peo the number of countries or states you
0F01 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 43 42 have entered into the data statements:
ple know about world geography. For ex
0F09 :12 01 14 05 20 44 05 0E 6D the dimension statements in line 40;
ample, do you know the names of all of
0F11 :13 09 14 19 3F 20 36 20 16
the countries in the Americas? Can you the FOR in line 80; the number of coun
0F19 :20 28 31 2D 39 29 20 20 19
0F21 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 3F at least venture a guess as to how many tries in tines 150, 160, 170 (the scram
0F29 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 52 79 there are in North, Central, and South ble routine); and the end-of-game rou
0F31 :01 13 03 01 0C 13 20 53 45 America? Give up? There are 35! Despite tine in line 200.
0F39 :10 05 05 04 3F 20 35 20 86 Scud is fun to play and will quickly
its military-sounding name, Scud will
0F41 :20 28 31 2D 39 29 20 20 41
help you learn the names and capitals of teach the names and capitals of the
0F49 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 67
0F51 :20 20 20 20 20 20 20 41 90 these 35 countries. countries of the Americas to anyone
0F59 :02 0F 16 0.5 20 43 0F 12 8D who wants to learn them.
0F61 :12 05 03 14 3F 20 20 20 46 Entering the Program
3F69::20 28 59 2F 4E 29 20 20 37
Scud is an entertaining and fun way to SCUD
0F71::20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 8F
0F79::4B 05 19 13 3A 20 49 2D E4
learn something about the countries of BH 10 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COM
the Americas. It's written entirely in BA PUTE PUBLICATIONS - ALL
0F81::55 10 20 20 20 4A 2D 52 2B
0F89::09 07 08 14 20 20 20 4B 3D SIC. To help avoid typing errors, enter
{SPACEJRIGHTS RESERVED
QD 20 REM BY WM. F. SNOW
0F91::2D 44 0F 17 0E 20 20 20 FB it with The Automatic Proofreader. See
GG 30 GOSUB1020
0F99::4C 2D 4C 05 06 14 89 89 20 "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this sec XJ 40 CLR:DIH QS(35),A$(35),CO
0FA1::89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 BF
tion. Be sure to save a copy of the pro $(35),CAS(35),Y(35):V=53
0FA9::89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 C7
0FB1::89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 CF
gram before you try to run it. 2 48:SN=54 272:POKESN+24,1
0FB9::89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 D7 Playing Scud isn't difficult. Plug a 5
GS 50 POKE53280,7:POKE53281,7:
0FC1::89 89 89 89 89 89 89 20 76 joystick into port 2 and then load and
0FC9::70 40 6E 70 40 6E 70 40 El POKEV+31,0
run Scud. The opening screen will QD 60 POKESN+4,0:PRINT"{CLR}
0FD1::40 72 40 6E 70 40 6E 6E 6B
give brief instructions for playing the {8 D0WN}"SPC(14)"{BLU}PL
0FD9::20 70 40 40 40 40 40 40 F3
0FE1::40 40 40 40 40 40
game. After a short pause, you will be EASE WAIT":PRINT"
40 40 FF
0FE9::40 40 40 40 40 39 89 20 9F presented with the name of a country {3 D0WN}{3 SPACESlOUR SP
0FFL::6B 72 7D 6B 40 73 6D 40 B3 and asked to choose the capital from IES ARE";
0FF9::6E 5D 20 20 6B 40 73 5D 4D a list of three. If you choose incorrect CD 70 PRINT" CHECKING ON THE E
1001::20 6D 40 6E 20 02 19 20 D6 NEHY"
ly, you are given the correct answer in
1009::42 0F 02 20 42 12 0F 04 CC DE 80 FOR QA=lT035:READQ$(QA),
a special bulletin.
1011::05 12 09 03 0B 89 89 20 3B AS (QA) INEXT
1019::7D 6D 40 7D 20 6D 40 40 AA BE 90 FOR S=12288 TO 12351:REA
1021::7D 6D 40 71 7D 20 6D 71 33 Defend the Gty DSP:POKES,SP:NEXT
1029::40 40 40 7D 20 54 09 0D CA If you choose correctly, the city will be AB 190 FORS=12352TO 12415:READ
1031::05 3A 20 30 30 30 20 20 0C
displayed, sirens will wail, and missiles SP:POKES,SP:NEXT
1039::20 20 20 20 20 00 18 3C E4
will be launched at the city. It will then QD 110 FORS=12416 TO 12479:REA
1041::5A 66 3C 66 3C 18 18 3C C4 D SP:POKES,SP:NEXT
1049::7E 5A 7E 56 6A 7E 66 7S 0D be your responsibility to use your
BM 120 FORS=12480TO12543:READS
1051::5A 7E 66 7E 3C 18 18 3C Al Scud missiles to try to shoot down any
P:POKES,SP:NEXT
1059::76 D5 F7 66 3C 18 18 3C 3E enemy rockets before they reach the AK 130 FORS=12544 TO 12607:REA
1061::24 3C lfl 0C 18 9C 0E 4A BD city. Use the joystick to aim your D SP:POKES,SP:NEXT
1069::4E 7E 7C 7C 24 24 3E 3A 10
Scud. A total of three missiles will be JE 140 FORS=*12608 TO 12671:REA
1071: 3E 18 18 3C 64 46 3C 24 56
1079: 3C 3C 5A 3C 66 66 IF 23 04 launched from different positions dur DSP:POKES,SP:NEXT

1081: 7D 7D 7D 7E 7C 00 IF 23 9C ing each attack. If you shoot down all FM 150 FOR 1=1 TO 35
KC 160 X=INT(RND(.)*35)+l
1089: 7D 7D 7D 7E 7C 00 D9 CF C6 three, you will have saved the city.
1091: D5 A0 C4 C9 C5 C4 AE A0 39 FC 170 FOR CK=1 TO35:IF X=Y(CK
1099: D0 CC Cl D9 A0 Cl C7 Cl 88 )THEN160
10A1: C9 CE BF A0 D9 AF CE 00 87
Modifications SM 180 NEXTCK:¥(I)=X
10A9: D9 CF D5 A0 D7 CF CE Al AC
Scud was written to help teach the BD 190 C0S(X)=QSU) :CA$(X)=A$(
10BI: Al 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 A2 names and capitals of the countries of I):NEXTI
the Americas. Since Scud is written en GS 200 SC=0:FORI=1TO4:POKEV+I,

tirely in BASIC, it should be very easy 0:NEXT:POKEV+21,0:P=P+1

Bob Broderick is a student at California
:IF P>35THENP=35:GOTO11
High School and has been program to modify the game so that the capitals
40
ming for about five years. He wrote Ras of any other group of countries or
AS 210 POKE53280,13:POKE53281,
cals because he wanted a small ar states could be taught. The names of 1
cade-style game that he could play the countries, followed by their capi MD 220 JR=INT(RND(.)*10)+2
with relative ease and few rules. He tals, are in data statements in lines RC 230 PRINT"{CLR}£10 DOWN}
1200-1300. {4 SPACES}SCUDS HAVE BE
lives in San Ramon, California.
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-33
 PROGRAMS

EN LAUNCHED AT THE SQ 490 POKE2040,192:POKEV+39,1 <N>{2 SPACES}<H>

P3 240 PRINTSPC(9)"CAPITAL OF 1:X=60:XX=255:FORA=1TO2 [2 SPACES}{H>{2 SPACES}
{SPACE}{BLK}"COS(P) 5:XX=XX-3:POK£V,XX O^Y> <Y>P{2 Y} B {N>M
SP 250 PRINT:PRINTSPC(12)" XX 500 POKEV+1,X:GOSUB570 T2 spacesHh>"
{BLUjSHOULD YOU GO TO QA 510 POKEV+2,XA:POKEV+3,YA:N DB 830 PRINT"{6 RIGHT}LN <H>
BK 260 Q=INT(RND(.)*10)+1 IF EXT <N>{2 SPACES}{H>
»P THEN260 EH 520 POKEV+30,0 {2 SPACES}{H>{2 SPACES}
GJ 270 R=INT(RND(.)*10)+1:IF R SX 530 POKE2040,193:FORA=1TO50 L{P}{2 SPACES}<N>
=P OR R=Q THEN270 :XX=XX-3:X=X+3:POKEV,XX T3 SPACES}B <N} M {H}"
RF 280 POKE2040,192:POKEV+29,1 :POKEV+1,X:GOSUB570 KR 840 PRINT"{6 RIGHT}<H>M <H>
:POKEV+40,1 KE 540 IFFB=0ANDPEEK(V+30)AND2 {N>{2 SPACES}<H>
MP 290 S = INT(RND(.)*3)+1:ON S =2THEN GOSUB630:GOTO470 {2 SPACESHHH2 SPACES}
{SPACE}GOTO300,34 0,380 BF 550 POKEV+2,XA:POKEV+3,YA:I <H>{3 SPACES}<N>
JO 300 PRINT:PRINTSPC{9)"{BLK} F(piDEK(V+31)ANDl)=lTHEN (3 SPACES}B {N>
A){BLU}"CAS{P):PRINT:PR 910 {2 SPACES}M{H>"
INTSPC{9)"(BLK}B){BLU}" RR 560 NEXT:GOTO200 FB 850. PRINT"{6 RIGHT}L£ M{P>N
CAS<Q) MP 570 JY=PEEK(56320)AND15:FB= {2 SPACES}L{P> L<P} L
HD 310 PRINT:PRINTSPC{9)"{BLK} PEEK(56320)AND16:REM RE {P}{2 SPACES}<N>
C){BLU}"CA$(R):PRINTSPC AD STICK AND BUTTON {3 SPACES}B_ <N>
(9)"{3 DOWN}{CYN}HIT Q FA 580 IFJY=7THENXA=XA+JR:IF X {3 SPACESHH}"
{SPACEjTO END GAME" A>255THEN XA=255 MA 360 PRINT "{3 DOWN}{BLK}"SP
MX 320 GOSUB680:IF B$="A"THEN4 BB 590 IFJY=llTHENXA=XA-JR:IFX C(4)CA$(P):PRINT"{BLU}
20 A<1 THEN XA=1 {SPACE}THE CAPITAL OF
SB 330 GOSUB820:GOTO200 JD 600 IFJY=13THENYA=YA+JR:IF {BLK}":PRINTS PC(4)CO$(P
GC 340 PRINT:PRINTSPC (9)"{BLK} {SPACE}YA>250 THEN YA=2
A) {BLU}"CA$ (Q) :PRINT:PR 50 CQ B70 PRINT"{BLU}{2 SPACESjHA
INTSPC(9)"{BLK}B)fBLU}" SS 610 IFJY=14THENYA=YA-JR:IF S BEEN DESTROYED ";
CA$(P) {SPACE}YA<1 THEN YA=1 RP 880 PRINT"BY SCUD MISSLES.
HG 350 print:printspc{9)"{blk} XR 620 RETURN E3 SPACES}THE PERSON WH
c) {blu}"cas(r):prints pc MQ 630 POKE2040,195:POKEV+39,2 0 COULD HAVE SAVED THE
(9)"{3 down}{cyn}hit q :GOSUB1100:POKEV+23,1:P {SPACE}CITYDID";
[spaceJto end game" OKEV+29,1 BA 890 PRINT" NOT HAVE ENOUGH
XP 360 GOSUB6fl0:IF B$="B"THEN4 DM 640 FOREC=1TO8:POKEV+39,EC: {SPACEjlNFORMATION TO G
20 FORDE=1TO70:NEXT:NEXT:P ET{2 SPACESjTO THE RIGH
SG 370 GOSUB820:GOTO200 OKEV,0:POKEV+1,0 T CITY IN TIME."
FG 330 PRINT:PRINTSPC(9)"{BLK} MS 650 POKEV+31,0:POKEV+23,0:R XS 900 PRINT"{3 DOWN}{8 RIGHT}
A){BLU}"CA$(R):PRINT:PR ETURN ■C6>HIT ANY KEY TO CONTI
INTSPC{9)"{BLK}B){BLUj" GS 660 GET B$:IF BS="" THEN660 NUE{BLU}":GOSUB660:RETU
CAS(Q) QB 670 RETURN RN
KG 390 PRINT:PRINTSPC(9)"{BLK} MM 680 GET B$:IFBS=""THEN680 MP 910 POKEV+21,0:PRINT"{HOME}
C){BLU}"CA$(P):PRINTSPC KB 690 IF B$ = "A"ORBS = "C"ORB$=11 {20 DOWN}"SPC(4)"{RED}M
(9)"{3 DOWN}{CYN}HIT Q B"THENRETURN {F>{5 SPACES}N N":GOSU
{SPACE}TO END GAME" SA 700 IF B$="Q"THEN1140 B1100
QE 400 GOSUB680:IF B$="C"THEN4 XC 710 GOTO680 AR 920 PRINTSPC(4}"N M
20 XF 720 POKE2040,196:POKEV+39,1 {4 SPACES}^ NNM N"
PE 410 GOSUB820:GOTO200 1:POKEV,60:FORVS=0TO200 QP 930 PRINTSPC(3)"TM M<Q>IBBN
AK 420 PRINT"{CLR}":POKE53280, STEP5:GOSUB570 {+JH2 £>Q":POKESN + 4,0
13:POKE53281,13 EG 730 POKEV+1,VS:POKEV+30,0:P MC 940 FORDE=1 TO500:NEXT:FORC
JG 430 PRINT"{HOME}{18 DOWN}"S OKEV+2,XA L=1704TO1903:POKECL,32:
PC(8)"{BLK}B":PRINTSPC( EG 740 POKEV+3,YA:IFFB=0AMDPEE NEXT
7)"{PURjNP[2 SPACES} K{V+30}AND2=2THENGOSUB6 FJ 950 PRINTSPC(3)"{UP}{BLK}
{RVS} {OFF}" 30:GOTO470
0
1
3 440 PRINT"{3 SPACES}{BLK}
<H}<A>IOP* OP":PRINT"
JR

GS
750

760
IF
HEN910
(PEEK(V+31)AND1)=1

NEXT:GOTO200
T L_t £>£< + > <7>":FORDE = 1T
O1000:NEXT
{4 SPACES}(PUR}OP{T) QF 960 POKEV,0:POKEV+1,0:POKEV
(RVS} {OFFHN>BP{@}NP" DG 770 POKE2040,197:POKEV+39,1 +31,0:GOTO200
CR 450 PRINT" {3 SPACESTtBL^To 1:POKEV,255:POKEV+1,220 PC 970 POKEV+21,0
{SPACE}{N> {RVS} {OFFT DC 780 FORX=255TO0STEP-3:GOSUB RH 980 PRINT"{CLR}{5 DOWN}
{N}B{PUR}M M{N>":GOSUBl 570:POKEV,X:POKEV+30,0 {4 RIGHT}{BLK}THANK YOU
120 HJ 790 POKEV+2,XA:POKEV+3,YA:I !!":PRINT:PRINT"{BLU}YO
HX 460 POKEV+21,3:XA=7 5:YA=200 FFB=0ANDPEEK(V+30)AND2= UR KNOWLEDGE AND MARKSM
:POKE204l,L94:POKEV+39, 2THENGOSUB630:GOTO470 ANSHIP";
ll:POKEV+40,6 BM 800 IF (PEEK(V+31)AND1)=1 T AM 990 PRINT" HAVE{4 SPACESjSA
AB 470 SC = SC+1: IFSO3 THEN GOS HEN910 VED{BLK}":PRINT:PRINTCA
UB970:GOTO200 BR 810 NEXT:GOTO200 S(P):PRINT:PRINT"{BLU}T
HC 480 PS=INT(RND(.)*3)+1:ON P AP 820 PRINT"{CLR}{4 DOWN} HE CAPITAL OF{BLK}"
S GOTO490,720,770 E6 RIGHT}{RED}OM <H> HR 1000 PRINT:PRINT COS(P):PRI

G-34 COMPUTE JULY 1993

 NT"(BLU}" ST. JOHNS,BAHAMAS,NASS RF 1380 DATA000,000,144,000,00
DB 1010 PHIHT"{5 DOWN}{WHT}HIT AU,BELIZE,BELMOPAN 0,224,000,000,000,000,
ANY KEY TO CONTINUE EK 1210 DATACANADA,OTTAWA,COST 000,000,000,000,000,00
{BLU}":GOSUB660:SS=SS+ A RICA,SAN JOSE,CUBA,H 0,000
1:RETURN AVANA,DOMINICA,ROSEAU KK 1390 DATA000,000,000,000,00
JA 1020 POKE53280,10:POKE53281 PB 1220 DATADOMINICAN REPUBLIC 0,000,000,000,000,000,
,SANTO DOMINGO,EL SALV 000,008,000,000,008,00
PG 1030 PRINT"{CLR}{3 DOWN} ADOR,SAN SALVADOR,GREN 0,000
{BLK}"SPC(12) "1^2 T> ADA GK 1400 DATA008,000,000,008,00
(2 SPACES}N<2 T> FS 1230 DATAST. GEORGE'S,GUATE 0,000,255,128,000,008,
{2 SPACESHO {M> MALA,GUATEMALA,HAIT I,P 000,000,008,000,000,00
{2 SPACES}OM":PRINTSPC ORT-AU-PRINCE,HONDURAS 8,000
(12) "M{@M3 SPACES}{G} XC 1240 DATATEGUCIGALPA,JAMATC AC 1410 DATA000,0O8,000,000,00
{4 SPACES KG> {M} A,KINGSTON,MEXICO,MEXI 0,000,000,000,000,000,
{2 SPACES}{G}{H}n CO CITY,NICARAGUA,MANA 000,000,000,000,000,00
QA 1040 PRINTSPC(14)"M GUA 0,000
{2 SPACES}{G} KG 1250 DATAPANAMA,PANAMA CITY MA 1420 DATA000.000,000,000,00
{4 SPACES}{G> <M> ,SAINT LUCIA,CASTRIES, 0,000,032,000,008,032,
{2 SPACES}<GHM>":PRIN SAINT VINCENT & THE GR 032,004,032,000,000,03
TSPC{12)"{2 @>N ENADINES 2,000
{2 SPACES}M{2 @> HJ 1260 DATAKINGSTOWN,TRINIDAD KF 1430 DATA001,002,000,000,13
{2 SPACES}M{@>N & TOBAGO,PORT OF SPAI 2,000,000,072,000,128,
{2 SPACES}LN_" N,UNITED STATES,WASHIN 048,000,064,120,002,09
JD 1050 PRINT"{3 DOWN}{BLU} GTON D.C. 2,252
{3 SPACES}THE ENEMY IS BP 1270 DATAARGENTINA,BUENOS A FH 1440 DATA248,128,120,002,00
LAUNCHING SCUD MISSIL IRES,BOLIVIA,LA PAZ,BR 0,048,000,000,072,000,
ES AT NATIONAL CAPITAL AZIL,BRASILIA,CHILE,SA 000,132,000,001,002,00
S"; NT IAGO 0,000
KM 1060 PRINT" IN THE AMERICAS MX 1280 DATACOLOMBIA,BOGOTA,EC CS 1450 DATA016,000,000,016,00
.{3 SPACESjYOUR JOB IS UADOR,QUITO,GUYANA,GEO 0,008,016,032,016,016,
TO GET TO THE CAPITAL RGETOWN,PARAGUAY,ASUNC 032,000,000,000,000,00
UNDER ATTACK"; ION 0,000
KG 1970 PRINT" AND DESTROY THE KE 1290 DATAPERU,LIMA,SURINAME BK 1460 DATA0O0,003,255,128,00
MISSILES. USE A ,PARAMARIBO,URUGUAY,MO 1,215,000,0P0,214,000,
{2 SPACES}JOYSTICK IN NT IVIDEO,VENEZUELA,CAR 000,124,000,000,056,00
{SPACE}PORT TWO,"; ACAS 0,000
RP 1080 PRINT" BUT BE CAREFUL, FS 1300 DATABARBADOS,BRIDGETOW RR 1470 DATA040,000,0O0,040,00
{3 SPACES}EQUIPMENT IN N,ST. KITTS & NEVIS,BA 0,000,040,000,000,040,
DIFFERENT CITIES DOES SSETERRE 000,000,04 0,000,000,04
NOT "; FE 1310 DATA000,000,000,000,00 0,000
DF 1090 PRINT" ALWAYS RESPOND 0,000,000,000,000,000, EC 1480 DATA000,040,000,000,04
{SPACElWITH THE SAME S 000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,04 0,000,000,
PEED.":GOSUB900:RETURN 0,000 056,000,000,016,000,00
KG 1100 POKESN+4,129:POKESN+5, GG 1320 DATA001,000,000,003,00 0,016
92:POKESN+1,1:POKESN,1 0,000,007,000,024,015, QP 1490 DATA000,000,016,000,00
00:FORF=1TO999:NEXT:PO 000,104,127,000,143,25 0,000,000,000,000,000,
KESN+4,0 5,000 000,000,000,000,000,00
CE 1110 RETURN EB 1330 DATA143,255,000,104,12 0,000
PD 1120 POKESN+14,5:POKESN+13, 7,000,024,015,000,000, BA 1500 DATA000,000,000,000,00
16:POKESN+3,l:POKESN+6 007,000,000,003,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,
,240:POKESN+4,65 0,001 000,000,000,000,000,00
CJ 1130 POKESN,240:POKESN+1,20 SG 1340 DATA000,000,000,000,00 0,000
:POKEV+30,0:RETURN 0,000,000,000,000,000, FK 1510 DATA003,000,000,007,00
QD 1140 PRINT"{CLR}{5 DOWN} 000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,025,015,255,241,
{7 RIGHTjXOU SAVED "SS 0,000 000,000,02 5,000,000,00
" OUT OF THE "P CJ 1350 DATA000,000,000,000,00 7,000
SG 1150 PRINT:PRINT"{8 RIGHTjC 0,000,000,000,000,000, JE 1520 DATA000,003,000,000,O0
ITIES THAT WERE ATTACK 000,000,000,000,004,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,
ED" 0,000 000,000,000,000,000,00
AA 1160 PRINT"{5 DOWN} FR 13"60 DATA006,000,000,007,00 0,000
{5 RIGHTjWOULD YOU LIK 0,000,007,128,000,007, PD 1530 DATA000,000,0OO,0O0,00
E TO TRY AGAIN (Y/N)": 192,000,007,224,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000
GOSUB660 7,240
FA 1170 IF B$="N"THEN END PX 1370 DATA000,007,248,000,00 William Snow, a teacher for more than
AX 1180 IFB$="Y"THEN RUN 40 7,252,000,015,254,000,
CR 1190 GOTO1140
27 years, is vice president of the
028,000,000,120,000,00
SJ 1230 DATAANTIGUA & BARBUDA, McHenry County Commodore Comput
0,144
er Club in McHenry, Illinois.
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-35
PROGRAMS

Typing It In
CRYPTARITHM SOLVER Cryptarithm Solver is written in BASIC,
tions, be sure to enter an asterisk for
multiplication.
By David Pankhurst but it pokes machine language rou Cryptarithm Solver works at ML
When I first bought my Commodore, I tines into memory to speed calcula speeds, but even that isn't fast enough
used it often to solve math problems. I tions. To help avoid typing errors, en for instantaneous results. Depending
liked the brute-force approach the com ter the program with The Automatic on the formula, the program can per
puter allowed. I'd just have a series of Proofreader; see "Typing Aids" else form as many as 60 tests a second, so
FOR-NEXT loops go through the possible where in this section. Be sure to save it would still take half a day to solve
answers until a solution would appear. a copy of the program before you try to some puzzles.
That was fine most of the time, but even run it.
tually I came across a type of math prob Even Faster
lem the computer couldn't help me with, Solving Equations One way to shorten the time is to put
the cryptarithm. You've no doubt seen When you run Cryptarithm Solver, the the result first on the line. As an exam
this type of problem before. program will prompt you for a puzzle. ple, look at MONEY=SEND+MORE.
To solve the above problem, enter it in Cryptarithm Solver starts by assigning
HELP the following format. (You may use low 1 to M; usually, that is the correct digit
+ THE ercase letters.) for the first place in the sum. So, you
can save testing for the other eight dig
YOUNG HELP+THE=YOUNG its, and this can mean solving most puz
zles in less than an hour. The exam
Each letter represents a different digit, After you press Return, the program ples here ranged from 40 seconds to
0-9. In this example, there are ten dif displays a constantly changing sum in three hours, using these tips.
ferent tetters, so all ten digits are the bottom of the screen. This is a win
used. The words HELP and THE each dow into the processing of the pro Other Languages
make numbers that, when added to gram. The display is the test result pro Cryptarithm Solver is not restricted to
gether, match the result in YOUNG. duced by each combination. Usually, English. It also works in French.
There are no restrictions, except that 0 the result is wrong, and the next com
can't be the first digit in any number. bination is then tried. However, when ELEVE+LECON=DEVOlR
Clearly, this isn't a simple loop prob the result is true, the solution is dis
lem. Let's say the H above was as played, along with the time it took to This translates loosely to become STU
signed 1; the E, 2; the L, 3; and so on find. Processing then continues with DENT+LE$SONS=HOMEWORK, If we
throughout the puzzle. A sample addi the next combination. entered the words into Cryptarithm
tion could then be tried, and the result Solver as ELEVE+LECON=DEVOIR,
checked. No Key Words the D (which logically is 1), would be as
So how many times does this need You need to watch out for one thing signed 7, and it would have to go
to be done? To completely check the when you're preparing input for Cryp through the whole cycle to solve. By re
puzzle. H has to be tried out for each tarithm Solver. If you typed SEND + versing the order, D is assigned 1 im
of the 9 digits (leaving out 0), E by MORE = MONEY, the program would mediately, and the solution is that
each of the remaining 9, the L by the display an error message informing much quicker. It took me 64 minutes.
remaining 8, and so on. This gives ap you that the words contained an em (I'll give you this one. The answer is
proximately 9x9x8x7x6x5x bedded BASIC function or command. 69656 + 96078 = 165734.)
4x3x2x1 choices, or 3,265,920 dif This is because the BASIC commands When the program finds a solution,
ferent combinations. That's a lot of END, OR, and ON are embedded in leave it running to search for other an
loops in BASIC! If the 64 managed one the formula, and the computer tries to swers. When all reasonable solutions
calculation per second, it would take encode these as commands. To avoid have been tried, however, you'll want
more than 35 days to complete. this problem, insert spaces between to stop it. To quit, hold down the Q
the letters. SEND + MORE = MO key. You'll be asked if you wish to con
To the Rescue N E /would work fine. tinue. Press Y to continue or N to stop.
Enter machine language. Cryptarithm Cryptarithm Solver works well with all To slow the action, hold down the Ctrl
Solver brings ML brute force to these sorts of mathematical operations, not key. But be warned; the solutions take
puzzles. In a matter of hours, it can just addition. One example is the follow much longer.
solve most cryptarithms. A puzzle is ing multiplication. I hope you enjoy Cryptarithm
first broken up into combinations, and Solver, yet one more way the brute-
the computer tries different substitu ABCDE*9=FGHIJ force methods of computing can yield
tions for each letter. practical results and eliminate all that
If the result is correct (totals on both Entering it this way fixes the 9; only let difficult thinking for us humans. To end,
sides of the equal sign match) the puz ters are changed in the puzzle. By the here are two more puzzles:
zle is solved. The program then goes way, there are two solutions to this puz
on to see if there are other solutions. zle. As with other computer math opera PETER+PETER+PETER+PETER=REPEAT
G-36 COMPUTE JULY 1993
MARS+VENUS+SATURN+URANUS=NEPTUNE $="Y"THEN270 D5 640 DATA 255,162,255,202,20
EF 340 PRINT:PRINT" FINISHED A 8,253,136
T"INT(Tl/6)/10 "SECONDS KC 650 DATA 208,248,170,202,13
CRYPTARITHM SOLVER
":END 8,208,241
PH 100 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - CO DD 350 TIS="000000":DS=1984:IF XM 660 DATA 174,{2 SPACES}0,19
MPUTE PUBLICATIONS INTL PEEK(44)<>18 THEN GOSU 7,188,{2 SPACES}3,197,2
LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESER B 400 00
VED RC 360 DX=50432:NX=DX+1:MX=NX+ HQ 673 DATA 140,(2 SPACES}1,19
RH 105 POKE 53280,0:POKE 53281 l:X=MX+l:T=X+80:CM=T+8fl 7,174,163,197,169
,0:PRINT"{CLR}{YEL}{H} :C=CM+1:PC=C+30:P=PC+1: AD 680 DATA{3 SPACES}0,157, 83
{N}" R=P+80 ,197,202, 16,250
XK 110 PRINT"{8 SPACES}CRYPTAR DR 370 RETURN JS 690 DATA 174,(2 SPACES}0,19
ITHMS{2 SPACES }S_OLVER RS 400 RESTORErFOR 1=0 TO-1 ST 7,169,255,202, 48
AQ 120 PRINT"{11 SPACES}BY D.P EP-l:REAn Y$:I»VAL(YS)= AX 700 DATA(3 SPACES}9,188,
ANKHURST -1:NEXT:X= 49152:DATA - [2 SPACES}3,197,153, 83
BX 130 PRINT 1 ,197
RE 140 INPUT "CODE STRING";XS HQ 410 READ Y:IF YO-2 THEN PO 710
JM DATA 202, 16,247,173,
XB 150 DIM L(20):L=0:GOSUB350: KE X,Y:X=X+1:GOTO 410 {2 SPACES}1,197,205
PP=P:YS="1023456789" KA 420 RETURN HB 720 DATA 163,197,240,
EM 160 FOR 1=1 TO LEN(YS):POKE HP 430 DATA{2 SPACES}24,144, 3 (2 SPACES}2,176, 48,172
C-1+I,ASC(MID$(Y$,I,1) 0, 76,{2 SPACES}9,192, KQ 730 DATA{3 SPACES}1,197,185
):NEXT:POKE CM,LEN(YS)- {SPACEJ56 , 83,197,208, 12
1 AQ 440 DATA 176, 24,165,122, 7 RP 740 DATA 174,{2 SPACES}0,19
AR 170 FOR 1 = 1 TO LEtJ (X$) :POKE 2,165,123 7,173,{2 SPACESjl,197,1
511+1,ASC(MIDS(XS,1,1) PC 450 DATA{2 SPACES}72,169, 57
):NEXT:POKE I,0:SYS 491 {2 SPACES}2,133,123,169 QQ 750 DATA{3 SPACES}3,197, 76
55 ,{2 SPACES}0 ,235,192,238,(2 SPACES}
SD 174 FOR J=l TO I-llIF PEEK( SH 460 DATA 133,122, 32,124,16 1
51X+J)THEN 178 5,104,133 RX 760 DATA 197, 76,199,192,17
AM 176 PRINT"{RVS} EMBEDDED Bfl SE 470 DATA 123,104,133,122, 9 3,{2 SPACES}0,197
SIC FUNCTION OR COMMAND 6,173,{2 SPACES}2 QF 770 DATA 205, (2 SPACES}2,19
{OFF}":END FK 480 DATA 197,141,(2 SPACES} 7,208 ,{2 SPACES}3, 76,
GE 178 NEXT:Y=1 0,197,165,122, 72 {SPACE}63
JX 180 IF PEEK{511+Y)<>0 THEN XH 490 DATA 165,123, 72,176, RF 780 DATA 192, 238,{2 SPACES}
{SPACE}Y=Y+1:GOTO 180 {2 SPACES}6, 32, 63 0,197 ,169 ,{2 SPACES}0,1
QQ 190 FOR K=l TO Y-1:C=PEEK(5 KR 500 DATA 192, 76, 56,192, 3 41
11+K):CS=CHRS(C):IF CS< 2,137,192 HM 790 DATA{3 SPACES}1,197, 76
"A" OR CS>"Z" THEN250 ER 510 DATA 104,133,123,104,13 ,171, 192, 206,{2 SPACES}
PX 200 IF L=0 THEN230 3,122, 96 \J
CR 210 Y=-1:FOR 1=0 TO L-1:IF FB 520 DATA 174,244,197,142, 6 EM 800 DATA 197, 16,155,162,25
{SPACE}L(I)=C THEN Y=I 9,198,206 5, 96
CG 220 NEXT:IF YO-1 THEN240 JD 530 DATA{2 SPACES}69,198,17 XK 810 DATA -2
PA 230 L(L)=C:Y=L:L«L+1 4, 69,198,188,245
SA 240 POKE PP,K:POKE PP+1,Y:P KM 540 DATA 197,190,(2 SPACES}
P=PP+2 3,197,189,164,197
David Pankhurst, the author of the
HC 250 NEXT:POKE PC,PP-P:FOR I JE 550 DATA 206, 69,198,174, 6 Calc II spreadsheet, lives in Montreal,
=0 TO L-1:POKE X+I,I:NE 9,198, 48 Quebec, Canada.
XT:POKE MX,L-1 PA 560 DATA{2 SPACES}15,188,24
DC 260 PRINT"{CLR}";:F=0 5,197,153,192,
CS 270 PRINT"{HOME}{24 DOWN} " {2 SPACES}7 FLASHER 64
XS;:SYS 49152 HP 570 DATA 153,255,(2 SPACES}
By Henry Sopko
MS 280 POKE 198,0:Y=PEEK(781) 1,174, 69,198, 76
EB 290 IF Y=255 AND F=0 THEN P DATA{2 SPACES}69,192,16 Focus attention to where you want it on
SC 580
RINT:PRINT"{UP}{RVS} SO 9,255,162,(2 SPACES}1,1 screen with Flasher 64. You can make
RRY-NO MATCH {OFF}":GOT 33 words or graphic characters flash, scroll
0340 HB 590 DATA 122,134,123, 32,11 the screen while they flash, and have as
SC 300 IF Y = 255 THEN PRINT:PRI 5,(2 SPACES}0, 32 many characters flashing as you want.
NT"{UP}{RVS} END OF LIS RS 600 DATA 158,173,165, 97,24
Flasher 64 is a short machine lan
TS (OFF}":GOTO340 0,(2 SPACES}3,162
guage program. To enter it, use MLX, our
PP 310 IF YO1 THEN330 HQ 610 DATA{3 SPACESU* 96,165
F=F+1:PRINT"{2 SPACES}" ,197,201, 62,208
machine language entry program. See
DK 320
INT(T1/6)/10"SECONDS";: JJ 620 DATA{3 SPACES}3,162, "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this section.
PRINT:PRINT" "X$;:SYS 4 (2 SPACESJ0, 96,173,141 When MLX prompts, respond with the fol
9158:GOTO280 , (2 SPACES}2 lowing addresses.
QH 330 IF Y=0 THEN PRINT" HD 630 DATA 201,{2 SPACES}4,20
{2 SPACES}CONTINUB?";:W 8, 17,169,[2 SPACES}5,1 Starting address: CCOO
AIT 198,255:GET Y$:IF Y 60
Ending address: CDF7
JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-37
PROGRAMS

Be sure to save a copy of the program the commands CHR$(15) and CC8 0 :CC 85 D2 A9 04 8D SB 02 40
before you exit MLX. CHR$(143) to turn on and off the flash CC8S :A9 00 BD 95 CC AD 91 CC 0F

With just two commands, you can ing sequence. CC90 :60 00 00 00 00 00 8E 91 09
CC98 :CC 8C 92 CC A2 00 A9 FF 43
make a word or a graphic character For example, after you've entered
CCA0 :A2 00 AS C8 86 FB 84 FC 56
flash anywhere on the screen. As with the SYS command, enter the following
CCA8 ;A0 00 91 FB C8 C0 00 D0 9E
the 128 in 80 columns, you can use line in immediate mode. CCB0 :F9 E8 E0 04 F0 05 E6 FC 44
the command CHR${15) to turn on the CCB8 :4C AA CC A9 FE 8D E8 CB 23
flashing and use CHR$(143) to turn it PRINTCHH$(15)"FLASH 0N"CHR$(143) CCC0 :A9 93 AE 91 CC 60 08 48 43
CCC8 ;8A 48 98 48 E6 02 A6 02 DF
off. All characters can be made to 11 FLASH OFF"
CCD0 :E0 14 F0 03 4C 21 CD A2 53
flash with the exception of characters CCD8 :00 86 02 A2 00 A0 C8 86 19
254 and 255. These two characters are It's also possible to turn off all or CCE0 :FB 84 FC A2 00 A0 04 86 74
used in a special way in the program. just part of a flashing word. Simply CCE8 :FD 84 FE Afl 00 Bl FB C9 15
However, they can be used in the non- send the character 255 to the second CCF0 :FE F0 28 C9 FF D0 08 CB 04

screen in the area that you wish to CCF8 ;C0 00 F0 18 4C ED CC A6 EC

flashing mode.
CD00 :92 E0 01 F0 0A 91 FO C8 A7
You can also use your own custom have the flashing stopped. In order to
CD08 :C0 00 F0 08 4C ED CC A9 FF
characters as long as the screen mem send the character 255, you must first CD10 ;20 4C 05 CD E6 FC E6 FE 44
ory stays at $0400 (default). Flasher 64 use the PR!NTCHR$(15) and then in CD18 :4C ED CC A5 92 49 01 85 8A
commands can be entered in both di quotes press the Ctrl-Rvs keys simulta CD20 :92 68 A8 68 AA 68 28 4C 4E

neously. Whiie you're still in quote CD28 I 31 EA A9 C8 A0 28 8D 46 DF

rect and program modes. Since Flash
CD30 :CD 8C 45 CD A9 CB A0 00 0D
er runs in the background using the mode, hold down the Commodore logo
CD38 :8D 4D CD BC 4C CD A2 00 4F
IRQ routine, your BASIC or machine lan key along with the B key. This produc CD40 :A0 00 84 FE B9 00 00 C9 44
guage programs will continue to exe es a character value of 255. CD4 8 :FE F0 28 99 00 00 C8 C0 90
cute as normal without slowing clown. CD50 -.28 D0 Fl 18 AD 4 5 CD 69 7B
A Demonstration CD58 :28 B0 25 BD 45 CD 18 AD F0
CD60 :4C CD 69 28 B0 27 8D 4C CE
How It Works For a demonstration of how these com
CD68 :CD A0 00 A6 FE E6 FE E0 EF
A second screen was necessary to ac mands are used, enter the demo pro CD70 :1A D0 Dl A0 00 A9 FF 99 Dl
complish this flashing technique. The gram and study its commands. The CD78 :C0 CB C8 C0 28 D0 F8 60 63
second screen, located at SC800, is demo is written in BASIC. To help you CD80 :8D 45 CD EE 46 CD E6 FE 13
CD88 :A0 00 4C 5E CD 8D 4C CD EE
filled with the byte value of $FF. Then, avoid typing errors, enter it with The Au
CD90 :EE 4D CD E6 FE A0 00 4C E5
when the command CHR$(15) is tomatic Proofreader. Again, see "Typ
CD98 :44 CD 78 8E 91 CC A2 04 CA
used, the character(s) are redirected to ing Aids." Since the demo loads and CDAfl :8E 88 02 AE 91 CC 4C C8 Fl
the second screen. The command runs Flasher 64, make sure both pro CDA8 :E9 8E 91 CC 20 2A CD AE CF
CHR$(143) or a carriage return will can grams are on the same disk. After CDB0 :91 CC 5S 4C FF E9 A0 00 01

cel the printing of the character(s) to you've studied the demo, you should CDB8 :84 02 A2 A0 84 FB 86 FC 93
CDC0 :A2 00 Bl FB 91 FB C8 D0 82
the second screen and resume print easily be able to use Flasher 64 in
CDC8 :F9 E8 E0 20 F0 05 E6 FC 20
ing them to the main screen. While your own programs.
CDD0 :4C C2 CD E6 02 A5 02 C9 DF
this is happening, the IRQ routine is Some cartridges may interfere with CDD8 :G2 F0 07 A2 E0 86 FC 4C 24
scanning for characters on the second Flasher 64. To use the program with Su CDE0 :C0 CD A2 9A A0 CD 8E 0F B6
screen. Any character other than 255 per Snapshot v5, use the cartridge's CDE8 :E9 8C 10 E9 A2 A9 A0 CD 08
CDF0 :8E 14 E9 8C 15 E9 60 00 EF
will be printed to the main screen locat >Q command to quit the wedge since
ed at $0400 (1024). Flasher 64 changes the IBSOUT vec
FLASHER DEMO
Two phases are required to make tors to point to its own routine. This prob
HG 5 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 - COHP
characters flash. The first phase puts lem occurs only in the direct mode.
UTE PUBLICATIONS - ALL RI
the characters on the screen, while the GHTS RESERVED
second fills them with blank spaces giv FLASHER 64 DR 10 REM FLASHER 64 DEMO
ing the effect of flashing characters. KG 20 POKE53280,0:POKE53281,0
CC00:20 B6 CD A2 75 86 01 20 23
Also, it was necessary to copy the CC08:96 CC A9 20 78 A2 C6 A0 D3 KQ 30 IFL=0THENL=1:LOAD"FLASHE
BASIC ROM and the Kernal ROM to R 64.ML",8,1
CC10:CC 8E 14 03 8C 15 03 58 7D
DE 40 SYS52224:REM TURN ON FLA
the underlying RAM to support the CC18:A2 00 86 92 A2 26 A0 CC B8
CC20:8E 26 03 8C 27 03 8E 94 AA SHER 64
scrolling of the flashing characters. A EH 50 :
CC28-.CC AE 95 CC F0 06 20 7B AE
few changes were made to the Kernal CD 60 PRINTCHR${147);:REM CLEA
CC30:CC 20 60 CC C9 93 F0 22 Bl
so that the two screens would be in CC38:C9 0F D0 03 20 60 CC C9 AA RS SCREENS
sync with each other when the screen CC40:8F D0 03 20 7B CC C9 E7
3D AH 70 PRINT"{11 SPACES} {RVSj
is scrolled. CC48:D0 0A AE 88 02 E0 08 90 5F {YELjDEMO OF FLASHER 64"
CC50:03 20 7B CC AE 94 CC 4C 50 FM 80 PRINT
To use Flasher 64 in your program,
CC58:CA Fl 20 96 CC 4C 38 CC 16 KC 90 PRINT"{WHT}USE THE COMMA
you must first execute the program
CC60;8D 91 CC A5 D2 8D 92 CC D7 ND: {RED}PRINTCHRS(15)
with SYS 52224. Do this only at the be CC68:18 69 C4 85 D2 A9 C8 8D B5 {2 SPACESjTO TURN ON FLA
ginning of your program. After you CC70:88 02 A9 01 8D 95 CC AD IE SHING"
have issued this SYS command, use CC78:91 CC 60 8D 91 CC AD 92 A0 KR 100 PRINT"{RVS}{CYN)EG:
G-38 COMPUTE JULY 1993
 {OFF}{2 SPACES}PRINTCHR TS ALL FOLKS!{OFF} "CHR Option 3 is where you enter your
5(15)"CHRS(34)"FLASHER $(143)"{WHT}***********
text. Before you start, however, you
{SPACE}NOW ON"CHR$(34) {CYN}"
PR 110 must indicate the left or right margin set
PRINTCHRS (15) "FLASHER N
OW ON":REM COMMAND TO T ting from which your entries will print.
URN ON FLASHING Henry Sopko lives in Hamilton, Ontar The program will pack data to the
KB 120 FORD=lTO6000:NEXT io. Canada. right of a left margin or immediately to
QA 130 PRINT:PRINT"{WHT}USE TH the left of a right margin.
E COMMAND: {RED}PRINTCH
RS{143){2 SPACEG}TO TUR TYPE-SIM ting
After you've entered the margin set
for this particular entry and
N OFF FLASHING."
By Donald G. Klich pressed Return, you'll be prompted to
DH 140 PRINT"{RVS}{CYN}EG:
{OFF}{2 SPACES}PRINTCHR This program was designed to lei you enter the phrase or line of text to be
S(15)"CHR$(34)"FLASH ON use your 64 or 128 as a typewriter for fill printed. Press Return to print. If you
"CHRS(34)"CHRS (143)"CHR ing in the blanks on preprinted forms, ad need linefeeds to move the print
9(34); dressing envelopes, typing labels, and head, you'll have that option after you
BS 150 PRINT" FLASH OFF"CHR$(3 other such tasks. Preprinted forms are print each entry. To return to the menu,
4)"
usually designed with vertical spacing of press the up-arrow (T) key.
EF 160 PRINTCHRS(15)"FLASH ON"
six lines to the inch, the same as most Option 4 permits you to select any
CHRS (143)" FLASH OFF"
KS 170 FORD=1TO6000:NEXT:REM D printers. Therefore Type-Sim allows you additional linefeeds you may require to
ELAY LOOP to set your printer on the first entry line move down the form.
KB 180 PRINT:PRINT"{WHT}USE TH and move down the form as necessary. Option 5 exits the program.
E COMMAND: {RED}PRINTCH With Type-Sim you can set a left or right
R$(15)"CHR$(34)"{RVS} margin to orient your entries. TYPE-SIM
{7 B}"CHRS(34); HH 10 REM COPYRIGHT 1993 COMPU
AP 19(3 PRINT"TO TURN OFF A FLA
SHING WORD."
Typing It In TE PUBLICATIONS INTL LTD
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CP 200 PRINT:PRINT"{RVS}{CYN}E The program is written in BASIC 2.0
GS 20 REM TYPEWRITER SIMULATOR
G:{OPF}{2 SPACES}PRINTC and will run on either the 64 or 128.
GB 30 POKE53281,0:POKE53283,0:
HR$(15)"CHR$(34)"FLASH Use The Automatic Proofreader to OPEN1,4:PRINT"{CLR}"SPC(
{SPACE}OM"CHRS(34):PRIN avoid typing errors. See "Typing Aids" 8)"{2 DOWN}{BLU}UCCCCCCC
T
elsewhere in this section. Be sure to CCCCCCCCCCCCCI"
RB 210 PRINTCHR$(15)"FLASH ON"
save your program before using it. To XH 40 PRINT"{BLU}{8 SPACES}^
CS 220 FORD=1TO3000:NEXT:REM D
take advantage of Type-Sim's upper- {1JTYPEWRITER SIMULATOR
ELAY LOOP
{BLU}B":PRINTSPC(8)"JCCC
CM 230 PRINT:PRINT"{CYN}(RVS}E and lowercase printing, be sure your
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK"
G:{OFF}{2 SPACES}PRINTC printer is in the ASCII conversion
AK 50 PRINT"(D0WN}
HR$(15)"CHRS(34)"{RVS} mode or an equivalent mode. {10 SPACES}MENU OF OPERA
{7 B}"CHR$(34); TIONS:"
KJ 240 PRINT"TO TURN OFF A FLA Operation Menu AF 60 PRINT"{DOWN}{7 SPACES}
SHING WORD."
When you run Type-Sim, you'll see a {RVS}{YEL}1{OFF}{WHT} SE
CE 250 REM IFPEEK(146)OlTHEtU
menu that offers four data-entry oper T UP FORM IN PRINTER"
40:PEEK THIS LOCATION F
ations (options) and an exit option. Op RB 70 PRINT"{7 SPACES}{RVS}
OR ON OR OFF CYCLE
{YEL}2{OFF}{WHT} SET UP
EK 260 REM IF PEEK(146)=1 THEN tion 1 allows you to set up a form in the
{SPACE}L-R POINTER"
CHARACTERS ARE ON SCRE printer so that your text will print in the DA 80 PRINT"{7 SPACES}{RVS}
EN desired location. You must first supply {YEL}3{OFF}{WHT} INPUT T
EK 270 REM IF PEEK(146)=0 THEN a column position, perhaps along the YPING ROUTINE"
CHARACTERS ARE OFF SCR
edge of the form, where you can test- RR 90 PRINT"{7 SPACES}{RVS}
EEN
print an X. When the Xprints, the com (YEL}4{OFF){WHT} EXTRA L
BD 280
INE FEEDS"
CG 290 IFPEEK(146)O1THEN250:R puter sends a backspace and a re
JH 100 PRINT"{7 SPACES}{RVS}
EM | verse linefeed. You should adjust the
{YEL}5{OFF}{WHT} QUIT P
BE 300 PRINT"{4 UP}";:REM MOVE form to make sure the printing is in the ROGRAM"
UP TO WORD desired location. You can repeat the op FP 110 GOSUB440:ONVAL(A$)GOTO1
MH 310 PRINTCHRS (15) "{RVS} tion by pressing the space bar. When 20,190,250,410,430:GOTO
{8 B>"
the form is correctly positioned, press 110
HK 320 FORD=1TO6000:NEXT:REM D
Return to go back to the menu. SA 120 PRINT"{3 DOWN}{GRN}TO A
ELAY LOOP
LIGN THE FORM, ENTER TH
QX 330 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT Option 2 allows you to select wheth
E HORIZONTAL"
CG 340 PRINT"SCROLL FLASHING C er the following entries will be left (L) or
BX 130 PRINT"COLUMN WHERE A RE
HARACTERS OFF SCREEN" right (R) justified. For instance, a busi PEATED <1>X{GRN} CAN BE
HK 350 FORX=1T024:FORD=1T025:N ness address would be left oriented PRINTED"
EXTD:PRINT:NEXTX while entries on an income tax form SC 140 PRINT"{DOWN}USE SPACE T
GF 360 PRINT"{WHT}***********"
would be right oriented. See the next 0 REPEAT THE <1>X{GRN}
CHR$(15)" fPUR}{RVS}THA
option for setting margin settings. {SPACE}AND RETURN TO EX

JULY 1993 COMPUTE G-39

PROGRAMS

IT";
FD 150 PRINT".{2 SPACES}ENTER HX 370 PRINT"(GRN}{5 SPACES}LI
{SPACEJCOLUMN NUMBER:"; NE FEED? Y/N{3 SPACEST" ONLY
;:GOSUB440:PRINTA$
PR 160 PRINT#1,SPC{N)"X":PRINT DJ 380 IFA$=CHR$(94)THENPRINT" ON
#1,CHRS(27);CHRS(106);C {CLR}"CHRS(142):GOTO50
HR$(0):PRINT#l,CHRS(27) DP 390 IFAS="Y"THENPRINT#1,"": DISK
GOTO250
EH 170 GOSUB440:IFA$=CHR$(32)T
In addition to the type-in programs
HQ 400 GOTO250
HEN160 PD 410 PRINT"{GRN}{2 DOWN} found in each issue of the magazine,
CX 180 IFA$=CHRS(13)THEN50 {5 SPACES}ENTER NUMBER Gazette Disk offers bonus programs.
FG 190 PRINT"{2 DOWN}{GRNjENTE {SPACE}OF LINE FEEDS";: Here's a special program that you'll
R AN {YEL}L{GRN} IF YOU INPUTAS:IFVAL(A$)=0THEN find only on this month's disk.
ARE PLANNING TO" 50
QK 200 PRINT"ORIENT YOUR ENTRI PC 420 FORI=1TOVAL(A$):PRINT#1
Mergee
ES TO THE LEFT":PRINT :NEXT:GOTO50
By Robert Quinn
HK 210 PRINT"ENTER AN {YELJR SM 430 CLOSE1:END
{GRN} IF YOU ARE PLANHI RJ 440 A$="":GETA$:IFA$=""THEN Kooringall, Waga Waga
NG TO" 440 NSW, Australia
FG 220 PfiINT"ORIENT YPUR ENTRT FC 450 RETURN
ES TO THE RIGHT":PRINT" This month's bonus program is a
L/R?{2 SPACES}";:GOSUB4 tough, thinking-person's game for
40:M$=-A$ Donald Klich is a frequent contributor.
the 64 that can be played from the
CQ 230 PRINTMS:IFM$O"L"ANDMS< His most recent program, CrossRef
keyboard or joystick. The game be
>"R"THEN190 128, appeared in the May 1993 issue.
GD 240 GOTO50 gins with a playing field that's filled
He lives in Mount Prospect, illinois. O
PA 250 PRINTCHRS(14) with single-digit numbers, random
GP 260 IFM$O"L"ANDM$O"R"THEN boxes, squares, and open spaces.
PRINT"{2 DOWN}<1} The object of Mergee is to move

TYPING AIDS
{4 SPACES}L OR R LOCATO the numbers around so that they
R ?":PRINTCHRS(142):GOT merge with other numbers and disap
0190
MLX, our machine language entry pear from play. Only like digits can
FR 270 PRINT"(CLR}[GRN}
program for the 64 and 128, and merge, however, and when ali of the
{2 DOWN}{5 SPACESjENTER
AN UP ARROW ({YELT} numbers are gone, the game is
The Automatic Proofreader are util
{GRN}) TO QUIT" over. The rules are simple, but there
ities that help you type in Gazette
EK 280 LOS="LEFT":IFM$="R"THEN are a few surprises waiting for you
programs without making mis
LOS="RIGHT" that'll make Mergee almost as frus
SA 290 A$="":PRINT"{GRN} ENTER takes. To make room for more pro
trating to play as it is entertaining.
THE PRINT POSITION FOR grams, we no longer include
YOUR ";LOS;:INPUT" MAR these labor-saving utilities in eve Public Domain Programs
GIN";A$ ry issue, but they can be found on
DS 300 IFR$*=CHR$(94)THENPRINT"
each Gazette Disk and are printed Don't forget that Gazette Disk now
{CLR}"CHRS(142):G0T05fJ
QG 310 IFVAL(AS)>80ORAS=""THEN in all issues of Gazette through contains the best of public domain
250 June 1990. programs and shareware. For a com
PM 320 P=VAL(A$):A$="":PRINT" If you don't have access to a plete rundown of the programs on
{5 SPACES }E_NTER PHRASE this disk, see Steve Vander Ark's
back issue or to one of our disks,
{SPftCE}TO BE PRINTED "Share This" column, which makes
{WHT}":INPUTA$ write to us, and we'll send you
free printed copies of both of its debut in this issue of Gazette.
HQ 330 IFAS=CHR$(94)THENPRINT"
(CLR}"CHRS(142):GOTO50 these handy programs for you to
XK 340 IFM$="L"THENN=P:IFN+LEN You can have these programs and
type in. We'll also include instruc
(AS)>80THENPRINT"NO all of the type-in programs found in
tions on how to type in Gazette pro
{SHIFT-SPACE}ROOM this issue—ready to load and run—
{SHIFT-SPACE}TO grams. Please enclose a self-ad by ordering the July Gazette Disk.
{SHI FT-S PACE}PRINT":GOT dressed, stamped envelope. Send The price is $9.95 plus $2.00 ship
0290 a self-addressed disk mailer with ping and handling. Send your order
DM 350 IFM$="R"THEHN=P-LEN(A$) appropriate postage to receive to Gazette Disk, COMPUTE Publica
+1:IFN<OTHENPRINT"NO
these programs on disk. tions, 324 West Wendover Avenue,
{SHIFT-SPACE}ROOM
{SHIFT-SPACE}TO Write to Typing Aids, COM- Suite 200, Greensboro, North Caro
{SHIFT-S PACE}PRINT":GOT PUTE's Gazette, 324 West Wen- lina 27408. You can order by credit
0290 dover Avenue, Suite 200, Greens card by calling (919) 275-9809, ex
PR 360 PRINT#1,SPC(N);A$:PRINT
boro, North Carolina 27408. tension 283.
#1,CHRS{27);CHR$(106);C
HR$(0):PRINTSl,CHR$(27)

G-40 COMPUTE JULY 1993

REVIEWS

SONY DESKTOP SONY Desktop Library.

business for a long time.
RICHARD C. LEINECKER

LIBRARY Sony
Here's your chance to enter (800) 352-7669
$1,069.95 (external package)
the world of multimedia.
Circle Reader Service Number 434
With the Sony Desktop Li
brary, you get everything
you need: a CD-ROM drive,
a sound card, and a collec DASHBOARD FOR
tion of real multimedia soft
ware. This next-generation WINDOWS 1.0
product goes beyond early It's compact, neat, conven
CD-ROM products, giving ient, and fast. In fact, I like
consumers more of what Dashboard so well that I reg
they want and need: plenty ularly use it in place of Win
of software and an easy-to- With the Sony Desktop Library you get all sorts of stuff, including a dows' own standard Pro
use front end to the CD- CD-ROM drive. CD-ROM titles, and speakers. gram Manager.
ROM titles and hardware. Like the dashboard in to
My evaluation package day's high-tech cars, this
'GummuS Y«l • *
had an external drive. Two Windows utility presents an
other packages are availa ^ ■•- \ *~ Pofl ra !- impressive collection of high
ble (at a reduced price, too) ly visible gauges and easily
Q0SBOS
with internal drives. The da accessible controls. The re
ta-retrieval speed of 150K With Dashboard for Windows 1.0. a new Windows utility from Hewlett- source gauge, for example,
per second was right in line Packard, you can drive your computer more effectively. resembles an analog fuel
with multimedia standards. gauge and allows you to
Right now these multime cal environment. Many of children, the accompanying monitor your Windows sys
dia products ship with a the GeoWorks niceties that software will provide enter tem resources. The memory
Spectrum 16 sound card. make DOS easier are there tainment and edification for meter below it looks like an
It's Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, as a bonus. them as well. odometer and lets you mon
and Real Sound compati You can create icons for Some of the programs itor available system memo
ble. Software that supports other CD-ROM titles as your did the unthinkable and cop ry. If you run too low on re
the card in native mode library grows. That way, ied a large portion of them sources or memory, a gas-

sounds superb, even better you'll always have the same selves to my hard drive. pump icon blinks to alert
than Sound Blaster emula easy interface when you ac Thinking I had plenty of avail you.

tion. A nice set of desktop cess your CD-ROM titles. able space, I tried installing In Dashboard's printer
speakers provides an alterna I wasn't sure I could run an application and was tak manager, you choose from
tive to running wires to your CD-ROM programs from en aback when I discovered available printers by clicking
stereo. DOS until I called Sony. I the intrusion. on a printer's icon button; a
Six full-blown multimedia didn't find any mention of run The GeoWorks installation light at the bottom of the but
software titles will get you ning from DOS in the Sony lit was a two-stage process re ton shows the default printer
started. There's so much ma erature, but I'm not a good quiring a Ctrl-Alt-Delete or, if you have a fax board,
terial, it'll take several manual reader, so I could boot between stages. I wish the fax software to which
weeks before you'll have have missed it. After talking it had done what many oth you "print." To print or fax a
enough time for more than a to the company, I was able er installations do and reboot file with ease, just drag and
brief sampling. to install an icon and a ed itself, followed by auto drop it from Windows' File
In addition to solid, relia group in Windows. I ended matic spawning of the sec Manager to the appropriate
ble hardware, the Sony Desk up spending more time run ond half of the procedure. icon.
top Library includes the ning GeoWorks from Win In spite of several small Forget double-clicking
GeoWorks CD-ROM Manag dows than DOS and had no complaints, I think highly of when you use the Quick
er as part of the package. problems. the package. If you're seri Launch buttons. A single
The bundled software var ously thinking about getting click launches your most-
It's a front end to all of the
CD-ROM software that's in ied in quality, but my two fa a CD-ROM drive, take a used apps, identified by
vorites were Where in the good took at this package. icons and, with enough
cluded. All you do to run a
program is click on its icon. World Is Carmen Sandiego? It may be just what you room, the names of the pro
The package includes even and The New Grolier Multime need. And Sony, one of the grams. To launch less-used

more than front-end soft dia Encyclopedia. My kids leaders in CD-ROM technol apps, click on one of the
ware, though—it's a graphi- loved them, too. If you have ogy, will probably be in the group buttons in the Pro-
JULY 1993 COMPUTE 89
 REVIEWS
cards. The 200j prints in portrait and
landscape modes, and its easily in
stalled ink-jet cartridge is replaceable.
gram menu bar; when the group win Smith Corona claims laser-resolution-
dow pops up, click on the app you quality printing—300 x 300 dpi for
want. text and graphics—and my experi
You also have buttons for the Sys ence confirms the claim. Everything I
tem menu (like the one in Windows), printed was crisp and dark—I just had
the Task menu (to switch, run, and to be careful not to smear freshly print
close programs), and the Layout menu ed pages by touching them before
(to create, edit, or load Dashboard lay
outs). The Dashboard panel also has a
help button, a customize button, a min
imize button, a maximize button, and a
The screen saver for button that lets you hide or show the
Program menu.

high-powered PCs. The Dashboard clock (digital or an

alog and available in several versions)
lets you set the date, the time, and
'mally, there's a
Fi screen saver
alarms. And Dashboard's mini program
windows visually represent what you
that shows off Ihe
have on a particular screen. If you dis
blazing speed,
like the clutter on a screen with a pro
slunning graphics
gram running, an uncluttered screen to
and spectacular
- r the left or the right can be just a click
sound* in your PC.
away.
ORIGIN FX delivers 256-color, high-
Don't let its compactness foo! you: The Coronajet 200j packs laser-quality
res images'* running under Windows
Dashboard is highly customizable and printing power into a little package.
- with 27 entertaining modules cre
offers much more depth of utility than
ated by ORIGIN'S award-winning
meets the eye. If you enjoy using wall they were dry. The printer proved equal
computer artists.
paper to add variety to Windows ly adept at printing spreadsheets, docu
computing, you'll love the way Dash ments in XyWrite and Microsoft Word,

Special Bonus: board takes no more room than nec

essary. Most important, however, Dash
OnTime calendar sheets, and BMP
files in black-and-white from Windows'
I f you own Strike Commander, Wing
board steers you through Windows Paintbrush program. It handled multi
ICommander II or Serpent Isle,
with minimal clutter and maximum ple fonts and a variety of files with no
ORIGIN FX will play their cinematic
speed and efficiency. hesitation.
sequences as separate modules when
MIKE HUDNALL The 200j owner's manual proved es
the games are installed on your
sentially adequate, with clear setup in
hard drive. And
Hewlett-Packard structions and a helpful troubleshoot
that's just the
(800)554-1305 ing section but, unfortunately, no in
beginning- $99
many future dex. The automatic sheet feeder
Circle Reader Service Number 435
ORIGIN games comes with its own skimpy booklet,
will support which is helpful but confusingly organ
ized, with entries in multiple languages
SMITH CORONA
this feature as
well! for each section.

Available at a software retailer near CORONAJET 200J To be honest, after I inserted the
200j's print cartridge, ! barely glanced
With laser-quality output, 20 resident at the manuals unless it was to consult
you or call 1-800-245-4525 (or
fonts, and a compact form factor only the troubleshooting section. It's easy
MC/Visa/Discover orders.
slightly larger than a loaf of bread, the enough simply to open the box, con
Smith Corona Coronajet 200j ink-jet nect the printer to your computer, set
printer is going to be as popular your software to the common HP
as ... well, sliced bread. DeskJet Plus emulation, and go to
If you add its optional automatic work. To install the 70-sheet-capacity
sheet feeder, the 200j takes up only feeder, you simply push the 200j on
about as much desktop space as a top of it until it locks into place.
loaf of bread spread crossways on an The 200j doesn't present you with a
average-sized manila folder. This host of LEDs and switches to set,
should be welcome news to people though its front panel does conceal
who would want to use it at home or in more than 50 easily accessible switch
a small business (the target market for es to make adjustments for different
this printer), who often need all the ex fonts, manual or automatic paper load
tra space they can get. ing, and other commands. The graphs
n, he COCN ml V*g CxnrcnW <n nv«J uWfa d CSGN You can make each of the 20 resi that show how to set the switches
"Aj Lb. Scuii Bbi» a Kami MT 32/UK-1 a 1331 dent fonts bold, italic, or underlined, proved somewhat confusing, so I was
ranaii, rajm: fc> mat "kniits ha A'niw be ortgjrl » 25tndn ma .+
including Courier, Times Nordic, and relieved that the only change I needed
Circle Reader Service Number 163 Letter Gothic. For even more variety, to make came when I added the au
you can use the 14 optional font tomatic sheet feeder. The 200j's pow-
90 COMPUTE JULY 1993
er switch is on the back of the printer, I ran a variety of applications to
a location I found mildly inconvenient
Besides its size, printing quality, and
check the system's compatibility, includ
ing Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Looking For Fun
Recreation?
ease of use, the 200j also impressed for Windows, Picture Wizard, the Win
me with its quiet operation. If my dot- dows and DOS versions of Express Pub
matrix printer provides no smearing lisher, a couple of DOS shareware pro
problems, it does provide plenty of grams, and several other commercial
noise pollution. Compared to it, the programs. I found no incompatibilities.
200j—rated at less than 45 dB—was vir To remove the system cover, I had
tually inaudible, even in my cramped to unlock the safety lock on the back of
10- x 10-foot home office. I can't imag the unit with the key provided. The cov
ine anyone being bothered by its er is easy to remove. I found it hard to
noise level. reach the system battery, but it seldom
The only real problems I encoun needs replacement, fortunately.
tered using the 200j involved loading This 33-MHz system includes a DEC
paper. It wouldn't accept envelopes two-button mouse, one parallel and
loaded longways, a necessity for the two serial ports, two floppy and two
HP DeskJet Plus emulation in Nvelope hard drive controllers, a Super VGA vid Play your old favorites like Bridge and Chess
Plus. It also gave trouble when I tried eo adapter integrated with the system plus, exciting news ones like Boogersl"
loading it with recycled office paper— board, and three open expansion
the backs of old press releases, errant slots.
printouts, and the like—sometimes feed Vents along one side of the unit
ing two sheets at once at odd intervals. should be adequate to keep the sys
Using fresh paper, though, I had no tem's power supply from overheating.
trouble using the 200j. You'll probably find the fan noise bare
At worst, the problems I had using ly noticeable.
the Smith Corona Coronajet 200j were Easy access to reset and on/off but
minor quirks. Anything this small that tons is essential. You can find both of
prints this well without making any ap these buttons on the front of the DEC
preciable noise deserves an unre 433DX.
served recommendation. You can get a 66-MHz upgrade for
EDDIE HUFFMAN the DEC 433DX, and it's easily in Like to Draw? Well, we\-e got a game called
stalled thanks to DEC'S ZIF (Zero In Graffiti'* that you're gonna love!
Smiih Corona sertion Force) slot. The 486DX includes
(800)448-1018 a coprocessor in the CPU chip, but
(203)972-1471
DEC accommodates a separate
Coronajet 200j—$499
Optional sheet feeder—S89 coprocessor to aid the computer in
Circle Reader Service Number 436
CAD-CAM operations.
It's easy to access the unit's 4MB of
SIMM RAM chips. The standard

DEC 433DX LP
amount of DRAM can be increased to
64MB using the four SIMM sockets.
Deciding which computer system to The DEC 433DX requires SIMMs with
buy can be difficult. In most cases, an access time of 70 ns or faster.
once a business commits itself to a spe The price of the DEC 433DX
cific product, it must stick with it. doesn't include a monitor. Several are Alone or with friends, MiniGolf" is a
That's one reason DEC (Digital Equip available, including monochrome or col whimsical collection oftraps and greens.
ment Corporation) has targeted business or VGA ranging from the basic 640 x
es for its new family of PCs. The upgrada 480 to a multisync 1024 x 768 nonin

HaveWe Got
ble DEC 433DX LP, based on Intel's 33- terlaced model.
MHz 486DX processor, can be used for No surprises come with the DEC
demanding desktop business as well as 433DX keyboard. It features a stan
for technical applications.
How difficult is it to set up the DEC
dard layout with soft-click keys and func
tion keys along the top.
APlaceForYou!
433DX? The system comes with DOS The one-year on-site warranty is com
5.0 and Windows installed. First, I parable to those found with a lot of oth
checked the user's guide for anything
unusual. Then, I plugged in the appro
er systems and is better than some.
The company offers a toll-free custom
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priate cables and power cord and
turned on the system.
er and technical support hot line and a
consulting center. The Back Cover.
The easy-to-understand Getting Start I found the DEC 433DX to be a sol
ed handbook provides all the neces id, dependable, easy-to-use system.
sary information, as well as helpful illus Businesses looking for an upgradable,
trations for inexperienced users. You modular {80 percent of the compo
also get the DEC 300/400 LP Series Us nents are common to the other DEC
er's Guide, the MS-DOS 5.0 User's PC family members), and net
Guide and Reference, and an opera work-ready system would be advised
tions manual for QAPIus, an advanced to check this one out. TM designates a trademark of Tfce Sierra Network 01993 Tie Sierra Network
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Programmable dialog boxes consti
tute a veritable revolution for AutoCAD
Need a network at home?
users, allowing a new dialog box to be
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DEC than by the limitations of the program.
Want to speed up Windows? (800) DIG-ITAL The Dialog Control Language (DCL) is
$2,199
incorporated with LISP.
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Release 12 brings plotting into the
nineties. The plot dialog box allows
Don't like mice?
See page 251 AUTOCAD RELEASE 12 multiple plotter configurations for both

AutoCAD Release 12 is an upgrade

What do you do when your wish list for casual users, as well as for
hardcore programming hackers and
computer won't boot? third-party developers. While more pow
See page \ erful and advanced than any other
CAD program, previous versions of
this premier drawing program foun
Need help organizing
dered in the aspects of speed and
your hard drive? ease of use. They required regenera
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es, and operators had to memorize
and enter archaic commands for even
What is TrueType and what the simplest tasks. As a teacher with
AutoCAD Release 12 boasts 174
enhancements over the previous version.
does it mean for you? more than 20 students, I had to pro
gram a command sequence in the ear plotters and printers. The plot preview
See page 104
ly evening and let it run overnight be function displays the plot image in par
cause the equipment and software tial or full format, superimposing the pa
COMPUTE were so antiquated. per extent over the image. Zoom and
With Release 12, the program's new Pan ensure that your plot is correct pri
MAGAZINES speed and flexibility take full advan or to sending it to your output device.

POWER TIPS tage of 32-bit computing capability,

evolving networks, and advanced plot
I found one error in which a plot set to
Vq inch = 1 foot 0 inches did not plot
has the answers to ting technology. The difference from to the correct scale and had to be re
these and previous versions is immediately appar set to 1 = 96, but Autodesk has appar
ent. AutoCAD has emerged from ently compiled a new plotter driver to
hundreds of other tips. dweebware into the trendy—and time- counteract this oversight.
saving—arena of graphical user inter With the program's ability to output
faces, with pull-down cascading men raster files from EPS, FITS, TIFF, GIF,
us, cursor menus, programmable dia and TGA formats; image resolution as
log boxes, TIFF and EPSI raster image high as 1024 x 768; up to 256 colors;
inputs and outputs, and internal render and programmable layers, linetypes,
ing capability. and line widths, perhaps Autodesk
Eminently user-friendly, Release 12's should be targeting the desktop publish
pull-down menus also remember your ing crowd. RASTERIN.EXP, a Release
last input choice. Expert users who 12 AutoLISP Xload function, pulls in
type commands at the prompt line will the raster image similar to a block.
find all suboptions of the commands Even network users have a produc
on the side menu, which can be tivity feature, with the ACAD-P option al
turned off to provide a wider screen. lowing them to plot from outside Au
The 3-D capabilities of cameras and toCAD without requiring an additional
lighting angles that distinguish CAD license.
from paper-and-pencil drawings now Taking a cue from the Macintosh, Re
appear within AutoCAD inside the pull lease 12 now lets you alter the verb/
down Render menu, so you no longer noun technique in up to 14 commands
need to enter AutoShade. using the Pickfirst variable. No more
To order your copy send $16.95 plus The 25 new dialog boxes replace choosing commands and selecting ob
$2.50 for shipping and handling (U.S., $4 cumbersome line commands in start jects—you simply click and drag! And
Canada and $6 other) to COMPUTE
ing and opening drawings (no more a new Grips feature, the Dgrips dialog
Books, c/o CCC, 2500 McClellan Ave.
hunting around the hard drive), plotting box, lets you stretch, move, copy, ro
Pennsauken, NJ 08109. (Residents of
{with a brand-new paper-saving pre tate, and mirror entities as edit func
NC. NJ, and NY please add appropriate'
tax; Canadian orders add 7% GST.) All view option), and customizing. tions without going into a command.
orders must be paid in U.S. funds You can enter the command and Entities can be arcs, lines, circles,
drawn on a U.S. bank. VISA and Master quickly change any of the settings with blocks, plines, or text. The grip, basi
Card orders accepted; be sure to in out having to scroll through needless cally an attachment, is a small colored
clude your card number, expiration text questions. And you can correct mis square that appears at definition
date, and signature. Offer good while takes if you catch them before press points of an entity, changing color as
supplies last. ing the OK button, or you can simply it becomes hot (activated). The grips
cancel and start again. also let the operator grab the end-
92 COMPUTE JULY 1993
point, center, midpoint, and quadrant
GOBLIIINS
of an entity without using OSNAP (Ob
ject Snap.) Imagine the Three Stooges cast in a
Looking For Good
Conversation?
Long, slow regen or hide com graphic adventure, and you've got
mands are a thing of the past with the Gobliiins, a puzzle quest with a delight
introduction of algorithms that accel fully twisted sense of humor.
erate graphics from 50 percent to 500 Developed by European publisher
percent. In fact, a performance en Coktel Vision, the game is typical of
hancement practically eliminates re those by the new wave of innovative
generations-for zooms and pans! French designers, including Delphine Twncii :uhI«k Ea?*u.j eutltrci* Bonn* ffti
Graphics acceleration for Zoom
with the old 16-bit display space is fi
nally gone, and in its place a 32-bit vec
tor space now provides an extremely ef
ficient Zoom. I did a Zoom Extent fol
lowed by a Zoom Vmax to force a draw
ing out as far as possible without a
drawing regen, and even a Zoom Meet your friends and make new ones in
5000000-x (yes, six 0s) did not entail the conference rooms in SierraLand.1'
a regen—undreamt of in previous re
leases. The dynamic range of the
Zoom command is increased from Pair your brain with the three Gobliiins' half
50 : 1 up to 5,000,000 : 1 before a re a brain for a successful quest.
gen is issued.
Advanced users and third-party de (Out of This World) and Sensible Soft
.": ■ ' .-'
velopers will appreciate Release 12's ware (Mega Lo Mania). Graphic artist r.VB -.- .1,

new organizing tools. A means of cre Pierre Gifhodes created the game's dis KT-Wl>

ating a "tree structure," oct-tree spatial tinctive look, from the lush 256-color IIIIIIMI 111 llll Idll'llll -| 1 * fosts

SOU I
index divides drawing entities into log backdrops to the title characters' often sMoti sonr

ical groups or sort order. hilarious animation. OPTIONS

Release 12 achieves graphic accel The game consists of 22 full pincK /

eration for faster entity selection and re screen, interactive puzzles strung to Talk with other wizards and warriors
draws (spatial index) through the new gether in storybook fashion. The tale in at The Tavern in MedievaLand™
variables of Treedepth and Treestat. volves a king who's suddenly gone
Treedepth fine-tunes the oct-tree in stark, raving mad—the victim of an evil
dex. Treestat files report values in wizard's voodoo doll. To the rescue
both the model and paper space come Hooter, Dwayne, and BoBo,
branches of the spatial index. three well-meaning goblins with only
The AutoCAD Sequel Extension half a brain among them. You provide
(ASE) enables operators to pass infor the missing link, directing the goblins
mation directly from AutoCAD to a da on their perilous journey to find a cure
tabase system without requiring for the ailing king.
shells. Since nongraphical information Because each goblin performs only
can be stored outside the drawing and one special task, they must work togeth
linked with entities inside a drawing, er to solve puzzles. Hooter, the magi
you can reduce a drawing's size with cian, casts spells on objects, often Meet the most interesting people in
out losing useful data. with unpredictable results. Dwayne is a safe, Cyberspace environment.
New conversion functions convert the technician, able to pick up and use
text strings into decimal values, and a one object at a time. BoBo is the war

HaveWe Got
geometry calculator allows you to cal rior, whose only talents are the abilities
culate geometry using command line ex to climb and punch things. Use the key
pression and interaction with existing board or mouse to select the goblin
AutoCAD entities. {For instant insider ac
cess to undocumented advantages,
you wish to control.
Game mechanics are kept simple, fo
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lease 12 edition of 1,000 AutoCAD observation and deductive reasoning.
Tips and Tricks, a book I edited pub
lished by Ventana Press.)
To advance through a screen, you
must find and manipulate a series of
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I don't have enough space to in
clude all 174 enhancements in the new
items, often in a specific sequence, util
izing each of the goblins. The ultimate The Back Cover.
AutoCAD Release 12, but you obvious goal of one puzzle might be to secure
ly get your money's worth when you an object to be used in the next, more.
upgrade to this version. difficult screen. Experimenting is an es
BRIAN MATTHEWS sential and entertaining aspect of the
game, yet you should be careful not to
dally with the wrong items. Negative ac
Autodesk
(800) 964-6432 tions such as falls, frights, or losing im
$37.50 portant items result in the loss of en TM designates a trademark of The Sierra Mew.ork eiB3TheS*ffaNetv«rfc
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• Photo E-Mail tions require multiple-character input,
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• No 9600 baud would speed up many tedious chores
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ONLINE, this new service features 9600 clever introductory screen, the game's
bps capability and "real-time" graphics—
victory screen is quite anticlimactic. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to use
almost instantaneous online viewing of
Most puzzles are surprisingly intri the EZ 240 with an older ZEOS 386
photos and E-Mail with picture-attach
capability. Send a message...and a
cate and might prove too difficult for computer. The manual explains that
photo...at the same time! younger players. Unlike the ones in Si the Hardcard EZ drives may not work
Log on and access Chat, E-Mail, erra's similar Castle of Dr. Brain, the in systems with older SCSI adapter
Penthouse Letters, Penthouse puzzles here rely less on logic than on boards (in many cases, you can re
Photos...plus special Navigation and arbitrary cause and effect. A multitude solve the problem by changing the
Help areas. New areas are being added of red herrings ensures plenty of SCSI adapter's memory address),
continuously. Navigate anywhere using a wrong guesses, often with hilarious, some 16-bit VGA adapters (you may
mouse or Tab key.
game-ending outcomes. The trick is to have to switch from 16-bit to 8-bit trans
The Penthouse photos you'll find on
think with slightly bent logic, placing fers), and NEC's version of DOS 3.3
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high quality seen every month in yourself in the goofy shoes of these (Quantum includes a work-around).
Penthouse. Our unique speed-view three little knuckleheads. The ZEOS's early SCSI adapter, it
system lets you browse in 256-color Brainteasing fun with a sly comic turns out, is incompatible with the EZ
VGA, then download the photos you flare, Gobliiins could be one of the 240 (that's where Quantum's money-
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them to purchase sought-after Penthouse way to add 42MB, 85MB, 127MB, or Wyse Technology knows how to make
books and videos. Or trade points for free even 240MB to your PC. All you need a quality product. The company's de
online time. It's your choice!
is a Hardcard EZ 42, Hardcard EZ 85, signers take the time, and spare little ex
Plus, we've arranged with a major
Hardcard EZ 127, or Hardcard EZ 240. pense, to add conveniences and fea
modem manufacturer, USRobotics, to
offer a deluxe, 9600 bps data/fax Each is essentially a hard drive on a tures not often found on other systems.
modem, with custom Penthouse Key PC card, so installation should take ten But these extras and conveniences
insignia, for under $300. minutes or less. And Quantum guaran come with a price—namely, a higher
To order your membership kit tees that any Hardcard EZ will work price tag for Wyse computers.
call 1-800-289-7368 or circle the with your 286, 386, or 486 system, or I tried a Wyse Decision .486si,
reader service number below. you'll receive a full refund. which includes an Intel 486DX/33 CPU
These days, you don't have to pay a with 4MB of RAM, a 200MB IDE hard
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performance penalty for the conven drive, and a VGA color monitor. The sys-
94 COMPUTE JULY 1993
 Looking For Stiff
tem I tried, which costs about $2,159,
Wyse Technology
also came with two floppy drives and (800) 43B-9973
256K of external cache and a local- $2,159

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bus video with 1MB RAM. Wyse de Circle Reader Service Number 441

scribes this unit as a high-performance

PACIFIC ISLANDS
graphics workstation, since its video is
much faster than standard VGA and
it's easily upgradable. War gamers who like to get their
Using its own local-bus video, Hyper hands dirty on the front line rather
16 VGA, Wyse can boast the fastest than view a battlefield as icons scat-
high-resolution graphics performance
available, with more than 300-percent
improvement over conventional VGA sys
tems. And indeed, I did find the graph
ics to be fast and of high quality.
The CPU in this system is Intel's lat
est 80486, the easily upgradable
486si. In addition, the memory is ex For strategy, there's no game like Bridge, and
pandable to 64MB. And since many of we have players from master level to beginner.
the system's features are integrated on
the motherboard, all six ISA bus slots
In Pacific Islands, the makers of Team
are available. The system includes up
Yankee offer more excitement.
to five mass-storage bays that support
both 5'/4- and 31/2-inch floppy drives. tered around a strategic map will get a
Other conveniences include the real bang out of Pacific Islands. It's a
placement of the on-off switch on the tactical level tank simulation from the
front of the system, as well as a front- makers of the popular Team Yankee.
panel door that covers all the floppy In Pacific Islands, you control up to 16
disk drive bays. This door helps keep tanks as you try to retake the islands of
dust out of the drives, as well as giving the Yama Yama atoll. The action is hot,
a sleeker appearance to the unit. The realistic, and as addictive as a war
keyboard is a 102-key enhanced PC- game can get. Fly an aerial ballet in the famous WWI
style keyboard, and its quality is high You start your campaign by buying flight simulation, Red Baroiu
er than that of many keyboards I've the tanks and equipment you need for
seen. your mission. Four types of tanks are
Setup of the system is simple and available: the M1 Abrams, the M113,
fast. Everything you need is included, the M2 Bradley, and the ITV. To arm
and all the ports are clearly marked. these iron-clad vehicles, you can
The setup manual is one of the best choose from heat shells, SABOT
I've seen. Its illustrations and explana shells, TOW missiles, and smoke
tions are easy to follow. The only DOS shells. If you like to get into the action
manual included is The MS-DOS Ver fast, though, you can skip over all of tou lovno 1) 90*4 Mtti »M ain.ed et
tipwitnc* pen'!!
sion 5.0 User's Guide and Reference, the purchasing screens, and choose routnuunitr e inoi. 1 di
1 5 it lie ttW-
IMrtuM aiuds C iws WWCUij *
Concise Edition. And, although it the default setup, which instantly sup mp boom iwm lew aau«« ina

gives an excellent introduction to com plies you with vehicles and equipment,
puters and MS-DOS, it's not a com subtracting the cost from your cash. Join others on a quest through a live
plete DOS manual. It would've been bet Once equipped, it's off to the brief volcano in The Shadow ofYserbiusl"
ter for Wyse to have included the full ing room, where a map of the battle ar
MS-DOS manual, too. The system also ea and an accompanying notebook ap
comes
mouse.
with Windows 3.1 and a praise you of your mission's details.
The notebook outlines your objectives, HaveWe Got
I put the system through its paces us while their approximate locations are
ing Windows 3.1 and running Word for
Windows, Quattro Pro (or Windows,
marked on the map. Occasionally, mil
itary intelligence has helpful clues
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dard VGA display. In addition, I tried in the pending confrontation. In addi
some graphic-adventure games and tion, before entering the fray, you can
flight simulation programs. I was satis request artillery support and smoke
fied with the Decision 486si's perform
ance and was especially impressed
bombing for specific locations at given
times.
The Back Cover.
with the general quality of the system. When the battle commences, you
But, as mentioned above, this quali control four platoons of four tanks
ty comes with a higher price tag. If each. ReadySoft recommends using a
you're willing to pay for it, you'll probably mouse to play. Although you have 16
be quite happy with this system. If you vehicles under your control, each pla
need a high-performance, top-of-the- toon receives commands as a group,
line graphics workstation, I can certainly so you don't have to command each
recommend the Wyse Decision 486si. tank individually. Plus, you can select TM designates a trademark of The Sierra Netvrtjcfc 01993 The Sierra Ne
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the most important of which lows identical handling and of this arrangement de
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are the 3-D view, which of (416)731-4175 performance capabilities for pends on surface texture,
fers a first-person perspec $49.95 both left- and right-handed cup moisture, and how vigor
tive from the tank, and the Circle Reader Service Number 442 players. Twin.fire controls— ously the device is handled.
map view, which shows an front trigger finger and fop- If the seal is too dry, the rub
mounted thumb button- ber cups will not maintain
overhead shot of the area.
You can zoom in and out in SUNCOM FX 2000 can be manually switched the suction. The little-known
either view, which is especial Ergonomics and aesthetics between A and B settings. Murphy's Law of Joystick
ly helpful on the map can make strange bedfel as designated by the soft Suction dictates that if a
screen. Using the zoom, lows, especially when ap- ware. The V-shaped top but- seal can break, it will, and at
you can look at the entire the worst possible moment.
map, focus on individual ve Few things are more frustrat
hicles, or view the area at ing than having the front
several different intermedi end of the stick pop off the
ate magnifications. desk in the midst of an in
You also can have all tense aerial battle. Try using
four platoon views onscreen a small, damp sponge to
simultaneously, each pla lightly moisten the cups be
toon showing a different fore securing them to the ta
map or area of the battle ble, and pause the simula
field. Or if you'd like, a sin tion and reapply pressure to
gle platoon's screen quad the base before the action
rant can be magnified to full heats up.
screen size, a view from If you prefer to hold the
which tank controls are stick, you're in for a pleas
more accessible. These con ant surprise. Unlike square-
trols include a weapons fir based controllers, the FX
ing panel, turret-rotation com 2000 features smooth, round
pass, laser range finder, in ed curves, molded on the
frared view, zoom, and top and bottom to fit your
more. grip. Another unique feature
On the map screen, you is the ability to lift and lock
can access even more tank the joystick handle at a 45-
and screen controls. You degree angle to the left or
can set a platoon's forma right. In theory, this dramat
tion, speed, and direction; ic shift creates a more natu
and you can zoom in or out ral line between your wrist
on the map display. Target You'lt want the solid Suncom FX 2000 handy when you're playing and forearm. The results
ing enemy units on this map games, though you may want it hidden otherwise. are less fatigue and poten
is a breeze: You just mark tial pain, allowing you to
the unit with the map cross plied to joysticks. What's ton is particularly well suit play longer and, hopefully,
hairs and then return to the 3- pleasing to the touch is of ed for ambidextrous play. score higher. Although awk
D view, where the compass ten peculiar to the eye, and Both buttons can be set to ward at first, prolonged
icon will swivel your turret to vice versa. Suncom's FX autofire by controls con tests in both positions fa
ward the marked target. You 2000 is one such duck, a cealed in the base or to fire vored this new twist on an
also use the map cursor to flight control stick resem on demand with a top-mount old technology.
set your platoon's next desti bling an errant prop from a ed switch. Sliding x- and y- The controller tested well
nation by clicking on the Roger Corman sci-fi (lick. axis trimmers are located in such diverse and demand
map. You can set your tar First impressions, however, on the bottom, recessed to ing environments as Aces of
gets and mark your destina can be deceiving. Despite prevent accidental adjust the Pacific, Chuck Yeager's
tions at any zoom setting. its odd, anamorphic shape, ments. Finally, a throttle Air Combat, Wing Command
All in all, with its well-ren Suncom's latest offering is a wheel is located .at the front er, and Falcon 3.0. The pistol
dered 3-D graphics, realis marvel of user-friendly, func of the unit—a handy option grip's short-throw and stiff, tac
tic battle scenarios, easy-to- tional design. utilized by a growing num tile feel account for its quick
master controls, and blister The pistol-grip controller ber of flight simulators. and steady response—a
ing hot action, Pacific Is is 8 inches high and 4'/2 inch The stick performs best pleasant change from com
lands is a delight. I highly es wide at the base, with a when firmly anchored, via monly loose and sloppy ana
recommend it. cord that's 5 feet, 9 inches built-in suction cups, to a ta log sticks. Primarily intended
CLAYTON WALNUM long. Symmetrical design al- ble or desktop. The stability for flight simulations, the
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stick also performs reasona Taibi Kahler in the mid swers each. You can looks helpful but not really
bly well with driving, sports, 1970s. The package and choose up to five answers surprising. If you'd like
and arcade games. Its only documentation include en that fit you, ranking them in more, well, insight into your
drawback is its size, which dorsements from busi- order of importance. A short own personality, however, or
may prove too bulky for small nesspeople from around the example is "I prefer: people, if you're looking for sugges
er hands. country as well as from Dr. ideas, values, fun things, ex tions on improving your life
Though not the ultimate Terence McGuire, a long citement, privacy." It takes at home or at work, Insight
flight control stick, as tout time psychiatric consultant 15-30 minutes to complete wouldn't be a bad place to
ed by Suncom, the FX 2000 for NASA who has used the the inventory, after which start. It comes with good cre
succeeds on three key KPM in selecting astronauts. the program issues a copy dentials, it thoroughly ex
points: response, comfort, According to Insight's doc of Your Personal Insight Sum plains every conclusion and
and price. That's enough to umentation—which focuses mary. It's presented on recommendation, and it's an
send most armchair pilots on background information screen with detailed descrip easy-to-use program.
soaring with delight. and details of the profiles, tions of each basic person EDDIE HUFFMAN

SCOTT A. MAY since Insight is about as ality type—Reactor, Worka

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goes out of its way to estab cess and contentment and
lish itself as a tool for seif- minimize your stress. You GRANDMASTER
discovery and self-improve can also get a printout of
INSIGHT ment, not something that will your inventory results with a CHESS
A blue-tinted closeup of a hu "teach you to manipulate oth couple of simple keystrokes. Capstone makes big claims
man eye shows through a ers or use this information in As the bit about "profes for Grandmaster Chess, call
jagged tear on the white cov harmful ways." Scoundrels sional success" in Insight's ing it the most powerful
er of the Insight box, just needn't apply. full title tells you, it's de chess program in the world.
above the full program title: If you're looking for a psy signed with businesspeople It backs up that claim by in
Insight to Greater Personal chological quick fix, In in mind. Though some of viting comparison to other
and Professional Success— sight's not for you, either. Al the blurbs on the box come programs, including a
A Kahler Process Model. though you can copy it onto from people who used In unique guarantee on the
What have we here? New your hard drive in a few min sight to help them communi front of the box: If another
Age software? Palm reading utes via a standard batch cate better with family mem chess program defeats
by your PC? Something mys file, once you start Insight, bers, many of the questions Grandmaster Chess using
tical ... yet practical? you have a lot of reading to and subsequent sugges identical computers under
None of the above, actu do. You move through the tions relate to business situ tournament conditions, you
ally, though you'd be forgiv program using nothing but ations. (I work alone at get your money back.
en for making any of those your cursor keys, with a home, so I had some difficul It takes approximately ten
guesses after a casual long, colorful series of intro ty answering the questions minutes to install the pro
glance at Insight's packag ductory screens offering about my colleagues.) gram, and installation in
ing. Unless you're already fa background on the KPM, pro Whatever you do, don't cludes options to support ad
miliar with the Kahler Proc files of Kahler and other rush through the Insight in vanced video and sound fea
ess Model, it's hard to tell KPM developers, and ama ventory with plans to answer tures. You can choose from
that Insight is actually a de teurish graphic portraits of more thoroughly another three chess sets: standard,
tailed personality inventory, those people. The picture of time: The Insight package human, or monster. The
or psychological profile, pre the KPM that emerges from comes with a Profiles disk board can be viewed in ei
sented in software form. Insight's long introductory that limits you to two person ther a two- or a three-dimen
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details on topics such as that people are OK, al chance to back out before menu buttons while in two-
Your Personality Structure, though their behavior is the program completes a dimensional mode. You can
Your Success Factors, and sometimes negative." profile.) choose to play with black or
Your Distress Warning Sig When you finally make it I won't reveal the results white pieces, and the board
nals. It's based on the to the inventory, you're of my profile, though I will can be rotated accordingly.
Kahler Process Model asked a series of 22 ques say it seemed reasonably ac New chess players will
(KPM), developed by Dr. tions with six possible an curate, with information that find the program less than
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speech, it's limited to a few trite ex
pressions such as "Gotcha" and "Bad

SPEAK HP!
move." I found the speech feature lit
adequate for teaching the game. Includ tle more than annoying.
ed with the documentation is a brief fli The program does have several
er, published by the United States strong, unique features. Its options but
Chess Federation (USCF), that ex tons make play fast and easy. It's very

We at compute
plains the rules of chess. But nothing nice to be able to turn the computer's
within the program teaches the begin opening book on or off, as well as to
ner about piece movement. change its strength and play variability.
strive to provide you with the latest
The program plays chess well at a vari
and most useful home, business ety of levels, and it's particularly nice for
the player with limited experience.
and entertainment computer news
Grandmaster Chess would make a
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but I'd advise waiting until a Windows
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Grandmaster Chess will suit experienced

Using this program, you can
AIR FORCE
players better than novices.

comment on articles and features in

The chess player with some experi
COMPUTE. After hearing the ence will find the program both enter COMMANDER
taining and helpful. When you push the As Coalition forces demonstrated dur
introduction, you'll be asked to
hint button, the computer displays its ing the Persian Gulf War, achieving air
leave a message for the editor. Your analysis, which includes point values superiority can be an important first
for each possible move and its contin step toward reaching your military ob
message will be reviewed and may ued line of play, and then animates the jectives. With Air Force Commander,
be published in a future issue. best possible move. You may also you'll get the chance to direct the op
turn on or off the computer's opening erations of your own air force with the
library of moves, which includes ap ultimate objective of doing just that—
proximately 12.000 positions in 4500 achieving air superiority in several sim
Here's how it works: standard openings. When you press ulated military conflicts.
1. Call the COMPUTE EDITOR the book button, all legal moves are list Air Force Commander is a strategic
LINE 1-900-884-8681 The ed, and those in the opening book are game of modern air warfare set in the
rated and ranked. Middle East. The game features 14 sce
charge is only SO.95 per min.
The intermediate club player will al narios of varying difficulty and complex
2. Select the month of the issue so find the program a solid chess part ity involving the United States and sever
you want to talk about. ner. You can choose from a variety of al Middle Eastern countries, including
3. Enter the extension number playing strengths and styles for the com Iran. Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel. Saudi
puter, and you can select time con Arabia, Sudan, Kuwait. Qatar, Leba
printed at the end of the feature
trols, from 5-minute speed chess match non, Egypt, and the United Arab Emir
or pictorial spread you want to
es (best played with the computer's ates. Some of these scenarios are loose
discuss. If you don't have the opening library turned off) to 120-min- ly based on historical conflicts such as
extension number, just listen to ute tournament matches. The program the Iran-Iraq War of 1973, the Yom Kip-
the menu selections, and they includes a rating estimate that approxi pur War, and the Persian Gulf War,
mates your USCF ranking, and games while others are based solely on hypo
will lead you to the proper
can be saved, imported, or printed. It's thetical situations.
extension for each item. easy to edit the board and to set the As the name implies, Air Force Com
4. Listen to the comment or computer to quickly solve puzzle posi mander puts you in control of an entire
information corresponding to the tions. When set at Grandmaster tourna air force, not just a single fighter plane
ment level, the program is quite formi or bomber. Thus, your view of the ac
feature or pictorial you selected.
dable. If you defeat the Grandmaster, tion is from a radar map in a war room
5. Then, at the tone, leave your the program prints a certificate. rather than from the sky. Here, all air
desired message! While Grandmaster Chess is power craft are represented by vertical dotted
6. If you would like to make ful and entertaining, it does have lines that travel across the map in ac
another selection, press" Vf " to flaws. It wouldn't run as a DOS appli celerated realtime. The length of each
cation under Windows, crashing every line indicates the altitude of the plane
return to the main menu.
time I attempted it. In fact, the program it represents—the longer the line, the
PETINC, Box166, Hllywd.,CA crashed on one occasion while run higher the plane.
90078. Must be 18 or older. ning under DOS. The hand cursor also Although you can direct your fighter
Touch Tone phones only. tended to stamp itself on various parts squadrons to intercept specific enemy
of the screen regularly. Although the aircraft, your fighters are used more ef
program includes synthesized ficiently if you simply set up patrols
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 around the areas you wish to protect.
In addition, bombers are available for
high-altitude bombing and ground
Want to Play
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Squadrons can be placed on auto-

launch so that after a mission they'll au
tomatically return to base, refuel, and
head back out. It's important, however,
to monitor the efficiency of your squad
rons and rest and repair them as nec
essary to make sure they perform at
peak efficiency.
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paced action, and out-of- Parents, teachers, or kids mouse support. turning anyone into a help
this-world cast will keep new themselves can customize Legacy's arcade-game ap less infant with a single
comers to math engrossed levels of difficulty to make proach to instruction, com blast. The big, blue fiend
in the computative environ the game easier, eliminating plete with sound and anima had hoped to turn the Earth
mental challenge the game multiplication tables, divi tion, brings routine drill-and- into one big day care cen
presents. sion, or cube equations. practice exercises alive. Mu ter. But Space Ace turned
After loading the pro Kids select their Mutanoid tanoid Math Challenge will the tables and saved the
gram, kids enter the year challengers from a cast of entertain any kid who plays day, zapping Borf into a
2020, when Earth has ex ooky-looking characters it individually, but its contest harmless peewee.
hausted its landfills and be with appropriately juvenile approach to teaching As the new game begins,
gun to send its solid waste in Borf's tenacious Goon
to outer space. Smart- par 425i squad has restored its pint-
mouthed aliens who don't sized leader to his larger-
want the useless junk threat than-life evilness. An en
en revenge by dumping raged Borf then kidnaps
glop on the planet. Prime Ace's girlfriend, Kimberly,
minister Monitron, a kind of and attempts a getaway.
Sudsy has IB Elvis records
futuristic Monty Hall, per You must race to her de
in his collection. He has 3
suades the aliens to settle more than Cameron, How fense, battling a relentless se
their dispute in a contest of many Elvis records does ries of monsters, robots,
math abilities. The games Cameron have? CD©®!©© and other deadly threats.
take place in the Cubix Can- The game's look and feel
tina, which Legacy calls is inspired by Don Bluth, a
"the restaurant of choice for former Disney animator who
solar slimeballs." pioneered the first laser
The program features a disc coin-op game, Drag
single-page quick-start on's Lair. The theater-quality
guide that lets kids or teach cartoon graphics and digit
ers get into the game imme ized sound are nearly seam
Mutanoid Math Challenge makes learning math concepts fun, and
diately. The 58-page play less on a hard drive. This
it's ideal for use either at home or in the classroom.
er's guide is imaginatively type of game begs for a CD-
illustrated, and notes on in ROM treatment.
stallation, instruction, game names like Barbie Q.. I.M. makes it perfect for groups. Though beautifully drawn
tips, and troubleshooting Tall, and Lotta B. Hinds. The Kids love competition, and and smoothly animated, the
are presented in a story game board presents prob this game's support for mul design suffers from serious
telling fashion that sticks lems in crossword-style tiple players makes it one of structural flaws. Simply put,
with the theme of the game grids, where players fill in el those educational games the story doesn't flow, it lung
and won't turn off those kids ements of the equations, that can turn a computer in es forward at breakneck
who take the time to read and as word problems. Kids to an activity center in a speed. Transitions between
them. Legacy recently add enter the answers by select classroom or family den. scenes are usually clipped,
ed support for sound ing numbers on an on CAROL ELLISON and often missing entirely.
boards, and the new musi screen calculator pad. The results are disjointed
cal accompaniment greatly From time to time, green mu Legacy Software and confusing, with no
enhances the PC speaker tant "gelatoid" creatures zip (800) LEARN-92
sense of plot progression.
549.95
sound found in the previous across the screen, and a Another problem is a com
Circle Reader Service Number 448
version. player who can direct them plete iack of strategy. Player
The game is copy-protect to diamond squares earns ex input is limited to simple
ed by documentation. To tra points. Scores are kept SPACE ACE II: knee-jerk reactions—press
get past Vectra, the securi in a Hall of Fame, so kids
ty guard, players must can check to see how their BORF'S REVENGE ing one of five keys in re
sponse to the onscreen ac
match a number Vectra scores compare with those Step into the world of Satur tion. The game's linear story
gives them to a planet of the Mutanoid (the comput day-morning superheroes line allows absolutely no di
name printed on the corre er) or other players. with Space Ace II: Borf's Re gression from the pre
sponding page in the man The game employs some venge, a nonstop arcade bat scribed course of action.
ual. Up to 40 players can what unconventional key as tle of good versus evil. False moves are rewarded
play, and multiplayer com signments: To quit, you hit In the previous episode, not with an alternate direc
petitions make it ideal for F8 instead of Esc, for exam the villainous Borf un tion, but with instant death.
classroom activities as well ple. But kids don't seem to leashed the terrible Infanto Even the fastest, cruelest ar
as group play at home. mind. The game does have Ray—a weapon capable of cade games offer more
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of video poker, the condensed version
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than one path to success or failure.

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FIGHTING TIGER
This game is a bullet train with no roll, online tutorial and advice, hand The apple doesn't fall far from the
stops and only one destination. Fail to analysis, and calculated returns. The on tree, as they say, and The Operation:
switch tracks at the precise moment ly feature sorely missing from the orig Fighting Tiger expansion kit for Falcon
and the whole thing derails. inal is simultaneous two-player tourna 3.0 from Spectrum HoloByte is an en
Average games last under a minute ment mode. Bells and whistles include hancement of its rich, dense parent
for experienced players and mere sec somewhat garish—albeit realistic—low- game. Falcon plus OFT equals fighter-
onds for arcade rookies. Having only resolution graphics and digitized plane heaven. This is the only way to
three tries to complete the adventure sound effects. fly.
adds to your frustration; luckily, a save Dr. Thorp's Mini Blackjack is the ab Disk 1 of OR patches the parent pro
option lets you start the game at the be breviated version of another full- gram all the way up to the current ver
ginning of the last unfinished scene. Un fledged simulation. Up to six players sion (3.01); this should make happy all
fortunately, once invoked, this save fea can compete against the dealer, utiliz those who expected Falcon 3.0 to fly in
ture is automatic: If you fail once or ing such standard casino options as full trim right out of the box and weren't
twice and then succeed, the game over double down, split, surrender, push, prepared for the open-house gamma
writes your last position, leaving you and insurance. Advanced features in test—with a consequent stream of fix
stranded with severely limited resourc clude two levels of house rules, each ful es and tweaks—that was the sad real
es. Contrary to the old maxim, if at first ly adjustable and surprisingly detailed. ity. OFT adds three huge and varied
you don't succeed, give up before try In addition to online strategy tables (and alliterative) new theaters of opera
ing again. As if admitting to this unfor and a basic blackjack tutorial, the tions—Korea, Kashmir, and the Kurile Is
giving difficulty, the manual offers fair game also teaches three methods of lands—which should please pilots who
ly explicit hints for each of the game's card counting. found that the game's scope didn't
27 scenes. Casino Craps is a delightful re-crea match its size.
More satisfying examples of this gen tion of the fast-paced dice game. High- And OFT improves the game engine
re include Interplay's Out of This resolution graphics and much-im with a wide variety of pleasant new wrin
World, Dynamix's Adventures of Willie proved mouse controls embellish this kles: new commands to issue to wing
Beamish, and even ReadySoft's own dynamic one-player simulation. Exten men, the ability to set difficulty levels
Guy Spy series. In addition to a solid sive onscreen help thoroughly explains for campaigns, an overcast sky
mix of arcade action and logic puzzles, the nuances of odds and wagers, field (which looks great), more night flying,
each of those games takes time to tell bets, hard numbers, and center-table and too many lesser refinements to
a viable story, using such "camera" bets. Highlights include three levels of mention. It's also more stable and reli
techniques as panning, noninteractive statistical analysis and player histories. able, and hence more satisfying—and
segues, and long tracking shots. Animated onscreen characters and dig not just in the new theaters. The origi
Technically brilliant, Space Ace II: itized sound samples give this game a nal theaters, which are not overwritten
Borfs Revenge successfully emulates a distinctive personality. Casino Craps is by OFT, enjoy a!l the benefits of the
studio-quality animated adventure. As easily one of the best in the series. new features. And, of course, all the
an interactive game, however, most of Last, but far from least, is Amarillo best features of the original game—
the fun seems to have been left on the Slim's 7 Card Stud, a condensed ver from the masterful terrain to the in
cutting room floor. sion of Villa Crespo's outstanding pok volving campaigns—are in full force
SCOTT A. MAY er simulation. Better than a heated here. (Indeed, the campaigns here
match in a smoke-filled back room, the seem tougher, if anything.)
$59.95 READYSOFT game pits one player against 2-7 com OFT is a bit more demanding of mem
(416) 731-4175 puter opponents. Online help screens ory—now requiring a touch over
Circle Reader 5ervlce Number 449 and tutorial advice guide greenhorns 616,000 bytes (and another 3MB on
through the rules and strategies of build your hard drive, for a total of 14MB}—
ing a winning hand. Choose from the and even that extra 2K RAM meant I
COFFEE BREAK 15 available players, each with a digit had to jigger my four-meg system a bit

GAMBLING ized voice and unique style of play,

who are divided among the game's
in order to load a mouse driver and get
the digitized voice in radio broadcasts.
As new game designs begin to stretch three skill levels. You can also custom And, unfortunately, OFT also in
the limits of time and space—your ize the house rules—maximum bets, herited a touch of the original
time and hard drive space, that is— raise limits, blind bets, and so on—to sim's . . . shall we say, unfinished qual
Villa Crespo heads in the opposite di make every session unique. More than ity? The installation program in the
rection with its Coffee Break Series. any game in the series, this one beck initial release couldn't find the cor
These compact, budget-priced ons players to seek out the full-blown rectly named FALCON3 directory on
games deliver instantly accessible qual version, Dealer's Choice, featuring 28 my C drive and, once I identified the
ity entertainment that's playable from poker variations. directory for it, wouldn't install the
floppy or hard disk. Short and sweet, the Coffee Break files. (That's about the worst possible
Villa Crespo is best known for casino- Series from Villa Crespo proves that big place for a bug to appear. Imagine
style gambling simulations, so it's not ger isn't necessarily better. buying a toaster oven and finding
surprising that the top picks in this bur SCOTT A. MAY the power cord cut in half.) Mercifully,
geoning series are games of strategy Spectrum has been quick off the line
and chance. Dr. Wong's Jacks & Vid Villa Crespo Software with a fix, and a new installation pro
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 However, my criticism isn't of OFT
so much as of Falcon 3.0. I do wish it'd
been closer to this condition when it
was originally released. In a sense,
Data,
this set of data disks isn't so much an
add-on as the final upgrade. I suppose
Ranch
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be just what you need. You fame), and Cinderella. less intuitive keyboard com looks like a pleasant enough
also might find the built-in All is not well in Book- mand; you really need a place to run out the clock, al
battery an important option wyrm's fairy tale sphere, mouse). Whether you're look though visually it leaves a
to consider. Once you've though. An aptly named lit ing at an object, moving to few things to be desired. I
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advertised and comes with It's the child's job to put ly becomes second nature. rather choppy characters.
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tion. But if you oniy intend to entertaining, educational of Euneral-home organ mu Goose, most of the action in
receive faxes or if you're con challenge loaded with sic—Mixed-Up Fairy Tales Mixed-Up Fairy Tales takes
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an educational way for mod
ern technology to bring to
Have you seen this child? ing enough memory to run character belongs to. It life some vintage stories.
Not if the child's been play the program—you need takes two or three actions to EDDIE HUFFMAN
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