VOLUME 4
AUTO-DIAL ING
WITH Tts 2068
AND A PIODEFI by John Hancock
Mow that sere ef es have sodeas. sore of us are looking for wavs te mate ese cf thea. Aseng other things. 2050's are goed shepe gialers. They can dial a umber tvped directiv om the computer tevbdcard or use a nuaber stored
in sesery. This cap al) be done with a simple BASIS:
progr aa.
The first BASIC asto-dial routine I know of was one
offered te the public on a CompuServe S16 20 July, 1984 by Sandy Kale (72376.1122!. Here is Randy’s prograa:
10 IMPHT AS BO QUT 119,E
13 GT 119,31 90 PAUSE 3,5
20 FOR I=1 TO LEN AS 100 NEXT E
3@ LET A-VAL AS(I) 110 OUT {19,1
32 IF A=@ THEM LET A=10 120 OUT 119,2
33 OMEE TS 130 NEXT D
46 GO Sem 40 140 RETURN
36 NEXT ! 150 PRINT "FINISHED"
<5 68 TO 150 160 PAUSE 0
60 FOR B=1 10 A 170 QUT 119.0
70 FOR E=3 TO 4
If you choese to try this prograa, you say wish te experigent with the PAUSEs in lines 35 and 9¢. On ost Phone systees, these can be shortened to soeed uo dialing. Mote that the 3.5 in line 9 might as well be 4 Since the 2068 automatically rounds PAUSE numbers to the nearest whole member. Although OUT 119,31 is supposed to initialize the phone for auto-dial, I have found that on ay systee. it is necessary to add a prior compand or else the first dialing fails (subsequent dialings are Ok. however). If you have this problem, add a line 12: OUT 119,34: QUT 119,0
Note that the prograe waits for a key press at line 140 and if you don’t hit a key, your phone will remain “off the hook". Line 170 “hangs up” the phone with OUT 1!19,0,
Variations on Randy’s routine have been used in other prograas. Two that I know of are Dan Mowrey’s BREAKTHRU and ay TELEPHONE BOOK, both of which are in our group tape library.
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I thought your readers might be interested in knowing that Tom Wood’s PRO/FILE program is now available for the Rotronics Wafa
Drive.
It includes most up-dates of the original program.
With Tom’s blessings, Mr. George Fetherman of the Florida Tas
Bam Users’ Group, provide the following:
MENUS have been changed to allow more informe- ticn to be printed on then.
SAVE & LOAD routines have been re-written to @lliow SAVING and LOADING to Watfadrive or to cassette. Saves and Loads dats files ONLY. AUTOSEARCH/SORT routine incorporates Tom’s new machine code. (See Issue @1 of Tom’s *Break- through")
DEFP - Un-changed.
NN - NEW NAME - as explained in Tom’s sanual.
RST ~- RE-START -as explained in Torm’s aanual.
7.
. ON ERR - Simulated routine to help prevent
Inc. has modified the PRO/FILE program to
POUND SIGN - by entering this routine you toggle “ON* and “OFF” the BOLD characters sent to the 2040 printer.
CAT - Entering this TOKEN allows cataloging of either drive.
MOVE - Enables you to move files from one wafa to another.
FORMAT —- Token permits formating either drive.
WAFA TOKENS - Wild card commands peraitted.
. IN — As a search command, permits loading of
files saved in original foraat.
deta ioss while in EDIT. (Same as Ton uses
in his SPECTRUM PRO/FILE.?)
Another nice feature of this PRO/FILE modification is the fact
that there has been NO LOSS of DATA FILE space!!!
It is very
"USER FRIENDLY" and adds considerable flexibility to PRO/FILE. The documentation provided, when used with Tom Woods’ manual, makes it one of the best documented programs available.
This program modification is available from Mr. at 5956 - 45th Ave. No., St. Petersburg, Fl. 33709,
4278).
George Fetherman (813-546-
Cost is $10.00 for the NEW VERSION WAFA PLUS $1.00 S/H.
If anyone purchasing this program does NOT already own the original program you should contact Tom Wood to purchase his
manual.
The documentation accompanying this version covers ONLY
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This information has been forwarded to you in the interest of
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I hope you
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I'm enclosing one of the programs I wrote on my TS1000 and then adapted to my 2068. One of these days I'll add COLOR and SOUND to it ~ as soon as I find a manitor. If you find it interesting, by all means use it.
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PRODUCES SPECTACLILAR
RLE GRAPHICS
by Nore Lehfeldt
No sooner had last aonth’s article describing RLE graphics decoding for the OL (TIMELINEZ, June, 1986) appeared in print than did John Ryan of Oklahowa City cose up with the core of the program presented here and upload it to CoapuServe.
John very readily agreed to the publication of his prograa, but before it could be prepared for our printer, beorge Mockeridge got his hands on it and sade sone substantial isprovesents.
Betore we get into a discussion of the progras, here are sose hints for downloading RLE graphics files from CompuServe using MTERM:
After you have selected the file you wish to download, use ’READ’ rather than ’DOWNLOAD’ to capture it. Once you have sade this selection, you will usually be inforeed that your terainal does not support this graphic display (What do THEY know?) and asked if you wish to continue. Press ’y’ for yes but do not hit enter yet. Go to your buffer menu and be certain that your CONversion is set to ’NONE’ and that the buffer is eapty (bfused=0), Then a series of ’ENTER’s will get you back to the terainal aode and initiate the tranfer.
RLE files are of varying lengths, depending on the asount of detail in the pictures, The longest I have seen, so far, is about 22K. The footer on an RLE file is Bell, 6, N,.” You will hear the ’Bell’ and transmission will cease. 60 to your buffer aenu, close the buffer. Be SURE to aake a note of the length of the file (bufused). Return to tereinal aode and sign off CompuServe.
lemediately return to BASIC and SAVE the buffer contents -- SAVE "name"CODE 26710, butused.
Turn your computer off and back on (or RAND USR 0) and then re-LOAD the file -- LOAD “name"CODE 40000. It is essential that the CODE be loaded to the starting address 40000,
If you have followed these directions exactly, the addresses $0000, 40001, 40002 should now contain the nuabers 13, 71, 72 respectively. These represent ’CR’ (carriage return), ’6’, ’N’. The correct header for an RLE file is ’ESC 6 N’, so POKE 40000,27.
DECODING FOF jTF/s
bottom tac lines of the screen.
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If you find the first three codes of the file are something different, all is not lost. You may just have gotten some text ahead of the file. PEEK around the file a little to see if you can find 7! and 72 in sequence. If you do, then POKE 27 to the address just below that of the 71 and the program should work -- it begins by searching the file for that 27, 71, 72 sequence. Once you have got this part right is is a good idea to SAVE the CODE before going on. Then you will be able to start over without spending the tiee and aoney on capturing the file again, should anything go wrong during the decoding process.
The rest is easy. Just LOAD the RLE program and RUN it. You should begin to see the picture drawn line by line {and very slowly) on your screen. When the prograe reaches the You will see a proapt to reaind you of the options once the picture is completed. You will have plenty of time to aul! over your options while the computer creates the user defined graphics for the bottoe of the screen. | If you choose ’s’ to save the picture as a SCREENS -- a wise choice since it may have taken fifteen or twenty ainutes to draw the picture! -- be prepared to wait some more before starting your recorder as the computer prepares the file for SAVEing. | Re-LOAD the picture as follows: LOAD "picture’ CODE 16384 : PAUSE 0. If you omit the PAUSE, the coaputer will overwrite the bottom two lines of the picture with the °OK’ report. If you wish to change the BORDER color, put the BORDER statement AFTER the LOAD statesent (If you try it the other way, you'll see why). Of course you aay insert a COPY
Comsand in place of the pause to get a print-out of the picture.
The best way to learn sore about this is just to experiment with it. At the July seeting I will put this program in the PUG library with sose picture files on the other side for you to experiment with if you wish.
In his original notes on this prograa, John Ryan pointed out that it was compilable with the JRC or ZIP compilers, and that compiling it reduced the decoding tise for each picture to around 15 seconds! I doubt if that is true of this version. But I] have just received the new ’Tiaachine’ cospiler from Novelsoft in Toronto and believe it will be possible to substantially speed up the program with it. That will be a subject for a future article.
In the seantiae, this cooperative effort by John Ryan and George Nockridge gives us a welcome new graphics aode for the 2068.
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1 REM PLE Picture prograa, !984...John Ryan . 2 REM Reseaber, load the sicture file starting at DEC 400 3 REM 2640 orinter, screen y ec. Mockridge® 4 INK 0: PAPER 7: BORDER 0: CLS : LET flag=0 S DIM 1$116, 254) 6 RESTORE ; FOR n=24500 10 24505: READ x: POKE n,x: NEXT
color & save aodificaticns b
n 7 SATA 742,5, 192, 195,5, 10 8 LET g$=" video & space 9 FOR #=0 TO 21: PRINT AT #,0;q$: NEXT f 10 LET A=4¢000 {i LET 1=9 i2 LET 72175 60 LEY B=PCEK A 79 If Be27 THEN 60 TO 90 BO 60 TO &9 ®) LET A=A+i 160 LET B=PEEK A 110 IF B=?71 THEN 60 TO 130 129 60 10 100 130 LET A=A+! 140 LET B=PEEK A {30 IF B=72 THEN 60 TO !70 160 60 10 140 170 LET A=Ati 180 60 SUB 500 190 LET A=A+! 200 60 SUB &(0 210 LET A=At! cil IF C= THEN 60 TO 180 220 60 SUB 700 230 60 10 180 300 LET B=PEEK A Si¢ LET C=B-32 220 IF C=0 THEN RETURN 230 IF C<O THEN 60 TO 800 340 LET Y=X+Cs IF x3255 THEN LET x=x-254: LET y=y-1 300 RETURN 600 LET B=PEEK A 619 LET C=B-32 620 IF C=0 THEN RETURN 650 IF C<O THEN 60 TO 800 640 RETURN 706 LET D=0 713 IF 255<x THEN LET Y=¥-t 716 JF 255<% THEN LET X=X-256 717 IF YO THEN LET 1S(ABS y,x+1)="0": IF flag=0 THEN LET flag=1: 60 SUB 740 720 IF yo=0 THEN INVERSE 1: PLOT X,Y: INVERSE 0
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762 PRINT #1:AT 1,0:°0-7 new ink/paper(2) save screen": INK 0
763 RETURN B00 FOR x=1 TO ih: FOR y=i 72 254 BO2 IF 1$tx,y)<2"0" THEN LET i€(x,y)="1"
804 NEXT y 206 NEXT x
839 FOR z=o TE t
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937 NEXT x
870 PRINT @13AT z, (y-1)/8;"": REM graphic “a"
B75 NEXT y
874 NEXT z
880 LET r$="0": LET s$="7": 60 SUB 960
981 SEEP 5,10
O82 LET r$=INKEY$: IF r$="c" OR r$="n" OR r$="q" OR (CODE r $>=48 AND CODE r$<=35) OR r$="s" THEN BEEP .5,10
B92 IF r$="c" THEN RANDOMIZE USR 24500
884 IF r$="n" THEN 60 SUB 990
885 IF r$="g" THEN ‘STOP
896 IF CODE r$>=48 AND CODE r$<=55 THEN 60 SUB 950
e87 JF r§="s" THEN 60 SUB 970
990 60 TO 882
909 FOR n=14384 T0 22527: LET x=PEEK n: POKE n,255-x: NEXT n: RETURN
910 STOP
950 LET s$=INKEY$: IF (CODE s$>=48 AND CODE s$<=55) THEN 8 EEP 5,10: 60 TO 960
954 60 10 950
960 DIM a${768)
962 PRINT AT 0,03 OVER i; INK VAL r$;: PAPER VAL s$sa$(i TO 704): PRINT @1;AT 0,9: QUER 1; INK VAL r$: PAPER VAL s$3a${ 705 TO 734): PRINT #1:AT 1,0; OVER 1; INK VAL r$; PAPER VAL
§$;a$(72? TO 748)
964 PETURN
970 DIM 1$f1): LET 2=37143
97{ FOR n=22527 TO 16384 STEP -1
972 IF x=35090 THEN INK 9: PRINT @£:AT 0,0; FLASH f: "WAIT. “; FLASH 0;" TO RELOAD-LOAD ’’picture’’": PRINT #1;AT 1,03" CODE 16384,6144: PAUSE 0 ": INK 9
972 POKE x, PEEK nz LET x=x-1: NEXT ns BEEP .5,10
975 SAVE “picture"CODE 21000,6144: CLS : LET x=31000: FOR n 214384 10 22527: POKE n, PEEK x: LET x=xtis: NEXT nh
976 LET r$="O": LET s$="7": 60 SUB 960: BEEP .5,10: RETURN
999 CLEAR : SAVE "rle"; VERIFY "rie*
A REPDRT FROH ONE OF OUR SO. : ( ad | E | ; NJ E CALIF. TIMELINEZ SUBSCRIBERS.
Dear George:
Ren
Hope things are going well for you and -the other PUG members. Interest seems to be increasing as far as our West Los Angeles ZX users group is concerned. The last two meetings had over 40 plus people in attendance, some as far south as San Diego!
Ed Grey, has put together a local electronic newsletter on his Timex Exchange BBS called "The Timex Press". For those of you with modems and perhaps a long-distance service like GTE Sprint or PC-Pursuit can call and download the contents. His first issue was very good I think. The number of the Average Remote BBS (The Timex Exchange is a Sub-Board #4) is:
(212) 325-0213, and instructions to access the newsletter are given in Section 4.
Hope you can use this short article for your next newsletter. I’ve been able to convert the Spectrum program Art Studio to work with my AERCO centronics interface. If you don’t have this program, by all means get it! It is by far the best graphics program available for the Spectrum.
Well, that’s it for now. Take care!
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Steve Ishii
Aart Studio — AERCO CrI Conversion
Imetructi ons
Steve Ishii (3) In the iamediate mode, POKE the following 26 bytes into
memory:
Reter to Appendix 6 in the Users Manual for Instructions on 46000, 100 46010, 201 46020, 211
Customizing the Art Studio Program with a User Defined Print 48001, 135 48011,219 48021, 127
Driver. 48002, 110 46012, 127 48022, 60 48003, 135 48013, 203 46023,211
NOTE! Your printer must have bit-mapped graphics capability 48004, 111 48014, 1035 48024, 127
in order to be able to fully utilize the print options. 48005, 155 48015,201 48025, 201 48006, 114 48016, 211
Aart Studio (And Extended Art Studio) can be converted to work 46007, 135 48017,127
with the AERCO CPI with the following customization steps. 48008, 26 48018, 62
The procedure for entering the modifications is as follows: 48007,0 48019,14
(1) Load the ART STUDIO or EXTENDED ART STUDIO program as (4) Re-Start the proaram with RUN and enter 255 (user own
usual. driver) when asked which interface is being used. (2) BREAK into the program once it has loaded. (5) The remaining steps are identical to the instructions
in the ART STUDIO manual for customizing the program for the type of printer being used. The program wil) automatically save your customized print driver rout
(6) To test your modifications, create some screen design (or load a previous saved screen) and pull down the PRINT menu. Select any of the options desired and cross your fingers' You should get beautiful screen copies of your artistic talents!
ENJOY!
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Timex has succeeded where Sinclair failed and has sold 800,000 US- style Sinclair Spectrums, known as the 2048 and 2068, and Timex FDD3000 disk drives to Poland. The deal, signed two weeks ago, was arranged by Takis Patrikarakos, managing director of London com- pany Micro Interface, who also acts as consultant for Timex Portugal. Patrikarakos confirmed that the deal was taking place. “That is all I can say at present,” he told Micro- Scope. “More details will be releas- ed by Timex in New York directly.” Patrikarakos started work two years ago trying to sell Timex’ disk drive into the Eastern bloc. But in April this year Sinclair granted Timex the right to market Spectrum
IN POLISH
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products in that part of the world to offset part of its debts to the manufacturer.
This gave Patrikarakos the op- prtunity of selling complete systems into Poland.
The 800,000 units will be sold over the next five years, going intial- ly into education, but almost cer- tainly through distributors into other markets. During this time the unnamed Polish organisation will
acquire rights to manufacture in- creasingly large parts of the com- puters under a technology transfer agreement.
Delivery of the machines is due to start in the summer.
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One af the more intriguing uses of this routine is as an added module in an aiready existing program. For example, here is av variation of Randy's orograe apeclied te an ANDRESS BOOK version of PRO/FILE. The first three tines get the phone number froma PRO/FILE’s E$ array, Records in PRO/FILE are PRINTed line by line frog the arrav &$ which is DiNensicned (15,32). The auto-dial routine aust know where to get the usher, My PRO/FILE Address Book is set up sc that the ohone numbers are always on line S$ of each record, This is why line 9010 of the ‘ollowing progras acdule scans E$(5). The aodule nay be sut anywhere within PRO/FILE that deesn’t interfere with orooram cneration. It certainly doesn’t have ta start at tine 90h, iat a
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The following is essential} program with some over: compatibility.
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Lines @000-8070 scan the ¢irst 12 scaces in FSi) ‘for numbers putting them inte B$ end ignoring any Aon-nusera characters, Line 8020 sets us an ON ER® 60 TO which aliows BREAK ts abort the dialisc process, sending the
-progras directly to line 8100 aad thereby hanging up the
phone. Line 8030 aise initializes the shone system. Lites BGS0-8070 accoenmlish the actual dialing. Line 2080 alerts the user to pick up the shone with a BEEP and a froapt. The PAUSE allows time to do this, then osens the sodes relay sc that when the phone is placed back on the hook, hanguo will occur.
]1f dialing orabless are encountered, try lencthenine the PAUSES in lines BO+d and 8070.
It is hoced that vow wil! be encouraged ta nat only fry the routines actiined atove, but to exneriment with ways
of adding auto-dialieg ts vaur own prograas! 8000 LET Bg="" BO10 FOR X=1 70 iS: TF COPE ES(5,43347 Suh CODE ES(S,XCS8 THEN LET Bgzisees§, X) Svea Tes REERET 8020 NEXT X peepee es ee BOSO ON ERR £0 TH 9106: GUT 119,34: QUT 119.4: OUT 119,21: PAUSE 40
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8060 PAUSE 20
8070 FOR Y=1 7) Z: FOR E=3 TO 4: OUT 119, E: PAUSE 1; NEXT E: OUT 119.4: QUT 129,2: NEXT Vs NEXT X
G08) PRINT AT 15.0:;"DIALING COMPLETED--F ISK UP PHONE®: BEEP 7,14; PAUSE 100 crapt at cot ys te2e, GUTS/EV USvSTOR?) eeting iver 8100 OUT 119.0: PAUSE 40! ON ERR RESET : 60 TO 1050 itain. This catalog features all. the. rig Mie
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A line eust be added eariier in SROVFILE tr send srcgrae control to tho avto-dial module, such as:
165 TF ¥§="DiAL” THEN 60 TO e000 This would allow the word “S{AL* to he typed as a command te initiate the routine.
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