Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

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daelectron
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Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

Post by daelectron »

I picked up this tape in a bunch of Dragon stuff. It is called Abacus.

I don't know if the data is complete. I can't get it to load on my real Dragon or an emulator.

On the other side of the tape is another file called Chomper. Again, it won't load and I don't know if it's officially from Abacus Software.

Here are the files. Can anyone do anything with 'em?

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/Artist_Chomper.zip
daelectron
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Re: Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

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Sorry, I meant it's a tape by Abacus software called ARTIST.

Box and tape covers to follow.
daelectron
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Re: Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

Post by daelectron »

Managed also to get this archived today too! Whahoo! Another rare game found and preserved. This looks to be basic so should be easily converted to CAS (I would do it myself but I don't remember how!)

Artist
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Introduction
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Artist is an Etch-A-Sketch game in which you can create pictures on your Dragon 32 and then save them to cassette.


Game Controls
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Use Arrow keys to move left, right, up and down.
H - Up/Left, E - Up/Right, G - Down/Right, F - Down/Right
1, 2, 3, 4 - Pen Green, Yellow, Blue, Red
M - Move position (without drawing with the pen)
L - Line, C - Circle, B - Box, P - Paint

W - Load Picture
S - Save Picture
@ - Clear Picture
K - Copy a picture drawn at the top of the screen to the lower part of the screen
Attachments
Front Cover
Front Cover
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Tape
Tape
Artist_000.jpg (411.75 KiB) Viewed 3362 times
daelectron
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Re: Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

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PS. If you're wondering about Chomper, it turned out to be a Basic game that was full of errors! Looks like someone had typed it in from a magazine and saved the (unworking) code on the reverse side of the original Abacus tape. The code was incomplete as well - had things like GOSUB 9000 but the code finished at line 600 so looks like it was a Work In Progress. So forget Chomper.
daelectron
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Re: Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

Post by daelectron »

And finally the link:

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/Artist.zip

Again, please download it and add to your site, it won't be there forever.
zephyr
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Re: Abacus Tape - Artist (& Chomper?)

Post by zephyr »

Here is the converted cas file.
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Artist_cas.zip
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