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Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:33 pm**

Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:55 pm**

World of Spectrum hosts a large number of magazines (ftp) and books (also available under ftp). Many of the magazines and some of the books are multi-format.

Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:58 pm**

tormod wrote:Dragon Kart

I might have typed this in all those years ago. I will have to check if I still have it on tape. And the Flight Simulator I definitely have on tape because I couldn't face typing it all in so I bought the cassette, plus I made a CAS file of the program many moons ago (will upload if I haven't already).

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:10 am**

I remember typing in "Gobbler" from above. It must have been the largest blob I ever entered. More than 6 KB.

Before anyone start typing in from those PDFs

I have so far found Convoy, Forth, The Wall, Editor and Assembler, Frogsy and Gobbler on my tapes. I will post CAS files as I go through them.

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:08 pm**

Dragon Forth by B.Watson. From Your Computer July 1984. Comes in two files FORTH (program) and FWORDS (base word definitions).
It seems that I made an autorun loader, so both files are M/L. The copyright notice on the loader splash screen clearly only covers the loader itself

EDIT: The autoloader code is at the end of the BASIC program, so I guess my copyright notice simply covers the splash screen itself

Must have felt like a real professional sprinkling my own copyright statements on programs that I typed in

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:15 pm**

Convoy by Vince Cockett. From Your Computer April 1984.

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:23 pm**

The Wall by T.Fiers. From Your Computer January 1984. Two parts, BASIC loader/launcher and M/L program.

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:49 pm**

Gobbler (Revenge of PAC MAN) by Tom F. A. Fiers. From Your Computer May 1984.

Two parts, first PACSCRN, then PACMAN:

Code: Select all

PCLEAR8:CLEAR100,26000:CLOADM:CLOADM:EXEC26000

Posted: **Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:11 pm**

Frogsy by Vince Cockett. From Hi-Res Colours article in Your Computer March 1984. Three parts, CLOAD and RUN the first BASIC part to load the other M/L parts.

Posted: **Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:28 am**

Re: Your Computer magazine online

Postby tormod » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:08 pm
Dragon Forth by B.Watson. From Your Computer July 1984. Comes in two files FORTH (program) and FWORDS (base word definitions).
It seems that I made an autorun loader, so both files are M/L. The copyright notice on the loader splash screen clearly only covers the loader itself

I have a question about creating new words with FORTH.CAS. After load and run I follow what I thought was a standard Forth approach and enter:

>: TEST ( with a space between the ':' and 'TEST' then press return to continue the word definition on the next lines)
> BAD LINE ( comes up as an error)
The only way a word has been accepted is by entering on one line:
>:TEST; ( with ';' to terminate and no spaces). I had expected that I could have entered the rest of the word definition on the following lines with a final line terminating it with a ';'.

The command *VLIST shows the word added to the bottom of the list but as 'TEST;' i.e. with the semi-colon, to show 42 words in total.

I've examined the BASIC code but still can't figure out how to create a new word. Any ideas please?