YourCommodore41-Feb88.pdf

YOUR

COMMODORE

AN ARGUS SPECIALIST PUBLICATION

1988 f1•20

WEOS Window operating system

Fontmaster I28—Reviewed

Unbeatable Programs! Screen Store 64 A Relative File Programming

Amending C64 Basic A C64 Morse Tutor

TOTAL BACKUP POWE -

Now ACTION REPLA .

NOW EVEN MORE POWERFUL, MORE FRIENDLY AND EL BA

as loaded - from tape or disk - at normal or turbo speed.

• WARP 25. THE WORLD'S FASTEST SERIAL DISK T101110 - NOW EVEN FASTER! LOADS

200 BLOCKS DI 6 SECONDS! 240 BLOCKS Da SECONDS! - that's even faster than some parallel systems. Built into

the cartridge - no extra hardware or software required. Includes supercast, warpsave, scratch, ﬁlecopy/convert. Integrated with normal disk turbo

For supercompatibility - auto detects warp or normal format so no special load commands are required.Tirixt and Warp 25 speed are entirely

independent of the cartridge with SUPERBOOT. . • • ,

SIMPLE TO USE: Just press the button and make a complete backup - tape to disk, tape to tape, disc to tape, disk to disk.

THE PROCESS IS AUTOMATIC - JUST GIVE THE BACKUP A NAME.

• TURBO RELOAD. All backups will reload at turbo speed, CI:IMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY OF THE CARTRIDGE.

• SPRITE HILLER. Make yourself invincible. Disable sprite collisions - works with many • - __

pr ogr ams.

PRINTER DUMP. Freeze any game and print out the screen.

Eg. loading picture, high score screen etc. Works with most printers.

MPS 801, 803, Star, Epson etc. Double size, 16 shades,

reverse print option. Very versatile -

no user knowledge required.

PICTURE SAVE. Save any Hires

multicolour screen to disk at the push

of a button. Compatible with Blazing

Paddles, Koala, Artist 64. Image

System etc.

SPRITE MONITOR. Unique

Sprite monitors allows you to freeze the

action and view all the sprites, watch the

sprite animation, save or delete any sprite.

Load sprites from one game into another to

make customised programs.

POKES/CHEAT MODE. Press the button and enter those

pokes for extra lives etc., then restart the program or make a backup,

Ideal for custom games.

MULTI STAGE TRANSFER. Even transfers multistage programs from tape to

di sk. The extra parts fast load - a unique feature. Enhancement disk available for non

standard multi-loaders (see below).

SUPER COMPACTOR. Ultra efﬁcient program compaction techniques. Each program saved as a

single ﬁle. 3 programs per disk side - 6 programs per disk, if you use both sides.

TEXT MODIFY. Change title screens, high score screens etc. Put your own name into a game then restart it or

make a backup to tape or disk. Very simple to use.

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• moNrrOlt

hex dump, interpret, transfer, compare, ﬁll, hunt, number conversion, bank switching. relocate, loadisave etc.

Uses no memory. Full printer support.

• DISK MONITOR. A special monitor for use on the RAM inside your disk drive. All the usual commands a useful hacking tool.

• WHOLE DISK COPY. Copy a full unprotected disk in under two minutes with only one drive.

• FAST FILE COPY. Works with standard and Warp ZS ﬁles of up to 249 blocks. Converts formats to and front Warp 25.

• FAST ronsemr. Under 20 seconds.

• TOOLKIT COMMANDS. R whole range of useful new commands including: AUTO LINE NUMBERING, DELETE, MERGE, APPEND,

OLD, L1NESAVE, etc., PRINTERLISTER - list any program (including directory) directly from disk to printer or screen without corrupting

memory.

REDEFI NED FUNCTION KEYS. Single stroke commands for

oper ati on of many common commands including: LOAD, SAVE, DIR.

Load from directory - no need to type in ﬁlename.

• TAPE TURBO. Designed to make turbo load/save for your own

pr ogr ams. No screen blanking during loading.

. Full learn* 'Floating' type M

ACHI NE

r NHANCEMENT DISK

Contains routines for transferring many of the non-standard multi-load

games from tape to disk. Over +0 tales. Latest additions are LAST

MIA, ROAD RUNNER (inﬁnitive lives option), BLOOD 'Pr OUTS

(play any event), DECEPTOR LEADER.BOARD EXEC and WORLD

CLASS, KILLED UNTIL DEAD, MASK, INDIANA JONES,

IMPLOSION, TAMAN, plus all the classics including SUMMER

GAMES, WORLD GAMES, DRAGONS LAIR 1 and 2, GAUNTLET,

SUPEICYCLE etc. Works in comuncuon with ACTION REPLAY.

Disk includes GRAPHIC SLIDESHOW for displaying pictures saved

with ACTION REPLAY. Plus Warp 25. Superboot- non Action Replay

owner s can speed up their 'expert or 'freeze machine programs to

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At MED. ER all features are built in and

available at the touch of a key. All features work

with both TAPE and DISK. (Except multipart

transfer & disk ﬁle utility).

BERES A QUANTUM LEAP

MK IV HAS ARRIVED!

1BACKUP MORE PROGRAMS THAN ANY RIVAL UTILITY

BUT TWITS NOT ALL NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE sinuous PROGRAM HACKER

ACTION REPLAY IV !PROFESSIONAL'

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• All the features of the normal Action Replay IV but with an amazing on board LSI LOGIC PROCESSING CHIP.

Plus 32K operating system ROM and 8K RAM CHIP. The ﬁrst RAM/ROM based cartridge of its type!

HI into

turbo

ALL THE MR IV FEATURES PLUS..

• FULLY INTEGRATED OPERATION.

The MK IV 'Professional' has all the features of the

MK IV plus an onboard custom LSI LOGIC

PROCESSING CHIP that integrates the whole

range of utilities and makes them

available at the press of a button

at any time.

• EXTENDED MONITOR. The

Professional' has an extra powerful machine

code monitor. Because it has both ROM and

RAM at its disposal the Professional can

freeze any program and then examine the

WHOLE OF COMPUTER MEMORY in its

frozen state including screen RAM.

ZERO PAGE and STACK

Full feature disassembly, compare,

ﬁll, transfer, hunt, relocate, Jump etc.

etc. In fact all the features of the best

fully blown monitor available. Return

to the frozen program at the press of a

key at the point you left it! An absolute

must for the program hacker — or even

the programmer who needs to de-bug his

program.

INTELLIGENT HARDWARE.

The Professional hardware is unmatched

anywhere in the world today. The special

logic processing chip can cope with

protection methods

as they appear by ziont

reacting to its

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PERFORMANCE PROMISE

Action Replay will backup any program that any other cartridge can backup

- and morel It also has an unmatched range of onboard features. Before you

buy check our competitors ads to see what they offer and see how many of

the Action Replay MK IV features are either not there or have to be loaded

from Supergate disks etc. When you buy Action Replay If you donl ﬁnd ou:

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• Comm& Corner 13

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CONTENTS

FEATURES

• Fontmaster 128

ARGUS

PRESS

GROUP

The ultimate wordprocessor.

• Amending 64 Basic

Upgrade your computer's vocabulary.

• Through the Round Window

Powerful window operating system.

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• Relative File Programming 46

Learn the correct way of using relative ﬁles.

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GAMES AND UTILITIES

• A ckroyd's Saga 2 4

Part two of our educational adventure.

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• Ultra Function Keys 37

String instructions using function keys.

• INPUT Clean Up

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Improve the INPUT on your C128.

• Reveal Your Characters

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Tr i ni ty

Gardens. lAntdon SW9 SM.

Printed by Chase Web.

Plymouth, ()pinions expressed

in reviews are the opinions of

the reviewers and not

necessarily those of the

magazine, While every effort is

made to thoroughly check

programs published for errors

We cannot be held responsible

for any errors that do occur.

Getting sprites to work for you.

• Adventure Kit 6 9

Part two of our series looks at the role of the

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parser.

' Morse Code Tutor

The easy way to learn Morse code.

• Get the Point

Joystick driven pointer for C64 owners.

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ISSN

0269-8277

YOUR COMMODORE february 1988

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