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Coco and Amateur Radio LOVE MY COCO PRINT #,USING COMMAND PROGRAMMING..A PROPER EXIT BROOK Picture - Winter Serinity Recycle  George Quellhorst Herb Schuler J. R. Waggoner  4James J. Gibbons John Tindall  Mike Brown  Norman Barson Rick Cooper Robert Griffard  Coco's Future  'NEXT MONTH'S TOPIC 4TOPIC OF THE MONTH 4Topic Comment  ,ABOUT SUBMISSIONS &From the Editor  4Future Of the CoCo! HOW ABOUT A HARDCOPY  He Hit the Nail on the Head! Hooray for CFDM!!! IS THIS OS9 OR WHAT? Plug N' Power  9SUGGESTION =TO RICK  '! THE GREAT DEMO CONTEST ! 6WISHING ON A COCO STAR! BLOCKS..A TRIVIA GAME BOWLPLOT  CFDM V 1.2 UPGRADE PATCH $CONVERSIONS (CONVERT/BAS)  'HARDCOPY...PRINT #-2 CFDM LLISTing in RAINBOW Format Prefix SPLIT/BAS VCR CARD About REVIEWS  C3Packet 'DISK EDTASM 'BAD CHIPS??? CFDM AND A RAM DISK Ham Radio Software 5POKE QUESTION Problem with ULTRA-BASE Question (C) 1991, RICK COOPER ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINECOCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is the creation andproperty of Rick Cooper.It is distributed solelyby RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE.The material whichmakes up each issue remains the property of theauthor(s) or contributor(s) unless an agreement has been made otherwise.TCOCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is dedicated exclusively to those who enjoy the COCO3 operating under RS DOS.It is hoped that this publication will encourage thecontinued usage of our favorite computer.?Neither CFDM nor RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE will be responsible for the submission or publication of anymaterial that does not belong to the submitter.WE DO NOT ADVOCATE OR SUPPORT PIRACY! =* Rick Cooper "ABOUT CFDM" COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE is dedicated to those whostill enjoy running under RS DOS.It will deal withthat format exclusively.PA primary goal is to keep the COCO community strong.By providing a unique means of communication, maybe old fires will be rekindled as you and I share ourknowledge and experiences!NThe success of this effort depends on each one whobecomes a subscriber.Everyone must contribute his/her two cents in the form of articles, programs,opinions, experiences, etc.If this happens we willall look forward to the next issue.(Check out the manual with your starter kit for details on how tosubmit material.)Now let's have some fun!!!=* Rick Cooper THE FORMAT OF CFDM Each article in CFDM is limited to three screenpages.A page is 16 lines with 52 characters perline.Movement from page to page is executed bypressing the CTRL key and then the page number (1,2, or 3).When an article page is first displayedor when moving to a new page, you will notice theprompt in the upper left corner which says "ONEMOMENT".This prompt occurs to let you know thatthe page is being printed or adjusted.It alsooccurs in ENTRY WRITER when you have pressed F1 for delete or F2 for insert.PAll entries in CFDM are text only.Graphics wouldcertainly be nice but you know how much disk storagethat would require!L=>One feature that you can use for variety is thetext-color option.By pressing the CLEAR key youcan step thru the 64 available colors.The current color will be saved and used when the article isredisplayed.SHIFT and CLEAR lets you step thru thecolors in reverse.VYou may edit the text of an article.First load theoriginal document.Next enter ENTRY WRITER andselect EDIT THE BUFFER.Make all the changes youlike in the usual manner.When you're finishedpress BREAK.Choose SAVE from the SAVE MENU.Your edited work will be saved under the same name.Yourold document will still be there too.n=>There are three indicators to help readers travelthru an entry.In the top lefthand corner you will find the current page indicated.At the bottom ofeach page we will find one of the following symbols.(The meaning of the symbols are given.)M=>means there's another page.I=*means end of the article.?Adopt these symbols to help each user enjoy CFDMeven more.^I encourage submitters to use ENTRY WRITER in theappropriate section for ALL submissions.THANKS!.=* Rick Cooper About THE COVER Each month we will choose one of the best of thepictures submitted as that month's cover.So getout the old graphics editor or use BASIC to drawsomething that would look great on our cover!;* PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL ONLY. * =* HAS YOUR ADDRESS CHANGED? IF YOUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED SINCE YOU LAST RECEIVED CFDM, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO ENTER YOUR CORRECTADDRESS IN THIS DIRECTORY.TITLE IT -O*MY ADDRESS HAS CHANGED*F=* RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE WHAT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE OFFER? It's a collection of useful, entertaining softwareat an affordable, less-than-you'd-expect-to-pay-for price!It's a collection of software packages that sold as stand alone products for over $100!It's anoffer that over 42% of my customers now own!How about a diskette cataloger that holds thousands of the file names from hundreds of your diskettes!Written in 100% machine language, this program islightning fast.Ask it to search for a filename andin less than 3 seconds the entire database issearched and the locations appear on your screen.These are only a few of the features of MASTER DIR3.4Now let's add some great games!Imagine some games that you can play against COCO.VOCAB is a verycompetitive SCRABBLE playalike.CC3FLAGS is thebest RISK playalike available.Add to these a most realistic jigsaw puzzle program, an addictive TETRISplayalike, and a great RACKO playalike!That's morefun than you can stand!!H=>How about a few education programs for your children4And some wonderful HSCREEN4 digitized pictures from Steve Ricketts.YAnd...my graphics compressor NIB.Along with agallery maker program and a sample gallery of my ownpictures!_That's what an UNBELIEVABLEOFFER is!!AAnd most unbelievableof all is the price..)ONLY $33 + $2 S/H6FROM:RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISEP.O. Box 276,Liberty, Ky. 42539=* RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #1 OVER $100 OF SOFTWARE FOR ONLY $33 + $2 S/H"ALL RICK'S SOFTWARE"D1CC3FLAGS..the best RISK playalike for COCO 32VOCAB...a great Scrabble playalike3MASTER DIR...a very good disk cataloger (CC 1/2) 4PROGRAMS FOR FRIENDS..3 educational + 1 game5The RAINBOW INDEXES..3 databases of RAINBOW info 6NIB COMPRESSOR/RICK'S COCO GALLERY..graphics.compressor 7GALLERY MAKER..make personalized COCO galleries8PUZZLES..8 Hi Res, 188 piece jig-saw puzzles9TETRA..my TETRIS playalike10 MASTER DIR 3..fantastic disk cataloger for CC311 STEVE'S PICs..24 unbelievable Hscreen4 picturesfrom Steve Ricketts=* RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #2 OVER $100 OF SOFTWARE FOR ONLY $33 + $2 S/H"THE SPORTSware PACKAGE"B1SUPER DISK..tutorial on program protection,professional in content.. was $29.002BARBARIAN QUEST..super 512K game, great sound andgraphics.. was $29.003WEEKLY WINNER..lotto aide "enhance your chance with a meaningful system".. was $15.004WAR GAME DESIGNER II..design your own or play thefour included: ATTACK ON MOSCOW, FORT APACHEINVASION NORTH, & R.O.T.C... was $24.005WAR GAME DESIGNER ICON DISK..hundreds of icons for your games.. was $15.00>(=*)A COMPLETE SET OF BACKUPS FOR ONLY $10 (with order)) RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #3 TWENTY PROGRAMS FROM RICK for only $20 + $2 S/H"RICK'S TREASURE CHEST"----------------------------------------------------EDUCATION:CIRMATH, MYMICRO, SPELLING, USDRILL,TUTOR, LOCATE, PRESIDENTS, TICTACMATH--------------------------------------------GAMES:HANGMAN, NUMSLIDE, STONES, WHEELS, CONNECTS,DISCOVER, PIXSLIDE, TAKESOME--------------------------------------------HOME HELP:SHOPPER%--------------------------------------------UTILITIES:TRANSPIX, COLPRINT, PALSAVER ----------------------------------------------------THESE PROGRAMS REQUIRE COCO 3, DISK DRIVE, & RGBc=* Rick Cooper PROGRAMMING..A PROPER EXIT Did you ever think that the way you exit a programcould be important?It can be.For instance, ifyou are writing a new program using the *high speed poke, it could be disastrous to press the BREAK key.How so?Suppose you forget you're in high speed anddecide to save your work for the session.You mayreturn from your break to find your program is notwhat it use to be!It's common knowledge that LOADSand SAVES are not reliable when executed with thehigh speed poke in effect.NHere's what I do to prevent that from happening. Thelittle used commands ON BRK GOTO and ON ERR GOTO canprevent catastrophe.Send your program to a proper shutdown routine by using these commands at thebeginning of your program.Here's an example: =>10 ON ERR GOTO 1000:REM EXIT ON AN ERROR 15 ON BRK GOTO 1010:REM EXIT ON A BREAK .31000 REM PRINT THE ERROR CODE & IT'S LOCATION1005 PRINT "THERE'S AN ERROR CODE";ERNO;"IN LINE "ERLIN/1010 REM RETURN TO NORMAL SPEED1015 POKE &HFFD8,0"1020 REM RESET PALETTES SO YOU CAN READ THE DISPLAY 1025 RGB,1030 REM THE END STATEMENTS IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP THEPROGRAM FROM RUNNING ON INTO THE CODE THAT FOLLOWS.O( => )This procedure will turn off the speed whenever you exit with BREAK or if an error occurs.It there'san error it will tell you in which line it occurred.(Check the last page of your *QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE to find what the error number stands for.)>Remember, there should always be an appropriate way to exit a program.Be sure to include one in yourprograms!_*To put your COCO 3 in high speed, POKE &HFFD9,0.To return to normal speed, POKE &HFFD8,0.>*The QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE came with your COCO 3. It is a very helpful little booklet!=* VIC KELLS, APPLETON, WI LOVE MY COCO MY COCO'S RS-DOS WILL DO ANYTHING AN MS-DOS UNITWILL DO; MAYBE ALITTLE SLOWER & LESS MEMORY, BUTFOR SO MUCH LESS MONEY. (IT GETS ME THERE AND BACK).4MY OLDER CAR WILL DO ANYTHING A NEW CAR WILL DO;MAYBE A LITTLE SLOWER & LESS MPG, BUT FOR SO MUCHLESS MONEY. (IT GETS ME THERE AND BACK).@TODAY, ADULTS SUFFER PEER PRESSURE AS MUCH AS, ORMORE THAN, OURCHILDREN AND "PRESTIGE" SEEMS TORULE OVER OUR SENSE OF VALUES!JA "HOME" (ORFAMILY) COMPUTER NEED NOT BE A BIGBUSINESS SYSTEM, UNLESS PARTICULAR JOB REQUIREMENTS EXIST.Z=>MY COCO MAKESIT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO BE CREATIVELYPRODUCTIVE ATAN AFFORDABLE PRICE.IT DOES WORDPROCESSING, DATA BASES, SPREADSHEETSAND GRAPHICSBANNERS - POSTERS - GREETING CARDS; ALSO, DESKTOPPUBLISHING.TO RELAX, I CAN CHOOSE FROM THOUSANDSOF GAMES, EVEN THOSE WHICH MAKE LEARNING FUN, FROMMY "COLLECTION" OF RAINBOWMAGAZINES AND THE OTHER SOFTWARE I HAVE PURCHASED OVER THE YEARS.?I FIRMLY BELIEVE WHAT SOMEONE ONCE WROTE: "THE COCO IS TANDY'S BEST KEPT SECRET".IF MORE PEOPLE KNEWTHE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT IT, TANDY WOULD STILL HAVE TO MAKE THEM BECAUSE OF "DEMAND".HOWEVER, LACK OFKNOWLEDGE AND PEER PRESSURES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TOTHE CONTINUING OF "THE RICH GET RICHER & THE POORGET POORER".AMEN.=>VIC KELLS+APPLETON, WI =* John Tindall Recycle I am into helping clean up our environment so I drewthis RECYCLE graphic so it might remind others tothink about it a little. It was done with CocoMax 3.4(See the FAMILY TREE section for more about theartist, John Tindall.)R(RUN "RECYCLE" on flip side to see John's graphic.)=* Rick Cooper Rick Cooper Hi, my name is Rick.My wife, LaDonna, my threedaughters, Kristin, Kasey, and Kayla, and I live in the Knobs region of south central Kentucky.TheKnobs is a belt of hills that make a semicirclearound the Bluegrass region.We live in Liberty, a town of about 3000. My vocation is public education.Presently I am the principal of an elementary schoolwith about 200 students.PMy interests include chess, singing southern gospel quartet music, coaching basketball, and my COCO.I play in a few chess tournaments each year and have aclass A rating.When active in gospel music I sung in 5 quartets and in 1986 I was president of the Ky State Singing Convention.I've coached basketballon the high school, middle school and elementary => levels.aI am a self-taught programmer and that's my favoriteaspect of computing.I love to write programs andshare them with others.Many of my programs areeducational, recreational or utility in nature.Ibegan RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE in September, 1990.I have met many wonderful people as a result.;The first COCO I bought was the old gray 16K.Itcost over $500 for just the keyboard!Although Icould have other types of computers, programming theCOCO is what I love to do.I hope to continue formany years to come!=* George Quellhorst George Quellhorst Hi, my name is George Quellhorst. I was born andraised in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and came tothis country in February '57 at the ripe old age of 21. I have the distinction of having been draftedinto two different armies.From 1954 to 1956 Iserved in the Dutch army and drove a five ton ammotruck with a 2 1/2 ton trailer.In February 1961 I got drafted into the American army, took an extrayear so I could have my choice of location, andserved almost three years in Regensburg, Germany.There I, yes you guessed it, I drove a 5 ton armytruck with a....$How I came to love the COCO....I graduated from high school 3rd in a class of 200. I also was the chess champion of the senior classthat year.Well, to make "stong lory short",=>in the fall of '81 I walked into our local "Shack", the COCO had just arrived, and the dealer had one ondisplay with a chess cartridge plugged in.Havingnever even touched a computer before, my firstreaction was; "A machine that plays chess, that'llbe the day". I sat down "to teach that machine athing or two". Well "the machine (4K Coco, regularBASIC, and a chicklet keyboard $399.95), had otherideas. It proceeded to beat the pants off me. Ipromptly put that %*% machine in layaway, so I couldteach it a thing or two later.As the years passed, and the computer technologyincreased, so did "my COCO"...4K Regular to 16K toExtended BASIC to 64K, new keyboard, line printerVII (no descenders) and OH JOY, a disk drive... Istill have that old computer, after all, I paid=> almost a thousand dollars for it.And though it is worth little in today's market, and not being used, I would not sell it for ten thousand dollars. We areold friends that "COCO I" and I.The ultimatesatisfaction came when one of my programs gotpublished in the RAINBOW...and I actually got paidfor something I wrote on the computer.To wrap things up, my wife and I have been marriedfor 24 years.Our four kids, George 22, Eric 21,Casey 19, and my "baby girl" Heidi 15, all have a128K COCO with RGB monitor, FD502 drive and DMP133printer.They are all "programmers" in their ownway. And like Rick mentioned in "his" family tree, Itoo could have another, perhaps better computer, butI'm kind of married to the COCO..and I don't believein divorce.$=* John Tindall John Tindall Hello,1My name is John Tindall.I live in Plainsboro,New Jersey with my wife Sherry and two children,Matthew and Meredith.Plainsboro is a small townabout two miles from Princeton where the RAINBOWFESTused to be held.'I have been employed for the past 15 years as theassistant greens super. at Springdale Golf Club inPrinceton.As you might guess, I love the outdoors.My main interests are gardening, landscaping,watching the kids play sports, Phillies baseball andof course the COCO.#The COCO 3 is my main computer but I also have a64k COCO 2 and an IBM XT that was given to me.MyCOCO 3 system includes 512k, 2 double sided drives, an MPI, CM8 monitor, DMP105 printer, and a 2400=> baud modem.I also subscribe to DELPHI as memberTIND.I do a little programing in BASIC, mostlychanging others programs to fit my needs.My COCOis just a hobby and is not used for much else.=* Bob Griffard Robert Griffard I was very, very young when I was born and namedRobert. Since that time most of my friends call meeither Bob or Griff. I spent over 32 years in theAir Force and retired in 1975. The last third of my career in the Air Force was in the computer field.Although not a programmer I supervised programmerswho were writing War Gaming type simulation modelswhile at the Pentagon and later was Division deputy for the Information Systems division at Shape Hq in Belgium. I acquired a 16K Coco 1 in 1982 and learnedto program in Basic by typing in and changing pro-grams from the Rainbow. I am not interested intrying to program in assembly language nor do I haveOS9. I purchased a COCO3 and upgraded it to 512 and use if for correspondence and to run home managementprograms I have either written or modified.My=> equipment consists of the 512 Coco3, dual doublesided drives with ADOS in the controller. Sometimes I load ADOS 3 from disk. I have a Magnavox colormonitor, Gemini 10x printer plus several otheraccessories that I seldom use.I have been married to my childhood sweetheart for46 years. We have three children and one grandsonand three grandaughters. I devote a minimum of oneday a week as a volunteer Docent at the Mariners'Museum giving guided tours. I have a Camcorder anduse the Coco Max 3 to generate titles for my tapes.=* Rick Cooper TOPIC OF THE MONTH Many ideas have occured to me about what this first topic should be.I have settled on "What's thefuture going to be for us COCOists?"Before I give my opinion, let me encourage you to send in yours.I'll publish as many as I can.JIn my humble opinion the future for COCOers reallydepends on us.I believe we have lost a lot ofusers for various reasons.Some have moved on toother computers.Some who have taken up with OS9,are on the road to one of the so-called COCO4s(what a misnomer that one is).Some have droppedout only for a little while (they may rejoin us, whoknows?).But I really believe there is quite alarge number who are still enthralled with the COCO.+=>While there is still a significant number of us, we should try to find ways to sustain.Obviously wemust have the RAINBOW.Without that point of union we cannot communicate with each other.We cannoteven locate each other.I know that we are nothappy with the cut in size and even more serious is the lack of material for RS DOS users.But the viewfrom here is that the RAINBOW is vital to us.Toinsure that link we must support it by subscribingand support it's advertisers by making purchases. Tome every purchase helps keep that advertiser strong and his programmers anxious to create new programs.5In a more local aspect I believe this new product(CFDM) can help keep our community strong.It's0=>one more effort to help us enjoy our favoritecomputer.I hope great numbers of COCOists willjoin us.`Finally, and I almost hesitate to mention this.Ihave this faint dream that somehow TANDY will do an about-face and reenter the scene.Wouldn't you loveto see a truly new COCO4 and a revival of the COCOcommunity?Maybe that will be our next forum topic.What would your dream COCO4 be like?Let's savethat one for awhile, okay?=* Jim Grogan Coco's Future Obviously the future of the Coco would have beenmuch brighter if Tandy had continued to supportit, but I believe that as long as there is a flowof new ideas and new programs the Coco will thrive.5I originally bought my Coco as an economical alter- native to the more expensive ms-dos machines. I keepusing it even though the price difference is nolonger so great becausehaving used both systems,I prefer the Coco. Another strong reason for stayingwith Coco is that I am unwilling to lose softwarethat I have invested time and money in.AThere are two programs that I have been trying tofind. A good geneology program and a disk-basedchess program. I have a Coco-3 so I cannot=>use the Cyrus cartridge. If anyone can give meinformation about these I would appreciate it.[Jim Grogan*Rt. 1 Box 205'Howard Lake, MN%55349=* Bob Griffard Topic Comment The Future of Cocoists who just use RS-DOS or oneof the alternate DOSes such as ADOS but do not useOS 9 is rather bleak. Even those who use the OS-9system have a limited future since Tandy has alsodeserted them. An activity like CFDM may keep somepeople actively using the Coco 3 longer than theywould otherwise but the reduction in the number ofcompanies supporting the Coco will soon make itimpossible to repair or replace Coco if it fails.I doubt if Tandy will do an about face and build a Coco 4 because the margin of profit on it would betoo small. I believe that is the reason that theydiscontinued making the Coco 3. For about the sameamount of money it costs for a Coco with disk drivesand 512k you can purchace a MS=DOS IBM clone and atremendous amount of software is available in=>the Public Domain and Shareware.Since I wouldprobably use a larger machine to do the same taskswhich are nicely done on the Coco, I will continueto use this machine until it gives up the ghost.=* Rick Cooper From the Editor Welcome to COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINE.Here'shoping that the term CFDM will become well-knownin the coming days.I've worked very hard on thedriver for CFDM over the last month.I'm sure wewill be able to find many ways to improve it in the coming months, but maybe it will serve us well fornow.dA utility that some have already requested is calledHARDCOPY.You will find that program in this issue.With HARDCOPY you can print any of the articles inCFDM with your printer. An update of the STARTER KITis explained in POTPOURRI.I'm sure further changesand improvements will be made as we go along.Send your suggestions via ENTRY WRITER.?=>As you can probably tell, I am very excited aboutthe possibilities of this project!Two of my mainconcerns are; will subscribers really participateand will I be able to do all the things necessary tokeep this thing rolling.I hope you'll be patientand help me with what could be a lot of fun for all of us!bThe one thing everyone can do is to submit material.Whether it's an article, graphic, program, review,letter, response to the forum, or whatever, I reallywant to encourage you to take the time to respond.6COME ON. GET INVOLVED.LET'S PUT SOME FUN IN OURCOCOs!!!X=* EDITOR ABOUT SUBMISSIONS A few contributors have expressed the desire toretain their rights to their programs, pictures,etc.I understand their feelings exactly.I can recallrelinquishing my rights to programs I submitted for publication.All that was really needed by thepublishers were the rights to publish, copy, andmaybe reprint.ZRest assured!All we want is the right to publishyour work for our COCO FRIENDS and the right tooffer them in the form of back issues to new friendswho might want them later. I hope this will reassureall contributors.Your work is yours and shouldalways be yours!!!=* GEORGE QUELLHORST SUGGESTION RICK,cHow about a sort of "classified advertisement"section. Preferably for a lower price ??@I do not think, that as long as the Rainbow hangs on, that you will get too many commercialsoftware / hardware manufacturers to advertise inyour new venture and make it worthwhile.@However, many of us have Computers, modems, andall kinds of other hardware and software layingaround that we would like to sell and / or trade.7Also many of us, including me, are looking forhardware items that are no longer =>commercially available. I have for example abrandnew, never been used, FD502 drive whichhas a defective track zero sensor.the sensor is no longer available from Radio-Shack or National Parts. I would gladly buy aused non working drive to replace that sensor.:However, how do you let people know that you arein the market for such a thing.J************************************************* YOUR NEW CLASSIFIED SECTION WOULD BE PERFECT *************************************************_George Q.)=> ED.Great idea George!That's what CFDM is allabout...communication of ideas.ILet's do this.We will accept classified ads under the following guidelines:O1) RICK'S COMPUTER ENTERPRISE will not assume anyresponsiblity for any transactions. This meansyour address should be included in your ad sothat interested parties can contact you direct.62) CLASSIFIED ADS must be no longer that one screenpage. Three ads may combined into one entry.93) The cost will be $2 in advance and ads will bepublished as space permits.=* GEORGE QUELLHORST TO RICK RICK,cHOW ABOUT A KEY TO RE-DISPLAY THE COVER PAGE ???lGEORGE QUELLHORSTW*****cED.George that idea would be nice...but believe itor not, the driver for CFDM uses most of the memory in a 128K machine.The only way I see to re-displaywould be to BREAK from the magazine and have theBASIC boot program restart from a "(S)tart over or(Q)uit?" prompt.What about it COCO FRIENDS?Letme know if you want this option. =* John Tindall Plug N' Power I don't know how many of us COCOists have Plug n'Power controllers but I'm sure there are quite afew.My problem is that they can only be used with the COCO 1 & 2.I'm hoping there is someone outthere who might be able to write some software sothe P n'P could be used with the COCO 3.Also I am looking for software to convert CocoMax 3 picturesto GIF format.Any help would be greatly appreciated.=* VARIOUS HOW ABOUT A HARDCOPY Vic Kells: Is there a way to make a hardcopy, to aprinter, of our submissions?And, later, of yourCFDM articles?H Allen Curtis:It would be helpful to have anoption to print the text of an ENTRY WRITER file.kOTHERS:ETC...ETC...........,Ed..Please check out the program HARDCOPY in thePROGRAMS OF THE MONTH section.I hope you like it.=* Rick Cooper WISHING ON A COCO STAR! Some of the best programs have come from ideassomeone else gave the programmer.You may have agreat idea for a program but not the programmingskills to bring it to life.Lucky for us we have a great many talented COCO FRIENDS.Let's see ifthey will help.YSubmit your programming idea via the ENTRY WRITER inthe POTPOURRI section.Entitle it "WISHING STAR".Someone may decide to write that program you always wanted to see!(If so we expect to see it in CFDM!)a=* THE EDITOR ! THE GREAT DEMO CONTEST ! Ever need to show that guy next door what your COCO could do?We've seen some very impressive demos on the COCO and now's the time to see what our COCOFRIENDS can do.Let's have a contest!BHERE'S THE RULES:W1) Your demo must be your original work. 2) Your demo must work on a 128k COCO.3) Your demo must use 10 or less granules of diskspace.+4) Make a backup of your starter diskette. Use theENTRY WRITER in the POTPOURRI section to enterany instructions we need plus any interestingfacts about your demo.Kill all the files on thedisk, then copy your demo on the same side.=>5) The deadline for receiving your demo is June 15.5As I receive demos, I will put as many as possibleon the current issue (space permitting).Issues #2,#3, #4, and #5 will each have some demos (If yousend them in.).YWith issue #5 each subscriber will receive a ballot with the names of all entries.Please make yourdecision, mark your ballot and return it to me byAugust 1st.I will get a nice prize for the winner.But we'll all be winners by doing a demo and seeing all the others!Please don't be afraid to enter.We're here to have some fun!!D=* Bob Griffard VCR CARD The program VCR CARD is used to print the contentsof a VCR tape on 3 x 5 inch cards. Since most peopletape over programs once they have been viewed it is impracticable to maintain a list of the moviesrecorded on the cassette. I find cards filed in aphoto album an easy way to maintain a catalog ofwhat is on each video cassette. Since I seldomrecord more that two shows on a single cassette the program is written to provide up to two shows pertape. The only mark made on the video cassette is a tape number. Each card will contain the tape number,up to two show titles and up to four remark linesper show. The tape number is printed at the top and bottom of each card in case the photo album used is of the flip file type. The printer codes are for theGemini 10x printer and all printer code lines=>are the function. Tape numbers and show Titles areprinted in normal Pica font and remarks are in con- densed print. This allows a maximum of  C BASNIBLOADRBIN`CCFFRONTNIB *CUTILS BIN FONTS BIN PATCH BASMNOSYSOPBINELP BINLLCLS BINEENTRYWRTBIN EEVARS BASO 70 charactersper remarks line. The program is self prompting solittle instruction is needed to run the program.Running lines 1800 to 1820 allows a test print on a card to determine where to align the top edge of thecard. When saving a file the extention CRD insteadof DAT is assigned by the program.A sample filetitled SAMPLE/CRD is included. Loading this file andviewing and editing will familiarize you with using the program.=* GEORGE QUELLHORST CONVERSIONS (CONVERT/BAS) CONVERT/BAS is a three way conversion program.:Hexadecimal - Decimal - BinaryJConversion time takes less then one second !!;All base values are displayed on the screen at thesame time. !![USER SELECTABLE INPUT BASE. !May be changed at anytime while running the program.4Unlike the Coco which can convert values up to65535 Decimal, FFFF Hexadecimal or1111.1111.1111.1111 Binary,C=>This program will convert values up to: 1048575 Decimal, FFFFF Hexadecimal or1111.1111.1111.1111.1111 BinaryIWhich comes in real handy when working with thelarger addresses used by the Coco III.BInstructions to use this conversion program arelisted in "CONVERT/DOC".In order to access the information containedtherein, just run "PRINTME/BAS".HPRINTME/BAS will print the "DOC" neatly formattedto your printer. Instructions for the use of printmewill be listed to your screen when you run theprogram.'=>The programs CONVERT/BAS, CONVERT/DOC AND PRINTME/BASare for the exclusive use of subscribers to CFDM. They are copyrighted and will remain the property of the author,George Quellhorst#203B Meadows Drive"Painesville,Ohio.44077-5361BIf you have any questions about this program, youmay call me at (216) 354-3812 from8:00 AM to 11:00 PM EST. Or write me a letter.However, I will answer only those letters thatinclude a SASE.Enjoy.....Enjoy...!!!iGeorge..=* RICK COOPER CFDM STARTUP KIT UPGRADE During the past month I have made a few changes inthe CFDM program.A few bugs were worked on and afew new features were added.The latest version is called V 1.1.If your copy of the CFDM STARTUP diskis not marked withV 1.1, you will need to do thefollowing upgrade.PLEASE MAKE THE UPGRADE IF YOUR STARTUP DISK IS NOT LABELED WITHV 1.1.@(Let's assume you are using only DRIVE 0.)?1) Format a fresh diskette and label it CFDM STARTUP V 1.1.W2) Use the BACKUP 0 command to copy your originalSTARTUP disk to the freshly formatted disk.0=>3) Your new diskette now holds the correct versionof all needed files.Q4) This last step is most necessary.With your newSTARTUP disk in DRIVE 0, type RUN "PATCH".Theprogram "PATCH" will initialize CFDM's FAT tableand clear out all the directories and entries.You will have an empty but standard CFDM STARTUPdisk.Please make copies of this disk to usewhen you want to make submissions of material!6You may want to make a few more copies of the newSTARTUP DISK at this time.Simply use the BACKUPcommand to make new copies.Since the entries that came on your original STARTUP disk are now gone, youmay want to keep the original stored away.=* H. Allen Curtis LLISTing in RAINBOW Format The RAINBOW magazine has traditionally presented itslistings in 32 characters per line format.Untilthe last few years every listing was in a two columnper page format. The program LLIST2C provides a hardcopy listing in the aforementioned formats.=Such a printout is invaluable in checking theaccuracy of one's typing of BASIC programs publishedby the RAINBOW.Furthermore, it is a convenient andelegant way to augment any program submission to theRAINBOW.`LLIST2C will provide a printout of any BASIC programthat is saved in ASCII on disk.At the end of line 20 of LLIST2C is the POKE that sets the printer baudrate.If your printer operates at a rate other=> than 2400, you will have to adjust the POKE accordingly.In line 50 the two alternative printercontrol codes are for near letter quality and draft printing, respectively.The codes are those used bymost Epson and Epson-compatible dot matrix printers.If your printer uses different codes for thesefunctions, you will have to change line 50, accordingly.\If the program to be listed is very short, theprintout will only fill the left column of the page.Each page, except possibly the last page, of a long program will be printed in a double column fashion.5So, get LLISTing on the double!C=* RICK COOPER & A COCO FRIEND BLOCKS..A TRIVIA GAME BLOCKS is a trivia game with an additional twist.The object of the game is to get your man from thestart position to his home before your opponent does(you may choose to play the one player game, just tosee how fast you can make it).Movement of yourpiece is made with the four arrow keys. The 10 by 10block playing board has green, blue and redblocks.You may move freely to any green block.If yourdestination is a blue block, you mustfirst answer a trivia question correctly before you are allowedto proceed. If you wish to move to ared block, youmust answer a question correctly toturn it blue.On your next turn you must answer another questionto turn it green.You may move as many times as youwish on green squares.Your turn ends when youfinish answering a question.=>The idea for this program came from a COCO FRIENDwho wishes to remain anonymous.I think it's aninteresting program and hope everyone will enjoy it.4Youmay wish to use your own data for BLOCKS. Here'show you can add your own questions.E1) LOAD "BLOCKS"$2) DELETE lines 2000-3) Type in your data using the following format:a) On each line type one entry. Each entry has 6 fields.Each field separate by a comma.b) Field one is the question.It should be lessthan 80 characters.If you find it does notprint out correctly, go back and reword it tomake it shorter.=>c) Field two thru five are the answers.If youwish to have less than four answers you mustuse two quotation marks with no space betweenas that answer.(looks like this "")(Answers should be 20 characters or less!!)d) Field six is the number of the correctanswer.&4) SAVE your program under a name other than BLOCKS.(such as MYBLOCKS.BAS)OBy the way there must be 60 questions for the game. If you have more or less questions, change line 20. If you have a great set of questions, please shareit with your COCO FRIENDS!(That means send it in!)^=* RICK COOPER HARDCOPY...PRINT #-2 CFDM Here's the utility to hard print the entries inCFDM.I planned to have it ready by the 2nd issue, but folks are already asking for it.If you havelearned to get thru CFDM, you will find HARDCOPYeasy to operate.XHere's how:]1) LOAD "HARDCOPY""2) Turn your printer on and set the paper to the topof the page.%3) Poke in your baud rate if other than standard.4) Place your CFDM disk in drive 0 (to access themagazine side)."5) Type RUN and press ENTER.6) Use the UP and DOWN arrows to highlight the=>section, now press ENTER.7) Use the UP and DOWN arrows to highlight the entryyou wish to print.Press ENTER.8) You will notice the disk being accessed and aprompt which says ....DECOMPRESSING... This willexecute very quickly!9) After decompressing is complete a new prompt willappear which says ...PRINTING...After a coupleof seconds printing will begin.10) You may continue to print entries by moving tothe appropriate section and entry name.BE SURETO ADJUST YOUR PAPER BEFORE EACH PRINTOUT!LENJOY!!=* Rick Cooper About REVIEWS This section is for reviews.You can try your hand at reviewing products old or new.That's right eventhose that have been reviewed before here or inother places.Pick out a product that interests youand do your best to give it a fair shake.I believeyou'll be able to tell us something that we don'tknow and that we need to know.Your review may evenchange someone's mind about a product they thoughtthey didn't like.Give it a try.It'll be greatfun!!\=* George Quellhorst POKE QUESTION There is a POKE, and I used to have it, but lost it, that will render the cursor on the 40 and 80 text screens invisible, not there,gone, forget about it period.KIf anyone there in CDFM land knows about or hasseen this "LOST POKE", please inform the Questionand Answer section immediately. WITHOUT DELAY !!!#'''''''''''''''''George Quellhorst, which is me, the person thatlost the darn thing, will be eternally greatfull.7THANKS - THANKS - THANKS - THANKS - AND THANK YOU !_=* CFDM AND A RAM DISK Will CFDM work on a RAM DISK?K.......Ed...I was interested in that question myself.Ican't speak for other ram disks, but those produced by a program called PHANTOM have worked great forme.Anyone else tried it?=* James J. Gibbons Picture - Winter Serinity This picture is of a cabin in the woods of some ofthe Pennsylvania mountains. I especially enjoypainting pictures of outdoor winter scenes.=I used CoCo Max 3 to paint this picture and took me quite a bit of time to produce.CoCo Max 3, Ibelive is one of the most user friendly programs Ihave seen for the Color Computer 3.EHaving a prior art background comes in handy, but I believe everyone can be an artist when it comes tousing COCO Max 3.WI used the smallest brush under the brush size iconsunder the goodies section of the program. I hope you enjoy the picture. =* James J. Gibbons Future Of the CoCo! Rick, I think this magazine is a great idea.I will try to do what I can to make it a greatsuccess in the years to come.I plan to makemany submissions in the Art Gallery section,and I think I will have something comparable to"PC-Atlas" or "PC-Globe" for you to publish near the end of next year.Thanks again forthinking of me for picture submissions and for the great idea of publishing this magazineon disk for the CoCo world.iJim Gibbons=* James J. Gibbons James J. Gibbons My name is Jim Gibbons and I am an avid ColorComputer 2 and 3 user.I currently use my computer for my art work and my work in school.I currently live at 4 SpringLake Crest, Watsontown, PA17777.My phone number is (717)-538-3358.I am teaching English andGeography and one day of Art in the Junior High grades 7-9 at MemorialBaptist Christian School in Williamsport, PA.I am married and have two children. My wife Linda is alsoa user of the Color Computer 2 here at home as well as at school where she teaches Junior High grades6-8.My oldest daughter uses the CoCo 2 and myyoungest daughter is an avid user of the Atari Home Computer. I majored in Art while in college and havewon many awards in my paintings and computer artwork.*=>I hope to be submitting many more pictures inthe future and I truly hope to see The CoCo Friends Disk Magazine (CFDM) be a great success in the future.I think this magazineis the "shot in the arm" that the CoCocommunity has needed for a long time.=* James J. Gibbons Question Is it advisable to pick up 512K upgrade kitsfor future use for the CoCo 3?I'm not surehow long these memory chips last.I have beenusing my CoCo 3 512k computer for about 5 yearsnow.The 512k has only been used for about 2 1/2 years now.Before that time 128k was used.I received the computer (128k) in December of 1986.jThanks for the info!k=* Herb Schuler Herb Schuler Hi! My name is Herb. My wife, Claudie, and I live inWoodbury, NJ. Our town is in South Jersey about ten miles southeast of Philadelphia, Pa. I have beenretired for ten years (now age 65) having been aBusiness Office Manager for the local TelephoneCompany. The main hobby that keeps me happy inretirement is HAM RADIO, followed very closely bythe COCO. I bought my first COCO (a 4k 'D' board) inJune 1982 to interface with the ham radio equipment.Using 'THE INTERFACE' and software from the Kantronics Company, I had much success in thatundertaking.In August 1988 I got my present COCO3 and outfitted it with a CM-8 monitor and two drives.These were my first disk drives as I had used tapeall those years with the first COCO. All of you withdisk drives know the new world of computing that => was opened to me with the drives. I never was ableto teach myself all the fine details of programming.Those things I have learned came from studying theprograms of others. My programming activities havepretty much been limited to modifying others'programs. Most of my computer activity is 'text'oriented with Telewriter 128, Dynacalc, databases,etc. And, most of my attempts at programming aretrying to create RS DOS utilities. Those that I havebeen successful with are being used to keep track ofham radio data. Just in case you who read this mayalso be ham radio operators, my call is K2HPV. Ifyou operate CW you may hear me on most any band.Please give me a call if you do. You won't have tolisten for me on fone because I don't even have amicrophone connected to my set! I look forward=>to meeting more of you through the FAMILY TREE.=* Herb Schuler Problem with ULTRA-BASE One of the databases I like to use is ULTRA-BASE by 'Tothian Software'. I find it to be a very flexible database and suits my needs. During the 3 years Ihave been using it I have never been satisfied with the way it drives my DMP105 printer. My printerworks great with Telewriter 128, for example.Itbuzzes right along with the program and the printer set at 2400 baud. But, with ULTRA-BASE, although theprinter seems to print at a 2400 baud rate, theprogram seems to be feeding the printer at 600 baud.It takes much longer to fill the printer buffer withULTRA-BASE than it does with Telewriter.I soughtassistance from Tothian some time ago and all theysaid was necessary was to introduce a POKE 150,18statement in the program. I had already done thatwithout success.=>The program is filled with POKE statements that I donot understand, so I have not been able to correctmy problem. Do any of you have experience with ULTRA-BASE using a DMP105 printer?Have you had thisproblem?Have you corrected it?I'd love to knowhow.As it is it takes so-o-o long to print out my data.}Herb Schuleri=* Herb Schuler He Hit the Nail on the Head! Hi Rick..Well, CFDM looks like it could have promise-judging from the STARTUP KIT.You'll either haveto have a lot of outside input, put in a lot of latehours yourself or probably even both to make asuccess of it.ZI'm betting you can do it!Enclosed is my $30 asinitial support.I've submitted two items on theenclosed disk as a starter.MGood Luck!I'll try my best to help as we go along.Best Success,Herb Schuler8Rick..The above was not an ENTRY WRITER entry, but anote Herb stuck in with his submission disk.Pleaseexcuse me Herb for printing it, but it is such =>a great example of the response I've been gettingfrom our COCO FRIENDS and you correctly describedwhat I've experienced this past month and a half.It's a good thing I enjoy this, cause "it sho nough is a lot of work"!=* Norman Barson Norman Barson I was born and raised in Omaha, NE. I served as acombat infantryman in WW II (the last two months of it, anyway). I got most of my education at IowaState Univ., receiving a Ph.D. in Chem. Engr. Mywife, Celia, and I came to NJ where we have beenever since. I worked, first, for Exxon Research &Engineering, then for Celanese Research. When I tookearly retirement 10 years ago, I was managing theTechnical Information Center.KI bought my first CoCo, the grey one, in 1982, andhave never lost my interest in it. I am a self-taught programmer (BASIC only), whenever I can thinkof something that hasn't already been done. I amespecially intrigued by graphics, particulary on theCoCo 3. My other hobbies are duplicate bridge (at=> which I am close to becoming a Life Master) and abadly-neglected stamp collection.=* Norman Barson BROOK I had always planned to try my hand at computer art,but this was my first attempt.Sure, I had takenclip art and modified it, colored it, etc., but thiswas the first thing I have done from scratch.BROOKwas drawn with CoCoMax 3 using techniques I learned by watching various painting shows on educationalTV.One would think that a palette of 16 colorswould be adequate, but I found myself wishing I had more colors and shades.Still, it was a learningexperience, and I plan to pursue it.I urge anyother frustrated artists or painters to give it atry.=* Norman Barson BOWLPLOT If you bowl regularly in a league, you probably keepaclose watch on how youdo each week-what areyour highestand lowest games so far,what is yourhighestweeklyaverage,isyour overallaveragegoing up, etc.BOWLPLOT is a programthat lets yousee all this graphically.It is easy to use.;RUN"BOWLPLOT". You will be asked for the name of thebowler,the season(for example, 90-91),then thenumber of elapsed weeks in the season. If the seasonis 25 weeks old,enter 25 even though you might nothave bowled all of those weeks.INext, you will be prompted to enter the three scoresfor each week,separated by commas. If you were offany givenweek,enter threezeros,separated by commas.Until you press on any line you canmake changes by backspacing. But, if you have made amistake,you can correct it later, so just continueentering data.ZWhen youhaveenteredscores forthedesignatednumber ofweeks,your entrieswill be listed, tenweeks at a time,and you willbe asked if you wanttomakechanges.Aftergoingthroughallthelistings,youwill haveone morechance tomakecorrectionsbyselectingthegroup often weekscontaining an error. If all are correct, select (5),and the plotting will begin after a slight pause.7For each week,the scores are plotted as a verticallinefrom thehighestscore tothe lowest score with a "tick"mark indicatingthe average for the night.When allthe weekshavebeenplotted, a green line will be drawnindicating the cumulative average as it changes from week to week.@You can exit the plotby pressing . You willhave theopportunityagain to makechanges in thedata if,from the plot,you spotted an error.Youcan also use the change option if you wish to returnto the plot,but do not have any morecorrections.Otheroptions allowyou to start a newplot for anew bowler or end the program.y=* TED KITSOS PRINT #,USING COMMAND The 'PRINT #buffer, USING format; data list' commandis not easily learned from the Tandy manuals.Belowis a short example which may give you a better idea of how to use it.W10 A$="CFDM COSTS ":B$="RAINBOW COSTS ":A=6:B=3.95320 PRINT #-2, USING"% %$###.##%%$###.##";A$,A,B$,BSThe following will print out on your printer.;CFDM COSTS $6.00RAINBOW COSTS $ 3.95?In line 20, the first %...% is exactly length 11including the %'s and the second %...% is exactly =>length 17.Length 11 matches "CFDM COSTS " andlength 17 matches "RAINBOW COSTS ".BThe entire format should be within the doublequotes.aI'd like to see other short articles teaching aBASIC concept.Perhaps my use of 'PRINT #, USING'can be improved.If so, let's hear from you.=* J. R. Waggoner J. R. Waggoner My name is J. R. Waggoner.My wife and I live inStuttgart, Arkansas.TI have been a security guard at a manufactoringfacility here for the last 11 years.My wife andI also work part time at the local Radio Shackstore which is next door to were we live.?I own 2 color computers.One is a 10 year oldColor Computer 1.It started out as a 16K machine. I have upgraded it to 512K with J & R ElectronicsBANKER 2.I also have 2 disk drives with RS/DOS.7My second machine is a Color Computer 3 with 512K.a=>My CoCo 3 has one disk drive with RS/DOS also.:Other equipment insludes a DMP-105 printer, CM-8monitor, RASCAN vidoe digitizer, 2 300 Baud modems, and a 14 year old Tandy Model 1 Level 2 TRS-80Microcomputer with 2 disk drives (and it stillworks.)aI also have a large collection of magazines, books, articles, and programs for all three computers.9Other than the obvious, my other hobbies includereading science fiction, Star Trek, old time radioprograms, 70's music, electronics, scanners, andshort wave listening.K=>J. R. Waggoner&911 North Grand AvenueStuttgart, Arkansas 72160-2913=* J. R. Waggoner SPLIT/BAS SPLIT/BAS reads in a long text file, then breaksthe file up into smaller files so that they can beread into a word processor.MFor years I used TELEWRITER-64 for word processing. After purchasing MAX-10 from COLORWARE, I foundthat many of my TW-64 files were to long to be read into MAX-10.Also, many files that are on publicdomain disk are also to long.KSPLIT/BAS will break up a text file into smallerfiles of a length that you specify.The onlyentries that you need to make are the name of thefile and the length of the new files.All otherd=>operations are automatic.OSPLIT/BAS will automatically number the new filesusing the EXTENSION of the file.These numberswill begin with /001.SThe original file will be left unchanged.?The instructions can be read either on screen orprinted out to your printer from the program.;To read the instructions and or run SPLIT/BASjust run SPLIT/BAS.=>Filenames of program and instructions:BSPLIT/BAS_SPLIT/DOCJ. R. Waggoner&911 North Grand AvenueStuttgart, Arkansas 72160-2913=* RICK COOPER CFDM STARTUP KIT UPGRADE During the past month I have made a few changes inthe CFDM program.A few bugs were worked on and afew new features were added.The latest version is called V 1.2.If your copy of the CFDM STARTUP diskis not marked withV 1.2, you will need to do thefollowing upgrade.PLEASE MAKE THE UPGRADE IF YOUR STARTUP DISK IS NOT LABELED WITHV 1.2.@(Let's assume you are using only DRIVE 0.)?1) Format a fresh diskette and label it CFDM STARTUP V 1.2.W2) Use the BACKUP 0 command to copy your originalSTARTUP disk to the freshly formatted disk.0=>3) Your new diskette now holds the correct versionof all needed files.Q4) This last step is most necessary.With your newSTARTUP disk in DRIVE 0, type RUN "PATCH".Theprogram "PATCH" will initialize CFDM's FAT tableand clear out all the directories and entries.You will have an empty but standard CFDM STARTUPdisk.Please make copies of this disk to usewhen you want to make submissions of material!6You may want to make a few more copies of the newSTARTUP DISK at this time.Simply use the BACKUPcommand to make new copies.Since the entries that came on your original STARTUP disk are now gone, youmay want to keep the original stored away.=* Mike Brown Coco and Amateur Radio Amateur Radio, commonly known as Ham radio, andthe Coco go together like icecream and cake.I havefound the Coco to be a versatile tool in the Hamradio shack!I operate several modes of communica- tion with my Coco and will attempt to discuss myfavorite mode, Packet radio, in this article. Packet radio operates much like telephone mo-deming, in fact, I use the same terminal software onpacket that I use on the telephone.There are many bbs that offer mail services and file transfers tothe local users as well as a forwarding service toother states or countries via the Packet radio net- work.The only requirement for these messages isthat they adhere to the regulations set forth by theFCC for the Amateur Radio Service.What is required to operate a Packet radio=> system?First, you must acquire an Amateur RadioLicense.Check with some of your local electronicrepair shops for contacts with licensed Hams thatcan assist you with this.There is a short examrequired and they can help you find study material.Next, you must assemble the radio gear for the system.This will consist of a TNC (terminal nodecontroller) which is a really super smart modem, atransceiver that will operate around 145.00 mhz and an antenna thatis designed for thatfrequencyegment.2You already have the computer and most likelythe terminal software.I have tried several of the shareware terminal programs and a couple of the com-mercial ones and they all do a credible job.I de- cide which one I want to use by the job I want to =>accomplish.I simply keep them all on the same diskwith the communication parameters set the same andsimply switch when I need to.The serial port works well enough, and if youare lucky enough to have a multi-pak, that worksgreat too if you can find the RS-232 cartridge. The cost?Well, in used prices, a radio, TNC, antenna, and powersupply will cost you in the ball- park of $250 dollars.I recently pieced together a station for about that price that is going to serve as a node/digipeater (will explain those later). I will try to give you more information later, but meanwhile, if perchance you are already licensedand on packet, my Ham callsign is KM4IY and my bbsis N4YUU.KY - wud luv 2 hr frm u..73==* Mike Brown Mike Brown Name:Mike BrownAddress:Rt 6 Box 130City/State :Liberty, Ky42539Phone:606/787-7721Hobbies:Computer hacking/Ham radio/readingscience fiction-fantasy books. Occupation :Musician/public school band and musicteacher.%My wife and our 3 dogs and 5 cats live on asmall farm in southern Kentucky.Our nearest neigh-bor is 1/2 mile away and we can't see the house.I have been hacking the Coco since about 1984 and have2 Coco III's, 2 Coco II's, and 1 Coco I.All areworking except one of the II's.I use a 20 meg harddrive and a CM8 with a 512k Coco III for most of my hacking.I dabble in Basic and OS9 Basic with=>aspirations toward C and Pascal.I have beenacquainted with Rick Cooper for 13 years as a fellowCoco-nut and a fellow Educator in our school system.As a matter of fact, he is the principal at one ofthe schools I teach.I used to think that I waskeeping up with him in my hacking, but he has simplyout ran me that last few years.I want to thank himfor his patience with me when I call him for help.Thank goodness it is not a toll call!This I think is his best idea for the Coco yet!I really feel that CFDM is "NEW BLOOD" that we need in our Coco community.I hope that my contributionsto CFDM are found to be useful and interesting to a few of our CF's and I look forward to meeting andmaking many new friends with CFDM!?=* Mike Brown Hooray for CFDM!!! Hooray!I got my starter kit and I am veryimpressed!It has reinterested me in my Coco, andI have even dug out my old Coco Extended Basic book to begin relearning all I have forgotten about pro- gramming, and believe me!That is a bunch!This looks like a lot of fun and a lot of hard work!Especially for Rick, (the work, I mean).He deserves it!I have known him for 13 years and inall of that time, he preaches Cocoism to everyonethat mentions the word computer.I sure hope he hasfound his pot of gold with CFDM.The only thing Ican see wrong with it, is that it wasn't my idea!Contributions, articles, technical info...weCoconuts have this opportunity to share our know-ledge.My knowledge and ability is meager compared to most, but I hope to make some kind of=>contribution to the Coco users! Pass the word aroundto your old Coco pals and get them excited again.Show this to the new users you meet, now that Tandy has orphaned us, we have to keep our family togetherourselves!/I am surely looking forward with great antici- pation to meeting you all in CFDM!=* Mike Brown Prefix My prefix program is part of a package that Ihope to finish someday that will contain a diskfull of utilities for Amateur radio operators.Each country of the world is assigned a set of letters and numbers to issue to their Amateur radio operators.Each countries prefix is unique as iseach individuals call sign.Being a casual operator, I do not have this prefix list memorized as many hams do, and I find that I had to keep dragging out a list from a book.Thislittle utility is kept on a shack disk and when Ihear a prefix that is new to my ears, I load it upand in a bit have it in front of me, if it is in thedata file./If it is not, it may be added simply by adding a new line number in the data section of the pro- =>gram in the same format as the others are listed andchanging the variable N in line 70 in the amount of new prefixes you added."The program simply asks for you to input theprefix you want to search for and it does the job.It is not a real fast search, but then, I am not in a real big hurry.You may modify the program as yousee fit.Since yours will probably be an improve-ment over mine, please send me a copy...chuckle. For now, let me say 73, (that means best re-gards in ham lingo).Mike Brown (KM4IY)k=* Mike Brown C3Packet Monty Haley of Rt 1 Box 150-A Evening Shade, Ar72532has written a program for Packet Radio.:I was unaware of this program until I purchased aused Coco at a Ham swap meet last summer and I find myself using it very often.It has all of thenecessities for packet communication, plus severalgoodies to make it better.NAn 80 column split screen, transmit and receivebuffers with a built in editor, 10 programmablemacros, disk or tape i/o, and printer output are allavailable to the user.RCommunication parameters such as parity, baud rate, etc. are programmable.Communication to the TNC => may be done via the serial port or the RS232 pak or both if you have two TNC's.Several keys and keycombinations have been programmed in by Monty toperform the most commonly used commands to the TNCsuch as streamswitching and changing from conversemode to command mode.SI use this program quite often.I especially likethe buffer editor.I can prepare my messages andfiles for uploading in the buffer editor while I am able to keep up with what is going on with the guys on the frequency with a simple keystroke to changescreens.I even use the editor for simple wordprocessing chores.VThis program is available from Monty at the=>address I showed at the beginning of this review.Theprice listed in the documentation on the disk Igot was $18.Along with the Coco III version, thereis also one that works on the Coco I & II.Each of the different versions also have a second copy fortape users.Also included is a packet bbs program.I have seen the Coco II packet program working andit is much the same as the one I describe...thedifferences being the screen width and the buffersizes. I have never seen the bbs in operation.Someday, when I have the time to be a sysop, maybeI will be able to get it running.If any of youhave, let me know.%My ham call is KM4IY and my mailbox is N4YUU.KY.....best regards to all until next time.:=* Mike Brown Ham Radio Software I use the Coco in my Amateur radio shack and amalways on the lookout for software that I might beable to use.If anyone knows of a source for thistype of software, I can be reached at the following address.....Mike Brown....Rt 6 Box 130...Liberty, KY42539.I have several pieces of software that Ihave scrounged the past few years if you are in needof it.=* Mike Brown Hooray for CFDM!!! Hooray!I got my starter kit and I am veryimpressed!It has reinterested me in my Coco, andI have even dug out my old Coco Extended Basic book to begin relearning all I have forgotten about pro- gramming, and believe me!That is a bunch!This looks like a lot of fun and a lot of hard work!Especially for Rick, (the work, I mean).He deserves it!I have known him for 13 years and inall of that time, he preaches Cocoism to everyonethat mentions the word computer.I sure hope he hasfound his pot of gold with CFDM.The only thing Ican see wrong with it, is that it wasn't my idea!Contributions, articles, technical info...weCoconuts have this opportunity to share our know-ledge.My knowledge and ability is meager compared to most, but I hope to make some kind of=>contribution to the Coco users! Pass the word aroundto your old Coco pals and get them excited again.Show this to the new users you meet, now that Tandy has orphaned us, we have to keep our family togetherourselves!/I am surely looking forward with great antici- pation to meeting you all in CFDM!=* EDITOR THIS MONTH'S COVER O' happy day, for CFDM and COCO friends, when wefirst met James Gibbons!How encouraging to talkto someone as excited about the COCO as ourselves!During that first meeting, Jim promised to send someof his pictures in time for the first issue. As for me, I'm writing software and working hard to establish CFDM as an enjoyable, meaningful vehicleto keep us together.I'm purchasing ads, sendingflyers, and making long distance calls to recruitmore friends. I'm trying to encourage everyone toparticipate.I NEED YOUR HELP!!HWhat can you do?PARTICIPATE by submitting yourwork.Art, programs, articles, family trees, views for this column, questions and answers, all willhelp keep our friends together.As you can see,some sections of CFDM need entries more than others.The REVIEWS section especially needs entries.I'msure that everyone can find at least three or foursections they could contribute too.=>;Now is a great time to contribute.It may be verycrowded and competitive later!JOther ideas on how you can help:Pass the wordabout CFDM.Tell your local COCO friends, club and BBS members, or adopt a potential new friend.Look thru RAINBOW for an author you particularly liked.Send him a note and explain what we're doing.;Some have already recruited new friends. A list sentby Robert Griffard has resulted in at least seven ofour current friends.THere's something I hope will help you. I authorizeany current friend to duplicate the STARTUP disk anddocs to give or send to a potential friend!!=* Rick Cooper DISK EDTASM DISK EDTASM has certainly been worth it's price tome!!Without it I couldn't have written the CFDMdriver I'm now using!There'd be no RAINBOW INDEXESor NIB COMPRESSOR!No MASTER DIR 3, VOCAB, GALLERY MAKER, PUZZLES...and the list goes on.BIf you're familiar with the original ROM-PAK versionyou'll have no trouble with the disk version.What I really like is the ability to use the 80 columnscreen.I believe I missed a patch somewhere along the trail.I've heard of a patch that let's yousee the opening screen on WIDTH80, but I missed it. I have learned when to press the '2' and renamed theEDTASM.BIN file to E.BIN so now I only have to type 'E' in the blind.J=> If you like to program, you would probably loveassembly language.If you want to do assembly, Iheartily recommend DISK EDTASM.=* Pieter & Andrew Vervark BAD CHIPS??? I am experiencing some trouble with my COCO3.Thescreen which is displayed when you press CTRL + ALT and reset (the three stooges) is now automaticallydisplayed when I power up.This will stay on until I switch the computer off.Some friends and Ibelieve that the PIA chip(s) have been damaged.9IC 4, which is a 68B21, is easily available inAustralia, but IC 5, the PIA select, LSC81001 is notavailable here because it was custom manufactured byMotorola for the COCO.So would you be able to tellme where in the U.S. I could get the LSC chip?Inoticed that the diagrams and other semiconductorinformation show that both chips are internally the same. If this is true, would you know if it ispossible to use two 68B21's instead of one of =>each?cPieter and Andrew Vervark37 Peters Drive%Cheltenham, VIC3192Australia =* Virginia Hawxhurst IS THIS OS9 OR WHAT? Dear Rick: Thank you for inviting me to join your"Disk Magazine". I'm not sure it is for me.I dowrite a lot of programs but I DO NOT use OS9.I am not going to subscribe to the "RAINBOW" again,because they are basically for OS9 now...If yourdisks are mainly OS9 then I do not want it. I amsending the $6 for the trial disk.Please adviseif you are slanting toward OS9.IDear Virginia: Yes there is a Santa Claus and there is a disk magazine for folks like you and I.Nokidding, the term OS9 may crop up from time to time,but only as a reference. No OS9 programs or articleswill be found here. No offense meant to OS9 users,but this is not an OS9 publication. Just good oldRS DOS for you and me!=* Norman Barson BOWLPLOT If you bowl regularly in a league, you probably keepaclose watch on how youdo each week-what areyour highestand lowest games so far,what is yourhighestweeklyaverage,isyour overallaveragegoing up, etc.BOWLPLOT is a programthat lets yousee all this graphically.It is easy to use.;RUN"BOWLPLOT". You will be asked for the name of thebowler,the season(for example, 90-91),then thenumber of elapsed weeks in the season. If the seasonis 25 weeks old,enter 25 even though you might nothave bowled all of those weeks.INext, you will be prompted to enter the three scoresfor each week,separated by commas. If you were offany given week, enter three zeros, separated by =>commas.Until you press on any line you canmake changes by backspacing. But, if you have made amistake,you can correct it later, so just continueentering data.ZWhen youhaveenteredscores forthedesignatednumber ofweeks,your entrieswill be listed, tenweeks at a time,and you willbe asked if you wanttomakechanges.Aftergoingthroughallthelistings,youwill haveone morechance tomakecorrectionsbyselectingthegroup often weekscontaining an error. If all are correct, select (5),and the plotting will begin after a slight pause.7For each week,the scores are plotted as a verticalline from the highest score to the lowest score =>with a "tick"mark indicatingthe average for the night.When allthe weekshavebeenplotted, a green line will be drawnindicating the cumulative average as it changes from week to week.@You can exit the plotby pressing . You willhave theopportunityagain to makechanges in thedata if,from the plot,you spotted an error.Youcan also use the change option if you wish to returnto the plot,but do not have any morecorrections.Otheroptions allowyou to start a newplot for anew bowler or end the program.v=* Norman Barson BOWLPLOT If you bowl regularly in a league, you probably keepaclose watch on how youdo each week-what areyour highestand lowest games so far,what is yourhighestweeklyaverage,isyour overallaveragegoing up, etc.BOWLPLOT is a programthat lets yousee all this graphically.It is easy to use.;RUN"BOWLPLOT". You will be asked for the name of thebowler,the season(for example, 90-91),then thenumber of elapsed weeks in the season. If the seasonis 25 weeks old,enter 25 even though you might nothave bowled all of those weeks.INext, you will be prompted to enter the three scoresfor each week,separated by commas. If you were offany given week, enter three zeros, separated by =>commas.Until you press on any line you canmake changes by backspacing. But, if you have made amistake,you can correct it later, so just continueentering data.ZWhen youhaveenteredscores forthedesignatednumber ofweeks,your entrieswill be listed, tenweeks at a time,and you willbe asked if you wanttomakechanges.Aftergoingthroughallthelistings,youwill haveone morechance tomakecorrectionsbyselectingthegroup often weekscontaining an error. If all are correct, select (5),and the plotting will begin after a slight pause.7For each week,the scores are plotted as a verticalline from the highest score to the lowest score =>with a "tick"mark indicatingthe average for the night.When allthe weekshavebeenplotted, a green line will be drawnindicating the cumulative average as it changes from week to week.@You can exit the plotby pressing . You willhave theopportunityagain to makechanges in thedata if,from the plot,you spotted an error.Youcan also use the change option if you wish to returnto the plot,but do not have any morecorrections.Otheroptions allowyou to start a newplot for anew bowler or end the program.v=* Rick Cooper CFDM V 1.2 UPGRADE PATCH A number of changes have been made in the CFDMdriver over the last few weeks.Some of the changeswere to correct bugs while others were to add newfeatures or improve old ones.The program "PATCH"on the magazine side of this diskette will allow youto make a new STARTUP (submission) disk.Pleaseread the following instructions to create your newdisk./THOSE FRIENDS WITH STARTUP DISKS MARKED V 1.2 WILLNOT NEED TO MAKE THIS UPGRADE!!!------------INSTRUCTIONS FOR PATCH----------------- 1) Make a backup copy of this disk (CFDM issue 1).2) RUN "PATCH" from the magazine side of the backup.3) You will be able to press the ENTER key whenprompted from that program if you have left thenewly-made backup disk in drive 0.=>4) Your newly-made STARTUP disk will not have anyentries on it. DO NOT BE ALARMED! THIS IS NORMAL.----------------------------------------------------4Some of the improvements made to CFDM are:>1) Faster display of text to the screen. 2) Page numbering in upper left corner. 3) Page prompt whenever you press the CTRL key.4) Menu routines that "remember" where you were whenyou left that menu. Upon return to that menu youwill be at the point of departure.5) A bug was fixed that did not allow ENTRY WRITERto always locate TRACK 17 (DISK BASICs directory)4PLEASE USE YOUR NEW STARTUP TO MAKE SUBMISSIONS. =* Rick Cooper KUDOS I would like to send a sincere THANKS to all whohave contributed to this first issue.Also thanksto all who have had the interest (curiosity, courage, etc.) to support the effort with their $6 or $30. I hope the results will be pleasing enough that you will continue your support!MThis is a good time for you to check to see ifthis is the last issue of your subscription.Lookat the last number beside your name on your mailing label.If that number is 1, then it's time to renewyour subscription.The cost is $6 for one issue or $30 for 6 issues if you live in the USA.The ratefor out-of-country friends is $7 for one issue or$36 for 6 issues.Q=* CONTENTS (PART 1) ABOUT CFDM....("ABOUT CFDM"(ABOUT COCO FRIENDS DISK MAGAZINECONTENTS (PART 1)#CONTENTS (PART 2)#KUDOS/THE FORMAT OF CFDMTABOUT THE COVER....#ABOUT THE COVER%THIS MONTH'S COVERTADDRESS CORRECTION.... HAS YOUR ADDRESS CHANGED?x=>ADVERTISEMENTS....$UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #1UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #2UNBELIEVABLE OFFER #3WHAT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE OFFER?IARTICLES OF THE MONTH....Coco and Amateur RadioLOVE MY COCO(PRINT #,USING COMMANDPROGRAMMING..A PROPER EXITLCOCO FRIENDS ART GALLERY....BROOK/Picture - Winter SerinityRecycle#=>FAMILY TREE....'George Quellhorst#Herb Schuler(J. R. Waggoner&James J. Gibbons$John Tindall(Mike Brown*Norman Barson'Rick Cooper)Robert GriffardWFORUM....-Coco's Future'NEXT MONTH'S TOPIC"TOPIC OF THE MONTH"Topic Comment=* CONTENTS (PART 2) FROM THE EDITOR....#ABOUT SUBMISSIONS#From the EditorWLETTERS TO THE EDITOR....Future of the CoCo!!HOW ABOUT A HARDCOPY He Hit the Nail on the Head!Hooray for CFDM!!!"IS THIS OS9 OR WHAT? Plug N' Power'SUGGESTION*TO RICK=>POTPOURRI....)! THE GREAT DEMO CONTEST !WISHING ON A COCO STAR!OPROGRAMS OF THE MONTH....BLOCKS..A TRIVIA GAMEBOWLPLOT,CFDM V 1.2 UPGRADE PATCHCONVERSIONS(CONVERT/BAS)HARDCOPY...PRINT #-2 CFDMLLISTing in RAINBOW FormatPrefix.SPLIT/BAS+VCR CARD=>REVIEWS....+About REVIEWS'C3Packet,DISK EDTASM[QUESTIONS & ANSWERS....BAD CHIPS???(CFDM AND A RAM DISK!Ham Radio Software"POKE QUESTION'Problem with ULTRA-BASEQuestion=*