42 Column Routine (BASIC extension)

[uglifruit]

Do I put this here?

My 42 column BASIC print extension, using stream 7.

Source code, demo, instructions, etc. all found here





I started this years ago, and did a few tweaks more recently.

I'm now calling it *done*.

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ID also created for the accompanying demo. DH 18/04/23

[R-Tape]

My 42 column BASIC print extension, using stream 7.

Cheers. That just links to a pic though.

[uglifruit]

Cheers. That just links to a pic though.

Yep. What an idiot I am.

Try this https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmvYCHV8PMQkn2U3QELhEAsmWGhC?e=93r09F

They are beautiful screenshots though. I don't know what you're complaining about.

[R-Tape]

Neat, and that's a cool demo - more arty than a lot of standalone demos (so I'm giving it a separate ID).

I found doing a proportional font in assembly difficult enough, doing it in BASIC sounds painful to me.

[uglifruit]

Here's a quick variant on this, as I had a polite email requesting it.

tap file

It uses LPRINT (technically stream #3) in place of PRINT #7; to access the routine.

So, as long as you've not got a printer attached, this might be the better version to use. Your BASIC will look something like this:

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5 REM Having saved the font and routines with SAVE "data" CODE 64000,1536
10 CLEAR 63999
20 LOAD "data" CODE
30 RANDOMIZE USR 64900:REM initialise the routine
40 LPRINT PAPER 0:REM SET UP NO ATTRIBUTE MASK
50 FOR A=0 to 23
60 LPRINT AT A,A;INK A;"TEST"
70 NEXT A
80 PAUSE 0

All the additional entry points, pokes and handy routines are identical to the other version.

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Added to ID 39463. DH 04/06/23