★ APPLICATIONS ★ DIVERS ★ COMPILATION : GOLDMARK SYSTEMS UTILITIES DISC ONE|Amstrad Action) ★ |
| Compilation : Goldmark Systems Utilities Disc One | Applications Divers |
Utilities Disk One is really sell explanatory: it's a suite of programs designed to make life easier for those with disk drives. A five-options menu is displayed: Samson is the first; a tape-to-disk backup program designed to help you put your software collection onto disk. Once run. it asks you how many files to transfer (if you're not sure of the number enter 0) and whether you wish automatic or manual transfer. Manual transfer allows you to rename the files. Naturally, illegal names are rejected. There is also a printer option This echos screen information to the printer - a nice option since it saves you the trouble of remembering Samson includes relocation routines to get round the sticky problem of memory overlap (certain cassette software lies over the portion of memory set aside for the disk drive) Samson will transfer these to a dilierent part of memory and put them back where they belong on loading. Quiclone is a routine originally written by Pride Utilities. It is an ultra simple disk copter Transit is similar to Quiclone, but allows individual files. Samson includes relocation routines to get round the sticky problem of memory overlap (certain cassette software lies over the portion of memory set aside for the disk drive) Samson will transfer these to a different part of memory and put them back where they belong on loading. Quiclone is a routine originally written by Pride Utilities. It is an ultra simple disk copter Transit is similar to Quiclone, but allows individual files to be copied from disk to disk A disk catalogue is helpfully included. Viewtext allows you to examine individual files on a disk. Options available are disk catalogue, load a tile, examine the tile starting at any address and printer toggle (which allows you can to dump the tile to paper) Viewtext is a program that I have a genuine use for., its good to be able to search machine code programs for ASCII messages. Bach simply plays a minuet written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's tine lor a while, but it's so short that it soon palls. One fault of the whole shebang is that the programs can only handle standard Amstrad tiles. Most protection systems won't be beaten by it. Samson, tor instance, is not really much better than Transmat. which was published by Pride Utilities over two years ago The other programs can accomplish little that CPM (which is free with a disk system) cannot. I will grant that playing Bach doesn't come under this category, but is that genuinely useful? On the other hand, the suite of programs supplies much more usable disk space than CPM. and is easier to use than CPM. People who don't like messing about with CPM would prefer this package.
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