Hello all you tired-fingered people. Just as you recover from last month's epic typing session it is time to enter the rest of our prize winning listing. If you have given up and want to buy the program on tape or disc from Garwood (see page 16) the whole lot is on tape 12. You should have eight tapes labelled 1 to 7 and ‘combination'. The first two tapes contain the programs you slaved over last month. Type in the remaining five programs and save them to tapes 3,4,5,6 and 7. Remember to keep frequent back-up copies. When you have all the programs working individually it is time to amalgamate them. Load program 1. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM 1'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 2. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM2'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 3. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM3'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 4. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM4'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 5. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM5'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 6. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM6'. Do not rewind the tape. Swap tapes and load program 7. Put the ‘combination' tape in and type SAVE ‘PROGRAM7'. Now rewind the combination tape. Time for the moment of truth. Reset the computer and press CTRL and the small Enter key. The programs will (or rather should) load in order, each one tucking the machine code away into memory. This takes ages so go and make a cup of tea (two lumps for me please - Ed.). When you get back you will either see an error message on the screen, which will mean that you have made a mistake typing the program in. In which case you should type in PRINT In. The number you get back will tell you which line the mistake is in or near. Or you will see the word ‘SPLATCH' on the screen rolling around in glorious machine code. You may find that the program is still loading, time to drink your tea, and read some of the other articles in this magazine. Once the whole thing is working get ready for the best game ever printed in a computer magazine. ACU
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