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| Its Basic | Applications Programmation |
Its Basic is something new in the way of 'utility' programs from the innovative and at times rather zany team at Nabitchi Computing. It is essentially a collection of small programs that work under Mallard Basic, although some have a little machine code tagged on to help produce special effects. "Something new in the way of utility programs” The disc has been priced as low as possible and the programs are completely unprotected - not only are they free of software tricks to stop pirating but they are also free of any threatening messages about copyright. The idea is that users are welcome to break into the programs, list them and to steal ideas and techniques from them. Nabitchi see the PCW as a greatly underused machine, a computer which, unlike most of its predecessors from the ZX80 upward, has done little to encourage the millions who own it to try their hand at programming. Many people who use a PCW at home have as little knowledge of how to use Basic as the pioneers who first computed on a Sinclair machine did, and there isn't the same degree of help around to teach them. Nabitchi's very original approach to filling this gap is likely to work well for many, although I would have liked to see more in the way of explanatory Rem statements in the listings. Some of the programs are very useful, such as an address book database and label printer, an anagram solver, a user-designed graphics utility and word counter. The remainder range through some simple games Tony Kendle, Popular Computing Weekly
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