ABBUC Magazin Nr. 6

  • Magazine number: 6
  • Date: approx. 10/1986 (disk title "(c) 1986"; info announces a members' meeting for 15 November in Herten)
  • Disk images: ABBUC_Magazin_006A.ATR, ABBUC_Magazin_006B.ATR (Atari DOS 2.5 "ABBUC-Farbdos")

Programs

Disk A

File Description
MENUE.BAS Directory menu with printer output and program loading.
AMC.BAS (+BILD1AMC.PIC, BILD2AMC.PIC) Atari/Koala picture loader for compressed pictures, with two sample pictures.
FARBDOS.BAS Colour setter for the club's modified "DOS 2.5 Farbe" (background and text colour 0-255).
AIR.BAS "Air Hockey" game (c) 1983 Action Computer Services, two players.
PLAYER5.BAS By Fred Stroeter: turns the four missiles into a fifth player for player/missile graphics.
LIED.BAS Small song player.
WERBUNG.BAS/WERBUNG.OBJ Classified-ads display ("Kleinanzeigen Liste 6/86").

Disk B

File Description
MAGIER.BAS (+.TXT, .DAT, .OBJ) "Das Zauberschloss-Game": text adventure by Martin Krischik (1984); verb+object commands (NIMM, BENUTZE, LIES, DREH ...).
TAG.BAS Calculates the weekday of any date (e.g. birthdays).
RBERECH.BAS Resistor calculator: series/parallel combination of two standard resistors for an odd value.
SINUS.BAS Sine function plotter (W. Burger, Marian Lorenz, Allan Mose; from ANTIC Vol. 5/No. 2).
PRUSING.BAS Emulates PRINT USING (formatted output) which Atari/Turbo BASIC lacks.
HANOI.TUR Towers of Hanoi in Turbo-BASIC, (c) 1986 Ralf Callenberg.
GRDEMO.BAS Graphics demo.
RAMDISK.COM, SETUP.COM, COPY32.COM, DISKFIX.COM Utilities: RAM disk, setup, file copier, disk repair tool.

Texts

  • INFO.BAS (editor's info): Magazine appears in a new layout; apologises for display-list errors and slow menu in #5; hardcopy program also runs on the GP 550AT. Membership 277 (first member from Denmark), trade-fair stand at Dortmund (CK 8/9 86); announces a members' meeting on 15 November in Herten; membership cards printed; reminder about late fees.
  • PROGRAMM.BAS: Descriptions of the programs on the disk.
  • BUCHINFO.BAS: Results of the members' book survey (from Magazin 4): list of ~40 book titles (Atari BASIC, 6502, Mapping the Atari, Inside Atari DOS, COMPUTE! books ...) for which one-page reviews can be ordered from the club.
  • WERBUNG.TXT: Don't Copy Software price list (as of 1 June 1986): sector copier, mailbox system, Centronics interface, DOS variants etc.