ABBUC Magazin Nr. 9

  • Magazine number: 9
  • Date: approx. 6/1987 (info mentions the board meeting of 18.5.1987 and Hobbytronic 1988)
  • Disk images: ABBUC_Magazin_009A.ATR, ABBUC_Magazin_009B.ATR (first issue on coloured disks, with club "Farbdos")

Programs

Disk A

File Description
BILDLOAD.BAS + PICTURE.DAT Title picture loader by Ralf Heiermann.
MENUE.BAS Menu program by Hermann Friedhof (L=load, D=new directory).
LESER.BAS Text reader for the .TXT files on this side.
FLOTTEN.BAS "Flotten" - Battleships game vs. the computer.
EXTENSIO.BAS Explains file extensions used by the club; program by B. Wagner (loads EUROPA.FNT).
LIFE.BAS/.OBJ/.PIC/.LOD Conway's Game of Life (E. Bir...), loader independent of DOS version.
EINZEIL.BAS One-liner.

Disk B

File Description
SPRACH.BAS (+SPRACH.DAT) Speech/sound effect demo.
SPEED30.COM Speed-up for the disk drive (30 sectors).
CODATA.BAS, CODI.BAS "Codi-Pokes": directory sorter/organiser by Thomas & Hermann.
DOSPATCH.BAS By F. Bruchhaeuser: patches Stefan Dorndorf's Happy DOS (from Happy Computer) for double density.
BLITTER.TUR/.PIC, BLITEDIT.TUR Blitter demo and text editor for its screens (Turbo-BASIC).
MANDEL.TUR Mandelbrot generator (Turbo-BASIC).
SCHALTG.BAS (+.FNT) Circuit/switching-diagram drawing program.
TEST.BAS, TEST.COM, 1ZEILER1.BAS Test programs, one-liner.

Texts

  • INFO.TXT: Questionnaire included at last; new look: only coloured disks from now on; the special magazine was well received, such "refund of fees" will continue. About 3000 DM outstanding fees. 580 members; extended board meeting on 18.5.1987 with 34 members: contact persons for many areas (model railway, DFUE, chess, hardware, Pascal, ACTION!, printer questions ...) and regional meetings (Berlin, Essen, Cologne, Mannheim); announces special disks; Hobbytronic 3-7 Feb 1988; annual meeting 1987.
  • WERBUNG.TXT: Classified ads (wanted: Atari Pascal manual; offered: OSS DOS XL, BASIC XL, ABC compiler etc.).
  • PROGRAM.TXT: Description of every program/file on side A.
  • TEST.DOC: Test of "Super Cheater" - a Turbo-BASIC program to change characters in role-playing games (Ultima I-IV, Wizard's Crown, Alternate Reality).