CPU - Issue 05 (1998)(Gosser Games)(US)

32 Pages·1998·5.8 MB·English

ISSUE 5 1998
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CONTENTS
ISSUE 5 VOLUME 1 1998
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From The Back Room...
Well this was going to be a summer issue, but several things have happened to
prevent that. First off my second job for the past 11 years came to an end. My
friend/employer came down with cancer and had to shut down the business. So I
applied to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and got hired on as a
Machinist. That meant relocating to Douglas Wyoming and going to school in
Alliance Nebraska for the past several months. So I was gone from home 5 days
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GEOS and GeqpuhJ&k
In this issue youwfll
geoSHELL, tod the neiv Wheels 64 a^ad ^ multitude of
other smaller programs $$&hess. It Ms ttatie- to niy atte«tl<in that the
Loadstar Lette? %i*a$a&dpubj&jhfe4%anin^rvi^WWithMr. Raj^daB, Invent seen it
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so hopefully
previously mentioned } tatees & look at the
WAVE
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Wheels 64
by Remmington Steele
AvailablefromCreativeMicroDesigns andMauriceRandall.
I had been away from the oaliae disabled. Does this mean that Wheels is
communityIbr aboutayear or so due to crippleware? Quite the contrary!
&jroumstaEce:$ beyoad my control. As a
consequence Iwaswaybehind the times Whats missing? Before I tell you I
aad did not have a&y insight toto the want you to know that Maurice has
events that had transpired within that included with every Wheels package a
psdotl Whea I finally did manage to tetter explaining what features are
return to the ranks of the online well disabled and what new ones will be
Ilearned that Maurice RaadaK jEeltlded in the next release of the
working on what was tentatively Wheels software. By the way the next
cased ProjectCr, release will be free to all registered
Wheels owners....so there is no reason to
Project G? It shaded g watt for the next release, you will get it
AiklItaowingM&uriotIthad tobe GrEGS automatically.
reMte<l Sure eBosJ* upon farther
inifeisttjgatioii I discovered that Project 0 Here is a list of some ofthe features
was Sadssci aot only GBOS Mated but that should be in the next release ofthe
rather aa upgrade tothe current QEOS Wheels operating system:
operating system, t*EQS 3<0 if you wilt
Soon Maurice announced the official * Ability to access printer driver from
nameoftheaewupgrade, Wfceel$64wa$ anydrive or path (boot) partition.
born aad Maurice began to accept
advance orders for Wheels. I promptly *Screensaver.
sent him a check.
* Horizontal scrolling in the Dashboard
I found out later that I was number windows,
11 on the waiting list. Wheels was
supposed to release in late February but * Auto clock setting from any available
did not make it until sometime In May. JRTCduringbootup.
But that was alright, you know good
things come to those who wait, And * Mo box In the Dashboard for
believe me when I fell you that Wheels displayingdiskandfile info.
was well worth the wait! Let me tell you
up front that the current version of * The Dashboard ashtray for
Wheels that is shipping 1$ not 100% tsmporarHy discarding files that can
complete. Maurice decided that instead laterbe retrieved.
of making us wait any longer for the
product that he would ship it with some * Printer icon on ttie Dashboard for
of the features not yet implemented droppingflies tobe prfertetl
VI
on are resizable and relocatable
* A drive swapping function in the anywhere on the screen. The files maybe
Toolbox. displayed as icons or in text descriptors.
In icon mode you get just the file name
* A utility for changing the system under each file as in the old familiar
colors and background patterns that desktop. For those who like more info
are used by the Dashboard, Toolbox, and are used to using Gateway or
and MakeSysDisk as well as any other geoShell the text display gives you file
new application that wants to take on name, size, type, and date. A maximum
the same appearance. of 16 windows representing drives,
partitions and subdirectories maybe
♦Ability to drop a drive icon onto to a open at any given time, however only 1
partition window to perform a whole windowmaybe active at any time.
diskcopy.
For geoShell user's Wheels comes
* Printer drivers for Canon bubblejet and with some new commands allowing
other printers. geoShell user's to take advantage of
Wheels enhanced features.
* possible MS-DOS diskcapability.
The twelve new commands are:
Although it sounds like alot is
missing from the system wait till you chdisk - allows changing disk types on
see what Wheels can do! Before Wheels the FD drives.
came along GEOS was cumbersome and chpart - change partitions.
didnt work well with CMD DESKTOP - exit backto the Dashboard.
devices....especially native partitions. erase - erase a disk directory.
Now those are problems of the past. format - format any disk, partition or
Gone are the configure files and disk ramdiskused in Wheels.
drivers of yesterday. The new Toolbox makedir - create subdirectories in
takes care ofall the devices connected to native partitions and ramdisks.
your system, up to four. ncopy - whole disk copier.
nswap - use in place of the swap
Wheels allows the user to navigate command.
between four drives with ease. Not only parentdir - move to the parent
that it also allows navigation between directory.
partitions and varying drive emulation rootdir - move to the root directory.
partitions. Wheels excells in making subdir - move in to a subdirectory.
system management a breeze. You'll validate - validate a disk, partition or
navigate around your system with an ramdisk.
ease never thought possible on a
Commodore 64. When used with Creative Micro
Designs Super CPU Wheels running at
The desktop or I should say the 20mhz is an awesome sight to behold.
dashboard as itis called is veryversatile. Wheelsbreathes newlife into avenerable
The windows that the files are displayed computer platform. Computing is
VII
Wheels 64:
Catching The WAVE!
enjoyable again....but it always was on
ourbeloved Commodores. The WAVE is terminal software that runs
under the GEOS 128 environment and is
In order to use Wheels the following currently available as a preliminary demo
minimumhardware is required: release. It is authored by GEOS programmer
extraordinair Maurice Randall.Thedemomaybe
Commodore 64 or 128 in 64 mode downloadedfromBBS'sandonlineservicessuch
Commodore 1541 disk drive as Delphi.The WAVE comes with a 14 page
Commodore 1700 REU ( 128k documentfilethatyoucanprintout.
model)
Color monitor (recommended) To run the WAVE you will need a
Commodore 128 with 64k video ram.
Wheels was designed to run at peak Commodore 128D's came equippedthis way. If
efficiency on a power system. The above you have a flat 128 than you will need to
is not an ideal setup, but will get you upgrade the video ram as they came with only
going. Wheelsis an upgrade to GEOS 2.0 16k ofvdc ram. You will also need GEOS 128
therefore you will need and original v2.0running in80column mode,andaSwiftlink
GEOS boot disk in order to use Wheels. or compatible cartridge and dontforgetthe high
Once installed you will never need your speedmodem.
original GEOS disk again. Wheels has
many unique and enhanced features, if When runningfromthe Desktopyouwill be
you are an avid GEOS user you need presented with a title screen which contains
Wheels. It is money well spent and the several icons. Only one of these work in this
post purchase .support is second to demo release. It is called the Beachcomber
none! ,,^k-: .■ ASCII Terminal. With this terminal you can log
■»i<>• onto any online system or BBS that supports
Wheels may be ordered from the ASCII. It will have to be done manually as the
following sources: phone directory is not included in this release.
Uploading and downloading as well as the
Maurice Randall capturebufferarealsonon-functioning.
%ClickHere Software Co.
P.O. Box 606 Sowhatgood is ityouask? Wellitisjusta
Charlotte, MI. 48813-0606 demo, a demo ofwhat is to come and what is
USA possible underthe GEOSenvironment. Maurice
Randall has indicatedthatthereleaseversionof
Creative Micro Designs the WAVE will require Wheels 128 in order to
P.O. Box 646 run.AlsoagraphicalWebBrowserwillbe made
East Longmeadow, MA. 01028 available as an add on module to the WAVE.
1-800-638-3263 The WAVE will or currently support full color
menus, mouse support, file transfers, zmodem
Price is $36.00 plus shipping and protocol, buffer capture, telephone directories,
handlingfrom both sources. various terminal emulations, script languages
and a host of other powerful features. A 64
versionoftheWAVEisalsoplanned.
IIX Continuedonpage 17.
Stow Time
Transfiguration
breaking it. 'E^crutiating pain permeatedhis body, it
seemed as if he would explode. His muscles were
throbbing. The pain ceased andhe stood, looking at
Thor stood in the middle of the great cavern his arms he noticed they were more muscle-bound. "It
holding the bo^ with the gold-inlaid purple cloth, worlds!! I must draw yet another !" Ihor drew one
starting to open it he thought to himself'What am I from themiddle, asun, beforehecouldlookjnthetome
doing? My closestfriendhas diedandI care onlyfor a pair of winged boots appeared beside him.lkEh,
what treasures await me. Curse myself!'tie stopped, what be these?"tiepickedup the boots andturnedto
turnedandwalkedoutofthecave, hegatheredallthat his tome ofmagic, written in common tongue was "
remainedoffingers andput them in a leatherpouch, Winged (Boots; allow wearer to fly two hours every
with the slimhope thatsomeday he may be able to be day, for every twelve hours of uninterrupted non-use
restored. Uncertain iffingerswouldeverreturn to the thebootsregain onehourofuse."Tuttingthe bootson,
world of the living Thor began to craft a placard. he looked at CyrothraiQis' corpse. Cyrothra^us' icy
Thor workedthat night carving an inscription into a white skin gave Thor an idea;. l{(Ihat cold resistant
flat, roundedstone, itread, "Si truerfriendwas never dragonskjn would make some incredible armor", he
hadthanfingers, anuisance tosome, an amusement to thoughttohimself.
others, may his memory always linger. Diedthe si^th
day of 9{aladan the year of the <Divulgent". " All Tutting the deck, of many things aside, he
mourning must endi", he saidafoud to himselfas the undertook the laborious tasf^ of spinning the great
goldfeverreturnedtoconsumehim. Wyrm. Though smallfor a dragon Cyrothra^us was
largefor his kind. It took,Ihor agooddays work,to
Thor focused on his newly acquired wealth. s/(in the dragon, through which he endured the
Looking at the mound of treasure he remembered the beginning stages of the dead dragons rotting corpse,
smallwooden bo\. Tiding up thepurple enclosedbo% tie then fashioned andfitted the scales into armor.
he had a strange chidgo through him. "Just this When he was done he started a fire, for night was
cursed time of year", he thought to himself. Thor near. Interested in his 'Deck,of Many Things, Thor
unwrapped the bo% and opened it. Ivory cards were startedto readabout the individualcards. '*Ihe Void;
inside, "hmm, what be these?"Thorpulledone out of The consciousness of the person drawing this card is
the end. The cardhaddesigns on one side andon the transportedto anotherplane."Thor thought about this
other there was a star. "Odin's eye! This is a decl^of briefly, then continued reading, "Throne; drawer is
manythings!" given a smallkeep and is likedby all', " Comet; the
ne^tfoe encounteredby the drawer is easily defeated."
Reaching yet again for his tome of magic he Thor put the book, away as weariness overtookhim
looked up the dec^ of many things, there was a andhefellasleep. Thorslept uneasilyashe dreamptof
description ofeach card. Thor readthe descriptionfor hisroc^yhomelandCimtar.
the star, "The stargrants the. possessor an increase of
any attribute desired"Thorlootedat the card, "I wish NEXTISSUE:
to increase my strength,"he saidsilently. Suddenly the TRANSFIGURATIONPart2
dwarf went into spasms, dropping the card and
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