USR DISK #5 DOCUMENTATION David Thompson Micro Cornucopia 11740 NW West Portland, Oregon 97229 OK, for all you pacman lovers, here is it, complete with source. I received this game from two folks at the same time, one sent source, the other sent documentation so I put the two together and here it is. It is easy to set up for your own direction commands so have at it and enjoy. Perhaps at the next Micro C get together we can have a pacman competition. Of course this game will definitely win over the hearts of the young ones but watch out, if you are a beginner, you should run this on a 2.5 MHz machine, at 4 MHz you have to be quick. (Best to keep this one hidden if you plan to continue using your system.) Another really interesting thing is that I received disks from two readers, both contained PACMAN, and both contained ZCPR (usr disk #4). And both were configured for the Big Board. One of the folks is Gordon Banks MD, and you're going to be seeing more from Gordon as time goes on. He really seems to be getting into the Big Board. The other is Gary Kaufman. Thankyou both. CAT.COM .DOC .SUB (Cataloging your disks) See Catalog.doc for all the information on this package. I got it via the pascal-z user group, which got it from the CPMug. Oh well, I'm not proud. If I were proud I'd still pass along this super piece of software. It is a real lifesaver if you have more than a dozen or so disks to keep track of. Just read the .doc file and you'll see what I mean. I'm using it and it works absolutely super. It won't work if you forget the parenthesis in MAST.CAT and if you don't have at least a after the last parens. Software sent in by Don Bell 8404 Gonzaga Ct Sacramento, CA 95826 Pascal-z user disks put together by Charlie Foster 7963 Center Parkway Sacramento CA 95823 Charlie also does a newsletter and though I haven't seen it, I understand there are a number of Big board users who subscribe. They have 15 disks of software written in and for pascal-z. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following were submitted by: Gary Kaufman 206 S. 13th Street Apt 810 Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 735-2841 MODEM7A.COM - Modem7 adapted for port a MODEM7B.COM - Modem7 adapted for port b SNOOPY.TXT - What else ? (list this to a printer and turn the kids loose with color crayons, they'll love it. Better yet, make an extra copy for yourself and "borrow" the crayons for an evening. UNLOAD.COM - a nifty utility that recreates a .HEX file from a .COM file. Useful in sending files by MODEM.COM DIF.COM - These are CPMug routines to help folks pass along software updates DIF.DOC without having to pass along the whole file each time. SSED.COM This software is especially useful for phone data transfers. TYPESQ.COM - These files squeeze (sq.com) and unsqueeze (usq.com) SQ.COM files so they take up less room. It's just USQ.COM sq filename.asm creates filename.aqm usq filename.aqm creates filename.asm typesq filename.dqc unsqueezes and types file on the console. WASH.COM - This file gives you a menu of things you can do to the files on the disk. (careful about accidentally hitting the (D)elete key. you might have to go in and undelete a file with PFM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following were submitted by Gordon Banks MD (PACMAN.DOC file submitted by Gary Kaufman) Dr. Gordon Banks MD 1360 Scaife Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 PACMAN.COM - A pacman type game written in BDS - C and adapted for the PACMAN.DOC Big Board. Note: if the game freezes up you are probably PACMAN.C entering illegal commands or in lower case. PACMAN.DOC PACMONST.C PACUTIL.C FAST.COM - Gordon says that this little screamer buffers FAST.DOC the disk track by track for reads, writes, and directory accesses which doubles the speed of programs like ASM, MAC, etc which bang the disk a lot. See the .DOC file for more exciting information. NOLOCK.COM - This is another nice utility. It NOPs out the shift lock "feature" on the Big Board so you can send nulls to other systems etc. without casing your own system. (I'm sorry, bad pun.) Stay tuned for more from Gordon in future disks. Gordon Banks 1360 Scaife Hall Univ of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERIFY.COM - Brett Berg sent me this one which he says is a lifesaver VERIFY.DOC for him. It checks the disk and tries to restore bad sectors. (How's that for fancy?) It reports any sectors it is unable to restore. Simply enter VERIFY and select a disk and away it goes. It leaves the data intact (or even more intact) on the disk. FORMAT4.COM - Brett also sent this update of the Jones formatter. This one can also be assembled by the Crowe assembler. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Denny Fox 6616 Sheridan Ave S Richfield Mn 55423 DUMPX.COM - This is a powerful little disk utility by S.J. Singer. DUMPX.DOC See the .DOC file for a list of commands and example command lines. Denny modified this routine so it works faster on the Big Board than the original version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------