Making The Most Of The Micro

Making The Most Of The Micro is suitable for the British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer Model B, cassette-based and with Operating System 1.0 onward.

All the programs supplied on this tape are transferable onto disk.

The highly acclaimed BBC Television series Making The Most Of The Micro featured many colourful and instructive programs. The book goes into the details of a large number of them, and the software tape places them at your disposal - to run, or list and modify as you please. The programs and book are paradigms of clarity and accessibility, the result of the joint experience and expertise of Ian Trackman and Henry Budgett, the TV series consultants. Each chapter of the book discusses a particular topic and illustrates it with pertinent programs, all of which are on the software tape.

1. Programming Style
   A well-written and a badly written dice game; a game of Patience with excellent graphics; 'Kludge' coding; a birthdays file.
2. Simple Graphics
   Pretty effects: a bee flying; a man jumping; a highboard diver; twirling 'sticks'.
3. Artificial Intelligence
   Programs that 'learn': an animal quiz; searching through a maze and remembering the path taken.
4. Advanced Graphics
   Impressive animated effects: a cat; an owl; a sphere; a helicopter; a house. These programs illustrate the use of animation, colour-switching, sprites and hidden-line removal.
5. Utilities
   Creating titles; generating your own characters; drawing a 3-D barchart; transforming an egg into a chicken - the in-betweening technique.
6. Demonstrations
   Byte-transfer from tape; analogue-to-digital conversion; the Doppler effect; modem; telesoftware.
7. Projects
   A weighing machine; using the speech chip; getting to know SHEILA; a temperature program; a DIY graphics pad.

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Tape: CHAIN"" (RETURN)
Disc: Hold SHIFT and tap BREAK to boot.