Tasman + Quadra Chart

Dave has come up with some very useful program modifications to better integrate your system. He welcomes and invites any correspondence about 2068 computers.

This program addition will allow you to make full size printer copies from Quadra-Chart.

1. Make a copy of Quadra-Chart by loading it in your computer and breaking the program with the BREAK and CAP/SHIFT keys. Insert a blank tape in your recorder, type GOTO 9990 and press ENTER. Keep watching your screen for the prompts that your computer will give during the SAVE routine.

2. Clear your memory by typing NEW, and then type in the following listing. Note: It is critical that you use the program line numbers exactly as written.

  15 LOAD ""CODE
 118 IF INKEY$="c" THEN GO SUB 9100
2395 IF j$="c" THEN GO SUB 9100
6565 IF j$="c" THEN GO SUB 9100
7365 IF h$="c" THEN GO SUB 9100
7940 IF INKEY$="z" THEN GO SUB 9100
9100 REM PRINTER ROUTINE
9105 LET w$=INKEY$
9110 INPUT "Large or small copy-(L/S)?";w$
9115 IF w$="l" THEN GO TO 9130
9120 IF w$="s" THEN GO TO 9150
9125 GO TO 9105
9130 POKE 23548,0
9135 RANDOMIZE USR 23296
9140 RETURN
9150 POKE 23548,1
9155 RANDOMIZE USR 23296
9160 RETURN
9991 SAVE "wind"CODE 58000,6912
9993 SAVE "line"CODE 51000,6912
9995 SAVE "tas-shinwa"CODE 23296,255

3. DO NOT RUN this program! Insert another blank tape into your recorder and SAVE this program by typing SAVE “quad-mod”, without a line number. Press ENTER.

4. Type NEW, and load that copy of Quadra-Chart that you just made. Break the program again and load the TAS-SHINWA graphics driver. Tas-Shinwa is the driver for the Spirit-80 printer. You will have to load the graphics driver for your own printer from the Tasman cassette software. In such a case, change the POKE and RANDOMIZE statements in the above program to suit your particular software driver.

5. Remove the just made copy of Quadra-Chart from your recorder. Load the modification with the MERGE “quad-mod” command.

6. Insert another blank tape into your recorder and save the whole thing by typing GOTO 9990. Be alert for the screen prompts. This will be your finished copy.