Tasword II Improvements

This program will allow you to change the screen and ink colors in the Tasword II word processor from BASIC to your own choosing.

Up till now, if you go into basic and change the BORDER, INK, and PAPER to your own colors, as soon as you return to Tasword, only the paper and ink stay how you set them while the border and bottom menu revert back to the original black on white.

To make the changes, load Tasword and go into basic by using STOP, press b then ENTER. Enter the following lines:

 9000 POKE 58488,201 
 9010 POKE 58598,201
 9020 POKE 59987,201
 9030 POKE 64568,64: POKE 64569,0 : POKE 64570,0
 9040 POKE 64840,58: POKE 64841,1 91: POKE 64842,90: POKE 64844,192: POKE 64845,90

Once these are entered, go back and carefully check that all the numbers are correct and then enter GO TO 9000. Now enter DELETE 9000, which will remove these lines (don’t forget the comma). Return to Tasword by pressing RUN ENTER and go back to the menu by pressing STOP and select the save Tasword option to save these new changes.

To change screen colors, simply select the into BASIC option and type in your choice of BORDER, INK, and PAPER colors.

Instead of going into basic, you could incorperate extra lines into the menu and have it ask you for your selection or if there is a combination you want to stick with, enter them into say, line 5 such as:

 5 INK (color): PAPER (color): BORDER (color): CLS 

Now Edit line 15 to say GO TO VAL “5” Instead of GO TO VAL “10”. Save any changes you make. Enjoy your enhanced version of Tasword!