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excerpt: "After much deliberation, the winners of The SyncWare News 2nd (sort of) Annual Programmers' Competition have been decided. The winning programs are presented in this issue for your use and amusement, First place in the TS1000/1500 category goes to Alex R. Sweitzer for his program \"Multsteps\" which teaches students to multiply a 3 digit X…"
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# The Fame and Glory

After much deliberation, the winners of The SyncWare News 2nd (sort of) Annual Programmers’ Competition have been decided. The winning programs are presented in this issue for your use and amusement,

First place in the TS1000/1500 category goes to [Alex R. Sweitzer](http://localhost/indiv/alex-sweitzer/) for his program “Multsteps” which teaches students to multiply a 3 digit X 2 digit number. A Byte-Back MD-2B Modem is on the way to Fayette City, PA.

[L. Liedtke](http://localhost/indiv/l-liedtke/) of Ridgecrest, CA is the winner of the TS2068 portion of our contest. Mr. Liedtke’s “Animal Kingdom” program entitles him to a 32K Non-Volatile RAM Cartridge Board.

The Grand Prize Winning program not only interacts with humans, but with the computer too. M*5, by [Paul Holmgren](http://localhost/indiv/paul-holmgren/), takes us from the rolling plains of Indianapolis, IN, to the outer reaches of our solar system where we’ve got to find our way back safely home by correctly identifying the planets in orbit about our зип, This adventure in education earns Paul a Writeman NLQ Dot Matrix Printer.

The names of all the contestants appear in this issue. As space permits we will be printing the listings and descriptions of the programs that were submitted.

## Source Code: Entry

```
    5 CLS : LET I=1
   10 FOR c=1 TO 8: REM By Wm. L. Pollock, 2318 Meadowlark Lane, Jefferson City, MO 65101
   15 IF c/2-INT (c/2)=0 THEN GO TO 70
   20 FOR x=0 TO 21
   30 BORDER 8-c
   35 PRINT #0;AT 0,0; PAPER 2; INK 7;"  WHEN I GET LOADED I SOMETIMES         SEE STRANGE SIGHTS      "
   40 PRINT AT x,16; INK C;"████████████████"
   50 NEXT x
   60 NEXT c
   70 FOR y=21 TO 0 STEP -1
   80 PRINT AT y,0; INK C;"████████████████"
   90 NEXT y: NEXT c
   95 LET I=I+1: BRIGHT 0: IF I=2 THEN BRIGHT 1: GO TO 10
  100 FOR c=0 TO 7: FOR b=7 TO 0 STEP -1
  110 BORDER c: PAPER b: CLS 
  120 PRINT AT INT (RND*11),0; INK 9;"Sometimes it makes  my poor head";AT 21-INT (RND*11),12; PAPER 2;"HURT!": PAUSE 10
  130 NEXT b: NEXT c: BORDER 0: CLS 
  140 PRINT AT 10,0; PAPER 7; INK 2; FLASH 1;"Sometimes I just take an aspirin";AT 12,6;"and disappear!"
  150 PAUSE 180: FLASH 0: INK 0: PAPER 0: BORDER 0: CLS : PAUSE 0
```