Byte Power February 1987

Date: 1987
Type: Cassette
Platform(s): TS 2068
Tags: Software

Tape-based magazine.

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A 49-byte relocatable machine code routine produces genuine two-voice beeper sound, with pitch and border colour controllable via direct POKEs from BASIC.
A tape-based checkbook manager.
A BASIC music demo that manually fades AY chip volume registers to fake an envelope, playing 18 notes with data-driven tone periods and decay rates.
An inventory manager that uses machine code at address 55213 and a clever PEEK 65535 dispatch trick to drive its entire BASIC shell.
A machine-code spreadsheet with a BASIC shell that uses PEEK 65535 as a jump table to hand control back to its own engine after every operation.
A tape-based mailing label manager using machine code dispatch, dynamic CODE block sizing, and a block-character deletion flag to suppress records from printing.
Pacman like video game.
A machine-code music composer whose BASIC shell juggles two separate tape CODE blocks and reads runtime addresses via PEEK to manage save and load operations.
A 18-note melody blasted directly through PSG chip registers using OUT commands — pitch, duration, and two-channel harmony packed into a compact DATA table.
A BASIC loader for a machine code marble game, with built-in screen save/load utilities and a clever self-locating bootstrap sequence.
A dual-mode text printing utility that rotates output sideways for the TS2040 thermal printer and pages through magazine text stored in raw memory.

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