Byte Power Spring 1987

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

Tape-based magazine.

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A clever two-voice BEEP music engine that rapidly alternates between voices stored as raw byte data in RAM, simulating polyphony with sentinel values for rests and end-of-tune.
A tape-based text editor.
An eight-byte machine-code routine lets you scan any keyboard half-row for simultaneous keypresses, complete with a tape-save option and interactive demo.
Enter your down payment, monthly budget, interest rate, and loan term to instantly calculate the maximum home price you can afford.
A clever BASIC scheduler interleaves three BEEP voices at high speed to fake polyphony, reading note-and-duration byte pairs straight from a memory-resident music block.
A ten-level oil-drilling game that switches UDG sets via direct POKEs, detects its host machine at runtime, and lets mines blow up your pipes underground.

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