Mel E. LaVerne

Location: Tennessee

Articles (21)

TitleAuthor(s)PublicationDate
2068 Tower of Brahma
Variation of Tower of Hanoi for the TS 2068.
SyncWare NewsMar-Apr 1986
A Directory Printer
If you have just a few files on, say, flpl, a quick and dirty hard copy of the directory could...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportNovember/December 1992
A File Printer
This program grew out of a want for neatly paged, dated, and identified file printouts. The original version handled only...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportJanuary/February 1993
A SERMouse Adapter
Sometime ago, having been encouraged by John Impellizzeri’s review of SERMouse, I took the plunge and bought a serial mouse...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportSeptember/October 1994
GT Prolog – QL
Attempting to write a review of GT-Prolog (GTP) has proved to be rather more difficult than anticipated. There is, first...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportJuly/August 1994
GT Prolog – QL (Part 2)Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportSeptember/October 1994
Lightning Gold Card S/E
Let me start with a few historical notes. During the development of the QL, much effort was devoted to keeping...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportSeptember/October 1993
Minerva Bug?
On occasion, I attempt to translate a program, written as “spaghetti code” in one of the several primitive Basics, into...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMay/June 1994
Minerva II Tidbit
Here is a small utility for snooping about in the Minerva II ram. There’s nothing sacred about the limits on...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportSeptember/October 1994
More on Timing
Eros Forenzi’s article on operating speeds (IQLR 4-6) got me to thinking about timings other than those shown. For instance,...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMay/June 1995
QMATHS 1
“QMATHS'” first appeared in DP’s ads around December 1991 (not having the Sept & Oct 91 QL Worlds, I can’t...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMay/June 1993
QMATHS 1 – A Review: Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of this Review, I covered Qmaths and Qfract. In this final portion, 1 propose to discuss the...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportJuly/August 1993
QMATHS 2 – A Review
Recently two pieces of Public Domain Software have been sent to IQLR for the purpose of making them available to...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportJanuary/February 1994
Quick Mandelbrot III
Quick Mandelbrot III is the latest upgrade to the program. Among the updates are an increase in maximum iterations to...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMarch/April 1994
Quill With An Ill Will
Recently, I stumbled across an anomalous (actually, berserk might be more like it !) behavior of Quill during the attempted...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportNovember/December 1994
Reading MSDOS Disks On The QL – Part I: The Root Directory
The original impetus for this article came from having a few Shareware disks lying about, gathering dust. Inevitably, I wondered...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMay/June 1992
Reading MSDOS Disks on the QL – Part II: Copying MSDOS Files
Part I contained a brief description of the MSDOS disk organization. Table 1, below, expands on that description to include...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportJuly/August 1992
Reading MSDOS Disks on the QL – Part III: The Boot Record and File Allocation Table
Parts I and II implicitly assumed a 40-track disk being used on an 80-track drive. Examining the boot record will...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportSeptember/October 1992
Routine Auto-Locator
Have you ever, in the course of developing a moderately complex SuperBasic program, found yourself scrolling madly up and down...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportMay/June 1994
The Fame & The Glory
And now, here are a few more words about the last contest. First, we would like to thank all of...
SyncWare NewsMar-Apr 1986
Tidbits
The following constitute miscellaneous thoughts on how to (or, perhaps, not to) do things. I consider the first example to...
Mel E. LaVerneInternational QL ReportNovember/December 1992

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