Beeb Roms - How to access?

Ben Newnham

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Jul 11, 2008, 5:58:43 PM7/11/08

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My Model B has the following roms:

Disc Doc
Sheet
Intersheet
Interword
Toolkit (Beebugsoft)
Database v1.30
ViewSheet (Acornsoft)
Spell
Wordwise + +
Starbase
Wordwise Plus

How do i access them?

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Richard Watkinson

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Jul 11, 2008, 9:39:48 PM7/11/08

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In message <4fbd70cde...@onetel.net.uk.invalid>
"Barry Allen (news)" <evan...@onetel.net.uk.invalid>
wrote:

> In article <1oSdnc67q4wISurV...@bt.com>,

> If I remember correctly *HELP will reveal all the STAR commands for
> each ROM.
>
> *sheet
> Should get you into ViewSheet
>
> etc
>

I think *h. or *Help. is even better

As for wordwise I think it is *W. or *word. or *word

Wordwise plus is an upgrade from Wordwise and I think is started in
the same way. It has a load of embedded commands to make it more
functional than Worwise and came with a 174 page manual written by
John Coll who wrote the original BBC Micro User Guide (not the
provisional one)

Interword is started by typing *IWORD or *IW. and I guess intersheet
is similar. Interword does away with most of the embedded commands in
WW+ as far as I recall

Incidentally to get back to Basic it is *Basic or *B.

ROMs (EPROMs) such as Discdoctor, Toolkit etc will only reveal their
secrets from a *H. or *help. command. They are not 'languages' as
such just providing useful tools...

I have original documentation for most of the ROMs you mention but it
is ages since I used them.

Which machine do you have? The standarrd Beeb would not support all
these Roms without a special add on board though the master has the
plug in 'cartridge option'.

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David Holden

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Jul 12, 2008, 1:18:03 AM7/12/08

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On 11-Jul-2008, Ben Newnham <newnh...@PLEASEDONOTSPAM.btinternet.com>
wrote:

If you go to <http://bbcmicro.net/old-8bs/manuals.htm> you will find manuals
for most of these, as well as more general BBC documentation.. Some are just
plain scans but many are in RTF or PDF format.

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druck

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Jul 13, 2008, 6:49:09 PM7/13/08

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On 12 Jul 2008 Stuart <Spa...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <49dd7dbd4...@rwatki.orpheusnet.co.uk>,

> Richard Watkinson <rwa...@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> As for wordwise I think it is *W. or *word. or *word

> Somewhere in the back of my mind lurks the memory that wasn't there some
> sort of clash if you just typed *W?

With *WIPE depending on the ordering of the DFS and Wordise ROMs

> You are best entering "*Wordwise" in full.

For the reason above.

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Richard Torrens

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Jul 22, 2008, 9:51:22 AM7/22/08

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In article <1oSdnc67q4wISurV...@bt.com>,
Ben Newnham <newnh...@PLEASEDONOTSPAM.btinternet.com> wrote:

If it's of any use to you, I have just uploaded a program to
www.Torrens.org.uk/RO/Navigator
It's a BBC menu type program I wrote ages ago for navigating around
discs, housekeeping and automatically loading programs. It could
recognise several common file types and do the right thing with them.

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