Give Your Hi-Res Text a Whirl

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A program is presented which allows users to generate high-resolution text anywhere they desire on a display when working with an Apple computer. The program has been written to allow the use of simple BASIC statements when implemented. With it users can animate text and can write it in inverse mode as well as normal, and vertically as well as horizontally. Text can also be rotated. Two figures are presented -- one a bit array, the second a sample graphic creation -- as are three program listings: two are short, related BASIC programs, and the third is the actual text program. There are also lists of the hexidecimal dump of the character set and of the program.

Desktop utilities, Desktop Utility, Text Formatting, High Resolution, User-Written Software

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So Much More to Lisa Than Meets the Eye

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The Lisa computer met with positive reception in Britain. Lisa can be described as a 16-32 micro-minicomputer which allows you to word process, draw pictures or graphs, do spreadsheet problems, keep lists and print out results, all with its built in software. Very little keyboard use is required. A brief look at the computer's various capabilities along with photographs and sample screen displays illustrate the machine's abilities.

Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Suites (Software), Minicomputers, Computer Systems, Personal Computers, New Product, Product Introduction, Functional Capabilities, Integrated Software, Minicomputer, Computer Design, Lisa

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This New Language Is Almost All Things to All Machines

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Nos-Basicode-2 (Basicode) is a new machine independent language that can be run on more than seventeen types of microcomputers. Common BASIC commands are handled in the usual manner, while commands that are more machine independent are handled by a set of subroutines each specific to the user's type of machine. Basicode can be easily learned, assuming a knowledge of BASIC.

Programming languages, product announcement, Programming Language, Software Migration, Machine Independence, BASIC, BASIC (Programming language)

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