There's something for everyone in this month's type-ins. If you've got a disc
drive and a printer, Cat£8 let's you produce a printed disc catalog without
booting CP/M. If cassettes are more your cup of tea, Speed3K lets you save at
speed. Or if all this sounds a bit too boringly practical, the amazing - and
guaranteed completely impractical - Blitter will knock your socks off. It's the
graphics type-in to end them all - unless you know better!

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| SPEED 3K                                                                    |
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| If you own a 464 and can't afford a disc drive, Chris Rollo's nifty little  |
| program will give you that extra cassette speed you've been looking for.    |
| It's very short, it's very easy to use and it gives you a 3 kilobaud saving |
| speed - that's 50% faster than speed write 1. It's very reliable as         |
| high-speed saves go, though a slow-saved backup never does any harm. Just   |
| type in, save and run it, and then save programs in the normal way - but a  |
| fair bit faster. It'll last until you switch off, reset or use a SPEED      |
| WRITE command.                                                              |
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| [Listing - SPEED3K.BAS]                                                     |
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CAT#8

If you own a printer and use discs, you've probably wondered about cataloguing
to the printer. That would save you all those problems trying to remember just
what the filename was, halfway through some tricky operation. The only problem
is, Basic won't let you. If you try typing CAT#8, you'll just get a syntax
error message. To your rescue comes Justin Macklin with this handy little
utility to give you a hard-copy CAT. There are two versions - one for the 464,
and a shorter one to take advantage of the COPYCHR$ function on the 664 and
6128. It can handle system, data or even IBM formats. Clever stuff, and short
too!

[Listing  - CAT#8.BAS]

[Amstrad Action mistakenly printed only the 664 and 6128 version of CAT#8 in
this issue. The 464 version was printed in the August 1986 issue (#11).]

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| BLITTER                                                                     |
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| In May we brought you three stunning graphics demo programs which wrung     |
| that little bit extra out of Arnold. We thought they pushed the old CPC     |
| hardware about as far as it could go, but Paul Bond of St. Helens proved us |
| wrong. His type-in, Blitter, mimics a demo program Commodore use to show    |
| off their enormously expensive Amiga personal computer.                     |
|     The demo is of a huge red and white football, bouncing and spinning at  |
| the same time, against a grid background - and it takes real power to do    |
| that properly. With Paul's program, Arnold can match computers nearly ten   |
| times more expensive - not bad, for 3K of Basic! And the perfect demo to    |
| put you in the mood for the World Cup.                                      |
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