Re: Microsparc Inc.'s Macrosoft

["Shawn B." <leabre@html.com>]

Is this still available?


Thanks,
Shawn

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote in message
20030708202638138+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz">news:20030708202638138+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz...
> In <a6QNa.29077$JY1.19931@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> Michael Pender wrote:
>
> > I assume some of the commands are matched pairs, e.g.:
> >     if...ifand...ifor...else
>
> if and else go together:
>   if x=0,let y=1
>   else let y=2
>
> ifand is equivalent of if...and...then:
>   ifand x=0,y=0, goto bothzero  (nb:space between comma and statement!)
>
> ifor is equivalent of if...or...then:
>   ifor x=0,y=0, goto eitherzero
>
> >     for...next
> >     repeat...until
> >     while...whilen
> >
> > The purpose of most of the commands is clear from context, but there
> > are a few I don't remember, including:
> >
> > bck, begin, button, cleanup, get, getvar, in, key, mpl, mul, numfiles,
> > putvar, rot, set, sin, uen, and use.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what these do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Mike
>
> USE=use (load) a macro library, UEN=use end, tells assembler there are
> no more macro libraries to load.
>
> Make sure to have a browse through the sample programs on the MacroSoft
> disk, all of the commands are used in at least one of the programs. Some
> of them like USE and UEN are used in _every_ program.
>
> Meanwhile I'm scanning in the complete manual for the guys at Call-A.P.P.
> L.E. to make available. What is a real shame is that the original manual
> was produced on a computer in the first place, using Microsoft Word,
> MacPaint and MacDraw. Everyone out there who's reading this: make
> backups of your disks now!
>
> -- 
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
>
> Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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