PROGRAM UPDATES Enhancements Bugs Oops

Dick Burley, faithful member of all the TRS-80 clubs in Los Angeles, reports an error in HAPPY4 BAS on page 20 of the Jul Aug 1991 issue. Line 40 should read 40 IF X lt 63 THEN 60 Dick also suggests the following enhancements to the program Change line 70 to 70 FOR X 7 TO 57 STEP 10 Add line 135 135 FOR Y 32 TO 44 SET 0,Y NEXT Also from the Jul Aug 1991 issue, we have encountered a very deceptive error in the assembly language listings BUFSECTR ASM and BUFTRACK ASM. On page 10, BUFSECTR ASM has...

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Sure, the title is cryptic if George Orwell could use 1984 as a title, surely I can use a longer version of the same. Is there a message to go with it In Orwell's case, it was a philosophical message. Mine is more technical and mechanistic. Please bear with me. My message is about the TRSDOS dating structure, which has caused us a lot of worry in the past and will cause more for some of us in the future. As most of us know, the original TRSDOS V 2.3 for the Model I allowed for a range of dates...