Modem Stuff
BeHTerm is a brand new telecommun ication s package from D & D Services. It offers support for the 1581 (including partitions and subdirectories) and REUs, along with a plethora of other features. Baud rates from 300 lo 2400 arc .supported. as are 32 definable macro keys, split screen chat mode, auto log-on phone directories. a sophisticated 255-line editor, all the usual protocols, and display of Koala and Doodle files. Probably the mosl unusual feature, though, is the ability lo write your own overlays (parameters, protocols, etc.), load them into the program and execute them. There are lots of other features too numerous, as the saying goes, to mention. $29.95. 30 " South Ridge Road. Reinholds, PA 17569. 215-267-4170.
COMPENDIUM BOOK #1
Voyager Mindtools, PO Box 11578, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Everyone who reads INFO already knows that Twin Cities 128 is the world's best and most reliable source of CI28 information. Unfortunately. TCI28 does not enjoy the wide visibility of your standard newsstand magazine. Though it's easy enough to subscribe (and thousands do: S12.50/yr.. address above), it's not so easy to find a single copy. And it's impossible to buy many of the back issues, even though they cumulatively contain a great deal of invaluable CI28 information, much of it unavailable elsewhere.
Compendium Book #1 was created to address that problem. It is a collection of most of the best information from the first 18 issues of Twin Cities 128 in a 170-page spiral-bound book.
Included are all of "Sparrow's Slick Tips" for using the CI28 more effectively, reviews of C128-specific hardware and software, and tutorials on programming in machine language. BASIC 7. and BASIC 8. There's even information about CP/M. You'll find useful type-in utilities (but, thank goodness, no type-in games or wordpro-cessors). Out-of-date information has been left out, as have product listings and interview and conference transcripts which were simply too long to include. In all, about 75% of what appeared in the first 18 issues made it into the book.
Flavoring the whole works is the wit and wisdom of Twin Cities 128 publisher Loren Lovhaug. I'm glad the book reprints Loren's "Rumor/ Opinion/ Mayhem" columns, if just for their historical value. They are also highly entertaining, mostly thanks to Loren's weird way of looking at the whole world through C128-co!ored glasses.
1 have only three real complaints about this book. First, there's the teeny, teeny type. Secondly, there's the fact thai the book is organized chronologically by issue rather than by subject matter. I'd like to see the lips together, a CP/M section, a Review section, etc. Finally, an index would have been nice. Still. Compendium Book HI is an invaluable resource for CI28 owners, and a must-have for those who missed the first 18 issues of Twin Cities 128.
More books coming soon from Voyager Mindtools: 500 CI28 Questions Answered, and Compendium Book tf2.
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