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The following listings were published in the August 1987 issue of ''[[Amstrad Action]]'':
=== Type-Ins ===
* Mandelbrot Generator (Alex Clark)
* Number Game (Daniel Berman)
* Degrees Conversion (A. E. Turner)
* Character-by-character Print (B. Naff)
* Reaction Tester (Kevin Stafferton)
* Catalogue to Variables (Martin Packer)
* Decompress Pictures (Stuart Lockey) - consists of two listings to expand screens compressed with ''[[The Advanced OCP Art Studio]]''
* Mixing Hash and Pound (T. Lea)
=== Hot Tips ===
* ''Thrust'' scroll (Patrick Connolly) - a scrolling effect similar to that used to display the loading screen in Firebird's ''[[Thrust]]''
* Fuzz (David Bowman)
* Shaky sound (Mike Worsley) - shakes the screen and produces an explosion sound effect
* Upside-down (Paul Bower) - redefines the character set
* Format detecting (T. Middelkamp)
* Dotty characters (Michael) - redefines the character set - the author's surname is unknown
''Mandelbrot Generator'' includes an option to generate a selection of six pictures of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/Mandelbrot_set Mandelbrot set]. The program takes more than 25 hours to generate all six pictures!
== Corrections ==
''Amstrad Action'' omitted to publish the program to load the six pictures created by ''Mandelbrot Generator''. The listing was published in the [[Amstrad Action September 1987 Type-Ins|September 1987]] issue.
== Bugs ==
One of the variables for the first of the six pictures created by ''Mandelbrot Generator'' is incorrect, leaving a blank area on the left of the picture.
''Mixing Hash and Pound'' does not adjust <tt>HIMEM</tt> correctly, which means that the machine code routine will overwrite the first byte of any other data that is already stored just above <tt>HIMEM</tt>.
== Download ==
* [[Media:AmstradActionType-Ins_023.dsk.zip|DSK file]]
* [[Media:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Instructions.txt|Instructions in plain text format]]
== Screenshots ==
<center><gallery style="clear: both">
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_MandelbrotGenerator.png|<center>Mandelbrot Generator</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_NumberGame.png|<center>Number Game</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DegreesConversion.png|<center>Degrees Conversion</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Character-By-CharacterPrint.png|<center>Character-by-character Print</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_ReactionTester.png|<center>Reaction Tester</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_CatalogueToVariables.png|<center>Catalogue to Variables</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DecompressPictures.png|<center>Decompress Pictures</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_MixingHashAndPound.png|<center>Mixing Hash and Pound</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Upside-Down.png|<center>Upside-down</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_FormatDetecting.png|<center>Format detecting</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DottyCharacters.png|<center>Dotty characters</center>
</gallery></center>
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[[Category:Amstrad Action Type-Ins]]
=== Type-Ins ===
* Mandelbrot Generator (Alex Clark)
* Number Game (Daniel Berman)
* Degrees Conversion (A. E. Turner)
* Character-by-character Print (B. Naff)
* Reaction Tester (Kevin Stafferton)
* Catalogue to Variables (Martin Packer)
* Decompress Pictures (Stuart Lockey) - consists of two listings to expand screens compressed with ''[[The Advanced OCP Art Studio]]''
* Mixing Hash and Pound (T. Lea)
=== Hot Tips ===
* ''Thrust'' scroll (Patrick Connolly) - a scrolling effect similar to that used to display the loading screen in Firebird's ''[[Thrust]]''
* Fuzz (David Bowman)
* Shaky sound (Mike Worsley) - shakes the screen and produces an explosion sound effect
* Upside-down (Paul Bower) - redefines the character set
* Format detecting (T. Middelkamp)
* Dotty characters (Michael) - redefines the character set - the author's surname is unknown
''Mandelbrot Generator'' includes an option to generate a selection of six pictures of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/Mandelbrot_set Mandelbrot set]. The program takes more than 25 hours to generate all six pictures!
== Corrections ==
''Amstrad Action'' omitted to publish the program to load the six pictures created by ''Mandelbrot Generator''. The listing was published in the [[Amstrad Action September 1987 Type-Ins|September 1987]] issue.
== Bugs ==
One of the variables for the first of the six pictures created by ''Mandelbrot Generator'' is incorrect, leaving a blank area on the left of the picture.
''Mixing Hash and Pound'' does not adjust <tt>HIMEM</tt> correctly, which means that the machine code routine will overwrite the first byte of any other data that is already stored just above <tt>HIMEM</tt>.
== Download ==
* [[Media:AmstradActionType-Ins_023.dsk.zip|DSK file]]
* [[Media:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Instructions.txt|Instructions in plain text format]]
== Screenshots ==
<center><gallery style="clear: both">
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_MandelbrotGenerator.png|<center>Mandelbrot Generator</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_NumberGame.png|<center>Number Game</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DegreesConversion.png|<center>Degrees Conversion</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Character-By-CharacterPrint.png|<center>Character-by-character Print</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_ReactionTester.png|<center>Reaction Tester</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_CatalogueToVariables.png|<center>Catalogue to Variables</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DecompressPictures.png|<center>Decompress Pictures</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_MixingHashAndPound.png|<center>Mixing Hash and Pound</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_Upside-Down.png|<center>Upside-down</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_FormatDetecting.png|<center>Format detecting</center>
Image:AmstradActionType-Ins_023_DottyCharacters.png|<center>Dotty characters</center>
</gallery></center>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amstrad Action 1987-08 Type-Ins}}
[[Category:Amstrad Action Type-Ins]]
