Hola, Going from memory here: to get speedscript going, just load ,8 and run -- it has a basic header. Load and Save are done using F7/F8. CTRL-w gives a list of all commands (CTRL-(w)hat?). To transfer files to a PC, surely something like Star Commander or PRlink is the way to go? Finally, regarding converting the files. I seem to remember some sort of conversion utility, but the SpeedScript format is pretty easy: the text is stored as screen characters, so pretty much all you have to do is translate characters 0-31 to characters 64-95 (actually 64-95 is for PETSCII; what's ASCII, 96-127?). Anyways, I wrote a little conversion program many years back; I could look for it, if you're interested (it runs on the 64, or maybe 128), but I would think that things like tr could do the job easily. Little speedscript load/save anecdote: way way way back in high school I had my 64 on a card table which had metal legs and a big metal hoop around the main table. It was very dry where I lived, and some days I'd run upstairs to get something and when I got back to the computer, I'd often get a little static shock, from touching the table. This had the curious effect of doing strange things to the computer, in particular disabling certain keys. So one winter I wrote a big history paper, and after an hour or two went upstairs for a drink, came back down, and -- SNAP! Uh-oh, thinks I. Sure enough, some keys were disabled. After offering suitable sacrifices to the 8-bit gods, I pressed F8 to pleasepleaseplease save all my work -- whhheeeew, that one still worked. But then SpeedScript asks, "(T)ape or (D)isk?" Guess what one of the disabled keys was? P still worked, so I think I printed it, and then did something lame like attach the last few paragraphs with scotch tape. I haven't used SpeedScript in a long time, but I did steal the charset for use in the Cool World title screen. What the heck, here's another SpeedScript anecdote: when I moved way out to Chicago, for graduate school, a guy from the school posted to comp.sys.cbm, offering his boxes of warez and old 64 stuff to anyone who would convert his old SpeedScript files to a modern format. So I wrote him, and said sure, and figured out the file format and wrote the little conversion program. It turned out the guy only lived a block or two away from me, and eventually we met. We started hauling stuff, and got to talking; at one point he mentioned where he grew up. We stopped, stared at one another for a moment in silence... "Canton?" "Steve?" This was my friend's brother's friend, from a different city, who I used to trade warez with and talk about lots of 64 stuff with, whom I hadn't spoken to since eighth grade. Some of the warez in the box were ones I had given him, and hadn't seen in years. Small world, eh? I bet nobody gets these kinds of stories using Word. -Steve - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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