A COUPLE OF THINGS

by M.L.D. Caspersz



[The missing bytes at the end of the coloured block hex dump were:]

[0D 20 F2 C9                                                  JimG]



Here are a couple of programs from MLD Caspersz who not only lives in

Sri Lanka but has also written a book (this section seems to have more

plugs in it than, er, something with a lot of plugs). The book looks

rather good actually (it's called Maturing In Machine Code), as can be

seen by the following two programs from it.



The first performs the simple function of printing big coloured blocks

on the screen, and is notable because a) it's blimmin' fast and b) it

makes interesting use of DEF FN (some people might think so, anyway).

Type in the Basic, save it, type in the hex with the Hex Loader, save

that too, run it and hold down a key to print blocks.



Secondly there's a magic square program. Well, two actually. They

print, funnily enough, magic squares. And why are they magic? They

aren't actually, but you'll find that all the rows and columns add up

to the same number. A bit of a mathematical phenomenon really. The

first is the better presented, but the second one does the whole thing

in one line (with a bit of cheating).



[Note that these magic square programs only work for ODD numbers.  JimG]