PASSWORD

by Kevin Lea



A couple of months back I said "Gimme a machine code password routine".

Remember? I had expected to sit back and watch a mere two or three

entries trickle in through the letterbox, but I received no less than

21 replies! Wow!



What a torture it proved to be evaluating them all. I toiled, sweated

and toiled some more and finally managed to produce two winners. The

first one is Kevin Lea, whose short, friendly, and utterly powerful

program, grabbed me by the decisive nodules (gwar) and wouldn't let

go. (I'll be printing the second routine in a later edition of Pitstop.)



WORRA LORRA FEATURES

Here are some of the features at your fingertips:

* Completely relocatable anywhere in memory.

* Print any message anywhere on-screen.

* Passwords can be up to 255 characters long.

* The key repeats can be hurried or slowed for varying typing speeds.

* Either 'crash' or 're-try' option.

* All keys, numbers and symbols can be in a password.

* The input line can go anywhere.

* Can be any colour.

* Will work on any Spectrum..



PASS THE WORD

It's easy, it's peasy, it's .... erm ... queasy! Just jam the BASIC

program into your Speccy and RUN it.