Missing Book (Video salesman!)

Adam Ant

Hi,

I used to have a programming book with the above listing in it...

Bit of a long shot but can anyone remember the title?

Regards.

Zoffy

Googled '"Video salesman" spectrum'.......


http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015178

Vampyre

That's really got me thinking about a programming book that I got the day I had my first Speccy (Christmas 1983).

I would love to be able to read those type-ins again, but all I can remember about the book was that it was A5 sized, about 1/2 an inch thick (so about 100 pages) and it was full of BASIC programs. The one that sticks out in my mind, and this is probably because it was one of the shortest programs, was something called Moire, which was one of those programs that made a pretty pictiure with lots of interlaced lines like a square Spirograph. I'd love to see that book again, so I'm kind of hoping that it's been scanned and someone can point me to it.

Adam Ant

:)
Zoffy - you have made me a very happy man :grin:

I have just ordered the book from Amazon - ?1.99 (?2.00 postage) :lol:

Only two left - they start at ?16+ 8)

I cannot wait for its arrival.. :grin:

I can't find the book with Moire in - I did think I had it but I don't - there are so many, I'm sure if you search as above you will get something... Good luck

Regards.

Zoffy

Adam - no probs. I actually have this book myself, but I never typed that particular program in so I didn't remember it as being in the book.

Vampyre - check this page of reviews, your book may be one of them:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSpectrum/Issue06/Pages/YourSpectrum0600047.jpg

<returns after a spot of Googling>

Hmm, could it be this one? :

http://zxspectrum.hal.varese.it/italiani100.htm

Near the bottom: "Senza Nome n.3: ...... Moire (grafici)"

Vampyre

Zoffy wrote: »

Adam - no probs. I actually have this book myself, but I never typed that particular program in so I didn't remember it as being in the book.

Vampyre - check this page of reviews, your book may be one of them:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSpectrum/Issue06/Pages/YourSpectrum0600047.jpg

<returns after a spot of Googling>

Hmm, could it be this one? :

http://zxspectrum.hal.varese.it/italiani100.htm

Near the bottom: "Senza Nome n.3: ...... Moire (grafici)"

Thanks Zoffy -

It was none of those, but you galvanised me into actually doing a proper search and I found it on WOS in the end:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000260

It's a pity that none of the pages have been scanned or TZX'd unlike the earlier book (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000146), so I can't see the delights of them again. They were all rubbish if I remember correctly but it would be nice to see them for old times sake!