One Hundred and One Color Computer Programming Tips and Tricks

The must-have software idea book, overflowing with hints, secrets, shortcuts, and color techniques… with 101 ready-to-run programs.

Here’s a mammoth collection of practical, useful, efficient programming techniques and operating shortcuts right out of a master programmer’s notebook. Loaded with tips, tricks, hints, secrets and easy-to-follow instructions, this book tells you how to handle routine programming chores more quickly, do special effects, make your computer work for you—faster and more efficiently.

Each of the 101 TRS-80 Color Computer programming tips and tricks in this book features a complete program which will run all by itself, or as part of a larger set of instructions. All 101 programs are tested and ready-to-run. Color Computer functions and statements in both Color BASIC and Extended Color BASIC are included.

Learn insider’s how-to secrets for using the exciting BASIC words, CIRCLE, COLOR, DRAW, PAINT, PLAY, SCREEN, EDIT, LINE, PCLEAR, PCLS, PMODE, PSET, PRESET, PRINT USING, MOTOR, SOUND, ON/GOTO, IF/THEN/ELSE, TIMER, STRING$, CHR$, STR$, and many others.

Sections in this book include colorful graphics, sound of music, text on text, fun & games, number crunching and odds & ends. Special techniques are here for both medium-resolution and high-resolution graphics; writing and playing both popular and classical music; colorful program titles and billboards; making sound cues and video rainbows; drawing grid and bar graphs; poking and peeking into memory; searching, ordering, sorting and error trapping; lettering, numbering and erasing graphics pages; making a custom cursor; drawing sketches; creating low-resolution graphics on text pages.

You’ll learn what to do, how to do it, when to make changes and when not to, all in this extensive, info-packed Color Computer programmer’s handbook of tricks.