COMPUTE!’s Gazette Utilities Disk — Automatic Proofreader & MLX III

Description

Type it in. Get it right the first time.

Every program listing in COMPUTE!’s Gazette is printed with checksums — and these are the two utilities that read them.

Automatic Proofreader v3.0 sits quietly in memory while you type. Press RETURN on a line and it displays a two-character code in the corner of the screen. If it matches the code printed next to that line in the magazine, the line is correct. If it doesn’t, you know before you’ve typed another two hundred lines. Auto-detects your machine and configures itself accordingly.

MLX III is the machine language editor for our hex listings. It takes ten bytes per line, checksums each one with a Fletcher algorithm that catches transpositions the old MLX would miss, and remaps the keyboard so you can enter hex one-handed from the number row and the JKLUIOP cluster. Load, save, resume where you left off, disk or tape.

Together they turn typing in a program from an exercise in dread into something you can actually finish on a Saturday.

What’s on the disk

• PROOFREADER — Automatic Proofreader v3.0
• MLX III — Machine Language Editor

Included as a .d64 disk image. Works on real hardware, an SD2IEC or Ultimate, or in VICE.

Free, and always will be. These belong to the community.