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B I O - C O M P 1 2 8
Program by William Skrypka
Text by Fender Tucker
BIORHYTHMS is a concept based upon one big premise: on the day an
individual is born, three major cycles start, and these cycles continue on
through the individual's life. The three cycles are these:
(1) Physical - 23 days
(2) Emotional - 28 days
(3) Intellectual - 33 days
William Skrypka has taken this concept and produced an excellent
program that will display on screen or printer how these cycles will affect
you. All you have to do is give the program your name, birthdate and the
dates for which you want to see a chart of your cycles.
The program's first option is an explanation of biorhythms so I won't
go into that in this text. However, there are a few aspects of the program
that you should know about.
(1) William is from Ontario and has written the program's date input
routine so that you are to enter the DAY first, then the MONTH, then the
YEAR. In the U.S. we usually put the MONTH first, followed by the DAY and
the YEAR. The format wanted is printed on the screen directly below the
input prompt. Be sure to enter the dates properly or you'll be getting
someone else's biorhythm!
(2) The program is set for dates between 1900 and 1999, but by pressing X
at the prompt for the last two digits of the year you can enter dates for
the years 2000 to 2999. Old IBM software may blow up when the year 2000
comes around, but William has thought ahead.
(3) The print routines allow you to select between DRAFT printing and NLQ
printing. DRAFT should work for any printer but the NLQ mode sends
commands that work on Epson-emulating printers. If the NLQ mode doesn't
print the screens properly, you should either stick to the DRAFT mode or
change the codes being sent to the printer in lines 2506-2515. The program
listing is well-REMarked and it's easy to tell which line sends which
printer code.
(4) William wrote the program to be compiled with the Abacus 128 COMPILER
but since the program runs fast enough in BASIC (in my judgment), I've
decided to publish the BASIC source code and leave the compiling up to you.
There are a few things that I would have programmed differently but on the
whole, William has written straightforward code with many REMarks. This is
a good program to study and tweak if you are interested in BASIC
programming.
DISCLAIMER
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Whether you believe in the BIORHYTHMS concept or not, the program makes
charting one's cycles easy and visually appealing. BIORHYTHMS is one of
those concepts, like fractals, that is perfect for computers. Can you
imagine calculating and drawing these charts by hand?
LOADSTAR, of course, makes no guarantees that you will have a red-
letter day on the day the program implies you will. But on the other hand,
we can't guarantee your day will be a dismal as the program says. Let's
all have fun with BIO-COMP 128 and lead our lives as if WE are responsible
for them...because we are.
Since the program allows you to compare two people's biorhythms, it can
be a great "ice-breaker" at a party or on a date, even if the cycles spell
doom for the both of you. Remember, there's nothing wrong with proving a
computer wrong -- unless of course you're on a mission to Jupiter and the
onboard computer says there's an error in the AE-35 Unit when there's not
one. THAT'S when you start worrying.
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