Run Works
RUN Works is the 1988 manual for RUN magazine's RUN Works disk, "seven of RUN's most powerful programs for Commodore 64 and 128 users". It was published by IDG Communications/Peterborough (RUN Special Products, Peterborough, New Hampshire), with an introduction by Lou Wallace, RUN's technical manager. The booklet has front matter numbered to iv, a directory page and numbered pages 1 to 49, plus covers and a credits page; the scan here is 61 PDF pages. It was scanned and processed by Tomse for the retro-commodore.eu archive and has a searchable text layer.
It is a software manual and contains no hardware information.
Contents
[edit | edit source]The booklet's directory page lists each program with its page, its disk files and their type:
| Page | Program | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money Manager | Rex Day | Cheque book and budget manager, with up to 38 category codes for payments |
| 4 | Label Base | Bob Kodadek | Mailing-label database and telephone directory; one program for the C-64 and C-128 |
| 8 | RUN Term 128 and RUN Term 64 | Tom Brown | Terminal program: 300/1200 baud, auto-dial phone book, text capture buffer, 1700-series RAM expansion support, Xmodem and Punter transfer. The 128 version first appeared in the January 1988 issue of RUN and is updated here; the 64 version is new |
| 16 | Form Writer 128 and Form Writer 64 | Tom Brown | Designs custom forms and fills them in from the keyboard or from its own database files |
| 23 | RUN Shell | John Ryan | Menu-driven disk manager, an upgraded version of the C-128 DOS Shell supplied with the 1571 drive. Supports the 1541, 1571 and 1581 drives and the 1700-series RAM expansion units, runs on the C-64 and on the C-128 in 40 or 80 columns, and can create 1581 partitions |
| 29 | RUN Paint | Robert Rockefeller | Paint program with a canvas larger than the screen (640 × 200 on the C-64, 640 × 800 on the C-128); loads and saves Doodle! and Koala files |
| 41 | Graphmaker | Robin Franzel | Bar-graph program for the C-64 or C-128 in 40 or 80 columns |
Five of the seven programs run on either machine; RUN Term and Form Writer have separate C-64 and C-128 versions. Pages iii–iv give loading instructions for both machines and explain that machine-language programs cannot be copied by loading and saving them and need a disk-backup utility.
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