KiKiWare by KiKiSoft 1993

TimeWorks V1.0
 

The lowest line in the display indicates the functions, and the oher in each case key being under it leads the function out (naturally only, even if YOU on it-press!).

01.08. 20:00 cake bake
02.08. 06:30 shirts iron
03.08. 18:30 friend maintain
INF NEW DEL LOD SAV SET

Thus can look, if TimeWorks were started.

INF here concerns it the info. function. It gives information over the names of the up-to-date loaded file, the next alarm of the remaining memory already adjusted, to the number of existing dates (in parentheses behind the free storage location), the date and the time (the inclusive second).

The announcement is enough effected in such a way, until you consent yourself, a further key to press. Then you can see the home menue in the display.

Now and then one must enter also times a new date to NEW ONES. NEW ONE settles exactly that. After operation of F2 (") the first three lines of the display and in the highest line are deleted appear the up-to-date stopped date with the time (am:Date um:time).

A cursor flashes then on the point behind the current date. With the cursor keys (arrow highly ' arrow down) now the day can be stopped (1-31). The day is adjusted follows the month. This is reached by operation of the arrow right key. Then again arrow highly and arrow down (1-12).

It occurs to you then that you want to screw nevertheless still times on the day ' then can you again arrow linking branch use and the day reset. Arrow right would have you for adjustment the hour a further mark arrow right into the minute adjustment (arrow left again and again to the previous point).

Yes and if then the alarm time is adjusted, then one usually still another short note would like to drnhaengen in the back, so that one also knows when waking, why one from the desk chair to rise is.

One can enter this note after operation of ENTER. The note is always called in powerplant note and may be long maximally 20 indications. Nevertheless is not much, but something. More than 20 indications cannot be entered also at all. If the end of the line is reached, then the alarm is considered as entered and into the list is inserted. That does not mean now that those must be long note always 20 indications. One can shorten also with ENTER.

MODE breaks the input off of the alarm. Also during the alarm time attitude.

Oh, the dates by the way appear to the input and not the date and the Uhrzeit in the list in the order (chronological). That is also still another one point, which I will surely still work on.

SHIFT-NEW which is now again? Now KiKi becomes however economically! No more second menu level. Now, then I am even. But now to the topic.

SHIFT-NEW is naturally nothing different one than the EDIT command for existing dates from the cause list. Thus after pressing SHIFTS and F2 the current date can be worked on. First as with NEW ONE the point of alarm time is stopped. Only with the note part geht's differently. If the note text is to remain received, then one point must "." otherwise becomes the entered text than new notes text is entered more.

DEL beside NEW ONE must also now and then times which into the large data move. DEL deletes ends the current alarm (that always is the alarm in the first line).

SHIFT DEL already again this muck without the second menu level. With SHIFT DEL the entire cause list can on an impact sunk become. Thus watched out with it. But so that you watching out falls a little more easily, I inserted a safety examination. Only if YOU delete the question "all dates?" positively answer, then ist's finally past. But one can also press "N" or MODE.

LOD is load. A date file can be reloaded. The file name must be indicated for it, like the Sharp manual it required (e.g. S2:TERMINE.TW).

The file specified in the above example is loaded automatically with each start of powerplant (if available, otherwise error message).

At the cause list in the memory if changes were made, it is first asked whether these changes are to be rejected.

SAV as it were the a cook kitchen by Dr. Oetker. The current dates can be made durable under a name (see LOD) (with it one it later still times on bread painted gotten can).

The computer if the file on the selected drive assembly is already well-known, the user is asked whether the file is to be overwritten. MODE and "N" (no) prevent a overwrite, "J" () overwrite the old file.

SET now perhaps a little confusing. Powerplant sets the dates entered over NEW ONE into the list, does not stir it up however not automatically. At present one must the next date, of which the PC-1600 is to remind, picks themselves out still manually and by operation of F6 ' makes sharp '.

That may sound amusing perhaps for or to others, but automatic stirring up of dates represents a considerable problem (for the program writer).

Since the PC-1600 with its operating system leads a quite self-sufficient independent existence, by the IOCS (operating system) any vectors are constantly bent, which one had laboriously by right put straight.

One must switch off only the computer with the off key and already goes nothing more.

For these reasons first times a manal ' sharpening ' of the dates. And betatige picks out the next date for you then the F6-Taste (&).

And which happens, if powerplant announces an alarm? With respect to the basic between WAKE$ and ALARM$ one differentiates. That does not make powerplant. If an alarm is sharpened, then both in the in and in the switched off condition the event is announced. This happens both within powerplant, and within other programs. The only condition for it is that the computer was not switched off by the off key in the BasicInterpreter (from KiKiWare OFF can be always operated).

An alarm event is indicated both acoustically and optically:

ALARM +
! !  Now bake finally   ! !
SPACE +

The acoustics are not to be shown here unfortunately, reminded however far away at the Communicator of the spaceship Enterprise. This message appears in the first three lines of the display. So that the message disappears again, SPACE must be pressed.

And now still the KiKiSoft standard keys. With MODE each operation is broken off. Also terminating powerplant goes with MODE. If changes at the cause list should vorgenornmen to be in the meantime, then it is still asked whether the changes are to be rejected.

OFF switches the computer off. In each place except in the alarm display shown above.

With the cursor keys highly and down can be geblattert in the Terrninliste. Cursors on the left and on the right stop the beginning and/or the end of the cause list.

Which should not be forgotten, the macro language, which it each user permitted to put individual commands on certain keys is to be facilitated in order the ' work ' a little. A global description is present in the Dokmentation of DiskWorks and is not repeated here. The only difference lie in that the instruction from DW is not valid. Oh, and the macro file called TW.CFG.

Powerplant is exactly like DiskWorks also for the ' minimum version ' of the PC-1600 suitable. It works in the storage area between &C0C5 to &EF00. To the loading of powerplant still 7KB at place stands for Terrnine. That would have to actually be sufficient for all times (maxnal 255 dates are by the way possible). Whom that is not sufficient, which should itself a secretary to add.

So and now still the success and fun desires of your

Christian