Ooops, sorry to raise your hopes.
After I sent the message, I remembered that most of the code I have is on floppy disk, for the TF-20 drive. I still have this, but it's not communicating any more, and I've not been able to track down why and fix it. May be something simple? The TF-20 still makes the right noises if it's powered up. I suspect a dud solder joint at the linking cable socket at the HX end?
I have the disks OK, and I can read them on one of my old PCs (using 22disk), however, if I've saved any BASIC as BAS then I have another problem, better if it was saved as ASC.
I have everything for the SPT0:, the prog, and I think the data as a separate file (there's a machine code section to be loaded into RAM). The data file for the machine code would be a help anyway? As well as that, I have the pages from the magazine the article was published in. Somewhere! Just need to see if the BASIC part of the prog is 'encoded' or ASC.
How would you hope to get any progs into your HX? Are you keen to type everything in?
I have the built-in m/c, but this failed a while back. Prob just a rubber drive band gone. Not got it repaired. Yet! I had a number of progs stored on a normal cassette, a little while ago I was experimenting with using the laptop instead of a cassette recorder, and this was working quite well - save the prog into a .WAV, and then load it back. Prob more reliable than the tape?
Looking through my disks, I cannot see BANNER. I'm sure it was somewhere, maybe it was in a book and I never actually entered it? I'll keep looking. In any event, if you have the manual (BASIC Reference) look at page 4-18 for the function POINT. The significant part of BANNER is essentially a variant of the example prog for POINT. Specifically, modified to allow more text, to rotate the data 90 degrees, and to print to LPRINT as opposed to PRINT. Fairly simple mods. Oh, change the char printed from the block to * or @ may look better?
Geoff
I always thought (assumed) that when I retired, I'd have so much more free time. Now I'm there, I wonder how on earth I ever found time to go to work!!