About
These are the programs published with the book Einstein Compendium (see Resources to download the book). The disc was sold by Emsoft, “Support for the Einstein”, of 80 Dales Road, Ipswich, whose printed label is on both the disc and its case.
It holds 32 files, mostly short Xtal BASIC programs:
- Games:
ATOMIC(“Atomic Rescue”, “COPYRIGHT G.M.BETTANY”),BOMBER,CROSSING,HRACEhorse racing,PINTABLEandRUBIK, a Rubik’s cube. - Graphics and text:
WIREDRAW,JOYDRAW,ROTATE,SOMBRERO,RSUN, the character-set designerCHRDEFwithCHRLOADandCHRSET, and large, double-height and sideways printing (BIGPRINT,DBLHT,SIDEPRNT). - Utilities:
AUTOBOOT(makes a DOS 1.31 disc run a program at boot),UNERASE,READ,IDENTKIT,MORSE,CRYPTO,BIORYTHM, and printer screen dumps with their assembly source (GDUMP1,GDUMP2).
Running It
XBAS is not on the disc. Load XBAS from a System Master, then put this disc in and run a program by name, for example RUN"ATOMIC".
Files in the Package
| File | Side | What it is |
|---|---|---|
COMPEND_A_COMPEND.scp | A | raw flux capture |
COMPEND_A_COMPEND.mfi | A | MAME flux image |
COMPEND_A_COMPEND.dsk | A | sector image |
COMPEND_B_BLANK.* | B | the other side: an XtalDOS 1.31 system disc with no files |
README.txt | details of the dump and checksums |
About this Dump
Dumped on 27 September 2026 from an Emsoft disc, an Amsoft CF-2 disc with Emsoft’s label, using a Greaseweazle V4 and an original Einstein 3″ drive. Every sector on both sides read cleanly on the first pass. All 32 files are byte for byte the same as the library’s earlier image, which this confirms.
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Publisher
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