About
Use It is a software application for the Tatung Einstein, published by Bubble Bus.
Its title screen credits it “BY SANDY MARCHANT” and “(C) BUBBLE BUS SOFTWARE 1985”, and shows the three tools it holds: GRAF IT, CALC IT and TIME IT. The case is Bubble Bus Software’s own, titled “USE IT!”. The disc inside it carries a Merlin Software label with “USE IT” typed on side A.
Running It
Boot the disc. At the 0: prompt type BUS, which starts Xtal BASIC 4.2, then at Ready type RUN"USEIT".
Files on the Disc
| Side | File | Size | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | BUS.COM | 15,616 | Xtal BASIC 4.2 |
| A | USEIT.XBS | 4,480 | Title screen and loader |
| A | USE.XBS | 28,032 | The program |
Side B is unformatted.
About this Dump
Dumped from the disc with a Greaseweazle V4 and an original 3-inch drive on 1 October 2026. All 400 sectors of side A read with good CRCs on the first pass. The zip holds the raw flux (.scp), a MAME image (.mfi) and a sector image (.dsk), with nothing cleaned up.
Can You Help? The Manual
We do not have instructions for Use It. If you have the inlay or any printed instructions that came with it, please scan them and get in touch.
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