Beetext - Text Handler (E.R.AMERY & COPESCROFT Ltd) BBC Micro UEF Tape Image

[Arcadian]

Found this with a small ebay job lot of tapes ...

Cassette with hand-written label that states "TEXT HANDLER" at the top and WEPAC 007 and CHAIN "" at the bottom.

Four files on the tape, main file is BEETEXTPH.

1.TFIX
2. PILOTP
3. BEETEXTPH
4. CH

Intro program states:

TEXT HANDLER FOR B.B.C. COMPUTER MODEL B
COPYRIGHT E.R.AMERY AND COPESCROFT LTD.

Has a date 1 November 1982 within the code.

Has anyone heard of this before? If anyone can get it to do anything interesting/useful I'd love to know!!

[fuzzel]

Has anyone managed to get this to run? I'm falling at the first hurdle with TFIX. It just hangs when I run it.

[Pernod]

Has anyone managed to get this to run? I'm falling at the first hurdle with TFIX. It just hangs when I run it.
TFIX.png

Haven't tried it yet but from the calls into the OS it's expecting OS 0.10, refer to disassembly from https://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/Acorn/Source/MOS.htm

[flaxcottage]

Most of the files apart from BEETEXTPH appear to be irrelevant and to do with correcting the known tape bug in OS 0.1 and with providing some form of protection with the calls at lines 40 and 900. File CH is loaded at the start of the program BEETEXTPH.

To get the program to do something;

PAGE=&F00
LOAD "BEETEXTPH"
EDIT LINES 40 and 900 to remove the CALLs
RUN

File CH loads in response to New heading.

After that what it does is a mystery.