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Typical loading screen of the "CPCDATAB" program launcher

The program launcher in action—"L" to load or "S" to load and run

Databox is the name of the additional cassette or disk which contained the programs of one issue of the CPC Schneider International magazines, published by DMV.

Type-in programs in CPC Schneider International had a checksum on each line, which could be compared to the output of check464.bas, check664.bas, or check612.bas, respectively, as each line was typed in. This was especially useful for entering long DATA statements with hexadecimal numbers—the usual way to include machine code in type-ins.

In this article we try to collect all the databoxes of this magazine and provide a short index of their contents. If you own a databox from an issue that is not collected here, please contact us in the CPC Wiki Forum and help us to collect all databoxes.

1 1985
- 1.1 03-07
- 1.2 08
- 1.3 09
- 1.4 10
- 1.5 11
- 1.6 12
2 1986
- 2.1 1
- 2.2 2
- 2.3 3
- 2.4 4
- 2.5 5
- 2.6 6
- 2.7 7
- 2.8 8
- 2.9 9
- 2.10 10
- 2.11 11
- 2.12 12
3 1987
- 3.1 1
- 3.2 2
- 3.3 3
- 3.4 4
- 3.5 5
- 3.6 6
- 3.7 7
- 3.8 8
- 3.9 9
- 3.10 10
- 3.11 11
- 3.12 12
4 1988
- 4.1 1
- 4.2 2
- 4.3 3
- 4.4 4
- 4.5 5
- 4.6 6
- 4.7 7
- 4.8 8
- 4.9 9
- 4.10 10
- 4.11 11
- 4.12 12
5 1989
- 5.1 1
- 5.2 2
- 5.3 3
- 5.4 4
- 5.5 5
- 5.6 6
- 5.7 7
- 5.8 8
- 5.9 9
- 5.10 10
- 5.11 11
- 5.12 12
6 1990
- 6.1 1
- 6.2 2
- 6.3 5
- 6.4 6/7
- 6.5 8/9
- 6.6 10/11
- 6.7 12/1
7 1991
- 7.1 2/3
- 7.2 4/5
- 7.3 6/7
- 7.4 8/9
- 7.5 10/11
- 7.6 12/1
8 1992
- 8.1 2/3
- 8.2 4/5
- 8.3 6/7
- 8.4 8/9
- 8.5 10/11
- 8.6 12/1
9 Sonderhefte
10 Download
11 Links

1985

03-07

Contents Highlights #01:

Smiley
Buecherwurm
Solitaire
Reaktionstest
Rel. Restore
Head Reader
Window
An Die Freude (music)
Orgelstimmer
Mergefix
Notizblatt
Data Wandler
Circle
CPC-Plot
Adressverwaltung
Screen Dump

Download: Highlights #01 1985 (CDT)

Contents Highlights #02:

Laserbattle
Partnertest
Minnies Flight
Scroller
Laufschrift
Bildschirmbewegung
Profile
Textroutinen
Baudrate
Zeitdifferenz
Dezimalpunkt
Bufferextension
Hi-Score
Mini Spreadsheet
Kurvendiskussion
Vokabeltrainer

Download: Highlights #02 1985 (CDT)

08

Prelude by Bach

Zehnkampf
BW-TEXT Textverarbeitung (Word processing)
Präludium von J.S. Bach in C-Dur
Bonusprogramm: Master Mind

09

Zehnkampf II
Line Runner (maze)
Symbol editor (character editor)
Wuerfelspass (version of the "Yahtzee" dice game)

10

Superder (arcade game)
BASIC monitor

11

Brickbuster (Breakout clone)
3-D maze

12

Pingo

Sprite Creator
Steuerzeichen
Pingo (puzzle game)

1986

1

Pferderennen

Stadt (arcade game)
Nibbler (maze game)
BASIC- und Sound-Kurse
Sprites
Bonusprogramm: Pferderennen (horse racing)
Z80 assembler

2

RSX mon, Discmon, Supermon (utilities)

3

Englebert (Qbert clone)
Lissajous figures
Fraktur typeface

4

Panzerschlacht

Context (editor/printing utility)
3D-Mühle
Bonus program: Panzerschlacht (arcade game)

5

Mr. Pac

Mr. Pac (Pac-Man clone)
Sub Hunter (not related to Sub Hunter)
Hadesque (Graphics adventure)

6

X-Basic
Vario
Mexico

7

Vokabeltrainer
Knack die Nuss

8

Ortwin's Run
Lokomotive
Game of Life
Paint Master
ROM Patch

9

Gravitation; planetary orbits (Mars)
Diskmat v2.0

10

Tokio Express
Periodensystem
Animator
Go Bang

11

Kalaha

Reversi

Kalaha (African Kalah/Mancala game)
Reversi

12

Prokyon

Habil Haushaltsbilanzen
Prokyon
Bonus program: Der Chefredakteur

1987

1

3–D Breakout
Pascal Compiler
Bonus program: Mars Depot (Lunar Lander clone)

2

Snake (Tron clone)
Software-Experiment 1–6 (see text at http://www.cpctech.org.uk/docs/)
MIDI recorder
Bonus program: Strandhotel (hotel business sim)

3

Moretti (third world aid and economy game)
Formula 1 strategy game
Bonus program: Income Tax
Disk Mon (disk utility)

4

Flowers

Flowers (jump-and-run)
Superplan (PIM software)
Film (3–D movie creation)

5

Block Man
Bonus program: Stratego

6

Bruno Bombe (platformer)
Liga 2 (soccer management game)

7

Orakel (power and gas bill forecast)
Bonus program: Forces! (chess-like board game)

8

Smiling Ball (pick up hearts in a maze)

9

Stock value analysis
Bonus program (puzzle game)

10

Porky

Porky

11

Maze

Maze

12

Bustout

Bustout (another Breakout clone)

1988

1

Pharao

Bonus program: Pharao (jump-and-run)
60 Hz mode
Kalender (universal calendar for 1683-9999)

2

Desk Manager

Software Freezer
Desk Manager (GUI tool for disk administration)

3

Dr. Dustbin
Bonus program: Copy Tool and Setdrive (both for CP/M)

4

Bonus program: Ball Cracker 2 (the zilionth Breakout clone)

5

Minigolf

Bonus program: Minigolf

6

Z80 assembler
Mad Maze
Bonus program: Wizardry

7

Cave Flight
Grafik demo
Magic Screen
Bonus program: Commerce (become a trader in opium and silk)

8

Peg solitaire

Bonus program: Peg solitaire
Backgammon
File 30 (filing software)

9

Die Berlinerin

Die Berlinerin (patience/solitaire variant)

10

Kermit client (for CP/M)
Bonus program: Meine Klasse 1988

11

Artworx

Artworx (DTP application)
Bonus program: Bowling

12

Deutsche Fehlermeldungen für CP/M
Multitasking (nur 6128)
Full Screen-Grafik auf dem Bildschirmrand
Endlos-Druck
Taxi (Space Taxi clone)
Ice Glider
Bonus program: Citykiller

1989

1

Bonus program: maze creator

2

Diskmon
Vorspann (title generator)

3

Fußball Manager
Disc Repair
Funktionsplotter

4

Sound Manager (sound tracker)
Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

5

Skiller

Video tape database
Bonus program: Skiller (top-down car racing game)

6

Australien

Australien

7

Black Gold/Öl-Manager

Black Gold/Schwarzes Gold/Öl-Manager (Erdölfirmen-Spiel)
Directory Pagemaker
Grafik-Demos
Shapes
Bonusprogramm: IQ-Test (Humor)

8

Gitter-Spiel (Solitär-Brettspiel auf dem Wiegleb-Brett mit 45 Feldern)
Berechnung von Tilgungssätzen

9

Gold Rush

Goldrausch/Gold Rush (Plattformspiel/platformer)
Tabellenkalkulation

10

Formularmanager
Singolo (Strategiespiel)

11

Zeitschriftenverwaltung
Boing (Breakout clone)
Kalenderprogramm für ungewöhnliche Anfragen, z.B. 1.111 Wochen nach einem best. Ausgangsdatum

12

Postman's Destiny

"Apfelmännchen" (Mandelbrotmenge)

Postman's Destiny (Pakete einsammeln auf Plattformen)
Kartei
M-Script
Bonus-Programm: Space Collision / Meteor (Asteroids clone)
1 kB-Programme u.a.: Apfelmännchen

1990

1

Biorhythmus
Stein auf Stein (Tetris clone)
Laurel II (RSX help program)
Roboterprogramme
Bonusprogramm: River Race

2

Verwaltungshilfe (nur 6128)
Sly Sprite (Strategiespiel)

5

Transformer
Crazywriter
Mandalas (Fraktale)

6/7

X-Force Warrior

Breakthru, a Breakout clone
Bonus program: X-Force Warrior

8/9

Side A
- Hot Plot
- Kontoverwaltung
Side B
- Versura (Schach-Strategiespiel)
- Schalten und Walten (Zeichengenerator?)

10/11

Deuteron

Side A
- Grid Rider
- Deuteron
- Rana
Side B
- Newspaper (Zeitungsseiten erstellen)
- Alien

12/1

Digital Drummer
Memory
Bonus program: Börsenkurse

1991

2/3

CPC Tools

Side A
- Poker
- Crilion
Side B
- Sonde
- Bonus program: CPC Tools (disk utility for CP/M Plus)

4/5

Digital Globe

Side A
- Digital Globe (mapping software)
- Datenverwaltung (database)
- Pipeline
- Crash
Side B
- Ultradisc (disk utility; format and copy disks)
- Bonus program: Power Tetris

6/7

Landgraf

Crash

Side A
- Landgraf (medieval economy sim)
- Crash
Side B
- Glücksrad (Wheel of Fortune)

8/9

Billy Bubble

Contents:

Billy Bubble (two-player, vaguely Breakout-like game)
Mona -> Maxam converter
Worm Slickers (game)
Demo für SCRIPT
Lader for SCRIPT
CPC Assembler
Checksummer 464
Checksummer 664
Checksummer 6128
CPC 464-Emulator
Datagenerator (Binär -> Basic Lader)
60 Hz Bildfrequenzumschaltung
Energiekostenabrechnung
CPC Digiblaster demos
Lotto (1 kb)
S-Check (1 kb)
Spells (1 kb)
Labermaschine (1 kb)
Clock (1 kb)
Snake (1 kb)
Mini-Cat (1 kb)
Sensor (1 kb)
Variablo (1 kb)
Bonus: Herberts Little Helper (game)

Download: Databox 08/09'1991

10/11

3D-Mersi

Turris

Side A
- 3D-Mersi (3-D Tetris variant)
Side B
- Turris (two-player board game)

12/1

RSX Professional
Bonus programs: Super-Edit and Disk Copy
Elektronikers Freund (decode color bands on resistors)

1992

2/3

Disk sector editor

Strego

Winglobe (calling itself DIGI-GLOBE for some reason)

Side A
- Musik-Tutor
- Disk sector editor
- Strego (strategy game for at least two-players)
Side B
- Winglobe
- Digoglobe

4/5

Side A
- Demo of Zap't'Balls
- Chess for three
Side B
- The Drumming CPC (drum computer)

6/7

CRTC programming course

8/9

Text-Assistent

Side A
- Puzznix
- Text-Assistent
Side B
- A/D converter software
- Gratop & Kintop

10/11

Side A
- PLGRAF (plotter graphics program)
Side B
- Bonus program: Adam Riese (spreadsheet)

12/1

Jumper

Solitaire

Side A
- CPC terminal program
- Jumper
- Solitaire
Side B
- Shootout

Sonderhefte

Sonderheft 1/1986

3 Haufen
Castle Grayscall
Super Saturn
Utopia (CPC version of Hamurabi)
Zastermann
Heizungsoptimierung
Mathematikkurs
Kegelkasse
Lagerverwaltung (inventory management)
Backup
DIN Tastatur
Kraefte zerlegen
Sprite Machine
Tempel der Bahli
Etat planen

Download: Sonderheft 1/1986 (tape image)

Zieh Oder Spring

This databox came on two cassettes. The second tape contained:

Drei Mal Eins (board game)
Points (African Kalah/Mancala game)
Time Machine (text adventure)
Wall Street (stock trading game)
Zieh Oder Spring (board game)
Liga (store league game results, e.g. Bundesliga)
Lohnsteuer
Vokabel Pauker
Kfz-Kosten
Biorythmus
Kalender Druck (print a calendar)
Configurator
Duo-Mode
Mastercontroll
Sound Editor
Var-Dump

Sonderheft 2/1986

Superchance

MC-Tracer
Turbo Sorter
Disc-Init
Disc Info Reader
Disc Manager
Turbo Dos
Relative Datei
Disc Basic V3.0
Sektor Map
Universal Datei
Disc Monitor
Backlist
Terminkalender
Disc Tape RSX
Fastcopy (CP/M)
Bonusprogramm (Superchance)

Sonderheft 3/1986

Monstergarten

Side A
- The Designer (paint program)
- Dis-K-Patcher
- CPC Monitor
- Monstergarten
- Program to create a custom Elite commander
Side B
- Mühle
- Entengeschichten (puzzle game)
- WIPO (business sim)
- Gangster
- Hubschrauber
- Galactic Conflict (strategy game)

Sonderheft 4/1987

Der Fluch des Pharao

Hopper

Tipsi

Speedy Bricks

Side A
- Der Fluch des Pharao
- Schneider-Börsenmakler
- BASIC Compiler (only for CPC 6128)
- Hopper
- 3D Plot
- StatiCAD V2.0
Side B
- Tipsi (shooter; uses the Beverly Hills Cop theme on its title screen for some reason)
- Speedy Bricks
- 3Axis

Sonderheft 5/1987

Guazuela

Side A
- Crazy Stamps (Spiel bei dem es darum geht Briefe schnell und richtig zu frankieren)
- Vier gewinnt
- Poker
Side B
- Secret Cavern (Airwolf clone)
- Tennis Manager
- DCF77
- Morse code trainer
- CPC-Term
- Mensch ärgere Dich nicht
Side C
- Runner
- Schlumpis Horror-Trip (Plattformspiel/platformer)
- Sound-Demos
- Bundesliga-Statistik
Side D
- Guazuela (satirisches Politik-Spiel)
- Tilgung

Sonderheft 6/1988

Side A
- Lineare Gleichungen
- Funktionsplotter
- ExoDOS
- Disc Manager
Side B
- CD-Liste
- Schulnotenverwaltung
- Buchführung
Side C
- 3D Life
- Sub Sunk (Battleship)
- Der Wolf jagt Schafe (board game)
- Rob the Roboter
- Ballcracker (Breakout clone)
Side D
- Faktu-Pro '87
- SCRCOPY+
- DINCOPY+
- CP/M enhancements
- Catlist

Sonderheft 7/1988

H'Cardin

Alan Sugar's biorhythm for August 28, 2011

Tron 3-D

Side A
- AMSMON (disk monitor)
- Auxilia
- Domingo
- H'Cardin (two-player board game)
- Musicus (synthesizer)
- Screen Pack Plus
Side B
- Mission Wega (lander game)
- Acceleration
- Boolean algebra
- Calculator
- PC-CPC file transfer tool
Side C
- Tron 3-D
- Mueller (Mühle/Nine Men's Morris)
- Cosmic
- Complex numbers
- Fractals
- Biorhythm
- Backup program
Side D
- Ein Stein mit Arni
- Sprechi (speech synthesizer)
- Labyrinth
- Vereinsverwaltung

Sonderheft 8/1989

La Cuisine

Hanseat

Ham radio app

Kanonen-Duell

Offiziersskat

Side A
- Neues vom Bankmanager. RSX-Befehle für die Datenverwaltung.
- La Cuisine (Küchenspiel)
- TRON (Spiel nach dem Disney-Film)
- Fitness Center (etwas wie Dance Dance Revolution, für selbstgebaute Joystickmatte)
- Lineare Gleichungen
- Weltzeituhr
Side B
- Apfelmännchen
- Let's Work/Ran an die Kisten (Verschiebe-Denkspiel wie Sokoban unter MS-DOS)
Side C
- Hanseat (mittelalterliches Handelsspiel)
- Rubik's Clock
- Eimerkette (Denkspiel)
- Satellitenpositionsberechnung für Ham Radio
Side D
- Bonusprogramme:
  - Offiziersskat
  - Crown-Convoy (Ball durch einen Tunnel manövrieren)
- 1 kB-Programme

Download

Scans of CPCSI magazine isssues
All availabe DSK images (as of July 5, 2010) in one 6.1 MB ZIP file
- The file menu application is usually started on disks with: run"cpcdatab

Links

Databoxes and other programs by CPC Schneider International at CPC-Power

@@ Line 275: / Line 275: @@
 *''Cave Flight''
 * Grafik demo
+* Magic Screen
 *Bonus program: ''Commerce'' (become a trader in opium and silk)
@@ Line 307: / Line 308: @@
 *Full Screen-Grafik auf dem Bildschirmrand
 *Endlos-Druck
+*Taxi (''Space Taxi'' clone)
+*Ice Glider
+*Bonus program: Citykiller
 == 1989 ==