Back in the Good old days of Programs you could type in from Magazines, came a whole range of BASIC programs with Machine Code loaders. A lot of those programs came with a series of Resident System eXtension (RSX), which were accessible from BASIC via the Pipe Command (Shift + @). Programs varied a lot, from Specific Tool developed to carry out a particular operation, to whole Libraries designed to Aid Programmers with their Programming projects. Because there's so many of these programs this list is by no means complete, please feel free to add any relevant programs (try to keep it Alphabetical, I'm using the name used by Magazine, Numbered programs can go first).
| Name | Author | Magazine / Month & Year | Requirements | # of RSXs |
Commands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128k Memory Swapper | Alistair Young | Amstrad Action / Nov 1989 | 128k | 2 | MSAVE MSWAP |
| Bankswop | N Little | Amstrad Action / Jul 1990 | 128k | 1 | BANK,<numeric expression> |
| Bigprint | R Tweedie | Amstrad Action / Jun 1990 | 1 | BIGPRINT,<x co-ordinate>,<y co-ordinate>,<string expression>,<ink 1>,<ink 2> | |
| De-protect | Adrian Forbes | Amstrad Action / Feb 1990 | 1 | DP,<filename> | |
| Eval | Seg Gorham | Amstrad Action / Dec 1989 | 464 only | 1 | EVAL,<string expression> |
| Exuser | Adrian Pay | Amstrad Action / Mar 1990 | AMSDOS | 1 | PUSER,<integer expression> |
| Header Reader | Mike Beckett | Amstrad Action / Oct 1990 | 1 | HR,<string expression> | |
| Maxi-RAM | Graeme Rowles | Amstrad Action / Aug 1990 | 464 only | 18 | Click Link |
| Magic | Simon Payne | Amstrad Action / Oct 1988 | 1 | MAGIC,<numeric expression>,<numeric expression> | |
| Memdump | Mike Wong | Amstrad Action / Apr 1990 | 1 | MEMDUMP | |
| Multi-coloured modes | TA Shah | Amstrad Action / Feb 1987 | 5 | ON OFF MODE,<numeric expression> INK SIZE,<numeric expression> | |
| Multi Prog | J Longley | Amstrad Action / Oct 1988 | 5 | INIT,<numeric expression,<address expression> SELECT,<numeric expression> PROGS CLEAR DELETE,<numeric expression> | |
| MultiRAM | Andrew Price | Amstrad Action / Aug 1990 | Multiface 2 | 2 | MULT,<address expression>,<length expression> MRON |
| Poke-It | Graeme Rowles | Amstrad Action / Aug 1990 | 2 | INSTALL RUN | |
| Push-pop | George Lovell | Amstrad Action / Jun 1990 | 128k | 2 | PUSH,<numeric expression> POP,<numeric expression> |
| Sprite Driver | Sean McManus | Amstrad Action / Apr 1990 | 3 | GRAB,<x co-ordinate>,<y co-ordinate>,<width>,<height>,<address expression> SDEF,<sprite number>,<address expression> SPRITE,<sprite number>,<x co-ordinate>,<y co-ordinate> | |
| SuperBASIC | George McIntosh | Amstrad Action / Dec 1989 | 27 | Click Link | |
| Ten-Bars | Graeme Rowles | Amstrad Action / May 1990 | 10 | Click Link | |
| Window Saver | David Lincoln | Amstrad Action / Feb 1987 | 2 | W.SAVE,<left>,<right>,<top>,<bottom>,<address expression> W.LOAD,<left>,<right>,<top>,<bottom>,<address expression> |