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Printers Mate manual and disk for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 06-10-2023
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was a Printers Mate Instruction Manual, A4 in side and 15 pages long. Scanned at 600 dpi and converted to a searchable PDF as usual.
Printers Mate was produced by ICARUS SOFTWARE from WA in 1983 and originally came on cassette.
PRINTER'S MATE is a suite of machine language programs
which are designed to permit the Microbee user to make
fuller use of a dot matrix printer. Versions are available
for the Itoh 8510 and Epson FX,RX and MX as well as the FAX
and Amust printers.
Also found were the 2 files that make up Printers Mate (MATE and CORE) on a disk mixed with other un-related files. These were extracted and put onto a bootable 3.5" SS80 Microbee disk together with 5 of the 6 example files. The disk runs fine on a CIAB, 128k and Prem 128k Microbee. The example basic listings are printed in the manual, so each were extracted as a txt file from the searchable PDF and the 1 & l etc corrected. They were then loaded into Basic and saved out as a MWB file. A picture of the cassette label and insert is already in the repository which shows there were 6 examples on the tape, but only 5 were printed in the manual, maybe the last page got lost. So the 5 are included on the disk in both TXT and MWB forms.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Documentation/Manuals/Software folder we placed
printers_mate_instructions_manual.pdf
printers_mate_ss80.dsk <-- in Software/Applications folder