![]() The bottom line echoes the commands and formulae you type from the keyboard. These lines are not there for effect, either, as each one shows useful information all the time. The spreadsheet screen looks similar to Mastercalc 128's, except that the columns are labelled A, B, C, etc, and there are three status lines at the bottom of the screen, rather than Mastercalc's one. In practice, you'd probably run out of memory space before filling all these cells, and it's hard to think of many applications that would use that size of sheet, anyway. The program offers a maximum spreadsheet size of 16,000 cells, with up to 63 columns and 254 rows. Supercalc 2 runs under CP/M where over a million users have proved its effectiveness. There's so much of it that it only just fits into one of Amsoft's A4 binders. The manual consists of a full reference guide, excellent "ten minute" tutorial and a quick reference "Answer Card". The documentation is the original Sorcim text as well very well produced and with plenty of illustrations and coloured highlighting. The full program is there, together with the installation routines and several sample spreadsheets for you to play around with. What you get for this money is not a cut-down version of the program, but one specially tailored to the workings of the CPC 6128. ![]() Amstrad's argument runs like this: "You can't expect your average truck driver to pay more for one piece of software than he (she?) did for the computer". Amsoft have done a deal with Sorcim, the US producers of the program, to offer it at £49.95, rather than its more usual price of £200+. Supercalc is one of the original business spreadsheet programs, which has been updated through a number of different versions before the second edition Supercalc 2. As Mastercalc 128 is leaps ahead of Microspread, so Supercalc 2 offers a lot more than Mastercalc. ![]()
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