Tarot Reader (Amstrad CPC Type-In)
I do like esoteric stuffs. This one comes from the issues 27 March - 2 April 1986 and 3-9 April 1986 of the magazine Popular Computing Weekly and was authored by David Muir . Curiously no one spent effort in typing it so far although I find it quite handy. So I had it done during the lockdown with the help of Google Note image's scanning and some elbow grease. "This is a simulation of fortune telling using a full 78-card Tarot pack and the popular Celtic Cross Spread. It is menu-driven at every stage. The program is long because of all the data it holds. (The data is actually twice as long as the control program). The data includes information for 78 different card titles, different meanings for 78 cards, and 78 different pictures - so it's bound to be long - in any case we'll be printing it over two weeks. [...] When a card is to be printed, a check is made if it is a suit card. If so, the character 255 is defined for the suit and printed where necessary on the