Rebound from Your Computer magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:05 pm
Here is something a little different, a text file (.bas extension) that can be CLOADed into XRoar. The listing can be found in Your Computer magazine (April 1983, Vol. 3 No. 4, p. 64), see the Internet Archive or WoS (page 64 and page 65).
I have made a few changes to the program. Apart from the credit to Vincent Crockett and other information in lines 1-3, I have deleted from line 60 the expression "-(A1=31)" because it makes no sense to me and its deletion does not appear to affect the program. Also, the end of line 380 has been changed, the deleted poke produces a reversed solidus ('\') but on a Dragon you can obtain that symbol with Shift+Clear+Z (plus a few more characters other than Z, and in 64 mode Shift+Clear are all that are required), so it is not really cheating to put a '\' in the text file.
Update: I have replaced the original file with a new upload that has "-(A1=31)" reinstated in line 60, see Sarah's post below for the explanation.
I have made a few changes to the program. Apart from the credit to Vincent Crockett and other information in lines 1-3, I have deleted from line 60 the expression "-(A1=31)" because it makes no sense to me and its deletion does not appear to affect the program. Also, the end of line 380 has been changed, the deleted poke produces a reversed solidus ('\') but on a Dragon you can obtain that symbol with Shift+Clear+Z (plus a few more characters other than Z, and in 64 mode Shift+Clear are all that are required), so it is not really cheating to put a '\' in the text file.
Update: I have replaced the original file with a new upload that has "-(A1=31)" reinstated in line 60, see Sarah's post below for the explanation.