On Nov 10, 21:34, Frank Schickel wrote:
> I programmed a little bit on 2000F and may retain a little
> bit....
[...]
> If it's a straight "LIST" of the program, then the format would
> be a standard format of the line number followed by two spaces; so
> I would bet that the _at_s are spurious and can be ignored.
OK, I guess it's just line noise, and I'll remove them. There's
another place where there's something that doesn't quite make sense to
me (yet) so I'll have a closer look there too (line 740 in TREK1).
> > What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string,
mean
>
> I'm not sure about this one, but this may have been a way to print
> control characters in a PRINT statement without using CHR$(). If so,
> what would a control-n do on a teletype? I thought it *might* be
octal,
> but that would make it a form-feed, which wouldn't make much sense
> in the status sections because it would print <FF>TORPEDOES<FF> and
> then the status, which would waste a *lot* of paper....
I wondered about octal, but decimal 14 is Shift Out which makes more
sense. Sort of. See my reply to John K.
> > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do?
>
> If I remember rightly, ENTER lets you get
> the time the user takes to enter the input. It looks like it's
probably
> "ENTER <time allowed>, <time taken>, <input>".
I'm sure that's it. The code has provision for various null inputs
too.
> This brings back memories. I never could get into this one, since I
> could never get the proper strategy figured out. I preferred the
> other TREK where you had to eliminate the Klingons in the galaxy....
Oh, I have a few of those online, too :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
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