I actually wrote an adventure game across our school BBC micro network, text only mind you, but I had 13 machines networking together quite happily.

 

Actually, it was <any keyword> USR 0.

So you could do:
GOTO USR 0
PRINT USR 0
etc.

I think RANDOMIZE was used because essentially it was a keyword that didn't change anything (apart from setting the initialization vector on the pseudorandom number table according to the number of T-states since the computer was powered up )

 

ISTR POKE 16384,17 used to make a ZX Spectrum do the 'striped border' thing as if it was loading.

 

move d0,$dff180 ...

Ahh, the joys of the copper. Though admittedly that's decidedly modern for this thread. Someone beat me to the 53280/53281 of the 64

I have heard of these things called lives, but I can't see me needing one no matter how much my wife tells me to get one

 

Copper, chiark? Been spending too much time in bars?

I was in a 'group' once - with the cheesy name Digital Holography, did all the graphics for a 'demo' on the Amiga. We only ever did one though, and I've not even got a copy of it.

Good fun though - we must've spent 2/3rds of the entire development time just putting together the text in the scrollbar.

 

On the old Commodore Pet M/C’s if you keyed in Wait6502,100 the screen would fill with !MIROSOFT!

And remember Always PEEK before you POKE!

Rob
P1 Web Owners Club
www.P1woc.co.uk

 

Lol at CHR$(141)

Double Height text.. teletext style

David

 

Nobody would have split it onto two lines like that. Far more likely would be to use PRINT CHR$141;"hello"'CHR$141;"hello"

Also ? was used on the BBC instead of PEEK and POKE - for example, ?&FE4E=&7F followed by pressing BREAK to cause a power-on reset. It was the old Commodore machines that used it to mean PRINT.

(strokes beard)
(sips from pint of real ale)

 

Yeah you're right, it wasn't '?', it was "P." I was thinking about 'L.' for list.

Steve.