[Coco] Special coding in WAR

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sat Jul 2 19:31:07 EDT 2022


On Jul 2, 2022, at 5:09 PM, robert.gault--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Allen, An excellent job of determining what is going on in WAR! I'm still not sure why a CoCo2 can LIST those lines while a CoCo3 can't. 

I’ll have to try that on the CC3 but I bet there’s an extended token in there.

I am doing a complete write up of this for part 6 of my Attract Screen series at www.subethasoftware.com

> As to why the lines were used instead of DATA lines that could be POKEd into memory and executed, I guess we will never know. The only reason I can think of is to make it impossible for most users to see how parts of the program worked.

Was it close to RAM limits for 16K? Otherwise the block character strings could also be generated with CHR$ and DATA.




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