[Coco] BASIC irony

tim lindner tlindner at ix.netcom.com
Thu Aug 12 21:05:52 EDT 2004


John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:

> By practicing "black art" you can "transmute" an ordinary line number to
> become a sacred reserved line numbers.  Then try to LIST, SAVE,A and so on
> and you'll find no visible evidence of its sacred existance.

I fired up the emulator and found out that Color BASIC seems to crap out
in the rage of 64XXX. 63999 is a valid line number, but anything higher
returns an error. I can't even RENUM the program higher than 63999

Interesting. I'll have to look into the source regarding this.

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tim lindner
tlindner at ix.netcom.com                                        Bright



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