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Optimizing Color BASIC, part 6
See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Size Matters. Or Space Matters. You decide. Sometimes we want to optimize for code space, and other times for variable and string space. For...
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Optimizing Color BASIC, part 7
See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. GOSUB Revisited In response to part 4, William Astle wrote a very nice expansion to my musings about INKEY and GOTO versus GOSUB. If you...
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Interfacing assembly with BASIC via DEFUSR, part 6
See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Previously, we finally got to do something semi-useful with assembly: we replaced a slow full-screen scrolling routine in BASIC with a turbo-charged...
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See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7. Arrays and Variable Length In part 3, I demonstrated a simple “game” where you could move a character around the screen and try to...
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See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8. Have no fear! Today’s installment is a short one. It will address a few miscellaneous things I have been told about. “.”...
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Building a Better BASIC Input
It looks like I am going to be writing an update to my 1983 *ALLRAM* BBS. It was a simple bulletin board system that could be operated from cassette (no disk drives required!). I have decided to use...
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Color BASIC String Theory, part 1
Many aspects of Microsoft Color BASIC have always been magic to me. I never gave too much thought to how the BASIC interpreter does what it does. String variables are one thing we all had to know a bit...
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See also: Part 1 I had no intention of turning this in to another rambling multi-part article series, so maybe I can wrap this up in just two posts… But first, in a comment to the first part, William...
View ArticleBuilding a Better BASIC Input, revisited
Well, here we go again with a few more tidbits from comments to a previous installment… Lowercase to Uppercase John Klassek once again provides some interesting tips. He looked at my Building a Better...
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Introducing the Sir Sound CoCo Sound Card
NEW “PRODUCT” ANNOUNCEMENT The team that brought you* the CoCoPilot DriveWire Server is proud to announce their latest innovation: “Sir Sound” Sir Sound is a solid-state multi-voice audio synthesizer...
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