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AMSOFT welcome comments and suggestions relating to the product or to this manual. All correspondence should be addressed to: AMSOFT Brentwood House, 169 Kings Road, Brentwood, EssexCM144EF All maintenance and service on the product must be carried out by AMSOFT authorised dealers. Neither AMSOFT nor AMSTRAD can accept any liability whatsoever for any loss or damage caused by service or maintenance by unauthorised personnel. This guide is intended only to assist the reader in the use of the product, and therefore AMSOFT and AMSTRAD shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from the use of any information or particulars in, or any error or omission in, this guide or any incorrect use of the product. Dr. LOGO, CPIM, CP/M Plus, GSX, and DR Graph are trademarks ofDigital Research Inc. Z80 is a trademark ofZilog Inc. IBM and IBM PC are trademarks ofInternational Business Machines Inc. Z19, Z29, and H89 are trademarks of Zenith Data Systems Inc. VT52 is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp. AMSDOS, CPC6128, CPC664, and CPC464 are trademarks of AMSTRAD. First Published 1985. ---.---- - ---- - - - --- - - - -SecondEditionSummer1985.-- - --- Third Edition Winter 1985. Compiled by Ivor Spital Written by Ivor Spital, RolandPerry, William Poel, CliffLawson, with acknowledgements to Locomotive Software Ltd. Contributions by Alexander Martin, David Radisic, Ken Clark. Introduction Published by AMSTRAD. Typeset by KAMSETtypesetting graphics (Brentwood). AMSTRAD is a registered trademark of AMSTRAD Consumer Electronics plc. Unauthorised use of the trademarks or word AMSTRAD is strictly forbidden. CPC 6128
Page 2: Introduction AMSTRAD CPC6128 Integr
Page 9: Chapter 4 Using Discs and Cassettes
Page 12: Appendices Appendix 1 End User Prog
Page 16: Connecting the computer to an MP2 M
Page 19 and 20: Other Connections .... If you wish
Page 21 and 22: It is important to remember that th
Page 23 and 24: Expansion devices Expansion devices
Page 25 and 26: Write Protection In the left hand c
Page 33 and 34: Part 5: Loading Software and games
Page 35 and 36: Part 6: Let's Compute .... So far,
Page 37: Notice how the word PR I N T is now
Page 41: Now press [RETURN] and line 5 will
Page 46 and 47: Simple Arithmetic Your computer can
Page 48 and 49: Type: ? s q r (HHl ) [RETURN] 10 Ex
Page 50 and 51: The priority of ALL mathematical op
Page 52 and 53: There are 40 tracks from the outsid
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You will now see a new menu offerin
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If you have selected the For m a t
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Copying Programs from Disc to Disc
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Colours There is a choice of27 colo
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The PAP E RIP E NI INK relationship
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In this case, 1 is the PEN number,
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Graphics There are a number of char
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In order to remove the previous cha
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5 cLs 10 pLot 10,10 20 draw 10,390
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10 MODE 1:BORDER 0:DEG 20 PRINT "PL
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Part 9: Using Sound .... Sound is g
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Volume Envelope To make the volume
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Line 20 specifies a SOU N D with a
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Part ID: Introducing AMSDOS and CP/
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Program copying between discs, and
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When the disc that you wish to copy
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A third menu will then be displayed
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Further Information Further informa
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How to use the BANI{ MANAGER Reset
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I BAN KW R I T E stores a string in
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This puts the word" FIR S T" into r
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Well, that concludes this 11 part F
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Fortunately, BASIC is a very forgiv
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There's a new command in line 150 -
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36 PRINT "5. Load info" 37 INPUT "e
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Now to the matter of saving the con
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The end of the beginning .... So no
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Final listing: 10 REM teLephone boo
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Chapter 3 Complete list of Amstrad
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ASC AS C (
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CALL. C ALL < address expression> [
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COPYCHR$ COP ye H R $ ( # ) 10 C L
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DEC$ o E C $ ( , ) PRINT DEC$(10t
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DEFSTR D E F S T R
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DI 01 10 CLS:TAG:EVERY 10 GOSUB 90
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DRAW DRAW , [ , [][, ]] 10 MODE
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END END END COMMAND: Ends the execu
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ENV EN V [ , ][, ] [, ][, ] [, ] 1
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EOF EOF 10 OPENIN "keys.wp" 20 WHIL
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EVERY EVE R Y [, ] GO SUB 10 EVERY
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FRAME FRAME 10 MODE 0 20 PRINT "FRA
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GRAPHICS PEN G RA PH le S PEN [][,
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INK INK , [, ] 10 MODE 1:PAPER 0:
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INPUT I N PUT [# , J[; J[ ]
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JOY JOY ( ) 10 PRINT "To stop the
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LEFT$ LE FT $ ( , ) 10 C LS 20 a$
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.... or .... .... or .... LIST 50-
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MASK M ASK [][, ] 10 MODE 0:INK 5,2
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FUNCTION: Returns a new sub-string,
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MOVE M 0 V E , [, [][, ]] 10 MODE
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ON BREAK CONT ON BREAK CaNT 10 ON B
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ON GOTO ON GOT 0
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OR 0 R IF "aLan""cat" THEN PRINT
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PEEK PE E K ( ) 10 MODE 1:Z0NE 7 2
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POS PO S ( # ) 10 MODE 1:BORDER 0:
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* * £ (Specifies three digit posit
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RAD RAD RAD COMMAND: Sets RADians m
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REMAIN REM A I N ( ) 10 AFTER 500,
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RESUME NEXT RESUME NEXT 10 ON ERROR
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ROUND R 0 U N D (
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SOUND SOU N D , [, [, [, [ , [
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SPACES SPA C E $ (
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SQ S Q (
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STRING$ S T R I N G $ ( , ) PRINT
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Note that the value of 0 appearing
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TAGOrr TAG 0 F F I # < stream expre
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TIME TIME 10 CLS:REM clock 20 INPUT
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USING (See P R I N T U SIN G) VAL V
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WIDTH W I D T H WIDTH 40 COMMAND:
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In this example the values of the v
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Chapter 4 Using Discs and Cassettes
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Maintaining a Hi profile! The syste
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Turnkey AMSTRAD BASIC discs If you
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Control Codes Hex Decimal Operation
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fi 11 7 15121.121121 fill 4 Test Di
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If a cassette file has been saved w
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Eor POS(#9) These functions operate
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Successful saving To ensure that th
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ChapterS AMSDOS and CP/M Part 1: AM
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Construction of filenames The filen
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Examples of using AMSDOS commands i
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Loading the screen back The followi
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I DRIVE , D R I V E , IDRIVE,"A" C
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Read/Only files It is possible, usi
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COpy FROM: AMSTRAD BASIC ASCII data
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D r i ve : d i sce h a n 9 e d , c
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Needless to say, it is possible to
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[CONTROl]K [CONTROL] [ClR] Delete t
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ERA PIP.COM ERA B:PIP.COM ERA *.BAS
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Language characters The CPC6128 has
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Printers Initialising printers can
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.... and the attributes can be alte
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RENAME RENAME *.SAV=*.BAK TYPE KEYS
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Normally, files will accessed on th
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S TAT provides some of the basic fu
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Keyboard transLations: This allows
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Dr. LOGO Dr. LOGO is a thoughtful i
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Writing Cl Simple Procedure It is e
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Word and List Processing: (N ote th
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item Outputs the specified element
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se (sentence) Outputs a list made u
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andom Outputs a random non-negative
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Logical Operations: and Outputs T R
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* thing Outputs the value of the in
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* edf Loads the specified disc file
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type Displays the input object(s) o
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fs (full screen) Selects a full gra
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wrap Makes the turtle reappear on t
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px (pen exchange) Makes the turtle
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* noformat Removes procedure format
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emprop (remove property) Removes th
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* savepic Writes the contents of th
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l (read list) Outputs a list that c
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un Executes the input instruction l
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System Primitives: .contents Displa
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Chapter 7 For your reference ......
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Value Name Parameter &09 9 * TAB &O
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Value Name Parameter Meaning &1B 27
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Part 3: BASIC ASCII and graphics ch
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49 &H31 &X00110001 53 &H35 &X001101
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89 &H59 &X01011001 93 &H5D &X010111
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129 &H81 &Xi 0000001 133 &H85 &X100
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• 169 &HA9 &X10101001 173 &HAD &X
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209 &HD1 &X11010001 213 &HD5 &X1101
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249 &HF9 &X11111001 253 &HFD &X1111
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!{ey and joystick numbers JOYSTICK
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NOTE FREQUENCY PERIOD RELATIVE ERRO
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Part 6: BASIC Error messages 1 Unex
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26 NEXT missing Cannot find a N EX
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ERR may also return 3 1 if access w
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Sound envelope/music planner For yo
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Note that although there are 17 fin
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DATA ONLY format 9 sectors per trac
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The example below shows this scheme
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Characters in the range &00 to &IF
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Operating the machine in a foreign
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Part 1: Storing screen images Choos
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Screen clears again. Now type: I Th
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Searching .... It is possible to se
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270 o$=MID$(s$,c1,1)+MID$(s$,c2,1)+
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The generally accepted reference po
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Whycan't? With all the power of mod
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Basics of BASIC Virtually all home
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The next level of shorthand for bin
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Part 2: More about the CPC6128 spec
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So how did the computer know the di
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These 'user defined characters' can
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User defined characters One of the
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The function S P C takes a numeric
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Floating dollar and pound signs may
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.... and the words 'hello there' wi
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The 6128 maintains a real time cloc
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10 READ a$ 20 WHILE a$"*" 30 PRINT
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1000 REM section to draw the screen
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To play on more than one channel, a
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If 64 (2 t 6) is added to the chann
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This first example of ENT specifies
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The sounds that you might expect fr
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10 FOR octave=-1 TO 2 20 FOR x=1 TO
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10 REM mask and tag in window 20 MO
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But what are the arrows after the n
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140 NEXT 150 TAG 160 FOR y=60 TO 31
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On the screen the graphics are ORed
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1830 RETURN 1840 ' @ 1850 norx=1:un
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2660 CLS:PRINT"Do you wish to tore"
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Further details .... Many AMSOFT an
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2. Licence You may: 1. U se the pro
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Appendix 2 Glossary of Terms Some c
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Architecture The plan relationship
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BIOS Basic Input/Output System. Thi
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CCP Console Command Processor. This
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Cursor control keys Keys that move
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File A collection of data, generall
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Instruction set The prime logical a
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Light Pen Another alternative input
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Modem A MOdulator DEModulator that
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Paddle An alternative name for ajoy
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Programming language The medium thr
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Remark A non-executing statement in
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Stream The route used for the outpu
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Utility Any complete program used t
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350 IF x1=3 OR x1=38 THEN xa=-xa 36
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560 I 570 LOCATE x-1,y:PRINT CHR$(3
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370 xb=21:dx=1 380 GOTO 400 390 xb=
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Electric fencing Try to 'foil' your
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1140 ' 1150 b$="ELECTRIC FENCING" 1
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Amthello The thinking person's game
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1520 X%=X%+1 1530 IF X%=61 GOTO 155
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2680 IF C%(2,8)=Q% AND C%(5,8)=N% A
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Raffles Break into His Lordship's h
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1580 IF ASC(ht$»239 AND ASC(ht$)0
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2840 DATA W,1,H,6,3 2850 DATA D,1,V
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CLOSEIN ...........................
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F G B FALSE .......................
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M LAST ............................
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p OR (LOGO) .......................
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SETSPLIT ..........................
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u UC ..............................
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