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Further details .... Many AMSOFT and independent publications will furnish you with further details of the 6128, together with the BASIC and firm ware specifications, and information on the CPIM operating system and the Dr. LOGO language. Finally, we provide a set of 4 appendices which comprise: the CPIM End User Licence Agreement, a glossary of terms, some games programs' listings, and a, comprehensive index to the manual. We hope that you have found this manual informative and interesting, and thankyou for purchasing the CPC6128. At your leisure .... Chapter 9 Page 65
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Introduction AMSTRAD CPC6128 Integr
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Contents Chapter I Foundation Cours
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Chapter 8 More about the Bank Manag
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Connecting the computer to a monito
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Switching on - CPC6128 and MP2 Modu
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( Part 2: Connecting your periphera
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Connect the end of the lead which i
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Part 3: About Discs .... The AMSTRA
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Some other compact floppy discs emp
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Type mismatch .... means that you h
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On the screen you will see: he L L
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Reset the computer to clear the mem
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The single quote mark ' (which can
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Division (use unshifted ? key for d
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Mixed Calculations (+,-,*,/) Mixed
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Part 7: Save It .... Now that you'v
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To look briefly at some of the CP/M
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Make sure that you don't close the
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On the screen you will see: Drive A
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Part 8: Understanding Modes, Colour
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So it is with the computer. Using t
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Now let's change to a new paper. Wh
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For further demonstration of the co
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Just to prove that this is on the t
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PLOT Unlike the L 0 CAT E command,
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Circles Circles can either be plott
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440 cy(st+1)=cy(st)+1.5*r(st)*COS(s
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Now reset the computer [CONTROL] [S
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Envelope Number This is the referen
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Number of Steps This parameter spec
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Typing in for example: la Load "fi
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If you have connected an additional
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Write protection Note that you will
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At the A> prompt, type: disckit3 Se
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Part 11: Introducing the Bank Manag
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The contents of Screen 1 are copied
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.... where r % is an integer variab
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I BAN K FIN D will start at the cur
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Chapter 2 Beyond FoundationslIlSlBl
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But hang on! We said that we want t
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32 PRINT " 1 • enter info" 33 PRI
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100 ON ms GOSUB 120,210,270 110 GOT
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Directing data to stream # 8 sends
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This L 0 CAT E s where the menu I N
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440 FOR x=1 TO 100 450 WRITE #9,NAM
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AFTER AFT E R [, ] GO SUB 10 AFTER
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BIN$ BIN $ ( [, ] ) PRINT BIN$(64,
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CLEAR CLEAR CLEAR COMMAND: Clears a
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CURSOR CUR S 0 R [][ , ] 10 CURSOR
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DEFINT DE FIN T
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DELETE DEL E T E DELETE 100-200 CO
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DIM D I M 10 C LS 20 DIM friend$(5
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The optional determines how the in
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Parameter 2: This parameter must b
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If2 parameters are used, these are:
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ERR ERR GOTO 500 Line does not exis
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FIX F I X ( ) PRINT FIX(9.99999) 9
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GOSUB GO SUB ,line number> GOSUB 21
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HIMEM HIMEM PRINT HIMEM 42619 FUN C
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The state of [SHIFT] and [CONTROL]
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INSTR INS T R ( [ , J , ) 10 CLS 2
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The given in the KEY command may b
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LINE INPUT L I NE IN PUT [# ,][;][
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LOG LOG ( ) PRINT LOG(9999) 9.2102
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MEMORY M EM 0 R Y MEMORY &20AA COM
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MOD MOD PRINT 10 MOD 3 1 PRINT 10
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NEW NEW NEW COMMAND: Deletes the cu
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ON GOSUB ON GO SUB
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COMMAND: GOes to a BASIC SUB-routin
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OUT OUT , OUT &FBF4,&FF COMMAND:
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PI PI PRINT PI 3.14159265 FUNCTION:
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Note that when a semicolon; is used
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String Formats 10 CLS:a$="abcdefghi
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RELEASE RE LEA S E 10 SOUND 65,100
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RESTORE RE SI 0 R E [] 10 READ a$:P
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RIGHT$ RIG H-T $ ( , ) 10 MODE 1:
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SAVE S A V E dilename>[, diletype>]
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If the parameter is zero, the soun
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SPEED KEY S P E E D KEY , 10 CLS:
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STEP (See FOR) STOP STOP 10 FOR n=1
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To allocate space in the CPC612S's
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S Y M B 0 L AFT E R will NOT operat
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TEST T EST ( , ) 10 CLS 20 PRINT
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TRorr TRON TROFF TRON 113 TROFF:PRI
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WAIT W A I T
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WINDOW SWAP WIN D 0 W SW A P , 10
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XPOS XPOS 10 MODE 1:DRAW 320,200 20
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Backup Master Discs It is most impo
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When you have only one built-in dri
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Creating a Turnkey CP/M disc As wel
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Three useful sets of keyboard codes
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Part 2: Cassettes If you wish to us
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LOAD "" LOAD "",&1F40 MERGE '"' RUN
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LIST #9 OPENOUTandCLOSEOUT PRINT #9
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If the first character of the filen
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Disc directory Every disc has two s
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Notwithstanding the contents of the
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250 y=0:b=150:GOSUB 400 260 x=575:a
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ICPM ICPM COMMAND: Switch to altern
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ITAPE.IN ITAPE.IN COMMAND: Use tape
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cOPYTO: AMSTRADBASIC on tape * Bina
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Reference guide to AMSDOS error mes
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Part2:CP/M CP/MPlus Subjects covere
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Profile files can be constructed us
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Switching default drives If you hav
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Transient commands To perform more
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Colour Hex Decimal Colour Hex Decim
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The commands: .... or .... SET24X80
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PIP KEYBOARD.CPM=KEYS.CCP .... make
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Each disc can be assigned a label,
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Advanced programming Side 2 of your
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The program is menu-driven and when
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Chapter 6 Introduction to L This Se
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First Steps .... The? prompt tells
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Occasionally, when nearly all the n
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count Outputs the number of element
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* Iput (lastput) Outputs a new obje
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wordp Outputs T RUE if the input ob
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sin Outputs the sine of the input n
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Outputs T RUE if the first word is
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pots (print out titles) Displays th
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pr (print) Displays the input objec
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* dotc Outputs the colour number of
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* setscrunch Sets the graphic scree
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ht (hide turtle) Makes the turtle i
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* setx Moves the turtle's horizonta
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Property Lists: glist (get list) Ou
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* dirpic Outputs a list of picture
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keyp Outputs T RUE if a character h
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ent Set up a tone envelope. The for
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* nob'ace Turns offtrace monitoring
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RE DE FP When T RUE allows re-defin
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BASIC Control characters Value Name
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Value Name Parameter Meaning &14 20
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If you are tempted to PO K E around
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Machine specific BASIC graphics cha
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69 &H45 &X01000101 • 73 &H49 &X01
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109 &H6D &X01101101 113 &H71 &X0111
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149 &H95 &X10010101 153 &H99 &X1001
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189 &HBD &)(10111101 193 &HC1 &)(11
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229 &HE5 &)(11100101 233 &HE9 &)(11
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Part 4: I{ey references Default ASC
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Part 5: Sound Notes and tone period
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NOTE FREQUENCY PERIOD RELATIVE ERRO
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17 Cannot CONTinue For one reason o
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AMSDOS error DERR value Cause of er
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GOSUB, GOTO, GRAPHICS HEX$, HIMEM I
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Printer Port VIEWED FROM REAR 17 16
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CHR$ Character Printer U.K. U.S.A.
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Part 14: Memory The CPC6128 contain
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It is intended that the part of the
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[ESC]b CPC6128 Colour bits [ESC]c
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ChapterS More out the Bank anagerll
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The command: I S eRE ENS W A P , [
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The specifies which record is writ
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Beware the mismatch .... Obvious er
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Chapter 9 At your leisure .... This
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The BASIC in your Amstrad computer
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Whose afraid of the jargon? As with
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If this process sounds cumbersome,
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Reconsidering the table that introd
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Page 395 and 396: Print formatting The PR I N T comma
Page 397 and 398: PRINT USING "\ test s \";"test stri
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Page 402 and 403: .... and you will see that the 4th
Page 404 and 405: Usmgdata .... In a program that alw
Page 406 and 407: 10 DIM a(5),b(5),s$(5) 20 FOR ;=1 T
Page 408 and 409: The sound of music .... Of all the
Page 410 and 411: Unless you are a very slow typist,
Page 414 and 415: Relative Volume Change 15 14 13 10
Page 416 and 417: The final part that can be added on
Page 418 and 419: In a complete program that may be m
Page 420 and 421: 24111 IF p1$="." THEN ch1%=I1I:RETU
Page 423 and 424: Now RUN, and once again the dotted
Page 425 and 426: Ink modes It is possible to draw us
Page 427: 10 REM latch animation 20 ON BREAK
Page 433 and 434: 1410 I B 1420 IF fLag=2 THEN 1470 1
Page 435 and 436: 2240 CLS:undraw=0:PRINT cmnd$(ro);:
Page 437: From then on, simply press the appr
Page 441: 2. Licence You may: 1. U se the pro
Page 444 and 445: Appendix 2 Glossary of Terms Some c
Page 446 and 447: Architecture The plan relationship
Page 448 and 449: BIOS Basic Input/Output System. Thi
Page 450 and 451: CCP Console Command Processor. This
Page 452: Cursor control keys Keys that move
Page 455 and 456: File A collection of data, generall
Page 458 and 459: Instruction set The prime logical a
Page 460 and 461: Light Pen Another alternative input
Page 462 and 463: Modem A MOdulator DEModulator that
Page 464 and 465: Paddle An alternative name for ajoy
Page 466 and 467: Programming language The medium thr
Page 468: Remark A non-executing statement in
Page 471 and 472: Stream The route used for the outpu
Page 473 and 474: Utility Any complete program used t
Page 475 and 476: 350 IF x1=3 OR x1=38 THEN xa=-xa 36
Page 478 and 479: 560 I 570 LOCATE x-1,y:PRINT CHR$(3
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Page 482: Electric fencing Try to 'foil' your
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Page 487: 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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