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What is the bug in Creative Computing's version of "Amazing"?
I couldn't find exactly the source version you ran, Maury.
The original — written by Jack Hauber and first published in DEC EDU Newsletter Issue Number 4 in 1972, rekeyed by me here: amazin.bas — does ...
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What is the bug in Creative Computing's version of "Amazing"?
I wrote an article on finding two bugs in Amazing for trs8bit - Volume 17 Issue 03 - Sept 2023.
I found two bugs, but no loop.
No maze exit. The code can finish with Z=0 meaning no exit was drawn in ...
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What binary format did QuickBasic use for BAS files?
The example can be loaded into a copy of QuickBasic and then saved as a plain text file:
DECLARE FUNCTION Shade& (red!, green!, blue!)
DECLARE SUB GetShiftStates (shift AS ANY)
CONST FALSE = 0
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What binary format did QuickBasic use for BAS files?
If this is indeed a QuickBasic 4.5 file, you could load it into QuickBasic 4.5 under some sort of DOS emulation (DOSBox etc.), then save it with
SAVE "NEWFILE",A if I remember correctly to ...
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Problem using Commodore 64 BASIC TAB() command in abbreviated form
I wouldn't call it a bug and the solution is kind of obvious: Don't type in the opening parenthesis for tokens that include that already (tab( and spc(), if you abbreviate the function. I.e.:
10 print ...
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How to run MOUSSUBS.BAS in QuickBasic? Looking for MIXED.QLB and MOUSE.ASM?
I searched for the filenames and found that MOUSSUBS.BAS and BITS.BAS are from Microsoft QuickBASIC Programmer's Toolbox, a 1988 Microsoft Press book by John Clark Craig.
(at least according to https:/...
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What binary format did QuickBasic use for BAS files?
They seemed to be QuickBasic 4.5 files. A proprietary format from QuickBasic that was not only a text file, but included various other concepts like Subs - that were sort of sections into the file.
So ...
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