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My favorite 800 BASIC program I wrote was a liar's dice program. I figured teaching a computer to lie convincingly was a challenge. It was a spaghetti bowl of matrices and ran like a dog...but it lied pretty well! Now I wonder if I did a good thing....

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Aug 21, 2022Liked by Paul Lefebvre

? Was an abbreviation for PRINT on commodore basic

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Aug 20, 2022Liked by Paul Lefebvre

Yep, these look like the BASIC I was learning to write on the Commodore 64 and IBM PC back in 1984/5. I used to check out books on BASIC from the University of Arizona and patiently type in the programs, then I'd start changing things to see what happened. lol

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These programs just look so basic.

I will now show myself out.

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Aug 20, 2022Liked by Paul Lefebvre

Atari used one of the stereo channels for audio, and another for data. Some commercially released cassettes played music while the program loaded.

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Aug 19, 2022Liked by Paul Lefebvre

I've always wanted to be able to play my music tapes on a 410 Recorder when I first read about it in Antic, but I didn't have one at the time.

How was it with stereo tapes, did only one track play through the TV which made it a problem?

(Most of my recorded tapes were in mono anyway but just wondering...)

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