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- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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- Lieber 46032
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- I noticed in a recent issue the use of
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- a colon in a way I hadn't seen before
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- and I just wondered what it meant. For
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- example:
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- 10 PRINT 'Hi'
- 20 :
- 30 END
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- If it just a separator, could other
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- marks be used as well?
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- >Well, you're right, it is used just
- as a separator, but it is the only
- character which can be used in this
- way.
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- Smith 32741
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- I am having a problem. Every so often
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- when I use the joystick to scroll
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- different articles, it jumps to the
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- printing option. Why is it doing this?
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- Is there anything I can do about it?
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- If so, what?
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- DEREK SMITH
- 1701 MABBETTE ST.
- APT. 14-208
- KISSIMMEE,FL 32741
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- P.S. If I put a payload program on
- this disk, should I put it on
- the front or back of the disk?
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- >First of all, we would prefer you to
- place your PAYLOAD submissions on the
- front side of the disk. Please note
- that now you CREATE your own
- FEEDBACK disk <see FEEDBACK DISK
- MAKER on main menu>.
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- Secondly, a few other people have
- told us that they are suddenly
- thrown into the hardcopy option
- without wanting to be there. We have
- tested this on our machines and have
- not ever jumped to the printer
- option. All I can say is that this
- is still being looked at.
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- Peters 32806
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- I have only one question. It is
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- about DATA statements. How in the
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- world do you use them? The instruction
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- manual doesn't explain it too well. I
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- have no idea how they work. My
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- programs are getting a little dull
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- without them. I would appreciate it
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- if you could show me how to use them.
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- THANKS,
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- Sean Peters
- 2423 Timberlake Dr.
- Orlando, FL 32806
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- >DATA statements are for data storage
- in your programs. For example, a
- DATA statement that would contain
- four names might look like this:
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- 990 DATA "BOB","CAROL","JIM","SPOT"
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- Now, if you execute a statement like
- this,
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- 980 READ A$,B$,C$,D$
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- the contents of these variables would
- be:
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- A$="BOB"
- B$="CAROL"
- C$="JIM"
- D$="SPOT"
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- Just think of DATA statements as a
- place to keep information that your
- program is going to use.
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- 300 DATA 234,191,112,0,40,80,96
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- When you see a data statement that is
- full of numbers, you can be pretty
- sure that the program is using them
- to build sprites, or play music, or
- POKE a machine language routine into
- memory. It is true that programs
- that are full of these types of DATA
- statements are less dull than 'plain
- vanilla BASIC' programs, but that is
- because of the sprites, or the music,
- or what ever special effect the data
- was for, and not because they were
- produced with DATA statements.
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- Christian 78227
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- I collect music for the 64 and have
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- many disks that I play for easy
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- listening in the evenings. You have
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- some very good music on your disks and
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- I would like to put it with my music
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- disks and still haven't figured how to
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- get it off the LOADSTAR disk. All
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- hints and clues appreciated.
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- Phyllis Christian
- 8010 Latigo Dr.
- San Antonio, TX 78227
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- >We're glad you asked that!
- We have been using several different
- musical systems in LOADSTAR. On the
- early issues, the music was contained
- in the file ROUTINES. Later, we put
- the music in a separate file called
- ROMUSIC, and the music player in one
- called SIDIRQ.V2 or JEFFIRQ.V2.
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- In the early versions, all you have
- to do to hear the music is
- LOAD"ROUTINES",8,1 then SYS 49152.
- In the later versions, you need to
- LOAD"ROMUSIC",8,1 then LOAD"SIDIRQV2"
- or "JEFFIRQ.V2",8,1 then POKE the
- address of ROMUSIC into 49162 and
- 49163 then SYS 49152.
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- Our music will continue to play in
- the background until you RESTORE the
- computer or load something over the
- music or music player. You will be
- able to write, load, save, and run
- BASIC programs while our music is
- playing. One warning: NEVER SYS
- 49152 while our music is playing.
- Your computer will "HANG" and you
- will have to turn the power off.
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- LOADSTAR will soon be publishing the
- MR. M. DISK (M. stands for music).
- This disk will be full of music for
- your listening pleasure (including
- most of the tunes that have appeared
- as LOADSTAR background) as well as
- a music entering system so that you
- may write your own music or transpose
- music from sheet music.
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- Locke 90745
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- I have a problem which gives me
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- quite a bit of trouble.
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- I LOAD a disk, view directory, and
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- LOAD a file. The file loads, lists,
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- and when I type RUN, I get 'SYNTAX
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- ERROR IN 0'.
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- What is wrong?
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- Roy E. Locke
- 187 W 234th Street
- Carson, CA 90745
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- >It doesn't sound like you are doing
- anything wrong. The only thing we
- can come up with is that somehow,
- you are trying to RUN the directory.
- Try typing NEW after you look at the
- directory and are ready to LOAD a
- file.
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- QUOSIG 94587
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- My parents bought my sister and I
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- this subscription to LOADSTAR and we
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- would like to know how both of us can
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- make comments? What would you enter
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- for the last name? What would you
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- enter for zip code?
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- - Kevin Quosig
- - Stacey Quosig
- 2038 Hartnell St.
- Union City, CA 94587
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- >You can each put your comments in
- STARLINE. One of you type your
- comments in first and sign your name
- when you finish. Then, the other of
- you put in your comments and then
- sign your name. When you are both
- finished, save your comments as you
- would normally.
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