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- > Here's a collection of bugs or other curious things I have found in
- > AMOS.
- > - The AMOS classic manual states there is a command called Llist, which
- > outputs the program code to the printer. This command does not exist.
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- There was a leaflet in my box of AMOS 1.2 stating that Llist never was imple-
- mented, but that for some reason it was written about. The AMOS-way of Llist
- is to go to the Blocks menu and select 'Print Block'. I forgot the details;
- it's been awhile since I worked with AMOS.
-
- > - Also in AMOS classic, I found that the command On Break Proc doesn't
- > exist. This might have been fixed in AMOSpro, but I don't remember.
- > - If you try to use user-defined functions as procedure parameters,
- > e.g. MYPROC[FnA(123),FnB(456)] you get a "Illegal User Function" error.
- > - You have to use a Wait Vbl after Dual Playfield to show it properly.
- > This is not mentioned in the manual, or is it?
- > Has anyone else experienced similar or other bugs? I'd like to know.
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- Scores. -2^3 yields 8 instead of -8 -- this was never fixed. Scrolling
- DPF's with values which are not a multitude of one another (say, the first
- with 'speed' 4 and the other with 3) leads to a annoying amount of flicker.
- The windowing routines are buggy: clicking in an obscured part of a window
- brings it to the front, even there is another window in front on that spot.
- Print # in 1.36 can only cope with strings. Large arrays will start accessing
- random locations if the index exceeds a certain number (I forgot which one).
- There exists an off-by-one error in the Get Block command (I think -- it's
- been five years at least since I wrote Mandarin about this one) which
- requires you to specify a slightly different set of coordinates to get the
- block you want. The editor can display erroneous text now and then.
- Load Iff fails with large screens (>640x512).
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- I don't know the situation with AMOSPro, but I'm convinced it has its fair
- share of bugs as well.
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- Regards,
- Maarten
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