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   Message 53,699 of 53,866   
   Andreas Kohlbach to Anssi Saari   
   Re: What's happening to Comp.Sys.Sinclai   
   30 Oct 23 19:08:08   
   
   From: ank@spamfence.net   
      
   On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:28:34 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:   
   >   
   > Jan van den Broek  writes:   
   >   
   >> But to get a bit on-topic, here is a Basic-program:   
   >>    10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0   
   >>    20 s$="acgt"   
   >>    30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)   
   >>    40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)   
   >>    50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);   
   >>    60 goto 40   
   >   
   > Pretty cool.   
      
   I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.   
      
   > So what's a convenient command line way to get from an ascii basic   
   > listing to a prg inside a d64 image? After some looking I used tok64 and   
   > c1541.   
   >   
   > Second place was bastext to t64 and then to d64 via c1541 but I was   
   > weirded out since it seems the only binary output bastext is willing to   
   > do is a t64 file. And while c1541 should handle those, it didn't in this   
   > case.   
      
   So no image created?   
      
   I'll write it down then at the weekend and type it into the C64 (emulated   
   in VICE). Can upload the image to my web server for others then.   
   --   
   Andr *can wait to see what it does* eas   
      
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