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   Homer J Simpson to Knut Roll-Lund   
   Re: Tandy BASIC [Was: Old Basic Question   
   08 Dec 05 01:59:45   
   
   XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   "Knut Roll-Lund"  wrote in message   
   news:NoWdnSqHtOgq_gre4p2dnA@telenor.com...   
      
   > Porting TRS-80 I/III to GWBASIC would probably still give problems and   
   > that is because of the display. The graphics are not the same and the   
   > control codes are different. First the TRS-80 has 16 lines of 64   
   > characters so writing beyond 64 characters would wrap to the line below   
   > automatically... often used. CHR$(192+X) would expand to X spaces. There   
   > is also the wide 32 char mode. And the graphic characters from CHR$(128)   
   > to CHR$(191). The control codes below CHR$(32) are also different.   
      
   And PRINT @ must be changed to LOCATE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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