Subj : Re: What's happening to Comp.Sys.Sinclair and Acorn?
To   : Anssi Saari
From : Andreas Kohlbach
Date : Mon Oct 30 2023 07:08 pm

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:28:34 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
> Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> 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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