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From: sdb@shark.UUCP (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Questions about SIMON'S BASIC
Message-ID: <46@shark.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 12:25:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 12:25:09 1983
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Yes, to get rectangles, lines, circles and painting on the COCO you
have to get extended BASIC - but these days the term "extended" is
a misnomer - it has become the standard. Radio Shack hasn't sold a
COCO without the extended ROM for quite a while and almost everyone
I know with a COCO has the extended ROM. Also, from the sound of it
your SIMON's BASIC loads into RAM, thus cutting down on the memory
available for your BASIC program, while those features for the COCO
are in ROM (don't need to be loaded and don't steal RAM space).

I don't remember your list too well, but some of the block constructions
you described are not available while others are. IF-THEN-ELSE is with
multiple commands per clause, as long as the whole thing fits onto a
single line (254 characters). I think you mentioned tracing and some
string disection functions as well which the COCO either has explicitly
or in other forms. I could try to find a copy of your article and make
an explicit list if you want...

   Steve Den Beste