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From: markr@molihp.UUCP (Mark Reid)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Problems with Atari Basic
Message-ID: <146@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 16:04:41 EST
Article-I.D.: molihp.146
Posted: Thu Feb 20 16:04:41 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 08:16:52 EST
Reply-To: markr@molihp.UUCP (Mark Reid)
Organization: Moli Energy, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
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After waiting over three months for my basic from Atari, I finally
received it. Either the manual is incorrect or maybe I'm thick
but I can't get some of the functions to work as described in the
manual. I would appreciate any help...

1) inp()   function is supposed to read from the keyboard single
	characters. I tried inp(-4) to read the status and it only
	returns 16. Try inp(4) which also returns 16. Anybody know
	how this works?
2) wave()   function for producing sound. Manual page is missing the
	table for envelope shape. Would like a complete explaination.
3) buf graphics   what is this? I didn't understand it's use.
4) large files    If you try to load in a very large basic program
	the 520 will load the file from the disk in one large piece,
	then several small pieces. It tells you of no errors.
	The real magic is it will give you all sorts of undefined
	errors, none of which are out of memory errors.

Thanks in advance for any help with the above problems. As I have a
manual I am willing to help others without, just send me which functions
you would like descriptions of.

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Mark Reid
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