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From: adam@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Adam R. Iles)
Date: Sun, 21-Feb-88 12:24:15 EST
Message-ID: <1988Feb21.122415.14241@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Pet to C64 BASIC conversion
References: <3295@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: adam@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Adam R. Iles)
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In article <3295@cup.portal.com> Brendan@cup.portal.com writes:
>
> A friend of mine is trying to convert a program in PET basic to c-64 bsic..
>it's a prog for a volleyball team...first I'll slow you the lines:
>
> 3780 GOTO 3830
> 3790 GOSUB"CONPAST"
> 3800 RESTORE"CON"TO"CONPAST"
> 3810 V$="CON,SEQ,WRITE"
>
> Lines 3790 and 3800 are the big problem..it doesn't use any machine
> ...
>                        BK
>UUCP:...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Brendan_Patrick_Kehoe
>Portal: Brendan

The problem you are facing is probably the use of BASIC 4.0 commands
being interpreted by a BASIC 2.0 interpreter.  This is almost certain
if the above was listed on the 64, since the tokens used to represent
the commands would be unrecognized by the 64, and it would substitute
its own commands.

I haven't used either a PET, or a 64 for well over a year (my boards
got fried :-(.  If you want to get around this you should list the
program on a 4.0 machine, or a 64 with an enhanced interpreter (such
as was provided by either the BI Bus Card or RTC C-Link which are both
distant history now.)

Adam R. Iles -- adam@utgpu (UUCP)

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