I'm guessing this was for the TRS-80 (Model I). The first line says:
1 'COPYRIGHT (C) CLOAD 1979
You're 100% correct, Rob. Man, I hate brain blocks like that.
Geez, Bill, lighten up on yourself! "CLOAD" is a pretty obscure reference, and easily missed in a long program listing.
Bill Loguidice wrote:
In looking it over in more detail, it's very clean and simple BASIC, so I'm not surprised "General Error" got it to work under BASICA. In fact, this is an excellent candidate for "porting" to nearly every classic computer with even a mediocre BASIC interpreter (which was naturally most of them, save for the VideoBrain) and limited memory.
Indeed, and I miss these "old-school" programs. TRS-80 Basic is where I learned the BASIC language, and it was indeed easy to read and learn. I'm not surprised that it was easy to port to another relatively-standardized BASIC like BasicA or whatever.
It's when BASIC started to evolve into a modern "object-oriented" language that I largely stopped programming in Basic (or any other language). I guess I'm a curmudgeon, but I was accustomed to "stream-of-consciousness" programming that the old "line-oriented" programming allowed. Object-Oriented languages seem to require too much pre-planning to get anything to work. That's for the best, of course, but the adjustment has been too much for my old, preconditioned mind to adapt to, especially without a great "fire" to do so. AKA I'm a dummy. (Geez, lighten up on myself, Rob!)
I'm guessing this was for the TRS-80 (Model I). The first line says:
1 'COPYRIGHT (C) CLOAD 1979
You're 100% correct, Rob. Man, I hate brain blocks like that.
Geez, Bill, lighten up on yourself! "CLOAD" is a pretty obscure reference, and easily missed in a long program listing.
In looking it over in more detail, it's very clean and simple BASIC, so I'm not surprised "General Error" got it to work under BASICA. In fact, this is an excellent candidate for "porting" to nearly every classic computer with even a mediocre BASIC interpreter (which was naturally most of them, save for the VideoBrain) and limited memory.
Indeed, and I miss these "old-school" programs. TRS-80 Basic is where I learned the BASIC language, and it was indeed easy to read and learn. I'm not surprised that it was easy to port to another relatively-standardized BASIC like BasicA or whatever.
It's when BASIC started to evolve into a modern "object-oriented" language that I largely stopped programming in Basic (or any other language). I guess I'm a curmudgeon, but I was accustomed to "stream-of-consciousness" programming that the old "line-oriented" programming allowed. Object-Oriented languages seem to require too much pre-planning to get anything to work. That's for the best, of course, but the adjustment has been too much for my old, preconditioned mind to adapt to, especially without a great "fire" to do so. AKA I'm a dummy. (Geez, lighten up on myself, Rob!)
I miss TRS-80 Basic!
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