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EHBASIC 2.10+0.8.7 refresh: the more I try to write about it the more I prove what a doofus I am.



Dunno if the last post made it through, but I forgot to mention a url for
this:

http://usotsuki.info/eh210p8_v087ref1.zip

This has everything the original v0.8.7 disk had on it, plus:

* Improved initialization of the RNG on Brian's Theme, Lemonade Stand and
Little Brick Out.
* Brought back the LCSTRINGS file.
* Added a file, VECSUPP, that loads into the reserved space between the
actual top of BASIC and the bottom of its buffers, enabling something like
the DRAW/XDRAW commands from fpbasic.  This is described in the readme and
contains an A65 with the source.

Most likely, this will be the last version of the .SYSTEM file.  I have the
hooks in the code so that I can rewrite it to add the ON ERROR stuff later;
I'm probably not going to be able to add it myself.

Remember - it is a LOT like fpbasic, but it isn't fpbasic.  There's a few
gotchas to beware of.  First and foremost, if you enter the monitor, use
Ctrl-Y (not Ctrl-C) to return to BASIC.  Ctrl-C will put you in fpbasic and
fpbasic will find a strange, alien zero page, and crash back into the
monitor.  Also remember that file commands are a part of BASIC, not
something hung on the side, and interface with it quite differently than you
might expect (unless you've used GW-BASIC).

-uso.