Re: How to prevent My AppleSoft Basic Program Listing

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <db29f398-5b42-4ee9-b590-cf21180991ca@googlegroups.com>,
 retrogear <larrygr510@gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember playing with Applesoft list protection a long time ago and 
> had a program that asked for a password. If the user attempted to 
> list the program there was a line that would hide the line containing 
> the password. If the user figured out that line and deleted it, 
> listing it again would have exposed the password but instead printed 
> the line with the embedded ctrl-d "Init Hello" :).
> I never gave that to anyone because it was too sinister but it was 
> fun getting it to work. It reminded me of the tape going up in smoke 
> on Mission Impossible...

I had similar fun discovering the secrets of Super Hi-Res Chess, 
although I thought it was written in Integer Basic.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hi-Res_Chess>

Some of the responses were progressive, so typing HCOLOR repeatedly 
might produce a series of messages: redhead, brunette, bottle blonde.

-- 
John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>