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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
- Subject: Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
- From: "Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 2003 05:41:48 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: GCFN (http://www.gcfn.org/)
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While defending GOTO, I wrote this code stub--
: 1000 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#3":PRINT:PRINT
: 1005 HOME:POKE 36,35:PRINT "Main menu:"
I just realized that in two lines there are workarounds for two
different undocumented Apple ][e firmware 'features'...
Maybe that's why Microsoft can't seem to fix their bugs. You live with
them long enough, you internalize the workarounds...
--Dave Althoff, ][.
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a) In the original Apple ][e firmware, if you did a PR#3 to start the
80-column display, sometimes a VTAB instruction would not work
properly unless you printed something to the screen first.
b) HTAB did not work on the original ][e 80-column firmware.