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Compute! had a handy little program to print a checksum of each line of BASIC on the left margin. Then, their other BASIC listings had that checksum printed al
by foobarian 7y ago
Compute! had a handy little program to print a checksum of each line of BASIC on the left margin. Then, their other BASIC listings had that checksum printed alongside, so that eliminated the "proofer" job for us :-)
- tomcam 7y agoMLX, I think it was called. I used it to type out Speedscript, a word processor that took only 3K for my Commodore 64 and used it for my first years as a professional writer, it was connected to a Brother electric typewriter with a parallel printer interface to the Commodore 64.
- yitchelle 7y agoAntic magazine also had similar program, aptly called "Typo" for "Type Your Programe Once".
- mattl 7y agoAmstrad Action also had Type-righter (sic) and would put checksums next to every line of BASIC in the magazine. Type-righter itself was included on the covermounted tape once that became a thing.