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That reminds me of the evolution of magazine code listings, which eventually came with per-line CRC values. If I remember correctly, there was a mod for Atari 8
by mypalmike 6y ago
That reminds me of the evolution of magazine code listings, which eventually came with per-line CRC values. If I remember correctly, there was a mod for Atari 800 BASIC where it would spit out the CRC after you typed each line of code.
- dylan604 6y agoThat's actually where I was getting my BASIC code from to transcribe. I don't remember exactly which magazine, but in my fuzzy memory, I think it was Byte.
- zengargoyle 6y agoThere used to be a magazine or book that had this one BASIC program that you had to type in really carefully. That program let you type in a bunch of hex characters with a CRC and would tell you if you typed a line wrong. The rest of the programs in the book while still just BASIC programs were printed all encoded as a bunch of hex digit lines. It was great, once you got it typed in you knew there weren't any typos. Then you could list or save or run it just like any other BASIC program.