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You have a working Amstrad? I worry for your sanity mate - Ok you didn't mention "working", so I hope it is sleeping with the Old Ones in a safe place and can'

You have a working Amstrad? I worry for your sanity mate - Ok you didn't mention "working", so I hope it is sleeping with the Old Ones in a safe place and can't do any harm. The BASIC line numbering thing is really odd these days and it may be time to consider putting BASIC to bed. There are several other interpreted languages these days that do a far better job of doing the programming thing for newcomers. Given how fast machines are these days, the gap between compiled and interpreted (etc) is quite small for trivial programs/apps. You say caret, I say cursor! I've also just noticed your spelling of colour and that probably explains the ill advised Amstrad confession. I'm based in Somerset.

James-Livesey 5y ago
It's all working! Well, apart from the reset button for the cassette tape's counter, but that's what inevitably happens with mechanical parts after time. It's true that BASIC is aging, however, as we've seen on this HN thread, people do enjoy the nostalgia and it's a great way to introduce newcomers to what it was like in the early days of computing! Yup, I do say 'cursor'! But I'm British, hence the spelling of colour. I did take extra care to avoid ambiguous command naming in atto by having `bg` and `fg` instead of a `colour` command.