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I have the original guide here. Do you remember where you spotted this? Before the bouncing ball sprite demo?

• ben_w 2y ago
  Off the top of my head and 34 years later, sadly not. Best I can do is describe this code/listing: It created a few lists of words (IIRC these lists were adjectives, nouns, verbs?), and in the main loop it kept track of which list it had just taken a word from in order to decide what to pick next — e.g. if it had just picked an adjective then was allowed to pick either another adjective or go onto a noun, if it had just picked a noun then it could end the sentence or it could go on to a verb — and it would pick a random word from whichever list. This either fit entirely on one screen, or very close to that — I was little, I would have made a syntax error if it had been much longer. (Perhaps it will turn out to be my family's user manual wasn't even the official one, though I do remember it being a thick blue thing which matches the pictures I've seen online).