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Current submission title “Print, a one-line BASIC program” is not great. Title from the page: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 Could also be something
by chrismorgan 1y ago
Current submission title “Print, a one-line BASIC program” is not great. Title from the page:
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Could also be something like “10 PRINT: a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program” (taken from the first sentence with “is” changed to a colon).
- kstrauser 1y agoFrom the text: “10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, published in November 2012.” 10 PRINT is their official shortened version.
- mryall 1y agoTLDR: the program prints a pseudorandom sequence of characters 205 and 206, which on Commodore 64 are graphics characters similar to / and \. When repeated across multiple lines, it looks like an intricate random maze. But it is actually just a visual representation of whatever PRNG is used on the platform, with the default seed as set by the BASIC interpreter. https://sta.c64.org/cbm64pet.html https://sta.c64.org/cbm64pet.html
- NKosmatos 1y agoHey what happened to my submission title? I swear it started with “10 PRINT”. Perhaps a mod/admin changed it, but I don’t have an option to edit it now.