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Any guesses as to what the subroutine on line 1000 does?

• krapp 13y ago
  Plays the theme music?
• rootbear 13y ago
  I think it might have to do with formatting the displayed output. There are nine columns in the display and the loop at line 45 puts nine values into L$. But why the GOSUB only occurs when I is 9 or 16 isn't clear.
  • derekp7 13y ago
    Actually it is an old school delay loop -- it runs an empty loop from 1 to 200, which on the old computers would take some significant fraction of a second. This adds a slight delay after printing each line. Proper programming would call a sleep or usleep function, of course.
    • raldi 13y ago
      Oh, when I looked at this earlier, the second page of code wasn't there, so we had to guess what line 1000 looked like. I see the page has been updated (or my browser got its act together).