Can someone "decypher this"?
Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Rink - its not MSX BASIC as far as I can tell, my Tosh MSX1 machine (HX-10) doesn't have a CONNECT command, but I don't know about the MSX2 standard...maybe that did??
RWAP - PSET isn't being used as a function as such, that's how the LINE command is used on the Dragon/COCO (PSET - set pixel,PRESET - reset pixel !), which is what made me think of that first!
As RWAP said, it was probably just made up !
RWAP - PSET isn't being used as a function as such, that's how the LINE command is used on the Dragon/COCO (PSET - set pixel,PRESET - reset pixel !), which is what made me think of that first!
As RWAP said, it was probably just made up !
Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
If you look at the code you'll find that it's supposed to run on a machine with probably 640x200 resolution. It draws strange lightning bolts and 4-edged stars. The BASIC looks much like a Microsoft dialect, but I guess it's from a 16-bit computer.
Bernd
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Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
The key to this is possibly that CONNECT statement.
It seems to be drawing a polygon but I don't ever recall seeing a graphic function in a variant of BASIC looking like that. So couple of possibilities(?)
1. It's a polygon drawing command with a bit of a weird syntax (all the parameters separated by dashes or similar)
2. It's user subproc in a language of BASIC that allows proper procedure names and accepts weird parameter lists
3. It's all made-up.
It seems to be drawing a polygon but I don't ever recall seeing a graphic function in a variant of BASIC looking like that. So couple of possibilities(?)
1. It's a polygon drawing command with a bit of a weird syntax (all the parameters separated by dashes or similar)
2. It's user subproc in a language of BASIC that allows proper procedure names and accepts weird parameter lists
3. It's all made-up.
Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Ok... well... OP said the code came from DragonBall Z? So Japanese.
We've established it's not MSX BASIC, I'm pretty sure it isn't HuBASIC from the X1 and it doesn't appear to be X-BASIC on the X68000.
Any other ideas?
We've established it's not MSX BASIC, I'm pretty sure it isn't HuBASIC from the X1 and it doesn't appear to be X-BASIC on the X68000.
Any other ideas?
Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Actually...
HuBASIC does have a line command which accepts parameters in a similar fashion e.g. LINE(x1,y1)-(x2,y2) so I'll double check.
Edit:
Can't find a suitable reference to a reserved word of CONNECT in HuBASIC. However, the coordinates in the OP do indicate a later machine than I'm trying on (better resolution) so none of this is conclusive. There were a few later variants of HuBASIC and I don't have all of them to check with.
HuBASIC does have a line command which accepts parameters in a similar fashion e.g. LINE(x1,y1)-(x2,y2) so I'll double check.
Edit:
Can't find a suitable reference to a reserved word of CONNECT in HuBASIC. However, the coordinates in the OP do indicate a later machine than I'm trying on (better resolution) so none of this is conclusive. There were a few later variants of HuBASIC and I don't have all of them to check with.
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Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Thanks for all the effort guys.
Here's a part of picture out of the video: http://s7.postimg.org/72pyyf3hn/Picture_7.png
Someone mentioned to me that they thought the "|" is a ":"...
(The video is from 1992 btw.)
Also, the code won't have been made up, because the organizers of the contest tried it themselves.
Here's a part of picture out of the video: http://s7.postimg.org/72pyyf3hn/Picture_7.png
Someone mentioned to me that they thought the "|" is a ":"...
(The video is from 1992 btw.)
Also, the code won't have been made up, because the organizers of the contest tried it themselves.
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Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Yes, some of the vertical lines are : as this is the normal separator between statements, commands and functions on BASICs that allow multiple statements, commands and functions on a single "line".
A ' is being used to indicate a REMark (some BASICs only use REM or another symbol) and any text that follows is ignored when the program is run. So the vertical lines after the ' could well be | symbols.
And it is not easy to make out 1's, I's etc.
Mark
A ' is being used to indicate a REMark (some BASICs only use REM or another symbol) and any text that follows is ignored when the program is run. So the vertical lines after the ' could well be | symbols.
And it is not easy to make out 1's, I's etc.
Mark
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Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
Did we ever get to the bottom of this?
Re: Can someone "decypher this"?
The CONNECT is a form of LINE or DRAWTO command, it looks like you keep giving coordinates and then at the end you give the color. It looks like the target machine has a 640 x 200 resolution (line 470 is setting a random coordinate) which is CGA resolution and it looks like 16 colors (C being set to random 1 - 16 on line 710). I would say it could be a PC Junior, maybe Cassette basic?