If you had anything to do wityh Acorns, BBCs, Electrons etc back in the old days, then you might enjoy this page wot I found.
sample:
"YOU won't believe it, but it's really true. One structured programming freak has actually blown himself a Basic ROM that produces "Syntax Error" when you use a GOTO or GOSUB! "
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/themicrouser/news/01-12.htm
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Good, gotos should have always been a syntax error. I remember pretty much on the first day of university we were told if we dared to structure C like BASIC we would be shot by local Salfordian mafia.
I was more of a Commodore man than an Acorn, but I really wish we did have a BBC at home, would have been better to program. The one downside to the C64 is its awful BASIC editor.
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But couldn't you get the redoubtable Blitz Basic on a C64? Seem to recall it was a really easy way to get graphics to slowly pootle across the screen and bounce off the edges whilst playing a sound at the same time, which took a lot more doing in BBC Basic.
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I thought Blitz was for the Amiga only? I used to play with Blitz (PC versions) a lot in my later teen years and went to the publishers HQ in Doncaster (they even paid for the train tickets) and they were keen to show forum members round.
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Isn't it this, on this page?
www.centsible.com/c64feat.shtml
Sorry, I used to use it on an Amiga, as you say (ah, heady days) but I thought there was a c64 version.
Perhaps it's just the name.
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>> Good, gotos should have always been a syntax error.
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Computers didn't always do exception handling and the Universe always builds better, dumber users.
If you do use goto this will happen today: xkcd.com/292/
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I installed a BBC emulator on my phone yesterday. It's probably based on a fork of the code someone I knew at uni wrote for Linux back in the 90s (Beebem).
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Acorn Nostalgia - RattleandSmoke
