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@psf@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hacked barebones string support into Palo Alto TinyBasic.

It is now possible to input a string with IN$, then access its characters as $(0), $(1), ...

As in the original language, there is no way to convert a numeric character code back to a character and display it on the screen. (Yet!)

#basic #retrocomputing

ENTER STRING
<user enters HELLO, seen at the bottom of the screen>
STARTS WITH 72 69 76
OK
ENTER STRING <user enters HELLO, seen at the bottom of the screen> STARTS WITH 72 69 76 OK
ENTER STRING <user enters HELLO, seen at the bottom of the screen> STARTS WITH 72 69 76 OK
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