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| YS MegaBasic Copyright © 1984 Mike Leaman Draft text transcription by Andrew Owen HTML version by Jim Grimwood |
CONTENTS |
GETTING STARTEDLoading YS MegaBasic, Copying to Microdrive, Goodbye to keywords, Abbreviations, Line editing, User-defined keys, Control keys. | 2 |
SCREEN OUTPUTWindows, Panning and scrolling, Character sizes, Stippling, Character sets. | 6 |
GRAPHICSAttributes, User-defined graphics, Special effects. | 11 |
CONTROLLING PROGRAM FLOWProcedures, REPEAT-UNTIL loops, Branching, Multi-tasking. | 14 |
PROGRAM DEBUGGING & EDITINGUse of BRANCH, TRON, TROFF, SPEED, AUTO, DELETE, BROFF, BRON, RESTART. | 16 |
SOUNDPLAYing with sound effects, The Interrupt Sound Generator, SOFF, SON, SREP. | 18 |
MACHINE CODE & YS MegaBasicDOKE, CALL, Front-panel. | 19 |
SPRITE DESIGNERMegaSpectrum sprites, using Sprite Designer. | 21 |
THE NEW COMMANDSEasy reference guide to all the new YS MegaBasic commands. | 24 |
THE NEW ERROR MESSAGESEleven YS MegaBasic error messages explained. | 29 |