A few Blankety Blank episodes from 1984 with the late great Les Dawson. Cracking many funny jokes that we enjoy, a panel of stars from Roy Kennear, Pat Coombs, Wendy Richards, Keith Barron, Keith Harris (with the Monkey - 'I hate that duck', not Orvile), Dennis Waterman, and a very young Nicholas Lynhurst (Rodney, you plonker!).
Get to the point Mat!
Ok, prizes on this game show... phone, champange glasses, luggage cases, the usual tat and then this...
Hit record button and wait... the first contestant gets some random crap, the second round winner gets 150 points
and the Spectrum appears again. Result!
Look how clear the image is on the TV.... no jail bars and no fuzzy dot crawl.
For those of you that want to recreate the scene with your piles of Make-A-Chip, Scrabble, Chequered Flag and a sealed copy of the Horizons tape.
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5 BORDER 7: CLS: BORDER 2
10 PRINT " B L A N K E T Y B L A N K": PRINT: GO TO 10
Line 5 is there so that it keeps the scroll? message as it is in the picture.
Machine code users.....
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ORG 32768 ; or whatever...
BlanketyBlankRoutine
LD A,16+7 ; set border to red - 2 multi by 8 then +7 ink white
LD (23624),A ; border system variable
LD A,2 ; always print to the top area
OUT (254),A ; set border red
CALL 05633 ; set top area
PrintIt LD BC,BlanketyBlankTextEnd-BlanketyBlankText ; number of chars to print
LD DE,BlanketyBlankText ; location of data to print
CALL 08252 ; print it
JP PrintIt ; until bored....
BlanketyBlankText
DEFB " B L A N K E T Y B L A N K",13,13
BlanketyBlankTextEnd
Type in corner
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10 CLEAR 32767: FOR n=32768 TO 32822: READ a: POKE n,a: NEXT n
20 BORDER 7: CLS: RANDOMIZE USR 32768
30 DATA 62,23,50,72,92,62,2,211,254,205,1,22
40 DATA 1,31,0,17,24,128,205,60,32,195,12,128
50 DATA 32,32,66,32,76,32,65,32,78,32,75,32,69,32,84,32,89,32,32,32,66,32,76,32,65,32,78,32,75,13,13