Spectrum Computing

cmal wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:47 am Holy Smokes! Did you make these PDF's, @pavero ?

Stefan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:29 pm It seems that this error was introduced when the author initially ocr'ed and fixed the manual - see http://hayne.net/Spectrum/HiSoftBASIC/

The easy confirmation is to write a basic program with the inverse keyword and see if it does indeed compile to code 120.

On a side note, the lack of alternative sources is worrying, the entire internet has exactly one (buggy) copy of this manual.

  10 REM : LIST 
  20 REM : LPRINT 
  30 REM : OPEN #
  40 BRIGHT 1: INVERSE 1: OVER 1
  50 REM : CLOSE #

 LINE 30: +0
 LINE 30: 65203 #FEB3

RT61     65268 #FEF4
RT89     65312 #FF20
RT93     65323 #FF2B
RT110    65329 #FF31
RT114    65334 #FF36
RT119    65345 #FF41
RT120    65351 #FF47
RT121    65357 #FF4D
RT124    65363 #FF53

HISOFT BASIC ?1986 Cameron Hayne

M/C: 165 BYTES
+ 0 BYTES FOR M/C VARIABLES
(BASIC WAS 63 BYTES)


SAVE "m/c"CODE 65203,165
LOAD "m/c"CODE 65203

jpnz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:44 am I do have an original copy of HiSoft BASIC, though it is version 1.1 and the manual is the 2nd Edition February 1988 - as such, the list of runtimes isn't documented. However, the premise of runtime 120 being INVERSE stands true - tested with version 1.0: [...]

equinox wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:23 pm Right I don't even know why people are disputing this because, as I said, it was a list of routines, and the "typo" one was precisely in the place where INVERSE belongs in the character set.
We know it's inverse. The only question is why someone wrote "courier".

P.S. I paid for my Hisoft. (I didn't really -- I got it second-hand from a friend who was ditching all his Speccy stuff -- but back in those days, you could give away a tape. SOMEBODY paid for it. No piracy.)
The talented Cameron Hayne (who developed this tool) is still findable online.

equinox wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:45 pm Hayne's page says that he did his own scans. But pavero says (in previous page of this thread) that he scanned it. So who is guilty? (or whose scan do we have?)
I am joking more than criticising...

Stefan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:43 pm And there I was thinking you were just hijacking Pavero's pdf manual scan thread, since I could not find the Hisoft Basic pdf on Pavero's list, entry 8249 is not on it, and you started waffling about errors in "the" Hisoft Basic pdf.