COUNTDOWN (QL) - a.k.a. Brainbox
SU8506w039095Countdown.mdv
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NOTE: The microdrive cartridge is in a format readable by the QLAY emulator.
Files on the cartridge:
countdown_bas (LOAD or LRUN this one)
countdownF
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SET YOUR synapses whirling with Brainbox by Mike Sever of Sale in Cheshire. Based on a popular TV quiz game, you have to form words from jumbled letters and, given a set of random letters, try to get as close as possible to a given total. Brainbox was written for the QL. There are two listings. The second should be saved with Save mdv1_count B.

Brainbox uses our special abbreviations for graphics characters so read the instructions on the first page of Program Printout before entering the listings.


NOTE: ...and yet, if they looked at Listing One, they'd see the command:
LRUN mdv1_countdownF
Clearly the Brainboxes stayed at home the day this page went to the publishers.
The semicolon in line 1730 should probably have been a division symbol, which is on the QL as CTRL+[. I've put one in for good measure.

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Text and programs typed by Jim Waterman, April 2020.
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