Dr C Wacko Presents Atari BASIC JJJ.pdf

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Dr. C. Wacko

Presents

Atari BASIC

and

The Whiz-Bang Miracle Machine

David L. Heller and John F. Johnson

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ADDISON - WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.

Read ing, Massachusetts • Menlo Park, Californ ia • Don Mills, Ontari o

Wokingham, England • Amsterdam • Sydney • Singapore • Tokyo

Mexico City • Bogota • Santiago • San Juan

...

Cover and Book Design·Teapot Graphics/John Johnson

Atari is a reg istered trademark of Atari , In c.

Many thanks to Atari , Inc. for the art used in Append ix C,

ATASCII Codes. Used with permission of Atari , In c.

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Heller , David L .

Dr. C . Wa c ko presents Atari BASIC and t h e whiz bang

mirac l e ma chine.

Includes index.

I. Atari compute r --prograrnrning . 2 . Basic (Computer

program language) I. Johnson , Joh n, 1944-

II . Tit l e . III . Ti t le: Doctor C . Wacko presents Atari

BASIC and the wh iz bang mirac l e mac hine.

QA 76.8 . A82H45 1984

001 . 64 ' 2

84 - 21687

ISBN 0 - 20 1-114 9 1-7

A ll rights reserved. No part of thi s publication may be reproduced,

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any

m eans, electronic, mechanical , photocopying, record in g, or otherwi se,

without the prior w ri tten permiss ion of th e pub li sh er. Printed in the

United States of America. Published simultaneously in Canada.

Printed from camera ready boards suppl ied by Teapot Graphics, Santa

Cruz, California.

ISBN 0·201·11491·7

ABCDEFGH IJ·HA·8987654

Fi rst printing, September 1984

Contents

Foreword: Preramble to the Convolution

1. Limber Up Your Fingertips

2. Basic BASIC Training

3. Entering The Great White Expanse

4. Graphics Power: An End to The Desert Blues

148

5. Desert ZOUNDS!

179

6. Weaving The Perfect Flying Carpet, or,

The Art of Programming

188

Appendix A: Uh Oh! Error Messages

213

Appendix B: Storing and Retrieving Your Programs 218

Appendix C: ATASCII Codes

222

Appendix D: Smokey Peek's Pokes £,. Peeks

231

Appendix E: Graphics Mode Chart

234

Index

235

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