HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

Hi. Nice to know these listings have been found. The game brings back fond memories. The 2000 was the first mini I programmed on, in college. I have read all the replies, and no one has suggested what I am about to suggest, so here it is: In order to do a really good job of sanity checking, it would help if we could see the listings to compare with what has-been/wil l-be typed. People will want to port it to other close version of basic (hp-eloquen ce) or BASICV on the 3000, and a typo is always a problem with languages that dont necessarily declare variables before assigning things to it. So, if you had a way of scanning the listings and making them available on your web site, that would be a boon to everyone. Assuming the listings are in good enough shape to scan. As well, you could then spread to work around! Just my 2 cents worth... Thanks Michel Adam micheladam @theedge.c a ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Turnbull <pete@dunn ington.u-net. com> Date: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:17 pm Subject: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73 some help with some HP 2000 BASIC. I probably last used it 1980, and not often even then for somehow the PDP-8s looked moreattracti ve than the grey HP box in the same room. Yeah, I know betternow. Luckily, I'm sure some of you can help me out... > I've been retyping TREK73 poor-quality listing, and it sanity check. Also I'd like to learn a bit more about what This is the original source for the Star Trek program by Char and friends, and what I've typed so far is on my Star page at http://www. dunnington.u -net.com/pu blic/startrek / > I've added some other stuff to that page, too. > Questions: > All the lines have two spaces between the line number and the code. except for a few that have an '@' in place of the secondspac e. Is that significant (does it mean "ignore this" or something?) or is it just an artifact of a noisy Teletype line? listing to have been made on a Teletype, which needed a new ribbon and platen roller.) > What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like PRINTTAB(1 4)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character, If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd decimal) and is there a table anywhere? > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do? Theyalways seem to have three variables (eg ENTER T2,T,X$). > That'll do for now :-) > If anyone would like to proofread what I've retyped so far (about half and check for obvious sillies, please do - especially in around line 740 (cf line 840). Better still, if anyone is actually try this out, please do! though it won't work very half of it missing. > -- > Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York