Color BASIC Demo
By Larry Hanson
198x
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In March of 2011 when Richard Degler was going through Larry Hanson's paperwork, he was in email communication with several people that were testing out his "Color BASIC" work.  Here are the essentials from those communications.  Note that I have freely edited comments to make them more concise, readable and pertinent to the included files in the archive.


Subject: Re: Color BASIC Material from Larry Hanson?
From:    Richard Degler
Sent:    Thu 3/10/11 3:52 PM

There was a difference between those two printouts [in Larry Hanson's paperwork]!  Now I have the definitive STAte for MESS - line 100 ended with color 4 being set to C+I+I which I kept, since C+C+1 made it the same hue as color 3 just a little brighter.  But the big change was to line 180 - in the second printout a step of 80 was wrong and ugly.  Changed it to STEP 25 and got the proper Demo from the tape!!
 
Here is a list of the included files:

1) "0126 Color Basic Demo.sta" - A save state for use with the Astrocade MESS emualtor
version 0.126.  It will NOT work with another version of MESS.

2) "Color Basic Demo (Larry Hanson)(Color BASIC).wav" - Corrected "Color Basic Demo.txt"

3) "C_B_Demo.txt" - Intermediate file used to create WAV file.

4) "C_B_Demo.prg" - Intermediate file used to create WAV file.

5) "Color Basic Demo (Larry Hanson)(Color BASIC).wav"

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Subject: Re: Color BASIC Material from Larry Hanson?
From:    Richard Degler (richard.degler@yahoo.com)
Sent:    Thu 3/10/11 4:21 PM
 
I raised the text up a pixel in the MESS version - if you want to do the same change to :
 
 290 CX=-33;CY=12
 350 CX=-42;CY=-4

But looking at the video(s) again, the real hardware does NOT need this fix.  Pause it with contrasting colors for "COLOR" and the boxes in the CLine below it - maybe part of the bottom scan-line in "COLORS!" is coming early occasionally, but not a whole pixel line every Screen Interrupt as it does in MESS.
