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Syntax Errors

 
Published in Personal Computer News #077

Syntax Errors

There were several errors in the listing of Cupid Bounces Back in the programs section of issue 75.

The tilde in line 80 should be a 7.
The tilde in line 1600 should be a 2.
Line 530 should end GOTO 510

In the data starting at line 540, the line numbers for the check sums have been repeated and you must change these to 645 instead of 650; 755 instead of 760; 865 instead of 870 and so on.

Finally the direct command which moves the machine code to a different location (printed at the bottom of the text) should be entered as two lines returning after the first NEXT A.

Zircon Software, producer of Thermonuclear War on the Dragon, caught some fallout from its mention in last week's Software Preview. Its telephone number is 01-986 3369, not 3368 as we printed.

Rade Systems' R-50 route to CP/M for BBC users (Monitor, issue 76) is on sale now; the mid-November launch date we unaccountably gave it is just four months late.

Issue 75's Charts mistook Ocean's Decathlon for Activision's version in an illustration.