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qsera • yesterday at 5:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> you get a complete breakdown of all the screen modes, color palettes, and their resolutions.

If I remember correctly, there were even sample programs included in this documentation.

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vunderba • yesterday at 5:53 PM

Yes! To my knowledge, I think almost every single keyword in the built-in help had a small example program at the bottom that you could type in.

For example GET/PUT had this one:

  SCREEN 1
  DIM Box%(1 TO 200)
  x1% = 0: x2% = 10: y1% = 0: y2% = 10
  LINE (x1%, y1%)-(x2%, y2%), 2, BF
  GET (x1%, y1%)-(x2%, y2%), Box%
  DO
      PUT (x1%, y1%), Box%, XOR
      x1% = RND * 300
      y1% = RND * 180
      PUT (x1%, y1%), Box%
  LOOP WHILE INKEY$ = ""