Posted By
Csabo
on 2011-01-05
12:15:35
|  Re: Zombi, a new/old type-in game for you to play
If you have a BASIC 3.5 game (in other words, a game written for the C16 or Plus4), it will load fine on a C64 without requiring anything extra, as long as it doesn't use any 3.5 specific tokens. However, it won't necessarily work, see below.
Your first statement is technically true, but that doesn't mean all programs will actually run, or work correctly. Because the lack of a COLOR command, C64 BASIC programs change screen and border color with POKEs. Those make the program C64 specific. That's just one of several things that needs to be modified in order to convert a C64 program to C16/Plus4. (Others are: actual color values, F-key handling, sound or anything sprite related, etc.)
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