Posted By
Csabo
on 2013-12-14
19:39:24
|  Re: Some APS Adventures
You're absolutely right, that program exists and works: BASIC-Packer.
Edit: I threw together a little (unreleasable) tool for myself to fiddle with BASIC programs. One thing I found that while the BASIC interpreter does die on lines that are > 256 bytes, it works completely fine for DATA lines. I merged all the data in Forest of Evil into a single line, which was a whopping 10000 bytes in length! The interpreter can't list it (only lists the first 256 bytes), but it reads from it just fine. Also seems to be able to execute the lines that are after the long one.
But alas, in this particular case it's all for nothing, as there's another program bug in this one: from line 1075 there's "important" game logic, but nothing GOTOs or GOSUBs to that line, and the RETURN in the previous line means this is dead code, it's never reached.
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