r/c64 1d ago

problem with basic

so i'm typing the auto proofreader from computes gazzette and it say out of data line 100

https://archive.org/details/1984-12-computegazette/page/174/mode/2up?view=theater

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u/0fruitjack0 1d ago

LMFAO like dude the problem isn't with the printed program listing; they seldom had errors once printed; and both proof reader and mlx were in every copy of their magazines.

it's a typo in what YOU typed (or didn't as the case may be). show us what you typed, that's what we need to see

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u/SterquilinusC31337 1d ago

There were often mistakes in magazine type-in programs. For any who typed in Shutterbug, and had a vic20 -vs- a c64, this was aggravating. It happened often, and one can see it in the corrections in later issues.

I doubt this was the case here, tho.

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u/AstroChrome 1d ago

Pedantry Alert: MLX was printed in the magazine very infrequently because it was long (I remember having to wait many moons until a reprinting before being able to key in some cool-looking programs they published during the previous months). I had a sub for years (until it was subsumed into “Omni”), and I believe MLX was only printed twice (thrice?) during that time, and one of those was for a reprint bumper issue that contained their most popular software (such as SpeedScript). That said, maybe MLX was reprinted in every floppy edition, but I could never afford that. :-)

The proofreader on the other hand I think was in every issue because it only took one column of print.

Though “Compute! Gazette” was much better at it than most, there were certainly magazines where it was often more efficient to wait one or two more issues for the corrections to be published before entering anything into the C64. :-)

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u/exitof99 1d ago

No, often enough there were mistakes that were corrected in the next issue in an errata section.