[Coco] emulator questions

[Ward Griffiths]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:58 pm, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 11/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >You are aware, right, that BASIC has such a conversion function
> > built in?  To convert a program, just load it in and resave it
> > using SAVE"progname",A and it will be saved in ASCII.
>
> Also, loading an ASCII BASIC program retokenizes it in memory, at the
> expense of time.  A large ASCII BASIC program can take a very long
> time to load.  The occasional hybrid BASIC/ML program can only be
> saved back in tokenized format to retain everthing, and some of those
> can't even be resaved.

Actually, many hybrid programs _can_ be resaved _if_ they are simply 
loaded and then saved without being run.  The only such package I own 
is Klendathu, which uses Leo Christopherson's ML in DATA statements 
trick which he pioneered during the TRS-80 Mod One days with classics 
like Android Nim and Dancing Demon.  If such programs are run, the 
program modifies itself and a save becomes impossible, but the original 
version off the original tape or disk can be saved in ASCII or even 
LLISTed without problem.
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