[Coco] I found an Extended BASIC bug probably everyone knows about already

[Allen Huffman]

On Feb 17, 2025, at 7:59 PM, Juan Castro via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Octal constant (Ex.: &O14 = 12 decimal)
> 
> It accepts 8 as a digit. D'oh. Try "PRINT &O18" in a CoCo 1 or CoCo 2.
> 
> Without having a CoCo3 at hand to check I'll wager it patches that bug. All
> it has to do is replace a LBHI with a LBHS.


I doubt many of us know about it. Did anyone here ever have a use for OCTAL?

Juan, good catch. I will say that I did see Octal in the wild. A synthesizer keyboard I had used banks and patches. The numbers went 1-8, if I recall, so it was Octal :) 1-1 to 8-8.

Crazy.

Now I gotta go blog…

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