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# Hah! I recognise that beast.
Oh boy. That brings back memories. That's the first machine I ever used - I was 12 when we got one donated to our school.

We have a space invaders program for it that we tried to view the code for, all you got back from the list command was a mysterious 'sys 1039'. Never worked that out. Anyone explain?
(I helped save b3ta! Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:01, archived)
# Yup, it
was a machine code program residing at memory location 1039 decimal (40F hex). The sys call runs the program.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:05, archived)
# The machine...
.. code (executable code) would be at that location in memory. SYS xxxx executes starting at the instruction at location xxxx in memory (it was often paged so the entry point was 1024, or 2048 etc...).
(I helped save b3ta! Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:06, archived)