There are commands for program control. These include JUMP, CALL, RETURN, IF-THEN-ELSE, MOVE, ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, and DIVIDE.
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\LOCATE 60,160
There are commands for placing text on the screen. These include LOCATE, WIDTH, HEIGHT, DISPLAY, CRAWL, OVERLAY, and SCROLL.
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\LOCATE 60,240
There are commands for file handling, including READ, WRITE, OPEN and CLOSE.
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\LOCATE 60,300
There are commands for drawing graphics on the screen, such as LINE, CIRCLE and DOT.
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And most importantly, there are commands for displaying graphic images and animations. These include SHOW, SPRINT, SPRITE, RUN and ROUNDS.
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\BLANK 8,8,630,470\LOC 60,20
OTHER FEATURES
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Data storage capabilities.
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You can store numbers or alphanumeric information in special storage areas. Up to 4K (4096 characters) can be stored. A file of data can be written or read. (Data files are called AUXILIARY files, extention AUX.)
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Powerful interactive commands make user interaction easy!
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There are commands for jumping to other areas of a program based on user keypresses or mouse button presses. You can also branch whenever the user moves the mouse to a specified area of the screen.
There are a number of useful utility programs included FREE with the package. One of them, called SCRNSAVE.COM, is a TSR (Terminate, Stay Resident) program that lets you capture images from other programs and save them to disk.
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Another utility program will print to Hewlett Packard LASERJET printers. You can scale the images and print them at 75 DPI, 150 DPI, or 300 Dots Per Inch. Another program displays PCX-format images.
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A important utility program lets you execute a number of program commands, but is very small, letting you add animation to your existing software applications.