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RESOURCES USED IN THE FEATURE

When writing features we go to multiple sources and for the Atari 800 we went to the to get a handle on this version of BASIC. From here we learnt about Atari BASIC’s limitations with strings, requiring a string to be created with a maximum length (a Dimension) so that we don’t use too much memory. Remember that some Atari 8-bit machines have just 16KB, so every character counts. The keyword list was especially helpful in researching what projects we could create, and finding the SOUND keyword sent us off into a world of noise.

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