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I have the original guide here. Do you remember where you spotted this? Before the bouncing ball sprite demo?


Off the top of my head and 34 years later, sadly not.

Best I can do is describe this code/listing:

It created a few lists of words (IIRC these lists were adjectives, nouns, verbs?), and in the main loop it kept track of which list it had just taken a word from in order to decide what to pick next — e.g. if it had just picked an adjective then was allowed to pick either another adjective or go onto a noun, if it had just picked a noun then it could end the sentence or it could go on to a verb — and it would pick a random word from whichever list.

This either fit entirely on one screen, or very close to that — I was little, I would have made a syntax error if it had been much longer.

(Perhaps it will turn out to be my family's user manual wasn't even the official one, though I do remember it being a thick blue thing which matches the pictures I've seen online).




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