I recently found out that my great uncle wrote a few novels in the early '80s, and one of them, titled "The House in the Dunes", includes a BASIC program at the end that relates to the plot of the book. The program starts with commands and seems to go on for pages, but I'm pretty clueless about programming. I'm wondering how I could actually get this program to run on my computer. Is it even feasible? I can't provide pictures of the pages, unfortunately!
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It sounds like you're trying to work with some BASIC code, but it's possible there are some errors or missing pieces in what's provided. In a typical BASIC program, lines should usually start with a number like 10, 20, etc. You mentioned some commands that seem a bit strange, like `IX-91Y-2217-81E-8`, which doesn't mean anything in BASIC. Make sure you have the program typed out correctly; it might help to check if there are any formatting issues. If it's written line by line, that could clarify things! Let us know if you need any help deciphering it further!
Thanks for the reply! I’ll double-check my transcription to ensure it's accurate. It sounds like there could be significant differences based on how BASIC was written back then.