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Atelier des Phrases (EXL 100)

Atelier des Phrases is a very simple educational game about forming phrases using preset words. The player can also overwrite these words for comedic effect.

Commented-Out Lines#

The game's Exelbasic code contains a few commented lines:

Lines 100 and 110 contain a credit to EH Services:

100 ATELIER DES PHRASES
110 ADAPTATION EH SERVICES 85 Tel:(1) 45 09 21 40

Lines 390, 400, and 410 contain key checks for Left, Right, and Delete, meant to be used in the word correction routine.

390 !IF CZ=131 THEN IF ZZ>1 THEN ZZ=ZZ-1:GOTO 370 ELSE 370
400 !IF CZ=129 THEN ZZ=ZZ+1:GOTO 370
410 !IF CZ=8 THEN 530

Line 580 is an incomplete command that goes to the title screen routine.

REM :CLS:GOSUB 1940:FX=23:GOSUB 300:RETURN

Line 1445 is found in the phrase rendering routine. Uncommenting it doesn't appear to do anything visible.

!F LEN(TEX$)>40 THEN LOCATE (20,2):PRINT TEX$:PAUSE 2

Finally, Line 3095 is found in the word file loading routine.

!N$="NN"

References#


  1. Hidden credit↩︎