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Avant et Après (Thomson TO)

Avant et Après teaches children numerical orders. It was released alongside several other educational programs teaching calculations.

Commented-Out Lines#

AVAP.BAS contains several commented lines, which are not present in the Thomson MO release.

Lines 1 to 3 contain a credit to programmer Jacques Sanvoisin and a build date of March 11, 1984:

REM:Auteur:JACQUES SANVOISIN
REM:Date:11 Mars 1984
REM:Programme"AVAP":niveau CE1 CE2

Line 6228 has an unused prompt for the game customization menu, asking if the player would like to write numbers that are rounded to the lowest hundredth:

' COLOR3:PRINT"Voulez-vous faire écrire des nombres    de la centaine inférieure (O/N) ?":COLOR1:GOSUB 6202:IF ZR$="O" THEN B=3:PRINT"Oui" ELSEPRINT"Non"

Line 7973 is related to the above prompt.

'IF B=3 THEN GOSUB 2300:GOSUB 2250

Finally, Lines 8935, 8950 and 8970 are commands to open an "INSTIT" file, get a parameter named "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO", and close it. These are also present, in the exact same positions, in Produits et Surfaces.

'OPEN"I",#1,"INSTIT"
'INPUT#1,OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
'CLOSE#1

References#


  1. VIFI Nathan ad - Microtom, Number 2, September/October 1985↩︎