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Bourse aux Voyelles (Thomson MO, Thomson TO)

Bourse aux Voyelles is a simple educational game about filling vowels on words.

Commented-Out Strings#

The game's BASIC files contain several commented lines:

VOYELLE.BAS#

The commented strings here are identical across versions, but their location was changed for the TO9/TO8/TO9+ disk version from the Logiciels Nathan Ecoles : Français compilation.

  • Uncommenting this makes the game softlock after the second word appears.

MO5/TO7

TO9

Content

103

8187

'PRINTL$(ZR)

  • Oddly, these strings reference positions that only work in the later TO9 release (itselves).

MO5/TO7

TO9

Content

214

30020

'LOCATE35,1:COLOR1:PRINTF1$,F2$:IF INKEY$<>"" THEN 30020

215

30022

'AZA$=INKEY$:IF AZA$="" THEN 30022

EDVOY.BAS#

Line 10 contains a version number and a credit to programmer Olivier Rozenkranc. It cannot be found in the TO9/TO8/TO9+ disk version.

'*** EDVOY ***   ROZENKRANC
   SOPHIA      VERS 1.2.2

References#


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