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Le Train de la Lecture (Thomson MO, Thomson TO)

Le Train de la Lecture teaches kids text comprehension.

Commented-Out Lines#

The game's files have several commented lines:

LECTURE.BAS#

Lines 2 to 4 contain a series of credits to Jacques Balu, Denis Rodier, Olivier Rozenkranc, and Xavier Cador. These are only present in the MO tape release of the game.

'LECTURE " J. BALU " NORMALISATEUR " RODIER"
'ROZENKRANC OLIVIER CORP. (!!!)
'this démo is réalised by CADOR CORP.

EDLECT.BAS#

Like LECTURE.BAS, Lines 2 to 4 contain credits to Jacques Balu, Denis Rodier, and Xavier Cador, alongside a build date of December 13, 1984. These are only present in the tape releases of the game.

' Titre: CREATION FICHIER LECTURE
' Auteur : J. BALU
(SUPER-FINIT. ROZEN.)
(SUPERSUPER-SUPER-FINIT. X-CADOR)
' Date : 13 12 84

In the TO9/TO8/TO9+ disk version from the Logiciels Nathan Ecoles : Français compilation, only the credit to Jacques Balu and the build date were kept, found at Lines 4 and 5.

' Auteur : J. BALU
' Date : 13 12 84

There is also an additional commented line at 8971:

'FORK=0TONL-1:TT$(K)=MID$(TT$(K),2,LEN(TT$(K))-2):NEXT

References#


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