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Memot (Thomson MO, Thomson TO)

Memot is a little educational sentence-filling game. Versions for the EXL 100 and Amstrad computers also exist.

NOTE: The Thomson TO tape release is currently unpreserved.

Commented-Out Lines#

The editor program, which corresponds to EDMEMOTC.BAS (MO5) / EDMEMO.BAS (TO9), has a couple commented lines:

  • The very first line in the code contains a credit to programmer Olivier Rozenkranc, a build date, and a version number.

MO5

TO9

'** EDMEMOT ** -ROZENKRANC-  27/10/85
   VERS 3.1

'** EDMEMOT *ROZENKRANC 1/11/85
 VERS 4.1

  • Line 40115 is part of a text input routine.

'A$=A$+Q$(RND*10)+" ":IF LEN(A$)>A(TEX) THEN MF$(TEX,LL)=MID$(A$,1,A(TEX)-1) ELSE 40115

  • Line 40412 has an end-of-file verification routine. It is not present in the TO9/TO8/TO9+ disk version.

'IF EOF(1)<>0 THEN CLOSE:GOTO 40414

References#


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