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Re: KEY (n) ON

#7159
From: brown
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1986 15:39
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In article <-217493@bbimg> mikey@bbimg.UUCP writes:
>I was running a maze game on my T1K last night that came from Compuserve.
>Anyway, I tried taking the game up to my PC-AT.  The game is in BASIC.
>It failed.  What's funny is that the game works on the Tandy 2000.
>
>The failure is in the 'KEY (n) ON' statement.  Is this a known bug in
>the BASIC on the AT?

According to the PC-DOS BASIC manual, the 'KEY (n) ON' statement is only
available in the BASICA version of the program.  If you are loading just
the PC-DOS BASIC program, load BASICA instead.
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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: KEY (n) ON
Message-ID: <763@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 11:39:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 11:39:51 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jul-86 05:07:07 EDT
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Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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