Length of a BASIC line

Hallo allemaal,


More interesting finds.

Now I found out that the C128 can handle lines longer than 80 chars, I had to know how long they could be. That appears to be 160 characters. On it self not interesting but I started with line number 1. I created another line by inserting four zeros and thus creating line 1000. And now I got this error: String too long. I had to delete four characters from the line before the C128 accepted it. What I find interesting is that I thought that the length of the encoded line would be subject to a limitation, not the length on the screen. In fact in RAM line 10000 is shorter than line 1.

I already knew that the C64 accepted only 80 characters but I wanted to see how it handled enlarging the line number. Surprise: I first had to delete characters in the line before I could add zeros.

Another confusing thing are the used error messages. I was used to the "syntax error" used by the C64 by now. The first time I saw this "string too long error" I really thought that one of my PRINT statements was too long.

I also test thing for the CBM-II, same thing and therefore I assume that it is the same for the CBM.


With kind regards / met vriendelijke groet, Ruud Baltissen

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