[net.micro.atari] What's poke 559,0: problem with published game program

kim@emory.UUCP (Kim Wallen {Psychology}) (12/11/84)

I am trying to get a game program from the latest issue of COMPUTE!
running, but it seems to bomb on the part when the program tries to
modify the internal character set.  The relevant code is:

	2000 POKE 559,0:DIM S4(1024)
	2010 A=ADR(S$):B=INT(A/512+1)*2:CBASE=B*256-A+1
	2020 FOR I=0 TO 511
	2040 S$(CBASE+I,CBASE+I)=CHR$(PEEK(I+57344)):NEXT I:H=16:V=23

The poke 559,0 blanks the screen and it never comes back.  If I leave the
poke out then I get an error message at line 2040 that there is no 
FOR associated with the next.  Can anyone see anything wrong with
the code here?  It checks out using computes checksum program, but
it doesn't run.  Aftyer typing in 11 blocks of code I sort of want the
thing to run now.

This is on an 800XL.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kim Wallen
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

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