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From: Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk>
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Subject: Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE'
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:11:34 +0000 (GMT)
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In article
<6da9459a-b85e-407d-80d9-2e271e6d459b@googlegroups.com>,
   <chasgpearce@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry that the old Alzheimers seems to be taking a grip!

> Can some kind soul please remind me what BASIC 'MODE MODE' at the
> start of a program actually does? I understand MODE 28, MODE 15
> etc, but don't recall  what the second 'MODE' in 'MODE MODE'
> actually does. (I have been sent a BBC BASIC program in which the
> first instruction is 'MODE MODE')

> So what MODE am I then in - what has the instruction actually done?

If 1920 x 1080 is your default mode then MODE MODE ensures it uses 1920
x 1080.

Richard