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Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE'

From Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Subject Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE'
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2019-12-05 15:20 +0000
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On 05 Dec 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?

> I used to know this, but used so long ago have actually forgotten.
> BASIC manual no help, nor PRM 5a.

Please see several replies to your original post, in archive-online.
Duplicate posts can confuse and irritate!

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Martin Avison 
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BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' chasgpearce@gmail.com - 2019-12-05 06:16 -0800
  Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2019-12-05 15:20 +0000
    Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' chasgpearce@gmail.com - 2019-12-05 08:08 -0800
  Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-12-05 17:11 +0000
    Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-12-05 19:34 +0000
      Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-12-09 16:19 +0000
  BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' fp53hxy@gmail.com - 2019-12-05 09:37 -0800
    Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-12-05 20:44 +0000
      Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2019-12-05 21:01 +0000
      Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' chasgpearce@gmail.com - 2019-12-06 05:03 -0800
        Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2019-12-06 14:07 +0000
          Re: BBC BASIC - 'MODE MODE' Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-12-06 15:59 +0000

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