Sharp PC-2500 Users Guide

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(09-13-2020 12:28 AM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  This is not a trivial program by far and it runs perfectly on both the 1350 and 1360:

            SHARP Program VA160 - PC-1350 An Othello Game Playing Program

Matter of fact, I wrote it using a PC-1350 almost two decades ago but then keyed it in and ran it on a PC-1360 when writing this article last year. It ran flawlessly.

Great game! Thanks for sharing.

Porting PC-1350 Basic programs to PC-1360 is possible, but what I said is that I did not always find it easy or possible to run PC-1360 programs on the PC-1350.

The PC-1360 user manual is not accurate to use with the PC-1350, to answer the original question about the PC-2500 lacking a manual (the PC-2500 is a PC-1350 with printer, larger keyboard, and a few more features). The PC-1360 includes quite a few more Basic functions (e.g. ERASE), some Basic functions accept additional parameters (e.g. BEEP), the PC-1360 has different poke hacks and different system CALL locations in ROM (e.g. CALL &120A: X=PEEK&6F57), and INKEY$ returns values for all keys while the PC-1350 does not.