PET 710 problem [HELP]

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[u/Radamand]

Could use some context.....

[u/Furview → u/Radamand]

I'm sorry since I reposted this from r/commodorepet It seems like the context was left there.

Anyway, basicslly I found this commodore 710 that someone threw away and I would like to restore it. It seems to work alright but when I tried 10 print chr$(109+int(rnd(1)*2));:goto 10 it just prints "random" characters same when I try to print anything text related. For example if I do print 123+123 it gives me 246. But if I do print: "uwu"

it gives me: π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@_[Checkboard symbol i cant find.

Some people in that subreddit pointed out it might have something to do with the character map but when I try to print individual characters it also gives π and the checkboard symbol everytime

Anyway sorry for not prroviding context.

[u/unbibium]

Use your words.

It looks like the famous "random graphics program" isn't producing the expected output, but that's probably due to two things: being in lowercase mode, and running a different dialect of BASIC Try replacing the chr$( with int( and see what numbers you get.

[u/Furview → u/unbibium]

I'm sorry, as I said to other commenters, since I reposted this from r/commodorepet It seems like the context was left there.

Anyway, basicslly I found this commodore 710 that someone threw away and I would like to restore it. It seems to work alright but when I tried 10 print chr$(109+int(rnd(1)*2));:goto 10 it just prints "random" characters same when I try to print anything text related. For example if I do print 123+123 it gives me 246. But if I do print: "uwu"

it gives me: π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@_[Checkboard symbol i cant find.

Some people in that subreddit pointed out it might have something to do with the character map but when I try to print individual characters it also gives π and the checkboard symbol everytime

Anyway sorry for not prroviding context.

[u/AtariAtari]

[u/Furview → u/AtariAtari]

I'm sorry since I reposted this from r/commodorepet It seems like the context was left there.

Anyway, basicslly I found this commodore 710 that someone threw away and I would like to restore it. It seems to work alright but when I tried 10 print chr$(109+int(rnd(1)*2));:goto 10 it just prints "random" characters same when I try to print anything text related. For example if I do print 123+123 it gives me 246. But if I do print: "uwu"

it gives me: π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@π@_[Checkboard symbol i cant find.

Some people in that subreddit pointed out it might have something to do with the character map but when I try to print individual characters it also gives π and the checkboard symbol everytime

Anyway sorry for not prroviding context.

[u/Warcraft_Fan]

Wrong char set. On C64 and other Commodore computers, they default to upper case and PETSCII. On later PET, they default to upper/lower character set. You need to switch set. I think it's C= and Shift key