Sinclair Basic Error Codes

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Try TO make all standard BASIC-errors AND tell us how you did it.
NOT allowed i.e. :

PRINT USR 1362
D - Break cont-repeats

but ok
10 GO TO 10
RUN AND press BREAK
D - Break cont-repeats

10 LET x=0
20 NEXT x
RUN
[B]1 NEXT without FOR, 20:1[/B]

10 NEXT x
RUN
[B]2 Variable NOT found, 10:1[/B]

10 DIM a(5)
20 PRINT a(6)
RUN
[B]3 Subscript wrong, 20:1[/B]

DIM a(50000)
[B]4 Out of memory, 0:1[/B]

PRINT AT 22,0;"Error"
[B]5 Out of screen, 0:1[/B]

PRINT 10^39
[B]6 Number too big, 0:1[/B]

RETURN
[B]7 RETURN without GOSUB, 0:1[/B]

10 STOP
RUN
[B]9 STOP statement, 10:1[/B]

PRINT USR "z"
[B]A Invalid argument, 0:1[/B]

DIM a(70000)
[B]B INTEGER out of range, 0:1[/B]

SAVE "Long File Name"
[B]C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1[/B]

READ a
[B]E Out of DATA, 0:1[/B]

10 SAVE ""
RUN

[b]F Invalid file name, 10:1[/b]

Reset
CLEAR 23860
>type 10 PRINT AND press enter.

[b]G No room FOR line, 0:1[/b]

10 INPUT a$
RUN
>input STOP, press Enter.
(I guess there were two alternate method TO DO that.)
[b]H STOP in INPUT[/b]

10 FOR I=1 TO 0
RUN

[b]I FOR without NEXT, 10:1[/b]

10 INPUT #3,a
RUN
[b]J Invalid I/O device, 10:1[/b]

10 BORDER 9
RUN

[B]K Invalid colour, 10:1[/b]


10 GO TO 10
RUN
Press BREAK

L BREAK into program, 10:1


CLEAR 1

M RAMTOP no good, 0:1

10 STOP
RUN
10 (delete line)
CONTINUE

N Statement Lost, 0:1

LOAD""
Play any tape AND stop it during the loading of a block

R Tape Loading Error, 0:1

That leaves four TO GO (I think).

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OPEN #16, "P"

O Invalid stream, 0:1

PRINT FN a() : REM with no program


P FN without DEF FN, 0:1

10 DEF FN a(x) = 1 : PRINT FN a (2,3)
RUN

Q Parameter error, 10:2

may i CONTINUE? :grin:

SAVE ! "a" SCREEN$
LOAD ! "a"

b Wrong file type

PLAY "((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((a))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))"

d Too many brackets

SAVE ! "a"
SAVE ! "a"

e File already exists

ERASE ! ""

f Invalid name

No g?

Reset speccy
LOAD ! "b"

h File does NOT exist

FORMAT "";0

i Invalid device

FORMAT "p";0

j Invalid baud rate

PLAY "k"

k Invalid note name

PLAY "V100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

l Number TO big

PLAY "O7##########################################################################B"

m Note out of range

PLAY "V100"

n Out of range

AS FOR the others:

a I dont have a clue how TO get

c - I tried
10 SAVE ! "a" 1,60000
20 LOAD ! "a" 50000,60000

AND my computer exploded, but i didn't get the error message though

g - I don't know if it even exists

o - I tried
10 LET a$="2"
20 FOR i=1 TO 2000
30 LET a$=a$+"_2"
40 NEXT i
50 LET a$=a$+"c"
60 PLAY a$

10 SAVE INKEY$ CODE CODE INKEY$, CODE INKEY$

might give:
F Invalid file name, 10:0

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POKE 23610,28

T ? 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd, 0:1