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Radovan Garabík
Radovan Garabík
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ZX Spectrum Basic, 9 bytes

RUN USR 8

produces:

Error message

Explanation:

I am (exceptionally) counting ASCII representation of the program for length purposes, including the end of line (it's not really important, since we could always pad a shorter program with spaces).

Usually, ZX Spectrum error messages are longer and more helpful than this - the ROM routine at 8 (decimal)0x0008 expects error code following the machine code call to RST 8., and fetches some random (deterministic) byte from the ROM, which produces this nonsensical error message M. 5 is the error number, , is added by the error printing routine and 0:1 is the line:command position of the error.

ZX Spectrum Basic, 9 bytes

RUN USR 8

produces:

Error message

Explanation:

I am (exceptionally) counting ASCII representation of the program for length purposes, including the end of line (it's not really important, since we could always pad a shorter program with spaces).

Usually, ZX Spectrum error messages are longer and more helpful than this - the ROM routine at 8 (decimal) expects error code following the machine code call to RST 8., and fetches some random (deterministic) byte from the ROM, which produces this nonsensical error message M. 5 is the error number, , is added by the error printing routine and 0:1 is the line:command position of the error.

ZX Spectrum Basic, 9 bytes

RUN USR 8

produces:

Error message

Explanation:

I am (exceptionally) counting ASCII representation of the program for length purposes, including the end of line (it's not really important, since we could always pad a shorter program with spaces).

Usually, ZX Spectrum error messages are longer and more helpful than this - the ROM routine at 0x0008 expects error code following the machine code call to RST 8., and fetches some random (deterministic) byte from the ROM, which produces this nonsensical error message M. 5 is the error number, , is added by the error printing routine and 0:1 is the line:command position of the error.

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Radovan Garabík
Radovan Garabík
  • 535
  • 3
  • 10

ZX Spectrum Basic, 9 bytes

RUN USR 8

produces:

Error message

Explanation:

I am (exceptionally) counting ASCII representation of the program for length purposes, including the end of line (it's not really important, since we could always pad a shorter program with spaces).

Usually, ZX Spectrum error messages are longer and more helpful than this - the ROM routine at 8 (decimal) expects error code following the machine code call to RST 8., and fetches some random (deterministic) byte from the ROM, which produces this nonsensical error message M. 5 is the error number, , is added by the error printing routine and 0:1 is the line:command position of the error.