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GLOSSARYargument The variable, number or string which appears in the parentheses of a function.Like:INT(N) has N as an argumentLEN(W$] has W$ as an argumentarrayA set of variables which have the same name. The members of the array are numbered.The numbers appear in parentheses after the variable name. See dimension, subscript.Examples:A(0) is the first member of the array AB$(7] is the eighth member of the array B$CD(3,M+1) is a member of the array CDarrow keysThere are two CRSR keys on the C-64. Each has two arrows. There are two other keyswhich have arrows and print them as characters.ASCIIStands for American Standard Code For Information Interchange. Each character has anASCII number.assertionThe name of a phrase which can be TRUE or FALSE. The "phrase A" in an IF statementis an assertion. An assertion has a numeric value of 0 or -1. See expression, TRUE,FALSE, logic, IF, phrase A. Example:the assertion"A"O"B"isTRUEthe assertion3 = 4isFALSEbackgroundThe part of the screen which is blank, not having characters on it.base addressThe SID chip has registers (memory boxes) from 54272 to 54301. So its base address is54272, and one adds on numbers from 0 to 29 to get the addresses (box labels) of thevarious registers. Likewise, the VIC chip has a base address 53248.BASICBeginners's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A computer language originated byJohn Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the early '60s.196

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