Camo Speedcams in Singapore

[xwhatsit]

Erm ... programs go from one line to another anyway. "Use a fooking Petrol Bomb" would appear regardless. Much better to simply do:

10 IF "Camera" IS IN "Rubbish Bin" THEN PRINT "Use a fooking Petrol Bomb"

Correct, but you shouldn't be using fucking BASIC anyway ...

lda $1, "CAMERA";
lda $2, "RUBBISH BIN";
cmpeq $1, $2, $t5;
bne $t5, do;
ret;
:do
lda $a0, "USE A FOOKING PETROL BOMB";
ldiq $a0, CALL_PAL_CALLSYS;

[JimO]

They have tested these in Sandringham once. I saw it walking home from Uni a few years back.

how do you know it was walking to uni

[Mr. Peanut]

I learnt BASIC when I was 7 (Mainly because my tape drive only worked half the time, so I had to write my own games >_<), then decided motorcycles where more interesting. Put a stick in the spokes of my bike, and went of in search of hills

I didn't expect some uber geek like Tom Cornall to come along 13 years later and disassemble my joke, then recompile it into another programming language?!

[chris]

Those pics aren't from Singapore, more likely Holland.

[Bend-it]

How did you figure that?

[chris]

How did you figure that?

Well, they drive on the left in Singapore and the car in the background is driving on the right. Secondly, seen the pics before, a couple of years ago.

[Sanx]

lda $1, "CAMERA";
lda $2, "RUBBISH BIN";
cmpeq $1, $2, $t5;
bne $t5, do;
ret;
:do
lda $a0, "USE A FOOKING PETROL BOMB";
ldiq $a0, CALL_PAL_CALLSYS;

Assembler. Smart-arse.

Anyway - surely it'd be better to load the two values into the x and y registers and compare them there, than put them both into the acculumator?

[xwhatsit]

Holy shit -- I got caught out. I thought I'd be safe here on KB!!

I'm actually a lost and distressed C programmer, awash in a world of learning Alpha assembly in time for my CS210 exam (yesterday morning). I don't think it went magically.

Not sure if I did load them into the accumulator, on Alpha the registers are called odd things. Like $t0, or $26.

Once you get past the steep issue of bizarre syntax, C is actually quite like assembler, which is comforting.

You're right. Using assembler to an uber-geek is like some people use Latin here on KB -- to win a pissing contest. It's not hard to win a pissing contest against BASIC, though -- even Pascal would suffice.