another variation of "10 PRINT"

[SMcNeill]

That is certainly way more difficult than this:

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10 _Font 8: cnt = cnt + 1: If cnt < 1921 Then If Rnd < .5 Then Print "\";: GoTo 10 Else Print "/";: GoTo 10

I had to pester the other devs and dig into why this is such crappy code (and that's not saying @bplus is a crappy coder; that's just saying *THIS* is some crappy code), and after some digging and annoying everyone else, here's the issue:

_FONT shouldn't be called endlessly inside a loop like this!!

In a text screen (like the SCREEN 0 that we default to, and which is in play here), _FONT requires a complete redraw and resize of the entire screen *each and every* time it's called!   

So what's going on here is:

_Font 8:  Redraw and Resize entire screen
cnt = cnt + 1: increase count
IF cnt....   draw our slash and repeat entire process 1920 times

That 1920 calls to _Font 8 is the issue.  You really don't need that pause for redrawing and resizing, and it certainly doesn't play nice with early termination of the program.

Lesson learned here??

Keep _Font calls to a minimum and definitely don't include them into the middle of a loop like this.  Not unless you just WANT to generate issues for your programs and make them unstable for some odd reason.