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		vidarh on Sept 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's Behind You: The making of the game R-Type on ... Yes, it's that way on C64 too - it didn't save any space. People certainly did do a lot to save space through omitting spaces, using ";" to separate statements instead of new lines etc.

ssdsa on Oct 1, 2013 [–]

In Commodore BASIC you use ":" to separate statements. ";" is used at the end of a PRINT statement to keep it from appending a newline.

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