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The balloon demo program from the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide, p181
10 print"{clr}":fori=0to63:poke832+i,0:next
20 gosub60000
999 end
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60100 v=53248:pokev,200:pokev+1,100:pokev+21,1:pokev+39,14:poke2040,13
60105 pokev+23,1:pokev+29,1
60110 fori=0to20:reada$:fork=0to2:t=0:forj=0to7:b=0
60140 ifmid$(a$,j+k*8+1,1)="x"thenb=1
60150 t=t+b*2^(7-j):next:printt;:poke832+i*3+k,t:next:print:next
60200 return
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Convert this to PRG with the petcat tool that comes with the VICE emulator:

petcat -w2 -o balloon64.prg -- balloon64.bas

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