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# 2068 Buggy Software

It isn’t considered normal when а magazine like SyncWare gives you а program that’s riddled with bugs. But then, we never promised you a normal magazine. Since this is our special April Fool’s issue, we thought we’d introduce you to SyncWare’s in house bug. Actually he’s a worm–a friendly little fellow–who took up residence in one of Tom Woods’ computers, Tom still isn’t sure how the worm first got into the computer, but one theory is that it crawled out of the core of an apple Tom left on his desk one night.

Actually, the worm makes quite a nice pet. He does not exhibit the destructive tendencies common to other creatures of the electronic domain. If we could find any fault in our worm, it would have to be his diet. He eats video displays. It seems his passion for pixels is simply unquenchable. Enter him into your ТS2068 and see what we mean.

## Source Code: 2068 Buggy Software

```
    1 CLEAR 64390: FOR X=64391 TO 64511: READ Y: POKE X,Y: NEXT X: RANDOMIZE USR 64391: REM Make the worm
   10 DATA 006,000,062,251,033,000,252,119,035,016,252,119,062,252,237,071,237,094,033,080,067,034,254,255,201,245,042,254,255,062,000,190,032,005,241,032,030,024,012,126,060,119,040,035,241,193,225,241,195,056,000,035,167,229,001,255,087,237,066,225,040,040,034,254,255,024,234,043,229,001,000,064,237,066,225,040,025,024
   20 DATA 239,058,120,092,203,103,040,008,062,086,188,056,199,036,024,196,062,065,188,048,191,037,024,188,033,120,092,062,064,164,103,024,207,237,086,201,000,000,245,229,197,195,160
  100 LIST
```