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OK - here are my results. I used the QL + Tetroid's GoldCard and QEmulator set to QL speed and then to GoldCard speed The only conclusions I have are: - QEmulator set to GoldCard speed is about twice as fast as the QL with GoldCard ! - after running the program several tiemes = on QEmulator on the f...

QL SuperBASIC The Definitive Handbook - Jan Jones page 66: "DATA statements themselves do not have any effect on normal execution. They may be put anywhere. It is most efficient, however, to put them at the very beginning of a program. This is because moving to a data item always starts from th...

Thank you Duncan !

The QPTR manual mentions some DEMO programs as well as PAINT and EDSPR programs
Does anybody have them ? On Dilwyn's site I found only the qptr_bin, but no examples.

Yes, I am using it with Minerva ROM. I will try with JS ROM, but it will not help me much, as I also have Minerva installed in the QL

Has anyone used Gigabasic ? I downloaded it from Dilwyn's site, but none of the example programs work on my QL or on QEmulator.
For example, if I try to load and run globe_gbs it will crash with bad name at a PRINT command. And yes, PRINT does not work anymore

OK - in QEmulator I copied zipman and xchange to ram1_ and then from ram1_ to SD card. Now both programs run on QL, but on exit the QL freezes. Any idea why ? An observation: On QEmulator make_dir creates a directory on a drive mapped on a PC directory, but returns not_implemented when drive is mapp...

Thank you tofro and rwap
yes, all executable files are missing their headers
I expected QxlWinReader to copy the headers too

Thank you all for your advice. All upgrades are now made and everything works.
Now is time to add programs to WIN1_

On QEmulator i can eun xchange from win1_, but on QL + GoldCard + QL-SD - Minerva ROM it would not run from win1_ More details: I created a directory called XCHANGE and copied all file on it using QxlWinReader. When I run xchange BOOT it returns At line 270,1 bad parameter. Line 270 is EXEC XCHANGE ...