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In order to make a boot file to work from any device, I need to know the current drive (flp1_, win3_, dos2_,,, whatever), I mean, the drive the boot was loaded from. I need to do something like the following (with a theorical function CURRENT_DRIVE$): REMark boot file TK2_EXT DATA_USE CURRENT_DRIVE$...

I'm finishing a QL project. I'm testing it with both QPC2 and Q-emuLator. Usually I boot QPC2 from a WIN file, but I keep all my own work in DOS1_, because I write the sources with Vim on Debian, and other external tools. In order to make the program to work in both emulators, with different ROMs an...

Thank you for the tips. They can be useful. Nevertheless the main issue remains: Photon cannot show the JPEG in a certain window. I am trying to contact the author of Photon to get it updated, but without success so far I'm afraid. :cry: Dilwyn I tried too, with the same result. I tried the e-mail m...

I didn't remember MRUN. Then I could use "DLINE" to delete the boot program lines if necessary.
Thank you!

LRUN performs NEW, so also clears the screen and all open windows. The same happens with QLRUN.

Is there any toolkit keyword or trick to load and run a program without clearing the screen?

RWAP wrote: Due to the sprite package used to control the graphics for the game, it will only run in 128K memory

Is it Super Sprite Generator by Digital Precision? I was considering it for a project, but wasn't sure about that limitation.

As for the issues with MERGE and DO - the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual is your friend here... I think I will acquire it soon. I see it's really worth having. As for DO, unless you have SMSQ/e, when used from within a program, only the first line of a numberless program is executed I knew. No ...

The BASICs written by Andy Wright (Beta BASIC for the ZX Spectrum; SAM BASIC and MasterBASIC for the SAM Coupé) have a nice command called KEYIN. It receives a string and "types" it in "virtually" into the command line. It simply evaluates the BASIC code and executes it. This fe...

I tried VOCAB, a much improved version of EXTRAS, part of the DIY Tookit written by Simon N. Goodwin, and the same "problem" happens.

This the default behaviour - I quote the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual on this: Within an SBASIC ( on SMS ) , EXTRAS only lists those keywords used in that SBASIC to date - this is because the whole name table is not copied when an SBASIC is started up, allowing different SBASICs to use the ...