The Sinclair QL Forum

Here is a recent acquisition.

Tim

David, When sQLux was released a while back, I created a example qlx.win file. It can be found here: http://swensont.epizy.com/sqlux.win (It's 2 MB). It has a number of directories and it has a copy of unzip. You can use this file as a boot device (win1_) or mounted as a secondary device (win2_). I ...

I still actively use Quill for writing. The simplest way to get from Quill to a word processor like OpenOffice or Word is to use "QL-2-PC Transfer" from Geoff Wicks (Just Words Software). Here is the link: http://www.gwicks.net/freeware/ql2pc.zip I use it to convert from Quill _doc file to...

I've used the method of converting between Gregorian Date and Julian Date from Jean Meeus. It is working fine with Abacus. I'm doing the same method with SuperBasic, but using "PRINT USING" to get the output to be what I need. I've tested with Abacus, and it is 14 digits. I was able to get...

I was not trying to balance my checkbook, but converting Gregorian data to Julian Day. The current Julian Day is 2459847.5, which will round up.

Tim

I've been tinkering with Qspread and I found that despite having rounding turned off, it will still round up larger numbers. If I type in a 6 digit number with a decimal (123456.5) it will display it as 123456.5. If I type in a 7 digit number with a decimal (1234567.5) it will display it as 1234568....

I wrote a program that can be used to step through Othello games, seeing the moves live. I tried reading a number of Othello tutorials, but the example boards/games were hard to see timewise. This program will take a list of Othello moves and display them one after the other (pausing in between). It...

Norman,

I see you found the issues that I found when getting SSB to "compile" itself. Glad to see the updates and that you have modified it to work as you want.

Tim Swenson

Norman, Why not release both _SSB and _BAS. I would call _SSB the source code and _BAS the "runtime" :-) The purpose of SSB was to make code that is easy to use (and add a few per-processor nice-to-haves). Even those that don't have SSB, the _SSB code would be easier to read and understand...

Norman, The ** will create a REMark statement. The other comment is ## which does not show up in the final BASIC program. This is what I use. The full code with comments ends with _SSB. When I convert to _BAS, I leave out the comments. I don't see them as needed as no one should be reading the _BAS ...