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Does anyone have the programs from the QL advance user guide?

Thanks

Bill

Hi Bill,

I have a copy of the book by Adrian Dickens.

I will post a photo later today.

Hi Derek,

Thanks for that but I already have the book . I am looking for the programs from the Microdrive cart that either came with the book or you ordered.

THanks

Bill

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion.

I can not remember a support disk or cartridge for the book.

I suppose sinceitis aprogramming book, the code examples are to typed in by the programmer.

It says in the book you could order a micro cartridge.

I ask cause I typed in the Experimenter program and it doesn't work and I sort of fixed it but then crashes.

So if anyone has a working version of the experimenter program I would appreciate it

Thanks

Bill

retro_collector wrote:It says in the book you could order a micro cartridge.

I ask cause I typed in the Experimenter program and it doesn't work and I sort of fixed it but then crashes.

So if anyone has a working version of the experimenter program I would appreciate it

Thanks

Bill

It has been a long time - maybe publsih your typed in version of the experimenter program on here and we can contribute

As Rich suggested here is the Experimenter basic program on page 44 of the QL Advanced user guide

the first error is line 1270 HEX$=C$, makes no sense why this doesn't work but to get around the error I remmed line 1270 and change 1280 from PRINT HEX$ to PRINT C$. This allowed the programs to work with TRAP 1 with D0=0 any other trap or changing D0 causes an error at line 780

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Bill

You have Toolkit 2 loaded.
HEX$ is a reserved keyword in Toolkit 2 with the syntax HEX$ (decimal,nibbles) and conflicts with the definition of the function hexdec(HEX$)

Experimenter program was written for the standard QL (without any toolkits loaded).
You must change the function definition so it uses a different variable name : e.g. from hexdec(HEX$) to something like hexdec(EHEX$)

Hi Bill

Here is one from the book that I have typed in - the assembly listing to show the QL's 2 screens without Minerva, if you are interested. Cheers

Artificer

Andrew wrote:You have Toolkit 2 loaded.
HEX$ is a reserved keyword in Toolkit 2 with the syntax HEX$ (decimal,nibbles) and conflicts with the definition of the function hexdec(HEX$)

Experimenter program was written for the standard QL (without any toolkits loaded).
You must change the function definition so it uses a different variable name : e.g. from hexdec(HEX$) to something like hexdec(EHEX$)

Thanks Andrew!

I should have thought of that, I will change the function and I will also turn off Tool Kit II and try it

THanks

Bill