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Hi,

I read in Andrew Pennell's book Assembley Language on the QL, there is an attempt at a Superbasic Trace routine.

The ability to single step and trace a SBASIC programme, seems to be lacking, which if implemented woukd be a great enhancement to SBASIC.

I suppose, I can use MasterBasic, which works with SBASIC...

Minerva supports single-stepping SuperBASIC. You need to load the trace_bin toolkit from the Minerva utils disk, and can then single-step and have new TRACE (tracing line numbers and statements), SSTEP (single-stepping) and TROFF (tracing off) commands.

Without Minerva, it seems difficult: Minerva provides "user hooks" that allow you to inject machine code into the S*BASIC interpreter.

Hi

Thank you for the information, I did know about the Minerva Trace, which is detailed in the Minerva manual.

I was hoping for a possible addition to SMSQ/E with regards to Basic tracing.

So I will use MasterBasic...

Maybe Minerva should be developed further