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Hi, The process I use for the boot file to determine if sQLux is running is to check the Function UQLX_RELEASE$, which is defined with the UQLX release version data. SMSQ/E will see it has a null string and JS would see it as an undefined string. This seems to work , but it may not be very elegant. ...

Hi, I have inserted the missing pages that CHR$ kindly scanned and ordered the pages so the manual is a double paged non-OCRed PDF. I find the scanned images really bad, with makes the OCRing with Tesseract nearly impossible. I have started to type it all in to give a good quality manual. If I could...

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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

HI,

I can sell you an original QL Power Supply.

https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/C/check.html Thats what I was thinking of! Yes that could be done, but I would have to load DJTK. The PTY idea, could work, since I do not use Windows. My current solution of testng UQLX_RELEASE$ for string. a null string wod mean it is not sQLux o...

Hi, Just another thought, why not use QD to write the SBASIC programme, so that line numbers are not required. To run the programme, configure QD to use QD/SBAS to call SBASIC interpreter, by pressing F10 Also, if you have the Help system setup, pressing F1 on the keyboard will load the definition o...

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 work...

Hi, I use SMSQ/E in QPC2, SMSQmulator and sQLux using the same QLWA container, so the boot file selects the extenstions to be loaded, based on the VER$ being equal to 'HBA' and the SMSQ/E MACHINE function. If sQLux is running, I use the UQLX_RELEASE$ to load sQLux extensions, is there a better way t...

Hi If the power supply is okay, try measuring the 7805 Voltage regulator ouput voltage, or try a new voltage regulator, that is faulty. The QL is not prone to capacitor ptoblems, but changing them would hurt. I looked at the Keelog power supplies, they look good, maybe a little on the expensive side.

Hi, SSB first appeared in 1997, Tim, wrote about it in the QL Hackers Journal vol1, you can get the QLHJ from his web site: http://swensont.epizy.com Also checkout SMSQZINE Vol8 Environmental Variables extension, ENV.BIN is included in the C68 package. I have used Environmental Variables since 1990s...