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vanpeebles wrote:I tried raw read but didn't have much luck with it

I have the DOS versions of RAWREAD but none of this disk imaging software will work if you have an external disk drive (as you cannot access the drive controller).

You need a PC with built in disk drives.

I think I sent you one but it had that weird copy protection on so that any copy doesn't work :( I rarely play on the original discs as I'm worried they will break so I mainly play on the demo from Dilwyn's site. Could you perhaps make a disk image with rawread? QPC2 can handle disk images I believ...

Was great - that reminds me - could do with a video of you playing it!

Would also like a copy for the preservation project please....

Forgive me for jumping in here chaps, but as this is related: Rich, would you be able to provide me with a copy of Assembler Workbench, either a disk version or a download version that works with Q-emuLator? I can send you a photo of my copy including case and mdvs if you like. How much would you c...

Ah right - although the program doesn't work on q-emulator or QPC2 - would be interesting to come up with a solution! I have pointed out to Daniele the issue with WSTAT (etc) commands on q-emulator, so hopefully he will investigate as to why these fail if you provide a full filename as the parameter...

I admit that it does sort of ring a bell - but I checked the updates_doc and versions_doc as well as the manual and cannot find any reference to it. You would think that there would be a mention of it in the Minerva source code or SMSQ Reference manual when it comes to ut.cstr - but not that I can f...

Interesting - I can't find any reference to this change in the updates_doc or the Minerva manual - so sorry, it is missing from the SBASIC/ SuperBASIC Reference Manual.

Has anyone found any reference to this to say what changes were made?

True, the better code for handling figures is: 10 INPUT x$ 20 valid=validate(x$,2) 110 PRINT valid 120 STOP 9500 DEFine FuNction validate(num$,dp) 9501 LOCal x, decimal, postdecimal 9502 decimal=0: postdecimal=0 9506 IF num$='' THEN RETurn 0 9507 l=LEN(num$) 9510 FOR x=1 TO l 9515 IF x=1 AND num$(x)...

OK a few problems here (based on Xchange 3.90L): a) The boot program needs a MODE 4 added b) The boot program could also do with PROG_USE flp1_ and DATA_USE flp1_ before the line EX flp1_XCHANGE otherwise the default for printer information is set to mdv2_ and help files mdv1_ c) When printing you h...

I have been asked why the following code will not work on Minerva / SMSQ/e to check the validity of an input routine: 10 GO SUB 9500 110 PRINT valid 120 STOP 9500 REMark 9502 valid=0 9505 INPUT x$ 9506 IF x$='' THEN RETurn 9507 l=LEN(x$) 9510 FOR x=1 TO l 9515 IF x=1 AND x$(x)='-' THEN NEXT x 9520 I...