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Document attached originally from Dave Walker, contains information on the internal formats of the Psion programs. Had to zip it up as the Forum wouldn't accept it as an attachment otherwise. The file is called Textidy_ref - it's actually a Quill DOC file but presumably Dave renamed it as there was ...

Nice one Steve.

Nice, Dilwyn. INKEY$ need a channel, though, Better use a combination of SUSJB and KEYROW perhaps? Of course, if you close the channels. Only wrote that example to explain how to read absolute pointer positions from S*Basic without resorting to extensions. And your extension is perfect, much easier...

Not had time to try it out (I'm useless at games anyway), but looks absolutely superb.

To explain a little how it's done, and preserve this information for the future, as this is a potentially useful technique for those very rare cases where you need to read the absolute pointer position, here's a small demo of it written in BASIC. It only works on systems with pointer environment - I...

There is a manual for the CST RAM Plus card at https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/manua ... amplus.pdf (in case you didn't get one with it).

Thank you Per, saved me time writing an equivalent. Not tried it yet, looks a bit like what I would have done and straightforward enough.

The simplest might just be to open a tiny window, eg 0x0a0x0, and read the pointer with RDPT. If you really cant use an open channel for whatever reason there is my S\CRXY and GPT toolkit commands. SCRXY reads the size of the screen and GPT gets the current pointer position - both without the need ...

To save me reinventing the wheel, anyone know how (or if?) a program with no open CON channel can monitor the absolute pointer position on the screen? Happy to be told it's not possible or if I'm a fool to even think of trying it. It's for a little personal program which sits quietly in the backgrou...

Nice! Heard about those instore demo boards, but never seen a real live example. Thanks for the picture.