The Sinclair QL Forum

If I had not purchased my ZX81 in high school, I"m sure it would have eventually bought another computer, but the low price of the ZX81 made it so easy. The ZX81 allowed me to learn how much fun programming could be. That sealed my decision to major in Computer Science in college. In College I ...

The wiki page for conio.h (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conio.h) talks a little about it and mentions curses. If conio could be converted to curses, then it can be compiled for the QL. Graham (XorA) has recently fixed some bug in QL Curses and it should be more stable.

Tim

Looking at that CD ISO, the directory "ARTICLES" is the articles published in the "Tookbook of C". I've compared it with the hard copy version that I have.

Tim

The book "Dr. Dobb's Toolbook of C" is pretty much on Small-C, including the Small-Mac assembler and Small-Tools for text processing. It's a good inch thick. Back in the day I was all into Small-C, but because the source was available (and I doubt I would have look at the source).

Well, the source code is available if you feel like digging more into the code generator. See Dilwn's page to find it.

Tim

When transferred to a 4-year college in 1985, I had to learn Pascal because all other CS courses were done in Pascal (Data Structure, Computer Languages, Computer Graphics, etc). Halfway through my Junior year I got my QL ( April 86) and later I got Metacomco Pascal. The program I was writing for on...

That was an interesting read. I'm glad my college did Pascal instead of Fortran, as Fortran was not very structured. I did pick up some good programming habits from Pascal that I could use with SuperBasic.

Tim

> Really? It has the look of a much bigger bike in the photo. Mind you, 650cc is quite big for a "Scooter". I've been riding a Honda Silverwing 600cc scooter since 2012. Scooter only means how it operates and does not define size. After 12 years on my Honda CB750, I went with the Silverwin...

Norman, Thanks for the fix. The two sections should be all one script. Easy enough to be fixed by who ever downloads it. In the example with version$, the script will find "version$" and compare that with the keyword list and it will not match if the keyword is "version". The scr...

It looks like the indenting was taking out of the program, but it should still work since Perl does not use white space for managing blocks of code.

Tim