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<> The QD manual does not explain anything but there is a small chapter in the SMSQ/E manual: "The SBASIC Interface Thing" (page 33). A word of warning when using this with DATA lines. A "RESTORE linenumber" does not work and will restore to the beginning. Then this shouldnt wor...

Hi Derek, I often write short, line number-less, windowless utilities to be run entirely under SBAS/QD: Execute the source file into a QD via Qpac2 Files, adjust a parameter or two, press F10. A satisfying beep or nasty burp signals success or failure - an' Bob's yer mum's live-in lover! Window-less...

The SBAS/QD Thing doesnt open any windows, nor is there a need to open any windows unless your program needs them. The most likely reason you get the miniature SBASIC window is that something in your program implicitly addresses channel #0 or #1. It may not be obvious, but things like SCR_XLIM and P...

Hi EmmBee, Great work! I havent tested it in anger yet, but a quick twirl on some formerly cantankerous programs didnt show up any problems :) BTW, in case I didnt say: There is a patch for long job names. That is to say, you can patch individual programs after they have been compiled to add an extr...

The problem was something else, relating to my unfamiliarity with ZXS syntax. I tried it again and it works as advertised.

Hi bwinkel67, I wanted to try your de-miner program on your latest ZXSimulator (above), but for some reason the program barfs on REM and refuses to run. Ive tried REM and REMARK but any program with that keyword in it refuses to run. Same if I just type REM/REMARK as an immediate command. I was usin...

To my previous message: Sorry, I wasnt thinking straight. Any conversion and/or decompression will have been performed into a normal-looking PIC buffer. So the WSAIN issue is moot.

Well, then the goal should be to get this integrated into the PE I guess as then you could re-use the sprite code. I'm not volunteering though As it is, Ive done all the work separate from SMSQ/E. Some of the code has been lifted out of SMSQ/E and some is original. Im not inclined to re-do it all a...

Thanks Bob for explaining it all again. Additionally one could mention that there are a number of tools, pre-eminently PHGTK, for manipulating graphics, that work mainly with PIC files. Ultimately, its down to the software available to manage the format, not the format as such. I dont see anything a...

New QL graphics format Pertains to GD2-capable platforms. For a number of graphics projects Im working on Ive created a new graphics file format: RLE-compressed PIC files. Based on a suggestion by BSJR, the format looks like this: $00 RLEn .l where n = 1, 2, or 4 for byte, word, long element size $0...