The Sinclair QL Forum

Norman,

I see you found the issues that I found when getting SSB to "compile" itself. Glad to see the updates and that you have modified it to work as you want.

Tim Swenson

Norman, Why not release both _SSB and _BAS. I would call _SSB the source code and _BAS the "runtime" :-) The purpose of SSB was to make code that is easy to use (and add a few per-processor nice-to-haves). Even those that don't have SSB, the _SSB code would be easier to read and understand...

Norman, The ** will create a REMark statement. The other comment is ## which does not show up in the final BASIC program. This is what I use. The full code with comments ends with _SSB. When I convert to _BAS, I leave out the comments. I don't see them as needed as no one should be reading the _BAS ...

Norman, Comments are only allowed as the first statement in a line (similar to shell scripting). So you line: x = 1: ** Just a variable named x. I not allowed in SSB and the ** is not the first two characters of the line. As for the line: 1020 REMark Indented comment. You are right in that REMARK is...

I wondered why my ears were burning earlier this morning.

Norman, if you have any questions on SSB, feel free to reach out to me.

Tim

Any update on a better version of the Metacomco C manual?

Thanks,

Tim

Looking back at QHJ #28, when I looked at RCS, I reported that 'diff' came with C68. In looking at the current version of C68, I'm not seeing 'diff' on any of the three download files. I'll look through some old diskettes and see if I have an older version of C68 with diff. Tim BTW, all issues of th...

Sparrowhawk thanks for the recommendation. I ordered the book a month ago and took me just a few nights to complete it. Really a good book. Interesting to see how little memory the PDP-7 had when Unix was created.

Tim

Derek,

Glad you are using LibreOffice. From that PDF's can be easily created. I'm on OpenOffice guy, but Libre is close enough.

Tim

I've looked at the tracker for the ZX81. It is capable, but not easy to learn and the docs are as thin as a super model. Would be interesting to see a tracker on the QL, either using BEEP or the Sampled Sound System (SSS).

Tim