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Hi Peter

Peter wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 9:27 pm You should get 24.2. Unless you see something obvious (like loading extensions that consume CPU) I'd be interested in finding the discrepancy.

I probably had FSERVE and Martin Head's brilliant IFSERVE (on the Q68) running at the same time as TIndex to be fair...

Great results, Leon!

In my own TIndex tests (using CoWo's QTop), I get around the 21x mark for the Q68 and QZero (both in mode 4, SMSQe), so these are great results for the QLion card!

Well done, my friend!

Hi Toby

tofro wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:38 pm And uqlx/sqlux in higher-than-standard resolution, of course.

Oops! Thanks for the reminder

Hi Ralph

It probably isn't entirely clear to this audience what Andrei is attempting to achieve with the TURBO_DUMMP approach to calling WMOV: WMOV already works fine under SMSQe, but Andrei is trying to build something more universal across OSs, and as he explained earlier, once Turbo compiled ...

Hi Andrei!

Depending upon the error you're getting when using that Turbo 'dummy' procedure for WMOV, it might well be due to the lack of the # symbol in your calling of the re-assigned TURBO_DUMMYP.

I.e., try:
TURBO-DUMMYP #a

Reading the syntax for WMOV, it can take both with and without the ...

Hi again Per


But as I just found out: Turbo doesnt understand GET on strings, ie for the name. There you have to use GET$ or something.


Just a point of clarification - later versions of Turbo DO support TK2's GET (with those pesky reference string params) - but:

a) ONLY on SMSQe and
b) If the ...

Nice one Per!

That darn RI Stack - I still get in trouble with it, even after studiously following Dilwyn's terrific and comprehensive article on the topic

I'll test your Level1/2 query later and update this thread.

Hiya Per!

I'm sure you've made Andrei a very happy fellow :-)


Cant think how I missed this one.


Good grief, man, give yourself a break! Given the sheer volume of truly useful stuff you've made available to us over the years, I think a little slip is acceptable, now and again!

Thanks again ...

Hi Andrei and friends...

Like Dilwyn, I also tested the free memory - but with TK2's FREE_MEM - and I note that when interpreted, testsize_bas churns through available memory when b$=MDHEADR$ is used, but does not when replaced with a static assignment to b$.

Obviously, under the interpreter (and ...

If I may add to Andre's exciting announcement...

Andre's poured hours of care and attention in bringing some truly useful features to his Commander-like File Manager.

I've been using it myself religiously over the past few weeks to move and organise files on both QPC/SMSQe and Minerva, both ...