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I vaguely remembe that one of the compilers was written in SuperBASIC and then compiled itself. I think it was Supercharge but can anyone confirm?

Greg

Hi,

Doesd anyone know the syntax to use lhq to extract all files from a repository? Hav tried every option I can think of. Have determined that lhq h does not work but lhq;h does so think I need lhq;x but struggling from then on.

Greg

Hi,

To everyone who helped my massive thanks. I now have Qliberator and Turbo compilers running as well as the original Supercharge. Interestingly, Qlib did not work with the Minerva198 ROM but works perfectly with the JS rom which I tend to use anyway.
I have also finally loaded a working copy of ...

We have been having trouble with computers losing the internet for short periods. This might explain it! Thank you for the heads up and the extra tip.

Greg

Hi Dilwyn,

What a fantastic reply. As you predicted FTYP returned 0 and running your program has fixed QL Liberator. My utmost thanks!!

Have spent the afternoon reading about headers. FOund an easy way to determine file length is to open#10,file then PRINT FLEN(#10) remembering to CLOSE#10.

I ...

Hi Dilwyn,

Looks like a lost header. I am downloading from your site where files are set by windows equirements, e.g. qlib.obj then downloading to a qlib directory then renaming to qlib_obj. Is this where I am going wrong?

Greg

Thanks Dilwyn,

Sorry about the confusion, have done so much testing I am picking up the incorect versions. I have one on win1_ and one on mdv1_. The correct mdv1_ boot program correctly uses mdv1_ for everything. Tried putting quotes around qlib_use "mdv1_", "mdv1_" results in At Line 130;1 bad ...

OK, I am truly puzzled. I have stripped back QL2K to JS ROM aand TK2 only with 128K of memory. I have created a microdrive loaded as mdv1_ with the software on and using the minimal loader (so 5 lines or so). In liberator, liberate mdv1_test_bas works and creates the _WRK file. liberate mdv1_test ...

Hi Derek,

I feel you are getting somewhere. I downloaded the software from Dylwin's site (excuse spelling) but there is no mention of a liberate program anywhere. This means nothing on win1_, just the qlib files. It sounds like it is missing something. Odd though that liberate win1_test_bas results ...

Thanks both, worked a treat. The actual values seem to behave oddly. 640x480 gives a much larger "QL" display, 800x600 much smaller. Never mind, 640x480 is perfect size!

Greg