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It should be a Q68, pretty sure that will run from battery better!

Also the fact its amazing hardware and every QLer should have one!

You might be able to run a Q68 and a suitable little monitor from a USB battery pack, like you can run a The Spectrum from a suitably rated one. Then you're ...

tofro wrote: Tue Aug 19, 2025 5:42 pm

dilwyn wrote: Tue Aug 19, 2025 5:34 pm
It gets really confusing when people try to LRESPR system extensions like menu_rext locally into an SBASIC job and you have to explain it...

But that is definitly mentioned in the manuals.....

Exactly.

I make these mistakes myself from time to time. But I try to learn from them, at least.

And it wouldn't hurt if you don't as it apparently didn't bother anyone for the last 20 years..... :)

:)


(It escapes my why someone would want to load SBASIC extensions into a daughter BASIC only - It maybe makes sense when you're developing an extension, but in "normal operation" it is ...

Hmmm, I see no mention of including a QL on the UK Government's "Emergency Kit" page ...

RalfR wrote
> So the question again: Where is this written?

SBASIC manual:
SBASIC and Resident Extensions

Resident extensions linked into Job 0 (the initial SBASIC) are available to all SBASIC jobs. If extension procedures and functions are linked into other SBASIC Jobs (using LRESPR), they are ...

Nice work t0nyt. Great to see you persisted with your efforts. And thanks for the picture.

As tofro wrote in another message, SQLite is written in C (correct, verified in Wikipedia), I THINK it should be possible to convert it to the QL with C68 or at least with the GCC QL cross compiler. Than we would have a real SQL database. Someone must of course write machine code SuperBASIC ...

He accepted my first offer of $275 for the QL, printer and software. Nice. This solves a problem for me as my US QL here has weird timing issues.


That's an excellent price for a US QL. Nicely done. Funny, I have a parallel interface for my QL but it's in a much more slimline package looking ...

t0nyt wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:24 pm You’re not really selling Scotland to me…

Umm... they have a better rugby team than Wales?

Per Witte has supplied a minor update to the Q-Liberator BASIC compiler distribution.

This latest release of v3.46 contains no functional code change to the compiler itself from the previous release. The main difference is Martin Head's comments in the toolkit sources. a few changes to the ...