Type 22 by Talent

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Type 22 is another game released on the Talent label.

It was written in SuperBASIC and compiled with SuperCharge. I had been scratching my head over this, as when I tried it in November on q-emulator, it would crash when I chose certain keywords.

However, it looks as though that issue was down to a slight corruption in the main file, and having reverted to a microdrive version, the program is now working.

There is however an oddity - although the program works fine under QDOS, when running it under Minerva v1.97 it reports 'At Line 360 Bad parameter'.

Without the source code I don't know what line 360 in the main program does unfortunately.

Just to confuse matters more, if I run q-emulator with Minerva v1.97 and Toolkit II v2.12, the program works fine. However, Detlef Obermann has also been trying the program with Tookit II v2.20 and gets the bad parameter error....

Any ideas as to what might be causing this issue? I would guess that the source program abuses the parameters on one of the commands which is amended by Minerva, but then that command reverts to the original parameter checking under Toolkit II v2.12 (but not v2.20) .... My guess would be either DATE$ or SDATE - as it happens after you enter the current time into the program and then choose full or training mode....

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Interestingly on Minerva v1.98 the program reports error at line 110, Bad parameter.

This is with or without Toolkit II !

Hopefully the original author will send me the sources and I can read the microdrive cartridges, so we can get to the bottom of this, and maybe re-compile the program under Turbo!