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Assembler only, IIRC.

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pjw wrote: Sun Aug 31, 2025 2:01 pm Thanks Martin!
Id be more interested in a utility to entirely remove any built in runtimes..

Me too, although both removal and addition are useful tools.

Hi,

I'm having some problems compiling a program with QLiberator that uses the PHGTK graphics extensions.
...
It all works fine in SuperBASIC, but when compiled with QLiberator, it stops with:

Q_LIB error 19 Indices wrong
The line giving the problem is:
3245 e%=FPNG(x$,"ram1_test_pic",scrMode ...

I've just spent a while debugging a BASIC program which didn't give the expected results for someone.

Turned out to be an issue concerning FOR loops which, while documented in places like the Jan Jones guide, is easy to forget about.

The program concerned had (I think) been converted from a BASIC ...

I've used PHGTK a lot since it was released, and not noticed this issue with compiling programs using it.

(For anyone who doesn't know of PHGTK, it's the Photon General Toolkit, a set of graphics extensions for converting GIF, PNG and JPG files)

So I've just made a little test program which I ...

I think RalfR should have been born British!

Some of those Beatles records, especially in mint condition with picture sleeves, can sell for fairly high prices these days.

It may also have been the Supercharge compiler extensions which I think were actually called extras or xtras.


Thanks Dilwyn

I loaded the turbo_tk_code from ralf’s link and that did the trick for me with mageprom


There's some overlap of keyword names in both, so sometimes they are ...

It may also have been the Supercharge compiler extensions which I think were actually called extras or xtras.

Runtime Archive and documentation: https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/psions/archrtm.zip . The manual contains a lot of useful information about facilities added to later versions of Archive, such as information about control codes, graphics (line and box) characters, use of user-written machine code ...

Dilwyn

When I entered the command SBASIC I got an error message so I tried the following and that seemed to work too:

LOAD mybigprogram_bas
SAVE ram1_tmp_bas;line1 TO line2 (line number range to be copied)
NEW
LOAD ram1_TMP_bas
RENUM as required
MERGE mybigprogram_bas

I guess that does about ...