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Get Well Soon Derek, Dave beat me to the punch on hospitalised WiFi "Grrrrrr"

This should get you going and give you flexibility in voltage levels

I will def buy one, put me down for one

Thanks for all the suggestions guys

220 IF TK_VER$<>"" THEN
230 PRINT "Done":STOP
240 ELSE
250 LRESPR win8_turbo_sms_code
260 END IF

this works exactly how I wanted it to, so congrats to Tobias.

I have also been able to get this method to work with TURBO ptr extensions as well by using the ...

Hi Lee,

Looking at my boot file for SMSQmualtor/QPC2/Q-EMulator, I use this If clause:


1300 REMark Load Turbo Toolkit
1310 IF VER$=="HBA"
1320 LRESPR "WIN1_TURBO_SMS_CODE"
1330 ELSE
1340 LRESPR "WIN1_TURBO_TK_CODE"
1350 END IF


Seems to work for QDOS and SMSQ/E.

But I guess there are other ...

Martin_Head wrote:Could you use the WHEN ERROR trapping (JS ROMs upward).

Try to use a Turbo Toolkit command, if the toolkit is not installed the command will be trapped in the WHEN ERROR clause, and then the toolkit can be loaded.

I will try this also Martin, thanks

Hi,

There is a keyword: TK_VER$, but only returns the version of Turbo Toolkit, which is the same for the SMS and QDOS versions.

A simple way would be to add "SMS" in the version number. Which would mean a new version of Turbo Toolkit.

The SMS version calls the SMSQ/E extended traps, where the ...

Hi community, I have searched for this on the forum but cannot find an entry but I am sure this has been asked before.

I currently test for the presence of the HBA ROM in a boot program using VER$ and would like to test for other toolkits, specifically the TURBO toolkit. Is there a way to do this ...

There is no point in doing a 8 color version. With the availability of enhanced QL modes the least you can do is a 256 color version.
I have done something similar in the past (left it unfinished).
I took Andy Owen's ManicMiner BlitzBasic version (I did receive permission back then - have to find ...

Struggling with some graphic differences between the QL and the SMSQ version in QemuLator which have been briefly explored here and a future QUANTA article, I decided to run the identical program in both QPC2 version 4 and the SMSQ patched version of QemuLator.

Aspect ration being the most obvious ...