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Just in case anyone is interested, I've attached an updated version of the "advutils" folder that Rich Mellor compiled and is currrently on Dilwyn's website, containing the amended Quill_to_BASIC conversion program (plus the other ACT utilities, untouched). The BASIC source is included.

Cheers,
Alan

Thank you.

By the way, Alvaro A was looking for older versions to check if there was a bug from previous versions.
Do you have previous versions of Quill ?

Popopo wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:29 pm By the way, Alvaro A was looking for older versions to check if there was a bug from previous versions.
Do you have previous versions of Quill ?

I have versions A00, A01 and A07

Andrew wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:39 pm

Popopo wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:29 pm By the way, Alvaro A was looking for older versions to check if there was a bug from previous versions.
Do you have previous versions of Quill ?

I have versions A00, A01 and A07

Great!
Could you share it here? or by Private as please you.

I theoretically have A06 on a floppy disk, but I just scrapped another disk drive trying to recover it

As for QuillA07, I'd be interested to know what number of system messages it goes up to. On my copy, they are empty apart from 30 and 31 (Y/N, respectively). But it needs to go up to 35 for "I/O Error". I know you can edit / add your own, but I'm fairly sure they were populated with the correct messages when I used it. Maybe that was my old A06 version?

Cheers,
Alan

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:00 pm As for QuillA07, I'd be interested to know what number of system messages it goes up to. On my copy, they are empty apart from 30 and 31 (Y/N, respectively).

Same on my copy. And 31 is the last.

It seems that another Spanish user has fixed a bug in the last version (and suspect hereby present in the previous too).
Alvaro A. has the details.
@aalea

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:22 pm Just in case anyone is interested, I've attached an updated version of the "advutils" folder that Rich Mellor compiled and is currrently on Dilwyn's website, containing the amended Quill_to_BASIC conversion program (plus the other ACT utilities, untouched). The BASIC source is included.

Cheers,
Alan
advutils2025.zip

May I add this to my website, Alan?

dilwyn wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:37 pm

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:22 pm Just in case anyone is interested, I've attached an updated version of the "advutils" folder that Rich Mellor compiled and is currrently on Dilwyn's website, containing the amended Quill_to_BASIC conversion program (plus the other ACT utilities, untouched). The BASIC source is included.

Cheers,
Alan
advutils2025.zip

May I add this to my website, Alan?

Yes please, Dilywn

Andrew wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:59 pm

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:00 pm As for QuillA07, I'd be interested to know what number of system messages it goes up to. On my copy, they are empty apart from 30 and 31 (Y/N, respectively).

Same on my copy. And 31 is the last.

Yep, that's the same as mine. You need up to SM35 for save/load operations.

This is what I have (copied from a SuperBASIC conversion)

SM32: "You haven't played before"\"Have you?"; # text for trying to load a non-existent save. Not sure if it was my own attempt at humour
SM33: "Enter your name for the file";
SM34: "Sorry, that's not a valid filename."
SM35: ""\"";:STRIP mink_:INK paper_:PRINT;"IO ERROR!!!";