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Hi,

I have been hitting my head on the screen trying to use Turbo Basic on the qlayw emulator. Commands are as follows:

DATA_USE WIN7_
PROG_USE WIN7_
DIR
(SHOWS DIRECTORY OF CORRECT TURBO BASIC FILES)
LOAD TEST_BAS
CHARGE
(RETURNS BAD PARAMETER)
EXEC PARSER_TASK
(RETURNS BAD PARAMETER)

The bad parameter error seems to imply the entry point for the program is being found. I cannot understand the bad parameter error as I was not sure it even needed one!
I have tried with the Minerva and the JS ROM and only the Toolkit2 ROM.

Has anyone any solution?

Many thanks

Greg (frustrated )

Hi,

Have you load Turbo Toolkit supplied with Turbo

Yes, I have replaced file from a new download to ensure a matched set. I have also set the turbo basic windows disk to be win1_ and ensured boot was to a "clean" QL. I still get the bad parameter error.

Hi,

I used QLAY2 see attached screen shot.

Just LRESPRed Turbo_TK_Code and was in the Turbo subdirectory, entered Charge...

You must have a corrupted Turbo Distro.

You could try, entering:

EXEC parser_task

This will load the Turbo Parser

And when Parsing done, enter: EXEC codegen_task

Will generate the executable compliled programme.

Why not use QPC2...

Hi Greg, Derek,

The bad parameter error is from the EXEC command, which is not recognising PARSER_TASK as an executable file. You could try using the SEXEC command to re save these files as executable files. So, do something along these lines ...

COPY PARSER_TASK TO PARSER_TASK_old
lenf = FLEN(\PARSER_TASK)
base = RESPR(lenf)
LBYTES PARSER_TASK, base
SEXEC_O PARSER_TASK, base, lenf, 51200

Doing the above would re save the file with a dataspace of 50k, after which both CHARGE and EXEC PARSER_TASK should work.

Kind regards,
EmmBee

Thanks EmmBee, that sorted it. I shall have to remember that trick.

Derek, thanks. Will try QPC2 some time as well.

Greg

gregtaylor wrote:....shall have to remember that trick.

No, you shouldn't

You should instead remember that you should never un-zip a zip file intended for the QL anywhere else but on the QL - or emulator. In this case you will never again lose a file header in transit.

Explanation on that is on Dillwyn's web site.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks to you both. Turbo is now working perfectly in qlayw. Have been enjoying doing some benchmark programs to test the performance upgrade. All I need to do now is to sit down and read the rest of the manual.

Greg