| Byte Input in SuperBasic |
In the last QHJ, I mentioned that I could not get single byte input to work in SuperBasic for my QL to Z88 program. Peter Sulzer kindly wrote back and proved that I was wrong. Below is a short routine Peter sent that shows how standard SuperBasic can do byte input. – ED 100 OPEN_IN |
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| Editor's Forum |
Here is the first issue produced from the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio. We are now moved and mostly settled in. Next, I would like to apologize to the e-mail readers of the QHJ. When sending out the last issue, my mailer went south on me. Most people reported getting up to 60-70 copies of the |
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| eFORTH Interpreter |
While on the subject of languages, I thought I would finally take a look at a program that I had received a while back. Salvador Merina of Spain has ported eFORTH to the QL. eFORTH is a portable implementation of a FORTH interpreter. The main version of eFORTH is the MS-DOS implementation. Not being a |
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| FORTH Programming |
I have been programming with FORTH for a number of years now and have used it on the 1802, PDP-11, 6502, 8080, Z-80, 68000, 8086, V-20, 80286, and the 68HC11 CPU’s. The different CPUs have many different assembly languages and when writing programs that you want to run on all the machines you can have |
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| Programmer's Bookshelf Revisited |
David Nash (dnash@chaos.demon.co.uk) responds to a past article on books that most programmer’s should have. – ED I fully agree with your bookshelf – I have recommended almost all the books in your general and language lists (I have read ‘Elements’ but have not seen it in a bookshop. I don’t have the Knuth books |
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| Prolog Interpreter |
While looking through the IFE database I found reference to a Proglog Interpreter. Once I got the disk, I found QL Prolog version 1.00 (20 March 1990) by Hans Lub. Before I could review the package, I had to learn a little Proglog. I found a Prolog book at my local used computer bookstore and |
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| QL Languages |
With some recent ports of AWK and LISP to the QL, I wondered exactly how many languages are available for the QL. I then look thought some older QL World’s, an older copy of the QUANTA library, and the IFE library to see what I could find. Below is a list of the languages I |
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| Recent Ports |
MausNet has brought news of a few recent ports to the QL. Below are the details: CRON – Elik Slagter has written a version of Cron, the Unix Execute-at-a-certain-time program. Cron is a process that runs in the background and will execute a particular program at a described time. The crontab file tells Cron what |
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| Text Editors |
This is a short review of the text editors available for the QL. Editors come in two basic types: moded and mode-less. A moded editor is one that has a command mode and an edit mode. The Unix editor VI is a classic example of a moded editor. All commands are typed in with out |
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