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Re: QIX for ProDOS
Replying to myself.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Followup:
There is a file on http://1.buric.co/qixbas.dsk.gz called QIXBAS.
If you don't need it, don't use it, and just use QIX8.DSK.
It is not a plain BASIC program. The BASIC side checks to make sure all the
necessary files are there so it can error out before trampling BASIC.SYSTEM,
and works around the issue that BASIC.SYSTEM leaves the PREFIX blank (which
other SYS programs can have a problem with). Once everything is validated,
it runs the second part, which frees BASIC's memory and then loads
QIX.SYSTEM. You'll need this if you're using a BASIC menu system to launch
Qix.
-uso.
If for some reason you're using a loader that can't handle a SYS file that
big,
]LOAD QIXBAS
]BSAVE QIX.LAUNCH,A2560,L224
-uso.