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Re: QIX for ProDOS

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:59:25 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> Replying to myself.
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> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> > Followup:
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> > There is a file on http://1.buric.co/qixbas.dsk.gz called QIXBAS.
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> > If you don't need it, don't use it, and just use QIX8.DSK.
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> > It is not a plain BASIC program.  The BASIC side checks to make sure all the 
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> > necessary files are there so it can error out before trampling BASIC.SYSTEM, 
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> > and works around the issue that BASIC.SYSTEM leaves the PREFIX blank (which 
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> > other SYS programs can have a problem with).  Once everything is validated, 
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> > it runs the second part, which frees BASIC's memory and then loads 
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> > QIX.SYSTEM.  You'll need this if you're using a BASIC menu system to launch 
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> > Qix.
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> > -uso.
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> If for some reason you're using a loader that can't handle a SYS file that 
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> big,
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> ]LOAD QIXBAS
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> ]BSAVE QIX.LAUNCH,A2560,L224
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> -uso.

For what it's worth, I was able to start it from Desktop II and Super Selector just fine.  Great work!

-B