uMIA : EXA-BASIC

[jpnz]

I stumbled across EXA-BASIC today - it's tucked away on cartridge number 16 (Utilities) of the Alkatraz Development Cartridges

It's an extended BASIC utility and needs an Interface 1 to work - executes at 57600



It has two flavours of commands - graphic extensions prefixed with *



And toolkit types - line renumber, tape header reader, turbo loader/saver etc prefixed with .



*HELP and .HELP give those command summaries

Written by Antony Dunmore who contributed to the Alkatraz Protection System

[R-Tape]

I stumbled across EXA-BASIC today - it's tucked away on cartridge number 16 (Utilities) of the Alkatraz Development Cartridges

I need to take a .scr for its ZXDB entry and am struggling to load this. I've tried loading the "BASIC CODE" from the TAP but I can't get anything sensible out of it. I'm not used to cartridges.

Can anyone help?

[Stefan]

I need to take a .scr for its ZXDB entry and am struggling to load this. I've tried loading the "BASIC CODE" from the TAP but I can't get anything sensible out of it. I'm not used to cartridges.

Can anyone help?

With Fuse, enable interface 1 [Options / Peripherals / General... ], let Fuse tell you that you are missing if1-2.rom.
Scour the internet for if1-2.rom, download it and put it in the Fuse roms folder and try again.
Insert the microdrive image [ Media / Interface 1 / Microdrive 1 / Insert... ]

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CLEAR 57599
LOAD *"M";1;"BASIC CODE" CODE <-- file name is case sensitive
RANDOMIZE USR 57600
.help
*help

[jpnz]

I stumbled across EXA-BASIC today - it's tucked away on cartridge number 16 (Utilities) of the Alkatraz Development Cartridges

I need to take a .scr for its ZXDB entry and am struggling to load this. I've tried loading the "BASIC CODE" from the TAP but I can't get anything sensible out of it. I'm not used to cartridges.

Can anyone help?

Yeah, I can sort that out - I can probably create a standalone cartridge version as well.

EDIT - here we are, all the previously posted images, plus a couple of .SCRs and an .MDR image.

Plus a bonus TZX/CSW example of the turbo loader...

https://youtu.be/4ZIY8bEdcg8

[R-Tape]

Yeah, I can sort that out - I can probably create a standalone cartridge version as well.

Got it. Belt and braces! Ta very much.

[jpnz]

Yeah, I can sort that out - I can probably create a standalone cartridge version as well.

Got it. Belt and braces! Ta very much.

Cheers gents, thanks very much for sorting this!