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Thank you very much @senior_falcon I didn't remember XB 2.9 G.E.M. had this feature. Very good 👌

Fantastic! Thank you very much @mizapf It works! Probabily the program seeks the last line of the program and replaces the generic "DDDD.XXXXXXXXX" string. Solved! 😊 thanks again

Hello, I need to have a RUN statement inside an XB program without knowing the name of the XB BASIC program in advance. Since it's not possibile to RUN a program from a string as parameter is there anybody who knows a workaround to achieve it ? Is there any L/M routine, someone wrote which can be used, for instance: CALL LINK("RUNPROG",A$) where A$="DSKx.PROGNAME" Thank you.

Thank you for all the explanation!

@senior_falcon very good!! fantastic. It works perfectly, thank you. Just out of curiosity (I'm a newbie) I assume the L/M code is loaded within the xb program even if I see only the xb instructions. Does it use standard GROM routines or did you write it from scratch? thank you again

If you find the time and decide to go for it give me a shout 🙂 Great! Looking forward to it 😁

In my dreams, somewhere somehow there'll be a text viewer for the TI99, you can run from XB and where you can switch from 32 to 40 to 64 cols. Maybe using the famous TASWORD font (Zx Spectrum program) which could reach 64 cols having 3 pixel-wide characters. But till then, I'm happy with the VIEWER you posted here 😁 Thanks everybody.

Hi, nothing happens if I do FCTN+4 .... command BYE seems working instead. Thank you Lee True... of course... How couldn't I have thought about it! It works 😁 thank you!

Where can I find Funnelweb EA5 loader? I knew only Tursi's loader. Thank you, unfortunately cannot make it work. In XB version 110 loads up (using Tursi's loader) but then hangs up. I tried on XB 2.7 and XB 2.9 GEM (CALL MLOAD) but it doesn't work either. EDIT: I RUN IT IN Editor Assembler and works fine!! Thank you. I was just wondering how to exit from the program (which key?) as FCTN-QUIT is disabled.

Thank you Senior Falcon, very compact. It's faster than the one I wrote in XB! Thank you for your help TheBF. Don't worry, I think I know how to test for space-bar. I really appreciate your help. BASIC/XB programs are ok if you have only few lines, otherwise you have to wait too much if the file is long and you have to reach the end. That's why I think the ultimate solution would be a E/A program which loads instantaneously every page after you push a button.

Thank you! 😊

No hurries! Thank you very much. I thought I made a very simple question but apparently it's a bit tricky to find a viewer 😅

Hi, yes I got them all on my FG99. I know they have commands to switch to 40 cols, then I assume I must write the XB program to load the file but I think it would be quite slow. So if you have to visit page #10 for instance it would take a lot of time, wouldn't it? I was looking for a "universal" reader which could work on Version 110 also because I have a real TI Extended Basic cartridge I use quite often. If it's not possibile, never mind 😊 I'll learn how to write one (maybe in a couple of years 😁) Thank you!

Sure! That'll be great!! Thank you very much! Would it be possibile to run it from a EA5loader in XB ?

Thank you Vorticon. Unfortunately I don't have a F18A VGA so I don't think I could run it. And yes I assume if any program exists I could only run it through XB, no problem for that. Thank you anyway for your reply. I'll keep on searching. Fabrizio