tion, which must be specified during
Compatibility with QBB software,
initialization, permits the programmer
which uses its own wedge to access car
to store updates quickly and easily. Pro
tridge files, is spotty. While DolphinDOS sports about 90-percent compati bility, JiffyDOS is mostly incompatible.
grams saved in this way are immune to system crashes.
With ramdisk, you can save pro grams directly to QBB. (An optional
Wedge coexistence is important be cause of the lack of disk support within
SAVE/REPLACE feature adds further
QBB Managers. Managers do not in
convenience.) If you do not specify
clude options such as scratch, format, and validate. Without this support,
ramdisk, you must first save your file to disk and then load it to the QBB with a separate Manager program.
Quick Brown Box is particularly useful with productivity software— word processors, databases, and
some kind of DOS wedge is virtually essential. I am happy to report that the QBB programmer is currently working on a fix for the JiffyDOS incompatibility
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spreadsheets. My review cartridge was
problem. The QBB directory is quite different
loaded with a copy of SpecdScript. It is
from a disk directory. One idiosyncrasy
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tempting to imagine a QBB loaded with
is that deleted files cannot be replaced
available SpeedScript utilities and the
in the same directory position. When a
upper 16K as a ramdisk for the most re
program is deleted, ail other directory
cent versions of current text files. File
entries move up one position. Anything
buy & sell «i your discretion. You
updates could easily be saved with a
added always goes to the bottom. As noted, QBB's documentation, though often technical, is excellent and
can graph your IIDCkS. Dividends arc
few keystrokes, protecting text from
possible system failure.
thorough. (Contents need updating, however, since the autostart code is no
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Here's a natural and welcome extension to the
Hi
64 and 128.
longer as described.) Extensive instruc tions are given for advanced users on how to program the cartridge directly in either 64 or 128 mode. If you have ever
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Once saved to disk, entire boxes can
cludes a version of Jim Butterfield's
be reloaded easily. The contents of a box
"Supermon + ." The QBB is compatible with RAM-expansion units as well as
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an efficient turbo is embedded in the load er routine. Loading is also compatible with serial and parallel ROM-replacement accelerators—not cartridges,
cartridge expanders. (The documenta tion covers both of these, and it also offers a welcome section on trouble
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shooting.) A checksum program is in
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Programs for the 64 and 128 can not be mixed in the same box; a box is either a 64 box or a 128 box. Although a
cluded to guarantee the integrity of box contents. This program should be nan
Twin, ur dual disk dnvo and optional printer
immediately upon receipt of the Box to
• PERFORMS all arithmetic CORRECTLY.
single 64 loader program replaces box contents, each mode has its own Man
ensure the RAM contents are un changed from the factory.
ager program. Managers are the heart
Quick Brown Box represents a whole new way of working with Com modore 64s and 128s. If you intend to work more than casually with it, you'll want to obtain the separate utility disk, which contains a variety of very useful public domain programs. Contents in clude updated 64 and 128 Managers, UNNEW and KILL commands, Basic Aid programs, copying and typewriter routines, screen dumps, fast load, save,
of QBB software and the means to cre ating and altering box contents. This is where you initialize boxes, set aside ramdisk space, load and delete program files, assign two-letter box directory IDs, and designate programs to auto
start. You may also partition QBB for special applications. Partitioning sets
aside a portion of the box for direct pro
gramming by the user. This advanced option is explained in considerable de
tail in the manual.
For reasons of compatibility, the Managers themselves do not contain
and format routines, a terminal pro gram, and CP/M RAMDOS utilities. Also included is a well-designed Rolo
such as JiffyDOS and DolphinDOS. While the QBB box loader program su persedes the ROM fast load, all other turbo functions of these ROMs work normally. DOS wedges that typically accompany these ROM replacements
dex/memo-book file program. In regard to additional productivity software designed for QBB, I should mention two packages. First is the 128 CP/M ramdisk application QDisk, from Herne Data Systems of Toronto, which sells for $9.95. QDisk turns QBB into the equivalent of one or two CP/M drives in either 64 or 128 mode. At power fail ure or computer shutdown, the QDisk/ QBB combination doesn't lose its con
are another matter.
tents, unlike the 1700/1750 RAM ex-
fast-load and fast-save routines. (Boxes
can take from two to three minutes to save.) QBB software is compatible with accelerator ROM replacement systems,
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