Many thanks ... Yes I eventually found the right file, FIND did not locate VDU26 but I found it visually. I put 5 secs delay in and the window opens correctly. Sorry for all the hassle, and misreading

Richard, I have found sdlide.bbc in the tools folder. I have used FIND but cannot see a VDU26 in it? Virus-free. www.avast.com

Richard, I see one of the problems – maybe I am getting dyslexic? I read the file as bbcsdl.bbc … I am trying to find sdlide.bbc? So far I have been unable to locate it. Where should it be? I feel gui

Richard, I am sorry for this. My programming skills are fairly minimal and I do not really know how to handle those two variables in the PROC statement. I have used WAIT statements up to 10 secs befor

Richard, I have inserted the code you previously sent me into bbcsdl.bbc. When invoking the ide from the desktop icon the screen is filled with a maximized window, but the ‘edit’ window still covers o

Does it matter where in that file I place the extra code?

Not quite, but similar. When I invoke the ide it initially appears as a small window. If I click maximize a larger window fills the screen but the ide window only occupies the top left quadrant. All I

Richard, and all .. I recently installed bbcsdl on my Linux Mint 19 desktop and it seems to be ok apart from a minor point ... Having opened the IDE, it initially is in a smallish window, if I click t

Richard & others, I have just been attempting to install bbcsdl on another machine running Linux Mint 19 (64 bit) using the 64 bit libraries and got this error message, as has been reported by others

Happy new year everyone. I am now using BBCSDL on my laptop with Linux Mint 19 (Tara). Is there any block of code, as in windows to display a program output in full screen rather than just a small win

Again, many thanks. Yes in my HOME folder I have leslie/My Data/BBC4L with relevant sub-folders. I now have it working but am realizing that some progs from my Win installation will not work due to sy

Thanks …

Richard, I am going to demo my gross ignorance again ... I was given an Acer laptop on which I installed Linux Mint 19 Sara. I love bbc4w on this win7/64 machine, but am just getting to grips with Lin

Thank you Richard, yes speak.bbc is ok. I tried to run it previously but it couldn’t find comliba. I had it in a backup folder and having copied it across it now speaks acceptably. I don’t do too much

Richard, Here I really show my ignorance, I only write simple programs to amuse myself. I have ‘Verbose’ text to speech on my computer. I can activate it to read the clipboard with Ctrl+shift+v I have

Dear friends, this is a slight change of direction, but it may be of interest to some? I too loved the old Beeb - especially with its user port. My current machine runs Win7, but I discovered some tim

Richard, I am still using the older version 5.93a, which I am very happy with. It does all I need it to, and I am used to it. I have just refurbished another desktop and put windows 7 on it. I tried t

Sorry Richard – Typo ... it worked ok, I now have the shortcut ... Leslie Virus-free. www.avast.com

I entered the line as suggested. It told me that ‘—create-new’ was not understood in combination with the other options …

Thank you Richard, your help is really appreciated … Leslie