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Paul_L
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Posted: 06:14am 13 Jun 2022

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I'm trying to run the MMBasic.exe for Windows extracted from 2022-04-22_V5.07.03b10 MMBasic Windows beta.zip.

I'm using a keyboard from UNICOMP which replicates the original IBM type M keyboard.

When I type the double quote, {"} key, the tilde {~} appears.

When I type in the test line
for i=1 to 100:print i;:next
it works.

When I type in the test line
for i =1 to 100:print "Hi"
what appears on the screen is
for i=1 to 100: print ~Hi~

If I type in the test line
for i=33 to 127:print chr$(i):next
it works, and the chr$(34) {"} and the chr$(126) {~} appear where they should.

What the heck!!!!

Paul in NY
Edited 2022-06-13 16:16 by Paul_L

Paul_L
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Posted: 06:24am 13 Jun 2022

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The MMbasic.exe extracted from the zip download from Geoff's website works the way it should. It does not scramble the {'} and {~}.

Paul in NY

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:29am 13 Jun 2022

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Keyboard type setting in windows is wrong? Just an idea.

Mick

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Paul_L
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Posted: 06:33am 13 Jun 2022

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Mick ... I doubt the keyboard type is set wrong. Everything else works the way it should, including when running the MMBasic.exe extracted from Geoff's website just now.

I think the problem is in the beta Windows build that I found in a thread here somewhere.

Paul in NY
Edited 2022-06-13 16:34 by Paul_L

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:40am 13 Jun 2022

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It sounds to me like one of those odd things that Unicode does. MMBasic doesn't support Unicode but MMBasic for Windows is probably using the Windows keyboard system, and hence will support Unicode (because it won't know that that is what it's doing).

Mick

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