Commander X16

Thanks. Someone offered to do the flash & swap for me so it should be okay. I've learned my lesson: Just like my phone and my Windows version, never update!

Thanks. The instructions do look straightforward enough, but past experience tells me that there will be some big catch at every single step if I try it. (Still, that's a better guide than most things these days. But whenever instructions give multiple options I always pick the absolute mostest wron...

Seeing some of the new Kernal/BASIC commands on the newer BIOS releases I finally decided to update the X-16 I got in June 2023. It took a while (and using Google to search this site) to find some instructions, so first I updated VERA and that went fine. Then I found the set of ROM, SMC, and VERA (s...

BruceRMcF wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:47 pm QBasic uses ! for single floats and # for double floats. CBM V2.0 floats have more precision in the mantissa than QBasic Singles, since they are 40bit floats rather than 32bit floats.

Ah good, so I'm not losing my mind after all. (Well, at least not in this instance )

If you want to dig a little deeper, here is a decent video on floating point encoding that popped up in my feed a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo89kOv9pVk And this online tool lets you play directly with the bits of a 32-bit float and see the conversion errors in real time: https://...