¢¢¢¢ BASIC program loader for Diamond GOS¢ by Kevin D. Packard¢ December 1991¢ ¢ I recieved a letter from one of the people that registered their copy¢ of MIX&MATCH. A question was asked about programing Diamond from¢ BASIC. Most of my work has been in Assembly Language and to answer¢ the question I wrote this short BASIC program.¢ ¢ The program is a short BASIC program that will load other BASIC¢ programs using the File Selector in Diamond GOS 3.0.¢ ¢ To use the program:¢ Boot the computer with Diaomond 3.0, Exit Diamond, then after READY¢ shows, type RUN "D:MENU¢ The program will look for any programs on the disk with a .BAS¢ extention. Use the File selector as you would within any .APP¢ program. to select the BASIC program you wish to run.¢ If you choose CANCLE the program will return to the Diamond¢ Desktop.¢ If you choose OK when NONE is shown the program will exit and you¢ will be within BASIC.¢ To choose a file to run, Click on the file name in the window. ¢ Then Click on OK. The program should run.¢ ¢ Disclaimer:¢ This is a quickly programed example of what you can do with Diamond¢ and BASIC(one evening). There has not been a lot of debugging and I¢ tried to load only a couple of programs with it.¢ I do know that the title will get screwed up after it has been run a¢ few times, but this did not effect the running of other programs. Do¢ what you will with the program, but don't blame me.¢ ¢ Credit where credit is due:¢ Many of the lines came from the program DEVELOP.BAS that came on¢ the Diamond Develop Kit disk. This disk and the manual are needed to¢ program Diamond in any language. The manual and disk can be purchased¢ from REEVE SOFT.¢ ¢
