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In article <BtJG5L.w3@brunel.ac.uk>, Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes) writes:
%% I have an IBM clone with a hard disc. I just mention this in case its important.
%% 
%% I have tried, after booting from the hard disc, to run basica from disc,
%% the only responce I get is:-
%% 
%% divide overflow
%% 
%% I have asked a few people how to get it started but have come up against
%% a blank wall, most people have got the same result I have and have given up.
%% 
%% What am I doing wrong? 

It depends on the size of your "BASICA."

If it is over 80Kb, I cannot explain.

But if it is below that size, it means that it is really an
IBM Basica, which heavily depends on Cassette Basic (CBASIC)
routines that true blues have in ROM. I am not aware of any
IBM compatibles that had CBASIC in ROM. They are provided
with GW-BASIC which is ROM independent.

Some GW-BASICs were provided under the "BASICA" name (maybe
on Compaqs), to provide compability with IBM. Also "BASIC"
used to simply call "BASICA." On IBM's PC-DOS however BASIC
was independent of BASICA, although it depended on CBASIC
ROM routines too.

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