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Searching for ?CONVERT.MWB - Graham72 - 28-09-2025
Back in the day I understand that a Daniel Ford wrote a program called ?CONVERT.MWB to convert ASCII files loaded into WORDBEE into Microworld Basic. This worked with disk files I believe. Any clues where I can find it?
Or any other conversion program that can take a .txt file in the format
100 INPUT A1$
120 PRINT A1$
etc
to a .mwb file tokenising INPUT, PRINT etc.
I am sure I am not the first person to ask this but my google foo is failing again.....
The closest program I have found is CONVT2 by Fred Scott but it works on ROM based BASIC and WORDBEE.
Thanks in advance g
RE: Searching for ?CONVERT.MWB - ChickenMan - 29-09-2025
What a long complicated way, just load your ASCII file directly into BASIC with
OPEN"i",6,"file.txt":IN#6 ON and hit Return and it will load in. Once loaded it will give an error message, then type in CLOSE 6 and then save out your new file SAVE "FILE" which saves the Basic tokenized MWB file.
RE: Searching for ?CONVERT.MWB - Graham72 - 29-09-2025
(29-09-2025, 01:23 AM)ChickenMan Wrote: What a long complicated way, just load your ASCII file directly into BASIC with
OPEN"i",6,"file.txt":IN#6 ON and hit Return and it will load in. Once loaded it will give an error message, then type in CLOSE 6 and then save out your new file SAVE "FILE" which saves the Basic tokenized MWB file.
Of course, totally forget that method. Thanks for the memory jog, ChickenMan.
It worked, except final line got lost.
If anyone is using this method add two line at end of file
Eg
9999 rem xxxxxxxxx
10000 rem xxxxxxxx