Blitz Basic 2 & Peek

[Retro1234]

Hi finaly decided to give Blitz ago
I just want to do a simple script

Load File Bank 1
A=Peek Bank 1 Address !00
Print A

Does "Deek" exist in BB2
Ive found the manual not much use and getting info hard

[AlfaRomeo]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Does "Deek" exist in BB2

I do not remember seeing "Deek" in BB2 ever.
On the other side the "Peek" command exists to read inside address values

[Retro1234]

If I

LOADBANK 1,"TEST.DATA"

How do can I PEEK this or know what memory address its loaded into?

[Samurai_Crow]

I didn't know there were even Bank commands in Blitz. Maybe switching from Amos to Blitz will be difficult for you.

Usually you use structures in Blitz and C instead of Peeking memory addresses manually.

What can you tell us about the layout of your data file?

[Retro1234]

Probably will be a challenge
"http://amiga.sourceforge.net/amigadevhelp/phpwebdev.php?keyword=LoadBank&funcgroup=BlitzBasic&action=Search"
LoadBank command is there

Or necessary Command to load the file into memory so I can then PEEK it

[Samurai_Crow]

value=Deek(address) is just Amos' version of value=Peek.w(address)

[Retro1234]

Basicly all I want to do

Is load a file into memory
then Peek that address

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

value=Deek(address) is just Amos' version of value=Peek.w(address)

Yes thats fine
(although irrelevant to the question a quick google shows deek in other languages where it originated I dont know)

[clenched]

Boo Boo - Try some variant of this. Don't feel bad. I was stymied for quite a long time on one of my programs because I neglected to put the U on the COLOUR command.

LoadBank 1, "test.data"
a.l = Bank (1) ; a.l is lower case L
NPrint a.l, "=address of first byte"
NPrint Peek.b(a.l),"=1st byte of file"
;also a peek.w peek.l to mess with.

This way will save a little typing if a is used a lot.

LoadBank 1, "test.data"
DEFTYPE.l a
a = Bank (1)
NPrint a, "=address of first byte"
NPrint Peek.b(a),"=1st byte of file"

[Retro1234]

Thank You! ill give it a shot

[Retro1234]

What am I doing wrong? the "Bank" command is always giving me Syntax

[Retro1234]

I cut and pasted the above but always got a Syntax with line 2
The manual states -

Bank (Bank#)
Returns the meniory location of the given memory Bank, replaces the older and
more stupidly named BankLoc command.

As soon as I changed Bank to BankLoc it seems to work?

Thanks again clenched now I can have a bit of a play

[Retro1234]

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