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  • CPC6128 BASIC Program Switcher

    From Green Steve@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 23 05:24:51 2022
    Hi All,

    On the CPC 6128 I remember using a utility which could be background loaded like an RSX and then allowed you to load a program, use a special key combination and load another program. You could then use the special key combination to switch between them
    even with the two programs running. I have the feeling it only worked with Basic programs and it would have been on an Amstrad Action cover tape as I got most of my utility software that way.

    If anyone knows it's name or where I can get it my current obsession with it may be quenched. Thanks.

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  • From Rayner Lucas@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 24 00:23:04 2022
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...

    On the CPC 6128 I remember using a utility which could be background
    loaded like an RSX and then allowed you to load a program, use a
    special key combination and load another program. You could then use
    the special key combination to switch between them even with the two
    programs running. I have the feeling it only worked with Basic
    programs and it would have been on an Amstrad Action cover tape as I
    got most of my utility software that way.

    If anyone knows it's name or where I can get it my current obsession
    with it may be quenched. Thanks.

    That sounds like "Flik".

    There's a YouTube demo of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 9pkLcWc_GzE.

    And here's a download page: https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_util-
    flik.htm

    There, no more need to be jealous of those fancy Windows users with
    their Alt-Tab :-)

    HTH,
    R

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  • From Green Steve@21:1/5 to Rayner Lucas on Mon Oct 24 01:52:53 2022
    On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 12:23:07 AM UTC+1, Rayner Lucas wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On the CPC 6128 I remember using a utility which could be background
    loaded like an RSX and then allowed you to load a program, use a
    special key combination and load another program. You could then use
    the special key combination to switch between them even with the two programs running. I have the feeling it only worked with Basic
    programs and it would have been on an Amstrad Action cover tape as I
    got most of my utility software that way.

    If anyone knows it's name or where I can get it my current obsession
    with it may be quenched. Thanks.
    That sounds like "Flik".

    There's a YouTube demo of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 9pkLcWc_GzE.

    And here's a download page: https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_util-
    flik.htm

    There, no more need to be jealous of those fancy Windows users with
    their Alt-Tab :-)

    HTH,
    R

    Wow, I was not expecting anyone to have heard of this. Thank you, I hadn't thought about this util for 30 years and it just popped into my head!
    I remember jokingly telling my Amiga friends that the CPC had very slow multitasking back then. :D

    Thanks for the links, very much appreciated.

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