The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Steve, Tried your game with my QPC2 setup looks good but am a bit at a lost as what my options are and everything moves to damn fast for my addled brain. Still need you to devote some of your time to more documentation on moves and outcomes maybe add a speed parameter for Novice, Gamer, Super-Gam...

Hi Peter, Wow! Well done, the Spec looks great, what could be a better for the QL’s 40th Anniversary. (Added this as top priority to my 2024 Birthday and Christmas wish list.) Question: Be interesting to plug into one of my QL’s. Will you be able to include a case and when wired up for Sound can the...

Hi Norman,
Having written the code I should do better.
But I still crash. At least my Demo Lands Safely.
QBITS

Hi All, Dilwyn and Norman thanks for the encouraging appraisal of my screen presentations. If only I could extend my codding abilities. The QBITS PIXELArt Project is a steeper learning curve that I anticipated. However, for the present my attention is drawn to the forthcoming Sinclair QL 40th Annive...

Hi Andrew Your code implies thet it uses QLiberator and TURBO Directives which I assume require their runtime modules. UNZIPing your Folder there is a file qlc21rtm_obj and a file unsizp which I assume contains the code for QL Commander to operate. I attempted to use the QL Commander Configurator wi...

Hi All, A Happy Easter to You.. QBITS PIXEL Art Project: Progress Coding is being check for inconsistencies and refining for the Stage Four of being able to Run a Retro Style Game build with QBITS PIXEL Art Prog and then saving as standalone code. The pdf updated as I go. As I have been reviewing in...

Hi All, QBITS PIXEL Art Project Update My aim was to produce a RETRO Game making Prog and for this set myself four Stages. Some of my aspirations on reflection were let’s say a little too adventurous for my limited Coding skills. However, for this release: Stage One code for the Sprite Generator has...

Hi Mark, Thanks for posting your PETSET_chr. I assume you added a Byte to the 8 Byte 8x8 matrix used by Commadore. Using QBITS FTidy I reviewed in hex your file PETSET_chr the two Byte header read as 00 – FF ie Start at 0 with 255 characters and 2305 bytes in length not your 963Bytes (is this the Co...

Hi I to use Notpad for sorting out old SuperBASIC Files that have become a bit worse for wear or I dowloaded and opd them from a pdf scan. i save as plain text documents (I think the encoding is UTF-8) load them into a QL Directory Select them with QBITS FTidy and rename them which Saves them in ren...

Hi all, QBITS PIXELArt Project Behind this latest coding is the review of 1980’s Retro Games being the background to developing this project. First the use of screen Tiles, in may Games these perform several different functions. As a solid for walls or platforms, then as a flooring where a Sprite mo...