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by dilwyn
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Launchpad v2.12 Update
Replies: 19
Views: 4039

Re: Launchpad v2.12 Update

Have been looking at this today without yet being able to resolve the issue. The Jobs menu is populated by sending the output of the QLiberator QJ command to a pipe channel and reading back the results, using Q_PIPE . Somewhere amid this, things just stop for no obvious reason. Interestingly, it doe...
by dilwyn
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Lunar lander and UDG generally
Replies: 14
Views: 2080

Re: Lunar lander and UDG generally

I don't want to overcomplicate things, but I wrote an article on how the font data structures work (in broad terms) which might help to explain why PEEKing and POKEing font addresses is a bad idea. It's a bit technical but tries to explain things as it goes along. If it helps explains things, I migh...
by dilwyn
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Lunar lander and UDG generally
Replies: 14
Views: 2080

Re: Lunar lander and UDG generally

Derek_Stewart wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:06 pm Hi,

Have look at QL Today Vol13 issue 2,3,4 Dilwyn did an excellent article on the use of Fonts.
Article available here.
https://www.dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/a ... nfonts.zip
by dilwyn
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Launchpad v2.12 Update
Replies: 19
Views: 4039

Re: Launchpad v2.12 Update

Thank you, Andrew. Iwill try to resolve this over the next few days.
by dilwyn
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: TK2 and RAM disk
Replies: 8
Views: 1732

Re: TK2 and RAM disk

Here's the RAMPRT section fo the QL manual. Might add this to my site for those who wish to use the RAMPRT part of QPAC2.

Note: warns against using this with SMSQ/E.
RAMPRT.pdf
RAMPRT manual
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by dilwyn
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: TK2 and RAM disk
Replies: 8
Views: 1732

Re: TK2 and RAM disk

Many systems which came with Toolkit 2 also came with ramdisks e.g. floppy disc systems. So it made people think they were part of TK2. But as you've found, ramdiscs were never part of TK2 as such. There are two main types of ramdisc. 1. Static - these are formatted to a fixed capacity 2. Dynamic - ...
by dilwyn
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL2k speed change
Replies: 11
Views: 2129

Re: QL2k speed change

The SpacePods MDV on the games page on my website is for the MIST FPGA system. If that's where you got it from, it's possible it might not work properly on QLay/QL2K anyway. The other version on my site is just two standard files, a boot and a _cde file, so can be used on most systems. (I've assumed...
by dilwyn
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL2k speed change
Replies: 11
Views: 2129

Re: QL2k speed change

As I haven't had QL2K installed for some time, I reinstalled yesterday to see if I could find anything to help you. Not used it for a few years now. Initially, I couldn't get MDV drives to work at all - QL2K froze each time I did DIR MDV1_ . I later found it would only work if I had a maximum of one...
by dilwyn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL2k speed change
Replies: 11
Views: 2129

Re: QL2k speed change

I'm assuming you have been through the QL2K speed settings, using the FT_bas program supplied, and set the speed setting in the clock multiplier box in the startup dialogue of QL2K? Many QL games use the equivalent of the KEYROW command to read keyboard (to allow combination key presses), so there i...
by dilwyn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Most probably the smallest "QL" ever!
Replies: 32
Views: 5427

Re: Most probably the smallest "QL" ever!

Hi, This is similar to an Intel Compute Stick, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Compute_Stick Windows 10 could be removed and Linux put on with the same functionality as Windows, except runs faster. I used to have an Intel Stick. It ran Windows 10 and QPC2 adequately for home use. Unfortunat...