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Hi, I have solved the problem with the QXL2 not being able to run some versions of SMSQ/E. Its seems that the QXL Ram on the board was using different speeds of ram in bank 2 of the QXL. ... The RAM issue is unlikely to be the cause for my problems with SMSQ/E v3.34+ so far. The QXL2 was never temp...

<>This is not entirely true. When in mode 32: COLOUR_NATIVE: PAPER $1F: CLS: gives bleu, :PAPER $F800: then gives red as in rrrrrggg.gggbbbbb. Only in PIC and SPR files are the bytes reversed as in a 16-bit BMP. I think its the other way, Bob. Did you actually try PIXEL32%? Add the following few li...

Some gremlins must have snuck in, Dilwyn. I didnt check them all, but PIXEL32% didnt look right. That method should work for mode 33, though. No, mode 32 has its internal colours rewired to little-endian, so it needs to have its bytes switched: This is not entirely true. When in mode 32: COLOUR_NAT...

BSJR wrote:...WM_PAPER & WM_INK can set these colours with values $200 to $2FF...

Oops. This should of course be $100 to $1FF, the $200 range are the 15-bit system palette colours definable by QCoCo.

BSJR

(I think it also works in 8-bit palette mode, but am not 100% sure). Is there an 8 bit palette on any QL style machine? I was just aware of the fixed 8 bit Aurora mode. SMSQ/E features a palette of 256 colours which can be referenced with an 8-bit value. WM_PAPER & WM_INK can set these colours ...

Good news. AVG HQ reported back that it found no malicious code in your .exe. Another option to avoid the .exe could be to use Qmenu's DIR_SELECT$. Your example DOS drives are neatly together but mine are scattered all over the partitions so an option to pre-select a partition as root for dos8_ is t...

I have been working on my QPC2 DOS drive manager program in EasyPtr. ... Unzip the DOSdrive.zip file into a folder on the C: drive named 'QPCfind' Run the DOSlist_bas program, and click on one of the displayed DOS assignments. I can confirm that your program combo does work on my W$7-Ultimate syste...

I built up a PC with a K6-2 500 512Mb Ram, with MSDOS 6.22. I tried SMSQ/E v3.38 and is working. ... I have not tested 3.38 yet but have had problems with SMSQE for QXL since 3.35. Version 3.34 is the last one that boots correctly in both m4 and m32, no keyboard issues are found. 3.35 Hangs, no scr...

... I see there is a MWDEF command to get the address of the working definition. I don't know if I could navigate that to find the application windows size. That is surely an option, see the description in the QPTR manual. I use this to poke new arrow colours. For SuQcess I use fixed margins betwee...

just using MAWDRAW keyword to draw a string array as a menu has always sufficed for me. That's what I am trying to do. But what I can't seem to get to work. Is if the string is longer than the width of the application window, Then pan bars are added so you view the whole string. What I have read in...