The Sinclair QL Forum

Martin,

yes, I guess it's line 70. Even if it isn't explicitly mentioned in the manual, INKEY$ without a channel defaults to #0, so SBASIC seems urged to open that window.

SImply change line 70 to read
Tobias

Free QPC2 (which has elaborate support for floppy disk images) works quite well on Mac Parallels (in case you have that).

There is a wineified/macified version of QPC2 done by Peta Jäger (I think it's available from Marcel's site) that should work with non-paralleled Macs.

Tobias

Dave, what you get with an emulated QL on a Raspberry Pi is just that - An emulated QL on a Raspberry Pi. Q68 is a different beast: A modern computer running a modernized QLish operating system that was specifically designed and adapted for the box, aligned with the mainstream development in the QL ...

pjw wrote:

tofro wrote:

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170 SCROLL #5,0,42

Cheat!

Nah! Hit one evil with another.

Tobias

Or, hit a bug with another bug: instead of 170 GET #5\0 as in Per's proposal, you can also use 170 SCROLL #5,0,42 which does the same thing (re-positioning the file pointer to 0 without TK2 by perusing another bug in the SuperBASIC interpreter ;) - I think that's just fair and fixes it in pure Sincl...

QDOS 1.10 is actually a "JS" ROM, which should be relatively bug-free. You've most probably been running into the famous "second but last" one. I have run your test program on QPC2/SMSQ/E 332 with no problems. It also runs fine on my MGG QL. The effect does, however show up in my...

It would be interesting to know What system are you using? What ROM version? Are you using OPEN or FOPEN? Are you sure you close #5 before re-opening it? This looks very much like a file descriptor leak. (System runs out of descriptors because you forgot to close something you opened.) Tobias

Dave,

I'd rather express my wishes in LITERS than in inches...

Tobias

No normal computer needs twisted floppy Cables. There’s only one exotic type of computer named „IBM compatible„ that ever used such cables.

Jokes aside, none of the QL disk interfaces ever used twisted cables.

Tobias

If I'd have been the tape dubber, I'd probably have required the software houses to provide a dubbing program that would copy one master to 7 copies. I am pretty sure the tape copier wouldn't have wanted to be bothered with myriads of different protection schemes.

Tobias