Sorry for taking so long to notice your update. I just checked ZXzine #1 and it downloaded fine for me. I'm using FireFox. I just clicked on the link and viewed it in Firefox.

Tim

Glad to see more US QLers after many years of seeing them disappear. I'm on the West Coast (SF Bay Area) and have been active in the US QL community since I got my QL in April 1986.

Tim Swenson

Martin,

I checked the website and found #5 zip missing. I just uploaded and tested it. Please confirm that you can now download it.

Tim

Martin,

Were you able to download zip #5? Is the zip having issues opening? I did test the original zips to make sure they were all different and able to open.

Tim

Martin,

All of the files should not be there. I checked them all and made sure to upload any that were missing. I'm keeping track to see if the web service deletes any. I've tested all the zips and they are different and they all open for me (using build in unarchiver in Ubuntu).

Tim

The next issue of SMSQzine is now available. I have moved my main page to a different site. It is now:

http://swensont.epizy.com/

Just scroll down for Issue #7.

Tim

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I've written a test program to open a console in C68, write some test and draw a block. The console is 512x256, but I've noticed that the text and graphics are shifted to the left. I left in the end message "press any key" that keeps the window open and it's text is where I would expect it...

I'm still in favor of QL zip files. Other versions of zip can read the QL zip files, so I can extract README files or other text files from the native OS. To use the software, I put the zip file in to a directory that is accessible by an emulator. Fire up the emulator and extract the zip file to RAM...

> DO you think it is worth trying to write an open source DTP programme? I think there is little bang for the buck in doing that, unless someone is really interested in it. There are other Open Source DTP programs that run under other platforms (Scribus is what I use). In this day, what would be the...