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tofro wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 7:31 pm Dilwyn,

That's one of the (the main) reasons why I'm not sure whether the header preservation methods we have devised over the years are really of any help at all or just create even more confusion. I sometimes think it 's the latter.

Quite so.

The zip file was created on PC, so the executable has a header. The source files are in subdir, maybe unzip cannot work with subdirs , I don't know, I'm just guessing. Solution: unzip on PC and then move the files to a QL container I will create a QDOS zip file also and upload it here. It had a Qem...

I understand, thank you Andrew.

Review of the game at https://dilwyn2.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/qstar/ and it's now on my QL website's Games page.

I'm sorry Andrew, but I have to report a possible bug in QStar! I was using it in QPC2 v5.02 mode 32, resolution 1024x768, with QPC_QLSCREMU 8. The game runs OK until I press F1 to alter the animation delay. After doing that and returning to the game, the display is corrupted, see screen shot below....

Document attached originally from Dave Walker, contains information on the internal formats of the Psion programs. Had to zip it up as the Forum wouldn't accept it as an attachment otherwise. The file is called Textidy_ref - it's actually a Quill DOC file but presumably Dave renamed it as there was ...

Nice one Steve.

Nice, Dilwyn. INKEY$ need a channel, though, Better use a combination of SUSJB and KEYROW perhaps? Of course, if you close the channels. Only wrote that example to explain how to read absolute pointer positions from S*Basic without resorting to extensions. And your extension is perfect, much easier...

Not had time to try it out (I'm useless at games anyway), but looks absolutely superb.

To explain a little how it's done, and preserve this information for the future, as this is a potentially useful technique for those very rare cases where you need to read the absolute pointer position, here's a small demo of it written in BASIC. It only works on systems with pointer environment - I...

There is a manual for the CST RAM Plus card at https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/manua ... amplus.pdf (in case you didn't get one with it).