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- Wed May 01, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QSTAR 1
- Replies: 4
- Views: 115
Re: QSTAR 1
Not had time to try it out (I'm useless at games anyway), but looks absolutely superb.
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Pointer Absolute Position
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: Pointer Absolute Position
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...
- Wed May 01, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: CST Ram Plus eproms - CST QDisc v4 issue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 35
Re: CST Ram Plus eproms - CST QDisc v4 issue
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).
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Pointer Absolute Position
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: Pointer Absolute Position
Thank you Per, saved me time writing an equivalent. Not tried it yet, looks a bit like what I would have done and straightforward enough.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Pointer Absolute Position
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: Pointer Absolute Position
The simplest might just be to open a tiny window, eg 0x0a0x0, and read the pointer with RDPT. If you really cant use an open channel for whatever reason there is my S\CRXY and GPT toolkit commands. SCRXY reads the size of the screen and GPT gets the current pointer position - both without the need ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Pointer Absolute Position
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Pointer Absolute Position
To save me reinventing the wheel, anyone know how (or if?) a program with no open CON channel can monitor the absolute pointer position on the screen? Happy to be told it's not possible or if I'm a fool to even think of trying it. It's for a little personal program which sits quietly in the backgrou...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 319
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Nice! Heard about those instore demo boards, but never seen a real live example. Thanks for the picture.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 319
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Never seen one of those before - what type is it (or is it homebrew) ? As you say, ties up the expansion slot. And depending on where in the memory map that puts the ROMs, might not allow expansions like Trump Card which use space allocated for ROMs to make up the difference between 640K total RAM a...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 319
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Yes, one of my QLs has a very old QLEA ROM switcher board where I can switch between a Sinclair and a Minerva internally. It even has different colour LED for both. The Minerva could do with updating at some point, it's not one of the more recent ones. The other QL has one of Marcel's QL-SD-ROM devi...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Royal Mail Delays
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1195
Re: Royal Mail Delays
Another postal rant Just tried to order 4 tiny plotter pens from a German supplier and they want £55 postage! The pen price is bad enough but that takes the biscuit I sympathise with this because of my own experience. I sell some old Welsh records, CDs and tapes on eBay and people are forever moani...