Sorry guys. I don't work in the summer. Nasta finished the design. I'll be back on it when it cools down.

AKA fun times.

It’s a cycle you’ve followed for years. I follow a similar cycle.

I will be away for a whole year in 2021 o 2022. Just setting expectations.

And summer arrived. Nasta always goes radio silent all summer, and I have summer stuff to do!

See you when the nights get shorter!

Things are going slow right now.

I'm investigating a couple of low level decisions about the video system. I'm not really happy with any of the options that have been presented to me, or any I have devised myself. I'm still noodling it out.

I always just used flat files or linked lists. It's not like a QL program usually has complex data requirements. I personally prefer flat files. They occupy more memory, but they are quicker to index and easier to save/load only the specific entries you want if each record set starts on a ^2 boundary.

QUANTA is aaaalmost dormant nowadays.

They still release a regular magazine, but without an editor, that's a tough job.

It's also an option to turn the video display off while the screen is being redrawn, so the redraw happens during the dark spell, if that is the effect you're trying to achieve?

I saw this process at a factory in Basildon in the early 90s. I was buying bulk custom wound to length tapes, and they were buying their tape on huge 20cm*20,000 metre rolls. (or something like that. It was a long time ago.) I went there to pick up 5,000 wound to length tapes. The cutters are circul...

when talking about "Mouse buttons reversed" you should be pointing out "reversed compared to what?" Windows (that sort of nailed the left/right-button usage down) wasn't by far as predominant when the PE was designed as it is today. MacOS only had one mouse button, and X-Windows...

Sorry, what difficulty are you even talking about? The difficulty of having the code modified to use more capable graphics hardware. All this potential video hardware would do is split an already small user base even further, because most platforms would not have this hardware feature. Then we shou...