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- Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:49 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: QL Forum Virtual Meetup 2020 / Birthday Bash
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2425
Re: QL Forum Virtual Meetup 2020 / Birthday Bash
Count me in please - you've got mail.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:01 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: centronics interface schematics???
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1210
Re: centronics interface schematics???
Hi, The Raspberry PI can indeed be connected to other computers via the serial port connection accessed by the GPIO pins. I do not seem to find a use for this, as the Raspberry PI, while good product at a low price, is a slow Linux computer compared to the Core i5 computers I have running my Virtua...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:25 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Sam the Little Spaceman
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4963
Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
That's Norman's docs that say "preserved after TRAP#4" - Other's don't. I guess that's more of an observation than a system commitment. From a JS disassembly I can determine that A1 isn't preserved at all. The only thing a TRAP#4 does is to set a bit in the job header, which is read by th...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Sam the Little Spaceman
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4963
Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
Its a documentation bug if anything. The official documentation, ie QL Technical Guide, now QDOS/SMSQ Reference Guide, has always stated that A1 gets smashed during the IO.OPEN call. The QDOS/SMSQ Reference Guide is now in version 4.5, available from Dilwyn's cornucopia. While its not perfect it wi...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:53 pm
- Forum: QL Emulation
- Topic: Another noob question: ROMs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 981
Re: Another noob question: ROMs
AH never had the "dongle" - These were "PM" and "FB" (jokingly purported to mean "PreMature" and "Full of Bugs", but actually, the initials of developers were used, I think). If you download a PM ROM, for example, from Dilwyn's site, you'll see it o...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Returning values from a basic extension function
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1738
Re: Returning values from a basic extension function
I finally managed to debug my basic extension... it turns out that there are some name table entries with a name pointer of FFFF, and things went screwy when I tried to follow them into the name list. They are SBasic variables of some kind (maybe unused or invalid or something?) , so obviously when...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:51 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Dr. Jim's QL Dumping Ground
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2343
Re: Dr. Jim's QL Dumping Ground
QLAY and QL2K need the NFA.ROM for emulating file access, SER and PAR ports and the like. This ROM is usually located at $C000. Qemulator doesn't need this as the functionality is already built-in. You can specify Toolkit II as a second ROM in QLAY/QL2K at address $C0000 (note 4 zeros rather than 3)...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: QL Emulation
- Topic: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2592
Re: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?
I have a Raspberry Pi model 3B which runs the ARM v7 version of uqlx successfully at a speed about 100 times the original QL.
Have no idea though whether it works on the original Pi. I suspect it will be somewhat slower but still faster than a BBQL.
Jan
Have no idea though whether it works on the original Pi. I suspect it will be somewhat slower but still faster than a BBQL.
Jan
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: Help for New Users
- Topic: The background to my presence here
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3128
Re: The background to my presence here
Yes, my mistake. But even windows directories with a qlay.dir file do not work in QL2K. I tested it with the sample directory from Qlay2 dir win1_ returns "not found" when win1_ si mapped to the sample directory WIN, which has the qlay.dir file Have you imported the file names using qlayt...
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:52 pm
- Forum: Help for New Users
- Topic: The background to my presence here
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3128
Re: The background to my presence here
I downloaded QLay2 and extracted from the archive the WIN and MDV samples and tried to use them wih QL2k They do not work ! if i load the mdv file as MDV1_ then QL2k starts but no cursor is shown if I load .win file as WIN1_ then QL2K starts, cursor it shown and you can write and run programs, but ...