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Tinyfgpa wrote : I assume your screen shot is not of your Q68 The screen shot is of the actual screen display on my Q68. The screen scrape was converted to a .jpg using QT-Image. No PC involved except in the upload to this site. The Q68 has 16 bit colour in 1024x512 mode 33 as one of its screen opt...

Andrew wrote
Charmap - The Final version
now everything works!

Yes it does. Have run it on my Q68. Great I have been thinking or writing something similar myself but there is no need now.

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Andrew wrote My guess is that this is because PE oulines the first created channel, which is the main window and the filemenu is larger than the main window. Yes. The menu extension has a minimum size that it will work with. I wrote that down somewhere but cannot find it now but a minimum size of o...

Hi, The syntax that could work eg 100 location$="flp1_" : REMark or other directory device that contains the Qcon_rext file 110 LRESPR location$&"Qcon_rext" The instructions for using Qcon_rext aught to let you know how to configure Qcon_rext to use SER2. If you do not have a...

Hi,

Congratulations on getting a rare these days, Q40. If you get the answer to your questions I too would be interested as I have an ancient Q60 and would also like to modify it.

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Having done a complete search on my XP PC, the "QXL.win" file is reported as 'not found'. It might not be called "QXL.win". It will have the ".win" extension but might have a different prefix, like QLWA or QXL1 etc. The quickest way to finding where it is is to launch ...

RWAP wrote The serial GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi are possibly too slow to be honest for some of the printer data unless you buffer it (and are used by the Retro-Printer interface). I am using a serial to serial cable to print files from a Q68 and Q60 through my RPi to a remote wifi printer. Baud...

Peter wrote: But there is a Raspberry open source project for converting Epson ESC/P and ESC/P2 dot matrix and inkjet printer data, too. Which is, as far as I know, the basis of the Retro-Printer Derek mentioned. True enough. This is a hardware based project aimed at all sorts of settings including...

Derek Stewart wrote: I do not have a serial port on a Raspberry PI, but have a Retro_printer v3 module, which I connect the Miracle Centronics adpater v2 (v2 is the version shown in the picture), this allows printing to the printer defined in Raspberry PI CUPS printer server. Peter wrote: What do y...

Here is a guess: -

If the label is DP - then could it be the version of MSDOS distributed with PC Conqueror/Solution PC emulator from DP

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