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Can someone explain what I’m doing wrong? Or what is happening!

Hi All In keeping with my review of the QBITS Progs the File Tidy Program has been amended as part the general up-grade. The Menu has been extended with an EXEC option for _obj files. VIEW can display a file content in ASCII code (alphanumeric) or Hex numbers. An early aspiration was to include a li...

Hi All, Thankfully made some time for a very welcome and therapeutic Tinkering in QL SuperBasic. Still amazed at what can be achieved with this underrated version of the BASIC computing language. Following on with upgrades to the QBITS QLFont Editor and QBITS 3D Graphics I thought I would have a sta...

Hi, Interesting subject QL Compression as for encryption not I suspect the real point of this dicussion but for limited short text check out my Enigma program. Skip over to Help for NEW Users and my QL Tinkering Post to take a look. I have been working on a Special Addition to my QBITS BITMAP Design...

Hi Steve, Thanks for taking a look, the Viewer should be working, press ‘V’ highlight changes – ‘S’ ‘s’ Reset to GMT ‘G’ ‘g’ Grid on/off ‘< >’ left/right chevrons to reduce increase Globe size and the cursor keys to Rotate Globe. Downloaded the prog to check and its running OK with my QPC2 Set up. N...

Hi Martin,
Thank you for the Concept Notes on QSound. For some time, I have contemplated a revamp of my QBITS QLSound Prog and after reading your notes I feel that might be the route to take swapping QSound keywords for the QL BEEP command.

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Hi all, Here’s another in the QBITS suite, the revised and extended 3DGraphics Prog. The accompanying .pdf hopefully will explain all. This Special Edition includes a simulation where you take control of the moving shuttle and try to Dock with a revolving Rescue Pod which can be a little tricky. The...

Hi thanks for your comments.
Researching some of the background to Enigma brought up family connections to WWII my paternal father who past away in 2008 served in Egypt and ended up as a Pilot. Finished his training on Lancaster bombers on 7th May 1944.
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Thanks Dilywyn, your Suggestions implies this simple game could do with a 21st Century Makeover. The challenge starting with some user defined FONTs ie. SKIRun_fnt. For which may I suggest the QBITS FontEdit2SE. Create Flag Posts for the ‘*’ maybe some Fir Trees (simple design) to the sides not forg...

Hi Steve I have been keeping an eye on your progress and downloaded the various Progs to date with interest. I encourage you to keep going. Hope the hospital visits haven’t been to gruelling. SpaceMan_bas Suggestion for User Interface Key controls. Use Left Right cursors for X movement and Up Down c...