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by tofro
Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Q68 New users and general usage thread
Replies: 242
Views: 91590

Re: Q68 New users and general usage thread

Per,

that's right. None of the QL operating systems (or windowing systems, for that matter) is designed to be able to change display resolutions on the fly.

It might work if you close all windows first, but there's no guarantee.

Tobias
by tofro
Wed Apr 11, 2018 7:30 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: COPYRIGHT
Replies: 25
Views: 10945

Re: COPYRIGHT

In a nutshell: In most countries of the world, it is simply not possible to register a patent on a pure algorithm. Most legislations consider algorithms ideas that cannot be patented (just like mathematic formulas, imagine Phytagoras of Samos would have patented his famous theorem, Bubble Sort, Bres...
by tofro
Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:40 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Testing Tetroid backplane and GC
Replies: 47
Views: 26300

Re: Testing Tetroid backplane and GC

afx wrote: I use SerMouse.
And that is, along with SuperHermes and QIMI (which are both hard to come by these days) probably the most standard way to connect a mouse.

Tobias
by tofro
Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:59 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Hating on my Q68...
Replies: 9
Views: 4673

Re: Hating on my Q68...

But wow, QL desktops are stuck in the past! Well, what did you expect? There's 20 years of development in modern Macs and Windows systems. They ought to handle differently than a QL system. A modern Mac or Windows PC has one (or maybe two) way of doing things. For the same action, a QL has probably...
by tofro
Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:25 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68060 based QL system?
Replies: 112
Views: 41527

Re: 68060 based QL system?

Peter,
assumed you'd be updating the Q60, what sort of bus system do you have in mind?

ISA? Those cards are increasingly hard to come by (for serial, for example)

Something else?

Nothing? (All on a board)

Tobias
by tofro
Fri Apr 06, 2018 1:23 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68060 based QL system?
Replies: 112
Views: 41527

Re: 68060 based QL system?

You easily pay over 500 € to actually get a fast Vampire accelerator Mine (that I have in the Amiga 600) cost €285 to my desk in Germany [*]If you look at anything that was available , the factor was 1.2, not 3, versus Amiga 68060 accelerators. I doubt it would be any faster than a QL-specific 6806...
by tofro
Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:19 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 68060 based QL system?
Replies: 112
Views: 41527

Re: 68060 based QL system?

How realistic is a QL system that would provide a sort of QL base board for Amiga/Atari ST-based Vampire/Apollo accelerators (http://www.apollo-accelerators.com)? They claim to be 3 to for times faster than a 68060. The board is a memory/(FPGA-)CPU/HDMI/SD board for Amigas and STs. A bit hard to com...
by tofro
Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:08 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Problem - Microdrive Cartridges
Replies: 18
Views: 6410

Re: Problem - Microdrive Cartridges

RWAP wrote:
tofro wrote:
Actually it is the Prospero packages which are part of QL/e not Metacomco Pascal so far as I know. :D
Right - My bad. It's the better compiler anyways ;)

Tobias
by tofro
Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:30 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Problem - Microdrive Cartridges
Replies: 18
Views: 6410

Re: Problem - Microdrive Cartridges

Norman,

At least Metacomco Pascal has been released into the open thanks to an initiative of Urs König. All the files (including the PRL, which is in ROM) are part of QL/E, Urs's QDOSSMSQ distribution. I'd propose you pick it from there.

Tobias
by tofro
Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:15 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: C68Port - A (LONG!) proposal
Replies: 22
Views: 8359

Re: C68Port - A (LONG!) proposal

C68 does support ANSI C (and thus, C++-like comments) if you compile with

Code: Select all

-extensions=yes
The preprocessor does, however, sometimes have its problems with that.

Tobias