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Martin, interesting you got it going so far, even with some "tricks". However, even if the underlying "device" - in your case a socket, obviously - Is not able to deliver the data requested, it shouldn't crash. The driver routines should come back with the number of bytes read (0...

vanpeebles wrote:We need some mil-spec QLs

Khaki or olive color?

I heard of someone with such little respect for the QL he would even paint it in winter camo. Erm. No he wouldn't. Surely not.

Cheers,
Tobias

Yet another one. http://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1312&hilit=68020 Is more or less the same story, but a different(?) company. The problem is, those guys normally produce for "defense" (military) markets - Just because there's the need and there's the money - mainly, thus i...

What Tobias was saying about calling a system trap while in a system trap. Is something that has concerned me, When the operating system enters the first trap it's in supervisor mode, then when it enters the second trap goes into supervisor mode, which it was already in. But when the second trap ex...

Martin, what you seem to be doing is implementing a stacked device driver (i.e. calling the OS while in an OS trap, thus in a reentrant way). SMSQ/E is not made for that, it can get into all sorts of troubles, most of them relating to supervisor stack issues. What you normally should be able to do f...

You are correct - DevC++ doesn't have graphics functions - like any C you might find.

You can, however, have a look at WinAPI (brrrr.....) or SDL (very much preferred) libraries in order to get at simple to use graphics API for C++.

Regards,
Tobias

I bought my 1st personal Sinclair QL Professional Computer. This changed my life in many ways. To celebrate this I’ve spent an hour today to re-publish the QL chronology webpage which has been taken down by the ISP Swisscom last autumn due to end of service of their xy.homepage.bluewin.ch hosting p...

Tcat, A6-relative just means the adddresses are added on access, so a suba.l a6,a6 ; fast way to clear a6 lea.l string1(pc),a0 lea.l string2(pc),a1 ..... works just as well. You're not in S*BASIC (I hope), so you are free to change a6. In case you need it afterwards (maybe it points to your data spa...

Martin_Head wrote:I've no experience of the new QubIDE clones, so I may not be able to help much more.

The 'new' shouldn't matter much here. The re-make uses the exact same driver as the original.

Tobias

Gents, The '->' is nowhere in a "standard" QL and also not generated by the device driver. It is actually (on the Black Box) generated by the TK2 DIR command. Apparently, TK2 somehow detects whether the device driver in question is at least Level 2, and if yes, generates a '->' for files t...