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I don't think I've ever celebrated Rabbie Burns night, ever! Nobody in Scotland understands the "Auld Scots" language he wrote in. And as kids in school, we had it rammed down us in, get this, English class. That and bloody Shakespeare. (Spelling?) I won the Burns night at my school a mon...

I guess I should think about adding some mouse support to sQLux (currently it pokes value into memory) If it works for you, why change. QEmuLator basically does the same, just that it‘s triggered from within a QDOS polled task. I realised that when I looked at the source a little after I posted! Ju...

This might have gone unnoticed with all the news, but contained in the lastest SMSQ/E source code is a new version of the PE for QLs: https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/pe/ The new PTR_GEN hopefully fixes the remaining problems/crashes of my strain of the SMSQ/E based PTR_GEN versions. Sorry it took so l...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Sinclair-QL-Rare-Collectors-early-pre-production-model-number-976/133643544714 What does pre-production mean exactly in this case? Small batch run ? Interesting that it was used at the MOD, I had no idea UK gov used Sinclair machines for anything (other than in ed...

Success! :) sqlux.png sqlux2.png I have a few more questions if you do not mind XorA: 1. How d I set the display to be 2x default (is that possible?) 2. Is there a way to swap mdv images while the emulator is running? 3. Just checking I have the latest version, as the runtime output says the versio...

Many thanks, libs installed ans sQLx built :) (Ubuntu MATE 20.10 64 bit). I have copied the .uqlxrc from the uQLx repo, and added it to the dir in which I place dthe built binary. However, when I launch it, I get: ubuntu@ubuntu:/opt/sqlux$ ls -al total 348 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jan 22 15:...

Is the essential package!

stephen_usher wrote: (The UK is the only country to do this.)

Apparently not, it is the result of an EU rule we inherited. EU makes any non EU country business do this now as well!

Well the good thing is customs is so busy f**king around with EU packages stuff from china is arriving unmolested in a few days

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£200 quid with free copy of 198?