The Sinclair QL Forum

The strange problem I suffered with Q-emuLator and Display Toolkit has been solved; well, the problem is not solved but at least it has an explanation. Daniele Terdina, the Q-emulator's author, has confirmed the problem is the combination of a bug in the MGx ROMs with a patch in the emulator: you hi...

Hi there, does anybody know how to build ".qlpak" - files for the Q-Emulator. Me! :) The information is missing in the Q-emuLator manual, but some time ago I tinkered a bit with the demo QLPAKs Daniele offers in his site. They are ordinary ZIP files with the extension changed to QLPAK. Th...

Thank you Paul for the good information and the good memories. Forth is my favourite programming language. I used it on the QL too, both SuperForth and Computer One's, but not so deeply to find out those bugs! The Forth I use the most nowadays is Gforth . But for a new project I'm trying the combina...

After many tries, I've found out a clue: Display Toolkit is not properly installed in Q-emuLator (the last version, registered) when the MGE ROM is used and the speed is 100% of QL's: if MGE and speed=100 then PROBLEM if MGE and speed>100 then FINE if JS then FINE if Minerva189 then FINE I don't kno...

I have just tried your program using the MGE_ROM, Q-emulator and the DISPLAY_cde from the Sinclair QL Homepage - http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/display2.zip Maybe the version of display_code you have has a bug (or is a different toolkit)? Thank you for the try and the idea. I downloaded the toolkit aga...

Iterate through the list using DEVICE_STATUS (d$&"BOOT") from Turbo toolkit Thank you for the idea. But I was searching for a more general solution: The first requirement is to include any drive number (e.g. dos3_, mdv4_), not only the 1, to let the user boot the program by hand at an...

The problems with the JM ROM are no doubt due to the fact that you cannot generally use a toolkit in the same program which initiates the toolkit on the JM ROM (this was fixed in JS ROM). I didn't know that. I tried the JM ROM just to get any clue comparing different ROMs. The ROM I need for the pr...

I'm having problems with Display Toolkit's DMODE (and sometimes also with FLIM_H and FLIM_W; other keywords work fine) in Q-emuLator. It seems those keywords are not properly linked in with the MGE ROM (sometimes also with JM) under certain conditions I don't understand. JS and Minerva (1.89 and 1.9...

"Command ABC1_filename", if this can be put into a string, then the drive ABC1_ could be extracted I thougth about that too and did some memory searches, just to take a look, but found nothing usable. The command could be "command filename", and the system would use the DATA_USE...

However, if you use the PROG_USE and DATA_USE commands in Toolkit II to set up the default program and data devices, you can access them with PRINT PROGD$ and PRINT DATAD$ I know, but the problem is I'd like to know what the current device is, to set DATA_USE accordingly. The advantage is the user ...