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Hi, The syntax that could work eg 100 location$="flp1_" : REMark or other directory device that contains the Qcon_rext file 110 LRESPR location$&"Qcon_rext" The instructions for using Qcon_rext aught to let you know how to configure Qcon_rext to use SER2. If you do not have a...

Hi,

Congratulations on getting a rare these days, Q40. If you get the answer to your questions I too would be interested as I have an ancient Q60 and would also like to modify it.

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Having done a complete search on my XP PC, the "QXL.win" file is reported as 'not found'. It might not be called "QXL.win". It will have the ".win" extension but might have a different prefix, like QLWA or QXL1 etc. The quickest way to finding where it is is to launch ...

RWAP wrote The serial GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi are possibly too slow to be honest for some of the printer data unless you buffer it (and are used by the Retro-Printer interface). I am using a serial to serial cable to print files from a Q68 and Q60 through my RPi to a remote wifi printer. Baud...

Peter wrote: But there is a Raspberry open source project for converting Epson ESC/P and ESC/P2 dot matrix and inkjet printer data, too. Which is, as far as I know, the basis of the Retro-Printer Derek mentioned. True enough. This is a hardware based project aimed at all sorts of settings including...

Derek Stewart wrote: I do not have a serial port on a Raspberry PI, but have a Retro_printer v3 module, which I connect the Miracle Centronics adpater v2 (v2 is the version shown in the picture), this allows printing to the printer defined in Raspberry PI CUPS printer server. Peter wrote: What do y...

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If the label is DP - then could it be the version of MSDOS distributed with PC Conqueror/Solution PC emulator from DP

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Hi,

Digital C SE, a development of a small C compiler can support floating point numbers. Now freeware on Dilwyn Jones site as digic.zip download. Not as sophisticated C compiler as C68.

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Hi Martyn Neither font$ or margin$ could contain CHR$(10). font$ values range from CHR$(249) to CHR$(255). margin$ is just FILL$ CHR$(32) whatever the margin setting is in the Quill doc. I am planning to have a look at what Norman Dunbar's hexdump filter captures, which should tell me which end of t...

Hi Norman,

Thanks for that suggestion. I will have a look at what is going through the pipe with your programs.

Cheers