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I've just realised the EXTRAS command doesn't work as expected in a daughter SBASIC job in SMSQ/E (QPC2). It lists the keywords of the commands I've typed in. For example: I open a new interpreter with the SBASIC command. I type "DIR ram1_:PRINT 0", then "BEEP 1,0" and finally &q...

I'm writing a program in SBASIC (with QPC2 on Debian+Wine), and I need it to show some grey scale pictures in a window. The BMPCVT toolkit (by W. Lenerz) adds a keyword that does what I need: WL_BMP8LOAD. The manual says it loads 8-bit (256-colour) BMP files, but it seems to load higher colour resol...

Great experiment. I've run a Jupiter Ace emulator for SAM Coupé, running as the SIMCoupe emulator...! There's also a VIC-20 emulator for ZX Spectrum that can run on an emulated ZX Spectrum, e.g. with Spectator on QDOS on Q-emuLator on Wine on Debian...! Emulation is fascinating, and recursive emula...

Here you are my wish list for a future version of Q-emuLator: Compressed disk images Disk images can be compressed a lot. It would be nice if the emulator could manage them compressed with either zip or gzip: disk1.img.zip disk2.img.gzip The actual zip and gzip command line executables could be conf...

I've been trying my registered Q-emuLator 3. It's awesome. It was impressive seeing it copy the content of old QDOS 360 KiB 5'25 inches disks into new disk images! Nevertheless I've found several minor problems. I already contacted Daniele Terdina about them. I wonder if someone else has noticed the...

Only Q-emuLator can currently handle disk images and that was added to v3.0 Also UQXL can. It is too late down the road now to create floppy disk images, and also you have to remember that the vast majority (99.9%) of QL software supplied on disk could always be transferred onto other media quite r...

b) QPC2 does nothing with the information so far as I am aware and it is lost if you save a file to DOSx_ drive. I keep all my docs, data and program sources in DOSx_, so I can manipulate them also with external tools (even the boot file, loaded by a fake one in the WIN file); the installed program...

I've seen the following link in the Spanish QL Forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pgVwzAZ6k

I think it's a very interesting document.

Yes, provided that it is a QL formatted floppy, they should work in all emulators and the QL, whatever you have used to get the files onto it. I wonder why the zip format has become so popular for QL online software distribution. I think disk images are much better (or even microdrive images!). You...

I've just ordered Q-emuLator 3.00 for Windows. The new features in Q-emuLator 3.0 are worthwhile. I was waiting for this version. I will be able to try it soon. Some months ago I bought QPC2, because I wanted to work with SMSQ/E and SBASIC without the restriction of the emulation of the original mac...