The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi,

Just rediscovered this git repo with palettes for GIMP and PhotoShop.
https://github.com/SinclairQL/Sinclair- ... c-palettes

Perfect, can I do similar trick with GIMP, can you please help with defining QL palette?

Hi, Nice prog and initial screen, I noticed `title_scr' is some 32798 bytes in length. Is this on purpose? Archive: Pentathlete.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 25077 2020-10-19 13:14 Pentathlete_bas 32798 2020-10-19 13:10 title_scr --------- ------- 57875 2 files How can on...

Hi, Seeking advice re original PSU. l do not quite understand, why the old regulator could let through AC peak potentially causing a damage inside C64, as they say on the net. I therefore thought of replacing 5V voltage regulator. As it is potted inside with epoxy, I would disconnect old one from PC...

Hi, Yes, the language of the 80's. The whole Mac ROM is coded in Pascal [1MB roms, older 512K], some portions in Assembly. Mac resources, are mapped to memory, can be moved around in memory, or purged out. They contain executables or just data, all relative address code. This resembles QL unique con...

Hi bwinkel, I threw out some initialization commands but the cooperative entry point is GetNextEvent Just to complement your nice example of `Globe' spinning in cooperative environment [video posted earlier]. I coded simple app tracking most if not all `System7' events. Sharing code and binary here ...

Hi Ben, Nice video, seeing `Think C' on Mac, remember also using MPW (E.T.O.), that had unix like shell environment, perhaps `Apple-Dot' comes from there, it sill lingers in mem. Re QL, how do you make those blobs, that appear to have some shading perspective, as if the light came from an angle? Res...

Hi Ben,

Nice event loop example, I vaguely remember programmers were also guided to add whenever appropriate, to do some app housekeeping, while it is idle, which is most of the time.
Yes, while(1) or until(0)

QDOS is a bit of a mix between the two Taking best of the two, or a compromise? On RPI Linux, not knowing much about scheduler runtime, I coded simple NET [nRF24L01] server while ( true ) receiveheader() case ( type ) SND: send() RCV: receive() default: waitms( 10 ) end case end while Without some ...

just my experience, cooperative vs preemptive cooperative while (true) /*event - inner loops*/ idle: SystemTask(); // cycles back end while preemptive while (true) /*event - inner loops*/ idle: Waitms(10); // some ms wait end while Cycles back to the system vs wait in order of millis [not to steal t...