The Sinclair QL Forum

There are three virtual drives for the QL, MDV, FLP and QLX.win. The floppy images that I've used were created using dd to copy the floppy to a single file. I've not dealt with MDV images. Since we are talking about emulators there, why not just use QXL.win files and use MDV and FLP images as read o...

Check out PHGTK (PHoton General ToolKit, including FJPEG, FGIF and FPNG) under the Graphic section of Dilwyn's page. It has a function to write an image (scr I think) to the QL screen. There also a way to convert .jpg to .scr. I used it in one program, but I was not using the PE.

Tim

I've been looking at the first published Othello program (Byte, Oct. 77). Looking at it's code, I've been trying to figure out what version of BASIC it was written for. It has some syntax differences than the BASIC's that I used. The manual's for early versions of BASIC can be found on the Internet....

I think PGP probably needs extra memory. I ran it a few times many years ago. Pretty sure I had a Gold Card then. Jonathan was good at porting a number of Unix tools to the QL (and so did a few others). Probably the most impressive is Perl 4.

Tim

SMSQzine issue #8 has been posted to my website. The direct link is: http://swensont.epizy.com/smsqzine08.pdf http://swensont.epizy.com/smsqzine08.zip I've also updated Structured SuperBASIC to version 2.7.2. I'm not sure if 2.7.1 got released, but it allowed for comments at the end of a line. I als...

I think it was Jonathan Hudson that ported over Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to the QL. There was a time when PGP was considered a munition and had export controls. I'm sure there is now better levels of encryption, but for the QL, PGP is about as good as it gets.

Tim

Two things that I have done is to have a couple of pre-built configuration files. When I run one of the shell scripts, it just copies one of the pre-defined config files to the main config file and then fires up sQLux. I think have a desktop link to the script so I have an item on my desktop that I ...

If I had not purchased my ZX81 in high school, I"m sure it would have eventually bought another computer, but the low price of the ZX81 made it so easy. The ZX81 allowed me to learn how much fun programming could be. That sealed my decision to major in Computer Science in college. In College I ...

The wiki page for conio.h (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conio.h) talks a little about it and mentions curses. If conio could be converted to curses, then it can be compiled for the QL. Graham (XorA) has recently fixed some bug in QL Curses and it should be more stable.

Tim

Looking at that CD ISO, the directory "ARTICLES" is the articles published in the "Tookbook of C". I've compared it with the hard copy version that I have.

Tim