The Sinclair QL Forum

Steve Poole wrote
I seem to recall that the rights belonged to Alan Sugar Trading ?

I think that Amstrad, who had the rights, were sold to BSkyB (Sky UK) around 2007 so it might be Sky who now possess the rights to QDOS and the Sinclair hardware.

Cheers

Decompiling program code that you own to see how it works is not illegal. So decompiling CPORT and CFIX should be OK as would be patching or amending them for ones own use. But it could be challenged if the decompiled code was passed off as your own, or snippets of decompiled code were used to enhan...

Or us a QL program like EddIcon which is a sprite editor, load the sprite, and save it out as a .bmp file. Load the .bmp on a PC to a program such as irfanview and save out as a .png.

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I have seen something similar with QD, sms/e and the Q68 with Sbasic files. I have always assumed it was most likely due to forgetfulness on my part to properly save the program I have been working on, but sometimes I have wondered if it was because I was using the same file name and saving over the...

Hi Andrew I have not seen that page and am not certain what you are looking for bu on Dilwyn Jones Downloads http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/sprites/index.html there are a number downloads including a sprite system by Herbert Zenz for working with games sprites but I have never used it. If you have access t...

Hi Andrew,

You might like also to take a look at FREAD and FWRITE in the TinyToolkit. FREAD reads a number of bytes from a channel into memory at a given address. Syntax :

bytes_read=FREAD(#chan,buffer_address,size_of_bytes_to_read)

Tiny toolkit is on Dilwyn Jones toolkits downloads page.

Cheers

Hi Andrew, Toolkit 2 : For example. BGET#ch\position_in_file,a$(1 TO number of bytes) a$ should be DIMed to the number of bytes to be read. The file position should be set to 0 or further on in the file as required, and the channel opened to the file. The string can be POKED in to memory if required...

Hi Andrew,

You might like to try this http://www.gwicks.net/downloads.htm as you can download Geoff Wicks program QL2PC which converts Quill and Perfection documents to rtf format, text and html.

Cheers

Hi Bill

Here is one from the book that I have typed in - the assembly listing to show the QL's 2 screens without Minerva, if you are interested. Cheers

Artificer

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