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- Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:27 am
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: DALL-E
- Replies: 1
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DALL-E
DALL-E 2 is an AI system that creates images in a variety of styles given a text description of the image. Here I've asked it to create a landscape from descriptions of the splash screen of the game Zkul for the QL. In the first result, the skull was too small: zkul1.jpg Here are nine more attempts ...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:05 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7000
Re: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
Probably related to a tape emulation fix I did just after 3.1.4 for programs that read sectors without reading the sector header first.Martin_Head wrote: Also Daniele's patched program, and Andrew's work round. Don't work on the old (V3.1.4) copy of Qemulator on my PC. It works OK on V3.3.1
- Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:22 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7000
Re: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
Here is the restored master cartridge: Oxford Game Original Restored.zip I also looked into the copy protection and it checks that sector 0 has not been changed. Initially, copying the files from the backup to the master didn't work: it turns out that the file 'cross' has different contents! It's pr...
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:12 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7000
Re: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
I'd love to know how that's done. Because we don't actually know what the copy check is checking for. Will you establish what the copy check is checking for and then make sure that feature is part of a new file? The basic idea is to only copy over the damaged file sectors, leaving everything else a...
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7000
Re: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
Based on Andrew's experiment, the two versions of the cartridge seem compatible as far as the copy protection goes.
I should be able to merge them into a single working master copy.
I should be able to merge them into a single working master copy.
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:28 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7000
Re: Oxford Trivia corrupt cart fix, Pascal?
Missing sectors are usually caused by the sector header area being corrupted on the tape.
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:47 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: CPLD replacement for ZX8301
- Replies: 230
- Views: 51418
Re: CPLD replacement for ZX8301
Would video output also benefit from ESD protection?lliont wrote:also has a cd4050 buffer for the video signal for better quality but I haven't ordered it yet.
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:27 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: QL ROM switcher
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15828
Re: QL ROM switcher
If I turn off the C000-FFFF area in the ROM switcher, can I use an external ROM cartridge?
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Win in Pascal
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2841
Re: Win in Pascal
Different views of insufficient data don't make a conspiracy. Fair, and I think whether Pascal was used is a legitimate and interesting question! Marcel's link settles it as far as I am concerned, as I think if using Pascal was the main reason for the calling convention, Raymond would probably know...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Win in Pascal
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2841
Re: Win in Pascal
Btw, some early sources related to early Windows/MSDOS can be found here:
MSDOS 2.0: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0
Windows File Manager: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
MSDOS 2.0: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0
Windows File Manager: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile