The Sinclair QL Forum

Derek_Stewart wrote:Great software again Norm.

Nothing to do with me Derek! I only modified it to cope with ED disc images, and changed lots of globals and variable names to try to make the code a bit more readable. As they say, "I stand on the shoulders of giants".


Cheers,
Norm.

XorA wrote:Sent a pull request to the project for MacOS support!

Thank you. The merge has been done on both repos.

Cheers,
Norm.

Thanks.

I downloaded the latest, and was compiling for osx. I think I mailed you about it. https://github.com/SinclairQL/qltools or https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools are where you should be getting the source from. The current version is 2.15.6 and writes dd/hd/ed images at full size as opposed to 2....

spkr wrote:Then I found that the Unix build target doesnt work, without additional effort.

Which source did you use? I did a lot of work on qltools some time back, all on Linux.

Cheers,
Norm.

So Norman, I finally merged most of your changes in FPC.patch8a.zip. I removed the old sysvars example, as it's quite messy, and the two current examples we have are enough. I have no problem with your decision. Happy to be led by someone in the know, as opposed to someone (me) who is making it up ...

dilwyn wrote:Sadly, I have to agree with Norman on this one.

A lot of people feel sad when they find themselves agreeing with me!

Hope you are well Dilwyn.


Cheers,
Norm.

Really there is no monetary value in this software anymore and no copyright holder would pursue a legal challenge from any of the software from the 1980s. In a word, good luck on that front. Copyright exists for decades -- 70 years -- so any work from the 80's is still copyrighted -- unless and onl...

As far as I remember, this occurs on C68 as well. I wrote something years ago and suffered. I had to turn off buffering to make it work.

Cheers,
Norm.

First, you used {$PACKRECORDS 1} for this SystemVariables type. Hmm. Usually I code in C/C++ and not Pascal. However, when I'm coding on the PC to read QL structures, I always have to pack the structures to get the correct offsets. I suspect this was simply "muscle memory" in action. I've...