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I wonder if the labelling on the "8049" implies it could be one of the replacement 8049 chips, such as the Schön one? They were intended as anti- keybounce replacements for some keyboards. Had side effect of affecting serial comms in some ways.

The notes against this on my Archivers page state: Unzip 096 - An older, smaller version of Unzip which may run on an unexpanded QL. You may need to use the QZ utility available on this page from the same author to adapt some DOS .zip files (see notes in QZ package regarding MSDOS filenames, for exa...

No, not if I remember correctly.

I used to sell this back in the DJC days. It came in a big box about the size of a ream of paper. It came with protractors, charts, pencils, all sort of things. I never actually played it, though (DJC took too much time so I rarely got to use or write software) :cry: There's a demo version at https:...

Could you package it up to add to my site, please Per. Or let me know which compiler it was with.

There is Unzip 0.96 on my site's Archivers page, which is already suitable for 128K systems. Would be good to have a choice.

Seems a bit counter-intuitive doesn't it to make something into a BASIC program just to get it from one computer to another? A few years ago I had a light-bulb moment when it occurred to me that what I thought at the time to be a silly idea, converting executable programs to BASIC programs, could he...

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Thanks to your idea, I have added this new functionality. Now, when loading the image, it is displayed in the correct mode based on the flash bit. If there is no active flash bit, then it is a mode 8 image. If there is, it will be a mode 4 image. If the original image had any active flash bits then...

can you implement some kind of preview so we can see if the QL screen is mode 4 or mode 8 It's a good idea. I think I could put a switch to toggle between mode 4 and mode 8 before and even after loading the image. But that's going to take me time. I save it under things to do. In one of my early QL...

Quickly googled the book just now, it seems to be going for really silly prices on Amazon and eBay, like £170 per copy. Would love a copy myself, but not at those prices. I looked to see if it was available as an eBook, but it doesn't seem that it is. Assuming I got the right book, was it this one? ...