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Cool. Many thanks! Also interesting would be MODE4 1024x768, which is no problem under Minerva, but unlike emulators it would not be nice to patch at startup. Does it make sense to re-define F4 on boot, which is least likely to be used? Or add F5? Other ideas? It would be fairly easy to add a DISP_...

New Minerva ROM images have been released for the Q68. These contain an improved keyboard driver. Key auto-repeat is now supported as well as job switching using CTRL-C, and IPC KEYROW emulation.

The ROM images can be found at: https://github.com/SinclairQL/Minerva4Q68

Jan.

If I OPEN_DIR#3,xyz1_ in qemulator, where xyz1_ is a non existing device, or one that has a problem and returns a not found error. I get a 'Not found' error as expected. However if I do the same in QPC2 (v4.05), I do not get any error message. I can even do things like PRINT INKEY$(#3) and some rub...

I've actually done it and it worked. Only problem was it had to be placed the wrong way around

Jan

It would be very interesting to know how many users actually cherish the second slot! Also, if the desicion for full size SD cards was the right one. I use it when booting images of Minerva on a test SD. This way I can access the files on the 'production' SD card in slot 2 without having to copy th...

Hi Tobias ...ram disks grow dynamically with the amount of files you put there... That's it ! The more I write files on ram disks, the less RAM remains that explains why I eventually run out of memory. I always thought the RAM disc size was pre-allocated. Actually you can create a RAM disk of fixed...

Ah, yes: The poke to disable break under Qdos is poke_l 163900, 0. Unfortunately this also disables all other scheduler tasks :evil: (And that still doesnt remind me how I managed to switch break on again. There was a break_on/break_off toolkit out there once. Perhaps that was it?) Actually it disa...

In SMSQ/E just: poke !!$e4,%10000 Theres a similar poke for Qdos, IIRC. Of course, it applies system wide, not to any particular SBASIC, which is what I thought you were asking. Check out the systems variables. There are some more keys there concerning break. Thanks for mentioning SMSQ/E. Should be...

Does anybody know a way to disable or capture break/ctrl-spc in SBASIC yet? WHEN ERR ERR_NC doesn't work (unless I'm doing it wrong) but it could - and perhaps should be the way to do it, right? I've done it back in the '80s when I wrote procedures and functions for Basicode. This included a comman...

We need hardware drivers for the Ethernet port first. Then, a TCP/IP stack (don't know if we could use anything from uQLx or SMSQmulator, they're probably just wrappers for the underlying OS). Looks like a pretty big project to me

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