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by ajb
Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:04 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Break vector?
Replies: 2
Views: 1028

Break vector?

Is there any equivalent of a break vector that I can hijack in QDOS? I can find no such animal in Pennell or Dickens. I'm after a way for an assembler program to jump to a restart location if a specific key is pressed. I'd rather not do a key row scan as that'd add a substantial overhead. The neares...
by ajb
Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:34 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Today I Received...
Replies: 642
Views: 287702

Re: Today I Received...

NormanDunbar wrote:I have an old Pi 2B+ running PiHole for me on my network
I've an original Model B which has been running my Sendmail/Dovecot server for 8 years solid. It's even got the original SD card. Reliable little things.

Alan
by ajb
Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:07 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: White screen but no problem with Minerva?
Replies: 24
Views: 6676

Re: White screen but no problem with Minerva?

There is also a web-based utility to decode the meaning of the minerva RAM report.

https://www.nightfallcrew.com/minervaram/index.php

HTH

Alan
by ajb
Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:43 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quanta CD
Replies: 17
Views: 10973

Re: Quanta CD

My experience is similar. I've submitted the "Join Quanta" form twice, the first months ago, the second recently having heard nothing. As the silence persisted I used the contact page to ask (IIRC) the membership secretary for advice. The result was an email from the chairman saying that d...
by ajb
Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:14 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Mods to QL Assembly Language Programming book
Replies: 9
Views: 10481

Re: Mods to QL Assembly Language Programming book

Thanks Norm. Good stuff.

Alan
by ajb
Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:19 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Mods to QL Assembly Language Programming book
Replies: 9
Views: 10481

Re: Mods to QL Assembly Language Programming book

OK. Here is the list of things I noted reading through the rest of the book. Most are just minor typos but there were a few oddities along with suggested fixes for them (some where I had to guess what you meant, so beware). A very pleasant read (the book, not these errata). Do you have any recommend...
by ajb
Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:53 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: SETW compatibility
Replies: 6
Views: 1713

Re: SETW compatibility

Thanks, very useful. I always read the manual before using anything like QPC2 in earnest, so I was essentially just giving a first impression of the opening screen in my throw-away remark. For some reason I was expecting the sort of display given by selecting 720x400 on the LHS i.e. the emulator win...
by ajb
Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:48 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: SETW compatibility
Replies: 6
Views: 1713

Re: SETW compatibility

Just make the window bigger like on any other Windows application? What am I missing? Marcel Thanks for the unexpected reply (given that that bit of my post was an OT off-the-cuff comment). The main window I had no problem with - the one that was baffling me at the time (and I suppose still is, giv...
by ajb
Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:22 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: SETW compatibility
Replies: 6
Views: 1713

Re: SETW compatibility

Well at least the good behaviour with SMSQ/E seems to be consistent then (using a massive sample size of 2). I must have a look at QPC2 again sometime. I only had a cursory glance a while back and couldn't work out how to make the emulation window bigger. I've enough documentation to read at the mom...
by ajb
Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:24 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: SETW compatibility
Replies: 6
Views: 1713

SETW compatibility

I've been looking at Norm's example SETW session in Chapter 24 of his QL Today Assembler series. I am finding that SETW works fine under Q-emulator with SMSQ/E loaded (Goldcard_bin). However, when using Q-emulator with JS+Tk2+PE the program crashes after all the window information has been input. Th...