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by NormanDunbar
Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:08 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Metacomco ROMs - Damn, Buggery, Blast!
Replies: 2
Views: 1673

Re: Metacomco ROMs - Damn, Buggery, Blast!

Thanks Rich. I thought as much, but wasn't 100% certain.


Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:40 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Metacomco ROMs - Damn, Buggery, Blast!
Replies: 2
Views: 1673

Metacomco ROMs - Damn, Buggery, Blast!

After getting my microdrives imaged for me recently, I finally got around to looking at Metacomco C and Pascal. So, off I went to the storage department in the garage where my QL stuff now lives. No bl00dy ROMs. Futtocks. I've searched high and low without any luck. I am depressed now. I would love ...
by NormanDunbar
Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:23 pm
Forum: Links to QL Services and Websites
Topic: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online
Replies: 64
Views: 81267

Re: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online

This arrived in my inbox tonight: Hi, We wanted to make you aware that on Saturday August 18 at approximately 10:00am PDT (1:00pm EDT, 17:00 UTC), Read the Docs will be having a scheduled downtime of approximately 4 hours. During this time, we will be moving our service to our new home on Microsoft ...
by NormanDunbar
Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:19 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Computer/shipping/work woes...
Replies: 12
Views: 11323

Re: Computer/shipping/work woes...

Have fun Dave.

Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:39 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 8301 (ZX8301, the QL's Master Chip MC) - facts and figures
Replies: 69
Views: 29703

Re: 8301

By the way, thanks so much for your texts, this is pure nerd porn. I think I must collect them one day in one big volume
Or, on the QL Wiki? ;)
by NormanDunbar
Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Who was online ...
Replies: 2
Views: 2789

Who was online ...

Just saw this: Who is online In total there are 15 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 12 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes) Most users ever online was 111 on Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:10 am I'm wondering what happened on Friday September 9th 2016, at 02:10 AM to get 111 of us, o...
by NormanDunbar
Sun Jul 22, 2018 10:10 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello from Romania
Replies: 4
Views: 3936

Re: Hello from Romania

Bună ziua Andrew, bine ați venit pe forum.

Cheers,
Norm.
(No, I don't speak Romanian, Google translated for me!) ;)
by NormanDunbar
Sat Jul 21, 2018 3:56 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: QDOS gcc made easy (docker stylee)
Replies: 25
Views: 19214

Re: QDOS gcc made easy (docker stylee)

Here's one I prepared earlier: 00003fa0 04 04 04 04 4e 18 1a 18 04 04 98 08 06 01 08 00 |....N...........| 00003fb0 58 54 63 63 00 00 03 70 |XTcc...p| The last 8 bytes, in QL big endian format, shows that this application needs a data space of $0370 bytes (880 decimal), however, it appears that the ...
by NormanDunbar
Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:28 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Cross-Chase
Replies: 24
Views: 13986

Re: Cross-Chase

[quote="XorA]You can just extract the image inside the docker and use it as a chroot. Thats what I was doing until it occurred to me I could wrap the chroot up in docker to upload it for easy consumption.[/quote] Speaking as someone who has never touched Docker, or any other containers, how wou...
by NormanDunbar
Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:18 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Cross-Chase
Replies: 24
Views: 13986

Re: Cross-Chase

Morning Fabrizio,

I tried.
I failed.

My Linux box is way too modern for the version of qdos-gcc required I'm afraid. :(

Good luck.


Cheers,
Norm.