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During the summer holidays, I have found a bit of spare time to enjoy myself with playing some old games - So i tried to solve "Voyage of the Beano" on QPC2 - No problems running that with a bit of help from QPC_QLSCREMU and the dev device. Does anyone have some hints (no full solution, pl...

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Jose Leandro here in the forum picked up the work, re-engineered what he had found on Jan's site and built a number of QubIDE+Memory boards.

Tobias

The Spectrum drive I once had formatted, read and wrote perfectly on the QL - Without anything done do it.

Tobias

The loan floppy disk unit that looks to work correctly has a single disk drive rather than a double drive. I take it that this shouldn't be a factor? Hmm. It could very well be the PSU of your dual floppy unit is at it's limit - Maybe it is designed to power a single unit only (Note even if you onl...

swensont wrote: Would be interesting to know exactly who it came from. A collection like this was probably from a long time member of the T/S community.

I wouldn't want to know. Probably a sad story and no happy ending.

Tobias

I am not sure this also applies for binary files, as they get loaded without tape restarting? Binary files are loaded with the QDOS equivalent of LBYTES which uses a quite intelligent (and pretty fast) scatter/gather algorithm that picks all the sectors in a file as they come by (even if out of ord...

Most of the microdrive stuff, excluding some small detail changes in the sector layout (words instead of bytes used) are very similar to how the Sinclair Spectrum microdrives work. The same concepts could have been applied and the same tricks used. The actual programming interface is (kind of) docum...

Maybe I was not clear enough - It's the size the window was defined with and the size the window will open initially - As soon as it's on screen and you resize the window, it will follow the change.

Tobias

What you get with this method is the preferred size of the window - i.e the one it would open initially. The minimum size of a window as you refer to it is not part of the window working definition - It is determined by the resizing code setting a minimum limit and and cannot be easily PEEKed from s...

Giorgio, surely you can (and should) use MSETUP. MDRAW will try to draw the menu. If you, for example, want to find out whether the menu is too large for the current screen resolution, that will already be too late and your program will have stopped with an error message "OUT OF RANGE" alr...