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by Cristian
Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:48 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: An Animated Christmas and a Motion New Year
Replies: 3
Views: 2131

An Animated Christmas and a Motion New Year

My "recycled" greetings in two versions.

Version for QL tinkerers:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/397 ... /MERRY.zip

Version for everyone:
Image
by Cristian
Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:21 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: QaLendar 2017
Replies: 1
Views: 1013

Re: QaLendar 2017

Thanks!
by Cristian
Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:00 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: TrumpCard modification
Replies: 18
Views: 7517

TrumpCard modification

Recently I heard about an useful modification for some TrumpCard models. It promises to prevent heat and improve stability. I tried some search but with no results. Unfortunately my information are defective: it should be something about adding a resistor on the top-right angle of the board, but I d...
by Cristian
Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:21 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: QL Tinkering
Replies: 24
Views: 13780

Re: QL Tinkering

qbits wrote:Thanks Cristian that’s good to know how’s the speed!
The global speed (on my normal QL, without Goldacrd) is acceptable. The only critical point is the swing preparing and animation.
In any case the game is nice and playable :)
by Cristian
Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:06 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Motion piQtures
Replies: 109
Views: 37946

Re: Motion piQtures

Hi, RLE de/compress routines tested on plain JS-ROM QL, QDOS v1.10 - WORKS!!! On `miaou' screen, the new size after compression is - 16754 bytes, before compression 32768 bytes. On average there seems 50% compression ratio. Great job!! :) If there were some interest, I will put the code into SuperB...
by Cristian
Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:24 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello from Ellesmere Port.
Replies: 13
Views: 7864

Re: Hello from Ellesmere Port.

dinox wrote:the largest was a palaeographic program to reposition the Earth’s ancient plates. This produced a good animation of plate movements over the last 200 million years.
:o
by Cristian
Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:19 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: QL Tinkering
Replies: 24
Views: 13780

Re: QL Tinkering

Hi Qbits,
your golf game is very nice! After a LRUN in my original QL it gives a "Bad name" error, but after a RUN it starts normally.
Yesterday I had been playing for about an hour :-)
by Cristian
Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:11 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: MAME QL Emulation
Replies: 3
Views: 3258

Re: MAME QL Emulation

MAME rules! :)
by Cristian
Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:01 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: The system requirements issue
Replies: 7
Views: 3520

Re: The system requirements issue

We could split the minimum system requirements into two areas: hardware and software. For the sake of simplicity, we could use two almost self-explaining text lines. Here are some examples for the first text line about hardware : Q -> the 128K basic QL Q - ICE Q - 256K - FLP - L2 -> Level 2 director...
by Cristian
Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:05 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: The system requirements issue
Replies: 7
Views: 3520

Re: The system requirements issue

I'm about to develope a proposal for a very simple text-based classification method. Surely it will be incomplete, but at least it will be a basis for further improvements.