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by Wrangler
Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:23 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: TDI and QIMI - compatible?
Replies: 8
Views: 1130

Re: TDI and QIMI - compatible?

Just to close this off, I got a replacement rechargeable battery and that allows the machine to boot fine with the TDI. I then spent ages trying to work out why the mouse would only move upwards, eventually to discover that the Atari mouse I was using was broken <facepalm>. Trying a different mouse ...
by Wrangler
Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:43 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: TDI and QIMI - compatible?
Replies: 8
Views: 1130

Re: TDI and QIMI - compatible?

Aha! I daresay you could be right - the battery doesn't look in the best of shape.

Thank you!
by Wrangler
Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:54 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: TDI and QIMI - compatible?
Replies: 8
Views: 1130

Re: TDI and QIMI - compatible?

Thanks for the replies on this. Having done some more testing, I think the QIMI is broken - even on the machine with no TDI fitted, it's flaky. For example, scrolling a window causes a reset :o So something as simple as FOR a=1 TO 10:PRINT a: END FOR a will trigger a reset when the window fills Any ...
by Wrangler
Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:30 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: TDI and QIMI - compatible?
Replies: 8
Views: 1130

TDI and QIMI - compatible?

Hi, Anyone know if the the Tetroid Disk Interface and QIMI are incompatible? I have a TDI, which is wonderful, but also managed to get a not-known-if-working QIMI. Putting the QIMI in the QL only and I can get to the cursor OK. Add the TDI and I get constant resets on the black screen with the Miner...
by Wrangler
Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:57 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Previously unreleased game
Replies: 7
Views: 2239

Re: Previously unreleased game

You'll need Slug or something similar. Without it, on a GC it's way too fast and on an SGC it's insane. :lol:
by Wrangler
Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:26 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Previously unreleased game
Replies: 7
Views: 2239

Re: Previously unreleased game

I have the source (which assembles with Devpac) but it's not easy to follow!
by Wrangler
Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:17 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Previously unreleased game
Replies: 7
Views: 2239

Re: Previously unreleased game

Here are a couple of screenshots to show what it's like in-game:
Quinquag1.jpg
Quinquag2.jpg
by Wrangler
Sat Dec 18, 2021 2:11 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Previously unreleased game
Replies: 7
Views: 2239

Re: Previously unreleased game

Thanks. Many of the static objects are fatal when touched. The room to the bottom right from the start room is particularly difficult to navigate
by Wrangler
Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:00 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Previously unreleased game
Replies: 7
Views: 2239

Previously unreleased game

It's Christmas (almost), so here is a gift to the community: a QL game I wrote as a teenager in about 1986 which I have managed to extract at last from floppies. In true 1980s ad style, it features: 100% machine code Isomorphic 3D Interactable objects Deadly traps and puzzles lrespr quinquagesima.bi...
by Wrangler
Sun Jun 28, 2015 7:43 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: QL on the internet
Replies: 5
Views: 3029

Re: QL on the internet

Tofro,

Can you reliably load data from the Spectrum to a QL? That was always the problem for any Spectrum/IF1/QL combination I have ever come across or heard about. If you can then that's great! :D
I'm guessing you're using an SG QL? Maybe that's the difference?