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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Pointer Absolute Position
- Replies: 0
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Pointer Absolute Position
To save me reinventing the wheel, anyone know how (or if?) a program with no open CON channel can monitor the absolute pointer position on the screen? Happy to be told it's not possible or if I'm a fool to even think of trying it. It's for a little personal program which sits quietly in the backgrou...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 312
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Nice! Heard about those instore demo boards, but never seen a real live example. Thanks for the picture.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 312
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Never seen one of those before - what type is it (or is it homebrew) ? As you say, ties up the expansion slot. And depending on where in the memory map that puts the ROMs, might not allow expansions like Trump Card which use space allocated for ROMs to make up the difference between 640K total RAM a...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 312
Re: To Minerva or not to Minerva...
Yes, one of my QLs has a very old QLEA ROM switcher board where I can switch between a Sinclair and a Minerva internally. It even has different colour LED for both. The Minerva could do with updating at some point, it's not one of the more recent ones. The other QL has one of Marcel's QL-SD-ROM devi...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Royal Mail Delays
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1183
Re: Royal Mail Delays
Another postal rant Just tried to order 4 tiny plotter pens from a German supplier and they want £55 postage! The pen price is bad enough but that takes the biscuit I sympathise with this because of my own experience. I sell some old Welsh records, CDs and tapes on eBay and people are forever moani...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Qliberator 2020 Forum edition - toolkit sources???
- Replies: 3
- Views: 196
Re: Qliberator 2020 Forum edition - toolkit sources???
Have a look in https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/qlib/Qlib345s.zip there are some QLIBn.asm files in there not looked in any great detail to check it's what you are after
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Sad news from Italy - RIP Romaldo Parodi
- Replies: 7
- Views: 420
Re: Sad news from Italy - RIP Romaldo Parodi
Sad news. Thank you for letting us know.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: The Welcome Area
- Topic: Old user stepping back
- Replies: 4
- Views: 503
Re: Old user stepping back
Welcome to the QL Forum!
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Happy Birthday!
- Replies: 437
- Views: 225317
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Happy Birthday!
- Replies: 437
- Views: 225317
Re: Happy Birthday!
NormanDunbar wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:24 pm Thanks again! I'm old enough now to be pickled for safe keeping!
Cheers,
Norm.
Hope the birthday and pickling went well.