The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi all, I am not sure that is the right thread to post it but... Ill do... :) My Q68 is part of a bigger Lan and it act as a bridge for 2 QL, I mean: " QL NET 1 ----> Q68 (Net 2) ----> QL Net 3" I share the resources of the 2 QL to the other Component of the Lan (PC running SMSQE/emulator...

I had a quick look in Dilwyn's post here, and it seems to have the proper strings in the binaries.

The "Giga" thing used to be part of nearly every program name that ABC Electronic in Germany sold. So, it's likely it was part of their software line (I do, however, not recall a "Fast Plot" toolkit) As a lot of ABC stuff was distributed in the UK through Digital precision, I t m...

That sounds like GIGABasic. Should be on Dilwyn's site.

Jbizzel wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:48 pm

EXCEPT....

DEV_USE FLP - does not work.

Any thoughts are most welcome.

Try

DEF_USEN

instead.

pjw wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:15 pm Still thinking about it..

Will (very) likely be there.

Something I'm still trying to get my head around is the reason behind why, if I compile as file type 2 so that I can use RESPR/Lbytes/Call the QL crashes but if I compile as file type 1 and EXEC or EXEC_w it works fine Is there a particular reason for this please? Many thanks The reason is that whe...

Inside of timerTick, you cannot use a6 to update your variable (it has another value in the polling interrupt routine than in your code and will actually point to the system variables). Instead, you get a pointer in a3, not in a6, to 8 bytes before timerLinkage(a6) - That's because the polling routi...

The QL's RTC is only progressing in 1s intervals. You could use it, but it would make your program crawl The polling interrupt is really the only way you get a suitably fast tick rate.

If you pack your sources and put them here I could have a look at it.

The dev_ device us built in SMSQ/E. There is a loadable device driver for the standard QL, that you probably haven't loaded. You'll find that in the Toolkit section on Dilwyyn's site.