The Sinclair QL Forum

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.

That might have been my fault, sorry. Try adding an "OFFSET 0" after "SECTION data"

Unless there's here's little nasty gremlins changing the wiring every now and then.