The Sinclair QL Forum

Really impressive!

Just to have this documented somewhere: In case you want to run QPC2 v5 on an Apple Silicon Mac, you have to tweak the emulation a bit to get proper keyboard shortcuts. The default settings will not allow you to enter <ALT> key combinations using the "Option" key. QPC2 V5 wants a specific ...

Unfortunately, Wolfgang's documentation describes the raw binary format expected by config. Tony's macros, however (which are a bit fragile and not absolutely obvious to use) are not described there. I seem to recall my original QPTR documentation had some description of the config macros, but more ...

Config blocks work in just about everything, even S*BASIC programs. (It's plain simple, just some embedded bytes with a tag header so Config can find them. No obligation to use any specific compilation approach.)

Hi Norm, I did take it as a light hearted comment But genuinely interested in what a config might look like in the “ QL world” though Maybe, for something like this, pass the string to the code as a parameter at initialisation time in the boot file maybe? (If that’s possible) Many thanks Tony Have ...

Simple answer: You can't just return from an executing job - The system doesn't know where to return to. (Or did you "CALL" that code from BASIC?) The proper way to end a job is to call MT.FRJB with -1 as job id (Which basically tells QDOS "kill me"). Although that code doesn't l...

I'm trying to find a way to run a SuperBasic program from within assembler code The only 2 things I can think of, but I don't know how to do either, is to be able to do an equivalent to LRUN from within the assembler or send keystrokes to the console I'm pretty sure both of these should be possible...

BSJR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:29 am I cannot comment on the HISTORY stuff because I have not used it so far.

I tend to object, you certainly have. The history device is the thing that allows you to do command line recall and editing with the cursor keys. Apart from that, it has indeed not much use as a device.

Can the HISTORY device from Boris also be used with QPC2? In principle it should be possible, but you may have to write a program that links out the history driver from QPC2 and links in the one from Boris. Well, you can do a lot of things - But why would you want to do that? SMSQ/E has a perfectly...

Hi, The Sharp X68000 looks a nice machine, though they are very scarce and are usually sought after, resulting in a high price tag . There maybe more Amiga games available than X68000 games, which may make the better machine not popular. Oh, there's many games for the machine (the Wiki page shows m...