The Sinclair QL Forum

Regarding CPORT, I bought that years ago, and after running it on a couple of fairly simple programs, never used it again. The code output was pretty dire and I'm not sure it would be all that much more efficient. Maybe I'll dig it out sometime, if my floppies still revolve that is, and have another...

Hi Per, Tobias, What is the DEF_INTEGER on line 100 for? Per If I remember my Turbo correctly, Def Integer means that those variables will be treated as integers and not floating point. Handy for pre SMS* QLs that can't do integer FOR loops, for example. Should run quicker, I think. But that depends...

Evening all, I have set up a Windows XP Virtual Machine on my Linux laptop, running under VirtualBox, and installed the trial version of QemuLator 3.1.2 on it. I downloaded the Libguide zip file from the Quanta web site. With the zip file extracted and the folder it lives in attached as mdv1_ I load...

By the way, the source code should be available from Quanta, I know I sent it to Roy Brereton many years ago, there are two versions libguide and libadmin, generated from the same source files. Libguide is read only while libadmin is read write and has options for admins.

Cheers,
Norm.

Afternoon all, I don't get here much, so please email me if you have something to add - norman (at) dunbar (hyphen) it (dot) co (dot) uk. I wrote the DBAS based version of the library guide many many many years ago, using the DBAS database system and C68. I've had a conversation with Dilwyn, by emai...

Norman, please go on writing! I have much more use for your Assembler articles than for YAIL(*). (*)Yet Another Interpreted Language Morning tofro, Thanks! I never knew anyone other than George read my articles. I have two readers now! ;-) Using an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) between the parser and ...

Porting S*Basic to, say, Raspberry Pi has been going around in my head for a while, plus, (I'll regret this) it's not all that hard at all. ANTLR http://www.altlr.org would be my tool of choice and I'd generate a C interpreter from it, not Java. Then I'd slap a wxWidgets http://www.wxwidgets.org fro...

If all a user has is Notepad, then that program adds the wrong code (CR,LF) to end each line of text (and you also get spacing before each line). Umm, if all a user has is Notepad, then I assume Windows. In which case, most (all?) versions of Windows after 3.11 (!) come with Wordpad as well as Note...

A few people offered to help me get this done (I have no knowledge of Linux). Yes indeed, I was one of them. :-( Sadly, nobody came up with a finished package. Which is sad, because I keep getting asked for a "QL On A Linux Stick" or whatever else it might be called. I'd add a "yet&q...

For Linux users - Norman Dunbar did do some work on trying to create a native system to allow Linux to read QL disks directly - see http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=linux:fs:start Yes, with"some" being the operative word. While I was developing the software, back when time seeme...