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I've had to get quite angry with some people (all in the English speaking world) As opposed to the Welsh speaking world, you mean? ;) :D I hope that was intended as a joke as I find the reply extremely offensive. You have to be part of a minority to understand how offensive minorities find their tr...

I do like my Mice (Icon Controlled Environment) plug-in ROM device. Love the old look to the Icon environment. And it's totally weird seeing "D Jones" and knowing that it's not actually Dilwyn this time ;-). Totally and absolutely not guilty! It's been the source of many a mistake over th...

I've attached an early preview of version 2 of QLirc. This is very much a work in progress and should be regarded as an early alpha test version. Tim Swenson's original QLirc demo originally released here was taken and developed with his blessing, thanks Tim. I've enhanced the program now to the poi...

In the next few weeks Ill be launching a not for profit and open soure project on either kickstarter or indiegogo. Aim is to crowd fund and crowd develop a range of materials to reduce contagion in shared spaces - deployable in a variety of settings. Could likely be extended to trap undesirable stu...

Can I have one of these!

Not directly related to the original title of this thread, as others have shared their floppy disc information, here's my contribution. I have two USB floppy drives, the first an unbranded Chinese one just vaguely marked "FD-05PUB" (identified by Windows as a "Mitsumi USB FDD 061M&quo...

Runtime QL Archive - http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/psions/archrtm.zip

Example USR function: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/psions/usr.zip

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Worth adding here perhaps a couple of caveats about fonts. Most fonts have characters in a set range, say space (CHR$ 32) up to copyright (CHR$ 127). But such fonts will have a default character too, whichis usually one character code lower than the first character. The standard QL font, for example...

International Cricket and Bullshot are available on games page of my website http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html (Bullshot is under "Darts"). Do both/either of those versions require more than 128k RAM? Not had time to check. In the cricket zip file, one of the files is marked as cri...