Re: ROMs and GUIs
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 8:29 pm
I think you're finding out rather quickly that for anything other than use as a 128K RAM microdrive only QL, the machine can be a right royal pain for newbie users!
Exapnding it is so fraught with pitfalls, no two expanded systems are alike, that's probably why nobody ever wrote a guide to this early stage. Even a fairly detailed page like my PC transfer and Unzip page can't possibly hope to cover every eventuality - that's why asking here at each stage when things go wrong is probably the best way once trial and error has led to error.
Also, it helps if any error messages are given as although QL error messages can be vague sometimes, occasionally they do help pinpoint sources of error. Hopefully, we'll get you up and running soon and your confidence in the system will grow and you'll start to find preferred applications for the systems, be it games, writing your own BASIC programs, or whatever. That tends to be my little niche for the QL, writing programs - I give them away on my site where I think they might be of use to others.
Exapnding it is so fraught with pitfalls, no two expanded systems are alike, that's probably why nobody ever wrote a guide to this early stage. Even a fairly detailed page like my PC transfer and Unzip page can't possibly hope to cover every eventuality - that's why asking here at each stage when things go wrong is probably the best way once trial and error has led to error.
Also, it helps if any error messages are given as although QL error messages can be vague sometimes, occasionally they do help pinpoint sources of error. Hopefully, we'll get you up and running soon and your confidence in the system will grow and you'll start to find preferred applications for the systems, be it games, writing your own BASIC programs, or whatever. That tends to be my little niche for the QL, writing programs - I give them away on my site where I think they might be of use to others.