The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi and Welcome, Adrian. While the QL has the capacity and tools to handle most or all the old (last millennium) languages, you cant really use it to build modern apps. No Ruby, Python or even Java. However, the older languages and the craft of using them is deeply embedded in the archeology of the m...

Is something like this what you had in mind?
Per

Or you could try a different approach altogether: Use BLOCK or WM_BLOCK to draw your seven-segment characters. It has been done before, by W Lenerz. In fact I devised an asynchronous timer toolkit incorporating Wolfgang's code. The timer is perhaps not much use to you as it is designed for use in S*...

Thanks tofro, for your comprehensive response. It all makes sense ;) Ive had a few questions privately about how to get uQLx up and running on the RPi. Well, thats not hard: Basically I started by searching QL Forum - this site - for 'raspberry', and then following the trail down the rabbit hole! It...

Hi guys, I got my 16 year old son a Raspberry Pi kit for Christmas. He believes he hates computers (but I believe I know better ;) After playing around with it for a while, I realised how dauntng it is to start from scratch. Afterall, its not just a matter of plug and play, as, if you were lucky, th...

Hi Norman, 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. Thats what I thought at first, but I couldnt find it in the Turbo manual. I hoped it might have...

Rich, I guess youre right about version numbers. If that is set in stone the test could of course be simplified again. However, it might be worth considering how future updates to Minerva and possibly also QDOS (Classic) would be affected. We're at the cusp of a Minerva V2.xx Perhaps a next version ...

Phill, I only looked at a small part of your code when I replied yesterday. Looking at the whole, I cant just leave it there. You will probably have figured it out yourself, but just for the record Ill spell it out in full. I also made a suggestion to shave off a few bytes. I hope it works, as I hav...

Or try something like Per

Minerva uniquely returns "JSL1" for VER$ (please shout if you know otherwise!). So this string must exist somewhere. However, I dont think the location is documented nor is there a "legal" way to access it. A pity. In SMSQ/E the location of the system identifier is sensibly locat...