The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Bubu,
You have underscore _ in your photo of your keyboard. Press shift and the key which has - and _ on it. You really need the beginners guide which came with new QLs.
Use the shift key to access all top characters on the keyboard.
Godd luck..
steve.

Norman, I take it you are referring to Motorola assembler. Who else but Marcel understands PC assembly language?

Hi tofro, On the Turbo front_screen, you can set the Data size to 9999ko before calling CHARGE. (The DATA_AREA command is limited to 850ko). I have no idea what size DATASPACE_TASK can handle, as I don't have a working copy of it available yet. George Gwilt reports that Turbo can't handle very big a...

Per, Your project goes far furher than MATRIX$ does. Matrix$ only replaces a 2D array. That is enough for most programs, unless I allow the matrix$ to have a name parameter. But I have no time to work on this for six weeks...as I have other hats than hobbyist programmer. You could modify the core of...

Hi Emmbee and per, Quanta will be printing the 2D Matrix$ functions in the next issue. They use LRESPR Turbo_sms_code and basic written in SMSQ/E on QPC2. They set up an allocated stack that can handle arrays of at least 3162x3162 floating point cells. Or more if linear rather than rectangular, ie: ...

Hi per, A 1200x1207 SMSQ/E array won't compile and execute under Turbo, as George Gwilt has confirmed. So I couldn't transcode it into C. Now I have a short routine to assign or retrieve floating point variables from any array from dim_matrix$(1,1) to more than dim_matrix$(1200,1207). Where the uppe...

Hi per, I needed to compile a program that could access a 1200x1207 array under Turbo for transcoding to digital C via libCport. Tonight I wrote a program using Turbo_sms_code that can access any dimension of 2D floating_point matrix, and it compiles fine on QPC2, set to 128megs. The only delicate p...

Hi per, Yes, when i wrote for the mags, I tried to keep programs compatible with all platforms. Timing is very important when you use a bare QL... As for assembler, unfortunately I took the QPC2 route, rather than buying a Q60. That was to get email and internet access. My programming is more inspir...

Hi, I seem to remember that the SGC could handle ED disks, and there was a command FLP_JIGGLE 1 needed for compatibility between different disk types, (DD HD ED). The jiggle parameter is saved on the SGC after resetting. SMSQ/E does not have the command. I had set flp_jiggle to 1 under Qdos. Then I ...

I just erased this posting, as it got submitted twice...
steve.