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Hi Jan, I started out with a BBS with Qbox on a Trump Card QL then progressed to Supergold card and Super Hermes. But started to use Remote Access BBS system on a PC, because of Zmodem, ANSI graphics and more flexibility. I thought your software was excellent, Phil Borman expanded the functionality...

Hi, Why do you not put Qbox onto a QL and connect the QL serial port to a Linux box with port forwarding to allow anyone to connect to a real QL BBS. All that would be required is the QBOX initialisation without a modem and the Linux box to forward internet users through its serial port(s) to the Q...

Great story Jan!!! Yes use Python, is the Mystic BBS ;) All run on VIrtualbox VM via Ubuntu ;) I would like to put all QL files on my BBS, I will be proud to do it!!! And I need some people that can help me with scripts and new features. Do you want to help me in this new project? I will be very ha...

Hi to all folks! I'm proud to advice you all that I'm' online with a Sinclair BBS that is reachable via Telnet or via QTPI on the QL (with TCP/SER support on a PC and a serial cable). The telnet address is: telnet://retrobbs.sinclair.homepc.it This looks really nice! I started my own BBS using home...

Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian...

Hi Urs, I have dual-boot Windows 7 and 10 (both 64-bit). I use Windows 7 as production environment and 10 mostly for testing. I did notice slower performance of QPC on Windows 10. When using my favourite resolution (640x480, upscaled to 1280x960 on the PC display) I got about 1290 on the graphic ben...

Thanks, in idle times I'd like to add to it. I did it because I wanted a version to assemble and hack. I've now had a look at your version - better comments, mine are a bit terse. Regarding my last post, I've added an edit (a Doh! moment). It was done 20 years ago - I now have better info to hand. ...

Hi, I initially thought it nice to code two moves into a single lea lea.l blkBuff(pc,d7.w),a1 ;A1 = blkBuff+d7*4 This is pc-relative with index and will treat blkBuff as an 8-bit offset from the next instruction and add the value of D7 (sign-extended) to it to get the value for A1. It is often used...

Interesting thread, folks :-) I also did a complete commented disassembly of the JS MDV routines if it's of any interest: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/disassem/jsromasm.zip It was quite a while ago now, I think most of my brain cells that held that info have since disintegrated (like the sponge in ...

I'm not sure if a 'lea blkBuff,a0' would be quicker than a 'movea.l' These instructions do different things. LEA means 'load effective address' and only accepts an address as parameter. In the above example, LEA will load A0 with the address of blkBuff. But 'movea.l blkBuff,a0' loads the contents o...