The Sinclair QL Forum

Well, I thought that was obvious Amazingly not for me, which is why I asked the question. One thing I did not learn from Covid was how to interact electronically. No zooming facebooking or tweeting for me I'm afraid to say. My brother zooms like mad (he works for the NHS) and I have occasionally wa...

tofro posted:- How about you begin again, maybe even as a common interest group with multiple participants, then, as soon as you reach a stumbling block ask here? Me (and, I think everyone who has experience with QPTR and BASIC) are perfectly willing to help in case you get stuck. The long winter e...

BSJR posted:- There was also an 11 part series of lectures about QPTR in QL-Today by Wolfgang Lenerz , explaining in more detail what was missing in the manual. (See volume 7 issue 2 to volume 9 issue 3.) Some time ago I posted the lectures as a PDF file. I attach the file again here:- Lenerz qptr....

Like you I have been spending a bit of time learning to program in SBASIC. My original interest was in SMS2. SMS2 has a high resolution QPTR SBASIC programming environment built into it, (see forum post SMSQ/2 on Atari page 8) and I still use this form of programming in SMS2 and SMSQ/E. I have exper...

PE_BGON does the trick. Thanks for the tip. I don't know what the CON setting does. Its NO/YES setting has no effect on background updating. One more session and I think I will have my Q68 looking like my QPC setups. I use mode 4 (1024 x 768) in monochrome for maximum display performance. None of th...

My on-off use of the Q68 has been a partial success so far. I have been trying to configure the Q68 to look like my high resolution QPC setup and, in the process, have "mashed" the contents of quite a few 4GB SDHC cards. I am now able to easily format and partition FAT16 cards using Linux ...

I am glad you like it. It's not quite finished. It was designed around three particular Chinese components which may be difficult to find again, even though I bought them this year. The case is printed in four pieces because my printer is not large enough to print it in one go. The key board is sepa...

Again, thank you all for your help. I have finally managed to create a correctly partitioned SD card and have it recognised in slot 2 of the Q68. The process of learning to partition and format as FAT16 an SD card was certainly time consuming but the problem of getting the Q68 to read from slot 2 la...

My Q68 was set up as per Dereks instructions. I was hoping that I had missed something. One thing that is different is the version of SMS/QE that I have. The options shown by Derek do not exist on my version which appears to be 3.34. How does one clone the Q68 SDHC card and how can I grab a screen i...

Derek and Martin Head, I thank you both for your replies. They are bit too technical for me but they have proven useful. Are Martin and I really the only Q68 owners wanting to use a FAT card? Thanks to your clues I have already created two bootable Linux Distros with the Unix tool required to create...