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- Mon May 06, 2019 2:34 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Making QL Software More Accessible
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6590
Re: Making QL Software More Accessible
That's sort of the problem I was looking at when I started on the QLFiler program - being able to read the various formats and ultimately interchange them. It's possible to read QL _zip files and write them to .win containers on a standard PC. All of the needed information is there. Historically, th...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:04 pm
- Forum: QL Emulation
- Topic: Zip to MDV
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10234
Re: Zip to MDV
The compilation problems were why I started QLFiler in Java - it can read .zip .mdv and .win files and 'just works' on any system with a Java runtime. However, there didn't seem to be any interest in the project so I didn't go any further with the needed write functions to save out .mdv files. Code ...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:33 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: New (old) game: Rockfall
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5890
Re: New (old) game: Rockfall
So you did. I got confused with Derek's comment that it ran too fast! Trying to juggle too many projectsmk79 wrote:Which was exactly what I said happened?
Marcel
Thanks for your help. I'm pleased to get this into a good (well, better) state.
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:54 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: New (old) game: Rockfall
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5890
Re: New (old) game: Rockfall
Not sure if the fix will improve things on emulators - in theory, if the poll routines weren't working, the game would just hang rather than running fast. (I think - end of a long week!)
Anyway, I've rebuilt with the moveq change and the links in the first post point to updated files.
Anyway, I've rebuilt with the moveq change and the links in the first post point to updated files.
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:07 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: New (old) game: Rockfall
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5890
Re: New (old) game: Rockfall
That's interesting... amazing it works at all :) QDOS doesn‘t seem to mind, but SMSQ/E does, which is why your poll routine was never linked in on QPC. Makes sense. It looks like I got the old trap calls right (when I originally wrote the code) but the newer poll stuff wrong (blame my rusty 68000)....
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:02 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: New (old) game: Rockfall
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5890
Re: New (old) game: Rockfall
I use the interrupt poll to increase a timer, and then check the timer whenever I'm in a time sensitive routine. The full source code is here: https://gist.github.com/atoone/615204d6faec0c4993b299130b2b3db7 The interrupt handler is down at the bottom. Look for 'poll_routine' Thanks. You need to use...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:00 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5560
Re: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
If I understand it, the QL Emulator access to windows directories relies on a 'header file' in the directory being mapped as a drive? Is this documented anywhere? My end goal is to be able to transfer files between .zip, .mdv and .win files seamlessly, without having to run a specific emulator or in...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: New (old) game: Rockfall
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5890
Re: New (old) game: Rockfall
I use the interrupt poll to increase a timer, and then check the timer whenever I'm in a time sensitive routine.
The full source code is here: https://gist.github.com/atoone/615204d6 ... 130b2b3db7
The interrupt handler is down at the bottom. Look for 'poll_routine'
The full source code is here: https://gist.github.com/atoone/615204d6 ... 130b2b3db7
The interrupt handler is down at the bottom. Look for 'poll_routine'
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:10 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5560
Re: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
Tongue in cheek theremartyn_hill wrote:Don't be discouraged - our Mr Stewart is ever the pragmatist!.
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:43 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5560
Re: QL Filer - New in 2019 - Archive media extractor
Thanks for the encouragement, I won't bother with any more software for the QL. If it doesn't suit your needs, then don't use it :) The problem (for me at least) is that QPC and the others are really not very good at exchanging files with PCs or Macs or Linux - and I want to be able to get files out...