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Really cool. I knew you could put non-line numbered statements into BASIC since I've seen boot files that did that. But never thought of doing a status bar. Curious why it's not more common in long BASIC listings. I added a twirling clock to minesweeper program and it works really well: 10 REMark MI...

I didn't catch this, but my little boot program mock-up that runs both versions of QStar on one microdrive actually didn't work without the ROM version of Toolkit 2 installed (I had done it in an emulator, though I thought I had tested it by configuring with 128K and no ROM add-ons...curious). I use...

Interesting thread, and it seems to be a repeat of one that tofro pointed to ( https://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=56331 ) in his response to mine, so the topic of "to-or-not-to" comes up quite often. I don't personally use TK2 very much but have no problem if it is required since it...

In most cases, it is just better to link TK2 (or any other used toolkit) into the compiled binary instead of loading it in BOOT. That means once your program is done, it will be gone again. With your approach, you might be ending up filling your memory with multiple copies of TK2 (which won't hurt,...

Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 11:19 am Hi,

while soft loading Toolkit 2 is a reasonable thing to do, how do you know whether Toolkit 2 is not already on the system the game is being played?

I soft load TK2 all the time on a machine that has it in ROM and there's never been a problem.

When I started to create the DStar clone my target was set to: pretend it's 1984: write all code from scratch (not port some version created for other machine) ... Please let me know when you will post the video on your channel. Thank you! Hi Andrew, I did a quick mock-up of what I was thinking of....

The switching of players is the variant I saw before. I think I like QStar 1 better. I made it through level 4 and that one took many tries. I also like how, once I make it through a level, if I come back to that level, even if it's only been a few days, it's still difficult to solve as there are so...

This circuit board isn't for the QL (it's a programmable Spectrum Joystick Interface board by Downsway). I can't identify the PiHER 8C2K2 chip. Most I could track down was a PiHER 8C22K and 8C220K chips and still no clear description (maybe a microswitch?)

All my zines and stuff are on my website: http://swensont.epizy.com/ Tim Interesting comparison of Abacus to VisiCalc in issue #8 (you had a typo above with issue 38). The QL software bundle was pretty well developed. It's interesting because the other 16-bit computers at that time came with almost...

Saw this on the news:


Here is their site...revolutionary I suppose :-/

https://www.mellowvans.com/