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I started my attempt to create a screen grabber that will save in a format readable on other operating systems. I chose the Netpbm format (PPM, binary P6 variant) because it is a very simple and broadly supported picture format that can be displayed by Preview.app on macOS, by GIMP on Windows/macOS/...

Not for sale yet, just a topic to see if there's any interest. ... /Chris I would like to get one complete. My second QL has an awfully empty expansion slot. EDIT: After a talk with Dex, if the QubIDE has the possibility to disable onboard RAM and will have a pass-through bus, then please make it t...

Attached is a SBASIC program I use routinely to grab a full screen and save as a pic, called scrot after the linux app. Thanks for the BASIC. I managed to save the VRAM contents when I played with Dex's Q68 during last weekend and then converted it on PC with a short Python script I wrote and GIMP ...

I wonder - is there any screen grabbing utility that could save screens in modes available on Q68 to any format directly readable on other computers? I searched through Dilwyn Jones Sinclair QL Pages and all I tools that I found were for MODE 4 / 8 screens only. Thanks for pointing me to the right p...

Hi, During the last weekend dex was kind enough to let me use his Q68 for the whole two days, and I came to the conclusion that I want one. And because it was quite a big computer event, the person sitting next to me had the same opinion. Derek, please, would it be possible to get two from the next ...

Hello, my name is Martin, and I am new here :) And not only am I new here on the forum, but also to QL. I am a long-time ZX Spectrum user, because in the 1990s it was the only computer cheap enough here in Central Europe to be affordable for a kid, but being born just two months before the QL, I mis...