Woohoo!

Those printers are quite advanced. It could be a number of things. It defaults to IBM mode and needs setting to Epson mode. It defaults to bidirectional parallel and can be set to input only (it can hang if it sends a job complete message and gets no response) The QL may not be "ending" pr...

The red CPU sockets Sinclair used in QLs are really terrible. They will not reliably support any sort of daughter card at all. More than half of the problems with intyernal memories that used that socket were because of the socket. It would definitely be more reliable (and easier!) to put the CPU an...

Sorry guys. I don't work in the summer. Nasta finished the design. I'll be back on it when it cools down.

AKA fun times.

It’s a cycle you’ve followed for years. I follow a similar cycle.

I will be away for a whole year in 2021 o 2022. Just setting expectations.

And summer arrived. Nasta always goes radio silent all summer, and I have summer stuff to do!

See you when the nights get shorter!

Things are going slow right now.

I'm investigating a couple of low level decisions about the video system. I'm not really happy with any of the options that have been presented to me, or any I have devised myself. I'm still noodling it out.

I always just used flat files or linked lists. It's not like a QL program usually has complex data requirements. I personally prefer flat files. They occupy more memory, but they are quicker to index and easier to save/load only the specific entries you want if each record set starts on a ^2 boundary.

QUANTA is aaaalmost dormant nowadays.

They still release a regular magazine, but without an editor, that's a tough job.

It's also an option to turn the video display off while the screen is being redrawn, so the redraw happens during the dark spell, if that is the effect you're trying to achieve?