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Hello,

I have a copy. The disks seem readable. Are you looking for a zipped copy of the contents?

Cheers

Hi Andrew, COuld you scan your manual and post it here? Your notes would be invaluable for many and would help us a lot! I am not able to do that as my scanner went belly up early this year and I have had no need to scan since, a replacement is likely to be a distant event. In any case the manual on...

MINIQPTR.ZIP Hi NL_QL_USR QPTR is hard to learn. EasyPTR for me was even harder to learn. Wolfgang Lenerz series of tutorials for QPTR is extremely helpful. The QPTR manual is often obscure in its explanations of how things work. My copy of the manual, I bought into QPTR in the late 1990s and am st...

Hi Derek,

You probably already have the manual as you supplied in the Q68 QXLwin files when I bought my Q68 from you.

Andrew wrote

In romanian scrot means scrotum

That gave me a smile. Its named after the linux app with the same function which is also called scr(een)(sh)ot.

Cheers

Hi, not sure if this is exactly what you want to do but attached is Scrot.zip, containing a hotkey launched utility to read the entire Q68 screen memory with an added pic header into a file on ram1_ called scrdump_pic. Which is in mode 33 the native mode on the Q68, therefore image colours do not di...

The "[+]" button is qcascade. It can be renamed and for me it is "[+]". My "SBASIC" button was "System" but I edited the QPAC2 code to make "system" in to "SBASIC". Same number of letters and Sbasic/Superbasic is not the system : that's QDO...

Tinyfgpa wrote : I assume your screen shot is not of your Q68 The screen shot is of the actual screen display on my Q68. The screen scrape was converted to a .jpg using QT-Image. No PC involved except in the upload to this site. The Q68 has 16 bit colour in 1024x512 mode 33 as one of its screen opt...

Andrew wrote
Charmap - The Final version
now everything works!

Yes it does. Have run it on my Q68. Great I have been thinking or writing something similar myself but there is no need now.

Cheers

Andrew wrote My guess is that this is because PE oulines the first created channel, which is the main window and the filemenu is larger than the main window. Yes. The menu extension has a minimum size that it will work with. I wrote that down somewhere but cannot find it now but a minimum size of o...