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by tofro
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:53 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Dev_use how to use?
Replies: 12
Views: 641

Re: Dev_use how to use?

Jbizzel wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:48 pm

EXCEPT....

DEV_USE FLP - does not work.

Any thoughts are most welcome.
Try

DEF_USEN

instead.
by tofro
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Anouncement for the 40th Anniversary of the Sinclair QL in Dormagen (Germany)
Replies: 24
Views: 1929

Re: Anouncement for the 40th Anniversary of the Sinclair QL in Dormagen (Germany)

pjw wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:15 pm Still thinking about it..
Will (very) likely be there.
by tofro
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:26 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?
Replies: 66
Views: 2311

Re: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?

Something I'm still trying to get my head around is the reason behind why, if I compile as file type 2 so that I can use RESPR/Lbytes/Call the QL crashes but if I compile as file type 1 and EXEC or EXEC_w it works fine Is there a particular reason for this please? Many thanks The reason is that whe...
by tofro
Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?
Replies: 66
Views: 2311

Re: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?

Inside of timerTick, you cannot use a6 to update your variable (it has another value in the polling interrupt routine than in your code and will actually point to the system variables). Instead, you get a pointer in a3, not in a6, to 8 bytes before timerLinkage(a6) - That's because the polling routi...
by tofro
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?
Replies: 66
Views: 2311

Re: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?

The QL's RTC is only progressing in 1s intervals. You could use it, but it would make your program crawl :) The polling interrupt is really the only way you get a suitably fast tick rate.

If you pack your sources and put them here I could have a look at it.
by tofro
Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Dev_use how to use?
Replies: 12
Views: 641

Re: Dev_use how to use?

The dev_ device us built in SMSQ/E. There is a loadable device driver for the standard QL, that you probably haven't loaded. You'll find that in the Toolkit section on Dilwyyn's site.
by tofro
Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?
Replies: 66
Views: 2311

Re: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?

That might have been my fault, sorry. Try adding an "OFFSET 0" after "SECTION data"
by tofro
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Software updates
Replies: 21
Views: 1110

Re: Software updates

Unless there's here's little nasty gremlins changing the wiring every now and then.
by tofro
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Serial QPC to QL
Replies: 17
Views: 705

Re: Serial QPC to QL

I think "terminal program" is a good keyword here. And preferably something that uses checksumed blocks for data transfer, like X-Modem or Kermit. Standard QL serial comms is so unreliable that without that you'll likely become desparate.
by tofro
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Replies: 248
Views: 78368

Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)

Speaking of keyboard, what keyboard settings are supported with the latest release? Where to set the keyboard? In sqlux.ini? Documentation? Remember Tim's manual initially stated: sQLux uses the keyboard mapping from SDL2, which is a US Keyboard. Even with international ROMS, the keyboard will stil...