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Norman,

you could simply push all the functions that belong to a call chain using LOCal variables into a separate compilation unit and make these locals static globals there.

Tobias

I notice that both QLib_run335_mod2 and QLib_run336_mod2 do not have any dataspace values, while QLib_run2 does. Is something wrong here? Just checked. The original QLib_run (as it comes from the 3.33 installer disk) has 4k data space set. The same disk has, however, a BOOT program that simply LBYT...

What unfortunately really doesn't work on SMSQ/E is Free Running Procedures . (Have a compiled extension run as an independent background job by adding an exclamation mark to the procedure name). I believe this has to do with some sort of timing when a job is started which is different on SMSQ/E. To...

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,
I re-read the SMSQ/E manuals. Looks like I made an error.
Just goes show all these years I was under the impression the EX was a better version of EXEC.

Derek,
on the black box it actually is: The original EXEC cannot take any arguments.

But I suspect you mixed up EXEC and EXEC_W

Tobias

Derek, yes, the sources are available to anyone who wants them. Simply send me a PM or e-Mail. To do what you have in mind, they are not needed, however (The full game is also a bit tricky to build with Turbo, all the bitmap resources and extensions and config blocks, and I never got around to write...

NormanDunbar wrote:Well then, here's a surprise. The newest edition of the somewhat irregular periodical eMagazine is now

Disturbing regularity if the irregular periodical...

Thanks Norman! Got something to read on the plane!

Tobias

In my opinion, people that need hand-holding with the QL (or, any other retro computer, for that matter) are probably trying the wrong hobby - Fiddling around with that thing and finding out what works and how is the main part of why I still am into old computers. Only if seriously stuck I would ask...

You have not confirmed so far you have a working stable 12V power supply. The PAL circuitry is one of the few places in the QL that actually need this voltage - It could well be the problem is nowhere near the QL as such but in the PSU (which I find very probable).

Tobias

Here's a bit of information and a picture:

http://qlwiki.qlforum.co.uk/doku.php?id ... programmer

With this proposed future "super QL" the trick will be to offload as much of the vintage functionality as possible onto a single SuperIO device. This would require light OS/driver support if the SuperIO is chosen carefully so the constituent parts are mostly already used in a QL system al...