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by XorA
Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:23 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Sir Clive passed away.
Replies: 45
Views: 12497

Re: Sir Clive passed away.

What killed the C5 was a concerted media campaign against it. Just shows you how tighly coupled big oil and big media were even back then!
by XorA
Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:41 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Sir Clive passed away.
Replies: 45
Views: 12497

Re: Sir Clive passed away.

NormanDunbar wrote:20210918_200407.jpg
Nice pic, pity it was the daily mail :-(
by XorA
Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:19 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Sir Clive passed away.
Replies: 45
Views: 12497

Re: Sir Clive passed away.

I'm an Oracle DBA these days
And now 64G of RAM is just enough for 4 records :-D
by XorA
Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:38 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: The QL UDG Playground
Replies: 20
Views: 4277

Re: The QL UDG Playground

My software developer view is always use libraries and toolkits that make your life easier. If the weirdly conservative people who don't want to use them complain make them work around these requirements themselves. I would just go ahead and assume everyone has access to TK2 as its easily available ...
by XorA
Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:18 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: The QL UDG Playground
Replies: 20
Views: 4277

Re: The QL UDG Playground

EPISODE 2 So, now that we have an easy way to create the UDG let's try and see what can we build with them. Creating a nice screen out of UDGs is easy, but time consuming. I tried the old-fashioned way, to draw everything on paper and then build the screen from the sketch. But it takes a lot of tim...
by XorA
Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:26 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?
Replies: 14
Views: 4120

Re: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

Can adding ZIP archive files as a Qdos filesystem be implemented on sQLux, as in Qemulator.
It could!
by XorA
Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:04 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?
Replies: 14
Views: 4120

Re: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?

Oh dear! Whatever next I wonder? I think the best idea, would be to use a neural link, where you would think of the password and touch the computer sensor pad and this would transfer the password from your brain to the computer, but there is always the chnace that someone might grab the ppassword i...
by XorA
Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:41 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?
Replies: 14
Views: 4120

Re: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?

Arse, something is wrong with the forum, I did not mean to delete your last post Brane2!
by XorA
Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:36 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?
Replies: 14
Views: 4120

Re: QL emulation on Linux - is there anything mainstream ?

Errrm, WRT to sQLx, I managed to patch it to work now for me with wayland. If anyone is interested: --- a/SDL2screen.c +++ b/SDL2screen.c @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ if (sdl_video_driver != NULL && (strcmp(sdl_video_driver, "x11") == 0) || + (strcmp(sdl_video_driver, "wayland") ==...