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by Derek_Stewart
Sat May 28, 2022 4:43 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi,

I have finished all the updates, just looking at comestic changes.

I have got Andy other book Assembley Language on the QL OCRed just needs formatting in Libre Office.
by Derek_Stewart
Sat May 28, 2022 4:39 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Dino game
Replies: 10
Views: 2493

Re: Dino game

Hi Dilwyn, Very horizontal scrolling game. I wondered if the QL could do sideways scrolling, looks like it can. The user defined graphics using the second font is what I was trying to do, that would emulate other 8 bit micros by defined characters from Basic. Which would any Spectrum game written ba...
by Derek_Stewart
Fri May 27, 2022 8:37 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Hidden MC68010?
Replies: 5
Views: 2085

Re: Hidden MC68010?

Hi,

Are you going to make an adapter board and plug the 68010 CPU into the QL?
by Derek_Stewart
Fri May 20, 2022 11:07 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi Per,

The idea of using Github was to allow multiple authors to make changes to the document.

But just save the file here and I will update Github.
by Derek_Stewart
Fri May 20, 2022 9:35 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi, I tried Open Office, but it just does not work as good as Libre Office. To save any issues of learning how to use Libre Office, just make a list i an ASCII text file with the page number and the change to be made. I did wonder about the absolute addresses of System Variables, Traps, Vectors, etc...
by Derek_Stewart
Fri May 20, 2022 3:26 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi I have added the amendments stated earlier and have loaded a updated PDF file here: QDOS_Companion_20-05-22.pdf I have added an underlined link from page 37 Channels ID to page 167 SuperBasic Channels. I have updated Git Hub with the main amended PDF and Libre Office ODT file. https://github.com/...
by Derek_Stewart
Thu May 19, 2022 9:36 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi Norm, Thank you for the update. I can not believe that 2 comercial books were published with all these glaring errors. There is also some missing code in the Sdate Calculations, where some of the 16 bit multiplication code was missing. Probably my fault not typing the data table. I will get this ...
by Derek_Stewart
Thu May 19, 2022 8:38 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi Per, I am in the process of updating the changes, shoukd done by tomorrow. Just a couple of points. "Get parameters on to maths stack": .. "Entry: A1.L top of maths stack" This is false Exit: .. A0 update pointer to top of stack: This is false. Should be A1 A1 corrupted: False...
by Derek_Stewart
Thu May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi Martin, Thanks for the clarification and update, I will apply the changes and update Github. My version of the book, the pages numbers do not correspond to the original, mainly because of he reformatting of the book and I have tried to make some of the text more readable. But I will look at the L...
by Derek_Stewart
Wed May 18, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 24943

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Page 35 Channels I have a reference to page 155 Page 185 Format A1 Pointer to medium name D1 Number of medium to format e.g 3 = FLP3_ A4 Pointer to Physical Definition Block A6 Pointer to System variables[/code] [/quote] Just some clarifications, my question preceded with *** ----------------------...