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Hi Dave,

Price for all Books, £50.00

Derek

For Sale: Various Sinclair QL Books, in good condition: QL SuperBASIC The Definitive Handbook By Jan Jones Quanta Reprint Price: £10.00 Good Programming with QL SuperBASIC By Roy Atherton Pub: Longman ISBN: 0-582-29662-5 Price: £4.00 QL Handbook By Tim Hartnell Pub: Interface ISBN: 0-947695-19-2 Pri...

With reagards to the shorted links on the Supergold Card MC68EC020 CPU. If you look at the datasheet for the CPU. There are the following )common lines adjacent to each other: Pin 3-4 GND Pin 7-8 Vcc Pin 20-21 GND Pin 58-59 GND Pin 68-69 GND Pin 70-71 Vcc This would explain the shorted link on the C...

Hi,

There is only one compiler to use... Turbo, the reason is that George Gwilt is still supporting it and it is free.

George has even made Turbo compile Qptr programmes.

Derek

I suppose a PCB design could be generated and new PCBs made.

I do not have a Gold Card to do this.

The other problem is the Altera Chip on the Gold/Super Card has a specific version of Altera chip that is date sensitive.

I am looking into this to see if a replacement chip can be used.

Derek

Hi,

I like the CF Adapter, can you tell where to get one.

Derek

Hi,

I think you are referring to my post, I have a modified ROM Cartridge that maps the QL Rom and the Rom Port Areas.

If I remember correctly, it is just a matter of soldering some wire links on the cartridge.

I will try to find it over the week end and post some photographs.

Derek

Hi Dilwyn,

The point I was making, is editing of QL SBasic files in a QL based environment, not Windows, DOS or Linux.

I suppse VIM could be ported and the Syntax file could used quite easily.

I will look at the sources to VIM to see if this can be done.

Derek

Hi, I have not used CTAGS in a long time, once the "tag" file has been generated, Emacs can find required Syntax by loading the required Tag Page file. This maybe not what you are after. But it is free and worht having to play around with. But QD does it better, but I like to use emacs... ...

Hi, You need to download from web page: http://qdos.free.fr/download.html Emacs v4.00 and an update 18, the "ctags" program that will perform the highlighting. Please see the Extract from the Download page: MicroEmacs v4.00 (26/09/00 release) (903 Kb, 09/26/00) : MicroEmacs v4.00 QDOS / SM...