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I don't understand how eBay works out about $18 customs for something priced $49. Or $17 for shipping. The USA are a very different kind of world, seems to be the same, as you would send something to the moon. On the other hand it is just EUR 1 from China to Germany. Nobody can understand this. I o...

A bit OT: I once saw a complete PCB with EPROMs and ULAs from an australian guy: Oxford Trivia as an EPROM based game in Australia. The PCB was in fact a QL with the game to play in a kind of a slot machine. The PCB was about 30cm2, totally different from a genuine QL one. Has anyone seen this befor...

Hi, Nice scan of the manual, pity they did not remove all the borders, this might of saved a few Kilobytes. I'm just grateful it's been done, really. But of course if someone did have the time and enthusiasm to tidy it up or even OCR it, that's be better still. It seems my wish was ToFro's command ...

NormanDunbar wrote:

RalfR wrote:

NormanDunbar wrote:I think Tony Tebby wrote great software, but diabolical manuals!

I am sorry, but QPTR was written by Jonathan Oakley.

Don't be sorry Ralf, today I learned something new!

Of course I'm not sure if he wrote the manual...

NormanDunbar wrote:I think Tony Tebby wrote great software, but diabolical manuals!

I am sorry, but QPTR was written by Jonathan Oakley.

There are also several others, like "ISIT" from IDIS SE. A clever way for procedures is in one of Steve Jones (SideWinder) program disks: An MC utility, which converts a resident MC procedure into an MC function. Say, to convert "OUTL" into "F_OUTL" which generates ERR....

Well... it was clear...as usual.

Chr$ wrote:

RalfR wrote:Looks great! Is this a "fast external" or a "slow internal" memory?

"Slow internal".

Not possible to make a Fastram (like SQB or Miracle) there? (I do not know, sorry)

Looks great! Is this a "fast external" or a "slow internal" memory?

Nice...