The Sinclair QL Forum

XorA's port of the ADV770 version of Adventure or Colossal Cave now available to download zipped from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/index.html Remember that the executable aloneis a massive 1.2MB, so it needs a minimum of a Gold Card or an emulator set to 2MB or RAM or more. Wonder if thi...

Is there any way to paginate the output? The descriptions just seem to shoot by in Help, Vocab etc

XorA wrote:It is a monster 1.2M executable though

High time we had a "monster 1.2M executable" for QL systems though...make it worth while having a Super Gold Card or 128MB QPC2 or whatever...

So, are you going to make a QDOS executable of it?

Do we have Collosal Cave 770 point edition? https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3900/32906318951_cbdf49e656_z.jpg Screenshot_2017-02-21_13-02-24 by XorA , on Flickr Graeme ToFro ported Colossal Cave to QL in 2014, but I don't know which edition and how it differes from this. http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games...

Bob Spelten Jr. has updated my BMP graphics viewer. Bob has extended the range of BMP file types which can be converted (most types from 24-bit to 1-bit), while conversions from QL graphics to BMP can now be done as either 24-bit or 16-bit files. Saving to a DOS or NFA named device will replace unde...

A newly revised version of the Linux QL emulator uQLx (uQLx 2017) is now available. Graeme Gregory has "brutalised" (as he puts it on github) the sources to bring them up to date. New binaries are available for 32- and 64-bit x86 systems, as well as ARM (6/7/8). Includes binaries ready to ...

Updated sources for XTC68 cross-compiler for QDOS C68 for POSIX systems (e.g. Linux) is available from Jonathan Hudson on github (thanks to XorA for the tip). https://github.com/stronnag/xtc68 I've put a copy of the master zip file onto the C page of my website under XTC68 in case it ever gets remov...

I have just seen a new adaptor listed on sellmyretro which allows you to use a USB mouse with a 9 pin connector. As it has been tested and works with the Amiga - I wondered whether it might work with the QIMI to allow a modern mouse to be used (instead of the hard to find bus mice)... A bit expensi...

XorA wrote:Can we get a horde of them for the QL Forum meetup?

He he, might only be enough there to need one for the entire meeting

I see it a bit like you, VP - enthusiasm needs to be honored with fun. As soon as it's no longer fun, enthusiasm tends to fade. And: The risk of one individual vanishing from the scene (for whatever reason) can be mitigated by having resilience - mirrors, back-ups, the like. Tobias I agree - QLing ...