The Sinclair QL Forum

Derek_Stewart wrote:HI,

The computers I had in the 1980s are:

Newbrain
Oric 1, Atmos
Memotech MTX range
Sam Coupe
Jupiter Ace

Whether they definevthe British computer culture is open to personal taste.

What we learn from this is never buy the same computer as Derek

Interesting question is on a BBQL are the pixels always square? (also this goes for the clones). No they are not. In 512x256 QL MODE 4, I double horizontally and triple vertically for VESA standard 1024x768 on 4:3 monitor. That roughly provides the QL aspect ratio seen on CRT historically. Thanks, ...

stevepoole wrote: Randomness is a subject of continued research by specialists...

Not really, anything made in last decade has hardware randomness, PN junction noise and other such simple techniques.

To XorA : I guess I will also test this one soon. What is actually slow about its full sreen display ? Takes a long time comparitvely speaking to write the screen update to video ram under xorg. A delay that does not happen if running on console without xorg. It may still be faster than BBQL, I hav...

For the Pi0 sQLux (based on uqlx) can run fullscreen on the console (without X11) and is pretty fast.

Unfortunately the lack of proper GL support under X11 makes it quite slow in that mode, but still can do fullscreen!

[note: I am biased as I wrote the code to do that]

I downloaded the latest, and was compiling for osx. I think I mailed you about it. https://github.com/SinclairQL/qltools or https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools are where you should be getting the source from. The current version is 2.15.6 and writes dd/hd/ed images at full size as opposed to 2....

I downloaded the latest, and was compiling for osx. I think I mailed you about it. https://github.com/SinclairQL/qltools or https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools are where you should be getting the source from. The current version is 2.15.6 and writes dd/hd/ed images at full size as opposed to 2....

Freenode and Libera.chat are at war with each other, and they seem to be not caring which IRC servers they wage war on

As another hobby, I collect and restore old Welsh 78rpm and vinyl records and get a similar kick from finding and restoring something rare and ancient

Lot’s of baaaaaaaaaaaaaa d recordings there

NormanDunbar wrote:Happy Birthday Pr0F.

Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.
Hippo Birdie Deer Ewe.
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.

Cheers,
Norm.

Is Pr0F welsh then?