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by NormanDunbar
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Wordpress.com - warning if you use this site
Replies: 4
Views: 182

Wordpress.com - warning if you use this site

I know some of us have a blog on Wordpress.com, so this might be of interest. Also, if you have a Tumblr account too. https://www.shacknews.com/article/138912/tumblr-wordpress-sell-user-data-midjourney-openai It appears that these two sites will be selling your data, images, documents and such like ...
by NormanDunbar
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Drawing Speed of Sprite/Tile in Assembler
Replies: 17
Views: 748

Re: Drawing Speed of Sprite/Tile in Assembler

3) This would involve the same principle as 1 above but on load the program would generate in memory 6 extra copies of the image (3 to the left, 3 to the right) and then the program would apply the image as per 1 but choose which of the 7 images it needs to stay on a word boundary. Memory hungry bu...
by NormanDunbar
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello from Argentina!!!
Replies: 12
Views: 6233

Re: Hello from Argentina!!!

Hi Ernesto, and welcome to the forum. You will find lots of help, answers and general chat here!

Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: SMSQ/E on Atari
Replies: 11
Views: 553

Re: SMSQ/E on Atari

I found an old QL-Toady article [...] Typo or intention? ;) Hi Peter, many years ago, I spelt QL Today incorrectly as QL Toady . Dilwyn, bless him, picked up on it and from then on, the magazine was known -- at least to us -- as QL Toady ! :D I was pleased to see it live on in @Tofro's post. Cheers...
by NormanDunbar
Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?
Replies: 66
Views: 2429

Re: Joystick/Sound in Supervisor mode?

Thanks Tofro, but I still don't understand some of it - sorry The following might help you out with regard to the QDOS/SMSQ internals of jobs etc. My somewhat irregular QL Assembly Language eMagazine: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases there are 11 issues available ...
by NormanDunbar
Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ql+ prototype rebuild ? possible
Replies: 50
Views: 3529

Re: ql+ prototype rebuild ? possible

I remember reading, in Computer Weekly I think --- one of the business newspapers anyway --- that Clive Sinclair had succeeded with this wafer technology where the likes of IBM had failed. If I remember correctly, the chap from IBM ended up working for Sinclair at the time. Also, if I remember, this...
by NormanDunbar
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Nostalgia – TEXT87 & SPELLBOUND
Replies: 9
Views: 521

Re: Nostalgia – TEXT87 & SPELLBOUND

I have a scaned copy of TEXT87_Plus4_ in pdf format . Maybe this helps. Hi Andrew. I've downloaded your PDF file and found that I couldn't search it. I have therefor added a searchable "bit" using "ocrmypdf" which makes the file slightly larger, but allows the content to be sear...
by NormanDunbar
Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: File modified date/time
Replies: 7
Views: 346

Re: File modified date/time

DJToolkit has functions to read and set those dates in the file header. WinBack used them back in the day to determine if a file needed backing up or not. Also backs up floppies and such like, not just hard discs. Both available from Dilwyn's web page, linked as QL Homepage at the top of every forum...
by NormanDunbar
Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Nostalgia – TEXT87 & SPELLBOUND
Replies: 9
Views: 521

Re: Nostalgia – TEXT87 & SPELLBOUND

The manual that Rich refers to is excellent. And now also available online and for download as HTML, ePub or PDF.

https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.i ... index.html

In case anyone is interested that is!

Cheers,
Norm.