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http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/psions/index.html 1. The .exe file thing is probably not a huge problem these days. Given that we are cross compiling, the file name created on Windows/Linux/etc is easily renamed for transfer to the QL. In addition, the emulators all/mostly can cope with dots in filenames. ...

Head over to Dilwyn's fine web site and grab the latest versions of Quill/Abacus. It's at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/psions/index.html there are versions for microdrive and floppy as required. These files are in a specific format and contain numerous binary characters that a text editor will probably c...

Norman, I give you first shot if you want to get your hands dirty with it :-P Gee! Thanks! :D :D No, I'm happy to make a little contribution as and when I can. I did manage to have a quick look yesterday before being dragged off by MrsD to "get a life". She's out walking today, so I'm on ...

Just a quickie, the document on building the Cross Compiler had a minor error in it at the end where the QL Units were copied to the installation folder required. The end of the command was missing, not good. A few other typose and speling erors have been fixed. ;) Version 1.1 is online now. As ever...

mk79 wrote:At last! Somebody who actually listens to me

I did promise to try it out! Works perfectly. Thanks for the hint.

Cheers,
Norm.

Chain-Q wrote:If any of the above doesn't work how I described, that's a bug, please report and it will be fixed.

It's all fine, thanks. Derek needed to upgrade QPC to version 5.x to execute files created with the -WQqhdr option.

Cheers,
Norm.

I noticed I was using QPC2 4.05, so I upgrade to 5.00 and the hello.exe file executes from QPC2 DOS drive. Excellent. I am 99% certaing that QPC 5 was when this style of header was able to be executed. I've been using XTcc trailers until recently, when Marcel gave me a telling off -- after all the ...

Hi Derek, I compiled the hello.pp file with: fpc-ql -Tsinclairql -WQqhdr hello.pp Which produced the output described and using Q-emulator, was abloe to execute the file 'hello.exe' But the file 'hello.exe' would not execute in QPC2 or SMSQmulator, SMSQ/E still thinking it was a Type 0 or data file....

Hi Derek, Here's something that might help, from Chain-Q: Another hint: Debugging config file and path issues is quite easy using the -vv compiler argument. This will write a file called "fpcdebug.txt" into the current directory, which contains human readable verbose information about the ...

I want to keep this style for the system unit, and the raw headers. For the user-visible qdos unit in qlunits, we can add overloaded functions, which would be more Pascal-ish. function mt_inf(system_vars: ppbyte; ver_ascii: plongint): Tjobid; would be equivalent with this: function mt_inf(out syste...