The Sinclair QL Forum

HI, But it would be really nice if Launchpad's author would fix that bug that prevents it launching basic programs And maybe add the posibility of having more tabs than 4 and of having more icons in a tab, in higher resolutions Can you no execute the SBASIC program. When starting Basic programs, th...

HI,

Andrew wrote: But it would be really nice if Launchpad's author would fix that bug that prevents it launching basic programs And maybe add the posibility of having more tabs than 4 and of having more icons in a tab, in higher resolutions

Can you no execute the SBASIC program.

ICE, EASE etc.. is a poor version of GEM.

Personally, I do not really like GUI desktop systems. But they seem to all the rage at the mo'

PS I hardy use a mouse... it is left run about under the desktop.

Hi,

I disaasembled most of bdesk_bin and some of desk_bin, mot sure if it is worth the effort as when running EASE looks worse than ICE, or GEM

But it is not a fair comparison, as the Q68 is running at 40Mhz, the PI-400, PI-4B run at 1.5Ghz, if there a comparison o be made, I need the Q68 at 1.5Ghz.... maybe impossible. Pi-400 runs at 1.8GHz thanks to extended heatsink. I think the PI-400 purchase may of been a mistake, I should of stuck w...

Hi, I recently bought a second hand unboxed PI-400, which is a PI4B with 4Gb ram, with a 16Gb SD Card, and manual. Great I thought faster than the PI3B+ But when running the upto Linux OS - Buster, is really slow, do not like the file manager. I compiled sQLux and installed Java and run SMSQmulator,...

Hi, Here is another option for the current case: combi-case_15_15_80mm_black_pic_1.png This is he same dimension as the previous case, except it is split into 2 halfves, allowing the top half to be removed allowing the Q68 board to accessed fitted n the lower half. The advantages of this design are:...

Graham Tinkers channel has a teardown of a Samsung QL that they have bought. Looks like a lot of work needs doing to it ;) Also possible upgrades. Could be fun. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N86k7S70-4[/youtube] The link looks to wrong, try ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N86k7S70-4

Hi, Look in the QDOS Technical manual or SMSQ/E Reference manual. That said, I doubt just poking a value into a System Variable will work, surely the writers at Gigasoft would thought of that and not used the QDOS routines. Maybe disassemble the program is see what is going on. I was looking at the ...

There is another issue with the QPTR PAINT_BAS program, it uses the variable compiled to detect wether it is compiled. But if Turbo Toolkit is loaded, there is a COMPIKED keyword added to the interpreter, so that fails as well. Yes, but that was easy to spot, even for me. I changed it to isCompiled...