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Hi Again people, Thank you Dilwyn. The halo fell around my throat and nearly strangled me... But I liked the joke ok ! Just had a test of Spook_bas (under SGC QDOS and SMSQ/E) and found a couple of bugs on those systems : PLAY is a reserves EXTRA on QPC2 v5.00, so I altered it to PLAYY. Under QDOS, ...

Hi Folks, Just back from vacation, and had a quick test of Beat_bas under SGC, QDOS & SMSQ/E, and it works fine, although on such QLs, volumes are faint... Also on two old PCs with different clock rates, and the rythms all match perfectly. Headphones or earphones are a must though, as again spea...

Hi Folks, Thanks Ralph & Andrew for your suggestions. Now here is the final vacation Doodle (21) for this year : An animated Rythm Box, (Best using headphones). UNZIP, LRUN, and after two startup tones, you see the BEEP parameters printed with the rythm 'symbols' below. (See notes at head of lis...

Hi Ralph, I wonder if the cause of the flickering comes from FILLing the 'off-screen' part of the 'body'-ellipse ? While one core is processsing the unwanted filled lines, another core may be doing the CLS ? Again, does the flickering occur on mono-core systems ? When I get back home, I will try on ...

Hi again, Doodle 20 is a 'selfie' with a twist ! But I get flickering on my 3-core laptop, and wonder if this would be the case on mono-cores ? My summer vacation is coming to an end, so today I will attempt a final doodle, before getting back to other more important tasks.... Steve. Steve_bas.zip 9...

Hello Folks,

Doodle 19 : Can you cross the 'Devil's Bridge' ? Yes/No. (There are three possible outcomes...)

Nb Dilwyn : This was supposed to be situated in Scotland, according to the Python Team !

Steve. ______________________________________________________

Hi Evverybody,

Doodle 18 is for all QL enthusiasts... (Change the speed on line 130 to suit your computer rating).

Steve. ___________________________________

Hi, Doodle 17 was an attempt to get extra colours by XORing them and redrawing the scene shifting one pixel right to get three-colour stipples. To demonstrate the effet, the following images were repeatedly drawn. For brighter hues, change line 240 to be o=rnd(0). The side-effect is the 'ghosting' o...

Hi, Spook_bas, the 'PacMan' in 3D space program, took more time to do than the other Doodles, as it was hard to work out how to get clear graphical output. If anyone knows why a few recalcitrant pixels remain on screeen, please let me know. _____________ The next Doodle, (16), only took an hour or s...

Hi Again, Sorry, I forgot to mention the essentials : Numpad Keys are : left(4), right(6), up(8), down(2), also fore(x), aft(s), (e)scape. This is because my french laptop won't correctly map all keys. When I get home I may try to do a standard QL version ! Good luck... Steve. __________