The Sinclair QL Forum

Did the QL ever have any ports of roguelike games such as nethack, angband or omega? The machine has loads of great text adventures but short on RPG's. These games would be perfect for the QL. Actually Rogue (which is basically a clone of nethack ) for the QL does exist (or used to) - Have a look o...

RWAP wrote: Qascade runs under QPAC2,

Even better: It runs perfectly well without QPAC2.
It does need QPTR, however.

Easy to become confused with all those Qs


Cheers
tofro

Well, in short: QPAC2 is a must in a QL environment and you did right to go that way. It is, however, admittedly bad documented with regards to allowing a novice user to get into grips with the software. QPAC2 doesn't do /anything/ once you LRESPRed it - You must bind the functions to Hotkeys in ord...

Then you might want to have a look into the HOME_DIR, etc. extensions. Those are part of SMSQ/E, but should also be available as a separate toolkit.
HOME_DIR in a BASIC program evaluates to my knowledge to the drive and directory this parogram was loaded from.

Cheers,
tofro

Something you can do in any case if you want to know the device you've BOOTed from: Make a list of all valid BOOT devices (like mdv1_, flp1_, win1_, rom1_, [are there more? I can't think of any, currently. I also think there's no device type that could actually BOOT from any but the first device]) I...

Is there any simple way to localise different sources of error? Andi, you could try a serial port monitor on the PC to analyze what's going wrong, e.g. http://www.heise.de/software/download/free_serial_port_monitor/26030 From what you describe, I guess you got the handshake lines wrong. Try again w...

Andi, if you can, grab some X-(Y-, Z-) modem program for both sides. Any standard terminal program for the PC should be able to do that. Look for QTPI or QeM (?) ffor the QL. "Kermit" should also be available for both the PC and the QL. Either of those programs will packetize the data acro...

Marcos, this won't help much in your specific case, but for the sake of completeness: Minerva copies the complete set of EXTRAS into daughter basic jobs. (I.e. EXTRAS shows identical output in job 0 and daughter basics.) I'm not sure what happens should you try to override one specific S*Basic exten...

Maybe You are already familiar with the FireBee (Atari Coldfire project) . It is small hardware piece, with Coldfire 266 MHz processor, and many modern peripherals Small and absolutely silent (with CF card and no fan). Even it can run for two hours on small battery power! I think, in case that Q60 ...

I think that the Toolkit 2 patches this - there is a reference in the TK2 updates list (v2.03) about a patch to MG ROM initialisation problems, although I am not sure if this refers to the point bug or the when error flag resetting. Dilwyn Yes, you're right - It was actually TK2 that fixed it. Been...