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by polka
Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:36 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: I hate BREXIT !
Replies: 67
Views: 15814

Re: I hate BREXIT !

Hi all,
If you understand french, here you may watch an interesting TV debate on Cnews about BREXIT :

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POLKa
by polka
Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:08 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Today I Received...
Replies: 642
Views: 285622

Re: Today I Received...

for the moment I did not install any. The most obvious would be Gforth, but I may also try AtLast. To have RiscOS running on the PI400, wouldn't you only have to change the Linux µSD for RiscOS ? I am also tempted with a baremetal Forth system, there seems to have one under development. And about th...
by polka
Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:43 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Today I Received...
Replies: 642
Views: 285622

Re: Today I Received...

Thank you very much RalfR to point in one of your post to PI 400 a new little computer (not a QL, but like the QL just hidden under its keyboard). It is based on the latest Raspberry PI model 4 (speed 1.8GHz - 4Gb ram). I immediately ordered one and received it today (in only three days - but on the...
by polka
Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:16 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: General Microdrive woes
Replies: 17
Views: 4616

Re: General Microdrive woes

It's a long time since I used the microdrives, at some time I copied everything I owned to 720k floppies and recently, I transferred again everything to two CF cards for my TDI. But out of curiosity, I tried today my microdrives (on my first QL a JM bought in 1984), they seem to work ok (I only did ...
by polka
Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:56 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Mystery QL/MS-DOS v4.0x Disk
Replies: 35
Views: 10746

Re: Mystery QL/MS-DOS v4.0x Disk

First, what would be the use of MS.DOS on a QL ? One may play with it on a retro PC or in a DOS box ? Then, about abandonware : the issue with D.P. conqueror (not being allowed to use it when you have not purchased it at times you could buy it - nor to upload it somehow for others to try it like &qu...
by polka
Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:51 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Using QPAC
Replies: 6
Views: 2610

Re: Using QPAC

Hi Derek, I apologize ! As I am older than you (10 years), I can justify to loose my memories, so as in your post you mentionned a Qubide Image file which can be written to a CF Card, I believed that I got the ready to use ISO image file for CF on TDI from you. Actually, I found my post where I told...
by polka
Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:09 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Using QPAC
Replies: 6
Views: 2610

Re: Using QPAC

Hi, I have two BBQLs, my fun is to use them as they are, no more modern hardware, faster machines, emulations etc. but I bought for them two TDI cards to be relieved from the MDVs (and even from the FLPs). I am currently trying to solve the same issues as lowrybt. My JS QL is fitted with a "nor...
by polka
Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:05 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Forth
Replies: 33
Views: 12488

Re: Forth

Hi all, This is the complete version of my TARTAN generator, working on a BBQL both in 4 colors 512x256 and in 8 colors 256x256 MODES. For Supper Forth ! On a modern 16/9 LDC TV, the BBQL displays square pixels in MODE 4, and gets the (good) aspect ratio using words 4WEAVE ; but to get the same (goo...
by polka
Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:33 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Forth
Replies: 33
Views: 12488

Re: Forth

Yes, I remember now : the Forth conference that I attended was in Forth-Germany. I went to Scotland only once, for a mechanical engineering seminar (several years before the Forth confernce in Germany). I am old, you know...
by polka
Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:55 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Forth
Replies: 33
Views: 12488

Re: Forth

So a programming language that's named after a Scottish river that can produce Tartans on a QL ! :-) On a SINCLAIR QL ! I don't remember when, but we had a Forth convention in a town named Forth (also in Scotland ?). For the moment, the QL cannot cook haggish, but I will try... Haggish is stuffed s...