The Sinclair QL Forum

If it's not too large, most probably yes.

Dave, I don't think he can, and even if he could: An SBASIC Program is "running" in so many places, that even if the BASIC code itself would reside in a specific (fast) RAM area, the interpreter code runs wherever SMSQ/E has been loaded initially (and that is definitely not in fast RAM), t...

Yep. The higher the resolution and color depth, the slower the machine. That's good enough for me

Tobias

By the way, as long as the colour depth remains, and all windows are within the future display range before switching mode, I could always change DISP_MODE on the fly without any odd behaviour. This may not be an official feauture, but it seems to work. Note that "all the windows" might i...

Norman,

no need for an Escrow for code in the QL area:

Put it onto a microdrive and sell it at EBay. Simone will preserve it

Tobias

There is PS/2 to USB converters, which only on some USB keyboard that support PS/2 data/clock signals ( Not sure about). Calling them USB converters is maybe a bit much - They will only work with specific dual-mode keyboards that send PS/2 over a USB plug. And those get rarer and rarer (or sellers ...

Per,

that's right. None of the QL operating systems (or windowing systems, for that matter) is designed to be able to change display resolutions on the fly.

It might work if you close all windows first, but there's no guarantee.

Tobias

In a nutshell: In most countries of the world, it is simply not possible to register a patent on a pure algorithm. Most legislations consider algorithms ideas that cannot be patented (just like mathematic formulas, imagine Phytagoras of Samos would have patented his famous theorem, Bubble Sort, Bres...

afx wrote: I use SerMouse.

And that is, along with SuperHermes and QIMI (which are both hard to come by these days) probably the most standard way to connect a mouse.

Tobias

But wow, QL desktops are stuck in the past! Well, what did you expect? There's 20 years of development in modern Macs and Windows systems. They ought to handle differently than a QL system. A modern Mac or Windows PC has one (or maybe two) way of doing things. For the same action, a QL has probably...