Update: the old code had a bug if the EXE was made resident using the HOT_RES keyword (thanks to Jan Bredenbeek for pointing it out), updated code below. Today I’ve had a short discussion about creating a QDOS executable that can both be LRESPRed (to install a thing) and EXecuted (to, erm, execute it). One important… Read More »
QL-SD So, a short update on QL-SD, I have spent another few hundred Euros on parts and everything has arrived except the package with the SD-card connectors, which seem to be lost in the mail. These are needed for the double-SD adapters, which I expect will be pretty popular. Instead of waiting for them to… Read More »
Just a slight update before I go on holiday for a week. The design of the MDV adapter board has been finalized and I already have the PCBs here: The board can be built into four different configurations of which I will probably offer two: Single slot drive using a ready-made daughter board soldered onto… Read More »
24 years ago Albin Hessler released his file manager Cueshell into the world. It was and still is one of the most advanced programs for the Pointer Environment ever written, featuring a Multiple Document Interface (smaller directory windows within the larger application window) and drag&drop file management. Managing large directory trees became incredibly easy and… Read More »
(Summary at the end if you’re not interested in the details) Some people know that I’ve been working for quite some time on making the QL-SD work with the late Stuart Honeyball’s masterpieces, the GoldCard and the SuperGoldCard. And I seem to have succeeded, but the way to success took a lot more time than… Read More »
Martyn Hill recently discovered a bug in later versions of Minerva, but couldn’t quite pin it down. I thought it might be nice to write up a little tutorial about how I try to tackle these kind of problems. The most important thing of course is being able to reproduce the problem, which was the… Read More »
Every since I got my QL-SD interface I was annoyed with the driver support, especially on the PC side. I didn’t manage to fill the SD card without destroying the image one way or another. Then came Wolfgang Lenerz awesome QLWA compatible driver and now it works like a charm. But only on my original… Read More »
A few years ago I got my old QL system out of storage and into working condition, but after 20 years of using QPC I completely forgot how much of a pain it really was. I never owned any of the Gold Cards, in fact all my BBQL hardware (640KB internal memory expansion, a 192kb… Read More »
Thanks to Jochen Merz I can now release a very new version of QMenu (menu_rext), along with the original manual: QMenu download page Earlier releases done by me had a few annoying bugs which I was now able to track down. The problems actually were not located in the QMenu source code itself, but Jochen… Read More »
How it began As any QL owner will know, the Toolkit 2 from QJUMP/Tony Tebby was THE toolkit without which a QL was almost unusable, arguably its contents should have been in the ROM from the start. And I always thought it was quite a shame that such an important toolkit hasn’t been updated in… Read More »