Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)

2017-03-24 Thread Ralf Reköndt
And hopefully "format ram1_mdv1" does the work! - Original Message - From: "Adrian Graham" On 24/03/2017 08:28, "RWAP Software" wrote: Anyway, I have a working copy of Speccy Quill A06 and 1984 has just come flooding back to me when I was writing bad

Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)

2017-03-24 Thread Adrian Graham
On 24/03/2017 08:28, "RWAP Software" wrote: >> Anyway, I have a working copy of Speccy Quill A06 and 1984 has just >> come >> flooding back to me when I was writing bad adventures :) >> >> Cheers, > > The Spectrum version is already preserved and available - thanks. >

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel and CDEC$

2017-03-24 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Ah, that reminds me of writing bugs to TT, but that was only possible with letters to King Street, Rampton, so took a bit longer than today. Keep up the good work! - Original Message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" Michael Bulford wrote: There seems to be a problem with CDEC$.

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel and CDEC$

2017-03-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Bulford wrote: > There seems to be a problem with CDEC$. > CDEC$(123,4,0) should give " 123", but gives instead 4 asterisks. Confirmed, that one is on me. I will hold back with the update a bit in case you find some more ;-) Marcel ___

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel and CDEC$

2017-03-24 Thread Michael Bulford
There seems to be a problem with CDEC$. CDEC$(123,4,0) should give " 123", but gives instead 4 asterisks. Michael ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel

2017-03-24 Thread Ralf Reköndt
That let me hope for the future ;-) From: "Marcel Kilgus" I found the source for the QTYP spell device, I didn't even know I had those.  ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel

2017-03-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jan Bredenbeek wrote: >> Jan Bredenbeek wrote: >> > QMAC can do conditional assembly outside macros using the GENIF and >> ENDGEN >> > keywords. Check the updates textfile for details. >> >> Ah, I only checked the manual, how foolish of me ;-) Great, thanks, I >> will check that out. > > I

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel

2017-03-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Bulford wrote: >> Do you use QemuLator by any chance? It returns allocation size as "1 >> bytes" for attached directories, which the TK2 code can't handle >> never could). It expects multiples of 256 bytes. Other devices work >> fine here. > > If QemuLator is used with SMSQ_QEM, then both

Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)

2017-03-24 Thread Rich Mellor
On 24/03/2017 08:57, Ralf Reköndt wrote: I remenber, you say, that Quill generated programs do not execute on QPC2, or SMSQ/E, where ACT executables do run. Where is the problem with The Quill? Alas I cannot remember (it was almost 30 years ago) and do not have any of the original

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel

2017-03-24 Thread Jan Bredenbeek
On 24 March 2017 at 00:43, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Jan Bredenbeek wrote: > > QMAC can do conditional assembly outside macros using the GENIF and > ENDGEN > > keywords. Check the updates textfile for details. > > Ah, I only checked the manual, how foolish of me ;-) Great,

Re: [Ql-Users] toolkit-ii-the-sequel

2017-03-24 Thread Michael Bulford
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Michael Bulford wrote: >> Thanks for fixing this, but the STAT bug remains. > > Do you use QemuLator by any chance? It returns allocation size as "1 > bytes" for attached directories, which the TK2 code can't handle > never could). It expects multiples of 256 bytes. Other

Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)

2017-03-24 Thread Ralf Reköndt
I remenber, you say, that Quill generated programs do not execute on QPC2, or SMSQ/E, where ACT executables do run. Where is the problem with The Quill? From: "Rich Mellor": On 2017-03-24 00:37, Adrian Graham wrote: > On 20/03/2017 10:21, "Rich Mellor" wrote: > >> Good morning all, >> >>

Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)

2017-03-24 Thread RWAP Software
On 2017-03-24 00:37, Adrian Graham wrote: On 20/03/2017 10:21, "Rich Mellor" wrote: Good morning all, Does anyone have a copy of the Quill adventure writer by Gilsoft? Tim Gilberts (who ran Gilsoft) has been looking into this and found a version A03 copy. I myself