Roy Wood wrote: > There are a lot of books on programming the QL in Assembler, BASIC > and C > (although not the modern version) and many of these are available, > 2nd > hand, from QUANTA, TF Services, Rich Mellor etc. These all stop > short of > the modern system but would provide a grounding in the system. As far as C programmers are concerned, C68 is the way to go on the QL. There is a wealth of C programming tools if you know where to go and what to look for:
1. There's a whole page on free C stuff on my website 2. CPTR from George Gwilt is one example 3. There are various C libraries available on the PD scene. 4. There's a C library for QMenu from Jonathan Hudson or Christopher Cave (or possibly both of them, I forget which) 5. I think Tony Tebby did a C library for QPTR at some point 6. Easyptr has a C library on disk 3 of the original Easyptr, though I don't think it got updated when Marcel reworked version 4. 7. There's a C Tutorial available in PD, it's on the C page on my website. Just a few quick examples, there's a lot more. > True, many articles in QL Today which demonstrate programming > techniques > etc. are scattered throughout it's 11 volumes. I believe that all of > these still exist in electronic form so maybe there is some > possible > mileage in gathering all of the articles of each series together and > either printing them off as a single volume or putting them on a CD > as > PDF files. I have no idea how much work this would be but it would > be > work so there would have to be a charge. Nevertheless it would be > worthwhile if it got some people writing software again. If there are specific articles, I'll have a look from my backups of material from my editor days which haven't been thrown yet, in case I have copies of anything needed - I'll hold on to them for now. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
