> I just recently browsed ye olde this' and thats in the basement and > came > across a box of my old QL stuff buried under 10 years of dust. I > couldn't stand it for long and now he's back on the desk again: > Sinclair > QL, basically brand new (has been bought at that time as an occasion > for > next to nothing "just in case"), MGG, Sandy Q-Board and, after > browsing > the internet for what might have been left over from the QL > community, > now accompanied by a brand new QPC installation on my laptop. Still > lurking in the box is a Miracle QXL board, which has long lost its > fellow PC with the ISA slots. Let's see if I can find a new > replacement. The beauty of a QXL is that it should work in any old PC with an ISA slot. And runs pretty independent of the PC's processor speed. So that old PC that is no good as a PC can be set up to be a decent "QL" system - it just needs some element of DOS.
> Please be warned: I might possibly pester you with questions on what > has > changed during my 10 years absence from "the scene" during the next > weeks or so. That's the kind of thing we're good at here! Feel free. > What I'm basically interested in right now is how I can revive my > old > collection of software, most importantly Text87, which is by far the > most expensive piece of my software collection. It just doesn't seem > to > like the QPC. Any hints on that, maybe? Text87 needs a patch program for running on recent versions of the QL OS. You can get from Q-Branch in England or from Jochen Merz in Germany. I'm not sure: Text 87 might work on QPC if you boot it up into 4 colour mode with a resolution of 512x256. A lot of older programs which have trouble with higher resolution or higher colour levels will work better if you do this. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
