Dilwyn Jones schrieb: > I've just tried my copy - the version shown on the opening screen (top > left) is > > Text 87 Plus 4 v3 > (C) 1992 Software 87 > Seems my version is way older (I can only see the version in the binary) - It's 3.01 > This only works if QPC2 is started in mode 4, with a screen size of > 512x256. In any other screen size it just gives an empty black screen. > That's what I get (even in 512x256) > Two suggestions: > > 1. Older versions of Text87 may not work at all on QPC2 > Looks like that > 2. If QPC2 starts in any other screen resolution, and you change it > down to 512x256 with, say, a DISP_SIZE 512,256 command, this may not > work since IIRC memory organisation is not necessarily the same as a > standard QL. QPC2 has to be set at 512x256 when it starts (i.e. from > the opening setup screen - QPC2 must not be allowed to go into any > other resolution before using Text87.) > I tried both ways (i.e. starting up with 512x256 as well as changing after start) Neither gives me anything different than a blank black screen. > There is a QPC2 facility called QPC_QLSCREMU which sets a kind of > automatic QL screen emulation, where the original QL screen is set up > in memory and a background job copies whatever is written to the QL > screen to the top left corner of the larger QPC2 screen. It works well > with some games, for example, which write direct to the QL screen. > QPC_QLSCREMU needs a numeric parameter, described on page 8 of the QPC > manual, but briefly: > > QPC_QLSCREMU -1 automatic mode > QPC_QLSCREMU 0 screen emulation disabled (default value) > QPC_QLSCREMU 4 force to 4-colour (mode 4) > QPC_QLSCREMU 8 force to 8-colour (mode 8) > None of hose seem to cure my problem > QPC2 has lots of these little "extra" features which I always find > useful. Another one I always found useful was QPC_SYNCSCRAP which > synchronised text on the QMenu Scrap and Windows Clipboard. If you use > an editor like QD which knows how to handle Scrap, this is a quick and > easy way to cut and paste short texts to or from Windows. > > Think I gonna be saying good-bye to Text87.....
Thanks for the help, anyway Tobias _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
