Hi Norman,
> > OK, so get 0.9.52
> Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives
> repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of.
> I notice that if I pause at the keyboard then start typing, I get the
> repeats. Pressing ENTER a few times then typing again doesn't give the
> repeating keys.
I've checked my boot, and since time immemorial, I've had the
following line in it :
POKE_L !!$8C,HEX('00100001')
This changes the QL character repeats (to make them faster, I'm
pretty impatient), but perhaps this has an influence ?
BTW, jus what do you mean by QPC runs slowly?
The only slowness I had noticed was that of screen updates, the rest
ran just as fast as one would expect. And I can see a bit difference
there between windowed mode and fullscreen mode (the latter is slow,
the former not).
> It is running and workable, as I mentioned, I haven't tried to do any
> real work with it yet, but I will be doing soon. A couple of immediate
> problems have been found though :
>
> PAUSE 50 - only pauses a very brief time.
> PAUSE 60*5 - ditto.
I've never tried that, actually - I'll try this evening at home.
> So it loooks like the PAUSE command isn't running very well under WINE.
>
> And, DIR FLP1_ doesn't work - for obvious reasons - The floppy in the
> drive will not auto mount even though /etc/fstab says to do so, because
> the file system on the floppy is not registered under Linux. The mount
> command won't let it be mounted with any known filesystem as our beloved
> QL5A file system is not known.
>
Perhaps using a PC formatted floppy is a way around this, for now?
Again, I haven't used floppies for quite some time and never tried.
I'll do some tests tonight.
Wolfgang
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