Morning Wolfgang,
> 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 also have noticed that this is not always true. After some time of usage,
even pressing ENTER repeatedly has no effect on the repeats.
> 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 ?
I don't have anything like that in my boot file. I want to try and slow down
the repeating now! However, it is a thought and one I shall try out tonight at
home.
> BTW, jus what do you mean by QPC runs slowly?
See my reply to Marcel, but basically :
moving the mouse has a delay before the pointer starts moving on screen. The
delay is about 0.5 seconds - not long, but irritating!
Typing at the keyboard has a delay again before the characters appear in
whatever application I'm using. Same problem on #0, #1, #2 or in editors etc.
When the phantom repeat problem occurs, I begin typing and I get a longer dealy
of about 1-3 seconds variable, then hundreds of repeated characters appear.
> 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).
There's no difference between full screen or 640 by 480 mode. I did try 800 by
600 but that refuses to operate giving me a tall thin screen with no output and
no sign of win1_boot running.
> 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.
That might work, at least it will mount, however, all of my QL stuff on floppy
is in QL format so as I wanted to get at some old source code of mine on a
floppy disc, I am/was somewhat stuffed! If I can find a PC formatted floppy
tonight, I'll give that a try and see what happens.
Cheers,
Norman.
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