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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] More BASIC Queries
Hi,
As I have not resolved my initialisation problem with Smsq as yet, I
thought I would try
the following boot listing.
My first problem is wth Qascade not working in Qdos. Does it have to
have a Minerva
rom, if so, how do I install it?
Arnold
Qascade is not the simplest of programs to set up, and there's two
versions, Jonathan Hudson's original version and Marcel's hack for
high colour systems (Marcel's version probably needs WIndow Manager 2,
as well as high colour, I can't really remember)
1. Put all the Qascade files into their own directory, I use
WIN1_QASCADE_ for both versions, but I've altered filenames of the
executable. "qascade" is Marcel's version, "qascade113" is Jonathan's
version, which I use on QDOS systems like my Aurora and QemuLator. In
other words, both versions can live in the same directory.
2. Set up a suitable qascade_rc file with the list of programs to
control etc.
3. In your boot program you'll need something like this:
1470 EX win1_qascade_qascade;"START <win1_qascade_QASCADE_rc"
(Note than the bit in quotes with the START is case sensitive, If your
qascade_rc is qascade_RC, you have to type it out as qascade_RC here)
My experience has been that (1) if you get the case wrong or (2) make
a mistake with the qascade_rc text file it doesn't work and doesn't
tell you much about what went wrong.
Dilwyn Jones
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