Op Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:13:03 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor
<[email protected]>:
On 12/04/2012 14:44, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4Xoz75yHI
please help
surely someone can convert a microdrive into a compact flash and sd
memory read/write
does she still need the 6808with 8bit bus - this video was 8bit ide
for 8bit z80 machine
was there no software that used the network?
didnt anyone bother to sort out the video ram add a second video ram
page or more modes please
even the amstrad +2ab3&grey keyboards were slightly nicer - simple
decent keyboard?
did she have a keypad conenctor like the 128? no one bung a 68090 on
there!
Can anyone come up with a suitable reply to this enquiry? Not sure
where to start (apart from mentioning the QL-SD card project).
Dilwyn Jones
Just a thought on video modes...
An excerpt from the QL Wiki talks about several solutions to this..
* A program in the Quanta software library allows you to split a screen
vertically in two, with one half displaying MODE 4 and the other half
displaying MODE 8 - http://www.quanta.org.uk/?id=88
* A program Dithvide allows two images to be interlaced, tricking your
mind into thinking that there are more colours -
http://omega.webnode.com/products/product-2/
* The THOR XVI home computer included a MODE 12 command, which provided
16 colours on screen at 256x256 pixels
* The Aurora Motherboard, which provided up to 768 x 576 pixel displays
at 256 colours
Actually Aurora can use up to 1024x768 only in mode 4 under SMSQ/E.
But its mode 256 reduces the resolution to 512x480.
To complicate matters and confuse the public, Auroras mode 16 was never
implemented in SMSQ/E.
And GD2 defines Auroras mode 256 as the new mode 16 (QLT v8i1 page 52).
* The SMSQ/e Operating System, which, when used on Q40, Q60, QPC2, the
QXL or Q-emuLator, can display 16 bit colour support at very high
resolution.
I believe Q40/60 is limited to 1024x512.
I doubt QXL will go beyond 1024x768, it's limited by the (old ISA) parent
hardware and its own 4 or 8MB memory.
QPC2 is only limited by its "modern" parent hardware, and can then also do
mode 16 (256 colours).
By the way, I can't get the Quanta library guide to work on Q-emulator
for some reason (cannot open flp1_libguide_dbs error -15 when it tries
to open the database...)
Are you shure you have the DBAS extension loaded?
Is it Q-emulator or Norman's Libguide_exe? If so you can try
SuQcess (plug) to see if the dbs is valid.
Bob
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