Re: [Ql-Users] Font
Well I've just used the new BMP import and EPS export on PCBDesign to create a vectorized Postscript version of the QL font. Does anybody want to take it from there? Malcolm From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] on behalf of Dilwyn Jones [dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: 12 December 2010 18:55 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Font There is a font called SirClive that is the same as the font that Sinclair Research used for the Spectrum and QL logos. It can be found at: http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/SirClive.htm There is a ZX Spectrum font that is a 8x8 pixel font so that text can look like it was printed on the Spectrum. It can be found at: http://www.fonts2u.com/sinclair-zx-spectrum-es-regular.font Tim Swenson Thanks Tim, I've added them to the Fonts page on my website. The letters used in the Sinclair logo seem very similar in both the SFSquareHead and SirClive font, with the exception that the taller letters like l seem a bit taller in the former, and the letters in the latter are generally thinner. www.dilwyn.me.uk/fonts/index.html All we need now is for someone to make a QL-like font to match the Spectrum one! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Unsure on how to play inform adventure files on the QL
Hello there, has anyone had any luck playing infocom text adventures on the QL? There is a program on Dilwyn's website: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/infocom.zip I've tried all kinds of commands to get it away but I just get a bad parameter error. I've set the program and data directories, thanks Dilwyn :) but that didn't make much difference. I'm using a standard QL with a trump card and twin floppies. Many thanks, Peter http://www.qlforum.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Unsure on how to play inform adventure files on the QL
The main parts of the program are: Inform - compiles z-code into a game. zip- takes a compiled game and plays it. If you have a game file (curses_dat) in the same directory as the zip executable, then to have zip read the curses_dat file and play it, the command line is: exec zip;curses_dat This will open a new window and start the game. Zip is able to read games that were built on other platforms ( but only games using zcode versions 3 5). I wrote a review for this many years ago for IQLR and luckily it was still on a hard drive. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Question from a re-newbie
You can use cut paste in editor. If I remember correctly you select an area, yank itinto a buffer and then put it back into a new place John On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:26, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4d00f65a.9070...@t-online.de, Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de writes Am 09.12.2010 15:50, schrieb Rich Mellor: On 09/12/2010 14:44, Lee Privett wrote: Ed (Toolkit II) is a great editor but in coming back to the QL I would have thought someone would have come up with a couple of useful tweaks by now. Such as the ability to copy and paste within the editing window and using the mouse to put the cursor just where I want it, instead of several arrow direction taps to get there. Any ideas? Lee Privett ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I guess no one enhanced Ed any further, as people moved onto using tools such as Digital Precision's The Editor, or the even better QD editor from Jochen Merz if they wanted to be able to do this sort of thing. Yep, that's just about right. I find myself rarely using ed nowadays, even for plain SBASIC programming. QD2 with its feature to remove and add line numbers on the fly makes editing (and properly formatting) programs much easier. I use ED only for small corrections/amendments when actually compiling. Tobias Hi, There is an enhanced version of The Editor, after DP folded. Probably available on a Mr Jones's web site ... :-) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
