Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-02-01 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On the basis of Roy's email concerning PE and Toolkit 2, I've made the latest versions I have to hand available on the Toolkits page on my website. If Tony Tebby (or anyone else connected with these) is unhappy about my understanding o

Re: Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-02-01 Thread dilwyn.jones
> > Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you > > a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, > > although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. > > > > You can always use ALLOCATION from TTK (which can be later released with >

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-31 Thread Phoebus Dokos
ÎÎÎ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:20 -,Î(Î) Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ÎÎÏÎÏÎ/wrote: No, ALCHP is only present in Toolkit 2 extensions. From SuperBASIC, you can use RESPR instead as long as no other jobs are running. Snag is that RESPR memory cannot be released later, only be a reset. Th

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-31 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I've just put a rather nice Othello game written and sent to me by Ken Tait onto the games page. It's rather old, but works well on QPC2. Yes, that may be the one that I remember ... it was given as a programme listing tha

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Phoebus Dokos
ÎÎÎ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:22:18 -0800,Î(Î) Daniele Terdina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ÎÎÏÎÏÎ/wrote: That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header

RE: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Daniele Terdina
> That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the > microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the > microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header The QL utility I mentioned embeds some sector header information in the file. This is the

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread P Witte
Rich Mellor writes: <> > Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. ..provided no jobs are running (Qdos). Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Why oh why should anybody want to load a TK2 image on QPC2? Marcel That was just me being totally stu

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Doh, thanks. It can load ROM images but obviously not needed even in the demo version. -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Old games

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Rich Mellor wrote: Yes you need a TK2.ROM to link in with Qemulator - that contains ALCHP Dilwyn - is there a link to this on your website yet? Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. Following Roy Wood's announcement that pointer environment and Toolkit 2 can be freely made available, I've p

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send > you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, > although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Why oh why should anybody want to load a TK2 image on QPC2? Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Rich Mellor
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:20 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Silly QPC2 does no

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- PÃl Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Jones - Original Message - From: "Pål Monstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Old games Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tarquin Mills wrote: > I have been thinking about a virtual microdrive for SMSQ/E, as way of > making SMSQ/E more compatible with old software, this would solve the > above problem. In other words an image filing system. I think software that does need this would probably not run anyway. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Tarquin Mills
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:06:35 -0800, Daniele Terdina > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the > microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on > the microdrive, or speci

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Rich Mellor
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:06:35 -0800, Daniele Terdina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Probably the best emulator to use to play these sort of games is Qemulator - certainly seems to be more able to cope (unless they use copy protection of course). In fact, Q-emuLator can run most copy-protected QL

RE: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Daniele Terdina
> Probably the best emulator to use to play these sort of games is Qemulator > - certainly seems to be more able to cope (unless they use copy protection > of course). In fact, Q-emuLator can run most copy-protected QL games (for example, the unpatched Psion Chess 1.0). But you need to own the or

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Pål Monstad
Pål Monstad wrote: > Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded > QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the > cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the > ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems > to

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Rich Mellor
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:20:55 +0100, PÃl Monstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Pål Monstad
Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the >> '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it >> on one of the emulators for the PC? >> >> Any other old games available? >> -- >> Pål Monstad > There's quite a lot of games on my we

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > QPC2 should be set to QL colour 512x256 screen mode for maximum > compatibility. There is a QL screen emulation command in QPC2, > started with a command called QPC_QLSCREMU Of course if you do set QPC to QL colour 512x256 then QPC_QLSCREMU is not needed. It's only of use if

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- Pål Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.htm

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-28 Thread Rich Mellor
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:58:46 +0100, PÃl Monstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- PÃl Monsta

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 at 18:58:46, Pål Monstad wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. >Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one >of the emulators for the PC? I think it -has- to be run on original unex

[ql-users] Old games

2005-01-28 Thread Pål Monstad
I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- Pål Monstad ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://w