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

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 website

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-30 Thread Rich Mellor
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:20:55 +0100, Pl 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
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 not

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

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 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 specific

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 Dilwyn Jones
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 game available somewhere, and is it possible to play

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? -- Pl Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website

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 not

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 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

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 On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:20

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

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

[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

Re: [ql-users] Old games

2005-01-28 Thread Rich Mellor
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:58:46 +0100, Pl 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? -- Pl Monstad