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Older (floppy) drives have had jumpers or micro switches, with which it was possible, to select the driver number (1 to 4/0 to 3) on a Shugart Bus. So no twisting of the cable was needed.

BTW: There's a nice QL program (unfortunately not yet freeware) from Jörg(?) Schieman(n?) and (R)Alf Biedermann. It's written in SuperBASIC ([R]Alf provided the machine code extensions, IMHO linked into the object file). And if I remember correct, it could run in Mode 4.

Unfortunately I do not have ...

Unfortunately it seems, that 2 different jobs with different windows are not working. I have had misbehaviour in MasterSpy. With just one job (perhaps more, but with the same window size and position) it seems to work (to close the guardian window).

Hi Jan,

I have backported the HISTORY device from SMSQ/E and implemented it in Minerva's command line editor.

Arrggghhhh... Why did you do that!

The history device has been written by Boris Jakubith from Berlin (a friend of mine) and it's on Dilwyns page (search for history).

This version is ...

Okay I see the advantage (I think i understand what you mean). But I think this must not be used so often (of course it's great!). But what IMHO more often is needed is something like this (and that is possible with my trick, and it seems to work):
ql2MasterSpyC1MonEtc.png
And one improvement ...

I have now tried to patch MasterSpy, so that it does not cover the whole screen, but didn't succeed. What I have found in the manual Section 11 is:

"1. Supported screen resolutions now include: 512 x 256. 512 x 288.512 x 384. 512 x 480. 640 x 200. 640
x 288,640 x 320, 640 x 350, 640 x 480, 768 x ...

I'm shocked! This is working like a charm :‑D

I've uploaded my normal WIN-file (Minerva-version!) and LRUNed the boot file. IT WORKED!

It looks differently than on my PC, but that's because of the resolution (on my PC I'm using 1024x768).

p.s.: Wow! Even MicroEMACS is running (NOT in the ...

On the ql is there a peek command i can use to find whether a given pixel is lit in mode 4?


I'm afraid, there is not such a function, which can detect the MODE (4 or 8) from a single pixel.

In both modes a pixel is made of 4 bits and in both modes all 4 bits may be set or unset.

So I say: NO ...

RalfR wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 8:11 am The Scrap extension is part of Jochen's Menu-extension. The scrap menu is synchronized with the Windows clipboard using QPC_SYNCSCRAP.

QPC_SYNCSCRAP: This looks, as it is only working with QPC2, not with other systems.
^^^

I want besides MicroEMACS (the most powerful editor for the QL) another small editor. Albeit I formerly (20 years ago) used Metacomco ED (or) compatible editors like The Editor or Jan's QED, I now don't know the commands anymore. So I want an editor with optional menus.

On QPC2 I normally used ...