The Sinclair QL Forum

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Hi, have tied the various options for increasing the size of QPC2 but each time it just increases the size of the "black" window but the QL 3 screens ae just as small (especially on a 1920x1080 monitor). Am I asking the impossible?

Try setting the resolution to 640x480, and the window to ...

I've bought a new PC back in December with 14th Gen i7 processor and 32GB RAM. The PC I used for production until then is a 10-year old 4th Gen i7 with 8GB RAM and a 250GB SSD, which I now have upgraded to 1TB (+ 2TB HDD). In theory, it could be upgraded to Windows 11 using a registry hack to bypass ...

I'm not familiar with C1mon, but I couldn't reproduce this on neither Minerva nor SMSQ/E. When I take the pointer at $28(A6) (i.e. VVBAS) and add the offset from the parameter, this takes me to the correct location (the length word, not the first character of the string).

BTW, it's not very common ...

MT.IPCOM should work under Minerva unless you change the SSP to be outside the $28000 to $2FFFF region or overwrite system variables. Anyway, he should have had his reasons.

This matches my understanding. I wonder if anybody is still updating Minerva these days and could remove this ...

I don't know the author's motives, but here are two good reasons not to use MT.IPCOM:
- Recent versions of Minerva crash when calling it if the OS is completely disabled.
- On Sinclair ROM, it's very slow. Between code improvements and other tricks, it can go quite faster.

MT.IPCOM should work ...

Just for completeness (I understand the game is for the BBQL):
It seems to talk to the IPC directly instead of using MT.IPCOM calls (or, tries to talk to the IPC with interrupts off). Thus, the game will likely not run on anything that doesn't have (or fully emulates) an IPC.

I tried running it ...

techy wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:28 am Has anyone ever made a dump of the fb rom's ??

There is no complete dump, only the last 16K. It's in this archive which contains more dumps from test EPROMs: https://www.sinclairql.net/downloads/TH ... s-SQPP.zip

I don't know about Gold Card, but I think you may use the Trump Card and the QIMSI Gold if your operating system is Minerva. Read carefully here:
https://github.com/janbredenbeek/Minerva4Q68
If you have extension ROMs that insist on being placed in the $C000 slot, you may include them by ...

Is there no possibility to scan the lines of a loaded SuperBASIC program, without the need to read the source file. DLINE, GO TO, ... must be able to find a line number, so there must be a way. Or is this not documented? I could write a SuperBASIC extension, it must not be done in S(uper)BASIC ...