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If I want to use a GUI system on the QL, there is only one option - The Pointer System and QPAC2, QD, QMENU, QBASIC...


It has sort of that early X-Windows feel...right in line with that UNIX feel of QDOS (for me at least).


...which makes the QL a nice GUI based system in less than 512K or ...

Digging a bit in memory and old paperwork:
Its first incarnation came with QRAM, and that should have been 1987 or 1988 - So, not quite 40 years old. But to establish itself from a GUI toolkit that drove QJump programs to the publicly accepted WIMP for the QL took another, like 3-5 years. I can't ...

ql_freak wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 1:15 am The Exteded Environment has been implemented when GUIs where invented.

I didn't realize this was over 40 years old. I thought it was created in the 90s, not early 80s. Did Tony create it at the same time as TK2?

Is MicroEmacs full featured compared to UNIX/Linux Emacs? Does it support LISP, shell, full macro recording?

Does this work:

Esc-10, Esc-X Hanoi

First thing I usually try. I used that back in the 90s to test the terminal program I wrote for the QL to see if all my control charters worked properly ...

I was going to put this on eBay but thought I'd ask here first. I have a spare UK QL top case with no keys. Nothing broken on it though for some reason the top of the microdrive area seems to have been smoothed on one corner a bit from wear (like someone rested their palm there...no idea how that ...

You could try and edit the ROM file that Qemulator i s using and change the JS string.

Last time I posted a webpage to play with the non-internet version. Here is a video showing you how it fully works. Its shown surfing Dilwyn's QL Homepage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfKuvQU84o

Below is a link of my browser working. So it turns out that http://SDF.org not only gives you a free account (well, you send them $1 in the mail or paypal them $6 for a lifetime membership) but it also lets you host your own webpage (it's an html directory in your home directory where you put stuff ...

Ok, this one is even better. It should now work with any page, regardless of size. You can use http or https, either will work.


MIMIR.zip


It's still a limited prototype, but it will now display the first part of any webpage. I tried https://cnn.com and it worked perfectly. What I do is load as ...

Does it have an option to use the software settings (through the standard COM calls) instead of overriding them?

EDIT: never mind, I found many drivers have similar UI. They should still respond to software changes (e.g. BAUD command on QL side), although I've seen some of them not liking those ...