The Sinclair QL Forum

My boot file is:
Swapping the RESPR to ALCHP allows access to a different range of addresses which can help

Changing line 110 to ALCHP (and/or line 100 too) results is a slightly different error, this time it passes line 110 but fails to load the screen on line 140 - and that's without the SGC ...

As you might see, the program loads the chunks of code first to "legally" allocated areas in high memory, then copies them down to their desired load addresses and runs them there. This will make the system non-operable as well, but I'd expect it would stay alive enugh to run the game.

Many ...

I have aquired a copy of Steve Davies Snooker on Microdrive cart and it works on my QL (Issue 5 JM ROM), which is good.

However, if I even look funny at carts they tend to give up on me, so I have copied it to floppy am trying to get it to work.

I have an Tetriod Super Gold Card and ROM switcher ...

NormanDunbar wrote:
Are you still in Leeds? I'm Leeds based myself at the moment, although I'm originally from the proper North! Head north until your feet get wet, then back up 5 miles!

I've slid 25 miles west in the last decade, now in York but work (when not in lockdown) in Leeds still.

Dan.

I remember seeing a QL in the flesh for the first time at the All Formats Computer Fair in Leeds 1st November 1992 (University Sports Hall), it was on one of the stalls and had a Miracle Gold Card in it and I was intrigued by the gold heatsink poking out the side but being a skint student it wasn't ...