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Dracula is a horror text adventure I've ported to the QL. Originally written by Elizabeth Arkush in 1984, it's been ported to SuperBASIC and slightly enhanced.



Great! Thanks for posting this Dilwyn, I look forward to trying it.

I've just finished slaying the vampire in The Curse of ...

RWAP wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:36 am Looking good - glad to see Alan back involved

Thanks Rich

RalfR wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:50 am

Sebright wrote: Sat Sep 06, 2025 2:53 pmBefore anyone gets too excited, they were done by me in a very simplistic style.

I like the graphics, well done!

Thanks Ralf

I've done a bit more work on my Literal Magic game, adding graphics. Before anyone gets too excited, they were done by me in a very simplistic style. But I do think it adds something. If you remove or rename the pics folder, they will disappear, so fear not! The point is to show it can be done ...

I've done a bit more work on my Literal Magic game, adding graphics. Before anyone gets too excited, they were done by me in a very simplistic style. But I do think it adds something. If you remove or rename the pics folder, they will disappear, so fear not! The point is to show it can be done, and ...

Hi,

I'm having some problems compiling a program with QLiberator that uses the PHGTK graphics extensions.
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It all works fine in SuperBASIC, but when compiled with QLiberator, it stops with:

Q_LIB error 19 Indices wrong
The line giving the problem is:
3245 e%=FPNG(x$,"ram1_test_pic",scrMode ...

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried your code Dilwyn, and it worked as expected.

After some head scratching, I wondered whether the fact I had written and compiled the code in Q-emulator with JS ROM would mean it wouldn't run properly under SMSQ/E. So I recompiled the same code while in SMSQ/E and ...

I've used PHGTK a lot since it was released, and not noticed this issue with compiling programs using it.

(For anyone who doesn't know of PHGTK, it's the Photon General Toolkit, a set of graphics extensions for converting GIF, PNG and JPG files)

So I've just made a little test program which I ...

Hi,

I'm having some problems compiling a program with QLiberator that uses the PHGTK graphics extensions.

The idea is to convert .png images as required, saving temporarily as "pic" format to ram1_, then loading back in. I know I could pre-convert them, but I would need to do it for Modes 16, 32 ...

Having played around with Quill a bit recently, I thought it would be fun to try to add some "enhancements" made possible by using the Quill to BASIC utility.

It was possible to add:

GET ALL
DROP ALL
EXAMINE ALL

and also a third word to the parser, which appears as flag(59)

These are quite ...

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