SMSQ/E 3.36

[stephen_usher]

I've just been looking at the sources and trying to work out how the display stuff works just it just seems gobbledygook to me.

I had been wondering if I could modify the Atari driver to work with the Atari TT's medium resolution (640x480, 16 colours) but I wouldn't know where to start.

[mk79]

How can I help you to solve the problem?

Please post a picture of a Spanish QL keyboard, I cannot find one anywhere on the web.

[mk79]

I've just been looking at the sources and trying to work out how the display stuff works just it just seems gobbledygook to me.

I had been wondering if I could modify the Atari driver to work with the Atari TT's medium resolution (640x480, 16 colours) but I wouldn't know where to start.

16 colour modes are not supported. It would be quite a lot of work to implement them, which is way I didn't do it.

[Chr$]

How can I help you to solve the problem?

Please post a picture of a Spanish QL keyboard, I cannot find one anywhere on the web.

I can do that!

[mk79]

Cool, thanks. afx, you can try patching the 3.36 binary this way

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s$ = "win1_gold"
l = FLEN(\s$)
IF l <> 237836 THEN PRINT "Wrong size": STOP
a = ALCHP(l)
LBYTES s$,a
POKE a+$F563,$4E
SBYTES_O s$,a
RECHP a

The Q68 version is fine I supposed?

[afx]

Cool, thanks. afx, you can try patching the 3.36 binary this way
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s$ = "win1_gold"
l = FLEN(\s$)
IF l <> 237836 THEN PRINT "Wrong size": STOP
a = ALCHP(l)
LBYTES s$,a
POKE a+$F563,$4E
SBYTES_O s$,a
RECHP a

Hi Marcel, great!!

Now with the patch the accented vowels (áéíóú) work well!. (¡Bravo! )

There's just one small problem left:
- The single quote key ( ' ) is not on the spanish BBQL keyboard, this single quote must be produced by the CTRL key and acent key ( ´ ) (the key to the right of the P in lowercase). The version 3.36 not patched does this well.

The Q68 version is fine I supposed?

Yes, In the Q68 SMSQE version 3.36, the Spanish keyboard layout and messages are perfect.

I can do that!

Chr$, thanks for advancing the photo ...

Best regards.

[mk79]

Hm, okay, in that case the table has to be done differently. You can combine the key with space in the meantime to get the character.

[stephen_usher]

I've just been looking at the sources and trying to work out how the display stuff works just it just seems gobbledygook to me.

I had been wondering if I could modify the Atari driver to work with the Atari TT's medium resolution (640x480, 16 colours) but I wouldn't know where to start.

16 colour modes are not supported. It would be quite a lot of work to implement them, which is way I didn't do it.

I realised that, but if I could make head or tail of the current code I might have been able to help. It seems quite impenetrable code.

[afx]

You can combine the key with space in the meantime to get the character.

Ok, that's a good solution for me. I find it even more comfortable than CTRL ´.

Thank you!

[mk79]

Ok, that's a good solution for me. I find it even more comfortable than CTRL ´.

You could try my patch with

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POKE a+$F45C,$96
POKE a+$F563,0

I think both variants should work then.