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tofro wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 11:13 am The 8049 keyboard co-processor. (Sinclair's naming was "Integrated peripheral co-processor", I think).

Thanks tofro

I'm confused by the https://badared.com/badaman/ql/batman/a ... _sqlux.zip link on the Downloads section of the Batman website.

It says:

"this contains a portable installation of the sQLux emulator for Windows preconfigured to boot with the file. WIN. This is (0, 1 or 2) in the sqlux.ini file."

But when I download it, it is an uncompressed html file for the root of the Badaman website?

Exile wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 12:00 pm I'm confused by the https://badared.com/badaman/ql/batman/a ... _sqlux.zip link on the Downloads section of the Batman website.

The original file ended with .ZIP when it should be .zip, so the website couldn't find it. It's now fixed. Thanks for reporting it!

I'll try to find time to prepare an English version of the website. I hope to do so by next weekend. I'll let you know so you can read it.

janbredenbeek wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 10:44 am 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 incompatibility with some old games.

tofro wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 11:13 am The 8049 keyboard co-processor. (Sinclair's naming was "Integrated peripheral co-processor", I think).

It's (IMO): Intelligent Peripheral CoProcessor and MT.IPCOM stands for Manager Trap with the Intelligent coprocessor COMmunication (but we can only guess, only Anthony knows, what the abbreviation means exactly).

M68008 wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 6:20 pm

janbredenbeek wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 10:44 am 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 incompatibility with some old games.

The code to do this is actually very trivial (just set A6 to $28000 on entry to the trap), but would remove the possibility for the second screen.

Miguel angel rojo wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 10:26 pm
Correct, you have to take the boots to jump,

Sometimes even with the boots I cannot jump.

This is another great game for the QL - well done to the original authors and of course the person who converted it to the QL

The website is now available in English, along with the game manual written by the author.

Download it from: https://badared.com/badaman/ql/batman

the game and the achievement is amazing - great work.

And also thanks to Badaman for making it super accessible