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A little something me and a friend hacked together as our first QL production (source included):
http://ftp.kameli.net/pub/fit/misc/nyanleap.zip
Tested only on a barebones original QL, so I have no idea whether it runs on emulators, SMSQ/E, accelerators etc. Kinda ugly hacking at places, but I just couldn't find any guidelines as to how to do things the right way for the more advanced machines.

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVFrKQ2qRY

Just tried it on an emulator and it runs. Impressive! This could be the first QL demo
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Thank you I hope nobody is offended by the harsh words of the readme... A plain QL is definitely a bad platform for demos, but that's also part of the challenge. Most of the other problems can be overcome, but the sound API really makes things difficult. Not just the quality, but the fact that the IPC calls can take half a frame in the worst case and sometimes notes are even dropped. The lack of text mode rules out many useful tricks etc. Would have been nice to use both gfx pages, too, without killing the dos...

WoW, great! Compliments! I tried it on Q-emulator on my iMac and it works. I agree on the lack of text mode as I recently tried to do sth with this too but no way. In terms of using a second screen, interrupts and doing tricks with 2 screens this may is interesting for you: http://omega.webnode.com/products/sincl ... ithvide-2/

Looking forward to see further productions

For any questions just come back !

thorsinclair wrote:WoW, great! Compliments! I tried it on Q-emulator on my iMac and it works. I agree on the lack of text mode as I recently tried to do sth with this too but no way. In terms of using a second screen, interrupts and doing tricks with 2 screens this may is interesting for you: http://omega.webnode.com/products/sincl ... ithvide-2/

I just tried it and seems to work well! Great -- this will definitely make some things way easier. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether it's still possible to play music in the background. Should be doable, since the IPC calls aren't supposed to use the system for anything.

edit: Playing sound through IPC calls seems to work. Things are finally looking up

I designed a QL text-mode output in 1985 or so, identical to the BBC's teletext output.I think I could dig it out and recreate it in a few weeks, if anyone's interested. I put it in one of the high ROM slots and couple poke characters and colors directly into it.

It ran a TTL RGB output directly.

sounds interesting .... Yes please