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Hi, Bwinkel67
The QL Core for Spectrum NEXT, the links I’ve seen so far install and run with a QL Minerva startup screen but even the basic DIR And File LOAD functions have not been read or understood. Though they somehow manage to load some of the QL Games and PSION Progs with auto Drive Boots ...

Hi Steve,
Still Morphing around I see, or is this one just simple animation tweening.
Which I wonder is quicker in delivering to screen a single colour rectangle in SuperBASIC
STRIP colour CURSOR PRINT ‘Space’ or BLOCK w, d, x, y, colour.

QBITS

Hi All,
QBITS FontEdit started out as a simple bitmap editor of QL Fonts each 9Bytes x 8bits.The Special Edition explored Font use and development and included 3 Retro ARCADE Games using designed Font. SE Plus provided Specialised Fonts for Music and Timers and displays of different Font sizes and ...

Hi all,
QBITS FontEditEE
To use the Vector Scalable Fonts of SE Plus I’ve been developing a HEADINGS Design Section.


QBITS_FontEditEE.jpg
Note: QPC2 Emulator in MODE 16 is the Platform where I write most of my Code now days.

QBITS_ScrSaver_bas
The QBITS S/SuperBASIC Prog I’ve been playing ...

hi Dilwyn,

I seem to recall a series in QL World to build a compiler written in SuperBASIC that compiled itself
that might have connections with the background to SuperCharge?

QBITS

Hi,

QPC2 with Horizon emu on my ANDROID 15

Some success I have QPCII 5.02 up and running. Can activate screen Keyboard and type dir which gives QPCD QDOS Progs

I try DIR dos1 and I hit a problem the (_) underscore prints the same and a dash or minus. I’ve tried several different keyboard ...

Thanks Norman
That might be it linked to how QPC2.exe sets up the windrives etc...
I'll have another try.

QBITS

Hi bwinkel67 thanks for your inquiry.

8 colour high res is used with QPC2 which will default to four colours with Mode 4 on other older QL Platforms as when using QL Qemulator or QL2K running at QLBB speed. In these environments QBITS Trader takes a few minutes to go through the Stock Trends ...

Hi,

I’ve been trying out Horizon Emu win 10 emulator with wine16 on my Android 15, I can get the QPC2.exe to start but comes up with error opening SMSQE file Code 20 sharing Violation.

Any thoughts.

QBITS

Hi, Thanks, RalfR, Critian and others members for past and present encouraging comments.

In developing QBITS Trader I played a number of times. I have to say most of my efforts to date resulted in being Fired.
My score did improve over time and I managed to reach Skilful just the once. I have yet ...