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Just a note for people needing to quickly byteswap disk images


dd if=input.img of=output.img bs=4k conv=swab


This is works only for Linux.
On Windows dd does not do any conversion.


Luckilly this is mostly false news, and I guess depends on what dd.exe you have installed!

I ...

XorA wrote: Thu Aug 14, 2025 10:18 am Just a note for people needing to quickly byteswap disk images

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dd if=input.img of=output.img bs=4k conv=swab

This is works only for Linux.
On Windows dd does not do any conversion.

I've been testing compatibility of all my old commercial games (about 100 I think) with Trump 768, MiniTrump3 & SGC fitted

Most run from QIMSI, but a few will only run from FLP and 3 have to run from MDV

Hi Tony - what ROM do you use? Minerva or JS?
Most of the games I have will not run on ...

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


A few years ago, when I was playing with UDG, I ...

On the ql is there a peek command i can use to find whether a given pixel is lit in mode 4?


In Do It Yourself Toolkit - volume G - you can find the PIXEL% function
PIXEL% can automatically distinguish between MODE 8 and MODE 4 displays. The function PIXEL% tells you the colour of a specified ...

Sebright wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:52 pm Sure, here it is... (including the original and source as well as patched version)

Thank you!

Sebright wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:23 pm I've got 8 games so far working successfully on subdirectories of my win file, and that involved patching Beano and Starplod (luckily I still have the source files!).

Please, can you load the patched Starplod version on the forum?

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:00 pm As for QuillA07, I'd be interested to know what number of system messages it goes up to. On my copy, they are empty apart from 30 and 31 (Y/N, respectively).

Same on my copy. And 31 is the last.

Popopo wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:29 pm By the way, Alvaro A was looking for older versions to check if there was a bug from previous versions.
Do you have previous versions of Quill ?

I have versions A00, A01 and A07

I'd like to re-create a new one. I heard that jlcpcb are also able to provide CNC aluminium parts. I have no idea about 3D modelling, anyone able to offer some advice? How would I apply the text and stripes... get decals made?

You don't need decals. You can create a image in Corel Draw, Inkscape ...