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Okay, I'll prepare some simple QL database that has multiple objects, locations, connections between them, and with some code. I replicate the database format that Quill for QL uses (at least version A07), so it should be the same as if it was generated by Quill itself. For this kind of use case ...

I theoretically have A06 on a floppy disk, but I just scrapped another disk drive trying to recover it :evil:

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). But it needs to go up to ...

QL Quill doesn't support graphics, which is why I wrote a utility (see: https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/games/adventures/advutils.zip ) to convert QL Quill databases to SuperBASIC, after which you can add graphics as you please by altering the SuperBASIC code to suit. I prefer to write adventures ...

dilwyn wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:12 pm

Sebright wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:42 pm

dilwyn wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 3:37 pm
May I add this to my website, Alan?

Yes please, Dilywn

Done, thanks Alan.
On Adventure Games page https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/games/adv ... index.html, just under the original Adventure Utilities which I kept for posterity.

Thanks so much, Dilwyn

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.


Yep, that's the same as mine. You need up to SM35 for save/load operations.

This is what I ...

Just in case anyone is interested, I've attached an updated version of the "advutils" folder that Rich Mellor compiled and is currrently on Dilwyn's website, containing the amended Quill_to_BASIC conversion program (plus the other ACT utilities, untouched). The BASIC source is included.

Cheers ...

I theoretically have A06 on a floppy disk, but I just scrapped another disk drive trying to recover it :evil:

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). But it needs to go up to 35 ...

Just in case anyone is interested, I've attached an updated version of the "advutils" folder that Rich Mellor compiled and is currrently on Dilwyn's website, containing the amended Quill_to_BASIC conversion program (plus the other ACT utilities, untouched). The BASIC source is included.

Cheers ...

Hi Morgul,

Thanks for your detailed reply. So as I understand it, the NAPS system allows you to create adventures as databases that work on other platforms, as well as exporting to the QL as a Quill-compatible database. That sounds great, and hopefully will allow more adventures to appear on the QL ...

Hello, everyone. Thanks to @aalea who shared it with me and helped me with it, I was able to try Quill A07 for Sinclair QL, and adapt my toolset to this platform, so now it can run QL databases, as well as produce databases that work on QL Quill. For those who don't know it yet, I refer to NAPS ...