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by Morgul
Sun Aug 24, 2025 12:42 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft


Having played around with Quill a bit recently, I thought it would be fun to try to add some "enhancements" made possible by using the Quill to BASIC utility.

It was possible to add:

GET ALL
DROP ALL
EXAMINE ALL

and also a third word to the parser, which appears as flag(59)

These are quite ...
by Morgul
Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft




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 ...
by Morgul
Thu Jul 17, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft





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 ...
by Morgul
Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:54 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft




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 ...
by Morgul
Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:29 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft


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 ...
by Morgul
Sun Jul 13, 2025 10:18 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft




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 ...
by Morgul
Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:45 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Quill from Gilsoft
Replies: 114
Views: 46392

Re: Quill from Gilsoft


Popopo Did you ever mange to find the change log as that would be interesting! I wonder if it goes as high as the lost A08 and what that had extra or fixed. Unless someone has a copy of that as well :)

Now onto disassembly of the A07 and compare to the A03 original source I have, to reconstruct ...