Alexander Klock wrote: >> Even though in those days the German QL scene was really buzzing :-) > Yes, I even knew about it then. But it was quite hard to get in > touch, only via snail-mail, no users close to my location and all the > interesting stuff was too expensive for someone still at school and > without money, you know,
I know, I'm actually some years younger than you are ;-) But fortunately there was an active scene here, I remember dragging my dad to many meetings, plus the German club magazine Quasar was a huge well of information. > For the first, yes. Basic is the only thing I know until now, but I'm > eager to learn some assembler later... I started this on a ZX81... > that was a mess, I can tell you... ;-) Started on a ZX81, too. But only got into assembler on the QL, which is BTW one of the best machines to learn/program assembler on, to this day a big part of all software including the OS is pure assembler. > There starts the trouble (again). I only have Macs. And even worse, > I don't have some classic system anymore, and the emulator runs only > with System 9... I can't even install it on my iMac G5 anymore. So > this door is closed until someone ports the emulator to X. I see. Well, I can definitely rule out an OS X port of QPC, it's just too much work, though it runs fine on VirtualPC. Apart from that you could try http://uqlx.dokos-gr.net/indexmac.html >> I think the max serial speed with an unmodified QL is however 9600 >> bps. > That should be sufficient as the files are not that large, aren't they? Files for the original QL tend to be pretty small, yes. When I purchased my first pack of 10 DD discs I thought those would certainly last forever. ;-) Since then I learned the law of data always filling up all available space, no matter how big the space is. >> Personally I consider the stuff abandonware and have not much >> hesitations to giving it away, but I don't really have many games for >> the QL. > I'd be interested to know which games you have and would give away. I guess I can dig through my old stuff once you've set up a way to get it unto your QL. > Well, but take a look from the other side: Don't need to, I perfectly saw your point. Just saying it really IS difficult to start because the vanilla QL does have many limitations. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
