>> Some have already wrote it, but if you have Text87plus4 it should >> already work fine if you start QPC in QL colour mode (try 512x256 >> if >> it still doesn't work). For high colour mode there is a patch >> available against a small fee (12 EUR from JMS). For this I >> basically >> had to rewrite the whole graphics output routines of Text87 and >> patch >> them into the original EXE file, which was quite a pain really... >> > tried it, doesn't work (recon, Text87's config, does work indeed in > 512x256). Thanks for the tip, anyway. > Did I say already that QPC2 is the most enjoyable piece of software > I > bought in the last couple of years, already? > > Tobias I've just tried my copy - the version shown on the opening screen (top left) is
Text 87 Plus 4 v3 (C) 1992 Software 87 This only works if QPC2 is started in mode 4, with a screen size of 512x256. In any other screen size it just gives an empty black screen. Two suggestions: 1. Older versions of Text87 may not work at all on QPC2 2. If QPC2 starts in any other screen resolution, and you change it down to 512x256 with, say, a DISP_SIZE 512,256 command, this may not work since IIRC memory organisation is not necessarily the same as a standard QL. QPC2 has to be set at 512x256 when it starts (i.e. from the opening setup screen - QPC2 must not be allowed to go into any other resolution before using Text87.) There is a QPC2 facility called QPC_QLSCREMU which sets a kind of automatic QL screen emulation, where the original QL screen is set up in memory and a background job copies whatever is written to the QL screen to the top left corner of the larger QPC2 screen. It works well with some games, for example, which write direct to the QL screen. QPC_QLSCREMU needs a numeric parameter, described on page 8 of the QPC manual, but briefly: QPC_QLSCREMU -1 automatic mode QPC_QLSCREMU 0 screen emulation disabled (default value) QPC_QLSCREMU 4 force to 4-colour (mode 4) QPC_QLSCREMU 8 force to 8-colour (mode 8) QPC2 has lots of these little "extra" features which I always find useful. Another one I always found useful was QPC_SYNCSCRAP which synchronised text on the QMenu Scrap and Windows Clipboard. If you use an editor like QD which knows how to handle Scrap, this is a quick and easy way to cut and paste short texts to or from Windows. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
