New release of EightyOne available

[stroebeljc]

EightyOne has some great documentation in its help menu for some of the supported hardware add-ons. However, I often have questions about my machine itself. Could you add the user guide or maybe some links to the supported machines (like this one to the ZX81 page on www.manualslib.com)?

[1024MAK]

EightyOne has some great documentation in its help menu for some of the supported hardware add-ons. However, I often have questions about my machine itself. Could you add the user guide or maybe some links to the supported machines (like this one to the ZX81 page on www.manualslib.com)?

If some members would like to help write some documentation, then yes, that could be considered.

Mark

[stroebeljc]

If some members would like to help write some documentation, then yes, that could be considered.

Mark

Just let me know how I can help.

[zarsoft]

HELP!

Please fix this bug on EightyOne 1.40:

When I load this BAS file
10 LET X1=1
20 LET X12=12
30 PRINT X1
40 PRINT X12

and RUN the program then I got this error:
Invalid expression in line 20.

To solve this I must do EDIT ENTER on this line.

But I have many lines like this and dont want to do EDIT ENTER on every line...

Thanks.

[stroebeljc]

I'm able to reproduce the problem and will look for a solution.

[roganjosh]

Does the ZX81 printer option, from the tools menu, of EightyOne work? I've selected it from that menu and the printer window dutifully appears. I would then expect that the LPRINT and LLIST commands would work. However, the printer window shows nothing. I've tried it from a ZX81 setup and a Spectrum 48 one. I've also tried setting the style to Alphacom 32.

I'm trying with v1.40 (fresh installation) with old configuration files removed from AppData.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious (it's been a long day), especially as the ChangeLog shows that some minor printer bugs have recently been fixed, so it must have been tested after that.

Alan

[Moggy]

You also need to go into the OPTIONS tab at the top of the screen and select ZX printer from the HARDWARE menu as well not just the TOOLS menu then go into the OPTIONS menu on the printer window and look at the carriage speed you'll find that it may be at zero so just slide it along say halfway or what ever till the print looks ok
(45 seems good with paper feed 75. ) Why Eighty One does this I've no idea.

[roganjosh]

Ah, thanks Moggy.

Alan

[Brimbard]

I just downloaded and compiled the recent version 1.40.

great instructions

Therefore, just as a minor remark: There is no need to burn a DVD. Maybe you update the instruction to say:
"Burn builder5.iso image to a DVD - on Windows 10 you may simply right click and open the .iso file as a new drive and go from there. "
I also installed the Interbase Client close to the Borland installation. In my case: G:\Borland\InterBase.
You could point to that option "At the Interbase Client Setup Complete screen", before accepting all default options.

I am not familiar with this Borland tool. So I just tested to get a bigger DebugWindow and Memory display by scaling those 125% to get from 8-dot chars to 10 dot. This seems to work fine and looks a lot easier to my eyes.

I also the EditDataBlock in the TapeManager (without scaling) from

to

I think these changes only affected the corresponding .dfm files.
Let me know if anyone is interested ...

[Fabrizio]

Freshly downloaded EightyOne 1.40 is not usable on my laptop where a previous version was installed.
EightyOne starts in Ace mode. If I try to change the emulated hardware, it freezes once I click on "Hardware" and I need to kill the process from task bar.
I don't know how to remove the old configuration.

The previous version was working ok until I used a second screen monitor once and I could not get the window back on the primary screen. I do not have a second monitor at hand all the time. I tried something wrong to force the invisible window to move from the absent secondary monitor to the primary monitor.
Anyway, there must be a way to get it working again.

Could someone please help me?

By the way I use emulator to test the homebrew games I code with my Cross-Lib framework.