Date   : Thu, 12 Jul 1990 16:10:29 PDT
From   : cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: QX-10 and Z-system

I run ZCPR 3.3 on an SB-180, and wanted to run it also on my QX-10.  I decided
the best way to play it was to move the BDOS down, and put the ZCPR buffers
between the BDOS and BIOS.  However, I couldn't find out how (where) the QX10
kept the location of the BDOS for use in eg. the  warm-boot code; in the end,
other tasks became more relevant.  Bank 0 is full of goodies, by the way - I
remapped the keyboard to handle an ASCII unit, and found a lot of fascinating
graphics primitives (?); if Epson had only documented their software, the
QX-10 would have swept all before it.  I look at a 600x400 screen, totally
unusable to me unless I program the graphics controller directly, and  feel
very discouraged.

Jay Sage came across one of my pleas for help on a BBS, and wrote me a note
to say that a lot of people in his area were running the Z-system on QX-10s
with no real problems.  I don't know which version they were running; it may
be later than 3.3.  I recently got a price for the current ZCPR/ZRDOS to run
on a QX-10 from Jay Sage's company (~$140 total) and decided it just wasn't
cost effective.  If you ran the new ZCPR with NOVADOS (is that possible?)
it would only cost you ~$75; pricey, but might be worth it.

Anway, good luck - Will

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