Re: [Ql-Users] QLIB Free-Running Procedures
Op Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:56:56 +0100 schreef tobias.froesc...@t-online.de tobias.froesc...@t-online.de: What I saw is one single execution of the procedure worker. This then runs to an end, main just hangs there doing nothing (suspended, but not ended). I modified your Basic slightly so that it compiled in one go, Extrernal +Main, with Qlib 3.36. The first run on my slow, 400MHz, (Q)PC did hang when Main had opened a window to print its message. Then I recompiled with no windows open and it ran as expected, opening/closing 40 Worker windows. Bob -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Q-Talk Module
In message 496ba244.8040...@rwapservices.co.uk, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk writes Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know how to use the Q-Talk speech synthesizer - I have one here to test... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services It was sold by Maxtronics RD in New Zealand. The only info I've been able to find on it was in Chris Adams' QL World database: QL World Dec 87 page 7 QL World May 88 page 30 and their adverts in issues at around that time. OK great - now all we need is someone with a copy of those magazines!! Hi Rich, There is a brief article in QL World Dec 87 page 7, about Qtalk. I can send you a photocopy of the page, if you wish. It states that there are 16 levels of programmable pitch, and more than 400 rules to convert text to speech. Together with an exception dictionary of 25,000 words, and the user can define their own exception table. It goes on to say that Qtalk is configured as standard output device. Requiring just 20K of RAM. Two games - Alien Hijack and Puzzle mania are also mentioned as being released with the device. The cost, at the time, was £88.50 including PP. The distributor was Chi-Soft, 20 Chandros Way, Welgarth Road, Hampstead, London NW11 7HF. The system was produced by Maxtronic RD Ltd, 26a Conway Street, Christchurch 2, New Zealand. The article in QL World May 88 page 30. Is a full review written by Ron Massey, and extends over 4 pages of the magazine. The product is described as Maxtronic Qtalk, and the source is given as Strong Computer Systems, Bryn Cottage, Carmarthen, Dyfed SA32 7DJ. Again, I can send you a photocopy of the pages, if you wish. Or, I could scan the relevant pages if that is more convenient for you. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
Marcel Kilgus wrote: But what's the story behind the David Karlin picture? I've met David in January 2002 in London for diner. We talked about work and life including his Fairchild and Sinclair days. The story would fill a comprehensive article in QL Today. When is the next deadline for QL Today? Best regards, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
Javier Guerra wrote: I would have liked to know more about the careers of David Karlin, Jan Jones, Tony Tebby and others. I will write an article on David Karlin and myabe update my powerpoint presentation with some more information soon. Two of our spanish colleagues have developed 2 web videos. I put the links you want to see them. Thank you for all the work done on your side for the 25th anniversary. Well done to you and your Spanish colleagues! I originally planned to add some more videos to YouTube, but time was - as often - not enough to complete production and upload. But there's more to come... Regards...Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
Javier Guerra wrote: The web, as always, is open to anyone who wants to contribute. If you have any book, magazine or manual, contact us to tell the best way to pass the documents to PDF. You can even send copies (who gladly pay) so that we deal with it. There's help. 1. I have a huge collection of QL stuff including many printed documents, manuals and books. 2. We have a 15'000$ XEROX WorkCentre at work which has a powerful duplex scan engine. To scan 100 pages of A4 paper takes just a few minutes. Another contribution to the QLis25 year will be that on one evening or another I will scan some documents, mainly those which are 1) easy to scan 2) not available/downloadable as a scan 3) scanned version is of bad quality or incomplete Regards, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
In message 002301c975a3$fdfec0e0$2301a...@pcw.local, Urs König (QL) q...@bluewin.ch writes Javier Guerra wrote: The web, as always, is open to anyone who wants to contribute. If you have any book, magazine or manual, contact us to tell the best way to pass the documents to PDF. You can even send copies (who gladly pay) so that we deal with it. There's help. 1. I have a huge collection of QL stuff including many printed documents, manuals and books. 2. We have a 15'000$ XEROX WorkCentre at work which has a powerful duplex scan engine. To scan 100 pages of A4 paper takes just a few minutes. Another contribution to the QLis25 year will be that on one evening or another I will scan some documents, mainly those which are 1) easy to scan 2) not available/downloadable as a scan 3) scanned version is of bad quality or incomplete Regards, Urs Hi Urs, Great idea. With that sort of power the time is reduced for this type of work. I guess that the quality is very good too. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
- Original Message - From: Urs König (QL) q...@bluewin.ch To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday The story would fill a comprehensive article in QL Today. When is the next deadline for QL Today? 16th February 2009 I am thinking of running the QL's quarter centenary as the lead news story so any news contributions on this theme would be welcome, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
Great idea. I can't wait! It is taking days to download the torrent of QL.docs.and.manuals already. Huge amount of upload of this torrent though, so this is good! :-) Regards Andy Barber Mailto:ac...@yahoo.com T: +44 20 8402 3385 ~ M: +44 791 883 4739 ~ F: +44 705 069 5845. From: Malcolm Cadman q...@mcad.demon.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 18:08:12 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines In message 002301c975a3$fdfec0e0$2301a...@pcw.local, Urs König (QL) q...@bluewin.ch writes Javier Guerra wrote: The web, as always, is open to anyone who wants to contribute. If you have any book, magazine or manual, contact us to tell the best way to pass the documents to PDF. You can even send copies (who gladly pay) so that we deal with it. There's help. 1. I have a huge collection of QL stuff including many printed documents, manuals and books. 2. We have a 15'000$ XEROX WorkCentre at work which has a powerful duplex scan engine. To scan 100 pages of A4 paper takes just a few minutes. Another contribution to the QLis25 year will be that on one evening or another I will scan some documents, mainly those which are 1) easy to scan 2) not available/downloadable as a scan 3) scanned version is of bad quality or incomplete Regards, Urs Hi Urs, Great idea. With that sort of power the time is reduced for this type of work. I guess that the quality is very good too. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
That sounds fantastic. You are welcome! We have space in our server acount. Have you thought of centralizing all the docs? If you think that is well, you can send me the files via email or through sftp (secure ftp over ssh) to my home server. Many docs can be scanned again if you have better quality paper copies. We scanned at monocrome (1 bit) 300 dpi. to minimize the final file size. Can you convert to PDF? This is not important, we can, but using the option to scan documents from Acrobat the end file are smaller. Documents created from images of pages the document takes up more space. Regards Javier Guerra Urs König (QL) escribió: Javier Guerra wrote: The web, as always, is open to anyone who wants to contribute. If you have any book, magazine or manual, contact us to tell the best way to pass the documents to PDF. You can even send copies (who gladly pay) so that we deal with it. There's help. 1. I have a huge collection of QL stuff including many printed documents, manuals and books. 2. We have a 15'000$ XEROX WorkCentre at work which has a powerful duplex scan engine. To scan 100 pages of A4 paper takes just a few minutes. Another contribution to the QLis25 year will be that on one evening or another I will scan some documents, mainly those which are 1) easy to scan 2) not available/downloadable as a scan 3) scanned version is of bad quality or incomplete Regards, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
Hi Andy It's taking too long. It is not normal. People tell me that it takes about 8 hours to download. I hope that things will improve. Meanwhile, anyway, you can download the manuals that interest you from the page. Usin the Save as... option menu. good luck! Andy Barber escribió: Great idea. I can't wait! It is taking days to download the torrent of QL.docs.and.manuals already. Huge amount of upload of this torrent though, so this is good! :-) Regards Andy Barber Mailto:ac...@yahoo.com T: +44 20 8402 3385 ~ M: +44 791 883 4739 ~ F: +44 705 069 5845. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
sinclairql.es wrote: Hi Andy It's taking too long. It is not normal. People tell me that it takes about 8 hours to download. IF you are a new user to torrents, your torrent software settings are IMPORTANT, setting your OUTBOUND speed/limits is a major factor on your inbound speed (at least with the torrent software I have played with) Curtail your outbound to 10% - 20% of your max outbound speed. This helps the inbound a lot (usually) -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Hoosier Corps L#6 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
