Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future
Tony Firshman wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:20 | Jun10: Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10: These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his name - can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s. Tony Care Electronics...Ed Bruley perhaps? No. He was working on his own. He bought a vast number of components and QLs direct from Thorn-EMI after the Sinclair collapse. He used to sell components at ZX Microfairs. I think he lived in Gants Hill, but not sure. He was the primary source for the vast majority of QLs and parts. Bill Richardson based his business on his stock I believe. Joe Atkinson? (must confess I don't know if he's still alive or not, so apologies if the suggestion causes offence). Not him. Silly isn't it. I met him many times, and when I bought the stuff, I visited him. There were large boxes full of QL parts everywhere. It is what got me launched into QL hardware and repairs. Syd Day? Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future
Tony Firshman wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:20 | Jun10: Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10: These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his name - can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s. Tony Care Electronics...Ed Bruley perhaps? No. He was working on his own. He bought a vast number of components and QLs direct from Thorn-EMI after the Sinclair collapse. He used to sell components at ZX Microfairs. I think he lived in Gants Hill, but not sure. He was the primary source for the vast majority of QLs and parts. Bill Richardson based his business on his stock I believe. Joe Atkinson? (must confess I don't know if he's still alive or not, so apologies if the suggestion causes offence). Not him. Silly isn't it. I met him many times, and when I bought the stuff, I visited him. There were large boxes full of QL parts everywhere. It is what got me launched into QL hardware and repairs. Syd Day? Tony Ah yes, Syd Day was on Quanta committee in the early days, and always had all sorts of bits and pieces to offer. Mystery solved at last, maybe! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 1/Jul/10 11:01 | Jul1: Tony Firshman wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:20 | Jun10: Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10: These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his name - can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s. Tony Care Electronics...Ed Bruley perhaps? No. He was working on his own. He bought a vast number of components and QLs direct from Thorn-EMI after the Sinclair collapse. He used to sell components at ZX Microfairs. I think he lived in Gants Hill, but not sure. He was the primary source for the vast majority of QLs and parts. Bill Richardson based his business on his stock I believe. Joe Atkinson? (must confess I don't know if he's still alive or not, so apologies if the suggestion causes offence). Not him. Silly isn't it. I met him many times, and when I bought the stuff, I visited him. There were large boxes full of QL parts everywhere. It is what got me launched into QL hardware and repairs. Syd Day? Tony Ah yes, Syd Day was on Quanta committee in the early days, and always had all sorts of bits and pieces to offer. Mystery solved at last, maybe! Definitely if he lived in East London (Gants Hill?) and died in the early 90s. Funny how memory works. I woke up this morning with his name on my mind. My subconscious must have been working on it for the last three weeks. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI Anton ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1: Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI That *looks* good. I know he does not want to appear, but it is Wolfgang Lenerz but what a relief when the background music stopped, for a short time! Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Am 01.07.2010 um 14:06 schrieb Tony Firshman: Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1: Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI That *looks* good. Thank you (I noticed the Quotation marks;-)) I know he does not want to appear, but it is Wolfgang Lenerz Oh, thanks for the hint. I will chance this and make a new upload. but what a relief when the background music stopped, for a short time! I see;-) I know, that the music is not everyones taste, but I had the opportunity to use the track for free. Psyria is a German musican, who has his roots in the Amiga-scene. Anton ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1: Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI That *looks* good. I know he does not want to appear, but it is Wolfgang Lenerz but what a relief when the background music stopped, for a short time! Tony He he, it was quite interesting to see the rare hardware, especially the 25-year old QL with built in 68020 board! And Wolfgang tries to adopt the Ostrich Approach by hiding from the camera by covering his eyes with his hands! Interesting to hear Urs talking with Tony Tebby about the QCF card proposal, but the audio wasn't clear, I couldn't make out much of what he was saying, unfortunately. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 1/Jul/10 13:18 | Jul1: Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1: Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI That *looks* good. I know he does not want to appear, but it is Wolfgang Lenerz but what a relief when the background music stopped, for a short time! Tony He he, it was quite interesting to see the rare hardware, especially the 25-year old QL with built in 68020 board! And Wolfgang tries to adopt the Ostrich Approach by hiding from the camera by covering his eyes with his hands! Interesting to hear Urs talking with Tony Tebby about the QCF card proposal, but the audio wasn't clear, I couldn't make out much of what he was saying, unfortunately. He wanted a CF card interface that was plugged in and became a QL device, much like Romdisq. My input at some time in this conversation was to mention the USBWiz interface (containing a FAT formatted CF card) that Adrian Ives is working on. This though is serial and needs QL driver from another medium. He is still working on this. He was adapting existing driver code, but finds that will cannot work, so is having to start the driver from scratch. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Am 01.07.2010 um 14:18 schrieb Dilwyn Jones: Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1: Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in Austria and made a little video. You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI That *looks* good. I know he does not want to appear, but it is Wolfgang Lenerz but what a relief when the background music stopped, for a short time! Tony He he, it was quite interesting to see the rare hardware, especially the 25-year old QL with built in 68020 board! Yes, indeed. It was very exciting for us to switch this machines on (some of the hardware wasn´t in use for 15 to 20 years). And it worked, That´s quality;-) And Wolfgang tries to adopt the Ostrich Approach by hiding from the camera by covering his eyes with his hands! I didn´t know, that Wolfgang is so camera-shy. I was very late on this day and wont miss the opportunity to film this historical moment. It is not a ordinary situation (at least for me) to have Tony Tebby, Tony Firshman, Urs, Wolfgang and Marcel in one room talking about new hardware. So I rushed in with my camera (and Wolfgang was in panic). Interesting to hear Urs talking with Tony Tebby about the QCF card proposal, but the audio wasn't clear, I couldn't make out much of what he was saying, unfortunately. Yes, unfortunately the acoustic wasn´t very good in this room and I used inly the intern micro. Urs talked only about the basic idea: There are many collectors/retro-fans, who buy QLs from ebay and have the problem, that they can´t use QL-programs downloaded from the internet on their machines (at least not in an easy way). So this QLs were collected but not used. Urs hardware would be an easy way to transfer files from the internet to a real QL. I will upload a new version of the video and will try to make the sound in this scene louder. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Brother HR20 and other printers
Does anyone have one or more Brother HR20 printers for sale? A customer has asked me for one. Another customer has been using an Epson Stylus Colour 850 for years with their QL, but now need to replace it. They would prefer an inkjet or low cost laser - does anyone have one for sale, or know of any current models which would work using ESC/P2 codes (don't think they would bother to change the printer drivers in Quill etc for other makes)? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2010 Austria - Video
Interesting to hear Urs talking with Tony Tebby about the QCF card proposal, but the audio wasn't clear, I couldn't make out much of what he was saying, unfortunately. Yes, unfortunately the acoustic wasn´t very good in this room and I used inly the intern micro. Urs talked only about the basic idea: There are many collectors/retro-fans, who buy QLs from ebay and have the problem, that they can´t use QL-programs downloaded from the internet on their machines (at least not in an easy way). So this QLs were collected but not used. Urs hardware would be an easy way to transfer files from the internet to a real QL. I will upload a new version of the video and will try to make the sound in this scene louder. Would it be possible to add sub-titles if you do this? I really struggled to understand it with the rather pathetic speakers on my PC. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 76, Issue 52
On 01/07/10 06:31, Rich Mellor wrote:
Although I have not seen the MasterBasic sources (and I am sure Davide
will correct me if I am wrong) - it uses the Turbo Toolkit commands for
deciphering the tokenised program in memory.
From memory, it cannot look at an external program file - it only works
on the Basic (or multibasic) loaded on the QL.
I wrote soem code a while back to detokenise a QSAVED program. This is
in the same for at as the internal format. Dilwyn recently took my code
and updated it to handle SBasic stuff like Binary, hex and
(new?)Floating point values - or similar - so maybe it's on his website?
If not, I'm sure he would be happy to let you have a copy.
Actually, the attached file is indeed the code, hope it helps.
Cheers,
Norman.
1000 REMark _SAV file decoder
1005 :
1010 CLS
1015 PRINT 'SAV File Decoder'\\
1020 INPUT 'Which _sav file ? ';sav$
1025 IF sav$ = '' THEN STOP: END IF
1030 :
1035 initialise
1040 decode_header
1045 IF NOT quit
1050decode_name_table
1055decode_program
1060 END IF
1065 RELEASE_HEAP float_buffer
1070 CLOSE #3
1075 :
1080 DEFine PROCedure decode_header
1085 LOCal head$(4), name_table_length
1090 quit = 0
1095 OPEN_IN #3,sav$
1100 head$ = FETCH_BYTES(#3, 4)
1105 IF (head$ 'Q1' CHR$(0) CHR$(0)) AND (head$ 'Q1' CHR$(2)
CHR$(192))
1110 PRINT head$, head$(1);head$(2)!!CODE(head$(3))!CODE(head$(4))\
1115 PRINT sav$ ' is not a SAV file, or has a new flag.'
1120 CLOSE #3
1125 quit = 1
1130 RETurn
1135 END IF
1140 name_table_entries = GET_WORD(#3)
1145 name_table_length = GET_WORD(#3)
1150 program_lines = GET_WORD(#3)
1155 max_name_size = name_table_length - (4 * name_table_entries) /
name_table_entries
1160 :
1165 PRINT sav$
1170 PRINT 'Number of name table entries : '; name_table_entries
1175 PRINT 'Name table length: '; name_table_length
1180 PRINT 'Number of program lines : '; program_lines
1185 PRINT
1190 :
1195 DIM name_table$(name_table_entries -1, max_name_size)
1200 float_buffer = RESERVE_HEAP(6)
1205 quit = (float_buffer 1)
1210 END DEFine decode_header
1215 :
1220 DEFine PROCedure decode_name_table
1225 LOCal x, name_type, line_no, name_length, name$, lose_it$(1)
1230 LOCal num_procs, num_fns
1235 num_procs = 0
1240 num_fns = 0
1245 FOR x = 0 TO name_table_entries -1
1250 name_type = GET_WORD(#3)
1255 line_no = GET_WORD(#3)
1260 name_length = GET_WORD(#3)
1265 name$ = FETCH_BYTES(#3, name_length)
1270 IF name_length 1
1275lose_it$ = INKEY$(#3)
1280 END IF
1285 IF name_type = 5122 THEN num_procs = num_procs + 1
1290 IF name_type = 5377 AND name_type = 5379
1295num_fns = num_fns + 1
1300 END IF
1305 PRINT x;' Name type = '; HEX$(name_type, 16) ' ';
1310 PRINT 'Line number = '; line_no ' ';
1315 PRINT 'Name length = '; name_length; ' ';
1320 PRINT 'Name = ' name$ ''
1325 name_table$(x) = name$
1330 END FOR x
1335 PRINT 'There are ' num_procs ' PROCs'
1340 PRINT 'There are ' num_fns ' FNs'
1345 END DEFine decode_name_table
1350 :
1355 :
1360 DEFine PROCedure decode_program
1365 LOCal x, type_byte, program_line
1370 :
1375 REMark WORD = size change
1380 REMark LONG = $8D00.line number
1385 REMark rest of line
1390 :
1395 REPeat program_line
1400 IF EOF(#3) THEN EXIT program_line: END IF
1405 line_size = line_size + GET_WORD(#3)
1410 IF line_size 65536 THEN line_size = line_size - 65536: END IF
1415 IF GET_WORD(#3) HEX('8d00')
1420PRINT 'Program out of step.'
1425CLOSE #3
1430STOP
1435 END IF
1440 PRINT GET_WORD(#3); ' ';
1445 line_done = 0
1450 REPeat line_contents
1455 type_byte = CODE(INKEY$(#3))
1460 SELect ON type_byte
1465 = HEX('80'): multi_spaces
1470 = HEX('81'): keywords
1475 = HEX('84'): symbols
1480 = HEX('85'): operators
1485 = HEX('86'): monadics
1490 = HEX('88'): names
1495 = HEX('8B'): strings
1500 = HEX('8C'): text
1505 = HEX('8E'): separators
1510 = REMAINDER : floating_points
1515 END SELect
1520 IF line_done THEN EXIT line_contents: END IF
1525 END REPeat line_contents
1530 END REPeat program_line
1535 END DEFine decode_program
1540 :
1545 :
1550 DEFine PROCedure multi_spaces
1555 :
1560 REMark $80.nn = print nn spaces
1565 :
1570 PRINT FILL$(' ', GET_BYTE(#3));
1575 END DEFine multi_spaces
1580 :
1585 :
1590 DEFine PROCedure keywords
1595 :
1600 REMark $81.nn = keyword$(nn)
1605 :
1610 PRINT keyword$(GET_BYTE(#3));' ';
1615 END DEFine keywords
1620 :
1625 :
1630 DEFine PROCedure symbols
1635 LOCal sym
1640 :
1645 REMark $84.nn = symbol$(nn)
1650 :
1655 sym = GET_BYTE(#3)
1660 PRINT symbol$(sym);
1665 line_done = (sym = 10)
1670 END DEFine symbols
1675 :
1680 :
1685 DEFine PROCedure operators
1690 :
1695 REMark $85.nn =
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 76, Issue 52
I wrote soem code a while back to detokenise a QSAVED program. This is in the same for at as the internal format. Dilwyn recently took my code and updated it to handle SBasic stuff like Binary, hex and (new?)Floating point values - or similar - so maybe it's on his website? If not, I'm sure he would be happy to let you have a copy. Actually, the attached file is indeed the code, hope it helps. Cheers, Norman. I sent Martyn the version I'd modified to handle the %integer and $hex constants of SBASIC. IIRC, the other SBASIC extensions were handled as normal proc/function extensions. Great little program though! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks
Op 15/06/2010 16:16, gdgqler schreef: On 15 Jun 2010, at 11:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote: the QL and Aurora are only brought out for the specific use fo testing programs or, sorry Rich, formatting DD disks for the very occasional Quanta library request. It seems as if I am the only person actually able to format blank DD disks using QPC2 and Windows XP. Perhaps its because I have a Packard Bell floppy reader. Perhaps those wanting DDs formatted should send them to me! George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm No, I too can format a DD floppy with my Iomega USB floppy drive. Format 'flp1_abc*D' - 1440/1440 sectors in 1 minute 10 seconds. Format 'flp1_abc*H' - 2880/2880 sectors in 14 seconds. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
