Re: [Ql-Users] QLiberator
Morning Dilwyn, On 28/10/10 20:32, Dilwyn Jones wrote: ... and I was never sure after using SBASIC if I'd killed the QLiberator job or just buried it under the BASIC windows. Did you try using the JOBS command from TK2? ;-) ducks and runs Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ED drives
Morning Dilwyn, On 28/10/10 20:22, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know if a PC fitted with a 2.8MB floppy drive can read QL ED disks (3.2MB) in an emulator such as QPC? I don't know, sorry. I suspect what would happen is that either the drive would fail to recognise the floppy or the discs would only be usable at 2.8 Mb capacity. Unfortunately, the above is only a guess. Sorry. In a slightly similar vein. I was clearing out my underground office the other day (still not finished) and came across a number of these 3.2 MB ED floppies. As I no longer have a Gold Card, they are of no use to me. There are about 10 or so (probably) brand new and unformatted plus a few that I use(d) to Winback my old system. Who knows what's on them - but they've been used only once. (I can't use or delete the contents as I have no drives!) If anyone wants a few for the price of a jiffy bag and stamps for postage, give me a shout. I have about 15-20 in total. I didn't count them though so there could be slightly less or slightly more. Don't be greedy, if I get lots of requests for these, I'll do it on a first picked out of the random hat manner and I'll try to give as many as I can to each person. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ED drives
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know if a PC fitted with a 2.8MB floppy drive can read QL ED disks (3.2MB) in an emulator such as QPC? I'm not 100% sure, but I guess probably not. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLiberator
-I'd been tinkering with a VERY fiddly program which behaved a bit differently and gave lots of errors when compiled compared to when it was runnng interpreted, so it needed multiple compilations to test and fix a whole host of compiling problems and I was never sure after using SBASIC if I'd killed the QLiberator job or just buried it under the BASIC windows. So I wanted to prevent the BASIC and compiler windows overlapping on the high res display I was using. WTV ,32,256 and WMON ,0,256 (can't remember which I used in the end) fixed it nicely by moving the BASIC windows out of the compiler's way. Dilwyn Jones Hi Dilwyn, There is a programme called Launchpad with QPACII, which allows easy access to see which Jobs are running, and remove a job if required. Now, who was the author? ... erm, name escapes me ... :-) I was more interested in keeping QLiberator running, thanks to the number of times I ended up having to compile that program! As for that particular program you mentioned, QPACII is great, don't know about the other suspect you mentioned though ;-) Anyway, what is this mystery epic that you are working on? Epic...EPIC?!? Actually, it's the Marquee program I added to my website a couple of days ago (it's on Misc programs page on a certain Welshman's website if you really want to try it). Something I wrote originally for my own use a while back and I decided to finish it off and inflict it on the QL world :-)) The problems arose because of some fiddly calculations peeking and poking around fonts. Where I ran into trouble was some problems with calculations, which were running fine interpreted or in an executed SBASIC job, but going wrong compiled because I'd made some mistakes trying to use as much integers as possible for speed... one integer too far! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
