Re: [Ql-Users] hardware

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Just thinking

I will actually be in Edinburgh later this month, so could collect some
pieces then... 16th to the 19th..

Can also make a donation to charity in Georges name. Would like to have
something belonging to him.

Darren.

On Mon 25 Mar 2024, 14:07 Darren Branagh,  wrote:

>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I don't have a Q60, so would be more than willing to pay postage to have
> it sent to me?
>
> Maybe some other items too... A QL with Trump card and some of Georges
> floppies etc found be nice.
>
> Let me know if willing to post them. Certainly don't dump any of it.
>
> Darren.
>
>
> On Sat 23 Mar 2024, 11:14 Derek via Ql-Users, 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please do not dump it, I can drive up from Derbyshire to collect it
>>
>> Regards,
>> Derek
>>
>> On 23/03/2024 10:44, George Gwilt via Ql-Users wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hallo again from Richard Gwilt - George’s son.  Thank you very much for
>> your kind words over the last week or so.  Sorry to bother you all AGAIN -
>> but we are in the process of tidying up - and are faced with a room FULL of
>> QL stuff!!
>> >
>> > 6 old black QL computers (1 with Trump card)
>> > 1 Q60
>> > 1 QL21
>> > assorted CRT monitors, MILLIONS of micro tapes, floppies etc.
>> > ENORMOUS number of manuals etc etc
>> >
>> > We are about to take it all to the dump - if anyone would like any,
>> it’ll be here in Edinburgh in Dad’s computer room available for pick up for
>> the next couple of days.  I know, no time to think — but perhaps there
>> photos give you an idea of the scale of the problem …
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Re: [Ql-Users] hardware

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Richard,

I don't have a Q60, so would be more than willing to pay postage to have it
sent to me?

Maybe some other items too... A QL with Trump card and some of Georges
floppies etc found be nice.

Let me know if willing to post them. Certainly don't dump any of it.

Darren.


On Sat 23 Mar 2024, 11:14 Derek via Ql-Users, 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please do not dump it, I can drive up from Derbyshire to collect it
>
> Regards,
> Derek
>
> On 23/03/2024 10:44, George Gwilt via Ql-Users wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hallo again from Richard Gwilt - George’s son.  Thank you very much for
> your kind words over the last week or so.  Sorry to bother you all AGAIN -
> but we are in the process of tidying up - and are faced with a room FULL of
> QL stuff!!
> >
> > 6 old black QL computers (1 with Trump card)
> > 1 Q60
> > 1 QL21
> > assorted CRT monitors, MILLIONS of micro tapes, floppies etc.
> > ENORMOUS number of manuals etc etc
> >
> > We are about to take it all to the dump - if anyone would like any,
> it’ll be here in Edinburgh in Dad’s computer room available for pick up for
> the next couple of days.  I know, no time to think — but perhaps there
> photos give you an idea of the scale of the problem …
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Ql-Users] George Gwilt

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Very sorry to hear this. George was a very talented man, and some of the
programs he wrote were truly brilliant.

May he rest in peace.

On Mon 11 Mar 2024, 23:37 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, 11. March 2024 15:20:57 (+01:00), George Gwilt via Ql-Users
> wrote:
>  > Hello everyone at the QL-Users group. I guess most of you knew of mu
> father,
>  > George Gwilt - this is just to let you know that he passed away this
> past Saturday.
>  >
>  > All the best,
>  >
>  > Richard Gwilt
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> thanks for letting us know, my sincerest condolences.
>
> He had a very sharp mind, even wrote the first draft of the 68020
> emulation
>
> core for QPC in PC assembler. Also enjoyed meeting him on our trips to
> England.
> My last contact was probably over 10 years ago, but every few years he came
> to my mind and I wondered how he was, considering that he seemed to be a
> bit older
> even back then. Do you mind sharing his age? I hope his last years were
> good ones.
>
> Regards, Marcel
>
> P.S.: Sorry everybody, currently a bit out of the QL world, it was more
> luck than
> anything that I've seen the message today. I hope one day I can partake a
> bit more
> again.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QX40

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

The QXL software (SMSQ/E) is available from Dilwyns website too, directly
underneath the manual download...on the link I posted earlier. It's 153k in
size.

After that, there's tons of freeware available on Dilwyns site too.

You likely got confused with the Q40 and Q60. You definitely have a QXL.

Darren.

On Sat 30 Sep 2023, 12:37 silcreval via Ql-Users, 
wrote:

> Hmm not sure where I got QX40 on - thats the label I stuck on the card.
>
> On the reverse of the card it says 'Miracle Systems Ltd QXL 2B'
>
> I found a few hits for that, but still  no software. It looks like the
> 'sockets' are for the QL network.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QX40

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Yes, it's definitely a QXL card... made by the late Stuart Honeyball of
Miracle Systems.

The ports are for the QL network as Graeme said... to connect to other QXLs
or standard QLs. A standard 3.5mm double ended jack cable is used.

The full manual is available free online at Dilwyns site, under the
documentation section.

https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/manuals/index.html


Darren.



On Sat 30 Sep 2023, 12:39 Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, at 12:31 PM, silcreval via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After a few decades ? - I decided to see if I can get my QL running
> > again. Unfortunately it has multiple issues, which I'll get to at some
> > point.
> >
> > I remembered though I had an ISA card called I believe a QX40? I do
> > remember vaguely using this, probably in the 90s at some point.
> >
> > I've dusted it off and its now installed in an old Athlon PC that
> > happened to have an ISA slot. I've got DOS installed and all seems good.
> >
> > However I have struggled to find the software. I do have the original
> > disks but they are unreadable.
> >
> > I've had a look around the net but not really found any hits for this
> device.
> >
> > Any clues pointers?
> >
> > One thing that is a bit mysterious with the QX40 card is there are two
> > 3.5mm (?) sockets on the rear panel. Any idea what they are for?
> >
> >
>
> It’s a qxl card, I think the docs are in the ql homepage.
> Http://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk
>
> Two ports are probably ql network!
>
> Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL is worryingly nearly 40 do we get a midlife crisis party anywhere?

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

We really should organize something.

Quite willing to do something in Ireland as the couple of Irish shows were
great fun, but feel it should be somewhere in the UK ... Preferably at one
of the old show haunts for posterity.

(Still here too)

Darren.

On Tue 14 Mar 2023, 05:46 Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> all quiet on the QL front!
>
> I'm still lurking here.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> > QL is worryingly nearly 40 do we get a midlife crisis party
> anywhere?Also the list as been quieter even tha nusual where is everyone?
> > John A
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

I remember him coming to the Irish QL shows I ran in the late 90s.. One
night in the local pub he redrew the entire Spectrum Issue 1 PCB from
memory on a napkin, while quite drunk.

I was stupidly impressed by that.

Miss him dearly.

Darren Branagh

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, 12:44 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Darren Branagh via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Yes, Stuart passed away several years ago... I posted here the day it
> > happened.
>
> Yes, Ben has resurrected an old thread on QL forum yesterday and added
> his anecdote of getting taught electronics by Stuart, but it's been
> almost 4 years to the day since it happened.
>
> Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Yes, Stuart passed away several years ago... I posted here the day it
happened.



Darren Branagh

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, 10:19 RWAP Software via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> François,
>
> Correction - I thought he passed away in March 2018 ?
>
> In any case, he is still sorely missed.
>
> Rich Mellor
> RWAP Software
> www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
> www.sellmyretro.com
>
> On 2022-03-17 10:00, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote:
> >  Stuart Honeyball passed away.
> >
> > Sad news
> >
> >  Thoughts are with his family and friends.
> >
> > François Van Emelen
> >
> >
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Re: [Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Norman,

I'll PM him and get him to give you a shout.

Darren Branagh

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On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, 15:28 Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> On 16/01/2021 15:18, Darren Branagh via Ql-Users wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> much obliged to you Sir, thanks.
>
> I shall do the admin bit and give Richard write access. The only problem
> is, his email probably won't work as the domain isn't (or doesn't
> appear) registered:
>
> norman@Hubble:~$ whois blackchip.plus.com
> No match for "BLACKCHIP.PLUS.COM".
>  >>> Last update of whois database: 2021-01-16T15:26:25Z <<<
>
> So he won't be getting emails telling him of his passwords etc. Are you
> able to give him a prod please? You can give him my email address (this
> one) as long as it's not put on Facebook, thanks. (I get enough crud as
> it is!)
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
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Re: [Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Norman,

I'd be confident its him.. Hes been quite active on the "Sinclair QL for
everyone" group on Facebook I admin lately, and it's definitely him on
there.

Darren Branagh

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, 15:10 Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> I've had a request from someone claiming to be Richard Alexander of CGH
> Services fame, to join the Ql Wiki.
>
> Since I have had a number of spamming users to deal with recently, I
> tend to try and do as much background checking as I can before I assign
> write privileges. However, I've come up against a slight problem, and
> maybe someone here (or on the QL Forum) can help.
>
> The request came from an IP address in Carmarthenshire in Wales on the
> 9th January at 00:57 (I'm assuming GMT/UTC here but I might be wrong).
>
> The email address used to register is in the blackchip.plus.com domain
> and this is where my problem begins. I've checked for the domain
> "blackchip.plus.com" and come up with nothing.
>
> Does anyone know Richard? Do you know if he is indeed
> "blackchip.plus.com"? And why is the email address wonky?
>
> I hate the idea that I'm holding up a genuine QL fan, but I also had to
> deal with a few uncircumcised gentlemen (complete pricks) recently,
> signing up and spamming pages with garbage and adverts and scams.
> Someone, me, had to remove those pages and reinstate the unadulterated
> ones.
>
> Any information gratefully received and if you *are* the real Richard
> Alexander, my apologies!
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
> --
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> Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
>
> Registered address:
> 27a Lidget Hill
> Pudsey
> West Yorkshire
> United Kingdom
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Re: [Ql-Users] Peter Baily

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

I'm trying to picture Peter, I'm sure i know him as i recall the name.

John Taylor I knew very well. Lovely man. 92 is a fine age, and I'll
remember him fondly. Always very helpful in his dealings with QUANTA. Very
sorry to hear this..

My condolences to both families.

Darren Branagh

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, 18:53 John Southern via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, John Taylor has also passed at 92 on Friday after a
> short illness.
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 3:54 PM Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users
>  wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for letting us know Rich.
> >
> > I met him several times at Quanta workshops over the years.
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:52, Rich Mellor via Ql-Users <
> > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For those of us who came across Peter Baily - just some news from his
> > > son, that he passed away yesterday after a short illness.
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services
> > >
> > > www.rwapservices.co.uk
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Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Many thanks for the info.. I had no idea QUANTA was now free to join,
that's great.

Had a look through the website, which is now much improved from what it was
a few years back, and saw that membership is now under 100...that shocked
me. It was in the thousands, when I first joined... 

Still, I've made contact to rejoin.

Darren Branagh

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On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, 16:09 Dilwyn (gmail) via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Contact same person to ask. I don't know what's available, but I would
> have
> though that issues from that recent would have been kept as PDFs rather
> than
> needing to be scanned (I may be wrong of course).
>
> membership AT quanta DOT org DOT uk   is the email address
>
> Some older scans from the early days are available to download from the
> Quanta site https://quanta.org.uk/the-ql/magazine-archive-2/
>
> Dilwyn
>
> -Original Message-
> From: simon629--- via Ql-Users
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 1:06 PM
> To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
> Cc: simon...@sky.com
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA
>
> Thank you Dilwyn
> How do I get Back Copy's
> Hi have most of them but I need
> The ones from 2015 2016 and 2017
> in PDF Format
> Can You Help Me Dilwyn
> OK All the Best
> Simon Foster
> On Friday, 17 April 2020, 12:37:20 BST, Dilwyn (gmail) via Ql-Users
>  wrote:
>
> Read the JOIN QUANTA page on the MEMBERS tab on Quanta website at
> www.quanta.org.uk - I quote:
>
> "Join QUANTA
> ---
> Membership:
> Full membership, with the magazine sent in PDF format by email, is now free
> but must be renewed on a yearly basis to keep in-line with GDPR
> regulations.
> Subscription is by CALENDAR YEAR, and runs from the previous January.
> Members joining part way through a subscription period can also receive
> back
> issues for the current subscription period on request from the membership
> secretary."
>
> If you are willing to receive the magazine by email as a PDF file,
> membership is now free. If you wish to get paper copies, you still have to
> pay for them, but will need to contact the membership secretary John
> Southern to arrange it and ask how much.
>
> Dilwyn
>
> -Original Message-
> From: simon629--- via Ql-Users
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 11:45 AM
> To: QL Users List
> Cc: simon...@sky.com
> Subject: [Ql-Users] QUANTA
>
>
> QUANTA
> Hi everyone
>
>
> Is
> QUANTA
>
> FREE Now
> Because I can not Find no PayPal Link anymore to my £20.00
> can any one Help Me
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Re: [Ql-Users] LaunchPad

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Simon,

I'm not sure the mailing list permists atractments, as it's kit showing in
your mail... Either that or you are pasting it into the mail rather than
adding it as a jpeg or similar as a attachment.

Can't help if we can't see it...

Even so, it's likely been modded by the user to have a certain look.

Darren Branagh

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On Fri, 6 Mar 2020, 17:24 simon629--- via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Hi can any one Help me on this Website QL QDOS and SMSQ/E Heaven
> this is I think a old screen shot of   LaunchPad  I think the Q40/Q60 It
>  Looks Very Good. I want would That Version work on QPC2 Emulator  If any
> one has it Could they  Installed on to a Win File for me OK All The Best
> Thanks Simon Foster
>
> |
> |
> |
> |  |  |
>
>  |
>
>  |
> |
> |  |
> QL QDOS and SMSQ/E Heaven
>
>
>  |
>
>  |
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Re: [Ql-Users] RE QDT Running with 240 MB of RAM

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

I was wondering the same thing, 240MB is such a weird number... It was
playing with my OCD 

Darren Branagh

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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020, 10:22 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Wow, what ever do you use 240 MB for??
>
> Why is it 240 with SMSQmulator and not 256? Technical problem or just
> being on the save side?
>
> Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] found unused stuff

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Absolutely. The "Sinclair QL for everyone" page now on Facebook has a lot
of people always eager for hardware.

I may even be interested in the RomDisq... Which capacity model?

Darren Branagh

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, 02:12 paul via Ql-Users, 
wrote:

>
> While the mood is with me, I manage to get through a box or 3
> that has been tucked away for years.
>
> Decided I could tackle the task once again the other day, and
> after the first box, settled for a smaller one as the last one today.
>
> FOUND:  Knew I had the stuff, but a 'one of the top 10 life
> disasters' interrupted the using of these and I never returned
> to QL'ing like I used to.
>
> 1:  Aurura COMPLETE, still in its padded envelope
> 2:  ROMdisq, Complete also.
>
> Neither of these have been used once bought new.
>
> Any market for these?
>
>
> --
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> The history of liberty is a history of limitations
> of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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Re: [Ql-Users] Just a small

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Funnily enough, I got Alexanders reply before Paul's mail...

I really must join the forum.

Darren Branagh

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, 08:13 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> paul via Ql-Users wrote:
> > test to see if this still comes my way.
>
> It came my way at least ;) These days the QL-forum seems to have taken
> over all talks about the QL.
>
> Cheers, Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-World Mag

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Umm, so you expect Dilwyn to spend his time zipping files for you using his
time so you don't have to use yours?

Good luck with that. All the files are there.. You just have to get them.

Darren Branagh

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, 17:33 simon629--- via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Dilwyn  on your Website Can you put All The Q-World Mags in to one Zip
> File so I can Download them in one go OK Thanks Simon Foster
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Re: [Ql-Users] ice desktop

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Even If they could Co exist, why would you want to...

Darren Branagh

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On Thu 31 Jan 2019, 12:07 Rich Mellor via Ql-Users  On 03/01/2019 03:52, simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Hi Rich M
> > Would
> > My QDT
> > And my
> > Ice desktop
> > Fit on one win file
> > Happy new year Rich
> > Take care
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> Simon,
>
> This is a general question - I have no idea if they could co-exist
>
> Probably they could as you would use the cursor keys still to operate
> the ICE desktop - the QPC / QPTR mouse does not work with ICE
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

QD30?

Darren Branagh

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On Wed 15 Aug 2018, 17:08 Darren Branagh,  wrote:

> Excellent.
>
> Hands down best text editor ever.
>
> Thanks, Jochen old mate :)
>
>
>
> On Wed 15 Aug 2018, 17:06 Jochen Merz via Ql-Users, <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
>> 1988 + 20 = ???  ;-)
>>
>> Am 15.08.2018 um 18:01 schrieb Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users:
>> > To celebrate QD's 20th anniversary Jochen Merz gave me the premission
>> > to release the fabulous QD text editor for free. Enjoy:
>> >
>> > https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/
>> >
>> > Cheers, Marcel
>> >
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Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Excellent.

Hands down best text editor ever.

Thanks, Jochen old mate :)



On Wed 15 Aug 2018, 17:06 Jochen Merz via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> 1988 + 20 = ???  ;-)
>
> Am 15.08.2018 um 18:01 schrieb Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users:
> > To celebrate QD's 20th anniversary Jochen Merz gave me the premission
> > to release the fabulous QD text editor for free. Enjoy:
> >
> > https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/
> >
> > Cheers, Marcel
> >
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> >
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Re: [Ql-Users] FW: The wonderful Rick

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Just seen this on Twitter, a very fitting tribute.

https://twitter.com/astamoore/status/989442383250165760?s=19

Darren Branagh

Sent from My Android Phone.

On Thu 26 Apr 2018 15:17 Dave Park via Ql-Users, <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> This hits hard. Michele was talking with him just last week.
>
> 2018 is turning into a terrible year for our community.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Darren Branagh via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Urs,
> >
> > Lovely email. Ill put it on the group on Facebook, as many found it such
> a
> > shock this morning as we had no idea he was ill.
> >
> > Glad to have met and known him. Quite a man.
> >
> > Darren Branagh
> >
> > Sent from My iPhone X.
> >
> >
> > On Thu 26 Apr 2018 07:49 Rich Mellor via Ql-Users, <
> > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That is indeed such sad news - Rick Dickinson was a true visionary when
> > > it came to computer design and will be sadly missed...
> > >
> > > Rich Mellor
> > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > > On 26/04/2018 07:10, Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm so shocked and in deep sadness to hear that Rick passed away. I
> was
> > > in
> > > > tears when I read the email from his wife (see below).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I last met Rick last October in Cambridge around the Spectrum35
> > > celebration.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > He was such a great guy, very smart, with a great sense of humor and
> so
> > > > gifted. He created so many amazing an beautiful  things.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In autumn 2014 he was on vacation with his mother at the beautiful
> Lake
> > > > Lucerne, just a few miles from my home.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.qlis30.org.uk/#Rick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > May he rest in peace.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Urs
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Von: Lizzy Dickinson
> > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. April 2018 05:31
> > > >
> > > > Betreff: The wonderful Rick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dearest Friends
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > With the hugest hole in my heart and a sadness I can't being to
> > > understand,
> > > > the wonderful person known to many as Rick the Viking, opened his
> wings
> > > and
> > > > started on another journey on Tuesday 24 April. And sadly I am not
> yet
> > > able
> > > > to join him, despite wanting so much to be with him.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I know that this will come as a shock to many as we had not been open
> > > about
> > > > his health issues, preferring rather to deal with them in private,
> even
> > > from
> > > > both of own families until fairly recently. Rick was diagnosed with
> > > cancer
> > > > in 2015 and despite successful treatment in 2016, he became unwell
> > again
> > > in
> > > > early January 2017. I am sure some of you may have guessed something
> > was
> > > not
> > > > quite right, and to those of you that perhaps did not understand why
> we
> > > > became less and less social during 2017, I hope now you can
> understand
> > > that
> > > > this was in no way a reflection of our friendship with you but rather
> > > > circumstances dictating what he was or was not able to do.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We have been at a specialist clinic in America - Texas to be precise
> -
> > > since
> > > > the end of March undergoing complimentary treatment as a last attempt
> > at
> > > > hoping to heal him when he passed away quickly, without warning
> having
> > > > collapsed in the apartment we were rented here. He was in no pain and
> > > > surround by huge love from the amazing people that have become firm
> > > friends
> > > > here - that Texan southern hospitality truly was  -

Re: [Ql-Users] FW: The wonderful Rick

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Thanks Urs,

Lovely email. Ill put it on the group on Facebook, as many found it such a
shock this morning as we had no idea he was ill.

Glad to have met and known him. Quite a man.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone X.


On Thu 26 Apr 2018 07:49 Rich Mellor via Ql-Users, <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> That is indeed such sad news - Rick Dickinson was a true visionary when
> it came to computer design and will be sadly missed...
>
> Rich Mellor
> www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
>
>
> On 26/04/2018 07:10, Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm so shocked and in deep sadness to hear that Rick passed away. I was
> in
> > tears when I read the email from his wife (see below).
> >
> >
> >
> > I last met Rick last October in Cambridge around the Spectrum35
> celebration.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > He was such a great guy, very smart, with a great sense of humor and so
> > gifted. He created so many amazing an beautiful  things.
> >
> >
> >
> > In autumn 2014 he was on vacation with his mother at the beautiful Lake
> > Lucerne, just a few miles from my home.
> >
> > http://www.qlis30.org.uk/#Rick
> >
> >
> >
> > May he rest in peace.
> >
> >
> >
> > Urs
> >
> >
> >
> > Von: Lizzy Dickinson
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. April 2018 05:31
> >
> > Betreff: The wonderful Rick
> >
> >
> >
> > Dearest Friends
> >
> >
> >
> > With the hugest hole in my heart and a sadness I can't being to
> understand,
> > the wonderful person known to many as Rick the Viking, opened his wings
> and
> > started on another journey on Tuesday 24 April. And sadly I am not yet
> able
> > to join him, despite wanting so much to be with him.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know that this will come as a shock to many as we had not been open
> about
> > his health issues, preferring rather to deal with them in private, even
> from
> > both of own families until fairly recently. Rick was diagnosed with
> cancer
> > in 2015 and despite successful treatment in 2016, he became unwell again
> in
> > early January 2017. I am sure some of you may have guessed something was
> not
> > quite right, and to those of you that perhaps did not understand why we
> > became less and less social during 2017, I hope now you can understand
> that
> > this was in no way a reflection of our friendship with you but rather
> > circumstances dictating what he was or was not able to do.
> >
> >
> >
> > We have been at a specialist clinic in America - Texas to be precise -
> since
> > the end of March undergoing complimentary treatment as a last attempt at
> > hoping to heal him when he passed away quickly, without warning having
> > collapsed in the apartment we were rented here. He was in no pain and
> > surround by huge love from the amazing people that have become firm
> friends
> > here - that Texan southern hospitality truly was  - and continues to be
> -
> > laid at our door.  Rick will be cremated here in Texas and I will travel
> > home with his ashes once the paperwork is sorted probably at the end of
> next
> > week.
> >
> >
> >
> > And, rather than a traditional funeral (which you know is really not his
> > style) his much loved daughters that he was so proud of - Grace and
> Daisy -
> > and his mother Ursula and I will be planning for a celebration of his
> life
> > where we can all get together and remember him with love, laughs, smiles,
> > anecdotes and a few beverages. I will of course let you know details
> once we
> > have finalised plans.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please also do pass on this email to any that you feel may wish to know;
> > Rick had many, many friends across the broad spectrum of his work and
> > interests and I have tried to find as many emails as I can from his
> computer
> > but am sure I have left some out.
> >
> >
> >
> > And can I ask that - for the time being - please don't call as I simply
> > can't face talking right now, but I would dearly love to receive your
> > messages, emoticons and any photos or memories you wish to send of the
> > person who was - simply - the wonderful Rick, love of my life.
> >
> >
> >
> > And please take 5 minutes , raise a glass or 10 , and think about the
> > beautiful Rick, the one and only Viking and all the good times we have
> all
> > had with him. As they always say - but I do believe - he is watching
> over us
> > and sends love to you all and is only sorry that he was not able to see
> you
> > all before he left.
> >
> >
> >
> > XXX
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
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>
> www.rwapservices.co.uk
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Classic Adventures

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Excellent news, I'll post it on the QL Facebook group.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My Android Phone.

On Thu 5 Apr 2018 14:02 Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users, <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

>
> Classic Adventures
>
> John Jones-Steele, who ran Abersoft in the 1980s, has given permission for
> the Classic Adventures package to be released as freeware.
>
> The package includes two text adventure games, "The Adventure" and
> "Mordon's Quest". The first is based on the famous adventure game by
> Crowther and Woods, the first of its kind, while the second is a loosely-
> related but original sequel. Both should run on an unexpanded QL and are
> configured to run from MDV1. Use up and down cursor keys in the boot
> program to select which adventure you want or the clone program, then press
> SPACE to start the option selected.
>
> No manual so I have added a short review from QL World magazine plus a
> couple of screen dumps.
>
> It's available to download from my site's Adventure Games page at
> http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/index.html
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Cueshell

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Simon, its now freeware...see Marcels original post.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone X.

On Sun 1 Apr 2018 01:05 simon629--- via Ql-Users, <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> Where did you buy it  from because  I am  after that  cue shell software
> but. I can not find it any ware  I have the demo version but not the Full
> version  it would be nice if it was freeware because Jochen stoped selling
> a wile back
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>
>
> On Saturday, March 31, 2018, 23:06, Derek via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marcel,
> I bought Cueshell when it was released. I thought it was a very nice piece
> of software.
> It does look like there are not many software titles I have bought are now
> free.
> RegardsDerek
>  Original message From: Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> Date: 31/03/2018  20:16  (GMT+00:00) To:
> ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> Subject:
> [Ql-Users] Cueshell
> Happy Eastern everyone,
>
> today I'm proud to present to you Albin Hessler's Cueshell, in my eyes
> the best file manager ever written for the QL:
>
>
> https://www.kilgus.net/2018/03/31/cueshell-the-definitive-file-manager-for-the-ql/
>
> All the best, Marcel
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Dont forget he also designed the ZX Spectrum issue 1 PCB by hand.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone X.

On Thu 29 Mar 2018 19:10 Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Dilwyn wrote:
> > I regret to have to report that I heard this morning of the death of
> Stuart
> > Honeyball of Miracle Systems.
> >
> > He passed away peacefully last night (28th March) at 23:45 of cancer,
> > according to his wife, Karin.
> >
> > I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in extending our condolence to his
> wife and
> > family and express our great admiration and gratitude for all the work
> he did
> > for the QL over the years.
>
> Very sad news! He did so many great things for the QL. He was such a smart
> guy, fun to talk to. I remember well the QL shows where we've met. He and
> the miracle boys were an enrichment for the QL scene. Some pictures with
> Stuart are in this gallery_
>
> http://www.sinclairql.net/pic/Index.php?sfpg=UGVvcGxlLyoqN2Q0ZmU3M2EyYzMzOGFlYWM3MGZlODgxOGIzYmJjODE5MDBjYzdkYTg1MmI5YzYyZjJhNjZiMTg2YjQ4MzBmOA
>
> May he rest in peace. Thanks Dilwyn for letting us know.
>
> Urs
>
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

And "piece"was deliberate, an old in joke.

Darren.


On Thu 29 Mar 2018 15:45 Darren Branagh, <darrenbran...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Very sad. Although we'd lost touch, he was a great mate back in the day.
> Stayed in my house for the QL shows here.
>
> His devices made the QL useablecan you really imagine life without a
> trump, gold, or super gold card?
>
> Rest in piece old friend.
>
> Darren Branagh
>
> Sent from My iPhone X.
>
> On Thu 29 Mar 2018 10:42 Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users, <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
>> I regret to have to report that I heard this morning of the death of
>> Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems.
>>
>> He passed away peacefully last night (28th March) at 23:45 of cancer,
>> according to his wife, Karin.
>>
>> I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in extending our condolence to his
>> wife and family and express our great admiration and gratitude for all the
>> work he did for the QL over the years.
>>
>> Dilwyn Jones
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Very sad. Although we'd lost touch, he was a great mate back in the day.
Stayed in my house for the QL shows here.

His devices made the QL useablecan you really imagine life without a
trump, gold, or super gold card?

Rest in piece old friend.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone X.

On Thu 29 Mar 2018 10:42 Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> I regret to have to report that I heard this morning of the death of
> Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems.
>
> He passed away peacefully last night (28th March) at 23:45 of cancer,
> according to his wife, Karin.
>
> I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in extending our condolence to his
> wife and family and express our great admiration and gratitude for all the
> work he did for the QL over the years.
>
> Dilwyn Jones
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Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL for Everyone on Facebook

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

See, if we were on the Facebook group I could "laugh" at that :-)

Darren.

Sent from my Pipboy 3000.

On Thu 8 Mar 2018 20:13 Dave Park via Ql-Users, <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> *grins*
>
> Sent from my iPhone XI
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Darren Branagh via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
> > Nope.
> >
> > Especially since I actually use a Huawei P10 most of the time :-) like
> > now...
> >
> > Darren Branagh
> >
> > Sent from My Android Phone.
> >
> > On Thu 8 Mar 2018 19:59 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
> > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Darren Branagh via Ql-Users wrote:
> > > > Darren Branagh
> > > >
> > > > Sent from My iPhone X.
> > >
> > > Is that footer mandatory for people working for Apple? ;)
> > >
> > > Marcel
> > >
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Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL for Everyone on Facebook

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Nope.

Especially since I actually use a Huawei P10 most of the time :-) like
now...

Darren Branagh

Sent from My Android Phone.

On Thu 8 Mar 2018 19:59 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Darren Branagh via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Darren Branagh
> >
> > Sent from My iPhone X.
>
> Is that footer mandatory for people working for Apple? ;)
>
> Marcel
>
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[Ql-Users] Sinclair QL for Everyone on Facebook

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi all,

Due to some recent changes made to the old "I have a Sinclair QL" page on
Facebook, we have had a major resurgence over there, loads of activity and
posts and the membership has doubled already!

You'll find lots of familiar faces, and generally instant responses,
including videos and photographs.

The group is now called "Sinclair QL for everyone" and is free to join.

Just follow this link :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/30699392074/

Cheers,

Darren Branagh

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL 2002 The DVD

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Guys,

Please feel free to distribute how you wish, as long as Steve and myself as
credited.

Urs has already put a few of the interviews on his channel some time ago in
reduced quality, but this is the first time its been available in its
entirety as originally distributed and in DVD quality, including the menus
and slide information, which were done on a rostrum camera at london post.
Im really glad Dilwyn took the time to upload it, as it needs to be seen to
appreciate it...Its really quite a professional job if you see it as it was
intended. I learned a lot about DVD and video production making it, and
luckily we had access to some top notch equipment at the time otherwise it
would never have happened.

Im rather proud of it, Particularly the interview with Bill Richardson who
has since sadly passed away.

Links to the chapters Urs posted :

Main title:
https://youtu.be/f0Aa2Ifw2Yc

Walkthrough at the Show:
https://youtu.be/vaKuYJOMPqI

Introduction by yours truly:
https://youtu.be/Eyk-cqANwos

Bill Richardson interview:
https://youtu.be/D8VkOLvHjLY

Tony Firshman interview:
https://youtu.be/0J1Zuirf5aM

Quanta AGM footage, including John Taylor, the late Bill Newell, Roy
Brereton, the Gilpins, and others:
https://youtu.be/-QI-lieJ6-k

Link to the channel group:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHAWWG2O0e2IPDLMy5Oti3iTx2SJUA8s

Hope you enjoy them. They were great fun to makehard to believe it was
16 years ago now.

Darren Branagh

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On Tue 20 Feb 2018 17:01 Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> I think, putting that to U2be (*.flv) might be a good idea, perhaps in
> Urs' channel.
>
>
> Am 20.02.2018 um 17:58 schrieb Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users:
> > You're welcome if you wish to do so. It has been uploaded to
> > greybeardz.com too.
> >
> > If anyone is familiar with the process, it could probably do with
> > uploading to a more permanent web archive.
> >
> > I have converted the files to mp4 with Handbrake (it'll do .avi as
> > well I think), though I haven't looked at whether it'll reduce the
> > resolution to make smaller video files for those who wish to view on
> > mobile for example. Seems pointless uploading those at the moment as
> > they're almost as large as what's on the DVD, but if there is interest
> > in having lower resolution copies online I'll see what I can do.
> > Although Darren gave permission for me to put it online, I'd suggest
> > out of courtesy that if you wish to put it on You-Tube for example
> > that you ask Darren first.
> >
> > I chose to upload the .iso image of the DVD as it includes some QL
> > software on the DVD too which would be lost if it was made into just
> > 10 chapters of video files.
> >
> > Perhaps if you do re-host I could include the URL on my page as an
> > "alternative" location in case i do run into bandwidth issues - I
> > confess I don't know from memory what my monthly bandwidth is!
> >
> > Dilwyn
> >
> > -Original Message- From: Dave Park via Ql-Users
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:39 PM
> > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
> > Cc: Dave Park
> > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL 2002 The DVD
> >
> > Downloading now, since I probably have the fastest connection. I can
> > re-host if you like, to reduce Dilwyn's bandwidth bill?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users <
> > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Darren Branagh has kindly given me permission to make available an .iso
> >> image of "QL 2002 The DVD". Being an .iso image, you can burn your
> >> own copy
> >> of the DVD for posterity with most DVD burner software. A scanned
> >> image of
> >> the DVD sleeve is also available.
> >>
> >> It was originally released in 2002 by Q-Celt Computing in Ireland,
> >> edited
> >> and produced by Stephen Reyal and Darren Branagh.
> >>
> >> The DVD was shot on location at the 2002 Quanta Annual General
> >> Meeting and
> >> Workshop in Manchester and gives an insight into the QL scene at that
> >> time,
> >> some 20 years after the QL was first conceived by Sinclair Research.
> >>
> >> Presented by Darren Branagh, there are interviews with key players in
> >> the
> >> QL world, historical information, a tour around the dealers' tables
> >> and a
> >> look in on the Quanta AGM itself.
> >>
> >> Please note that this is a very large file to download. The .iso
> >> image is
> >> about 3GB in size even when zipped.
> >>
> >> My thanks to Simon Foster whose request to locate a copy of the DVD
> >> led to
> >> me seeking permission to make this available.
> >>
> >> Download from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/ql2002dvd/index.html
> >>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Qbase

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Hi Daniel,

Have you released any of your updates yet?

Just wondering if they can be tested.

Darren Branagh

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On 10 Sep 2017 23:18, "Bob Spelten via Ql-Users" <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> Op Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:19:22 +0200 schreef Daniel Baum via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>:
>
> One more thing:
>>
>> I should add that limiting the number of displayed records to 1000 works
>> fine, so I could fix the problem by using a paging arrangement.
>>
>> The test _dbs has 3111 records by 6 fields making 18666 menu items.
> That is well within the limit of items (<32K) WMAN2 can handle in the AW.
> Records times Fields must be less.
> But there is also a limit in S*Basic of 65K for indexing second and third
> dimensions, in this case Fields x Field_length (including length word).
> As you used Fields as the first dimension instead, 2nd (Records: 3111)
> times 3rd (length: 20 +2) would be just too much.
> As records will in most cases be the highest number, making it the first
> dimension is the best choice.
> So checking these limits and using paging is the only option for a large
> database that exceed these limits.
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Newell

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Not much you can add. Very sad to hear thisBill was a gentleman.

Please pass on my condolences John.

Darren Branagh

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On 20 Jun 2017 00:01, "John Taylor via Ql-Users" <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

I have just received this One Liner from Mrs Newell/

"Sorry to say Bill passed away this afternoon. Bit raw at the moment so
write more latter.”

What can I add?

John Taylor
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Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Newell

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Very upset to hear this...Bill was and is a good friend and it's awful to
hear of a man so hands on and technical in many respects, not recognising
his own wife. Alzheimer's is an awful thing to go through, for all
concerned.

Again, send him our very best John.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My Android Phone.

On 5 Jun 2017 16:18, "John Taylor via Ql-Users" <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
wrote:

> Bill Newell is ill.
>
> I have tried to avoid pestering Babs, Mrs Newell, but today I called her
> and asked for an update.
> As it stands at present.
> Mental Health.  Still very poor due to Alzheimers Disease.
> Babs say that on very rare occasions ,Bill does recognise her, but the
> recognition does not last above a few minutes.
>
> Physical Health. There is no concern now with Sepsis. The Antibiotics
> worked.
> However Bill must remain bed ridden.
> When ever he leaves his bed, if only to stand, his Blood Pressure crashes
> down, so the medics have decided, permanent bed.
> No one has offered any explanation.
>
> I will try to get to Bill, currently in a Nursing Home, when I can get
> some support from my family.
> I do not drive now as my eyesight is lacking and I expect the visit will
> require a full day, most of it spent travelling.
>
> I hope I can keep you informed of Bill’s wellbeing in the future.
>
> All the best.
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Newell

[Darren Branagh]

Bill is a wonderful bloke... always willing to help, always chatty. He
always came over to me with a story about Ireland as he holidayed here many
times in the past.

Hopefully he makes a full recovery, an absolute gentleman.

Darren Branagh

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On 9 May 2017 15:22, "John Taylor" <j_taylo...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Bull Newell is very ill with Sepsis.
He is in hospital, but as he is a diabetic and I have heard he has
Alzheimers  disease, his prospects are not too good.
His time as Membership Secretary, followed by his time as Chairman of
Quanta where very rewarding.
Quanta in those days was very difficult to manage as too many member pushed
or pulled in different directions.
It was always Bill’s claim that Quanta needed a ”Benevolent Dictator"
Bill was never a Dictator.
May he recover as we owe him so much.

John Taylor
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stella

[Darren Branagh]

No idea but I do remember Roy Wood's joke about it sounding more like
the name of a dodgy barmaid than an operating system... :-)

Darren Branagh

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On 15 Mar 2017 23:31, "Dave Park" <d...@sinclairql.com> wrote:

Does anyone know what happened with Stella?

I originally heard about it in the late 90's, I recall. I did some googling
and all I can find is an archived page by Thierry Godefroy.

Is it still a thing?

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Re: [Ql-Users] QMovie v2.00

[Darren Branagh]

Oh Dear.

I don't know which is worse, the fact you had a Skid Row track, or that you
had to listen to it a thousand times :)

Darren Branagh

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On 19 Dec 2016 12:37, "Marcel Kilgus" <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote:

> Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >>
> >> Last night I tried it out on SMSQemulator and it worked much better
> >> than anticipated from the get-go.
> > Thanks ... I think.
>
> Hey, I don't usually expect things to work right on the first try, so
> this was a pleasant surprise ;)
>
> > Anyway, if you set the  frequency to 20 Khz in the config menu, (and
> > if the version of java used can handle that frequancy) even the sound
> > should play smoothly.
>
> Unfortunately 20kHz doesn't work for me at all.
>
> But I've spend days if not weeks getting the sound for QPC just right.
> To this day I can't hear the song "18 and life" without thinking about
> the coding sessions, because that was my test song and I've probably
> heard it a thousand times back then, listening for every click and
> scratch in the sound.
>
> In the end I let DirectSound do the frequency transformation, but I
> also had versions where I did the sound output at 22Khz and upsampled
> the 20kHz  sound to it myself.
>
> > Yep, it loads the file in its "entirety" as per the documentation so it
> > stands to reason that it resets the file pointer to the beginning, which
> > is what the dv3 drivers do (file dv3_dv3_buff_asm, label dv3_sload). I
> > remember that I didn't do that for SMSmulator in the beginning and got
> > into a load of trouble.
>
> I actually didn't know this and the DOS device doesn't do it. But it's
> not used as the main disc, so it can get away with more
> incompatibilities than other drivers.
>
> >> "Yeah, but IOB.FMUL can handle at least 64KB!". Well, in many device
> >> drivers the value in D1 is extended using "ext.l", so the trap will
> >> fail to work as documented for anything above 32kb...
> > Yes, that can be found in quite a number (all?) of i/o routines in
> > Smsq/e. (Hastens to check that SMSQmulator is OK in that respect). I
> > presume that it is easier to change the documentation in this regard,
> > rather that trying to find that in every piece of code.
>
> Still it's amazing that such a elementary bug is in there for 30 years
> or so and even I didn't know about it until two weeks ago.
>
> > If really necessary, it could be possible to create a new trap#3 (d0
> > could be $3f) for loading a full long word's worth as of the current
> > file position. The changes for dv3 drivers would be minimal (just a few
> > changes in dv3_dv3_io_asm). Any dv3 driver would automatically benefit
> > from that. Normal drivers would come back with a not implemented error -
> > software could check for that and use the normal trap if this didn't
> > succeed.
>
> Sure. But on the other hand if nobody needed it for 30 years it's
> probably not worth the trouble. ;) And I really like QMovie, I spent
> many more hours on it than I could actually afford, but it's not worth
> for that alone. And I've watched my Iron Maidens demo clip probably a
> hundred times now during development, so I should probably move on to
> other projects ;-)
>
> Cheers, Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] For Thierry Godefroy

[Darren Branagh]

No, I think jms1 is someone else, I mistook it for Jochen before but I
don't think it is.

John Sadler I think?

Darren Branagh

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On 28 Oct 2016 13:22, "Giorgio Garabello" <g.garabe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> :-O
> fake mail?
>
> 2016-10-28 14:13 GMT+02:00 Darren Branagh <darrenbran...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Don't think that was from Jochen...
> >
> > Darren Branagh
> >
> > Sent from My Android Phone.
> >
> > On 28 Oct 2016 11:33, "Giorgio Garabello" <g.garabe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Jochen, empty mail
> > >
> > > 2016-10-28 12:08 GMT+02:00 jms1 <j...@supanet.com>:
> > >
> > > > On 2016-10-25 23:19, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Resizable windows? Please explain.
> > > >>
> > > >> - Original Message - From: "Giorgio Garabello"
> > > >>
> > > >> Hello Thierry, you are the author of two of the most used of the QL
> > > >>> software, ACP and FileInfo2
> > > >>> There 's the possibility that these software are updated to the new
> > > >>> possibilities offered by EasyPTR4 (system palette and resizable
> > > windows)?
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Re: [Ql-Users] For Thierry Godefroy

[Darren Branagh]

Don't think that was from Jochen...

Darren Branagh

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On 28 Oct 2016 11:33, "Giorgio Garabello" <g.garabe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jochen, empty mail
>
> 2016-10-28 12:08 GMT+02:00 jms1 <j...@supanet.com>:
>
> > On 2016-10-25 23:19, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
> >
> >> Resizable windows? Please explain.
> >>
> >> - Original Message - From: "Giorgio Garabello"
> >>
> >> Hello Thierry, you are the author of two of the most used of the QL
> >>> software, ACP and FileInfo2
> >>> There 's the possibility that these software are updated to the new
> >>> possibilities offered by EasyPTR4 (system palette and resizable
> windows)?
> >>> Greetings
> >>> Giorgio
> >>>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Today is a very special day for me...

[Darren Branagh]

Wow. Now I'm feeling old. Maximillian (hope I remembered his name
correctly) is 16?  How long since your holiday in Galway, when we met up?

Time flies. It really does.

The end of the QL was the worst part of the Amstrad buyout, but the
spectrum did live on though.
On 13 Apr 2016 08:10, "Urs Koenig (QL)"  wrote:

> Dear QLers,
>
>
>
> In that week 30 years ago the Sinclair computer business was bought by
> Amstrad and the QL was axed. It was that Sunday after the press conference
> when the message did arrive here in Switzerland. I was in my first months
> with my first personal QL so the news hit me hard.
>
>
>
> On today's date 16 years ago my son was born. This was one of the greatest
> moments in my entire life.
>
>
>
> I'm currently in the process of releasing the next version of THE
> DISTRIBUTION. Recent updates of SMSQ/E and SMSQmulator have been worked in.
> Major changes and enhancements are in the QL/E part of THE DISTRIBUTION.
> The
> start-up sequence (aka BOOT program) of QL/E has been reworked and enhanced
> to enable QL/E to also run on QPC1, uQLx (Raspberry PI), QL with QL-SD
> (should also run on the MIST) and Q-emuLator. As a goody QL/E now comes
> with
> Per Witte's D-Miner game and an adapted version of Francois Lanciault's
> 2048
> game.
>
>
>
> While QL/E is ready for release today, completion of THE DISTRIBUTION may
> take some more days.
>
> Download link see message footer below.
>
>
>
> QL forever!
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Urs
>
>
>
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>
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Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

[Darren Branagh]

What an enjoyable read :-)

Thanks for the memories mate.

D.
On 6 Apr 2016 23:44, "Marcel Kilgus"  wrote:

> I wrote up a short tale about my life with EasyPtr. Plus there's a
> gift at the end:
>
> http://www.kilgus.net/2016/04/07/easyptr-and-me/
>
> Enjoy! If not the tale, then at least the gift ;) Cheers, Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] Carlo Delhez

[Darren Branagh]

Very sad to hear this...a young man.

I used Carlo's emulators a lot when I first got a QL, as I moved from a
Spectrum. He was always very helpful, although like Geoff I never actually
met him.

May he rest in peace.
On 29 Oct 2015 11:03, "Bob Spelten"  wrote:

>
> This weekend I came across the sad announcement that Dutch programmer Dr.
> Ir. Carlo Delhez had died a week before. He was only 48.
> He was a familiar name among Sinclair users. He wrote programs for ZX & QL
> computers, both commercial and freeware. Among them Coral Basic - an
> extension bringing SuperBASIC to the ZX81 - and ZX emulators for the QL and
> PC. His Ungif tool has seen regular use on my systems.
> He was not a club member nor a regular visitor at meetings but I remember
> talking to him in Eindhoven briefly, about 20 years ago, a very nice person
> and full of new ideas.
>
> Our thoughts are with Carlo's family.
>
> Bob
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Re: [Ql-Users] Roy's book

[Darren Branagh]

Not entirely to blame... at several QL meets over the years, and in
Ireland, Roy and myself found ourselves sitting on the seafront or in a
beer garden, drinking wines and beers, and discussing our other love -
music.

Roy is a walking encyclopedia of rock n'roll roadie stories. I mean,
unbelievable. You just couldn't make this stuff up. He's worked with
Manfred Mann, Accept, UDO, Steve Harley,  Kingdom Come to name but a few.
Not to mention his own bands, such as Dogwatch (who were bigger than the
stranglers for a time) and last post.

Most of the stories ended with me laughing my head off, and saying Roy,
you really should write a book.

Ashamed to say I haven't had the time to read it yet due to ill health, but
I plan to soon. I want to get one personally. I have no doubt it's a great
read.

Darren.
On 19 Jun 2015 23:50, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net wrote:

 Just a quick note that one prominent ex-member of the QL community
 (Roy Wood) has written an autobiography called The way to(o) weard.

 Apparently Darren is to blame for this, but I did enjoy the book very
 much and read the ~500 pages in just a few days. The time span is
 mostly before he became seriously involved in the QL, it's only
 mentioned two or three times. The rest is quite literally sex, drugs
 and rock'n'roll! But I thought people who knew him might still be
 interested.

 I got my signed copy here
 http://woodenlion.com/shop.php
 or you can get it on Amazon which is slightly cheaper outside of the
 UK.

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Re: [Ql-Users] John Mason

[Darren Branagh]

This made me more than a little sad.

John was a lovely man. I always remember him telling me stories of his
travels in Ireland not long after he first got married, including the time
he mentioned he was a bit hungry to a guest house owner, and they brought
him into the kitchen for a roast chicken dinner... .. no charge, of course
:)

His enthusiasm for the QL and his beloved QUANTA knew no bounds.. He will
be sadly missed.

Please pass on my condolences John.

Darren.
 On 7 Jan 2015 14:06, John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com wrote:

 Hi Everyone,

 It is with great sadness that I have to advise you of the death of John
 Mason shortly before Christmas.

 John was QUANTA Chairman immediately prior to Sarah Gilpin, our present
 Chairman. He was also a QUANTA Honorary Member.

 John leaves a wife (Jane) and other family members to whom we have sent
 our condolences.

 He will be sadly missed

 Kind Regards,

 John Gilpin.
 QUANTA Membership Secretary
 and QUANTA Treasurer
 membership @quanta.org.uk
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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Yup.. as Marcel says. Try looking under Windows error reporting too if you
run an msinfo to file.

I would check how much free space you have on your hard drive too, but I'm
in agreement with Marcel. Either the RAM has got damaged, or the Windows
swap file or HDD is to blame.

Darren.

Sent from my Android Smartphone
On 9 Oct 2014 12:42, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net wrote:

 Dilwyn Jones wrote:
  Any idea what else might be causing the continuous hard disk
  activity slugging the PC to an almost unusable crawl? Nothing
  identifiable in the lists shown in Task Manager for example.

 Check how much RAM Windows reports and compare it to how much it's
 supposed to have.

 Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)

Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
have on the drives?
On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 The ones generating most entries are:

 AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop
 it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when machine
 is busy)

 BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external drive
 is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled
 temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is
 generating a lot of entries.

 svchost.exe (not sure what this is)

 monitor.exe (less than the other three)

 There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to
 these.

 Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on minimum
 settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's normally
 set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been missed)

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Dilwyn Jones wrote:

 No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
 everything else in D:


 Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS
 and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
 be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...

Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that, disconnect
your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.

Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 C:\ 243GB free of 453GB
 D:\ 282GB free of 454GB
 backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)

 Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
 have on the drives?
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

  The ones generating most entries are:

 AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop
 it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when machine
 is busy)

 BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external drive
 is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled
 temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is
 generating a lot of entries.

 svchost.exe (not sure what this is)

 monitor.exe (less than the other three)

 There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to
 these.

 Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on minimum
 settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's
 normally
 set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been missed)

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Dilwyn Jones wrote:

  No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
 everything else in D:


 Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS
 and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
 be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard...

I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti
virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the
system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.

If booting was so slow with it disabled, it's unlikely to be that at fault..

No idea where to go from here, apart from running a cleaner and maybe a
defrag.

Very, very mysterious.

Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 15:43, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 OK, that was a VERY painful experience:
 1. My second screen (AOC USB monitor) stopped working after disabling the
 anti-virus (now works after re-enabling). Absolutely no idea why. Shouldn't
 be any connection between them.
 2. Bootup took ages - I could see the desktop icons redrawing pixel by
 pixel, not just icon by icon.
 3. Windows Live Mail must have lost its index, since it claimed there were
 no emails. It seems to have rebuilt the index now and all emails present
 and correct.
 4. I disabled the wireless broadband for a while but the endless hard disk
 activity just continued even when it and the antivirus were off.

 I had a look at my backup program schedule as well. It says every saturday
 and sunday daily backup fails to run or fail to complete and Monday to
 Friday backups reported as OK. This goes back several weeks. As far as I
 know, nothing is differently setup for weekends the antivirus and backups
 are set the same for every day.

 Gets more and more mysterious.

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:51 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...

 Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
 and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that, disconnect
 your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.

 Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

  C:\ 243GB free of 453GB
 D:\ 282GB free of 454GB
 backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)

 Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
 have on the drives?
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

  The ones generating most entries are:


 AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop
 it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when
 machine
 is busy)

 BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external drive
 is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled
 temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is
 generating a lot of entries.

 svchost.exe (not sure what this is)

 monitor.exe (less than the other three)

 There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to
 these.

 Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on minimum
 settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's
 normally
 set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been missed)

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Dilwyn Jones wrote:

  No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and

 everything else in D:


  Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS
 and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
 be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Yup, both excellent ideas...

Running CHKDSK or similar should help see if there is any damage at least.
On 9 Oct 2014 16:08, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:

 Judging by the symptoms, you could try starting the PC up in safe mode and
 see if it is any better...

 However, I bet the lightning has caused damaged to a sector or two on your
 main hard disk...

 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/check-
 your-hard-disk-for-errors

 Rich


 On 09/10/2014 15:51, Darren Branagh wrote:

 Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard...

 I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti
 virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the
 system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.

 If booting was so slow with it disabled, it's unlikely to be that at
 fault..

 No idea where to go from here, apart from running a cleaner and maybe a
 defrag.

 Very, very mysterious.

 Darren.
   On 9 Oct 2014 15:43, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
 wrote:

  OK, that was a VERY painful experience:
 1. My second screen (AOC USB monitor) stopped working after disabling the
 anti-virus (now works after re-enabling). Absolutely no idea why.
 Shouldn't
 be any connection between them.
 2. Bootup took ages - I could see the desktop icons redrawing pixel by
 pixel, not just icon by icon.
 3. Windows Live Mail must have lost its index, since it claimed there
 were
 no emails. It seems to have rebuilt the index now and all emails present
 and correct.
 4. I disabled the wireless broadband for a while but the endless hard
 disk
 activity just continued even when it and the antivirus were off.

 I had a look at my backup program schedule as well. It says every
 saturday
 and sunday daily backup fails to run or fail to complete and Monday to
 Friday backups reported as OK. This goes back several weeks. As far as I
 know, nothing is differently setup for weekends the antivirus and backups
 are set the same for every day.

 Gets more and more mysterious.

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:51 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...

 Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
 and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that,
 disconnect
 your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.

 Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
 wrote:

   C:\ 243GB free of 453GB

 D:\ 282GB free of 454GB
 backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)

 Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
 have on the drives?
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
 wrote:

   The ones generating most entries are:

  AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or
 stop
 it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when
 machine
 is busy)

 BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external
 drive
 is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled
 temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is
 generating a lot of entries.

 svchost.exe (not sure what this is)

 monitor.exe (less than the other three)

 There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to
 these.

 Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on
 minimum
 settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's
 normally
 set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been
 missed)

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Dilwyn Jones wrote:

   No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and

  everything else in D:


   Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS

 and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
 be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

I ditched using AVG a few years ago too... I use avast and find it the best
if the freebie AV programs.

I would try Rich's suggestions and see how that goes.

Darren.
On 9 Oct 2014 16:13, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 IIRC, this is why I stopped using AVG originally. I switched to Microsoft
 Security Essentials for a while (don't laugh) and had no problems at all
 with it taking over the computer. I only switched back after it became a
 laughing stock in the computer magazines.

 I have tried other antiviruses but all have their varying degrees of
 uselessness. This seems to be a common issue with AVG, users saying it
 slugs their machines. There seems to be two core issues:

 1. Even set to 'dynamic' or 'basic' (lowest processor hogging) it really
 slugs the machine down during a scan. So I set it to run overnight and
 things like this happen.

 2. If the 'scan at startup if scan missed' setting was *ever* set and a
 scan is missed, there seems to be no way of preventing it running that scan
 at full priority until complete (that survives a restart), which is what
 seems to be happening.

 I have set that not to scan after a missed overnight scan now, but lots of
 people say that will only take effect after a *successful* overnight scan
 (despite what AVG claim), so it looks like I can write off getting any real
 use out of this PC until tomorrow now. Which is bad as I had all day to get
 work done today but very little time tomorrow. Drat and double drat (as
 some cartoon character used to say).

 Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
 NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
 complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
 weekend missed bits during the week.

 Modern computers are a total and absolute joke. Everyone keeps saying
 switch to Linux, but I know people who have and can't get anything working
 for months, so I refuse to even try that route.

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 3:51 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard...

 I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti
 virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the
 system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.

 If booting was so slow with it disabled, it's unlikely to be that at
 fault..

 No idea where to go from here, apart from running a cleaner and maybe a
 defrag.

 Very, very mysterious.

 Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 15:43, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

  OK, that was a VERY painful experience:
 1. My second screen (AOC USB monitor) stopped working after disabling the
 anti-virus (now works after re-enabling). Absolutely no idea why.
 Shouldn't
 be any connection between them.
 2. Bootup took ages - I could see the desktop icons redrawing pixel by
 pixel, not just icon by icon.
 3. Windows Live Mail must have lost its index, since it claimed there were
 no emails. It seems to have rebuilt the index now and all emails present
 and correct.
 4. I disabled the wireless broadband for a while but the endless hard disk
 activity just continued even when it and the antivirus were off.

 I had a look at my backup program schedule as well. It says every saturday
 and sunday daily backup fails to run or fail to complete and Monday to
 Friday backups reported as OK. This goes back several weeks. As far as I
 know, nothing is differently setup for weekends the antivirus and backups
 are set the same for every day.

 Gets more and more mysterious.

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:51 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...

 Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
 and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that,
 disconnect
 your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.

 Darren.
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

  C:\ 243GB free of 453GB

 D:\ 282GB free of 454GB
 backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

 Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)

 Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
 have on the drives?
 On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
 wrote:

  The ones generating most entries are:


 AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop
 it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when
 machine
 is busy)

 BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external
 drive
 is over 2TB so M$ backup won't

Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Darren Branagh]

Yay!! Good it's working again.

Next suggestion was insert pc into bin, and close lid. Proceed to use QL
instead... :-)
On 9 Oct 2014 19:02, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 Next guess: thermal problem. Modern CPUs throttle themselves when
 getting too hot instead of simply dying. Sometimes to the point of
 being unusable. Checking the fan might be worth it.

 Possibility I suppose, although this PC is fairly loud and you notice when
 fan isn't on, plus it's fairly cold here today.

  Anyway, good thing it's working again.

 Means I have to do some work now (says he, never happy)

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner

[Darren Branagh]

Yep... whiskey is Irish. I believe whisky is some kind of floor cleaner
from Scotland

(Takes cover against incoming Gaelic barrage!!)

Darren.
On 5 Sep 2014 16:49, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com wrote:

 On 04/09/2014 21:49, Derek Stewart wrote:

 Hi Geoff,

 I have got no problems with the menu, except I do not like whiskey these
 days...

 I was looking at the proposed activities, do you have a programme of
 events yet?

 Will I be able to update/buy software of hardware.

 Regards,

 Derek

  Thanks for the email, but tut, tut. Whiskey is Irish, but whisky
 Scottish. John is going to ask if there will be a drinks list available and
 also if we need to give/get advice about the various types of whisky.

 As far as the program is concerned I am now at the stage when I am
 twisting a few arms. What I am suggesting to people is that we keep the
 presentations relatively short in the hope that we can then have a good
 discussion with lots of ideas flying around.

 I still intend to stick to the three main themes of hardware. software and
 (electronic) communications. Another thing I would like to do is profile
 some of the classical software that has been preserved or re-released. I
 would be interested in hearing from a gamer who would like to demonstrate
 either in a formal presentation or informally at a table.

 I have already opened a Skype account for the workshop, although I still
 have to do final tests that my laptop can cope. As I am new to Skype I may
 need someone to sit beside me and hold my hand (metaphorically, of course).
 I hope to have at least one presentation via Skype.

 There will be no traders present at the event, although, of course, the
 German hardware developers will be there,

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner

[Darren Branagh]

Already underway :)

I am a whiskey drinker thanks to both my grandad and dad. But only the
really good stuff - typically Bushmills malt (the 10 year old one at a
minimum) and Jameson crested ten.

But I have to say some of the aged Scottish stuff is pretty good too.
Dimple and Glenfiddich being favourites.

Darren.
On 5 Sep 2014 19:17, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 I feel an international incident coming on over this ;-)

 Dilwyn

 -Original Message- From: Darren Branagh
 Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 6:27 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner

 Yep... whiskey is Irish. I believe whisky is some kind of floor cleaner
 from Scotland

 (Takes cover against incoming Gaelic barrage!!)

 Darren.
 On 5 Sep 2014 16:49, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com wrote:

  On 04/09/2014 21:49, Derek Stewart wrote:

  Hi Geoff,

 I have got no problems with the menu, except I do not like whiskey these
 days...

 I was looking at the proposed activities, do you have a programme of
 events yet?

 Will I be able to update/buy software of hardware.

 Regards,

 Derek

  Thanks for the email, but tut, tut. Whiskey is Irish, but whisky

 Scottish. John is going to ask if there will be a drinks list available
 and
 also if we need to give/get advice about the various types of whisky.

 As far as the program is concerned I am now at the stage when I am
 twisting a few arms. What I am suggesting to people is that we keep the
 presentations relatively short in the hope that we can then have a good
 discussion with lots of ideas flying around.

 I still intend to stick to the three main themes of hardware. software and
 (electronic) communications. Another thing I would like to do is profile
 some of the classical software that has been preserved or re-released. I
 would be interested in hearing from a gamer who would like to demonstrate
 either in a formal presentation or informally at a table.

 I have already opened a Skype account for the workshop, although I still
 have to do final tests that my laptop can cope. As I am new to Skype I may
 need someone to sit beside me and hold my hand (metaphorically, of
 course).
 I hope to have at least one presentation via Skype.

 There will be no traders present at the event, although, of course, the
 German hardware developers will be there,

 Best wishes,


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Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

(Yes, still here, and always keeping an eye on things)

Bill's passing is very sad news indeed. A real gentleman. I always enjoyed
our Chats, and he was a dear friend for many years.

He even came over and stayed with me when researching a book he was writing
on old Hibernia Its a long story! Not to mention that really wonderful
QL Show we had, which was mainly held in the many pubs and restaurants of
Wicklow!!

Plus he managed to coax me into writing a volume or two of the Z88 Users
Magazine, a very persuasive businessman.

I am glad myself and Steve Reyal managed to get him to agree to being
interviewed for the QL 2002 DVD - I remember saying to Steve it was good to
get his story on tape as at 84 he wasnt getting any younger, yet he made it
for over a decade more. Amazing man.

Tony - yes, we interviewed you too, its here, in 2 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AValszaKyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NLPwkcUxPM

I really must put some of the DVD's together again. There were a few great
bits of video on there.

I wanted to try and Get Jochen and Roy too, but these were the days when
they were quite busy :)


Tony - if you are attending the funeral, and I'm sure you are, please pass
on my condolences.

Darren.





On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:

 Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 15/Jan/13 19:06 | Jan15:

  Tony Firshman wrote:

 I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson

 and

 EEC.

 He has just died well into his 90s.


 Very bad news, how sad! My deepest condolences.

 I've met Bill a couple of times at QL-Shows and will keep him in good
 memories.

 Here's a picture of him attending the QUANTA workshop in London in
 November
 2002:
 https://skydrive.live.com/**redir?resid=C250D8748980CE5A!**1024https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C250D8748980CE5A!1024

 ... with Keith Mitchell in fornt of him.


 There's a video of him on the QL2002 DVD where he's telling his Sinclair
 story. The video is also on YouTube and can be watched here:
 http://youtu.be/P3CwIineYZ4

  I hadn't seen that before - very interesting.
 He was 84 in mid 2002, so he was about 94/95 when he died.
 I too was videoed on that occasion.

 The 5000 membranes he mentioned were the ones he and I shared.
 They were though still only made of the original plastic, which became
 brittle.
 The ones Rich had made I believe are made of superior clear plastic.
 This type was fitted to early QLs, but was soon superseded, I suspect to
 save a few pennies.

 Interested that fire in the Z88 factory.  I am *sure* the stock was worth
 only the few thousand Bill mentioned, so it has one wondering!


 Tony


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Re: [Ql-Users] n00b alert an introduction of sorts

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Alison,

Just when I was getting used to being one of only two QL users still in
Ireland, you had to come along :))

Where about where you originally from? I'm willing to guess Northern
Ireland...??

We have a former Apple employee in the US who now works for AMD, I think in
Canada.

Anyway, most of the guys here have beaten me to the info i was going to
send on, if you need and help, just shout - we're a fiendly bunch.

Darren.


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Alison Cassidy coot...@me.com wrote:

 Hi all,

I just joined your mailing list and have rejoined the QL community
 after ... umm ... a break of some 25 years :) My name is Alison Cassidy,
 I'm originally from Ireland tho' I'm now living in the US and have been for
 some years. I'm a diagnostic developer at Apple Inc. and have been working
 professionally with computer hardware and software for some 26 years now.
 As a very young teen, I started on Commodore PETs - that would have been
 1979 or so. I 'progressed' to the ZX80, 81 Spectrum and ORIC-1. I remember
 building RAM packs for the ZX series out of my bedroom and selling them on
 to fellow-nerds at school :) One Summer, I saved up all my cash from my
 Summer job and blew it all on a new QL. That was in 1984 or so, and my
 parents were *not* impressed! For my birthday, I remember my aunt and uncle
 buying me a blank Eurocard and a SP0256 speech chip, and I went on to
 interface it to the QL, producing, I believe, the first speech synthesizer
 for the QL.

Anyways - I managed to pick up a second-hand one on eBay last week.
 It showed up on my doorstep today and I'm now drowning in a wave of
 nostalgia. *sigh* :) I've no idea if the thing works or not - it's supposed
 to - but I'm going to try fire it up later this week. Can't wait to get
 back into QL programming again!

 Best regards,

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Re: [Ql-Users] n00b alert an introduction of sorts

[Darren Branagh]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:


 On Dec 13, at 22:21 | Dec13, Darren Branagh wrote:

  Hi Alison,
 
  Just when I was getting used to being one of only two QL users still in
  Ireland, you had to come along :))
 
  Where about where you originally from? I'm willing to guess Northern
  Ireland...??
 
  We have a former Apple employee in the US who now works for AMD, I think
 in
  Canada.
 
  Anyway, most of the guys here have beaten me to the info i was going to
  send on, if you need and help, just shout - we're a fiendly bunch.
 What an absolutely brilliant mistype.

 I assure you, Alison, there is not one 'fiend' that I know of amongst us.

  well maybe only Darren and his typing (8-)#



Oh Dear.  There I go again. Still, I hope she knows what I mean!!
Using the wifes Powerbook to type, and not used to the keyboard!!

Darren.




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Re: [Ql-Users] QBBS

[Darren Branagh]

I think thats really very, very sad

yet a sign of the times...

Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just for
posterity?

Darren.




Never pay for next day delivery with Amazon - products invariably arrive
next day with *free* delivery.


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Re: [Ql-Users] Another song devoted to Clive Sinclair...

[Darren Branagh]

This one is still my favourite:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

Ah, Nostalgia.


Darren.



On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Malcolm Cadman q...@mcad.demon.co.uk wrote:

 In message 00c501cc84ea$bb5cda20$**2301a8c0@pcw.local, Urs Koenig (QL)
 q...@bluewin.ch writes

 Hi Urs,

 Thanks for the links.

 The Electric Disorder is a reasonable song/music - yet the video is just
 fantastic! Great sets, and humour too ... everyone should view it!

 The Single-Lens is a rather poor song, with lyrics that have some
 interesting content, yet do not really work in the song (this is no Bob
 Dylan).


  SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR by SINGLE-LENS REFLEX - paramanjara - 20111005
 http://youtu.be/jXmcHaqx3lA


  A ballad. Not that bad.


  Quite different from the 2010 track from Electric Disorder which I like
  better.
 http://youtu.be/ub7FH0c2vO4


  What do you think about it?


  Cheers, Urs

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 http://www.youtube.com/user/**QLvsJaguar#g/phttp://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p
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Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Guys,

Was wondering when the great man would get a mention I've been in shock
all day, I feel like I've lost a close friend.

I never met him, but came close once. I now regret not leaning a little
further on that guy I was stuck behind  to get to shake his hand.

However, I did meet the Woz, and he is a wonderful character - loving life
and what he does.

Just two guys who wanted to change the world a little, and ended up changing
it quite a lot

RIP Steve.



Darren.



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 Hi,

 The great man Steve Jobs has passed on.

 A person would combined good design with new technology.

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Re: [Ql-Users] LaunchPad

[Darren Branagh]

Dil,

Dont throw the towel in so easily - Launchpad (QL) was here first, long
before Mac OS Lion. Now, if Mr. Jobs wants to offer you, say, 4 or 5 million
to change the name, then we'll talk. :)

Darren.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.ukwrote:

  Dilwyn Jones wrote:

 Lee Privett wrote:

 Hmmn, Dilwyn contact your legal team, Apple in their new op system
 LION have a new feature with that same name (out next month)



 Now I like Dilwyn's Launchpad

 But I also like Apple's Launchpad

 So which is better...Fggtt

 He he...I suspect mine would work better on QDOS or SMSQ...theirs
 better on the fruitier machines ;-)

 Mine's been out so long it's high time I rewrote it and called it
 something else anyway (QL-Launchpad???). Might sell a few more then!

 Since there is proof of how long I used the name, I guess I can rely
 on you to send them a kind email telling them they have 48 hours to
 rename or remove every instance of their Launchpad worldwide ;-)

 (actually, I'd rather you didn't...)

 Seriously though, it's a common name for a program or task launcher
 anyway, I know of at least 2 freeware PC programs of that name. If
 they really feel concerned about the use of my name on a hundred or so
 1984 machines they are welcome to waste their money sending me a
 polite email or letter and I will send them an equally nice email or
 letter saying OK...

 You can guess I don't really care......

 BTW, your video upscalar for QL, what is latest on that? You said
 you'd sent them a QL to play with, that was the last I heard.

 AND, glad to see you are getting committee emails at last! My moaning
 email seems to have done the trick. Now what we need is prompting to
 get the website finished so we can all login to the CMS and start
 improving it. You chould check a CMS login has been set up for you. I
 assume you know what a Content Management System is, in fact you most
 probably have 10 times (at least) the experience of them I do.

 o)


 Dilwyn

 In hindsight, that was probably an unwise jokey reply, but
 light-heartedness apart (silly mood tonight for some reason) you get the
 idea of how I feel about this - if Apple were to tell me to stop using the
 name I would, as my Launchpad is quite an old product. I'd simply find a new
 name. Although somehow I don't think Apple would be too worried by an old
 program running on a 1984 computer.

 The references to the Quanta website refer of course to the fact that Lee
 is the new Editor of Quanta magazine. Sarah Gilpin is editing the issue
 currently in preparation and hopefully Lee will be in a position to take
 over from the following issue. I hope you'll all agree that his return to
 the QL scene and his high level of activity and ideas will be a real benefit
 to both Quanta and the QL scene in general.

 There, hopefully I've embarrassed him enough for now ;-)

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Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

[Darren Branagh]

On 6/20/10, Roy Wood qbra...@qbranch.demon.co.uk wrote:

 Well I don't know if I have talent. I enjoy writing, songs, blogs on my
 MySpace page and I used to enjoy writing the QL Today columns. Songs are
 the best because they are more personal. I do it, like I do everything
 really, purely for the fun of doing it. I leave it for others to decide
 if they are worth it or not. Like you I never got much feedback from the
 articles I wrote. One of my main problems in life was that, most of teh
 time,  I never did anything for money. It never really interested me.
 These days I do a job I quite dislike so that is probably the first time
 in many years that I have done normal work. Everything else is just for
 fun. I spent all day yesterday running the siund, and providing the
 sound equipment for a local open air show. 11 hours work for free. But I
 had a great time. That is what life is all about.


you've got talent alright roy - that song communicate got inside my
head many years ago, and grew roots - I have it on my iPod now and I
love it along with the rage, happy, and lots of other stuff. I
love the stuff you do. I keep promising myself I will catch a show
live sometime soon and it never happens. keep having to make do with
that rough shot DVD you sent me -  I'll get there.

cheers,

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Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

[Darren Branagh]

On 6/19/10, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 I think it'd be great to have an online QL running in a browser -
 perhaps Java based or whatever. I seem to remember someone mentioning
 a ZX81 or Spectrum which would run in a browser.

 That way, you'd be free of the nuances of any particular QL emulator
 or QL compatible - wherever you are, fire up your browser and access
 the QL over an internet connection. Synchronised online storage
 space (there's plenty of free space providers) would ensure your files
 would be up to date no matter whether you were running it at home or
 away from home.

 Ah well, I can dream I suppose ...

 Dilwyn Jones


Hi All,

Yes - I'm here and alive and reading with great interest, although
kids, and being in and out of work are keeping me busy, This is the
best thread in ages !! I agree with Dilwyn - an online browser based
QL is vey much needed - I use a ZX Spectrum one all the time via a
Facebook app, great stress relief. :-) most of the games on World of
Spectrum are available this way too.

I would love to see Marcel work on converting QPC to run this way -
Marcel, is this possible? If so, is much work involved?  I certainly
would'nt mind paying a few bob for the ability to pull up a working QL
on ANY PC I happen to be working on - with an internet connection, or
course.

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Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

[Darren Branagh]

On 6/19/10, Malcolm Cadman q...@mcad.demon.co.uk wrote:

 I am looking forward to have an iPad like device myself, though, too ...
 although I would expect to make a wider use of it than just
 entertainment.

Why? its a toy. its an Apple iTouch on steroids. I had one for a
while testing it (I'm working for the mobile phone network 3 at
present, and they are interested in the 3G version for obvious
reasons) and I pretty much hated it - dont get me wrong, its
beautiful, it makes you go oh when you first use it, but a
replacement for a good laptop it aint - its a nice toy, and an
overpriced one at that - the eee pad (the iPad looking version of the
cheap netbook eeepc that came out a few years ago) should be a better
buy. And will probably run QPC too .now, a handheld touchscreen
QL, wouldnt that be nice?


 I haven't tried the Cloud, yet I understand the advantages that you
 describe.

For a basic idea of what its all about, try this :-

http://eyeos.org/

And click on the try it now button.

eye os is a cloud based computing platform, and quite good it is too;
a lot of us use it in work and its great if you travel a lot - any
internet cafe and you can easilt get at your desktop.

 I believe that Google are developing their own OS, which will no doubt
 be offered free.

Yes - later this year hopefully, The Chrome OS. But we're heading
waaayyy of topic now...

 Anyway, I haven't heard any specifications, as yet for a QL21 - a QL
 inheritance device for the 21st Century .

back on topic againwell done!!  I think the 21st centrury QL
will exist online - as a Java applet or freeware emulator or
similar must like the spectrum. I've love to have a QL emulator on
my phone!!

Cheers,

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Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

[Darren Branagh]

On 6/19/10, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net wrote:
 Darren Branagh wrote:
 I would love to see Marcel work on converting QPC to run this way -
 Marcel, is this possible? If so, is much work involved?  I certainly
 would'nt mind paying a few bob for the ability to pull up a working QL
 on ANY PC I happen to be working on - with an internet connection, or
 course.

 Well, if a few means about 5 and bob is Euros I might start
 considering it, but otherwise, life's too short, sorry ;) I'm no
 student anymore, time is very precious these days.


oh, well That answers that then!! :)

If I come across fifty grand I dont need i'll give you a call:)

What about QLAY, or Q-Emulator.. guys?

Or writing one from scratch... anyone out there with the ability or the money :)

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Re: [Ql-Users] Linus Torvald Windows 7

[Darren Branagh]

I've seen this already using StumbleUpon.

I think they (Micro$oft) set up a stand directly opposite a Linux Show
Linus was attending.

So he gave them their moneys worth :-)

Darren.



On 10/27/09, Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de wrote:
 Evening,

 just have found this in the net...;-))

 http://img24.imageshack.us:80/img24/5301/linustorvaldsundwindows.jpg

 Linus Torvald (ex QL-User) promotes Windows 7not seriously 8-)

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Emulators

[Darren Branagh]

Good point Dil, never used this one myself.

Plus, for Mac users with a bang up to date Mac (ie. not me!) if you
have a Intel chip Mac, as opposed to a power PC based system, you can
just use Bootcamp or Parallels, Vrtual PC or similar, and run Windows
XP/Vista/7 on the Mac - and I would think QPC should run on that, ie.
an emulator running on an emulator?

Steve Reyal has a new Mac running vista - very quickly too - care to
try QPC on it Steve??

Darren.


On 10/26/09, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
 There is also a version of uQLx for Mac, by James Weatherley, which
 used to be on Phoebus's website. Not being a Mac user, I have no idea
 if this works on current Macs (like the OSX systems). Anyone know? I
 could then post the info on my website.

 Dilwyn Jones

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 From: Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk
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 Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:38 AM
 Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Emulators



 Hi,

 Which emulators work on the latest OSX?

 A customer wants to play some QL games on such an emulator, but I
 can't
 for the life of me think which ones work - presume OSX is Mac
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Emulators

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Rich,

OSX  is the Macintosh Operating System - I have it installed on a
Powerbook (laptop) and a Mac G5 here.

I'm running 10.4.11 on the Powerbook and the G5 - this is known as
Tiger (the last update to that version). The 10.5 version is called
Leopard and the very latest, 10.6, is called Snow Leopard - this is
only out about a month or so.

I can run Q-Emulator by Daniele Terdina on 10,4.11, and it works here,
But dont have any newer versions to try. Hope that helps.

Darren.


On 10/25/09, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:
 Hi,

 Which emulators work on the latest OSX?

 A customer wants to play some QL games on such an emulator, but I can't
 for the life of me think which ones work - presume OSX is Mac operating
 system?

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Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

[Darren Branagh]

The leaping ad was the famous Quantum Leap advert fom the launch of
the QL, depicting Clive jumping over all the inferior and more
expensive business computers to land beside the QL at £399, (and later
reduced to £199!)

Dont ever remember it being £645, unless that was with the microvitec monitor.

Watch it as soon as you can, its excellent. I spent the whole 80
minutes being 10 years old again, when I got my 16K Spectrum for Xmas
1983. And then getting a DIY 48K RAM Upgrade for my Birthday the
following JuneAnd a SAGA Emperor keyboard upgrade too Ah, those
were the days.

I now own all versions of the Spectrum, including all the Amstrad
ones, as Well as a, ZX80, ZX81, several QL's, Z88's, and 70 odd other
computers...

Darren,

On 10/9/09, Neil Riley neil.ri...@boxclever.co.uk wrote:
 I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed a TV advert, Clive
 Sinclair was leaping over other computers
 of the time and it briefly showed the QL and a price of £645 or
 thereabouts, Screen included perhaps! Haven't actually
 watched the program as yet but no doubt it'll take me back to my
 teenage years.

 Just thinking back reminds me of the huge excitement at the thought of
 owning my first computer, at the time, the ZX81 :-)
 Of course, I really wanted the fantastic ATARI 800 but that was £700+
 so. ( got one now though ;-) )

 Ah, Nostalgia !



 Darren Branagh darrenbran...@gmail.com 09 October 2009 02:17 
 Just a quick one, for those interested Micro Men can be viewed for the
 next week for free on the BBC's iPlayer service (only if you live in
 the UK)

 Follow this link :-


 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_Men/

 It really is worth a look - I totally enjoyed it.


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[Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC4 - Excellent Stuff, QL is mentioned!!

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

I have just finished watching Micro Men, the Sinclair/Acorn
Documentary on BBC4, and is was truly excellent - a real nostalgic
trip down memory road.

Some wonderful scenes in it - I had forgotten Sir Clive and Chris
Curry had a fight in a bar!!

And some lovely clips grom how to make the most of your micro and
the famous Quantum Leap advert.

And yes - the QL gets a few mentions - mainly due to its failure as a
business machine.

If anyone is interested - its repeated tonight on BBC4 at 11.55pm if
you missed it earlier.

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[Ql-Users] Sinclair Drama on BBC4 Next thursday

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

I have just seen that BBC4 (freeview and satellite channel) are
broadcasting a specially made movie length drama about Sir Clive
Sinclair and his race to become the first person to release an
affordable home computer in the UK (The ZX80). Its filled with 80's
nostalgia, including original press releases and adverts from the
time.

Sir Clive is played by the comedian Alexander Armstrong, and Chris
Curry is played by Martin Freeman (of The Office fame).

I *THINK* Its being screened next Thursday evening, the 8th, at 9pm,
and is called Micro Men - just seen the trailer on BBC4 and it looks
excellent. I am wondering will it mention the QL.hope so,
certainly deserves it. Nigel Searle and even Rick Dickinson also make
an appearance, played by actors of course.

 links to some info is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459467

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/micro-men-bbc4-tv-drama/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/micromen/

including a video teaser, which sadly is not available outside of the UK :(

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Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

[Darren Branagh]

Not rude at all. an old irish saying for weddings - roughly
translates as Congratulations and the blessings of god upon you both
- We were a fairly religious race back then :-))

Darren.



On 9/9/09, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com wrote:
 Thanks, Darren :-)
 (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim
 on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it
 in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had!

 I believe JM means something different, as Tony Tebby can tell 
 in one of the next issues of QL Today.

 Cheers   Jochen


 Darren Branagh wrote:
 Well, you've heard or JM ROM's. This was definitely a JochenMerz
 ROMance  :-))

 Congratulations Jochen and Andrea - The very best luck to you both -
 as we say in Irish Go maire tú an lá, agus Bail ó Dhia ort.

 Take care,

 Darren.


 On 9/8/09, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
 - Original Message -
 From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show


 Your job then :-) Too late for the upcoming issue, but
 plenty of time for the Xmas issue


 Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Now all we need is a suitable cartoon in QL Today ;-)
 How about:

 Jochen Merz accused of bigamy - he was already married to the QL

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Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

[Darren Branagh]

On 9/9/09, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com wrote:
 Thanks, Darren :-)
 (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim
 on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it
 in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had!


Indeed!!!  Fairly Sure It was the Canada Show - Montreal.

Jim was always playing with his QDT so I thought up a better TLA
(Three letter acronym) for it... to rude to post here though I
remember Jochen bursting out laughing when he though up an ad for the
release of QDT.. coming soon!!!

Sorry guys... private joke, You had to be there!!  :-))

Even better though was Myself, Roy Wood, Tony and Jim Hunkins all
going into a Gay Bar by mistake, but deciding to stay once we saw the
range of beers they served!! The barman was trying desperately to work
out who was with who as it were, and I ended up having to show him how
to pull a pint of guinness properly.. Great times.


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Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

[Darren Branagh]

Well, you've heard or JM ROM's. This was definitely a JochenMerz
ROMance  :-))

Congratulations Jochen and Andrea - The very best luck to you both -
as we say in Irish Go maire tú an lá, agus Bail ó Dhia ort.

Take care,

Darren.


On 9/8/09, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

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 Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show



 Your job then :-) Too late for the upcoming issue, but
 plenty of time for the Xmas issue


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 Now all we need is a suitable cartoon in QL Today ;-)

 How about:

 Jochen Merz accused of bigamy - he was already married to the QL

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Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

Yes - I'm still alive and still using a QL, when I can find the time.
Its been an eventful couple of years to say the least. With hyper
kids, and unemployment being a large feature :(

Myself and Steve Reyal (of QL DVD) are debating driving over from
London to Lucerne. So, any cheap hotel deals would be welcome. Both
Myself, and particularly Steve, are rather big Mac users as well, so
it has a dual interest for us both.

If we bring the car, we have several classic macs we can bring - A
SE30, Classic, Quadra, Plus, G3 Imac, G4 Tower, and my 17 Powerbook
and steves shiny new Intel Macbook (which runs windows Vista better
than my Compaq PC Laptop).

Not to mention the QL side of things.!!!  We Still have an Amstrad
ALT286 with a QXL in it, and we will probably have copies of the QL
DVD (take a free look on youtube), Not to mention some hardware and
software.

Cheers,

Darren.




On 9/6/09, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:

 Simon Goodwin and I will be there.

 http://tinyurl.com/ql-mac-show

 To anyone else interested, I am hoping Urs will be recommending a good
 value hotel so that we can all get together.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL on a stick

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

I'll second that with a very loud voice. This is one of the many things 
I love above Dilwyn. He never,ever does anything half heartedly, if he 
agrees to do something, its done 100%. As his websie proves, and the 
lastest QL on a Stick project too.

Well done Dil. I hope it helps to bring back a few former (and maybe 
even new) QL users into the fold.

Darren.


Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 The web page with information about QL On A Stick is now online:
 www.dilwyn.uk6.net/qos/index.html
   
 Nice piece of work that, Dilwyn! A round of applause, please, gents
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 Per
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 The CD version is available from me for 5 pounds, including UK
 postage, or add £1 for overseas postage. It will be available from
 Darren Branagh at Q-Celt Computing in Ireland, although I don't know
 if he intends to supply it on CD to keep costs down and allow people
 to choose their own pen drive, or if he intends to try to find a cheap
 source of drives to supply them completely ready to go.


   

HI Dil,

I hadn't thought about it much, but I suppose I can give people the 
option of either CD or Pen Drive with files installed. I will have 
pricing for the USB drives at the weekend, (meeting on of the guys in 
the distrbutors for a drink anyway) so will report back then. It 
shouldn't be too expensive at all. Also, copying to a USB Stick is far 
less time consuming that burning CD's :-)

In the meantime, if there is any interest, email me privately.

Cheers,

Darren.



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[Ql-Users] Irish QL Show

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Hi All,

Been thinking about this next Irish QL Alcoholics anonymous meeting 
since Roy made the suggestion.


I know Roy said 5 or so will come, so who will and who won't?  And any 
ideas as to when - sooner rather than later? I can probably hold it in 
the Hotel where I work and get a decent room rate.

Sometime in mid to late November?  Any ideas?


Feedback please!


Darren.




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Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Hi Roy,

I intended to come and help Dilwyn with QL on a Stick, and Steve Reyal 
wanted to go too. My wife works weekends, only for about 4 hours in the 
mornings, but its the busiest time of the week and seldom gets weekends 
off. and with two kids I couldn't leave them alone - its almost 
impossible to find babysitters out here. I miss the shows a lot.

The joys of Fatherhood. Still I wouldn't change it for the world.

Yes, looks like I'll have to get the finger out for an Irish Show - 
Inebriation Eireann IV I think...

Anyone any preferences as to when ???


Cheers,

Darren.



Roy wood wrote:
 Hi,
 I thought that you were going to comer to Birmingham. I was 
 looking forward to seeing you. You have to arrange an Irish show now. 
 There  Are at least 5 people.who will come over.

 Regards
 Roy


 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Branagh - 
 Kingfisher Club [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
 Roy wood wrote:
 The problem is I cannot  think of a suitable alternative that also 
 conveys
 the sort of atmosphere  we have at shows,

 'Billys' or, as Stuart would have it 'the great unwashed'

 Ahhh, I miss Stuart, he really had a way with words at times. I remember
 he christened the first Irish QL Show Inebriation Eireann at the end
 of the first day - mind you, he was fairly inebriated himself at the
 time

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Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Roy wood wrote:
 The problem is I cannot  think of a suitable alternative that also conveys
 the sort of atmosphere  we have at shows,
 
 'Billys' or, as Stuart would have it 'the great unwashed'
   
Ahhh, I miss Stuart, he really had a way with words at times. I remember 
he christened the first Irish QL Show Inebriation Eireann at the end 
of the first day - mind you, he was fairly inebriated himself at the 
time

Darren.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Autumn Workshop - Change of Venue

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Hi all,

Yes - I'm in agreement with Dilwyn, I would like to come and if I can 
(90% sure I can at this stage) I would definitely do something. Maybe 
something new if my spare time remains as is!!  I would also be in a 
position to Show The QL DVD at a free screening if a projector and 
screen are available for use as Geoff mentioned - runs for about an hour 
and is well worth a look if you haven't seen it before.

Cheers,

Darren.


Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Having received a report on the Queen's Head Public House in 
 Birmingham
 the QUANTA Committee have agreed that it is not a suitable venue 
 for their
 Autumn QL Workshop.
   
 I've amended my website's show page as a result.

   
 As far as the day program is concerned, Simon has indicated that he 
 would be
 prepared to give a presentation provided others are prepared to as 
 well. He
 is a little worried that, as he has said so much over the QL in the 
 past, he
 will have nothing new to say. I am hoping to do something, but I 
 would like
 at least one more person to volunteer.
 
 Assuming I'm able to come (don't know yet) I would be willing to do 
 something.
   


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Hi Roy,

I sent you a private mail, surfice to say I just spent 3 hours of my 
working day enjoying that site.

For those of you that don't know (and lets face it, you have to be 
fairly stupid not to) Roys life has been spent in Music - both on and 
off stage, Hes a damn good vocalist in my opinion. Hes also roadied and 
Sound engineered for the best of them (I could name drop here but we're 
far enough off topic already!)

One of the best evenings (in fact, weekends) I ever spent was after a QL 
meet here in Ireland when Everyone who attended had gone home, and Roy 
and Myself had a whole day to fill. We were picking up Roys son the 
following morning, who was staying with friends of Roys near Dublin. We 
ended up sitting drinking a lot of Beer and Red Wine on the Seafront 
near Bray, near where I used to live, with Roy telling story after story 
of his roadie days - hilarious all of them. Really enjoyable day.

I always Said he should write a book.

Darren.



 SNIP
   
 Maybe its time to have another Irish QL Show Pi**-Up
 again??  Any takers??  In the lovely West of Ireland this time, of
 Course..
 
 I'll be there - we have not met up in a while. By the way, Darren, have 
 a look at www.woodenlion.com if you have not done that in a while. Drop 
 me a private email and I will send you something. Now that is puzzling 
 the rest of you isn't it? Definitely off topic - non QL.
   


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Not that I know of - Roy?

However he has worked with Manfred Mann, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, 
Gary Glitter, and the man himself - Ozzy Osbourne, among many many others.

I still have a signed UDO Album and T-Shirt Roy gave me from his tour 
that Roy did sound on ( I was a huge Accept fan in my teens - Udo 
Dirkschnider was the lead singer)

I could go on and on and on

 I'm impressed !
  
 Did he / they ever do a session for John Peel ( top gear ) ?

   
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20 August 2007 15:50 
 

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 Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club wrote:
   
 Hi Roy,

 I sent you a private mail, surfice to say I just spent 3 hours of my
 

   
 working day enjoying that site.

 For those of you that don't know (and lets face it, you have to be 
 fairly stupid not to) Roys life has been spent in Music - both on and
 

   
 off stage, Hes a damn good vocalist in my opinion. Hes also roadied
 
 and 
   
 Sound engineered for the best of them (I could name drop here but
 
 we're 
   
 far enough off topic already!)

 One of the best evenings (in fact, weekends) I ever spent was after a
 
 QL 
   
 meet here in Ireland when Everyone who attended had gone home, and
 
 Roy 
   
 and Myself had a whole day to fill. We were picking up Roys son the 
 following morning, who was staying with friends of Roys near Dublin.
 
 We 
   
 ended up sitting drinking a lot of Beer and Red Wine on the Seafront
 

   
 near Bray, near where I used to live, with Roy telling story after
 
 story 
   
 of his roadie days - hilarious all of them. Really enjoyable day.

 I always Said he should write a book.

 
 Indeed he should.

 You may not know that he is trying to re-form his old band.  The last
 I
 heard was that all he need was a drummer.

 This was far from an ordinary band.  Dressing up (and sometimes down)
 was the key, and Roy (and the rest?) had some amazing outfits.  One
 getup involved a (real?) chainsaw.

 http://www.woodenlion.com/musical_history.htm



 Tony

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube - QL 2002 DVD now online

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

The QL 2002 DVD is now available to view for free online at YouTube.

Both in Low Res (for dial-up users, although some problems may persist - 
Video and 56K Dial-up generally don't work well) and the full DVD high 
res quality versions. Its been split into manageable chunks to aid 
viewing, all less than 7 or 8 minutes each.

Just search for QL2002DVD and you'll find all of them - we welcome 
feedback.

Thanks to Steve Reyal who spent a lot of time transcoding it over the 
weekend - enjoy.

Darren.




Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Not much QL, if any QL stuff on YouTube? Think so...

 Today I opened my personal YouTube account. I also opened a Group
 called Sinclair QL.

 First uploads are:
 - Sinclair QL TV advertisement 1984
 - QDT demo by Jim Hunkins at 2002 US QL-show

 More to come...

 I also slightly updated my website http://mypage.bluewin.
 ch/QLvsJaguar/.

 QL forever! What do you think?

 Urs
 
 I wonder if Darren Branagh and Steve Reyal could be persuaded to 
 upload bits of their QL DVD?

   


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube

[Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club]

Hi All,

I certainly don't have any problem uploading parts of the QL DVD to 
YouTube, but it was Steve who did all the hard work - He bought a MiniDV 
Camera (back when they weren't cheap - around £1000 at the time I think) 
Did all the editing at his place of work (London  Post Production, using 
professional editing kit that would have cost a small fortune had we 
been paying for it) and a LOT of his spare time DVD authoring, and using 
a rostrum Camera to do the tilting QL shots for the Menus etc. All I had 
to do was make a fool of myself presenting it (and a bigger fool of 
myself in the outakes blooper reel!)

Needless to say we haven't sold any copies in a Looonn time...

I'll talk to Steve about it; Main problem would be cutting it to 
managable chunks for viewing on YouTube (easy enough) and we'd also have 
to scale down the image quality (it was in full  DVD quality; a bit much 
for YouTube unless you want to spend all day downloading it)

Actually, as a taster, I'll upload the promo trailer we did for it over 
the weekend if I can. If is less than a meg when scaled down, and is 
hilarious - Steve made it to resemble a 1940's pathe news cinema reel, 
including filming in Black and white and adding lines and blurring to 
the footage to make it look old - and as for the voice over - excellent. 
Its about a minute or two long and would be well suited for YouTube.

Cheers,

Darren.

P.S. I'll still here - I really miss the QL Shows and meeting up with 
the guys at them, but work and family matters make it very hard to do 
anything anymore. Maybe its time to have another Irish QL Show Pi**-Up 
again??  Any takers??  In the lovely West of Ireland this time, of 
Course..





Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Not much QL, if any QL stuff on YouTube? Think so...

 Today I opened my personal YouTube account. I also opened a Group
 called Sinclair QL.

 First uploads are:
 - Sinclair QL TV advertisement 1984
 - QDT demo by Jim Hunkins at 2002 US QL-show

 More to come...

 I also slightly updated my website http://mypage.bluewin.
 ch/QLvsJaguar/.

 QL forever! What do you think?

 Urs
 
 I wonder if Darren Branagh and Steve Reyal could be persuaded to 
 upload bits of their QL DVD?

   


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Re: [ql-users] What is .....

[Darren Branagh]

Yes and No.

I dont think the Goldfire ever saw the light of day. It was designed by 
Nasta (a croatian Hardware genius) and I saw the circuit layouts at a US 
QL Show some years ago, but dont think a working model ever appeared - I 
stand to be corrected though.

Darren.



Neil Riley wrote:
 ...Goldfire?
  
 Just noticed it in 'TF Services' MPLANE description. Mentioned in the
 same breath as Gold/ Super gold card.
 Was there a secret third member of the Gold Card family??
  
 Neil

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Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.

[Darren Branagh]

Hi all.

Phoebus Dokos used to sell a Compact Flash reader that worked perfectly 
with QubIDE. I (q-celt) was the european agent for them - they were 
designed to fit into the floppy drive bay on a PC case, or a 5.25 bay 
with an adaptor. Sold quite a few as I recall.

I think we sold them for less than a tenner from memory.

Phoebus could tell more. Phoebus??

Oh, and yes I am still alive, but extremely busy in the West of Ireland. 
I'll have to start attending shows again and organise an Irish QL Show 
III for Galway maybe??

Darren.



Marcel Kilgus wrote:
 Neil Riley wrote:
   
 So did I.  Qubide runs a standard Compact Flash adapter.
 After all CF is IDE and requires no special hardware.
 
 Is that so. So how does one attach a nice fat SD card to Qubide?
 

 Not SD (Secure Digital), CF (CompactFlash) it is (same as with your
 Spectrum hardware). CF cards can usually speak two protocols, one of
 them being the IDE protocol. So they can be attached to pretty much
 any IDE controller by a simple adapter. Look on eBay for IDE
 CompactFlash and you'll find a dozen, prized between 5 and 20 EUR
 perhaps.

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Re: [ql-users] OT: 15 CRT's

[Darren Branagh]

Arrh We threw out about 70 of these only 2 weeks ago, going
for TFT's instead in the office here.

How much do you want to pay inc. shipping to Switzerland per unit? Maybe
contact me privately and I'll see what I can do?

I know I can get about 30-40  17 inch ones here immediately, or are these
too big?

Darren.
dbranaghATcmsperipheralsDOTcom

-Original Message-
From: Koenig Urs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 24 November 2005 14:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] OT: 15 CRT's
Importance: High

Hi all
 
I'm still reading (at least the subjects)...
 
I have an OT query:
- We are desperately seeking for 15 CRT's.
- New or reconditioned.
- 220/240Voltage.
- Will be operated with DOS-PC's in VGA-Textmode
- Shipment to Switzerland...
 
Any ideas?
 
Regards...Urs
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Re: [ql-users] New QL2K for QL is 21

[Darren Branagh]

Simple Answer : no time.

Wife now working nights, and we have a 2 year old that has now been
diagnosed with Attention deficit disorder - basically, hes wild as a tiger
for 20 hours a day, and can get by with little or no sleep. Hence why I was
unable to get to QL21 myself.

I can still get them at very low prices - the smallest we do now though is
256Mb, with even 128Mb now end of life. At the top end we are doing 4Gb
ones!

I may look at it again soon, I did some work of collating data for the
stick, and some basic work on a front end. Maybe over the xmas break, but it
would be nice to have them before xmas...

Cheers,

Darren.


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From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 31 October 2005 22:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] New QL2K for QL is 21

Darren Branagh did have plans to use a freeware emulator like QLay 2 
set up on a USB memory stick some months ago. Are you there Darren - 
what became of this?
-- 
Dilwyn Jones

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] New QL2K for QL is 21


 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A quick word just to say that I just released a new version of QL2K 
 on my
 website and specially for QL is 21 event.

 This new version of QL2K is v0.1 Build 096a and can be download 
 from
 http://www.jadiam.org/QL

 This is good news - I now have it up and running on my laptop.  It 
 would
 be useful to have a collection of programs that work with this 
 emulator.

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RE: [ql-users] QL Stick

[Darren Branagh]

Re: QL Stick..

It's a Windows problem and there's nothing you can do about it - as far as
I know - it seems to get confused when you move it between different PC's
and it just can't cope anymore. 

I'd argue that comment. I think its more to do with the quality and
manufacture of your stick. The disgo brand (I work from 'em, so am probably
biased!) are guaranteed to work on any USB enabled environment - I have used
mine on linux, Apple Mac, and win 95,98,Me,XP home and Pro, 2000, NT4, and
various server editions and SBS's all within minutes of each other with no
problems - at consumer shows - and our returns rate is 0.02%, and most of
these are user errors rather than hardware errors.

Mind you, isn't that the point of a 'stick' anyway ?

Of course it is. Pointless having a portable device if only one machine can
use it!! The idea is you can access files on any machine with a USB port.

The quality of the USB sticks out there are very varied. Cost cutting in
this market is huge, so quality suffers as the illusion is they all do the
same job, so there is no difference. Talking to our resellers, the acer and
fujitsu ones are cronically bad for failing totally, not saving data
properly, or not working on certain systems. 

Those manufactured by M-Systems (ie. Using their chipsets) are brilliant.
Disgo is one of these, and also bUSBi in the UK. There are a few issues
around the Disgo caps coming off, (now solved on the new models) but I've
only ever seen one that doesn't work.

On another note we've just launched the X-Key - a disgo with 256-bit data
encryption, and a safe environment application. You can use one of these in
an internet café, drag and drop stuff onto the café machines desktop, using
the PC as you would at home, and when you pull out the xkey, it
automatically deletes all traces that you were ever there. Amazing product,
but not cheap - about 5 times the price of an ordinary disgo.

We also do USB keys with fingerprint recognition on them.

END PLUG  :-)


Cheers,

Darren.


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RE: [ql-users] Newbie with some questions...

[Darren Branagh]

I'd be glad if someone could help me for a good start...
I'm curious and want to spend some fun time with this machine - don't  
want to spend much money on hardware and stuff.


Hopefully you would have to - is there some generous sort out there with a
disk interface and the like they'd want to give to a good home??

Whoops... I meant NOT have to. :-))

You can use the QL as is, but a lot of decent software needs more memory or
additional files (TK2 or SMSQ/E).

...They again, you can have a lot of fun with some microdrive stuff on an
original unexpanded QL too.

A good Idea is if anyone has any microrive software they no longer want, to
send it on maybe...??

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RE: [ql-users] Spelin'

[Darren Branagh]

Yes and No - I have it but its buried on the hard drive of my PC back in my
Parents house in Wicklow, some 200 miles from here!!

I must see can I dig it up somewhere.

Darren.

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From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 25 June 2005 17:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'

A few years ago, Darren sent me something about the EU forcing a 
standardisation of English spellings. After a few years of change, the 
initial English text looked (to a non-German speaker) exactly like 
written German but readable as English. Robert's example (to me 
anyway) looks more like written Dutch.

Do you still have that one Darren?

-- 
Dilwyn Jones

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'


 Dilwyn Jones wrote:

Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???

Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn 
it correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond - 
especially their leader.

 Like this suggestion (from across the pond?):

 A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
   by Mark Twain

 For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to 
 be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer 
 be part of the alphabet.  The only kase in which c would be 
 retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with 
 later.  Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one 
 would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y 
 replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse 
 and for all.

 Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with 
 Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or 
 so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. 
 Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi 
 ridandant letez c, y and x -- 
 bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais 
 ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

 Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a 
 lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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RE: [ql-users] Spelin'

[Darren Branagh]

That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago.

Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the
newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post
office robbery the newsreader read the autocue:-

and the postmistress was held at gunpoint by two men, each carrying sawn
off shitguns

Darren.



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On  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 20:21:57, gwicks wrote:
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I once made two lovely mistakes in a document I wrote about a salary
agreement for my trade union. It was in the pre-WP days but a spell checker
would not have helped.

Problems of staffing not caused by bad management appeared as Problems
of
staffing not caused by bed management

and

Improved starting points for probation officers appeared as Improved
starting pints for probation officers.

My favourite was a disgruntled secretary who was used as a typist in
Ford KD operations in the late 60s.

We produced charts with Shipping Date

These were typed by her as Shitting Date and not spotted.
We were -sure- she did it intentionally - t is an awful long way from p.

Tony
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RE: [ql-users] Spelin'

[Darren Branagh]

Roy!

Do you mean our beloved Bertie?

I'm shocked :-)

Darren.

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Sent: 21 June 2005 23:26
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones 
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SNIP
Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it 
correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond - 
especially their leader.
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RE: [ql-users] Spelin'

[Darren Branagh]

Or you fumble fingered while typing demise, and it added it to the
dictionary by mistake - c instead of d - they are quite near on the
keyboard?

Darren.



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Sent: 22 June 2005 12:28
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On  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 09:01:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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 but there is one word I don't recognise:

CEMISE

Anyone know if it's a valid word? Means nothing to me! Will probably be
on my mind all day now until I get home to look in a dictionary.
Only almost an acronym I think:
common management information service element
Maybe it was meant to be Chemise (woman's loose fitting shirt)

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RE: [ql-users] Spelin'

[Darren Branagh]

I did the same.

I am sure there are different M$ Word spellcheck setups, as mine found
rong and shure to be incorrect spellings.

I asked it to look up chequer using the online dictionary feature in
outlook, and it actually found cheque, saying it was a alternative to check
in UK finance terminology.

So, just as we always thought - pea seas are crap :-))


Darren.



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From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 21 June 2005 09:41
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'

Just out of curiousity I tried it in Word (no QTYPon this machine at work).
No objection apart from the word 'chequer'. The text contains mostly words
which are correct in a spell checking sense but which some of Geoff's
programs might violently object to, a bit like correcting a Welshman's
English perhaps!

He he.

Dilwyn Jones
 
 From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2005/06/20 Mon PM 07:39:04 GMT
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [ql-users] Spelin'
 
 I think Geoff might like this.
 
 
 Eye halve a spelling chequer
 It came with my pea sea
 It plainly marques four my revue
 Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
 Eye strike a quay and type a word
 And weight four it two say
 Weather eye am rong oar rite
 It shows me strait aweigh.
 As soon as a mist ache is maid
 It nose bee four two long
 And eye can put the error rite
 Its rare lea ever rong.
 Eye halve run this poem threw it
 I am shure your pleased two no
 Its letter perfect awl the weigh
 My chequer tolled me sew!
 
 John Taylor


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RE: [ql-users] QL on Stick

[Darren Branagh]

Yep. Tooling costs the earth. And, with a lot of companies we work for, the
tooling plans are either sold to them, or destroyed, so that further ones
cant be made, should the company have wished a limited edition of whatever
device they commissioned.

I'm asked one of the guys in the know to look at the back catalogue to see
if we have a regtangular case there, but I doubt it. Even if we did, you'd
probably find the rights to it don't belong to us anymore, but to the
company that asked for it.

Ho Hum

Darren.


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On  Fri, 20 May 2005 at 11:49:05, Darren Branagh wrote:
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That would be lovely, a real 3D shaped USB Stick with the microdrives being
the USB plug cover cap.

I can probably get those purpose made, but at a 100 print run, expect to
pay
about 2,000 quid each at least!!
Exactly.  The tooling cost of the real QL case was, I think, £30,000 in
the 80s.

(we did one in the shape and colour of a human finger last month - the
fingernail removed to show the USB connector - very classy!) I think the
print run for those was about 25,000 units, was for a US Telecoms company.
Mind you if there is tooling for a rectangular case, then that might be
cost effective.  Isn't the tooling the really expensive bit?

Tony

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RE: [ql-users] QL on Stick

[Darren Branagh]

Yes, you're missing something!! :-) We where talking of getting a mounded
case made in the shape of a QL. Could be done, but for 100 or so units,
would cost the earth.

The sticky label idea wouldn't work - they'd wear off in about 5 mins of
throwing them about, and the stick is not square, its tapered and slightly
rounded at the ends - a label would crease and look awful.

We can print directly onto the stick, the same way promotional pens and
keyrings are done, and it looks great. But it's a minimum order of 100.

Cheers,

Darren.

Am I missing something here, or could Darren just get some transparent 
sticky labels (e.g. from Avery) and laser print a QL picture or 
something onto them and wrap it around the body of the QL Stick?

Dilwyn Jones

That would be lovely, a real 3D shaped USB Stick with the 
microdrives being
the USB plug cover cap.

I can probably get those purpose made, but at a 100 print run, 
expect to pay
about 2,000 quid each at least!!




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RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

[Darren Branagh]

Sounds good to me. I completely forgot about Abandonware in PC terms. I
think we should make all these unknown status programs available in a site
for download, labelled abandonware, and on the head of the downloader be it.
God, we're talking about 10-15 year old QL programs here. Hardly a market
for em, and nobody is going to get rich.

There is a lot of decent software in this category, and it's a shame to see
it sit idle when people could be getting some use from it.

Cheers,

Darren.


-Original Message-
From: Duncan Neithercut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 22 May 2005 20:57
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Subject: RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

It bugs me also.
See rest of world : Computer Active computer magazine 12th to 25th
May
feature on how to find and play vintage PC games.
They mention ww.abandonia.com a site for freeware, shareware and so
called
abandonware == programs no longer sold or supported by its developer.
They note that abandonware is technically illegal but that the
copyright holders
are not harmed financially by this distribution of discontinued
software.
It happens in PC land where the market  money amd lawyers are so much
bigger
and agressive.  Why then are the theoretical rights of absentee
copright holders in
the QL world where the market is zip according to all our traders such
a mega issue?
No one can be harmed when sources/modifications are released where
there is no market.
How about this  - even in a PC 100% of zero is always zero.

When will the upgrade of Perfection be release in DWJ web site.

Duncan Neithercut

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Sent: 17 May 2005 22:17
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Subject: Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software



- Original Message -
From: Darren Branagh
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software



 This is one of the many things that bugs the hell out of me.

 I wish there was a statute of limitations or similar on software,
 whereby
 after x years the stuff became free. I'm sure freddy would agree to
 releasing it as freeware, or certainly for a giveaway price. I mean,
what
 real use is a piece of 10 year old QL Software other than
retro/curiosity
 value? You're hardly gonna run the world with it...

 There is so much good usable software out there and nobody knows its
user
 status - is it freeware, charityware, commercial, or what? And if we
had
 some certainty on a lot of this, a lot of users may be attracted
back or
 stay with the QL to use them, purely as tinkerers.

 I can pick up a copy of PC World, Computer Shopper, PC Pro or any
other PC
 Magazine and find a pile of software (often once costing hundreds of
 pounds)
 stuck to the front cover for the 4.99 cover price, and much of this
is
 less
 than 2-3 years of age. You usually find v.3 or whatever on the cover
disc
 with an offer to get the new v.4 inside at a reduced cost - yet here
we
 are
 debating the status of software that hasn't been sold at all, never
mind
 updated, for over a decade.

 Why are people so reluctant to give this stuff away? There is no
money in
 it
 anymore. Just ask any trader :-)

 END RANT/


Don't forget Freddy V. may have sold the software, but that does not
mean he
is the copyright holder. I have said this many times before on this
list.
There are doubts about the copyright position of several of the
ancilliary
programs that formed part of the total Perfection package. When I
enquired
many years ago, no one was sure of the exact copyright status of
Spellchecker, for example. If my memory serves me correctly when Turbo
became PD permission had to be sought not just from Freddy V., but
also the
various authors,

Best Wishes,
Geoff


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RE: [ql-users] Software behaving badly

[Darren Branagh]

`
John,

I've been in contact with John Mason already. Suject to a suitable business
plan, and committee approval, I think QUANTA will probably contribute to the
idea. John Mason seemed in favour of the idea.

Darren.


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Sent: 19 May 2005 19:23
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software behaving badly

Is anyone else from QUANTA following this thread? Could we offer to buy a
block of them for our members who are not in receipt of QLToday (where it
will no doubt be advertised) and who are not regular workshop attendees?

Your thoughts gentlemen?

John Gilpin.
Quanta Treasurer


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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: [ql-users] Software behaving badly


 On Thu, 19 May 2005, Darren Branagh wrote:

 
  Well, that's a probable 4 - only 96 to go :-))
 

 Hi Darren,

 Although I will buy 2, if you think the 15 pounds (~$30) price is accurate
then
 I will pledge to buy 10 if you needed me to. If you can get several other
 pledges then your risk will be reduced enough so you might give it a try.
It
 will be a lot of work to bundle the software with a good interface but I
bet
 there is enough of a market to consume 100 units over time. There could be
a
 linux version too. Great Christmas presents to those wayward QLers we all
know.
 Of course once a buyer has one he could easily make copies for the price
of the
 stick but a logo on yours would make them special.

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RE: [ql-users] Undelete

[Darren Branagh]

Well, if you already have all the titles as you say, and have already
invested hundreds in DP products over the years, I personally cant see the
problem in someone supplying you with the missing disks. I would, but
unfortunately mine are buried in a cardboard box 200 miles away in my
parents house...

Darren.

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From: Stuart Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 20 May 2005 00:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Undelete

Dear Ffibys,
 
I must confess that I did not buy the Collection as such until now.
 
The situation is as follows.
 
Around 10 years ago, and for some years previous, I purchased many
individual titles of DP's programs.  I guess I had around 30-40% of the
complete set, at a cost of several hundred pounds.  By then, the PC was
slowly taking over, and the idea of buying the rest as a job lot in the form
of the Collection, on a limited budget, didn't appeal.
 
Subsequent to that, I purchased QPC2, and like you, using the virtual win_
disks, copied all my floppies and microdrives to a win_ file.
Unfortunately, in a moment of madness, I accidentally used WDEL_ and deleted
the wrong tree.  By the time I realized, it was too late...  Some of the
floppies, where there entire contents were copied, were thrown away, others
had deleted files (I still have these).
 
Since then, I have purchased, second hand, a copy of the DP collection
itself.  Unfortunately, only 6 of the 10 disks were present, though the
remainder of DP's programs are on around 30 floppy disks as individual
titles.  What I would like is a copy of the missing disks, numbers QL5, QL6,
QL7, and QL10.
 
In practice, I have all the titles, but not in the form I'd like (i.e. nice
and neat).
 
If you or anyone else could help me out, I'd be grateful.
 
I do understand the copyright issue, but in view of the foregoing, and the
10 year gap, and the practical realities of the programs being effectively
obsolete, I hope the request could be considered reasonably, rather than
creating a furore over rights and wrongs!
 
Regards,
 
Stuart
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