[Ql-Users] Data exchange with MODBUS protocol via QPC2/Q-emuLator?

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi All,

I have to exchange data (mainly read) from a PLC (with fixed IP address)
which uses the modbus protocol. Would it be possible to exchange data via
TCP/IP with this protocol using a QL emulator like QPC2 or Q-emuLator? 

Thank you

Kind regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: Brand-new QL-VGA first usage, updated QL-SD (v1.09)

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi Urs,

Really nice and inspiring video, I am a little bit envious of your QL
dedicated room/workbench with all the collection of QLs and related items
;-)

But among many interesting things I saw QL-VGA card... Marcel, are you
hiding something? :-)) Any chance for a "mass-production"? :-)))

Ciao

Davide

-Messaggio originale-
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Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users
Inviato: venerdì 17 luglio 2020 08:34
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: Urs Koenig (QL)
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Brand-new QL-VGA first usage, updated QL-SD (v1.09)
Priorità: Alta

Hi QLers,

I did almost not do anything QL related recently, but yesterday - after a
chat with Marcel Kilgus - I took the afternoon off and went to my Lake
Valley (Retro) Labs to do some QL tinkering. Here's the result:
https://youtu.be/4WD-bsS_zDo

Links to Marcel's QL blog entries regarding QL-VGA and QL-SD:
https://www.kilgus.net/2020/01/08/ql-vga-the-second/
https://www.kilgus.net/2020/05/17/ql-sd-driver-v1-09/

All the best and take care!

Cheers, Urs
http://sinclairql.net/about_urs.html


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[Ql-Users] 16th Italian Sinclair QL meeting (virtual) - Report

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

16° Meeting Sinclair QL Italiano – 5th of April 2020

The 16° Sinclair QL should have been held in Modena as it has been the case
since 2008. Unfortunately, due to the restriction enforced following the
Covid-spread 19 we had to meet on the virtual teleconferencing platform
Jitsi. Twenty people have attended the teleconference including Marcel
Kilgus, Dilwyn Jones and Urs Keonig as welcome international guests. 

Marcel, as also happened in the last two QL Italian meetings, had many
interesting news to report. Guest star was the new RGB-VGA interface for
Sinclair QL. This is yet another very useful piece of hardware to keep the
original QL alive at the time were only SVGA interfaces are available in
modern monitors. The prototype is almost finished and the image quality is
outstanding, everything is managed by a FPGA which scans the RGB signal and
transform it into a VGA signal. All the details can be found on

https://www.kilgus.net/2020/01/08/ql-vga-the-second/ An Italian QL user
living in Toronto since many years, Michele Perini, is designing a QL style
case to be realized with 3D print technology.  

The second news was that the excellent QL-SD interface card will not be any
more realized due to the effort at Marcel’s side needed to solder and
integrate the boards. That’s a pity, but do not despair as a new replacement
named QL-SD ROM is already in the pipeline. This board will connect to the
QL ROM port. The nice plus is that the new QL-SD ROM will have an onboard
flash ram capable to keep up to 8 QL ROMs which can be loaded and selected
with simple SuperBasic commands.
https://www.kilgus.net/2020/03/28/ql-sd-rom-the-early-days/

As side activity Marcel is also working in the port of SMSQ/E for the MiSTer
platform. MiSTer is a hardware platform capable to emulate most of the
“retro-computers”. You can find the Sinclair QL port on

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/QL_MiSTer while a MiSTer description is
given at this link  
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

One of the possible future ideas which were mentioned by Marcel is the QL
port on the Spectrum Next  
https://www.specnext.com/ which has been shown “live” by Massimo Boccardi,
one of the few guys who managed to buy one. One of the nice things about the
Spectrum Next is that the case has been designed by the same designer of the
Sinclair QL case. 

Another nice video contribution was an original Sinclair QL connected to an
internet connection with this serial-ethernet interface

https://www.simulant.uk/shop/retro-vintage-computer-wifi-modem-rs232-serial-
hayes-compatible as well as V-Drive with a case made with SLS 3D printing
technology. The case was almost identical to the original Sinclair QL one.

Dilwyn Jones has shown his QL-IRC program. QL-IRC is written in structured
Super Basic (by Tim Swenson) and allows to any QL platform allowing to have
a TCP/IP connection like QPC2 to an IRC server (like e.g. the one hosted by
QLForum https://qlforum.co.uk/) 

During Dilwyn’s presentation I noticed QL IRC was running on QPC 4.99 so I
could not resist to ask whether this was an error or a special version
developed on purpose for QL IRC. Actually, Marcel forgot that he almost
completed the work on QPC 5 which is a version almost completely re-written
in C a part for the core. There are many advantages vs QPC 4 like full
Direct-X 11 support, an improved floppy driver and capability to save header
information on DOS files. Only minor drawback is that it will not run
anymore on Windows 95.

Last presentation was made by Giorgio Garabello who has shown the latest
developments of his Black Phoenix platform
http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/black-phoenix-en/ Most of the efforts have
been spent on a new sophisticated file manager called Quantum Explorer which
will be available in the next release. Roberto Porro in parallel has shown
the ongoing development work in the routines to allow image processing also
to be implemented in a new utility which will be part of Black Phoenix.

I hope I did not forget any of the very interesting information exchanged
during this virtual meeting, two hours and a half has flown and our wish has
been to organize a similar virtual event not far in the future. This was
however not new for us as since 2014 during our physical QL Italian meeting
we always organized videoconferencing sessions which allowed many people
from outside Italy to attend and present their projects. Obviously our hope
is that at least in 2021 there will be again a physical meeting where we
will manage to bring again our QL hardware and have together a lunch with
tigelle and Lambrusco.

It is remarkable that after 35 years from his launch and after 31 years
after the first Italian QL 

[Ql-Users] R: 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting goes virtual

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

I will prepare a concise report soon

Kind regards

Davide

>> Anybody who would like to join us can just type on any browser (Chrome
>> preferred):
>>
>>    https://meet.jit.si/sinclairql
>>
>> or use the Jitsi app on Google Play for Android or App store for 
>> Apple, then connect to the meeting room sinclairql. We will start 
>> around 11:00 local time (Central European Summer Time - UTC +2h). 
>> Shall there be anybody who would like to present something from 
>> outside Italy is very welcome to join us and we will translate into Italian 
>> for everybody.
>>
> Some feedback would be nice.
>
> François Van Emelen


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[Ql-Users] 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting goes virtual

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Dear All,

 

Due to Covid emergency the 15th QL Italian will not take place, but we will
virtually meet at 11:00 for some QL chats. 

Anybody who would like to join us can just type on any browser (Chrome
preferred):

  https://meet.jit.si/sinclairql

or use the Jitsi app on Google Play for Android or App store for Apple, then
connect to the meeting room sinclairql. We will start around 11:00 local
time (Central European Summer Time - UTC +2h). Shall there be anybody who
would like to present something from outside Italy is very welcome to join
us and we will translate into Italian for everybody.

ciao

Davide

 

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[Ql-Users] 16th Sinclair QL Italian meeting - minus 2 months

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Dear All,

This is to remind the 16th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on
Sunday 5th of April in Modena. We will start around 10:00 and the meeting
will continue till 17:00 with a break for lunch at the nearby shopping
centre.

Information to reach the meeting place by car or public transport can be
found here: 
http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201=1

As in the last events it is foreseen to setup a WebEx conference (quite
likely also with dedicated English session with time slot TBD) so that
anybody interested can "virtually" take part at the meeting. Details on how
to connect will be provided separately. 

We would be of course very glad to host anybody who would like to present
ongoing or future projects.

Kind regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: QL-VGA

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi Marcel,

I know the pain to explain what in principle should be very well known, but
could you explain a little bit more in practical details how you
configure/use the RSS reader (sw etc)? Because I admit I am not very used to
QL Forum and find a little bit awkward to navigate through it finding new
posts without loosing too much time. So I would be very curious to know a
little bit more about your RSS solution as that looks what could be the
right idea for me

Thanks a lot

Davide

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Marcel
Kilgus via Ql-Users
Inviato: venerdì 17 gennaio 2020 11.34
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: Marcel Kilgus
Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

Wolf via Ql-Users wrote:
> I'd like that too, since I'm on no social media nor the forum.

I try to inform all 4 major venues (this list, the English forum, the
German forum and Facebook), which is a bit of a pain but they all have
distinct groups of users.

But while I do get the rejection of Facebook I encourage joining at
least the English forum, it is a very lively place (between 5 to 30
posts a day I would guess. If that is too much, the forum is split
into hardware/software/etc. so easy to filter for one's taste) and
unlike Facebook it is exclusively operated by QL enthusiasts.

I uses an RSS reader to read the forum, so I get to see new posts when
they arrive, just like in an eMail list, and can then decide to chime
in or not. This way reading it is very comfortable without having to
manually poll the site for changes, which in the past was my biggest
grievance with web forums.

Marcel

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[Ql-Users] R: 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Dear John (and everybody else interested)

 

We still have around 20 available virtual seat for the two online sessions 
where you can also interact via WebEX. I remind I just need your personal email 
address to which I  will send the personal invitation. WebEX application are 
also available through any android or ipad/iphone device.

 

Kind regards

 

Davide

 

 

 

Da: John Alexander [mailto:acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk] 
Inviato: venerdì 21 settembre 2018 00:02
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: d.santachi...@libero.it
Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting

 

Hi there will you be doing the live stream again ?...That worked really well!!

 

On Thursday, 6 September 2018, 14:45:18 GMT+1, Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users 
mailto:ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> > wrote: 

 

 

Dear All,

 

The 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on Sunday 14th October

at DTM Technologies premises in Modena. We will start around 10:00 and the

meeting will continue till 17:00 with a break of one hour for lunch in the

nearby shopping centre. 

 

Information to reach the meeting place by car or public transport can be

found clicking here: http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201 
<http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201=1> =1

 

We will organize educational sessions and we plan to have presentation of

ongoing projects both in Italy as well as abroad. The tentative agenda will

be provided before the meeting.

 

We would be glad if anybody from the international community would like to

present ongoing or future projects. Please don't be shy!

 

It will be possible to take part to the meeting via WebEX. Details on how to

connect to the web-conference will be provided separately to the interested

persons. 

 

For information and support: Davide Santachiara er...@libero.it 
<mailto:er...@libero.it>  Mobile +39

328 9454484

 

Web info and updates: 

 

Davide Santachiara web site: www.sinclairql.it <http://www.sinclairql.it> 

Giorgio Garabello web site (Quantum Technology):

http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/

 

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[Ql-Users] 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Dear All,

The 15th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on Sunday 14th October
at DTM Technologies premises in Modena. We will start around 10:00 and the
meeting will continue till 17:00 with a break of one hour for lunch in the
nearby shopping centre. 

Information to reach the meeting place by car or public transport can be
found clicking here: http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201=1

We will organize educational sessions and we plan to have presentation of
ongoing projects both in Italy as well as abroad. The tentative agenda will
be provided before the meeting.

We would be glad if anybody from the international community would like to
present ongoing or future projects. Please don't be shy!

It will be possible to take part to the meeting via WebEX. Details on how to
connect to the web-conference will be provided separately to the interested
persons. 

For information and support: Davide Santachiara er...@libero.it Mobile +39
328 9454484

Web info and updates: 

Davide Santachiara web site: www.sinclairql.it
Giorgio Garabello web site (Quantum Technology):
http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/

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[Ql-Users] R: QD 2018

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

That's fantastic, thank you Jochen and Marcel

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Marcel
Kilgus via Ql-Users
Inviato: mercoledì 15 agosto 2018 18:02
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: Marcel Kilgus
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

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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[Ql-Users] R: QXL 3.33, DOS and W98

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Dear Thierry,

thank you so much for all the detailed explanations, you fully answered to
all my doubts and questions

kind regards

Davide


-Messaggio originale-
Da: Thierry Godefroy [mailto:ql.us...@free.fr] 
Inviato: lunedì 21 maggio 2018 15:36
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: d.santachi...@libero.it
Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] QXL 3.33, DOS and W98

On Mon, 21 May 2018 00:41:47 +0200, Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users wrote:

> While it seems with my old SMSQ 2.90 I managed to run SMSQ under the
Windows
> 98 DOS (i.e. starting DOS inside W98, which allowed with ALT TAB to move
to
> Windows back and forth),

Bad idea... I never ran my QXL from within Windoze, only DOS: memory
management
under DOS (and Windows) are bad enough as they are already. What you might
be
experiencing is a lack of sufficient "low mem" (that 640Kb first block of
addresses that the totally retard x86 16 bits CPUs can only address via one
64Kb segment at any given time and that all DOS executables must fit).

> with the last SMSQE.EXE version 3.33 I had to force to run in as pure DOS
> program following a W98 reboot to have a proper QL boot.

Since newer SMSQ/E executables are much larger, and since W98 is already
using the low memory in part, it is not a big surprise that it cannot work
under W98.

You *might* be successful if using DOS memory optimizers (such as QEMM)
before launching W98, depending on the amount of DOS drivers you load
on boot.

> Linked to #1 after instructing W98 to restart in DOS mode there is a
> drawback: I did not find a way to kill SMSQE.EXE (like e.g. QPC_EXIT in
QPC2
> in Windows mode of course).

You don't "kill" SMSQ/E in the QXL, you kill (or rather exit) the DOS
process
that communicates with it, and this is done by hitting CTRL ScrollLock
under SMSQ/E. You can return back to SMSQ/E by relaunching the SMSQE.EXE
executable (i.e. SMSQ/E keeps running on the QXL even while you are doing
other stuff under DOS).

Thierry.

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[Ql-Users] QXL 3.33, DOS and W98

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi all QXL users :-)

After probably 18 years I decided to try my QXL with the latest SMSQ/E version. 
I admit I was astonished when I saw my almost 20 years old multi-boot system 
starting smoothly 1024x768 high res with SMSQ/E 3.33 for QXL. I think this is 
quite impressive and I have to congratulate for maintaining a very high level 
of compatibility along such a long period where in any case quite a number of 
modifications have been introduced (as well as new hardware and software 
platforms).

I have a couple of questions though: 

# 1
While it seems with my old SMSQ 2.90 I managed to run SMSQ under the Windows 98 
DOS (i.e. starting DOS inside W98, which allowed with ALT TAB to move to 
Windows back and forth), with the last SMSQE.EXE version 3.33 I had to force to 
run in as pure DOS program following a W98 reboot to have a proper QL boot.

# 2
Linked to #1 after instructing W98 to restart in DOS mode there is a drawback: 
I did not find a way to kill SMSQE.EXE (like e.g. QPC_EXIT in QPC2 in Windows 
mode of course). Hence the only way to restat the system is via a hw reset. But 
W98 calls again the DOS mode launching SMSQE.EXE. The only way to restart the 
system in W98 was to modify autoexec.bat and REM the lines calling SMSQE.EXE. 
Has anybody a better solution?

Thanks and regards

Davide



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[Ql-Users] R: R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or v1.89?

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Thank you Marcel

Then good-luck with your challanges and fight to make the QL-SD reliable
with GC/SGC...

Cheers

Davide

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Marcel
Kilgus via Ql-Users
Inviato: sabato 3 marzo 2018 23:47
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: Marcel Kilgus
Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or
v1.89?

Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users wrote:
> As we are riding the wave do you see any chance to fix the palette bug 
> in Qmenu which was found by Giorgio Garabello a few weeks ago (cut and 
> paste below for your convenience)?

QMenu 8.05 is out

https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qmenu/

Marcel

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[Ql-Users] R: R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or v1.89?

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi Marcel,

I have a very rough idea of the difficulty... wrt especially to the
available time. The message was just to keep it in the mind in case you
should look at the QMenu sources maybe for other reasons

Thanks and regards

Davide


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Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Marcel
Kilgus via Ql-Users
Inviato: mercoledì 28 febbraio 2018 14.58
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: Marcel Kilgus
Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or
v1.89?

Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users wrote:
> As we are riding the wave do you see any chance to fix the palette bug 
> in Qmenu which was found by Giorgio Garabello a few weeks ago (cut and 
> paste below for your convenience)?

I don't think you all realize how much work these "tiny fixes" usually
are... but okay, I'll have a look eventually.

Marcel

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[Ql-Users] R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or v1.89?

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Thank you Marcel also for this welcome fix of a really nusty bug!

As we are riding the wave do you see any chance to fix the palette bug in
Qmenu which was found by Giorgio Garabello a few weeks ago (cut and paste
below for your convenience)?

Kind regards

Davide

> Hi all, I found an error in the char_select menu of the extension 8.04
menu 
> The INK color of the character table remains black regardless of the
palette used.
> Can you check if it happens to you too?


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[Ql-Users] R: 14° Sinclair QL Italian meeting

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

Hi All,

Last reminder in case anybody would be interested (via web-ex) to make any
software, hardware or whatever presentation on QL related subjects during
the 14th Sinclair QL Italian meeting on Sunday 5th of November. Just contact
me privately to arrange time etc.

Thanks and regards

Davide



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Santachiara via Ql-Users
Inviato: venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 00.51
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: d.santachi...@libero.it
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] 14° Sinclair QL Italian meeting

 
Hi All,

The 14th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on Sunday 5th November
2017 at DTM Technologies premises in Modena. We will start around 10:00 and
the meeting will continue till 17:00 with a break of one hour for lunch.
Information about how to reach the meeting place by car or public transport
can be found clicking
here: http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201=1

As for the last Italian meetings we will organize educational sessions, we
will have presentation of ongoing projects in Italy and we will organize
web-ex conferences open also to international users. Details on how to
connect to the web-ex conference will be provided separately to the
interested persons. An open web-ex session is planned between 11:00 and
12:00 (Central European Time GMT+1 hour) but another session can also be
planned in the afternoon if there will be interest.

For information and support: Davide Santachiara er...@libero.it Mobile +39
328 9454484

Web info and updates:  Davide Santachiara web site: www.sinclairql.it
Giorgio Garabello web site (Quantum Technology):
http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/14th-italian-meeting-sinclair-ql/

Anybody who would like to give presentations of ongoing or new projects is
very welcome, just contact me privately.

Thank you

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] 14° Sinclair QL Italian meeting

[Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users]

 
Hi All,

The 14th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on Sunday 5th November
2017 at DTM Technologies premises in Modena. We will start around 10:00 and
the meeting will continue till 17:00 with a break of one hour for lunch.
Information about how to reach the meeting place by car or public transport
can be found clicking
here: http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201=1

As for the last Italian meetings we will organize educational sessions, we
will have presentation of ongoing projects in Italy and we will organize
web-ex conferences open also to international users. Details on how to
connect to the web-ex conference will be provided separately to the
interested persons. An open web-ex session is planned between 11:00 and
12:00 (Central European Time GMT+1 hour) but another session can also be
planned in the afternoon if there will be interest.

For information and support: Davide Santachiara er...@libero.it Mobile +39
328 9454484

Web info and updates:  Davide Santachiara web site: www.sinclairql.it
Giorgio Garabello web site (Quantum Technology):
http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/14th-italian-meeting-sinclair-ql/

Anybody who would like to give presentations of ongoing or new projects is
very welcome, just contact me privately.

Thank you

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: Carlo Delhez

[Davide Santachiara]

I would like to express Marco Ternelli and my deepest condolences. Marco and
I met Carlo in Munster, probably more than 25 years ago. I think this has
been the first international meeting we attended and at that time we
presented our first ZX Spectrum emulator (ZM/2-ZM/3). At the same meeting
Carlo presented his excellent Spectrum emulator. I still remember the 15
hours trip back to Italy by car when Marco and I spent thinking how to
improve our emulators. Quite likely without Carlo emulator ZM/128, ZM/hT and
ZeXcel would have never seen the light.

This unfortunately also reminds us how time has passed quickly and how
fragile we are

Ciao Carlo

Davide and Marco


-Messaggio originale-
Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Bob
Spelten
Inviato: giovedì 29 ottobre 2015 12:04
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Carlo Delhez


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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[Ql-Users] http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi All,

Sorry if I rise a rather silly question. But isn't it possible to change or
remove the wrong web reference http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm found
in the footer of each email on this mailing list?

Thank you

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Rich,

I would like to congratulate for this great job

Regards

Davide

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Rich
Mellor (RWAP)
Inviato: domenica 10 agosto 2014 20:47
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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)

Thanks to some sterling work by tcat to further develop the automatic
conversion tool, the first version of the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual
is now online
at:

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html

JOBS to do - volunteers are required, as I will not have time for this -
it is now going to be a community project

If you don't come forward with changes, then they are unlikely to be done!

a) Write a home page to form the main link to the manual
b) Improve CSS and layout
c) Some more work on the conversion tool to handle the non-English
characters - especially needed for Appendix 8 and 9.
d) tcat to add the latest version conversion tool source to the forum for
comments / changes to be suggested and made - you might spot more ways in
which it can be improved to reduce the amount of manual effort needed.
e) Volunteers to take ownership of a specific page and hand edit it to
improve the layout - remove some of the line breaks for example in each
paragraph.

If you download a page to edit the HTML in a WYSIWYG editor, you will need
access to the CSS file:

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/css/QLManualSty
le.css

If someone wants to set up some sort of online system where people can edit
pages (eg. a wiki ?) then let me know and I can send a zip with all of the
HTML files.

Rich Mellor
RWAP Software
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[Ql-Users] R: Backup

[Davide Santachiara]

Thanks Wolfang for having considered and implemented my request

Regards

Davide
 

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Inviato: domenica 1 giugno 2014 17:32
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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Backup

Hi all,

I have now updated my backup program, i can now also backup individual dirs.

http://www.wlenerz.com/QLStuff/

Have fun!

Wolfgang

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[Ql-Users] R: R: Backup

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi Wolfang,

I think that possibility would be pretty nice, probably this can be done in
any case with virtual devices like pth (didn't try yet) but having this
possibility as native option could make things easier.  

Regards

Davide


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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] R: Backup

Hi Davide,

yes, that's entirely correct.

I the demand exists, I might add support for backing up individual dirs.

Wolfgang

 Dear Wolfgang,
 
 The utility allows to backup only from a device like win1_ to 
 another device, not for instance from a sub-directory (e.g. 
 win1_archive_) to another sub-directory. Am I wrong?
 
 Thanks
 
 Regards
 
 Davide
 
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 Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Backup
 
 Hi all,
 
 I've updated the backup prog on my site, it now also creates all 
 subdirs on the destination drive.
 
 http://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff/
 
 Have fun!
 
 Wolfgang
 
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[Ql-Users] R: Backup

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Wolfgang,

The utility allows to backup only from a device like win1_ to another
device, not for instance from a sub-directory (e.g. win1_archive_) to
another sub-directory. Am I wrong?

Thanks

Regards

Davide 

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Backup

Hi all,

I've updated the backup prog on my site, it now also creates all subdirs on
the destination drive.

http://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff/

Have fun!

Wolfgang

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[Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: LIVE

[Davide Santachiara]

 
Hi All,

14 people are attending in Modena the Italian 2014 QL Meeting.

Michele Perini is attending via Skype from Toronto, Dave Park from Texas.

Anybody who would like to join via skype the international videoconference
with presentation from Dave Park should join WITHOUT video (audio only) the
skype address dtm-technologies

Start time is slightly earlier than planned: 15:30 local time which is
twenty minutes from now

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: LIVE

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi Dilwyn,

It has been a pleasure you managed to attend the international session of
the QL 2014 Italian meeting. I did not expect Skype allowed to manage quite
successfully this type of videoconferencing. The skype session was attended
by Dave Park from Texas (presenting all Sandy Electronics products), Michele
Perini from Toronto Canada, Arvid Borretzen from Norway, Kenn Van Hauen
(Germany I guess), you and 14 people here in Modena.

Best regards

Davide

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Jones
Inviato: domenica 18 maggio 2014 18:35
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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: LIVE

Hear hear. At the last minute I found myself able to join in the Skype group
call and thoroughly enjoyed Dave's presentation. And special thanks to
Michele and Davide (and occasionally Eros) for the translations.

Dilwyn

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From: Kenn Van Hauen
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Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: LIVE

Thank you Davide for arranging a very interesting Skype session earlier...I
really enjoyed hearing Dave talks us through his exciting product roadmap.

Kind regards,

Kenn

On 18 May 2014, at 14:09, Davide Santachiara d.santachi...@libero.it
wrote:


 Hi All,

 14 people are attending in Modena the Italian 2014 QL Meeting.

 Michele Perini is attending via Skype from Toronto, Dave Park from Texas.

 Anybody who would like to join via skype the international 
 videoconference with presentation from Dave Park should join WITHOUT 
 video (audio only) the skype address dtm-technologies

 Start time is slightly earlier than planned: 15:30 local time which is 
 twenty minutes from now

 Best regards

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[Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: -1 day

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi All,

This is the last reminder for the QL Italian meeting which will be held on
Sunday 18th of May in Modena, Via Tacito 65. 

Start time will be 10:30 - lunch break between 13:00-14:30 (tentative) then
afternoon session from 14:30 till 17:30. 

There will be an international session via skype tele and videoconference in
the afternoon. So far a time slot is booked by Dave Park who will present
its current and future QL products at 16:00 Italian time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).

Should you like either to present something or just to connect to the
international skype session please let me know privately and I will provide
the skype address to join (of course till the bandwith and skype will
allow).

Should you have anything which you would like to be advertised or shown
during the meeting (leaflet, video, web site...) just pass the details by
private email and I will take care for paper copies or whatever is needed as
far as possible. I am thinking to everybody, i.e. Quanta, private users who
have something for sale or are looking for something, big QL corporations
etcetera :-)

Should you have any Italian users in your address book I would be glad if
you could forward this email as not all Italian QL users subscribe to the
Italian Sinclair QL mailing list.

For urgent matters my cell phone is +39 328 9454484

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: -1 day

[Davide Santachiara]

Post Scriptum:

The language of the meeting will be Italian, international session in the
afternoon (so far Dave Park 16:00 local time) will be in English with
translation to the partecipants as needed

Best regards

Davide 

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: -1 day

Hi All,

This is the last reminder for the QL Italian meeting which will be held on
Sunday 18th of May in Modena, Via Tacito 65. 

Start time will be 10:30 - lunch break between 13:00-14:30 (tentative) then
afternoon session from 14:30 till 17:30. 

There will be an international session via skype tele and videoconference in
the afternoon. So far a time slot is booked by Dave Park who will present
its current and future QL products at 16:00 Italian time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).

Should you like either to present something or just to connect to the
international skype session please let me know privately and I will provide
the skype address to join (of course till the bandwith and skype will
allow).

Should you have anything which you would like to be advertised or shown
during the meeting (leaflet, video, web site...) just pass the details by
private email and I will take care for paper copies or whatever is needed as
far as possible. I am thinking to everybody, i.e. Quanta, private users who
have something for sale or are looking for something, big QL corporations
etcetera :-)

Should you have any Italian users in your address book I would be glad if
you could forward this email as not all Italian QL users subscribe to the
Italian Sinclair QL mailing list.

For urgent matters my cell phone is +39 328 9454484

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] QL Meeting 2014 - Italy: -3 days

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi All,

This email is to remind on Sunday 18th of May will be held a new QL Italian
meeting in Modena, Via Tacito 65. Venue can be found here:

http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201lang=1

Start time will be 10:30 - lunch break between 13:00-14:30 (tentative) then
afternoon session from 14:30 till 18:00. Partecipation so far looks better
then I would have expected but let's wait Sunday.

There will be an international session via skype tele and videoconference in
the afternoon. So far a time slot is booked by Dave Park who will present
its current and future QL products at 16:00 Italian time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).

Should you like either to present something or just to connect to the skype
session please let me know privately and I will provide the skype address to
join (of course till the bandwith and skype will allow).

Should you have anything which you would like to be advertised or shown
during the meeting (leaflet, video, web site...) just pass the details by
private email and I will take care for paper copies or whatever is needed as
far as possible. I am thinking to everybody, i.e. Quanta, private users who
have something for sale or are looking for something, big QL corporations
etcetera :-)

Should you have any Italian users in your address book I would be glad if
you could forward this email as not all Italian QL users subscribe to the
Italian Sinclair QL mailing list.

For urgent matters my cell phone is +39 328 9454484

Best regards

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[Ql-Users] QL Meeting Italy Sunday 18th of May 2014

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi All,

I confirm on 18th of May will be held a new QL meeting in Italy. We already
had good feedback from Italian users and we hope to match the partecipation
of 2008 where we were roughly a dozen people. 

We welcome QL experts either in hardware or software to partecipate at the
event with dedicated videoconferences. Dave Park kindly gave his
availability in presenting Sandy Eleectronics product range. Further
contributions would be highly welcomed. Please contact me offline if you are
interested.

Meeting place will be exactly the same in 2008 whose report can be still
downloaded from www.sinclairql.it (both Italian and English reports are
available) just to have a flavour of what happened and how it was organized.

Meeting will be held on 18th of May in Modena (northern Italy) which is very
conveniently located as it is exactly at the intersection of A22 (Brenner
motorway - 3 hours by car from the border with Austria) and A1 (Milano -
Roma motorway 1,5 hours by car). The location is DTM Technologies (the
company I work for) which is located less than 1 Km far from the Modena Nord
motorway exit. Closest train station is Modena or the new Mediopadana high
speed traing station in Reggio Emilia (20 Km far - 1h from/to Milano, 1h
from/to Florence, 2.5h from/to Rome). For directions and hints I would
suggest to go directly to this web link:

http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201

Of course should there be people from abroad interested to spend a week-end
in the area they are more than welcome and I would be happy to help with
accomodations or other support. Modena is a nice town with the famous
Ghirlandina tower while the Ferrari premises and the Fiorano circuit are
15Km far (with museums both in Maranello and Modena close to the Maserati
premises). Reggio Emilia is also worth a quick visit, in this period is held
an interesting photograph event with many exhibitions: 

http://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] QL Meeting Italy

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi All,

We are trying to organize a QL meeting in Italy on 18th of May (Sunday) very
similar to the last one held in 2008. You will find information and a report
on www.sinclairql.it - i.e. it will be something very informal with the main
goal to spend a day together and having a good lunch in a nearby trattoria.

However we would really appreciate if somebody from outside Italy would be
willing to join us by teleconference presenting his products or latest
software or hardware development. That could be easily (tbc) managed by
skype or other videoconference systems as we did in 2008 with Daniele from
the US.

The date is not yet fixed in stone as we are trying to reach a minimum
number of person to justify the effort but it appears likely so far. If
anybody is interested in joining us with a telecon for a presentation please
write me privately. 

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

Davide 


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[Ql-Users] R: QL Meeting Italy Sunday 18th of May 2014

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi Rich,

Indeed after having sent the email I also realized there could be Italian
users who only subscribed to this mailing list and not the Italian one. Your
offer of course is also more than welcome.

Meeting place will be exactly the same as the one of 2008 whose report can
be downloaded from www.sinclairql.it (both Italian and English reports are
available) just to have a flavour of what happened and how it was organized.

Meeting, if everything is confirmed, will be held on 18th of May in Modena
(northern Italy) which is very conveniently located as it is exactly at the
intersection of A22 (Brenner motorway - 3 hours by car from the border with
Austria) and A1 (Milano - Roma motorway 1,5 hours by car). The location is
the company I work for which is located less than 1 Km far from the Modena
Nord motorway exit. Closest train station is Modena or the new Mediopana
high speed traing station in Reggio Emilia (20 Km far - 1h from/to Milano,
1h from/to Florence, 2.5h from/to Rome). For directions and hints I would
suggest to go directly to this web link:

http://www.dtm.it/home.php?id=40201

Of course should there be people from abroad interested to spend a week-end
in the area they are more than welcome and I would be happy to help with
accomodations or other support. Modena is a nice town with the famous
Ghirlandina tower while the Ferrari premises and the Fiorano circuit are
15Km far (with museums both in Maranello and Modena). Reggio Emilia is also
worth a quick visit, in this period is held an interesting photograph event
with many exhibitions: 

http://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/

Even if everything is organized at short notice I will prepare hopefully
tomorrow a full Italian and English description which I will also include on
my QL website

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Davide


 

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Inviato: mercoledì 23 aprile 2014 23:00
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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting Italy

Whereabouts are you planning on holding the show?

I can email the QL users in Italy for you - maybe other countries if it is
in the North!

Rich

 On April 23, 2014 at 9:41 PM Davide Santachiara 
 d.santachi...@libero.it
 wrote:


 Hi All,

 We are trying to organize a QL meeting in Italy on 18th of May 
 (Sunday) very similar to the last one held in 2008. You will find 
 information and a report on www.sinclairql.it - i.e. it will be 
 something very informal with the main goal to spend a day together and
having a good lunch in a nearby trattoria.

 However we would really appreciate if somebody from outside Italy 
 would be willing to join us by teleconference presenting his products 
 or latest software or hardware development. That could be easily (tbc) 
 managed by skype or other videoconference systems as we did in 2008 
 with Daniele from the US.

 The date is not yet fixed in stone as we are trying to reach a minimum 
 number of person to justify the effort but it appears likely so far. 
 If anybody is interested in joining us with a telecon for a 
 presentation please write me privately.

 Thanks in advance

 Kind regards

 Davide


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[Ql-Users] R: Developer assistance request.

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Dave,

Sorry for the simple minded question but why not using SMSQ/E instead? Is it
for size reasons? I ask this because Minerva was for sure a really nice
development but SMSQ/E has been further developed and is also cross-platform
between different systems (emulators, Atari, QL...).

Thanks

Best regards

Davide

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Developer assistance request.

Hi all,

We are looking for someone with experience developing custom yet highly
compatible versions of Minerva. The revised version of Minerva may have
features like a very large amount of physical RAM, and exist on
system-writable flash memory. This provides an exciting opportunity for
Minerva to undergo active development on a new hardware platform, where it
can be updated using a software update system that needs to be safe, secure
and reliable.

We are also looking for anyone interested in working on development of an
ethernet driver. We're looking closely at the WizNet 5300. The datasheet is
here: http://www.wiznet.co.kr/UpLoad_Files/ReferenceFiles/W5300_DS_V128E.pdf
We would like the driver to be well integrated with Minerva. We would also
like to discuss the option of some BASIC extensions to make the new
interface as accessible as possible. ROM size no limit!

If anyone is interested and would like to know more, please contact me
privately by email. Compensation includes subsidized early access to
hardware.

--
Dave Park
Sandy Electronics, LLC
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[Ql-Users] R: R: QLis30 programme

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Geoff, Ian,

Of course with my email I had no intention whatsoever to propose an event in
Italy. The last international meeting was held here in 2003 and the boundary
conditions for its organization were already at the limit 10 years ago. I
just wanted to provide a feedback on the way we organized the last event
knowing that we would have had a limited attendance.

Best regards

Davide

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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] R: QLis30 programme

On 03/11/2013 16:51, Ian Pine wrote:

 I'm not sure which country is preferred to hold an event but I could 
 not justify the expense of travelling outside UK at the moment.

 If to be held in UK what about seeing if something could be done in 
 co-operation with The National Museum of Computing 
 http://www.tnmoc.org, perhaps at their place in Bletchley Park? One 
 advantage is that there would be plenty of other computing history, 
 aside from the QL, to attract visitors.

 I've been meaning to make another visit to Bletchley Park for ages, so 
 a one-day QL event there would certainly coax me out of my armchair.

 Ian.

I hope I have not caused confusion. If there is an event it would be a UK
event.

My personal opinion is that there is no point in having a traditonal Quanta
show. They are burnt out and are of no interest to the members. 
Last year's show at Manchester was the worst I have ever attended. Two days
with just two presentations both on the Sunday. Scarcely any mixing and
badly attended presentations. I had the impression that some people were
only there because they felt they had to be and just stayed at their tables
doing their own thing.

At the end of the show the committee had a tut tut session and asked how we
could approve attendance. They came up with a brilliant solution for this
year - a carbon copy of last year! And then Sarah grumbles why attendance
was bad and screams APATHY in the Quanta Magazine. 
(Although she did spare us the capital letters this year.)

We have to break with this pattern. That's why I referred to shows abroad as
possible models. Let's stop having the obsession with numbers and instead
look at the quality of the event.

I don't know whether Bletchley Park would be financially feasible, but I
like the idea of combining some form of social activity with the business.
It would also get us back nearer to the South of England.  No problem with
day travel for the commitee - Bletchley is on the West Coast Line which also
serves the small village of Manchester. The venue is 300 metres from the
station,

Best Wishes,



Geoff

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[Ql-Users] R: QLis30 programme

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Geoff,

Indeed the last QL event in Italy (2008) has been a rendez-vous between QL
enthusiasts (active and non active) which was held in the company for which
I work. That means the cost was zero besides for travels and a lunch event
which was of course also one of the reasons for the people to join again
from different parts of Italy.

I agree that even if the event was attended by a relatively low number of
people it has been very interesting and it was very nice to have the telecon
with Daniele Terdina in the US. Anybody interested could check the report at
this address:

http://www.sinclairql.it/meeting2008eng.pdf

It is not unlikely we will organize a similar event sometimes in Spring
2014.

Best regards

Davide


 

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] QLis30 programme

So far discussion of a possible QLis30 event has been on whether or not such
an event should be held at all; whether it should be a two day or one day
event; and whether anyone will bother to attend.

The most important thing - the content of the event - has scarcely been
mentioned. In fact I believe that Dilwyn and I are the only people to have
made suggestions. If we can't do better than that we should forget the whole
business.

If we are expecting Quanta to finance an event then they have a right to
expect a detailed business plan rather than just a vague idea. There is no
point in having an event that will be nothing more than a Manchester show at
another location.

To concentrate our minds on the content of the event, I have devised this
little exercise. The scenario is deliberately very restrictive to avoid
unnecessary side issues. In practice I would expect the actual event to be
more flexible.

The QLis30 event will be a single day held in the function room of a hotel
between 10.00 and 16:00. There will be only the one room available the size
of which will be determined by the program of the day. Only three tables
will be permitted. One for Quanta, one for Dilwyn and one for Rich. Any
other person wanting a table would have to apply with a good motivation.

The first thing we have to decide is the target group of the event. This may
seem a strange concept, especially to UK QL-ers who only know one type of
show - a large hall with lots of tables and possibly presentations. However
if you look at shows worldwide there have been a wide variety of styles.

For example QL2004 was a day for the developers more than for the punters.

Recent continental shows have had a small, but enthusiastic, attendance and
have had an above average technical content.

The former North American shows also had a small, but enthusiastic,
attendance and always included lively social events outside the formal
sessions.

A few years ago there was a successful event in Italy attended, if I
remember correctly, by about 12 people. Several were no longer QL-ers and
the event was a form of reunion. It included a video presentation by Daniele
Terdina from America.

A small number of people attending is not necessarily a negative thing. 
It depends on who the people are and whether they can produce something out
of the event that can benefit the QL community at large.

I have used a hotel function room because of access to catering. Do we, for
example, include catering as part of the day's events? A communal buffet
lunch or even a sit down lunch? A structured relaxation session in the bar?
(The bar at QLis21 was well patronised after the show dinner with some
Quanta members becoming Brahms! It buggered up the programme for the
following day.)

The content is open ended, but has to be entirely on the theme Qlis30 - that
is looking at the past or looking to the future. Thus a presentation on the
QLSD would be on topic but one on assembler off topic (sorry George!). I for
one would like to see some brainstorming over the future especially in a non
QL Today world and I suspect, shortly, a non Quanta world. We would have
about 6 hours to fill. You can do a lot in six hours.

I hope we can have a lively discussion on this list from which we can build
up the structure of a possible event to put to Quanta. (Or decide to do
privately? I would not rule that out.) I prefer an open discussion, but I
will understand if anyone would prefer to contact me privately.

I shall be just as happy with no feedback at all. No feedback is also
feedback!


Best Wishes,

Geoff
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[Ql-Users] R: Bill Richardson

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Tony,

Please add a message also from myself and the Italian QL users. I  met Bill
first time in Gardone Riviera which I think was around 1988 as I got my
driving license since a few months. Then he attended all the Italian
meetings till 2000 and we all remind him as a very kind and charming person.
Thanks to Antonio Gareffa QL DVD I think there should be some interviews
made to Bill during the Italian meetings. He was the kind of person you
cannot forget once known and we will all miss him.

Best regards

Davide


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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson

Thanks for all the kind words about Bill.
I am going to pass them on to his son and daughter on Monday.

Any more received by midday on Monday will be passed on to them in person.

thanks,

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[Ql-Users] R: Sinclair QL running a qualification test for a spacecomponent

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Francois,

We also work in the space business and it happened once or twice I relied on
the QL (actually it was QPC2) to solve on the spot some problems that could
have taken days of a software engineer. The problems were mainly related to
data conversion and not hardware related as in your case. Superbasic in this
respect is really powerful.

Best regards

Davide

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL running a qualification test for a
spacecomponent

Hi group, here is a short story for you this morning:

My trusty QL is controlling a test setup built to qualify a new component
for space use as we speak.

To make the story short, I work for a company that build satellite and other
space hardware. Two weeks ago, one of our design failed during an official
life test in the lab. We made some changes to the design and we are about to
restart the test soon.

But I found out that changing the material of the failed part for a
different type might be an even better solution. After talking to my boss,
he said that we have no time to qualify that new material before the
official test. His other objection was that a new test setup was needed to
mechanically bend the part made of the new material for many thousand cycles
before he would even consider it. There was no time, and no money. You need
to understand that a setup like that usually cost a few $1 and take
about a month to built, program the test computer etc.

The day after I told my boss: I WILL test this solution. Give me 24 hours to
built the test setup, and it will cost you nothing. I agreed with a smile.
24 hours later, the test was running.

I use scrap flight parts, a couple of brackets and a lot of Meccano parts.
For the actuator, I use a small $20 servo-motor that I had for a robotic
project of mine. I also had the controller for the servo. This controller
can be attached to a simple serial port. That is where the QL comes into
play. I needed a computer to control the amount of bending, the timing, the
large quantity of cycles and able to log everything. I also needed a
computer that was easy to program, as I started to work on the program at
23h00. Because the QL is the computer I know best, the program was finished
2 hours later.

The next day, when I installed everything in the thermal chamber, I must
admit that it looks a bit foolish. But it did work. I closed the door and
set the temperature to -50degC. Everybody knew it would not last through the
night. But this morning I opened the chamber and it was still running great,
25000 cycles later. When I left work it was at 4 cycles.

Anyway, It is fun to see my QL in a lab running this test, and I thought you
might like it. The other thing that I like is that I can work on my 3D game
at lunch time :-)

Have a nice day!
François
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[Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello everybody,

A friend of mine - Adelchi Moscardini, the oldest Italian QL active user -
who is using an Aurora SGC QL system has problems finding alternatives to
his two inkjet printers which recently broke. One is an Epson Styuls 740,
the other is a Canon BIC 250. While the Canon seems not repairable at all,
the Epson could be repaired but the price is in the range of 160 euro (!)

Are there any inkjet printers around which could be bought online still
compatible with commands like SDUMP or the Psion drivers?

Thanks for your help - I take the chance to wish you all a wonderful 2012.

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] Ciao Roberto

[Davide Santachiara]

It is with the deepest sadness and sorrow that we announce the death of our
friend Roberto Orlandi. He was  47 years and he suddenly died on 16th of
December 2010 while playing tennis. He leaves behind his wife and two
children.

We would like to remember his friendliness and the entusiasm he put to keep
the QL passion alive in Italy and abroad. We spent together great years. 

Ciao Roberto, you will remain in our hearts forever.


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[Ql-Users] R: Dead QL

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear  François,

I doubt a dead SGC battery could be the origin of your problem. Try instead
removing the Qubide and see what happens, the further stop to be 100% sure
would be also to remove Aurora and reinstalling if needed the missing chips
on the QL motherboard to see whether the original QL is OK or not

On a QL of a friend of mine with similar setup I had quite a number of
similar problems due to Qubide.

Best regards

Davde

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Dead QL

Hi QL gang,

I fired up my QL this evening and it would stay on the F1/F2 screen, no
matter how hard I press the F1 and F2 keys...

My setup is: 

Aurora board
SuperGoldCard
QUBIDE
Minerva MK1

As I said, it would not boot past the welcome screen. Not even the Minerva
timeout to the default F2 works. It would not boot to harddrive, or to
floppy.

This only thing that produce any change on the screen is the CTR,
ALT,SHIFT,TAB combination that makes the screen kind of redraw itself.

I suspect that the SGC battery is dead. Does a dead SGC battery makes the
system un-bootable ? What else can it be ?

Thanks in advance.

François
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[Ql-Users] R: Question from a re-newbie

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear All,

Since geocities was closed all the Ergon stuff is now held on
www.sinclairql.it 

Specifically the utility web page containing Masterbasic is:
http://www.sinclairql.it/qlutilities.htm

I have to admit that even if I use Superbasic rarely I found Masterbasic
still very useful

Best regards

Davide



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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] Question from a re-newbie

A bit of searching and viola!
http://www.oocities.com/dsantachiara/qlutilities.htm from Ergon's QL support
WEB page

Lee

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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Question from a re-newbie


In message 4d0103db.4040...@rwapservices.co.uk, Rich Mellor
r...@rwapservices.co.uk writes

On 09/12/2010 15:31, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
 Am 09.12.2010 15:50, schrieb Rich Mellor:
 On 09/12/2010 14:44, Lee Privett wrote:
 Ed (Toolkit II) is a great editor but in coming back to the QL I would 
 have thought someone would have come up with a couple of useful tweaks 
 by now.

 Such as the ability to copy and paste within the editing window and 
 using the mouse to put the cursor just where I want it, instead of 
 several arrow direction taps to get there.

 Any ideas?


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 I guess no one enhanced Ed any further, as people moved onto using tools

 such as Digital Precision's The Editor, or the even better QD editor 
 from Jochen Merz if they wanted to be able to do this sort of thing.

 Yep, that's just about right. I find myself rarely using ed nowadays, 
 even for plain SBASIC programming. QD2 with its feature to remove and add

 line numbers on the fly makes editing (and properly formatting) programs 
 much easier.
 I use ED only for small corrections/amendments when actually compiling.

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I suppose the other thing to mention are the tools which were developed to 
make writing SuperBASIC much easier even with just the basic ED command:

- QREF by Liberation Software which allows you to find all references to a 
given command / string / function / procedure
- MasterBASIC by Ergon Development which analysed the program much more 
than QREF - you could even search for tokens! and much more

Hi Rich,

MasterBASIC is good, which I re-discover when I remember to use it.

It would be nice to have an updated version of this at some time, too.

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[Ql-Users] Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL

[Davide Santachiara]

I was asked by a friend whether the Epson EPL-6200 laser printer (which
shall support fx codes) is compatible with QL systems and software. I have a
very old EPL-5200 which was compatible but I do not have any idea about this
EPL-6200. I found in old emails some references to this printer as a
possible choice but either they referred to the usage with Proforma or they
did not give a real answer.

Anybody has experience on this?

Thank you

Davide

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[Ql-Users] R: Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Christopher,

On QPC are you using QPCprint?

Regards

Davide 

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL

Davide

I regret that I can not answer your question fully. A few months ago I
bought one and am generally very pleased BUT I do not use it with a QL but
rather with QPC under Windows 7. It prints my PostScript via GhostScript and
is easily used with XChange (treat it as a laserjet). The real problem is
that the utility to switch between modes explicitly does not run under
Windows 7 but Windows ME and I have not been able to find a programmer's
manual for the 6200 (should anyone do so please let me know).
If, from QPC, I copy text directly to par1 it is printed (does this bypass
the W printer driver). At the moment, I cannot access a QL/Q60 to try it
out.

Christopher Cave
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[Ql-Users] R: How can I purchase old Ergon Development software titles?

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Martin,

Sorry for not having answered but I seldomly read the email address reported
on the web site which is now almost 99,% full of spam.

All the emulators as well as most of the other Ergon Development software
are free since years and they can be downloaded from the website

www.sinclairql.it

Hit on the flag, QL software, and then select the software you want to
download

Best regards

Davide



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A: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] How can I purchase old Ergon Development software
titles?

Hi all

Having tried to email Ergon Deveolpment and not gotten a response yet, I
wondered if anyone here knows how I can purchase a copy of their ZM/ht
Spectrum compiler/emulator?

Also, I see from their website that the SB source of their MasterBasic
software could be made available - I'd very much like to see how they
designed this.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Martyn Hill, London
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[Ql-Users] R: R: How can I purchase old Ergon Development softwaretitles?

[Davide Santachiara]

Post Scriptum:

Actually as somebody correctly pointed out, I forgot that I never had time
to officially release on the website the full version of ZM/hT (and ZM/128).
If you write me privately at d.santachiara at libero dot it I will try to
find out a full version of ZM/hT and will send it to you (I cannot commit
however on the time needed to do this). However please note that the usage
of ZM/hT only makes sense on QL with GC or SGC, otherwise you should look
for ZeXcel (this is available on the webiste) which has been written
exploting the pointer environment and has much more features.

Best regards

Davide


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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] R: How can I purchase old Ergon Development
softwaretitles?

Dear Martin,

Sorry for not having answered but I seldomly read the email address reported
on the web site which is now almost 99,% full of spam.

All the emulators as well as most of the other Ergon Development software
are free since years and they can be downloaded from the website

www.sinclairql.it

Hit on the flag, QL software, and then select the software you want to
download

Best regards

Davide



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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] How can I purchase old Ergon Development software
titles?

Hi all

Having tried to email Ergon Deveolpment and not gotten a response yet, I
wondered if anyone here knows how I can purchase a copy of their ZM/ht
Spectrum compiler/emulator?

Also, I see from their website that the SB source of their MasterBasic
software could be made available - I'd very much like to see how they
designed this.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Martyn Hill, London
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[Ql-Users] R: aurora display

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Arnold,

I would not be too sure about your diagnosis. I think Tony is quite right
when saying that the problem is due to QPlane. The Aurora+SH+Qplane+Qubide I
was trying to fix experienced the same identical problem with either a
completely different Qubide or by replacing the two chips with new ones.

Regards

Davide

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Inviato: venerdì 13 novembre 2009 20.28
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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] aurora display

Hi,
   I believe my Qubide chips are not working as they should. At first I
copied my master floppy disk to improve matters and as things didn't improve
I assumed my master  disk was faulty; but I now realize my master floppy is
ok. Its the chips.
Where can I get replacement chips?

Arnold





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Sent: Friday, 13 November, 2009 0:47:20
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] aurora display

gdgqler wrote, On 12/11/09 11:04:
 
 On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:47, arnold.cla...@talk21.com wrote:
 
  When I remove Qubide everything works fine using the floppy  disk to
boot up.
 when reconnect Qubide it starts normal routine but when it restart with
Smsq, it stops at the first dot of the initialization dot. I have another
hard disk and it is the same with that.
 
 
 I too, had the stopping at one dot with Qubide in my Aurora , Qubide
SuperHermes setup. I took the machine to the QUANTA AGM plus workshop last
April and J. Southern very kindly cured the problem saying loose
connections. Since then the machine has worked properly except that
sometimes it will stop at one dot for a day or so. But it will usually start
working again after that pause. Why?
Ah I remember.  I had similar problems when I used Qplane backplane. The
problem went away with Mplane.
I reckoned at the time it was a noise issue.
What backplane do you have Arnold?
Try a different arrangement of cards - maybe qubide nearer the QL, if you
are using Qplane.


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[Ql-Users] R: aurora display

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Georg,

I had slightly similar problems with a Aurora+SGC+Qubide QL of a friend of
mine. I tried several solutions but the effective one is to

1) remove Qubide
2) switch on Aurora without qubide
3) insert Qubide
4) re-start QL

99% it works. The problem happens randomly. Sometimes everything works for
weeks, sometimes it get stuck two or three times a week

Best regards

Davide

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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] aurora display


On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:47, arnold.cla...@talk21.com wrote:

  When I remove Qubide everything works fine using the floppy  disk to 
 boot up.
 when reconnect Qubide it starts normal routine but when it restart 
 with Smsq, it stops at the first dot of the initialization dot. I have 
 another hard disk and it is the same with that.


I too, had the stopping at one dot with Qubide in my Aurora , Qubide
SuperHermes setup. I took the machine to the QUANTA AGM plus workshop last
April and J. Southern very kindly cured the problem saying loose
connections. Since then the machine has worked properly except that
sometimes it will stop at one dot for a day or so. But it will usually start
working again after that pause. Why?

George
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[Ql-Users] www.sinclairql.it

[Davide Santachiara]

As geocities is supposed to close down anytime I moved all my webpages and
freeware sofware downloads (Ergon Development - Spectrum emulators and
others) to

www.sinclairql.it

I did not make (yet) any verification on broken links etcetera, but as soon
as I will have some spare time I will update some of the pages. If somebody
is interested to appear or would like to report changed web links is invited
to write me by private email.

Best regards

Davide


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[Ql-Users] R: Aurora + SGC problem.

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear John,

I replaced two batteries both on a GC and a SGC of a friend of mine thanks
to a standard CR2032 3V lithium battery which the Italian QL hardware expert
Romaldo Parodi, was able to get with presoldered pins on it. Then it was
quite easy to solder a small additional wire to reach the two pins where the
original battery was placed (actually four pins are present but only two are
used).

I have shot some pictures of the procedure, if somebody is interested in
getting them just email your private email address.

Best regards

Davide

 

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A: ql-users
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Aurora + SGC problem.

I have two identical rigs each one comprising Aurora + Super Gold Card +
QuBide all mounted in a Pandora Case with other components - Hard Disk, PSU,
Floppy Drive etc. -  Until recently, each rig would self start - with no
need to select F1 or F2 and each maintained perfect time and date.

However, over the past few days I have noticed that although once they are
up and running they still keep perfect time, once switched off, one of them
comes back with a random time and date at switch on and the same machine
needs F1 or 2 selecting at power up.

The other machine is still working correctly.

I understand that there is a battery on the SGC (although I have never
identified it) and I wondered if this behaviour is typical of a battery
needing replacing or perhaps something quite else. If it is the battery
which is at fault, where do I go or a replacement, about how much do they
cost and what do I ask for?

Are they easy to replace or are special tools required?

Can someone please help?

Thanks.

Regards to all.

John Gilpin.


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[Ql-Users] SGC/GC batteries

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello everybody,

Privately I've checked with Tony Firshman, Roy Wood and Rich Mellor that the
original batteries for SGC/GC are no nore available (kind of discontinued
items). Thanks to Romaldo Parodi it seems we have found similar batteries
which in theory could be easily used to replace the original ones.

Does anyone has a schematic of GC and SGC in order to connect properly these
batteries to the SGC/GC battery socket?

Thank you

Best regards

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[Ql-Users] SGC/GC batteries

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello everybody,

Privately I've checked with Tony Firshman, Roy Wood and Rich Mellor that the
original batteries for SGC/GC are no nore available (kind of discontinued
items). Thanks to Romaldo Parodi it seems we have found similar batteries
which in theory could be easily used to replace the original ones.

Does anyone has a schematic of GC and SGC in order to connect properly these
batteries to the SGC/GC battery socket?

Thank you

Best regards

Davide


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[Ql-Users] Thank you

[Davide Santachiara]

The (11°) Italian QL users randez-vous has just finished. I would like to
thank all the people who had attended (in no particular order):

Romaldo Parodi
Andrea Carpi
Paolo Carpi
Adelchi Moscardini 
Antonio Gareffa (with his wonderful DVD of almost all Italian QL meetings)
Emiliano Barbaini
Mauro Vanni
Augusto Del Sane
Gino Sestilli
Ludovico Marchisio
Alberto Rubinelli
Elia Bellussi

and of course myself. Also Enrico Maria Giordano was partly present via
skype from Rome and we had as guest-star from Seattle Daniele Terdina who
presented QemuLator and his recent very interesting innovations. 

http://terdina.net/ql/q-emulator.html

In the next days/weeks will follow a comprehensive report / article for QL
Today. 

Ciao

Davide


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[Ql-Users] Italian QL meeting - virtual presentations

[Davide Santachiara]

As in the meeting room we will have available an internet connection with
Skype it could be possible to plan a virtual product (sw or hw) presentation
if anybody is interested to show something. Just let me know if you are
interested and we try to fix a time-slot (morning or afternoon).

Best regards

Davide

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[Ql-Users] Problem with Qubide

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello everybody,

A friend of mine has a problem with his Qubide (PC cabinet with Aurora, Gold
Card and bus expander).

This is the third time in a couple of months that the drive is not
recognized anymore. I.e. the dots at QL boot do not appear at all. First
time I solved the problem just by unplugging / plugging all the cards and
cables. Second time this solution did not work 100% as the dots at boot
appeared but the name of the drive was shown with strange characters and the
drive was actually not recognized. I then removed/inserted the ICs of the
Qubide (I think the two GALs) and everything magically worked again.

Yesterday evening the problem appeared again. No Qubide dots at boot,
everything is stuck. Of course I will try the usual solution of
unplugging/plugging boards etc. However which could be in your opinion the
origin of the problem and which could be the definitive solution?

Thank you

Best regards

Davide




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[Ql-Users] R: Daniele Terdina

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello Dilwyn,

As far as I know the infoconex address is not active anymore but the
microsoft one is still ok (at least till December 2007)

Best regards

Davide
 

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Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Daniele Terdina

Has anyone got a current email address for Daniele Terdina. Anthony Johnson
is trying to contact him to register a copy of Qemulator.

Last address I had was daniele AT infoconex DOT com - Anthony seems to have
had no joy with that one.

--
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[Ql-Users] R: QPC/Vista

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Bill, (off topic)

A few days ago I bought a brand new Packard Bell PC from a local computer
shop. When I switched it on I just realized that it did not boot up. Before
spending hours with the support service I carefully checked that it was
possible to open it without loosing the warranty. I immediately discovered
that the HD power cable was disconnected.

I just think that those new SATA power cable are quite soft and it is
sufficient a bit of shaking to allow the cable to disconnect from the HD

Good old stiff PATA power cable

:-(

Best regards

Davide



 

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Inviato: domenica 16 dicembre 2007 12.53
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Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC/Vista

P Witte wrote:
 Marcel Kilgus writes:
 
 Billy wrote:
 Is there an upgrade to a QPC version that works with Vista?
 Yes, 3.34 beta 3 is on my site. Don't be fooled by the beta, nobody 
 has reported any problems so far.
 
 A possible reason may be that not many QPC2 runners have Vista yet. 
 However, Im pleased to report that Ive been using QPC2 3.34 beta 2 on 
 Vista for a few days now, and all seems fine! Aero Glass an all! So:
 Well done, Marcel!
 
 Taking the opportunity of wishing y'all the customary seasonal 
 merriness and all that!
 
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Just got the password so will download this afternoon ( chrismas lights a
priority this morning).
Remembered my wifes laptop runs on XP so I could have used it. bigger
downturn was when I realised the most recent backups to my Christmas card
list are on the hard drive of my old computer that I gave to my son which he
managed to make very dead.
Best backup I have is 04 on Floppy, I bought a USB floppy drive early this
year ( this PC and Wifes Laptop have no floppy) - good purchase I think.

Off topic I bought my son a refurbished PC from PCWorld online, quite a ggod
buy but it arrived three days late and would not boot up, turned out they
had left the power lead off the hard drive, unfortunate thing for them is
they sent me a customer survey to fill in a day after I bought it, it won't
make good reading for them (;-)

Merry Christmes and a good new year to you all - Bill

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[Ql-Users] R: Need few translations (Italian)

[Davide Santachiara]

Hi Jimmy,

I am sorry to say that actually there is not a real translation in Italian
for debugger. It is just called a debugger, you could try a translation like
analizzatore di errori (error analyzer) but it would sound very funny for
an Italian software engineer. The word Debugger is a tipical example of
anglicism.

and, if you mean you *and* me it is e
 
Best regards

Davide



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Hi all,

Please, I need translations of few words in German :
Debugger
and
Disk change
Full Screen (DirectDraw only) 

In Italian :
Debugger
and

In Spanish :
Debugger

Thanks for your help,

Jimmy.

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[Ql-Users] Gold Card battery

[Davide Santachiara]

The (GoldCard) QL clock of a friend of mine is reset at every boot
(1961...). I guess the Gold Card battery ran down. Is it stil possible to
find that type of battery?

Thank you

Davide


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[ql-users] R: ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello Rich,

I would be grateful if you could send me the ZM/hT and also the ZM/128 doc
files (if you revised also that one). Unfortunately I left most of the files
on ED disks which I am not able to read anymore. With those manuals I could
perhaps find the will to prepare a more decent version for download both of
ZM/hT and ZM/128 (though the latter is almost useless with ZeXcel).

Thank you

Best regards

Davide


 

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Inviato: mercoledì 14 febbraio 2007 23.18
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Oggetto: Re: [ql-users] ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)

I have the full manual in Quill _doc format should anyone want me to email a
copy.

Davide - do you not have a full copy to upload to the website?

I agree with some of the comments below.  Low cost hardware has indeed been
developed for the Spectrum, but it is hard to justify spending £30 on parts
and then selling fully made up and tested boards for £30-£35.  It takes time
to solder, test and design the hardware.  Plus firmware has to be written -
the DivIDE designer was lucky that someone designed FATware for it before
launch and did not want payment.  However, now we come to design an improved
version (DivIDE Plus), this is where we hit the stumbling block - some of
the original firmware designers are not interested in going back to a 2-3
year old project and re-writing it to cope with improved hardware and all
the new facilities made available - they do not hav ethe time or cannot give
it freely, but yet are unwilling to charge for an upgraded version !

Designing hardware for the QL does not seem as easy as for the Spectrum for
some reason - possibly due to the difference in the bus and expansion port.
There are also a lot less people who can write firmware.  I also think that
the Spectrum users have much lower expectations than QL users, especially
due to the memory paging system on the Spectrum - after all, we could sell a
4MB memory expansion card for the Spectrum, but programs have to page in 16K
(?) at a time and therefore you do not get bigger programs being written !!
There never were many programs written which utilised  
the full 128K available on later models, so memory is not an issue.   
However on the QL, programs are written which can fill all the available
memory, as they do not have to worry about how it pages in.

The QL has always had a wealth of public domain programs, but unfortunately
the user base (and thus the programmer base) has always been a lot smaller
than for the Speccy, so there is little incentive to write programs or
design new hardware.

Rich


On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:11:06 -, omega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 From: Neil Riley
 A comment Davide made to me has suddenly hit home. Basically he was 
 pleased that someone was still having fun with his product after some 
 10 years or more
 but wait a minute, the spectrum
 scene is still strong so why on earth isn't ZM/ht etc still 
 commercially available and being advertised on Auction sites like 
 Ebay.
 With full respect to Davide - he did truly good job with his emulator, 
 I do love it - I wouldn't probably buy it today. This time has gone. I 
 like his approach to provide it for free, which promotes himself 
 better than low selling product.

 I am from spectrum scene and I cannot believe what some people are 
 writing here. Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still 
 so strong? There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT. 
 This makes the spectrum scene stable, strong and up to date with HW and
SW.
 IDE HDD interface called divIDE (similar to Qubide) is great example 
 of such activity : http://baze.au.com/divide/ Anyone can build it from 
 schematics, buy a DIY kit for 20EURO(!) or buy a complete interface 
 for 30EURO. For 30 EUROs (+/- price of the components) your ZX 
 Spectrum has much higher value and more features. Reward for these 
 authors is only success and feedback from users.

 Similar trends to have open projects can be seen in Atari scene, 
 Commodore (look at Commodore One), MSX, CPC (look at try out SymbOS) etc.

 In contrary what I see here on QL scene is still push to commerciality.
 This doesn't attract newcomers, because unexpanded QL which you buy on 
 ebay with four Psion microdrives is nothing more than poor computer 
 with cool design and potential. Expanding QL is hard and expensive 
 or not possible due to lack of expension cards. At the top of it there 
 are no open source projects to change this status. Software on QL is 
 special category... So, where is the QL heading?

 I don't want to be missinterpretted - it is nothing against you Neil, 
 but certainly I see here big difference in ZX Scene and QL Scene.
 btw,  as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT 
 expects but i have even more .SNA's.
 Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed 
 .sna to Z80_rom 

[ql-users] R: R: ZeXcel Emulator

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello Rich,

Thank you for your email. I do not have any information about divIDE HD i/f.
However the biggest problem would be 1) to find time to adapt ZM/Accessories
for SMSQ/E (it was originally compiled on Minerva) 2) to make the additional
programming to implement divIDE support. This is unfortunately quite
unlikely, it was already a miracle to be able to adapt ZeXcel for 65536
colours in 2003. Having said this is there something I could reasonably do
to help on this matter?

Best regards

Davide







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Hi Davide,

I trust that you are keeping well - this brings back some happy memories.   
I guess the wheel has turned full circle, as I now support the Spectrum as
well as the QL !!

Of course the one thing now missing from the ZM/A Accessories and the other
emulators, is support for the divIDE hard disk interface and Compact Flash
Memory cards - we are just about to release a new version of divIDE for the
ZX Spectrum and I'd love to be able to test firmware for the divIDE on a
Spectrum emulator within a QL emulator !  Am I asking for trouble - no if I
wanted that, the QL emulator would have to be running inside a windows
emulator on Linux.

Kindest Regards

--
Rich Mellor
RWAP Services
URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:33:51 -, Davide Santachiara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You are right, no need for a CD as the download is much easier.

 Actually the main page for the Spectrum emulator we developed is this
 one:

 http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zxemulators.htm

 Best regards

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[ql-users] R: R: ZeXcel Emulator

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello Neil,

The full ZM/hT has been mailed to you. As I probably already mentioned some
time ago it would be extremely difficult (because of lack of time) to
recompile and adapt ZM/hT under SMSQ/E. In fact it was originally developed
under Minerva. This is why the full version has never been made available as
freeware. Anyway anybody interested can ask and I will email a working (?)
version.

Best regards

Davide



 

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Actually, i mean ZM/hT as it runs very smoothly.

Neil

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05 February 2007 16:24 
Update, have tried out all (both) spectrum emulators and ZM/128 is very
impressive.
however it appears the download version is a demo and not the full version.
Is the full version still available?

Neil

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05 February 2007 14:55 
Thanks guys i shall take a look.

I have noticed there are several ZM/12y ZM/hT  ZeXcel. which is best
for me to use with my SGC based Aurora ?

Cheers again
Neil

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02 February 2007 22:33 
You are right, no need for a CD as the download is much easier.

Actually the main page for the Spectrum emulator we developed is this one:

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zxemulators.htm 

Best regards

Davide
 

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 Does anyone know whether this Sinclair Spectrum Emulator is still 
 available on CD for the QL.
 
 Cheers
 Neil
 


Neil,

I don't know if there is a CD available, but you can download it
here: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/qlpage.htm 

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[ql-users] R: ZeXcel Emulator

[Davide Santachiara]

You are right, no need for a CD as the download is much easier.

Actually the main page for the Spectrum emulator we developed is this one:

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zxemulators.htm

Best regards

Davide
 

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 Hi
 
 Does anyone know whether this Sinclair Spectrum Emulator is still 
 available on CD for the QL.
 
 Cheers
 Neil
 


Neil,

I don't know if there is a CD available, but you can download it
here: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/qlpage.htm

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[ql-users] Euro converter

[Davide Santachiara]

Andrea Carpi just released a new version of Euro converter, a useful tool to
convert Euro from/to the former european currencies. The new revision is now
GD2 compatible (Q40/Q60 volunteers are welcome as it was tested on QPC2
only) and now includes the Slovenian tolar as Slovenia is going to use Euro
on 1.1.2007.

Download from

http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/sinclair-italy/files/

(file area of the italian QL mailing list)

The SBasic program, written by Andrea with Easymenu and QLiberated, is
freeware.

Best regards

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[ql-users] Minerva bug?

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello everybody,

A couple of days ago my friend (80 years old) Adelchi Moscardini came to my
place asking for help concerning a simple sorting procedure. He has a file
containing the name of around 5000 people which he has to sort in ascendent
order. However he discovered that:

de angelis

came after 

degola

Which is not correct. So I made some tests and I discovered that the problem
seems due to a Minerva bug. In fact if you try

PRINT de angelisdegola 

You get 0 on SMSQ/E (correct) and 1 on Minerva (1.97).

My question is whether there is a smart way to overcome this problem without
having to convert the program for SMSQ/E.

Thank you

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[ql-users] ZM/hT

[Davide Santachiara]

The full version of the ZM/hT executable can be downloaded from

www.geocities.com/dsantachiara/zmht.zip

Maybe in the next days I will try to wrap up also the documentation and I
will update the web site accordingly

Best regards

Davide

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R: [ql-users] Newbie with some questions... (MAC emulator)

[Davide Santachiara]

 There starts the trouble (again). I only have Macs. And even 
 worse, I don't have some classic system anymore, and the 
 emulator runs only with System 9... I can't even install it 
 on my iMac G5 anymore. So this door is closed until someone 
 ports the emulator to X.

You can try Q-emuLator for MacOS written by Daniele Terdina:

http://users.infoconex.com/~daniele/MacQL.html

Ciao

Davide
http://get.to/ergon

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R: [ql-users] Free to a good home - the saga continues

[Davide Santachiara]

Of course I was referring to an Italian meeting... ;-)

Davide

 Maybe that could be a good excuse to attend a new QL meeting 
 sometimes next year?
 
 Ciao
 
 Davide
 
 
 
  I -know- he was joking.
  Mind you , if not, I would happily volunteer to suffer for 
 him (8-)# I 
  have never been to Florence.
  
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[ql-users] Gold Card Battery Clock

[Davide Santachiara]

A friend of mine told me that his old QL with Gold Card does not keep the
date anymore. It always displays 1982... when the QL is powered on.

He told me he removed the Gold Card battery and he connected two standard
1,5V batteries. This fix worked fine for some years but now the QL does not
keep the date anymore. 

Assuming the replacement 1,5+1,5V battery still works OK is there an
alternative source of problem?

Thanks for your help

Davide

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R: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30

[Davide Santachiara]

Hello Marcel,

Sorry if I am a bit late but I went a few days in Barcelona and now I am
back with some three hundred message to read...

The speed increase on my Intel Centrino 1,6 Mhz notebook is impressive. Here
are the figures:

Pre 3.2x QPC2   QSI: 2460 (24,6 times wrt Gold Card)
3.22 QPC2   QSI:   2780
3.30 QPC2   QSI:   3618 

+47% wrt pre v3.22 QPC2

On my Athlon 2600+ the QSI raised from 2733 (pre v3.20) to 3075 (v3.30)

Great work

Best Regards

Davide


 
 After months of development and beta testing I'm proud to 
 announce that QPC2 version 3.30 officially went live. As 
 usual the update is free for all users of QPC2 version 3. Get 
 it from http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/
 

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[ql-users] QL Speed Index

[Davide Santachiara]

(Eros Forenzi) QL Speed Index of QPC v3.1 running on different platforms
(just for your curiosity)

2460 (24 times faster than Gold Card) Centrino 1,6 MHz (ASUS Notebook) Win
XP
2562 P4 3200 MHz W2000
2733 Athlon 2600+ (2100 MHz) Win XP
1983 Celeron 2600 MHz W2000
1447 Athlon 1000 MHz W2000
628  Celeron 550 MHz (IBM notebook Win ME)

I have already posted a few months ago some of the results. It seems that
Athlon processor are very well suited for QPC2 (vs Intel ones). However the
new Centrino for notebook gives excellent results (considering also it's a
CPU devoted to notebook).

Best Regards

Davide

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Re: [ql-users] hd-problem

[Davide Santachiara]

  I guess after this it can now do no harm to give it a tap at power up.
  I once found an old HD I had responded to this and started up.

Some years ago (when I was working in Ferrari) one of our RISC 6000 workstation was 
not used for some weeks. When it was switched on it didn't work and so we called the 
IBM h/w helpdesk. When the technician arrived the solution was to disassemble the HD, 
quickly rotate it with his hand and then assemble again the HD into the case. That 
worked very nice (!). The internal disk was stuck because of the non-operational 
period and with the a strong rotation it was unlocked. However we are talking of old 
and bulky SCSI hard disks.

Davide


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Re: [ql-users] Email problem

[Davide Santachiara]

Dear Jochen,

From information I have got from Gino when attending the 2003 Italian meeting he was 
not using anymore email accounts (?). I only have his phone number and address.

Kind Regards

Davide



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