Re: [Ql-Users] Phillips CM8833 Monitor
Re: Does anyone have the correct lead to connect a QL to a Phillips 8833 monitor - it has a scart like socket and an 8 pin din on the back. Unfortunately, the standard QL monitor lead only has a 6 pin din on the monitor end... Hi Rich, Sent me (alas, off list!) digital pictures of the sockets you wish to connect in to. I may have at least one of the required males to donate! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Updates
Dilwyn wrote: It already had Win XP Service Pack 3, so I didn’t expect too long to update. Two hours later it’s still only got as far as update 19 of 127. Is this a record?!? -- Two months ago I had just this Xp experience. Par for the course. Sometime before 6 hours, it completed all 128. Make a cuppa, go for a run, read about Linux, curse M$. . Best wishes to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr
Hi François, Regarding your reference to Fabrizio's - Attached you can find a screenshot of my desktop Fabrizio included a dynamic link which I sucessfully used to see his fine desktop. I'll reproduce it below in the hope that it might take you where you wanted to go - http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2
Dilwyn wrote - Gives me a nice feeling that Windoze is under QPC control ;-)) the longed for 'Promised Land'. at last! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Email advice needed
Hi Geoff, Re: My problem is that btinternet is Yahoo under an assumed name and Yahoo does have security issues. Both Yahoo and Microsoft seem to want you to put your address book on their servers and, for obvious security reasons, I want my address book to remain firmly on my own machine, Like you, I would never choose either (or any similar web-based servers). I (attempt to) keep my address book etc 'safe' by using desk-top e-mail via an e-mail client program. For years, I have been very happy with it, and with my non-mainstream ISP (as are all my 'clients' where I have installed the same set-up). I dread helping those who have problems and/or are very busy with web-based accounts - and that dread is very hard-earned! Of course, e-mail direct should you like more detail. Greetings to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] It's not a QL on a Raspberry Pi yet, but .....
There's quite a comprehensive Pi hard/software feature in the current edition [401] of Computer Active pp48 - 53 incl. Also http://www.computeractive.co.uk/search?sort=Relevance1query=rasberry+pi I don't have one yet - so can't comment further! Greetings, John in Wales There were these ten Welsh men who went to Australia. . ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
Tony said - ... but grammar is the foundation of language *and* understanding. Let grammar slip and meaning becomes less clear, or even entirely different! No one, least of all those who write 'code', could fail to see the importance of this. But this list is open (and usually overtly welcoming) to everyone's' contribution. If contributors - no matter how correct they may be - choose to 'publically' correct (even humiliate) contributors here [as I am unashamedly attempting to do now] the excellent spirit we all usually enjoy will be spoiled and some would-be contributors will become/remain 'lurkers'. We shall all be the poorer then. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
George wrote - A long time ago I used to pause while reading articles when I found faulty grammar. 'The Times' is in current QL-List mode. But it's especially concerned with the disposition and future safety of CHAR(39)! (16-03-13 etc.) John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: QL Today
I agree with Peter - The QL Today team have done wonders over the years and it's going to be a big miss. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Window redraw in PE
Marcel said - Well, that was meant to be private... thank you, eMail program ;-) OK Marcel, I'll pretend I haven't seen it - just until you tell us again. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Re: You've been watching too much Taggarrrt on TV! --- I may never have drunk whiskey/whisky but I know that as 'Taggarrrt' was playing a Glaswegian, it should be 'Tgut'! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Hi Wolfgang, Re your: If I had had those speeds when developing - SMSQmulator wouldn't have seen the light of day. -- I realised that after I posted here - a few days ago - that I forgot to say 'congratulations' to you on SMSQum'. May I say it now, please. With the myriad of QL related configurations world-wide, how could anyone possibly guard against some less than design-efficient situation arising somewhere? I have not installed your simulator yet, but I have read here so much appreciative feedback that I know that the QL community has received from you something very, very, worthwile. Please don't scrap it in despair... I haven't tried it yet! ;-) With best wishes, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
jon wrote - I think the keyboard issue is specific to my Lenovo desktop pc...not sure what the problem actually is, but in QPC I don't get the correct characters from the keyboard making work difficult. SMSQmulator fixes it --- On my Lenovo G575 W7/64bit laptop, something precipitated a similar and frustrating keyboard problem. It was noticed after I had just commissioned Windows Live Mail - though I cannot be sure it can be blamed. Reading from my hard-copy log, this is what I wrote at the time - 1. WORD E-mails now demonstrate a wrong character set. 2. Set international settings (somehow changed to 'US' from 'UK') to 'UK' and hot reboot. No cure! 3. Change 'system locale' to 'UK'' and hot reboot. - No cure! 4. Change 'Input Language Keyboard to 'UK' - and hot reboot. - Cured! [£,#,\,' etc sorted] HTH jon John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Snowbound?
So, we in the UK are all at home in snow chat-mode! (Our fellow Scandinavians will laugh, I know.) I was 19 miles from home last evening on my push bike when the snow started (West Cheshire). And then it went dark! I had all the 'gear' and I likes a challenge! Some denial of service today on my ADSL line. But now it's back, the speed is up from (sorry Dilwyn) 15.3 to 18.9mbps and I've just seen the (welcome) note re: W7 and QPC-2. So, all round, the snow, and the central heating, has made me happy. Cheers to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
Frank said - May I be the first to wish the entire QL community a very happy new year! Thank you Frank; and may I be the first to thank you on behalf of all list readers? [Promotion... at last!] Regards and best wishes to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The QL got a mention in recent web-articles on theuntold story of the first British laptop
Thank you Urs, for the TinyURL. I found the whole related article very interesting. Goodaye all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Surgery: 3.5 floppies
Norman said - This is true, however, a number of the floppies in the drive (some older, some newer than some of the affected ones) still work and still have the data. At least, I can read them. - From experience - If push comes to shove - peel off the floppy's slide-cover. The spring is now somewhere on (in) the carpet! Prise open the cover shell from the top (adjacent to the exposed platter, by the notch) - catching the r/w window-cover is optional. (A samurai sword is too thick for prising.) Remove the platter-padding from the *lower* (drive side) side. Insert in drive. Oh yes it will - and it may be ejected as 'normal'. Get your data copied (?) Write a pointed e-mail on this list. ;-) There. That didn't hurt did it! Regards, John in Wales PS My last two mails to the list are still in cyberspace :( ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
Dilwyn said - but as usual the north west of Wales always seems to be last to get anything, way behind the M4 corridor and north east Wales.. But just think Dilwyn, if you didn't have people (like me) in north East Wales, you in the west would be next door to England yourselves. There have to be some compensations for us! ;-) (Not to mention the Distant Dunbar Duchy.) Here's hoping you soon get an improved service. --- Billy mentioned - ...an intermittent drop out, I've had that - see my improved service at the head of this thread. I since changed my exchange line setting to 'interleaved' and - so far - that seems to have helped. During this (unannounced and since) undeclared upgrade, BT surreptitiously changed my setting to 'non-interleaved' behind my back. :( I don't have to explain how all this has to do with QLing do I?! Best wishes, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] .wiz files
Dilwyn said - .. there is nothing on this computer to handle “.wiz” files (whatever those might be). It’s not just one specific .doc file it happens with, it’s each and every one. Anyone with any idea what’s going on? == .wiz files are produced by M-S Publisher. There does not appear to be an official converter (covert or otherwise!) which converts from doc. to wiz. Perhaps you should market your copy Dilwyn?! ;-) Best wishes with it, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
Greetings! I live in the UK and have a BT ADSL connection (400 metres by wire to the exchange). Generally, bandwidth was in the order of 6 to 8Mbps - usually the latter provided I did not switch of my router too frequently. Move over copper, glass has arrived. Stable reported speed (W/Xp system tray) for the past 3 days? 21.3Mbps. I like glass... and I had to tell someone. ;-) [Also might be of teccy interest - eh?] Best wishes to all, Through the glass, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner
Dilwyn said - I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching 2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when the two halves are joined after scanning. My local 'STAPLES' offers a discrete scanning service. Greetings to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites! I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted in QJewels ;) Read all the MagPi magazines. Fascinating and informative. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Daisywheel Printer?
Rich said -
Does anyone have a daisywheel printer for sale ...?
I have an Epson DX100 (wide carriage) in perfect working order. {Guts of it
made by Brother?}
Have relevant selection of perfect daisy wheels.
Have several relevant new carbon ribbons.
Have documentation with allocations of ASCII codes etc.
I might have more - if prodded!
Contact me privately Rich - if this is of interest.
John in Wales
PS How I miss the staccato/machine-gun rattle of background daisy-wheel
music! I once had code to make it 'sing' and me to smile.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL manual
Dilwyn (and Adrian Ives, Andy Dansby) Thanks for this at - http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/olqlug/index.htm Excellent. Must have been finnicky OCR and changing-formats jobs. Much appreciated. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers
printer which is recalcitrant if it is allowed to be dormant for any period of time ... if one did not know better, one would think that it, too, was broken. When THAT happens, it is necessary to spend 5-to-10 minutes (maybe, it took a longer time -- who can remember?) pressing the button which tells the printer to CLEAR its print jets (whatever the process is called to re-initiate the printer). The process also uses much ink - and money! This is exacerbated with *some* printers if the head is not 'parked' and thus sealed beforehand. i.e. Switch off *on* the printer and wait for its indicators to go out, before cutting the power supply to it. In my experience - I have 5 printers and some stand still for months - this practice has proved very worthwhile - and I've had my sanity back for some time now ;). With best wishes to all for 2012, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] n00b alert an introduction of sorts
. now if you were 13 in 1979. ! and yet enthusiasm is *still* alive and well. ;-) I thought SST stands for Super Sonic Transport when, all the time, it really designates Silicon Storage Technology from a Sinclair Schoolyard Trader. You're doubly qualified. Welcome SST Allie. John in Wales (Anyone seen a Higgs boson hereabouts toady (!)?) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QBBS
Tony said - Does anyone use the BBS now? If not, it probably makes sense to retire this machine Not I, any longer. But it has been of tremendous utility. Thank you Tony for all the associated work .and for meeting its power bills! (You did, didn't you?!) John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QaLendar 2012
Re: 2012 Calendar Thanks Dilwyn. Just what I was looking for. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7
. chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with that! ATB. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] WORD by any other name
Norm' (him wots against Jpegs) said - - Given that you are John in Wales, how about Taffs instead of Tifs? ;-) I have some near neighbours (each with a different base-1 OS). They are famous for their 'tiffs'. The Tales of Wales! On this list, I've always answered to 'John in Wales'. When I joined (last century) there were already more than enough 'John's' to go 'round (and 'round). However, you can go far with a 'Dunbar'. Best wishes to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] WORD by any other name
Malcolm said - Does anyone use Word for HTML's? -- By coincidence - because I'm to distribute some text intended for the widest possible non-technical/academic audience - I've recently done one or two tests i.e. - saving MS-WORD docs in HTM format and using a web browser to view them Results are *so* bland. Don't you dare respond... this is OT. ;-) Goodnite all, John in Wales PS Yes, .pdf's!, tif's and more, are up for evaluation. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Blog
Dave said - Well, I got married yesterday, Well Dave, congratulations and every best wish to you both - now you are soldered to one PCB. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Another Shocking Event
Norman said - My main task was to hold onto the bare plug lead wire while he cranked the engine over - to see if it was generating power! I had nearly finished installing a 240v generator in an unroaded village remote in the Eritrean Highlands - and had strung up much bare copper in the vicinity of the school - neatly, and all out of reach on poles and buildings mind you. But I knew by the questions by-standers had asked - that many had yet no real idea of what it was all about. But for boys who were always throwing sticks into trees etc to bring down snakes, and others who had already secretly blessed me as they ignorantly straddled their washing on this new Village Amenity, I knew (like Norman's Dad) that a little education was necessary - but *before* switch-on day. So, we assembled all 120 or so pupils at the school and I got them to stand around me in a large circle under the blazing sun. Then - with a bit of play-acting I shall miss out here because it would be non-electron and therefore off-topic(!) - I broke the circle and handed the child on either side of me a bared wire each to hold. The wires were already attached to my 'Mega Tester' with its crank-handle (thumb on the opposite side) and its 500v generator. I made a speech! Then, with a *very* careful eye on the Mega's reading, I cranked the handle *very* slowly until it suddenly fell to zero. There followed a very animated and switched-on discussion. This cycle was of crank, tingle and discuss was repeated some few times and although (disappointing to Tony) there were no wet tongues involved, spitting on hands was part of the advanced and shocking drills conducted (!) Who would stay in the ever diminishing circle developed into a sort of macho party game. I'd probably be locked up today for that. But I never (in the years that followed) received a report of anyone receiving a shock - even in the rains - and that day added not a few new words to my vocabulary of the local language. Are you shocked?! John in Wales PS When the Ethiopian Army arrived, they were very puzzled at the presence - 40 miles from the nearest town - of those 'telephone wires'. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The Spring 2011 QL Survery
I've followed this thread... or so I though, but Dave (Plastic) what does this mean please? - strong characters John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The Spring 2011 QL Survery
As Ralph said - Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Fingers and Thumbs
It has recently been said - --- That is what I was saying - 'digits' means both fingers and thumbs in English. We usually say (incorrectly) that we have five fingers on each hand. We don't. We have four fingers and one thumb. --- I always think of thumbs as a sub-set of fingers; like, just for for instance, I think of Serial Ports as a sub-set of Dilwyn; Sheds as a sub-set of Tony and that Programming Language (the name of which I can't just now remember) as a subset of Norman. Of course, there are many other worthies, with soft and hard sub-sets amongst us, but you get my drift, I'm sure. ;-) John, a sub-set of Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Wondering...
Dave said - It seems I will have to start saving for a UK spec QL, pronto. Having a real QL to work on is important to me. Before Norman pulls muscle in his attic AND/OR goin' down the Post Office... what about a possible PSU 50/60Hz mains supply problem - especially if Dave is in The States? John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC
Tobias helpfully said - Dave, the manual is right here and your memory is wrong ;-). - Brave Dave, Do you have a copy of Jan Jones? It's great for *all* SBasic INSTR-uctions. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC
221 lines of code! Tobias, do have more 'lazy Sunday afternoons', please. Wish I could have written the same - it's poked some valuable ideas into my memory. Thank you. In there however, is a small shadow, specifically regarding your SELect ON's. Does your code rely on the additional utility provided by SBasic but which is not present in (Jan Jones') SuperBASIC? Will the code perform in the 'all native original QL' platform that Dave is anxious to use? Goodnight all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 12th February 2011
What do I know about Derby? It's where they say Twosdee. That is, unless it isn't. And give over, if you 'avn't. I hear it a lot! John in Wales PS: Off topic? Of course not - it's a space-filler for the Toady Editor ;) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT - Proposed cut to BT broadband charges in rural areas
Re: Malcom's and Dilwyns recent references to Wales and broadband speeds. I pay for 'up to 8Mbps' About 20% of the time I get a reported (and experienced!) '8.1' This, I have enjoyed for about 15 months. Lucky me. '5.8' is the lowest report I have seen - and there's a constant display in the Xp System Tray. Have fun 'plastic user' Avergoodaye all. John in Wales. P...t In a reasonable North Easterly wind, I can spit as far as the local telephone exchange. :) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
