Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball
François, Correction - I thought he passed away in March 2018 ? In any case, he is still sorely missed. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2022-03-17 10:00, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote: Stuart Honeyball passed away. Sad news Thoughts are with his family and friends. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball
That is indeed sad news - he was one of the great innovators for the QL. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2022-03-17 10:00, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote: Stuart Honeyball passed away. Sad news Thoughts are with his family and friends. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Open source Floppy controller and Eprom programmer
Many thanks for this Marcel - I daresay that Tetroid will find this interesting - an EPROM programmer would certainly be a bonus Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2020-09-05 20:57, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: I have written a bit about my old (and very customized) QL and only 30 years later I also open sourced two pieces of the hardware: 1. a Sandy SuperQBoard clone called the "Herbert card", named after my late father. It features a floppy controller, parallel port and mouse adapter. Unlike the SuperQBoard the Herbert card is HD compatible! 2. Jochen Hassler's Eprommer-II board that can burn EPROMs and even program old GAL chips. That was pretty advanced for its time I included current KiCAD schematics, layouts, ROMs and even source code, so everything is there to built it, enjoy! I've linked to the individual articles here: https://www.kilgus.net/2020/09/05/hardware-from-my-past/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD order page
Thanks Marcel - it will also be worth listing some on sellmyretro - as there are a few people who have been looking for these to go with their Gold Card clones :) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2018-08-31 19:23, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Hi everyone. I decided ql-users as the long-time home of most long-time users get the link to the QL-SD order page first: https://www.kilgus.net/ql/order/ Soon I will also publish it in QL Forum and Facebook. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] GDPR and 25th May
On 2018-05-04 20:55, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: Hi, Possibly true - although if an IP address can be classified as personal data or a factor specific to the identity of that natural person, I am sure an email address can be. I forget all of the mailing list commands, but there used to be one where you could get a list of email subscribers, and of course the online archive still contains past messages, including where people may have entered their name, website, or address as part of their signature. There is then no way to exercise the right to be forgotten. Presumably the software behind the mailing list will itself be updated at some point Maybe. If ALL you have is a list of email addresses, I'd tend to think that this information by itself is not something with which a person can be identified. I certainly didn't give any other information than than hen suscribing - after all, all it took was to send an email to the list maintainer. I'm not aware of an online archive. Is that maintained by the owner of the list? I am fairly sure that if an IP address is enough for the legislation (bearing in mind that they rotate and not many people have fixed IP addresses), an email address is sufficient to identify a person's online identity... The archive is automatically stored by the list software and (at least ql-users) is only accessible to users of the list. You can unsubscribe (but the list might not store the date and time of unsubsribing) through: http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com This also allows registered users of the list to access the full list of members :( Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] GDPR and 25th May
On 2018-05-04 20:35, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: Hi, Article 30, section 5: "5. The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to an enterprise or an organisation employing fewer than 250 persons unless the processing it carries out is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, the processing is not occasional, or the processing includes special categories of data as referred to in Article 9(1) or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10." I think this makes the mailing list excempt from the need to keep detailed records. Under the presumption that less than 250 people manage the mailing list, of course. This only applies to the need for a data controller and processor, not the general duties under the GDPR. Ah yes - so it appears: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/documentation/who-needs-to-document-their-processing-activities/ However, "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system." (art 2) and '‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;' (art 4-1) and 'processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction; (art 4-2) Whether an email list, where it may be argued that no processing of personal data is done, falls under that scope is, at least, debatable... Possibly true - although if an IP address can be classified as personal data or a factor specific to the identity of that natural person, I am sure an email address can be. I forget all of the mailing list commands, but there used to be one where you could get a list of email subscribers, and of course the online archive still contains past messages, including where people may have entered their name, website, or address as part of their signature. There is then no way to exercise the right to be forgotten. Presumably the software behind the mailing list will itself be updated at some point Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] QPC2 4.04 BUG
Does anyone know why the following in QPC2 reports "Invalid Channel ID" WINDOW 448,200,32,16 PAPER #1,3 In fact, any attempt to change #1 after the WINDOW command reports an invalid channel. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Cueshell
Excellent. Happy Easter all. We need someone to add details about your history, Marcel on the QL Wiki; and pretty much all of the software which you have released. There is currently only a page on DISA and one on QPC2. There are lots of other pages that people can contribute to also - http://qlwiki.qlforum.co.uk Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2018-03-31 20:16, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Happy Eastern everyone, today I'm proud to present to you Albin Hessler's Cueshell, in my eyes the best file manager ever written for the QL: https://www.kilgus.net/2018/03/31/cueshell-the-definitive-file-manager-for-the-ql/ All the best, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD news
That is great news Marcel :) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2018-03-29 22:29, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Speaking of only announcing stuff that basically already works, I have made huge progress regarding my work on QL-SD that I was going to write about today anyway: https://www.kilgus.net/2018/03/29/ql-sd-news/ Hope this is interesting to you all. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Sector X game
Actually, it works on QDOS too (at least on q-emulator) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2018-03-27 21:02, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: Sector X, a fun shoot 'em up game from Horst Spierling, is now available to download as freeware. Needs 256K RAM and Minerva. Download it from the Games page on my site: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html or http://www.greybeardz.com/games/index.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Some QL Newbie Questions: Modern video and storage upgrades for QL
You can see the range of currently available expansion options on sellmyretro: https://www.sellmyretro.com/search/naturalSearch?keyword=ql+interface There is also the vDriveQL and the QL-SD Interface (both are currently out of stock). More info on the vDriveQL appears at https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/29035 More info on the QL-SD appears at: https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/QL-SD-internal-SDHC-Card-Interface-for-QL-3703 Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2018-01-06 01:41, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote: There's a lot of forks in the road for you. There are emulators, that give you a functioning QL on your PC or Mac. Hundreds of times faster, modern storage, semi-modern display capabilities with higher resolutions and more colors. If you want to stick with original hardware, there's a few choices. For Black Box QL (BBQL) purists, there are QubIDE expansions that take CompactFlash cards, and a nifty thing called QL-SD that fits internally and offers one or two SD slots. There are Trump Card clones, Gold Card clones (an accelerator that replaces the CPU with a faster one, and adds 2MBytes of RAM. Finally, you can get a Q68 - it is a small hand-sized QL clone with VGA output, two SD slots, comes with a modern version of the QL operating system called SMSQ/E, and uses a PS/2 keyboard and mouse and standard VGA LCD monitor. There are at least three or four hobbyists like me producing new hardware even today, so the machines are well supported. If your keyboard membrane fails (they get brittle with age) you can easily buy a replacement. Hope this helps... Dave On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Michael R. Furman via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: Hello, I’ve been lurking on this list for many years and never posted, so I thought I’d introduce myself before asking my QL Newbie questions. Even though I’m in the US I've grown up with (Timex/)Sinclair computers around probably like many of you on this list. While it was not the first computer I ever used or my favorite when I was a kid the first computer that was fully 100% mine was a Timex/Sinclair 1000. In the mid to late 80’s my dad and I belonged to the Group Using Timex Sinclair Cambridge of Silicon Valley that met in Cupertino, CA. A few of the people had QL’s. The user’s group coordinator used a QL to make the newsletter ( https://archive.org/details/sincLink-v8-n7-1989-07 < https://archive.org/details/sincLink-v8-n7-1989-07>) and I was always jealous of a teenage programmer Mark Wahl that brought his QL with Amdek RGB Monitor and dual floppy drive system to the club meetings and showed off his nifty C programs (a few are mentioned in the newsletter) Mark seemed like the kind of whiz that Linus Torvalds probably was back when he was playing with his QL... I picked up a QL with a US power supply a few years ago off of Ebay. I pulled it out of the closet around Christmas and it fired up and I could still load all the micro drives that came with it. But using the RF TV output is a bit underwhelming, and while i could use the micro drives I want to leave them alone and use something more modern… What is the easiest way to connect a QL to a modern VGA or HDMI monitor? What hardware upgrades are currently available for connecting modern storage like SD Card or Compact Flash to the QL? Are there any servers that run on a PC that act as a file server to the QL over the serial port that could be used in place of floppy/CF/SD hardware? We have this for our Tandy RadioShack TRS-80 computers, it’s called DriveWire — Michael R. Furman Email: n...@ocs.net Phone: +1 (408) 480-5865 ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] vDrive QL
Charlie Ingley has now listed a batch of his vDriveQL units on sellmyretro : https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/vdrive-ql-28715 He has not yet listed the vMap. For those who have not come across this - the vDriveQL connects to the QL microdrive expansion slot (and can be mounted in a ZX Microdrive case if you like) and allows you to allocate microdrive image files to the QL microdrive slots. The vMap is an extra board which plugs into the microdrive connectors on the QL motherboard and allows you to move the slots allocated to the internal microdrive units, so it is then easy to (say) run a copy protected game from a microdrive image file on an SD card mounted in the external vDrive. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QMenu v8
The main problem I know of with QMenu v8 is that QDT no longer works properly - you cannot create a new program icon in a QDT window Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2017-09-20 20:51, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote: Op 20/09/2017 om 20:32 schreef Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users: IIRC, version 8 only worked on recent systems such as QPC2, or at least had only limited functionality on older ones. V7.66 menu_rext is available from my website (Programming Utils page) - a manual for either would be quite welcome since Marcel has confirmed it'd be OK to make it available. Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Christopher Cave via Ql-Users Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:20 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Christopher Cave Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QMenu v8 I'm sorry to be so slow but are we talking about the QMenu v8 manual in front of me? Christopher Cave mailto:cc...@cix.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com . ___ QL-Users Mailing List Hi, Just tested qmenu v.8.02 It works on qpc, smsqmulator, Black Phoenix . tested this without a problem: fn$="open dbs file" :sg$="QBASE":d$="DEV1_DBSFILES_":x$="_dbs" regards, François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Q68 Advance Notice 2 - Pricing
Excellent - why not put some on sellmyretro as a pre-order that will help you keep track of orders / interest more easily. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2017-09-09 09:27, Lee via Ql-Users wrote: How to reserve Derek? I would like one. Sent from my iPhone On 9 Sep 2017, at 09:21, Derek Stewart via Ql-Users <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: Q68 Price List - Batch 1 --- Q68 board, 4Gb SDHC Card, SMSQ/E: £150.00 Black Case: £20 Belkin Black PS/2 spliter: £2.00 General Release date: 09/10/2017 20 completed and tested Q68 boards, available. Once this quantity is exceeded, I will order more Q68 PCBs to be manufactured. -- Regards, Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QLiberator and QLOADREF
Just a quick note that strictly, Adrian didn't say yes to RPM - I think they had forgotten that utility but he said he would dig out all of his old disks and see what software and sources (when he returns to New Zealand in the next few days) and see what he can access. I have v1.9 of QLOAD and v1.3 of QREF - were they the last versions? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2017-06-13 18:43, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: Rich Mellor has been able to secure permission for the Liberation Software range of compilers and utilities to be released as freeware. So I have made available copies of the version 1 compiler and manual (formerly known as Budget QLiberator) and version 3.36 compiler and manual on a new QLiberator page on my website. The version 1 compiler has less demanding requirements and can run on lower specification QL systems. Also available is the modified runtimes, patched for the problem where the ERNUM and ERLIN error returns can be reversed in the standard compiler runtimes if you use the RNUM and ERLIN functions in your programs. Additionally, an enhanced patch program for the compiler, allowing the heap area to be made larger than the 512K limit of the original software. The QLOAD and QREF utilities are also available. QLOAD/QSAVE provide tokenised fast load and save programs for SuperBASIC (not needed in SBASIC as it has its own version of the QLOAD and QSAVE extensions). QREF is a BASIC programming utility for SuperBASIC and SMSQ/E, allowing you to list variables, procedures, functions etc, plus a QFIND utility to locate a name within a program. A patch program is supplied to patch the standard QREF to work with the new binary and hexadecimal format constants in SBASIC (values preceded by % or $). A manual for this utility will follow when I've had time to OCR it). Finally, RPM is a Resident Program Manager, for creating resident files from extensions, SuperBASIC programs, QLiberator object and other executable programs, and some data files. A manual for this will also follow once I've had time to OCR it. We are very grateful to Ian Stewart and Adrian Soundy of Liberation Software for letting us make these great programs available. Download them all from the new QLiberator page on my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlib/index.html or at http://www.greybeardz.com/qlib/index.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] R: Test email
This is what I have been trying to get people to understand... We are too reliant on sites run and maintained by one individual - a long term approach is required to ensure that domain names, hosting and maintenance are retained in the long term without expecting a single over-worked individual (who may have family or health issues for example) to drop everything and get sites up and running, tackle spammers and other website attacks etc... There has been some interest in people creating mirrors of sites, but in my opinion this is not the long term solution we require. If you need an example of how things can go dramatically wrong, you just have to look at the mess surrounding the ZX Vega+ and Retro Computers Limited (RCL), where they have domain names (and Indiegogo campaigns) owned by former directors, websites hosted by other individuals and then when the directors have left and fallen out with the remaining management everything gets left in abeyance resulting in two of their web-domains now owned by people who are attacking the Company. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2017-05-07 19:16, d.santachi...@libero.it wrote: His web site is still down, what happened? Is there any backup available somewhere (if not I think it is time to think about it being one of the more (most likely the most) comprehensive site with Sinclair QL information and software)? Regards Davide -Messaggio originale- Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Graeme Gregory Inviato: domenica 7 maggio 2017 20:00 A: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] Test email On Sun, 7 May 2017, at 05:58 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Just testing to see that the change of email address worked. Yahoo, Dilwyn is back! :-D ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)
On 2017-03-24 00:37, Adrian Graham wrote: On 20/03/2017 10:21, "Rich Mellor" <r...@rwapservices.co.uk> wrote: Good morning all, Does anyone have a copy of the Quill adventure writer by Gilsoft? Tim Gilberts (who ran Gilsoft) has been looking into this and found a version A03 copy. I myself only have version A00. Tim asked if anyone has a later version than A03. Evening all, or is it morning now. Anyway, I have a working copy of Speccy Quill A06 and 1984 has just come flooding back to me when I was writing bad adventures :) Cheers, The Spectrum version is already preserved and available - thanks. It is the QL version which seems to be old. It would be nice to see if Tim could help get Illustrator support on the QL Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] New TK II version 2.30
On 2017-03-19 22:28, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Why? Because I can. Read the details here: https://www.kilgus.net/2017/03/19/toolkit-ii-the-sequel/ That is great - many thanks Marcel :) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Preview
I realise that - but it is never good practice to click a link in an email which has no explanation - as it could send you anywhere! On 2017-02-16 06:53, Giorgio Garabello wrote: but the explanation (short, I know) is inside the article... :-O 2017-02-15 23:11 GMT+01:00 Peter Graf <pg...@q40.de>: Am 15.02.2017 um 21:52 schrieb Giorgio Garabello: > http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/preview/ > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Cool! ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Preview
It looks good - although Giorgio, it is advisable not to just send a link to the group without any explanation as most people will guess it is just spam! On 2017-02-15 20:52, Giorgio Garabello wrote: http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/preview/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] PRINT_USING bug
On 2017-02-12 17:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I discovered a minor bug in SMSQ/E V 3.28's SBASIC today: In PRINT_USING the @ cancel character doesnt work as advertised. I know the danger of reporting something trivial like this is that someone will say "Ok, then fix it!" ;) It may (or may not) be trivial to fix, I havent got round to checking, its just that the distraction would be rather inconvenient right now.. Also, the bug may be in the manual, and somebody may already have the answer to that? Try: PRINT_USING '# @- #', 1, 2 It SHOULD output 1 - 2 Instead it outputs 1 @2 If I am reading my own notes correctly in the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual you are using the @ symbol instead of the (c) symbol http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/KeywordsP.clean.html#print-using Ah, thanks, Rich. The bug was in the QPC2 V1.02 manual There are a few more there which I may send to the Author once I get round to it. Interestingly, the Miracle Systems manuals for Toolkit 2 also state to use the @ AT symbol (I'm looking at Gold Card manual). Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List Yes - if you read the notes in the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual, you will see that we also spotted this issue in various Toolkit II manuals... From memory it took me a while to work out the correct parameter! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] SBASIC 'ls' procedure
On 2017-02-12 16:43, Jan Bredenbeek wrote: On 12 February 2017 at 15:29, RWAP Software <r...@rwapservices.co.uk> wrote: Hi Jan, That is great - it is a nice function which can be useful. Could I ask you to consider moving (or Forking?) the repository to the new SInclair QL Github, as this is intended to keep all of the QL stuff together - Done that - the directory structure is a bit strange now but I'll correct that asap. Thanks Jan - I have also found a few more Github repositories and forked them across :) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] PRINT_USING bug
On 2017-02-12 16:38, pjwitte wrote: I discovered a minor bug in SMSQ/E V 3.28's SBASIC today: In PRINT_USING the @ cancel character doesnt work as advertised. I know the danger of reporting something trivial like this is that someone will say "Ok, then fix it!" ;) It may (or may not) be trivial to fix, I havent got round to checking, its just that the distraction would be rather inconvenient right now.. Also, the bug may be in the manual, and somebody may already have the answer to that? Try: PRINT_USING '# @- #', 1, 2 It SHOULD output 1 - 2 Instead it outputs 1 @2 If I am reading my own notes correctly in the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual you are using the @ symbol instead of the (c) symbol http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/KeywordsP.clean.html#print-using Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] SBASIC 'ls' procedure
Hi Jan, That is great - it is a nice function which can be useful. Could I ask you to consider moving (or Forking?) the repository to the new SInclair QL Github, as this is intended to keep all of the QL stuff together - https://github.com/SinclairQL Rich On 2017-02-12 14:24, Jan Bredenbeek wrote: I've updated the code with various improvements and fixes: - Listing now adjusts to window size and can be aborted by pressing 'Q' or ESC, even when recursing directories; - Redirection by DEV device is now handled correctly (so long as you don't rename the DEV device itself ;)) - SMSQ is no longer required; it will now also work on native QL with TK2 and Minerva fitted. - NOTE: On non-V2 drivers which don't support subdirectories, ls will fail because the FNAME$ function stops with 'bad parameter' on directory channels. This can be avoided by adjusting line 1710 in the code (as indicated in the REMarks). I'll probably have to design another machine code call to find out whether a device is V2 or not :( https://github.com/janbredenbeek/QL/blob/master/SBASIC/ls_bas Jan. On 3 February 2017 at 11:31, Jan Bredenbeek <j...@bredenbeek.net> wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On 3 February 2017 at 05:01, Wolf <w...@wlenerz.com> wrote: Are you aware of the SUB device by Phil Borman? It does the same thing, and there is no copright problem since it's on Dilwyn's page ( http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/index.html) Thanks, I can vaguely remember it (it might as well be in my BBS archive). Pity it has no source code but indeed a nice thing to learn using DISA. As for the copyright issue, I only do it out of curiosity but it might be useful inspiration to improve the DEV device ;). regards, -- *Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] The Wall
Great game :) Wolfgang - can you add details about Balled and The Wall to the QL WIki as these programs are missing from the site... Rich Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] smsqeXXX_binaries
On 2016-12-03 17:43, Marcel Kilgus wrote: "GoldCard_256colours.bin" (S)GC + Aurora mode screen driver (NO QL mode!) Not sure why one would want to use that. Cheers, Marcel I assume this is for use with q-emulator, although I am not sure! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Level 2 Device Drivers
On 2016-11-28 21:12, RWAP Software wrote: Does anyone have any contact details for Jurgen Falkenberg, or Jochen Hassler ? Tetroid (on SellMyRetro) is working on a new QL interface which merges the Trump Card and QubIDE interfaces and ideally it would be good to include the Level 2 device drivers and ATR device for the Trump Card element. Alternatively, is there another way of adding Level 2 device drivers? More details of the interface and pictures appear on the QL Forum thread - http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2=1670 Whilst on this subject - does anyone have any contact details for Phil Borman - there are a few things it would be nice to include in the QubIDE driver. There is also the problem, that whilst the source code for the QubIDE v2 ROM was released, the v2 GAL code required to use that ROM code does not appear to be available anywhere! Rich ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Level 2 Device Drivers
Does anyone have any contact details for Jurgen Falkenberg, or Jochen Hassler ? Tetroid (on SellMyRetro) is working on a new QL interface which merges the Trump Card and QubIDE interfaces and ideally it would be good to include the Level 2 device drivers and ATR device for the Trump Card element. Alternatively, is there another way of adding Level 2 device drivers? More details of the interface and pictures appear on the QL Forum thread - http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2=1670 Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] RWAP Software 30th Anniversary
For those who are not part of the QL Forums 1st November 2016 marked the 30th Anniversary of the launch of RWAP Software. I am running a few competitions and releasing some of my titles as freeware as part of the celebrations! Keep your eyes on the QL Forums for news... www.qlforum.co.uk --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-11-03 20:12, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Marcel, Up until I added the DJToolkit entries, everything else was as Rich's original. So the cease and desists should be pointed in his direction! ;-) When I have time, unless anyone else does it first, I'll see if I can add in your other QPC commands and maybe the ones from Smsqemulator as recently updated by Wolfgang. Lunch hours are few and far between right now a I have a huge migration of an Oracle system from Solaris to "the cloud" as my raisin d'etre (!) At the moment. I suppose I better do a "how to" just on the off chance that anyone is interested in updating the manual! And I had noticed your links on QLForum too! I was glad to see good use being made of my hard work, but obviously huge thanks must be directed at Rich for the original work. I'm merely taking the glory for the work of others! The SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual was of course a huge project - whilst there were originally 3 of us involved in writing it (myself, Franz Hermann and Peter Jaeger), I took on the mantel before its original publication, and it was then published in 2 large A4 ring binders, over 1500 pages in total; but released in that format to make it possible to issue updates. We released 4 updates to the original over the years, and then it was converted to PDF and sold on CD-ROM, but I ran out of time and resources to do any more updates to the manual, so there are probably a lot of commands and information which could still be added (for example, changes to SMSQ/e since about 2010). The conversion to HTML format as a community project which could be easily updated by all then made the next sensible step, but with the manual written in Text87 format, this required a lot of re-formatting, which has now been done to a very high standard, thanks to tools originally written by myself and (Geoff Wicks I seem to recall), and then improved on by Norman to whom I am very much grateful. Now is the time for everyone else to start updating and contributing to the manual to keep it current and ensure that it remains the must have reference to SuperBASIC programming knowledge. Rich Mellor www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Software Preservation
I assume that despite all of the comments and publicity around the preservation projects, no-one else has volunteered to help with the hard work? --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2016-08-07 11:37, Simone Voltolini wrote: I’ve seen it and backupped all. Me and Max have the check more than…1000 dumps on MD too ;) When we will finishi these we will go through all your preserved stuff and…all Free stuff from Dilwyn too ;) The work is VERY LONG: I think we will finish in 2/3 years…not before…we preserve 550 titles (checked and saved in the original format) in 10 months. The works is very long dear ;) Il giorno 07/08/16, 12:30 "Ql-Users per conto di RWAP Software" <ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com per conto di r...@rwapservices.co.uk> ha scritto: Glad to hear it but it would help keep interest in the project (and save on duplication) if there were some more updates available... I posted the link to the spreadsheet I created which lists all of the QL software (and also now includes a list of the public domain stuff), but have had no feedback on it at all! Rich --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2016-08-07 11:07, Simone Voltolini wrote: > Well we are continuing preserve and find new rare stuff Rich ;) > > The work is very very very long. > > Il giorno 07/08/16, 11:28 "Ql-Users per conto di RWAP Software" > <ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com per conto di > r...@rwapservices.co.uk> ha scritto: > > Following all of the recent discussions and fairly heated debate > over > copyright and software preservation; I was just wondering what has > been > achieved in the past few weeks as there has been no news over any > rare > finds, or software being re-released? > > > > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > www.sellmyretro.com > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > > > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Software Preservation
Glad to hear it but it would help keep interest in the project (and save
on duplication) if there were some more updates available...
I posted the link to the spreadsheet I created which lists all of the QL
software (and also now includes a list of the public domain stuff), but
have had no feedback on it at all!
Rich
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Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com
On 2016-08-07 11:07, Simone Voltolini wrote:
Well we are continuing preserve and find new rare stuff Rich ;)
The work is very very very long.
Il giorno 07/08/16, 11:28 "Ql-Users per conto di RWAP Software"
<ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com per conto di
r...@rwapservices.co.uk> ha scritto:
Following all of the recent discussions and fairly heated debate
over
copyright and software preservation; I was just wondering what has
been
achieved in the past few weeks as there has been no news over any
rare
finds, or software being re-released?
Rich Mellor
RWAP Software
www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
www.sellmyretro.com
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[Ql-Users] QL Software Preservation
Following all of the recent discussions and fairly heated debate over copyright and software preservation; I was just wondering what has been achieved in the past few weeks as there has been no news over any rare finds, or software being re-released? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Why so slow?
It could depend on a couple of things I should imagine: a) Whether the win file is fragmented on your PC's hard disk b) Whether the win file is full so each write it has to be extended first to make room c) The size of your swap file on the PC and how that is being used (again that may be fragmented) Rich --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com On 2016-08-05 17:11, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi, Why is writing to WIN device so slow compared to writing to RAM and DOS device? Converting a 500KB DBF-file (dbase3/foxbase) DBS-file from dos1_ 1) to RAM1_ less than 15 sec. 2) to DOS1_ less than 20 sec. 3) to WIN2_ more than 25 MINUTES Why such a huge difference? François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
