Re: [Ql-Users] QL Master Spy configuration
On 23/11/2011 18:32, Memory Lane Computing Ltd wrote: Richard, Thanks for this. Somebody on this list was kind enough to send me a scan of the manual which solved my immediate problem at the time, but it's also very useful to have this list available in text form. I have always liked the MasterSpy and it's still the first editor that I turn to when I'm using the QL or one of its emulators ... which seems to be very frequently lately ;) Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-bounces@lists.q-v- d.com] On Behalf Of Richard Howe Sent: 23 November 2011 13:44 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Master Spy configuration SNIP After digging in the loft a bit I found the following for version 2. SNIP ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm A while ago, a long while ago actually, when I was running QBranch, we did a deal and released a big screen version of MasterSpy. I have that and an updated manual somewhere. I will try to rescue it for you. roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
On 21/09/2011 16:44, Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave Parkplasticu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been looking at the assorted hardware I have and the online literature, and decided that the info doesn't cut it. I look at the knowledge and experience of the members on this list and know we can do a lot better. Take an example: The Aurora has a manual in Quill format, which I cannot access. However, the OS, drivers and etc have developed a lot since then, so I am sure those who know could outline the current state of play and answer questions from the peanut gallery - often what people want to know is not in the manual. Also, often, quirks and bugs have come to light, or been fixed, and people just don't know... What comes out of it is a repository of fresh information and discussion and a lot of people who can then take the info and use it to flesh out the QL wiki and technical library. To that end I think if we choose one interesting piece of hardware and one interesting piece of software each month, and discuss them in detail... I suggest to get the ball rolling, for the hardware we discuss Aurora, and for software, we discuss QPCII. The AUrora discussion can continue in this thread and QPCII discussion in a new thread I'll start in a minute. Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have it in Word format - drop me an email and I will send it to you. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there
On 29/03/2011 10:36, Petri Pellinen wrote: Indeed it was :) They are the guys who brought Genuine People Personalities to the market, i.e. Marvin, the Paranoid Android :) On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Something just occurred to me - wasn't Sirius Cybernetics some company in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or something like that? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm And the company motto became 'Go Stick Your Head In A Pig' when half their sign sank into the ground. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] ATX controller...
On 24/02/2011 16:39, Tony Firshman wrote: Dave Park wrote, on 24/Feb/11 16:02 | Feb24: Dave/ I have completed and tested the design of my ATX controller. It has been tested with 12 different 20 and 24 pin ATX 2.X power supplies ranging from 180W to 750W. It works perfectly. I am now taking this prototype and turning it into PCB form. It will allow anyone who has cased their QL to case it in an ATX case with proper power supply control. This will dramatically widen the choices for cases, and when combined with a backplane will allow ultimate expansion choices. I have designed it so a flying lead can also supply well-regulated +5v through the QL expansion interface, and/or through the location where the 7805 voltage regulator normally fits. I will be traveling the next few days, but I will publish the gerbers and schematic when I get back, and do the math on a small production run next week. Have a great weekend, everyone! Sounds great. Traveling and Math though - you are becoming an American (8-)# Tony Do you remember me suggesting that you made something like this back in the old days - on on eof our many QL jaunts? When we were talking about new products. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] ATX controller...
On 24/02/2011 21:20, Tony Firshman wrote: Roy Wood wrote, on 24/Feb/11 20:00 | Feb24: On 24/02/2011 16:39, Tony Firshman wrote: Dave Park wrote, on 24/Feb/11 16:02 | Feb24: Dave/ I have completed and tested the design of my ATX controller. It has been tested with 12 different 20 and 24 pin ATX 2.X power supplies ranging from 180W to 750W. It works perfectly. I am now taking this prototype and turning it into PCB form. It will allow anyone who has cased their QL to case it in an ATX case with proper power supply control. This will dramatically widen the choices for cases, and when combined with a backplane will allow ultimate expansion choices. I have designed it so a flying lead can also supply well-regulated +5v through the QL expansion interface, and/or through the location where the 7805 voltage regulator normally fits. I will be traveling the next few days, but I will publish the gerbers and schematic when I get back, and do the math on a small production run next week. Have a great weekend, everyone! Sounds great. Traveling and Math though - you are becoming an American (8-)# Tony Do you remember me suggesting that you made something like this back in the old days - on on eof our many QL jaunts? When we were talking about new products. I don't, but my memory is not what it used to be! Tony How doo you know then? Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
On 03/02/2011 22:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote: - Original Message - From: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check This might help though, so Qubide still an option? http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi-Directional-Adapter/dp/B000YSMBSW Lee Privett At just under £20, an interesting option to consider, certainly. Sad though that, as Tobias said, it seems that Jan has no plans to do any further work on the 'new' Qubide. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Back when I still had an Aurora setup I tried an IDE to SATA adaptor in my Qubide but the it failed to recognise it. This was probably down to the firmware in the Qubide but that is another hurdle. since there are cheap 2Gb Compact flash cards and they are, basically IDE anyway. That would seem to be a useful route to take with little recoding to do. I will go back to just reading this now, -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Air Traffic Control Sim
On 31/01/2011 20:55, Tony Firshman wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote, on 31/Jan/11 11:08 | Jan31: Hi Dave, being a private pilot and an ATC sim fan myself this is a very interesting project. Looks like a nice initial concept. Are you going to share the source code for this somewhere (github, sourceforge, ...) ? Maybe couple of different types of aircraft and related performace values. Would add nice flavour when you can't tell a Cessna to maintain a 2500 fpm climb ;) Or tell a LearJet to slow down to 80 on the final. Best of luck with the project and especially your recovery! Peter Fox should also be interested. He has a Piper Comanche twin. Tony Not any more , I think. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Programming project request...
On 25/01/2011 16:18, Tony Firshman wrote: Norman Dunbar wrote, on 25/Jan/11 08:23 | Jan25: My real heart's desire is, ironically, a hardware/software project, to put together a package of an ARM-based embedded computer with Linux, booting right into uQLx, so that it is basically a QL. Getting it so it can fit inside a QL case with PSU and a couple of laptop SATA HDs or compact flash cards Far too costly - it will cost you and 'ARM' and a leg. ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Ah that reminds me of a group of people standing around a QLer in Eindhoven showing off his digital camera, in the very early days of these. I said That must have cost you an arm and a leg - innocently I assure you. He had physical problems and very little use of his arms and hands. Fortunately he spoke little English and did not understand, but he must have thought I made a good joke, from the laughter around (8-)# Tony Actually he was missing a hand and part of the arm. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL
On 22/09/2010 12:47, Davide Santachiara wrote: 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I wrote a review of this printer for QL Today a while ago. I sold my one at a QL show in Birmingham but it worked fine with te QL as far as I can remember. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
On 21/06/2010 20:10, Malcolm Cadman wrote: SNIP No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be . :-) Was it the Rocky Horror Show? - 'Don't dream it - be it!' -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
On 20/06/2010 20:03, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 18/06/10 00:15, Tony Firshman wrote: I have that set but it doesn't spell check. Looks like a bug (3.0.4). That's interesting Tony. Roy on Windows and you on Mac and me on Linux, all using 3.0.4 (I think Roy mentioned 3.0.4) and only Linux can spell check as you type. Spooky! Works fine for me here. Thankfully. My only problem with it is when the words I type are correctly spelled/spelt but they are the wrong words! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm 3.0.5 actually -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
On 20/06/2010 20:52, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 18/06/10 00:42, Roy Wood wrote: It was the threading that I was referring to. Turnpike would put thum into subject threads but Thunderbird just puts them in a long, jumbled, list - just like Outlook! Well, mine are threaded, by subject, threads start with the initial posting and new stuff is added in date order, beneath. Nope - not here - all jumbled up. Oh and 'Reply' and 'Reply to list do the same thing. Maybe I have not set it up right but I don;t log on here much - except this week. Reply replies to the sender. Reply to List replies to a list or newsgroup. In the case of this list, the sender and the list are one and the same. In the case of the Oracle-L list I subscribe to, reply to sender send the email back to the poster and not to the list, reply to list does the opposite - oracle-l gets it, not the OP. (Well, the OP gets it from the list but not directly from me.) It's not you and not TBird that is at fault, it's simply the fact that the sender is the list in this case. It did not work that way in Turnpike. If you hit private reply it replied direct to the sender and not the list. Free software is like that too sometimes, I agree. Mind you, commercial software is just as bad. Now, funnily enough, I was discussing this last night with 6 people in the Dive Club BSAC or PADI? I'm an old BSAC myself. I am a BSAC Dive Leader, Diver Cox and Open Water Instructor. Currently the clubs Diving Officer and just finishing the Advanced Diver course. SNIP. There you could not resist replying again - even though I have just driven back from a songwriting session in London. Now you have my full admiration there Roy. I do admire people who have talent - music, crafts or whatever. I have very little I'm afraid. I can play my digeridoo (now that gave the spell checker a headache!) as long as I don't have to circular breathe - I have yet to master that little nicety. Good luck with the songs. Well I don't know if I have talent. I enjoy writing, songs, blogs on my MySpace page and I used to enjoy writing the QL Today columns. Songs are the best because they are more personal. I do it, like I do everything really, purely for the fun of doing it. I leave it for others to decide if they are worth it or not. Like you I never got much feedback from the articles I wrote. One of my main problems in life was that, most of teh time, I never did anything for money. It never really interested me. These days I do a job I quite dislike so that is probably the first time in many years that I have done normal work. Everything else is just for fun. I spent all day yesterday running the siund, and providing the sound equipment for a local open air show. 11 hours work for free. But I had a great time. That is what life is all about. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Subgroups - Survival - continued
On 18/06/2010 20:37, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Roy - I take it you want the Sussex group entry removed, then? Unless someone else has convened a group - yes. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
On 17/06/2010 21:51, Norman Dunbar wrote: I am typing this in Thunderbird (which I don't really like but Turnpike, which dealt with these lists much better, will not run on W7. Funnily enough, I never got to grips with Turnpike when I first started up with Demon. Thunderbird has been my email client of choice since it came out. I do admit to problem with version 3 and those damned smart folders (a bit like Word's Smart quotes in a way, neither of them are smart in the slightest!). Tony had similar troubles until I told him how to get back to normal folders. (Click the or arrows on the first tab until the caption says all folders - job done!) I'm not sure what you mean when you say that TBird doesn't handle these lists very well, mine is fine - I view the lists threaded and in descending date order. Works fine. It was the threading that I was referring to. Turnpike would put thum into subject threads but Thunderbird just puts them in a long, jumbled, list - just like Outlook! Oh and 'Reply' and 'Reply to list do the same thing. Maybe I have not set it up right but I don;t log on here much - except this week. I have not found how to turn on the speal chucker which is a pain because I can't type fro toefef - there see what I mean ? I have a similar problem. But even after about 30 years in IT, I still look at the keys when I'm typing, not the screen. For spell chequeing, there's a button at the top of the write window that spell cheques the selection or the entire email. To spell as you type, edit-preferences (on Linux anyway - mayne tools-options on Windows) then Composition, spelling tab and tick the enable spell checking as you type. That is ticked but does nothing. Also, if you check th ebox that says 'check spelling before sending you get an empty box when you try to send which says ;check word' but has no word in it. Free software is like that too sometimes, I slightly disagree this time! Most free software is done when it's done. The bells and whistles of, say Word's ribbon add little to the functionality of the application. Free word processors don't tend to go for the fancy look and feel, over and above what is necessary. In most cases! Now, funnily enough, I was discussing this last night with 6 people in the Dive Club because they all had various IT problems. All but 1 said they found the ribbon to be a far better way of accessing the functions (as do I) than the old menus system. I was ahead because, having come from a HOT_KEY enviroment I learnt the keyboard shortcuts. always amused me when you press 'CONTROL/V' and text appears and then PC dummies go 'How did you do that?' but very often it stops when the author thinks it should - not the user. The other aspects of commercial software are that it gets more advertising because someone is trying to sell it and, if it sells well it gets updated and improved because there is the feedback loop of getting a bit of cash for what you do. True, but see above under Marketing. But also think usability. Jonathan Hudson wrote some great programs but no front ends so few people used them. They were not marketed so fewer people knew they existed. In my view it all ground to a halt when there were no more new commercial programs. If there is no money coming back you can't afford to go to foriegn or far away shows so no shows so.another, less pleasant, feedback loop. Well, I only ever made enough money out of the QL to raise my tax levels by about £20 quid a year. That was at the height of my popularity. It was more a case of making a smaller loss! Sold with a suite of office oriented programs and more expensive than the spectrums of the time it was aimed at the business user more than the gamer. Exactly, and it was not really of much use business wise. To be fair, about as much use as any other computer of its time - once it was finished that is. It just did not grow (or get marketed) as fast as the other machines. Must get back behind taht parapet. Still it has been a lively discussion. Well, I for one have certainly enjoyed it! Thanks. There you could not resist replying again - even though I have just driven back from a songwriting session in London. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
Right, if you want to read what I am replying to you will have to go back to Norman's eloquent reply to my . well you get the picture. I fear I was a touch spartan when I referred to free software. I do use Firefox and some of the add-ons for that and there is a wonderful free application for Windows call 'Irfan View' which has the dual attribiutes of combining the fastest graphics viewing program I have found (for Windows) with a lot of useful functions and a great little front end for the scanner. I am typing this in Thunderbird (which I don't really like but Turnpike, which dealt with these lists much better, will not run on W7. I have not found how to turn on the speal chucker which is a pain because I can't type fro toefef - there see what I mean ? To be a tad serious, what I meant was that, as a generalisation, a commercial program has to try to go that extra inch to look a bit better, be a bit more usable and generally sell itself, Free software is like that too sometimes, but very often it stops when the author thionks it should - not the user. The other aspects of commercial software are that it gets more advertising because someone is trying to sell it and, if it sells well it gets updated and improved because there is the feedback loop of getting a bit of cash for what you do. In my view it all ground to a halt when there were no more new commercial programs. If there is no money coming back you can't afford to go to foriegn or far away shows so no shows so.another, less pleasant, feedback loop. When I said the QL was a business machine I meant that was how it was marketed. Sold with a suite of office oriented programs and more expensive than the spectrums of the time it was aimed at the business user more than the gamer. (I don't recall saying it was a 32 bit machine). There were games for it but nothing the retro gamers would chop their left arm off to play again. My point was that, if you are going to try to introduce people to the QL you will need something good - better than what we have now. Nothing we have on the QL will impress a MAC or PC user and many of the QL programmers decamped and pitched their tents in LINUX city so you won't get many from there either. The problem is that all the people who want to do this 'show the QL to a wider public; trick can are doing it from inside their own little bit of QL World. It is the things they like that they push. All very natural, of course but, if you are really going to try to present it to a new public you have to find a trick, a gimmick, a good game (QWord is pretty cool, I think) a neat application, something to excite the vapid general public who watch X Factor and Big Brother, by iPads and still think a man who can kick a ball can be a genius. You see, all the users left in the QL circle now are either tinkerers of people who use Quill, Nothing wrong with that except, when you open the door to a new vistor it is like saying, 'Come in, have a fish paste sandwich, make yourself a chair and sit down'. BTW yes I hated the root account in LINUX when I tried it and I also hated the way I had to tell it there was a hard drive and there was a CD. I tried it again, post Q40, on an old PC that I had here and I hated searching for drivers and being snottily told I could write them myself, or adapt them myself. I gather it is better now but I wanted it to work without my having to program it. Just like this machine did. I have other things to do - like the thing that I built the machine for. I have a W7 machine because, when my old motherboard popped its caps a couple of months ago I built a new one and put W7 on it so I knew my way round the O/S because people still ask me to fix the mess they make of their machines. It's fast, sometimes annoying and overly flashy but it runs 95% of the programs I need and, apart from card readers ( which seemto consistently not work), I can plug any piece of hardware in , off the shelf, and they work too. I am not trying to be negative just to show you what you are up against and to get you to look out from the circle of users you have and see the world from a no QL Users point of view. Must get back behind taht parapet. Still it has been a lively discussion. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks
SNIP Sounds like the same experience I had. Totally unpredictable results on that particular USB floppy drive (well, might be predictable to someone like Marcel who knows the underlying code). Well it was the same with native, on board drives too.. SNIP nothing new to do and the only reason it says that we no longer have a venue is that Quanta was too lazy to contact us and just printed the same message every time.) (BTW the Sussex group stopped meeting years back because there was If you knew it was in Quanta and knew it was wrong, nothing to stop you telling Quanta to correct it either??? I did mention it a few times - but at shows. I must confess I was also lax in not notifying them formally. SNIP It would be great to hear from people explaining why they DON'T want to go on committee. Surely it can't all be down to lack of time? We don't have to travel much to committee meetings, modern technology means we can do most work by email or telephone or conferencing and just meet up once or twice a year as necessary to sort out the major issues. Oh I know why people don't want to go on a committee. Firstly they would have to do something and secondly they can no longer carp and criticise from the sidelines. Simple. I am Diving Officer for the Dive Club so that puts me just under teh Chairman on the committee. I know how that works. SNIP I'll continue pouring out mediocre programs and supporting the QL, but although I didn't always agree with Geoff's sometimes negative viewpoints in QL Today, it's hard to see the QL having a lifetime of more than 3 to 5 years the way it's going (in other words, I often agree with him more than I think). OK, it'll always be handy to be able to write quick s*basic programs for my own use while I still have a working QL emulator (and the PC is the only computer in regular use here at the moment - the QL and Aurora are only brought out for the specific use fo testing programs or, sorry Rich, formatting DD disks for the very occasional Quanta library request. I would never say you wrote mediocre programs. You and Geoff wrote some really innovative stuff. SNIP OK, that's my rant over! Keep prodding, Roy, the QL community could do with a good kick up the rear end sometimes. Dilwyn Jones I may not raise my head above th e parapet too much. I am in the throes for finishing my Album - those who are interested can get a taste at www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion And running a series of training sessions for the Dive Club. BTW one other reason that Rich has a long mailing list is probably that he sells on EBAY. Maybe a Quanta shop there would generate some interest. You will also find a lot of people who just want to buy a part to go with the QL in teh glass case that they house their 'retro computers' in - along wit their collection of 'dust through the ages'. What you need is not people who look back but those who are willing to turn around and look in the other direction - and face what they see. Still I will continue to (sporadically) read the list. (feel free to print all/some/none of my comments in Quanta. I may even splutter into incoherance angain. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks
On 15/06/2010 19:25, Tony Firshman wrote: Roy/ I may not raise my head above th e parapet too much. I am in the throes for finishing my Album - those who are interested can get a taste at www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion Seems a mite borken (whoops - but because that was a superb accidental mistype I will leave it). I am getting Sorry. messages and the CD link does nothing. Are you paying for that myspace site? I could offer free space on my server, and, if you have a wooden lion domain name, you could use that without advertising the host. Tony MySpace is a free social networking site - where have you been? I just clicked on it and it worked straight away. The bands actual website is hosted by a friend of mine. www.woodenlion.com Way too off topic. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks
On 15/06/2010 19:39, Dilwyn Jones wrote: SNIP BTW one other reason that Rich has a long mailing list is probably that he sells on EBAY. Maybe a Quanta shop there would generate some interest. Actually, Rich has sold quite a lot of gear Quanta has acquired - John Gilpin will confirm that. The point was that, if Quanta had their own shop people would the seeQUANTA. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future
On 15/06/2010 21:58, Malcolm Cadman wrote: SNIP There is an audience for retro computers - of which the QL is one. A software package, or easy access to free or low cost software, would be essential to tempt users in. As they need to see something to be done with the system - and will not be interested in finding it all out for themselves. Once interest is kindled, then users will get interested in acquiring original hardware and original add-ons, as well as using the emulator(s) on PC hardware ( or others ). Most users, on this list, are not a part of this target market - as most already have several QL hardware items, and a lot of software; plus long experience. The latter need tempting in a different way, by some new hardware or software, for the 21st Century - as the QL was a 20th Century invention. I have QDT, which I use all of the time as the main desktop for a QL system. Yet it is not finished - the file manager side is not complete; and it lacks a lot of other functionality. I also use Launchpad to compensate for QDT's deficiencies in the file management area. Both Quanta and QL Today could be involved in this type of promotion of the QL. OK - head above the parapet again and , to quote Sir Henry, 'first chink of reality and youre dead' I spent a lot of time, enthusiasm and energy on the QL (not as much as Tony, Dilwyn and Jochen, but enough). The approach of saying 'here is a free emulator, now look at what we have' is fine except...what do we have? The QL was a business computer in concept. Very few games of any note. Right now, as was pointed out earlier, there is no decent word processor and no other, modern, usable, software. QPC2 runs just fine on my W7 machine, but why would I use it? If I was a new user what would make me want to buy it and run it? On my W7 and XP machines I run music software, word processing and spreadsheets, email, photo manipulation and website creation software. What is there on the QL side of things that matches this? The QL was fun to program in SuperBASIC ( I never got any further) and, back 18 years ago, would multitask when most PCs could not (nor can the iPAD), but it was rapidly overtaken by modern hardware and software. What I was saying before still applies. If you want to keep it alive you need to keep the scene alive. You need innovation and you need some sort of commercial operation. I know that there are a whole bumch of 'free software' guerillas out there but no free software has ever matched the commercial stuff - sad as that may be. I will never abandon it completely because it taught me a lot of the fundamental principles of computing. I have a lot of affection for it and for many of the people in the QL community because we did all those shows and we went through all that but you have to take off the rose tinted goggles and take a hard look at what you are promoting - and then decide what you do from here. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks
On 14/06/2010 16:34, Dilwyn Jones wrote: probably has something to do with Windows 7: The Microsoft guys have removed native support for 720k formatting from all Windows 7 stuff (If you try to format a floppy with the built-in tools, it will only offer 1440k, not 720k like XP/Vista did). My windows 7 box can't do that either (be it from inside QPC or outside), while it works perfectly on XP and Vista. I help myself with a pack of pre-formatted disks I created on an XP box. Regards Tobias Seems the most obvious explanation under Windows 7! Looks like Rich has been micro-shafted by M$. Some time ago I reviewed a USB floppy drive for Quanta and it worked brilliantly (albeit under XP) at first. Then mysteriously it started being awkward with DD disks, sometimes it would format correctly, sometimes it wouldn't. (whether using *D or *H) I tried formatting the disks on the Aurora and QL, then reformatting them on the USB drive to see what happened. Reliability improved, but was not perfect, sometimes it would format the disk as a HD even though the disk was DD, probably down to what Rich suggested with the drive sensor (or lack of). The same disks would usually format perfectly on the built in floppy drive on this PC (also XP)! If you manage to find a solution, can you post it here? Would be useful information as more and more people use QL emulators on Windows 7 machines. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Well, I've lurked on the list for a while since I hung up the QBranch boots in the closet but recent posts deserve some comment I suppose. I will start with the floppy issue. Way back when I was doing lots of shows I decided that you could not format DD disks under QPC2 on any of my PCs. In fact I brought a QL / Aurora and monitor to many shows just to format disks. Firstly it was far too slow and secondly it failed too often. I was not typing it in at the command line because that was too slow at a show. Formatting was haphazard and took ages. I mentioned it on several occasions and got the usual 'does not happen here' response. Understandably hard to pin down. I did, however, find that formatting the disks using Disk Mate 5 usually worked fine - on all of the systems - so I hazard the guess that it is not a problem with Microsoft but something else. I have have not tried under Windows 7 on this sytem but then it is hardly surprising that the ability to format a 20+ year old disk has been removed from a new system. This is like complaining that your CD player won't play 78s.No one uses floppy disks any more. Which brings me onto the 'future of the QL' debate. Nothing has a future if it does not move. All the while I was writing 'Byts of Wood' I was up against the fact that there was nothing to write about. Nothing new. No point in being a trader for a static community if all you are advertising is the same stuff that everyone already owns. Then, when you come up with a great system to make things better, no one buys it (QDT of course). There may well be 500+ users on Rich's database but what are they doing with the QL? What has he sold them? The odd keyboard membrane, disk expansion,? How many repeat sales? Data is only of use if it has a context. In all the time I was a trader there were very few ground breakers and they gradually fell by the wayside through lack of support and sales. This has been the most active conversation on this list for ages and a while back there were people talking about how to print - a subject that has been round the track more times than a sprinter with Alzheimers. When the QL community was thriving it was moving forward with ideas flowing. These last years it has been inward looking and characterised by infighting and lack of inspiration. I have not seen QL Today since I stopped distributing it but I am still a member of Quanta and I see nothing new there. If you want it to continue then you have to stop complaining and waffling on this list and write programs, have ideas and innovate. No point in magazines and user groups if there is nothing new to say or do. (BTW the Sussex group stopped meeting years back because there was nothing new to do and the only reason it says that we no longer have a venue is that Quanta was too lazy to contact us and just printed the same message every time.) This may all seem a bit harsh but, like a jolt to the heart in teh case case of cardiac arrest, sometimes you need a defibrilator to restore a pulse. The paddles are in your hands - don't wait for the flat line. -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Hardware
Well I thought I should offer it to the community before I did that. I'd rather the stuff was used by someone who really wants it than have it in someone's computer museum. In message 8cbac4ae8bc001d-11d8-...@webmail-ma21.sysops.aol.com, matras...@aol.com writes Hi, to get the best price, put it on ebay. Black box QLs go for up to £90-150 depending on condition, and yesterday there was a Trump card for £50-00 but it is now gone, today. I have not seen an aurora card there yet but no doubt it could sell well. Duncan -Original Message- From: Roy wood qbra...@qbranch.demon.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Mon, 25 May 2009 23:32 Subject: [Ql-Users] Hardware Hi, one of my ex customers has just asked me to sell his setup. I have an Aurora Motherboard, a Qubide, a full superHermes and a Super Gold Card. Anyone interested, please email . Roy -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Hardware
Hi, one of my ex customers has just asked me to sell his setup. I have an Aurora Motherboard, a Qubide, a full superHermes and a Super Gold Card. Anyone interested, please email . Roy -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Bandersnatch (Brataccas)
This is not something I ever saw. In message b85399c5afb04e21895f335d150c3...@fd03fd9efae548948807f3c9ddcc545c, Palenicek Jan o...@atlas.cz writes Hi, back in 1984-5 there was a ZX Spectrum mega-game being developed by Imagine Software called Bandersnatch. It supposed to be true megagame with some special hardware add-on, promising extra features. Imagine Software went bancrupcy and ZX Spectrum version was never completed. According to wikipedia article, authors completed this game for Sinclair QL (Before Finchspeed folded, a complete, working version was developed for the Sinclair QL). This game was later renamed to Brataccas and it was ported from QL to Amiga and Atari ST. Looking at the pictures from Amiga and ST version, the graphics is really direct port from Sinclair QL. I wonder if anyone knows anything about this game for QL. I doubt, but we never know, does it exist? Jan Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch_(video_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brataccas ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today article.
Thanks for all the kind messages, both on and off the list. Being appreciated is always good and, although I am glad to hear you all thought you got good service, I will cheerfully admit that my accountancy skill are second to almost everything - now that does not add up! I kept it going because I enjoyed it and because I really liked 99.9% of the people involved, both customers, fellow traders and suppliers. We had some great times doing the shows, both in this country and in others and there are some really great memories from that era. I am still here, I still use QPC2 and I might be able to have my arm twisted into writing a review or something similar if anyone wants it. The regular column became a strain to keep on topic -you probably noticed it was often way off-topic - but a single article may be viable. I will watch the list and I will reply to emails - I will try to make the effort to log on here at least once a week. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Today article.
of any problem. QDT was a different matter. We had high hopes of that being a good seller but I sold only 28 copies in over 3 years (to 2008). Each one had a unique licence number and I sent a spreadsheet with all the licence numbers, names and emails addresses to Jim and he invoiced me for the sales. I think I may owe him for 2 copies since his last invoice (in 2006) and, if he emails me privately I can give him those details and sort out that payment. Like most businesses QBranch worked on forward sales, you are, essentially paying part of the previous bill from the current sales because running expenses take their toll. When there are few sales for a couple of years running expenses figure large in the equation. I should have closed QBranch two or three years back but I enjoyed running it, liked the shows and the people and kept thinking something would come up to make it get better again. When QBranch did close it had over 200 copies of QL Today back issues which represents a sizeable amount of money as well as a few unsold programs which had been invoiced and paid for because I always felt I should have at least one of each item in stock to avoid delay in shipping to the customer. I also still had a swathe of QDT / Easyptr / QPCPrint CDs and manuals made up. Some of this I have now disposed of, the rest I will donate to Bruce but I suspect he will not be able to sell any. Gradually, as my diving activities became more prominent and then my rock band started to happen I got less and less time to devote to the QL but then the QL scene devotes less and less time to itself. After 25 years it is in great need of new programs and a bit more drive from the people who are still involved. It's future is in the hands of the users now because there is but one trader and nothing new to sell. A parlous state. There we are. This has been a lot longer than I intended it to be at the start and I hope you are all still awake. I have done this without suggesting that I was misrepresented in the article and I hope without raising anyone's hackles or creating a disturbance. I just wanted my side out there. I hope you were not too bored and that the above will not raise any blazing rows. They don't do us any good at all. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half
Geoff, for someone so supposedly skilled in negotiation and communication you do a good job of stirring thing up. Yes I messed up here, in that I got too involved with too many things and forgot to follow up Jochen's email about sending the adverts to him and letting him know how many magazine were required for the next issue Some of this was due to pursuing a couple of customers who had not renewed or replied to renewal requests and I did not want to short order. As It was there were just too many things happening at once outside of the QL and I am not often home so I neglected to do it. Yes, I admit it was a mess. When all this blew up last week I acted immediately to get the order over to Jochen and find out how much he need for the issue to be printed and I transferred the money last week. He knows when he will get it because we do this all the time. The money has been out of my account for three working days and should be in his by tomorrow. As angry as you may have been you didn't try to call me or email me about it. QBranch does no business other than to deal with this magazine. I had intended to close it last year but I decided to carry it on. It is so far at the back of what I spend most of my time on these days that I still have not sent RWAP and invoice for some stuff I sold him three months ago. I apologise to the readers and the next issue will go much more smoothly My intention is to close QBranch forthwith but I will see out this volume of the magazine and sell off the remaining bits of QL stuff I have here. Really this was all very unnecessary, Geoff, but there you go. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half
Oh dear Geoff, it seems you are condemned to being a Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Please check your facts before engaging the writing mode. On the 8th Oct I wrote to Jochen and sorted out what had to be paid. I hold the QL Today money in a separate account from which I transferred the amount Jochen requested. This cleared into my Q Branch account on Thursday 16th and I accordingly transferred it to Jochen on that day. Jochen was informed about this as it went along. One slight hitch occurred (not in the QL Today money but in other money I had to transfer to him) and I rectified this at the same time. You make a habit of finding targets to shout at. The Quanta argument lost QL Today several readers and was, at time downright petty. I held a silent brief on that because I was part of the QL Today 'machine' but, since I have resolved to be just the agent for the last three issues and to contribute one last column I can express the way I felt about it. You are welcome to edit my final column but I will publish it here anyway. We are a small pond. Rapidly shrinking. As such we can afford few big fish with voracious appetites. If you want to be 'king fish' it is better not to snap at too many minnows. You wind up with very few subjects to worship you. Every time we argue publicly like this a few more people decamp. This is a non argument and one which could have been easily settled, and indeed was before you decided on your 'Mr Apollo' act. The problem with the QL is that the people who can write new stuff stopped doing it. If there is no new stuff people lose interest. If you want to do something useful start writing software and not polemics. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 7th October you said you would be dealing with the matter that week. It is now the 20th October. On 7th October you accused me of overreacting as usual. Wrong I was underreacting, Best Wishes, Geoff - Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half Geoff, for someone so supposedly skilled in negotiation and communication you do a good job of stirring thing up. Yes I messed up here, in that I got too involved with too many things and forgot to follow up Jochen's email about sending the adverts to him and letting him know how many magazine were required for the next issue Some of this was due to pursuing a couple of customers who had not renewed or replied to renewal requests and I did not want to short order. As It was there were just too many things happening at once outside of the QL and I am not often home so I neglected to do it. Yes, I admit it was a mess. When all this blew up last week I acted immediately to get the order over to Jochen and find out how much he need for the issue to be printed and I transferred the money last week. He knows when he will get it because we do this all the time. The money has been out of my account for three working days and should be in his by tomorrow. As angry as you may have been you didn't try to call me or email me about it. QBranch does no business other than to deal with this magazine. I had intended to close it last year but I decided to carry it on. It is so far at the back of what I spend most of my time on these days that I still have not sent RWAP and invoice for some stuff I sold him three months ago. I apologise to the readers and the next issue will go much more smoothly My intention is to close QBranch forthwith but I will see out this volume of the magazine and sell off the remaining bits of QL stuff I have here. Really this was all very unnecessary, Geoff, but there you go. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half
The magazines are now ordered and paid for and should be here late this week. Apologies for the delays but I have a busy schedule at the moment. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: George Gwilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:23 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half Has anyone in the non German group received the recent QL Today? I have not. George Geoff and Jochen did send an email to this list a little while back saying that the issues would be delayed for those who subscribed via Q-Branch. It looks like those (like me) whose copies come via Jochen have already received their copies. Maybe you could email Roy Wood directly to see what the likely delivery date will be for you if you subscribed via him. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Has QL Today lost half its readers?
This is completely my fault - although Geoff has over-reacted as usual. I have had little time to read this list of late since, apart from my family, my job, my current position as Diving Officer and instructor for Sussex Diving Club and my rock band, I seem to have got involved in a political campaign to stop a big building development in Brighton Marina. I was supposed to furnish Jochen with the number of magazines I need for this current issue and I neglected to do so. Since then I have been so tied up in all these activities it has been push onto back brain. I apologise to those who subscribed for this oversight and I will rectify matters this week. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (no mc.stat register and probably timing issues too). And Jan says on his website it might not work on anything faster than Sandy SuperQBoard interface, so no Gold Card, no Super old Card :-( Oops...variation of Super God Card ;-)) Indeed ... the old Card must be the one that came before the God Card Ah no, the old Gods were in black and white - as in Cecil B de Mille -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] I want a NEW QL
Actually I was prompting the next manufacturer of QL interfaces with a new agenda. I like the idea of a Super God Card, although, given my atheistic convictions I suspect it does not exist. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Yes, an interesting typo ... may be such a Card would do everything ... :-) Roy wood wrote: Hi, I have some QLs, Minerva, and a Super God Card. My God, that sound like the ultimate card - I want one (8-)# Tony -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] I want a NEW QL
Hi, I have some QLs, Minerva, and a Super God Card. Regards Roy In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I want a NEW QL! I need the latest version of Minerva I need TK2 I need loads of win1_ I need loads of RAM Can I use the old PC monitor keyboard in my lock-up? Any suggestions how much will it cost? Regards Andy Barber Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 20 8402 3385 ~ Mobile +44 791 883 4739 ~ Fax: +44 705 069 5845 __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QubIDE v2.01 ROM and GALs
You have not sent me any emails about this. I did not do these myself. It was Keith Mitchell who made them up. I have one set left here which are available. I did get an email from someone who wanted to buy a set for the new Qubide and I had a long conversation with him about whether the new Qubide would use the old ROMs and GALs. It seems to me that any new hardware development should be accompanied by a reworking of the firmware and that the new version should be able to recognise more modern disks than the old one. Mind you IDE will be phased out in the coming year and all devices will then be SATA so what you really need is a QuSATA but that is another story. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Does anyone have the ability to make the GALs and ROM needed for the upgrade of a v1.xx QubIDE to v2.01? Roy Wood used to do this, but is not responding to emails. Tony? Anyone? Help! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News Editor
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Congratulations from QL Today. As you know this was our suggestion and we are grateful to the Quanta committee for taking it seriously. Very cheeky of them to pinch our ex-editor, but a masterstroke that even I had not thought of. Hang on a moment. How can this be your suggestion if you hadn't thought of it. involuntary suggestion can be dangerous - keep taking the pills! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Hardware Sale
Just thought I would let those people who contacted me about the Super Gold Card know that the person who wanted to buy it has not got back in touch so it may still be up for sale. Since I did not keep a list I cannot recall who asked but I still have it here. I also still have the full superHermes, and Mplane, and an Aurora with all the chips on board Get in touch -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Malcolm What are users experiences with portable computers ? Hi Malcolm I presume that you'll get replies like mine: I have an Asus A 6000, not sure og the exact make in that range, about 2 years old now (I think). All I can say is that it works. I recently installed Linux on it in addition to XP. There again, it works, Linux recongnized the wireless not work card without any problems. I like the idea of a 'wireless not work card' I have had that experience too. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Hardware
I now have for sale : 1 x Super Gold Card, 1x Aurora, 1 x superHermes, 1 x Qubide, 1 x Mplane 1 x QXL Let me know if you want any of these items -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] fast find
There are two parallel threads here. On the one hand people complaining about Windows and on the other people struggling with Linux, which, to the uninitiated, it a maze of undocumented and unhelpful commands. Does this not posit a hypothesis : i.e. no one writes software/OS that works - except perhaps Marcel. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], QL2K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Tony, You may try using a command prompt and typiing net stop cisvc This will stop Indexing Services. And finally, I'mm fully agree with you. M$ have a lot of problems to make reliable products. Cheers, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Tony Firshman Envoyé : lundi 7 janvier 2008 23:01 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] fast find Rich Mellor wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know how to turn off the damn fast find indexing service in Windows? I know it can be selected during Windows installation, but I can't find the control for it and I'm obviously not entering the right term into Help as that gives nothing of any use. There's so much hard disk activity all the time that QPC2 and even mouse and keyboard slow down to a crawl. (It's not anti-virus as that is set to run at 2AM). Go to control panel (classic view) - administrative tools - services Then find Indexing Service. Right click on it and STOP the service Right click and select properties - change startup to Disabled. When clicking on 'Services' I get: Microsoft Management Console has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Don't you just *hate* Windows - it can't even control its own programs. (8-)# Tony -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Second User Hardware Available
I still have a Gold Card and Super Gold Card available and I should be getting a complete Aurora system (Super Gold Card, Aurora Motherboard, Qubide, RomDisq) ,which I will spilt up for sale. Best thing is to email me because I am not home much at the moment. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Hardware
Sorry to use this list for a kind of advert but I have just come into possession of a Super Gold Card, a Gold Card, a QXL and two Miracle dual DD disk drive units. Someone asked me about a QXL card at the Birmingham show but I cannot remember who - maybe they could get in touch again. As for the other stuff I will adopt the Rich Mellor concept of asking for sealed bids on all items and I will open them on December 1st. Send your bids to the address below. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Irish QL Show
I'm in - I just need a bit of notice. I do have a few courses booked in November so I suppose next year is probably better. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi All, Been thinking about this next Irish QL Alcoholics anonymous meeting since Roy made the suggestion. I know Roy said 5 or so will come, so who will and who won't? And any ideas as to when - sooner rather than later? I can probably hold it in the Hotel where I work and get a decent room rate. Sometime in mid to late November? Any ideas? Feedback please! Darren. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL on a stick
Would there be any mileage in offering a QL on stick as a special offer in that issue? Depends on the software to be included - of course. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes gwicks a écrit : Dilwyn has kindly provided QL Today with a review copy of a QL on a stick. This is just the CD which you have to copy to your own USB memory stick. Would anyone be interested in doing a review for QL Today? Ideally we would like to publish in issue 2, which has a deadline of 15th November, OK, I could do that. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Punters
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In a message dated 07/10/2007 18:12:58 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I am not being facetious about the use of the word punter. I wote in a light-hearted way, but I think the person concerned is making a fair point, and we should be sensitive to it. In that case you have to be sensitive to everything some half cocked loony takes offence to and where does that leave you? Straight in PC territory and we know how well PCs are appreciated here. The problem is I cannot think of a suitable alternative that also conveys the sort of atmosphere we have at shows, 'Billys' or, as Stuart would have it 'the great unwashed' -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube (Now wayyyy off Topic!)
Oh Dear, I knew when I pressed the send button I should have put the last bit in a private mail. We were never that famous but thanks for all the compliments Darren - not sure I can quite live up to them but... I can tell you all about it when we meet at the Irish QL Pish Up - I have other reasons form wanting that as you know. (Maybe I should put that in another email - it is just the Irish hospitality - honest.) Anyhow I am rambling. Organise a show go on. Before Christmas would be great. Private mail will follow. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes He does have a drummer, and the most amazing guitarist in Steve Bensusan (he even has a cool name!!) they are very close to starting gigging again, and have been rehearsing a lot. Would love to see them live. I have a Roy Weard and Last Post album, and its brilliant. I listen to it all the time. Thats not blowing smoke - I'm a huge Music buff with over 1,500 CD's, Vinyl and Cassettes at home. Actually, it was through music that Roy got into QL's (I think) - he used to use one to do stage design layouts on as a roadie. In fact, I think a lot of his stage designs are now in the QUANTA Library. And in his early days, he had a bigger beard than Tony!! Darren. Tony Firshman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Firshman wrote: snip - re Roy Wood/Weard Darren Branagh - Kingfisher Club wrote: Hi Roy, I always Said he should write a book. Indeed he should. You may not know that he is trying to re-form his old band. The last I heard was that all he need was a drummer. This was far from an ordinary band. Dressing up (and sometimes down) was the key, and Roy (and the rest?) had some amazing outfits. One getup involved a (real?) chainsaw. http://www.woodenlion.com/musical_history.htm Having read that link properly, there were quite a number of bands! ... and it seems the current project now does have a drummer. Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGycw0M3RzOs8+btoRAp0DAJ0Z9ngzADRgzVB8/Br8tmBnQ5tUFgCfXk+I zh4llxajiblDtuODHB3MMN0= =5QEn -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube
SNIP Maybe its time to have another Irish QL Show Pi**-Up again?? Any takers?? In the lovely West of Ireland this time, of Course.. I'll be there - we have not met up in a while. By the way, Darren, have a look at www.woodenlion.com if you have not done that in a while. Drop me a private email and I will send you something. Now that is puzzling the rest of you isn't it? Definitely off topic - non QL. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Gwilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Also it is not the function of a new O/S to be backwardly compatible. I would be horrified if I thought that any of my programs would stop working on new versions of SMSQE. To that extent I would hope for example that any of the previously documented Traps would continue to operate as stated. In fact that is what has happened so far with SMSQE with very few exceptions. You misunderstand the concept here. Operating systems move on and become more sophisticated. Most good ones move the software writers along with them. The users buy new versions which take advantage of the new facilities and the whole system moves forward. If you continually make the whole thing backwardly compatible people carry on using the old versions and nothing advances. This is the state we have arrived at. Some new features never get used which is both a shame and a rebuff for those who worked on the newer ideas. We need to move forwards. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:44 +0100, Roy Wood wrote: In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the part of the companies concerned. I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An operating system is just there to run your applications and manage your files. It's the job of the creator of a new version to make sure that it can cope with existing applications and files. Wrong on both counts. I am not a 'fan' of Windows but I see no point in blaming it for faults which are not of its making. That is just sloppy thinking and general 'my dad is bigger than your dad' ness There faults are enough which are a M$ problem. Also it is not the function of a new O/S to be backwardly compatible. It is, however, the function of a new O/S to fix holes in code and improve on the previous one. Sometimes this makes older software malfunction because it is badly written. This is what happened to some extent with SMSQ/E but not, in my opinion, enough. We have spent too much time an effort slugging a good system to make it work with badly written software. A new O/S should not only move forward but move the users forward with it. The problem with the broadband connections was not with the ISP software, but with the drivers for the modems. There aren't that many chipsets for these, and M$ could have tried them out. IE7 has also been available for a while and runs on XP so why not check on an older machine first to see if it causes problems. A reasonable question for home users, but large companies expect the OS and software compatabilities to be sorted out by the publishers: after all, they pay enough in licence and support fees. I am not talking about big businesses which will probably not upgrade to Vista until forced to. I am talking about the companies which make and distribute the hardware and software. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Oh yes, and maybe they want to sell you a new Web Cam, Video Card, Sound Card, USB coffee heater which does have Vista drivers. Cynical, me? I teach cynicism (I'm just not very good at spelling it !) so I suepct I might be better at it than you :o) Not if the rest of the spelling in your email is anything to go by!!! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP I've just had an email from Tiscali: The introduction of Windows Vista has caused some problems throughout the industry. These are due due to incompatibility issues with other software. If you are upgrading to Vista there are scenarios where you may experience problems, such as being unable to connect to the Internet. ... We expect to have a complete solution in the next few weeks. We suggest you wait until this is ready before purchasing Vista. I expect other ISPs will have sent similar messages. I've also seen a blog from a company who found that their security software wouldn't work with IE7 but IE6 wouldn't work with Vista. They contacted M$ and got the suggestion that they turn off the security until the problem was fixed! I hope the QL community are all to wise (old?) to have got caught. In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the part of the companies concerned. Vista was available as a free time expired beta version for over a year. The problems the ISPs are experiencing mainly relate to the security features in Vista which are there to stop malicious software changing system settings. It will work with all ISPs if you can manually configure the computer (most of us could do that) but, as Stuart Honeyball would have it, the 'great unwashed', want a CD to do it all for them and the ISPs did not bother to investigate if their CDs would work until the users started to complain. IE7 has also been available for a while and runs on XP so why not check on an older machine first to see if it causes problems. Why not, because they are too lazy to do it. This is not to say that Vista does not have problems or that M$ has done a better job with this than they did with any of their other programs. By all means criticise M$ for its failings but do recognise that, when your Web Cam, Video Card, Sound Card, USB coffee heater (yes it exists!) does not work it is not always down to M$ but often down to companies who cannot be bothered to sort it out beforehand. Oh yes, and maybe they want to sell you a new Web Cam, Video Card, Sound Card, USB coffee heater which does have Vista drivers. Cynical, me? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hove Show
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Quanta's website demo (I don't recall and can find no email telling me this would happen) Curiouser and curiouser. Must reprogram the moles. Actually he did ask me but it was a PS to another email on a different subject and I am so used to the usual disclaimers and virus scanning ads at the end of the email I did not read it. Note to emailers - PS went out with the Quill pen and the melted wax seal. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hove Show
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Don't forget dinner at Bom-Banes on Saturday night - booking out fast ! www.bom-banes.co.uk So how does one set about it? Via you or via Bomboms? Via me. @ A list of hotels Already published on this list but largely unnecessary because Google will find many more. In the old days, when there were lots of us we could get discounts so a hotel list was valid. No chance here for less than 25 people Yes, but some people might prefer to stay at hotels where other members are also staying (or may particularly wish to avoid them ;) Hard to tell where they are all staying I think. Since I live here I don't stay in the hotels so I cannot do much by way of recommendation. I told Dilwyn about one I was advised was nice and he said it was awful -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hove Show
By the way, for those of you who have booked for the meal on Saturday before the Hove show. We will meet there around 8pm for dinner at 8.30 -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hove Show
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why all this mole business at the heart of Quanta, have you got a vendetta against them Derek Probably just a Wind in the Willows fan ... :-) ... to understand his sense of humour. No need to get Ratty! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Request for speakers
I am in the process of organising the talks at next month's Quanta AGM and I was hoping that Chris Cave would be able to come along and give a talk about 'C' programming on the QL but he I, unfortunately, unable to attend on that day. One thing that occurred to me, as a result of the discussions on this list over the past weeks, was to have a debate about native QL versus Emulation. And in the red corner we have. well could it be you? I am looking for two people to volunteer. One to stand up and put the case for native hardware and one to do the same for emulators. It would not need to be a long dissertation. We could then throw it open to discussion. How about it? I think it could be very interesting. If anyone else would like to tackle the 'C' on a QL subject please let me know. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Request for speakers
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Roy, I imagine that the reason you are proposing such a debate is to try to clarify the future well in that case what about a SWOT analysis of the future of the QL instead of the old debate of hardware vs emulators? I did not intend it to be a confrontational thing It just seemed to me that some people have strong dislikes for one side of the fence or the other. I thought it would be interesting for the people who attend the show to hear arguments (as in the debate sense not the hitting each other over the head with chairs) for and against. Analysis of the future is one thing you could apply to this but there are few people who can actually affect the future either for hardware or software so any discussion of the QL's future would probably have to academic rather than formulating a plan of action for the future. Mind you - who knows? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The link at the bottom of each email sent via the list goes to a page where instructions are given :-) See: http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Do you know - all these years and I never looked at that - damn! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] This list: Subscribe
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Veery hard to understand the question since the header of each mail contains :- Ah but I never see the headers - so I didn't know that was there. Mind you I should have noticed the bit at the bottom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] bmail-2.demon.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:48:36 - X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Subject: Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings X-BeenThere: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: QL/SMS mailing list ql-users-q-v-d.com List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://lists.q-v-d.com/private.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com List-Post: mailto:ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-me-spamlevel: not-spam X-me-spamrating: 0.118662 X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.446 [268.18.4/703] Message Received: Feb 27 2007, 08:04 PM From: gwicks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings - Original Message - From: Roy wood To: Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings Since this thread is about this list can someone tell me the current method for subscribing? I have a new user who wants to sign on but the list has changed many times since I subscribed and I have no idea what to tell him. Tut, tut Roy. This was published in the last QL Today, page 4 QL NEWS LIST Closure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'subscribe' in the body of the text, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings
Since this thread is about this list can someone tell me the current method for subscribing? I have a new user who wants to sign on but the list has changed many times since I subscribed and I have no idea what to tell him. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? Afternoon John, Not here - I'm just getting one. Cheers, Norman, not in Wales, but not far away ! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Zip
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP I suppose you are not talking about qdtinst.bas QDTINST.zip unzip but about the filenames when qdtinst_bas is running. Sorry I forgot that Jim uses the '.' separator and not the '_' . I was not thinking when I was typing then. Could it be that you are trying to install 'QDT' too deeply (directory's name too long)? I don't think you understand the problem. I am not trying to install QDT. I already have it installed will lay it out again: I am trying to send an upgrade to a customer. I have the file Jim sent to me by email. This is a ZIP file with the above three files in it. When I first did the distribution of QDT I unzipped the emailed file to RAM1_ I then copied this to the floppy disks for the customers. Now when I do the same thing I find that the file on RAM1_ will unzip but the exact same file copied to the floppy disk by any of the file managers fails with an error message. The only way I could get around the problem and get the upgrade to the customer was to unzip directly to the floppy disk. I did not try to install QDT because I did not want to affect my own installation so I used unzip to extract the files to RAM2_ to test the archive. I also tried t read it with ACP and it would read the RAM1_ archive but not the FLP1_ copy. ACP has been set up on my machine for ages and works perfectly except in this case. I also have FileInfo II set up to either 'call ACP' or 'unzip to RAM1_' This has been like this for years with no problem. I cannot understand why copying a valid ZIP archive from RAM1_ to FLP1_ breaks it. I will investigate further. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Zip
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood schreef: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think the signal extension has to be installed before unzipping with the 'unzip' version found on the QDT cd. I had some problems with it and I had to modify 'qdtinst_bas too. François Van Emelen The signal extension is loaded. Don't forget I can unzip from RAM1_ but not from the copy on the floppy. (Went a bit Danny Kaye there) The RAM is OK. Causes no problem with any other part of the PC Did you copy the files to a QL formatted floppy ? (probably a stupid question of me) François Van Emelen Wouldn't copy otherwise - the filenames would be too long. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Zip
Here is a little conundrum for you. I have a zip file which was sent to me by Jim Hunkins with QDT v 1.01 on it. It has sat on my downloads directory for ages since v1.02 is the current one. I was recently asked for a copy of it because the user had only v1.00 and you have to go through v1.01 to upgrade to v1.02. The zip file is the one I used to create the distribution of QDT that I sold for some time with complete success and no problems from customers. The archive contains three files : qdtinst.bas QDTINST.zip unzip OK. So far so good. I copies the whole archive to RAM2_ and unzipped it, using the QL Unzip program, to RAM1_ I then copies the three files to flp1_ and sent it out. When my customer came to use it he found he got and error message about the zip file having no end of file signature and called me to tell me. I repeated the first part of the above procedure and checked the QDTINST.zip file. This unzipped OK. I copied it to a floppy drive and it failed. I tried this several times, using a new floppy disk, using different methods of copying the file but always the same result. Finally I unzipped the original archive direct from the PC side to a QL floppy (Good thing QPC2 can see the PC hard drive so easily) and that works. Does anyone have any ideas on why this should be? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Zip
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think the signal extension has to be installed before unzipping with the 'unzip' version found on the QDT cd. I had some problems with it and I had to modify 'qdtinst_bas too. François Van Emelen The signal extension is loaded. Don't forget I can unzip from RAM1_ but not from the copy on the floppy. (Went a bit Danny Kaye there) The RAM is OK. Causes no problem with any other part of the PC -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniele Terdina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It is, in this respect just the same as LINUX. Peter can be a reseller and give it away for free if he wants. We will not stop hi, If I understand the licence correctly, resellers have to pay 10 euros to TT, and I'm not sure whether there's also a fee for GD2 or other components, so reseller can't give binaries away for free. The 10 Euro fee to TT ended a while ago and we reduced the price accordingly. There are no other fees payable and the money we would charge, if we ever sold any, is purely costs of materials, administration of the manuals, postage costs and future support. No ever comes to SMSQ/E for the first time and does not get back in touch with a few questions. So, yes, if he abides by the rules of the licence, supplies a manual and a master disk,, is willing to offer support, only distributes the current authorised code, he can become a reseller and give it away for free. This is correct is it not Wolfgang? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Duncan wrote: Do you have any othe projects else up your sleeve? Not absolutely impossible. But nothing major can happen until there's a decent free QL OS. All reasonable ways I have to implement OS level code for new hardware involve re-using free software and getting help from persons that won't be motivated by a proprietary OS. SMSQ/E is an open O/S. Anyone can have the code and anyone can make changes to it so long as they a) submit them to Wolfgang for vetting b) ensure that the changes do not adversely affect other parts of the O/S c) can be made compatible with all other versions of SMSQ/E (if they are hardware specific code must run on other systems to ensure that software based on the changes will not completely crash just return a message stating why it does not run) It is, in this respect just the same as LINUX. Peter can be a reseller and give it away for free if he wants. We will not stop hi, I realise that he thinks Jochen and I have been raking in thousands for our sales of SMSQ/E. There is a bus to the real world at the end of his street. (They do charge a fare though). I saddens me that he rakes all this up again. Q Branch posted a 2000+ loss in the previous tax year and a 1000+ loss this year. We keep going and I devote hours of my time to writing for the magazine because we have a loyalty to the users that dates back over twelve years. All updates to SMSQ/E are free to anyone who has a copy and I have not sold a new copy in ages. I do not want to start the argument up again but the licence exists to protect the end user from unsupervised tinkering and the only reason I write this now is that there are new users on this list and they need to know. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Kett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think we have to face the fact that the QL is a dying breed - we're not going to get any new hardware due to costs, and new software is only going to be developed by those already developing software. Partly because of the cost of getting a 'modern' QL system and partly because learning how to program such a system seems to be very, very difficult due to a lack of tutorials or available documentation. There are a lot of books on programming the QL in Assembler, BASIC and C (although not the modern version) and many of these are available, 2nd hand, from QUANTA, TF Services, Rich Mellor etc. These all stop short of the modern system but would provide a grounding in the system. True, many articles in QL Today which demonstrate programming techniques etc. are scattered throughout it's 11 volumes. I believe that all of these still exist in electronic form so maybe there is some possible mileage in gathering all of the articles of each series together and either printing them off as a single volume or putting them on a CD as PDF files. I have no idea how much work this would be but it would be work so there would have to be a charge. Nevertheless it would be worthwhile if it got some people writing software again. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Composite Video Connector
I have a few new QL DIN plugs but the wiring will depend on the monitor you have. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], silvercreekvalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi, Does anyone have a spare composite video connector (for the RGB connector) lead for sale? I have a decent monitor which takes a composite video input I'd like to use but athough I do have a soldering iron, I'm having trouble finding the a matching DIN plug :) Thanks Ian. Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Those of us who went to the Sinclair show in Norwich a couple of years ago had a very strong impression that the Spectrum has not moved on to the same extent as the QL. We saw stall after stall selling Spectrum hardware and software that we remembered using in our Spectrum days. The only QL stall selling similar vintage QL software was Simon Goodwins. I was about to write the same thing. The Spectrum has not 'moved on' or got 'up to date'. The scene is only stronger than the QL because people like playing the retro games (maybe because, given the age of the users, the modern ones are too hard for them to take in). It was obvious at that show that the QL was light years ahead of the Spectrum and equally obvious that we had no software to offer. There is not one piece of software for the QL that would tempt someone to get into the QL scene. The QL no longer has enough users to make commercial products viable, Just as Quanta has to change if it wants to survive, so too have the traders. There is little a trader can do these days. Since I do not write software myself, and I am offered little new software, I am stuck. Take away the cash flow and I will have to fold at some point. I keep going because I still enjoy it and I want to support the people who have been my customers for 10 years or so. Then there's the lack of USB and printer support. But just a provocative thought. Have you ever tried to connect a USB only laptop to a parallel printer? PC World don't know the answer to that one, but I do mainly because of my QL experience of looking for solutions to problems, That is easy - there is a specific bale to do it or a USB port replicator. I have both even though my laptop has a parallel port. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Per I think you miss the point sometimes. You said The QL was never only about hardware for quite a number of enthusiasts, and therefore it is still going strong in its emulated form. If you want the best QL platform money can buy, get QPC2 and stick it in your PC. For quite a number of enthusiasts t it was not and still is not about emulators, especially those who love and are sticking to original hardware and those who have no easy upgrade route now if they do not have a PC at home. Actually the point is in what Per said. He said 'quite a number of enthusiasts'. The number of native QL users has been dropping slowly over the years and begins to consist of those who know how to use the older software and don't want to move on. Those who have Auroras and the attendant expansions and those who ventured into the Q.xx territory are few but they do tend to be hardware enthusiasts I agree. If, however, there was a healthy software development scene they would be hard pushed to use this hardware to run better programs based on higher graphics and needing better hardware. A reasonable PC now costs the same as the price a replacement SGC would cost. As for QPC2 dont forget that there are 2 critical spofs (single points of failure) for QPC2 - 1. the PC and its OS That is a rather blinkered argument. PC hardware is pretty efficient. Almost every aspect of it is superior in performance to any QL hardware. It may not be efficient or as well designed in some ways but it is hardly a 'critical spot'. Windows may be bloated and have lots of security holes but I built a PC 2 years ago for a customer who just runs the Office Suite and email. It is still running perfectly and does not crash. It is when you start levering in all the other rubbish that people put on systems that they fall over. She is doing no more with her PC than most QL users and it works for her. Wot SMSQ/E license issue? Not my personal issue here but the very real fight that despoiled this list some time ago. It needs to be recognised that the consequences of that argument was a critical point in the future development of the QL community. As for SMS/E I have compiled my own SMSQ/E for my Q60 since 3.03 and tried to show how easy it is to do in QLToday, but the argument about licence itself seems to have killed off hardware development. Without re-igniting the 'licence issue' argument I would like to say that, if you bought your Q.xx with SMSQ/E on it in the first place the upgrade to the latest version is free (apart from postage etc.) and the latest version works on the Q.xx because Wolfgang takes the trouble to make it so. It was stubbornness and a blinkered attitude that caused the problem. Not the licence. However, the second major module of the Aurora project, the mythical Goldfire, is still outstanding. That is the project that is furthest advanced. If it cannot be made to succeed what chance does any other project have? I agree with you there is absolutely none if everyone has your attitude. The question to me is why did it stall, was the project too ambitious in its scope - using a Coldfire processor or did personal circumstances for the prime mover result in its end? I dont know. I do not think that Nasta has the time to develop it any more and, as Tony said, who would write the firmware and drivers to make it work? What I am suggesting is that those with hardware skills left the community should be encouraged (financially) to look at simpler projects that need less development time and are affordable for a larger number of the group or if that is not possible that as a group we should consider projects with outsourcing of development in an affordable way perhaps to eastern europe as suggested by Rich Mellor. I would very much have liked a new SGC replacement and the demonstrations that Nasta gave in the US a few years ago were very impressive. But what would you use all the extra power for? What software would drive it. The only two programs that have pushed at the envelope in the last few years have been QWord and QDT. We would need more than that. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Dave Walker wrote: That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks. Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one just in case? He is dead right. Qemulator warns about this and none of my machines accept DD disks. Apparently it is an XP issue. It actually depends on the chipset of the motherboard and / or the BIOS. They removed ED disks from several BIOS types a while ago and DD ones have been disappearing over the last few years. Many laptops will not see DD disks any more - many don't any kind of floppy access at all. Some chipsets now only support the HD disks. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Good news
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Rich Mellor wrote: Actually there is no need to test whethere SMSQ/e is already loaded - LRESPR win1_SMSQ_bin will only ever load SMSQ/e the first time. Once SMSQ/e is loaded, it is intelligent enough to not try installing itself again. That explains why his win1_boot worked without the trick. I don't think that has *always* been the case. There have been versions of SMSQ/E where the internal test to see if it is already loaded were left out (probably because SMSQ/E is modular and the module was left out deliberately during testing and then not put back in). This, of course, only applies to the Gold Card versions. In the current version it is fine again but it is always worth leaving it in just in case. 'It does not eat any bread' as my wife says. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Boot up (KVM)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I know what it probably is. SMSQ defaults to its own mouse driver. I forget exactly what, but you have to change its config block to stop it grabbing the clicks. You see cursor movement probably because it doesn't manage to capture all mouse movement signals. It is 'Do You Wish To Ignore The QIMI mouse?' Should be set to yes -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Sorry for the questions, if only there was a QL systems for Dummies book ! This is exactly what the 'Start Here' series in QL Today was aimed at. Incidentally, while I mention it, after the next three issues we would like to tackle some hardware issues but I would like a break from the RSI. How about Dilwyn Tony and Rich Mellor getting together and dividing up the task? Tony could tackle the T.F. Services products and Dilwyn and Rich could probably go through the others. The Idea being in the form of History/Uses/Usefulness/Bugs/Availability. Nothing too drastic or long winded but enough to get chaps like Neil up to speed and to jog a few memories for the rest of us. You have a while to prepare so .. Turn the paper over and you can begin. Answers to Geoff please. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] floppy drive and keyboard
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP The actual RomDisq genesis was when Sturat and I were in Eindhoven. I brought a compact flash designed for the Z88 (I designed the pcb and build it). We talked about the RomDisq on the way back to UK (train and bike days!) and came up with the product by Dover. TT wasn't involved until later. Actually, now you mention this I think you showed me the Z88 flash ram at the Eindhoven show and I asked if we could not have this for the QL. Thing is I distinctly recall you saying 'I think I have a new product here'. You may well have discussed it with Stuart on the way home after. I don't specifically recall, but the romn feature was a later feature, and that is probably what happened at Eindhoven with TT. I think I may have put two events into one. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] floppy drive and keyboard
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP If a file ROM1, ROM2, ROM3, or ROM4...exists in root directory of RomDisq, then this will be initialised prior to F1/F2. This file must be either a bootable ROM, or a RESPR driver file, otherwise the RomDisq may cause the QL to lock up (this would require a TF Services rescue!). Well worth repeating that here, not sure how many would have cottoned on to using that to ensure that the SuperHermes extensions get initialised before a boot program has been run. Although the risk of a system lockup by a bad call to machine code before bootup might put some off. But, a handy little hint that, Sir TF! I just have to pop up here. Tony may dispute this but this was the original genesis of the ROMDisq. Soon after the superHermes was introduced I was at an Eindhoven meeting with both Tony Tebby and Tony Firshman. I was talking to Tony about the keyboard extensions and I suggested that the only thing wrong with superHermes was that you had to load the extensions before it would let you use the keyboard. He then said that he wanted to have the extensions in the firmware but there was not room so suggested a ROM. He then said that people wanted to configure the extensions and have different languages etc. so I said that, since the Miracle hard drive system could read and write via the ROM port why not use flash memory - his eyes lit up and he said 'I think we have a new product here' and he then went into a huddle with Tony Tebby about it. He came back with something far better than I had envisioned but that is the way of things. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes They had an offer where you got a Guinness clock free after consuming a number of cans. Hang on a minute there. Do you mean that you consumed a number of cans of Guinness and then started getting 'offers'. Isn't that 'Date Rape'? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood writes: Yeah yeah ( 8 -)# Mind you you are more right than you imagine. There *is* a clock in the office (free from Guinness) but the battery needs replacing (8-)# Does this mean that all of your other clocks have Guinness over them then? For someone who spend a lot of time correcting other people's That should be spends Curses - undone by the speelchucker. Serves me right for making smug remarks. (I don't believe it was intentional on his part as he suggests though.) -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I keep meaning to document all this on my web site, along with all the circuit diagrams etc I have, but I never seem to find the time! It is in your office beside the files! Yeah yeah ( 8 -)# Mind you you are more right than you imagine. There *is* a clock in the office (free from Guinness) but the battery needs replacing (8-)# Does this mean that all of your other clocks have Guinness over them then? For someone who spend a lot of time correcting other people's English you do tend to leave the barn door open sometimes. Ambiguity absolutely intentional! Oh come on! This was a free gift from Guinness. What the excuse? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I keep meaning to document all this on my web site, along with all the circuit diagrams etc I have, but I never seem to find the time! It is in your office beside the files! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Colour themes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Norman Dunbar wrote: And as for the cover disk, I guess only someone like Per Witte could have come up with a name like POX for a program ;-) Excuse me, I have come up with some good ones myself too, in the past. Remember ARchive Syntax Evaluator all those years ago. :o) Bit of a Bum job that one, Norm. And you never quite got to the Bottom of it did you? I seem to remember I pooh-poohed it at the time :o) enough bad jokes for one day... I hope you remembered to flush the cache after uploading that -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/e on Gold Card / Super Gold Card
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Spelten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP I did a quick test and found that writing to DD disks is OK until v2.91, both on QL+SGC (with Mitsubishi ED drive) and on Aurora+SGC (with Sony ED drive). With v2.93 the QL is still OK but the Aurora hangs, like all next versions including the new 3.13. It looks like something was changed between v2.91 and v2.93 to introduce this bug. I would agree with this. The bug started there and continues. I tried for some time to get it sorted but no one else complained it did not work. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] I want your software
I think I have a copy of Cartridge Doctor - not sure if it works. I also have a boxed version of the original QL Macro Assembler on microdrive. May have some other stuff too - I will have to look. Oh and I have a sealed pack of four new microdrives - any offers? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 and PDQ XREF200
Hi, I have no idea about this but a lot of earlier programs took unmentionable liberties with the holes in the original code. SMSQ/E tightened up on a lot of these holes so older programs tend to fall over. Apart from that many of them wrote direct to hardware which, on QPC2, no longer exists. To add to the confusion some early programs would not run if the memory was above a certain amount. What does it do? Regards Roy In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], AHorsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I have tried to use PDQ XREF200 on my QPC2 system but to no avail. Is this a known incompatibility? Thanks, Alan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] US Show
I am sorry to have to tell you that I will be unable to attend the US show this year. I was all set to do so when my mother fell ill and was taken to hospital I had put off taking the decision about whether to go or not but, right now, I cannot be out of the country in case the worst happens. I hope you will all understand this and I hope you will have a good time there. I will be with you in spirit at least and try to make the next show. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] get back on topic
I had fully intended to be at the Manchester Show. I the was the first AGM I have missed since I started being a trader. MY problem was, when the car broke down, I was promised it would be fixed within 5 days. This would have been fine for the show. In the event it took three weeks! By the time I knew this it was too late to organise another way to get there which would be cheap enough to make it viable. I even looked into flights. The problem with non attendance at shows is also down to a lack of new products or even updates. If we are to continue we do need to address this problem. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] get back on topic
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP. I think it might have something to do with a picture I took of Jochen and Bernd a few years ago at the same venue, where the scout group had a display of French flags on the noticeboard just behind their stand and the picture looked like 2 Germans (Jochen and Bernd) selling French flags hence the caption I put on the picture in those days :-) I knew nothing of that. Geoff asked me to do some captions and my mind tend to leap into the surreal. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Hove Quanta Workshop
Hi all, you should all have received Tony Firshman's email flyer about the Hove Works which is coming up in under two weeks. I am sending out snail mail flyers to the webially challenged. I therefore need the adverts from traders who want to be in this flyer. I hope to get this out by the end of the week (Address labels please Tony- oh and ad too) Any graphic format will do. Please send these as soon as possible. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] ProWesS Screen Driver for 256 Colour mode
Arnie Clarke has written to me to ask about problems he has had with ProWesS using the 256 Colour SMSQ/E. I use a different driver for ProWesS in the high colour QPC2 mode but I am not sure if this will work with the 256 colour SMSQ/E on an Aurora. Does anyone do this and what driver are they using? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP It has been that way for many years I think. I am totally QL hardware based, and I have been doing pretty well no business for years now. But then again you have no new products so .. Yes it is a real catch 22 isn't it. I personally though am far too busy on non-QL work to have time to do this. I get very very little feedback from users though on the hardware front. I think you are the only one! There is also the problem of being able to actually do this for such a small market. Development, costs making the boards and of buying the components all make it very prohibitive to make QL hardware. The computer industry moves too fast for the individual, kitchen table, developer to even keep up with how chips are evolving and changing. Tony's experience with superHermes chips and mine, some years ago, with Super Gold Card chips are a case in point. I do often suggest new ideas and I realise that, without this hardware input, we are being left behind and forced to use emulators. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New QL Owner
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The cable is not special - a standard PC floppy disk drive cable will do. You are wrong here Rich. The cable is special. PC drive cables twist lines 10 through 13 which does not work with the QL interfaces. You actually need to twist 10 through 12 to get the drives right. I have a load of DD drives here but no PSU for them. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer
A few things I would like to point out here. The QL UnZIP and ZIP programs do have somewhat fussy command lines. ACP is the best way to zip and Unzip things and I believe it was given away with a QL Today disk some time ago. Many of the QL Today disks have had a working UNZIP program on them and most had a boot file which would unzip the programs on the disk. A little study of this would allow people to use the unzip program for other ends. Finally the best way to unzip stuff, once you have the unzip program on the QL, is to use FileInfo II. A simple file command line and pointing FileInfo II at the unzip program will allow you to execute a zip file from Cueshell or QPAC 2 and have it unzip into the destination of your choice (I usually use RAM1_) I can send you a screen shot of how I have FileInfo II set up for this if you want, Dilwyn. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That's the kind of information that needs to go into this tutorial, I really hope someone will take up the challenge and write something because the same questions are being asked over and over again and the need for information is clearly there. Actually it is just this kind of thing which I started the 'Start Here' Series in QL Today for. If someone could write this up it would be a good addition to the series. Remember I did not intend to write the whole thing myself. I have been hoping that some other people would add articles more in their area of expertise. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Steve Hall
I have just received the sad news of the death of Steve Hall, my very good friend and former partner in QBranch. I have produced a short obituary for both Quanta and QL Today but others of you may wish to add their own comments to this. I will miss a good friend. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Micro Peripherals I/F EPROM
I have a SPEM knocking around somewhere here. I also have the Micro Peripherals Disk drives and, possibly, the interface. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Phoebus, Just in case you missed my earlier contribution to this thread, Quanta has a lot of stuff donated by ex QLers (sad) which Rich Mellor and I are hoping to catalogue and make available to anyone who wants a copy - time is short at the moment but it will get done. I can't help you with the items you refer to but keep on asking - we may have something you need. Regards, John Gilpin. - Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:03 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Micro Peripherals I/F EPROM Ôçí Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:02:17 -0500,ï(ç) Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: The older QL peripherals are getting rarer and rarer, so I'm glad to hear that Quanta, the london group and others are keeping hold of some items for those who do like to collect the old gear! Since I missed the earlier post. I am still reading this using my mobile as a modem, so some messages unfortunately get lost, I would like to know if Quanta or anybody else, could provide us with links to see them or a list so we that are interested could buy them. BTW: I have a Cumana disk I/F and an AMDEK 3 Dual Drive if anyone is willing to trade. (the second drive is half-dead but the first one works like a charm - these are the full height 3 drives) - Mind you the AMDEK is heavy and sadly a 110V unit (internally selectable I think to go to 220/240)- I am looking for a Video Digitiser (any kind I think there where two) and/or an ABC Elektronik GigaRAM board. I have other things I'm looking for as well, if anyone has a large collection with doubles I'd be glad to buy/trade with them ;-) I am also looking for original programs in MDV/Disk format for my Archive (yes it is still in the works) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Cueshell
The answer is to right click the file 'name' and not the icon to the left. The icon and the name have different actions to them. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I tried that and get the diskicons. Is it as slow loading as original QL? Left it for 5 min or so. Dennis - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Cueshell As far as I remeber: right click on the mouse. Cheers...Ralf R. Silly question? How do I do a DO on a filename in Cueshell, QPC2 Demo? Dennis ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Aurora SMSQ 2.99 or previous
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes According to the private mails you've sent me you are trying to run a Text87 version for Mode 16. Mode 16 doesn't even exist until IIRC SMSQ/E 3.02. The driver that supports Mode 16 is a commercial offering, done by me. It is *not* included in the general SMSQ/E release. It has just occurred to me that he may be using a 'standard' SMSQ/E to run this. He does have the colour one but I net he installed the standard one by mistake when I rebuilt his Aurora a while ago. I have been talking to him about this all week and I had always worked from the assumption he was using a colour version. Damn! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] MDVs Versus FLPs
If you have the serial lead working and are transferring to a Windows machine you could use Jonathan Hudson's QTPI to send the files and the Windows Hyperterminal to receive them. This would control the handshake and, if you are transferring a lot of files, make it easier to get them in the right place. Mind you I have never done this with a QL. I used to do it using my old PSION organiser. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Size for QXL.win Files
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Having installed a large Hard Drive on my PeeCee (on which I run QPC2) I would like to dedicate some storage space for QL files. I understand that the way to do this is to generate one or more QXL.win type files to act as Winchester devices. Is there a maximum size for a QXL.win file running on QPC2 and if so, what is the maximum size allowed? I don't know either. I have a 250mb file at the moment and may extend that to 300mb because of all the stuff I have in it. By way of an advert. Creating and using QXL.WIN files is tackled in the new QL Today 'Start Here' article which I have just emailed to Jochen. Expect volume 10 issue 1 to drop onto your doormat in two weeks time. And by way of a reminder to those yet to re-subscribe (or subscribe?) Now is the time if you don't want to miss out. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago. Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post office robbery the newsreader read the autocue:- and the postmistress was held at gunpoint by two men, each carrying sawn off shitguns Before I lived here in Brighton I had to come down for a series of shows in the Brighton Centre. We stayed in a hotel called 'The Old Ship Hotel' In the lobby was one of those board which have letters stuck into velvet slots so you can spell out various messages. On the day I was sitting in lobby I noticed it read 'The Old Ship Hotel welcomes'. I casually wandered over and removed the 'p' from Ship and replaced it with the 't' from 'Hotel'. I then replaced that 't' with the 'l' and sat down. It took over an hour of visitors giggling and snorting before the receptionist noticed what I had done. I also recall waiting for someone at Plaistow station. They had a notice on a blackboard which read, ' London Underground apologise for the delays to District Line trains. This is due to Staff Error at Rayners Park'. Unfortunately they left the chalk there and it was a moments work to turn it into 'Stark Terror at Rayners Park' Ah such juvenile amusement. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I must find a list of common American-English spellings and update. I have the American version. This is because, in their infinite wisdom, M$ allow you to set the country settings four times during installation. Most people manage the first two, some manage the third but the fourth one is 'location' or something like that and is buried several layers deep. If you miss it you will default to the US spellings because Bill Gates knows we are all too lazy to learn how to spell properly. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult??? Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond - especially their leader. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
