Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments
Well that is an interesting point. How safe is the virtual QL machine? . I would have thought not a SQmulator as it runs in java and java is not particularly safe. Can Marcel answer for QPC1 or 2? How about Virtual Box running another OS. It is suggested any virtual machine is safe and is the method used for testing new versions of an OS on its own operating system. As Spies are hacking into machines can we produce a safe OS? George Gwilt says it was proved no a long time ago. It would be nice to know more. On 2017-01-13 17:32, Christopher Cave wrote: It is my normal practice to delete any email coming from an unknown or suspect origin WITHOUT looking at any attachment. Today I took such an attachment, a zip-file, and opened it with ACP in a QL-environment. There was a .ru (Russian ?) email address embedded in the file. My usual approach seems justified but was the procedure I adopted safe? Christopher Cave mailto:cc...@cix.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Archive Database Internals - analyser and extractor
On 2016-12-04 19:25, Norman Dunbar wrote: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/ArchiveExtractor is all I'm saying! Except that the docs (TextTidy) on Dilwyn's web site are way out of date. Better details at the above address, as well as a utility to scan your databases and report back. Currently Windows only though, I've compiled with the Borland C++ compiler and there's a link to get you a copy, legally, for free too. Cheers, Norm. Norman, If I remember correctly the Psion Suite of programs were written during the time the QL was being designed, and QL number format was finalized. So they had to take a guess and settled on a known standard. This may mean that it is 8 bit IEE. It may be that it is a modified suite for another computer. The PC version was a number of years later. This explains why the number format is different from the QL for the whole suite John ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting WebEx session
On 2016-11-20 19:34, d.santachi...@libero.it wrote: Hi All, We will restart with the English WebEx session of the 13th Sinclair QL Italian meeting at 15:00 https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M2M8EU73OF6BZ0T8BV 7BEWEY0R-1PI1=661457.41064 Meeting number 236 059 509 Kind regards Davide -Messaggio originale- Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di d.santachi...@libero.it Inviato: venerdì 4 novembre 2016 10.32 A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Oggetto: [Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting Hi everybody, I take again the chance to inform that if anybody is interested to make even a very short speech at our Italian meeting on Sunday 20th of November, subscriptions are open :-) Subjects for intervention are free (i.e. QPC2, SMSQ/E, software or hardware etc.), baseline is to manage everything via web-ex sessions. Instead if there are listeners interested I would need their email address to send-out the web-ex link (which can be used also on e.g. tablets with the appropriate app). Regards Davide ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-11-06 00:43, Geoff Wicks wrote: On 04/11/2016 19:09, Ralf Reköndt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks"I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. I will never understand, why Fred does not open this format. ___ QL-Users Mailing List I wonder whether the probem may be that Fred used some library routines that he would be legally entitled to use in his own programs, but which were not his copyright and thus he cannot release the code. Not sure whether or not this would affect releasing the file formatting though. Another thing that fascinates me is the compression routine for QTYP. Did TT use a standard routine? The reason is that the dictionaries page on my website has taken off with over 1,000 hits in the last quarter and it now comes high on the search engines. Most people are downloading the QTYP versions which indicates to me they are usable in other programs. Nice to know that work you did for the QL years ago is still relevant, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-11-05 02:37, RWAP Software wrote: On 2016-11-04 19:09, Ralf Reköndt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Geoff Wicks"I am not sure whether I was the writer of the tools that Rich refers to, Text87 was always the most difficult of the QL word processors as no one has ever been able to unravel the file formatting. I will never understand, why Fred does not open this format. ___ QL-Users Mailing List Has anyone approached him recently to ask about publishing the information about the file format? I know he doesn't want to make Text87 freeware (you can still purchase it from Jochen I think) but the file format might be a good idea - assuming it isn't used in any other projects and that is why --- Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.
On 2016-10-24 17:27, Norman Dunbar wrote: For those not watching the QL Forum [and why not? :-)], Rich recently posted this Following a lot of work by Norman, the community edition of the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual is now available at: http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ There are some background notes which appear at: www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online The sources are now on a Github repository - https://github.com/NormanDunbar/SuperBASIC-Manual, although it is best to fork this, make any changes and then do a fork request to get them incorporated back into the original. Just in time for the RWAP Software 30th Anniversary too? :D Read the introductory notes first, you will learn how you can download html, epub or pdf versions. Cheers, Norm. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] For Thierry Godefroy
On 2016-10-25 23:19, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Resizable windows? Please explain. - Original Message - From: "Giorgio Garabello" Hello Thierry, you are the author of two of the most used of the QL software, ACP and FileInfo2 There 's the possibility that these software are updated to the new possibilities offered by EasyPTR4 (system palette and resizable windows)? Greetings Giorgio ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Why so slow?
Francois your english is good
John
On 2016-10-12 10:45, François Van Emelen wrote:
Op 11/10/2016 om 18:15 schreef Ralf Reköndt:
What was the cure?
- Original Message - From: "François Van Emelen"
Sorry for the late reply: I am having some health problems.
Wolfgang found the problem and told me how to solve it.
New timings
Conversion of a DBF-file to a DBS-file (from dos1_ to win2_)
Qpc2 : before correction 1423 sec. after correction 24 sec. (59 x
faster)
Smsqmulator : before correction 47 sec. after correction 26 sec.
(1,8 x faster)
Many thanks to Wolfgang.
Have a fine day,
François Van Emelen
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Hi Ralf,
It was a programming error: an instruction ('update') inside a loop
that should have been outside that loop. Ihis implied an 'update'
after each field (in this case 118) instead of only ONE 'update'
outside the loop. (Is this understandable English?)
Why such an important difference between QPC2 (60x slower) and
QMSQmulator (1.8x slower)? Wolfgang told me that QMSQmulator uses its
own 'win-driver'. For more explanation, you 'd better ask Wolfgang or
Marcel. My skills are limited to some easy Sbasic unfortunately.
Thanks for your reply. that makes 2 listeners on this list :).
François Van Emelen
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Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject
On 2016-07-06 14:38, Rich Mellor wrote: On 06/07/2016 13:50, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Hosting old software is more problematic than parking on a double yellow line (sorry not sure what the equivalent is in Germany). Tell that to e.g. http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/ They've been in the business of hosting abandonware for 18 years and running. That is a risk they are willing to take. They admit that what they do is strictly illegal and yes, they say that they "will gladly remove download links to any game that is either 1) still being sold by the publisher, or 2) at the request of the publishers themselves" Alas the issue has come about because people keep publishing the same titles which are still being sold by the publisher, and when asked to remove links, kick up a huge fuss about it! World of Spectrum has been very successful in its repository of ZX Spectrum titles - mainly because it took the step of trying to contact as many copyright holders as possible before hosting their files. Could I ask what your approach would be if you found (before QPC2 was made freeware), sites who just offer free downloads of QPC2, QPCPrint etc? Would you have been happy and let them do it whilst you were continuing to sell the programs yourself? Don't muddle the issue. We're strictly talking about software here that was written a long time ago and which the original authors have long lost interest in. I still support QPC2 EVEN though I made it free. But we are not - I am in contact with a lot of the copyright holders and they are still very interested in what happens with their software. The titles everyone seems to moan about are the titles which I still sell and support, so how is that different to QPCPrint and QPC2 just because the support is not done by the original author, but by me as authorised distributor? The thing hit the fan when somebody send take-down notices to a site that has actually put copies for everybody to use on the internet. So we're left with less copies than there were before. But the software was mainly software which could readily still be purchased online from myself and Jochen. For example? I only see 3 QL software products left on Jochen's page to purchase, which is QMENU, Lonely Joker and QD (last updated 13 years ago! With my help even). And yes, I think at least QD and QMENU should now be free, too. The Spanish sites included a lot of the Talent and Pyramide software titles, Text87, Hyperdrive, and at least one of Jochen's titles. Rather than concentrating on trying to increase the range of free QL software available, it tends to be the same 10 titles or so which were published by a similar site in 2014 (and subsequently removed at the request of the copyright holders). Who are those mysterious copyright holders? The last request at the Spanish site was apparently anonymous. How can an anonymous person claim copyright to anything? I can't imagine Jochen sending out any take down orders either. Jochen emailed them in 2014 and was also involved this year. Other copyright authors involved (that I know of) have been the man behind English Software, Tom Dolezal (Talent), Fred Toussi (Software87), Daniel Purlich (Pyramide), Ken Brown (Eidersoft), Simon Goodwin and Steve Hollywood (Arrakis). As to who contacted their hosting company 'anonymously' I don't know - it might well be that the hosting company didn't ask for details, or simply did not want to provide them to the website owner once they realised that they were in danger of being fined by the Spanish government. It is always the danger that by approaching copyright holders, they will look to see whether their software or name is mentioned online anywhere, and might then take offense that whilst one person has found them quite easily and approached them on friendly terms to ask if the software could be made available freeware, they then find that someone else has decided to just offer it as a free download without making any attempt to contact them! Unfortunately, in the 9 years since I decided off my own back to set up the QL Wiki and start preserving what QL software I could, the number of people who have shown willing to help take the project any further forward can be counted on one hand. Once again, I appreciate any work you have done. I also have contributed to the Wiki a bit, but I was far too young back then so I don't really know most of the titles listed. And will probably never know them because they have either been taken down or are just available "commercially". But ok, I will try to exert what little influence I have left to get a few more titles released. Great - there are still various titles by Tony Tebby for example... - have a look at the long list on my spreadsheet - there are plenty of German authors too who need to be tracked down. The whole argument about this could have easily been avoided if people who wanted to host a
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject
On 2016-07-06 13:50, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Hosting old software is more problematic than parking on a double yellow line (sorry not sure what the equivalent is in Germany). Tell that to e.g. http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/ They've been in the business of hosting abandonware for 18 years and running. As I have said in posts elsewhere, if someone wants to take the risk and set up a repository, that is fine, but I will not be a part of illegal file sharing (which is what it amounts to) and cannot take the risk of losing my websites and being prosecuted for breach of international copyright. I can totally understand that and nobody says you must do so. But if anybody does do so, like the Spanish site, then this is fine with me. More the issue is the reaction of people when a copyright contacts them to have software withdrawn - to date, I have been attacked because it must be my fault for asking for the software to be taken down. I would never attack you, but I can understand that people are not happy about it. And if this was software you had written to begin with I would be totally on your side. But it's only software other people have written a long time ago and I have already explained what I think about this, so I won't write it again. Could I ask what your approach would be if you found (before QPC2 was made freeware), sites who just offer free downloads of QPC2, QPCPrint etc? Would you have been happy and let them do it whilst you were continuing to sell the programs yourself? Don't muddle the issue. We're strictly talking about software here that was written a long time ago and which the original authors have long lost interest in. I still support QPC2 EVEN though I made it free. Unfortunately yes - as has been shown by someone reporting illegal file sharing to the hosting company of one of the sites concerned Yes, someone. I really wonder who that was... The thing hit the fan when somebody send take-down notices to a site that has actually put copies for everybody to use on the internet. So we're left with less copies than there were before. But the software was mainly software which could readily still be purchased online from myself and Jochen. For example? I only see 3 QL software products left on Jochen's page to purchase, which is QMENU, Lonely Joker and QD (last updated 13 years ago! With my help even). And yes, I think at least QD and QMENU should now be free, too. Rather than concentrating on trying to increase the range of free QL software available, it tends to be the same 10 titles or so which were published by a similar site in 2014 (and subsequently removed at the request of the copyright holders). Who are those mysterious copyright holders? The last request at the Spanish site was apparently anonymous. How can an anonymous person claim copyright to anything? I can't imagine Jochen sending out any take down orders either. Unfortunately, in the 9 years since I decided off my own back to set up the QL Wiki and start preserving what QL software I could, the number of people who have shown willing to help take the project any further forward can be counted on one hand. Once again, I appreciate any work you have done. I also have contributed to the Wiki a bit, but I was far too young back then so I don't really know most of the titles listed. And will probably never know them because they have either been taken down or are just available "commercially". But ok, I will try to exert what little influence I have left to get a few more titles released. If you want to go some other way and do file sharing of copyright material, then unfortunately, I will not be part of this. Once again, I won't and nobody expects you to do so. But if somebody wants to host abandonware, more power to them in my eyes. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please
On 2016-06-19 19:28, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 18/06/16 12:37, Michael Bulford wrote: Hi Norm, I think I'll wait .. there appears to be something wrong with this download.The file seems much bigger than advertised. Right then it seems that this is more complicated on Windows than it needs to be. I've uploaded the correct qwindows.dll to https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/files/Windows%2032-64bit/ so you will need to go there and fetch it. In your QxlWin application directory, create a new directory called plugins. Within this new directory, create a new directory called platforms. Save the qwindows.dll in there. Now it should work. The problem I have in testing with a completely bare CMD session, is that no matter whet I did, with or without that file present or not, it simply worked. There's no Windows around here that has not got Qt installed (I only have it in a VM these days) so I'm unable to test this. From the docs on the Qt web site, it needs to be in the application/plugins/platforms folder. Why they make this complicated I don't know, it was never like this on the previous versions. Good luck. Let me know how you get on. Cheers, Norm. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please
On 2016-06-17 09:20, Norman Dunbar wrote: I have a utility on https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/ which should allow anyone to extract any file from a QXL win file. However, I've just checked and it appears I've never uploaded a compiled version. Oops! Like qstripper, it runs on Linux, Windows and if you have QT, on Mac if you compile the source yourself. I'll try to get a compiled version uploaded ASAP. Cheers, Norm. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions
Hi Wolf George Gwilt understands them and likes them. Ask him for help John On 2016-01-30 11:46, Wolf wrote: Hi, SMSQmulator doesn't handle 68020 - mainly because I can't get my head around the new addressing modes and the bitfield ops. Looking forward to your series, then. Wolfgang On 01/29/2016 01:37 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote: ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler
Studying George Gwilts EasyPeasy may help On 2016-01-13 20:26, Marcos Cruz wrote: Hi all, I need some help. Which is the easiest way to get the screen info from assembly is SMSQ/E? I mean, what `scr_base`, `scr_xlim`, `scr_ylim` and `scr_llen` do in SBASIC. I've found the code of those keywords in the SMSQ/E sources, and I'm studying it in order to remove the SBASIC stuff, but I'm wondering if someone has done this before. Thanks. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. Either alter the source code, assembling or hack smsq.bin or smsqe.bin by removing the drive locations, and keeping the file the same length by adding nulls after. I have done this for years and the win files finish in the same directory smsq(e).bin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
On 2014-12-03 20:42, Norman Dunbar wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Well done Norman, A very professional production. Solves any problem of Xmas reading! Not to mention the education. Happy Xmas, John Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 - has anyone found my glasses, please?
On 2014-10-14 00:21, Michael Bulford wrote: I seem to have mislaid my glasses somehow, and this would have happened at the QLis30 workshop. These glasses only get used occasionally, and I keep them in a black case. I would guess that I might have placed the case down on a table, afterwards someone could have absent-mindedly picked this case up, believing it to be theirs, and put it in their own pocket, then forgot about it. These things can easily happen. I hope this is the case, because I would like to have these specs back. They are a prescription and tinted pair, and I have had them for many years. So, if anyone does have them, can you please let me know. Kind regards, Michael Bulford ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Dear Michael, No glasses or glasses case was found when tiding up after the show. Hope they turn up, John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30
I would like to thank :- Colin McKay for suggesting the location. Geoff Wicks for organizing the event. John Gilpin and Quanta for helping me with the finances. Sarah Gilpin and Val Taylor for the catering. And finally all those who attended to make it a success. I hope that international celebrations of the QL will become a regular event. Best wishes, John Sadler SQLUG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 name badges :- Spare dinner place.
On 2014-10-06 21:42, extdgl42 wrote: -Original Message- From: Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com Sent: Oct 6, 2014 7:53 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] QLis30 name badges It has been suggested that we should have name badges at QLis30. These are not compulsory, but they will be available at both the dinner and at the workshop. The badges are plain plastic pin on types 7.5cm x 4cm. You will have to provide your own content on a piece of paper that can be slipped inside the badge. You may wish to do this in advance. It has been suggested that it would be useful to have your country included and possibly your QL forum name. The QL forum will be present at the workshop, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I will not be present at QLis30. Please donate the funds I committed to the dinner to expenses of the meeting. Don't waste a dinner. My regards to all the QLers I would've enjoyed meeting. QL Forever! Doug LaVerne 37830 USA As a barely even peripheral member of the QL community, I had to realize that U$D 1000s for a trip had dubious aspects when the same $$ is needed for important reasons in the US before early November. Thanks again to all. I eagerly await news of the event! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I believe there was one visitor, who missed the final date. As we already paid for Doug's dinner perhaps he or somebody else could attend instead of Doug. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 monitor appeal
Dear Geoff, I can bring one, Best wishes, john On 2014-09-29 16:47, Geoff Wicks wrote: Is there any one with a car who could bring a CRT Multisync Monitor with 15 pin VGA input to QLis30? We would like this to help one of the German guests with a presentation, Best wishes, Geoff PS I hope this email comes over safely - BT have just made major changes to my email account. I have lost all my sent files on Thunderbird, although they are still on the BT server. Must find a way to downlodd them. ___ 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
[Ql-Users] Re QL-30 Dinner Menu.
Dear Dinners The standard set of the three hotel dinner menus has already been advertised twice and I believe the choice can be made on the night.e hotel can make preparations for them in advance Any special menu such as Haggis, Neaps Tatties or special dietary needs will have to be ordered in advance so the hotel can make preparations for them in advance. John Sadler. On 2014-08-26 08:08, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi, I do not mind any Scottish food... how is the menu option for each person going to be decided. Is it on the nigh with a selection from a fixed menu. Regards, Derek On 26/08/14 06:37, stefan_schomb...@agilent.com wrote: I booked my dinner today, but TBH, I´d be grateful if there was another dish beside the Haggis one. Nothing against Scottish food at all - I also don´t like everything we have over here - but it would be a shame not to eat something you ordered and spent 36 Euros on it. Best regards, Stefan -Original Message- From: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 9:12 PM To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Subject: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 126, Issue 21 Send Ql-Users mailing list submissions to ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com You can reach the person managing the list at ql-users-ow...@lists.q-v-d.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Ql-Users digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: QLis30 Dinner (Tobias Fr?schle) 2. Re: QLis30 Dinner (John Gilpin) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:35:11 +0200 From: Tobias Fr?schle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner Message-ID: 14809bac848.27f2.2a786fd81952576dc07942023bf88...@t-online.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Geoff, I'm not sure if I have already opted for pure Scottish food, if not I'll do it now. I'm perfectly fine with the proposed menu. And btw we have quite a number of similar regional dishes here, so I guess we'll survive Again thanks for organising and looking forward to see you in October , Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail f?r Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 24. August 2014 19:46:31 schrieb Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: Just a reminder that payments for the QLis30 dinner should be made by next weekend. Because of continuing problems with the SQLUG bank account we are asking all people to pay by the Quanta PayPal account: https//quanta.org.uk/ql-30 This will take you directly to Quanta's PayPal account for the dinner. Many thanks to Quanta for this facility. We would have been in a difficult situation without them. The Holiday Inn have indicated that if we want they would make the main course the quintessential Scottish meal of Haggis, Tatties and Neaps often accompanied by a wee dram. (Tatties are potatoes and neaps turnips) Haggis is sheep's offal cooked with onion, oatmeal and spices and tastes far nicer than it sounds. I had some delightful haggis for breakfast at Kinlochbervie in June. However it is not to everyone's liking and we would like to hear your opinions. Aparently there is a regional dish in North Hesse called weckewerk that is a form of Haggis, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:27:54 +0100 From: John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner Message-ID: 53fb2bca.5090...@btinternet.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Geoff, Count us (Sarah I) in for the Neaps and Tatties!! See you in October. Kind Regards, John Gilpin. QUANTA Membership Secretary and QUANTA Treasurer membership @quanta.org.uk treasurer @quanta.org.uk On 24/08/2014 18:46, Geoff Wicks wrote: Just a reminder that payments for the QLis30 dinner should be made by next weekend. Because of continuing problems with the SQLUG bank account we are asking all people to pay by the Quanta PayPal account: https//quanta.org.uk/ql-30 This will take you directly to Quanta's PayPal account for the dinner. Many thanks to Quanta for this facility. We would have been in a difficult situation without them. The Holiday Inn have indicated that if we want they would make the main course the quintessential Scottish meal of Haggis, Tatties and Neaps often accompanied by a wee dram. (Tatties are potatoes and neaps turnips) Haggis is sheep's offal cooked with onion, oatmeal and spices and tastes far nicer than it
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner - urgent
Dear QLis30 Diners The problem is that I am not well versed in electronic methods of payment. I believe that PayPal will let you transfer money with a credit card, but all the information the receiver gets is an email address. So perhaps a separate email with the details may be the answer. I believe in the UK if you use internet banking you can transfer the money direct with little or no charge, using SQLUG bank account sort code and account number. I can return an email with these details. Other methods by the banks seem to incur a charge more than the value of the dinner! I would be pleased if somebody who uses these methods could advise on the best methods. John Sadler On 2014-08-10 19:25, Geoff Wicks wrote: transfer mo The QLis30 workshop dinner will be held on Friday 10th October in the Holiday Inn, 132 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, EH12 6UA. The Holiday Inn is about 2 km from the QLis30 workshop venue in the direction of the city centre. It is near the Edinburgh Zoo and is served by the airport bus. www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9431159,-3.266964,16z The room is booked from 19.00 to 23.00 and the final menu is still to be decided, but it will have a Scottish theme. SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS Please inform us of any special dietary needs, including vegetarian, when booking as we have to inform the Holiday Inn in advance. The cost is £25 for a three course meal plus coffee. As the Holiday Inn requires payment in full a month in advance all bookings must be in and fully paid by the end of August. PAYMENT METHODS For obvious security reasons we are unable to put bank account and personal contact details online and would ask you to use one of the following procedures. 1: Payment by cheque for £25 made out to SQLUG and sent to John Sadler. For John's contact details please use the email link on the SQLUG website: www.jms1.supanet.com/SQLUG/intro.htm 2: Payment by PaYPaL. Quanta has kindly agreed to allow payment via their PayPal account. This may be the cheapest way for non-UK-ers to pay. There is a charge for using PayPal and, for foreign currency users, exchange and transfer costs. UK users should pay £26 and non UK users £28. For details of how to pay via the PayPal website please contact Quanta's treasurer via their website link: www.quanta.org.uk If paying by any form of transfer please ensure that QLis30 and your name are included in the payment details. 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
Re: [Ql-Users] attachments
On 2014-04-20 09:14, Dilwyn Jones wrote: As Marcel (and others) found out to his cost, emails to me with attachments don’t get through to me on the email address I use for this list, even when flagged as safe senders in Windows Dead Mail. Worse, since the emails to my own website domain are forwarded via the same ISP, those are being blocked too. If you need to send me anything with an attachment, use one of my other email addresses if you know them, or send me an email without attachment first and I’ll tell you which email address to use. And if anyone feels like blowing up EE/Orange I’ll happily support them in doing so – I can’t even login on it using Internet Explorer, and Firefox takes me to a random page after logging in. Their Contact Us form’s SUBMIT button fails to work so I can’t actually get a message to them and they don’t publish an email address for getting help, only a 0845 number which puts you in a queue for hours on end. 0 out of 10 for effort, EE. If I wasn’t tied into a contract with them I’d be off like a shot to someone who actually wants a customer. Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Try this web site. It seems to give the route to resolve your problem. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4900707page=1 Best of luck! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] A funny coincidence.
On 2014-03-29 22:05, John Gilpin wrote: Now, there's a funny coincidence - or is it? Starting with Geoff Wicks' empty email at 19:12 on 28/03/2014 I have received *THREE *copies of all emails from this list instead of my usual two ( All quanta.org.uk email addresses are registered with this list and having two roles (Treasurer and Membership) I get two copies by default). I know that Geoff has strange influences over anything QL but was this silence meant to be truly deafening??:-) Once Geoff got his voice back - well since his email datelined 12:26 today 29/03/2014 - my in box has only received the usual two copies. Now Geoff and I have worked together over many years - sometimes agreeing, and sometimes not, and I recognise his influence over the QL scene but this is truly weird :-) Does anyone have an answer? Bruce? Sarah thinks that it may be because we are celebrating John-is-71 without any input from the QL fraternity. Geoff? (s, he may have been struck speechless again - or just asleep) :-) Dilwyn, you also hold two quanta email addresses. Have you been deafened by Geoff's silence? Regards, John Gilpin. QUANTA Membership Secretary and treasurer. members...@quanta.org.uk / treasu...@quanta.org.uk On 29/03/2014 12:27, Geoff Wicks wrote: On 28/03/2014 19:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Probably the first time I've seen Geoff lost for words... :-D Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Geoff Wicks Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 7:24 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Aargh! Sorry about the problems. Content I pasted is not being transmitted. I'll try again, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ Be very wary, Dilwyn. Be very wary. In my probation/trade union days management feared me most when I was silent. It was a sign I was planning something. Yours subversively, 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 You have got admit that it was a sure way of getting everybody's attention ! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30
On 2014-03-29 12:26, Geoff Wicks wrote: On 28/03/2014 22:22, jms1 wrote: Dear QLis30 fans. That is one thing that SQLUG has not thought off. I can imagine it will enable a number of people to take part who otherwise would not be able to attend. Will an optical fibre connection and wireless router to the internet do? What other facilities would be desirable to achieve this? John Sadler SQLUG On 2014-03-28 19:51, Dave Park wrote: Hi Geoff, I am happy to support this. When this gets off the ground, I will send in my sponsorship money well before the event is held. If you choose a location that has reasonable internet access, I'd like to attend by telepresence, and show off some of the items we're designing and making, a few more of which should be available by then. Exciting times! Dave Just a quick reply. An internet link is one of the things that might be difficult, although I am hoping to find a way round these. I'll go into more detail when I write about the possible program shortly, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm At least two of the four possibilities have a wifi connection although one will have child protection filters on it, but that should not be a problem for us. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Concept 3D
Has anybody got this program working and if so how did they do it? We have tried it and all we get is an error message *** Supercharged Basic halted after line 3 *** John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Concept 3D
On 2014-02-09 16:23, jms1 wrote: Has anybody got this program working and if so how did they do it? We have tried it and all we get is an error message *** Supercharged Basic halted after line 3 *** John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Correction, error message should be:- *** Supercharged Basic halted after line 3 Error: already exists *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released
Great Marcel. This will make it easy to introduce the QL to new people. Congratulations on the new arrival. John On 2014-01-31 01:11, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Hello everybody. I have mentioned that I intended to make QPC2 available and free for all for some time and the first fruit of this could be observed for QL Today subscribers with QPC2 v4 on the last QL-Today DVD. Now, to celebrate the birth of my first and very lovely daughter (who turns one week old in exactly 3 hours), I follow up on my promise and finally make QPC2 available for everybody to enjoy. Head over to http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/downloads.html to get it. The package contains QPC2 v4.01 and the latest SMSQ/E 3.18. Cheers, Marcel ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql is 30
SQLUG could probably find a location and maybe pay for the hall in Edinburgh or even possibly Glasgow. Would be somewhere different and attract people both from the continent and Britain? Who would come? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Why not
I think the problem is that travel and expense make a two or even a single day event expensive for the return. How would you like the idea of holding the agm and workshop in Kirkcaldy? I gave up Quanta because it did not seem to be a source of information I wanted, and the AGM did not seem to be value for money personally. We live in the digital age and we are digital people. Cannot we use computers to solve the problem? After all should be possible to conduct an agm by email! All it requires is a flexible approach and careful rules so it is seem to be fair. OH and a change in the constitution to allow it. Quanta has gone a little way by distributing the magazine by email. Dilwyn's Site is a tremendous source information if you are QL savy. What about utube presentations on getting started with a retro QL, a raspberry pi and uqlx? Even better a version of linux, which started up in Sbasic and or Qptr environment like QPC2demo. Even better the sdd could provide the same sort of programs and tools as Debian Weezy sdd does. We could even try to persuade Pi world that it was included with the noobs version. With the raspberry pi we would get the sort exposure that the bbc computer gets now. If Quanta took all of this on, used one of the websites with an attractive interface, paid for the cost of of the server etc. it could be a powerful influence again. It is going to have embrace the philosophy of free software and give up any notion on financial income or interlectual property. So are you going to think out of the box and rise to the challenge bring a whole new group into the QL world? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Why not
On 2013-10-21 20:34, Richard Mellor t/as RWAP Services wrote: On Mon, October 21, 2013 7:46 pm, jms1 wrote: We live in the digital age and we are digital people. Cannot we use computers to solve the problem? After all should be possible to conduct an agm by email! All it requires is a flexible approach and careful rules so it is seem to be fair. OH and a change in the constitution to allow it. Geoff Wicks and I spent some considerable time in 2011 updating the Quanta constitution to make it more modern, and indeed, committee meetings and AGMs can now be conducted by telephone and via Skype. Committee meetings can also be conducted by email, but that is more difficult for an AGM where feedback is required on each issue during the meeting. The new constitution was adopted in 2012 I attended the AGM by Skype this year as I was unable to attend. Rich www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Pleased to hear it. It appears that you can conduct an agm by video conferencing ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Programming in Assembler
Please include me in your mailing of further instalments of Programming in Assembler ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD
I endorse that. On 2013-09-19 17:07, John Gilpin wrote: As Editor of the QUANTA Magazine for a number of years, I appreciate all the work that has gone into QLToday over the years. My personal thanks to Jochen and all others concerned and also from all the QUANTA Members who enjoyed the other Magazine as well. My last issue arrived safely earlier today in the UK. A tremendous effort on your behalf and the Magazine will be very sadly missed. Kindest regards to all, John Gilpin. Current QUANTA Treasurer and Membership Secretary. On 19/09/2013 15:59, QL2K wrote: Hi All, I'll received QL Today this morning too... :) Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Ian Pine Envoyé : jeudi 19 septembre 2013 15:16 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD My final (for the foreseeable future) QL Today arrived this morning. I'm exploring the DVD. I've got both QPC2 and SMSQmlator (Java7 on Vista) running. SMSQmulator runs fine directly from the DVD but not much use with read-only filesystem. I copied all the files from DVD to a folder and ran it from there but keep getting this message: Can't read SMSQ/E file! : java.io.IOException: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file. I'm launching it by opening the folder and double-clicing the .jar file. The error happens even if I restart the computer and it is the first thing I run. No problems with QPC2 but the best display quality results in a tiny QL window within the QPC window - I can scale it up by setting the bottom resolution (under 'Window mode' checkbox) higher than that of the top resolution, but this usually results in a reduction in quality. Good fun playing, but I must drag myself away to tidy up and get dinner started before wife comes home from work and I go out to mine! Ian. ___ 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 ___ 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
[Ql-Users] QXL SMSQE3.16 SMSQmulator 1.16
ear Wolfgang I have tried your latest version again, and have the following problems. SMSQmulator Error 100 REPeat in: PRINT INKEY$(-1) when run produces error At line 100:2 only arrays or strings may be indexed. This stops me running some of my SBasic programs. qxl_smsqe Error On running on my Windows 95 machine and exiting with Ctrl ScrollLock either produces this error Your program caused a divide overflow error. If the problem persists contact your vendor. or resets machine if one has been using the qxl for any length of time. John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC and standby
If I remember correctly Windows 64 bit needs some tweaking to get some 32 bit programs to run properly. I seem to remember something about running 32 bit in a special mode on 64 bit machines. I am sorry I cannot be more specific because I have neither Windows 7 or 8. Perhaps Marcel is able to investigate this and issue either a 64 bit version or a version which is compatible on both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 and 8 machines. Has anybody tried QPC2 on a Windows 8 machine because that may be another can of worms! John On 2013-06-12 22:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote: not sure if that helps in any way - But i have the exact same problem with QPC on a new HP laptop and Windows 7 64 bit Professional. Computer goes to sleep, QPC dies. On another (older) laptop using Windows 7 Basic 32 bit, everything is fine. Tobias At least I know I'm not alone now! Thanks, Tobias. I should have stated that the problem doesn't happen on my netbook with Windows 7 starter (32-bit). Dilwyn ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.18
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks as you say the unziping went wrong, but it works fine now. I have also managed to get SMSQmulator to work from a Mint 13 Live CD John On 2013-05-21 06:57, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi John, Here is the message I got! java -jar e:\pc\smsqmulator\smsqmulator6\smsqmulator.jar Exception in thread AWT-EventQueue-0 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: inifile/IniFile at smsqmulator.SMSQmulator.initSMSQmulator.java:37 at smsqmulator.SMSQmulator$1.runSMSQmulator.java:162 at.java.awt.InvocationEvent.dispatchUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFiltersUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFiltersUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHeirachyUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsUnknown Source at.java.awt.EventDispatchThread.runUnknown Source Looking forward to you solving it, John For some reason, your unzipping went wrong. Once unzipped, you must have two things : the SMSQmulator.jar file and a subdirectory called lib. They must be next to each other. Check to see that they are both wherever you unzipped the file (i.e. e:\pc\smsqmulator\smsqmulator6)...) Wolfgang ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] QXL SMSQE315
Dear, Wolfgang The latest QXL seems to work now. However it always returns the following error message when terminated. Your program caused a divide error overflow. If the problem persists contact the program vendor. John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Latest SMSQMulator
On 2013-04-19 08:38, John wrote: On 19/04/13 00:04:55, jms1 wrote: Produces an empty SMSQmulator black screen. The pointer disappears in the black screen. I have been getting this when loading onto machines that have not previously run SMSQmulator. For me, I need to choose File and load in the SMSQE file but then choose Config and change the Memory size to 4M. Once this is done and the emulator is running, everything seems fine and you can set the memory to what you require. Regards John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Dear John, Thank you. It seems to run fine now. John. Dear Lenerz, Sorry to have caused so much hastle. Hope you have improved SMSQmulator as a consequence. Does this mean that if you had saved the jar file with 4 M I would not have had any problems? John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Latest SMSQMulator
Dear Wolfgang, I have tried the latest version and here are the results. C:\Users\John_2java -version java version 1.6.0_03 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode) C:\Users\John_2java -jar e:\PC\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator6\SMSQmulator.jar Produces an empty SMSQmulator black screen. The pointer disappears in the black screen. The cooling fan works continually. Config shows that the win file is correctly found. On loading SMSQE nothing happens, except the cooling fan continues to work continually. Pressing the close button and the command prompt returns with no error message, and the cooling fan quickly stops Repeating C:\Users\John_2java -jar e:\PC\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator6\SMSQmulator.jar again, the same happens. The continual running of the fan suggest that SMSQmulator is in a continual loop. If I reset the SMSQmulator I get the error message Your SMSQE file is too old, please upgrade to the one that came with this version of SMSQmulatorand the fan slows down and eventually stops. When I press the error message close button I get the error message Illegal instruction $494f at $100080 m68k.cpu.CpuException: Interrupt vector not set for uninitialised interrupt vector 4 at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.raiseException(MC68000Cpu.java:1648) at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.execute(MC68000Cpu.java:176) at smsqmulator.MonitorGoThread.run(MonitorGoThread.java:136) On closing SMSQmulator the command line prompt returns. All files are date modified 14/04/2013 13:18 Why my version of Vista should be awkward I have no idea. John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.16
On 2013-04-10 09:40, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 10/04/13 00:26, jms1 wrote: All files have date stamp 07/04/2013 9:52 I tried both with the same result! Would one except different error message if the wrong version was used? HA! My birthday! :-) Just a quickie Jochen, you are using the version of SMSQmulator specifically for Java 1.6 and not the one for 1.7? I am not sure, other than sound, why there should be a difference, but Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.16
Dear Wolfgang I have tried your latest version and this is the result. E:\java -version java version 1.6.0_03 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode) E:\java -jar e:\PC\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator6\SMSQmulator.jar Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: smsqmulator/SMSQmulator : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Unknown Scource) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Scource) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Scource) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Scource) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Scource) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Scource) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Scource) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Scource) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Scource) All files have date stamp 07/04/2013 9:52 Does this mean my version of java is older than yours? John On 2013-04-08 08:26, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi All, i've released SMSQmulator 1.16, on the website (http://www.wlenerz.com/SMSQmulator/). John, could you check that this gets rid of your problem? Wolfgang ___ 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
Re: [Ql-Users] QXL SMSQE315 latest SMSQmulator
On 2013-04-06 10:36, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi, QXL problems I'll try to look into that this weekend. Great SMSQmulator gt; gt;gt; Ree SMSQmulator produces the error message:- Your SMSQE file is too old, please upgrade to the one that came with this version of SMSQmulator I suggest you do what the software tells you... I downloaded the latest version from your site all in one zipped file and overwrote the previous zipped file. SMSQE code has 3.15 in it in several places. I cannot see what else to do. Wolfgang ___ 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
[Ql-Users] QXL SMSQE315 latest SMSQmulator
I have tried QXLSMSQE315.exe on my QXL and get the error message:- Program to big to fit in memory although the file size is smaller than the one I presently use! I have also tried the latest SMSQmulator on my 64bit Vista machine running Windows 32bit and Java version 6. I get the following result: C:\Users\John_2)java -jar e:\PC\SMSQmulator\SMSQmulator6\SMSQmulator.jar produces an empty SMSQmulator black screen. The pointer disappears in the black screen. Config shows that the win file is correctly found. On loading SMSQE nothing happens. Reestting the SMSQmulator produces the error message:- Your SMSQE file is too old, please upgrade to the one that came with this version of SMSQmulator Pressing Ok and the command line prints:- Illegal instruction $494f at $100080 Exception in thread Thread-11 m68k.cpu.CpuException: Interrupt vector not set for uninitialised interrupt vector 4 at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.raiseException(MC68000Cpu.java:1697) at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.executeContinous(MC68000Cpu.java:253) at smsqmulator.MonitorGoThread.run(MonitorGoThread.java:114) On closing SMSQmulator the command line returns. Note Thread-11 has been Thread-17 and Tread-14 I do not seem to be having a successful QL day! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Dear Wolfgang Regardless of how disappointed you are on the resulting speed I think you have done a great job in producing a java emulation for the QL. At very least it makes it easier for people to try the QL. The java emulations are going to be slow because the Java virtual machine is slow and effectively you are running a virtual machine in a virtual machine. As the java machine has a built in garbage collector timings are going to be erratic as the whole java machine suddenly stop while it does the garbage collection. Would it be possible to increase the speed of the emulation if the keyboard was only checked as often in time as the standard QL does? Could this also be done for the display? As for two core machine the increase in speed over a single core machine is very dependent on how many tasks are running and whether it is possible to allocate a single core to the java machine. The increase in speed of multi processor machines or array of machines is only really produced when you can split the problem into many independent parts such mandlebrot programes or weather simulations. So carry on the good work and bask the glory having done it. John Sadler On 2013-01-26 17:42, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi, Hmm, the enormous speed differences (w/r to QPC) baffle me. Here, QPC is about 8-10 times faster, but that's it (which is still a great lot faster!). Apparently, a (single core?) Celeron really slows SMSQmulator down. If I had had those speeds when developing - SMSQmulator wouldn't have seen the light of day. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE Licence Change
On 2012-11-24 11:01, George Gwilt wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 07:38, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: his is just to let you know that the SMSQE licence will be changed. From the SMSQE licence, we will move towards a (new) BSD style licence, which essentially means that anyone can do with the source code anything he likes, and also distribute the compiled code. Excellent! George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Now we can alter the other emulators and/or SMSQE so they can lrespr SMSQE, so we can attract more people to the QL. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi emulation
Am 01.08.2012 um 13:30 schrieb Norman Dunbar: On 01/08/12 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While an emulator of the cheap little RPi might seem overkill, it might be of interest to someone wanting to learn about the system, or possibly even to help anyone trying to port uQLx to RPi for example. I'm sure Tobias won't mind (at least, I hope not!) but uqlx is already running on the Pi. Emulated and on real hardware. I'm very sure he doesn't ;) A few of us who mentioned having/getting a Pi on this list, have been volunteered to do some testing. Right. If anyone else wants to have a go, give me a shout, please. When it's fully ready, Tobias will be releasing it into the wild! Yep. I want to make sure it's at least usable ;) Regards, Tobias Dear Tobias, Please could you also release the changes you have made to the source as well. Jojn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm - Planet Ink Club is a great way to save money and help the environment. Join today (http://www.planetinkclub.com) This message has been scanned by Supanet for viruses and dangerous content using ClamAV and SpamAssassin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL GUI programming
Unfortunately the documentation seems to be a list of functions and no indication how you use them. If mere mortals are going to try it we need some guidance as to how you use and some simple examples at least Ralf Reköndt wrote: As I have written a few times: Using PE from SBasic is too complicated for a lot of people (including me). QPTR is too complicated (I have used it!). And I fear, Turbo_PTR is a similar thing, ok, never tried. Have you seen the QLPUI demo? http://terdina.net/ql/software.html This was a GUI I ported to the QL and wrote mouse/graphics drivers for. It has themes (try rounded) and proportional fonts (load font_pcx). I built a complete system for bare QDOS or Minerva - neither PTR_GEN nor WMAN nor SMSQ/E required, as Daniele shows in the demo. GUI and applications were C language. I personally found application writing easier than for the PE. Meanwhile QLPUI is about five years old and I forgot most of my knowledge about it. Do you think it is worth a revival if I find time someday? All the best Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm - Planet Ink Club is a great way to save money and help the environment. Join today (http://www.planetinkclub.com) This message has been scanned by Supanet for viruses and dangerous content using ClamAV and SpamAssassin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Test
Ignore Hi folks, Just testing speed of receiving from the group John - Planet Ink Club is a great way to save money and help the environment. Join today (http://www.planetinkclub.com) This message has been scanned by Supanet for viruses and dangerous content using ClamAV and SpamAssassin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?
Hi all, I'd like to share some thoughts and an idea about QPC2 (what Marcel may tell if it's feasible or not). SBASIC is a great tool, powerful enough but still comfortable, and SMSQ/E provides many of the features normally needed to write modern programs. Since I returned to the QL, I have started some new projects in SBASIC. Even if my main motivations are fun and learning, and the programs will be published as free and gratis software when finished, sometimes I think it's a waste of time because nobody will buy QPC2 (or Q-emuLator + SMSQ/E) just to try them... In the case of my favourite projects, text adventures in Spanish (a small community), the potential QL users in Spain that would like to try such a game are two or three... If the same game was written for a popular platform, and could be executed almost out of the box, there would be dozens of potential players (what means also more eyes to look at the code and contribute bug fixes or ideas). There is a gratis demo of QPC2. But it's inconvenient for programs that need to save and restore the current position between game sessions (well, the player could hibernate the whole host system with QPC2 running). And anyway QPC2 is not easy to setup and use for people who even don't know what a QL is. (The same applies to Q-emuLator; I mean, not the QL emulators are the problem, but the concept of an emulator itself, combined with the special issues of the QL platform). I realized this when, some months ago, I announced a new Marcos -- http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm It would be possible to set up QPC2 so that clicking an icon it would automatically start up and produce SMSQE in a separate window complete with a graphic environment and Documents being available under win2_. It would also be possible to create an environment which mimicked windows so that a newcomer need not learn QL way of doing things. It also possible to create a live CD which would you boot you up into Linux and UQLX automatically. There are also Linux distributions which deliberate imitate windows to make an easy distribution. The snag with UQLX does not properly with AMD chips I have access to. I get the impression that other emulators need special techniques to write and read files and therefore only suitable for dedicated QLer's So what about it? Do you want t encourage mote QLers? - Planet Ink Club is a great way to save money and help the environment. Join today (http://www.planetinkclub.com) This message has been scanned by Supanet for viruses and dangerous content using ClamAV and SpamAssassin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results! the future
The most important thing to remeber is that the survey only shows the views of the people on the list. The real question we have to tackle is how do we attract new members to the community? Or put it differently what is the advantage of QDOS or SMSQE over all the other operating systems out there? It is essential to think like Window users, what is annoying them and what our system does better to answer that question. Also we have got to factor in the easier it is for them to learn what to do the more likely they are to join the QL community. So what is better? The main survey page is here: http://www.nonstickglue.com/QL_Hardware_Library/Survey.html Nicely laid out, Dave. Some comments, for discussion, based on just a quick look through the results earlier this morning: Question 1: Only 3% with a 128K or 640K QL. Seems to fly in the face of Geoff's survey for Quanta a few years ago when a surprising number of members were using a basic QL. But, add in the first 4 results (above QXL) and it suddenly becomes 26% of people using a QL with any type of expansion up to Super Gold Card. I did rather expect that the QL emulators section would be the single largest category, even if 45% (commercial) plus 5% (free) seemed larger than I expected. And 9% using Q40/Q60 as a main QL system surprised me, I'd expected about half that. Question 12: glad I'm doing something right! Question 13: 95% able to program in SuperBASIC. Rather surprises me, but assuming replies came mostly from list-members, I've always thought that most people on this list might consider themselves more experienced than, say, a lot of Quanta members or QL Today readers? Does that sound elitist? Wasn't meant to. Question 14: 56% able to program in Assembly Language - Norman Dunbar's QL Today articles have obviously worked well here! Question 16: given that the survey was mainly publicised through ql-users list, I'm surprised only a third of people said they subscribed to it??? The low percentage of people subscribing to Quanta and QL Today probably speaks for itself (although later answers substantially increase these figures), but could be partially due to people who are not as active on the QL scene as they used to be, but remain in contact with the QL scene via this list, which is probably why this particular survey gives Quanta and QL Today a poor result. I suspect we've seen plenty of comments on this list including someting like I no longer subscribe to Quanta/QL Today, but The question is, do people remain on this list just to keep in touch without the cost of subscribing to anything (no real reason to subscribe if they are not regularly using a QL), or is there something that both organisations could do to entice these back? Comments from people who are on this list and not subscribing to either organisation welcome. Question 17: 15% members of Quanta in Q.16, 29% here. Is the doubling a statistical blip caused by a fairly small number of responses, was one of the questions worded so as not to extract the same reply or what? ID 4347254: The response about the overseas delivery, ...belief that sending the newsletter to foreign countries should come AFTER all the domestic members received their and thus show an inability to factor in 10+ extra days of transit -- THAT is symptomatic of how they view the World and/or the membership ... i.e., it's a local club that they allow others to contribute to I'm not quite sure what to make of this - I presume that John Gilpin has been sending ALL issues out at the same time (not checked with him), and if so, is the suggestion that Quanta should hold posting UK mags back for 10 days? I've been a member of Quanta since 1984, my postal copy regularly seems to arrive one or two days after other UK members get theirs, even though it's the same British postal system (probably just the usual West of Chester syndrome). Question 18: As with the Quanta figures, this shows 50% more QL Today subscribers than the original Question 16?!?! Question 20: 71% sharing files via email - to be expected in this day and age, figure may be a little higher here as this is a survey where all users by definition use email to know about this survey, but the 21% still using floppies surprises me. Question 21: 78% using their QL for programming and personal use. In line with my expectations. Question 22: I'm surprised the response wasn't even higher in citing internet access as critical. Of course, QPC2, QemuLator and uQLx have the base ability here, but we only have Jonathan Hudson's programs as applications. Dave - get working on those apps you mentioned - they'll do well! Question 24: 46% using a Windows system, no surprises there. The figure for OSX is a little higher than I'd expected, but it looks like Daniele correctly predicted the need for a OSX QemuLator here. In summary, this survey was a fairly smal and limited one, as others
[Ql-Users] SQLUG Site
To all members. I am now able to update the SQLUG site and it should now be up todate. If there are any errors or alterations needed please let me know. John Sadler - Planet Ink Club is a great way to save money and help the environment. Join today (http://www.planetinkclub.com) This message has been scanned by Supanet for viruses and dangerous content using ClamAV and SpamAssassin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] I'm home, dear
Dear Wolfgang, Glad to hear you are back in business At QL 2004 several people wanted to compile SMSQE with Gwass. How are you getting on in releasing a version compatable for both compilers John - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] I'm home, dear The story of the longest running worst pun in a subject line continues. The Home Dir stuff can now be obtained from my website: http://www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/14mljkl24/wolf/download as usual. To use it you will need a new version of SMSQ/E, i.e. v. 3.11. I hope I'll be sending this out to your resellers today. You might also want a new version of QPAC 2 that might be going out. Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ 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
[ql-users] Turbo Experimental Updates
The latest version of Turbo passing variables by reference is on the site. Apparently there is a problem with strings with QDOS because the ROM allocates space for the string instead of using the existing space which is not allowed in Turbo. This does not appear to be the case for SMSQE. Does anybody know whether Minerva or Classic does the same? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Turbo
Please note that the old version of Turbo has been placed on the site as the previous version had a problem with passing string parameters by reference causing erratic problems with SMSQE and more serious ones with QDOS Roms. It is not known whether the same problems exist with Minerva or Classic ROMs and if somebody can test by using Charge with version 10, George and I would like to know. There is an experimental version on the site Tr421k which we would appreciate being tested. The problem is related to how QDOS and the other operating systems store string parameters so perhapsSMSQE, Minerva and the Clasic could be altered to elimate this problem? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Turbo Programs SMSQE
Latest version of the Turbo Compiler, Source, Toolkit Manuals are on the site. George has produced a Gwass assembler version of the latest version of SMSQE. Testers who wish to try it please contact me. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product.....
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product. In a message dated 26/04/05 01:33:54 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember that i'm still using Qdos. Has Turbo been kept compatible with that, or does it only support SBasic and SMSQ/E? If it is not compatible what is the most recent version of turbo that is compatible with my system? Whenever a new version of Turbo is produced I test it on an AH rom with trump card as well as Q60 with SMSQE. I have not done that yet with v4g21 since there may be errors still to be found and reported. However, when v4.21 is finally produced it will have to work on my AH rom. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm If we do not make our software backward compatable we automatically elimate at least half of the QL community according to the Quanta Survey. Unless the new features are required for the operation of a program I consider it is good programming practice to make software compatable with as many versions as possible. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product.....
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product. Some platforms actually offer the best of both worlds to some degree. Q40 and Q60 users can use SMSQ/E of QDOS CLassic. Aurora and QL users can choose between SMSQ/E and QDOS (bearing in mind that SMSQ/E will not work on a machine with only 128K of memory). There is a version of QemuLator which can run either a QDOS ROM image or the Gold Card version of SMSQ/E. QPC users can only use SMSQ/E, while QLAY, UQLX and Amiga QDOS users can only use QDOS for example. Reading back through the above and realising quite how complex I've made it sound, I hope I haven't caused too much confusion. It wasn't meant to be a rant, honest guv! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Perhaps we may now understand why it is difficult for somebody to try the QL. What can we do to improve compatability so newcomers can try without help? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product.....
- Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product. Ok some of the advice was maybe not quite worded concisely. The Pointer Environment is the three files PTR_GEN, WMAN, and HOT_REXT. These form the basis of the extended system and are, as you said, bundled into SMSQ/E in an extended form. QPC2 is a collection of system handling routines including file management and job management. The Pointer environment files are now freely distributable and are backwardly compatible. -- Where can you download 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product. Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP My position is quite simple really. I use computers for soving engineering problems, and find myself using windows (98,XP, 2000), Linux, Solaris., but the OS is less important to me than the tools. I used to use the QL a lot, and found that I could work similarly to PVWAVE ( a very expensive unix application that I use at work) and that SuperBasic + Turbo.+ lots of maths, signal and image proceesing extensions approximated the same working environment. So I'd prototype the code at home on the QL. play with some ideas and once they had gelled do it for real at work using an approved tool. However, I hit various limits (speed, graphics resolution, turbo restrictions) and eventually (about 12 years ago) stopped using the QL for anything serious, and now when I do use it its to look through my old programs to remind myself how I did something. I no longer use the native hardware, so its uQLx (until I upgraded Linux, and now it doesn't work), and QLAY Jeremy Try Turbo v4g21 when it goes on the site sometime this week. If it still needs up grading George will listen. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Software Prices.
As Dilwyn Jones says in his article in Qtoady that TurboPtr is more flexible than EasyPtr, and the group members feel that software should be paid for, George I wondered whether the group members did not use it because it was free and they would be happier paying £60 to George because then they felt the program was well worth usingand the author was interested in maintaining it. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Turbo
Experimental version version 4g21 is on the site for downloading ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter
Dear George
Another of interest
John
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From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter
Marcel Kilgus writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The latest beta test version of Turbo, v4d21, should soon be on the
SQLUG
site. This one has compiled QPTR's demo_bas (after some
modifications).
I'm curious, what kind of modifications? Dimensioning of strings?
I've read the readme of v4c21 and it sounds pretty promising. What
grade of compatibility do you think you'll be able to achieve?
It sounds very promising! It must also be a major achievement as, IIUC,
Turbo gains some of its speed advantage by not mimicking certain
SuperBasic
interpreter structures. Are these structures now being emulated by Turbo?
And without a significant speed penalty?
EasyPtr has sometimes a very powerful but also very complex syntax,
e.g.
{} = alternative
[] = optional
MAWDRAW [#ch%] {,}{;}{\} num[, [array$][, xst%, yst%[, [under%]
[, [xsz%], [ysz%][, [xju%][, [yju%]]]
MAWDRAW #3,1,array$,0,0,,,16
but I think it only passes back simple integers or integer arrays in
its parameters (with MINPUT being the only exception, it alters a
given string using SB.PUTP). Could Turbo manage all this stuff?
All EasyPtr keywords can return an error code in the channel parameter,
provided it is supplied as an integer, ie #ch%. However, it gets more
complicated: You can set EasyPtr up so that instead of a channel number
you
pass a pointer to the working definition. A designated variable then gets
any error code instead!
100 adr = MWDEF(#ch%)
110 REPeat loop
120 ch% = 0
130 action = MCALL(#adr)
140 if ch% 0: PRINT 'Error during MCALL:'! ch%: EXIT loop
...
Luckily, both these behaviours are optional. Their main use is for aiding
program development. Turbo should now be able to handle the first scenario
in any case. But it probably doesnt handle the second?
The main stumbling block was that Turbo couldnt handle arrays being passed
as parameters. With this considerable inconvenience overcome, a major
disincentive to use Turbo has been removed.
Per
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The latest beta version passing parameters by reference is available on the site. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] SQL on QDOS
The original idea was to write the parser in archive but in view of the feedback I think we had better think again. Perhaps SuperBasic might be better. Any thoughts? - Original Message - From: Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS Finally it woould be a generic parser that can be linked to more than one database engine :-) Claude -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Franois Van Emelen Envoy : vendredi 18 mars 2005 15:50 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS Claude Mourier 00 schreef: To my opinion DataDesign is a better target for such implementation Claude Wouldn't DBAS be another valid candidate? Franois Van Emelen -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Rich Mellor Envoy : dimanche 13 mars 2005 22:32 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:43:35 -, jms1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albin was toying with the idea of producing a version of SQL to run with archive. Would that be of interest? snip ___ 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS Now SQL
A bit of a misunderstanding. Albin has said he was thinking of adding procedures so you could run SQL queries on archive tables. I suspect you are thinking of an alternative database implementation with SQL facilities. - Original Message - From: Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:43:35 -, jms1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albin was toying with the idea of producing a version of SQL to run with archive. Would that be of interest? Most definitely would be of interest - would mean that we could offer a much more secure form of database to the wider community I should imagine - ie. the database stored within a QL emulator, which could be addressed from a PC or unix using SQL !! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ 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
Re: Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS
Albin was toying with the idea of producing a version of SQL to run with archive. Would that be of interest? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. How about mysql ;-) Close, SQLLite. Cheers, Norman. Why do you intend to try to port this - just an exercise or do you want to be able to do SQL-like work at home on a QL? For 'fun', plus I always wanted a 'proper' SQL database on my QL. daresay it would be an interesting addition to the QL software armoury, although it seems a bit perverse to port it to a QL, at least at first sight. Mind you, I originally thought that about some of the things people like Jonathan Hudson used to port to QDOS, although some of his projects did get a fair bit of use over time. Well, watch this space - it might happen, but then again, it might be beyond me. Cheers, Norman. ___ 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
Re: [ql-users] uQLx package?
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] uQLx package? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:23:20 +0100, wolfgang mhlegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sinclairql schrieb: There is any .DEB or .RPM package of the uQLx emmulator? regards Javier Guerra ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm here: http://phpr.tripod.com/index-ql.html#top you cand find this: http://phpr.tripod.com/uqlx.i386.rpm This is a rather deprecated version... You will need to recompile Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm There is nothing to stop the developers creating rpm apts of the latest versions to run on various flavours ages of Linux. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic Snip Although, in the fullness of time, the tools that George has produced to go with TurboPtr, may become replacements for EasyMen, they are by no means there just yet - at least not last I looked. However, that is another possibility for the future. I think you can do most things with setw TurboTptr or Cptr that a programmer would want. So what do you think is missing? What do you think should be done to improve the suite? Snip Per ___ 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
Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can live without a good menu designer or a sprite editor, but not without a way of displaying and manipulating our windows and menus from within programs, so for me that is the main priority. As to me, I can live without a sprite editor because it's possible to create sprites in other ways. A menu designer à la Easymenu_exe is (and has always been) indispensable for me when writing my programs for the QL. This is why my disappointment is so great at the moment. You can design menus in setw in TurboPTR. George has also written a program to convert EasyPtr windows to TurboPTR You can them use them for C in Cptr as well. George is also considering adapting setw so it produces. data files for assembler. A little interest from the group will encourage him! When I started to write programs for/on the QL many years ago, it was because EP made it so easy. I was already a mouse-user when most QL-users still thought of a computer-mouse as the beginning of the end of the world and only Roy dared to have BUTTONS on his desktop ;) EP has been my companion and my motivation on the QL. Without it probably none of my programs would have seen the world and I would have left the QL-scene long ago. George also has tools in his suite to create buttons from pictures and setw automatically produces text buttons for programs. Setw enables you to produce menu buttons as well. During the last two or three years I have always hoped that anyone (especially Marcel) would update EP. In only _one_ of his long nights Marcel succeeded in bringing Easymenu to a state where it can work with colours and 3-D borders! Marcel says, it is not perfect yet. I say, it's so much better now and I would even pay for _this_ one, if he asked me to. I am convinced that there would be hardly any EP-owner and -user who would NOT pay for such a version. The ones I know, wouldn't. It is so frustrating and annoying that it cannot be given or sold to other users! I am frustrated because of all things, we urgently need to make the QL survive, software (good, interesting, funny, useful and whatever programs) is the most important. A colourful game and a new desktop are not more than a drop in the bucket. Please you people out there, who really have the knowledge to write utilities which enable us lower gods to write software, which make it really easy to create it, which just motivate us to make a start, please just do it! Wolfgang ___ 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
Re: [ql-users] RESET in SMSQE
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] RESET in SMSQE On 23 Feb 2005 at 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code for the keyword RESET in SMSQE seems to close all channels and then perform the assembler instruction RESET. () It definitely works here. It doesn't do what you say. Why has RESET not been reprogrammed? As a general rule, concerning SMSQE; the answer to such a question would be : Because you didn't do it. Does anyone use it? It definitey works here,and I use it. Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have just tried reset on SMSQE 3.07 on my QXL. On a clean machine, it works. However if I run my boot program and then reset it crashes. So there must be something wrong with reset. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Virus [OT]
- Original Message - From: QL2K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus [OT] Well virus protection and firewalling are must have protection to preserve PC computers for all operating systems. At my outside job, that taking quite all my time !, we are working on computer security. For guideline I can now say that : snip Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de P Witte Envoy : dimanche 13 fvrier 2005 19:12 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [ql-users] Virus [OT] ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I only have dialup and use BlackIce to ward of Port attacks. It is seldom that I do not get at least one attack in a 10 to 15 minute logon. I rely on a Antivirus at the minute AntiVir, a spamblocker and a Spyware detector. Seems to be adequate until you let me know I have a virus or other malware. However I do suspect that goverments encourage malware by letting firms profit from malware instead of saying that no body can profit from unreasonable activity. John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] My Documents
- Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:47 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] My Documents Actually it is even easier. Right Click the 'My Documents' folder - go to properties and change the link marked 'target' there. No need for any of the rest of it. Don't let Dilwyn into the registry!! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm And I thought Dilwyn was a computer wise gentleman! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Gwass 4.28
Latest version of Gwass is now available on the site. This is the version that George has been using to assemble the modified sources of SMSQE Minerva. Dilwyn it includes expressions. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
- Original Message - From: - Aucun - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30 Roy, You were tired yesterday, weren't you? (I never resist to this formula as it is the one that we learn during the first hour of english learning). I understand and believe that in your situation EX WIN6_myprog_exe executes myprog on your local machine, but EX n1_*win1_myprog_exe executes myprog on the remote machine, provided QPC runs there as well, I suppose (and WIN6_ on you local QPC is WIN1_ on your remote QPC)... Arnould What about other QL owners SMSQE? Can you run this command on an expanded QL, QXL, Auroa, Q40 Q60 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] I'm home, dear.
Sorry to sound so unnethusiatic but I cannot see that it is going to serve any real purpose. As I said in another email better to be able to cinfigure the program so it has default locations for the program information and the data storage area. Also let users specify these with parameters when they start up the program. All problems to my miond are solved then. - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] I'm home, dear. On 12 Jan 2005 at 23:46, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Your idea sounds excellent. Instead of my bicycle you and Wolfgang have produced a Mercedes. I am in favour (as long as I dont have to produce it ;) Damn, that was my precondition, too! ;-) But it does start to sound like a worthwhile job. You will notice that (contrary to the long file names topic) I didn't ask a question, but made a suggestion. This implies that I'm quite willing to do that stuff... I'm not promising anything quick, though. Can we more or less agree on the following: --- It will be set up as a thing (since I don't think we have found any other satisfactory solution for compiled Basic). For each job, the thing should contain: the complete filename the dir whence it came from (home dir) the current dir which will initially be the home dir facilities should exist to set the complete filename. This will also set the home dir and current dir. get the filename, home dir and current dir. set the current dir (either directly or by ddup, ddown?) get the length of the file/dir names (this would only be of interest if *somebody* actually gets around to implementing some form of long file names). set a default filename for a job with a certain name -- Anything else? As usual, relatively few people have commented on this... Wolfgang ___ 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
Re: [ql-users] Cold callers
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:25 PM Subject: [ql-users] Cold callers On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 at 15:47:22, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) snip Now all I need to do is persuade either QPC2 or PC to answer the phone for me to filter out the whacky sales calls getting in the way of the real customers! Perhaps I could make up a stupid CD of prank sounds for QPC2's CD Player to play to the endless telephone salesmen while I leave them on hold! I will not forget the guy on R4 You and Yours who said his approach was to sound very interested. Hold on a minute, I will get my wife. I know it is just what she wants. He then puts the phone on hold, and checks every once in a while. Apparently his record was 45 minutes. The brilliant thing is that not only does the caller pay a fortune, but he cannot pester anyone else for that time. I wish I had the patience to do that. Yes I do that something like that as well but I have I have never managed more than 2 minutes. Perhaps I should invent an interested wife. My other sport is to try and get the sales girls chatting and laughing. The redder she is the more the rest of the room will be interested. Good entertainment if you are not busy! I forget who it was now, but a friend or client has a long answer machine announcement, and they -never- actually answer that phone. They point out on tape that they do not want to hear from non-customers (ie prize announcements and the like). They then filter from that and only give the -real- number to people they want to hear from. Sounds brilliant to me, but you do need at least one other number (plus maybe another for fax). (Before anyone says it, we tried TPS, TPS? judging by the accents many of these calls are probably from foreign call centres anyway...Path Name Length error...wonder if I could get away with saying Sorry I only speak Welsh to them?). What language would you say that in (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ 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
Re: [ql-users] Lynx and QPC2
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: [ql-users] Lynx and QPC2 skip To get a copy, goto www.dilwyn.uk6.net/internet/index.html or browse there from my home page of course. The idea is that this cut down version will be enough to get people going, as they become more familiar with it they can ditch my version and start to use all the other parts of Jonathan Hudson's full distribution which includes sources and all sorts of extras. Unzip lynxrun.zip to win1_l_ (I hope Jonathan used a cross compiler on a Linux box and then tested it with UQLX I've got the archive set up so that it'll go here by default). Load LYNX_BOOT from there, check whether you need to add ENV_BIN (Environment variables) and SIGEXT30_REXT (Signal Extensions) - they are included, but you will need to remove the REMark from that line if you don't normally have them installed on your system. The LYNX_BOOT is extensively commented by Jonathan, I've added even more comments to help you get it going. What about unzipping to a windows machine, renaming the directories so that they do notr cause problems for qdos and then rezip them. Surely this is cleaner! I hope I've understood enough of the package for this to be a useable version for most people. Certainly, no software is ever truly bug-free or beyond improvement, so suggestions for corrections and improvements are welcome. It's only been tested on my own QPC2 system and will only work with v3.30 or later of QPC2. It hasn't been tested with UQLX or SOQL (the other TCP/IP capable QL systems) - perhaps someone would try it and let me know! I hope it works and proves to be of value for some of you when QPC2 v3.30 goes on release. Shameless bragging for a moment - I managed to use Lynx from within QPC2 to download a QPC2 update from Marcel's website and even unzipped it from QPC2 into Windows (turns out it was older than the Beta version I was using but who cares, it worked!) and in case you think you can get a free update from Marcel using Lynx and QL Unzip, oh no, the password protection for registered users works in exactly the same way from QDOS unzip as it does in Winzip! -- Dilwyn Jones Why run lynx from QPC2 when you can run better browsers within Windows? If it is to avoid hackers, viruses then it provides no protection whatsoever! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Lynx 282
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:11 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Lynx 282 Dilwyn Jones writes: I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2. Poor old Dilwyn. My commiserations (in advance) for 2005. I agree with you that for us poor QLers Lynx is a malevolent and misogynistic piece of software. I also agree with Marcel (as he says further down the line) that it is better than no software - but only just: If your serotonin levels are high Lynx (and other *X-derived software) is fine. If normal to low, no software is probably better. There is nothing to stop an enterprising QLer modifying the source so it is more QL specific and starting another fork of Lynx. As it is GPL you would have to include the source but that is no problem. Per ___ 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
Re: [ql-users]Long file directory Trees
I have not used the path rext but if it worked like path in MSDOS or Unix vatriants it would solve a lot of problems. A Path could be set up to cover all your program directories and then a program will able to find its help, configurration or other files because it will be in the path. Data$ can be set to ones home directory Prog$ can be set to start up program directory. I have skipped the correspondence about long file names, but both MSDOS and Unix use files as directories. These could contain the long directory names and the actual directory name which is a single byte allocated by the system (if 256 directories is enough!). The system could automatically create the directory files and use them. Hence on an old system the existing file names would work but a new system would be able to cope with longer file name trees. There could be a conversion program that read the existing directory tree and converted it to the new system. We would just have to ensure that when we distributed programs they could work on the old system but those with hard disks and the latest version of SMSQE could enjoy longer file, directory names and trees. Rather similar to the long file name change in Windows This would seem to me to offer the advantage of backward compatablity with advantages for those with big hard drives. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Lynx 282
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Lynx 282 Rich Mellor wrote: Do you want to put together a new zip which we can extract on the QL please Dilwyn... snip Next step is to assemble a Tim-Swenson style ready to go package, which I know will not meet with JRH's approval - I seem to remember a snooty email from JRH when Tim originally put it together. His package includes sources and all sorts of bits and pieces you don't need as a plain browser user. Lynx is GPL license and you should include the source. Perhaps the answer is to unzip on a linux box, change the directory names to shorter ones and zip it up again. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Problem email
I received yesterday an email apparently via the group from J Taylor containing apparently 2 jpegs each over a megabyte long. It took over twenty minutes to download and I have to download all of it otherwise the ISP records it has not been received and leaves it to be downloaded again. Did John Taylor send it? If so was it to the group by accident? If not somebody is using John Taylor's email address to be a nuisance and perhaps to spread viruses. However it does the rails the question of excessively long emails. Perhaps the server should send any email through the group longer than a kilobyte long to device null so that they do not cause any problems. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Q40 60 Screen Resolutions
I believe Phoebus said that it was not the video chip which restricted the display on the Q40 and Q60 to 512x256 1024x512. Does this mean it is possible to get other resolutions by changing the operating system or is it one of the custom chips that restricts the screen resolution? If so can the custom chip be reprogrammed to handle more resolutions? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Off Topic
Hear hear! It is impossible to have a meaningful discussion on a topic if everybody changes the topic and not the heading - Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 6:03 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:51:39 -0800,() James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Guys, Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you want to keep talking about this other stuff? Trying to monitor for any QDT specific stuff but instead end up reading all about something else. Thanks! jim Of course you are right :-) 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
Re: [ql-users] qdos gcc problem
Dear Peter How do you get on the QL developers list? I tried sometime ago and never heard a thing John - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ql-developers@quanta.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] qdos gcc problem Michael Grunditz wrote: The qdos-gcc libc does not compile on ppc linux, any hints ? You could try to post such issues to the ql-developers list. Maybe some who deal with crosscompiling or Linux are still subscribed there. I only have a sloppy look at ql-users archives now and then, but that happens rather seldom. So if you want me to see follow-ups soon, please keep the cc ql-developers. Before going into the details, it needs to be checked which exact GCC sources you are using, and which patches you have applied. There is a step- by-step instruction on how to build qdos-gcc at http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/qdosgcc.html Do you refer to that? If so, I think it can't work on PPC Linux without further modification. I have not specificly dealt with PPC Linux, but built qdos-gcc for 68k Linux, and had several endianess related problems. You probably know that x86 stores data in little-endian format, but the PPC (although it could hardware-wise also run in little-endian mode) uses big endian like 68k. There's a way to fix the endianess problems, but I don't remember the exact steps from memory. I could reproduce and document them for you with some effort, but I have little motivation to do so, for another reason: I found that qdos-gcc generates wrong code from long macros, which are e.g. used in some usual string operations. I reproduced the same effect under x86 Linux, 68k Linux and cygwin, so I'm pretty sure it's not an OS or library issue. I created a simplified example which eases reproduction of this problem, but nobody ever seemed (able) to care. Consequently, I stopped using qdos-gcc, it's too unreliable for me. The QL has no source- level C debugger, so it is already hard enough to debug larger projects _without_ additional serious compiler problems. In the end I had to turn back to good old native C68. Recently I have also patched the C68 (+assembler +linker +archiver) sources for MacOS X. The resulting cross-toolchain (PPC/MacOSX to 68k/QDOS) seemed to work OK. At least I was able to build my ethernet, tcp, email and web stuff, including the assembler sources. I had no time for further tests yet. If it helps, and somebody has the webspace, I can upload my C68 stuff for MacOS X somewhere. That would be quick and dirty as it is. I don't know exactly how much MacOS X and Linux differ with respect to compiling C68, but since both are POSIX compliant and use GCC, there shouldn't be too much. An alternative might be to hunt for Jonathan Hudson's old XTC68 sources. BTW it's a pity that the latest C68 sources are not accessible. Classic C68 has quite oldish behaviour, e.g. it doesn't even tolerate // comment markers. Some time ago I notified Dave about the problems with his website, but they don't seem fixed yet. All the best Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QL Today - David McCann - Q60 Blues
I have just read David McCann's Article. It seems a pity that a person who invested in a new QL should so be disappointed. I hope we have not lost another QLer. I think we tend to under estimate the difficulty of getting the QL to work properly. Also one reason that the Windows is so popular is that it all tends to run straight from the box. It is not until you start to get problems that you begin to get an inkling of how bad it might be. Also one of the things that puts people of Linux that it is seldom a case of instal and run. You find you have to set users, sort out your modem, sort out your printer, and the programs are all that bit different to the ones you have used on a Windows machine. You are either a geek and persevere or you go back to relatively tried and tested Windows. At least the chap in the local shop understands these Windows machines! Macs are another machine which I believe is set up to go from the word go as long as you buy Apple hardware. So do you think it would be a good idea to see if we can make the QL and its software so it apparently just runs? Do you think we should try and create a set of simple instructions which if followed to the letter will solve David McCann's problems? If we succeed perhaps Dilwyn would be good enough to forward to David McCann. Unfortunately I cannot help but I know George Gwilt has some problems with his Q40 Q60 and I am sure George and I will be only too pleased to try them out. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] SMSQE Gold Card 3.07 Lack of Icons
I seem to remember somebody complaining on the group that the standard icons are missing on the Gold Card version of SMSQE 3.07 Nobody was able to help him if my memory is correct. Well George has solved the problem which is all to do with the dev7 change. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT or other OS's
What small file? - Original Message - From: Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT or other OS's Register, Whats that, quicker to copy 1 small file from previous version, stopping need for re registering when changing machines. Perfectly legal. M - Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 2:40 PM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT or other OS's
A lot of useful information has come out of this thread - Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT See original I have no axe to grind here either. Personally I don't care either way but I see a lot of systems and talk to a lot of people in the business (most of our clients are business not end users, gamers and overclockers) and I can only report what I have found. I have wasted far to much time and bandwidth on this silly discussion. I must finish my article for QL Today or you won't get it for Christmas. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], jms1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Yes and Linux will use a 64 bit operating system, XP cannot. Net conclusion Linux far superior to Microsoft Operating Systems. Now I never said anything different. The system itself may be superior but it just does not have the applications yet. It is getting there. Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk Obviously experience in how to avoid problems counts more than anything else, no matter what hardware, OS, programming language, or application you use. Mike MacNamara Hmm.. Funny, John, this rig is running, Windows XP 64 bit Edition - can't see Linux machines in rear view morror. Mike Phoebus Dkus ??? Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:39:52 -,?(?) jms1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??/wrote: Yes and Linux will use a 64 bit operating system, XP cannot. That is not true... I have Windows XP-64bit here courtesy of the Uni... Take into account that newspapers can supply DVDs of recent films free. The more I learn about the application of copyright the more I have sympathy with those who use pirate copies. Net conclusion Linux far superior to Microsoft Operating Systems. I wouldn't claim that... I would claim BSD far superior to Windows.. Linux still is problematic in some aspects... As for which OS is more rocksolid, the best evidence is at URL:http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I have fallen into my usual trap of grouping all open source Unix types OS's as Linux. I see I had better consider using BSD. Wolfgang Lenerz An OS is just a platform for launching applications. The more apps, the better the OS. In that respect, Windows can't be beaten. Unfortunately... The only reason I use Windows 1.For the software I use which is not available elsewhere. 2.Machines I have bought have it installed. Finally the gains must exceed the pains. The only way to attract others to the QL, QDOS and its derivatives is to ensure that the gains exceed the pains for first time users! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...
And you can subscribe to the SQLUG magazine for £5 a year. - Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict... In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict... On 1 Dec 2004 at 14:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (..), although I suppose it might be true that most on this list are probably members. Most? Probably not (any more). JG I did a quick survey a few days ago covering the last five months contributions to this list and found as follows: Out of 74 different contributors, 25 (34%) are on the Quanta member's database. 5 (7%) are traders (and receive complimentary membership by advertising) 6 (8%) are current or recent past committee members (complimentary membership) 36 (48%) are non-members. 2 (3%) have email addresses which comes up on my machine as hieroglyphics (and it's *not* Pheobus Dokos.) So you see, about half and half, members and non-members. John Gilpin.(individual) Thanks, John. Perhaps that is why the debates on this list are so interesting ... :-) ... as the balance is around 50:50. A point to make is that we all know that this is a small community. So those of us involved have to contribute to keeping things going. For example : I subscribe to Quanta magazine and I am a member - less than 15ukp a year. I subscribe to QL Today - less than 35ukp a year. Together around 1ukp a week. Not much to ask is it ? I also organise the London Quanta and QL-Users Group, along with Ken Brickwood. Another 30ukp a year towards the hire of the hall. Again not much to ask. ( Note : the group is open to non-Quanta members ) I also buy hardware and software when they are available and are of interest. Another contribution to keeping things going. I attend at Shows when I can, and so on. Making a contribution helps make things happen. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ 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
[ql-users] SMSQE 3.07 Old QLs
Super Gold Card :Qubide :Serial Mouse Auroa The pointer icon is replaced with a cross and neither the right button or the left button works. Hence it is useless for pointer programs unless I use the keyboard. Gold Card : QUMI Mouse: Sinclair QL The mouse does not work at all and pointer programs can only be used with a keyboard So does that mean for the latest versions of SMSQE you have got have a QL with GD32 colours or are we going to have some backward compatability so the hiddem majority can enjoy the latest advances except for GD32 colours? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
