Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8
Bruce Nicholls has kindly given permission for all seven issues of QReview magazine to be made available via my website. The magazine ran from July 1993 to March 1995 as a quarterly paper magazine, which focused mainly on reviews, as its title implies. Richard Alexander kindly scanned the seven paper issues and they are available to download as PDF files from the magazines page on my website. Please note the fairly large file sizes of the PDF files before downloading. Download from: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html#QREVIEW I like killing time before my brain finally decides it 'Sleeppy time' by relaxing doing 16x16 Sudoku puzzles. I found software that lets me create puzzles at home OFF-line. That way I can print them out on demand. Even in the middle of a restless night. In building a pdf of 350 puzzles, which should last me some time, I learned that creating PDF's, the final file size CAN be dependent on the softy used. My Initial efforts with 4 color puzzle images (black, white, 2 shades of gray) in its folder that is approx 6.25megs of source material, created different sizes of PDF's depending on the PDF creation software used. I had to experiment a bit to end up with a sharable PDF file. One PDF creator software made a PDF over 50megs, (6 megs grew to 50 WOW) another in the high 30megs, other PDF creation software ran from 20plus megs to 45plus megs for the end result PDF. I did try and do all this with each software's settings equal where ever I could find those settings. Further experimenting finally found a way to create the SAME file FROM the SAME sources in a PDF of 11megs. (yet anutter software to use, just need to remember to use it the next time rather then the other stuff also installed on my PC.) For me the learning and messing with getting to this goal was worth it. For Years I've used Foxit as my primary PDF reader, and it has NO trouble with my 11meg PDF of 16x16 puzzles. I suspect Adobe also will handle the 11meg file, as easily as the 50meg file (But I tossed that so who cares, I'm going with the 11megger) :-) When scanning material, there are several factors that directly effect file sizes. The resolution scanned at (DPI), the color depth, and the saved image file format. A user probably has no control over that if they scan direct to PDF, If that is the case one is usually at the mercy of that software. If the Scanner wishes to clean up the scans then they have to initially save them in a lossless format, that way the cleaning process can be done before saving in a compressed format which usually results in smaller file sizes. -- Paul Holmgren JCI #74145 To announce that there must be NO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President Right or Wrong, is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILE, but is Morally TREASONABLE to the American Public. Former Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] For Sale
While the mood is with me, I manage to get through a box or 3 that has been tucked away for years. Decided I could tackle the task once again the other day, and after the first box, settled for a smaller one as the last one today. FOUND: Knew I had the stuff, but a 'one of the top 10 life disasters' interrupted the using of these and I never returned to QL'ing like I used to. 1: Aurura COMPLETE, still in its padded envelope This has been never been used since bought new. (It's a electron Virgin) Any market for this? -- Paul Holmgren JCI #74145 To announce that there must be NO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President Right or Wrong, is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILE, but is Morally TREASONABLE to the American Public. Former Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] drats
The daffydills are in bloom, the baby daffydills too, other spring flowers have sprung, the helleborus are late, guess winter didn't have enough cold days and its snowing now -- Paul Holmgren JCI #74145 "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Samuel Clemens ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Keyboard membranes
I'll mention I still have 'new' but older stock, replacement QL keyboard membranes. Anyone want to buy whats left?? -- Paul Holmgren Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.??? - John Adams, 1770 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] found unused stuff
While the mood is with me, I manage to get through a box or 3 that has been tucked away for years. Decided I could tackle the task once again the other day, and after the first box, settled for a smaller one as the last one today. FOUND: Knew I had the stuff, but a 'one of the top 10 life disasters' interrupted the using of these and I never returned to QL'ing like I used to. 1: Aurura COMPLETE, still in its padded envelope 2: ROMdisq, Complete also. Neither of these have been used once bought new. Any market for these? -- Paul Holmgren The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson, New York, September 9, 1912 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Just a small
test to see if this still comes my way. -- Paul Holmgren "I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins" Keith Laumer ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] The Editor
I have old memories of doing some fairly complex editing of some stuff whilst using 'The editor' on my trusty QL many years ago. Might have been when I was an editor and submissions to the print shop had to be on a PC format disk. So of course I had to figger out the read/write tricks of PC floppies. Once that was fully understood, I then applied that learning and was able to do basic read/write of PC disks with my TS2068 as well. :-) Was or is there a PC equivalent? I also recall thinking about this way back in the past but don't recall ever chasing an answer. -- Paul Holmgren I am outraged, at the perceived outrage, of this latest outrage, of this outrageous PC fueled outrage. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 184, Issue 4
-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:19:25 +0100 From: Derek To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users , ql-users Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Updating my QLE Message-ID: <688474f4-4340-4dcc-a779-dac72d82d...@q40.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, Is it possible to have a user area in BP or QLE so user specific software can be installed. I use a Linux system, which I have my home directory on a separate partition from the system files. So I can change Linux OS without altering the user data. Could these QL distros use this type of system setup. Only Suggestion I can offer as an aid to situations like this. Create a directory where you keep copies of the programs you install. Think of it as a single repository of 'What I need to put back if I have to'. I do this with windows PC also. Does help when it eventually needs re-installed having them all in one place saves seeking 'where did I put that'. Also simplifys backups -- Paul Holmgren I am outraged, at the perceived outrage, of this latest outrage, of this outrageous PC fueled outrage. ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 174, Issue 5
Subject: [Ql-Users] QL-SD progress Work on QL-SD is still moving along, the driver has reached version 1.07 and seems pretty stable now: https://www.kilgus.net/soft/qlsd107_bin.zip There is also a new version of the loadable DEV device (or actually it's the version that already comes with SMSQ/E, compiled for QDOS): https://www.kilgus.net/soft/dev205.zip I've also soldered a bit of hardware in my free time in the evenings: https://www.kilgus.net/2018/08/09/ql-sd-teaser/ Cheers, Marcel HUmmm, when Mechanical Affinity sold stuff internationally we always marked the parcels as having "repaired" items. Only once I recall did the customer have a problem, mainly someone in their postal system took part of the contents, BUT that customer double ordered to hopefully bypass that problem in order to get what he wanted. -- Paul Holmgren "The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral and spiritual health." -The Uses Of The Past-, Herbert J. Muller ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Hello Rich and Dilwyn, and anyone else interested
Hello out there, Urs has left the Building. With him goes a 'working' QL PM code, the ROMs and the Dongle melded into a single file that fired up in an emulator. Once he gets home and the box of stuff he also picked up, including a 'PM' QL sorted out, he just might have some news to share. He now has an intact naked QL motherboard also. -- Paul Holmgren Music hits of Yesteryear Abba --- Denture Queen Tony Orlando --- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall Helen Reddy --- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore ___ QL-Users Mailing List
