Re: [Ql-Users] QL ROM versions
"Copyright 1985 Sirius Cybernetics" is the same character length as "Copyright 1985 Sinclair Research." so it would be good internal security. Dave On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> before the sale to Amstrad. It includes the copyright message 'Copyright > >> 1985 Sirius Cybernetics' (whoever they were). > > > > http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_ > Corporation > > > > So Im guessing it was a joke! > > > > Graeme > Ha ha! > > Various people have had the ROM itself working, but having read that I can > see how the name itself might have been a joke! > > Dilwyn > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > -- Dave Park d...@sinclairql.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL ROM versions
>> before the sale to Amstrad. It includes the copyright message 'Copyright >> 1985 Sirius Cybernetics' (whoever they were). > > http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation > > So Im guessing it was a joke! > > Graeme Ha ha! Various people have had the ROM itself working, but having read that I can see how the name itself might have been a joke! Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL ROM versions
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, at 9:57 AM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: > before the sale to Amstrad. It includes the copyright message 'Copyright > 1985 Sirius Cybernetics' (whoever they were). http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation So Im guessing it was a joke! Graeme ___ QL-Users Mailing List
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One of the messages on this subject seems to have vanished since I sent it, but then Yahoo has been playing up big time for me this morning. The initials JM stood for the name of Sinclair engineer John Mathieson I remember reading somewhere back in the mists of time. It wouldn't have been 'Jochen Merz' as, although he's probably done more than most for the QL over the years and would deserve the recognition, he was not working at Sinclair and only really became known to the QL scene well after the QL was launched, Although I found the alternative names for the ROM versions discussed by Tobias, Jan etc very amusing, I always thought that 'FB' stood for "F*ing Bad" (that's "Flaming Bad" before anyone thinks otherwise!) Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List
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Sorry if several half complete emails came through from me just now, Yahoo Mail seems to randomly send emails when I try to edit a reply this morning, so I'll start afresh with a new blank message. The Tyche ROM was the last QL ROM developed, but it wasn't for the QL strictly speaking, it was for an unreleased derivative in the final days before the sale to Amstrad. It includes the copyright message 'Copyright 1985 Sirius Cybernetics' (whoever they were). David Westbury made a ROM listing and notes on new commands etc in Tyche, which are available on my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/tycheasm.zip According to Wikipedia: Tyche (English: /ˈtaɪki/; from Greek: Τύχη, meaning "luck"; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. She is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes. Since some of the same people may have been involved in the development of both the Tyche ROM and the Hermes chip and the Minerva ROM, the link of Greek/Roman deity names is apparent. The Minerva ROM is not a Sinclair development, rather it was developed by Laurence Reeves, Jonathan Oakley and Stuart McKnight at QView well after the days of Sinclair, later sold by Tony Firshman at TF Services. QView amusingly referred to themselves as The QView International Megacorporation or something like that at one time IIRC. Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List
