Re: [ql-users] Number of loose items
John Sadler makes some magical things to make me read } Did anybody know that the number of loose items are limited in C68 in the definition of the status area in qptr_h in the line } char litem[40] } ? Yes, I did! I learned it the hardway when I wrote a program with more than 40 loose items. Just patch the structure to get more by increasing the number! } Is there anyone whose programs would be disadvantaged if the number of loose items were limited to 30? Why do you want to reduce that default structure size ? Side note: what do you mean by limiting to 30 ? Double side note: if you are looking for memory waste, I'm sorry but you would get only 10 bytes back (at best) with this modification. } How many programs would it affect? At least one of mine (sprted) if you were to push that modification back in to the C68 distribution...
Re: [ql-users] QL
Thanks for the response - What I mean is that by using RAM the archive files on my masters are not left open, so that I only lose whatever is in RAM, but, of course you knew that didn't you. - Have a nice Christmas. ajn p.s. Looks like I'm never going to stop learning
Re: [ql-users] QL
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 at 05:23:00, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks for the response - What I mean is that by using RAM the archive files on my masters are not left open, so that I only lose whatever is in RAM, but, of course you knew that didn't you. Of course (8-)# Try that procedural approach. Once I did that I never had any more corrupted QL archive files. It is the combination of _never_ using 'insert' and closing/opening the files. QL archive does not have a 'flush' command. - Have a nice Christmas. I will try - but I am the sort of person who _never_ has real holidays (8-)# p.s. Looks like I'm never going to stop learning When you stop learning it is time to give up. Learning is simply experience. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
Re: [ql-users] QL
. Looks like I'm never going to stop learning. Albert I know **that** feeling well. Best wishes for Christmas to you and all the list. John in Wales PS Thanks Tony for the Archive tips.
Re: [ql-users] QL
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Re: [ql-users] QL
Best wishes to you and yours. alBERT
[ql-users] Re: BMP2Sprt
Hi all, version 1.03 of bmp2sprt i ready and waiting. You can get it at: www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/14mljkl24/wolf/download New in this version: Support for mode 16 sprites (thanks Marcel!) Support for extended sprites. Wolfgang
Re: [ql-users] documentation
space after all). If space permits, I'd be quite happy to add any useful documentation people might wish to contribute and make freely available. I currently have 30 GB or so of free web space (8-)# It is my own machine here at Tring. If you wanted such an archive, I guess I could put everything there has been on there. I wouldn't have time for the indexing etc, but would be happy to let the space be used. I would copy there from disk/CD/DVD initially. -- Hi Tony, Thanks very much for this offer. What I may do is add a HTML page as a front end or index for the material on the CD and try to ensure it's all appropriately indexed then send it to you sometime in the new year and see where we go from there. -- Dilwyn Jones
Re: [ql-users] QL
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi ! I use a Di-Ren keyboard i/f together with a Super G/c [Best thing ever for QL, as far as I am concerned. I also have twin EP d/drives and twin floppies. I still use a Microvitic ' Cub ' Monitor together with a Fugitsu keyboard and a PC Desktop case. I use Archive and Abacus for most of my regular applications and by utilising RAM I am able to avoid losing my Archive data in consequence of a ' crash '. I have several PCs- using Windows 95/98/XP but I think that If I had only the QL I could handle pretty much all that I would need. To me, using ' Windows ' is rather like using a Sledgehammer to crack a nut. I cannot imagine who, if anyone is likely to be interested in what I am saying here but, in an effort to ' throw my hat into the ring ' I just thought that I would like to express a little appreciation of the efforts of all those whose efforts help to perpetuate what Clive Sinclair started all those years ago. In response to at least one comment I have seen expressed, I am an Octagenarian but I am happy to say that I am not yet ' GaGa ' Have a happy Christmas and a Great New Year everybody [ QLers in particular ] Welcome contribution. But ... a QL superior to a PC ? ... :-) ... surely not ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QL
Hi Malcolm I think that what I really said - or at least I think it is what I said; if not, I certainly meant to imply it, is, that for my purposes QL offers pretty well all of the computing power that I need and indeed, much more innovative potential than PC/Windows - in fact; again for my purposes, the PC/Windows systems that I presently have, I use more for recreation than in a utilitarian context - affording, as they do, a degree of ' Overkill ' in my own personal ' scheme of things '. QL better than PC ? - " Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's ". Nice to hear from you; regards. ajn [alBERT]
