Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half Interesting what you are receiving in pension. This is off topic. One of the delights of receiving an overseas

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread François Van Emelen
Geoff Wicks schreef: - Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half Interesting what you are receiving in pension. This is off topic. One of the delights of

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Bill, I retired from work two weeks ago so I hope to rekindle my interest - so far I have not had time ( I'm still a few weeks off full recovery from mitral valve replacement) Take it easy and enjoy your retirement. All the best - Bill Indeed, all the best to you too Bill. Cheers,

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
So be warned all you QL-ers. I am still alive and I have a piece of paper to prove it. I can confirm this; I saw him last Saturday at the QL meeting in Eindhoven...or was it a look-a-like ? ;-) François Van Emelen Now that's just spoilt John Mason's weekend! (;-)) Best Wishes, Geoff Oh

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, The document Per pointed to answers it all (of course, as I wrote it ;-) ). But the sort answer is: a system sprite is what you want. A system sprite definition is quite simpe, it only consists of 2 bytes: a $00 byte and the sprite number you want. The move sprite for example

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items and sprites.

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening George, Use SETW which will allow any of the SMSQE sprites (all coded easily by words 1, 2 etc) to produce a window and look at the _ASM file produced to see how the spriteare is coded in the window definition. Yes, I figured it out and confirmed it with SETW. A very nice program if

[Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, I have been using EasySourse_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to try and convert my old menu definitions to assembly. It gives me a way to visually design a window and convert that to assembly. Well, that was the theory but it simply won't work under high colour mode. After a wee bit of time

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Billy
George Gwilt wrote: On 24 Oct 2008, at 09:50, Billy wrote: The nearest group would be the group that meet around Edinburgh somewhere ( is it Thornhill or Livingstone?) not much further than I used to go to Newcastle I think. The Scottish Group used to meet in Stirling, then moved to Port

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Billy
Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Bill, I retired from work two weeks ago so I hope to rekindle my interest - so far I have not had time ( I'm still a few weeks off full recovery from mitral valve replacement) Take it easy and enjoy your retirement. All the best - Bill Indeed, all the best to

Re: [Ql-Users] Off Topic was The forgotten half

2008-10-25 Thread Billy
Geoff Wicks wrote: - Original Message - From: Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half snip Thanks for the message. I know the problem of pensions as I had all that last year. I hate to make all