A while back there was talk of the ability to use a USB floppy with QPC
etc. As I have recently had to purchase a USB Floppy from Amazon (£10
delivered!) I decided to test it out and see what's what.
Linux:
On Linux, the drive plugs in and just works. It cannot read QL Floppies
without a
Ah Ha I know this mod, search the web for this tinker on a Spectrum or ZX
Spectrum it should be found easily enough (I can't do it during the day as
BB is watching). If I remember rightly the at the end of the article/item it
suggest that the same mod could be done on a QL or any computer with
John A, you would need to trwel back through the discussions around Feb
March of this year to find the answers to that without Dave going through it
all again :)
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:38 PM, John Alexander
acontractor...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:
So what are you writing this Game in and what
Any article sent to the Editor can be in electronic format, TXT, Word DOC,
QL DOC, if to duplicate or show screen output (i.e. text on the screen of a
QL) then a screen dump would be OK
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:
On 31/08/2011 18:45, extdgl42
Um, I've only just joined after god knows away ... I assume you have some logs
some where.. If he wants some help he can email ;)
John A
--- On Thu, 1/9/11, Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Update on my
On 1 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Norman Dunbar wrote:
When I absolutely have to, I run XP in a VirtualBox emulator VM. As expected,
the USB floppy turns up as drive A: and can be read from DOS, Windows
Explorer.
I use XP via VMware on a MAC. The floppies are accessed as drive B ie FLP2.
George
More information,
Windows XP:
Ok, formatting a blank disc fails in Windows Explorer because there are
no options in any of the drop down lists for capacity, volume name etc.
The OK button works (as does Cancel) warns me that formatting will
destroy all data on the disc, then OK just
Norman Dunbar wrote:
In SBasic, the format flp1_TEST command works. (At least, using a 720 KB
disc it does.) However, it formats to 1.44 Mb rather than 720 KB and it's
noisy. There are no HD holes in the floppy - so maybe the drive is lying
to QPC/Windows?
Could you try FORMAT 'FLP1_TEST*D'
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM, John Alexander
acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
So what are you writing this Game in and what exactly are you having
difficulty in processing within this 1 second. With out knowing this I
think any advice would be
opinion at best.
The first program is a
Sounds quite doable even with the original QL.
Obviously the N-body problem requires the order of n^2 calculations per
iteration so the doable bit depends highly on the size of (n). I would maybe
recalculate the changes in Acceleration due to distant bodies less often as
this would change less.
Ahhh the power of Google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_2.2
even has a remake down load too!
--- On Thu, 1/9/11, John Alexander acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: John Alexander acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Update on my projects etc...
To:
Hi all
Where can I find SMSQ/E for atari ?
Please cc me in your answers since I cannot see threads that I started (?).
/Michael
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