[Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My birthday present is a video (follow link) for you guys to enjoy!

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread peet vanpeebles
- Original Message - From: Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Sent: Monday, 23 April 2012, 7:50 Subject: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum! Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair

[Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide

2012-04-23 Thread Bob Spelten
Can anyone explain this? I have the following line in a program: : aa$= PEEK$(address,length): UPUT #c3%,aa$ This reads a line from screen memory and writes this to a _pic file on win1_. The ten byte header has already been written to the file channel with BPUT's. Qlib reported an error

Re: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide

2012-04-23 Thread tobias.froesc...@t-online.de
Bob, is aa$, by any chance, a LOCal variable? Qlib sometimes reports LOCal variables as parameters to external PROCs as invalid. Regards, Tobias -Original-Nachricht- Von: Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide Datum: Mon,

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Further investigations. 1. strfnd() was originally in the c68 library/ies with three parameters as I originally suspected. I don't know when it changed to lose the last parameter which allows continuations, but when I grepped for strfnd in the whole of the c68 include directory on my hard

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:50:01 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-23 Thread Lee Privett
Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-23 Thread tobias.froesc...@t-online.de
more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 +0200 Google image is

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-23 Thread Bryan Horstmann
On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privettlee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Bob Spelten
Another interesting link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1777 With a Dickinson/Altwasser interview. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-23 Thread Malcolm Lear
Well, it seems to be on google.com. On 23/04/2012 15:23, Bryan Horstmann wrote: On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-23 Thread Tony firshman
On 23 Apr 2012, at 11:40, Malcolm Lear malc...@essex.ac.uk wrote: On 23/04/2012 15:23, Bryan Horstmann wrote: On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary)

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Bob Spelten wrote: Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. Thanks! Anyone still has a working one? I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since then. Touch wood... Urs

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 23.04.2012 20:09, schrieb Urs Koenig (QL): Bob Spelten wrote: Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. Thanks! Anyone still has a working one? I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

2012-04-23 Thread Tony Church
Urs, I have a lot of QL bits and pieces which were working at the time my monitor blew up, must have been some 15/20 years ago. I also have a lot of QL manuals and the club newspaper. I have always meant to get a new monitor and put it together again. I am getting past it now and if anyone is