Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:46 22/03/2013 +, you wrote: If contributors - no matter how correct they may be - choose to 'publically' correct (even humiliate) contributors here [as I am unashamedly attempting to do now] the excellent spirit we all usually enjoy will be spoiled and some would-be contributors

Re: [Ql-Users] Posts

2012-10-29 Thread David Tubbs
Or do you want a copy, about 1Mb At 12:01 29/10/2012 +, you wrote: I haven't been getting any posts since 23rd September; I feel sure that everyone hasn't gone to sleep!! Bryan H ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-04-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 03:23 26/04/2012 +0100, you wrote: Here is a review of Raspberry Pi http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/374290/raspberry-pi-model-b __ I saw no vids there But this series looks brilliant, includes Linux setup guidance absent in three distros that I tried.

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 vs Q-emuLator

2012-03-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:58 16/03/2012 +, you wrote: I am running both of these programs on a Macbook Pro Now Mac people will know that there is no # key and you have to ALT 3 to get it. This works fine on Q-EmuLator the ALT 3 produces the # character as expected. Not the same for OPC2 unfortunately , I

Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:13 12/01/2012 -0600, you wrote: The main issue I suspect you'll face has nothing to do with Linux: TiVo, under pressure from content distributors, saves the video files on the drive in encrypted form, and decrypts them on the fly when playing them. Each DiVo unit has a unique key used to

[Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-11 Thread David Tubbs
I have assiduously avoided getting into Linux knowing I have not enough gray cells left to cope with another OS. But I am lumbered with a problem HDD, a SATA 320GB with damaged TIVO files to be recovered. Ex a Sagecom setop box. The suspision is they are written in Linux speak. I can

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-05 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:04 04/01/2012 +, you wrote: I have just realised the ambiguity of IPA - but 4% alcohol is too little (8-)# Yes, and the malted stuff and whatever sugars are left in the beer would most likely be unwise of a print head. ;-) So that's ir, I was trying to find the relevance to the

Re: [Ql-Users] QaLendar 2012

2011-12-07 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:23 07/12/2011 +, you wrote: I'm wondering if it is the docx extension/format that is causing you grief. Does your version of Office allow you to save files as old-style doc? MSworks is a pain whith it's esxtra suffices, and a clumsy into the real progs. Back in days of DOS it was

Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
Do you want t encourage mote QLers? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mote Great slip of the fingers. I suppose the QL scene is getting smaller but (8-)# Tony Something on which to speck ulate ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-11-29 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:27 29/11/2011 +, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Marcos Cruz q...@programandala.net To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com As I recall it ha already been done. I think it was Geof Wicks who produced a word gamewich could be demonstrated in a cut down QPC2.

Re: [Ql-Users] Video plug memory prod...

2011-08-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:40 27/08/2011 -0500, you wrote: Is a standard 7-pin DIN connector as used for MIDI suitable for the QL video socket? I want to make a composite video cable... Dave, Yep, 6oclock common 3 9 oclock mono colour, not sure which round ___

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

2011-08-18 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:43 18/08/2011 +0100, you wrote: This discussion is becoming an absolute farce. Totally agree, always the case, usually a subject can't go beyond about posts before it has changed. !: I changed the subject for a good reason. No one has taken any notice. 2: I am told there are no

[Ql-Users] Jpegging or what you will

2011-08-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:18 15/08/2011 +0100, you wrote: Indeed ... it is about the purpose of the data image. Sometime you want highest quality, sometimes lesser quality for a smaller data image file size. Ofcourse it is horses for courses. There are several ways to control image size before you get to

Re: [Ql-Users] a VERY expensive QL substitute?

2011-08-08 Thread David Tubbs
Mind you, there was some VERY expensive bits of kit for the QL back in the hey day - see http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Quest%20Automation%20Ltd -- I followed your link. Why does the page have to look like it has faded in the sun, I know my eyes are not what they

Re: [Ql-Users] Another QL mark 2 launched!

2011-07-09 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:37 08/07/2011 +0200, you wrote: David, do you still have it or at least have a picture of it which you would share with the ql-users? Regards, Urs You point to the serious deficiency of this list, no pix. Last time I sent you some you failed to acknowledge reciept, and prior to that

Re: [Ql-Users] Another QL mark 2 launched!

2011-07-06 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:26 06/07/2011 +0100, you wrote: I always thought it a pity that the QL wasn't released maybe only a year later, with a floppy drive where mdvs were. That then might have been a successful machine. There was talk of doing just that - I think Keith Mitchell had a go. Did anyone ever

[Ql-Users] Wide Spread

2011-06-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:52 22/06/2011 +0100, you wrote: This takes A4 landscape which is useful for spreadsheets, printing a long strip although I have difficulty getting Windows to understand this. Many years ago I baffled the Purchase Tax boys when they came every quarter to check my books. I used a

Re: [Ql-Users] Fujitsu Printer ribbons

2011-06-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:52 22/06/2011 +0100, you wrote: Does anyone know a source of good ribbons for my Fujitsu DL1150 dot matrix printer. The last ones were old stock dried out. Is there anyone re-manufacturing them, perhaps. This takes A4 landscape which is useful for spreadsheets, printing a long strip

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 26

2011-04-26 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:26 26/04/2011 +0100, you wrote: Oh tell me about it,my surname Waugh, pronounced in Scotland as in Scots Loch, not Wao, War, Woff or even weirder. Some 60yrs ago I knew a Geordie of your name,spoken of as Billy Yuff. When Evekyn wrote his autobiography a cartoon in Private Eye - Little

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 26

2011-04-25 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:52 25/04/2011 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, paul paulh...@ameritech.net wrote: I asked a retired university latin/greek teacher I know and he offer this opinion tie-key and sigh-key are the pronunciations he used -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy

Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there

2011-03-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:28 28/03/2011 -0500, you wrote: C'mon, 'fess up! Dave ___ Even more of an Oik than previously exposed, IMHO ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Make EPROM

2011-03-25 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:05 25/03/2011 +, you wrote: Does anyone know of a free utility to convert QL extensions etc into an EPROM form? Commercially, I know of Liberation's RPM program, and Jochen Merz's Thing EPROM Manager. Dilwyn Jones There was/is Eprom Manager, Jochen's I think. But you could

Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA Magazine Error.

2011-03-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:26 22/03/2011 +, you wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if you could vote against MPs in a national election? You can, it's called tactical voting I am unlikely to see the agenda for the AGM, is there an item :- When and in which brewery to hild the next piss0up

Re: [Ql-Users] Quorum

2011-03-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:43 22/03/2011 +, you wrote: This is more or less my opinion, but some people apparently argue that a proxy is a pseudo-presence. One of the arguments used by those in favour of counting proxies as part of the quorum is that some companies use this in their members and shareholders

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta AGM

2011-03-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:34 21/03/2011 +, you wrote: Deliwinn Jonse P.S. BTW, why 2 copies of the email? Stereo ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL replacements - state of play...

2011-03-14 Thread David Tubbs
IThere was a Stewart or maybe a Stuart of Sawston nr Cambridge, worked at Team, Royston (where Johnathen Oakley went). He built a motherboard for the QL system, FLP included on board. Whatever came of thet, II've seen no mention of it since ? ___

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:33 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Could you then please put your survey results on your website with a link? Much easier to read that as a poor text file at the end of an email. I DOOO agree, no more informative than the non appearing results of the '95 survey, ie none atall.

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:25 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate. So today's (not Toasay) the Dai, I occasionally wondered. I suppose it's not the right season for lava bread ?

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:11 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: The QL community is a good deal more conservative that we probably would like to think, Strange one this - conservative in some respects yet not in others. We do have to bear in mind that as a community we are using a base computer which is not far from 3

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:54 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Someone scanned in one issue recently - check the list archives - and it came to around 50MB for a text searchable pdf. That was during a long run of emails on why can't we get a pdf copy of QL Today? - which has been covered here, in the magazine and I

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:16 23/02/2011 +, you wrote: Where was that - Harrow (8-)# Sedbergh, actually. My brother-in-law went there, a rugged institution I believe. Sarten. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:57 23/02/2011 +, you wrote: My brother-in-law went there, a rugged institution I believe. Sarten. Sparten, sorry ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:47 23/02/2011 +0100, you wrote: All this trickery finally explains to me why my innocent try to just put a 27256 and a 27128 as replacement in 10 years ago were bound to fail... Marcel, Pity I cant show my implemtation, two 27512's with a buffer chip to invert the enables.

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:48 22/02/2011 +, you wrote: On the subject of backplanes.. I have one of these : http://www.rwapadventures.com/images/q+4-interface.jpg But alas don't have the little interface board that connects it to the QL, does anyone have one that can take a couple of high quality piccies

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:25 22/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: The card pictured is not a memory card, but instead looks like the buffer card that came with those backplanes. I'm sure the backplane would work without it, but you might have problems if you use more than the first two slots. Rich Mellor may be able to

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 19:33 21/02/2011 +, you wrote: Only in the JM and previous rom versions. From JS onwards I believe it works as it's supposed to. Certainly Minerva and MG tested each 16k ROM slot when I made my 256k EPROM expansion card Incidently I mapped the floppy drive code in that slot freom 64k

Re: [Ql-Users] Emulator options

2011-02-19 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:07 19/02/2011 +, you wrote: Emulators such as QL2K allow various QL ROMs to be preloaded by linking them to the relevant file, does anyone know if is possible to link to a set of extensions this way instead waiting for them to be LRESPR in a BOOT program? Put them into Eprom, I

Re: [Ql-Users] (no subject)

2011-02-18 Thread David Tubbs
Is Dave Park about ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Gold card battery...

2011-02-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:15 16/02/2011 +, you wrote: I liked David Tubbs oblique reference. (only joking of course) Tony As,indeed, I liked Rich's ref. But was mine jokular or snide ? I'm not sure. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Pic test.

2011-02-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:30 16/02/2011 +, you wrote: If it is present, Modified eprom board, just as easyly hold two full ROM TK2 versions, Mainboard ROMs removed ofcourse. I tried to attach a pic, even reduced well below msg size limit of 40k no dice. I feel sure I saw one once, tho' might have been text.

[Ql-Users] Spam, spam and more spam

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:55 15/02/2011 +, Bryan Horstmannb...@newlan.org: The aove referenced post came with EIGHT layers of quotes. After a long scroll down just one line addition of 10 words. Text from the oldest quote is present in 8 other posts, two parties have posted it 3 times each.. Think about

Re: [Ql-Users] Spam, spam and more spam

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
So that's why I think such wasteful distribution is equivalent to spamming. Indeed. Top quoting does need some editing and snipping. Tony I suspect some email clients an be set n how he quote rmght be unware of the crud going out, I only use an old Eudora. No frills.

Re: [Ql-Users] Gold card battery...

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:51 15/02/2011 +, you wrote: On 15/02/2011 23:47, John Gilpin wrote: Hi Dave Please can you disclose your Surname so we know it's Dave Smith or Jones we're communicating with? Thanks. Seeing as we all must have grown up through the 80s -surely the answer to that one is.

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:40 14/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, David Tubbs davet...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer. I also have a few dongle boards, some adapted for the 64k eprom, used in the past to slot in diff' QDOS, inside

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-14 Thread David Tubbs
Would you be willing to share the details/schematic? Dave I dont mind, only prolem is memory and no documentation. I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer. I also have a few dongle boards, some adapted for the 64k eprom, used in the past to slot in diff' QDOS,

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Musers] OCD things we've done to our QLs...

2011-02-13 Thread David Tubbs
At 22:04 12/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: I was never satisfied that I usually got 205-209 sectors out of a microdrive cartridge. I wanted more. I often received cartridges with anything from 190 to 222 good sectors! DANG! I wanted the extra 7K or storage. There were some longer loops around, I

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-13 Thread David Tubbs
At 00:57 13/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK keyboards. Keyoard differences batween nations are un the KEYROW table, one of my early machines was German, the '_' was much more conveniently placed so I changed that and several

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying

2010-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:50 03/12/2010 +, you wrote: wcopy win1_ to win2_ just copies the root files (of course). I am suffering from the BBS working *perfectly* for about 10 years or more, until a hard disk failure last week. All my 23 rotated backups (in a partitioned HD) seem OK. Tony Just a

Re: [Ql-Users] Early this time

2010-04-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:36 30/04/2010 +0100, you wrote: Maybe ql-users system removed it. There *is* an attachment called part1.2 but that is only the ql-users sig. Tony So far as I know you cannot send an attachment to this mailing list? I believed that to be the case, having once made the attempt. Was

[Ql-Users] Miss Quoting, or Mess

2010-04-02 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:12 02/04/2010 +0100, you wrote: I too prefer top-posted messages as I rarely look at the quotes, having usually seen them earlier in their original messages, but will endeavour to follow the majority when using a particular group. Most people with whom I exchange emails top-post. This

Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA Survey

2010-02-18 Thread David Tubbs
It all seems thoroughly Quantesque, Still, if it will hardly matter if the results are published as widely as the last one. At 18:20 17/02/2010 +, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 Feb 2010 17:27:09 Derek Stewart wrote: I selected option 1, which I took to be; I Strongly Agree I will be

Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

2009-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
Harking back a bit. Having followed the thread I am a little puzzled. If large files are a burden to access time why not use smaller QXL.WINs ? Have several. The QL taught me a primary lesson, seperation of prog's data, MDV1 2, QDOS in ROM to me is analagous to the Windows C: drive, off

Re: [Ql-Users] Survey questions RFC

2009-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:43 27/11/2009 +, George wrote: It would be interesting to see the survey's results. Yes indeedy, I never saw anything after making the suggestion of a survey wal back then. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] More BASIC Queries

2009-11-14 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:15 14/11/2009 +, you wrote: Is there a way of stepping through a BASIC program, line by line, for debugging purposes? If so how? Lawrence gave us SSTEP etc, does it work without Minerva ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] QL Wiki

2009-10-06 Thread David Tubbs
Maybe a little mention of the QL Wiki, which is continuing to build nicely :-) Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk Perhaps too small a mention ? Thought I would take a peek, no link here or on your web sites - had to Google for it.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Wiki

2009-10-06 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:33 06/10/2009 +0100, you wrote: David Tubbs wrote, On 6/10/09 16:22: Maybe a little mention of the QL Wiki, which is continuing to build nicely :-) Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk Perhaps too small a mention ? Thought I

Re: [Ql-Users] QL SCART Connections

2009-03-13 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:00 12/03/2009 +, you wrote: The scart is a straight through wiring with small series resistance. What is this NANDing and NORing? As I recall from a couple of decades ago the combined sync needed separation, I did it once for a little Motorola monitor.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL SCART Connections

2009-03-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:15 11/03/2009 +, you wrote: A customer wants to have at look at creating his own QL Scart cable (this will be his first QL!). Is it the same Pole ? Anyway, it must be quicker simpler to use composite video thru' the SCART adaptor plug. Saves the NANDing or NORing too.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL/QL Parts

2009-03-10 Thread David Tubbs
Perhaps some need counselling, beastiality with poor little cubs, not on ! At 09:51 09/03/2009 +, you wrote: Go Boy Go(lt) wrote: David said .. An aquaintance of mine had a couple lying idle in a bedroom. he might be persuaded to ship one. This is doing my head in. Do I need a doctor?!

Re: [Ql-Users] QL/QL Parts

2009-03-08 Thread David Tubbs
An aquaintance of mine had a couple lying idle in a bedroom. he might be persuaded to ship one. At 18:07 07/03/2009 +0100, you wrote: Hi All I'm the QL fan since 1987, since I saw it in a first popular IT book published in our country... Anyway, can you please tell me if you have available

Re: [Ql-Users] QL/QL Parts

2009-03-08 Thread David Tubbs
A second thought. Use the composite video signal which can go straight into many recent TV sets. Or via a video to scart adaptor into a TV or VCR. Shipping a Microvitec woud be a horrendous price. At 18:07 07/03/2009 +0100, you wrote: Hi All I'm the QL fan since 1987, since I saw it in a

Re: [Ql-Users] Nebula II

2009-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:33 17/02/2009 +, you wrote: Does anyone have any knowledge of a QL game called Nebula II from the 1980s sometimes? Not the foggiest . . . . . ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] slowdown

2009-01-28 Thread David Tubbs
Barber From: David Tubbs davet...@tiscali.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Wednesday, 28 January, 2009 20:06:15 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] slowdown At 11:49 28/01/2009 -0800, you wrote: Warning! I got a Virus alert when I downloaded the file! Regards Andy Barber

Re: [Ql-Users] My new German QL

2008-12-31 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:26 28/12/2008 +0100, you wrote: I leave with you a picture of the seller: http://personales.ya.com/badared/images/foros/ql/otros/elefante_blanco.jpg Reminds me of one of my first QLs that I got from Milton Hall, stout model with the Dtype connectors instead of the BT style. But

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-06-19 Thread David Tubbs
. I hope the server will not crash again. Cheers, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de David Tubbs Envoyé : mercredi 18 juin 2008 22:15 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [Ql-Users] QL2K Anybody know what's up with the websites ? Neither

[Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-06-18 Thread David Tubbs
Anybody know what's up with the websites ? Neither of the links on Dilwyn's site work - one crashes IE. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - WIN98 request

2008-05-01 Thread David Tubbs
Hi Malcolm, Have you tried Microsoft, could well be there still. You might have to use a genuine instalation in order to be able to collect, probably would not need to be the 98 in question. They are getting fussy about pirates. At 19:10 28/04/2008 +0100, you wrote: Hi, I need a copy of the

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - WIN98 request

2008-05-01 Thread David Tubbs
If you are on ow I could get it and send it, only half meg At 21:16 01/05/2008 +0100, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi David, I could do that ... the installation is genuine. I just haven't had a web browser operative recently as M$ Explorer has

[Ql-Users] HDD problems

2008-04-13 Thread David Tubbs
I have a large suspect drive and in surfing for low level formatting info I chanced on the following, just had to share the thought. = Fixing a hard disk crash It's really not too difficult to fix your own hard drive, if the problem is a head

Re: [Ql-Users] Problem with Qubide

2008-04-09 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:00 09/04/2008 +0200, you wrote: However which could be in your opinion the origin of the problem and which could be the definitive solution? You ppear to have pin-pointed the the problem ! Pun intended. So more than just reinserting go a bit harder at it. Chip pins need a good abrade with

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Peripherals Disk Interfaces

2008-03-29 Thread David Tubbs
Compare eprom code, could lust be a dodgy bit/byte At 20:51 28/03/2008 +, you wrote: I have 3 x v5.1 MicroP disk interfaces which all work fine using the original EPROM. However, two of them will work with the QFLP upgrade EPROM. The last one steadfastly refuses to read a disk with the QFLP

Re: [Ql-Users] Connecting Disk Drives

2008-03-18 Thread David Tubbs
Hi Rich, You must surely have something else in which to check the drives ? I never used ED's but never seen fuses on flp's or HDD's You did pump juice into your GC when you connected, did you create or aggravate a problem on the card ? DT At 20:35 17/03/2008 +, you wrote: OK so I have

Re: [Ql-Users] amiga floppy

2008-03-18 Thread David Tubbs
It is the disc layout that is Amiga, a drive is a drive is a drive. I'm sure Amiga didn't mak a special. At 15:49 18/03/2008 +0200, you wrote: Can I use an Amifga floppy with a Gold card QL or trum card QL ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-02-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 22:50 11/02/2008 +, you wrote: Has anyone had any experience in getting QL2K or QLay2 emulators to print from the parallel port of a PC? My printer is connected to USB, so I can't test the printing. I rather think you will need not only a parallel port but also a pretty old printer, one

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread David Tubbs
Oops, sorry - wrong button A strange absense or piss-placement of newline characters, but where does it originate ??? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:30 05/02/2008 +0100, you wrote: On 5 Feb 2008 at 8:38, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi, The high spam indicator is configured in the email client, so just define the mailing as non-spam. No actually it's in my mailbox with the Internet address provider. To alter Windows Primary

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:51 05/02/2008 +, you wrote: I was not seeking guidence or solutions to problems long past. Don't ask questions then! What on earth gave rise to a SPAM-HIGH: warning ? Answer ? :- Who can tell, it's a PC thing! :-) That was the only question !

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-05 Thread David Tubbs
Bugger, SORRY, thought I had got it off list ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-04 Thread David Tubbs
Norman, As a single paragraph yours is unreadable. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-04 Thread David Tubbs
Looking at my inbox it is evident there are some Char(13)'s missing in Norman's quoted text. Before the there are 3 CHR(10)s At 21:20 04/02/2008 +, you wrote: And dare I say it for fear of being expelled from the QL community, the email was perfect in Outlook Express! Best Wishes, Geoff

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-01-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:19 27/01/2008 +, you wrote: Hi, What are users experiences with portable computers ? Hi Malcolm That is a very broad question, can you narrow it ? Frankly I don't think I would want one of today's offerings - if you are thinking of getting on I can give you a number of caveats.

Re: [Ql-Users] Not really List problems

2008-01-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:04 27/01/2008 +0100, you wrote: PS: Did my mail re VirtualBox arrive? I sent that about 24hrs ago, before reverting to my old email address. It did, so it is unkind to call it a list problem, look to your own ISP or email server. ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] samsung ql composite

2008-01-20 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:30 19/01/2008 +0200, you wrote: The scart cable also works Is the composite pal pin different at Samsyng QL? I cant put my hands on a circuit diagram but I seem to remember there is a transistor used to cobine the colour lines, the scart would use the RGB pins.

Re: [Ql-Users] List problems

2008-01-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:23 17/01/2008 +0100, you wrote: I'm sure Per said that he had Bruce on the case and to 'watch this space'. He then mentioned this gilfaethwy person - Mea culpa, I missed that at the bottom thinking the rest to be quoted text. But where have they been for so long, some inter-galactic node

Re: [Ql-Users] List problems

2008-01-16 Thread David Tubbs
Has the subject moved on fro Per's missing mails ? I have just had four postings returned as undeliverable, though they have appeared in the List from Oct' last to the 8th of Jan. Each having been on a long journey [EMAIL PROTECTED] from montecristo.dreamhost.com (helo=frida.dreamhost.com) by

Re: [Ql-Users] fast find

2008-01-08 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:11 07/01/2008 +, you wrote: Go to control panel (classic view) - administrative tools - services Then find Indexing Service. Right click on it and STOP the service Right click and select properties - change startup to Disabled. Ah, thanks. Done. When clicking on 'Services' I

Re: [Ql-Users] Q60 power supply

2007-12-02 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:12 02/12/2007 +, you wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure Tony that you are thinking of an old-fashioned AT power supply. The latter have 2 six pin plugs - i.e. no pins 1415. They also do not use a green wire. The only pin neither ground nor a given voltage is the P(ower)

Re: [Ql-Users] Q60 power supply

2007-11-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:06 30/11/2007 +, you wrote: When I assembled my Q60, I just used a PC case that came to hand. The motherboard power on this is delivered by two connectors labelled P8 P9. To get the power supply to switch on in the absence of a M'board using these plugs I had to link one of their lines

Re: [Ql-Users] QUBIDE problem

2007-10-18 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:13 18/10/2007 +0100, you wrote: of course, i clearly remember my first day in infants school when i was 4 or 5. A sort of uncertain clarity - like I used to be indecisive . . . now I am not so sure ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-10 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:01 10/10/2007 +0100, you wrote: Same for me: there definitely must be some differences in the brains on the Island vs continent! (no offense meant: without the big island we would not have the QL!) There is no offence. This really concerns the finer nuances of a word I too immediately

[Ql-Users] Timeslip

2007-10-05 Thread David Tubbs
My last post took less than 2 mins to come back to me, yesterday they were taking an hour - wonder where and why. Makes for a turgid interchannge ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Tea for two?

2007-10-04 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:26 04/10/2007 +0100, you wrote: I assume being a tight wad your one reason was money? (... or have you found another reason now (8-)# ) Tony The sheer effort of driving - less enjoyable than in the past. More traffic and ano domini Kind offer, but up top of Cambs. Do you go up M! ? I

Re: [Ql-Users] Tea for two?

2007-10-04 Thread David Tubbs
We are going via the M$) (in the same vein. Where are you coming from? Nth Cambs - Nr Peterbro' Have a friend nr Northampton, would have held my wagon. Never mind - enjoy - thanks for the thought ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] batch file

2007-09-17 Thread David Tubbs
Remember the tale, Paddy, when asked for directions said Oh no ! If I was going there I would not start from here. At 17:26 16/09/2007 +0100, you wrote: I need some help to create a little DOS batch file to select QL emulators. My flash memory drive has QPC, QemuLator and QLay on it, so I need

Re: [Ql-Users] SPAM-HIGH: OUTLN

2007-09-11 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:46 11/09/2007 +0200, you wrote: David Tubbs a écrit : I have never known what this was for and always wondered why it got into my Boot prog Well, now you know what it's for... :-) Hardly Appologies for SPAMMING ! So I will say Goodbye All DT As to how it got into your boot

[Ql-Users] Editor 3.04

2007-08-11 Thread David Tubbs
Pleased I am to have recently got the modern version (courtesy of Rich Mellor who helped me pass the UNZIP) I am finding a couple of problems - features or bugs. I am using Qemulator, and my devices are just MSDOS/Windows directories. While editing an existing file, then wishing to save to the

Re: [Ql-Users] West Midlands Workshop

2007-07-29 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:47 28/07/2007 +0100, you wrote: Copy Date for the next Quanta Magazine is August 5th. - just about a week away and I hope to have more details regarding the West Midlands Autumn Workshop by then. Atlast something nearer the center of gravity of the country, how, I wonder, does that

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Converter program

2007-07-26 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:17 25/07/2007 +0100, you wrote: Was a quote from:- http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/228.html for the function would you not just use EDITOR or FILED, or a trivial basic routine ? Ah, I see. Yes of course, an editor or Filed or something similar could be used. Some

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Converter program

2007-07-24 Thread David Tubbs
At 20:22 24/07/2007 +0100, you wrote: . . . . . the night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head . . . . . . GKC Or is there a longer way round ? Eh?? Oh well, that's that one killed stone cold dead then :-( -- Dilwyn Jones Was a quote from:-

Re: [ql-users] Converter program

2007-07-22 Thread David Tubbs
. . . . . the night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head . . . . . . GKC Or is there a longer way round ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

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