Re: [Ql-Users] List problems

2008-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: Thanks. Just now I got 3 mails in return. The return information goes: I'm at about 15 now and it gets more by the minute... Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: Below is a log of the capture movie. I can forward the movie to you directly if it would help - 24k compressed. It shows the activity very well. Just let me know. 24k? That would be pretty small ;) I guess you mean 24M, but that should be okay for my mailbox, too.

Re: [Ql-Users] Falling Cursor

2008-01-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: I notice that many people have a problem with fast cursor flashing. Well, I only noticed 3, none of those running QPC under Windows. And I currently do not have any further ideas in this area because the things told do not add up: - Fast key repeat and fast cursor flashing

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC and notebook

2008-01-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: Might make a nice QL system with uQLx or XP and QPC. Probably couldnt handle Wine.. Wine per se doesn't need to be slower than a native Windows environment. In some tests it is apparently even faster. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: I can't imagine it using 100% of a CPUs band width unless it is running code without any pauses. Well, of course it's running code without any pause! The only alternative would be to artificially slow down the CPU emulation (which, as said, is done when SMSQ/E is idle. But

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: I don't have PW or PL commands on my system so this fails to run. It's a pure SBASIC program that specifically was written to not use any outside keywords. As François wrote there might be a name clash with a loaded toolkit, but then it's better to run the program on a clean

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much faster than on Windows. On a very unscientific test, I counted about 20 cursor on-off cycles in about 8 seconds. Could you (and anybody else having increased cursor blink frequency) run this Basic program? Tell me what values it's printing (47 to 50 is normal).

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I've typed this entire message in QD under QPC/Wine, then copied it to the scrap and ctrl-c'd it into the mail prog. Good to know that it works for you. They are rewriting the graphics part and I still got a problem with it on my desktop, but I've submitted a but report

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's today's something new then. I had no idea that assembly under Linux would be so different to Windows. (Which assembler do you use on Windows by the way?) It used to be TASM (Turbo Assembler), but when Borland discontinued it and certain bugs made

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: QPC needs RAW sector access to read/write floppies. Not sure whether WINE emulates this at all and cannot test as my server doesn't have a floppy drive. Follow up: you might want to try creating two symlinks like cd ~/.wine/dosdevices ln -s /dev/fd0 a:: ln -s /mnt/floppy

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: Could your software run under QemuLator? That works fine with Linux and I think it accepts SMSQ now. Since when is there a Linux version of QemuLator? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: and I can almost hear Marcel groaning right now, I'm wondering what the possibility of getting a Linux version of QPC is? Do I hear the work 'slim' or even 'no chance at all' out there? Actually I prefer not a frigging chance ;-) Not from me, anyway. I use QT4 for C++

Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

2008-01-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: A good theory, in practice it is let down by either the design of the Core Duo chip or the OS not utilising things properly - I'm not sure which. In a Core Duo, all accesses to the Input Output sub-systems *must* be done by the first core and only by the first core. IIRC

Re: [Ql-Users] Whos a nerd?

2007-11-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: There are only 10 kinds of people: nerds, and the rest I know that as There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't. In the same vain, why do some people celebrate Christmas on Halloween? Because Dec 25 = Oct 31. Get it? Yes, that hurts :-)

Re: [Ql-Users] batch file

2007-09-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I then ran its setup.exe and decompressed a copy to the memory stick. When I started it, shock horror, it came up as a 'registered' version. So I unregistered it, and lo and behold my own registered copy also unregistered. Whichever you registered or unregistered, both did

Re: [Ql-Users] Using different devices

2007-09-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: I thought it nicer just to have an icon in the root of the device rather than opening a folder first to locate the executable.. A batch file does the trick: /qpc2/qpc2.exe Problem is the console wont go away until I quit QPC2.. Using start \qpc2\qpc2.exe in the file

Re: [Ql-Users] Using different devices

2007-09-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: [snip] Yeah, what he said. ;-) Per's answer is right to the point. I can configure the shortcut to start in %CD%\QPC2\ (%CD% being a system variable for the current directory). However the target and icon locations appear, stupidly, to have to be specified exactly:

Re: [Ql-Users] Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

2007-09-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
hitchies wrote: To my surprise it appears to offer platforms for other (than MS's) OS's. VirtualPC was originally not an MS product, they just bought the company which made it (Connectix). I have no complaints re: QPC2, (thanks Marcel!) but I do not know enough to know if there is any

Re: [Ql-Users] Karsten Engstler ist außer Haus.

2007-08-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ich werde ab 20.08.2007 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 27.08.2007. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. Could you please repeat this in English. It's an automated message saying he's not in the office... Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] Memory contention (CPU / ULA)

2007-08-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
ZN wrote: The actual sharing is quite complex and effectively slows down the CPU access buy some 40% or so, unless there is shadowing involved, like with the GC and SGC. [...] Ah, look who's still alive :-) Thanks for the details, that was interesting for me, too. Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] SBASIC extras

2007-08-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: PAR_WAIT (presumably something to do with parallel port) This is part of SMSQ/E but its definition is not in my QPC2 manual. The code seems to set a pause for a period of time. Perhaps the author knows what for? That would be Tony. According to the QDOS Classic

Re: [Ql-Users] Memory contention (CPU / ULA)

2007-08-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Palenicek Jan wrote: I am working on some timing critical routines for standard QL w/wo SandyQboard 512 (no GC, no Aurora). Do you know how is memory shared between CPU and ULA? Do you know how (if at all) is memory delayed when you need to access videoram at the same time ULA is accessing

Re: [Ql-Users] Maximum file that can be copied in sbasic or qpac2 file menu

2007-07-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Gilham wrote: Hardware Q60 with 64meg memory visible to smsqe Physical memory 128M System SMSQE 3.13 Qpac2 version 1.45 It would seem that there is a maximum file which can be copied using the files menu of Qpac2. the maximum is just under 32M. QPAC2 does not have any such limit, it

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - Re-Windows Vista

2007-07-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, are any of the QL Emulators now able to run under it ? I'm pretty sure QPC does, but I have a vague recollection of Marcel posting something here a while back about Vista. I can't remember what though ! Actually current QPC releases do not start under Vista

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 DOS device

2007-07-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it was, was that the program I had written to copy files to the CF card on the Q60 made a mess of the DOS file date. So the file had a created date in 2087 - only got 1 digit wrong but it was enough. Once I removed the file created and last accessed dates from the

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 Qx0

2007-07-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have been trying the same syntax to open the channel I have used successfully on the Q60 to open direct sector access to CDROMs and FAT16 formatted PC CF cards but does not work on QPC2 to access Qx0 formatted CF cards! I get error -1. I'm afraid there is no way

Re: [ql-users] Qx0 hard disk structure

2007-07-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Does anyone know the file structure of the Qx0 hard disk. Is it the same as the QXL.win format? Is there any documentation anywhere. I am sure Peter Graf will answer, but isn't it the same (or similar) to Qubide, and therefore Rebel? No, QDOS Classic uses the QubIDE

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 DOS device

2007-06-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Per. Have found I can also copy other files larger than 1Mb to Win1_. It leaves me puzzled as to what is going on as windows has no problem with the file If you are using a virus scanner, try disabling it. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.

2007-05-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: So did I. Qubide runs a standard Compact Flash adapter. After all CF is IDE and requires no special hardware. Is that so. So how does one attach a nice fat SD card to Qubide? Not SD (Secure Digital), CF (CompactFlash) it is (same as with your Spectrum hardware). CF cards can

Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.

2007-05-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: CompactFlash---Pcmcia adaptor-IDE interface-- Aurora or CompactFlash---Pcmcia adaptor-Aurora almost there now ! :-) Both wrong. CompactFlash--CF/IDE adapter--Aurora Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.

2007-05-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: almost there now ! :-) Both wrong. CompactFlash--CF/IDE adapter--Aurora Oops, that should be CompactFlash--CF/IDE adapter--QubIDE of course... Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] e-mail address: format

2007-05-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
hitchies wrote: Can anyone please tell me if - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid format string for internet e-mail addressing? Yes, it is. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] New QUANTA web site launched

2007-05-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
gwicks wrote: Quanta has used mailto for years without too many problems. I've used it for at least 3 years without much problems. Then suddenly all hell broke lose. Had to get rid of the contact address soon afterwards, it was just too annoying. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: I can understand that a qxl.win container file could get fragmented during creation. But do you mean that the container file can get fragmenbted on the Windoze side by file operations on the QL side too? No, once it's in one piece it should stay that way. But then I sometimes

Re: [ql-users] Screen Resolution changing .....

2007-04-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: I currently run SMSQ/E 3.12 on my Aurora and I'm more than happy with it although Id like to use it more than time allows however one thing id love to be able to control is the screen resolution which for smsq/e via menuconfig is currently set to 1024*512. This of course is

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tobias Fröschle wrote: What I'm basically interested in right now is how I can revive my old collection of software, most importantly Text87, which is by far the most expensive piece of my software collection. It just doesn't seem to like the QPC. Any hints on that, maybe? Some have already

Re: [ql-users] QMAC

2007-04-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Gilpin wrote: Can I ask those of you who were interested in this software to advise me if the source code is necessarily required or should I continue with my negotiations as outlined above without the source code being provided? Sorry, I completely forgot to answer your mail. QMAC being

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An operating system is just there to run your applications and manage your files. It's the job of the creator of a new version to make sure

Re: [ql-users] clock adrift in SMSQE

2007-03-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: I have not seen the problem with clock losing time in QPC2, maybe it is a problem specfici to the Qxx code for the clock. Of course, QPC2 handles its clock completely differently. If it is the hardware, then the clock chip could be changed. No, it has absolutely nothing

Re: [ql-users] clock adrift in SMSQE

2007-03-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: No, it has absolutely nothing to do with the clock chip, as evident by the fact the the time is fine after bootup. Isnt it rather unwise to have such code in the generic portion of smsq/e? (if indeed it is). No, how did you get the idea it was any generic code? The solution

Re: [ql-users] clock adrift in SMSQE

2007-03-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Gilham wrote: If I boot into SMSQE and let the system run for a reasonable time printing date$ seems to indicate that the clock is losing seconds at an large rate ,apparently 1 minute per hour. This was so whether I typed Prot_date 1 or prot_date 0 immediatly after a normal boot. If I

Re: [ql-users] typeface changing in Psion Archive

2007-03-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Renato Barigazzi wrote: with preamble or without it the result is the same: always 10CPI and the same character. Okay, then something is obviously wrong with your printer_dat. This is one way on how to debug it: - Configure QPCPrint thus that the configuration dialog pops up before it starts

Re: [ql-users] typeface changing in Psion Archive

2007-03-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Renato Barigazzi wrote: How can I change characters by printing within the Psion Four ? Changes in the configuration window of QPCPrint have no effect; I always have 10 CPI. How can I obtain 17CPI in QPC Print and use it in Archive ? This should really be answered by somebody who knows the

Re: [ql-users] typeface changing in Psion Archive

2007-03-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Robert Newson wrote: I don't know how QPCPrint handles access to the printer - ie whether it converts the output into a raster scan to send (like a normal, slow, Windwos printer sends a graphical image) or just passes the data straight through to the printer (like a standard QL). QPC alone

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: Has anyone written to Stuart? My understanding is that he threw everything away. Nasta did once try to get his hands on that stuff. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] USBwiz USB to serial device

2007-02-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: I will get one of these and play: http://www.ghielectronics.com/details.php?id=5sid=6 I've read the manual. Actually this is a pretty neat device and easy to program. The problem is the serial link. While it could be easily used to attach USB keyboards and mice to the QL,

[ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jan Palenicek wrote: Oh well, then we only have to find some of those and we're all good. That should be easy ;-) I didn't say that there are not knowledged people Marcel. You are one of the gurus here and I respect your work and contributions. Thanks, but that's actually not my point. I just

Re: [ql-users] ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)

2007-02-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
omega wrote: Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still so strong? Is it? I have actually no idea. There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT. Oh well, then we only have to find some of those and we're all good. That should be easy ;-) This makes the spectrum

Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?

2007-02-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. like previous QL hardware efforts that started this discussion the QPC2 software is a one man show. If Marcel loses interest QPC2 is dead. Just one quick point: if I completely lose interest I plan to release QPC2 in the wild. By the way, new release for Vista is

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: TF Services RomDisq V2.14 @ 1997 TT QUBIDE/REBEL Driver v2.01 @1994-98 Initialising There was a bug in SMSQ/E that could cause a hang at this point. I have fixed it in 3.03, so if you have any earlier version it might be worth to update. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Bug?

2007-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Malcolm Lear wrote: start move.l #$,d0 lea test,a4 cmp.w(a4),d0 beq.sequal bra.snotequal test dc.w 0 equal nop notequal nop I have no idea what assembler you use, but just by looking at the code let me

Re: [ql-users] Bug?

2007-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: This works absolutely as expected on both a Q60 and QPC2 (latest version). That is, the branch does go to equal. I assume you used QMON or whatever to step through the program else you can't see what is happening. There were bugs in the past of QPC that vanished when

Re: [ql-users] QL Emulator for Linux

2007-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jerome Vernet (Orange) wrote: Latest news... It's working, although I need to refresh manually the screen, with the Xgui button 'Redraw'. Not easy... What's the contents of your .config file Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] QL Emulator for Linux

2007-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Kjartan Geble Olsen wrote: Works on Suse 10.2, gcc 4.1.2. Great :-) At least, the js_rom works, Minerva seems to freeze on the boot screen.. True. But exactly the same sources work on the same system when compiled using gcc 3.3.6, so this looks like a gcc problem. Pity. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QL Emulator for Linux

2007-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
The uqlx code is about as clean as my kitchen. Which, unfortunately, means it's not. Originally I wanted to spend a few minutes fixing the problems. Turns out that this was a bit on the optimistic side and once I had spend a few hours I foolishly couldn't give up on that investment and spend yet

Re: [ql-users] Thor Service/Technical Manual

2007-01-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: Just got it with 75k, nothing more (Should be 750k). Tony's talking about kbit/s, I presume you're talking about kbyte/s. 75kb/s is pretty much what can be expected from Tony's DSL upload bandwidth. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [ql-users] Thor Service/Technical Manual

2007-01-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: You have, I suppose, DSL - ie upload is as fast as download. That is *far* to expensive for me. There is one DSL provider which lets you chose yourself how you want your down-/upload ratio (e.g. with the 2560kbit/s line 512kbit/s down and 2048kbit/s up is possible). And

Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile

2006-12-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: proc label lprint lprint lprint lprint ' '+name$ lprint ' '+adda$ lprint ' '+addb$ lprint ' '+addc$ lprint lprint lprint ( I need chr$ for ff in here right ) spoolon '_par' : spooloff

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Laurence W Reeves wrote: PRINT FLOAT$(-32768/1) gives $0810 C000 You've detected the cause of the bug! SMSQ/E has allowed a unnormalised value to get on the stack. True. I found the following line in the code: [...] cmp.l #$c00,d1 ; funny value? [...] So there

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Yes, but -32768 does. Notice the minus ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Laurence W Reeves wrote: This strikes me as a *very* serious bug. I don't quite think so. It's easily detectable, i.e. doesn't give a wrong result that could go unnoticed but is a hard error. Despite this fact it's been in there for probably well over a decade, so in the end it can't have been

Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile

2006-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: command to print does nothing ( open #5;par : print #5;'hi'), but closing down QPC results in the printer bursting into life with - hi Depending on the PAR setting, the job will not be sent to the printer before you close the channel, i.e. issue a close #5. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile

2006-12-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: cheers - yep that works in Sbasic, will need something different to work in archive though methinks The spooloff command should do the trick. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] unzip

2006-12-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: EX win1_unzip;'win1_xch390e1_zip -d ram1_' This certainly is the better method - but does it work with a space between d and ram1_? Sure, it's the way I always do it. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] unzip

2006-12-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: [Bill's reply] You are in DOS mode! The QL command line cannot handle spaces. Huh? Who is? And who introduced spaces into the command line? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Booting QPC2 v3.3 and Hot_Keys and QPACII etc

2006-12-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
hitchies wrote: If I call my HOT_RESs HOT_DOs family from code inside a boot PROCedure, the system freezes with funny (random ?) graphic rainbow pixels in the area inside QPC2's (ver$ 3.23) window but outside any previously written (QPC2) area. 3.23 is fairly old. Could you try the latest

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-12-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: People have seen me demo it at workshops and remarked they didn't know this or that useful facility was in there, probably inevitable that in a big program like this some features may be less obvious than others. Finally you've something in common with Microsoft ;-) 90% of

Re: [ql-users] Aurora versus TFT monitor

2006-11-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyone know how Auto Adjust works? Does it sense non-black limits on a picture or something? Basically yes, that's what's happening. In fact even special test pictures to help the adjustment process exist (they were included with my TFT). But the monitors I know do remember

Re: [ql-users] Copy for QUANTA Magazine.

2006-11-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Gilpin wrote: Prompted by a short news item from David McCann, can I remind anyone who has anything to go into the December 2006/January 2007 Issue of QUANTA Magazine that the closure date for copy is Tuesday December 5th. 2006 - less than a week away. December 5th is less than a week

Re: [ql-users] setting qptr to a window

2006-11-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: When I do the pulldown call it sets up the dropdown menu as a sub- window. I verified this by getting the returned channel from a set to the window _wm.swinf) from the call and doing a clear. It cleared the sub-window (loose item) of the drop down menu properly so PE

Re: [ql-users] Minerva bug?

2006-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Davide Santachiara wrote: Which is not correct. So I made some tests and I discovered that the problem seems due to a Minerva bug. Not a bug, no. This is definitely by design. Of course, whether the design is any good can be questioned... In fact if you try PRINT de angelisdegola You get

Re: [ql-users] QShang on QPC2

2006-10-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Gilpin wrote: That is what happens with QShang and Diamonds. Can anyone offer a solution please? Start QPC in QL colour mode, not high colour. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.13 Home but not quite dry

2006-10-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: I dont have anything configured in FI2 for _obj and _exe files. For executables Ive just used the fall-back configuration that came with FI2 (ie _*). If I delete the EX action for the _* extension in FI2, it works! Wow. Wouldn't have guessed anything in this direction in a 100

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.13 Not Home and dry

2006-10-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: Ive been fiddling with this nonsense all day to try to get some work done. Would someone be so kind as to send me a working copy of Qpac2 v1.45+. (I am a licensed user!) Either the copy I've sent you a few days ago works or none will. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.13 Not Home and dry

2006-10-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: I had the same problem - downloaded v1.45 of QPAC2 from Jochen and it now works - looks as though there might be more than one version of QPAC2 v1.45. Actually there were 2 versions of v1.45. But as home-support was part of v1.44 both should work equally well in regards to

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.13 Not Home and dry

2006-10-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: Yes I have menuconfig v3.36 - hmm. Using it to directly configure the settings is fine (and update has always worked on QPAC2 in the past), just this change from v1.41 to v1.45 of QPAC2 The details are a bit fuzzy in my mind, but I think the bug resulted in a wrong

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/e on Gold Card / Super Gold Card

2006-10-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: It looks like something was changed between v2.91 and v2.93 to introduce this bug. Version history for 2.93 says ; V2.92 Q40 changes for floppy disk driver carried into other versions. Occasionally I do snapshots of the SMSQ/E sources. Now guess what's the oldest

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/e on Gold Card / Super Gold Card

2006-10-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Roy wood wrote: I would agree with this. The bug started there and continues. I tried for some time to get it sorted but no one else complained it did not work. Any known problems with the Qx0? It shares approximately 95% of the code with the Gold Card. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] More than your FILL

2006-10-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: It appears that the CIRCLE routine does not create a leak-proof form at this resolution. The FILL buffer then overflows and scribbles over some other vitals in memory. gw_pixel_asm: * The fill buffer is arranged to have space for up to 256 lines with each * entry being a pair

[ql-users] New QPC version 3.33

2006-10-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Finally the new QPC2 version is publicly available. The main change is the new emulation core, originating from George Gwilt, which is almost completely 68020 compatible. I've also spent much time on the core to enhance it and make sure it works as well as the last one, hope everybody is happy

Re: [ql-users] New QPC version 3.33

2006-10-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: The best QL platform in the Universe! Any QL affecionado with a PC should have this! :-) PS, Marcel: Although Ive been running the beta for some time now without problems, the first time I booted this latest version I couldnt run any QLib-compiled programs; they all crashed

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 and DOSx

2006-10-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: The FLUSH command is not used in Suqcess but I will patch a copy and see if it makes a difference. I somehow doubt that it will help, but bugs can be weird, so who knows. Have you tried enabling the map checksums (WIN_CTRL command)? Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Qubide ROM

2006-10-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know what is the copyright situation regarding Qubide ROM updates? This is directly from Phil Borman in an eMail to me a few years ago regarding QubIDE: Yes, the sources and utility programs were put under GPL a couple of years ago. I have no further interest in

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E 3.12 HOME thing

2006-10-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: Where's my Home gone? When I recently updated my Aurora's with SMSQ/E 3.12, I noticed that HyperHelp did not find the HOME keywords. The Aurora target is missing the HOME module. But 3.13 should be out soon, we can fix it there. Will they be there next Eindhoven 14.10?

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and Text87

2006-10-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: I bought Marcel's High Colour Patch for Text87 from QBranch when I first got the Q60! All it does is enable the program to run in mode 32 or 33. It did *not* enable Text87 to run under SMSQ on my Q60, and I reported the fact in QUANTA. Ah, I was not aware that there is any

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and Text87

2006-10-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: The question is, did anyone ever solve that problem, say with the newer versions of SMSQ? I wrote a patch for Text87 that solves it. It costs 12EUR. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and Text87

2006-10-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David McCann wrote: I wrote a patch for Text87 that solves it. It costs 12EUR. A typical QL-programmer's reply! Just a precise answer to the question. What is it called? Text87 patch. Where would one get it? JMS, QBranch. Why haven't I ever seen it advertised in Quanta or QL Today? I

Re: [ql-users] NA QL SHow

2006-10-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange, the persons on the picture labeled Mary Cable Ann Schaaf look a bit like Bill Boehm and Alf Kendal! Looks OK to me. Maybe the auto slide show is slow to update the LH box. It is fine if one stops the slideshow and links direct. Well, simply look at this

Re: [ql-users] Knoware update

2006-10-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: www.witteware.com/knoware Please note the new web address! I did! Finally something I could perhaps remember! DATE - SMSQ/E compatibility toolkits for QDOS and Minerva Ah, somebody who puts his money where his mouth is, I like that! :-) Thanks. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] NA QL SHow

2006-09-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Photos of the Niagara Falls show are on my website: http://www.firshman.co.uk/ql/photos.htm Strange, the persons on the picture labeled Mary Cable Ann Schaaf look a bit like Bill Boehm and Alf Kendal! Hope you all had some fun. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: My dos1 is c:\ and STAT DOS1_ correctly gives 36006712/58605112 However, dos6 is h:\ and STAT DOS6_ gives 3600720/58605112 instead of a correct 17688/245728. It seems clear that the returned figures for STAT DOSx all relate to DOS1. That at least was a honest to god

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: When running SMSQ/E on a QXL in high colour mode, this takes up a lot of extra memory and is very slow in screen operations. The Aurora suffers less from this compared to running in mode 4. Would a QXL mode 256 option give back some memory and speed? Probably. Actually I

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8, with win1 to win8 and so on. But it does not

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: Thats about 2GB while it should be 4GB free on a 6GB partition. All my partitions give exactly the same numbers, they all have more than 4GB free. Also QPAC2 Files reports 2048MB for both free and total numbers. My QPC2 (3.32/3.12) runs under W98SE. Hm yes, W98, that's the

Re: [ql-users] Bug in SMSQ 312 maybe - or am I barking ?

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: Dickens says that codes $31 to $FF are extended to a negative word $FF31 to $ when used to determine the storage address. Apart from the fact that $31 does not seem to be allowed, Pennel and Dickens are saying the same thing in different ways, Pennel is in fact correct.

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Oops, I feel an article rewrite coming on... Jochen and Geoff, don't use it yet until I've had time to digest this!!! (I'm on SMSQ/E 3.12, so didn't know about this.) As even I forgot about it, nobody knew! 3.13 is still not released yet. But the commands will be part of

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Exactly what are the Aurora version requirements? Does the Aurora SMSQ/E graphics driver work with Gold Card AND Super Gold Card (my MinisQL Aurora has SGC), or is Super Gold Card the only one which would allow the new colour modes to work on Aurora? No idea whether

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: (1) values returned are integers (assume so since function names end in %) Yes. (2) your count system starts at 1 or 0 for month and day in month 1 (3) and for weekdays, I assume Sunday is day 1? And they work as 1 to 7, or 0 to 6? Sun = 0, Mon = 1 etc. LET y% =

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: A good addition to that might be an ISO 8601 compatible WEEKNO% (week number). I only added the functions that are readily available (i.e. DATE$ had to calculate all this anyway, it's just a matter of exposing the values to BASIC). Was a 5 minutes job. I also often find

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Robert Newson wrote: DATE returns the number of seconds [since 01/01/61] for the /current/ date/time (I suspect it just reads a/the clock); It can read the clock, but you can also do PRINT DATE(1996,1,10,12,59,59) Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing

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