Re: [Ql-Users] QL Calendar 2021

2020-12-29 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
2020-12-26 16:08: Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit: > I've put together a little QL-themed calendar for 2021 - The QaLendar. Very nice, looks really good. Thank you, Dilwyn. Happy new year to all. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.

[Ql-Users] E-mail etiquette: New subject, new message

2020-02-08 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
rk that cases: "Re: New subject (Was: Old subject)". Please remember a basic rule of e-mail (lists) etiquette: New subject, new message; only respond to a message if you actually want to respond to what that message contains. Thank you in advance. Kind regards. -- Marcos Cruz http:

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL Adventure Game Released

2020-01-11 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
trying it with SMSQmulator. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QL World scans

2019-05-13 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
sed publication. > > Download them from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html Thank you to Klaus for all the work. I have kept all my QL World issues from 1987 to 1994, with the hope I could scan them someday. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___

Re: [Ql-Users] Knoware.no

2019-05-13 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
pjwitte via Ql-Users escribió en/skribis je/wrote on/scrit in 2019-05-13 14:54: > Just to let you know that Knoware is up and running again after ten years > www.knoware.no Great news. Thank you for sharing. -- Marcos Cruz http://programanda

Re: [Ql-Users] A polite request

2018-02-15 Thread Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users
aded topic ends up hidden within the original topic Exactly. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Another topic.

2016-07-16 Thread Marcos Cruz
ich is most valuable, and anycase he deserves respect. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] Brouhabouha Forth

2016-03-15 Thread Marcos Cruz
Brouhabouha Forth on SMSQmulator. Any report on other platform will be appreciated. Regards, -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

2016-02-16 Thread Marcos Cruz
I built my own portable Pi and I'm very happy with it, I'm using it as my main computer. http://programandala.net/en.computer.raspesis.0x07.html -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

2016-02-16 Thread Marcos Cruz
MSQMULATOR/ java -jar ./SMSQmulator.jar & cd - exit 0 But I've just tried this from the home directory and it works for me: java -jar ABSOLUTE-PATH-TO-SMSQMULATOR/SMSQmulator.jar & -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] BogoMIPS benchmarks

2016-02-08 Thread Marcos Cruz
, 123.56, 123.70, 123.27 SMSQmulator (3): 52.32, 49.98, 49.43, 50.45, 49.43 Notes: (1) GoldCard -> Motorola 68000 16 MHz. (2) SuperGoldCard -> Motorola 68020 24 MHz. (3) PC - Intel Core2 Quad 2.33 GHz - Windows 10. -- Marcos Cruz http://programanda

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Marcos Cruz
tall propietary software on my system without a good reason, though, but SMSQmulator seems a good one :) I hope openjdk will catch up, or maybe other alternatives are available. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-06 Thread Marcos Cruz
SQmulator would be usable also on Raspberry Pi B. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread Marcos Cruz
le Java 8 on Rasbian. > >> I got 2.53 bogomips for SMSQmulator with the basic RPi2 setup. > > Ugh. > I think Duncan meant a Bogomips under Smsqe. Thanks. Done. I run it several times, and got 2.61, 2.60, 2.61, 2.61... -- Marcos Cr

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread Marcos Cruz
: 57.60 BogoMIPS : 57.60 -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-04 Thread Marcos Cruz
Lx-arm on RPi, but anyway SMSQmulator is more interesting for me as development platform. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language eComic - Issue 3 now available.

2016-02-02 Thread Marcos Cruz
mat you need. I use Asciidoctor for almost any kind of document, as I find it very productive. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] SuperForth Reversi on GitHub

2016-01-28 Thread Marcos Cruz
in Forth. Perhaps some day someone will convert it to standard Forth or other Forth system. Probably the sources of version 1.2, which included many comments, will be restored from the scanned manual. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] lower bound of common heap allocated space

2016-01-23 Thread Marcos Cruz
ails. I 've removed the markers anyway. It works fine. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] lower bound of common heap allocated space

2016-01-22 Thread Marcos Cruz
at -4(a0). So those field offsets are used downwards, from the address of chp_len, which is right below the reserved space. Thank you for the explanation. Now I see those keys are in their own file in the SMSQ/E sources. I didn't have them in my files. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net __

[Ql-Users] lower bound of common heap allocated space

2016-01-22 Thread Marcos Cruz
Is there a "safe gap" between allocated spaces? So far I've not found this information in the low-level documentation I have. Norman Dumbar includes similar code in his Programming Series, but of course without the checking marker. -- Marcos

[Ql-Users] QL SuperForth descendant on GitHub

2016-01-22 Thread Marcos Cruz
the sources of the "real" SuperForth, published by Digital Precision in 1985, will be rescued from the original 5'25 floppy disks and published. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] Looking for Ewald Pfau

2016-01-15 Thread Marcos Cruz
. Thanks -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembly

2016-01-14 Thread Marcos Cruz
channel numbers. So the main task consists of removing the SBASIC stuff from the relevant code and interfacing with the Forth stack. I have some new doubts I'll consult in separate messages. Regards. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

2016-01-14 Thread Marcos Cruz
ention are in the file of the SMSQ/E sources. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

2016-01-14 Thread Marcos Cruz
_windw and pt_ptrok, which have nothing to do with this. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

2016-01-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
, but I'm wondering if someone has done this before. Thanks. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] SuperForth 2.0 sources and manual?

2016-01-02 Thread Marcos Cruz
anything? -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] SuperForth 2.0 sources and manual?

2016-01-02 Thread Marcos Cruz
http://programandala.net/en.text.2016.01.02.superforth_words.html I will try to contact the author, Gerry Jackson, to ask some details. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] How to copy a directory tree?

2015-12-31 Thread Marcos Cruz
not remember. I'm searching the QPC Keywords manual, but I've found nothing yet. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] symbolic links in NFA directories of SMSQmulator 2.14

2015-12-27 Thread Marcos Cruz
copy nfa2_text_txt,con_ The SMSQmulator documentation includes a detailed explanation of the NFA and NSA devices, including the filename rules, but no mention to symbolic links. Has anybody found any other issue about them? -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] Email list about Forth on Sinclair computers

2015-11-02 Thread Marcos Cruz
in Forth. By the way, there's also a new email list to discuss Forth in Spanish: http://programandala.net/es.forth-es.html -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Email list about Forth on Sinclair computers

2015-11-02 Thread Marcos Cruz
Also very nice. But much nicer and powerful with this: http://programandala.net/en.program.afera.html ;) -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News

2014-12-04 Thread Marcos Cruz
faster and powerful. http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. Impressive. Many thanks, Norman. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Unicode translation of QL char 181 (0xB5)?

2014-10-28 Thread Marcos Cruz
it. Anyway, in this case I need the old version. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Unicode translation of QL char 181 (0xB5)?

2014-10-28 Thread Marcos Cruz
a „real“ „S“) Unicode Hex U+1E63 Uppercase Version U+1E62 Thank you. I tried it, but happily the combination proposed by Marcel looks almost exactly as the original character. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

[Ql-Users] Unicode translation of QL char 181 (0xB5)?

2014-10-23 Thread Marcos Cruz
Does anybody know the Unicode char code of QL char 181 (0xB5)? I don't know its name. It looks a reversed S with a dot below it. I've searched several Unicode charts and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicode_characters, but didn't see it. Thank you. -- Marcos Cruz http

Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ

2014-08-05 Thread Marcos Cruz
some pages with command line tools, or to create a new volume from extracted articles... Getting the images back from a PDF is possible but not so immediate. My point is: ZIP archives are valuable even when a PDF version is available. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net

Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ

2014-08-04 Thread Marcos Cruz
)... But maybe you would receive new interesting questions about how to change the filename extension... :) -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ

2014-08-03 Thread Marcos Cruz
you know what's the copyright situation of Sinclair QL World? -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Power Supplies

2013-02-10 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2013-02-10 15:23, Rich Mellor escribió / skribis / wrote : Does anyone have a stock of QL power supplies that they would be willing to sell ? I do. I send you the details apart. Marcos -- http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Plastic Feet for Sinclair QL

2013-02-10 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2013-02-02 09:04, Rich Mellor escribió / skribis / wrote : Does anyone have spares of the plastic feet used to raise the back of the QL ? I have 2. Marcos -- http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.

2012-02-29 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2012-02-28 13:48, Lee Privett escribió / skribis / wrote : SpecBAS does sound like something you cough up I'm sorry, I'm not sure to understand what you mean. I didn't know that expression. I found this in thefreedictionary.com: --- Phrasal Verb: cough up Slang

Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.

2012-02-27 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2012-02-23 10:40, Stephen Usher escribió / skribis / wrote : need for a modern equivalent to the old home computer systems and the BASIC language which came on them. On the home computer front, On the scientific front, I forgot to mention the SpecBAS project by Paul Dunn

Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.

2012-02-23 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2012-02-23 10:40, Stephen Usher escribió / skribis / wrote : need for a modern equivalent to the old home computer systems and the BASIC language which came on them. I miss such a tool too. I agree it would be very helpful on home computing, computing learning and professional fronts.

Re: [Ql-Users] JPG question

2012-01-23 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2012-01-23 14:24, François Van Emelen escribió / skribis / wrote : Op 22/01/2012 20:23, Dilwyn Jones schreef: Would be interesting if the new viewer could be accessed from other programs in a direct mode like Photon, e.g. Would be very useful too. I miss a lot a SBASIC command to

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

2011-12-11 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-09 14:48, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : Marcos Cruz wrote: I see a contradiction here, Marcel: George's proposal sounds reasonable to me too, but you say probably there won't be any more paid upgrades, what means the actual end of QPC2's commercial life

[Ql-Users] OpenDocument (Re: QaLendar 2012)

2011-12-11 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-08 20:13, Malcolm Cadman escribió / skribis / wrote : Hi Dilwyn, It is worth installing Open Office, anyway. It has all the features and is easy to use. Right. Besides, it's risky to use propietary **secret** formats for our personal documents. The reasons would be too long

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

2011-12-09 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-07 16:28, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : Geoff Wicks wrote: I would guess that not many copies, if any, of QPC2 will be sold in the future. That being so, it might be worth while offering Marcel a sum of money in place of these. This could be attractive to

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

2011-12-09 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-08 15:43, Malcolm Lear escribió / skribis / wrote : I really can't believe we are still stuck with this out of date ridiculous licence that's killing any chance of a future for SMSQ/E. In my opinion, that's the main point we must be conscius of: There's no future this way.

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

2011-12-08 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-07 10:48, Daniele Terdina escribió / skribis / wrote : You can use SMSQ/E with Q-emuLator, I know, but you have to purchase it (the Gold Card version). Am I right? That's what I meant. Thanks to the QLPAK format, currently Q-emuLator is more suitable than QPC2 for distributing

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

2011-12-07 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-05 17:53, George Gwilt escribió / skribis / wrote : If QPC2 were freely available at no cost the difficulties of the demo version would, of course, disappear. A complete freely available QPC2 (even if it will remain propietary software) would (partly) solve the problem to

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

2011-12-07 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-12-03 09:59, j...@supanet.com escribió / skribis / wrote : It would be possible to set up QPC2 so that clicking an icon it would It would also be possible to create an environment which mimicked windows It also possible to create a live CD which would you boot you up into

[Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-11-28 Thread Marcos Cruz
Hi all, I'd like to share some thoughts and an idea about QPC2 (what Marcel may tell if it's feasible or not). SBASIC is a great tool, powerful enough but still comfortable, and SMSQ/E provides many of the features normally needed to write modern programs. Since I returned to the QL, I have

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

2011-10-10 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-10-10 10:07, Norman Dunbar escribió / skribis / wrote : I never had a Spectrum+, was that actually Sinclair or had Amstrad taken over by then? I can't remember. ZX Spectrum+ (1984-10) was Sinclair's, just a normal ZX Spectrum with a QL style keyboard and a reset button. The ZX

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)

2011-06-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-06-13 10:47, Neil Riley escribió / skribis / wrote : Anyhow, I'm more than happy to post my copy to you Rich. I was about to post my manual this afternoon. Since your manual is more modern and your are nearer, I think mine is not needed. I'll keep it anyway. Marcos --

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)

2011-06-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-06-13 10:50, Rich Mellor escribió / skribis / wrote : Not sure - I don't have access to any good quality scanners anymore to be able to do this - I have a feeling it is black ink on fairly dark blue paper! The blue colour actually is quite light, kind of cyan. I think it would

[Ql-Users] Text adventure in Spanish ported from ZX Spectrum

2011-06-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
I've finished a port from ZX Spectrum, a text adventure in Spanish. If someone is interested, the details are in The Sinclair QL Forum: http://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3t=163 Marcos -- http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Superforth and Reversi

2011-06-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-06-13 13:03, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : Might have spoke too soon. I don't know if this is the manual, on Javier's site: http://www.speccy.org/sinclairql/archivo/docs/prog/SuperForth_Reversi_DP.pdf It is, but the second page of the contents list (4th page of the

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)

2011-06-13 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-06-13 10:13, Rich Mellor escribió / skribis / wrote : I have now received an email back from Gerry Jackson - he has confirmed that SuperForth / Super Reversi and Digital C are all now public domain, so I will send a copy of the files across to Dilwyn. What about the source code?

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth

2011-06-12 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2011-06-11 17:56, Rich Mellor escribió / skribis / wrote : Does anyone have the manual for Super Forth by Digital Precision - I cannot find it in the DP collection! I have two SuperForth original manuals (blue pages). The SuperForth 2 manual I ordered from DP because it was not

Re: [Ql-Users] PDQ C compiler (was: C68 from 1994)

2010-12-16 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2010-12-16 15:26, Peter Graf escribió / skribis / wrote : Petri Pellinen wrote: But after a closer look, I see that I really need the PDQ C I have three disks with C68 3.05. I think they must be around the year you mentioned. I can't confirm because I can't use them with my laptop,

Re: [Ql-Users] new ISO 8859-1 QL font

2010-12-14 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2010-12-14 12:55, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : Nice to see the page mentions my font editor! 4 mentions on one page can't be bad... Your Code Page 437 font saved me some drawing, and the Font Editor was useful too. I always cite and link the works that helped, inspired

Re: [Ql-Users] Arrange

2010-11-30 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2010-11-30 15:46, Urs Koenig (QL) escribió / skribis / wrote : Bob Spelten wrote: Does Windows or Linux have such a facility? Windows does. Just press the right mouse button on an empty spot on the taskbar to get an action menu. Just a distinction: In Windows, the kernel, the

[Ql-Users] Why we can't code (Re: A small machine code program...)

2010-11-27 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2010-11-27 16:33, gdgqler escribió / skribis / wrote : I wonder how many machines other than QL would allow Marcel's fantastic one lined SuperBASIC program to operate immediately by typing in the line and then RUN. Beside the QL, I use the following three machines, and all of them

Re: [Ql-Users] A small machine code program...

2010-11-26 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2010-11-27 02:32, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : 1for i=1to 100:print i!FIZZ(to 4*not i mod 3);BUZZ(to 4*not i mod 5) This is pure awesomeness, I wish I had thought of that! It's Forthness :-) I'm used to think in Forth in any other programming language. But now that