Re: [ql-users] Early Xmas present - QLToday cover disk

2006-11-29 Thread P Witte
Malcolm Cadman writes: Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2. I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ... an unexpected gift ... :-) Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones POpup eXtend - Per Witte QL2PC - Geoff Wicks ( full version ). Lucky you. Im still

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Kilpatrick
On 29 Nov 2006, at 02:28, Tony Firshman wrote: Richard Kilpatrick wrote: I'm googling like mad, and can't find anything. I'm giving my friend my spare QL system, and I want to give her some software with it aside from the 4 applications - looking ideally for The Quill adventure writing

Re: [ql-users] Early Xmas present - QLToday cover disk

2006-11-29 Thread François Van Emelen
P Witte schreef: Malcolm Cadman writes: Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2. I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ... an unexpected gift ... :-) Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones POpup eXtend - Per Witte QL2PC - Geoff Wicks ( full version ).

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
There is a Infocom Interpreter (called ZIP) and game creator using the Inform language. They can both be found at the following location: Game Player http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/infocom.zip Game Creator http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/inform.zip The player comes with some sample

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Hi Malcolm On Launchpad The MyQL Menu - Display sub menu - System palette item : set to a theme file using the pop down file menu eg Win1_Launchpad_green_theme and click on OK. Thats it I think. Dilwyn will give the definitive answer. Ah, no need apart from mentioning that theme filkes

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Takes forever copying microdrives! I'd forgotten! And this is with the wcopy command! With qpac2 it is easy. FORMAT ram1_mdv1_ This does a quick direct sector read and flags files that will not copy. Repeated use will often recover files. Wait. Did I forget a format command trick to

Re: [ql-users] ql-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 15

2006-11-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
John Gilpin - after unmulled wine and no mince pies!!(aka 1994 vintage Rioja, Apple pie tomorrow) (perhaps only the Chairman will get this reference. JG.) An extra month next year (Quantember?) - would need AGM 2007 approval Mince pies arrived 25 November. No gluhwein available until

Re: [ql-users] [-SPAM-] Re: The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Derek Stewart
According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is: FORMAT ram1_mdv1 no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter... semantics are always difficult get right. Derek - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [ql-users] [-SPAM-] Re: The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is: FORMAT ram1_mdv1 no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter... semantics are always difficult get right. Derek Ah, sorry, yes that is indeed correct. With this command I am always scared of mistyping it and

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Rich Mellor
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:19:05 -, Richard Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Nov 2006, at 02:28, Tony Firshman wrote: Richard Kilpatrick wrote: I'm googling like mad, and can't find anything. I'm giving my friend my spare QL system, and I want to give her some software with it

Re: [ql-users] [-SPAM-] Re: The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Tony Firshman
Derek Stewart wrote: According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is: FORMAT ram1_mdv1 no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter... semantics are always difficult get right. You have to be right - you have the manual (8-)# It is the *only* way to copy mdvs in

Re: [ql-users] [-SPAM-] Re: The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote: According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is: FORMAT ram1_mdv1 no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter... semantics are always difficult get right. Derek Ah, sorry, yes that is indeed correct. With this command I am always

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Malcolm On Launchpad The MyQL Menu - Display sub menu - System palette item : set to a theme file using the pop down file menu eg Win1_Launchpad_green_theme and click on OK. Thats it I think. Thanks, Duncan. That is spot on ... I had

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Question for Dilwyn - how do you set a colour theme in Launchpad ? You make a brief mention of it in the article, yet with no example of how. The Launchpad Help instructions also make brief mention, in part 8 System

Re: [ql-users] was: Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Jeremy Taffel
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Which reminds me - at work we have a new name for visiting senior management. Seagulls. They fly in unanounced, make a lot of noise and drop piles of poo on you when you least expect it. I like it! seagulls is (are?) bound to take off.

Re: [ql-users] Early Xmas present - QLToday cover disk

2006-11-29 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman writes: Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2. I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ... an unexpected gift ... :-) Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones POpup eXtend - Per

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Richard (I should join the club. I should also buy SMSQ/E but I don't actually know what it costs, or what it does - how it would affect my fairly light/trivial QL usage, but with a SCG and monitor etc, my QL is rather

Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

2006-11-29 Thread Timothy Swenson
Phoebus Dokos put together a CD called the Interactive Fantasy Collection, which Darren Branagh sold for a while IIRC. That might be what you were thinking of. No, it was a CD that someone else sent me. It was just a dump of a bunch of inform type games. Not a commerical CD. Tim Swenson

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And as for the cover disk, I guess only someone like Per Witte could have come up with a name like POX for a program ;-) Excuse me, I have come up with some good ones myself too, in the past. Remember ARchive Syntax Evaluator all those years ago. :o) One day I'll

Re: [ql-users] Colour themes

2006-11-29 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I just live in the centre of the universe ... London . :-) Sorry Malcolm, I can't resist, I have to do it .. London only *thinks* it is the centre of the Universe ! (GDR) Technically speaking, our very small and insignificant bit of the universe is