Ade Vickers wrote:
I've still got that first QL (cue dewey eyes) - although the mainboard has
sadly packed up, as has the original 8032 coprocessor chip. She's had 2 or 3
new membranes too. I've replaced the board co-pro with one from a newer
QL, but retained the original microdrives (still
I'm not yet 40, (9 months to go) and missed the QL revolution at the time
because I'd gone all Amiga 500 thanks to work-based cheap deals. Of course
I've made up for that these days but still haven't moved out of the 'stock'
QL arena purely because I don't have room to set up and use any
There appears to be two age camps here ( Marcel ). I actually lied
about my age, im not
40, well not for another three months but 39.751 is close
enough i guess - has
anyone spotted the small bug in my arithmetic routine, sounds familiar
:-)
Moving on and I'm asking purely out of
Hi Tony,
Often motherboard faults can be repairable, especially ram.
What do you see on screen when it tries to boot? When I get
Random coloured snow, various screeches and whistles from the speaker, both
microdrives spinning up down randomly, all constantly changing. The
click-click when
Neil Riley wrote:
Moving on and I'm asking purely out of interest, does anyone
know the number of paid up QUANTA members and number of
subscribers to QL Today.
I used to be a QUANTA member, but it lapsed several years ago due to
inaction on my part (oops). I've never subscribed to QL Toady
Adrian (good name)/ Witchy wrote:
Lurker time is it? :)
Well, it's about time I had another shot at being involved... I just seem to
run out of space/time just as my interest is rekindled.
This time, I have a half-decent sized (for me) office, and some actual spare
desk space! So I shall be
Referring to Quanta Membership numbers, these were reported in my annual
report to the Quanta AGM in April 2006 as being 161 (as at the 31st
January). This figure excludes any renewals received after that date. This
report was included in the Quanta AGM reports published in the QUANTA
Magazine
Can anyone tell me if the QL clock always uses English month names, or
does it vary with national ROM versions?
(I don't recall seeing it mentioned anywhere).
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the QL clock always uses English month names, or
does it vary with national ROM versions?
The strings are localised (type LANG_USE it to check it out
yourself).
Marcel
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nearly 41 8-(
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Agreed, it is far simpler; but I would love to be able (one day) to say
THAT is 100% my original computer (ok, barring whatever components needed
replacing to make it work again!)
Replacing m/b to get it working?...
This broom of mine is the same one I
You are quite correct (as usual) Geoff.
Volume 23 Issue 2 April/May 2006 page 15 shows the updated total figure as
219. I knew I'd done an update but couldn't find the notes I made at the
time. However the Magazine shows the result. Thanks for the memory jogger,
Geoff.
John G.
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I have been 38 for well over a decade. So if you add each time I was
38 up as individual entries and divide, does that kind of force the
average age towards 38?
Marcel - don't even think about commenting here...
jim
On
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Ade Vickers wrote:
I've still got that first QL (cue dewey eyes) - although the mainboard has
sadly packed up, as has the original 8032 coprocessor chip. She's had 2 or 3
new membranes too. I've replaced the board co-pro
Ade Vickers wrote:
Hi Tony,
Often motherboard faults can be repairable, especially ram.
What do you see on screen when it tries to boot?
Random coloured snow, various screeches and whistles from the speaker, both
microdrives spinning up down randomly, all constantly changing. The
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Another one approaching the big 60 ... now the new 50 ... :-)
43, going on 21 :-)
Looking forward to Byfleet...
John
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At 19:33 14/09/2006 +0100, you wrote:
I now have a little exercise for the committee. Look up the membership for
the last ten years, plot this on a graph and then extrapolate it to
determine membership at the end of the 3 year term of the current officers.
You are in for a nasty shock!,
I had
Robert Newson wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Agreed, it is far simpler; but I would love to be able (one day) to
say THAT is 100% my original computer (ok, barring whatever
components needed replacing to make it work again!)
Replacing m/b to get it working?...
This broom of
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Yes, Tony is your man for any QL repair diagnostics ... Ade,
can you get to the forthcoming Quanta Show at Byfleet,
Surrey, on 5th November 2006 ?
The truest answer is I don't know. I am due to be going Newbury-way to see
a Jaguar C-Type (not for me, sadly) sometime in
Tony wrote:
Hrmm - not the usual stuff. Check that there are no bent
(shorting) pins on the expansion connector.
Definitely not - the plastic cover was still in place when it died.
Could be a dodgy connection on the 68008 I suppose. That
socket was very sub-standard. It had the sort
A new version of Q-emuLator for Windows is available.
The main new feature is emulation of the Q60 video modes and some of the
Aurora video modes.
RAM available to unregistered copies has also been increased to 384KB to
allow users to run unzip_exe to expand archives of QL software downloaded
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