Re: [ql-users] QLer ages

2006-09-18 Thread Ade Vickers
Tony Firshman wrote: Ade Vickers wrote: Possibly - but would a connector give up when the chip had been undisturbed for ~10 years? Indeed it could. Corrosion is likely on the exposed areas, and this chip gets pretty hot, so can migrate. OK. I'm pretty sure the CPU is ok, because it

Re: [ql-users] QLer ages

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Riley
I buy and sell old consoles and games and whenever I have a cart that refuses to work I use MAPLIN (www.maplin.co.uk) ( N61AN ) Contact Clean 200ml £2.50 ( N64AN ) PCB Cleaner 200ml . £3 This de-oxidises and generally helps with dry joints etc. More often than not this is enough. The

Re: [ql-users] Brand new Q60 user

2006-09-18 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Luke, I don't have a Q60, but have heard it said that SOME issues can be resolved by turning cache off (which obviously makes things run a bit slower). I don't know how, it'll probably say in documention with the machine. Turning caches off shouldn't do any harm except slow things down a bit, you

[ql-users] QHelp

2006-09-18 Thread David McCann
I've recently tried to use QHelp (version 1.04) under QemuLator. It refused to run and I got a (QLiberator?) error screen with the message that DIR_SELECT$ was a bad name. This is not too surprising as I've never heard of DIR_SELECT$ and it's not listed in QHelp's index file. So why didn't I have

Re: [ql-users] QHelp

2006-09-18 Thread Rich Mellor
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:01:47 +0100, François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David McCann schreef: I've recently tried to use QHelp (version 1.04) under QemuLator. It refused to run and I got a (QLiberator?) error screen with the message that DIR_SELECT$ was a bad name. This is not too

[ql-users] Freescale sold

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Graf
Freescale is being sold. The semiconductor company which made our cherished 68008 ... 68060 CPUs, formerly Motorola, is now sold off to a private equity group :-( http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520p=irol-newsArticleID=905906tid=FSHMINI Or, for the German readers:

Re: [ql-users] QHelp

2006-09-18 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:01:47 +0100, François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David McCann schreef: I've recently tried to use QHelp (version 1.04) under QemuLator. It refused to run and I got a (QLiberator?) error screen

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Newson
Dilwyn Jones wrote: A help request: Is there a way of returning the current month as a number? ... Seems so clumsy I'm sure there must be a better way! I need to use it in my diary program to find entries for the current day or current month. The only other idea I've come up with so far

Re: [ql-users] QLer ages

2006-09-18 Thread Tony Firshman
Ade Vickers wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Ade Vickers wrote: Possibly - but would a connector give up when the chip had been undisturbed for ~10 years? Indeed it could. Corrosion is likely on the exposed areas, and this chip gets pretty hot, so can migrate. OK. I'm pretty sure the

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Sep 2006 at 17:17, Dilwyn Jones wrote: A help request: Hope this helps : DEFine FuNction make_all_months$ rem this makes a string JanFeb... in the current language rem this should be called during the initialisation part rem eg. all_months$=make_all_months$ LOCal string$,lp%,a$,temp