be interesting to hear from Urs how he got hold of all this!
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we (or Geoff, any ideas???) don't invent devious ways
to force him to stay against his wishes ;o))
Good job I'm snowed in, and John can't get to me
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in this
weather!
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Can anyone remember who originally coined the term S*BASIC to cover
both SBASIC and SuperBASIC? I remember I first heard it during my
tenure as editor of QL Today, but I can't remember who started it.
(trying to compile some QL-based trivia!)
Dilwyn Jones
Sadly, the service closed for us at 2pm for the day, so I'll have
to
wait until tomorrow now to get my QL Today.
Those who get the electronic Quanta mag have a big advantage in
this
weather!
Dilwyn Jones
Our normal delivery (first and only) is between 13,30 to 1400, that
is when the weather
no longer comes at breakfast time. I
could have choked on my muesli!
I can just imagine it now...Quanta page 3 covered in Muesli!
Actually, it's not a one-off story, it's a serial... (breakfas cereal?
geddit?)
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expensive design
packages.
Users of this highly respected free PCB Design program for the QL can
download the latest version from
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html
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all the gifts and escape from the
maze as quickly as possible.
Santa and all children world wide will be eternally grateful if you
can save Christmas!
This game, written in SuperBASIC, can be downloaded from
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/santamaze.zip
Merry Christmas,
Dilwyn Jones
there are outstanding mail delivery problems, or is it local to West
Of Chester (as John Gilpin would put it) - Quanta members can help me
out by letting me know who HASN'T had their printed magazine by snail
mail yet.
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mail??? G. It was Per the Norwegian who ate the
reindeer, honest...I only wrote the Santa game... (there, back on
topic).
At least I've still got water, unlike half of the UK :-(
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have a lot to answer for, Mr Jones: I wasted nearly
two hours catching reindeer in a maze! ;o) (But I swear I didnt eat
any!)
Per
He he, any more record claims for that game?
Ann (my partner) is also cursing me for the time wasted on playing
that game :o)
Dilwyn Jones
be a big job to
do this by hand (scan table, pass 1, find all TR and TD tags and keep
a record of the longest in each column, scan 2, extract the text and
pad each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a
converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that?
Dilwyn
Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 31/12/10 12:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone know of any software that will convert a html table
into
auto-spaced plain text?
I'm trying to convert some HTML tables into plain text columns for
the QL. Most HTML-text converters just put a space between columns
...they are in the back of an overflow lorry parked behind a
sorting office somewhere.
Like the proverbial postcard that turns up 20 or 30 years later...
But, seriously, if only we were actually TOLD the facts, we'd be much
more forgiving and understanding when issues like this crop up.
Dilwyn Jones
Happy new year to all QLers on this list. I hope that 2011 will prove
to be a good year for us all.
And I hpe you all have your QaLendars on display!
(http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/calendar/calendar.html)
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or badly in a quiz like this.
How did you find out about this in Switzerland - or do you watch a lot
of British TV?
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- I'm sure
I remember Bernd Reinhardt saying that current sernet_rexts can only
handle a 2 machine system, but a multi-station version was possible
and available from him.
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People can of course also subscribe to a topic (or even sub-forum)
within the QL Forum, and then receive an email when a reply is
added - you can also add the RSS feed if you like following RSS
feeds - simply use Firefox and the RSS feed button appears in the
address bar to click on !!
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as an English V I guess (don't think
French does, though?)
I used to have a copy of that game many years ago and can't say I
remember ever noticing that!
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way I could think of doing this
off the top of my head.
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wanted Falkenberg hard disk information for the QL Wiki,
is there anything in that manual which would give you information for
the Wiki?
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-HDD card :-(
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.
Tony
Speaking of the romdisq, I wonder how practical it might be to adapt
the romdisq drivers for Peter's card reader? I appreciate that (a) TT
would probably charge for this, and (b) it might conflict with Peter's
Open Source principles.
Dilwyn Jones
? And I presume that if
electrical connection is to CPU socket, it should be much faster than
the PAR port on SGC.
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My old broadband was always stuck on 2mbs and iplayer worked fine.
Thankfully I have just had fibre installed. What is the minimum
machine spec for iplayer?
Peter
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 17:31 | Jan18:
I need to ask a question which is slightly off-topic here.
Does anyone use BBC iPlayer on the same PC as the BBC iPlayer?
Urmm - what did you actually mean by that sentence.
Does anyone use it on t he same PC as QPC2 is what I meant.
I
I suspect you are talking about the Iplayer desktop used for
playing downloaded programs.
Tony
Sure. So it's not a program then - it's a Windows Desktop or
something like that, is that what you're saying?
Ah, just found some notes on it (so long since I last tried and failed
to get it
It sounds like you are chomping at the bit to see Sir Clive's
performance on Mastermind ;)
Pete.
Errr, no, we videod that on the Sky Plus. We forgot to record Silent
Witness last night, plus our friend wants to see what iPlayer is like
as he's even less Windows literate than me :o)
I think
Silent Witness as I write, although this
desktop PC won't play successfully, the little netbook alongside has
suddenly started playing OK after a restart of Windows. Every now and
again it pauses for a few seconds to catch up, so it's not perfect but
quite acceptable. Yippee - at last!!
Dilwyn
exactly easy.
Might be coincidence what I mentioned about QPC2 - certainly after I
restarted the Notebook (i.e. no QPC2 in current session) it suddenly
worked, but that coincided with the improvement in broadband speed.
Thanks everyone for trying to help!
Dilwyn Jones
.
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round to it (read too many horror stories in
Computeractive magazine about switching problems!), so that part of it
is my fault.
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embarrassment of this kind was a comment about getting
legless in the presence of an amputee. Very luckily he saw the funny
side and didn't take offence...
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includes how to set it up, header
formats etc at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/smsqegd2/index.html
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chance of reading correctly from the same
drive. Failing that, a higher density drive MIGHT manage to read a
lower density disk sometimes.
Sorry, not much help I'm afraid.
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version to anyone willing to help.
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time to send them to me at: news AT quanta DOT org DOT uk
Thank you,
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Just been on QL Forum (www.qlforum.co.uk) and am impressed with the
number of postings in January. Pete and Rob have done quite a good job
with this - well done guys.
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Just been on QL Forum (www.qlforum.co.uk) and am impressed with the
number
of postings in January. Pete and Rob have done quite a good job
with this -
well done guys.
Dilwyn Jones
Thanks Dilwyn! :)
We hope the site will continue to grow and grow!
Rob.
When I first heard about the QL Forum I
just have an uQLx (or whatever) on that pen drive, then
just plug it into any computer with Linux, mount the drive if
necessary, and go?
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have to scan and
email it in the next day or two to her - hope Alison is ready for a
last minute rush!).
After all, we could _POTENTIALLY_ end up with no Quanta, which surely
can't be in anyone's interest.
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probably means the end of time) but getting one or two new committee
members every year would probably be the best solution to all this.
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to it breaks the system at some point!
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I'm guessing that the AGM is the same as a General Member Meeting.
Yes, the AGM TLA stands for Annual General Meeting.
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if Malcolm had chips with chips in mind (potato chips with
his silicon chips)?
:o)
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for this long.
Great to hear, BTW, that Lee has volunteered!
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to do with either the lead times
for programming ROMs/EPROMs, or the fact that those early boards were
scrapped upon return to Sinclair (up to version D05 of the boards,
according to Tony Tebby).
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current format?
Lee Privett
Tinkering, what the QL has always been used for!
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the schematics in a similar way?
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- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
Are the Super Gold Card schematics available along with the CPLD
equation file?
With this info, designing
and we can get a group to
look at it, why not!
While it's probably too late for this year, it does mean 12 months to
put it to the vote in 2012.
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/B000YSMBSW
Lee Privett
At just under £20, an interesting option to consider, certainly.
Sad though that, as Tobias said, it seems that Jan has no plans to do
any further work on the 'new' Qubide.
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to a
SD card and just plug in the CD required if software was available
which could read a QXL.WIN (e.g. Duncan's QCDEZE could be modified
perhaps to work with your interface?)
Good luck with this project Peter, if you do decide to go ahead with
it.
Dilwyn Jones
at this was the OGL 2020 (as everything has to
have a number) OGL stands for One Giant Leap (as the QL was a
small step for man) and 2020 is the year it was likely to come
out (he said looking at watch), any other offers?
Lee Privett
QLP - Quanta LeeP rivett ?
Dilwyn Jones
Oops, Quanta on my mind (I'm
-)#
and I want one of those dinkydrives.
Tony
He he, nice one, could turn out to be one of the most popular QL
add-ons yet!
:-))
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my memory's good at remembering vague things but ain't what it
used to be for the details of those things!)
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not work unless screen is
at address 131072, or if using QPC2 could perhaps use the screen
shadow (QPC_QLSCREMU command?)
Looks good in the video at least. Looks like there's versions for both
network and standard floppy disks.
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reading
them...then on to QL Forum to find what's been going on there!
So heartening to see so much activity lately...I'll have to go away
more often! :-)
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Wales!)
Time to change my name to something rarer like Tony Firshman I think
;-)
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Dilwyn Jones (the one in Bethesda)
Bethesda, Maryland? Have you been defense contracting again?!?! Bad
boy!
If my name was Dilwyn, I'd visit foreign countries and pretend to be
mute.
I'd simply pass a calling card with Dilwyn printed on it, then
watch them
slaughter my name. I haven't
him busy for a while!)
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selected which ROM to use.
Its name was the QLEA ROM Switcher, if anyone remembers any more about
it - might be on Rich's QL Wiki in the Hardware section.
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-spellings
(usually in QL Today) are more common...
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things QL on Saturday evening too - contact
Likewise, if anyone from abroad would like us to help find a place to
stay for the weekend, please do get in touch. Manchester airport is
not too far away, for example.
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which you can use to emulate your favourite arcade game machine or
retro computer - about 250 computer systems when I last looked. The QL
emulation always made it hard to save/load so adding floppy disk
access or microdrive images would mean one more usable QL emulation!
Dilwyn Jones
, sorry, just catching up. I'll go away and lurk now...
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personal criticism of anyone concerned.
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, and a bit of
encouragement.
Well, throwing random thoughts into a brainstorming session often
generates good ideas. We've seen that on this list plenty of times in
the past :-)
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sites more quickly).
Actually, if anyone else wants to implement a QL-specific search
engine like the one on my website, I'd be happy to share details of
how to go about it.
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wanted to study them -
www.daria.net/qdos/
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Hudson's QPOP3 and FTP client which I
think
include source code if you wanted to study them -
www.daria.net/qdos/
That is now a dead link...
Oops, sorry, was http://www.daria.co.uk/qdos/
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to this list,
to the internet replacing paper,
Yep. Reading the entire mag is better on paper for me, but I also like
to be able to search the PDFs for information too. I agree the paper
option will have to be there, but would encourage people to try the
PDF versions too.
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in April, which can be accessed
via a link in the ad boxes on the right on the home page.
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-USB. If nothing
else, would save people reinventing the wheel or going through the
same agonies that Adrian did with this device.
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send me a private email and I'll send them.
--
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an older computer will probably not go for all the latest
technology bells and whistles and remain a bit conservative in their
outlook, while the rest will take up the latest thing. For example, I
was a bit surprised that QL Forum took off in the way it did.
Dilwyn Jones
not in Texas) specially for Dave!
Of course, if you are not Welsh you might prefer to visit my website
just to do some QLing!
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... ;-)
Reminds me, a few years ago I had some QL beermats made, can't
remember what the occasion was. Had slogans like QLers Do It In
Black and Real Men Use A QL on them. Must see if I still have any.
Ever tried the Dragon's Breath curries? - some of those will knock
you for six too!
Dilwyn
At 13:25 01/03/2011 +, you wrote:
Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils
or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate.
So today's (not Toasay) the Dai, I occasionally wondered.
I suppose it's not the right season for lava bread ?
Might be, if
afraid. Sorry :D
/Petri
He he, nice try!
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Does anyone know if SMSQ/E on Aurora needs a minimum of Gold Card?
Or could SMSQ/E be used on Aurora with a Trump Card and still be able
to have high resolution (e.g. 640x480) screen?
(Quanta helpline question)
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better results from the next one. Well done to Dave for putting
it together quickly and getting the results out pronto (even if the
list did sabotage his first results effort).
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Ah - might not be possible to use SMSQ/E on Trump Card at all,
perhaps? This was at crux of question.
No, some gold is required for SMSQ/E ;)
Marcel
Thanks. :-)
And a Gold credit card to buy it, perhaps? ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Ah - might not be possible to use SMSQ/E on Trump Card at all,
perhaps? This was at crux of question.
No, some gold is required for SMSQ/E ;)
Marcel
Thanks. :-)
And a Gold credit card to buy it, perhaps? ;-)
Dilwyn Jones
Aurora+TC = no 68xxx-CPU... can do exactly
beyond the name.
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If anyone has any news for inclusion in the next issue of Quanta
magazine, please send it to me by 5th March.
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On 02/03/2011 02:23, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I'm in the process of writing an article for Quanta mag about the
new graphical capabilities of QL compatible systems.
One of the things I've realised I've probably never seen despite
using it so much myself is a short (one-line) description of what
, although I'd probably have to include a glossary
to explain the various terms - if people haven't heard of Wman 2 they
are unlikely to know what Alpha masks, RLE, chained extended sprites
and so on mean. But this is a good start I guess.
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on committee longer than me...
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did briefly correspond with Sarah
Gilpin on the matter (28/12/08) so that Quanta were at least aware of
the sinclairql.es PDF, and the matter was entered into the Secretary's
file at the time for the record.
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admittedly I don't use it very often
these days. (I use v2.01 rather than 2.03 of ptr_gen just because the
Aurora has a JM ROM uinstalled for software testing.)
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QL Todays and have another look at it.
It should make a lot more sense now. ;)
I did the same with Wolfgang's QPTR lectures, working through them
when I really needed it.
Bob
Good grief, somebody admits to undertsanding QPTR!
Dilwyn Jones
On 03/03/11 15:26, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Count me in too! Couldn't have written display_cde and other bits
and
pieces without your articles.
THREE!!
That's a 50% increase in readers since yesterday!
Statistics - 86% are made up! ;-)
Well, my misinterpretation of the Quanta/QL Today subs
Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:03:07 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk:
I did the same with Wolfgang's QPTR lectures, working through them
when I really needed it.
Bob
Good grief, somebody admits to understanding QPTR!
It's been a while since I looked at the program (still
, sadly.
The sources for QDOS CLassic emulator (which includes a floppy driver)
are available at http://www.mswift.unisonplus.net/ql/index.html
And of course the SMSQ/E sources are available, which can be
downloaded in whole or part from
http://www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe/
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a manual to hand.
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.
They are not to the best of my knowledge there as individual files.
Only supplied with the software itself.
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A new blog for the QL:
http://backtotheql.blogspot.com/
If you have a Google account, for example, you can comment on the
owner's postings. Who is the owner? Clue: not me.
Visit the site and read it to see!
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Ralf Reköndt wrote:
Does anyone have a manual for a Medic I/F to scan in and send to
Dilwyn?
An EPROM dump for examining would also a be good idea...;-)
Cheers...Ralf
This would be very useful,as Medic bards do turn up second hand from
time to time. I have never seen a Medic manual.
I think
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