-on ROM, up to
128KB
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bought it partly to pass the time while I was ill back in 1981, and
partly to learn a bit about computers. Little did I know what it'd
lead to!
I'd actually ordered a ZX80, but as the ZX81 was in the process of
launching, Sinclair kindly offered to change to order to a ZX81.
Dilwyn Jones
.
To clarify what I mean I'll call it QL On A Chip or two.
Q40, Q60, Aurora, Goldfire... great designs in their time, but now we
need a radical leap forward to stand a chance of success.
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Lee Privett wrote:
That's a bit of a QLOAC Dagger statement :-)
Lee
- Back to the QL-
Dilwyn Said
To clarify what I mean I'll call it QL On A Chip or two.
Hmm, OK, that's bad joke of the week award to Lee, I think!
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Two people independently proofread QL Today and we never make a
mistake as Dilwyn, Dylwin and Dyllwin can all testify,
Best Wishes,
Geoff
No, Geoff, all three of us concur ;-)
Deliwinn Jonse
P.S. BTW, why 2 copies of the email?
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He he, I guess I walked into that one :o)
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at the AGM for those wishing to peruse them before
the meeting.
If anyone wants a copy of the missing document to study in advance of
the AGM, would it be possible for you to email or post a copy on
request to members, for example?
Dilwyn Jones (all of the clones
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
There is very little we can do to correct this error in time for
the
AGM except that the eMag versions have now been corrected (which
has
delayed their despatching to those members who have opted to take
their Magazine in this format). Extra copies of these documents
...@quanta.org.uk
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could vote against MPs in a national
election?
It doesn't matter who you vote for or against in national elections.
A government always gets in ;-)
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Does anyone know of a free utility to convert QL extensions etc into
an EPROM form?
Commercially, I know of Liberation's RPM program, and Jochen Merz's
Thing EPROM Manager.
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Bob Spelten wrote:
Op Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:57 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk:
Does anyone know of a free utility to convert QL extensions etc
into
an EPROM form?
Commercially, I know of Liberation's RPM program, and Jochen Merz's
Thing EPROM Manager.
I found 2
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Apologies to George and everyone else, and if the staff at Quanta
Magazine Towers are enjoying this, then it's my own fault,
We all make mistakes.
Said the dalek climbing off the dustbin! ;-)
...or said the hedgehog climbing off the hairbrush ;-)
Dilwyn Jones
- the QL mk2 ROM (never released AFAIK)!
Now that is one for the collectors...
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on a QLay emulator, with a qlay.rc
file like this:
-r c:\roms\tyche-tra.rom
-c fc...@nfa.rom
-l w...@qlay.dir
-l win2@sub2\qlay.dir
-l m...@qlay.mdv
-f 11538.46
Replace the -f with the appropriate one for your machine, says
Phoebus.
And that's really all I know about it, sorry.
Dilwyn Jones
Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
On 29/03/2011 00:10, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
All I know about it is what's on my website (ROMs page). Last
unreleased Sinclair OS for QDOS hardware. A 64K ROM which is
interesting but not very compatible with 48K QL ROMs, containing
the
copyright message '(C) 1985 Sirius
of the program, or just that listing in the
photo?
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of Firefox, Chrome,
Safari and any other alternative browsers you may well find that the
sum total of the others adds up to more than the number of IEs. If all
the other browsers all display the pages correctly, your statement
then starts to be valid.
Rant over.
Dilwyn Jones
as you and I would.
Rant over.
And a jolly good rant it was too. I enjoyed it. Cheers!
Drat, failed in my efforts to annoy Norman :o(
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forward with long term projects such as
putting the Library online for members.
I hope, I really really do.
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they are scanned as graphics and also protected, so I
can't even combine them into easier to handle groups of pages.
Anybody out there got a manual for this printer which I could borrow
to rescan, or even better got an unprotected scan of the pages?
Dilwyn Jones
will be SBasic (SuperBasic) without line numbers.
If you are interested please let me know.
I received this email this morning.
I have no idea if it is genuine...anyone know anything about it?
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try this.
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(this letter seems to have a USA domain name) and apart from
occasional emails from them over the years, have not AFAIK used QLs
for many years now.
Perhaps the identity will become clear as more messages arrive on the
forums!
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copies of my email, it gave an
error twice so kept trying to resend until it said sent at the third
attempt. Obviously, it managed to send all 3 times!
This PC will probably end up looking like the one in that caption
competition in Quanta mag by the end of the day ... :-((
Dilwyn Jones
Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 5/Apr/11 14:34 | Apr5:
5th from last looks like the last version of the serial-parallel
interface, which I think was made by TF Services for Bill
Richardson to sell?
No. That is just a standard 25 pin serial lead. The connector at
the
end is a 25D
said if he still had the manual or the
original JPGs.
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at the Wikipedia
entry but I am not familiar with that universal pronunciation
system
used by Wikipedia. Dilwyn Jones
I had the chip, I can only think that I got it at Milton Manor,if
that is the case it must have been spoken of and in my mind it is
firmly lodged as Tikey.
Gerard Phelan had
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Afternoon all,
On 06/04/11 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Gerard Phelan had the idea of asking a search engine how to
pronounce it (now why didn't I think of that?).
That's what I did too!
http://www.forvo.com/word/tyche/
Interesting in that the word is Greek
pictures in the anniversary photos ;-))
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bubble
for rain etc. It might find a niche, but I won't be holding my breath.
Not sure at all about this - would tend to agree with Tony.
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it on holiday?
No, I meant holiday sites might have a number of these to hire out,
like some places hire out bicycles or those silly pedalled 4 wheel
things like unpowered golf carts.
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Tony Firshman wrote:
Dave Park wrote, on 7/Apr/11 19:23 | Apr7:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.ukwrote:
No, I meant holiday sites might have a number of these to hire
out,
like some places hire out bicycles or those silly pedalled 4 wheel
things like
Daniele Terdina wrote:
Meh.
Meh?
There's a web page for everything :):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh
Daniele
I see ... Dave's been spending his illness time watching too much
Simpsons!
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might be an Asimov he can sit inside, tell it where he wants to go,
then sleep while it walks him there ;-)
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to put a program to sleep in button frame is to use the
BUTTON_SLEEP thing. Define a hotkey to call it: ERT
HOT_WAKE(CHR$(233),'button_sleep')
Hope this helps, assuming I understood what you wanted to do
correctly.
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Or, easier to learn, Jochen's Menu Extension for simple programs.
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in the popular .P snapshot format for the
ZX81.
The ZX81 was my first computer and it got me into a long association
with Sinclair computers, so I felt the need to do just a little token
something to celebrate.
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These indexes can be downloaded free from
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/qltoday/qltoday.html
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on the
Utilities page of my website http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/index.html,
it seems to have both a German and English document
(German=simser.txt, English=SimSer.doc). Don't know if this English
doc has more detail than the one suggested by Arnould.
Dilwyn Jones
of currency symbols either
It looks like a backward S with emphasis on the start and tail, and
a squiggly bit under the bottom curve
Lee
Can't remember what it's called in the QDOS fonts.
Later it was changed to the Euro € symbol in SMSQ/E systems.
Dilwyn Jones
I have been informed that my website may be down for a while on Monday
evening, due to some work on the servers.
Hopefully, it will be brief, but if anyone is planning on downloading
anything you may prefer to plan to avoid that time.
Dilwyn Jones
website at www.quanta.org.uk is temporarily down for
maintenance while the new ISP (WEC) migrates the CMS and pages to the
new host, for the time being Keith Dunbar has placed a temporary link
to the Quanta page on my website until the main Quanta site is ready
to go again.
Dilwyn Jones
, before which I will be
in touch with anyone who has already enquired about purchasing a
Ser-USB.
Good! Please keep us up to date on this. I may elect to buy one at
some point.
Seems to be a lot of hardware discussions this year, which is great
news.
Dilwyn Jones
confusing myself now.
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a sample listing showing how to achieve this I'd
be very grateful.
At this stage, accuracy is more important than speed.
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tried to explain (without much success!) what he is trying to achieve.
The routines would need to be usable from BASIC, perhaps as BASIC
extensions.
Never having looked at anything like this, I simply didn't know what
it would involve. Hence my request for information.
Dilwyn Jones
this there.
Thanks!
Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2011.
Another issue is in preparation at the moment.
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El 22/05/2011 16:24, Dilwyn Jones escribió:
Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2011.
Another issue is in preparation at the moment.
Dilwyn Jones
Thanks! How can I know if my suscription is ended, and how can I
order previous issues?
Please contact the membership secretary, Keith Dunbar, email
.
Be aware that interpreted programs run at different speeds on systems
where you can choose to use SMSQ/E or QDOS, e.g. Super Gold Card or
QemuLator using Aurora/SGC SMSQ-E/QDOS ROM. I can't remember sorry if
Turbo compiled programs do this too.
Dilwyn Jones
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too ;o)
Per
Ahem, worth reading Lee's blog just to see that picture of him
standing by the Cray computer.
Or is it a QL with a case big enough to house all his add-ons? ;-))
Or maybe it's the computer he intends to use to edit Quanta
magazine???
Dilwyn Jones
country code 44, I see no other tweeks L
I suspect this probably has absolutely nothing to do with it in this
case, but for lesser issues it can sometimes be useful to run a laptop
keyboard under the American keyboard layout (country code 1) if you
are having problems with #, @ etc.
Dilwyn Jones
Lee Privett wrote:
Pressing all the top keys my keyboard now displays this under QPCII
only
1234567890-q
1234567890-q with the right shift key
!£$%^*()_Q with the left shift key
I suppose you could always become a Q-Celt like Darren Branagh ;-))
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Ctl (joystick) ports.
I'll add the note about the serial ports being sockets though.
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implement all sorts of things on it.
While it seems to be using Linux at the moment, it would be great if
some of our hardware experts could take a look at the practicalities
of using it for our own ends.
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#ht_2467wt_1139
I have some QIMI interfaces left, if anyone wants to give it a go!
I presume that the way it works is let you use a USB mouse plugged
into Atari-style socket? (i.e. not the other way around, which would
probably be pointless).
Dilwyn Jones
there was anything below the
picture. I just got half a page of blank white space. Just tried it
again, it did eventually load but took so long I could easily have got
fed up of waiting for it and gone elsewhere. Ho hum.
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using the Propeller robotics chips, the MESS emulator and so on. I
look forward also to people's views on this and whether it is a viable
project.
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Lee Privett wrote:
Hmmn, Dilwyn contact your legal team, Apple in their new op system
LION have a new feature with that same name (out next month)
Now I like Dilwyn's Launchpad
But I also like Apple's Launchpad
So which is better...Fggtt
He he...I suspect mine would
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Lee Privett wrote:
Hmmn, Dilwyn contact your legal team, Apple in their new op system
LION have a new feature with that same name (out next month)
Now I like Dilwyn's Launchpad
But I also like Apple's Launchpad
So which is better...Fggtt
He he
.
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them that
banking loan ;-))
And, belated happy birthday wishes too... :o)
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be cheeky and ask for a royalty on every copy of theirs that
they sell ;-)
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Malcolm Lear wrote:
On 10/06/2011 15:37, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 10/06/11 15:09, Tony Firshman wrote:
now where did you register the LaunchPad trademark Dilwyn?
(8-)#
With software, it doesn't even have to be registered. Prior use is
all that is required.
Think back
for
the QL hurrah! Hey win/win
Hmmm can't fail, now where is that emoticon for tongue in cheek?
Thanks, Lee
Serves me right for trying to embarrass you earlier this week I guess
:o(
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The SuperForth + Reversi is now on the Programming Lnaguages page on
my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/index.html Just
scroll
down to SUPERFORTH to download it. Thanks, Rich.
No manual yet, but hopefully soon judging by the activity this
morning.
Dilwyn Jones
here wants to send me private
messages over it, send it to AT Dilwyn Jones 2 (omit the spaces)
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Neil Riley 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
Dilwyn Jones
That is the manual, the difference is in the quality of the copy.
The
copy on that link
is far
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Recent visitors to my website may have noticed that a couple of
Twitter buttons have appeared on my website. Tweeting is something
new
for me, but I hope to use it to announce news of anything added to
my
website.
Clicking on the Twitter button takes you to a list of my
Thanks to the combined miracles of this list, Neil Riley and Rich
Mellor,even a manual is now available for the SuperForth package.
Albeit as a scanned PDF of 2.8MB size.
http://dilwyn.me.uk/language/index.html
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get throught he signup process I'll be after a copy. Anyway,
brilliant timing re-releasing this just after Jensen Button's grand
prix win in Canada!
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I have been asked to locate a copy of Xover, but I'm afraid I can't
even remember what the program was-can anyone help?
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on my website. At the
moment we have a non-searchable scanned manual.
If you could email me the documents I could compare them to the
scanned manual to see if they are the same ones, if so I could add
them to the package on my website.
Dilwyn Jones
, or suggested the free
ones on the File Transfer page on my website.
I'll pass on the information anyway and see how he wishes to proceed.
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(bottom of the page),
but I'd rather try to resolve it first.
Anyone else have experience fo this and how to fix it?
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Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jul/11 18:11 | Jul11:
Dilwyn/
Having been a member of the Quantum Webring since it's early days,
I
am finding myself a bit frustrated with a problem which has crept
up
in recent times.
Visitors to www.dilwyn.me.uk are sometimes (seemingly
Rich Mellor wrote:
On 11/07/2011 18:29, Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jul/11 18:11 | Jul11:
Dilwyn/
Having been a member of the Quantum Webring since it's early days,
I am finding myself a bit frustrated with a problem which has
crept
up in recent times.
Visitors
not completely sure who started it - might have been someone like
Giorgio Garabello in Italy, perhaps?
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with a knowledge of the internals of QL ROMs etc,
please do get in touch with him via the QL Forum
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default to the
existing behaviour?
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Brian has also now supplied a single large PDF file containing the
index for all 15 volumes of QL Today magazine. Available from the same
page as above. Thanks Brian.
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Thanks Adrian (and Rich).
Will pass on the info.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Memory Lane Computing Ltd sa...@memorylanecomputing.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 on 64-bit
I don't know about QL2K, but both
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:59 AM
Subject: [Ql-Users] QPC2 on 64-bit
Anyone know if QPC2 / QemuLator / QL2K will run on a 64 bit version
of Windows 7?
Dilwyn Jones
A follow-up
open up possibilities for QemuLator, QPC2 and QL2K for example.
In this case, just think, a £20 system could emulate all our favourite
1980s home computers!
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On 03/08/2011 10:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
In the latest issue of gamesTM, page 20, there is an article on
the
Raspberry Pi which is basically a £20 pc.
If it comes with Linux, one of the Linux QL emulators (uQLx, QLay
for Linux) with it... bingo, a £20 QL.
If it is at the heart of it a PC
Just noticed a nice little posting on QL Forum www.qlforum.co.uk by
Rich Mellor about a Z88 forum posting, concerning a serial bluetooth
unit being developed for a Z88 by a user who also has a QL and hopes
to add one to his QL.
This would be of interest to me, so I could connect my phone to
perhaps?
(I don't say that lightly, I know what you went through with the
SerUsb, Adrian)
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in part at the education market. Now, the
new Quanta editor works in the education sector...I wonder if he could
set his students a project to create a QL out of a RaspberryPi ...
(ducks before a Raspberry flies in his direction)
(Who's an old git then?)
No comment...
;-)
--
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKc_XGuvNIk
Well, now, that's VERY interesting...
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to run a 68000
emulation. Would be happy to be proved wrong of course!
Now what did Marcel once say about being unable to resist a
challenge... :-)
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, referring to yourself as the
idiot then too.
Keep up the good work!
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Umm, well, you could say that I heard it from the news items on the right
of the home page of my website.
Breaking it in gently, you could say, rather than shy.
Dilwyn Jones (breaking in a new PC, so I shall be surprised if this makes it
to the list first time - had to summon the cavalry
(!!!) and looks good.
Dan put in a lot of work on it and was very patient even when we were
sending him long lists of stuff to change while he was trying to hold down a
full time job.
Dilwyn Jones (breaking in a new PC,
Did you mean to type 'in' there Dilwyn? ;-)
Actually, yes I did! Iwan and I
for the installation?
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On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64
bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each
version until the most recent.
I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64
bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each
version until the most recent.
I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try
had these problems with,
and it ain't a program I'll be using regularly.
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) it seems to start normally now.
Anyway, happy for the moment...
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