Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bryan Horstmann wrote: * When I select Xchange, I cannot find out how to bring it up to screen size; I've already set the screen size correctly Simple : you can't Xhange has a fiwed screen size which you can't change (unless you poke around somewhere in the program's code, I think).

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: The fact that the prowess loader program doesn't work seems to indicate an error in the emulation core itself somewhere. As this loader program seems to be a C program, finding the error will not be trivial. Since I can load Prowess my way, this is not so high on the

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand - the loader program works from a ram disk? It doesn't here. Here it does. Unlike WIN, where nothing seems to happen, it starts up fine when everything is copied to ram1_ Marcel ___

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: What the prowess loader does is the following : it opens the startup file from where it is indicated in its command line (eg. ex win1_proweess_prg_loader;win1_prowess_startup. So far so good. Once that file is open, the loader then uses that for a special trap#3 call

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: QPAC2 channels window has the same problem, it will show WIN1_whatever even if I have renamed WIN to XYZ. ? WIN_USE PPP open_in#3,ppp1_boot Call up channels menu , here it shows ppp1_boot. Okay, this is because SMSQ/E actually provides an official way to get the

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-02-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Daniele Terdina wrote: here are the details of how Q-emuLator stores files on the native file system: QL files have a special piece of information associated with them, called the ‘QDOS file header’. The header stores such information as the file name and whether the file is an executable

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] CPU/OS differences.

2013-03-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Park wrote: It's been mentioned that vanilla QDOS/Minerva doesn't run happily on 68EC020 due to CPU differences. The GC/SGC copies and patches the OS to work with the EC020 CPU, and to relocate certain resources. My questions are: what are the differences? How does the GC/SGC boot the

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] CPU/OS differences.

2013-03-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Thierry Godefroy wrote: Wow, hello again :-) For all 680x0 CPUs above the 68000/8 (ie. for 68010/012/020/030/040/060s), the MOVE from SR instruction is priviledged while it is not for the 68000/8. This is the usual cause of incompatibilities for software written for the 68000 and ran on a

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] CPU/OS differences.

2013-03-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tobias Fröschle wrote: - the 020 has an instruction cache - but that should not lead to problems with code run from ROM, as that cannot be very self-modifying ;) The problem is not the OS but application programs doing this. In the patched ROM the cache is cleared on every TRAP or exception,

Re: [Ql-Users] Window redraw in PE

2013-03-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jiri Dolezal wrote: Perfect! My (old) SMSQ was not able to do this, l and I was really hesitating to buy the latest one. Now I have one more reason to spent 90 EUR for it. The commercial phase of SMSQ/E is pretty much over, I'm hoping to organize free downloads sooner or later. Which

Re: [Ql-Users] Window redraw in PE

2013-03-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: The commercial phase of SMSQ/E is pretty much over, I'm hoping to organize free downloads sooner or later. Which release do you need? The feature you requested (background update) was by the way done by me ;-) Well, that was meant to be private... thank you, eMail

Re: [Ql-Users] Window redraw in PE

2013-03-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does it contain this feature (background drawing), too? Yes, it does. Can't say whether it fully works, however, I normally use SMSQ/E instead of the plain QL stuff. Remember, though, that this version doesn't work across all QL ROM versions - Minerva being required to

Re: [Ql-Users] Window redraw in PE

2013-03-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Park wrote: It does seem, in this day and age, as if Minerva should be considered a base system, and the use of QDOS should be deprecated. Hear hear, that's what I've tried to sell for years now ;-) I cannot think of any single reason to not use Minerva, except perhaps the fear of killing

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE v.3.15

2013-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: What is the difference between the Aurora, GoldCard GoldCard_256colours .bins? The normal goldcard doesn't contain 256 colours drivers, the ...8 does contain them, aurora is for the aurora card. Well, you can't have 256 colours without aurora, so I, too, have no idea

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

2013-04-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: It's been done before. In Cuedark you can assign a corner to act as On switch. Move the pointer there and the screen saver will be invoked in a few seconds. The principle is the same, don't know how it's done however. It directly checks pt_pos in the CON linkage block

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

2013-04-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: This seems to work with any size of window, haven't tried many sizes though. Should work with an Easyptr menu too, though not tried that yet. Only run it in BASIC job 0 - intend to try it as an SBASIC job and compiled at some point. Only tried it in QPC2 3.34beta3 high

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

2013-04-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: The Kilgus system sprites I use are all about 20x20 and have their origin at the center. So I have set a margin of SCR_YLIM -10. The arrow is 17px high and has the origin at 0x0, so needs more margin. Y-direction should be no problem, the sprite can leave the edge of the

Re: [Ql-Users] WM_INK etc

2013-04-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Well, the format is well-explained. Without knowing what colour is passed, we can't know happens... Will await a copy of the info to be sent to me before going any further. OK, this is the minimal code to reproduce the problem 100 XM = SCR_XLIM 110 YM = SCR_YLIM 120

Re: [Ql-Users] Dock

2013-05-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: the recent discussion about a window that pops up when the pointer is at the bottom of the screen prompted me to write a small dock application that pops up when the pointer is at the bottom of the screen. Moving the pointer up again will hide it again. Hit ESC to quit.

Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora colours

2013-05-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: When I execute the following line on Aurora: COLOUR_NATIVE: PAPER 15: CLS I do get the right plum colour but only every second pixel, so a vertically striped window. The same is true for any other colour I tried, the right colour but striped (with black). This also

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE v.3.16

2013-05-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen francois.vaneme...@telenet.be wrote: Nice new features! Thanks to both of you Marcel and Wolfgang. Now waiting for the QPC2 version. Yesterday my main SSD decided to commit suicide. There are backups of a few things, but the latest SMSQ/E and QPC is not amongst them. It

Re: [Ql-Users] A few short topics...

2013-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[These mails are older, but I just realized today that due to my eMail setup still not completely restored I sent them from the wrong address and they didn't show up on the list. Resending...] Friday, May 31, 2013, 1:13:54 PM, Norman wrote: Err, but running things like some C programs (e.g.

Re: [Ql-Users] A few short topics...

2013-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:11:48 PM, Wolfgang wrote: Because you can't define something went belly up in an exceptional manner ? Recently I came up with the idea of combining the SYSMON heap-walk-check with QMON's quick trace facility, so that after every instruction the heap is checked for

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC and standby

2013-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hello Dilwyn, If the QPC2 is left open, it locks up after coming out of standby – usual egg-timer icon or greyed out display. Excuse my absence of the conversation, I'm back from enjoying the only week of bad weather Lisbon has recently had. This problem is actually the main reason why 3.34

Re: [Ql-Users] P stuck in a loop - QPC2

2013-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: This is rather an odd thing which I have never come across before QPC2 is acting as though the p key was pressed down - even though I can use the same PC to happily type this email. SMSQ/E for QPC awaits make and break codes from QPC, just like SMSQ/E for Q40 or QXL would

[Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-07-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Surprise! It only took 6 years, but finally there is another official beta of QPC ;-) Don't hesitate because it's called a beta, it's very stable, I only want people to test the new keyboard driver first before calling it a release. It includes the latest SMSQ/E v3.16. New features: - Added

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-07-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: While I'm at it, does anybody still use the fullscreen mode? All the time. Damn. But such a major change might need 6 more years anyway, for now you might be safe ;) Although SHFT/CTRL/F12 (plus the fn key on my Apple Mac) sets full screen for v3.34 beta it has no effect

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-07-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Urs wrote: BTW: Did you add suspend emulation when minimized (good for all notebook users when using ql programs which do not have good idle handling) No. If I have ever heard of this feature request I have forgotten about it ;) Will think about it. and save and reuse last screen position

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-07-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tobias Fröschle wrote: I don't use full-screen mode at all - because I can't get that to work properly on MacParallels anyways. Doesn't surprise me, even Windows support is becoming pretty spotty. It was cutting edge when I wrote the code 15 years ago, though ;-) I do use a maximized window,

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-08-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
pjwitte wrote: I havent been able to test it before now, and only scantly at that. My machines now run Windoze 7, either 64bit or 32bit versions. I struggled a bit to configure SMSQE, as none of the changes I made to it via the QPC configuration screen, nor the MenuConfig application

Re: [Ql-Users] Anyone got any clues on how to do this in the PE?

2013-08-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. If someone has an annotated disassembly of MAWCLEAR, that would help too! ;-) I got something better, I have the source code. DO NOT expect it to be more readable than a disassembly, though... Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-08-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: Thanks, Marcel, for the insights! I think there could be a bug in the keyboard driver, as something I did by pressing some keys hung the emulation. (Its been many years since the last crash :) Hm, strange. The code is actually pretty straight forward (at least once you have

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

2013-08-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: I am not able to get FSM on my laptop (Mac Pro running W7U) The screen resolution is 1280x800, but whatever resolution I supply the emulation crashes during startup. Crash as in Shows the Windows error dialog or crash as in Nothing is happening, I need to force QPC to close?

[Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Subtitle: The fullscreen mode is dead, long live the fullscreen mode. After hours of messing with the fullscreen mode that I will never get back I've decided to make a somewhat drastic step and remove it altogether. This makes the display driver code infinitely easier to work with. But fear not,

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: Id love to try it, but I cant find 3.40 beta 3 anywhere..? It's right there. Reload your browser cache perhaps? Alternatively http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/qpc2v340beta3.zip Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: I like it much better than the old way of a FSM which did change the computers graphics card configuration (resolution/colour depth) and made Windows nervous in some occasions. It made sense in the past for CRT monitors where you still got a crisp picture when you

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Now to leave it on overnight to see how this PC treats it coming out of whatever sleep mode it decides to go into tonight! Ho hum, programs left running (Windows Live Mail, QPC2, Skype and a Windows Explorer window) had all locked up by this morning although Windows was

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
gdgqler wrote: FSM seems to me to work fine on an Apple Mac plus VWWARE plus windows XP. Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F12+fn does the trick. This is good to hear. However, the delightful WM_MOVEMODE 3, which works well with most windows digs down too far and too erratically to show what's beneath

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
pjwitte wrote: It works a treat! The new FSM an' all! Thanks again, Marcel. There is one thing, though - and it appears Im the only one with the problem(?) The QPC startup menu pops up every time I start an instance of QPC. I have, of course, tried all the obvious remedies.. or perhaps not.

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: I have been using QPC v3.33 and v3.34 Beta 3, is faster on my Linux laptop. There was no problems with the machine crashing or locking up. This is great news, thanks. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Malcolm Lear wrote: I'm using 3 monitors. Is it possible to select a particular one when full screen mode? In the final release you will be able to drag the window to the desired monitor and activate full-screen mode there. However, I noticed that on both my XP test PCs the smoothing algorithm

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: Bottom left in QPC configuration window, click on 'Don't show...' and SAVE. Actually that is the only option that doesn't need the SAVE button to be saved ;) It's always saved, doesn't make much sense otherwise. Cheers, Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr

2013-08-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tobias Fröschle wrote: I guess asking Jochen or Marcel for an upgrade wouldn't hurt. Both are nice guys and don't bite, normally ;) lol, thanks :-D Actually I've sent him the files off-list already. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

2013-08-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I'm just just back from vacation and I probably still have my head in the clouds. Could you describe the problem with a bit more detail? Just open QD, open the File menu and try to drag it around. Ha, good catch. Wolfgang, at least this one problem clearly lies in

Re: [Ql-Users] Q68

2013-09-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Graf wrote: If I find the time to design suitable caches, I expect CPU core speed between 32 and 40 MHz. At 20 MHz, the Dhrystone benchmark gave something between SuperGoldCard and Q40. For the general public, I might hold back some design files until expenses for manufacturing have

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

2013-09-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Per Witte wrote: PS I havent put QPC v4.00 though its paces yet. At the moment all I can say is that it just works! I think it was a splendid initiative to make it generally available (at least to all QLT readers). Thanks for all the feedback so far! I've just arrived back from a (much needed)

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC

2013-09-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hugh Cumper wrote: I have just received QPC from the QL Today disc having been a Qemulator user in the past and I have a couple of basic questions. The only way I can get the emulated QL to fill the screen is to drop down to 512x256 resolution and QL Colors, is there a way to get a usable

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: I have noticed something a little odd, well, even to be honest. Strangely enough, the answer is 42 - what is the question? ;-) The question is: What size is your EXE file?. I'm wondering if the mysterious 42 extra bytes is also accumulated in the space desired in TRNSP

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: My file size is 30 bytes. I checked. Default data space from GWASL is 4000 bytes. I expected that to end up as 4030 or possibly rounded to the nearest 8 or 16 which would be 4032. What's the value of a4 then? My test exe was 1024 bytes data space and 222 bytes

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: In my code size 30 example, I get 42 which is an extra 12 as well. What's so special about 12 I wonder? insert delay while I rummage in the source code Right, it must be something in the allocation of memory. I found the code that creates a job and it simply allocates

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: If I open #3,some_file and ex #3 to test_bin, I do get a channel Id on the stack (and a word count of 1) but if I run it again, the channel Id on the stack is different. I would have thought that the [qdosmsq] channel id for SuperBasic channel #3 would remain constant,

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today DVD :- QPC2

2013-10-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
jms1 wrote: Just curious, - what are you trying to run it on? Windows 3.1? Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000. Runs fine on Windows Vista. This was not intentional but apparently happened with the switch to the Visual Studio 2010 compiler suite. The compiler does not support creating EXE

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today DVD :- QPC2

2013-10-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Sometimes in Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium SP1 on my PC, I get notifications from Windows saying that a program running isn't compatible with the colour mode and it switches to Windows basic colours without transparency (aero glass or whatever) upon coming out of 'Sleep' or

[Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released

2014-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hello everybody. I have mentioned that I intended to make QPC2 available and free for all for some time and the first fruit of this could be observed for QL Today subscribers with QPC2 v4 on the last QL-Today DVD. Now, to celebrate the birth of my first and very lovely daughter (who turns one

Re: [Ql-Users] HD disk drives

2014-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: to my knowledge, the GC and SGC were the first (and only) interfaces to use the NEC765A (or compatible, my GC has a compatible NATIONAL chip) floppy disk controller - that's the same one that was used in the IBM PC/AT - and thus were able to support the HD

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released

2014-02-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Thanks everybody! My daughter says hi and good god am I tired: http://www.kilgus.net/images/marla.jpg And yes, she already has much more hair than me ;-) I hope the new QPC2 release works for everyone, I took great care to get every scenario for the installer right, but I didn't exactly have

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released

2014-02-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: I hope the new QPC2 release works for everyone, I took great care to get every scenario for the installer right, but I didn't exactly have much time to get this thing out of the door... There was a bug in the installer that created the qpc.ini and qpcdemo.win files write

Re: [Ql-Users] Foam pads and IDE and mounts, oh my!

2014-02-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Park wrote: We would like to make further improvements, but unfortunately we do not have the source of the QubIDE II ROMs. If anyone out there has the source, we'd be grateful for a copy. Google qubide source and voila: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/qubide-gpl.zip Not that difficult it

[Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.02 released

2014-02-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hi everybody. QPC2 v4.02 has just been released. I have only recently converted to Windows 7 and found that the SMSQ/E soft reset using CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+TAB didn't work anymore as Windows now uses CTRL+ALT+TAB for one of its many task switchers (ignoring the SHIFT key). It wasn't exactly easy, but

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.02 released

2014-02-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote: Just a query - what is the status of QPAC1 and QPAC2 now ? Has Tony Tebby released them as public domain? Well, I've been the sole maintainer of both packages for the last 10+ years and have decided that it's about time for QPAC2 to be released freely. Haven't even

[Ql-Users] QPAC1 2

2014-02-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hello all. I have put the latest releases of QPAC12 online at http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qpac2.html For the release Jochen provided me with the original disc contents and Text87 manuals for QPAC2, which I converted to PDF using QPCPrint. By the way, if anybody is waiting for QPCPrint to

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.02 released

2014-02-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: We could perhaps look at modernising the documentation too, although that's a secondary consideration at th emoment, at least. If anybody wants to have a go at it, be my guest. I can provide the Text87 originals if that helps. Marcel, I don't know how to start thanking you

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released

2014-02-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Timothy Swenson wrote: Welcome to the world of fatherhood. I'd say that you have 18 years before you get rid of her, but my oldest is 22 and still living at home. That's not too bad, I extended my stay until I was 25 or so ;-) I can't believe it's been 14 years since you visited my place.

[Ql-Users] QPC1

2014-02-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Due to popular (= one) demand, the full version of QPC1 has now been released, too. It's available from my web site and works amazingly well under the DosBox emulator. Fun fact: the QPC1 boot screen was modeled after my favorite game at the time: Doom. Cheers, Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC1

2014-02-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: What kind of OS is there? Would be nice to have it running with Minni. SMSQ/E. This is the normal (=latest) QPC1 release. The last QPC that ran with Minerva is much too old to be usable. Any chance to run it under Windows XP? For that I created QPC2 ;) Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC1

2014-02-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Timothy Swenson wrote: I'm way rusty on my DOS memory stuff. What changes did you make to the DosBox .conf file to get QPC1 to run? I just changed EMS, XMS and UMB to False. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
pg...@q40.de wrote: In case you are thinking about hiring someone to design a better CPU, I'm not sure if software developers are the ones to ask. This is not software, it's hardware design. I'm sure folks like Daniele, Richard and Marcel know a lot about 68K instructions, but it seems

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Daniele Terdina wrote: Marcel, do you know if any free VHDL simulation/analysis tools exist that may be close to a code debugger (breakpoints etc., if that makes sense)? No idea, I've last worked with FPGAs 10 years ago and that was with actual hardware, some Altera evaluation board running a

Re: [Ql-Users] Ethernet chit chat...

2014-04-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wiznet: + TCP/IP included. Implementation of socket API for QL probably pretty easy. + Reliefs slow 68008 main processor. But then I seriously question what original QL owners are going to do with this thing anyway. - Only 4 parallel connections. That's 4 more than QLs usually have, but still

Re: [Ql-Users] Incorrect emulation

2014-04-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Are you aware of this: http://web.archive.org/web/20080507162255/http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/68ktester There is a test results file which is supposed to help for exactly that kind of situation - the results are those from a real cpu. If anybody is

Re: [Ql-Users] Incorrect emulation

2014-04-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
solution. Yeah, I don't think it's worth the effort, anyhow. Most C++ stuff tends to be so complicated that it would probably be hard to port in any case. Cheers, Marcel On 15/04/2014 21:38, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Are you aware of this: http://web.archive.org/web

Re: [Ql-Users] Printer query

2014-04-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Hi everyone, I got asked the following question by a user in Italy – does anyone know the answer? Dilwyn Jones my printer epl 6200 (advanced) is practically out of service (after 12

Re: [Ql-Users] Mail problems...

2014-04-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Ha, this happens to me from time to time. I use Windows Live Mail (better known as Windows Half-Dead Mail). Actually, your mail is completely-dead. dilwyn@[...]: SMTP error from remote server after transfer of mail text: host: mail-in.freeserve.com 5.2.0 Mail rejete.

Re: [Ql-Users] GST QC

2014-06-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: Ok, Floppy image...how? Folder icon in QPC? Have I missed something? Still using QPC 3.34. You've missed QPC2 v4. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] SoQLoban

2014-06-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: thanks for your kind words. I must stress, though, that the most difficult part of this is to design the puzzles and I didn't do many of those. Still, well done. I managed to solve all default levels in a few minutes but am pretty much stuck on level 3 in the additional

Re: [Ql-Users] QL WIki - HELP NEEDED !!!

2014-06-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: I just do not have the time to keep working on the QL Wiki. When I have asked people for help / comments, all I seem to get is 'there is no information about X' I will try to contribute a bit of what I know, though I have little knowledge of most old software. Are

Re: [Ql-Users] Automated Reply Re: Re: QLis30 name badges

2014-10-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
b...@newlan.org wrote: This is an automated reply to your message Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 name badges sent to b...@newlan.org. Dear extdgl42 externa...@earthlink.net Thank you for your email. I am unable to respond to email at present but will reply as soon as I can. Oh sod off! Can't some

Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

2014-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Any idea what else might be causing the continuous hard disk activity slugging the PC to an almost unusable crawl? Nothing identifiable in the lists shown in Task Manager for example. Check how much RAM Windows reports and compare it to how much it's supposed to have.

Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

2014-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: 3GB physical RAM installed, task manager says: Total 3037 Cached 979 Available 930 Free10 Was a long shot, but this sounds legit. Does the system still use IDE drives? When, for some reason, the error rate of a device goes up the IDE controllers used to switch from DMA

Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

2014-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and everything else in D: Okay, one more. Download and run the Process monitor tool from MS and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing

Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

2014-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: No messages of any sort (e.g. updates downloaded, scans finished etc) so I can only presume that a running scan or some such process has ended. There is still a little bit of hard disk activity, but the computer is now back to normal in terms of usability. Next guess:

Re: [Ql-Users] Unicode translation of QL char 181 (0xB5)?

2014-10-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcos Cruz wrote: Does anybody know the Unicode char code of QL char 181 (0xB5)? I don't know its name. It looks a reversed S with a dot below it. I don't think there is a ready character for it, but it can probably be constructed ('COMBINING DOT BELOW' (U+0323) and 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: Why does WM_SETUP - never return an error?

2015-04-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolf wrote: Why doesn't WM_SETUP return an error? Often it doesn't have any clue as to whether there was an error. That's one point, but also because not checking for errors speeds up the code and makes it smaller. Remember that this was supposed to run on 8Mhz and 128kb of ram, so back then

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook

2015-05-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Actually all #3 traps are implemented at the discretion of the device driver, so it's always just a documentation of what they should do, not necessarily of what they are actually doing ;-) IOF.FLSH and IOF.CHEK don't make sense for RAM discs, for example, there is nothing to flush, it's all just

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook

2015-05-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
derek wrote: Hi, I just looked in the SMSQ/E sources and can not fond IOF.TEST. Is the statement in Section 5.3 correct? If not how should read. As I wrote I'm pretty sure they meant to write IOF.CHEK Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook

2015-05-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: I can not find any reference to IOF.TEST Should this be IOB.TEST ? No, doesn't make sense. I guess they meant IOF.CHEK. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Roy's book

2015-06-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Just a quick note that one prominent ex-member of the QL community (Roy Wood) has written an autobiography called The way to(o) weard. Apparently Darren is to blame for this, but I did enjoy the book very much and read the ~500 pages in just a few days. The time span is mostly before he became

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win10

2015-05-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: Morning all. The Pi 2 does indeed run Win 10. However it's a special embedded Win 10 and uses ARM machine language. Yes, it's not even Windows as we know it, there is no desktop, no mouse or keyboard support. It's an OS for small remote controlled appliances. So no, QPC

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win10

2015-06-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Ironically, a Get Windows 10 icon has appeared in the System Tray of PCs this week... Hope QPC2 and QemuLator continue to work on that (assuming my poor PC is up to it!) We've only just migrated to Windows 7 at work, so Windows 10 is far off for me. Hope it just works,

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.22

2015-07-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolf wrote: Atari monochrome works again, though there still is a little quirk when moving the pouse pointer. Congrats! What was the problem? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Floating Point Questions

2015-08-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tobias Fröschle wrote: Actually, for some floating point numbers, there is different forms you can express them correctly in floating point form - That’s what is called a de-normalized float (40*2^-1, for example, is the same as 20 * 2^1) - So floating point numbers having the same value don’t

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
.Win. When I look at the Diary files on the Windows 7 machine, all the diary files are within Diary and nothing later than October 2014. I hope that I have managed to explain myself. TIA Regards, Peter Fox On 17.07.2015 09:40, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Peter Fox wrote: I have now tried

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: I have now tried to transfer QXL.win and QXL2.win back to a Windows 7 machine and have failed. The dates on the QXL files are 25 October 2014 even though there are files dated July 2015 within the files. Where are the files located? Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
I have no idea how you even managed to do put them there in Windows 8, this should be pretty much impossible for normal users. Also, they would be write protected there. Note for everybody: DO NOT PUT FILES IN C:\ Search your drive for other copies of QXL.WIN which are more recent. The ones in

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
jms1 wrote: The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. What are you talking about? This has never been the case for QPC. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: So somewhere in the loading process it crashes. If I break with the hatari debugger and disassemble I end up in a loop that doesn't end. I have no idea where the loop is in the source tree. There are multiple ways to find this, pretty much all involve noting a few bytes

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: But before Thursday I can't do proper serial. However I can spool the serial port to a text file. What for? So I wonder, can I send data to serialport just by moving data to the serial port address? I don't know which to use. I tried scc_data , but that did just

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: Frankly, I have no idea about Atari hardware. But I don't understand what you're trying to do anyway, sorry. In lack of a proper source level debugger I would like to do printf like debugging. If it is possible to print to the serial port I can add loads of printouts

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: This might be a good idea. Does it need input to work or can it be configured to perhaps break when something fails? It's been a decade since I've used it, but IIRC it breaks before the boot process where you can give it a g command to get it running again. Then it'll

Re: [Ql-Users] Carlo Delhez

2015-10-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: > This weekend I came across the sad announcement that Dutch programmer Dr. > Ir. Carlo Delhez had died a week before. He was only 48. That's way too young. The name rings many bells, but I guess mostly because of the emulators he wrote. Very sad. Marcel

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