Re: [Ql-Users] hardware

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

Just letting the list know that I picked up the George's QL collection this 
evening!

It is a substantial collection it almost filled my van. So its going to take me 
a while to catalogue it!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] hardware

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

Hi Richard,

I live pretty near Edinburgh and would be willing to help you clear out and 
distribute the stuff to the QL community!

Graeme

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, at 10:44 AM, George Gwilt via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hallo again from Richard Gwilt - George’s son.  Thank you very much for 
> your kind words over the last week or so.  Sorry to bother you all 
> AGAIN - but we are in the process of tidying up - and are faced with a 
> room FULL of QL stuff!!
>
> 6 old black QL computers (1 with Trump card)
> 1 Q60
> 1 QL21
> assorted CRT monitors, MILLIONS of micro tapes, floppies etc.
> ENORMOUS number of manuals etc etc
>
> We are about to take it all to the dump - if anyone would like any, 
> it’ll be here in Edinburgh in Dad’s computer room available for pick up 
> for the next couple of days.  I know, no time to think — but perhaps 
> there photos give you an idea of the scale of the problem …
>
> All the best,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Q-emulator

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, at 1:30 PM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:
> I was given this file a few years ago. I'm sorry, I don't know if it's
> still accurate. Hope it helps.
>
> Dilwyn
>
> Q-EMULATOR TRAP CALL
>
> Use Trap #1 with D0.L = -26 to get some emulator info. The trap is
> designed to be usable by other emulators, but I don't think anybody
> else is using it, so it works only with Q-emuLator.
>
> In systems where the trap is not implemented you will get an error
> in D0.L (bad parameter, I think), in Q-emuLator you get 0 in D0.L.
> There are three commands, identified by the value in D1:
>
> ==
>
> D1.L = 0
>
> Currently returns 0 in both D1.L and D2.L. I don't remember anymore
> for sure what the intended meaning was :(. I think D1 was the version of
> the D0=-26 TRAP implemented by the emulator (for example in the future
> there might be a version 1 TRAP that returns extra info, or allows more
> values in D1.L), and D2 is probably reserved for future use. Just ignore D1
> and D2 and look only at D0 (0 = trap is supported, error = it is not),
> or directly call
> with
> D1.L = 1 or 2.
> ==
>
> D1.L = 1
>
> Returns in D1.L info about the host system:
> D1.L = $00aabbcc, where
>   aa = host OS
>0 = Windows
>3 = Mac OS
>   bb = host OS variant (for example, if aa was Unix, bb would
>identify whether it is BSD, Linux, etc.). Currently always
>zero.
>   cc = emulator ID
>1 = Q-emuLator
>
> Returns in D2.L the version of the emulator:
>   D2.L = $xxyyzzww, where
>  xx = major version number
>  yy = middle version number
>  zz = minor version number
>
> ww was supposed to be a global incremental number, but a 0-255
> range is probably too little, so you can just ignore it.
>
> D3.L = type of build
>   0 = alpha
>   1 = beta
>   2 = release
>
> For example,
>D2.L = $02010005 and D3.L = 2 means version 2.1
>D2.L = $01030218 and D3.L = 1 means version 1.3.2b
>
> ==
>
> D1.L = 2
> A1.L = pointer to memory buffer
> D2.L = length of buffer
>
> Fills the buffer with a short QL string identifying the emulator
> (for example "Q-emuLator 2.2").
>
> Returns a buffer full error in D0 if the buffer is smaller than the
> string (and the buffer content is not valid in this case).
> ==
>
> Hope this helps. Most of this is untested so you may find some bugs.
> The only piece of software currently using one of these traps is the
> Q-emuLator's mouse driver (it refuses to install and prints an error
> if it's not running in Q-emuLator).
>
Should be pretty simple to implement this in sQLux, just need documentation for 
the missing values for all the OSes sQLux runs on.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] QX40

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, at 12:31 PM, silcreval via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After a few decades ? - I decided to see if I can get my QL running 
> again. Unfortunately it has multiple issues, which I'll get to at some 
> point.
>
> I remembered though I had an ISA card called I believe a QX40? I do 
> remember vaguely using this, probably in the 90s at some point.
>
> I've dusted it off and its now installed in an old Athlon PC that 
> happened to have an ISA slot. I've got DOS installed and all seems good.
>
> However I have struggled to find the software. I do have the original 
> disks but they are unreadable.
>
> I've had a look around the net but not really found any hits for this device.
>
> Any clues pointers?
>
> One thing that is a bit mysterious with the QX40 card is there are two 
> 3.5mm (?) sockets on the rear panel. Any idea what they are for?
>
>

It’s a qxl card, I think the docs are in the ql homepage. 
Http://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk

Two ports are probably ql network!

Graeme 

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Homepage

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

Can we stop with this nonsense with security certs now, both qlforum.co.uk and 
dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk have valid certs as can be identified by clicking on the 
padlock in the address bar of your browser.

The main cause of this issue is that virus checkers are scams, simple as that. 
They make money by claiming to fix problems that dont exist.

One update that dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk needs is to remove any hardcoded http:// 
absolute links as you want the browser to auto choose the protocol based on 
what the top level page is using. That will get you a fully clean security 
report from browser!

Graeme

On Sat, 1 Apr 2023, at 10:28 AM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:
> Side effect of QL forum not having a security certificate I guess. It gets
> queried every time I try to upload anything by FTP to the pages.
> The Custom Search Engine code also triggers some anti-viruses, although
> that used to happen with the old site too.
>
> Dilwyn
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2023, 07:13 François Van Emelen via Ql-Users, <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
>
>> Op 31/03/2023 om 14:41 schreef Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users:
>> >>> As I'm getting a large number of "where's the QL homepage gone" type
>> >>> emails despite my extensive efforts at publicising the change, I'm
>> >>> assuming QL users don't read extensively published information (Forum,
>> >>> ql-users list, blog, Facebook, redirect on old site for weeks for
>> >>> example)
>> >> It is a shame that people don't even try a primitive a web search before
>> >> bothering you. Simply "Dilwyn QL" is enough to find the new place.
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks for keeping your homepage up!
>> >> Peter
>> > Thank you Peter.
>> > Interestingly, searching for "dilwyn ql" on Google also brings up Tony
>> > Firshman's firshman.co.uk site - I'll let you figure out the
>> > connection :)
>> > Dilwyn
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>> Hi Dilwyn,
>>
>> Bitdefender told me your site was not safe and sent me to Firshman'... .
>>
>> I had to deactivate my antivirus before I could go to your homepage.
>>
>> Have a fine day,
>>
>> François Van Emelen
>>
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL is worryingly nearly 40 do we get a midlife crisis party anywhere?

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, at 3:39 PM, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote:
> John Alexander via Ql-Users wrote:
>> QL is worryingly nearly 40 do we get a midlife crisis party
>> anywhere?Also the list as been quieter even tha nusual where is everyone?
>
> All QL related talk moved to the web forum. My feed reader currently 
> says I have 350 unread messages there...
>
We did discuss hooking this mailing list up to the forum!

Not sure if thats possible with phpBB, it was on FUDforum that I used to use!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Pico

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2022, at 1:14 PM, Peter Graf via Ql-Users wrote:
> Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
>> Short answer:
>> 
>> "Could" it be ported? Yes.
>
> But not in a sense that it could run any existing SMSQ/E executables.
> Just BASIC programs would run. A port would be a rewrite of SMSQ/E in
> ARM assembler instead of 68K assembler.
>
A C implementation of SuperBasic would be useful to some people it seems.

But as Peter says it would not be SMSq/e based!

So who is stepping forward to volunteer :-D

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 221, Issue 9

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

He is still a regular poster on the Facebook group!

Graeme

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, at 11:43 PM, Paul Holmgren via Ql-Users wrote:
> Thanks, that prodded my memory,  Is Dave Park still around??
>
> Paul Holmgren JCI 74145
> 
>
> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:03:41 PM EDT, 
> ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com  
> wrote:  
> 
>  --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:29:36 +0100
> From: John Southern 
> To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 221, Issue 7
> Message-ID:
>     
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> The original French made SAF 40LF220 3.0V battery is no longer made.
> There is an equivalent at ?23 at
> https://www.allbatteries.co.uk/lithium-battery-3v-270mah-40lf220-equivalent-mgl0025.html
> or you could ask
> https://www.vlad.fr/en/various-professional/7883-battery-lithium-3v-270mah-industry-type-2840lf22029.html
> https://www.laboiteapiles.com/produit/124/40lf220 claim to have some in
> stock
>
> However I think what you are after is a CR2032 replacement in a holder.
> Marcel mentioned a holder at
> https://www.kilgus.net/2018/05/22/ql-sd-ql-microsd-and-sgc-battery/
> Dave on the QL Forum had https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1137 but I
> think you are remembering
> https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2=387=battery
> The Russian ones when back online were
> https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/28481
>
> Regards
> John
>
> Thanks, that prodded my memory,  Is Dave Park still around??
>  
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Re: [Ql-Users] the british way

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, at 7:15 PM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:
> Horrible situation. Bye bye all QL websites. I've just put a rental house
> for sale because of the ever increasing legislation and costs - as have
> MANY small portfolio landlords - so well intentioned change in the UK will
> lead to a housing rental shortage and increased rentals instead of making
> things better for tenants. If this or similar legislation ends up applying
> to us, I won't try to comply, I'll just shut down. End of.
>
Its almost like the web giants have lobbied to ban personal websites :-(

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Lookup%

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, at 3:44 PM, pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote:
> On 06/07/2021 16:18, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Am 06.07.21 um 15:07 schrieb Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, at 1:59 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I agree with Francois, using LOOKUP% as alternative for EXISTS.
> >>>> I use it a lot. It returns the place in the name table which can 
> >>>> also be
> >>>> used to test for conflicting keywords if found out of place.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bob
> >>>>
> >>> on QDOS
> >>> Lookup% can not distinguish between
> >>> SCR_XLIM and SCRXLIM
> >>> http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/scrxlim.zip
> >>>
> >>> if SCRXLIM_cde is loaded
> >>> print Lookup% ("SCR_XLIM") gives 160
> >>> print Lookup% ("SCRXLIM") gives 162
> >>>
> >>> conclusion
> >>> QDOS  -> EXISTS_bin
> >>> SMSQE -> Function_code
> >>>
> >> That looks right to me, assuming uQLx based code.
> >>
> >> Lookup%(SCR_YLIM) will give 161 (its the last extension installed 
> >> by uQLx), and SCRXLIM is the first user one at 162.
> >>
> >> Graeme
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> >
> >
> > On the other hand; would it be safe to presume; for all Systems;
> > if SCR_XLIM is not present; the default screen resolution is used ?
> >
> > my reason is a simple system info
> > depends on
> > Exists_bin
> > scrxlim_cde
> >
> >  CLS
> >  PRINT
> >  IF EXISTS ("EMU_VER$") : PRINT " SMSQmulator"
> >  IF EXISTS ("QPC_EXIT") : PRINT " QPC2 "_ver$
> >  IF EXISTS ("UQLX_RELEASE$"): PRINT " UQLX "_RELEASE$
> >  smsqe% = 0 : min% = 0 : tk% = 0
> >  IF "HBA"  INSTR VER$ : smsqe% = 1
> >  IF "JSL1" INSTR VER$ : min%   = 1
> >  IF EXISTS ("ED") : tk%    = 1
> >  IF smsqe%  : PRINT   " SMSQE "  $ (1)
> >  IF min%    : PRINT   " Minerva ROM "$ (1)
> >  IF NOT min% AND NOT smsqe% : PRINT " ";VER$ &" ROM"
> >  fr_mem%=FREE_MEM/1024
> >  IF fr_mem% >  1024:PRINT " "$ (fr_mem%/1000,4,1) &" Mb free"
> >  if fr_mem% <= 1024:PRINT " "_mem%&" Kb free"
> >  if tk%    and not smsqe% : PRINT " Toolkit2 enabled"
> >  IF EXISTS ("HIS_USE") and not smsqe% : PRINT " History  enabled"
> >  IF exists ("PINFO")   and not smsqe% : PRINT " Pointer  enabled"
> >  IF EXISTS ("RAM_USE") and not smsqe% : PRINT " Ramdisk  enabled"
> >  xx%=512:yy%=256
> >  IF EXISTS ("SCR_XLIM"):xx%=SCR_XLIM  :yy%=SCR_YLIM
> >  IF EXISTS ("SCRXLIM") :xx%=SCRXLIM(0):yy%=SCRYLIM(0)
> >  PRINT " Screen "%&"x"%
> >
> > Markus 
> 
> If it were only that easy.. :o(
> 
> I havent gone through all of it, but just a couple of things:
> 
> MACHINE would be better for sorting out wots wot, except not all 
> systems implement it. However, you can get the same info directly from 
> the system variables. I dont have the details to hand, but Im sure 
> someone will produce them any moment now..
> 
> EMU_VER$ was a result of my nagging to get some semblance of 
> conformity across the various emulators (Why does each emulator have a 
> different command to do the same thing!) The idea was that EMU_xxx 
> would replace JVA_xxx and QPC_xxx and anything else like it. Sadly, 
> that didnt happen only SMSQmulator complied (but then still kept the 
> old JVA_xxx) However, one day QPC (and/or any other) may conform and 
> then BANG! goes your test for SMSQmulator. If you want to do it that 
> way, better target JVA_VER$.
> 
> Just a wee logical slip up: You cant use FDEC$ unless either TK2 or 
> SMSQ/E (or some other toolkit I dont know about) are present.
> 

I can add that to sQLux pretty easilly (the EMU_VER$) any documentation I 
should read?

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] Lookup%

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, at 1:59 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> 
> > I agree with Francois, using LOOKUP% as alternative for EXISTS.
> > I use it a lot. It returns the place in the name table which can also be 
> > used to test for conflicting keywords if found out of place.
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> on QDOS
> Lookup% can not distinguish between
> SCR_XLIM and SCRXLIM
> http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/scrxlim.zip
> 
> if SCRXLIM_cde is loaded
> print Lookup% ("SCR_XLIM") gives 160
> print Lookup% ("SCRXLIM") gives 162
> 
> conclusion
> QDOS  -> EXISTS_bin
> SMSQE -> Function_code
> 
That looks right to me, assuming uQLx based code. 

Lookup%(SCR_YLIM) will give 161 (its the last extension installed by uQLx), and 
SCRXLIM is the first user one at 162.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] New Tools for Microdrive preservation

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, at 12:40 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-binaries/tree/master/cores/ql
> 
> and
> 
> The "QL Software Collection" has been moved to archive.org
> 
> Greetings from Switzerland
> 
>   Markus

Nice to see the MiST core stuff get some love too!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Mister core

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 5:34 PM, Michael Grunditz via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have problems with the Ql core for mister.
> 
> With minerva rom i get this screen:
> 
> http://www.update.uu.se/~micken/qlcore.jpg
> 
> With js rom I get a white screen.
> 
> Osd menus works in both cases.
> 
> I might have a bug in the fpga,  but not sure if it is that .
> 
> The "official" core works just fine.
> 

That’s a ram error, the hex is the address afaik.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 2.29

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 18:04 +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Thanks again. I reloaded the re-upped version.
> > 
> > But under W$7 with most recent Java 8.251 (updated today) nothing
> > happens, not even the black screen or an error message.
> 
> 
> Strange. Just to be sure, I downloaded the file and used it under
> win7
> in a VM where it runs OK with java 8.
> 
> 
> > Under an old Lubuntu and likely an old Java8 it will start.
> > Also under W$10 with Java 8.241 there seems to be no problem.
> 
> Using a commad line,
> 
> java --version
> 
> will tell you what java you're running .
> 

Not in v8, that needs java -showversion

Graeme


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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 2.28

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, at 11:22 PM, Kjartan via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The scanner behaves as a keyboard, ascii only.
> Result from a Samsung hd: S13PJ1LS710098
> 
> It works fine in uqlx.
> 

uQlx makes no attempt to emulate a keyboard. It just directly fills the QDOS 
input buffers.

Graeme

> Kjartan
> 
> 
> On 2020-02-29 18:44, Wolf via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The scanner emulates a keyboard?
> > 
> > Does it input anything other than normal keystrokes (i.e. no shift,
> > ctrl, alt, no home/end etc, cursor keys etc?)
> > 
> > Wolfgang
> > 
> > Le 29/02/2020 à 11:41, Kjartan Geble Olsen via Ql-Users a écrit :
> >> Would it be possible to speed up the keyboard handling?
> >> It fails to correctly read a barcode scanner.
> >> Random characters lost on each scan.
> >> 
> >> Kjartan
> >> 
> >> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:34:02 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users 
> >>  wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> SMSQmulator 2.28 is out now.
> >>> 
> >>> (www.wlenerz.com/smsqmulator)
> >>> 
> >>> Have fun!
> >>> 
> >>> Wolfgang
> >>> 
> >>> NB Sorry if this gets double-posted, I haven't had a return yet...
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Re: [Ql-Users] UQLX

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, at 11:07 AM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> hello
> 
> there is a annoying bug in the screen handling with UQLX 2018(a)
> it only manifests if zoom is to 2 eg ./qm -z 2
> 
> when using pointer programs like QPC2 Files and QD
> the cursor jumps to the middle of the upper left corner
> 
> the versions 2012 and 2017 are ok
> but the sources of 2017 are no longer on github
> 
> any solutions ?
> 
No sources have been removed from github, you just need to roll back!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] UQLX and QD

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 8:04 PM, Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 1:12 PM, Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 12:31 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> > > get the sd_demo.win from marcel
> > > 
> > > edit the .uqlxrc
> > > 
> > > start uqlx(qm,qx,qm_x86-32)  -b "lrun win1_boot"
> > > press space
> > > ex qd;"win1_boot"
> > > move the cursor
> > > move the mouse outside the QD window
> > > try to get back to QD
> > > 
> > > the same procedure
> > > with no zoom   eg -z 0 or 1
> > > works ok
> > > 
> > > i have tried QD A,07,B.02,B.04,B,05
> > > outline set or not
> > > 
> > > greetings and a happy new year
> > > 
> > > from Switzerland
> > > 
> > Probably I missed a divide by zoom factor somewhere in the code!
> > 
> Does this by any chance fix it?
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/f43e1aefylx1z1r/qm.zip?dl=0
> 
> 64bit qm version.
> 
Actually no that wont do anything different, wrong bit of code :-(

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] UQLX and QD

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 1:12 PM, Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 12:31 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> > get the sd_demo.win from marcel
> > 
> > edit the .uqlxrc
> > 
> > start uqlx(qm,qx,qm_x86-32)  -b "lrun win1_boot"
> > press space
> > ex qd;"win1_boot"
> > move the cursor
> > move the mouse outside the QD window
> > try to get back to QD
> > 
> > the same procedure
> > with no zoom   eg -z 0 or 1
> > works ok
> > 
> > i have tried QD A,07,B.02,B.04,B,05
> > outline set or not
> > 
> > greetings and a happy new year
> > 
> > from Switzerland
> > 
> Probably I missed a divide by zoom factor somewhere in the code!
> 
Does this by any chance fix it?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f43e1aefylx1z1r/qm.zip?dl=0

64bit qm version.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] UQLX and QD

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, at 12:31 PM, desin via Ql-Users wrote:
> get the sd_demo.win from marcel
> 
> edit the .uqlxrc
> 
> start uqlx(qm,qx,qm_x86-32)  -b "lrun win1_boot"
> press space
> ex qd;"win1_boot"
> move the cursor
> move the mouse outside the QD window
> try to get back to QD
> 
> the same procedure
> with no zoom   eg -z 0 or 1
> works ok
> 
> i have tried QD A,07,B.02,B.04,B,05
> outline set or not
> 
> greetings and a happy new year
> 
> from Switzerland
> 
Probably I missed a divide by zoom factor somewhere in the code!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC 2 on Linux

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

Pretty sure from my previous issues with this its a GFX driver issue on Linux 
rather than a wine issue.

But I cannot now remember which combos work and which do not.

Also make sure your desktop is not in Wayland mode as that is utterly broken :-(

Graeme

On Thu, 27 Dec 2018, at 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I must have missed something regarding QPC under wine.
> 
> Here it works as expected (wine --version gives wine-3.7).
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> > QPC 2 works here on wine-3.0.4(stable) and wine-4.0-rc2(staging)
> > 
> > I'm on Kanotix Steelfire
> > Debian Linux 4.9.0-8 (NVIDIA) and 4.19.0-3 (INTEL)
> > 
> > you can get it here
> > 
> > http://nightly.kanotix.acritox.com/latest/
> > 
> > it comes in LXDE and KDE flavours
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings from Switzerland
> > 
> >      Markus
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD news

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, at 10:42 PM, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote:
> A Lattice JTAG programmer is all.
> 
I have a couple of FTDI JTAG doodats, but no specific Lattice one.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD news

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, at 10:29 PM, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote:
> Speaking of only announcing stuff that basically already works, I have
> made huge progress regarding my work on QL-SD that I was going to
> write about today anyway:
> 
> https://www.kilgus.net/2018/03/29/ql-sd-news/
> 
> Hope this is interesting to you all.
> 
What is required to flash the CPLD (just in case I already have the widgets 
here).

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] R: Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or v1.89?

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, at 10:33 PM, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote:
> Would it be possible to send me a copy of this full repaired 64K ROM image
> by email, for testing? I will not distribute it. I'm trying to solve a
> qlnet issue and this might get me on the way...
> 
Time to start a github project for Minerva so we can collect all the fixes?

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] New hardware announcement...

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

He did, you were a few hours late 

G

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, at 2:53 PM, Martyn Hill via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi Dave
> 
> ...and, did you? I was late joining the online Chat, so might have 
> missed it :-(
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> On 20/02/2018 21:45, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'll be making a new hardware announcement this Saturday 24th at 8pm UK
> > time.
> >
> > To join in, see the videos/photos and ask questions, join us on the QL
> > Forum chatroom at 8pm.
> >
> > This new piece of hardware is not a small thing*, it is not a clone of
> > existing hardware but is completely new hardware for the BBQL.
> >
> > To get to the QL Forum chatroom, simply surf to qlforum.co.uk, then click
> > on "Online Chat" at the top of the page, choose a screen name, and click
> > join. Anything you type will be seen by everyone.
> >
> >
> > ​*ok, it IS a small thing. 100x63mm, but that includes a through-connector,
> > but it packs a punch for the size!
> >
> 
> -- 
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> and those who don't."
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD new driver

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

> I've already started putting together a clone using an Xilinx
> XC9572XL, which I have lying around. The Verilog file compiled from
> the get-go, I just had to remove the additional SS lines because of
> Pin restrictions in the small chip on my eval board. The long lines to
> the board might not exactly help, though... might take a while, but I
> will try to make a GoldCard compatible QL-SD one way or another, now
> that I have your release to base it on :-)
> 
Doesnt gold card have a parralell port?

That should be enough IO pins to connect an SD card which just needs SPI.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD new driver

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, at 9:41 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've released a new driver for QL-SD that uses standard qxl.win drives
> instead of Qubide ones.
> 
> It's for Minerva only, though.
> 
> You can download it from www.wlenerz.com/QLSD
> 
And the next trick make qubide do the same :-D

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL ROM versions

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, at 9:57 AM, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:
> before the sale to Amstrad. It includes the copyright message 'Copyright 
> 1985 Sirius Cybernetics' (whoever they were).

http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation

So Im guessing it was a joke!

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Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 166, Issue 16

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, at 9:07 AM, Paolo Del Bene via Ql-Users wrote:
> Have you ever thinked to port GNU/linux on the QL Sinclair?
> 
> Here the list of those GNU/linux distributions 100% Free Software
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
> 
> Awaiting for your reply as soon as possible
> 
Been done.

http://linux-q40.sourceforge.net/

Wont work on BBQL though, needs a bit more meat than that!

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Copying large files

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, at 09:10 AM, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > NB there is another 65536 limit in the filesystem, that of the number of
> > clusters a qxl.win drive may have
> >
> 
> so, the maximun size of a win file is?
> 
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum online chat

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, 15 May 2017, at 11:28 AM, pg...@q40.de wrote:
> On 15 May 2017 at 11:06, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 May 2017, at 11:01 AM, pg...@q40.de wrote:
> > > On 15 May 2017 at 10:34, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 15 May 2017, at 10:21 AM, Jan Bredenbeek wrote:
> > > > > On 13 May 2017 at 21:18, Dilwyn Jones <dilwy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > This is unplanned and short notice, sorry, seven of us are already 
> > > > > > on
> > > > > > Online chat tonight (now) if anyone else would like to join in!
> > > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > Didn't miss it, but your mail ended up in my spam box (which happens 
> > > > > with
> > > > > more of your mails). Are you sending mail with a Yahoo-address from 
> > > > > Yahoo
> > > > > itself or through your own server?
> > > > > 
> > > > That won t make any difference once its been process by mailing list.
> > > 
> > > That's not sure, because the yahoo address remains in the "From" 
> > > field of the email header, which the spam filter might process.
> > > 
> > Yes, but it makes no difference if that was faked in original mail or
> > not once the mailing list has accepted it ;-)
> 
> If I understood correctly, it ended in a local spambox, after going 
> through the list server. For which the preservation of the "From" 
> flied is a possible explanation.
> 
And to answer original question, the headers are intact and show it
passing through yahoo.com SMTP server so its route matches its From:
address.

If you look at the headers your spam filter should tell you why it
selected an email as spam.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum online chat

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, 15 May 2017, at 11:01 AM, pg...@q40.de wrote:
> On 15 May 2017 at 10:34, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 May 2017, at 10:21 AM, Jan Bredenbeek wrote:
> > > On 13 May 2017 at 21:18, Dilwyn Jones <dilwy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This is unplanned and short notice, sorry, seven of us are already on
> > > > Online chat tonight (now) if anyone else would like to join in!
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Didn't miss it, but your mail ended up in my spam box (which happens with
> > > more of your mails). Are you sending mail with a Yahoo-address from Yahoo
> > > itself or through your own server?
> > > 
> > That won t make any difference once its been process by mailing list.
> 
> That's not sure, because the yahoo address remains in the "From" 
> field of the email header, which the spam filter might process.
> 
Yes, but it makes no difference if that was faked in original mail or
not once the mailing list has accepted it ;-)

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Stella

[Graeme Gregory]

Well at least she was reassuringly expensive.

Graeme

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, at 10:15 AM, Darren Branagh wrote:
> No idea but I do remember Roy Wood's joke about it sounding more like
> the name of a dodgy barmaid than an operating system... :-)
> 
> Darren Branagh
> 
> Sent from My Android Phone.
> 
> On 15 Mar 2017 23:31, "Dave Park"  wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know what happened with Stella?
> 
> I originally heard about it in the late 90's, I recall. I did some
> googling
> and all I can find is an archived page by Thierry Godefroy.
> 
> Is it still a thing?
> 
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL/E v3.16 (Codename "Snow white swan", Edition 1702) is out now!

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, at 09:11 AM, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
> As you said, for "back to the QL" or "new to the QL" users, QL/E is a
> quick
> and easy start. Zero installation, zero configuration, just download the
> ZIP
> file, unzip it to your desired storage location and start the QL VM of
> your
> choice. Not only the wide choice of prepared VMs, also the huge amount of
> preinstalled software and the possibility to build/make SMSQ/E are so
> much
> time-saving for beginners and even experts.
> 

I use it mainly for testing sQLux, it saved me a lot of time working out
how to setup pointer environment and stuff when I re-did mouse handling
in SDL2. Also the benchmarking tool to check I didn't massively affect
performance.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] German Minerva ROM

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, at 12:49 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I create a German version of the Minerva ROM, in case anybody is
> interested:
> 
> https://www.kilgus.net/2017/03/05/german-minerva-rom/
> 
> I also briefly discuss a cheap EEPROM programmer that I ordered from
> China. Suffice to say, I'm very satisfied.
> 
> Cheers, Marcel
> 
Nice, using in German might force me to improve my knowledge :-)

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] uQLx 2017

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, at 09:29 PM, Derek Stewart wrote:
> On 21/02/17 17:18, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, at 04:16 PM, Derek Stewart wrote:
> >> On 21/02/17 15:38, Derek Stewart wrote:
> >>> On 21/02/17 15:23, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, at 03:09 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> >>>>>>> A newly revised version of the Linux QL emulator uQLx (uQLx 2017)
> >>>>>>> is now
> >>>>>>> available.
> >>>>>> Great news!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is it only me or is the 32-bit binary qm_x86-32 missing in the ZIP
> >>>>>> file?
> >>>>> Tim? Graeme? Help...
> >>>>>
> >>>> Grudammit I did not spot that!
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess Tim will re-issue when he awakens!
> >>>>
> >>>> Graeme
> >>>> ___
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> >>>>
> >>> Hi Graeme,
> >>>
> >>> I have compiled UQLX 2017 on a Mint 18.1 Linux box, all work great,
> >>> except, I do not get the QDOS or Minerva startup screen asking for F1 or
> >>> F2 in QDOS or F1,F2,F3,F4 in Minerva.
> >>>
> >>> I do not like the red screen that starts up can did this be disabled.
> >>>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just realised that the UQLX 2017 startup screen is MDV1_BOOT
> >>
> >> But How do I enable the Minerva F1-F4 Prompt, to enable the second?
> >>
> > Comment out AUTO_BOOT from boot.h and rebuild.
> >
> > I left the default as I found it.
> >
> > Graeme
> >
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> >
> 
> Hi Graeme,
> 
> I commented the AUTO_BOOT and the BOOT_SELECT Q_F1 option out and 
> recompiled.
> 
> UQLX booted up the correct Minerva Screen, but when I selected F3 for 
> the Second Screen no cursor in Channel #0. Using F4, no Cursor and a 
> little screen corruption.
> 
> Can the AUTO_BOOT be a command line option or defined in the config file.
> 
Anything is possible, feel free to send a pull request with the patches
:-)

Ill probably not look into it in the short term as I have some other
more major plans.

Graeme
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[Ql-Users] SMSQulator8223 broken for FLoppy Images

[Graeme Gregory]

Trying to open the requester for floppy images results in the following
stack dump.

Something similar for WIN too, but that works if you open NFA/SFA selector
first and just close it again.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at smsqmulator.MonitorGui.setDeviceNames(MonitorGui.java:602)
at
smsqmulator.MonitorGui.setFlpNamesMenuItemActionPerformed(MonitorGui.java:57
5) at smsqmulator.MonitorGui.access$3300(MonitorGui.java:65)
at smsqmulator.MonitorGui$32.actionPerformed(MonitorGui.java:2217)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java: 2022)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton
$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:4
02) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:
259)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:376)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:833)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI
$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:877)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6533)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6298)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2236)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2294)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:
4888)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:
4525)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4466)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2280) at
java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain
$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain
$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain
$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java
: 201)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:11
6) at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java
: 105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:
101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:
93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

java version "1.8.0_121"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

On Linux

Thanks

Graeme


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Re: [Ql-Users] uQLx 2017

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, at 04:16 PM, Derek Stewart wrote:
> On 21/02/17 15:38, Derek Stewart wrote:
> > On 21/02/17 15:23, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, at 03:09 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> >>>>> A newly revised version of the Linux QL emulator uQLx (uQLx 2017)
> >>>>> is now
> >>>>> available.
> >>>> Great news!
> >>>>
> >>>> Is it only me or is the 32-bit binary qm_x86-32 missing in the ZIP
> >>>> file?
> >>> Tim? Graeme? Help...
> >>>
> >> Grudammit I did not spot that!
> >>
> >> I guess Tim will re-issue when he awakens!
> >>
> >> Graeme
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> >>
> > Hi Graeme,
> >
> > I have compiled UQLX 2017 on a Mint 18.1 Linux box, all work great,
> > except, I do not get the QDOS or Minerva startup screen asking for F1 or
> > F2 in QDOS or F1,F2,F3,F4 in Minerva.
> >
> > I do not like the red screen that starts up can did this be disabled.
> >
> Hi,
> 
> I have just realised that the UQLX 2017 startup screen is MDV1_BOOT
> 
> But How do I enable the Minerva F1-F4 Prompt, to enable the second?
> 
Comment out AUTO_BOOT from boot.h and rebuild.

I left the default as I found it.

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] Future of the QL Wiki

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:55 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> On 10/02/2017 10:49, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:25 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> >> Taking account of my ongoing health issues, I have been considering what
> >> would be best for the QL Wiki and other community projects which I
> >> currently run (such as the Z88 forums, the ZX80/ZX81 forums and the
> >> Sinclair QL GitHub).
> >>
> >> Looking at what happened with World of Spectrum when Marjin was unable
> >> to continue with the site, it is important to consider the long term
> >> viability and what should happen if I (for example) were to walk under a
> >> bus tomorrow. My health issues also mean that I no longer have the time
> >> or energy to continue in the way that I have been.
> >>
> >> My family would not really know what to do with the forums - and would
> >> not continue to pay for the hosting. There is also not really anyone
> >> else involved in the administration of the site. I also think that the
> >> QL Wiki is itself a barrier to people being involved, as there are
> >> certain people out there who cannot see beyond the fact that it was set
> >> up by me initially and is hosted on my server - so seem to think that it
> >> is my duty to update it!
> >>
> >> After deliberation, I think the answer is to set up a non-profit
> >> organisation (Sinclair World ?) which could then own these resources and
> >> be responsible for their maintenance, improvement and upkeep. It would
> >> take some fund raising to set up the organisation, as well as willing
> >> hands to set everything up and create the necessary constitution,
> >> book-keeping etc to keep it viable.
> >>
> >> What do others think - and who are the willing hands?
> >>
> > I wonder if we could get van/rob interested in this as part of qlforum
> > activities.
> >
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> I think it is probably more a case that the non-profit organisation 
> would take over the QL Forum too - and maybe Van / Rob would be 
> interested in helping to run the organisation...
> 
> I did think about Quanta (of course), but they don't have enough willing 
> hands to help with their website and their membership model is too 
> restrictive
> 
What is the overhead on setup and maintenance of an NFP in UK? My only
experience is in Germany where it was a bit of a bawache to setup. But
once setup was basically just a yearly form.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Future of the QL Wiki

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:25 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> Taking account of my ongoing health issues, I have been considering what 
> would be best for the QL Wiki and other community projects which I 
> currently run (such as the Z88 forums, the ZX80/ZX81 forums and the 
> Sinclair QL GitHub).
> 
> Looking at what happened with World of Spectrum when Marjin was unable 
> to continue with the site, it is important to consider the long term 
> viability and what should happen if I (for example) were to walk under a 
> bus tomorrow. My health issues also mean that I no longer have the time 
> or energy to continue in the way that I have been.
> 
> My family would not really know what to do with the forums - and would 
> not continue to pay for the hosting. There is also not really anyone 
> else involved in the administration of the site. I also think that the 
> QL Wiki is itself a barrier to people being involved, as there are 
> certain people out there who cannot see beyond the fact that it was set 
> up by me initially and is hosted on my server - so seem to think that it 
> is my duty to update it!
> 
> After deliberation, I think the answer is to set up a non-profit 
> organisation (Sinclair World ?) which could then own these resources and 
> be responsible for their maintenance, improvement and upkeep. It would 
> take some fund raising to set up the organisation, as well as willing 
> hands to set everything up and create the necessary constitution, 
> book-keeping etc to keep it viable.
> 
> What do others think - and who are the willing hands?
> 
I wonder if we could get van/rob interested in this as part of qlforum
activities.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 156, Issue 4

[Graeme Gregory]

It happens pretty much every night ;-)

A group of us are around most nights!

Graeme

On Tue, 7 Feb 2017, at 04:37 PM, John Alexander wrote:
> To be honest that could do with a bit of SPAMming so people know its
> happening 
> Say a week before leave it a day or two then once a day  until the
> date.Yes that means you have 5-6 emails but it aint a biggie really.I
> found it improved attendance at our Linux User Group tremendously
> ...People are naturally lazy and often very busy with all the other tat
> that sweeps thrrough their email box !
> I'll have to join in sometime, the last time I tried I found the mail
> just as every one had left ...case in point I feel
> Keep it up .. John A
> 
>   From: Colin McKay 
>  To: ql-users  
>  Sent: Sunday, 5 February 2017, 11:14
>  Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 156, Issue 4
>
> Dilwyn,
> 
> Hmm! Saturday night is TV night. Besides that wouldn't an earlier notice
> be more
> fruitful. We don't all live by the laptop. Not that I'd have much to
> contribute
> in any case.
> 
> Colin McKay
> 
> > 
> >    On 04 February 2017 at 20:07 ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
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> >    Message: 1
> >    Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 13:44:08 -
> >    From: "Dilwyn Jones" 
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> >    Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Forum Online Chat
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> >    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > 
> >    If anyone would like to join us on the QL Forum Online Chat tonight,
> > please join us at about 8pm UK/UTC time.
> > 
> >    The easiest way is to just visit qlforum.co.uk and click on the Online
> > Chat link near the top of the page. A small box will appear to ask for the
> > name you?d like to use ? just type in the name and click on CONNECT. You 
> > don?t
> > even have to be logged in to QL Forum.
> > 
> >    Dilwyn Jones
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Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, at 05:47 AM, Daniele Terdina wrote:
> > Not sure how you come to that conclusion, I used to work on Java and it
> > goes through a stringent security process.
> 
> AFAIK Flash used to be the most vulnerable software (when also taking
> user base into account), but since it lost favor Java has been the top or
> one of the top for a long time.
> See for example:
> http://www.csoonline.com/article/2875535/application-security/java-is-the-biggest-vulnerability-for-us-computers.html
> 
> [http://core5.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/11/maria-trombly-headshot-closeup-100532712-byline.jpg]
> 
> Java is the biggest vulnerability for US computers | CSO
> ...
> www.csoonline.com
> Java is the biggest vulnerability for US computers Oracle's Java poses
> the single biggest security risk to US desktops, says a new report
> 

If you actually read the article thats because of the huge attack
surface of old unpatched java installations in the world. It is afterall
written by a company selling their auto patching software. Thats like
saying QDOS is really aweful because of a bug you found in the AH ROM
that was subsequently fixed.

If you notice the JAVA NPAPI plugin is pretty much dead now, modern
browsers won't even allow you to load it.

Unfortunately the one thing we have never managed to work out a fix for
in the industry is the wetware that exists between the chair and the
keyboard :-(

But the biggest threat at the end of 2016 was most certainly IoT
devices, at least two massive botnets were formed from them and those
bloody things never get patched.

Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, at 06:08 PM, jms1 wrote:
> Well that is an interesting point.
> 
> How safe is the virtual QL machine?
> .
> I would have thought not a SQmulator as it runs in java and java is not
> particularly safe.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion, I used to work on Java and it
goes through a stringent security process.

> Can Marcel answer for QPC1 or 2?
> 
> How about  Virtual Box running another OS.
> 
> It is suggested any virtual machine is safe and is the method used for
> testing new versions of an OS on its own operating system.
> 
> As Spies are hacking into machines can we produce a safe OS?
> George Gwilt says it was proved no a long time ago.
> 
> It would be nice to know more.
> 
So the main thing is the attacker would have to know you were using a QL
emulator to even start the attack. I know security by obscurity is not a
good thing. But the QL was pretty obscure even back in the day.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, at 01:42 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Norman Dunbar wrote:
> > It seems that from time to time your emails appear to be blank
> > replies. I've had a couple recently. Are you aware of this?
> 
> I guess John's web-mailer generates HTML replies with a text
> attachment that does NOT include his answer. Then the list strips the
> HTML part of the mail...
> 
Only 15+ years of HTML email and still web "developers" cant get it
right :-(

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Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personalSoftware PreservationProject

[Graeme Gregory]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, at 05:19 PM, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
> Simply ask Fred Toussi, why he do not explain the programming of a T87
> printer driver and the way, he saves documents.
> 
> And be careful about the sun!
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Norman Dunbar"
> 
> > Rich's original manual,  in Text87 I think, is a prime example - we can't
> > get a printer driver or extractor created to properly convert the text to
> > legal html, or to extract the text somehow, while preserving or matting,
> > or indicators of same. I tried, years ago with blank files,  then some
> > with plain text etc etc to decode the files.  I failed.
> 

For those of us who are unfamiliar with T87, is there some (short)
example document and the ASCII of the text contained?

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Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016, at 10:46 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Hi Derek,
> 
> QT source code is available for download,  so porting could be done.
> However, it's written in C++ as opposed to plain C, so we would need to
> port gcc or g++ first.
> 
> I suspect it's a non starter.
> 
It also needs a few hundred megs of RAM to compile!

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Re: [Ql-Users] WIN drive gone missing

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, at 10:59 AM, Bob Spelten wrote:
> Op Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:23:27 +0100 schreef Derek Stewart :
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This sounds like a Windows Feature or bug?
> >
> W$ is often very busy in the background, not clear to me what with.
> Recently I have noticed sometimes a delay when opening Files before the  
> list is produced.
> Is that W$ putting QPC2 on hold? Who knows.
> 
Thats not a great mystery, the virus checker is hooked into the open
file action!

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Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, at 02:53 PM, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >>
> > If SMSQlmulator can access files on the host then map /sys/class/gpio
> > into a place where it can access then all GPIOs can be controlled from
> > simple file read/writes to files in that directory.
> > 
> > Graeme
> > __
> 
> 
> If this is so (I don't have a Pi), pointing, say  NFA8_ to that
> directory ought to be enough. You probably want to make sure that "NFA
> file name change" is switched off.
> 
> I just tried this with /sys/class/firmware/ and was able to read the
> "files" in that directory.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
Basically you write XXX to /sys/class/gpio/export where XXX is the
number of the gpio you need to control.

A new directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio_XXX will appear. Inside that you
will find files to set/read state.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, at 09:32 AM, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
> Shameless advertising:
> 
> uqlx on the RPi is not quite as colorful as SMSQMulator, but should be
> able to access the GPIO by way of executing a native Linux Program and
> talking to it through its pty_ interface.
> 
Or again just by mapping /sys/class/gpio/ into a location it can use as
a drive then dealing direct with GPIOs there :-)

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Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, at 09:12 AM, Derek Stewart wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I have SMSQmualtor running OK on a Raspberry PI2, I am wondering how to 
> access the GPIO port from SBASIC, as one of the best features of the 
> Raspberry PI is the ease of I/O access form simple programming languages 
> like Python.
> 
If SMSQlmulator can access files on the host then map /sys/class/gpio
into a place where it can access then all GPIOs can be controlled from
simple file read/writes to files in that directory.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

[Graeme Gregory]

Hi Ian,

'ls -l' to show detailed listing will show who owns files.

Just because it is in your directory doesn't mean you own it, you could
have accidentally done something like 'sudo unzip smsqemulator.zip'

There is nothing in SMSQmulator or java that requires root to run so
something is wrong.

Graeme

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, at 10:44 AM, Ian Burkinshaw wrote:
> Hi Graeme
> 
> I assume it is against my log-in since I can see it in the File Manager.
> 
> Ian
> 
> - Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graeme Gregory" <gra...@xora.org.uk>
> To: <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry
> Pi
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On 17/02/2016 10:29, Ian Burkinshaw wrote:
> >> So the trouble was I needed to start it as a super user (sudo)
> > 
> > I really hope thats not true as it goes totally against the reason for 
> > user accounts :-)
> > 
> > Make sure the jar file is owned by your logged in user.
> > 
> > Graeme
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Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

[Graeme Gregory]

On 17/02/2016 10:29, Ian Burkinshaw wrote:

So the trouble was I needed to start it as a super user (sudo)


I really hope thats not true as it goes totally against the reason for 
user accounts :-)


Make sure the jar file is owned by your logged in user.

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, at 03:40 PM, Wolf wrote:
> >
> > Thank you. It's in the non-free component of the Raspbian repositories.
> > I just installed it, and SMSQmulator runs remarkably faster.  I tested
> > the BogoMIPS (Raspberry Pi 2):
> >
> > SMSQmulator 7216:
> >
> >5.50, 5.57, 5.53, 5.14, 5.58...
> >
> > SMSQmulator 8216:
> >
> >5.62, 5.62, 5.56, 5.06, 5.64...
> 
> 
> I wouldn't have thought this it would make such a big difference.
> I regularly test and also run SMSQmulator under openjdk as well, and 
> their speeds are as near as makes no difference, but this is on PCs, not 
> on a raspi.
> 
openjdk/oraclejdk8 for armv7 got a new JIT written by some of the guys I
work with.

It was a substantial optimization. I do not know if it works for armv6
which is original Pi.

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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, at 06:34 PM, Marcos Cruz wrote:
> En/Je/On 2016-02-07 16:40, Wolf escribió / skribis / wrote :
> 
> > >SMSQmulator 8216:
> > >
> > >   5.62, 5.62, 5.56, 5.06, 5.64...
> 
> > I wouldn't have thought this it would make such a big difference.
> 
> Me neither.  It seems Oracle Java 8 is 200% faster than openjdk 7 on
> Raspberry Pi.
> 
> > I regularly test and also run SMSQmulator under openjdk as well, and
> > their speeds are as near as makes no difference, but this is on PCs,
> > not on a raspi.
> 
> It seems Oracle developed a specific implementation for ARM on Raspi,
> and they did a good job.
> 
It wasn't Oracle ;-) They pulled it in from openjdk, it was done be some
ARM specialists!

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, at 12:07 PM, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> Norman,
> 
> to my knowledge, none of the available PC emulators except QPC2 support
> CPUs >68000. QDos on Amiga possibly can, but that would be a different
> story.
> 
The kickstart replacement version for Amiga requires CPU 68020+

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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, at 05:25 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> > Yes, there is lots to hate in any OS, I know Mac users who whine about 
> > this and that never working, updates that break things and those damned U2 
> > albums that appear every 5 minutes like a virus! I know Linux users who 
> > whine about other stuff. I have been known to shout at QDOS myself from 
> > time to time!
> >
> > :-)
> Careful, Norman, you might just tempt me to Linux at this rate.
> 
> You know the damage I've done to Windows... you wouldn't want to inflict
> me 
> on the Linux community would you :o)
> 
> I've tried upgrading 3 separate Windows 7 machines to Windows 10 now. In
> all 
> cases, despite passing the compatibility tests, none would work after the 
> upgrade, and in each case the rollback to Windows 7 failed too, in each
> case 
> necessitating a full reformat and reinstallation of Windows 7. After 
> reinstalling Windows 7 on one of them, I tried the update again thinking 
> that as it was a clean machine it should work. Oh no it didn't.
> 
> No wonder Windows 10 upgrade is "free" - nobody in their right minds
> would 
> buy it as an upgrade.
> 
And yet I am now upto machine 7 upgraded without an issue.

Who made your machines out of interest?

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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, at 06:25 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Packard Bell (desktop), Zoostorm (netbook),

This unfortunately explains your failure :-(

Friends don't let friends buy either of these manufacturers :-(

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxltool and qltols

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, at 04:51 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 09/10/15 16:47, David Gilham wrote:
> > Thanks Norman You have also given a hint fo qxltools.
> > I am using Gcc v 4.8.4 on my box and will ateempt to modify qxltools unless
> > someone else has done so already.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I've not made any changes to the qxltools on the grounds that I don't, 
> probably, have the most recent source. If someone does have an updated 
> version, we should/could/must put it on github as well, I suppose, to be 
> sure that we all sing from the same source code!
> 
Same here and I also have no QXL.win files to play with!

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxltool and qltols

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, at 11:43 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 09/10/15 09:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> > On 08/10/15 19:07, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >
> >> Fixed qltools is here
> >>
> >> https://github.com/slimlogic/qltools
> >
> > Thanks Graeme, I've been looking for a decent version of qltools for
> > some time to use on Linux.
> >
> 
> Given that I had a bit of time this morning while the alarm man was here 
> to service our alarm, I had a look at the code and I've updated it to 
> compile without warnings on Linux - well, 64 bit anyway.
> 
> I've forked Graeme's Git repository and made the changes there. I've 
> created a pull request to have the changes merged back into Graeme's 
> repo at his leisure.
> 
> If you want or need the new version, it's available at:
> 
> https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools.git
> 
> or, you can get the latest source as a zip file from:
> 
> https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools/archive/master.zip
> 
I have replied to your pull request through github. Some some small
comments.

Addressing one of your other comments on github publically here you can
use linux to generate the windows version (as I did for dilwyns page)
using the mingw compiler. You should find it packaged on most modern
linux systems. Its far easier than trying to make the code compile in
Visual Studio.

make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxltool and qltols

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, at 01:29 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 09/10/15 12:39, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> >
> > I have replied to your pull request through github. Some some small
> > comments.
> >
> Ok, they are fixed now, I'll sort out another pull request.
> 
> > Addressing one of your other comments on github publically here you can
> > use linux to generate the windows version (as I did for dilwyns page)
> > using the mingw compiler. You should find it packaged on most modern
> > linux systems. Its far easier than trying to make the code compile in
> > Visual Studio.
> >
> > make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
> 
> Well, that opened another can of worms! It seems that under Windows 
> getch() is deprecated and "this API cannot be used in the Windows 
> environment" - use _getch() instead. Either that, or, they need to 
> #include  to avoid the following:
> 
> ../qltools.c: In function ‘writefile’:
> ../qltools.c:1330:7: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getch’ 
> [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> OWopt = getch ();
> 
> 
> Linux is happy enough without conio, which is just as well as it's not 
> there in Unix anyway!
> 
> For Windows we need either the #include or just a simple int getch() 
> forward declaration somewhere. I'm not sure what is #defined in Windows 
> these days, so I've left that well alone for now.
> 
> Also, using the mingw compiler, it seems that now dev is flagged as 
> unused. Sigh!
> 
> ../qltools.c:1845:14: warning: unused variable ‘dev’ [-Wunused-variable]
>   char *pd,dev[64];
> 
> However, as it is used within a couple of #ifdefs relating to __NT__ and 
> __linux__ I suspect it's because I'm effectively cross compiling. It 
> should (!) be ok on Windows itself.
> 
I just noticed that issue, I don't think that occurred with an old mingw
so I think the __NT__ define has changed. Ill look into it later today.

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxltool and qltols

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, at 01:35 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, at 01:29 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> > On 09/10/15 12:39, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > >
> > > I have replied to your pull request through github. Some some small
> > > comments.
> > >
> > Ok, they are fixed now, I'll sort out another pull request.
> > 
> > > Addressing one of your other comments on github publically here you can
> > > use linux to generate the windows version (as I did for dilwyns page)
> > > using the mingw compiler. You should find it packaged on most modern
> > > linux systems. Its far easier than trying to make the code compile in
> > > Visual Studio.
> > >
> > > make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
> > 
> > Well, that opened another can of worms! It seems that under Windows 
> > getch() is deprecated and "this API cannot be used in the Windows 
> > environment" - use _getch() instead. Either that, or, they need to 
> > #include  to avoid the following:
> > 
> > ../qltools.c: In function ‘writefile’:
> > ../qltools.c:1330:7: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getch’ 
> > [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > OWopt = getch ();
> > 
> > 
> > Linux is happy enough without conio, which is just as well as it's not 
> > there in Unix anyway!
> > 
> > For Windows we need either the #include or just a simple int getch() 
> > forward declaration somewhere. I'm not sure what is #defined in Windows 
> > these days, so I've left that well alone for now.
> > 
> > Also, using the mingw compiler, it seems that now dev is flagged as 
> > unused. Sigh!
> > 
> > ../qltools.c:1845:14: warning: unused variable ‘dev’ [-Wunused-variable]
> >   char *pd,dev[64];
> > 
> > However, as it is used within a couple of #ifdefs relating to __NT__ and 
> > __linux__ I suspect it's because I'm effectively cross compiling. It 
> > should (!) be ok on Windows itself.
> > 
> I just noticed that issue, I don't think that occurred with an old mingw
> so I think the __NT__ define has changed. Ill look into it later today.
> 
Hi Norman,

Should be fixed now, have tested the resulting .exe on windows and it
seems to work.

Was just missing a couple of #if defined(__MINGW32__)

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxltool and qltols

[Graeme Gregory]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, at 07:03 PM, David Gilham wrote:
> It would seem that the versions of the above in the Distribution archive
> though the compile with warnings under linex on a ^4 bit amd platform
> they do not seem to function properly. I am trying them on 64 bit Linux
> on an IBM Thinkpad. Has anyone else either fixed them or has pointers
> to how to fix them.
> 
Fixed qltools is here

https://github.com/slimlogic/qltools

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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

[Graeme Gregory]

Hi Peter,

Hit the Windows button and type *.win and windows should show you all
locations of .win files.

Graeme

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, at 10:20 AM, peterfox wrote:
 Hi Marcel,
 
 I have looked on both D and E: and cannot find anything but thank you 
 for the warning. I this a case of the file being called something else?
 
 can you help me on the other matter of increasing the size of QXL.win 
 partitions, please?
 
 TIA  Regards,
 
 Peter
 
 On 17.07.2015 10:06, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
  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 C:\ are obviously not the ones you're actually working
  with.
 
  Marcel
 
 
  PeterFox wrote:
  Hi Marcel,
 
  The QXL files are on C:\ and are C:\QXL.win and C:\QXL2.win
 
  I hope that this the answer you need.
 
  TIA  Regards,
 
  Peter
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 134, Issue 16

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, 9 May 2015, at 08:40 PM, ql wrote:
 
  http://www.sinclairql.net/
  
  Oh Boy, Thought:  maybe make this a torrent so others who share, can aid in 
  the bandwidth load???
 
 Torrent is a bad idea because of the risk that old versions are being
 shared.
 Since the GA 4 weeks ago I released two updates. Latest release is from
 today. See:
 
 http://www.sinclairql.net/repository.html#TheDistribution
 

Torrent does have the advantage of incremental updates, you just point
new torrent file at old data dir and it will only transfer new/changed
files.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Graeme Gregory]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
 NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
 complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
 weekend missed bits during the week.
 

For backups I use CrashPlan, although its aimed at you paying them to
store your backups it actually supports backing up to another machine or
HD as well.

For me its been running invisibly in the background for almost a year.

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues

[Graeme Gregory]

Well your broadband would be not used if you don't backup to their
servers :-) machine-machine or machine-HD is also supported!

Graeme

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Anything that involves relying on broadband is an absolute and total no-no
 round here. Trust me, you'd have to live here to know what it's like. You'd
 only have to listen to Rich explain about my experiences with our shared
 Dropbox to know that cloud services are best left untouched around here,
 despite the Welsh government spending millions (supposedly!) on trying to
 bring broadband speeds into line with England. I know we are not alone in
 this, rural areas in England often do no better than here, but I refuse
 totally to commit to anything that relies on our
 sometimes-slower-than-dialup or it doesn't work if more than one person in
 the same street uses it cr*p services.
 
 My son (who's in college) moved from a town centre to the outskirts recently
 and experienced a four-fold drop in quoted maximum broadband speed (which
 was already a bit pathetic originally as he lived close to his exchange)
 with no reduction in cost, the real speed drop seems to be subjectively much
 more than that. He relies on it for his online gaming and so on and moans a
 lot about how unusable it is now! (at least it works well enough for his
 college work I suppose).
 
 Dilwyn
 
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 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 4:41 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
 
 On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
 NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
 complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
 weekend missed bits during the week.
 
 
 For backups I use CrashPlan, although its aimed at you paying them to
 store your backups it actually supports backing up to another machine or
 HD as well.
 
 For me its been running invisibly in the background for almost a year.
 
 Graeme
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum online chat tonight

[Graeme Gregory]

We are actually already online.

irc.mibbit.net #qlforum

:-)

Graeme

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:26:18PM -0300, Alexandre Souza wrote:
 
Dilwyn, there are users outside of the usual locations of QL Forum
 users. Like me, as an example?
 
When it will be? GST time, please? :)
 
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 - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones
 dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
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 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:43 PM
 Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Forum online chat tonight
 
 
 I hope Peter (vanpeebles on QL Forum) doesn’t mind me copying this here –
 I thought it might be worth a try as I don’t know how many people get
 Forum messages regarding the Online Chat in time, without logging in and
 searching for them.
 
 Peter says that the online chat for QL Forum members will be manned from
 8pm tonight. He points out it’s the last one before the QL Is 30 show.
 
 To join in, all Forum members have to do is login to the forum, and click
 on the ‘Online Chat’ link. Usually there’s anythign from 3 to 6 of us at
 any one time, would be great if we had a load of people on tonight just
 before QL Is 30!
 
 Dilwyn
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Re: [Ql-Users] Anybody heard from Sandy Electronics (Dave Park)

[Graeme Gregory]

He is active in the qlforum chat.

Graeme


On 28 July 2014 19:20:13 Ian Burkinshaw ian.burkins...@btopenworld.com 
wrote:



Sorry to bring this up.

But placed an order with Sandy Electronics two months ago, I have not 
received the goods.


I have placed an order before, with no problems.

I have e-mailed Dave Park via two e-mail addresses, and no reply.

So I feel I need to warn others. This is the last thing I wanted to do.

However if I have missed something or something has happen to Dave then I 
am very sorry.


I guess I will have to write off £96

Ian Burkinshaw
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Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner

[Graeme Gregory]

That is 100% false.

Deep fried marsbars were advertised in chippies in Edinburgh in 1993
when I first went to Uni.

Graeme

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar - The dish is said
 to have been created in 1995 in the Haven Chip Bar (now the Carron)
 in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen on Scotland's northeast coast.
 
 Dilwyn
 
 -Original Message- From: Norman Dunbar
 Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:11 PM
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner
 
 Speaking as a Jock in exile, I can honestly say that I have never
 seen a deep fried Mars bar, in batter or otherwise,  anywhere but in
 the deepest darkest county of England.
 
 Further south from where I am, a deep fried Creme Egg is De rigeur. Yuk.
 
 DFMBS are available here in Leeds aplenty.
 
 Cheers,
 Norm.
 
 
 Sent from my phone - please excuse brevity and any obvious auto
 corrections that were just plain wrong!
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Re: [Ql-Users] Ghostscript

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:13:02PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 I have received a query from a user in Italy concerning viewing PDF files on 
 QL systems.
 
 AFAIK, Jonathan Hudson’s Ghostscript port is probably the only utility able 
 to do this, and probably only older PDF files.
 
 Anyone with experience of this so I can give some form of answer to help him?
 
Unlikely to ever happen at any form of decent speed, even on StrongARM
we had to have a highly optimised special fixed point version of PDF
library poppler to get anywhere near sane speed. Modern PDFs are all
heavy floating point users.

Graeme

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

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:29:23PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
 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 not exactly many.
 - IPv4 only with no way to upgrade if it is ever deemed necessary.
 
 All in all I'd say a real Ethernet chip would be much more
 future-proof... if you can get the software for it working.
 
Of course the W5300 is also a proper ethernet chip as well, linux has
a driver for it not using the internal stack!

G

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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.26

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 08:56:41AM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
 Hi,
 
  This release seems to be rather DOA :-(
  
  java -jar SMSQmulator.jar 
  Exception in thread Thread-1 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 
  65535
  at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.doExecute(MC68000Cpu.java:326)
  at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.executeContinuous(MC68000Cpu.java:274)
  at smsqmulator.MonitorGoThread.run(MonitorGoThread.java:114)
  
 
 Thanks.
 
 I've looked at that, and it could happen under some circumstances.
 
 I've made 1.26, it's out now, with some other bugfix.
 
 
That fixed it thanks!

Graeme

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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.25

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 05:26:28PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 SMSQmulator 1.25 is out.
 
 
 There are some bugfixes, so you should upgrade.
 
 Have fun.
 
This release seems to be rather DOA :-(

java -jar SMSQmulator.jar 
Exception in thread Thread-1 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 65535
at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.doExecute(MC68000Cpu.java:326)
at smsqmulator.MC68000Cpu.executeContinuous(MC68000Cpu.java:274)
at smsqmulator.MonitorGoThread.run(MonitorGoThread.java:114)

This is with openjdk-7

SMSQmulator7125.zip

no such issue with 1.24.

Graeme

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