On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
This is a different issue. If your non-commercial developers don't want
to work under the licence that is their problem, not yours. As a
One small point. If ANY developer, commercial, private or otherwise,
decides not to do work they might otherwise do
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
freely distributable sources). SMSQ/E is modular so adding an extra
commercial package to it would be easy. It is less hard to remove part
of it and that is something we have all discussed. The practicalities of
someone writing, say, a new file manager
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dave wrote:
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system (or if ntnu.no is still
filtering with SPEWS)
Ok,
I did a good working copy of a harridan (modelled on my wife) and
convinced the admin at ntnu.no to specifically allow my IP, so I can no
post to the list
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Mike MacNamara wrote:
One point you make is that the QL is now just a hobby machine,
why then all this fuss over a license for something people just
want to play with.?
Mike,
Some people are quite upset about this license, and some disagree with it
mildly, like me.
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Dave Walker wrote:
Coming back to the original source code license, there has been a lot of
discussion about only sending the source via physical media. I agree very
strongly with others comments that this seems a needless restriction. It
seems to add cost and
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Bill Waugh wrote:
Well I have to tell you guys if as much effort had gone into code as has
gone into nitpicking and general etimewasting then we would have the Space
Shuttle running on SMSQE by now ( just don't enter any very long planet
names though ).
I wouldn't
On Sun, 19 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a QPower regulator or two which were developed for the QL - £5 each
including postage if anyone is interested..
An alternative approach, when QPower upgrades are no longer available, is
to replace the 1A 7805 with a 1.5A 7805 voltage
Hi all,
Well, I now have some semblance of a platform to do programming on - a QXL
and SMSQ.
I'm looking to catch up with you people who never left, and this means
spending yet more cash on software! (So far, this venture has cost me a
small fortune, my wife is getting worried!)
I would
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Timothy Swenson wrote:
With all that said, I'm still a big fan of TURBO as it is FREEWARE. I'd
like to see some more elegant work-arounds to some of the issues, but I'll
take what I get. The combination of TURBO and TurboPTR is the only
freeware way to write PE
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, ZN wrote:
new?) I am telling you here, that when you fix the QubIDE, send it
directly to Dave so he can have it for his testing until he finishes the
project. Unless you and Dave already covered that aspect.
This is the first word about it that I've heared but that's
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
http://www.pc-extras.com/prods/adcgav.html
The connector shown does not convert the signal from CGA to VGA - it only
converts the conenctor from a CGA-style 9-pin socket to a VGA+-style
15-pin socket.
Sorry :o(
Dave
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dexter wrote:
The connector shown does not convert the signal from CGA to VGA - it only
converts the conenctor from a CGA-style 9-pin socket to a VGA+-style
15-pin socket.
Hehe, that'll teach me for replying as I go instead of reading all first
then replying
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
It is all explained in Keith Mitchell's hardware docs. Every other line
in the ribbon is an earth. By twisting lines 10 through 13 you are
swapping the drive 0 with the drive one signal with the earth line as a
pivot. Quite what the PC one does is not
I just got my Ql Today and since my name appears in it a few times *eek*
along with two separate pointers to the ql-chat list, I have fixed it ;)
It's working again, and properly too!
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with _in the body of the
message_
subscribe ql-chat
and follow the
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Yep but I said readers didn't I The specs of the readers I am selling
say up to 33 Mbps :-)
Well, yes and no.
The readers are passive, and some CF media support ATA-66, and while these
CF readers aren't designed for ATA-66, a new version of
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, ZN wrote:
Unless you two know something I
don't (like how to locally change the Planck constant, speed of light,
gravitational constant...) that's as fast as anything will currently go on
native QL hardware, give or take a few 10s ok K/s...
What?!?!?
You don't know how
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Dexter wrote:
I don't have a QL manual. Could some kind sole with 30 minutes to spare
please either scan the keymap or type it out, and email it to me?
Gnnn! I'm such a heel. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd kick myself!
Dave
(sole, geddit?)
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Will send you a printed copy tomorrow :-) Thank Timothy for that :-)
It really isn't necessary - 90% of it is webbed - it just didn't translate
very well from scanned sheets to text - and the keyrow table was
demolished.
I now have in my posession a
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Dexter wrote:
Correction:
Eg: (row 2, col 1), (row 3, col 1), (row 5, col *4*) are all vertical
lines. Now, which is left square bracket and which is right square
bracket?
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Hi Dave, Al and Phoebus,
Hi :o)
receiving all your mails about how to deal with the money didn't make it
better at all ;-))
So I do it my way: In an hour or so I'll bring the QXLs to the post
office and send them to the three of you. The
Hi all,
I just had a setback today. A little thing. It'll take me about a day to
recover and get back to where I was.
Windows threw a wobbly and was too far gone - needed a reinstall. I lost
all my Qeyboard schematics. Not a biggie, I have backups on floppy, but it
was just coming up to
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Hi there,
I was at the post office and the packed QXLs will go to England for ? 4,75 and to
America for ? 9,50.
What currency is that in? :o)
I must admit, however, that I have no idea how you could manage to give me the
money - I have
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Al, that is not true for Europeans... only for US residents.. As a matter
of fact European accounts now get charged an extra 1.92 which they get
refunded ONLY if they verify their accounts.
Also for people receiving from overseas there is a charge
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I'm after all sorts of 2nd hand odds and ends. Maybe if you posted a
fortnightly list of stuff to the list, it would move a lot more quickly?
:o)
I think everyone would complain
Hi all,
I don't have a QL manual. Could some kind sole with 30 minutes to spare
please either scan the keymap or type it out, and email it to me?
I am trying to check my Qeyboard design manually from the membrane I have
here, and my eyes have given out!
Could the first responder please also
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have three QXL-cards to give away, is anybody interested?
I definitely am. :o)
Dave
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
Amazing I have been trying to sell some for the last year and no one
seemed interested. The price I want is now less than I px'd them for.
Roy,
I'm after all sorts of 2nd hand odds and ends. Maybe if you posted a
fortnightly list of stuff to the list,
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, ZN wrote:
On 08/04/02 at 21:26 Dexter wrote:
However a European PSU will work with a US QL if you use a step up
transformer...
I've seen transformer winding kits up to the job for $20 in a local parts
outlet. Could be fun - been ages since I last wound a custom
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Writing a (usable!) editor is a long and cumbersome task that other
people have done before. So why don't you just call an existing
editor and concentrate on doing something new? I mean, that's the way
linux programs do it, too, isn't it?
Yup.
I
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, ZN wrote:
The service outlets are it's biggest enemy and
they are expensive, so people just keep driving on...
Yeah!
A suspension sphere cost 44 pounds back in the days I had citroens.
Changing them was no tougher than changing an oil filter - same skills
required
Ok,
As many of you know, I have been away for some time, and am freshly back
in the fold :o)
I've been working on the Qeyboard, and pushing for ethernet hardware to be
available, so we can help John Dent finish his TCP/IP stack - which I
suspect will do more for the QL than most realise.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27 Mar 2002, at 19:32, Dexter wrote:
There are two ways to make money from SMSQ:
1. Be Tony Tebby.
2. ...
To be quite frank, I resent that comment. the decision the pay TT
some money was not his, but was an agreement we came
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Very interesting outline ... you have been planning :-)
Yes. It's hard to do anything more than planning without ethernet and a
TCP/IP stack ;)
What are you going to code it in ... C ?
Initially, SBASIC, and then in C once I'm happy with how it
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
I am not sure if Jon's QLTCP has an SBasic I/F ... maybe you will have to
resort to access it using the tried and true Peek/Poke S*Basic interface ;-)
If the worst comes to the worst, I would write some kind of front end for
it, but that's
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In addition you should find C68 on the QL easy to adapt to.
If using it is anything like using GCC, I'll be fine...
ql.spodmail.com
(New posts by Nasta in the forum, with latest news on the Goldfire,
Aurora 2 and SuperIDE/EtherIDE - check it out!)
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
A very neatly done Forum that you have created.
Thank you - but I didn't create it - I just installed, configured and
expanded it a little. :o)
If anyone has any ideas for forums they'd like to see there, and
especially if they'd like to moderate
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Nice idea of 'namimg' :-) ... Jon's work needs a good interface attached
to it to become a 'useable by all' emailer.
I haven't seen his work. However, the mail client I plan to do will be
functional, text-based, and probably fully open source.
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Dave did you contact François Lanciault yet for the PSU?
No. I don't know who that is :o)
Sounds like I missed something when I should have been paying attention.
Could you email their contact details privately? :*)
Dave
ql.spodmail.com
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Probably best to have a look, then. Although I am a great believer in
alternatives ... it makes for more challenges.
Well here's the plan:
The program has a config file with sensible defaults. The first time it's
run it asks for your name, email
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
Actually I realise that The forum bit is different. I was referring to
ql-chat which I tried to log onto and have yet to receive a message on.
qlchat is on sabbatical. :o)
I'm reorganizing everything on the servers here. I now have a separate
mail
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Qmail
Exists... Ask J. Dent for more :-)
Well, mine'll probably be called Qemail (pronounced keymail) to match the
Qeyboard (pronounced, well, you know ;)
Qbrowser
Exists... See QL - Lynx (If you really want to use it though you gotta have a
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
Well I tried that. I registered, and it then invited me to login using
user name and password. Considering I had never registered a password,
that was difficult (8-)#
It emails the password to you, and you can change it later.
Anyway, it's already
Hi all,
Well, I'm scratching my head...
I really want to do something constructive for the QL community. I'm
working on the soon-to-be-released Qeyboard. I've done some work on a QL
ethernet interface, which is now incorporated into Qubide 2 as etheride...
And I set up a forum that nobody
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Well i am not using the forum because last I checked the site was down :-)
You mean the day the CSU/DSU blew up, poof, and I had to go out and spend
boucoup bucks on a new one? :o(
Everything's fine now :o)
Dave
ql.spodmail.com
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
He is a retired BA airline pilot who loves in Scotland.
Too much information!
Dave
ql.spodmail.com
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
He is a retired BA airline pilot who loves in Scotland.
^
insert joke here :-)
I think Tony made a Freudian Slap... ;)
Dave
ql.spodmail.com
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
In all seriousness I would very much like the extra PSU at least for a
while and then I could forward it to Dave if he agrees to the
arrangement :-)
That sounds good to me. Thanks for the consideration...
Dave
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Timothy Swenson wrote:
So, it looks like I have a spare PSU and Francios has one also. Dave
Phoebus, why don't you decide if you both need one. Since I am sending a
package to both of you, you two can decide who gets the PSU. And then
decide to whom Francios can
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has tried moving screen memory around using a
lookup table instead of calculating the memory position of each pixel every
time...
Yes.
Anyone that has used both methods knows which one is faster?
It depends on
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Dexter wrote:
Using this method, I got a factor of 25 speed improvement on the previous
system, which gave time to do processing to the byte being transferred,
say to change color depth etc.
Supplemental, based on ZN's comments:
I said byte, but yes, what he says
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
The problem is not when you want to move the whole screen or at least huge
parts of it as the calculations are minimal but when you want to quickly
move around very small screen blocks very fast.
A good analogy would be to calculate sine or cosine
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
My algorythm is still quicker. Some values are calculated just once.
Well send away then why do you keep me in agony? :-D
With the Ql there will be a couple of changes, no doubt. I'm at work and
the code is somewhere in my floppy archive at home.
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
1. The copyright for SMSQ/E is retained by Tony Tebby (Nothing weird here,
just like Linux)
1. There are (currently) two official distributors of LICENSED binaries and
ONLY official Distributors can SELL SMSQ/E.
2. The registrar (and only the
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dexter wrote:
So please, let us have a developer's license to encourage people to make
SMSQ applicable to a wider audience and to really help it grow. It doesn't
harm you, and it would certainly help you.
- Tony does not read the list
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
I personally would never be prepared to transfer copyright. I would accept
not being able to get a fee for the work done, but copyright should always
stay with the author of the relevant piece of code!
In fact, if the code would later be
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dexter wrote:
That was not obvious. Now I know that, I am very disappointed.
Why?
Because I pictured it that TT had chosen a license structure and chosen
three trusted people to execute it for him, Instead, he passed that role
to someone he
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Let's wait for Wolfgang to return.
Let me add that I am very heartened by Wolfgang's approach to these
'criticisms'. I'm trying to be as helpful and constructive as possible. If
the intent is to enhance development, I would like to help remove
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
But that is actually the case if you click the 'accept' box in Windoze.
You are not legally entitled to sell your copy of Windoze 98 on to
another user even if you have stopped using it yourself. It is all there
In the US at least, that clause was
Hi all,
I'm not saying anything here as personal opinion - I am playing devil's
advocate for the sake of creating a little controversy, which will
hopefully result in some discussion. At the moment there is too much
agreement. :o)
Ok... Deep breath...
The decision to have two official
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} The decision to have two official sellers of SMSQ/E is flawed. It prevents
} growth to not have a clear way for additional people to become resellers.
} If there isn't a way for people to become resellers, it's also probably
} illegal. There
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
It is true that in today's commercial world, beta testing is done by
the end user. IT SHOULDN'T BE
I'll certainly attempt to beta test anything submitted to ,as far as
my time (and the limited number of machines I have) permit.
No offense,
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
In light of Dave's clarifications I must totally agree with him.
Wahey!
That should read Wolfgang's clarifications and not Dave's :-)
Oh. Booo!
Funny thing is, I can see many sides to the debate, and when I read your
email saying you agreed with
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Please understand me, I am not personally averse to this arrangement, but
it is very awkward and not transparent, and is also potentially illegal.
Now, I trust completely the two current
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Oh and
For those who missed me (very few I gather) I am 100% recovered (or so I
hope) from that nasty respiratory infection so
Ok :o)
I can be once more your most hated annoyance :-)
Ok!!! :o) :o)
Dave
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Michael Grunditz wrote:
I heard something here about uqlx on a RiscPC ? Does it work ?
Yes, quite well... :o)
Dave
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
If it is Open Source, there will be no more commercial status.
I'm, of course quite wiling to help in any way I can, even with the
actual coding. I do suggest, however, that the registrar (for want
of a better word(, keep a pretty tight rein
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Open Source is open to anybody to download and modify according to their needs.
HOWEVER in order to make ANY modification a part of the official source
tree it has to be approved by the registrar and the governing body...
The difference is that a
Hi all,
Last update then I'll be going quiet for a while on the membrane front.
The construction method has been decided, and I'm now looking at design
issues. I want to make it a painless operation to remove the case from the
base, and have everything easily pluggable.
One suggestion is to
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Indeed a disappointment, but nice to have some certainty over the situation.
For those not up on the whole GDI thing, here's a quickie explanation...
GDI printers have an engine and a little memory, but not much else - the
image generation is all
Different email for a while... But here goes...
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
b) I can tell you that there aren't thousands of QPC users out there
and even less Qx0 users, so how big could a potential ArmQL user base
be in the end? I say that a value with
Progress is mixed. Screenprinted conductive paints do not have the
durability we require. Those have been ruled out.
The conductive rubber pads have a tendency to crack the plastic they're
stuck to, probably because they're a bit too rigid and apply pressure at
their edges.
The microswitch
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Arnould Nazarian wrote:
on an entire new PE that could give the QL a whole new GUI,
I for one completely disagree with this. There is Prowess
as others said, and there are certainly things to do at
lower level the GUI in SMSQ/E.
Party busting up time...
The current
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
I have my doubts about the gray scale value palette.
Yes, it's a bit superfluous but as it's next to no work for me to
implement I just thought go for it, especially as the main colour
for GUIs is usually gray.
Greyscale is actually useful. There
Progress report...
I've done a fair bit of work on picking out components working out the
board format. I've also contacted about half of the developers who need to
be aware of the project.
Currently, it's shaping up to be a short (10x6cm) card with no through
connector - a thru-connected card
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Hitchcock wrote:
Dave Dexter writes:
It's D@ve P@rk, but my email says Dexter Fletcher because I fave a
stalker, and she's very persistent and knows how to use a search engine.
Which is why I never put the two togetherm and have deliberately corrupted
the first
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
He he, some people would be flattered :-)
One wonders what you did to deserve a stalker :-)
I was in England, and she was a friend of a friend. I helped her through a
rough time with her husband, being a shoulder to cry on. Then I came here,
got married. She
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
This is good, yet I haven't personally got IDE with my RISC OS, but
SCSI.
Which Risc OS machine do you have? I know where you can get a cheap IDE
adaptor for the A30X0...
Dave
Hello all,
I've finished the preliminary work, and feel the site I've been working on
is now ready for some public viewing.
http://ql.spodmail.com/
You'll find it has a variety of sections that are currently empty - I'm
working on content right now. It also has a quite powerful forum where
Hi again :o)
I think it would be really useful to get QLs connected to networks more
easily. Therefore, I've commenced the following project: EtherQL. I know
nasta has a similar project in late planning stage, but I think Goldfire
is a higher priority, and anything taking his mind off Goldfire
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
part of what you want (software wise) is already implemented by soQL (TCP
IP stack).
It still lacks PPP (essential) but for Ethernet that's not important.
I was informed of Jon Dent by Nasta, and emailed Tony for contact
details. I'll look it up
rant
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
In any closed system, there will be a tendency towards increasing entropy.
Only in an open system, with energy being input, can there be an intrease
in order.
I'm now going to tell you what to do to save the QL scene. I'm not going
to tell you how to do
I'm building a web-based resource for developers. It will have various
sections like QDOS, SMSQ/E, hardware, drivers, and so on. The idea will be
to collect together as much information as possible, with permission, and
publish it at the site.
If anyone has anything to contribute, please can
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
For anybody interested I will be able to get 32MB CF media for rock bottom
prices... these are 26x CF cards (The fastest on the market currently). I
don't know about volume discounts yet but I will let you know as soon as I
know.
If you can cut
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
Hear hear and I really like the hand-routing exercises. Using
auto-routers is a bit like getting a plumber in and never quite liking
what he did, and complaining about the cost.
I remember one board Arnie was working on. I stuck the
This post contains information of interest to non-techy people too - it's
well worth a read, imho ;)
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
More or less... well, more. The GF does not have IDE, so a few additional
bits will be needed. Also, I think I am using the IDE decode of the chip
for
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
Ahhh, memories.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
That's only because the brain cells don't work as well as they used to :-)
(Translation: Yes, you ARE old! :-) ).
And you say this today, Jan 11 2002. My birthday. ;)
*mock scowl*
Dave
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
I know Stuart Honeyball produced some commercial boards but printing
direct onto special film.
How? He didn't have a laser printer at the time and I did them for him
(8-)#
It apparently worked very well, but there is loss of quality. No chance
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Peter Graf wrote:
PGA. QFP seems obsolete, so only PGA and BGA are interesting. BGA is very
small, but only useful for volume production.
I'm well aware of the thermal advantages of PGA over QFP. The pins move
heat away to the PCB much more efficiently. I don't like BGA
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
No need for the mezzanine card, the required chips are found on the GF, in
fact, even that part of the PCB has been designed! Normally I would not be
againgst such a board, but as you know, the GF is intended to be a
semi-SBC.
So all that needs doing is to
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Peter Graf wrote:
If it had MultiIO/Ethernet as well, it seems to me that such a card would
be a very good preparation for your XY-Fire!
This has me thinking. In what ways does the Q60 ISA implimentation differ
from the PC implementation? The CS8900 is a nice general
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
I was thinking about a SMSC 91C96 - works with 8 and 16 bit busses, has
more buffer memory, and most important: it's 99.9% software compatible with
the 10/100 non-PCI 91C111 (the only non-PCI 'all-in-one' 10/100 I know of)
I've used the SMC91C94, and I've
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote:
good idea !
Well, kind of a good idea. Overall, I'd say it wasn't very well received.
I think a lot of people can see that the task is already partly done, and
importantly, their bit of it is done to their satisfaction. For that
reason, I don't think
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
It is on the Italian club website (link on my Web site page), as
well as in the new QDOS/SMS systems software repository:
http://smsq.free.fr/
I downloaded the zipped JSROM disassembly, but winzip claimed it had a bad
CRC so I couldn't open it.
I just tried to compile and run UQLX on a LART (www.lart.tudelft.nl) with
no success, mainly because the LART doesn't have any video hardware I
think.
I have a RiscPC which does have the necessary video hardware, and I have a
prototype ARM7500FE-based board here that's almost finished - I just
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter Graf wrote:
Very interesting. And nice to hear, that another QL hardware designer has
appeared.
I would hardly call myself a QL designer just yet! I have just checked
in with the QL scene and am prodding it to see how much life it has. The
last QLish work I did
Hi again, all...
I've come to understand the reality of the QL scene as it now stands. It
didn't take long, did it? :o)
Basically, the marketplace is too small to be economically viable. There
are not resources to fund development of significant new hardware on a
fully commercial basis. People
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
Don't copy the QL design - it is pretty bad.
I don't want to copy it, I want to understand it. ;)
Dave
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
As the organiser for the London Quanta Group, we have several QL's that
have been donated to us by now 'lapsed' users. They are in various
states of working and non-working ( good for spares ), with various
ROM's in them. Obviously they are all
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
Even better, in our conversation I talked about superHermes. That is
(as you Dexter may not know) a plug in replacement for the 8749.
Yes, I visited your site and looked at the Hermes and SuperHermes. The pic
shows a very nice and useful board
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, ZN wrote:
the PCB design leaves a LOT to be desired. It seems that whoever did it is
not very experienced. IMHO the board could have been 2/3 or even half the
size.
The designer actually said on the site that it was a prototype board and
wasn't optimized for size or
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