Re: [ql-users] basic HTML viewer?

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

To Answer Jim, There are a few HTML based viewers floating about

1,  QMOSAIC - I think this was a UNIX port, and a bit buggy. Available in
the freeware libraries (Dilwyn?) and probaby the QUANTA library.

2. LYNX - A text only HTML browser ported by Jonathan Hudson from the
unix/linux sources. Available from his Website (follow the link from
Dilwyn's Page) This could even run from a disk on gold card systems if I
recall, and was basic but worked. This is probably your best bet, but it is
pretty big I think.

3. HYPERBROWSER - What norman was talking about, by Tarquin Mills. I don't
know if this was ever finished (tarquin?)

4. DOC2HTML - A useful utility that converts quill doc's to HTML - Written
by Dilwyn Jones and available on his web page.

There is always the Prowess reader, but as you said, not all people are
running prowess.

BTW Jim, nice to hear you're still playing with your QDT...heh, heh...
(private joke guys!)

Cheers,

Darren Branagh
Director, Wicklow Web Centre Limited
Computer Training, Web Design, Repairs sales  Upgrades.
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:  http://www.wwc.ie


- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: [ql-users] basic HTML viewer?


 Guys,

 I am thinking of using rudimentary HTML file viewing capabilities for
 the QDT help system.  I could use some recommendations for programs to
 look at (if there are any) that give the following:

 1) works in normal pointer environment (or could be adapted to)
 2) does not require PWS (not all users will be running it)
 3) has hot links (open different files from a link)
 4) can display some graphics

 Any suggestions?  These could even include other open source code from
 the Unix world as long as it isn't too complex.  I am only looking for a
 basic capability (tables and figures at the most).

 Thanks for the help,
 Jim

Re: [ql-users] QL Disk interfaces - URGENT REQUEST -

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Rich,

I have a Trump Card, complete with manual as new. 


If interested let me know.

Darren BranaghDirector, Wicklow Web Centre LimitedComputer 
Training, Web Design, Repairs sales  Upgrades.Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://www.wwc.ie



  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 11:20 AM
  Subject: [ql-users] QL Disk interfaces - 
  URGENT REQUEST -
  There seems to be a 
  dire shortage of these at the moment. Roy is not responding to my 
  emails, so I do not know if he is getting them and has any disk interfaces 
  left!!Does anyone else have any for sale??Rich Mellor 
  RWAP Software7 Common Road, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 
  5JRTEL: 01977 614299http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware

Re: [ql-users] basic HTML viewer?

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Jim,

Another system you may want to look at is the lastest version of Dilwyn
Jones VIEWER program - this has a links ability in it, not really HTML, but
works beautifully. Can link to items within the same document via the line
its on just by putting the cursor over it and ENTERing, on load in another
doc by using a different kind of  link which you pre-embedd in the text.

I'm using it to convert a freeware encyclopedia for the PC to the QL  which
has links in it, which is about half done.

Darren Branagh
Director, Wicklow Web Centre Limited
Computer Training, Web Design, Repairs sales  Upgrades.
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:  http://www.wwc.ie


- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: [ql-users] basic HTML viewer?


 Guys,

 I am thinking of using rudimentary HTML file viewing capabilities for
 the QDT help system.  I could use some recommendations for programs to
 look at (if there are any) that give the following:

 1) works in normal pointer environment (or could be adapted to)
 2) does not require PWS (not all users will be running it)
 3) has hot links (open different files from a link)
 4) can display some graphics

 Any suggestions?  These could even include other open source code from
 the Unix world as long as it isn't too complex.  I am only looking for a
 basic capability (tables and figures at the most).

 Thanks for the help,
 Jim

Re: [ql-users] Tandata Modem Stack

[Darren Branagh]

I have one somewhere. Yours for the cost of 
postage. (if I can find it!)

I have the manual and user software on MDV 
too.

Darren BranaghDirector, Wicklow Web Centre LimitedComputer 
Training, Web Design, Repairs sales  Upgrades.Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://www.wwc.ie



  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:15 PM
  Subject: [ql-users] Tandata Modem 
  Stack
  Does anyone have a full 
  (3 part) Tandata modem stack for sale (Q-Mod, Q-Connect and Q-Call)?? I 
  have been contacted by someone looking for one.I am also after a copy 
  of the software supplied with the modem and user manual.. Does anyone 
  have this on microdrive or disk??Rich Mellor RWAP Software7 
  Common Road, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JRTEL: 01977 
  614299http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware

Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!

[Darren Branagh]

Hi all,

Steve is scared witless he is going to die at the crabfest. I think his Mum
told him there are certain parts of a crab that are dangerous to eat

First I heard of it, I;m sure shes mixing it up with blowfish (which I did
try.)

Anyway, once me and Him commence shoveling the rest will be lucky to get a
look in, ever seen two fat guys in glasses demolish 3,000 crabs a second??

Darren.


- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!


At 11:42 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote:

Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what
time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June?

Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today.

Thanks for listening.



BTW: We will have DV footage from the mini-Greek QL gathering we are
planning with Darren so if your DVD isn't done by then I will be able to
send you a copy in any format you like (I use a D-8 camera - unfortunately
an NTSC one- but I can encode either in PAL or NTSC format)... The footage
will most likely include a huge meal (Hehe I am sure I will put Darren to
shame ;-) but we can arrange to exclude that :-)
Phoebus


Heh, Heh. you ain't seen me eat. Although I'mnothing to what Freddie Vaccha
and Stuart Honeyball could put away..


Darren.

Re: [ql-users] Disk Interfaces needed

[Darren Branagh]

I have a Trump Card if thats any 
use.

Contact me privately if you're 
interested.

Cheers,

Darren.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:59 PM
  Subject: [ql-users] Disk Interfaces 
  needed
  I know I have asked 
  before, but I am desperately trying to find a spare Gold Card or Super Gold 
  Card for a customer - anyone have one knocking about??Rich Mellor 
  RWAP Software7 Common Road, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 
  5JRTEL: 01977 614299http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware

Re: [ql-users] ROM versions

[Darren Branagh]

Dilwyn wrote:-

 The Welsh rolling picture described usually happens when Welsh QL
 Traders visit Irish QL places for some of the Black Stuff  (and I'm
 not talking about Black QLs!) :-))

TV sponsored by Guinness.

A least its better than the Irishman who had trouble with his new washing
machine - he put 5 of his best shirts in it, pulled the chain and hasn't
seen the shirts since..

Darren.

Re: [ql-users] USA 2002 QL Show, 1st June 2002

[Darren Branagh]

C.Catotti Wrote:-


 What is the schedule for the show? (Dates/Time/Location).
 Will there be any Z88 things or QL only?
 Thanks!

 Chris Catotti
 PO BOX 621777
 OVIEDO FL  32762-1777
 U.S.A.


Hi Chris,

Below is the relevant info on the US Show. I will (hopefully) be attending,
and will have a few Z88 Bits and pieces for sale - it you want to contact me
privately if there is anything specific you need, as I will be travelling by
air from Ireland and need to pack light.

Cheers,

Darren Branagh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Quanta and NESQLUG are pleased to sponsor the US 2002 QL Show to be held
at the Park Inn in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Saturday 1 June 2002.  Several
European vendors are expected including J-M-S, QBranch, and Q-Celt. Jim
Hunkins plans to demo QDT the QL Desk Top.  After the show there will be
a NESQLUG meeting open to all attendees.  A Maryland Crab Fest is planned
for Sunday.

The Park Inn is a newly renovated motel just off the I-95/I-495 beltway
around Washington, D.C. just north of the Potomac River and is 12 km from
the White House, U.S. Capital and the numerous free attractions on the
Mall.  There is bus service and the Branch Ave. Metro station
(www.wmata.com) is five minutes away by car. The special QL room rate is
$59 per night for 1 to 4 people.  There is a swimming pool,  game room,
free parking, free local phone calls, and free continental (coffee,
juice, pastries) breakfast.  The meeting room is in the Park Inn.  The QL
rate is good for stays longer than just the weekend.  It is guanteed for
reservations made by 15 May 2002.  To make reservations call 301 839-0001
or Fax 301 839-0002 or email , Keith Winge, the General Manager:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mention the QL Show. Do not make reservations
using the Park Inn 800 number or the Park Inn web site.

NESQLUG plans to arrange airport pickup/return for Reagan Washington
National (closest to Park Inn), Dulles, or Baltimore-Washington Airports.
Contact  Al Boehm if you are planning to come or  for more information:
tel: 256 859-8051 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Here is more info about the Oxon Hill Park Inn near Washington, D.C. The
address is: Park Inn, 6363 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

Oxon Hill is the first town in Maryland after you cross the Potomac
heading north on I-95 which for this stretch is also the beltway around
Washington, I-495.

Driving Directions:  (Exits refer to exits in Maryland.)

I-95 South - exit 4A, St Barnabas Road, Through 5 lights, Hotel on Right.
 (St. Barnabas Ys into Oxon Hill Rd.)
I-95 North - exit 3A, Left off ramp, Through one light, Hotel on Left.

There are numerous fast food restaurants slong Oxon Hill Road near the
Park Inn. Plus there is the nearby Rivertown Common Shopping Center.
Oxon Hill has a petting zoo if you bring younger children.  Oxon Hill
also has harness racing at Rosecroft Raceway.

The Washington, D.C. Mall stretches about 2 miles from The US Capitol to
The Linclon Memorial near the Potomac River.  Attractions on or just off
the Mall include The Vietnam Veterans Memorial,  The Korean War Veterans
Memorial, The White House,  National Museum of American History, The
National Aquarium, The National Museum of Natural History (includes
dinasuars!), National Gallery of Art, US Botanic Garden, Voice of
America, National Air and Space Museum, The Hirshhom Museum and Sculture
Garden,  plus The Smithsonian Institute with several art, invention, and
historical buildings.  Most of these attractions are FREE!

In the summer, the Mall often hosts various events.  The last time I was
there was International Day with music, food, and displays from all over
the world.

My sources indicate the Hot Night Spots are in nearby Crystal City and
Arlington rather than D.C proper.

For those who arrive Friday, many of us plan to eat supper at the Beijing
Hunan Chinese Restaurant, 6049 Oxon Hill Road not far from the Park Inn.
Tel: 301 567 1900.  We will gather in the Park Inn parking lot at 6:30PM
to share rides to the Restaurant.


What is a Maryland Crab Fest?
by Al Boehm

Well for starters you wear very casual clothes. Very casual.  That's
because eating crabs is a very messy enterprise.  In the old days a Crab
Fest was always outdoors.  Newspaper was spread on the table.  Now they
often use a large roll of white or brown wrapping paper to cover the
tables.  Afterward the remains are wrapped in the table cloth,
discarded, and a new paper applied.

The Chesapeake Blue Crab is one of the World's delicacies.  Just ask
anyone from Maryland. But the real secret is the Old Bay Seasoning which
is used abundantly when the crabs are steamed.  You will need to eat four
to six crabs or more to get filled.  Thus, crabs are generally sold by
the dozen or even by the bushel.

I am not a big beer drinker - maybe six bottles in a year.  However, that
Old Bay Seasoning is made to mix with beer.  Usually beer is sold by the
pitcher at a Crab Fest.  If you can't take alcohol. consider a
non-alcoholic beer.  The unmatched

Re: [ql-users] Di-ren Keyboard interface

[Darren Branagh]

Yes, All comments about my demise are premature.. ;-))

Have had a hard time with ISP's, life, girlfriends and my business of
late... But much of it sorted now.

I'll contactable on [EMAIL PROTECTED]  or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cheers,

Darren.





My GOD Darren is ALIVE

Seriously now, I've been trying to find you for days now! Are you okay?
(Your new email doesn't seem to work and your hotmail bounces)

Send me an email...


Phoebus

[ql-users] NB:- New email addresses for Q-Celt/Darren Branagh

[Darren . Branagh]

Hi All,

Most of you by now will be aware of the the fact that I am leaving my
current job (a Sys Admin for the the Bank Of Ireland) and will be running a
new business of my own (a computer training centre/internet and email shop)
.

Therefore, as and from Thursday 28th March,  at 5pm, my  email at:-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

will cease to exist. I have organised a new email facility in the meantime
via my new business, Wicklow Web Centre :-

My new email addresses will be :-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]   (private address)

or

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (please mark emails to these addresses for my
attention as 2 employees will access these too!)

My Hotmail addresses will also be kept active (a lot easier if it wasn't
for the spam..)  :-

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I will be unsubscribing from the list shortly, for a few days until I can
get sorted. The new email addresses are active though from now onwards, so
can be used immediately although until I leave on Thursday night I will
only be able to check them periodically, if at all.

Cheers, now back to work!!


Darren Branagh.
Q-Celt Computing.







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Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

[Darren . Branagh]

marcel wrote:-

Rough values:
1800 source files.
2,5 MB zipped.
5,5 MB extracted.
Marcel

Thanks Marcel.

Not a really big job then to make a few floppies for the distro, although a
CD/Superdisk/Zip disk would be a better alternative... Even the 2.5Mb
zipped file would fit split across two floppies.

Cheers,

Darren.








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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

[Darren . Branagh]

Dilwyn Wrote:-


Go ahead come too :-)
Not sure Patientline (my employer) will let me. They seem to be
sending me everywhere but where I want to go at the moment - 4 of us
being sent from N.Wales most of next week to help out in Edinburgh, we
heard last thing this afternoon. Now, no objections to Scotland of
course, but the short notice...we all felt like Phoebus Dokos trying
to cash an Irish bank draft... :-(

We'll have to keep twisting his arm Phoebus!! ;-))

Actually, I'm looking forward to Greece, Phoebus rang me and filled me in
on all the good places he's bringing me when I'm out there.. Including a
bar with hundreds on beers on the menu... ;-))

It's a good thing (for the cashier, as she would probably have a boot
mark
on her rear right now:-) that I missed it though ;-)
She'd know what my peecee feels like then ;-)

Don't know what it is about Dilwyn and PC's - they just hate each other.
Even lately at the Hove show he spent most of the morning getting QPC to
print correctly, all because the Windows drivers for his other printer at
home wouldn't allow his small Canon portable printer to work properly from
LineDesign. Bruce Nicholls and him had to delete all traces of the windows
drivers and reinstall the printer ports IIRC to get it working. I remember
Dil's frustration - he was about 2 minutes away from drop-kicking his PC
across half of Hove at one stage.

Cheers,

Darren.








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Re: [ql-users] QPC and Knightsafe/HD disks

[Darren . Branagh]

Rich Mellor wrote:-

By the way, talking of ED disk drives - the QL formats them at 3.2Mb (we
know), whereas the PC formats them at 2.8Mb (and the BIOS only recognises
them as 2.8Mb) - does this mean that if I put an ED disk drive in my PC,
QPC will not be able to use QL formatted ED disks???  Does anyone know?

I Don't think it matters rich - QPC doesn't support ED disks because SMSQ/E
doesn't. Correct me if I'm wrong, but QPC uses SMSQ/E which has no support
for ED disks anyway, so its a defunct argument. I remember a friend who
bought SMSQ/E for his gold card and all of a sudden his boot disk wouldn't
read - because it was an ED disk

(I'm open to correction here!!)


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Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

[Darren . Branagh]

Phoebus wrote:-

Ahhh all this because you're jealous, since Darren is coming to Greece for

sun 'n' fun and not you!  :-)
Go ahead come too :-)

In case all are wondering, I've agreed to donate my liver to Phoebus for a
week this summer (ie. lots of alcoholic beverages with him in Greece in
June..) Expect to read about it in a future Ql Today (there will be a bit
of Qling done between hangovers..:-))


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Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

[Darren . Branagh]

Dilwyn Wrote:-

Fleet Tactical Command didn't actually need the QL-PC Fileserver, it
worked with any suitable serial cable (or was that network, memory let
me down!)

There! Told you all he'd know!!

The serial connection software norman referred to was QL-PC
Fileserver, Darren, it was sold by DJC at one time.

Yeah, I knew fileserver was in the title. I was close enough ;-))
Amazing, but I've just realised I've had a QL now for about 10 years - And
I always considered myself one of the new kids on the block amongst Dilwyn
and the rest of you!! I'm getting old. Doesn't time fly when you're having
fun..?
(My passion for sinclair stuff started at Xmas 1983... With a 16K Spectrum.
nearly TWENTY years ago...ouch!)

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RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

[Darren . Branagh]

N. Dunbar wrote:-

My Sinclair addictions started before that :

- I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out about
RPN.
A fried had one back in school around 1973-74-75 ish, and when you did 0 0
divide, it started a stop watch counting upwards in seconds :o)

My Dad had an Executive Sinclair calculator in the late 1970's - the one
with the red LED style readout. Used it for years, and swapped it for a
decent casio one ages ago. Probably worth a small fortune now... I only
realised it was a Sinclair after I got my Speccy and saw the logos were the
same.

- I wanted a 'black watch' - but never had one.
- I wanted a 'matchbox radio' - never got one.

Me too :-))  I have a Sinclair TV though And one of the new X-1 FM
radios he is currently selling on his website.

- I did get a ZX-81, and it was hooked from then. I wouldn't be where I am
today (ie Married and working with Oracle) without the ZX-81, so I've been
at it since about 1981-82.

A bit longer than me. I went from a 16K Speccy to a 48K one via a RAM
upgrade for my birthday in June 1984. Then to a 128K Speccy Plus, and then
the QL. I now have ALL the speccys - 16K,48K,Plus,128K,128K+2(grey and
black models) and the 128K+3. Also a ZX81 and recently a ZX80 which I think
will be my pension one day... I have a collection of about 70 computers at
home most with original boxes, manuals and cables (easy know I wasn't
married..;-)) I'll sell them all when I'm 50 and retire.. ;-)) Orics, BBC
b's, Electrons, Archimedes, A Sord M-5, Aquarius, Dragon 32, Commodore
Vic-20 and 64, a PET, an Osborne, tandy TRS80, Texas Ti-499a, and loads of
various Ataris.. loads more too. Sad, aren't I?

- ZX81, much modified, upgraded to a 16K Spectrum - complete with rubber
keyboard. Was I the only person who liked that keyboard ?

Yes ;)) I got a SAGA Emperor keyboard upgrade in 1986, cost nearly as much
as the spectrum did initially, but it finally looked like a real
computer... I fitted it myself, and was dead chuffed when it worked.

- Spectrum, now with IF1, Cheetah memory pack, two microdrives, that
speech
processor, and a thermal (non-sinclair) printer, upgraded to a QL.

I still have all these too. The Currah Microspeech still works too, or did
last time I tried it about a year ago.

Still have about 400 original cassette programs on tape too. All in the
roofspace.

Happy days.

Indeed. Computing has affected all our lives in amazing ways. I still
remember the awe of amazement when I first pushed a key and saw that letter
appear on the screen. I was hooked immediately.

Cheers,

Darren.





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RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

[Darren . Branagh]

Norman Dunbar wrote:-

Darren,
Computing isn't as much fun these days I think. When I was a lad (warning
:
old git stuff coming next) we had a choice of lots of different and
strange
computers (most of which seem to be in your collection) but nowadays its a
PC or nothing (ok, PC or SGI :o) ) and it isn't fun because programming is
'difficult'.

I agree totally. Whats more, not only is programming more difficult, but
more expensive. What do you buy now if you only have a couple hundred quid
and want to start computing? Your only option is a second hand PC - It'll
buy you nothing new. I bought my Speccy for £99.95.. Granted, that was a
bit of money in 1983, but not as much as £1,000+ is now for a new PC. What
I'm saying is it was easier to get into then and was a relatively cheap
hobby once you'd got the gear. Not any more :-)) I think I spend more on my
PC than I do on my Girlfriend... probably more time too.

The only thing that breaks the montony is Linux - you can get
some good arguments going between Windows and Linux fans. Just like the
old
days when Specctrum owners wouldn't be seen having a sensible conversation
with C64 owners.

True. I remember some of the hum-dinger battles that used to go on in the
Sinclair mags about C64 owners - wow, slagging off didn't come into it. All
good, healthy fun though.
PC v. Mac can get good too. My Cousin was a die hard C64 usergr..!!
I remember a huge row that developed at an All-formats show in Belfast
too... Ahhh, its all flooding back... Not nearly the same now, is it?

Nostalgia isn't the same as it used to be !

Yeah. I tried to explain all this to an 18 year old who missed it all and
recently started in the programmer section here in the bank. I showed him
some of the games (Driller, Knight Lore, JSW, to name a few - running on an
emulator on my old Laptop) and he was STUNNED you could get a huge, multi
level, full colour game with sound into a mere 48K Unlike the bloatware
Windoze stuff these days. I'll show him some of the Z80 machine code
routines I wrote on a 1K Zx-81 some day... ;-))

Or course, you never get people arguing over the QL;-))  (back on
Topic!)

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RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

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 I'll show him some of the Z80 machine code routines I wrote on a 1K
Zx-81
some day... ;-))
I remember coding Space invaders on a 1K ZX-81, but it wouldn't fit, so I
recoded it to fit into the shadow ROM at 8192 instead.

;-)) I remember the Writer of Driller from Incentive listing a routine to
use the memory in the printer buffer when doing Driller. It sucked the
speccy dry in terms of pushing hardware to the limit. It had amazing
graphics for a 48K game, full 3D isometric..

 Or course, you never get people arguing over the QL;-))  (back on
Topic!)
Yes you do !!

Sarcasm... Can't beat it.

Still, as for the Q40/QPC thing, I know who is acting the worst in all
this, I've seen it up close as a trader, but does it really matter? there
are Q40 and QPC users out there, and thats great. Thats what really
matters.

Now, lets package SMSQ/E in a way that it can compete with Linux and
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RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

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Sorry Guys. Looks like my attempt to be funny has backfired!! ;-))

We do write is with a period here too, not a comma - I was just trying to
be funy suggesting 2,000 euro = 15.99

Sorry ;-))

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At 12:43 ìì 20/3/2002, you wrote:

  $15.99 for a non hot swap and $27.99 for a hot-removable one hardly
  classifies as very expensive.

Ah well the dollar price is certainly more attractive than the Euro
price:

  Yep, They're only 2,000 euros each.. No Problem!!:-

;O)

Okay let me put it in European writing style then :-)

15,99 and 27,99 (How about that?)

OR FIFTEEN DOLLARS AND NINETYNINE CENTS :-)))

hehe

I know I am affected by my time in the US but I guess you are too seeing
how you write 2000 (with a comma instead of a period :-)))


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Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

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You'd probably be better off picking up a trump card or similar 2nd hand
floppy I/F and a cheap drive unit  - would probably be as cheap as getting
cables made and trying to get SERNET on a MDV cart.


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On 21 Mar 2002, at 12:43, Michael Grunditz wrote:

 Hi

 My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id
 like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know how. I have
 no commuincation software on mdv, and I have never seen such
 serialports. The ql doesnt have a floppy interface.


How about sernet?

Tony Firshman perhaps has (or can make) the necessary cables.

(plug, plug)

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It wasn't sernet you were using I think, must have been some other serial
transfer program. SERNET was written for QPC by Bernt Reinhard not that
long ago... (I think, anyway!!) And yes, it does need SMSQ/E.

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Marcel,

are you sure it needs SMSQ/E - I used to use Sernet years ago before I had
QXL, and I used it with no problems to transfer between my PC (windows 3.1,
4 MB RAM and 20 MB hard disc compressed to '40mb', 386DX running at 10 or
40
Mhz - how times change) to my QL (128 KB RAM, 68008 running at ??Mhz).


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Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
 How about sernet?

Sernet needs SMSQ/E. I don't think the QL he refers to has that.

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RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

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Ah

I vaguely remember Robin Barker (Di-Ren) doing a thing called QL
Fileserver I think about 9-10 years ago. I think it connected a QL and PC
and had software and the cables, and cost about 19.95.  Actually, I almost
bought it prior to getting a (then) cheap trump card from Steve Johnson of
SJPD  for 100 pounds;-))

I also think you could use it to link the QL and PC versions of the game
Fleet tactical command that he sold.

So, network gaming was first on the QL.;-))

(hope I'm right here...)

I bet Dilwyn remembers.. He has a great memory for stuff like this.

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Um !
'What the hell was it then?' I ask myself.
I think it was DiRen who sold me it all those years ago.

Thanks for correcting me (again).

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It wasn't sernet you were using I think, must have been some other serial
transfer program. SERNET was written for QPC by Bernt Reinhard not that
long ago... (I think, anyway!!) And yes, it does need SMSQ/E.

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Re: [ql-users] Q-Celt and CompactFlash News

[Darren . Branagh]

Yep, They're only 2,000 euros each.. No Problem!!:-

I hope to have mine on display in use at the AGM 2-day show in
Manchester.. (its a 2 day show, so why not QL 2002??)


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Hi All :-)
For all those that are interested in getting a CF adapter (especially with
the price of Euro now it became more attractive), consider if you are in
Europe to get them from Q-Celt from now on :-)

I will try and have a good supply for the Quanta AGM sent to Darren on
time.
Outstanding orders for Hot Swap ones will be fulfilled there (Per?)

Thanks,


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Re: [ql-users] More lost QL Users

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Hi John,

Unfortunately, these wouldn't be of much use to me as they are undoubtedly
UK based and I'd be making a long distance phone call for my emails -
ouch!!  I'm based in Ireland don't forget...

Reminds me of the trouble the Irish branches of Dixons got into recently.
They are supplying the same modems here as they do in the UK - their own
brand PC Line ones. They were dirt cheap (about 15 euro) , so several
hundred people bought one in the run up to Xmas and installed them in their
machines  - including the UK based freeserve ISP CD that came with them!!
Unknown to the masses, they were dailing a UK number for their internet
access!!  Dixons had neglected to remove the Uk CD-ROM from the box when
they imported them into Ireland, Now dixons are being sued but several
people over it - one case made the papers, where one family got a telephone
bill for 4,500 pounds just after Xmas.

I have a choice of millions of web based free email services, but what I
need is an ISP that I can set up on Lookout Express or whatever mailer I
what to use, and ALSO access via the web when I need to (eg. when
travelling) that is Irish based. I can get either/or, but not both it
appears.

It appears that Unison and Eircom here are expanding their services to web
based email. Good news if its true.


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Re:
The nice thing about hotmail is you can access it anywhere
(even freebie airport terminals!) but thats about all I like about it

I have two pay-as-you-go ISP accounts that I can access anywhere (there is
a
web acess ) and they are _not_ hotmail Darren.

Gimme a private e if you should like to know more.

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Re: [ql-users] Membranes

[Darren . Branagh]

Dilwyn wrote:-

My favourite though was the little Diren keyboard interface. Tiny,
easy to install and reliable. Pity Robin Barker stopped doing that
one.

I have about 3 or 4 customers wanting a Di-Ren keyboard interface. Many
need one over the sH because it doesn't need drivers - it works from power
on and they are wanting to use it in an environment where they don't want
to use additional drivers (I don't know for what reason, I didn't get into
it). If anybody has one (or four!) for sale, please let me know...

I wonder is it worth trying to get Robin to make a few more..?

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Re: [ql-users] More lost QL Users

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Hi Tony,

The qcelt one is still alive, but the problem is with damn spam - I get
about 1.8Mb of pure unadulterated rubbish into my inbox everyday, and
unless I visit it daily to remove all the spam it quickly eats into my 2Mb
mailbox limit, and when that happens emails bounce due to my mailbox space
being exceeded. At the moment, I'm too busy to do that and can't access the
web to get at hotmail during work hours - its usually after midnight when I
get home :-((

I am looking into other email accounts though these are still limited in
Ireland - this is something I hope to cure when I leave the bank (at the
start of April). The nice thing about hotmail is you can access it anywhere
(even freebie airport terminals!) but thats about all I like about it


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It is amazing how quickly email addresses die - it is a real pain
keeping them up to date as a mere handful contact me with changes.
Only two weeks since the last emailshot.

I don't apologise for boring you yet again, as these email 'ads' are
going to be the QL lifeline I think.  None of us traders can afford to
spend any of our losses on grand publicity (8-(#

Can anyone help with these:

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Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

[Darren . Branagh]

Roy Wood Wrote:-

LG do a black CD ROM Drive you know.

And Phoebus can get you one for about $50 plus shipping, I'm sure he knows
that I know where he would be getting them too :-) I actually have one in
my PC. 8/4/25 rewriter - lots of bang for the $
21 pounds + VAT in the UK

Surely what you are talking about here is a vanilla CD-ROM only for £21 -
not a CD-RW. The $50 one is A CD-RW if I'm reading it right. (Am I?)

Darren.

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Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop/Irish Show

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Dilwyn Wrote:-

At least they'd been there much of the day without getting thrown
out...I knocked a pint over within minutes of arrival and nearly got
thrown out before having my first drink! Still, the laptop came in
handy when paying for the food didn't it Darren ;-))

Yeah, I remember Jeremy getting the most expensive steak on the menu and
Stuart refusing to pay for it - The deal was he was paying for Jeremy's
trip as he was a Miracle employee at the time. He got a huge 16oz T-Bone,
and it cost twice what the rest of us were paying for our meals. To settle
the row, Dilwyn got out his then newish 486 Toshiba Laptop with QPC1 on it,
and began using the Calcualtor of QPAC1 to divide the bill.. ;-)

He he, been trying to get Darren to do this for ages, with many false
starts. To anyone fancying a few days in Ireland at that time of year
it's a superb place to be, and the last Irish show was such fun we'll
hardly forget it! I've also wanted to get to one of the USA QL shows
but each and every year something happens to prevent me going, I've
pretty well given up trying now.

Getting a time that suits all is really hard. I so wanted the attendance at
the first show to be high, but at the last minute the dozen or so people
from Northern Ireland who said they'd make it pulled out, as did a few
others from around the country. Anyway, it turned out to be a holiday (and
a p*ss up) for us all more than a show, so thats probably the basis for the
next one - stay tuned... I have been hounded by several people for another
one (Stuart emails me every few months about it!) so it must have been
good.

Anyone wanting to travel to Ireland for the show could do worse than
take a sail and rail (or whatever they're called now) ticket to
Holyhead or south west wales from England. I have found to my surprise
in the past that these can sometimes actually be cheaper than ferry
fare alone due to discounting by the train companies concerned.

This is true, unbelieveably. I found this out quite by accident - I was
used to buying a ticket on the ferry, then a return ticket on the train to
bangor (Dilwyn's house) when I arrived in Holyhead (the rail station is a
few hundred yards from the ferry terminal, all under one roof) I kept doing
this for ages, until one time one of the Stena agents asked me would I be
continuing by rail when I got off the ferry, and I said yes - she then sold
me a Sail and Rail ticket to Bangor return on the ferry, all inclusive
for almost £20 less than the cost of a return ticket on the ferry alone!!
Madness, but true - I still travel this way and its dirt cheap. In fact, at
christmas I visited Dilwyn for a quick day trip to drop over some Xmas
presents - over at 11am and back on the 6.30pm. I got a day return sail and
rail on the ferry and train for only 9 euros!! Thats about a FIVER!

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Re: [ql-users] QL DVD disk

[Darren . Branagh]

wlenerz wrote:-

re: DVD..
Make it regionless - even better.

yes, Steve Reyal (who will be editing and compiling the DVD - hes a
qualified Avid engineer) emailed me to say it WILL be regionless, therefore
playable anywhere. I think though we will be doing separate PAL and NTSC
versions though.

 It will have custom made menus and biographies of
 QL personalities, some funny moments, etc... will even put web links and
 some software on it too ;-)

 Anyone interested? ;-))

ONLY if you write a prog to read it on a QL!

Might be difficult ;-))  Will be probably readable via thierry's drivers
for the software part, but the movie player? I doubt it. I assume the Q60
will be able to play it via Q60 Linux and a suitable DVD player software.

Steve subscribes to the list, but hes shy ;-))

If we all annoy him enough he might make a bold appearance on the list...

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Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

[Darren . Branagh]

Phoebus  wrote:-

P.S. Was Darren there? I've sent him a couple of emails and he appears to
not have received them... (Darrn!!) :-)

yep! Here!

Was out of commission for a few days up to the show as I had a lot of CD's
to burn. I'm back now...

Also, I am gettting involved with the production of the first ever QL DVD!!
Myself and another Ql'er, Steve Reyal, shot some footage at the Hove
Workshop with a new DV Camera, and will be doing the same at the Manchester
QL2002 Show (well, it is a 2-day event so why not call it QL2002??) We
will be releasing it soon after, and hope to do a NTSC and PAL version, in
region 1 and 2 versions. It will have custom made menus and biographies of
QL personalities, some funny moments, etc... will even put web links and
some software on it too ;-)

Anyone interested? ;-))

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Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

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At 06:40 ìì 4/3/2002, you wrote:

Yes he was, well from about 11AM anyway. He and Steve Reyal had been
up until about 5AM on the morning of the show with some video editing
software or something.

He got clobbered with excess baggage charges when he flew into London
day before, that'll teach him to endanger plane safety with that
massive suitcase of his. (it came back in my car so I know all about
it!)

Yeah, damn Ryanair. I paid about 70 euros for a one way ticket to Luton
from Dublin (was coming back on the ferry via Dilwyn's house) so not bad.
Met roadworks on the way to the airport which delayed me by over an hour,
and I missed my flight. OK, I'll pay a small fee and be on my way I thought
- sorry, no late fee, I had to buy another ticket from scratch!! Another
70 euros later, its getting expensive. I go to check in my bags at the
desk, and I'm told I'm overweight (well, I'm a big guy, I could have told
them that ;-))
No... Your suitcase is too heavy sir.. that'll be another 84 euros
please...
WHAT???
I couldn't believe it, but had to pay it as I was already 3 hours late
meeting Steve at Luton.
What really annoyed me was that the flight was EMPTY - there were about 20
people max on the boeing 737 and yet they charged me extra for weight!!

Never again - the contrast between Stena Line and Ryanair is unreal - Stena
line is 48 euros RETURN to wales and that INCLUDES a return ticket on the
train out to Bangor (from Holyhead) near Dilwyn's house. No Contest.

Still, the show was fun, although I didn't sell that much, and I agree with
Chris cave's comment on the food - excellent bit of catering from Roy's
wife and family, and cheap too. That Lemon cake was to die for, and the
Sandwiches... ;-)

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Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop/Irish Show

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I remember the Stena boat on the trip to your show, Darren , with Stuart
getting drunk and bicycles.  It was only when we got on the ferry that
we recognised it as a very familiar boat from the Harwich - Hook of
Holland run.  Stuart and I had been on it dozens of times overnight on
Eindhoven etc trips.  It was ideal, but all ruined when they moved to
fast cats, with first sailing at about 10am, and nothing overnight.

Agreed. There are several times when I have wanted to be in Wales early so
we can get a head start on travelling in the morning to a Show and as you
say, there are no overnight ferries. I now get the latest one the night
before (hardly late at a usual time of about 4 or 5pm) Would be much better
if I could get one at about 6 or 7am on the morning we are going to drive
from Dilwyn's house.

I was just remembering the story were Jeremy Reeves (a former miracle
systems employee) and Stuart Honeyball went hill climbing during that
Irish Show. After Roy  Steve, Bill, you, and me had packed up, they still
hadn't returned, so we drew a map on a piece of paper as to where the pub
was and for them to meet us there when then returned, and hung it on the
handlebars of their bicycles which they had left outside - only to get to
the pub ourselves and find they had been there most of the day, and were
half sozzled ;-))

Happy days.. Most memorable for the wrong reasons - it was the following
morning we all woke to the news that Princess Diana was dead. I remember
all of us, including Ian Pizer from Switzerland and his wife standing there
watching the TV in disbelief...

Which reminds me, must get the final bookings sorted for a show over here
again this year. Now I am leaving the bank I will have some additional time
on my hands. Anyone have any preference as to when? I was thinking of July
or August, when the weather is good.

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Re: [ql-users] Lost email addresses

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Malcolm Cadman wrote:-

David Gilham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I know that this one is no longer valid for David Gilham.
When I next see him I will get him to mail you his current one.
The info on your mail was very interesting, thanks.
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[ql-users] Q-Celt Computing News

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Hi all,

We will be in Hove for the QL Workshop on March 3rd. We will have our usual
collection of CD-ROM's for the QL and our collection of 2nd user bits and
pieces and other Software and Hardware.

I also have a large collection of reconditioned PC's to be disposed of
(they are ex bank stock, reformatted and Windows 95/98 installed which I
got cheaply from my employers) They are low end Pentium Processors (100 to
200Mhz) but ideal for a cheap machine to run QPC or Q-Emulator on. They
also have QPC demo versions installed so you can get an idea of the speed
etc.

As these machines are heavy and cumbersome, if you are interested in one,
PLEASE contact me PRIOR to the Show - by this Sunday, February the 24th, to
arrange for me to bring some over for you. I have a full spec list so can
go through what will suit you privately. Email, Fax or phone me for full
details. These are quite cheap, so call if you need one - they make great
backup machines.

A friend who lives in London is coming over by car this weekend, and has
agreed to bring back any heavy stuff I can sell at the show on Sunday -
hence why I ask for you to contact me by the 24th (preferably ASAP) if you
want one. I usually travel over by ferry or plane,  so taking them this way
is impossible!!

Cheers,

Darren Branagh.

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RE: [ql-users] Sprite movement and relative info.

[Darren . Branagh]

I think you're right -  was it called Eye-Q?

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I have a funny feeling that Digital Precision dod a sprite editor/manager
system a long time ago.
I can't remember the name though - sorry.

HTH
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Re: [ql-users] Sprite movement and relative info.

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Correct - it was. Came packaged in a audio tape box with a man riding a
bicycle on the front (!) I remember thinking it was on a standard cassette
tape until I opened the box and saw a microdrive rattling about inside.

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 I think you're right -  was it called Eye-Q?

 Darren Branagh,

I think it was Sprite Generator.
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Re: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list

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Roy Wood Wrote:-

I don't know about the rest of you but I have always seen this list as
the cybernetic equivalent of the chat in the pub after a QL show.

Very much so, I agree totally. Except cybernetic pints don't quite taste
the same ;-))

There
are some groups of people earnestly discussing some aspects of code or
esoteric uses of hardware and others (like Dave Walker and I suddenly
finding we have a shared liking for the music of Judie Tzukie) exploring
other co-incidences of interest.

Wasn't it Judy Tzuke? Stay with me 'til dawn? (whoops, off topic again..)

SNIP

Wear blinkers - get run down.

Very true.


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Re: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list (OT)

[Darren . Branagh]

Tony Firshman wrote:-

I don't get cross at a choral concert if someone talks about the
weather. I cannot understand people getting hot under the collar about
all this and stamping feet.  There is more to life.

Agreed. Lets all lighten up a bit..

Darren - where have you stashed your 500m (8-)#

I transferred it to the TF Services account as arranged, you can give me my
cut once you've laundered it ;-))

I expect you're referring to the bloke in Baltimore who managed to Nick
Leeson The Allied Irish Bank out of 860 Million Euro. A friend of mine
here once met him at a conference in the US. I work for Bank Of Ireland, so
it wasn't me - Rusnak is this blokes name!!

AIB won't miss it - even when they write off this amount, big though it is,
their pre-tax profit for the year will still be over 400 Million. It will
hurt, but it won't break them the way Leeson did with Barings. 2 Billion
was wiped off their share value yesterday afternoon. Still, you'd have
thought they'd have learnt their lesson in options trading by now..


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RE: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list

[Darren . Branagh]

 Norman, I have to be honest and say I'm in total agreement with you.

Occasionally we go off topic, and I admit there have been a few more off
topic emails lately than usual, but these are just as enjoyable as the on
topic ones IMHO. Theres so much more to it all than just the QL, thats just
the start of our common interests. I've often had brief interchanges on
this list about Music with Phoebus, Roy, and Tony, about the celtic ties
with Dilwyn and Norman, and also about the QL!!  So What? Its through the
occasional OT email that you get to learn a bit about all those people that
make this list so interesting, and what makes 'em tick - and I value that.
I may be a long younger than most of you, but I like to nostalgitise (is
that a word?) too!!!

The I'm not playing anymore attitude is great when you're seven years
old, kinda wears out after that.


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Please don flame proof clothing before reading this !!

BEGIN RANT MODE
Bye bye then Peter.

I think your attitude sucks (to be quite brutally honest) but you have made
your choice to go, then so be it.

(snip!!)

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Re: [ql-users] One Less QL User

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I was very sad to hear of Frank's passing. I remember his kind words and
offers of help where he could during the time I contributed to QL Club
International, back in the days before I had an email account or a decent
PC and my Trump Card QL had pride of place in my room. I used to wait with
baited breath for the DD disk from Mike keneally to come through the door
with that months magazine on it - those where the days.

I also remember the first time I met him - a few years later at the Byfleet
Quanta Workshop. I had just started a few months earlier as a trader and
Frank was full of questions about the programs I was selling.

Martin - please pass on my condolences to his family, he will be missed.

We have lost a lot of wonderful people lately - Joe Haftke, Tim Fuller, and
now Frank, to name just a few.  It is sad.


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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin
Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Many of you may remember Frank Merrison.  He unfortunately
passed away this morning.

He was an early and longtime member of the London Quanta Group
as well as ClubQL International

Whilst being no computer expert he was never less than enthusiastic
and will be much missed

Frank was a real enthusiast ... he will be missed.

When I first started to attend the London Group regularly he was very
welcoming, and even through his long illness he continued to attend when
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Re: [ql-users]OT: Launch of new web site

[Darren . Branagh]

Phoebus Wrote:-

Oh I forgot were did you dug up (sic!) Grave Digger ??? hehe Really
interesting choice of styles (I'm with ya buddy ;-) -Note: check ME out
at:
www.mp3.com/silverrisc ) 
but you really dissappointed me not mentioning my two FAVOURITE German
bands of all time ... (Pink Cream 69 and Accept ;-)... all right and
Running Wild (they are german aren't they?)

You should talk to Roy Wood about Accept, I think he did their sound on a
few tour dates on the continent - In fact, quite a few big german metal
bands. He has a list of the ones hes worked with on his website. He was
kind enough to get me some T-Shirts and a signed UDO solid album a while
ago (he was the lead singer with Accept). Pretty amazing voice for a little
fat guy!

He can tell some pretty wild roadie stories too..

Cheers,

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Re: [ql-users] win format (OT!!)

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Roy Wood Wrote:-

And someone (he shall remain nameless for modesty's sake) once sent me
an email to tell me he had successfully updated his notebook. His
message read 'I now have a big hard dik on my laptop'
Hmmm

I recall Simon Goodwin and a certain Mr. Dilwyn Jones hacking away
contently one night in my bedroom in Wicklow a day or two after the first
Irish QL show several years ago. Simon was writing a program Dilwyn had
asked him to write, and Dilwyn was updating something for me on his (then)
shiny new 486 colour laptop running QPC1 which was just out at the time.
They were sitting back to back, Dil facing one wall and Simon the opposite
one. Dilwyn finished what he was doing, and needed to Save it. He looked
up, and in a clear raised loud voice said: Simon, could you give me a
floppy dick please?

I fell around in fits of laughter, and the look of embarrassment mixed with
fear on Simons face was a picture, he turned to face Dil slowly wondering
did he really mean it, and then Dil realised what he had actually said and
turned bright red, covering his face with his hands. Priceless.

I kept reminding Dil about that for about 6 months afterwards. I'm sure he
still hasn't forgotten it.

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Re: [ql-users] mouse on q40

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Does Superhermes work on a Q40 Tony?

I'm guessing you missed the subject line.

I thought only Albin's SERMouse software was for standard QL's too. Surely
serial mouse drivers are included with SMSQ(/E) under the PE on a Q40. I
think is maybe isn't a true serial mouse or is broken?

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Do I have to do something to get my serial mouse to work with pe ?

Yes - you need software.  Albin Hessler used to sell it - I don't know
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superHermes includes serial mouse support - but that  is not a solution
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Re: [ql-users] win format

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The best keyboard/typing one I ever heard was from a friend who works in
the Call Centre for Microsoft. Apparently this story is a legend in there.

This girl calls up to say she can't get Word 6 (back in Win 3.1 days here)
to work on her 286 /386 or whatever it is. She has put Disk 1 of the set of
6 or 7 in the floppy drive, followed the instructions, but nothing happens
- everytime she enters INSTALL from the A: prompt, she gets bad command
or file name.

The Microsoft assistant tries everything, and talks her through the
procedure twice, to no avail, even checks to see if she is inserting the
floppy fully and its the right way up in the drive. Still no joy.

Eventually, frustrated after an hour long  attempt, the Microsoft guy says
 are you absolutely sure you're typing INSTALL?

To which the girl replies  Well, yeah - except my N key is broken, so I'm
using M instead - does that matter?

Amazing how stupid some people can be...

BTW, I have loads more of these if anybodys interested!!

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When I worked at BMW in Munich, they buy our software, we had to learn how
to use a Germoan layout - interesting !
When we came home again and had to use an UK layout, we had all sorts of
fun
- every 'w' was replaced by a 'z' for about a week afterwards.
Then, we had to go back to Munich again .

As the Chinese would say 'interesting times' !
No - they might _write_ that but would _say_ 'Intelesting times'  (8-)#

Oh yes - it is worth repeating my favourite 'mistyping' story.
In my Kodak days (urkk over 30 years ago) we had a very unhappy typist.
She spent all her time (pre-computer) typing schedules for KD shipments
on a manual typewriter.
... and retyping 'cos we made mistakes and re-re-typing 'cos she made
mistakes.

On one occasional all mentions of 'Shipping Dates' turned into 'Shitting
Dates' and no-one noticed in the office.  I think Rosemary did not last
very ling (8-)#

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Re: [ql-users] Pandora Case

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Hi Phoebus,

I saw a few Pandora cases at a recent show in the UK for sale VERY CHEAPLY
(ie. a fraction of their original cost) and I think they were being sold
off.  I think it was John Gilpin of the Manchester user Group that had
them, does this make sense to everyone? Maybe I'm getting my lines
crossed...

I have his email address at home, but it will be the weekend before I am
back there and can get it for you.

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Hi all,
Is the pandora case still available somewhere? If yes can someone tell me
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Re: [ql-users] Sound sampler...

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There was also a sound card which was being designed by Jeremy Reeves (a
former Miracle Systems employee) about 4 or 5 years ago, which I think
never got past the paperware stage. It was to use the ROM socket too, I
think Jeremy has since left the QL scene though. I don't know if any
scematics or designs where ever released on it.

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Dave makes some magical things to make me read
}
} I recall that a couple of years ago someone was working on a sound
} sampler. I think it could sample sound, and play it back. Basically an
A/D
} and D/A converter. I think it plugged into the ROM socket.
}
} Does anyone have any information about this?

Yes, I have information and also it!
It's the amadeus system.
The rom socket was used as the host for a network,
and then each hardware application get it's own module.
a host for PC was also available,
and you could even connect a QL to a PC via this network.

One of the module is a sound A/D  D/A. (mono) (amasound !)
It was provided with a micro and a speaker.

Sound format was highly compressed (about 4 bits per sample,
using a hard-coded proprietary algorithm).

I tried to find information to convert existing sound files into
this format, or even just to be able to perform some volume adjustment
on a recorded sound, and only end up with the conclusion that
unless being able to obtain the full math, it was impossible.

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Re: [ql-users] Euro equipped font and other news

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Dilwyn Wrote:-

And if he's as into British humour as he implies, we might send him
Darren's QL Joke Book as punishment ;-))


God, no! you wouldn't do that to him!! :-))

Seriously though, I've got a huge stash of new jokes now, I'll have to do a
second edition. Actually, probably about 30Mb of stuff here so will have to
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Re: [ql-users] Our Friend Dave again

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Dilwyn Wrote:-

Must admit that John's correspondence went over my head too. Darren's
away at a wedding somewhere in darkest Ireland so ...


Just back... and some wedding it was... I'm going back next week to see if
I can find my liver anywhere - was last seen cowering in a corner of the
bar at 6am (know what I mean? - hic!)

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Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

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 Dexter wrote:-

I brought in two games from home - one was a helicopter
simulator whose name has long been forgotten. The other was a cute lil'
game called Alien8, which involved trundling a robot around an isometric
maze.

Now you're bringing me back! I was a HUGE fan of Alien8 and all the other
titles by Ultimate play the game. I was (for a brief time) the Sabre Wulf
champion scorer and was among the first batch to collect all the parts of
the amulet.  also came 2nd in a Jetpac competition at the annual microfair.
Still have them all - Cookie, Pssst!, Jetpac, Lunar Jetman, Nightshade,
Gunfight, Cyberrun, Underwurlde, Sabre Wulf, the lot. Knight lore (the
first of the isometric type games) was amazingly advanced when it first
appeared, you can get a 256 colour version to run on SPEC256 (a VGA colour
spectrum emulator for the PC from Spain).

A... Nostalgia. Sorry about the off topic-ness.

BTW, the helicopter sim was probably Combat Lynx by Durrell, or maybe one
of the ones by Digital Integration. Or maybe Cyclone by Vortex?

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Re: [ql-users] Hove

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I remember being under 18 inches of snow when the last one was staged -
didn't have electricity for 3 days. Not to mention the foot and mouth
restrictions.

Looking forward to this one this year though!

Cheers,

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From tonight's 'I am sorry I haven't a clue'

The usual exit lines - this time 'Songs for depressives'

Someone will say we're in Hove

BTW when _is_ the next Hove meeting Roy? (back OT).

The Hove Workshop has been arranged for Sunday March 3rd 2002 in the
Portslade Town Hall. (The venue everyone liked last year). My wife and
friends will be doing the catering again and hopefully there will be no
Foot and Mouth, Bad Weather or bomb scares to keep you all away.
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Re: [ql-users] Qltoday in colour (was Psion Chess)

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Dilwyn wrote:-

Wish QL Today was able to print colour pictures...

have you looked into doing  the occasional colour page and inserting it
into the mag prior to stapling it?

Cost would be a factor, but surely not if it was one every few issues, or
even a colour front cover?

Mind you I seem to recall a debate about this a while ago, so maybe  I'm
opening a can of worms again.

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Re: [ql-users] Looking for PSION CHESS under SMSQ/E

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Dilwyn Jones Wrote:-

Scrabb;le was patched by Rich Mellor - he supplied me with a copy
which runs from disk, but if I remember rightly I had to send my
original scrabble cartridge or disk to prove entitlement.

I have a similar copy of Psion Chess I got from Steve Johnson when he ran a
PD Library many years ago. Same thing - I had to send Steve a copy of
something to prove I owned an original Chess copy - The manual for it if I
recall. His copy was supplied on a DD disk and booted from flp1_ as any
program would without the need for a master.

I still have it somewhere, buried on a CD-R now as I have converted most of
my 600+ floppies to a couple of CD's to save on storage :-))

Can probably find it if anybody wants it.


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Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

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Dilwyn Jones Wrote:-

I had the original SuperBASIC Production Kit from Sinclair at the
time, and you are correct that the important bits were in files with
filenames consisting of spaces and underscores. Somewhere (and I
emphasise _somewhere_ as I have had builders in here for several weeks
now!) I still have the original SPK from Sinclair. At the time it was
strictly licenced and intended to help early software producers
produce software quickly and easily by introducing copy protection,
faster loading of basic programs and BREAK disable.

Typical Dil!! I think he probably has EVERYTHING that ever came out for a
QL buried somewhere in that house. I remember shortly before he got married
last year, his then fiancee, Christine, made him clear up the house -
this consisted of removing the 9 million PC magazines he had hoarded in the
attic, and chucking out a lot of his old QL hardware - box fulls of it -
nearly broke his heart I think. The box room was his old DJC office and its
still floor to ceiling with floppies - both 3.5 and 5.25 ones! I took a
lot of his old hardware, if only to preserve this stuff for the future, and
to prevent it going in a skip, as a lot of it I had never ever heard of.
Various expansions, a Q-Control, A Maurice QV4000 QL Speech Synthesizer, a
QubIDE, Cumana Drives, Expanderams, ICE mice, a QL barcode reader (which
dominic morris bought to see if he would get it to work with a Z88!) and
loads of other bits inc. just about every piece of QL software ever to see
the light of day.

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RE: [ql-users] Psion Chess

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Even Worse - some of mine is in there ;-)

Seriously, you should see it - the most methodically indexed system I have
ever seen, every disk in alphabetical order, one disk per program. All in
tough durable posso boxes - dozens of them.

Would even put the bank where I work to shame.

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Oh God !!!
Some of my original code must have been there 

:o)

Regrads,
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The box room was his old DJC office and its
still floor to ceiling with floppies - both 3.5 and 5.25 ones! I took a
lot of his old hardware, if only to preserve this stuff for the future, and
to prevent it going in a skip, as a lot of it I had never ever heard of.

and loads of other bits inc. just about every piece of QL software ever to
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RE: [ql-users] Looking for full set of QLUB (Sinclairs QL Users B ureaunewsletter)

[Darren . Branagh]

I'll download it and give it a go - can't hurt  (though knowing windows, it
might!) :-)

I use Win 95 and 98SE at home, but Windows NT4  at work so all is not lost.

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Darren,

Maybe not as useful as at first thought.

Needs a pentium processor and Windows XP/2000/NT4 they do not support Win
3.1/95/98/ME according th the web site http://www.daneprairie.com/ but I
have yet to see if it will still work on Win98.

The utility produces a 'last page' with details of the driver on it in
every
document, but it is free for non-commercial use(which is what I use it for)
and evaluation. Registration costs $35 (US).

HTH.

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Norman -this sounds _very_ useful - where can I find it or download it
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[ql-users] Denki Blocks game

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Hi all,

Has anybody tried the games that are now available via the Sky Digital
remote?  They are on the interactive menu, under Sky active (used to be
Open).

There are a few that are pay to use (50p per session, as many games as you
like) but most are free to play - card games and arcade games, and puzzle
games - including one called Denki Blocks - dead simple format, where you
have to join all the blocks by moving about a maze. simple but unfuriating.

As the game is not very graphically demanding, it seems Ideal to be
converted for a QL. Actually quite a few of them are. Take a look and see -
Anybody interested?  Dilwyn?


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Re: [ql-users] Denki Blocks game

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WHATT? No Star Trek? How can a trekkie live?

BTW, just got a copy of the pilot for Enterprise (two parts), the new
Series with Scott Bakula (he's in Quantum Leap, so this is on QL topic ;-)
as the Captain - its on CD and plays under Media Player so I'll send you a
copy.

Still have to send you those Voyager episodes too and that Power
Inverter

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As the game is not very graphically demanding, it seems Ideal to be
converted for a QL. Actually quite a few of them are. Take a look and
see -
Anybody interested?  Dilwyn?

Huh, after my recent run-ins with Sky over the digibox which never
works (havent seen Star Trek for ages) I don't want to know, sorry
(unless the billionth visit by their engineer on saturday changes
things miraculously).

That's assuming I can get near a computer here when my wife isn't
playing MahJongg or The Wall...

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RE: [ql-users] Psion Chess

[Darren . Branagh]

Are you kidding?  Of course I'm not married - I have seen what that did to
a perfectly nice bloke like Dilwyn, and that lovely batchelor pad he once
had  :-))

Just ask him how much he's spent on the house since he got
married

Seriously - don't plan on going that route for a long time yet. I just have
a girlfriend and very considerable parents with a big home I use as a
warehouse!

Although I did get called a NERD by my girlfriend Sandra when I brought her
along to the Byfeet QL show last month. She even threatened to dump me if I
ever wore my bright green QUANTA sweatshirt again - really!! (see Dilwyn's
review in the last QL today).

Cheers,

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 Its worse now, as I've moved out to a house in North Dublin so its
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I'll second that. My Dad is as technically minded as a sheep. I once found
him trying to change channels on the TV using my pocket calculator.
Honestly. Strange for a man who was once a Electrical Engineer in the Navy.

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If she is like Ben, she will _use_ them.  He has a PC and a QL in the
house networked to my office. An Atari ST is sitting there, and he is
just about to power up a Spectrum.  That is not to mention the
Playstation, Sega Gameboy and the 4 Nitenendo Game Boys (three auctioned
on the internet) and the linked Nintendo Pokemon linked to the games on
the Gamegears.  Oh yes, and the old 70s bat/ball/beep TV game he got for
25p.    and the Lego RCX  and my old AST notebook.  and
various bits we found in skips.


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Old Sony TV remotes could do the same thing. They had a small screw inside
which when turned varied the frequency of the signal sent or something. I
remember it caused a panic in the US when loads of cars where nicked using
them. Thats why they changed to the One for All type remote which uses 3
or 4 digit codes for the various tv's etc, and isn't programmed with any of
the ones used by cars.

Is the one about putting coded car stereo's into the freezer to wipe them
true? never tried it.

This is all getting very off topic guys - sorry...

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I'll second that. My Dad is as technically minded as a sheep. I once found
him trying to change channels on the TV using my pocket calculator.
Honestly. Strange for a man who was once a Electrical Engineer in the
Navy.

Depends... is your calculator an HP48??? (Coz you CAN change channels withi
 t... also open up remote controlled doors of pre 95 Renault 19s ;-)))H
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Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha

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He was used to his explosive Mazda with
rock suspension.
No ordinary car - he got it half price 'cos the person selling it
didn't realise it was a special ZX. it did 180mph, and he had proved
it many times.

Bzzz! Actually, it was a Nissan 300ZX Turbo...

Hmmm, quite a car - Which just goes to show the kind of money Freddy made
from the QL and his other interests - I remember him saying he made quite a
good living from DP in its heyday.  Pity there isn't the same abundant QL
shows for us poor traders these days! Nice to recall things like this,
hopefully we can get him to the next QL show for a chat?

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Re: [ql-users] Spectrum Emulators

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Hi All,

Simon Goodwin is probably the best person to contact if you need to get
hold of William James (his emulator was called SPECULATOR, and Simon helped
on the code) They are both involved deeply with Linux and Amigas now, and
that emulator hasn't been updated since about 1993.

If its a PD emulator you're after, ZeXcel is by far the best. Written by
Ergon (Davide Santachiara) and was the one I used for the Spectrum Emulator
CD I did for the QL a while ago (this has about 300Mb of games on it,
ordered alphabetically). Needs the Pointer Environment and a very fast
processor ie. Super Gold card or QXL or a fast QPC machine. Very compatible
with all the files I tried - runs the common .Z80 files found on Spectrum
internet sites just fine.

I always found Spectator a bit crap (sorry Dr. Delhez) and hasn't been
updated in donkeys years - Xtricator, the ZX81 emulator he did was much
better (he did a QL and PC version). Speculator looks good on screen and
even came with a funky little piece of software called QSPEC which allowed
you to read spectrum audio cassettes directly via the QL network ports in
much the same way as a real spectrum, although this had to be purchased for
the full version - the version in the QUANTA library is limited to small
files I think. I'll ask Simon.

ZeXcel is probably the best one to be updated for GD2 use if any are, as
its the most recent of all QL Spectrum emulators, and works on all systems
I've tried, plus its pointer driven, and overall is very polished. It
already uses some clever shading techniques to give the illusion of 8
colours of the Spectrum when you are actually running it in MODE 4 on the
QL.  There are a vast range of configurable options in it - ie. you can run
games in monochrome to speed them up if running on a slower system.

Maybe Davide can throw more light on this if he is listening. Davide?

Cheers,

Darren Branagh,
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Does anyone know of the status of the Spectrum emulators on the QL?
Specifically:

1. Were they released to the pd?

Some were, I think the zmht wasn't. Most of the spectrum emulators
came from Davide Santachiara's company Ergon Development in Italy.

Spectator was by Dr Carlo Delhez (he of QL Ungif and Zxtricator ZX81
emulator fame)

There is another Spectrum emulator by William James, don't remember
its name.

ZexCel from Ergon is freeware.

2. Are the authors still involved in the QL scene.

In most cases, no. Dr Carlo Delhez has his own Zxtricator website and
may be contactable via that. Davide Santachiara is contactable (I
think he's still ont his list), but not very active at the moment,
while I don't know about William James

3. If they are, and if they read this list, would it be possible to
update
(especially the Dynamic Compiler emulator (It was the ZM/Ht IIRC)) to
use
the GD2... (and maybe some other roms apart from the mainstream 48
and 128 K)?

Darren Branagh has compiled a Spectrum CD recently and may be able to
add further information.

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Malcolm Cadman wrote:-
Time to get your own account then ... ?

I already have 3 of those, and don't have time to look at any of them -
10-15 hour days often 6 and 7 days a week don't allow much time for
dialling into email accounts! The bank system works on a very quick lease
line, I have lethally quick upload and download times which is great for
huge files (I emailed a 200Mb Star Trek Enterprise episode to a friend just
now, actually the pilot for the new series!) , and its permanently
connected and available all day everyday to me.  Its either this or no
Darren on the mailing list at all - Sorry!

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Malcolm Cadman wrote:-

Shows how quickly you can get out of touch ... :-) ... wasn't Freddy one
of the 'leading lights' in the QL world for some time ?

Yep. Most of the decent software for years was produced by either DP or a
bloke called Dilwyn Jones of DJC (whoever he is) :-)) I remember the way
Freddy could put away food too, 2 or 3 plates at a time!

Darren - are we stuck with your long long signature ?  ... :-(

Afraid So. Its preprogrammed by the bank and appended to all outgoing
messages, sorry about that. I can get rid of the address/phone no's, and
personal sig, but the pathetic disclaimer will have to stay...

Cheers,

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Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha

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Pity you didn't get a concrete address or email. Would have been nice to
see him again at a future show somewhere, and if he was up in North Wales
chances are he has moved out of london, or at least moved.

Nice to hear he still has a QL and Gold Card and uses it now and again
though, thats quite encouraging.

Did you tell him of any of the major events of the past few years - Aurora,
SMSQ/E, Romdisq, MinisQL, Q40, QPC ??

Cheers,

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I had the pleasure of meeting Freddy Vachha (formerly Mr Digital
Precision Ltd) the other day at work. We had a brief chat while he was
waiting for a train.

Although he would hardly describe himself as an active QLer these
days, but he did say quite plainly that he still has a QL and Gold
Card, and still uses Perfection which he described as less frustrating
at times than many word processors he has used.

He said he was unaware of QL2000 last year, or at least if anyone had
mentioned it he'd forgotten about it, and may well have attended had
he known. He is open to invitations to such future events, as he still
has a soft spot for the QL, despite not using his that often these
days.

Those who know Freddy will be glad to know that he is still his usual
happy, bouncy self, happily making money (forgotten what he said he
was up to and where he lived now, should have written it all down and
used it all in evidence!)

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Re: [ql-users] Hotmail

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Ian -

Does she use Hotmail from a web cafe etc, or does she have email at home
and just uses hotmail?

The reason I ask is that she may be composing her emails elsewhere, ie. at
home on a non-internet capable PC, and then taking a floppy down to her
local email centre or cafe and attaching her pre-written emails to save
time online (I used to do this on my old black box QL years ago, when it
was typically £7 per hour in Ireland to use email or internet, long before
I could afford it at home). I could send off a dozen letters be email this
way from a few minutes of online time - worth its weight in gold when
you're a poor student as I was at the time.

Ask her how she is sending her emails and composing them - that may reveal
something.



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Hi

My sister in Sydney sends me email from Hotmail.com and it always arrives
in my Compuserve mail as an attachment.  I have made a trial sending mail
from Hotmail
to myself at Compuserve and it arrives correctly (not attachment).  This
seems queer.

Any ideas why this happens and is there a cure?

Sorry it is not a QL subject!

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Re: [ql-users] QPC2

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Absolutely Geoff - no offense intended Francois, we're just pulling yer
leg.

Actually, it all goes to show what a truly international bunch we all are -
still using an obsolete computer 17 years later, a thing which still
never fails to amaze me.

I wonder does Clive Sinclair still know we exist, ie. QUANTA, and QL users
in general?

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Hi,
It must be all Dutch to you ... and in fact it is.
I can translate it in (very poor) English if you want.
François

No need to apologise, François. To put the non-Dutch speakers out of their
misery, I think Joachim sent a personal email accidentally by the group.

All he was doing was asking for a bit of advice configuring QPC for use
with
a Belgian keyboard.

Forgive us if we made a bit of fun of it. It's the way we English, Irish,
Welsh, Scots and Geordies are.

Eerlijk gezegd, in het Nederlands, een beetje flauw van ons.

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[Darren . Branagh]

I think he does - last I heard he was living in or around Kinghtsbridge,
driving a Porsche, and dating blondes half his age.

(And some people thought he was just an old boffin!)

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Does Clive Sinclair still exist :o)

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RE: [ql-users] QPC2

[Darren . Branagh]

Don't joke - I can see a time when C5's will be worth more than Porsches.
One guy over here is looking £5,000 for one. Mind you, they are quite rare
in Ireland.

I wouldn't mind owning one for a laugh. ;-)#

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So, not a C5 then ?



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I think he does - last I heard he was living in or around Kinghtsbridge,
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Re: [ql-users] Re: Prowess and euro (OT)

[Darren . Branagh]

Sorry Malcolm, missed this email.

The Irish is:-

duighann tu an iasc, bith me an la; teachainn tu an iascaigh, bith me an
la agus la eile.

(there is no lifetime in irish, it translates as for days and days to
come or forever)

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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, Dent Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In a region of the universe visited by my cousin Arthur (while
hitchhiking),

they had a saying which went something like:

Stick a Babel fish in a man's printer and it'll go on translating fonts
 to Prowess for the rest of its life

Of course it may have lost some meaning in the translation ;-)

Jon. (Dent)

Umm ... nice message :-) I was wondering about your cousin Arthur ...

From: Darren.Branagh

We have the saying - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man
to
fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Sounds better in the Irish language though!!

So, what is the Irish then ?

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Re: [ql-users] Re: Prowess and euro (OT)

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We have the saying - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to
fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Sounds better in the Irish language though!!

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On 3 Oct 2001, at 12:36, Phoebus Dokos wrote:


 In some of the fonts I converted for Dilwyn for the Prowess Font
Collection
 DO have the Euro Symbol. Apart from that if you want a Specific font (say

 Arial or similar from Windows) to maintain cross platform look, I could
 prepare for you. (Mind you NOT a whole lot of them because I am up to my
 neck with work :-( )


That's awfully nice of you. Perhaps if you told me (privately?) how
to make the conversion, I could do it myself...
(It's like to old saying :don't give them something to eat, teach
them how to fish...)

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Re: [ql-users] Rom Versions - FWD from Admin

[Darren . Branagh]

You should buy a copy of one or two of Roy's CD's to get a feel for what he
was up to - some great lyrics and vocals. I keep mine in the car now, its
grown on me no end. Excellent Stuff.

Roy Weard and Last Post's Fallout is good - I think Roy can supply them.

Some absolutely fabulous guitar stuff on this CD by Steve Bensusan. Not to
mention a Picture in the lyric booket of one long haired semi-naked
frontman who bares a slight resemblance to the boss of Q-Branch..

Somehow I can't see Roy singing I wish it could be Xmas Everyday...
though. He really was quite mad in his younger days :-))

Cheers,

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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh
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SNIP
 I was recalling an incident in my Rock'n'Roll days when I was on tour
 with Manfred Mann.

In spite of his denial I'm convinced Roy is Roy Wood of Wizard
After all anyone could have been under that beard and face make up.(:-)
Oh well 54321 send for the fire brigade.
I will point you to the Barking Spiders website when it is up and
running. You will see I was much sillier than even that namesake.
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[ql-users] Q-Celt Computing News

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Q-CELT COMPUTING NEWSSEPTEMBER 2001

Q-Celt Will be at the Byfleet Show on 23/09/01 (this Sunday!) with some new 
products!

The ZeXcel ZX Spectrum Emulator CD-ROM is now released, and contains the latest 
release of the ZeXcel Emulator (by Ergon Developments, now freeware) as well as 
every Spectrum Game, Utility, and Application I could get my hands on - over 
350MB WORTH!!. This is Version 1.00. It will have a special introductory price 
at the Show, and 50% of the profits will also be donated to Charity.

The Phoebus Dokos Interactive Fantasy CD has been revised. It includes a full 
colour sleeve designed by Phoebus and a new 37Mb animation sequence!! Again, a 
portion of the profits on this CD are being donated to Chidrens Charities.

Dilwyn has upgraded his Emulator CD to 1.5, to include some additional recent 
new programs. Upgrades are available at the Show. 

We have started work on a ZX81 Emulator CD, and also have a QL Encyclopedia 
CD-ROM in the pipeline, converted from some PC material, and hopefully using a 
new version of Dilwyn Jones' VIEWER_obj which will display hyperlinks as in HTML 
documents for smooth and easy navigation.

We will also have all our usual (or unusual!) range of 2nd User Hardware and 
Cables.. and some 2nd User Software too. 

And a certain Dilwyn Jones will be copying a few disks... (schhhush.. thats a 
secret..)  ;-))

We are also looking for new ideas for possible future CD-ROM's. If there is 
anything in particular you'd like to see released, please tell us - we'll 
endevour to provide you with what you want.

Many thanks, and see you all on Sunday!


Darren Branagh.
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[ql-users] Re: Darren

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Sorry All,

Have been out for the past week or so quite ill, only getting back to clearing 
the email backlog now.

I'll be at byfleet though ;-))

Darren.



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Is that his correct email - it isn't bouncing so I guess it is.
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[ql-users] re: Soldering Irons

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Bill Waugh wrote:
and it gets worse , today I forgot that exhaust pipes get very hot,
typing this with one hand and holding a freezer pack in the other.
I would not tolerate such stupidity if it were anyone other than me.

All the best - Bill

Speaking of holding icepacks in one hand, ask Darren Branagh to
explain which end of the soldering iron is the hot one (sorry Darren!)


Very Funny... The incident Dilwyn is referring is similar to yours Bill, I 
grabbed a soldering iron by the wrong end WHILE IT WAS STILL PLUGGED IN.. I 
asked a colleague in work to unplug it about 10 minutes earlier, but he 
unplugged the wrong plug!!

See Dilwyn's text file of Murphys Laws.. Quote: Hot soldering Irons look 
exactly the same as cold ones.

Learnt a trick from a friend in the hospital though - soak a six inch length of 
brush handle or wood that is easy to grip in some cold water, then stick it in 
the freezer overnight - the water in the wood freezes and you get a nice 
grippable burn soother...

This was about a 6 weeks ago, and I still have a small scar. Nasty..


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[ql-users] re: Q-MATHS

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for at least taking the time to have a look for a copy for me - sorry 
they are corrupted. I have managed to get a working copy from another source so 
have just put the two parties in touch to haggle out a price etc. 


Thanks for the offer though!


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[ql-users] Q-MATHS

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

A customer of mine has sent me a letter enquiring as to the status of the 
Digital Precision program, Q-MATHS. He is fairly desperate to obtain a copy as 
he needs it for work purposes.

I know from previous mails that the status of these DP programs is somewhat of a 
grey area - I am not even sure of the author of this particular package. Can 
anyone throw any light on this?

Failing this, does anybody have a legal copy for sale, in good working order 
with documentation?  This customer is a QL user only and as a result does not 
have email access, hence my imvolvement.

Cheers,

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[ql-users] re: As things are quiet..

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

Great to see another new user popping up - You're very, very welcome Paul. I too 
was a little daunted by the chat on the list when I first joined, some time ago 
now, but soon came to realise how helpful all the subscribers are.

Many of them have been QL users from day one - back in the early 80's. Several 
are active QL hardware and software developers, and a few more are QL traders - 
myself included - and deal in Ql software and hardware at various Ql workshops 
around the country during the year, and a few on the continent also.

The thing I like about this list is info is so accessible and people are so 
ready to help on ANY level without making you feel like an idiot. Something I 
feel is sadly lacking on PC circles - either you're an expert on those lists or 
you shouldn't bother. Feel free to ask any question you like, about anything you 
want QL, and I guarantee someone will answer quickly - usually several people 
will.

As the others, I suggest you subscribe to QL Today, fulls details on dilwyns 
website as previously mentioned. Also QUANTA, the QL users and tinkers a-
ssociation, is well worth joining - they have an extensive software library 
with hundreds of QL programs that the librarian will send you. Costs only  £14 a 
year to join and you get a monthly magazine as well. see   www.quanta.uni.cc

I also suggest you try and make it to a QL show - as talking face to face and 
seeing the new hardware and software is often much better and more easily 
understood. The next one in the UK is in the south of England in Byfleet at the 
end of September.

So, Paul - feel free to ask anything whenever you like. Remember, the only 
stupid question is the one you didn't ask.. :-))

Cheers,

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[ql-users] Re: Digital Precision Collection

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

As per the queries regarding the DP collection copyrights, Simon Goodwin got 
back to me last night with the following.

Seems all you really need to do is ask the authors very politely :-))

Cheers,

Darren.

A thought just occured to me - a DP collection on CD-R would be nice... Might 
look into the possibilities of this.




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Hi DARREN,


They are not PD. Digital Precision never owned the copyright and
it remains with the authors. Chas, Gerry and I have released
some programs (Turbo, Editor, etc) as widely advertised but
they remain copyright, and other programs can only be
copied with the permission of the authors. So ask nicely,
and say what you're going to do - but don't expect commercial
or unrestricted copying rights to be granted.

On 27-Jun-01, DARREN BRANAGH 6798433 wrote:
 
 Hi Simon, 
 
 this popped up on the list last night - care to comment?
 
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[ql-users] Digital Precision collection

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

I would concur with Tony - Freddy would certainly sue, all depends on if he 
still actually owns the copyright or not, or they were indeed time limited and 
have reverted to Simon et al as the authors.

Simon doesn't subscribe to this list, but I have forwarded this email to him for 
comment - I'm sure he'll know the score and I'll pass on his response. He is 
busy doing a regular contribution to Linux Format magazine now among many other 
Amiga related things.

Cheers,

Darren.
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P.S. I am delighted to see work has begun on a CD device driver. Simon has been 
trying to get Frank Swift (a brother of Marks) to write a CD driver in C to read 
QXL.WIN's on any platform (inc. Amigas etc.) for some time - I set him QXL.WIN 
samples from my CD collection that I sell but never got a response from him, 
that was only a few weeks ago though.





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[ql-users] request for NA QL Show.

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

I am at present, like most of the traders, gearing up for the Montreal North 
American QL show on Saturday.

Having never been to a NA Show before, I am unsure of quantities of items to 
bring along - and with severe weight restrictions on my flight, my usual 
enormous flight suitcase is definitely out this time :-)

Can I therefore appeal to anyone visiting the Show and wanting something in pa-
rticular to PLEASE email me and let me know to ensure I have enough stock. You 
can get me on this address or on [EMAIL PROTECTED] up until Thursday 
night (UK time). Don't be disapointed!

Many thanks, and see you all on Saturday!!

Darren.





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Re: [ql-users] QL Emulators CD

[Darren Branagh]

Dilwyn Wrote:-

In the meantime, anyone in areas not affected by the postal dispute 
wanting a copy, please obtain one from Q-Celt Computing. Ireland isn't 
affected by the strike, of course. 


I'll second that :-))

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Re: [ql-users] QL Emulators CD

[Darren Branagh]

Hmmm don't forget the IFC CD (soon in version 2)... Hey Darren I 
almost finished the menu system. Sadly it only works on qpc II right 
now (I am still WAITING FOR MY Q40) (HINT and NOT for Peter) 
 
Phoebus 


Can't Wait - sounds like a great idea, might try applying this to the other ones too.

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[ql-users] QL Membrane PSU Problem

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

To the new QL'er with the Membrane and PSU problem :-

I have a Dead QL with a good working membrane - at least it was before the QL 
itself passed away at Christmas! - I also have an unused QL Power Supply.

I can post both to you for the cost of postage only, ie. both items provided 
free. However, the PSU is quite heavy and will probably cost a small fortune to 
post to you from here in Ireland. The membrane is still attached to the keyboard 
inc. the top half of the casing, so best to post this as is for protection.

Email me privately if you are interested in this and we'll work something out.

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Re: [ql-users] LineDesign

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LineDesign is good value for the money, sure. But to be honest you'll find a 
more feature packed Graphics Program on the front cover of most decent PC 
Monthly's now for no more than 4 or 5 quid. Paint Shop Pro, PhotoExpress, Adobe 
PhotoDeluxe 2.0, Serif PagePlus and DrawPlus, and EasyDTP have all featured in 
full versions on PC Mags recently.

And Corel Draw is still king despite the price.

The QL has never been a great graphics machine in my opinion - thats not what 
attracted me to it, and I came into the QL fold later than most people. However, 
I agree that a new program or update of LineDesign is now needed to take 
advantage of GD2.

Cheers,

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[ql-users] QL bits for Sale or Take Away..

[DARREN BRANAGH 6798433]

Hi All,

I am travelling to the AGM Show in Portishead with Dilwyn as usual, but the nice 
bit is that he is here in Ireland on holiday staying with me for a few days 
first - hence I have a car I can fill going back to the Show, but not on the way 
back again obviously.

I have several big pieces of QL hardware I want rid of - Mostly Monitors, Tower 
Cases, etc. If anybody wants any of this, please email me before Friday morning, 
and I will bring it across for you. Normally I wouldn't have the car, so this is 
your chance is you want any of this clobber :-))

You will HAVE TO TAKE WHATEVER YOU ORDER - I don't want to be stuck with this 
and no way to get it back to Ireland again!

This is basically what I have. Most items are free to be taken away, some 
obviously will have a price (QXL2 for example, but they will be cheap - I 
promise!!)  :-


Microvitec Cub 14 Colour Monitor (white) on Swivel Stand/Base wired for QL

TATUNG 14 Colour/Green Screen (Switchable) Monitor with QL Cable

Microvitec 14 cube-like metal cased monitor with internal Audio/Speakers 

Empty PC Tower Case, suitable for Building a QL, with 200W PSU and Floppy

Several SER1 to Parallel Printer Interfaces for the QL

QXLII (25Mhz, 68040, 8Mb, etc.) Emulator Card for PC with network ports etc.

Loads of original QL Power Supplies (about 5)

Tower Cased 486 PC with 8Mb RAM, floppy and hard drives, Windows 95 loaded.

Miracle Systems black Twin Floppy Drive Unit (inc. Cables, PSU, etc.)

Single Floppy drive unit (metal cased white with PSU and cable etc.)

QL with Keyboard 90 Interface fitted

several PC Keyboards (both PS/2 and 5-pin DIN)


Give me a shout if you see anything you want,

Darren.
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Re: [ql-users] Reply to Geoff Wicks Letter

[Darren Branagh]

Dilwyn Jones wrote :-

I presume that the typical Brit becoming black and Irish accented
implies people like Darren Branagh (who was born in Northern Ireland
and so almost British) with a QL plugged into his brain???

Sounds fine to me. I'm somewhat of a "Heinz 57" myself, Born in Northern 
Ireland to a Catholic Father and Protestant Mother (That was fun!) and 
holding dual passports as a result - British and Irish, although I don't 
think I renewed the British one last time - I read somewhere that British 
people are the 2nd most likely to be shot in a hijack situation - really! 
(after the Americans!). I speak fluent English and almost-fluent Irish (its 
in steep decline over here, so don't get to use it much - unlike Dilwyns 
Welsh, which he can use virtually anywhere, shame really...)

Also intrigued that Robert knew the Welsh for London (it's quite close
to the original name, whatever language that came from).

Yes, had to unearth that Welsh-English dictionary you gave me to find that 
out :-))

Anyway, 'QL' is the universal language on this list (says he desperate
to get back on topic)

Agreed!!


Darren Branagh.
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Re: [ql-users] Geoff Wicks letter

[Darren Branagh]

Geoff Wicks Wrote:-

Perhaps you could ask QUANTA to provide dual language newsletters. After 
all
these days if a I apply for a UK death certificate it comes half in Welsh,
llofnod, disgrifiad a chyfeiriad yr hysbysydd, and all that. Why not in
Gaelic as well? It's discrimination against we 6.25% Irish/93.75% English.

I agree - the more Gaelic we can get into the UK the better, with the way us 
good Irish catholics procreate, give it a few hundred years and they'll all 
be Irish  :-))

Anyway, I'm pretty much 99% Irish, with the other 1% being a bit of Spanish 
that crept in 5 generations back...

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Re: [ql-users] Interactive Fantasy CD v.1 / Quantum website

[Darren Branagh]

Phoebus Dokos wrote:-


Announcements

1. Interactive Fantasy CD v.1
Whoever buys the IF CD sold by QCELT (whenever this will be possible, due
to the problems with FM) will be
entitled to free enhancements (by email): additional games, maps etc. Just
notify Darren when you purchace it and give him your email address to
forward to me.

I think this is a great idea, and sure to catch on; much easier to do this 
at regular intervals than to updates CD's and disks, especially if only 
small updates. Great idea, Phoebus!

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Re: [ql-users] Wristwatch QL/Linux

[Darren Branagh]

Dilwyn Jones Wrote:-

Our daily newspapers in Britain today have been carryinbg pictures of
an airport lady "wearing" a radio linked body computer, which has a
keyboard on her arm, a belt carried battery pack and a sci-fi style
small screen on a headset style arm in front of one eye set up to look
at close range like a 15 inch display they claim.

IBM manufacture these I think - A few of the staff at the Bank Of Ireland in 
Dublin Airport have them, and use them to do foreign exchange for customers 
in the actual airport lounges - They have a 2.5" Hard drive on their belt 
which holds the info and what business they have done for the day, and they 
keep a bag around their shoulder with various amounts of foreign cash in it. 
These ones aren't radio linked, so a multi core cable runs down your back to 
the HD and processor on the belt. They are voice controlled, so no keyboard 
either. A sure fire hit for a mugging I would have thought, but apparently 
it works well and they have had no problems (yet!).

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[ql-users] Emulators CD

[Darren Branagh]

From: "Dilwyn Jones" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I am taking advantage of the extra time to add more free QL software
to the CD to make best use of space (Darren will love me, it will now
take him twice as long to burn each CD!)

Great :-(( No, I think this is a great idea, and the more that's on it, the 
better.

 The Emulators CD would benefit by getting a mention in a PC magazine.
 Thereby alerting those we need to attract back to the QL.

I would hope to do this, but I want the CD to be available first. The
lead in time for magazines will then build in a few weeks where any
initial problems with the CD (e.g. removal of any copyrighted material
inadvertently included or significant bugs found). It's so late
already I don't think a few more weeks wait will matter too much.

Simon Goodwin has managed to get us a brief plug in the next issue of Linux 
Format Magazine, which he now writes for. Basically it has uQLx on the Cd, 
so has an interest for Linux users. I hope to try and get Simon to put uQLx 
and the freeware on the LF cover CD if I can.

Cheers,

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[ql-users] Hove Show Apologies

[Darren Branagh]

Hi All,

By Now, you all will have noticed my absence at the Hove Show - 
unfortunately this couldn't be helped for two reasons..

Firstly, I was seriously snowed in!! About 10-12 inches of snow in places, 
and 2-3 foot drifts at my main gate. I'm been snowbound since last Tuesday, 
and only got the car out yesterday morning. I was without electricty and 
phone lines too.

Secondly, the foot and mouth crisis - its been generally frowned upon for 
anybody to make any non-essential travel to the UK from Ireland by the 
government.

Apologies to anybody who expected to see me there, but I couldn't help 
it. I had hoped to launch the Emulators CD there, but this will now have 
to wait until the QUANTA AGM instead.

I am still without email, and am sending this from a neighbours. The 
electricity is back, but My Modem was fried during the on/off power cuts 
over the last few days. Wonderful, isn't it?

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Re: [ql-users] OT - OSARIS pocket computer

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Malcolm,

So, you bought an Osaris! You may remember I bought one just prior to the 
London QL Show and showed it to you and Ken Brickwood in Ken's house after 
the Show.

I love mine, and even asked about the possibility of an EPOC version of QPC 
as a result :-))

What do you mean by RiscStation though? Surely you mean the EPOC one, made 
by Oregon Scientific and based on the design of the Psion 5?

The Z80 Emulator for Speccy stuff is excellent - email me privately and I'll 
send you some more excellent links.


Using QPC, switching data is easy - just use the Pc Link and then read it in 
to QPC in MS-DOS mode - in fact, its even easier now QPC can read the native 
DOS file directory as DOS1_  !!

I download ebooks to mine and read them on the train each morning - 
currently reading a Tale of Two Cities again!! :-))

Darren.
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From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [ql-users] OT - OSARIS pocket computer
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:46:21 +


Hi All,

I recently purchased this pocket computer - RiscStation OSARIS.

Check these web sites for information :-

www.riscstation.co.uk

www.oregonscientific.co.uk

It a neat and well built pocket sized computer, that probably has more
features than the now well know Psions. The shape is a 'clam shell',
folding out to reveal screen and keyboard.

The keyboard, for the size, with a very positive feel.  A touch
sensitive screen with a pen is the main input device for navigating.

Memory is a 8Mb ROM "internal disk", called the 'C Drive'; to which
Compact Flash Memory Cards can be added as 'Drive D'.

It has a range of standard applications that are compatible with PC and
others, such as Word, Sheet, Data.  With a range of the normal
applications like Agenda, Jotter, Sketch, Calc, etc.

In addition it has Comms, and Email, Fax and Web browsing ( the latter
has to be loaded in off a supplied CD-ROM ).  It sychronises with a PC
or other computer via either a serial link or infra red. So that
information is easily exchanged in either direction.

This evening I downloaded a free z80 emulator for Spectrum games, which
installed itself as another application quite painlessly :-)

It uses the EPOC system, and includes a programme language based on
procedures to create your own software.

It uses a RISC processor, so software is supplied to link to both RISC
OS and PC.  Price is 170ukp.

I'm impressed with it, and I have used it non-stop to be able to carry
information with me to meetings, etc.

I can now see the potential that different OS's than those supplied by
Bill G have in markets like this.  Was it Arnould who has been
proclaiming the possiblity of a portable QL based OS machine ?

Perhaps there is hope to link it to a QL ?  I haven't yet experimented
with importing data from QL software, via a PC format, either.

All in all, it is a real joy to use.  Everything is so effortless :-)

--
Malcolm Cadman

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Re: [ql-users] Infocom and Fontbuster

[Darren Branagh]

Hi Phoebus,

Yes - The Infocom CD arrived here on Wednesday. I am back home tomorrow so 
will have time to play with it over the weekend and I'll report further 
then.

Cheers,

Darren.
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Nothing arrived here here anyway, Phoebus. Don't forget there are
postal disputes on in parts of Britain at the moment.

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of you
 (any email to Eire and the UK apparently) please tell me if you
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