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}
} In terms of software drivers, what would Ethernet require to connect
} to other computers on a network? Would one driver be it (i.e. largely
} device independen to use QL-speak) or would it need various drivers
} depending on what it was
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}
} A while back Per wrote an e-mail to the group asking for someone to create
} a PD Sprite collection, esp. sprites that can be used with the new
} WMAN. This sounds like an interesting task, not one that I could do myself.
}
} I
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} In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davide
} Santachiara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
} SNIP
} A dot matrix printer now costs around 5 times a bubble-jet so I was
} wondering whether it was possible to connect the printer output to a PC
} parallel
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} After a small investigation I have found out that the cable that I would like to
interface to QPC2 via PC i/o port is a serial one so things should be much easier than
using a parallel port. The cable is meant to be connected to a
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} Hello all,
}
} As in the last messages we were talking of possible SMSQ/E applications I have a
question for the experts.
}
} In our company we have an alarm system that can be interfaced to a dot-matrix
printer (Epson compatible)
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} Did anybody know that the number of loose items are limited in C68 in the definition
of the status area in qptr_h in the line
} char litem[40]
} ?
Yes, I did! I learned it the hardway when I wrote a program with more than 40 loose
items.
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} Btw, does anyone know why i have to perform a DEL_DEFB command after having
swapped (hot) the md , before to see the right content ?
Because there is a caching mechanism which assume that md are not removable...
look for WIN_REMV in a
Greeting,
Is there on the web any disassembler available free worth a recommendation ?
(I mean a 680xx disassembler... might be ok if it run either on a Q40 or
a PC)
I'm going to reverse the Q40 2.91 eprom code to try to understand what's wrong with my
home-made new 3.01 eprom... unless
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}
} I'm going to reverse the Q40 2.91 eprom code to try to understand what's wrong
with my home-made new 3.01 eprom... unless someone came with a working solution,
} that is. Something must be different... somewhere!
} Sned it to me,
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} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} May be I could use the parallel-printer port to print (have to look how
} to send a caractere to that interface... hopefully it's simple.
}
} That should be pretty simple, yes.
}
} But I'm afraid I'm not going
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} On 13 Nov 2003 at 9:26, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} (...)
}
} Do we have any hardware specification/documentation for the eprom on the Q40 ?
} (including bus access and signals)
}
}
} How about reading the working version 2.91
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} On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 at 09:41:31, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
}
} I tried to program some Eprom to replace the 2.91 with at least 3.01 SMSQ/E
} on my Q40... and so far I fail miserably.
} What's the magic process ? Am i missing a step ?
}
} I
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} On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 09:26:40, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} Done that (copy the original 2.91 on new eprom set). Works fine.
} (I should close the window with a sticker, but I lack the sticker...)
} Laurence Reeves used to erase Minerva
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} Is it me, or was the GD2 standard supposed to allow each program to run at
} its own set colour depth and screen resolution, with the WMAN resetting these as
} you move between tasks..
It's probabbly you. At least GD2 sprite
Greetings,
I tried to program some Eprom to replace the 2.91 with at least 3.01 SMSQ/E
on my Q40... and so far I fail miserably.
What's the magic process ? Am i missing a step ?
I have a 'lrespr-able' rom file (configurated as I want).
It works fine when lrespr-ed.
I used wrom_bas to get the
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} Rich Mellor wrote:
}
} The problem with writing these programs is if you want to change the
} screen colour depth and resolution to fit your application (why
} should QWord use the standard QL colours on QPC2 when it can switch
} into
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} Sorry for being such a pain, but I have some further questions:
}
} How do I position a PE window accurately? Problem is, I want to create a
} button, to go into the button frame. Im hoping to use a standard Window
} Definition with a single
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} Hello,
}
} I was there in Eindhoven when there was a small meeting about what to do
} now that Tony Tebby was ready to show the source code of SMSQ/E.
}
} I was the first to speak and I said that IMO 15 years of work of TT
} should
Hello,
I will provide a lot of details just to request a small information!
This is mainly for hardware people...
The provided Eprom with the Q40 are two 27C1024, making it for 256KB.
Looking at my latest SMSQ/E (which must be 3.01), the current size of
the file might be only a few KB short to
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} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} I have not yet seen the block operation in C for 24 bits colours...
}
} http://www.itimpi.freeserve.co.uk/ql/gd2b.zip
}
} iow_blkt ( chanid_t channel, timeout_t timeout, GDSTP_t *, QLRECT_t *rect)
Ok, will have
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} Sure SMSQ/E is still used on most Q60, but this is for 99% an achievement
} of Tony Tebby and not your new facilities.
}
} Well, if that is REALLY the case, then both you two, Marcel and
} Wolfgang, completely wasted your time for the last 1
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}
} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} Is there any uptodate Web page listing the know/resolved bugs with version
} (sort of changes.txt, with pending bugs listed as extra).
}
} Normally http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/versionssms.html should be
} up
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} Just a thought about what a pity,( I am now in the lunch break...)
} one year later after sms/e sources new license, and for a lot of reason that I do
not understand (!!) nothing was done on the Q40 side, not because missing of
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} Having both a HP1150 and an HP PSC750 both attached to QPC2 and working
} with Text87 and Prowess, what is all the fuss about?
The fuss is about 'modern-printer', the ones in which the printing engine
(smart part, including Fonts) is in
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}
} request from Jerome Grimbert to print free memory as a qpac2 button
} (lost in my filing system!).
Me ??? Ok, must be a very old request then.
}
} It is easy using Phil Borman's BT_FRAME (LRESPR bt_frame_bin)
}
} eg for my I2C
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}
} Why not make the key a definable hotkey, so that the user can dfine it to
} any keystroke they want. This would also bring use of the function to older
} programs.
YES!, the most sensical approach.
Just like we have a definition for
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}
} I think its time to start a riot then -
}
} Aren't QL's rubbish?? Windows is much better.
Windows ? What's the relation between computer and house hardware ? (excepted
home-computing of course). QL-compatible are just fine,
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}
} Hi all,
} I need a Dual Channel (ie 4 ide drives) controller for a Q40 if anyone has
} a spare one. I can either buy it or exchange with a brand new ED drive
} (plus disks)
}
} Anyone interested for exchange,
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} } } Hi all,
} } I need a Dual Channel (ie 4 ide drives) controller for a Q40 if anyone
} has } a spare one. I can either buy it or exchange with a brand new ED
} drive } (plus disks)
} } } Anyone interested
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} For me the first one need a login.
(about smsq.free.fr)
Not anymore, it's dead or available again (according to the point-of-view).
It was done by Thierry Godefroy, a few years ago, but due to
a server crash while Thierry was at sea,
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} Morning Dilwyn,
}
} (ok, afternoon, but I slept late today !)
}
} You can only have 32 info windows. Some of the menus in Launchpad
} suffer because of this, I was using narrow windows as shadows and
} boxes and kept running out of
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} I now have serious things to worry about,I have a Compact Flash IDE
} adapter with ATA-100 ribbon cable and 512MB flash card. The first time I
} formated it, format said 32MB in sectors. 'Dir'ing the flash found all
} but 137K of 488MB
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} Hi again !
}
} A big thank you to Marcel who sent me a copy of his SMSQ/E
} version (3.01) for the SGC: it works like a charm...
}
} I guess the problems I encountered are the result of buggy
} sources in the SMSQ/E v3.01 CD-R that
}
} And to be honest with you I really do not like Q-Liberator.
} As for everyone that preferred it due to its ability to incorporate
} extensions... Turbo does that too... not only that but thanks to George's
} work Turbo can now easily incorporate HUGE extensions. See for example the
}
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} For the rest I do not think is a problen of partition dimension having formatted
succesfully a 512Mb and more partition using Mkpart (1.02).
Me too. Partitionning at 512Mb was ok... but using REALLY the file system
was not, at least
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} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} Does anyone have a routine still which will work on modern QLs to
} stop the break key from working???
}
} On SMSQ/E systems you can set bit 4 ($10) of sys_klock ($e4). Other
} bits suppress reset etc.
}
But
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} Roy,
}
} Maybe you could write a program to delete female junk from bathrooms -
} along the lines of that Linux game where you have to destroy the PCs
} while Bill Gates is sneaking in and installing them - Dilwyn should be
} good at
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} Hi.
}
} Look up the model on the Internet, never failed me on dozens of drives.
Ok, I mean: from an SMSQ/E program ?
Otherwise, most drives now comes with a label which states the number of sectors...
There is also the 'seek and destroy'
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} Davide Santachiara wrote:
} Which are the main colour modes for QL/QPC/Aurora/Q60?
}
} In the near future the table will look like this:
}
} QL: QL colours (4 and 8 colours)
} QPC: QL colours, mode 16 (256 colours), mode 32 (65536
} On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:55:30 - Dilwyn Jones
} [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
}
} I'm working on the 'MyQL' part of Launchpad and I'd like to ask for
} any additional information can offer on the following.
}
} I'd like to compile as complete a list of current directory devices
} on
}
Hello,
does anyone have a synthetic and complete documentation regarding the QLWA filesystem
(the one used on Qx0 and QPC).
I have found some 'educated'-guess about the value of the first sector,
but I wonder about:
- a better documentation of that first sector
- how the files are organised
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}
} http://www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qdos/qlwa.html
}
} That's all I have on the matter - supplied from docs written by Tony Tebby
} (I am reliably informed). It's not much, but it might be useful.
Thanks. At least it clarify a little the
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}
} The QLWA is basically from what I recall, a patchwork of a FAT-12
} organization (ie Atari GEMDOS modified partition) with link-lists for FAT
} (and lacking fat 2).
That's tell me nothing, because I do not know FAT-12 either!
} The
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}
} The Epson Stylus 800 was indeed a Parallel printer - I had one. I think, but
} I'm not sure, that there was a serial interface available for it.
Jumping the technology back to the early age of QL, we had a serial to parallel
converter
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} Anyone got an Epson stylus 800 colour printer (or similar) for sale?? Needs
} to be a serial printer - I only have dot matrix ones here
Are you sure the Epson is not a parallel printer ?
I have not meet a new serial printer
I'm planning to rewrite the sprite editor 'sprted' soon.
So far, the main evolution would be support of the now numerous GD2 sprite modes.
Is there anything else that would be also welcome ?
Anything that you would like to change ? or remove ?
I do not promise to follow all suggestions
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} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} I have just found out that blob and mask when used in an information windows
} (How silly, it would be simpler to use a sprite instead!), seems to
} have their origin at the screen origin, not the window origin
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} Oh, while you speak of the PE, I will jump in the wagon...
} I have just found out that blob and mask when used in an information windows
} (How silly, it would be simpler to use a sprite instead!), seems to
} have their origin at
Hello everybody,
My assembly being a little rusted, I would like to check with the knowledgeable
people the following portion of code.
...
tst.l d2
beq.s first_place
second_place:
...
Now, if d2 is 0, would executing that code reach
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} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} Also, if you do not mind, another (tricker ?) question:
}
} harpo equ $160
} chico equ $140
} elem_size equ $0c
}
} clr.l a1 ; (just to fixe a1 to 0 for the question
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}
} More difficult to spots in complex and/or large codes are often things
} like wrong registers. Only 3 days ago I finally fixed a nasty bug that
} lived in the PE for about 12 years. It drew weird windows or crashed
} the machine when
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} Whilst on this subject, it seems very hard to write a PIC file viewer which
} can handle all of the different display modes.
}
} 1) What is the best way of detecting whether GD2 drivers are present and in
} use??
If you can wait a
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}
} Im not using emulators.., all screenshoots on that page is real
} , except the AmigaDE one , but thats not emulated only hosted.
}
You should get Grabit. It will provide you with _pic file that can thereafter
be converted by other
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} SOme work is definitely needed on Easyptr and so on to help them
} make
} the most of GD2. What is surprising is that if you create a program
} in
} compiled BASIC with Easyptr 3 and mode 4 sprites etc it actually
} works
} in mode 32
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} [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??:
}
} Ok, please, what scared you ?
} I'm afraid to have provided too much dense information, did I ?
}
} Hehe it's not you. Just the concept of writing a Hello World type of program being
} aboyt 700 lines is
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} With ProWesS, the COMPLETE code to write a 'Hello World' program in its
} own movable window is :
}
} #include ProWesS_h
}
} void init()
} {
} PWObject window;
}
} PWCreate(NULL,window,PW_TYPE_LOOSE_ITEM,
}
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}
}
} Well THERE'S GOT TO BE an easier way... ie an easier Interface for PE programs
}
} Right now the whole process looks so much like Visual Basic Window Definitions it's
not
} even funny. I think the problem lies in trying to
Just a share, and maybe someone can help me too...
I recently get the smsq/e source and I tried to compile it for my Q40.
(As part of my first step before entering any patch-frenzy mode...).
The How-to is great, but I nevertheless encountered the following problem:
- I'm using Qmac, no problem
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} In a message dated 22/11/02 06:55:05 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
} writes:
}
}
}
}
} Since you wanted more... take a look on what I am helping Marcel create
} ;-)
}
}
}
}
}
} Looks very nice Phoebus, though I am not
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} On 22 Nov 2002, at 9:25, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
}
} Oh dear, the how_to is wrong. It should not say 'hot_load' but
} 'hot_res'. Corrected now!
Ok, will try again on a fresh image with hot_res this time.
}
} Reverting
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} If anyone knows more about this, let me know to save me wasting too
} much time on something which can't be done reliably yet. (I'm trying
} to write a simple PIC and SCR graphics viewer for Launchpad using
} Easyptr).
}
} No, that
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} At 16:06 06/11/2002, you wrote:
}
}
} Hi all,
} I just installed a 33MHz 68040 (no EC) on my QXL-II and I have the other
} one (68EC040-25) as a spare. If anyone wants it, please let me know :-)
}
} What does EC stand for?
}
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