Re: [ql-users] Re: QPC

2002-06-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Sadler wrote: Does QPC emulate 68020+ and floating point instruction set? No. If not why not extend it so it does, Basically just too much work. so we can use some of the programs George Gwilt is writing, particularly his progrms for manipulating images and getting pictures of

Re: [ql-users] QPC and ports

2002-06-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Burkinshaw, Ian wrote: Would it possible to allow input via the parallel port? I'm not completely sure, but I think the answer is no. In fact doing a reliable output to the port is already quite challenging ;-) I think this can only be done through a printer driver or something similar. Are

[ql-users] QPC2 v3.03 released

2002-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hi there. QPC2 version 3.03 and SMSQ/E for QPC v2e99 is out. Apart from the changes in 3.02 the new version implements among other things: - fast memory. You can now have (almost) as much memory as you want (I think I limited it to 128MB) without disc accesses slowing down. They're generally

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.03 released

2002-06-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
myself wrote: - fast memory. You can now have (almost) as much memory as you want (I think I limited it to 128MB) without disc accesses slowing down. They're generally much faster now, even if you only used little memory (like 4MB) before. What I forgot to write: Users of Sysmon will

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Richard Zidlicky wrote: so I assume Roy was also correct when he claimed that it was agreed not to take any additional roylaties for SMSQ beyound the 10 Euro for TT. still missing the answer to this question. For the SMSQ as it is available now this is true, yes. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: I am not talking about boot speed but running speed - that is certainly worth the extra boot time. The first thing all versions of SMSQ/E do is copying themselves to some RAM location anyway. I.e. there is no waste of memory when loading SMSQ/E from disc. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Source...

2002-06-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: A word of warning, there is a file which when renamed, becomes 'con'. Windows/DOS doesn't like it. (win1_u$$_keys_con). It'll be fine in the qxl.win format though :o) The u$$_ is created by Tony's utility to zip up the code (entirely or only recently changed parts). It

[ql-users] [de.rec.tv.misc] Re: D.Hasselhoff im Koma

2002-07-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Subject: Re: D.Hasselhoff im Koma From: Ulrik Beilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: de.rec.tv.misc Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:44:34 +0200, Josef Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ist es eigentlich schon länger bekannt, dass Hasselhoff ein Alk-Problem hat? Ich habe mal

Re: [ql-users] [de.rec.tv.misc] Re: D.Hasselhoff im Koma

2002-07-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: [...] I'm terribly sorry, this was absolutely not meant to be sent to the list. I was just working on ql-users mail while composing that mail and my mailer inserted the recipient address automatically. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Trump Card and QuBIDE

2002-08-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Well we live with 32k block sizes on PC hard disks now without even thinking about it. Hmm, I only have 0.5k and 4k block sizes on my PC. At least qubide gives one the choice. Only on FAT16 you don't have the choice and that's pretty dead. Sorry to defend PC

Re: [ql-users] SysMon and QPC

2002-08-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Walker wrote: I seem to have a problem where I cannot get Sysmon (v2.00) to run under QPC2 v3.03.It immediately starts complaining that memory has been corrupted. Ha anyone else come across this, or is there perhaps a later version of Sysmon I should be using? Not officially,

Re: [ql-users] SysMon and QPC

2002-08-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Walker wrote: Thanks very much for that - I certainly did not expect such a rapid response. I guess from your response that it IS a known problem? Sure. That's why I describe it in the current QL Today ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Serx_ snooper

2002-08-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: does anybody have heard of a program that can redirect, monitor and log serial port activity? Frontline SerialTest Async+Spy is very good. Sorry, I don't know any solution that involves a QL ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Source info

2002-08-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Fabrizio Diversi wrote: Trying to compile smsqe I have an error in win1_iod_con2_ptr_mouse_asm , because the include file : win1_ee_qptr_keys does not exist, and in fact this file do not exist. In fact this has been discussed before ;-) My answer back then was: | win1_ee_qptr_keys - not

Re: [ql-users] SGC and SMSQ/E on ROM for the Aurora

2002-09-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Davide Santachiara wrote: I'm pretty sure Phil sent me the lrespred version. It was v1.54 or similar. The only problem is where to find it. I'll try to give a look at my old floppy disks ... if nobody will answer in the meanwhile ;-) 1.56 is freely available on the web:

Re: [ql-users] Movep

2002-09-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Fabrizio Diversi wrote: I need some help to traslate Movep instruction, is it correct what i did in the following example ? Yes. What is the equivalent of : movep.w d0,0(a5) ? move.bd0,(a5) lsr.l #8,d0 move.bd0,2(a5) Viewed from the hardware on the bus both codes are not an

Re: [ql-users] QPC2v303 versus Office 97

2002-09-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: ALT TAB back to QPC2. On my system floppy disk access will have stopped working. If you DIR FLP1_ with a disk in the drive, it will take a long time to realise it can no longer read the disk. But if you DIR FLP1_ with no disk in the drive it realises straight away and

Re: [ql-users] QL Today Disk - Vol7 Iss3

2002-09-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Some Unzips seem to search for Signal Extensions when starting up then carry on working fine without them apart from issuing a message to say they weren't found! Unzip 5.32 for example will complain sometimes when it starts but seems to work fine for general unzipping.

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3 DOS MVIEW

2002-10-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Christopher Cave wrote: I now have the latest version of QPC running under W98. Since I believe that the DOS device has been rewritten, The PC part is mostly new, the 68k part stayed almost the same. I tried out opening it as a directory in MVIEW. This uses the qdir type calls in C68. NO

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3 DOS MVIEW

2002-10-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Christopher Cave wrote: I now have the latest version of QPC running under W98. Since I believe that the DOS device has been rewritten, I tried out opening it as a directory in MVIEW. Update: While I can reproduce your problem with v3.01 the directory listing of dos1_ just works fine here

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3 DOS MVIEW

2002-10-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Christopher Cave wrote: Thanks for looking at this. I have just rechecked and find that I cannot open DOS1_ directly with MVIEW. QPC_VER$ returns 3.03 on my system. I'm afraid that I don't have a historical run of versions to check. What happens if you configure DOS1 to something other

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3 DOS MVIEW

2002-10-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Christopher Cave wrote: It works a treat. If I replace C:\ with C:\Download I get the contents of the Download sub-directory with no problem. Then it probably has to do with the contents of your C:\ directory. Anything unusual? Off to Berchtesgaden, Marcel

Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website

2002-10-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: Easy: just lrespr it within the particular SBASIC instance. The This isn't a solution for the 'words clashes', I'm afraid. Of course. I didn't say it is. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: Can anybody please explain why, using QPC 3.03, I get a pleasant noise from the Wall under Windows 98 and a rather nasty noise for the same thing under Windows XP? Strange as with 3.03 the sound code is almost exactly the same on both OSs. I would love to be able to kill

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions toolkits

2002-10-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure I do - but then, MAT_xxx isn't really very clear either (IMHO). If the list cleared all doubles anyway, we wouldn't even need prefixes... Usually every toolkit has a name. IMO the prefix should be derived from that. This can as well be the name of the author

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: Any problem with QPC2? It is a quantum leap ahead of the competition in that it runs SMSQ/E. It is currently supported by probably the only ace programmer active on the QL scene (sorry Marcel ;) Don't make me blush ;) Fortunately this is not entirely true, there are some more

Re: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs

2002-10-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, many of the early commercial programs have been compiled with either Turbo or QLiberator. Is there any way of writing a program which will generate the source code for compiled programs?? As far as I know Qliberated programs are mostly just tokenized

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: Thanks for the info. Now how do I then replace the unpleasant beep in XP with the pleasant beep in 98? I have no idea what an unpleasant beep might be. In theory both systems should sound the same. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Mike MacNamara wrote: Try the Control Panel, Under 'Sounds' you can change any sound to one of your liking QPC 3.03 does not use the system sounds anymore. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-11-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Marcel, just a thought, would it be possible to include an SBASIC command (+ m/code equivalent) in a future QPC version to disable QPC audio from SBASIC (assuming I ain't missed an existing one!) ? Sounds ok, I've put it on the wish list. Do you hope to add the sound

Re: [ql-users] Development

2002-11-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: Wlenerz had just told me that there were only *two* confirmed SMSQ/E developers (modestly forgetting himself), namely you and (wait for it) - me! (And I signed up mainly to help with the coffies and put the jelly beans on the pizzas ;) Then I'll have one pepperoni pizza please

Re: [ql-users] 10BaseT Ethernet on the Q40/And of course a stupid question :-)

2002-11-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: Also, does anybody have info on how the QXL talks to the ISA bus? It would be interesting (to say the least) to put the QXL there and use it together with the Q40 ;- Well, the sources are all there... Marcel

Re: [ql-users] 10BaseT Ethernet on the Q40/And of course a stupid question :-)

2002-11-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
ZN wrote: Also, does anybody have info on how the QXL talks to the ISA bus? It would be interesting (to say the least) to put the QXL there and use it together with the Q40 ;- Thierry Godefroy knows, I'm sure Has anybody heard of him lately? Marcel

Re: [ql-users] 10BaseT Ethernet on the Q40/And of course a stupid question :-)

2002-11-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Timothy Swenson wrote: Has anybody heard of him lately? Being a French Naval Officer, the odds are that Thierry might be at sea and out of communication. I know, but even then he usually had access to the net every odd month. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: The sound is rather like grinding gears and also happened when I had problems with flp1_ running QPC2 3.03 under XP. There seems to be a bug in DirectSound which can affect the first few milliseconds of a sound. To circumvent this you can try to configure Enable sound to

Re: [ql-users] QL Hardware

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Sadler wrote: How? There's much more to it than a simple move.l is called mov on Intel. In principle the same way as a RISC compiler handles higher level instructions. Though it may be that modern Intel or AMD chips do not have enough registers. Internally they have anything from a

Re: [ql-users] QL Hardware

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need better apps which can show the true worth of Aurora, QPC and Q40 etc, and to do this, we need them both to support the same software and speeds. We have already had to face the incompatabilities built into the new higher colour display drivers and so any steps

Re: [ql-users] QL Hardware

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: A very nice 68000-68040 JIT compiler exists and its sources are freely available for UAE / Basilisk... Surely a programmer of your caliber could adapt it? It's under the GPL. And it's supposed to cause problems. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Development

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: He he. Wish I'd known what a Pizza fan Marcel was before a gang of us tried to force curry on him for his birthday a few years ago... Oops. Oh yes, that was really bad. Worst birthday meal ever ;-) But actually I'm not that much into pizza anymore. While I have eaten one or

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: [Quote cut] BTW: You're quoting in this mail was horrible. OE used to be the only program that output those non-readable mails, pity Opera seems to do the same. Apart from what's legal (or not legal), there should be a level of reason among users, vendors and

Re: [ql-users] Pirates and mad sheep

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
TonyTebby wrote: [much] Thanks a lot for clarifying the issue. I think this was really necessary. May common sense return to the land of the sheep, Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Pirates and mad sheep

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: I don't want common sense. I want extraordinary sense! I'd already be satisfied with common sense after the mails within the last few days. Makes me stop wanting to bang my head against the wall. I was waiting for him to go to Eindhoven and jump up and down on stage screaming

Re: [ql-users] Pirates and mad sheep

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: Some top guy at Microsoft did this on stage at a developers conference, and came off sounding a bit loony! Ah, the ape. I actually saw that one. Nah. I'm more famous to more people than TT, and I really crave the anonymity he has. Never be in the music business :/ Right. I

Re: [ql-users] Quanta Claus is coming...

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Berger wrote: I am SO tired of that endless piracy discussion. So is (almost?) everyone involved. Any suggestion how the discussion could have been prevented? No? Like it or not, some issues just have to be solved. get your duel pistons out, involve lawyers, do whatever you want - but

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-11-07 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: Pardon my ignorance, How does one enable sound and where?? Using MenuConfig on SMSQE.BIN. I somehow doubt this helps much, but it's at least worth a shot. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QPC and QXL.WIN

2002-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: Is there a way to hide the 'QXL.WIN' files to avoid accidental deletion from within 'QPC' ? Hide? How about just using WIN_WP drivenumber to write-protect them? You can completely hide it by changing the WIN assignments using e.g. WIN_DRIVE 1,c:\doesntexist. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Pirates and mad sheep

2002-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: Well, that's illegal in every European country. Once someone owns a license to software, they're free to sell it to whomsoever they wish under the first sale doctrine. I don't think anybody suggested that this is not the case. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QPC and QXL.WIN

2002-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: I think I didn't formulate my question correctly. So, let me use an example to illustrate what I meant: My files are on Win2_. With the DOS drive, I can see QXL.WIN and could delete it by mistake. How can I make 'QXL.WIN' invisible, not accessible with a DOS

Re: [ql-users] Mention in PC Plus

2002-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: Guilty as charged - last months issue. We have to spread the word somehow don't we ? Wow, cool. Any chance to get a scan of your masterpiece? :-) I was also in Linux Format a few issues back as well - getting famous now ! Ah, training for the job as a technical writer

Re: [ql-users] ZX Emulators

2002-11-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: AFAIK Easyptr handles extended colour sets... Anyone? (Marcel?). No. At least not yet. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Re: Graphic Tablet and QL TV-Toy (Arnould where are you?)

2002-11-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: BTW: Could you please change your line length to something sensible instead of infinity? Well for one I don't have the sources (yet) but the fact of the matter is that it works... They way I envisioned that Graphics engine it's really a client server environment (as i

Re: [ql-users] QL Calendar for 2003

2002-11-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/m/pix/comp/QLs_and_Zwiebeltuete-3-s.jpg he he - who is that? He's a German hacker known within the scene as Endergone Zwiebeltüte which translates into endergonic onion bag. No, the German version doesn't make much sense either ;-) I gather

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: I am no expert, but people in the know say that the 'from' address is the major cause of spam. The 'reply to' is not often used, so Lafe's suggestion is OK. This is only true in Usenet for the simple reason that the from address is already contained in the overview of a

Re: [ql-users] Q-Emulator 2

2002-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Does anyone know of a way for Q-Emulator to skip the ROM type detection? The Ultra MG roms do not start as they are 64 K instead of 48.. Is there any hidden switch somewhere? Daniele? Split it into one ROM with 48kb and one with 16kb. Then set the two files as Main ROM

Re: [ql-users] Q-Emulator 2

2002-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: BTW: I have now the Tyche ROM up and running :-) Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Tyche ROM? Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QLAYW and RSXNT

2002-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Anyone has managed to run QLAYW under WinNT or XP? No, it doesn't work. Only the DOS version works. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2002-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Is this the rejecter? Looks like it never even got to Demon. The official mail server for firshman.co.uk is located at SchlundPartner, Germany. And it's that server that rejects the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address (it says that it doesn't know anybody with this mail address).

Re: [ql-users] Core software and Q60

2002-11-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
TonyTebby wrote: The Q60 developers would, however, be quite justified in asking for 1% of the price they paid for the Q40 version of the GD2 QL driver - 1% of nothing is not too much to ask for, is it? Speaking of GD2, do you remember why in iod_con2_qxl16_sppcch_asm you disabled mode 32

Re: [ql-users] Mouse movement / buttons

2002-11-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: There used to be ql-developers, but it was turned into a list for Q40 (Linux) specific discussions. Indeed? I never heard of this one. Well, at least on the Quanta page is written: This list is for any discussion related to QL Hardware and Q40-Linux be it news,

Re: [ql-users] Core software and Q60

2002-11-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jerome Grimbert wrote: } Unfortunately this way there's currently no high colour sprite format } in QXL/QPC I beg your pardon, but there is a high colour sprite format for QXL and QPC. How could sprted run on them otherwise ? Sprted doesn't even offer to edit high colour sprites on QXL/QPC.

Re: [ql-users] Core software and Q60

2002-11-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately this way there's currently no high colour sprite format in QXL/QPC (and if anybody's wondering that's one of the reasons why the high colour wman is still not finished). Is this why a mode 32 sprite (as described in the documentaion for GD2) doesn't

[ql-users] New WMAN (was: GD2)

2002-11-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
TonyTebby wrote: He started getting more into the concept of GD2 !! How can anyone do this - has this man a brain the size of a planet? I can't understand it and I wrote it! I just said I'm getting more into it. Not how much :-) I gather information here and there and it's often enough to do

Re: [ql-users] New WMAN (was: GD2)

2002-11-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I hope so. I want to tie up some lose ends like this WMAN thing before concentrating on the university project. After that I hope others are sufficiently familiar with the code to start contributing, too (it's BTW not only SMSQ/E. EasyPtr should be updated as well, for

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E Soft reset and RAMTOP

2002-11-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: If interrupts are not disabled the interrupt handler will be called while the low memory is write only, and as the interrupt handler code is probably in the low memory zone, the code to be executed cannot be read. First of all (in case of SMSQ, i.e. VBR=0 on

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E Soft reset and RAMTOP

2002-11-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Why? There's a prize for the first person who posts the correct answer to the list. Well, what prize would that be? I mean, before we all go searching for the answer, let's see whether it'd be worth it Can't be much, the answer Jochen already posted was quite

Re: [ql-users] Open SMSQ/E developmen (Was: GD2)

2002-11-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: 1. Incorporation of the Greek language in SMSQ/E (Ideally all languages should be supported, maybe with allowance for linking external NLS files) Difficult because you need to alter the font. 2. Extension of the keyboard driver to allow for dead key switching keyboards

Re: [ql-users] Open SMSQ/E developmen (Was: GD2)

2002-11-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Already have... :-) (And it doesn't affect English either) - Greek Standard (Both PC- 437G(737) -DOS- and ISO-8895-7 (Windows 1253 is the same with Minor Alterations) (Or how the Greek ISO calls it ELOT-928) codepages are set above Ascii-128 (So there you have it :-) I

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Developers Directory.

2002-11-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: You'll be the people most likely to use it, and I really want it to meet your expectations, which may be quite different to mine. Well, I personally just don't like web boards. I think web boards are just for people who don't know what a Newsgroup is. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Developers Directory.

2002-11-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: Either way, that's what I have, and I don't want to run a news server. They're too fiddly and open to abuse. One doesn't need to run INN ;) You can't please all of the people all of the time, etc... You really don't need to please me ;) You wanted feedback and that is just my

[ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hi. All things I wanted to integrate into WMAN are now there, though some still need to be tested. Unfortunately I'm running out of time and will probably have to (almost) stop SMSQ related work for a few weeks. For testing purposes I have also created a system-palette QPAC2. This at first looks

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: (now only to change these horrible resize, zzz, move and zap icons :-) Go ahead ;-) I am interested would it work with QPC2 v.2.03? It's based on SMSQ/E 2e99, so most likely not. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Ooopsss misunderstood you I thought you wrote MODE 32 (instead of 32bit :-D ... Will send you BMPs then :-) or you want something else for 32 bits? No, BMP is fine. any preference on the sizes? (You can have bigger sizes right?) Unfortunately no, because the new ones

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Which begs the question as I never fiddled (so far with PE sprites...) What's the standard size? (Ok don't shoot ;-) I don't think there's a standard size, but the QPAC2 buttons in question can hold an absolute maximum of 24x10. Perhaps a bit less, especially in X

Re: [ql-users] keyboards

2002-11-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: Mind you, I would not say all letters are in the same place on German keyboards, I am quite sure they have QWERTZ keyboards. That's right of course. Still, 24 out of 26 is not that bad ;) I think you are correct Joachim, if my memory serves me well, which it normally

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: though some still need to be tested. I'm volunteering! You would have gotten the new version whether you wanted or not ;-) (...) The development state is too early to be integrated into the other versions. That will probably follow in December. I stand ready for

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
ZN wrote: I don't mind :-) it looks very nice. For one thing, better choice of colors (no offense, Marcel :-) ). None taken. You know how it is with engineers and GUIs: http://www.kilgus.net/images/dilbert-gui.gif :-) And it's BTW much easier to look cool if you have 3D borders ;-) One big

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: One big problem is BTW the (directory) button in the title line. Unfortunately all buttons within a window currently must have the same colour. :-( This is not actually a button but a picture only I didn't mean your picture. In QPAC2 Files, unlike the other windows, the

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: I didn't mean your picture. In QPAC2 Files, unlike the other windows, the title text is a button and therefore can't have the same background as the surrounding title bar. You see the problem pretty well in my original picture. It really wants an application window there

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: If you really prefer Qptr, you could still benefit from using the interactive design tools from EasyPTR - especially EasyMenu - if you could write a program to convert window definitions into Qptr-compatible SB statements. This might not be too difficult to do. A

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: And for C68 programmers, there is EasyC from Bob Weeks of Pointer Products which turns EasyPtr menus into C68 stuff. Never heard of that, but IIRC EasyPtr 3 supports C programming directly. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
TonyTebby wrote: In the PC / Unix world, a slow system is less than 500 - 1000 MIPs ProWesS is fast on very slow systems (50 MIPS) and works well on extraordinarily slow systems This is true. Nonetheless it has a response time of approximately one second on my 400Mhz system, which is just too

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: From what I gather, it could be due to a problem in the sprite cache in certain versions of the OS, Probably, yes. I did submit a fix for that bug over a year ago but it never went into SMSQ/E for Qx0 (i.e. QPC and Q40 differ in that respect since QPC2 2.03). The next

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: This is true. Nonetheless it has a response time of approximately one second on my 400Mhz system, which is just too much, especially compared to the not measurable response time of WMAN. [snip] Argh, that was only a mail draft I thought I had deleted. Damnit. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Third attempt to send this mail. At least none of the first two came back to me. Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: The slower loading is mainly caused by the precalculated fonts. When ProWesS is configured to have no precalculated fonts, the system will be much faster. This would however affect

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-11-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus Dokos wrote: On SMSQ/E v.2y99 on the QXL with Mode 4 it's as fast as WMAN (using the trick with the fonts, ProWesS reader renders almost as fast as any Windows program) and if you use the gcc compiled version (available from www.dokos-gr.net/ ~dj/indexsms.html ) That and the

Re: [ql-users] Re: pointer programming - 'C' routine problem list

2002-12-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is clear from the coding that no-one except Jim has attempted to use wm_rptrt. I give the code below and you will see why. MOVEM.L D2-3/A4,-(A7) MOVE.L $10(A7),A41st parameter - pointer to working defn MOVE.W$14,D3

Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress

2002-12-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jerome Grimbert wrote: You're correct about the cache, but there is more than one workaround: - the cache is restricted to one blob, one pattern and one sprite. (even if I do not yet understand its source and I'm wondering about a possible error with the blob caching, especially on my

Re: [ql-users] Menu_rext

2002-12-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Arnold Clarke wrote: I am having a problem with Menu_rext 7.60 because it crashes QPC .I can still use Menu.rext 7.03 no problem. Can anyone help?. Well, I'm using 7.64. I don't know what changes there were but probably this helps. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size

2002-12-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: I'm formatting Win1 ( qpc.win ) on my C. drive and note that it formats ok upto 2000 ( format win1_2000) but format win1_2500 fails. The small Windows versions (95, 98 etc) can only handle up to 2GB big files. On other versions the limit should be 4GB max as I currently use

Re: [ql-users] soql

2002-12-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Arnold Clarke wrote: How can I get QPC2 to open to SER3 or, how can I change SOQL to use SER2?. I'm not sure what you want to do, but the SER-COM mapping is fully configurable. SER/PAR button in config dialog. Marcel

[ql-users] New christmas WMAN

2002-12-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hello everyone, after some hard work during the last two weeks the new WMAN is finally approaching completion. :-) Beta versions have been sent out to the tester and for the rest I made some snapshots which demonstrate the new system palette thing quite nicely I think. The 3 pictures all show

Re: [ql-users] New christmas WMAN

2002-12-24 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: To a non-QPC2 user like me, the changes you made may not be obvious. How about blowing your own trumpet a little - I am sure we won't mind. Well OK, the whole story goes like this: Step one of course was to introduce advanced colour codes into WMAN, I did this quite a

Re: [ql-users] PIC File Format and GD2 Continued

2003-01-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can wait a little, I should write a new trap soon Do you already have an API definition in mind? I only know of QXL/QPC: mode(2,32) and Q40/Q60: mode(2,33) There will also be Aurora: mode (2,16) and don't forget the palette mapped modes and modes (2,4) and

Re: [ql-users] New christmas WMAN

2003-01-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: The only thing I know is that, if the bar colour AND the bar section colour are BOTH set to 0, then, instead of having a black bar on a black background, the scroll bar and the scroll bar section aren't drawn AT ALL. Yes, this is intentional (ee_wman_drbar_asm). I

Re: [ql-users] New christmas WMAN

2003-01-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I think that this bug does need fixing to allow different colours to be used for the scroll bars, but agree that in the case of both parameters being set to zero, the scroll bars should not be drawn (as at present) I'm not so sure - it all depens on how much software

Re: [ql-users] Altera EP 1810 chipa, AKA GC/SGC INGOT, QXL Glue

2003-01-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: Yes, I know - I can't discern the date code from the pictures provided, so I emailed the seller and am awaiting an answer. What I can see looks like BGC87... but that sounds FAR to early for the -20 speed grade. It could be a 91... difficult to tell. Auction number 3105900311

Re: [ql-users] QTrans v0.07

2003-01-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bill Waugh wrote: Aha - so this may explain why I have had no joy trying to unzip Qtrans transfered from Dos1_ No, this should work just fine. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Using WMAN and EasyPTR

2003-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, that works just fine - thankyou for pointing out the problems - I am not so sure what the form values mean and how these should be altered for GD2 graphics Well, in this case, not at all. can anyone enlighten me?? First byte: 1 = QL mode, 2 = GD2

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
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, ; irrelevant how to if illegal) ; but once a1 has been

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Disregarding the bug it's $160 + 5 * $0c + $140 - 4 * $0c = $160 + $120 + $0c = $28c. Speaking to myself (...), there's of course a typo. It's $160 + $140 + $0c = $2ac Marcel

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