On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:07:54, Dave P wrote:
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Ironically, this is more-or-less what Nasta designed as the Aurora II.
My only discomfort over Nasta's design is that he is extremely concerned
about efficiency of space. Therefore, he's crammed an awful lot into a
very
To develop a board for a laptop is an interesting proposition. It's about
the same as the challenge of developing a board for a PC, but with
additional power challenges.
The QL uses such minimal power that unless we are using Coldfire this
can be ignored.
If a QL-replacement board
Remember, each different GDI printer needs its own driver...
I have mentioned this so many times. ProForma as it stands will only
print to printers for which it has drivers and there are no ESC/P raster
drivers. The cheap printers have no emulations. Even the expensive
printers often have
Rich Mellor and I mentioned a SER/PAR to PFF string exchanger, along the lines
of the old MDV to FLP string converters.
I had a go at writing this last night. The coding was fairly straightforward
and a simple
INPUTSearch for...
INPUTReplace with...
ALCHP
LBYTES
SEXEC
type of program exists
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:32:40 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 19:10:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:00:34 -0600 (CST), Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
I know I could have used a serial lead but there is no longer
Rich Mellor wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:43:29 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 25 Nov 2004 at 18:46, Rich Mellor wrote:
Just add a graphics filter. I'll let this stand as is.
I have no idea how easy it is to pass a PIC file to Proforma - Joachim??
Great to know that
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:33:47 -, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Wolfgang Lenerz writes:
To to this within the device driver will be a non trivial task
because
you
wil have to open a filing system channel from withing the open call
of
a non
filing system device driver.
That's what
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:46:45 +, Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current laptops
a non starter.
Derek
Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
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Of course there is. What is wrong with qtpi? That will work with any old
terminal program on any platform.
Have never used qtpi I must admit - now here's another possible article
for Quanta if someone wants to write it.. How to use QTPI and/or transfer
files between the QL and PC.
The other option is to check the word before the string to see if it
contains the right length (ie. 3 to 6 characters??). If the value 3 then
just check for permitted characters at the end of the SER or PAR device
(eg. ser1ex) - not too sure what the allowable characters are and my
I have no idea how easy it is to pass a PIC file to Proforma - Joachim??
Great to know that PROforma has existsed for (I think) close to ten
years now, and still hardly anybody knows anything about it :-(
The term is more like knew rather than knows. I probably have forgotten
more about it
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:46:04 +0100, Joachim Van der Auwera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Trouble is Per, that you cannot do all this within a device driver
because it is running in supervisor mode.
I also understand that a non-directory device cannot open a channel to
a file
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Firshamn wrote:
We have about 50 on-line replies already so far - very encouraging.
It is interesting seeing some old names popping up that I had thought
were long away from the QL scene, notably Frank Davis and Michael
Cronsten.
Does anyone know who Ole
Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
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What makes you think he wants to run DOS???
Dilwyn Jones
Yeah but at least you could set up the boot sector to boot straight into
QPC1 and therefore avoid seeing DOS altogether (could you not?? Or was
that just QXL) ??
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone without permission if it is for a commercial
product
1) Have a look at Jochen's THING articles
On 26 Nov 2004 at 1:33, P Witte wrote:
(...)
On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
decode the name
check the details
set up and configure a channel definition block
yes, indeed!
If all of the above are ok then, on exiting,
set the calling job's
On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily available
at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL can
already output PCL 3 (just not the later versions).
Well all I (innocently) did to get this started
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:10, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
whatnot)
?
Wolfgang
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowed you to
use the hard disk on a PC for storage - now if that could be used to store
files within a QXL.WIN file on the PC Guess you'll say just run QTPI on
both the QL and from
On 26 Nov 2004 at 11:46, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
As the thing will be called in supervisor mode itself, it could just
keep track of some ready for use channels which are then passed to the
device driver when needed. Then the problem is fully solved. The thing
itself checks whether
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for a
QL emulator and all the header info etc was automatically stored and
retrieved when you
Rich Mellor writes:
Or skip the Thing altogether and make its fuctionality part of the PFF
device driver:
On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
decode the name
check the details
set up and configure a channel definition block
If all of the
Rich Mellor writes:
Hmm - still hoping someone will put themselves forward to look at writing
the THING
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone without
Dilwyn Jones writes:
What I hadn't foreseen was a difficulty with the strings SER
and PAR which don't happen with MDV, FLP, FDK or whatever.
SER and PAR can occur within ordinary text and mess up the
program. For example, my program swapped the words Service
and Pardon to PFFvice and
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:54:49 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily
available
at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL
can
already output PCL 3
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:18:23 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs
hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for
a
QL emulator and
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:12:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 11:46, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
As the thing will be called in supervisor mode itself, it could just
keep track of some ready for use channels which are then passed to the
device driver when
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06:45, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:32:40 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 19:10:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:00:34 -0600 (CST), Dave P
[EMAIL
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11:08, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:00:39 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lenerz.com wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowed you to
use
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 13:29:46, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for a
QL emulator and all the header info etc was
P Witte wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
Hmm - still hoping someone will put themselves forward to look at writing
the THING
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tony Firshman wrote:
... but he isn't costing his time (8-)#
If he did, the community would have been laid to rest LONG ago. I think we
should all give a round of applause for Nasta...
I must say I enjoy, especially with RomDisq, in getting a small compact
PCBs, and it
Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
A device driver can never setup a job.
You didnt read my algorithm: It doesnt. All it does is to CAUSE the
calling
job to do that. This is an accepted tequnique in Qdos.
Don't think so. I would like to know the details about how that would be
done.
How
Hi all ,
Is there a way to have a normal cursor instead of a x in QD ?
/Michael
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Duncan Neithercut wrote:
The final statement is the killer to close down the discussion at a
premature stage by requesting volunteers for an unspecified project
with no known resources and an indeterminate closure. This is
from Classic committee tactics to block something new - read the
UK
Michael Grunditz wrote:
Is there a way to have a normal cursor instead of a x in QD ?
x means that it uses a sprite that cannot be displayed in the current
colour mode. As it uses the system sprites you have probably loaded
some system sprites that are incompatible with your colour mode.
Marcel
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
whatnot)?
USB vs parallel connection? Just my guess.
John Hall wrote:
I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task switch
occurs...
When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment...
Oops! PC and SR, of course :-)
In supervisor mode, the job's SP is in the USP...
Now I
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Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Grunditz wrote:
Is there a way to have a normal cursor instead of a x in QD ?
x means that it uses a sprite that cannot be displayed in the current
colour mode. As it uses the system sprites you have
Michael Grunditz wrote:
Oh thats why it displays normal on qpc. How do I solve this ?
Well, don't load the high colour sprites.
Marcel
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Hi all,
I have just received my copy of the October / November Quanta magazine,
and it is back to being quite a good read, with a variety of articles.
Well done to Roy Bereton for his editorship.
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- Original Message -
From: David Tubbs
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:41 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Thru the Looking Glass
The thought of Rory Bremner and the Two Johns comes to mind, but here we
have Three Johns who have shown themselves to be well and truly on the
other side of
- Original Message -
From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an
application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further
use.
Glad to hear
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:27, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
Best option is to throw some files at the filter once it is running on a
wide number of setups.
Everyone uses different translates where one character in Quill is
translated to various printer control codes, eg. to use italics, get both
the
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately? I had
an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak his own mind. He is always willing to
talk by email. I got off to a very
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
whatnot)
Tried all that. It prints fine from the PC and fine from
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derek Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hi,
I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current
laptops a non starter.
Ah but you are a rare beast, Derek. Most people want to do at least one
of these other things.
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Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
USB vs parallel connection? Just my guess.
Nope. We tied that. See other posts
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Good point. During my recent XPriences I had to set my PC to boot up
from CD, as the CD would not install from DOS.
Did you solve the CD problem ? It only occurred to me today that it was
probably a lack of higher driver for the IDE bus
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:40:57 -0600 (CST), Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately?
I had
an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak
The problem is analysing the data, and the big difficulty with the QL
survey
is that it will be too biased to the users of this list who may not be
typical of Quanta members.
Yes but they are typical of active QL users the sort of people Quanta
needs to court.
What did you say you learned in
Geoff
He has done a good bit of shooting also and IMHO for his personal
satisfaction first leaving aside the needs of the users who have rallied to
his call
and invested in the Qx0 series, time and real cash!
Its also no suprise that now when he appears some people thoughtlessly
continue
to shoot
On Nov 26, 2004, at 1:26 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:07:54, Dave P wrote:
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My only discomfort over Nasta's design is that he is extremely
concerned
about efficiency of space. Therefore, he's crammed an awful lot into a
very small 6-layer PCB. I
Malcolm,
As an alternative on your side can't you set your email program to wrap
the lines for you? Both my email programs do this automatically and
all the emails that I have received from this list are fitted
automatically to my window width which is great! If someone forces
hard stops in
Hi think that I saw Marcel ask this but if not:
Lets say that we come up with a way to print to a modern printer. But
don't all the printers use USB now? How would they connect to the
non-QPC QLs (or QPC on older computers without USB)?
Cheers,
jim
Dilwyn
The simple solution is Compact flash cards. A 256MB
card is only £30 in PC World - not the cheapest place either.
Readers exist on :
Qubide, PC and Qx0. The CF people have decided to use
FAT16 format for cards upto 1 GB. I expect but dont know
that zip drives under this capacity also use
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:49:40 -0800, James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi think that I saw Marcel ask this but if not:
Lets say that we come up with a way to print to a modern printer. But
don't all the printers use USB now? How would they connect to the
non-QPC QLs (or QPC on older
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, James Hunkins wrote:
I would presume that he is using a couple of the layers for power and
ground, which will help a lot with the higher speeds and tend to keep
noise off the signals. Also, in manufacturing these days I believe in
higher quantities that 6 layers isn't
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:23:49, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Yes, the survey MAY shed some light on the subject - however, what's
the betting that
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:43:33 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:23:49, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Yes, the
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:32:50 -, John Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Hall wrote:
John Hall wrote:
I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task
switch occurs...
When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment...
- Original Message -
From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Fair enough, but all I want is for him to post a message to the mailing
list or even one of the magazines, letting us know what developments are
happening every now
Not waving - drowning !
The first 60 of todays avalanche amounted to 287642 bytes in 6110 lines.
removing the voluminous headers - 2497 lines.
down to 2000 without signatures
1100 lines of largely irrelevant quoted text
A net 900 lines 31kb.
Is this really the medium for the task ?
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 22:12:26, Rich Mellor wrote:
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wrote:
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- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor
Sent: Thursday,
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 22:14:29, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: [ql-users] October / November Quanta Magazine
I have just received my copy of the October / November Quanta magazine,
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 23:00:51, David Tubbs wrote:
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Not waving - drowning !
The first 60 of todays avalanche amounted to 287642 bytes in 6110 lines.
removing the voluminous headers - 2497 lines.
down to 2000 without signatures
1100 lines of largely irrelevant quoted
There really is no need to include all the rubbish.
Tony
PS but I sometimes forget of course.
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Hello All,
Thank you Tony for the hard work and everyone who has taken the time to reply.
As the first few paper copies start to hit the letterbox, I can report that so
far we have had 38 replies (both Quanta member and Non Quanta members).
The main systems are listed as :-
12 QPC
10 Aurora
5
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 23:33:54, John Southern wrote:
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Hello All,
Thank you Tony for the hard work and everyone who has taken the time to reply.
As the first few paper copies start to hit the letterbox, I can report that so
far we have had 38 replies (both Quanta member
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