On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:56:57 -, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Once it's settled and everyone stops arguing about it, I'll see about
adding it to display_cde.
No comment on the code so I guess it will have to wait until the new year.
Seems straightforward enough, the only real
Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:23:02 EST,() [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
In a message dated 21/12/04 13:21:16 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apart from the fact that the command does not exist, therefore a
compiled
program will complain when not run on smsq/e.
A program compiled by Turbo need
Thanks to Marcel's comments, I have amended the RW_GD2 function to work on
Minerva, standard smsq/e for Gold Card (v3.07 tested) and high colour
smsq/e (v3.03 for Gold Card and latest QPC2 version tested).
The code appears below for comment or criticism. Hopefully I have
interpreted this
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:05:17 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Must be a breakdown somewhere then because I have v3.07 of the
non-colour SMSQ/e for Gold Card
We will work on that.
Good :-)
cut
No, it should absolutely not return an error. A colour driver is
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
My fault. 3.08 was QPC only (as, so far, is 3.09, which is not been
released yet). So 3.07 should actually be the current version.
I was wondering why 3.08 had not appeared on the web-site :-)
How will 3.08 (and 3.09 if it remains QPC-only) be treated in the
version
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:38:22 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:27:30 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Theoretically that should return 0 on non-colour SMSQ/e
It returns 5 on non-colour smsq/e v3.07 !?!?
Hmmm 5 is what it used to return on the beta SMSQ/e
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:02:51 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:38:22 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:27:30 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Theoretically that should return 0 on non-colour SMSQ/e
It returns 5 on
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:20:28 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
DISP_TYPE returns 5 on both standard smsq/e and colour driver smsq/e
Yes but it does screw up other programs - such as those which have any
part of their windows outside of 512x480 or those in a different
resolution
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:32:36 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:20:28 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
DISP_TYPE returns 5 on both standard smsq/e and colour driver smsq/e
Yes but it does screw up other programs - such as those which have any
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:05:26 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:32:36 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
I know - I guess in a test program, this would be OK. It still does not
answer the question as to how QWord (or any program) should
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:02:26 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:05:26 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:32:36 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
I know - I guess in a test program, this would be OK. It still
Rich Mellor wrote:
Yes it can read the current mode, but how does it know whether to
use the standard QL colours via IOW.INK or to use palette colours
via WM.INKP
There is NO WM.INKP Trap. If you do mean to call the WMAN-VECTOR
WM.TRAP3 with the ink code in D0, then this call always works with
Rich Mellor wrote:
OK, so any machine code program which utilises the new system calls
has to check for an error return and if present use the old IOW.SINK
command to set the ink colour - presumably this will require a
different value in D1 to that passed to the GD2 4 colour driver (or
will
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:09:47 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Yes it can read the current mode, but how does it know whether to
use the standard QL colours via IOW.INK or to use palette colours
via WM.INKP
There is NO WM.INKP Trap. If you do mean to call the
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:21:13 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance - if all this was written in a single document
somewhere, it would help.
Now I have a little more time on my hands, maybe you could send me the
originals of the various articles and anyone
Rich Mellor wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance - if all this was written in a single
document somewhere, it would help.
Sure.
Now I have a little more time on my hands, maybe you could send me
the originals of the various articles
Of which articles?
If a machine code program wants to set
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:09:05 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance - if all this was written in a single
document somewhere, it would help.
Sure.
Now I have a little more time on my hands, maybe you could send me
the originals of the various
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 02:33:04 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
I was surprised to learn that SMSQ/e for the Gold Card/Super Gold Card
is
still available with or without the colour drivers,
Of course it is. Just think about it! I cannot force everybody to pay
the
Rich Mellor wrote:
Must be a breakdown somewhere then because I have v3.07 of the
non-colour SMSQ/e for Gold Card
We will work on that.
Hmm I see what you mean - maybe the configuration block should be a
separate module on its own (if possible).
I might have an idea, need to coordinate with
Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:05:17 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Must be a breakdown somewhere then because I have v3.07 of the
non-colour SMSQ/e for Gold Card
We will work on that.
Yes.. same here... I was only provided v.3.07 non-colour for upgrades and
I had
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:13:12 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 at 03:22:54, P Witte wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
snip
It's 10 Euros, not pounds.
There might be an argument for a considerably reduced fee since the
punter
here wont have access to SMSQ/E
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:50:36 - hat Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:
The demo version of QPC2 would do, APART from two problems:
a) We cannot update the high scores table - this could be overcome by
allowing only one type of write to device on the QPC2 runtime - direct
to
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 at 13:27:27, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:13:55 - hat Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:
- just like the demo does at the moment
Sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion and I didn't download the
demo because as a
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 at 20:21:16, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:31:49 +,() Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 at 18:40:44, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I am not particularly a 'word game' fan.
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:37:09 + hat Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
geschrieben:
It is a very good way of exercising your English (8-)#
Is this sort of hint, hint, hint ? ;-))
Does your demo do all these things itself???
It certainly does. It worked fine on my XP system.
It was all
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:08:39 +0100, Wolfgang Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:37:09 + hat Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:
It is a very good way of exercising your English (8-)#
Is this sort of hint, hint, hint ? ;-))
Does your demo do all these things
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:49:08 +,() Malcolm Cadman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
snip
It was all automatic and very slick.
There is even an entry in 'add/remove programs'.
Brilliant job.
I reckon the average PC user would not even notice the environment they
were using.
Yes, I can concur with Tony
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:40:44 +, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
Well ... from the Demo statistics it looks like over 200 copies have
been downloaded. So actual sales of 100 to 200 would be likely.
That remains
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Do you want to say that the demo is a QPC together with a win-file,
which installs itself correctly on a
PC, whereever a PC-user wants it to install?
I would find that very interesting because I had to install such a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 at 18:40:44, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I am not particularly a 'word game' fan. Yet QWord is so good - in
function, appearance, and sound - that I will buy it when it is
available in
Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:51:26 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
snip
There's probably more to say, but I've already lost enough time typing
this up. Perhaps another time or in a follow up. But hopefully it
helped clearing up some confusion.
It definitely did for me at least :-)
We
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:21:33 +, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I am not complaining - this whole thread started out with the comment
that sometime ago, I had come up with code (in combination with Dilwyn
and
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:00:56 -0800, James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I don't know if I should say anything (like that ever stops me) but I am
somewhat confused by why not to use the PE for all the drawing. On QDT,
Marcel's sprite draw implementation is extremely fast and handles all
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:43:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Dec 2004 at 20:49, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Completely agree, however by catering for everyone you give even these
people the chance to see what CAN it be... I firmly believe that people
that will be using Q-Word
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:51:26 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cut
There's probably more to say, but I've already lost enough time typing
this up. Perhaps another time or in a follow up. But hopefully it
helped clearing up some confusion.
Well, it just goes to say how poor the SMSQ/e
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:43:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Dec 2004 at 1:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
()
cut
I'd like to temper this comment somewhat.
If you use the (legal) RMODE command (it is even included in QPTR Sbasic
extensions) you get back the current mode, e.g. 32
Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:34:22 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:43:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 Dec 2004 at 1:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
()
cut
snip
Possibly - at what version of SMSQ/e were the colour drivers actually
introduced and
Phoebus Dokos writes:
In reality the main problems (esp. with Q-Word) arose because there's no
*clear* source of documentation of what the system's features are, what
the changes have been and what is the planning for new ones... Don't get
Yes, the documentation situation is far from perfect.
Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:04:03 -,() P Witte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos writes:
In reality the main problems (esp. with Q-Word) arose because there's no
*clear* source of documentation of what the system's features are, what
the changes have been and what is the planning for new
Rich Mellor writes:
If I decided to use the PE to handle the display of the tiles for example,
this would be easy to set them as sprites. However, what would I do to
handle the display of the main 640x480 background (or 1024x512 on Q40)?
Sprites cannot be that big, so I am not quite certain
Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:47:52 +,() [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/wrote:
That and someone updating Jochen's QDOS/SMS reference manual :-) If the
information is given (especially now that I will have a lot of time in
my
hands -Uni is over in just 11 days- I could even volunteer to do it...)
Does that mean
As for those who don't want to upgrade, that is definitely their
choice. But they shouldn't expect to be able to run all the latest
stuff either. By the way, the work done in SMSQ/E, WMAN and the PE
really has made a tremendous effort to transparently support as much
legacy stuff as
Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:08:38 -,() P Witte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos writes:
It seems to me that we need Yet Another Version Of Qdos [YAVOQ] like
we need an eighth hole in the head! What is the thinking behind it? Or is
it just an expression of pure tribalism?
Hehe freeQDOS IS
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:51:27 -, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
Possibly - at what version of SMSQ/e were the colour drivers actually
introduced and reliably working though??
v2.94 or v3.00 - possibly even v3.02 on Gold Card ??
Is that really relevant? If you phone any
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:51:53 -, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
If I decided to use the PE to handle the display of the tiles for
example,
this would be easy to set them as sprites. However, what would I do to
handle the display of the main 640x480 background (or
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Surely no-one would suggests that one should scrap hammer and wire based
pianos simply because the digital versions come along.
But you did not have to carry one in and out of venues every night on a
tour. I would have
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:53:12 +, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
The only problem I have found with QWord is that it smashes whatever
is underneath it when I have run it. This is not a QWord problem as
such
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:40:44 +, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
Well ... from the Demo statistics it looks like over 200 copies have
been downloaded. So actual sales of 100 to 200 would be likely.
That remains to be seen - a lot of people may have downloaded it to try on
a
On 9 Dec 2004 at 21:02, Rich Mellor wrote:
Yes maybe it is - Quanta could provide a site which is the standard
contact point for information on the QL - documentation downloads
especially. However, all the documentation on SMSQ/e and the PE needs to
be on the same site as the SMSQ/e
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
there is no way that we could still pay £10 per copy to Tony Tebby
It is 10 Euro
--
Roy Wood
Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501
web :
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 at 21:02:27, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:44:55 +0100, wolfgang mühlegger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rich Mellor schrieb:
So where is this information on the SMSQ/e website?
As I say - we need to have one source for all this information -
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:10:35 +,() Roy wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
there is no way that we could still pay 10 per copy to Tony Tebby
It is 10 Euro
Which is of course the correct way to say it because unlike
Wolfgang Lenerz writes:
Marcel - we really need a runtime version of QPC2, then we can sell to the
open PC market :-)
Trouble is that we could not really charge more than £20 for the game
including the runtime QPC2, so there is no way that we could still pay
£10
per copy to Tony Tebby
On 10 Dec 2004 at 3:22, P Witte wrote:
There might be an argument for a considerably reduced fee since the punter
here wont have access to SMSQ/E only to a limited amount of its
functionality. If there really were a market in the wider (PC) world for
this, it would be better to sell 1000 at 2
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:20:42 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:01:59 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
As I was saying the user might not have your SMSQ/e version (ie
the one with the colour drivers) but he'll still
I've found I'm having problems with my QXL.WIN CD backups, I put them
on cheap CDRs and suddenyl I can't restore them. They won't read on
this PC, I'll try them at work tomorrow, as I've found some CDs will
work on that PC where they won't on this one.
That usually is caused by non
Rich Mellor writes:
We all know that most of the QL community do not have money to spend on
their QLs, so it is unlikely that they would upgrade to SMSQ/e just to run
QWord on an Aurora in all its glory (shame I agree) - hence why we wanted
to produce graphics routines which can work using
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:24:33 -, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
We all know that most of the QL community do not have money to spend on
their QLs, so it is unlikely that they would upgrade to SMSQ/e just to
run QWord on an Aurora in all its glory (shame I agree) -
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:24:33 -,() P Witte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
snip
Games traditionally also sell the hardware and supplementary software to
drive them. If people want to play QWord in hicolor on Aurora, why
shouldnt
they buy the colour drivers too, especially when
Phoebus Dokos writes:
Games traditionally also sell the hardware and supplementary software to
drive them. If people want to play QWord in hicolor on Aurora, why
shouldnt
they buy the colour drivers too, especially when that may help mitigate
some
of the above mentioned loss? QWord
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:36:07 -, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
I asume that, ultimately, we both want to move in the same general
direction, as this benefits both of us in the long run. You will have
made
your own judgements about how you wish to set about promoting the QL. I
simply
I don't know if I should say anything (like that ever stops me) but I
am somewhat confused by why not to use the PE for all the drawing. On
QDT, Marcel's sprite draw implementation is extremely fast and handles
all the color conversions to the different systems completely
transparently. I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
A good idea - must get myself appointed an SMSQ/e retailer so that I
can offer this...
But then I feel as though I am taking away the small amount of revenue
which the official smsq/e retailers make out of this... - Roy,
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:25:00 +,() Roy wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
(I am speaking for myself here and definitely not for Rich that did the
coding so I don't want to see any comments addressed to him... pound me
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:25:00 +, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Apologies if this seems a bit long - it is not intended to be an argument,
just more of some background, so that people can understand why we might
want to detect if colour drivers are available and then maybe someone can
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Absurd comment. Windows is a different system on a different
platform. We are talking about buying a more efficient O/S and maybe
some better hardware for the same system.
Nope you're not...
Not squeezing everything
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I am not complaining - this whole thread started out with the comment
that sometime ago, I had come up with code (in combination with Dilwyn
and Marcel I believe) to detect if GD2 was available. What I and
Dilwyn did
Rich Mellor wrote:
2) Whatever screen mode is in use, I thought that under the new colour
driver scheme, each program should be able to dictate the colour scheme to
use - COLOUR_QL, COLOUR_24 or COLOUR_PAL. However, if these commands are
implemented (as in the current PTR_GEN), can a program
On 9 Dec 2004 at 1:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
()
I am not complaining - this whole thread started out with the comment that
sometime ago, I had come up with code (in combination with Dilwyn and
Marcel I believe) to detect if GD2 was available. What I and Dilwyn did
not realise at the
On 8 Dec 2004 at 20:49, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Completely agree, however by catering for everyone you give even these
people the chance to see what CAN it be... I firmly believe that people
that will be using Q-Word without SMSQ/e can actually find some benefit
and even switch over to a
Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:25:22 +0100,() Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On 7 Dec 2004 at 2:42, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
The designers should add a proper method of detection or explain how
it can RELIABLY be detected.
etc...
There seems to be something I'm missing here.
What's wrong with
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
The problem is probably that not everyone having SMSQ/e for the Aurora
actually has Marcel's version... that means that SMSQ/e will report that
the commands are there but once the program tries to access the new
feature a big BOOM will ensue :-)
Of course this is wrong.
If, for example, I had Aurora set up to use only QL colour, I would NOT want
any job to
try and set it to a different colour mode.!!!
Wolfgang
Spoilsport ;-)
I think I misunderstood what Rich was trying to achieve here.
The test for GD2 does work in the sense in which it was intended.
Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:19:32 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
The problem is probably that not everyone having SMSQ/e for the Aurora
actually has Marcel's version... that means that SMSQ/e will report that
the commands are there but once the program tries to
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Of course the BOOM was figurative...
In any case for the user a boom it is what it really is : ie non working
software
Why should it not work?
Marcel
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Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:05:17 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Of course the BOOM was figurative...
In any case for the user a boom it is what it really is : ie non
working
software
Why should it not work?
As I was saying the user might not have your SMSQ/e
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:22:51 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If, for example, I had Aurora set up to use only QL colour, I would NOT
want any job to
try and set it to a different colour mode.!!!
Wolfgang
Spoilsport ;-)
I think I misunderstood what Rich was trying to achieve here.
The test for
of what level of test they want.
--
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:22:51 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Rich Mellor wrote:
From Marcel's response I think that my solution is legal - ie. call the
iow.sstrp and check for error
It is. But basically it's equivalent to a check whether you're running
on SMSQ/E or not. Plus, if you run on SMSQ/E you still don't know
whether it supports the 256 colour
Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:50:06 -,() Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
I very much doubt I'll get time - after sorting out my PC and WinXP,
I've found I'm having problems with my QXL.WIN CD backups, I put them
on cheap CDRs and suddenyl I can't restore them. They won't read on
this PC, I'll
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:01:59 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
As I was saying the user might not have your SMSQ/e version (ie
the one with the colour drivers) but he'll still want to use the
256 colours since the program is sold that way... And the program
, obviously not givent he problems Rich is having.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Detecting GD2
Dilwyn et al...
In the absence of comments from Jochen / Marcel I
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:45:51 -, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The designers should add a proper method of detection or explain how
it can RELIABLY be detected.
Yes - still waiting for some input on this
At the moment, the best you can do is look for an identifying string,
which
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The designers should add a proper method of detection or explain how
it can RELIABLY be detected.
At the moment, the best you can do is look for an identifying string,
which does nothing other than show it's a version able to support GD2,
even if GD2 is not possible on the
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:47:22 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The designers should add a proper method of detection or explain how
it can RELIABLY be detected.
At the moment, the best you can do is look for an identifying string,
which does nothing other than
Rich Mellor wrote:
We have a reliable check for GD2 - what we do not know is how to check if
using the new traps will have any effect !
Ah, my fault. I forgot that we did not include the new traps into
PTR_GEN for QDOS systems, it only provides a GD2 light with only
enough functionality to make
Dilwyn et al...
In the absence of comments from Jochen / Marcel I think the problem is
that WMAN is reporting that GD2 is available. What we need to do is then
go on to see if the colour drivers are available if GD2 is present.
Guess the only way of doing this is to try and use one of the
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:00:27 -, Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dilwyn et al...
In the absence of comments from Jochen / Marcel I think the problem is
that WMAN is reporting that GD2 is available. What we need to do is
then go on to see if the colour drivers are available if GD2
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:12:33 -, Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:00:27 -, Rich Mellor
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Dilwyn et al...
Guess the only way of doing this is to try and use one of the new
commands added by the device drivers to set the ink / paper
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 at 21:12:33, Rich Mellor wrote:
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OK - found the documentation on Thierry's website - this should surely
also be on the SMSQ/e site and possibly Marcel's ??
... so what is Thierry's site.
http://www.imaginet.fr/~godefroy/english/index.html
no longer
Sun, 5 Dec 2004 00:00:52 +,() Tony Firshman
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 at 21:12:33, Rich Mellor wrote:
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OK - found the documentation on Thierry's website - this should surely
also be on the SMSQ/e site and possibly Marcel's ??
... so what is
Thanks, was wondering what happened to his site. A major resource and
I hated not being able to find it.
Cheers,
jim
OK - found the documentation on Thierry's website - this should
surely
also be on the SMSQ/e site and possibly Marcel's ??
But this does :-)
url:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/
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