I use them for Worldnews - all under XP.
We have had a DVB-s satellite cards running for over two years.
They also have two HP PVR cards which have been running for a year or
so.
These all save video 24hrs, and have given no problem.
Ben uses a HP Nexus terrestrial satellite card in a
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:23:47 +, David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 20:24 29/11/2004 +, you wrote:
Just a quick question - does ROMDisq work with the 768K Trump Card, as
I seem to remember that you cannot use an EPROM at the same time
I think you will find that the code for the
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:48:37 +, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Heh, nice in theory (except that I've returned the Aurora system to
Roy anyway ;-) But does one know when the vertical retrace is
happening?
If it
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 09:04:01, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:23:47 +, David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 20:24 29/11/2004 +, you wrote:
Just a quick question - does ROMDisq work with the 768K Trump Card,
as I seem to remember that you
Please do fill in the form. It is now very much not just a Quanta
questionnaire.
Tony
Tony, remember when I mentioned I didn't see a 'thank you' page? Did you
actually get a form from me at the time? If not, let me know, I'll fill it in
again.
Dilwyn Jones
Hmm - just thought - if you allow for C strings, you need to ensure that
the character BEFORE the SER or PAR is not another letter, eg we could
replace a prompt: Print to (SER), but not You are a loser (both would
end with byte 0.
And yes, Joachim is correct - you do also need to be
These two guys at Hauppauge UK have always solved my problems:
Ben Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm, you obviously had access to better people than I did then.
Their software needs nursing. In particular, it is vital you have a
compatible MSIE loaded. The picture
LCD panels have a 'native' resolution where every pixel is physically
represented by an element within the panel. Lower resolutions are
'scaled' down either by the graphics drivers or by hardware (panel or
graphic driver chip). Lower resolutions will never be as 'clear' and
the native.
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 12:08:46, wrote:
(ref:
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
I thought it was not to do with the code - more the fact that in order to
provde 156K more RAM than the old 512K expansions, they used up the ROM
space - certainly I have no EPROMs which will work with the Trump Card.
Tony
Non Contributing = Thou Shalt Not Pay.
Indiscriminate does not include using apostrophe's ' as quotation marks.
John Taylor writing as nobody in particular.
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 11:23:47, John Taylor wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL
The address is passed out serially (or maybe only bits 8 and above). The
data is then put on the databus. ... or something like that. I did not
see any documentation.
I did not though realise that TC could not read standard roms.
Tony
I might be wrong there, thinking about it.
What I
At 09:04 30/11/2004 +, you wrote:
I thought it was not to do with the code - more the fact that in order to
provde 156K more RAM than the old 512K expansions, they used up the ROM
space - certainly I have no EPROMs which will work with the Trump Card.
Scan the code above 48k to find FLP ,
On 30/11/04 at 04:02 James Hunkins wrote:
LCD panels have a 'native' resolution where every pixel is physically
represented by an element within the panel. Lower resolutions are
'scaled' down either by the graphics drivers or by hardware (panel or
graphic driver chip). Lower resolutions
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:39:27 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Q-Word)
Well, everyone should get a copy ... just for the shear quality of it.
Good work by the programming team, and the contributors.
--
Malcolm Cadman
Is the game itself any good? Or is it just a brilliant showcase of
colour and
At 08:36 30/11/2004 +, you wrote:
Anyway, it's gone now, swapped it for something much more useful (front
panel USB sockets and cabling so I no longer have to go round behind ot
plug things in )from someone at work
Dilwyn Jones
For that very reason I have knocked up a couple of boxes in the
Dilwyn Jones writes:
(Q-Word)
Is the game itself any good? Or is it just a brilliant showcase of colour
and sound?
Theres a free trial version for PCs, at least. Ive tried it and find it an
enjoyable game! I say this as someone who otherwise only plays the odd
computer card game. I'll buy it
Dilwyn Jones writes:
LCD prices are starting to fall now, it was rare last year to find a LCD
under £200 here, now you can suddenly get 14 LCD screens from
about £130 even in high street stores, and 15 inch from about £150
just that I've noticed without really looking recently. Suddenly I
Can someone please remind me what the Sandy SuperQBoard provided - was it
just disk drive interface and 512K memory??
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http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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Does anyone remember this little game??
I think it was sold by Talent and I can therefore re-release it.
Unfortunately, it will not work under the Pointer Environment, but does
work ok under both Q-Emulator and a standard QL - possibly other emulators
(anyone willing to try?)
I do however
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:14:00 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Can someone please remind me what the Sandy SuperQBoard provided - was
it just disk drive interface and 512K memory??
Mouse for sure and MAYBE parallel... Dave would know as he used to work
for them
Phoebus
P.S.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Byfleet Show
(Q-Word)
Is the game itself any good? Or is it just a brilliant showcase of colour
and sound?
Dilwyn Jones
If the Demo version is
Good point, though the few I've used have all been better than my CRT monitors,
which annoy me by being fuzzy for several minutes until they warm up (the ones
at home and here are the same, probably normal for CRTs).
My wife's laptop has a brilliant display, so nice on the eyes.
Dilwyn
This message should go direct to Marcel Kilgus, but I'm not sure if I have the
right email address for him here at work from memory, so I'll place the mssage
here to make sure he gets it.
Regarding previous message re. ALT s being pre-defined in QPC2 v3.23, just
noticed it's because ALT space
One of them had a mouse interface (QIMI compatible IIRC) as well - I seem to
remember it used a Atari Mouse.
I might have an old manual for it somewhere, will try to have a look tonight
(memory ain't what it used to be...)
Dilwyn Jones
From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/11/30 Tue PM
- Aucun (Nobody?) - wrote:
Tony Tebby though designed RomDisq from day one for any size
possibly.
He once told me that the driver would work up to 64MB.
But was he right?
Tony
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PS: I am really looking forward to ZN's post explaining unsuitability
issues with coldfire processors. (hah, on topic!)
It would be easy if I could post attachments - Micro APL provide a cross
compiler (68k to ColdFire) and emulation pack for CF V3 and 4 free of
charge, it's worth getting if
Tony Tebby wrote:
If you understand the above (perfectly correct) description,
congratulations.
Stuart had that rare skill amongst hardware designers of knowing exactly
the limits of what might be possible in software. Stems from the
Sinclair principle - do not do anything in hardware that
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
BTW: Q60 and Q40 will not work on an LCD unless its a very expensive one
(like say the IBM 21 UXGA of cost at about 2500 USD -or- if you are lucky
a cheap one that supports the extra modes-
However Qx0s CAN be modified by DD to work correctly with
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 15:54:43, Tony Tebby wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Aucun (Nobody?) - wrote:
Tony Tebby though designed RomDisq from day one for any size
possibly.
He once told me that the driver would work up to 64MB.
But was he right?
Tony
(8-)#
I would love to put you to the test,
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 16:08:24, Tony Tebby wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ZN wrote:
IIRC the romdisq uses a form of addressing similar to the miracle hard
disk where data is output on selected bits of the address line during a
second address cycle or something.
Exactly. _Any_ writing has
I know a bit about the romdisq and it sounds like an interesting piece of
hardware.
How does the romdisq compare to a cut-down qubide with space for one or
many CF cards? Not that there's much to 'cut down' on the already very
sparse qubide!
Dave
ZN wrote:
The SGC can actually access the Aurora ROM chip proper... what is
unclear is if it can also generate write cycles on the bus for those
addresses.
Can't one see that in the chip code Keith has recovered?
YES!
So didn't you get them? I had a brief look at them ages ago and had
the
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 09:45:28, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ôçí Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:14:00 -,ï(ç) Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå/wrote:
Can someone please remind me what the Sandy SuperQBoard provided -
was it just disk drive interface and 512K memory??
Mouse for
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 15:08:44, wrote:
(ref:
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
One of them had a mouse interface (QIMI compatible IIRC) as well - I
seem to remember it used a Atari Mouse.
I might have an old manual for it somewhere, will try to have a look
tonight (memory ain't what it used to be...)
I have
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:25:17 -0600 (CST),() Dave P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
I know a bit about the romdisq and it sounds like an interesting piece of
hardware.
How does the romdisq compare to a cut-down qubide with space for one or
many CF cards? Not that there's much to 'cut down' on the
Tony Firshman wrote:
Mouse for sure
No, I think, at least not on the ones I have seen.
I never had an original one, but I did have a self-made version that
had floppy, parallel and mouse.
Marcel
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Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:57:52 -0600 (CST),() Dave P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
BTW: Q60 and Q40 will not work on an LCD unless its a very expensive one
(like say the IBM 21 UXGA of cost at about 2500 USD -or- if you are
lucky
a cheap one that supports
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 11:25:17, Dave P wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I know a bit about the romdisq and it sounds like an interesting piece of
hardware.
How does the romdisq compare to a cut-down qubide with space for one or
many CF cards? Not that there's much to 'cut down' on the already
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Tony Firshman wrote:
The RomDisq is a QL boot device. I use it at shows with borrowed QLs.
It is also _very_ fast reading. I forget the figures, but it beat
qubide.
When reading, it's accessed just like a ROM, with extended addressing,
right?
One of the things that
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
(Q-Word)
Well, everyone should get a copy ... just for the shear quality of it.
Good work by the programming team, and the contributors.
--
Malcolm Cadman
Is the game itself any good? Or is it just a brilliant showcase of
colour and sound?
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:06:42 +, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:39:27 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Q-Word)
Well, everyone should get a copy ... just for the shear quality of it.
Good work
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
Don't forget there are some organisations that forbid committee members from
expressing personal opinions in public. Quanta is fortunately not one of
them, as you have well seen from my ouput over the last month, but I think
it has the right to expect
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:35:52 -,() Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:06:42 +, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:39:27 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Q-Word)
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:20:05 +,() Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
snip
It also shows the importance of an expansion system. Any future
QL-hardware will need an expansion system.
This raises the question of what interesting things people have done
with
their Qx0 ISA slots.
Someone at
Rich Mellor wrote:
Can someone please remind me what the Sandy SuperQBoard provided - was
it just disk drive interface and 512K memory??
Mine has two connectors: one floppy drive and the other a parallel
printer port I seem to recall (although I don't think I ever used the
latter). It has tk2
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Stephen wrote:
Mine has two connectors: one floppy drive and the other a parallel
printer port I seem to recall (although I don't think I ever used the
latter). It has tk2 onboard but definitely no mouse connector.
SQB v2 did have pads for logic and a connector for a
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What have you got available Roy - I might be interested.
I will email you. I wouldn't mind selling some of it.
--
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Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273
Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:54:40 -0600 (CST),() Dave P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Stephen wrote:
Mine has two connectors: one floppy drive and the other a parallel
printer port I seem to recall (although I don't think I ever used the
latter). It has tk2 onboard but definitely no
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
The one I sold you did have a mouse port though didn't it?
I don't know. All the QL hardware is in storage because I couldn't get a
working system out of it. I'm going to get that box out of storage soon so
I can mail those items to you.
In an ideal
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