Re: [Ql-Users] PCB Design v7.52

Thanks Dave. I have tried the Web based EasyEDA tool and I liked it. Unfortunately it barfs for me, regardless of my browser, chrome, Firefox, opera, so I haven't got anything done with it yet. I'll try again as it has been a while. Time permitting of course. I will give their board

Re: [Ql-Users] PCB Design v7.52

Interesting, indeed. My boards were fine, so far, but I'll keep an eye out in future. If I ever get time to finish my design! (I can't do it at work in my lunch break!) Who does your boards now? Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] R: R: R: QxlwinReader

Dd is a Linux utility that comes with all unix/Linux systems built in. RawWrite would be one equivalent for Windows users. On Mac,I think you have dd as well. Hth Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] QxlwinReader

Oh well, that's my next project screwed then! Never mind, I'll have to do something else instead ;-) Cheers, Norm. On 10 June 2017 18:56:24 BST, Wolf via Ql-Users wrote: >Hi all, > >I've released QxlwinReader, a small java program that allows you to >read/write

Re: [Ql-Users] Possible bug in smsqmulator.

ng > >On 11/10/2017 23:24, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: >> Evening All, >> >> I was nosing around in the latest source for Smsqmulator and I might >have found a bug in the floppy driver code. Mind you, it's Java, so all >bets are off! >> >> In formatDri

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and rescalable windows.

Evening Daniel, Re assembly language and writing extensions, my eBook has a few chapters on that. Help yourself to http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. If you need to return two values, or four, then take a look at the DJTOOLKIT sources at

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and rescalable windows.

This might be handy too then, it's the official 68000 programmers manual, covering all the cpus: http://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/M68000PRM.pdf Have fun. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[Ql-Users] QL Wiki - How to subscribe to page change alerts.

The new wiki allows you to subscribe to a page, or pages, and receive an email either every time that the page changes, or, one email, every day that the page changes, with details of all the changes made that day. So, for example, you want to know when changes happen to the C68 page: * Open

Re: [Ql-Users] Returning to the QL

Dilwyn asked: "...has huge problems with local variables, which seem to lose their names when out of scope. If anyone knows how to reconnect local variables to their names when they are out of scope, please let me know. " Could you explain, for the old and infirm (me), how you mean "goes out

Re: [Ql-Users] Returning to the QL

mming since I wrote this will enable me to overcome the problems >that >I was obviously having then. > >Rgds, > >Daniel > > >On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < >ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> Dilwyn asked: "...has huge prob

Re: [Ql-Users] Returning to the QL

Indeed Dilwyn, apologies, I was wondering about you having said it! However, the problem is simply my own apparent inability to read properly! Cheers, Norm. On 28 August 2017 09:40:20 BST, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: >Err, except it wasn't me wot wrote that,

[Ql-Users] Possible bug in smsqmulator.

Evening All, I was nosing around in the latest source for Smsqmulator and I might have found a bug in the floppy driver code. Mind you, it's Java, so all bets are off! In formatDrive() it has a comment that d0 is the format type, 0=sd, 1=dd, 2=hd or 3=ed etc. However the code looks to be

Re: [Ql-Users] EXT_PROC

Already done by me. Dilwyn has the documents and should be uploading soon. Cheers, Norm. On 10 November 2017 01:27:04 GMT+00:00, Per Witte via Ql-Users wrote: >Thanks Dilwyn. It seems Jon S is already on the case of appending it. > >Per > >On 9 November 2017 at 20:19,

[Ql-Users] CPORT???

Afternoon All, I used to have CPORT on my hard drive for QPC2 but for some reason I seem to have deleted it, plus, my original disc - floppy - is no more having been one of hundreds that no longer worked. Luckily I have working copies of the DP Collection, so I'm able to get it back from

Re: [Ql-Users] CPORT

Hi Michael, I have both CPORT and CFIX. I find that CFIX doesn't work correctly in QPC2, Something for me to find out later then I suspect! so to get around that problem, I use Q-emulator for that one. That would work for me too. I wonder what the difference is? CPORT does work well in

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD progress

Looking good Marcel. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E

Happy New Year one and all. I started pcb design a while back too. I use Fritzing and/or Kicad for mine. Manually routing a pcb can seriously use up a good few hours of your life! But it's [still] fun. I will probably live to regret this but, let me know how/where to get the DISA source and I

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

Hi Paolo, as far as I remember, the code letters for the various QL ROMs have been named after: * Taxi Drivers used by Sinclair staff; * Engineers at Sinclair; * Women in the Sinclair offices. There may bo other "uses", but the letters in JM and JS etc are the initials of certain people

[Ql-Users] Assembly Language ePeriodical Issue 4 - Available Now!

After promising, sort of, to get this issue out a lot quicker than the previous one, I seem to have failed miserably. This is due to the usual excuses, plus, some family illnesses etc which I may have mentioned previously. Anyway, after yet many more months of the odd hour grabbed here and

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language ePeriodical Issue 4 - Available Now!

It seems that I managed to upload a PDF file with lots of spelling errors and a couple of bugs in the listings. Sigh! I've taken the liberty of fixing the copyright date as well - thanks Dave. ;) I have uploaded a fixed PDF, so the same URL as before applies:

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language ePeriodical Issue 4 - Available Now!

Email problem resolved, and emails are working again now. It seems that my MX records were mysteriously changed to point at a non-existing mail server. Hmmm. I shall be having words with 1 and 1 as this happened with my 'A' record a wee while back too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language ePeriodical Issue 4 - Available Now!

Oh hum! It seems that the email address for feedback on the eComic, assem...@qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk, is down. It can send emails out, but any attempt to reply, or send an email to it gets 'mailbox doesn't exist' errors. I need to look into this. Just in case anyone has read the ePeriodical

Re: [Ql-Users] A polite request

On 14/02/18 20:22, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote: Also, have you guys been following my new hardware releases on the forums recently? I see what you did there Dave! ;-) And, yes, I have been following. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget

Re: [Ql-Users] A polite request

Hi Per, On 14/02/18 20:21, pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote: If Ive sinned, Norm, please forgive. Are you refering to anything I did? I ax cause I havent noticed the problem, so perhaps I missed something? Anyway, enjoy your wine, although I would have thought a hot toddy would bring more cheer

[Ql-Users] A polite request

Good Evening All, my wife is currently in Central America, chasing sloths, and I've been lambasted because she didn't get her Valentine's card. Go figure, it's waiting here for he but that's not good enough - I should have hidden in in her suitcase! That's just so you know what kind of

Re: [Ql-Users] A polite request

Evening Per, On 15/02/18 17:42, pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote: For my part, I believe Ive apologised very handsomely for the error of my ways (although any forgiveness still seems to be working its way though my accuser's brain) so I have no more to give on this and require no further

Re: [Ql-Users] return values QPC2 <>SMSQMULATOR

On 03/08/18 12:01, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote: Hi all, (if there is still someone listening, of course.) I'm listening, but unfortunately, I don't know the answer. Sorry. :( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

On 15/08/18 17:06, Jochen Merz via Ql-Users wrote: 1988 + 20 = ???  ;-) Many thanks Jochen. Hope you are well. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Source code availability for Minerva v1.92 or v1.89?

What Martin says about Qmon! If/when you come to sell it, I'll have a copy please. I'm using QPC's 68020 and Gwass these days for the somrwhat irregular assembly eMagazine and Qmon2, standard, doesn't cope well with 68020 instructions. Obviously, that's exactly what I'm debugging now! Cheers,

[Ql-Users] Shock! Horror! Assembly Language eComic, Issue 5, Yes 5, Available now!

Well then, here's a surprise. The newest edition of the somewhat irregular periodical eMagazine is now available from http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/AssemblyLanguage/Issue_005/. I sent my wife away to Costa Rica, on a sloth hunting expedition, for a couple of weeks, so I had time

Re: [Ql-Users] QL wikis and information

Qdosmsq is mine, and is nostly software as I am most definitely not a hardware guru, nor do I play one on tv. I helped convert and set up qlwiki.qlforum.co.uk too. We could create a hardware namespace, separate from the existing qlwiki namespace for these things? Comments? Cheers, Norm. On

[Ql-Users] Fancy editing the QLWiki? Here's a helpful manual for beginners

I've created a manual for beginners at editing the new QL Wiki, and for people like me, who occasionally have trouble remembering stuff! You can read about it on the wiki itself at http://qlwiki.qlforum.co.uk/doku.php#editing_manual. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Proposal about the file system

Hi Giorgio, but the applications can change any part of the header, especially if the user has DJToolkit, Turbo Toolkit, TK2 etc. So should we stop using file lengths, data space, file types etc? Not once has my own backup system been compimised by any application writing to the header, nor

Re: [Ql-Users] Proposal about the file system

Hi Giorgio, On 11/10/18 05:49, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote: But i never keep in my mind to use a "public" fieds to store applicative dependant info. Hmm. The backup date is applicable to the file on the hard disc. It holds information about the file on disc and not about the

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN corrupted

Evening Renato. Are there any errors displayed? Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN corrupted

On 02/01/2019 23:43, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: The hard disk map can be corrupted by a variety of software: the main culprits are probably the GST Linker (old version, not the one supplied by Quanta) and any software which draws arcs or uses ATAN, ASIN or ACOS (QDOS only, not SMSQ/E!).

[Ql-Users] QLFoum is down.

I'm attempting to get into the QL Forum and I'm getting an error 508 that states: Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later. Hopefully there's a mod listening in here .. because I can't send

Re: [Ql-Users] QLFoum is down.

It appears to be back. Please ignore my previous email. On 17/12/2018 20:25, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: I'm attempting to get into the QL Forum and I'm getting an error 508 that states: Resource Limit Is Reached Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

[Ql-Users] QL Assembly eComic - Issue 6 Out Now.

Issue 6 of the QL Assembly eMagazine is now, finally, available for download. Just in time for Christmas too! :-) Things are a little different now. I'm hosting all the code in the eMagazine, as well as the source (LaTeX) for the eMagazine itself on GitHUb. Each issue is available as a

[Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

Revision 2.15.5 1) Now compiles under Windows with Gcc. I used CodeBlocks with the built in 32bit gcc to do the builds. There's also a makefile for shell usage. 2) Fixed 32bit bug in formatting an ed image file. It would segfault on Windows 64bit when compiled as 32bit, but not as a 64 bit

Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

n! Cheers, Norm. On 2 February 2019 08:28:53 GMT+00:00, Peter Graf via Ql-Users wrote: >Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: >> Revision 2.15.5 >> >> [...] >> >> If you enjoy using this half as much as I've enjoyed amending it, >then >> I've had twice as

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E and SBASIC manual v1.06

Hi Derek, On 28/01/2019 20:18, Derek via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Dilwyn, I received your Blog update email, can you remove the adverts from the email. Regards Derek I suspect, given that Dilwyn's blog is at wordpress.com, that he is using a free blog setup there. In that case, the adverts are

Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

On 04/02/2019 17:25, Peter Graf wrote: Sounds good. I could compile qxltools, but that was long ago. My concern are image sizes over 16 MB and some strange characters in the commandline output. What problems do you have with 16MB files? I presume you mean that the qxl.win file is over 16Mb,

Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

On 05/02/2019 10:07, pgraf--- via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Peter, Can you give me an example of how to reproduce the problem(s) you are seeing? I've just created a 20 MB qxl.win with no problems. (So far!) Unfortunately not right now, and my memory is vague. I think that all issues were gone with

Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

Hi Wolf, On 05/02/2019 14:01, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: int nbrOfSectorsInMap=firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTM)&0x; // that many sectors are supposed to be in the fat int temp=nbrOfSectorsInMap/(firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTG)&0x); if (nbrOfSectorsInMap %

Re: [Ql-Users] The Editor

Hi Paul, On 04/07/2019 17:59, paul via Ql-Users wrote: > ... Was or is there a PC equivalent? I also recall thinking about this way back in the past but don't recall ever chasing an answer. Do you mean, a PC equivalent to the Editor? or, silly question I admit, a PC program to read PC

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

Hi Wolf. Thanks. I use eComic, eMagazine, ePeriodical etc interchangeably. My wife calls all magazines comics, so it sort of stuck. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On 1 October 2019 06:46:03 BST, Wolf via Ql-Users wrote: >Hi Norman, >

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

feedback in the next issue please? Thanks (in advance) if so. Cheers, Norm. On 02/10/2019 10:49, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: In this issue there is an article by Tobias on the Q68, plus exciting stuff about the UTF8 character set encoding and how it can be used

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

Hi Dave, strangely enough, I read that the 8th bit allowed parity as, the then, top notch paper tapes could cope with an extra (8th) bit and it was put to good use for a parity bit. I haven't read the various standards though, so willing to be corrected. (Again!) Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from

[Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

Hello to all (both?) my faithful readers. The latest edition of the somewhat irregular eComic about QL Assembly Language Programming is out now. Get it from: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssem ... ag/Issue_7 You only need the PDF (to read) and the Code.zip file, to save you typing. Enjoy.

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

Oh hum. The URL got butchered. Try this one: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases/tag/Issue_7 and hopefully, that will work better. Sorry. Cherrs, Norm. On 30 September 2019 20:48:41 BST, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: >Hello to all (both?) my faith

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

Hi Dave, On 03/10/2019 00:58, Dave Park wrote: I think we have to remember that people didn't communicate as easily or freely then as we do today, so specifications were far more localized than we'd suspect. If sites had 8 hole punched tape readers, it would be a sensible use. When modems

[Ql-Users] Free circuit analysis software

Slightly off topic but there are electronics gurus on here who might be interested. Spectrum Soft (no relation) are giving away Micro-Cap 12 software. Free, no source, no support, just the previous release CD. And it's all legal. A quick check of prices seems to indicate that this used to cost

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E 3.35

Try the download again, but change the URL to something like: https://your_file_path.zip?garbage=1 That should get you around the caching. Change the numbers if you have to try again. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] E-mail etiquette: New subject, new message

Hi Marcus, +1. I raised this some time ago too. It made no difference sadly, however, your point about some web mail browsers using the subject to group messages makes sense. I hadn't thoughtbabout that. I use Thunderbird and it uses the message id, and the problem you mention drives me

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

Thanks John. I get that it's a software description of some hardware. This is the first time I've come across it. I might spend some time looking into it - if/when MrsD allows - just to satisfy my own curiosity. Not that I'll be doing any hardware design though. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

Hi Marcel, On 09/01/2020 10:50, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Well, it's a bit like programming, the difference is just that basically all lines execute at the same time! If you want something to execute sequentially you have to implement a state machine. > ... Thanks. I had a look at the

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

See! I said I knew nothing! ;-) On 9 January 2020 16:29:50 GMT, Peter Graf via Ql-Users wrote: >Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: >> I get that it's a software description of some hardware. > >Not software. It is simply a hardware description, and the result is >pure hardwa

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

;would like to see the hardware been rather than a S/W program to run on >the H/W. >Sounds so pedantic doesn't it ;-)JA > >On Thursday, 9 January 2020, 22:11:31 GMT, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users > wrote: > > See! I said I knew nothing! ;-) > >On 9 January 2020 16:29:50 GMT

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-VGA

I'm still here Marcel. ;-) I'll never have a facebook account. But I do use the Forum. I've read your article. It looks interesting. I'm not clued up on FPGAs - although I know what the initials stand for - so, I would be interested in knowing a bit more about how you did the converter. If

Re: [Ql-Users] 16th Italian Sinclair QL meeting (virtual) - Report

On 14/04/2020 00:00, Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users wrote: 16° Meeting Sinclair QL Italiano – 5th of April 2020 The 16° Sinclair QL should have been held in Modena as it has been the case since 2008. Unfortunately, due to the restriction enforced following the Covid-spread 19 we had to meet on

Re: [Ql-Users] Maximum size of a file

Regarding the internals of a QXL.WIN disk, I documented that at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:fs:qlwa there's a table at the end with host file sizes and the resulting internal block size. On 23/04/2020 14:29, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote: Sorry for my english, i

[Ql-Users] Norm's Assembly Language Book - Updated again

Afternoon All, my eBook created from the articles in QL Today over the years has recently been converted to a paper copy by "Tinyfpga" (on the Ql Forum). You can read details on this posting: https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9=3294=40#p35207 This published issue was created with my

Re: [Ql-Users] Select on

I have a vague recollection that Simon N Goodwin did something similar, maybe, in the DIY Toolkit. I think it was passed a variable and a list of strings, and returned the position of the variable in the list. Something like that. Maybe useful? Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Assembly Language Book.

:-) I'll have the nurses check! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On 20 June 2020 10:05:33 BST, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: >> format of data in registers as having the most significant bit at the >right end >I do certainly hope your

[Ql-Users] QL Today Assembly Language Book.

A bug was recently found in section 1.2.1 where I described the format of data in registers as having the most significant bit at the right end. Duh! That has been corrected. If you need a corrected copy, it's the June 2020 release at

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Assembly Language Book.

Nothing worse! On 20 June 2020 13:02:21 BST, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote: >Norman, > >At your age you want to watch it. You might show your MSB, and the >nurse >might think it's your LSB. > >Dave > >On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 4:16 AM Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < &g

[Ql-Users] Assembly Language eComic - Issue 5 Correction.

BUG FIX! Morning All, while investigating bit fields - for a different project altogether - I found a bug in Issue 5 of the eComic. On Page 28, section 4.2.1 I mention that a two bit wide bit field, in bits 5 and 6 of a register would be specified as {26:2}. That was correct if I was looking

Re: [Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

On 16/01/2021 15:35, Juraj Lutter via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Otis, that's great. Thanks very much. Cheers, Norm. FWIW, # host -t mx blackchip.plus.com blackchip.plus.com mail is handled by 10 mx.avasin.plus.net

[Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

I've had a request from someone claiming to be Richard Alexander of CGH Services fame, to join the Ql Wiki. Since I have had a number of spamming users to deal with recently, I tend to try and do as much background checking as I can before I assign write privileges. However, I've come up

Re: [Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

On 16/01/2021 15:18, Darren Branagh via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Darren, much obliged to you Sir, thanks. I shall do the admin bit and give Richard write access. The only problem is, his email probably won't work as the domain isn't (or doesn't appear) registered: norman@Hubble:~$ whois

Re: [Ql-Users] Richard Alexander (CGH Services) and the QL Wiki

Sorted, thanks Darren -- contact has been made! Cheers, norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Issue 8 now available

Greetings everyone. After a delay of a year and a bit, Issue 8 of the irregular eMagazine on QL Assembly Language is now available for download. This (exciting?) edition covers: * Some more UTF8 stuff -- Wolfgang Lenerz has suggested some improvements to the code in Issue 7, and this has

[Ql-Users] Free Pascal (Cross) Compiler for the QL

In case anyone is not following the thread at QL Forum, you might, possibly, maybe, perhaps be interested to know that there is some work ongoing to bring the Free Pascal Compiler to the QL. This was started as a sort of joke project back in QLVember (I hate those made up "month" names!) but

[Ql-Users] Assembly eComic - Issue 9, Now available

Well, I managed to get two issues into 2021! This is the latest and probably the final one for this year. What can we find in Issue 9? Well: QL2WIN - a utility to convert from QL line ends to Windows line ends when transferring text files between systems. This is one I wrote for myself, but

Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball

> One > night in the local pub he redrew the > entire Spectrum Issue 1 PCB from > memory on a napkin, while quite drunk. > I was stupidly impressed by that. I'd have been seriously impressed by that! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[Ql-Users] Assembly Programming Issue 10 now on release!

A new year, a new issue. Issue 10 of the somewhat irregular eMagazine on Assembly Programming is now available. https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases/latest Enjoy! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill

[Ql-Users] Assembly eComic - Issue 11 now available.

Only 4 months from the last issue and we already have another! In this issue of the somewhat irregular eMagazine, we have: Beginners' Corner: where we discuss simply screen and file handling. Experienced readers should skip over the excruciating detail that I go into to help beginners.

Re: [Ql-Users] One Per Desk: Computer One floppy interface. Need the ROM image.

On 14/12/2023 07:59, Rich Mellor via Ql-Users wrote: ... Unfortunately, having lost all of my emails last year, I cannot even recall who it was that had quite an extensive ICL One Per Desk collection?  Does anyone else remember? I wonder if that might have been Dave Walker or C68 fame? He

Re: [Ql-Users] CONFIG Manual

19:43, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users > wrote: >> >> 2023-12-07T17:55:41Z Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users : >> >> > Evening all. >> > >> > I was reading through the latest version of Wolfgang's SMSQ/E Reference >> > Manual, looking for some informatio

Re: [Ql-Users] CONFIG Manual

Hi Dilwyn, Yes, I'll let you know of any differences. Cheers, Norm. -- Author of "Arduino Software Internals" and "Arduino Interrupts". ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] bug in String handling

On 08/01/2024 16:51, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: Line 120 is due to the fast that strings are not 0 based index. So what would a$(0) be? Under SMSQ/E at least, print a$(0) in the above example would give "10" - which is the length of the string... Since this seems to be an unorthodox

Re: [Ql-Users] bug in String handling

On 08/01/2024 18:46, pjw via Ql-Users wrote: > 100 a$ = "1234567890" > 105 b$ = a$(4 to 3): REMark This works > 110 REMark c$ = a$(4 to 2): REMark This fails with an error. > 115 c$ = a$( to 0) : REMark no error returned > 120 c$ = a$(0):: REMark no error returned BUT ERROR IF QLIBERATED

Re: [Ql-Users] bug in String handling

Morning Jan, That matches with Jan Jones. Arrays index from zero, but simple strings from 1. Cheers, Norm. -- Author of "Arduino Software Internals" and "Arduino Interrupts". ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] CONFIG Manual

ed rather old edition 5 copy) page 151 onward, CONFIG >has its own section >https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/manuals/QPTR%20manual.pdf > >On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 19:43, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users > wrote: >> >> 2023-12-07T17:55:41Z Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users : >> >

[Ql-Users] CONFIG Manual

Evening all. I was reading through the latest version of Wolfgang's SMSQ/E Reference Manual, looking for some information on Config blocks and usage. It wasn't there! I was sure that a previous manual, possibly the old A5 printed one I bought from Jochen years ago, but no longer. I searched

Re: [Ql-Users] CONFIG Manual

rnals" and "Arduino Interrupts". On 7 December 2023 19:41:58 GMT, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users wrote: >2023-12-07T17:55:41Z Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users : > >> Evening all. >> >> I was reading through the latest version of Wolfgang's SMSQ/E Reference >&

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E 3.39

I'm gutted to hear of George's passing away. I had a lot of dealings with George when I was writing Assembler articles for QL Today, there wasn't ever an article that George didn't have a comment on, but mostly he had ideas to improve things. For which I was grateful. My deepest sympathies to

Re: [Ql-Users] George Gwilt's Programs

I have now completed the upload of a huge number of files --- ok, 33 --- which Tobias sent me yesterday. You can find everything at https://github.com/SinclairQL/GeorgeGwilt. I've attempted to document what is in each directory, but I've only got George's minimal documentation to go on

Re: [Ql-Users] George Gwilt's Programs

On 08/04/2024 19:02, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: Thank you for doing this Norman. Just to let you know, I did reply to your email yesterday, but Gmail doesn't like me, and wouldn't accept your or Darren's email addresses as ones I can send to. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar.

Re: [Ql-Users] George Gwilt's Programs

Thanks Wolfgang. I think I might have a full set now, thanks to Tobias. Cheers, Norm. On 8 April 2024 20:31:57 BST, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: >Hi Norman, > >I have nothing recent, sorry. > >Wolfgang > >> This is a copy of a message I posted on the QL Forum, for anyone interested

[Ql-Users] George Gwilt's Programs

This is a copy of a message I posted on the QL Forum, for anyone interested who doesn't use the forum. I wanted to check if I had the latest copies of George's assemblers GWASL and GWASS and discovered that http://gwiltprogs.info is no longer present, other than a blank landing page. It

[Ql-Users] Assembly Language eMagazine - new issue!

I know it's been a while, but Issue 12 of the somewhat irregular Assembly Language Programming eMagazine is, finally, available. Get it here https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/releases/tag/Issue_12. I noticed that it has been two whole years since the previous issue

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language eMagazine - new issue!

Try this link https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageMagazine/blob/master/Issue_012/Assembly_Language_012.pdf and if that doesn't work, does "wget" fetch it? Failing that, drop me your email address to norman at Dunbar hyphen it dot Co dot UK and I'll email you back the pdf.