on the
lettering on our signs around here - they all fall off in the winter!
You guessed it, Norman approached from the side with no meaningful
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Nothing arrived here here anyway, Phoebus. Don't forget there are
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Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Since for some stupid reason I don't seem able to send emails to any
of you
(any
there one day...
Hope that was QL (Info)-zipped up there
(Back on topic somehow again!)
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s just what you want of
it and no more, and is extremely simple and intuitive to use.
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o that the file can be updated with
the corrections as I'm up to my ears in pre-xmas rush work at the
moment and trying to complete the emulators CD.
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Is anyone in contact with Adrian Ives? (Author of Toolbox 98, Shell,
etc). His QL software website at www.angelfire.com/ab/4fac/ no longer
seems to work.
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upgrade ROM from Falkenburg for Trump Card
and I think SuperQBoard too. It certainly gave the new level 2
commands but I don't know if it created and read actual 'hard'
directories. I think Jochen used to sell this so perhaps he can tell
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things so finding it works on my system
may be hard for him to believe ;-)
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as the emulator scene.
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Has anyone heard from Phil Jordan (The Library pd service) recently?
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I download ebooks to mine and read them on the train each morning -
currently reading a Tale of Two Cities again!! :-))
Darren.
Better than counting sheep Darren.
Hey, just thought...you obviously don't have enough work to do!
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it for all you're worth to as many
ex-QLers in particular as possible. Hopefully, the carrot of several
emulators and nearly 1,000 freeware/shareware programs on the CD will
prove a good temptation to ex-QLers and wavering QLers. I hope so
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Exactly the same problem as I reported a week or so ago.
GO to SBASIC, enter OPEN#3,PAR and you'll find that seems to flush out
the printed output, if it's the same problem as I have with
QPC2v2final.
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Help! I just discovered
tried this Bill and it doesn't make any difference in
this case. The error message I constantly get is End Of File.
Time to give up on this one I think until I can get an old level 1 QL
out of the attic (it's an old QDOS disk so presumably worked at some
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for QDOS. I suspect Per wants to give a program a chance to be
able to look for GD2 and take appropriate action if not there.
DISP_TYPE is only in SMSQE
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to try opening a directory channel and
setting headers ro replace the NUL with a valid character.
Thanks for the suggestion. And I'll get back to you tonight or
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Thank you Norman, will try your suggestion. BTW, the DJToolkit Norman
refers to can be obtained from my Web site (Other Softyware Page).
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-established by the emulator.
Whatever the problem was, I'm glad you managed to sort it out, and if
you do discover the reason, let us know so anyone else running into
the same problem will have the 'fix' to hand.
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to unsubscribe yourself from another email
address, do so by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
following one line text in the body of the email (not in the subject
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available, which will run on computers
such as PCs, Apple Macs, Unix/Linux machines, Amiga, Atari ST and so
on.
Don't be afraid of asking questions and contributing to this list; we
are all here to help each other!
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plain text emails.
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to
travel past an outbreak area. Apologoes - we had intended to attend
this show and had told a few people we would be there.
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disks - it will need to be unzipped to an ED disk or to hard
disk.
CAUTION: Allow plenty of cheap rate download time to download the
whole lot - a massive download if you have a fairly slow modem like
mine.
The files may be found on my Other Software Page.
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! We're a friendly bunch on this list - don't be
afraid to contribute and ask any questions.
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Roll on Q60 or Goldfire (and enough money to buy one)
And permission from Chris :o)
Norman.
Trust you to complicate matters!
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will then build in a few weeks where any
initial problems with the CD (e.g. removal of any copyrighted material
inadvertently included or significant bugs found). It's so late
already I don't think a few more weeks wait will matter too much.
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with QPC2 if you're a PC user.
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unlikely to suffer
virus infection! (there...back on topic!)
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of a
typical QL monitor screen, but in a rather nice layout which should
not infringe on a certain clothing manufacturer's logo discussed
recently on the mailing list.
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the applet or anything
(we have to progress at some point), just noting that to get
everything to work everyone has to upgrade everything to the latest
all singing all dancing software sometimes.
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planning
software updates ;-)))
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from within SMSQE to
the (largely) exclusion of Windows, it makes more sense.
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PS Off topic, but I have just had a spam for a "Dow Jones Investment
video".
Why did I read that as a "Dilwyn Jones Investment video"?
Hah. No need to send for the video, just send me loads of used
fivers...tenners...
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versions fail if the 'line increment' in
memory is not the same as the screen width (e.g. some Aurora screen
modes). I don't know if there is a patch or the more recent versions
cope with this (Roy???)
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as an option command parameter, to allow it to be used via
FileInfo 2 for viewing local html files, e.g.
EX FLP1_HB_EXE;'FLP1_hbdemo.htm'
or add a command switch such as -b and -c to view/convert?
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From
of use, with a delay timer on startup. DOes this mean you
plan to make it a shareware or commercial product?
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drive. And starting it without Turbo TK gives
the usual extensions missing error. Sorry, nice try...see my other
email regarding my cock-up with the filenames.
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(and the fact it was
copyrighted is a
joke/greed). When?, soon I hope (too many other distracting
interests/hobbies)
I'll look forward to the next version of Photon :-)
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Peter Graf wrote:
Marcel wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
He he, I love Claus Graf's signature...never thought we'd see the
time
when we started throwing these sorts of figures around in SMSQDOS!
I
just hope the Q60 does see the light of day...as good as the
emulators
are I doubt we'll get
this - any
chance there may be a stack error in there somewhere as I think the
SBASIC structures are to some extent stack based.
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?
Command line options and a macro facility will be added.
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iop.flim, always test
on the primary channel.
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. Sorry to state the obvious.
What about Extended Mode 4 on the Atari ST-QL?
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OK from
CD-ROM, as long as I don't try to save any configuration changes of
course)
(I'm going off Malcolm now as well - he suggested the changed :o) -
joke !)
Are you sulking Malcolm ;-)
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e familiar with it. The
only problem I had was with compiling programs into toolkit-style
extensions (I think they're called externals?) with it, which I've had
little success with under SMSQ/E although OK under QDOS.
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Print yellow first when overlapping colours
Stylus 300,800,800+,1000 and 400 do not support this command.
(I don't have a Stylus printer so can't test this out!)
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Aurora 1024x768 or 1024x576.
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If anyone has read the solicitor's letter on page 24 of Quanta 03/01
referring to me, please can you translate it for me. My grasp of
English is not up to the job.
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)
followed by graphics data, stored same format as screens
Don't know if this has been updated for the new hicolour modes
though - possible that Minerva extended mode numbers may may specify
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are described as accepting channel numbers,
SCR_XLIM and SCR_YLIM are not, but the description refers to maximum
size windows can be set to rather than screen size as such, implying
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(address,(pixel_width DIV 4));
address = address+(DISPLAY_WIDTH(#channel))
END FOR line_no
END IF
ELSE
REMark different routines for high colour modes (which I can't
remember)
END IF
Not tested at all, written from memory.
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to get back on topic)
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..
Norman has resided in Bradford for a long time now, so I guess he's
now officially an Englishman. Or at the very least, entitled to
English passport...unless the Scots want him back ;-))
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Ron Dunnett wrote:
Everybody on holiday i think Tony
Ron
Except me, wot woz working very hard...
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keyboards. There are many second hand ones around no longer
produced (e.g. from Falkenberg in Germany, SPEM in Italy, Di-Ren in
England) and the SuperHermes Lite from TF Services.
Perhaps someone on this list might have a 'dead' QL with a membrane
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Jon Dent wrote:
C'mon you lot, they were all filling in their census forms
Be interesting to see how many Jedi there are (;-)
I suppose Tony has put him self down as a shedi ;-)
Even by the standards of the puns on this mailing list, that's
abysmal, Jon ;-)
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, but
32 bit
(4,294,967,296 colours down to 8 )
Mmmm - could be a nice exercise for my QL Assembly Language Tutorials
:o)
Careful...an eavesdropping Supreme Toady might take you up on that ;-)
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on the screen
pixel by
pixel? (Well I won't avoid that graphical character generator in the
end..
I knew it :-)
Shouldn't be necessary assuming OVER and PRINT do what you want (i.e.
I understood what you meant).
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can manage
without the dreaded Windoze).
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the correct docs, I found them in my back room this
morning
- where I had stored them so that I wouldn't lose them !
Umm, how do I get this email back on topic? Perhaps Craig Evans's face
is as black as a QL from the bruising he took???
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to time: so keep out
look
out at boot sales and jumble sales Dilwyn. If I see one or more I'll
get
it/them and let any interested parties know via the list.
Thanks, I'd bite your hand off taking it off your hand!
Seriously, anyone comes across one of these, I'd like one.
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Once soql is complete, I daresay we can banish OE and other 2
letter
words from this list.
Even... QL ?
Oops...I meant the dread (sorry Claus) P* word ;-)
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certain sizes/colours/modes...my
wife's laptop will not allow a 512x256 mode of all things! It seems to
show about 3/4 of the display only!
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to persuade him...even editors
don't always get their way with publishers ;-))
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, but I've
only just found time to update the website (sorry Norman and George).
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/software/other/gwasl17.zip
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
Anyone fancy writing a COBOL compiler for the QL :o)
MMmmm - that could be my next series of articles in QL Toady ! (Only
kidding Dilwyn, only kidding !)
Too late, deadline is...
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We seem to have managed to print the wrong telephone number in QL
Today for Derek Stewart's Holborn View BBS.
The correct telephone number is (+44) 01773-741335
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on to the BBS, please.
If not, can you let us know if there is a 'general' login that we can
use, i.e. when the black screen comes up, what do I need to enter at
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Richard Zidlicky wrote:
Afaic all publicly known specs about QXL filesystems are scattered
through UQLX, qxltool and qxl_fschk sources.
I think Gerhard Plavec has also put some information on his Austrian
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can't get it to work, it says 'bad parameter'.
Anybody got any idea what I'm doing wrong? I seem to have (temporarily
I hope) mislaid my SMSQ/E manual.
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block, but it wouldn't be an easy task or
very reliable - youd probably be better off going by filename
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Phoebus Dokus wrote:
Hmmm, since my knowledge on the matter is practically
non-existent IS
there a way
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Date: 01 July 2001 21:55
Subject: Re: [ql-users] PAR_USE
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I was writing a pointer driven 'System
can't store all
the files off a Painter master disk in a Zip file using Info-zip!):
TYPE DETAILS
6= 4 colour Painter COM compressed graphics file
11 = 8 colour Painter COM compressed graphics file
5= pattern file in The Painter
4= font file in The Painter
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Is anything wrong with majordomo lately (Maybe has a headache or
something?)
Phoebus
I am not receiving ANY messages or are we all quiet?
Just think of it as nobody has any problems to raise...
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like to help less experienced users
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this
bug
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QLIBERATOR RELEASE 3.33 September 1990
Bug in QLIB_OBJ not releasing memory after compilation corrected.
Bug in QLIB_OBJ with TRACE on and REMarks at start of file corrected
of
the DJ Bargain Software Bundle from Q-Celt Computing as soon as we are
confident the programs are reasonably free of bugs - someone please
download them and test them for me!
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Nicholas Ashby wrote:
Dilwyn
Like Paul, I have just acquired a QL (re-acquired actually as I used
to have
one).
Seen all the downloadable manuals and software on your web site.
They all seem to be in QL format.
I can only
(well, almost...) !
Hmmm, better ask Peter and Claus to think about this for the Q999 ;-)
Nasta - Goldfire will need to correct this shortcoming when it plugs
into a QL ;-))
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of how to do this (I don't have a
Minerva Mkii to know how to do this. The current program does the
equivalent of a simple SDATE command, i.e. not very advanced.
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The SystemSet program I announced a few days ago has been upgraded to
version 1.02, which fixes some minor bugs and adds a program execution
facility to the File Selection menu as a result of feedback from
users.
Many thanks to those who did get in touch after downloading the
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Tony Firshman wrote:
This gives a good list of QL related sites:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Systems/Sinclair/QL/
Can't be that good, they left out the Dilwyn Jones site ;-)
(Maybe it was the pictures of me or Tony Firshman which caused that
though)
Have used the SUBMIT
QL software in zipped format, for example, via websites,
BBSes and PD library disks.
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I am trying to contact Phil Jordan and Mike Dodd. Phil, for obvious
reasons (The Library) and Mike Dodd to return a message left on my
answerphone which has partly lost the telephone number at the end of
his message.
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place can if
required process every single executable file on a medium, creating a
matching _qh file for each executable program. I hope this little QH
utility will prove popular with anyone wishing to distribute QL
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program. I dislike modifying binaries in such a
way, but at least Tony Price's method was a bit more suitable for
downloading dearchivers from a bbs especially if his comms program did
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Roy Wood wrote:
Phil Jordan ...
Mike Dodd ...
Mike Dodd's email address returned the message to me with something
like 'inbox full'.
No response yet from Phil Jordan. Do you know, Roy, if The Library is
still in being?
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about a huge file stuck on the
server!!!
Jon Dent...hurry up and finish soql please so we can make decent email
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Geoff Wicks about the
almost in relation to his QXL).
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with a general write failure report (not buffer underrun).
This problem is now holding up newer versions of the QL Emulators CD
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dreaming of QDOS TCP/IP_
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were deleted and I never
looked at it again.
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they're only getting the attachment!
Yes, I get the message, at least.
So here's another one... ;O)
Guess I asked for that :-(
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soql when it (eventually) comes
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was changed. Sadly I can't
remember what I did to correct that other than reinstalling the
device. (mine is a parallel port version)
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by
then???
Is this what they call Denial Of Service attacks - clogging up Echelon
with millions of references to naughty words? (add Echelon-sensitive
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