Shareware,
presumably registration codes still needed?
If not, how do we get freeware versions?
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http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
later, nice to meet you,
Dennis Smith. (DD Systems)
He he, can just imagine Dennis filling the role of 'lurker' quite well
;-)))
OK, so now we know you are here we can fire difficult Q60 queries
direct into the list can we???
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I have been trying to access Giorgio Garabello's software downloads
page at www.sinclair-ql.it for several days and failed. Does anyone
know if the site exists now or not?
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Darren,
www.jms1.supanet.com is the John Sadler SQLUG website where George
puts his offerings.
Haven't been there recently to know if he's put it up yet.
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reading any instructions
even if you ai't used them for ages.
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if they could be
retrieved or not! So it should be OK to put them on the website and
the QL DOcumentation CD.
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value, right
click to send it to another program via the stuffer buffer. Avoids
frequent reference to the QL manual to find the keypresses needed for
accented characters etc.
Both are about 30KB downloads from
www.soft.net.uk/dj/freeware/freeware.html
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http
it would go away.
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good way of making an
Easyptr application go belly up.
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him.
At the risk of dragging myself into this, I can confirm Dennis did
mention most of this to me either at the show on sunday or immediately
afterwards (forgot which).
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beginners guide.
Don't think Norman was showing off about the Easyptr tutorial, it's a
brilliant help to learning Easyptr.
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And if you plan on sending anythign to QL Today, we can accept most QL
and PC formats. Jochen can handle some Atari formats too.
QL - SCR or PIC files preferred
PC - JPG or GIF preferred, we may have to convert others (PNG, BMP,
TIF etc) to one of these.
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http
in
assembly !)
He he, I remember your screams of pain when you were trying to learn
Difficult-PTR originally, wouldn't want to inflict that on you again
Norman!
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with the
Terrorism
Act.)
Terrorism? Ooer...
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information on the high colour modes (bits per
pixel etc) taken from the GD2 docs, which should provide a starting
point for generating your own code to handle these files in your own
programs.
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getting extra ideas for it, especially since Darrenm suggested
the 'more than one user' options. What started as a fairly simple
point, click and exec program has (like QDT I suspect) turned into
quite a project!
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- Original
to
passwords etc. It does seem a bit overkill for what started as a
simple 'click on an icon to exec' program, though!
To be honest, since anyone with a files menu can access all the hard
disk anyway, there doesn't seem much point attempting secure
passwords.
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documentation). If you really want to
make work for yourself ;-) use Jonathan Hudson's CATDOC port for QL to
extract text from the Word files.
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is good, and between them Peter and DD seem to have such
a good product on their hands.
Accordingly, by all means get this off your chests lads, but don't
forget also that the Q60 is such a wonderful system when you actually
get to use it!
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any idea what I've removed or damaged in error? I hate having
to restart the PC every time this prevents me using QPC2!
(Don't like the thought but I may well end up reinstalling!)
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updated by Phoebus...
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using backplane power supply or
QL power supply, as stated in the manual.
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and will be added to the PD library and CD-ROMs on which it appears.
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programs
will of course be available from my PD library service.
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completely fail to start, the SGC gave a 'contact
Miracle Systems' message and stripes ont he screen.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 September 2002 00:08
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Weird problems with Aurora/SGC
At 06:58 ìì
...)
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, Phoebus's suggestion of removing
the Office 97 item from the Startup menu seems to have cleared the
problem, I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks guys.
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some thoughts. I can check out the
scenario on
NT4/W2K/XP if you want - but you seem to think that you do not have
problems
on those OS.
No. It's known not to happen on NT and 2K. Not been able to try XP
though.
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on my website
www.soft.net.uk/dj/software/other/other.html
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on working fine without them apart from issuing a message to say
they weren't found! Unzip 5.32 for example will complain sometimes
when it starts but seems to work fine for general unzipping.
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is still present.
Weird.
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in the near future to get in
touch with you to help you to gauge demand for them.
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in :-)
Sounds great. Id like to order now. How much? ;)
Per
I am afraid you'll need to wait a little bit and in any case you
should contact Rich ;-)
It's been splashed across Rich's adverts for a while now, albeit with
no real information on what it was other than the name itself.
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that the Super
Gold Card, QIMI and Q40/Q60 demand was known yet did sell.
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if he does decide to pursue this any further.
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Usually every toolkit has a name. IMO the prefix should be derived
from that. This can as well be the name of the author (anybody
remember Beule-Tools from Peter(?) Beule?).
As we're talking about SBASIC, I have spent much time
Hello everyone,
It is time to start putting QL Today together once again. I'm a bit
short of both news and articles this time, so if anyone has material
to include in QL Today please send it to me as soon as possible.
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you are across this list.
Hopefully, your authority and knowledge will help to speedily clarify
and resolve this matter, to the good of all concerned.
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most of it.
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priceless.
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there has experience of using it,
if you'd like some info. Not absolutely sure but I think that uQLx and
QemuLator were both written from the same sources, but can't remember
which came first.
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of screen printing software with the
OS of other computers writing these is probably a dying art!)
Not sure if Prowess graphics routines can print high colour graphics
yet (Joachim?)
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like that ;-)
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this site. IE just locks up each time I
try. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
I would love to download the QL manual PDFs!
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Thanks John.
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- Original Message -
From: John Sadler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Today news
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users List [EMAIL
Manual in Adobe PDF format in the Technical Docs section.
By following the link from my QL Net page to Javier Guerra's Sinclair
QL Spanish Resources page, you can also find a copy of the QL Service
Manual in HTML format.
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://www.soft.net.uk/dj/qllogo/qllogo.html
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and others.
These types of documents may well go on my QL Documentation CD. I
still welcome any further contributions for this - watch out for
something in QL Today soon.
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with multiple section screens and PIC files.
I think GD2 has been around long enough by now for us to have a
serious go at documenting what's available.
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download zipped files OK. Once I got the Adobe/IE bit updated I
managed to download it OK.
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for Spectrum users. I would love to set up something like it for the
QL. At the moment, the QL DOcumentation CD is the best I can offer,
but at some point in the future I may get more web space if ever I
think I'll have the time to organise it all.
Wolfgang, do you have a QL website at all?
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He he, the email he refers to had been sent just before I read
this...Norman knows me too well! (Sorry Norman)
Dilwyn
Ah, training for the job as a technical writer for the SMSQ/E
project,
jolly good :-)
Fraid not, I find it hard to find enough time to get articles
written - I'm
behind as it
It might make a nice short article for QL Today actually...a brief
explanation of what Tyche is, and what you need to do to get it
running in QemuLator plus the screen shots. QemuLator tends to be the
forgotten emulator which gets least mention, but version 2 is really
worth the money you pay to
!)
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and forgotten
I'd done the job!). Sometimes, some days, my brain just goes AWOL.
I blame nobody but myself and my own stupidity for once in my life!
At least, it helped to sort out a problem I would have had downloading
PDFs because of the PDF reader problem with IE5.
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run however and executes basic programs and its a little
faster (with a small
test I run) than MGx roms
Was sent to me by Simon Goodwin. Don't know much more about it and
have never seen it running.
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of the
archived files Marcel's kindly pointed us to.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Mouse
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
I've asked about this awhile ago but lost the reply
Thank you...I even did a news article for QLToday about this. Oops!
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Andrea Carpi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] GD2 programs.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am trying to draw up
routines?
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Wow, since my recent reformat of my hard drive, I've now got 705
messages in my email system, most of them from ql-users I think and I
know I've deleted quite a few as well. Of late, this list has got very
busy and very interesting!
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to make it run with QLAY your qlay.rc should look like this:
-r c:\roms\tyche-tra.rom
-c [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-l win2@sub2\qlay.dir
-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-f 11538.46
Replace the -f with the appropriate one for your machine
Phoebus
Hi Phoebus,
I've added this info to
Jones QL CD-ROMs, which
should make it easier for north Americans to get hold of those CD-ROMs
from him rather than struggle with dollar/Sterling/Euro conversions
getting them from Darren or me.
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: Re: [ql-users] Q-Emulator 2
??? 11/11/2002 3:10:55 ??, ?/? Dilwyn Jones
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??:
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Tyche ROM?
Marcel
According to Dilwyn that sent that to me, the Tyche was the
codename
for the
Super QL that was developed by Sirius
Ah, now I thought I was subscribed to ql-developers, but it's a long
time since I last had an email from it.
Would you mind sending me a copy of the email if you still have it?
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- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday
, it was JM like my QL (Jones Mind).
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of the CDs without those files for N AMerica. This
will be most helpful.
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OK, those who looked into this when it was decreed that the QL ROMs
could be distributed, anyone know status of Tyche now? Or how to
contact Jonathan Oakley to see if he is able to release it?
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: TonyTebby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
not really difficult. Just a lot to master in one go. And a lot
of terminology to get used to. Norman's tutorial is a real step by
step basics guide.
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and
anyone is free to copy it (like the QL Emulators CD it was released
simply to try to help further the QL cause).
I had suspected that there was no 'official' reading method, as all
the information I'd seen seemed to be (vaguely) along the lines of
peeking information from this block.
Dilwyn Jones
from 98 to NT and 2000 (no Jonathan any more
AFAIK). No wonder I moan about the firm all the time is it ;-))
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. Thank you Marcel for allowing the dos devices to be redefined
to work around this!
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of Chas's programs,
which he sent me when re released his ex-DP programs. Not sure if that
includes compare...must have a browse.
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A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator.
Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he
gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve it)
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: John Leifer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
available from (um Dilwyn's web site ?)
Ummm, no, but I think I have the sources of some of Chas's
programs,
which he sent me when re released his ex-DP programs. Not sure if
that
includes compare...must have a browse. -- Dilwyn Jones
I have the source for Compare, but can't
wanted to until I
remembered...)
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of
the system under nowadays though.
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Win drive)
Hmm, wouldn't have noticed this as I don't have unlinked win/dos
device son my system (all 8 win and dos devices used!). I'll try it at
work where only dos1_,dos2_,win1_ and win2_ are used.
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it will still be there.
Thanks Tony, I must be mistaken, anyone know where I could get a copy?
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Library Gen48
disk.
Hmmm, so what else do I have I don't know about ? ;-))
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Now up and running, the revised Dilwyn Jones QL website!
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/index.html
Webmasters, please update any links you may have to my old page on
Softnet, which will shut down soon.
I've updated my site in the Quantum Ring system. When I set about
doing that, I
for many display modes, i.e. unless the mode was equal to pixel width
DIV 4 or something like that certain parts of the program got a blank
black screen.
Dilwyn Jones
-Message d'origine-
De : Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoye : samedi 30 novembre 2002 14:45
A : ql-users
Objet
the full list, just your suggested
additions (or changes). The protocol that I use is:
A very inclusive list already ... well done !
I would add :
The Editor 2000
Some of Mark Knights programs ...
QTrans by Dilwyn Jones, and other programs by Dilwyn.
If you must, just my pointer driven programs
of weeks ago (not checked since)
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time! We may have said not nice things about
microdrives in their time...but they've proved reliable for me in the
long run!
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and tried running them. They did run OK on
the 128K QL (well, run OK is perhaps stretching it a bit for those
old V1 programs!). If anyone wants copies for posterity...surely not!
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday
to collectors if nothing else.
I'll see what I can do ;-))
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!
It might be interesting to try to contact Mr Otridge to see if he
could be persuaded to allow this program to be put into P.D. as it's
quite a good program.
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unzip them and copy them to MDV for a bit of 1984 nostalgia.
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my QL Documentation
page in the Assembler Stuff section for now, until my Other Software
Page has a new home.
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/qldocs/qldocs.html
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change filenames when copying between directories. Copying a file
called letter_doc from win1_quill_ to win1_abacus_ will sometimes give
you win1_abacus_quill_letter_doc. This is something I'm working on!
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Thanks guys. For being so nice about the program, once I've got the
directory versus filenames issue sorted out, you can have the sources
Phoebus!
Dilwyn
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject:
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware.html
or can be emailed to you if simpler for you! (It's part of Launchpad,
I'm releasing the stand-alone compnent programs separately, as they
are finished).
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- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL
to add and start adding those before I finish
the other bits!
(Jim, hurry up and get QDT out, it might spur me on to finish
Launchpad more quickly).
I'm starting a new job on January 2nd, so there's another incentive or
obstacle depending on how it goes!
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the streets ;-))
(Darren has disappeared to his girlfriend's place for a week to escape
Decimal Invaders...he he)
BTW, any chance of a copy of the new improved snake...or are you still
working on it?
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and here in UK the better English is spoken by some of the Scots and
the
better English orators comes mostly from the Welsh.
Seasonal greetings to all - Bill
I notice no mention of Geordie, Bill
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and then proceed to
write perfectly understandable texts. Javier, Francois and others, we
understand you perfectly well even if we don't all speak fluent
Spanish/ French/ Dutch/ German/ Italian/Norwegian and all the other
first languages of members of this list
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tested on QPC2, I hope someone will be kind enough to
download and try it out on other platforms, especially on a system
with level 1 file handling.
The Decimal Invaders game mentioned by Darren on this list is also on
the same page. This is a pointer driven game.
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.
http://utenti.tripod.it/Sinclair
or
www.sinclair-ql.it
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Marcel Kilgus, who tells me that he
will consider a small change to the DOS device in future versions to
help me make Q-Trans more robust with the DOS device.
This latest Q-Trans can be downloaded from
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm
l
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that was his
excuse for talking to himself, it drowned out the babble from the rest
of us!)
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