Morning Marcel, > > Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives > > repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of.
> Hmm. Even on my trusty P3-600 server over a virtual VNC X session over > a WLAN link QPC ran pretty usable when I just tried it. So this is > probably not entirely normal. I have a P4 Sony Vaio Laptop with 512 MB RAM and a 2.3 GHz processor. RAM is shared with the graphics card so 32MB (the minimum) is 'stolen' to allow me to have the graphics working. So my system sounds faster than yours! When I say slowly, what I mean is the display (at present). Under the PE there is a delay when I move the mouse and the actual pointer on screen moving - so I end up overshooting and missing the actual place I want to be. Also, when typing (or when allowed to type) I get a delay between the key press and the appearance of the character on screen. Bear in mind I have not done anything other than install the Wine RPM and click on qpc.exe to make it run - no setup or anything has been done. > > PAUSE 50 - only pauses a very brief time. > > PAUSE 60*5 - ditto. > Very strange but fits with the repeated characters (clock ticking much > too fast so SMSQ/E goes into auto-repeat within milliseconds instead > of seconds). How fast does the cursor blink? Much faster than on Windows. On a very unscientific test, I counted about 20 cursor on-off cycles in about 8 seconds. > QPC needs RAW sector access to read/write floppies. Not sure whether > WINE emulates this at all and cannot test as my server doesn't have a > floppy drive. Well as I couldn't mount the floppy to /media/floppy it wouldn't be read anyway - unless raw access was working to /dev/fd0 like 'dd' manages. I have read your other email about setting a couple of links to /media/floppy and /dev/fd0 and will give them a try later at home. > > When I start QPC up and configure the image as win2_ it is not able > > to read it. > WIN is in QLWA, not QL5A format. I know :-) I was only trying all avenues that I could think of to see if I could read it as am image. I even thought about mounting the dd image as a loopback device as well - but that would fail too as there is no registered ql5a file system! (yet!) Thanks for taking time to reply. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
