[Ql-Users] hardware

Hallo again from Richard Gwilt - George’s son. Thank you very much for your kind words over the last week or so. Sorry to bother you all AGAIN - but we are in the process of tidying up - and are faced with a room FULL of QL stuff!! 6 old black QL computers (1 with Trump card) 1 Q60 1 QL2

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E 3.39

Hello everyone at the QL-Users group. I guess most of you knew of mu father, George Gwilt - this is just to let you know that he passed away this past Saturday. All the best, Richard Gwilt > On 25 Feb 2024, at 20:54, qlus...@sinclairql.net via Ql-Users > wrote: > > >

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 4.04 BUG (RWAP Software)

> On 23 Apr 2018, at 15:40, Michael Bulford via Ql-Users > wrote: > >> Does anyone know why the following in QPC2 reports "Invalid Channel ID" >> >> WINDOW 448,200,32,16 >> PAPER #1,3 > I get no error message. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 for Mac update

> On 8 Oct 2017, at 16:48, Gerhard Plavec via Ql-Users > wrote: > > Tatsächlich... irgendwie gibt es da nichts zu laden !?? Events 1. I Click on the Downloads address given by Marcel. 2. Up comes a page called Downloads. 3. I then click on QPC2 v4.05 for MacOS X. 4. I now get a page called

Re: [Ql-Users] QMenu v8

> On 21 Sep 2017, at 09:48, Thierry Godefroy via Ql-Users > wrote: > >> >> QMenu 7.66 has a lot of problem, ink color in view_file remains always >> black, extension filter don't work and some other problems... Qmenu 8, >> works well.. > > Yes, v7.66 is buggy, but v8 is not much better... A

Re: [Ql-Users] Function type error

> On 10 Aug 2017, at 22:49, Michael Bulford via Ql-Users > wrote: > > Thanks for your explanations. This is all specific to SBASIC. > Tobias gives an example with a LOCal name the same as the function name. > Although this is possible, it cannot be recommended. You will not be able > to call

Re: [Ql-Users] TURBO and testing it exists

> On 18 Aug 2017, at 17:38, Per Witte via Ql-Users > wrote: > > George, the question is relevant if you write programs intended for other > people: You cant be sure THEY will load Turbo. However, IMHO, any serious > Tinkerer should load Turbo as a matter of course. I would usually expect to co

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

> On 12 May 2017, at 20:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > Oh, OK, I'll send 1,500 test emails to Tobias now as it's going direct to him > by mistake. > (UK NHS hacking at work again) > > Dilwyn This was treated as junk. (I’ve only just looked now!) George _

Re: [Ql-Users] German Minerva ROM

> On 8 Mar 2017, at 12:00, pg...@q40.de wrote: > > > By now, SMSQ/E is also free software, Minerva offers no advantages > regarding licensing anymore. Native hardware interest moved from > targeting highspeed Motorola CPU to retrocomputing with FPGA. Which > is using plain 68000 at the moment

Re: [Ql-Users] German Minerva ROM

> On 7 Mar 2017, at 15:53, pg...@q40.de wrote: > > > GWASS did not produce the same code as QMAC from Minerva source, and > required various sourcecode changes, which now no longer allow to > use QMAC. We did not hunt down all the subtle differences yet. I'm > sure this could all be solved by

Re: [Ql-Users] Behaviour of DIV with negative numbers in SBASIC (QPC2)

> On 9 Jan 2017, at 09:29, Jan Bredenbeek wrote: > > A word of warning! >> >> It may be true that SMSQ/E supports Long INTs for DIV/MOD but I do >> remember that QLIB does not. >> I tried this in SQRview and it worked fine in SBasic but needed a >> workaround for QLIB to avoid an "overflow" err

Re: [Ql-Users] Bevaiour of DIV with negative numbers in SBASIC (QPC2)

> On 5 Jan 2017, at 15:27, Martyn Hill wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Can anyone tell me the expected behaviour for the integer-divide operator > 'DIV' in SBASIC, when provided with a negative dividend/numerator? > > My number-theory is a bit rusty, but I would have thought that, say, -1 DIV > 1

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator External on Turbo??

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 15:02, Derek Stewart wrote: > > > But what I mean is, if a SBASIC procedure is written, it can be compiled with > Qliberator and LRESPRed into the Interpreter list. > > E.g. from Qliberator Manual > > 10 $$external > 20 Def Proc Square(x) > 30 print x*x > 40 End Def Squ

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator External on Turbo??

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 15:02, Derek Stewart wrote: > > But what I mean is, if a SBASIC procedure is written, it can be compiled with > Qliberator and LRESPRed into the Interpreter list. > > E.g. from Qliberator Manual > > 10 $$external > 20 Def Proc Square(x) > 30 print x*x > 40 End Def Square

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator External on Turbo??

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 14:09, Derek Stewart wrote: > > I was reading my old Qliberator manual which I had forgotten about the > $$external function to allow S*Basic procedures and Functions to be compiled > to that added to the S*BASIC to extend the commands. > > Can this be done in Turbo, or ca

Re: [Ql-Users] Software Preservation Project - Tasks

> On 10 Jul 2016, at 14:14, Wolf wrote: > > isn't Turbo maintained by Grorge Gwilt? Yes - ever since I read in a magazine that I was to maintain it! But I have no idea whether this affects copyright or not. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] A feature or a bug?

> On 14 Jun 2016, at 16:45, François Van Emelen > wrote: > > Op 14/06/2016 om 16:18 schreef George Gwilt: >>> On 14 Jun 2016, at 14:56, Bob Spelten wrote: >>> >>> Op Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:43:00 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus >>> : >>>

Re: [Ql-Users] A feature or a bug?

> On 14 Jun 2016, at 14:56, Bob Spelten wrote: > > Op Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:43:00 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus > : > >> Marcel Kilgus wrote: >>> François Van Emelen wrote: 10 f$="":REMark empty string 20 if FTEST(f$)=0 30 DIR f$ 40 ELSE 50 PRINT f$," can't be a file name"

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

> On 7 Apr 2016, at 12:19, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > A most enjoyable read, thanks Marcel. I might even take you up on the offer > of EasyMenu 4 sometime, but these days I'm using George's not-quite-WYSIWYG > assembly utilities. (Due to old age - 56 today - I'm afraid I can't remember > the da

Re: [Ql-Users] The Pointer Environment

> On 31 Mar 2016, at 17:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > (2) TurboPtr > TurboPtr is George Gwilt's equivalent of Easyptr, available from his website > at http://gwiltprogs.info/page2.htm There is also EasyPEasy from my website gwiltprogs.info This helps PE progra

Re: [Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions

> On 29 Jan 2016, at 12:37, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > I know QPC can do these instructions but are the other emulators able to? > > Any advice gratefully received. Thanks as ever. I think not. The only other machines are Q4, Q60 and some QXLs (if that is what they are called!). But no emulato

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

> On 14 Jan 2016, at 15:32, Marcos Cruz wrote: > > Is there a key for that $C4 offset? The only $C4 I've found in all keys > files I have are ut_windw and pt_ptrok, which have nothing to do with > this. SYS_CLNK George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

> On 14 Jan 2016, at 14:56, Marcos Cruz wrote: > > That file is not in peasp02.zip (I downloaded it also from your site, > just in case). Anyway, the keys you mention are in the file > of the SMSQ/E sources. You are right! the file KEYS_CON is in my own PE directory and was not transferred t

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

> On 14 Jan 2016, at 11:11, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > > but probably not on systems without smsq/e. The original question assumed SMSQ/E present. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

> On 13 Jan 2016, at 20:26, Marcos Cruz wrote: > > Which is the easiest way to get the screen info from assembly is SMSQ/E? > I mean, what `scr_base`, `scr_xlim`, `scr_ylim` and `scr_llen` do in > SBASIC. The information is in the CON linkage block. The address of this block is at $C4 of the s

Re: [Ql-Users] Floating Point Questions

> On 14 Aug 2015, at 17:56, Norman Dunbar > wrote: > > Second question, is there a simple way to look at the internal representation > of a float and determine whether it is an INT or not? Yes. (An amended version) Put the fp number onto the arithmetic stack and

Re: [Ql-Users] Floating Point Questions

> On 14 Aug 2015, at 17:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > Second question, is there a simple way to look at the internal representation > of a float and determine whether it is an INT or not? Yes. Put the fp number onto the arithmetic stack and use RI.EXECB to do the following: qa.dup.qa.nlint,qa

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

> On 17 Jul 2015, at 20:27, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > After much work, some wailing, some gnashing of teeth and a good few hours > typing on my phone while on holiday recently, I have finished updating the > file Wow! Every serious QLer should have a copy. George _

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Decompiler

> On 28 Jun 2015, at 14:22, Derek Stewart mailto:de...@q40.de>> > wrote: > > > One question with regards to the temporary file that is created by the > Parser_task: > > a) Is this the input file to the Codegen_task Yes > b) Do we know the format of the file It is known. In fact there is a

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook

> On 12 May 2015, at 20:10, Derek Stewart wrote: > > I have not looked at my paper copy of the manual, just used the PDF version. > > According to the PDF version: > > IOF.POSA D0=$42 > IOF.POSR D0=$43 > > as you stated, there is no entry for D0=$44 > > I have a look at my hard copy version

Re: [Ql-Users] Paruse Partyp

On 29 Nov 2014, at 14:04, François Van Emelen wrote: > Hi all, > > (Is there still someone listening here?) > > Three questions > > 1. Can someone tell me why the values printed for PARTYP and PARUSE in lines > 240 to 350 are always 2? > Is there something wrong with these functions or am I

Re: [Ql-Users] OUT NOW!

On 4 Nov 2014, at 19:10, Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I have read the few demo pages at Amazon and find it a bit circumstancially > to use this version as a serious book. I have the native one, and this is a > lot better to flip from page to page and to search for special things. My printed book has

[Ql-Users] Program Updates

There is an update on my website http://gwiltprogs.info TURBO v 5.09 now correctly compiles COMMAND_LINE when this procedure has a parameter, which it does when a daughter basic is to be selected. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.dem

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Issue 1 now available.

On 5 Mar 2014, at 21:08, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Issue 1 of the QL Today Memorial Assembly Language Mailing List irregular > eMagazine is now available in three separate flavours: Well done! George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.

[Ql-Users] Program Updates

There are two updates on my website http://gwiltprogs.info 1. NET_PEEK v 3.42 displays graphics information for CON/SCR channels in programs compiled by TURBO. 2. TURBO TK Code v 3.42 contains the keyword TURBO_DUMMY which can be used, in conjunction with TURBO_V, as a substitute for function

Re: [Ql-Users] A quick plug: New blog post on 30 years of the QL and the Mac.

On 25 Jan 2014, at 14:35, Stephen Usher wrote: > Just a shameless plug for a blog post I've just written... ;-) Very interesting. And here am I trying to update NET_PEEK using QPC2 on an apple MAC. The QL just keeps on going! George ___ QL-Users Ma

Re: [Ql-Users] Developer assistance request.

On 21 Jan 2014, at 15:41, Petri Pellinen wrote: > Richard Zidlicky's document "QDOS TCP/IP and socket functionality" at > http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/socket.html seems to propose that most > of the POSIX-type functionality be implemented as an extension to standard > Trap #3 calls with

Re: [Ql-Users] > Re: Final call for QL Today V17 + DVD orders

On 28 Nov 2013, at 00:10, Michael Bulford wrote: > QPC version 4.00 just simply has > to be the very best version of the QL S*Basic language there ever is! I totally agree. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] How to query current Paper/Strip/Ink in HiColour/QPC2 windows?

On 4 Nov 2013, at 22:49, Martyn Hill wrote: > On an entirely different topic, and perhaps naively, can I ask how to query a > window in SBASIC to discover the current Paper/Strip and Ink settings - > specifically after using the COLOUR_PAL command in QPC2? > > My aim is to (arbitrarily) manipu

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

On 10 Oct 2013, at 07:08, Tobias Fröschle wrote: > > Am 10.10.2013 um 00:37 schrieb Marcel Kilgus: > >> Norman Dunbar wrote: > >> The TK2 manual says "If the parameters of EX start with '#channel TO', >> then the corresponding SuperBASIC channel will be closed (if it was >> already open) and a

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

On 7 Oct 2013, at 20:36, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Evening all, > > I'm experimenting for the first exciting episode of the new assembly language > mailing list. It's the first time I've sat down with QPC since I started my > new job! > > I have noticed something a little odd, well, even to be h

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

On 10 Jul 2013, at 14:18, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > While I'm at it, does anybody still use the fullscreen mode? I'm > considering moving away from DirectX completely, which would also get > rid of native full screen mode. But in times of LCDs it's probably not > that important anymore anyway. Alth

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 2

On 10 Jul 2013, at 14:18, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > While I'm at it, does anybody still use the fullscreen mode? All the time. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Flightdeck

On 15 May 2013, at 21:02, Jiri Dolezal wrote: >> >> Runs well on Super Gold Card with no other extensions or expansions. >> >> Stops on Sandy Q Board non-mouse version (640 K total RAM) with simillar >> error messages (FOP - not found, Channel not open, ...). > ... because it requires Toolkit

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Flightdeck

On 15 May 2013, at 09:23, Rich Mellor wrote: > The demo version also has the same problem - I wonder if I never tested it on > anything less than a Gold Card ?? > > Can others please give this a go on QL hardware Before trying out Flightdeck on a JM rom I tried it on QPC2 with this result: T

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 16:57, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > And that works? A treat. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 16:54, George Gwilt wrote: > > Interesting. I used: > This is what should have appeared earlier!! At entry: D0.L contains the (positive) number A0 points to the end of the area to contain the ASCII result At exit D0 = 0

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 16:24, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > Hi, > > > More or less. I was really wondering why QDOS doesn't have a vector > > setting long words to ASCII > > Perhaps this will help. > > ; on entry, D0 = long int to convert to ascii > ; A0 = space for ascii chars > ; D1-D3,D7 : smashed >

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 16:06, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> >> More or less. I was really wondering why QDOS doesn't have a vector setting >> long words to ASCII when suddenly - ping! - there was this ignorable email >> which I inadvertently sensed out of my eye's corner. > > Aha, I see. You inadverten

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 15:25, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> >> >> Duly ignored . . > U! You sure? ;-) More or less. I was really wondering why QDOS doesn't have a vector setting long words to ASCII when suddenly - ping! - there was this ignorable email which I inadvertently sensed out of my eye's

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

On 14 May 2013, at 15:01, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Please ignore this email (unless you have just read it in which case you > can’t, so recursively re-enter the Ignore procedure ...) Duly ignored . . George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.de

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

On 16 Apr 2013, at 17:10, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > Does the invisible window cover the whole screen by any chance? If so, what > happens to any other program running "beneath" the invisible window when you > attempt to click on it with the mouse to pick it to the top of the pile? > The windo

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

On 16 Apr 2013, at 16:42, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: > how did you manage to detect where the pointer is without a window? By having an invisible window by setting the MSbit of its attributes in the window definition. This stops the window being cleared so that you see what's beneath

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

On 16 Apr 2013, at 14:03, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > If the pointer rests at the bottom of the screen (or any edge for that > matter) for a couple of seconds, the program or taskbar (or whatever you use > it for) pops up, even if it was buried under other windows. > > Sounds simple: might be sim

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

On 16 Apr 2013, at 14:03, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > This is a little programming challenge I left with George Gwilt at the Quanta > workshop this weekend. > > I’d like to create something which can behave a bit like an “auto-hide” > Windows taskbar, using the pointer environme

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 2 Apr 2013, at 18:32, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: >> >> All, >> Turbo does the very same thing, in my understanding - just with two >> different executables - parser_task and codegen_task, and the "intermediate >> file format" is not QSAVE, but something different - which is not officially >> d

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 2 Apr 2013, at 16:18, Norman Dunbar wrote: > I'd love to see Turbo being able to compile a QSAVE'd file, I'm not aware of > the internals of Turbo, yet, but I can't see too many problems with it? > Unless there's much to-ing and fro-ing in the SuperBasic area while compiling? Turbo uses the

Re: [Ql-Users] qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk back online

On 2 Apr 2013, at 16:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: > my website is once more online Looks good. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 1 Apr 2013, at 16:38, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: >> Turbo cannot choose the dataspace which might be needed in a program it is >> compiling. > >> You can either choose a specific dataspace on compilation or increase it >> after compilation. > > From within my (basic or compiled) program? > >

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 1 Apr 2013, at 15:36, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: >> > 2. Use TURBO (with a large enough dataspace) > > Doesn't turbo automatially cliam more heap space when it needs it? > The whole purpose of this prog is that when the program starts. > I don't know the dimension the array will ultimately

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 1 Apr 2013, at 14:05, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: >> >> 1. Alter the dimensioning of temparray$ from 0,0 (and later 0!!) to 1,1 > > Interesting - why would this work? > temparray is a local var and should not have any existence once the procedure > is exited. > Turbo seems not to like zero dim

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

On 1 Apr 2013, at 09:34, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > > I have a problem with Qliberator. > > Consider the following program : > > 100 DEFine PROCedure increase_result_array > 110 LOCal dim1,dim2,temparray$(0,0) > 120 dim1=DIMN(result$,1) > 130 dim2=DIMN(result$,2) > 140 DIM temparray$(dim1,

Re: [Ql-Users] Punk chew asian.

On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:33, Geoff Wicks wrote: > > This thread is reminiscent of Private Eye. They used to have a section on > their letters pages "Pendants Corner". > > Then a pedant complained that it should be "Pedant's Corner". > > Then another pedant corrected the previous pedant saying it

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 22 Mar 2013, at 23:46, Billy wrote: > poorer and fewer perhaps > he he > > all the best Bill > Sent from my ASUS Pad and lesser? A lesser mortal (George) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 22 Mar 2013, at 15:00, Dave Park wrote: > I find some irony in that a thread about the demise of QL Today has > degenerated into a conversation of violent agreement about grammar! It's probably better than wondering what the plural of referendum is, which is exercising many in Scotland just

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 21 Mar 2013, at 23:51, Tony Firshman wrote: > George Gwilt wrote, on 21/Mar/13 11:05 | Mar21: >> >> On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:06, Tony Firshman wrote: >> >>>> >>>> Thankyou to everybody for correcting my grammer, I am now considered told >>&g

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 21 Mar 2013, at 11:48, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> >> It always surprises me how many different ways people use their QLs. This >> shows up for example in differing BOOTs. It would certainly interest me to >> have QL users describe their own BOOT programs. > > How interesting! I have always be

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:06, Tony Firshman wrote: >> >> Thankyou to everybody for correcting my grammer, I am now considered told >> off. > > so I had better not tell you of for your spelling of 'grammar' > then (8-)# A long time ago I used to pause while reading articles when I found "faul

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 20:02, peet vanpeebles wrote: > > On a personal note I'm terrible at thinking of things to write about so maybe > people thinking up topics would be good. The hardest bit for me is just to > start typing out something. Or what would people like to see reviewed etc? We > ha

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 18:18, Tony Firshman wrote: > George Gwilt wrote, on 20/Mar/13 18:07 | Mar20: >> >> On 20 Mar 2013, at 18:00, Tony Firshman wrote: >> >>> Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: >>>> Sad though this is, I have to say it

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 18:00, Tony Firshman wrote: > Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: >> Sad though this is, I have to say it seems me inevitable this was going >> to happen sooner or later. The constant increase in postal rates is self >> defeating, the more they go up, the less poe

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 16:02, Geoff Wicks wrote: > So let's move on to another problem that everyone has dodged so far. > > Where are the writers going to come from? > > One of the reasons QL Today is closing down is that we did not have > sufficient writers to ensure its long term future. > > We

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

On 20 Mar 2013, at 12:26, Geoff Wicks wrote: > > Why do we have to think in terms of a magazine? > > What's wrong with a (simple) rolling website? A website would cope with odd items of news and, mainly non varying lists of office bearers etc, but is not really suitable for the set of article

Re: [Ql-Users] Plastic Feet for Sinclair QL

On 2 Feb 2013, at 09:04, Rich Mellor wrote: > Does anyone have spares of the plastic feet used to raise the back of the QL ? I have 5 George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K

On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:31, Ian Burkinshaw wrote: > Hi Norman > > I do read them. But up until recently I have not had the time, to get down > and learn it all. Some of it I do not fully understand. But if I started to > learn it properly, I am sure it would make much more sense. > > The way Ea

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

On 28 Jan 2013, at 16:21, Tony Firshman wrote: > > I had a single malt from Islay on New Year's Eve and it tasted like tarmac > (8-)# I find it better from a glass than from the road. Was it Ardbeg? George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d

[Ql-Users] GWASL update

Norman Dunbar has found a fault in GWASL which affects the reporting of errors in labels. This is corrected in version 2.05 which can be downloaded from my site at http://gwiltprogs.info/ George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/

Re: [Ql-Users] Is there a bug in QPC or am I bonkers (again!)

On 25 Jan 2013, at 12:34, Norman Dunbar wrote: > None of mt assembly books bother to mention this fact either, I've spent the > last hour or so looking up everything that could be possibly related. Sigh! My THOR 21 came with Motorola's manual MC68020. The information about instruction and data

Re: [Ql-Users] Is there a bug in QPC or am I bonkers (again!)

On 25 Jan 2013, at 10:47, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Morning all, > > I'm doing a bit more work on the next exciting episode of QL Today's LibGen > utility. I have spotted a huge pair of bugs in my code, viz: > > > li_libfile equ $03 > ... > > li_unavmove.l #$,ws_litem+li_libfile(a1)

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com > [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of George Gwilt > Sent: 23 January 2013 16:28 > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator > > > On 23 Jan 2013, at 16:02, Ralf Reköndt wrote: > >>> >>>

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

On 23 Jan 2013, at 16:02, Ralf Reköndt wrote: >> >> Not as quick as QPC2, but very acceptable speed and (better than QPC2) it >> handles the keyboard without a problemmeaning I have access to # and >> other characters I can't easily get under QPC2! > > I never had (and have) problems with

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E

On 20 Jan 2013, at 05:39, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > There isn't really much that is new in 3.14, except that it contains the > SMSQ/E code for SMSQmulator - no need to upgrade except for that. The mistake in the exception vector dealing with address errors has not yet been corrected! In smsq

Re: [Ql-Users] Snowbound?

On 19 Jan 2013, at 08:34, Lee wrote: > Light dusting of snow here in sunny oops cloudy Sarfend on Sea > > Sent from my iPad > > On 19 Jan 2013, at 00:56, Timothy Swenson wrote: > >> Not snowbound here. Don't you know that snow is something you drive to? >> (Mostly Tahoe) >> >> We've had o

Re: [Ql-Users] Snowbound?

On 18 Jan 2013, at 12:02, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >> >> Been snowing all night here, although the heavy snow only started about 9am >> - certainly would not risk driving out of the village at the moment (about 4 >> inches of snow by the look of it) - still we might get lucky, the council >> di

Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey

On 10 Jan 2013, at 12:29, Geoff Wicks wrote: > > It is not just on your articles I would like feedback. There has been more > emphasis on hardware in the last couple of years. Is this what people want? > More recently we have had more coverage on games - a largely forgotten area > in the maga

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE Licence Change

On 24 Nov 2012, at 07:38, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > his is just to let you know that the SMSQE licence will be changed. > > > From the SMSQE licence, we will move towards a (new) BSD style licence, which > essentially means that anyone can do with the source code anything he likes, > and also

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS/SMS Questions

On 5 Nov 2012, at 15:13, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > On 05/11/12 14:59, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: >> I can find sd_keyq at offset $68 of the Screen Driver Channel Definition >> Block in the SMSQ/E sources. >> But nowhere in the documents. > > In my docs, updated recently, I see sd_

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS/SMS Questions

On 5 Nov 2012, at 12:25, Norman Dunbar wrote: > There is a system variable for the "current keyboard queue". I assume that as > there is only one, that it refers to the currently executing job? So If > SuperBasic is executing, it will refer to the QDOS channel ID for Channel #0 > in SuperBasic

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Web site down?

On 19 Oct 2012, at 12:48, Geoff Wicks wrote: >> >> The Quanta site has been down for at least 2 days. Has Quanta closed down? >> >> Regards >> >> Duncan >> ___ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> > > I think the we

Re: [Ql-Users] Loose Items in Pointer Environment

On 1 Oct 2012, at 17:39, Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> The trouble seems to be that although the manual says that "if D2 is a >> negative long word" >> the paper and oink will not be set, the actual code tests D2.B and not D2.L. > Brilliant typo ("oink") ! Actually, I have discovered that the PE code

[Ql-Users] Loose Items in Pointer Environment

Has anyone noticed that the WM vector WM.SWLIT does not always set the paper and ink correctly? This is because if you set "selected" in D2, ie $80, the PE software inconveniently thinks that paper and ink are not to be set even though it has gone to all the trouble of finding exactly what paper

Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1

On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:32, François Van Emelen wrote: > QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1 has arrived. Arrived too in Edinburgh at noon today. That was quick1 George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] New QJewels game

On 23 Jul 2012, at 16:04, Marcel Kilgus wrote: >> Although I put the program in an existing obscure directory (called >> "Tobias") it ran without configuratrion. But there was no sound. Perhaps I >> should read the manual. > > You need to load Simon's sound_cde extension, which was already in m

Re: [Ql-Users] New QJewels game

On 17 Jul 2012, at 01:45, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> Download it free of charge from: >> http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html#qjewels >> (173kilobyte download) > > That thing is very cool, well done Tobias (and I thought so even > before I read the nice shout out ;) ). >

[Ql-Users] New Version of SETW

A new version (7.09) of SETW is now on my site - http://gwiltprogs.info/ This new version improves the appearance of _asm output on the lines of suggestions made by Norman Dunbar in the latest QL Today. Also SETW allows a user to present lists of text items, sprites, blobs and patterns by preset

Re: [Ql-Users] The *ins...

On 25 Jun 2012, at 14:54, Tony Firshman wrote: > > The moral here is secure passwords, and change regularly. > Secure ones are like Ge4?pP9a . Hmm! Looks a bit like my grandfather's name. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

On 22 Jun 2012, at 10:14, George Gwilt wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2012, at 20:07, Ralf Reköndt wrote: > >> Not here in Germany...8-(. >> >> - Original Message - From: "peet vanpeebles" >> >>> Mine arrived today, I liked the little joke on

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

On 21 Jun 2012, at 20:07, Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Not here in Germany...8-(. > > - Original Message - From: "peet vanpeebles" > >> Mine arrived today, I liked the little joke on the front cover! :) > Not in Scotland either. George ___ QL-User

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum

On 8 Jun 2012, at 11:54, Dave Park wrote: > If I create a REPeat loop thus: > > 100 Frame=0 : Keypress=0 > 110 REPEAT loop > 120 a$=INKEY$ > 130 Frame=Frame+1 > 140 IF a$<>"" THEN Keypress=Keypress+1 > 150 AT 0,0 : PRINT Frame, Keypress > 160 END REPeat loop INKEY$(-1) will wait until y

Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

On 23 May 2012, at 13:24, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > On 23/05/12 12:52, Ian Pine wrote: >> Damn damn damn ... >> >> ... because I forgot that on m68k CPUs the MOVE instructions alter the flags >> ... > > Well, it does alter the flags, unless: > > * You specifically use the MOVEA instruction; o

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