Re: [ql-users] New here....
Marcel Kilgus schrieb: Tobias Fröschle wrote: What I'm basically interested in right now is how I can revive my old collection of software, most importantly Text87, which is by far the most expensive piece of my software collection. It just doesn't seem to like the QPC. Any hints on that, maybe? Some have already wrote it, but if you have Text87plus4 it should already work fine if you start QPC in QL colour mode (try 512x256 if it still doesn't work). For high colour mode there is a patch available against a small fee (12 EUR from JMS). For this I basically had to rewrite the whole graphics output routines of Text87 and patch them into the original EXE file, which was quite a pain really... tried it, doesn't work (recon, Text87's config, does work indeed in 512x256). Thanks for the tip, anyway. Did I say already that QPC2 is the most enjoyable piece of software I bought in the last couple of years, already? Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New here....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 P Witte wrote: Robert Newson writes: P Witte wrote: ... I have serious doubts whether modern, CD-ROM based systems could keep the data for so long. I would never use CDs or DVDs for long-term storage of important data. CDs and DVDs are the medium of the day (as were microdrives and floppies in their day). Round the next corner are HD and Blu-ray, perhaps, so then we'll have to copy all our important data once again. Wasn't there a report [fairly] recently about writeable CDs becoming unreadable after a while, the time also dependent upon method of labelling said CD? see, eg: http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1157306,00.html http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04127/311683.stm http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00EoLc No one knows how long CD/DVDs will really last. Guestimates range from two to 100 years, depending on the quality of media, the recorder, how they are recorded, how handled, labelled and stored (and who you want to believe). And this is exactly my point: To be sure, important data should always be backed up to the medium of the day. But this is not enough, as there are more serious threats to precious data: Obsolescence; ie not being able to read the disk due to no longer having a compatible device to read the medium, or being able to find or to run the software required to interpret the data. There are two relevant points here. To listen to the court transcripts of the Nelson Mandela trial, a repro reader had to be made. The British Library still keep their paper archives. They do use media of the day as Per put it, but cannot keep up to date as they do not have resources to keep it on current media. I reckon historians in a few hundred years will have less data for current times (proportionally) for certain things than we do for 200 years ago. Letters for instance have been a major source of historical data. Can you imagine emails being saved for 100 years let alone read? Also paper is a very tolerant media. Damaged tape/CDs etc are very very difficult to restore and require a high degree of current technical knowledge. Also if the data degrades to any degree overall, recovery is probably impossible. Data on paper is very much easier. It is much more likely to be recoverable after fire/flood, and if the ink fades, or the paper tears. It is also future proof. Eyes and brain probably won't change that much! When I sold the QL Telepen barcoder, I included a program to print out data in barcode form. I don't suppose this was used by anyone, but I bet would have lasted better than the average microdrive! Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJxM6M3RzOs8+btoRAs0EAKCOLtMRvUA/U/N0JQVQDwpOCXjdCQCgiHTq ujv7MQgNUlSV1X48tpjCPuE= =NRmL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Text87
Marcel Kilgus wrote: For high colour mode there is a patch available against a small fee (12 EUR from JMS). Tobias Fröschle wrote: tried it, doesn't work (recon, Text87's config, does work indeed in 512x256). Thanks for the tip, anyway. Which bit didn't work? If the problem was that recon would run in 512x265 but wouldn't configure the program, then you may have been trying to configure your working copy rather than the master copy, and I'm not sure whether you can do that. If the problem was that the patch didn't get Text87 to work in high-colour mode, than you may not have the very latest version of Text87, which is the only one that will patch. If that's the case, you can get an upgrade from QBranch. There may also be a question of order: configure first, then patch, may be correct. David ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Backing up..
On the question of backups, it's not just the media that pose the problem. I once got a QL floppy corrupted by accidentally leaving it under a sheet of paper and then running an electric cable over the top! I made the damaged sectors readable by overwriting each with 512 0s and so recovered the files. After I'd got the Text87 files off the disk, I stripped out the formatting, imported the text, and restored the missing sentences from memory. I've just created a M$ doc and looked at it: no readable text in sight! And an odt file from OpenOffice is a compressed archive: one crucial byte lost and it couldn't be opened. The moral would seem to be: keep more than one backup and restore them regularly. As for me, I'm still keeping copies of everything less than 1.4MB on floppies. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL question
Hi Neil Neil Riley wrote: Hi Sergiusz try www.ebay.co.ukAuction number 230117457180 if you search for SINCLAIR QL you'll see plenty of other niceties for sale at the moment. Regards Neil Unfortunately, I'm not an eBay user. I'd be ready to pay two times the current price, if there would be any... Sergiusz ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007 Hi, Enjoyable event ... :-) What made it especially enjoyable was the degree of interactiveness, especially on the website and in the AGM. Let's hope Quanta learns from this. We now have an interesting committee. Probably for the first time in years we have a full committee of hard workers, which promises well for Quanta's future. Just a pity they still have to learn the word sorry, so in my book they remain on probation. As you can see I am back on line, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL question
At 16:07 18/04/2007, you wrote: As there are more and more new QLers (among which I'm counting myself too), as well as returning ones, I'd like to try again and ask if anyone here have unneeded SGC and/or QXL card. I know there are many people with such a needs, but maybe I'd be the lucky one :-) I do have a QXL card standing Idle, dont think I shall have room for a box with ISA slots again. Make me an offer ! Also, I have two QLs which don't display anything on TV or monitor at all (I'm using ZX Spectrum 128 monitor-to-EURO cable, which I believe is the same as for the QL). What ever the monitor lead if the TV is seeing nothing it is probably the display chip, 8302 ? Surely the weakest one of the lot. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.4/768 - Release Date: 19/04/2007 05:32 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] new hard disk
Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires. I wouldn't expect that (fdisk d:) to work as d: wouldn't exist. IIRC when you run fdisk on a PC under [some form of] DOS, you select the drive number you wish to partition from a prompt [somewhere]. Although there's a Command Prompt equating to some form of DOS box, fdisk is not recognised there. There is some form of equivalent somewhere in the Windows XP CD startup (I forget exactly where). But after all the trauma, I wish I'd known about the 'Manage' window before, it makes life so easy. BTW, I just ran a Defrag on my C: drive, the difference it's made is amazing. Makes me wonder how I put up with the sluggishness recently - it's months since I last defragmented the hard disk. Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about that!) -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New here....
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Clip Oh well, just backup your entire disk then, they will say. The problem is that by doing that you also back up a whole heap of totally unnecessary stuff, thereby creating extra work for you and a logistical nightmare, as each unnecessary KB of data you back up eats up your time, money and patience, and increases the chances of error, loosing stuff, missing stuff or just not bothering. In other words, if you take your data seriously you cannot leave it to anyone else to keep it safe and accessible. You are right ... you have to make backups of the important - to you - stuff, which is the data files, not the application programmes. I have just done this with data documents on one CD and digital images on another CD. All relatively painless to do. How long will the CD's last ? ... Well who really cares, as we are always shuffling data storage from one medium to another. As long as we have the means to do so, then we remain in charge. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] new hard disk
Dilwyn Jones writes: Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about that!) I dont know for sure whether QXL.WIN files ever need defragging. However, if they do, the easiest method currently available (I find) is to simply create a new, blank QXL.WIN file and copy all the files from the old disk on to that. A few lines of SBasic is all it takes. Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Tubbs wrote: What ever the monitor lead if the TV is seeing nothing it is probably the display chip, 8302 ? Surely the weakest one of the lot. Yes indeed - but it is the 8301 (often labelled 8345) Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJ+lZM3RzOs8+btoRAkzOAJ9u156zoelP+i3ckPapBu/axIoP5wCbB4sM YvgYS7tLopIuViPa0LYRCIU= =Ekx0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
