Re: [Ql-Users] QPC - XP
Hi Doug, http://smsq.j-m-s.com/ gives all the details. One click, and you can download a demo to try on your hardware as well. CheersJochen extdgl42 wrote: Can I get the details, including price and payment methods, on a QPCxx known to run under XP? The most recent QLT I could find did not even have an ad from any trader that mentioned QPC. I have a close family member and old QLer confined to a skilled nursing facility and going stir crazy who would benefit from something to do. In this case it would be working on an old QL program/game which I will try to obtain through a separate post. The best equipment I can do is a Macintel that came with XP installed as a VM (beside OS X, yes). The program/game would go back to the QL community of course. Here are some details of what may need to be considered: Now: Intel (specifically Macintel/MacBook Pro 15), with XP (I believe Pro SP2 or some such). Dual core, 2.4GHz. XP: VM under Parallels although supposedly that doesn't matter. Only other: W98SE, QPC II I believe, but--it's a desktop, else I'd take it the dozen miles to the skilled facility now. I have not been able to get any response from the admin automaton of this list on the list commands for detecting or searching archives, so, I have to throw myself on the mercy of list members. This is despite having been mailing list admin at work for a number of years. Thanks much, Doug LaVerne 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Old QUANTA Tower of Buddha/Tower of Hanoi--source?
Hi Doug, Regarding your query about The Towers of Hanoi game, it is still in the QUANTA Library on disc GG01 and is credited to P Kennedy on 22/08/1987 Contact Dilwyn Jones (QUANTA Librarian) who will be able to advise you the best way to get a copy. Also QUANTA Magazine had a similar program from Steve Poole in Volume 23, Issue 5 October/November 2006 starting on page 4. This had a short article about the origins of the game and a full listing which is now available on the QUANTA Web Site: www.quanta.org.uk/membership/index.asp then navigate to 2006 - October/November and download the file - in zipped format. OR I can send you an electronic version of that issue of the magazine by email - in .pdf format from where you should be able to copy and paste the listing required. Let me know if I can help you further. Regards, John Gilpin. QUANTA Magazine Co Editor. - Original Message - From: extdgl42 externa...@earthlink.net To: qlList_QL ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:52 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] Old QUANTA Tower of Buddha/Tower of Hanoi--source? Can someone give a source of the following program/game: Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in the old QUANTA library, the 50(0?)M creature on some dozens of diskettes, I found a version of Tower of Hanoi (aka Tower of Buddha I believe): Move five (or however many disks--yes, the hard type, but not confusers' :-) disks from one of three pegs to another, one disk at a time, but without ever allowing a larger on top of a smaller. [snip] Thanks much, Doug LaVerne 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC - XP
Can I get the details, including price and payment methods, on a QPCxx known to run under XP? The most recent QLT I could find did not even have an ad from any trader that mentioned QPC. Two possible sources (all recent versionsof QPC2 such as v3.34 beta 3 I use) should work on XP machines. 1. From Jochen Merz: http://smsq.j-m-s.com 2. From Bruce Nicholls, who's set up a QL software ordering website: http://www.ql-qvd.com/ -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Old QUANTA Tower of Buddha/Tower of Hanoi--source?
extdgl42 wrote, On 16/03/09 19:52: Can someone give a source of the following program/game: Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in the old QUANTA library, the 50(0?)M creature on some dozens of diskettes, I found a version of Tower of Hanoi (aka Tower of Buddha I believe): Move five (or however many disks--yes, the hard type, but not confusers' :-) disks from one of three pegs to another, one disk at a time, but without ever allowing a larger on top of a smaller. Note this is not the one that goes up to a dozen or more disks, all viewed from the side and showing as rectangles and all in black. This was fixed at five, no more, no less, and as well drew on the display round disks of a discernable thickness, using ellipses, hidden line erasure, and I don't remember what else. The disks were light green. The programming was not as difficult as it (may) sound. It would not be entirely difficult to generalize it to a variable number of disks esp if going up to seven disks (the variation we have in wood at home) or eight or ... I had everything worked out years ago except--how to vary the thickness of the disks as necessary while still using the ellipses. I did not figure out that last bit. I have lost the annotated copy of the BASIC I made and that I can still partly visualize. It would, however, take eons to reprogram it myself. Yet another added feature would be the simple hint which allows you to readily solve any number of disks ... but which not all will grasp :-) . As I remember, the program was credited to someone named Kennedy, but I could be wrong. This is what I am trying to get for the QLer to work on who is confined to a skilled nursing facility, as mentioned in a separate post. As for anyone complaining about my asking about such old material: any complaints will indeed be handled when I ... take out my cane and whack the complainer :-) . Laurence Reeves might be able add to this. He wrote a Tower of Hanoi program that used Minerva to interface to a Fischer Technik robot that did it manually. I used it for years a demo at shows, but cannot recall even where the Fischer Technik stuff is let alone the program. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL makes headlines again!
Hello there me harties! PC World - April 2009. p7, 14 53ff. All QL; the latter an 8 page 'retro'. Extended interview with David Karlin (QL designer) and some goodies on m-drives and ports. etc etc. Enjoy! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
