Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Την Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:31:04 -0400,ο(η) Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Not only did the Ancient Greeks develop a great language they understood human nature quite well. At least if this is an accurate quote/translation: A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. Aristotle No wonder Noam Tsomsky writes so well... he's copying him verbatim :-) And of course we know whom that passage suits perfectly ;-) hehehehe Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Την Mon, 22 May 2006 08:14:11 -0400,ο(η) Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: P Witte wrote: David Tubbs writes: ... Youre welcome ... Three missing apostrophes (8-)# ... BTW the apostrophies are not missing, Ive merely removed redundant information for the benefit of the discerning reader. Actually, they're not redundant, they represent the missing a from You are, giving You're. Without, them it looks like a typo of Your welcome (or an attempt at a quaint olde looke by adding a trailing e to your) which then begs the question of What about mine welcome? And to that I have to comment that I am really surprised that Tony did not make that comment :-) Cheers, Ffibys (soon to be back on European soil) ___ 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] printer problem
Την Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:20:51 -0400,ο(η) Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: As I got it for nowt, I'm not too worried about replacing it - especially as I intend to get one that is Linux compatible. Is Linux able to drive those control-code-less Windows printers, or does Linux have the same sorts of problems that QL has with those? afaik, there are Linux printer drivers available for [some of] the WinPrinters...there's a site [somewhere - got the url somewhere] which lists which are compatabile (aka been reverse engineered/specs provided and drivers written?) and which are not. AFAIK all HP inkjets are Linux compatible. Their set up over USB is quicker and simpler than under windows. The only problem seems to be that for photo quality, they don't have the equivalent of photoRET (variable drop size), so you have to get the resolution by sheer force of dpi - which makes photo printing slower, (and generally slightly lower quality) than under Windows. For all other use, print quality and speed is as good under linux as it is under windows. No, not ALL HP inkjets are compatible with Linux. There's a few whose drivers only offer basic compatibility and are at best quick hacks. The same applies for HP's cheap LaserJets as well... The rule of thumb with HP printers is: If it has a parallel port it is DEFINITELY supported by Linux. If it doesn't and it is also cheap, chances are it doesn't. Cheers, Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New QL Owner
Την Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:39:28 -0400,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Jerome Vernet wrote: Last but not least, I'm looking for QL emulators, I found qlux, wich unfortunately doesn't want to compile under macOsX. For the black-box feeling, provided that you do have a PC, check out QemuLator or Qlay/QL2K. If you want to see into what the QL has evolved, check out the demo of my emulator QPC. Marcel uQLx doesn't compile under OS X Tiger yet. I am attempting to get ahold of M. Weatherly that did the original port for details. I know from a friend that on Intel PCs with the mac version of Wine, QPC will probably run without problems. Also you can use VirtualPC -or- QemuLator Mac which will run slowly given that it is a 68K mac app, but will run nonetheless Phoebus ___ 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] Q-emuLator 2.3.4 available for download
Την Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:06:17 -0500,ο(η) Dennis Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Tried to install unzip per your instructions and received out of memory error. Apparently need to upgrade for more ram. It also did not like the . in unzip541xQ.bin. I forget exactly what the error was now. Tried changing it to _ then not found. Dir however showed it was in the directory on the hard drive. Guess I register. Enclose in quotes before you use the period in the filename or rename the file on the drive to use an underscore. The not found will appear if you do not use the quotes: ie copy win1_unzip541xQ.bin to win1_unzip_bin will NOT work whereas copy win1_unzip541xQ.bin to win1_unzip_bin WILL work. Cheers, Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] UQLX
Την Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:51:21 -0500,ο(η) Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Kjartan Geble Olsen wrote: I've never been able to build uqlx with gcc3.0 -- Kjartan On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:49:29 +0100, David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just tried to compile UQLX using gcc version 3.4.2 under Fedora 3. The only result was was a 90KB error log! I know there are people out there using UQLX, so what am I doing wrong? I tried to email the author, but the address on the web site no longer exists. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I didn't have any problems until I switched from distributions using Xfree86 to more recent ones that use Xorg. I had the same problems, however I did manage to fix them (together with compilation in post 4.x FreeBSD). I will have to dig up my makefile and see what I did Cheers, Phoebus P.S. It still won't compile under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. I will give it ago when my new Mini arrives sometime next week under the Intel chip as well ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Sudoku. Was: screenshoots
Την Mon, 09 Jan 2006 03:33:44 -0500,ο(η) [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: snip In addition, Geoff, I have *almost* got a working Sudoku generator giving the options of easy, medium, hard and bloody hell - I even generate an unsolvable grid with only 4 blank spaces :o) Here is one of the many websites with potential generators: url: http://www.lemo.dk/sudoku/index.html BTW: Incorrectly it is mentioned (I think by Geoff) in the latest QLT that Sudoku is of Japanese origin. Sudoku was originally called Number Place and it is an American invention dating to 1979 (Together with the ZX80) Watch this space . We are :-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Some Newbie Hardware Questions about GC , SGC, QUBIDE
Την Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:17:42 -0500,ο(η) Engstler Karsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Hello, i read different things about qubide and the Gold Card. Is it right that the powersupply of the QL isn't able to serve Gold Card and qubide ? It is but marginally (I have no problems with this combination here for example) however the chances of your QL locking up are extremely higher. If yes, it shouldn't quit easy to replace the QL's Powersupply + the 5v regulator with an PC Powersuppy ? Yes it is relatively easy to replace your QL power supply with a PC one, or even modify the circuitry inside your QL. You should contact Tony Firshman on that one :-) Is there any Ethernet Card for the QL ? There's one that's already designed but not constructed. It was designed by Zeljko Nastasic (aka Nasta) and it's called the EtherIDE. There's no software for it yet although qlwIP should work without problems on it. Yes I know I could use QPC (which I own and I use everytime I haven't access to my QL) to do this all, but I prefer to Mee too :-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Extracting QL Programmes from Microdrive to PC
Την Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:32:03 -0500,ο(η) Ben Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Guys Thanks for all the replies and especially to Karsten for his helpfulness and generosity. There are basically only two types of programme I want transferred to CD, some SuperBasic programmes written by me, and some documents created in Quill by me. (There are no commercial programmes) I'm rather hoping that when Karsten has put these files onto CD for me, I'll be able to run the Superbasic programmes and read the Quill documents using a QL emulator on my PC. Does this sound reasonable? All the best Ben That is more than reasonable :-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Extracting QL Programmes from Microdrive to PC
Την Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:18:43 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Rekondt [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Hi Phoebus, - Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Extracting QL Programmes from Microdrive to PC There were many that were hacked ;-) however a lot of them are lost. I used to have in Greece (where this was ermmm... common practice) a ton of games that were previously copy-protected. I bought most of them over the years in legit form, but now that they no longer work, I wish I had kept the hacked versions so I could enjoy them still :-) I have kept them 8-). Unfortunately, The Pawn was hacked by an italian guy, who has unfortunately compiled the loader with Supercharge, maybe to protect his work ;-). And that is the only hacked version, I am aware. It does not run on QPC and QemuLator but on a 640k SQB QL. Well I've done in the past a version of the Magnetic emulator (that also allows for the graphics to be displayed - ripped from other versions of the Pawn and displayed using libpng). However it was never stable enough to be released. I guess I will have to pick that one up again and finish it (Allthough thanks to Per Witte's curse a while back - Not really a curse but he sent that with two kids I will have my hands full when at the time I did not but somehow it ended up being like that!- I have less time than ever and almost all of it is spent of freeQDOS). Back to Magnetic, I even went so far to convert the mp3 files accompanying the magnetic games to a ub format, so they would work on my Q40. Now that QPC allows that as well, I see no reason why it couldn't be used under QPC as well. 4Matter/Locksmith, went two steps further than that. I did reproduce the (purposefully left) bad sectors left on a microdrive to make exact copies as well as descrambled references to flp/mdv and other devices. And we should remind Steve Jones also for his *very* good SideWinder dump program! Didn't Dilwyn have something like that too? Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Paging Nasta
Nasta, my emails to you do not seem to get through. Could you pls email me to this address? Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] screenshoots
Την Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:58:21 -0500,ο(η) [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: Morning Ffybis, Well the other SCR2BMP doesn't :-) I made it just for my Q40. which other scr2bmp - I thought I wrote that ! Cheers, Norman. Hehe NOT the one you wrote quite a while ago (I think it was listed in one of the last issues of IQLR around '94-'95 or so) but one I wrote with the same (rather unimaginative) name :-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] screenshoots
Την Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:25:28 -0500,ο(η) Michael Grunditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: - Original Message - From: Michael Grunditz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: [ql-users] screenshoots Hi Is there a way to convert q40 screenfiles to any other format, jpeg,bmp,etc either on linux or on qdos ? To answer this we really need more information on the type of files, but I am assuming they are mode 4 or mode 8 screens in _pic format. It is truecolor hires snapshots taken with the launchpad util. Truecolor? You surely mean Hi-Color. (Unless Dilwyn allows for true-color (Mode 24?) snapshots in anticipation of new QL modes? Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]
Την Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:12:04 -0500,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luckily, I have my QPC 'on a stick' so that still works, well, it will when I get the disc replaced and everything restored. I don't suppose there's ever going to be a QPC-Linux by any chance ? No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it work. No guarantees though. Marcel I had trouble making QPC work with Wine but with the commercially available WineX it did work fine. You can always use Bochs and Windows NT 4 and that works as well. (That's how I run QPC under FreeBSD at the mo.) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] uqlx for mac
Την Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:38:29 -0400,ο(η) Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Grunditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi I am trying to get uqlx for macos x to work but all I get is: Bus error I have X started and it is running on 10.4. No doubt Phoebus will pop up with an answer ... Cannot :-) I did not do the port myself, James Weatherly did. I will contact him and ask him :-) BTW: I am back from Greece. I have a humongous backlog of emails etc, so if I owe anyone an answer etc, please email me again, so I can reply faster :-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Nasta
Την Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:51:52 -0400,ο(η) Romaldo Parodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: At 13.30 06/09/2005, you wrote: Both the addreses I have for Nasta are dead: zeljko.nastasic AT zg DOT hetnet DOT hr zeljko.nastasic AT zg DOT hinet DOT hr Anyone have a current one? I have this in my address book: zeljko.nastasic AT zg DOT htnet DOT hr Best regards. Romaldo Parodi Yes, Tony added an e between the h and t ;-) Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Sinclair Disk Drive?
Την Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:28:47 -0400,ο(η) Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 at 09:52:07, Derek Stewart wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Alexander, The floppy disk drive looks like it would fit onto the floppy disk expansion port of a Sinclair PC200, which is a totally different machine from the Sinclair QL. The disk unit will only work with the computer in question, stay clear... It is possibly a Miles Gordon disk drive for Spectrum - from SD1 : http://www.robertp.net/Disciple/Manual/ManDisciple.htm Tony No I think Derek is right. This is definitely not an MGT drive. There was a Sinclair badged disk drive for the Speccy, but it came in a different case. I have seen one on eBay a while ago and one in real life and it did not look anything like that. (No mention in WOS either sadly) Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] OT: Calling Peter Fox
Sorry about that guys :-( --- Peter, I have been sending you emails from various of my email addresses. All report that the user (peterfox AT cix.co.uk) is unknown (550 5.1.1 ... User unknown) Please adjust your spam settings. Send me also an email to the regular address (I have received everything you've sent me) to confirm you've seen this Cheers, Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Size for QXL.win Files
Την Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:33:36 -0400,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε: John Gilpin wrote: Is there a maximum size for a QXL.win file running on QPC2 and if so, what is the maximum size allowed? Actually, I don't know what the maximum size is. I do know that QPC's access routines are currently limited to 4GB per QXL.WIN file, however. It would probably be fairly easy to extend this to 2TB, but I'm not sure how much space the QLWA format itself can handle anyway. Marcel I've used 1,2 and 4 Gbyte QXL.WIN files with QPC and I found them without problems. I have encountered (From some twist of fate) a lot more problems with 32 Meg size files than with the huge ones Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
