Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Stuff!
I am watching all this with great interest especially QL2. Brilliant job :) Neil Hi all, Wow, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I am so grateful to QUANTA for the advert, and to so many of you for ordering or pre-ordering - your faith and confidence will be rewarded. :) Firstly, I have had to make a new batch of microdrive felt pads. I sold most of the first batch, and sent a lot more on to Rich at RWAP for those who would prefer to buy from a more established seller. I also sent him some QL on a Stick, new editions! I'm sure he'll have those listed soon after he gets them. I have changed how I package the felt pads, and it will soon allow me to reduce the cost even further. I now attach them to a piece of tape, then mount them on the instruction sheet. I tri-fold the sheet, and it protects the pads well enough - even if they get completely crushed, they fully recover in about 20 minutes. You should see the lower pricing once the current batch finishes selling. Oooer, I hope that doesn't kill my sales while you wait for the new batch! The battery adapters have finally been released from customs and should be here tomorrow! I am so excited to see them coming and hope to get the first orders shipped out this week. I have almost finished the Minerva MK IIs, and am just waiting for two components to arrive. UltimIDE is currently a box of components. I have almost finished the prototype wiring and have started the PCB design in earned. Currently, it supports two traditional IDE devices (more with an expander) plus two CF cards and a 1.8 or 2.5 SSD on-board. It's almost entirely SMD. It will have an option for 512K of on-board RAM, which will be selectable, in case you want an unexpanded QL for compatibility or (S)GC reasons. UltraQ is taking shape quite nicely. It currently is specced for floppy, parallel, QIMI mouse, IDE, plus its own CPU and 4MB of RAM. We are hoping it will run most QLs at 15 MHz.It will not be quite as fast as a Gold Card, but it will have twice the memory. It will also use some GC-style tricks like shadowing video RAM. It will come with a custom version of Minerva and, hopefully, SMSQ/E on CF card. Lets talk about ethernet for a moment. We would like to include ethernet: the hardware is easy. Fitting it on the card is a bit more difficult, but once we concede it'll be a double-deck interface, a lot of room opens up. Maybe if we include the hardware the driver will come. This presents us with a quandry. Including ethernet adds approximately £20 cost to the interface - we have discussed if it should be on every card, or an optional extra. If it is on every card, adoption will be wider and people will find uses for it. However, if it's not on every card, some cards will be cheaper, but the cards that do have it will cost a little more. If you, humble reader, could have a sensible discussion of the merits of both options, we'll read closely and take your thoughts into consideration. Which leads to... USB. We have found a way to reasonably implement USB *hardware* but again, there are no drivers. USB takes up less space than ethernet, but it is complimentary. I personally am deeply interested in USB for a number of reasons; especially of the build it and they will come variety. Secondly, the hardware has the potential to solve a difficult problem for us, whilst also giving us more options with hardware. Let me explain: We talked with Tony Firshman and Lau Reeves about open-licensing superHermes, and they have agreed in principle to do so. However, superHermes is a complex piece of kit: it isn't cheap to incorporate both in terms of component cost, and production cycle. What it brings us is both relatively great and relatively little... It allows us to replace the inbuilt keyboard with a PS/2 keyboard and it gives us better working serial. However, by modern standards, it still only gets us to where we should have been initially anyway. It corrected a fault and an in-hindsight omission. As an alternative, if we could get to where there is an HID driver for USB and a USB component on the QL, most HID (Human Interface Devices) - mice and keyboards plus all sorts of exotic input devices - could be made to work using default profiles. Imagine being able to use modern keyboards, cordless laser mice, etc. It fits well with the picoATX cased QL concept I am trying to achieve. It also means the hardware is open for people to write the other two main classes of generic USB driver: storage devices and the other one (I forget. It's late!) The point is, if we can get a basic HID USB driver functional in the next few months, it can go out on the QL2, and it might even make it interesting for the UltraQ. With the ROM image in flash, the capabilities could be extended by a community effort to cooperate and develop the drivers in a way that will
Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Stuff!
I've personally been hanging around this Email only version for ten years or so. I am a member of a couple non QL related Forums via Web or Tapatalk. If the QL forum was on Tapatalk I would add it although I don't this Tapatalk has Chat facility. Neil -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park Sent: 11 March 2014 16:44 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Stuff! The main reason I spend more time on the QL Forum is because it allows members to share photos, code, and large files in a way that this list doesn't - yet... I've not been able to attach anything but the smallest photos to the list and even then, most times the attachments get stripped off. I'm not nocking the list - just some of the policies come from a time of dial-up and maybe a 500K or 1MB attachment limit might be more in line with members' slower internet speeds. Also, the chat on QL Forum is *great* - it has provided a real sense of community, and it's fun to see the personalities and senses of humour of the various people I've known for many years through the formality of email. Dave On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Out of interest, Neil and Malcolm, I don't know if you are both members on QL Forum or not. If you are, Dave provides regular updates on there and also comes on the 'Live Online Chat' some days, around 9pm UK time (I think it's -5 hours in Texas). The online live chat is great, a few of us meet up there some evenings and we share experience, news and general chat, mostly but not always QL-related! Since the Forum has about 210 members now, this new live chat has great potential for QL users worldwide to stay in touch. Anyone wanting to join QL Forum, just go to www.qlforum.co.uk . You can read most of what's on there immediately as a Guest, and once you have registered (which is free of charge - no fees at all) you can contribute to the Forum, ask for help if needed, and just generally stay in touch with other ql-users worldwide. Over the last few months, it's been a lot busier than even this list. As an aside, it'd be interesting to hear from people on this list who are not members of the QL Forum and if there is any particular reason why you haven't joined so far - maybe you just don't want to, maybe you are happy just being on ql-users list, maybe you just don't have the time! Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Malcolm Lear Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:26 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Stuff! Amazing work, also looking forward to QL2 :-) On 11/03/2014 13:45, Neil Riley wrote: I am watching all this with great interest especially QL2. Brilliant job :) Neil Hi all, Wow, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I am so grateful to QUANTA for the advert, and to so many of you for ordering or pre-ordering - your faith and confidence will be rewarded. :) Firstly, I have had to make a new batch of microdrive felt pads. I sold most of the first batch, and sent a lot more on to Rich at RWAP for those who would prefer to buy from a more established seller. I also sent him some QL on a Stick, new editions! I'm sure he'll have those listed soon after he gets them. I have changed how I package the felt pads, and it will soon allow me to reduce the cost even further. I now attach them to a piece of tape, then mount them on the instruction sheet. I tri-fold the sheet, and it protects the pads well enough - even if they get completely crushed, they fully recover in about 20 minutes. You should see the lower pricing once the current batch finishes selling. Oooer, I hope that doesn't kill my sales while you wait for the new batch! The battery adapters have finally been released from customs and should be here tomorrow! I am so excited to see them coming and hope to get the first orders shipped out this week. I have almost finished the Minerva MK IIs, and am just waiting for two components to arrive. UltimIDE is currently a box of components. I have almost finished the prototype wiring and have started the PCB design in earned. Currently, it supports two traditional IDE devices (more with an expander) plus two CF cards and a 1.8 or 2.5 SSD on-board. It's almost entirely SMD. It will have an option for 512K of on-board RAM, which will be selectable, in case you want an unexpanded QL for compatibility or (S)GC reasons. UltraQ is taking shape quite nicely. It currently is specced for floppy, parallel, QIMI mouse, IDE, plus its own CPU and 4MB of RAM. We are hoping it will run most QLs at 15 MHz.It will not be quite as fast as a Gold Card, but it will have twice the memory. It will also use some GC-style tricks like shadowing video RAM. It will come with a custom version of Minerva and, hopefully, SMSQ/E on CF card
Re: [Ql-Users] HD disk drives
Does anyone know which disk interfaces for QL were able to handle HD (1.4MB) drives? Presumably just Gold Card and Super Gold Cards? Sounds about right Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Why?
/lights blue touch paper Just enough money in Quanta to go out with a big bang and not a slightly pathetic phut! How about, invite all the Quanta members to a last hurrah, a weekend of celebrating the QL reaching 30, an achievement in itself seeing as it died a death twenty seven years ago at retail. Enjoy your show, celebrate the QL's 30th because as I see it, fast forward a few short years and the pot will naturally be almost empty and that'll be that, lights out. So, £3000 should cover the basics for the party. What's left in the pot, throw it at that last QL 'pacemaker', one which draws in interest from outside, a QL on a board, retrofitted into a QL case, able to run at QL speed, GC speed, SGC speed up to super speeds, use Kickstarter or whatever to raise cash. Just do it, what have you got to loose, well, apart from a slow lingering death for the QL that is. Anyhow, clearly you shouldn't make me treasurer !! Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] 64 Raspberry Pi Super computer cluster
Hi All, Knowing how we all love the Raspberry Pi around here, I thought you'd be interested this this article (and instructions) on how to Cluster up to 64 Raspberry Pi's together. In keeping with the retro theme, check out the pictures at the bottom, I love the 'racks' they've used :) Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 64 Raspberry Pi Super computer cluster
Oops, here's the Link http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton.htm -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 29 January 2013 11:41 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] 64 Raspberry Pi Super computer cluster Hi All, Knowing how we all love the Raspberry Pi around here, I thought you'd be interested this this article (and instructions) on how to Cluster up to 64 Raspberry Pi's together. In keeping with the retro theme, check out the pictures at the bottom, I love the 'racks' they've used :) Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson
From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman Sent: 15 January 2013 17:54 To: ql-users Cc: Vic Gerhardi Subject: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson and EEC. He has just died well into his 90s. Tony Whilst I didn't know bill personally, my thoughts are with his friends and family. From those photographs, he looks a character and I bet he had a few stories to tell. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL keyboard on Raspberry-pi
Is there an easy/in-expensive way to use the QL keyboard, which I find quite OK (checks calendar no, not April 1...) I wonder if it's possible to install the Pi within a usb Keyboard, neatly done and with access to the posts via some clever extra wiring/socket extending. I suppose a slightly less slimline keyboard would be required. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
Great, I now own a Model B- or is it a Model A+ ? Either way, I've been punished for being an early bird :( -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: 15 October 2012 10:31 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180 If you don't have your Pi yet, when it arrives, you'll have twice as much RAM as I do. Enjoy! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] New game for the QL under development
[Snip] That is when I got 30 frame per second... BTW when I am done with this, I will put the 3D engine in the public domaine, if anyone wants to play with it. Excellent and exciting news especially the 30fps part. I cannot wait to see this running, hopefully on YouTube first. (dreams of a decent DOOM clone on QL) *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Tracker (Google Maps)
-Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of John Alexander Sent: 29 May 2012 18:29 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Tracker (Google Maps) I was going to put mine down then it asked for a confirmation email...Nice try i wonder what they send you after you have clicked In my case, absolutely nothing Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Tracker (Google Maps)
Oops! Here's the link rastrack.ryanteck.org.uk/index.php -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 28 May 2012 16:13 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Tracker (Google Maps) Just a bit of fun, Zoom in and see where others have logged their Raspberry Pi's, add your own. It only takes a minute. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] GOLD SUPER GOLD Cards / Pawn / ED Drives (on fleabay)
All, I have one of each on fleabay at the moment along with other items such as PAWN the adventure game and a Trump card and a set of ED drives. I still have a fully loaded Aurora so I can let these items go. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] GOLD SUPER GOLD Cards / Pawn / ED Drives (on fleabay)
Neil Riley wrote: I have one of each on fleabay at the moment along with other items such as PAWN the adventure game and a Trump card and a set of ED drives. I still have a fully loaded Aurora so I can let these items go. Neil Uh oh, Super Gold Card for sale...super gold dust...I foresee a bidding frenzy :-) Out of interest, how did you do that semi-transparent picture of the screen? Dilwyn Not long left for the auction to run, less than four hours... Just noticed my bald head in the piccie (SGC) , thank god I had some clothes on!! Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
Still, this is so reminiscant of the old Delivered within 28 days promise I fondly remember waiting months for my QL Cheers, Ade. Except this machine actually exists, and is 99.99% ready whereas the QL was a pile of components, wire, small motors, some VHS tape and scissors, some blank A3 pieces of paper, some very sharp pencils (new and unused) and a ruler. Just saying, that's all ! Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] RaspberryPi Power Source
Back on topic, Does anyone know what powers the Raspberry Pi? as I've not heard anything mention the words 'Power Adaptor' Neil Btw, Mine's coming end March or there about, with the Freebee T-Shirt. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.
I used to Dabble a little using Dark Basic Professional, a rather nice Gui front end Basic mainly aimed at writing 'games'. A couple of my friends teenage boys enjoyed messing with it as it was very easy to code and results came quickly. This is worth a read for those interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkBASIC Neil -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Usher Sent: 23 February 2012 10:40 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative. The Raspberry Pi project and my work at Oxford University supporting a science department has had me thinking for some time about the need for a modern equivalent to the old home computer systems and the BASIC language which came on them. On the home computer front, as shown in the second episode of the BBC's Electric Dreams, teenage boys are still enthused by being able to program, as long as within 15 minutes they can start annoying their family with sounds and putting their name on the screen in gaudy colours. Plotting things on the screen simply is also important. The energy barrier must not be very high. On the scientific front, there are many people who need to do some programming but find the energy barrier for learning traditional programming languages (and even Matlab) too steep. They need a simple language with which to process data and plot their data in a publishable quality format. To this end, I see SuperBASIC as a very good starting point, which needs to be extended with modern data structures such as compound variables and proper variable scoping. I've been thinking about this quite hard in the last few days and have written up my initial thoughts on my blog: http://www.lingula.org.uk/wordpress/2012/02/23/notsobasic/ Any comments and possible help appreciated. ;-) Steve ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum
Can you access the QL Forum via Tapatalk (App) ? -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor Sent: 23 February 2012 10:58 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum I also cannot access it this morning... On 23/02/2012 10:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I'm having problems getting on QL Forum this morning - anyone else tried? Rob/Pete: if reading this can you check? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum
It's an APP for the Iphone/ipod/ipad and probably Android devices that lets you connect to forums, moderate, chat, etc. I use it extensively as I'm a forum mod for OldnRubbish (a gaming site for Old Rubbish online players who are sick of ninja teenagers), Formed in 2007 so it's mearly a child as a community, same rules apply, we chat, we meet up, same old same old :) Sadly, this is off topic for the QL, but you did ask ;) Neil -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones Sent: 23 February 2012 11:04 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum Uhh, what on earth is that? Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Neil Riley Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:58 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum Can you access the QL Forum via Tapatalk (App) ? -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor Sent: 23 February 2012 10:58 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum I also cannot access it this morning... On 23/02/2012 10:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I'm having problems getting on QL Forum this morning - anyone else tried? Rob/Pete: if reading this can you check? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4826 - Release Date: 02/22/12 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please
Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk 12 January 2012 10:44 But I am lumbered with a problem HDD, a SATA 320GB with damaged TIVO files to be recovered. Ex a Sagecom setop box. The suspision is they are written in Linux speak. Most likely ext2 or ext3. My Linux based SYNOLOGY DS211j NAS drive is great for reading external dives formatted ext2 / 3. I use my windows XP based laptop, using CHROME, sign on to the NAS drive and use it's in built gui front end (which is brilliant btw!). If only all devices had such well written firmware. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC
In the latest issue of gamesTM, page 20, there is an article on the Raspberry Pi which is basically a £20 pc. This device is the size of a USB memory stick, has a USB port one end an a HDMI the other. The provisional specs are decent enough, a 700Mhz ARM11 , 256MB SDRAM, OpenGL ES 2.0, 1080p30 H.264 high profile decoder, Composite and HDMI video output, USB 2.0, SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot. It comes with a simple Linux based Operating system. Developed by David Braben (!) and Dr Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The idea of the device is to plug it into a USB hub Back to the article and back on topic... It mentions Sir Clive Electronic Innovation and tinkering is a grand British tradition that's slowly died out since the days of Sir Clive Sinclair stalking the cobbled streets of Cambridge in his little three-wheeled buggy..[snip] Aimed at Education it is awaiting Government support. Interesting! Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC
Bryan Horstmann b...@newlan.org 03 August 2011 10:00 On 03/08/2011 09:28, Neil Riley wrote: In the latest issue of gamesTM, page 20 Electronic Innovation and tinkering is a grand British tradition that's slowly died out since the days of Sir Clive Sinclair stalking the cobbled streets of Cambridge in his little three-wheeled buggy..[snip] Simon first broke this news at the beginning of June Neil and there have been a number of update posts with more detail since. Bryan H UK My mistake however the mention of Clive in this months GamesTM is new so I don't feel 100% stupid, just 80% :p Neil ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL VROOM re-released
To think, I bought this when it was first released. Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 14 June 2011 16:43 We have now reached agreement with Pyramide's former owner to re-release some of their titles as commercial programs. The first of these to be released is the well respected F1 motor racing game, QL VROOM. Cost is £5 for a copy on disk - available from: http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Sinclair_QL_Motor_Racing_Game%3A_VROOM-1603 -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)
I have the DP Super Forth + Reversi manual * 1985 Version 2.0 is mentioned Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 11 June 2011 17:56 Does anyone have the manual for Super Forth by Digital Precision - I cannot find it in the DP collection! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)
Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 13 June 2011 10:13 On 13/06/2011 09:39, Neil Riley wrote: I have the DP Super Forth + Reversi manual * 1985 Version 2.0 is mentioned Neil Otherwise we need somehow to recreate the manual (and I still need a printed copy please)! Freddy Vachha is mentioned on the cover. Anyhow, I'm more than happy to post my copy to you Rich. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)
Rich I suspect It's a photo copy although a decent one and it does appear to be on off white paper. Picture emailed to your rwap email address. The front cover is official but it does say SUPERFORTH + REVERSI A COMPLETE FORTH-83 SYSTEM FOR THE QL plus the 4Digital Precision logo... By Gerry Jackson. Puplished by Freddy Vachha There are 14 sections in the Index where 12 is the reference to Reversi. It is printed on off white (blue!) paper but It is very subtle. There is reference to Version 2.0. Anyhow, It looks like it would photocopy, Id happily send you the newer copy and I'd keep the Photocopy for myself. Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 13 June 2011 10:50 Hi Neil, As this is the proper v2.0 manual - if you are willing to let me keep it (!) then yes, please send it across - it's just a shame that we can't scan it in (anyone fancy typing it in?) Rich On 13/06/2011 10:47, Neil Riley wrote: Rich Mellorr...@rwapservices.co.uk 13 June 2011 10:13 On 13/06/2011 09:39, Neil Riley wrote: I have the DP Super Forth + Reversi manual * 1985 Version 2.0 is mentioned Neil Otherwise we need somehow to recreate the manual (and I still need a printed copy please)! Freddy Vachha is mentioned on the cover. Anyhow, I'm more than happy to post my copy to you Rich. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)
Good news then that it is in a light blue colour - it should photocopy without problems - any chance you could have a go at scanning it (even if not OCR) so that it can be placed with the copy of the program for download! RICH MELLOR emailing as pdf's expect a few !!! *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)
Rich It would appear that the photocopier in work does rather more than just photocopy! it has the option to email as .pdf's also!! Four .pdf's should be sitting in your email inbox, did a quick trial run to my work email and that seemed to work. Fingers crossed. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Superforth and Reversi
Might have spoke too soon. I don't know if this is the manual, on Javier's site: http://www.speccy.org/sinclairql/archivo/docs/prog/SuperForth_Reversi_DP.pdf Dilwyn Jones That is the manual, the difference is in the quality of the copy. The copy on that link is far far worse than the one I've emailed this morning. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones Book
The QL must be very much alive. The used Jan Jones book sold for £23 on eBay. Quanta sold them, new, for £8 JJ got £5 and Quanta paid for the reprint out of their £3. John Taylor Probably becoming a 'rare' book now ... would be worth even more if had been printed with dust jacket? . :-) -- Malcolm Cadman I have both versions and the book, perhaps it's time to sell them *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Game idea...
The lack of games on QL was always a source of much frustration, Whilst the QL quickly became a hobbyists dream with Languages and disk drives etc, I just wanted Bandersnatch or whatever that mythical IMAGINE secret game was. One of the first games I played on PC was the traditional Start Trek type game on a Tandy TRS 80 or was it a Commodore Pet, either way, I always enjoyed that type of game, especially a DRAGON32 version that was excellent. I really loved Catacombs on ZX81, it was pig slow but it was one of the first DD themed games. My Favorite game though was Adventure on the ATARI VCS2600, utter class and all running in 4k memory!! Now, that must be possible on the QL! Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with Dongle
Remembered last night that my very brief ownership of less than an hour with QL number 1 was an Version FB machine. I was 18. Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch 04 February 2011 14:18 Yesterday Rich Mellor wrote: Urs - what were the issue motherboards you got hold of - was it an issue 2 I sent to you which was missing the expansion connector? I'm still lurking on the mailing-list. Amazing how busy it is those days. Go on! There's a video where I'm talking about this subject. Here's the direct link to the section of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlujA78ERdY#t=9m17s Interested tinkerers please check the links below for more in-depth QL stories... Cheers, Urs - QLvsJAGUAR - Much more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever! Website: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar Pictures: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/albums.aspx ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with Dongle
My first QL arrived after many months of waiting... as no doubt did everyone. No dongle as i recall but it dids within a few minutes of switching on, so was promptly retuned. A replacement arrived a week or two later with AH Roms, It at least was reliable for the time I owned it. Seeing as I ordered my QL as soon as those fancy brochures appeared in PC World and other PC Mags, I do wonder how close I was to receiving a Dongled specimen. Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 03 February 2011 13:08 On 03/02/2011 12:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: It was followed by FB which may never have left the factory - we know that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to later QL ROMs (they didn't bother checking for the earlier PM ROM). No-one else had to make this change or ever use it, so it looks as though by the time the public got their hands on the QL, the operating system was at least AH (which was soon followed by JM, JS and MG ROMs). I'm pretty sure I had an FB machine when they came out, as I remember the AT x,y problem quite clearly . Also, as I didn't find out about version PM until many years later (I remember Simon explaining about it), I'm sure it must have been version FB ROM which I had. That QL got returned within weeks for an update, but I don't know if the machine which came back was the same one as I first had, or a different computer. So, assuming that the old DJ memory chips are working correctly and I'm correct, FB must have been issued to some early customers. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I guess some customers did have the FB ROMs - (interesting) The odd thing is that only the main 4 Psion packages ever made allowance for the difference in the AT command - presumably no-one else ever raised this with an issue with software producers, as all the machines were returned to Sinclair. Turbo and Q-liberator would have fun compiling the AT command if it was written on the FB ROM ! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with Dongle
*died not dids ! Neil Riley neil.ri...@boxclever.co.uk 03 February 2011 16:32 My first QL arrived after many months of waiting... as no doubt did everyone. No dongle as i recall but it dids within a few minutes of switching on, so was promptly retuned. A replacement arrived a week or two later with AH Roms, It at least was reliable for the time I owned it. Seeing as I ordered my QL as soon as those fancy brochures appeared in PC World and other PC Mags, I do wonder how close I was to receiving a Dongled specimen. Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 03 February 2011 13:08 On 03/02/2011 12:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: It was followed by FB which may never have left the factory - we know that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to later QL ROMs (they didn't bother checking for the earlier PM ROM). No-one else had to make this change or ever use it, so it looks as though by the time the public got their hands on the QL, the operating system was at least AH (which was soon followed by JM, JS and MG ROMs). I'm pretty sure I had an FB machine when they came out, as I remember the AT x,y problem quite clearly . Also, as I didn't find out about version PM until many years later (I remember Simon explaining about it), I'm sure it must have been version FB ROM which I had. That QL got returned within weeks for an update, but I don't know if the machine which came back was the same one as I first had, or a different computer. So, assuming that the old DJ memory chips are working correctly and I'm correct, FB must have been issued to some early customers. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I guess some customers did have the FB ROMs - (interesting) The odd thing is that only the main 4 Psion packages ever made allowance for the difference in the AT command - presumably no-one else ever raised this with an issue with software producers, as all the machines were returned to Sinclair. Turbo and Q-liberator would have fun compiling the AT command if it was written on the FB ROM ! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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
[Ql-Users] QL DEFUSION
Morning Rich Just a quick note. Whilst putting the carts away over the weekend (cheers again for returning ) I opened my QL Bounder case and lo and behold, I have the carts so the reason you couldn't find the QL Bounder microdrives is simple, you never had them. However, it appears that you have my QL DEFUSION carts as that case is empty! So mystery solved. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL DEFUSION
Ooops! Sorry, darn my slow Monday morning mental state! this mail was meant for Rich only! (checks email for bad language etc etc ) , no, I'm in the clear Neil Neil Riley neil.ri...@boxclever.co.uk 31 January 2011 10:58 Morning Rich Just a quick note. Whilst putting the carts away over the weekend (cheers again for returning ) I opened my QL Bounder case and lo and behold, I have the carts so the reason you couldn't find the QL Bounder microdrives is simple, you never had them. However, it appears that you have my QL DEFUSION carts as that case is empty! So mystery solved. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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] OT - News clip - free Wi-Fi hotspots
Has anyone else got/used a MiFi device? I have a Huawei E585 along with a 15gb monthly limit on the 3 network ( £15 a month) I usually get about 2mb download and 1.5mb upload speeds ( the upload being particularilty decent) It's great for having broadband in my car as I have a iTouch 4, Skype being very useful esp with the front/rear facing camera's. Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 31 January 2011 11:26 On 31/01/2011 11:14, Petri Pellinen wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rich Mellorr...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote: I am lucky to get 2GB download speeds, so if someone else was using that, and it halved to 1GB that would be very noticeable! Holy smoke, Rich! I thought my 100 Mbps drop to the house is fast ;) /Petri ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm LOL - should have said 2Gb (if only it could be 2GB) -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Programming project request...
I like the idea of a Tower defence type game. Plants vs Zombies, h, not sure the QL can quite manage PS3 level graphics and I'm not sure the 68000 series can keep up with the CELL processor but looking on the bright side, Halo has been ported over to the VCS2600 ( I kid you not!) and that has a cut down 6502 CPU on board! Neil Plastic plasticu...@gmail.com 24 January 2011 14:02 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Peter pg...@q40.de wrote: Hi Dave, how about a commandline tool which can automatically delete a whole directotry tree with all files in it? :-) Never found this yet... All the best Peter You design computers before breakfast, so obviously that sounds a lot easier to you than it does to me ;) Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] USB 3G Dongle Broadband Wireless Routers
Slightly off topic but Im was so happy with this little device I had to mention it. If anyone is after a wireless router for their USB 3G broadband dongle, as I was, I recommend LM Technologies LM009. It's an 'N' spec router and tiny at only 10cm long. Being N rated, the range from it's internal Antennae is excellent. I'm using it in work as works broadband is very restricted. By some miracle, I was able to pick up a brand new one for under £15 including shipping fees from an Amazon third party seller but it normally retails around the £35 - £45 mark. http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=B472487 Regards Neil Riley ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair weds
Well I never, 69yr old Sir Clive Sinclair has wed a former Lap dancer. She's rather lovely too, lucky Clive! http://kotaku.com/5525161/nsfw-computer-tycoon-weds-former-lap-dancer Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] microvitec monitors
I remember my father getting me one of the curvy black CUB monitors for my QL, at the time I though the picture quality was awesome. QL Chess would be left running for hours just so i could marvel at how good it looked. Cheers Fern fern ferng...@yahoo.com 19 March 2010 11:57 hi there i hope someone might find this useful: i recently got my hands on a ql and a few other bits, mostly thanks to rwap. thanks rich :-) the only thing missing was a decent display, after a bit of digging around i thought i would email microvitec (sa...@microvitec.co.uk) to ask them about the TTL compatible LCD units they have. bad news: these go for over a grand. good news: they still have a number of refurbished CUB monitors. i got one of the original QL specific ones which is working perfectly for £60, i couldn't afford one of these when i was young(er) so that made my day. cheers fern ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Missing Sinclair QL Software Titles
Rich, Whilst I remember a couple of those titles, I've already sent what I had to you already. ( not that I'm hinting that you still have them, lol!) Would be nice to see Crazy Painter again, I loved the Microdeal games for QL and Dragon 32. Anyone else remember Space War? Good luck in your quest. Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 15 March 2010 13:51 As some of you will no doubt know, I am trying to build up a repository of all Sinclair QL titles - to include details on the QL Wiki and to also be able to provide working copies of games to people who have the originals, but sadly can no longer get them to work (or need a version for an emulator) However, there is a mass of software titles which I don't have copies of and the list grows every time I pick up an old Sinclair QL World magazine. Does anyone have working copies of the following (originals or backups - disk version preferred, but microdrives will do): There is a host of Sinclair QL items which are missing in action - does anyone have any of this missing software, as we would like to preserve it: Adventure Writer by Rodent Software ANIMAL - Guess the animal game for Psion Archive Art Master - a general drawing program from Micr_A_Soft Crazy Painter by Microdeal Design Board II - a 3D CAD program from Micr_A_Soft Executive Adventure Ferret by Sector Software Fibu ? FM by Datamanagement Funfear by Talent The Gee Gee System Giga-BASIC Giga-Chroma Giga-Disassembler with Monitor Grafix III Graphics Toolkit House Plant Data Bank and Planner Hungry Harry Hungry Harry and the Haunted House Invostat by Dialog Software Las Vegas - a collection of two casino based games by Micr_A_Soft Maxim - Drawing package by Intec referred to in the May 1986 edition of Sinclair QL World My First Program - educational program advertised in 1985 by Systems 80 Limited Night Nurse by Microdeal Oxford Trivia - Pub Trivia Game by Talent Perfect Pointer Tools PROJECT by Datamanagement Purchase Ledger by Dialog Software Q_Print - a stationary design program from Micr_A_Soft QLART - a graphics package by Eidersoft QL Artist - by Rodent Software QLDIARY by Datamanagement QL Fantasy QLFED - file editor by Datamanagement Qlone+ QLPRESTEL QLTALK Quest - the Adventure by Quest Automation Ltd Quick Layout Shrub Data Bank and Planner STD Index THOR_desk Tycoon - business game by Newtech Publishing Viewpoint CAD program by Rubicon WD Morse Tutor by WDSoftware WD Utilities by WDSoftware More information on the titles we have preserved so far appears on the Sinclair QL Wiki - http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/ -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Missing Sinclair QL Software Titles
Sounds like a tough job Rich, I guess finding some of the programs will be an almost impossible task. Even if they are still in the wild, they're likely to be hidden away in a loft somewhere, the cold won't do those microdrives and favours. I store my Microdrives in my lounge under the settee out of sight. At least it's reasonably warm there. I've got plenty of 'stuff' which no longer loads so I hope you are successful in your quest ( sounds a bit Hollywood but you get my drift ). Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 15 March 2010 14:16 Hi Neil, Yes I still have your software - I am left with the titles I am struggling to get off the microdrives! Not just copy protection - but other issues, such as they load a specific sector after loading and use that code, or the tape is unreadable! Rich Neil Riley wrote: Rich, Whilst I remember a couple of those titles, I've already sent what I had to you already. ( not that I'm hinting that you still have them, lol!) Would be nice to see Crazy Painter again, I loved the Microdeal games for QL and Dragon 32. Anyone else remember Space War? Good luck in your quest. Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 15 March 2010 13:51 As some of you will no doubt know, I am trying to build up a repository of all Sinclair QL titles - to include details on the QL Wiki and to also be able to provide working copies of games to people who have the originals, but sadly can no longer get them to work (or need a version for an emulator) However, there is a mass of software titles which I don't have copies of and the list grows every time I pick up an old Sinclair QL World magazine. Does anyone have working copies of the following (originals or backups - disk version preferred, but microdrives will do): There is a host of Sinclair QL items which are missing in action - does anyone have any of this missing software, as we would like to preserve it: Adventure Writer by Rodent Software ANIMAL - Guess the animal game for Psion Archive Art Master - a general drawing program from Micr_A_Soft Crazy Painter by Microdeal Design Board II - a 3D CAD program from Micr_A_Soft Executive Adventure Ferret by Sector Software Fibu ? FM by Datamanagement Funfear by Talent The Gee Gee System Giga-BASIC Giga-Chroma Giga-Disassembler with Monitor Grafix III Graphics Toolkit House Plant Data Bank and Planner Hungry Harry Hungry Harry and the Haunted House Invostat by Dialog Software Las Vegas - a collection of two casino based games by Micr_A_Soft Maxim - Drawing package by Intec referred to in the May 1986 edition of Sinclair QL World My First Program - educational program advertised in 1985 by Systems 80 Limited Night Nurse by Microdeal Oxford Trivia - Pub Trivia Game by Talent Perfect Pointer Tools PROJECT by Datamanagement Purchase Ledger by Dialog Software Q_Print - a stationary design program from Micr_A_Soft QLART - a graphics package by Eidersoft QL Artist - by Rodent Software QLDIARY by Datamanagement QL Fantasy QLFED - file editor by Datamanagement Qlone+ QLPRESTEL QLTALK Quest - the Adventure by Quest Automation Ltd Quick Layout Shrub Data Bank and Planner STD Index THOR_desk Tycoon - business game by Newtech Publishing Viewpoint CAD program by Rubicon WD Morse Tutor by WDSoftware WD Utilities by WDSoftware More information on the titles we have preserved so far appears on the Sinclair QL Wiki - http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/ -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] New Retro Auction Website
How Excellent is that! Nice one Rich I have about 100+ Atari 'Woody' 2600 VCS gear, games etc I may be selling soon. Very Impressive :-) Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 15 December 2009 12:07 We have now launched a new retro auction website - http://www.sellmyretro.com The idea is to bring traders, collectors and users together - we have added a wiki to each category and could do with some more wiki text (or different languages). If we have missed any categories, please let us know. The fees are a lot cheaper than on ebay, and we are working towards two types of webstore - a free webstore linked to a category, so that traders can let people know where else that they can try, or a paid for webstore (£5 per month) with 50% off all fees on the site. Plenty more ideas in the offing, but we are open to suggestions! Can I suggest that Quanta and QL Today open a webstore linked to the Sinclair QL category, to establish a presence for themselves on the site - I will ensure that they don't get charged any fees for the time being! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources
Adrian, I think you read the mood of Dave's reply incorrectly. We hear the word 'Implying' only in police drama's where the suspect is being interrogated so you could be forgiven for getting the wrong end of the stick :-) I too read Dave's reply and baulked at the use of that one word, however, knowing just how helpful the QL community is, I realised the true tone of his reply. We are all friends here :-) Neil Adrian D. Ives adrian.i...@ntlworld.com 14 October 2009 10:07 Dave, Firstly, I'm not implying anything. I didn't mean to cause so much offence by my request. I did not realise that XTC68 was exactly the same suite as the C68 compiler which you have done a sterling job of maintaining for many years. I thought, as the binaries I have were dated 1997, that it was a different compiler that had not been maintained in that time. Now that you have set me straight, my request is herewith withdrawn and I shall never raise the subject on this list again. Regards, Adrian --- On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 9:54:06 AM, you wrote: DW Adrian, DW The source for the cross-compiler is the same as that used for the QL DW version. It is merely a case of configuring the config.h file correctly DW for the host and target platforms when building the compiler. If I DW remember correctly MSVC project and make files are included. DW It is therefore available from my web site at http://www.itimpi.com DW When you say you are interested in making it run under WIN32 - what are you DW implying? It has always been designed to run via the command line and so DW should already run fine on all versions of Windows.If you are thinking DW of a graphical front-end, then I would suggest that this should be done as a DW free-standing program that simply calls the existing binaries? DW Dave DW -Original Message- DW From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com DW [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian D. Ives DW Sent: 14 October 2009 09:17 DW To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com DW Subject: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources DW Does anyone know where I can get hold of the source for this c68 cross DW compiler? I have the DOS/NT/UNIX binaries, but I'm interested in updating it DW to run under Win32. DW As an aside, I recently finished migrating an MK14 emulator to run under DW Vista. It's nothing spectacular, but it does have a certain curiosity value. DW If anyone is interested I will make it available. DW Thanks for reading, DW Adrian Ives DW ___ DW QL-Users Mailing List DW http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm DW ___ DW QL-Users Mailing List DW http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!
I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed a TV advert, Clive Sinclair was leaping over other computers of the time and it briefly showed the QL and a price of £645 or thereabouts, Screen included perhaps! Haven't actually watched the program as yet but no doubt it'll take me back to my teenage years. Just thinking back reminds me of the huge excitement at the thought of owning my first computer, at the time, the ZX81 :-) Of course, I really wanted the fantastic ATARI 800 but that was £700+ so. ( got one now though ;-) ) Ah, Nostalgia ! Darren Branagh darrenbran...@gmail.com 09 October 2009 02:17 Just a quick one, for those interested Micro Men can be viewed for the next week for free on the BBC's iPlayer service (only if you live in the UK) Follow this link :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_Men/ It really is worth a look - I totally enjoyed it. Cheers, Darren. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Original Microdrives Needed for preservation
It was my copy was it a copy Rich or the original Microdrive? Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk 23 September 2009 15:37 - Strip Poker by Talent (alas there are issues on the copy from Dilwyn, as well as my own set) - QL Farmer - Crazy Painter -- Rich Mellor Wasn't from me! Or if it was I missed that one completely (worse luck) ;-)) Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Games
Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk 10 September 2009 07:18 They had maybe twelve QLs networked. . and there were two or three dustbins full of cartridges. They used customer provided blank cartridges? Tony Yes, that's right, well remembered. I now remember sending off a blank cartridgee for those games. Being written by JMF, I was very impressed. -- 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 *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Bounder - HELP
Rich, I might be able to help here, I've copied the file you requested onto a 3.5 disk. If you are still looking for a copy then email me your address ( yes, I've lost it ) and I'll post it this week Neil Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk 30 August 2009 09:12 I have been trying to get QL Bounder to run - I have 2 original microdrives, but alas both have a corrupt file. Does anyone have a working copy of the file: qlg1_obj_v24 -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Commercial game copy protection mechanisms
I do seem to remember that Talents Lost Kingdon Of Zkul and West were simple to crack. I remember myself and a friend cracked it in college, it took no programming at all, just a simple trick before copying the MDV. something to do with creating a blank file name...hmmm 24years have eroded my memory, Bad sector or two i suspect, lol! Neil Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net 07 June 2009 22:53 Ralf Reköndt wrote: It is highly unlikely that the program includes its own MDV access code, so the entries to the MDV vectors might be a good starting point. Hmm, the programmers at Pyramide were very clever;-) It's just a starting point. As somebody who has written and cracked a gazilion copy protections and eben briefly entertained the idea of writing a book on the subject, I can say that it is a hundred times more difficult to write a copy protection than it is to break it. There's always a way. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Knight Flight
Hi Francis I Remember buying Knight Flight back in the day, Don't think i have a copy now I'm afraid but as a Joust clone it was quite good. Of course, If you are a huge fan of 1980-2000's arcade machines you could always check out M.A.M.E. and go hunting for Joust ROMS ( or one of maybe 6000 other arcade machines). If only the QL had the grunt and a large enough following to attract the emulation fanatics out there. If only! I'm still looking for Spook and Pharohs Tomb and probably one or two others by a certain Janko Mrsic Flogel. Neil francis derdeyn francis.derd...@gmail.com 31 March 2009 11:50 Hello, I'm an old Sinclair ZX 81 and Sinclair QL fan. I started on the ZX81 in 1983 and jumped to the QL a few years after. I made a lot of SuperBASIC programming, for me the best basic ever made. Since my QL was defective after having moved to several locations, I recently bought a Sinclair QL (thanks to Rich Mellor !). I'm looking for a very specific game called Knight Flight from Realtime Software (small review here http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/047/qlink.htm). I'm highly interested if someone has it ! Thanks a lot to all of you for keeping the QL alive ! I'm so glad to see that such mailing list exists... Have a nice day ! Bye Francis ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Small Basic
I was taught CECIL in school with its 14 commands. It was very basic indeed, we had to write our program down on pre-printed coding sheets and they'd be sent off to the guild hall in Swansea to be typed into a large ICL . Two weeks later we had the results. Luckly for me, all of my programs worked first time otherwise they'd be a two week delay before you had another go ! Just did a quick seach on google and found this. How the memories come flooding back ! http://www.webring.com/hub?ring=esolang Neil Andy Barber ac...@yahoo.com 21 March 2009 20:46 You can learn BASIC but have to be taught C, etc. Andy Barber Once you have learned Basic, you're mentally maimed for the rest of your life.. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL?
The biggest shame with the QL world, is that although we are good at devising new methods of doing things, there has never been much interest in writing high quality games (or the authors apart from the odd one or two in the very early days - Janko Mrsic Flogel and Damon Chaplin mainly). Try googling Mr Flogel Rich, I wonder if this genius is the same person? I do wonder how we could instil some impetus into the QL market - even the ZX81 and Spectrum see numerous new games released on a regular basis, stretching the hardware using the latest techniques. There are some great Speccy ZX81 emulators on the QL, sadly the speccy ones aren't able to lock the emulation speed at 100% ( sadly it goes as quick as it can which may be well in excess of 100%). Thats the only negative into what is a remarkable achievement for the QL , I'm always being beaten at CHESS by my AURORA emulating a Spectrum ( Haven't managed to run QL PSION Chess on my AURORA, shame) Now then, this is amusing ( at least to me! ), I wonder whether it's possible for a PC, emulating a QL can emulate a spectrum which is then emulating a ZX81 which is running a program :-) *cough* gets coat *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] I want a NEW QL
yeah Andy, id part ex my Super Gold Card for the 'God' variety, i hears it's got devine intervention (QDEVi) built in. :-) Andy Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17 June 2008 12:00 Sod the Internet, I want a Super God card! Communicate with anyone/everyone instantly; write compile software before I can even think I need it: Give it to me now. Regards Andy I have some QLs, Minerva, and a Super God Card. Regards Roy In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I want a NEW QL! I need the latest version of Minerva I need TK2 I need loads of win1_ I need loads of RAM Can I use the old PC monitor keyboard in my lock-up? Any suggestions how much will it cost? Regards Andy Barber Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 20 8402 3385 ~ Mobile +44 791 883 4739 ~ Fax: +44 705 069 5845 __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel/ Fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER! web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk skype : royqbranch ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] PC to Aurora Zip files
Aha, Managed it. It would appear I did write it down after all. Cheers anyway, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07 April 2008 14:18 Chaps, Thought i had this written down but no. I've been sent a zip file. abc_zip via email which i have now saved on my PC's C:/drive. II do seem to remember that there was a trick to getting it successfully unzipped on my QL based Aurora, sadly I cannot fully remember. If I recall correclly, there's something about the naming of the zip, whether it be _zip or .zip that causes the problem. Can anyone recall ? Thanks in advance Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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] PC to Aurora Zip files
Hello all Ok, i am clear as to my problem. I need to take a .zip extension from a pc to QL. When i rename .zip to _zip the QL cannot 'see' my file. I suspect i had this problem before. What do i need to do to convert from x.zip to x_zip so that my Aurora can unzip. Cheers ( again ! ) Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07 April 2008 14:18 Chaps, Thought i had this written down but no. I've been sent a zip file. abc_zip via email which i have now saved on my PC's C:/drive. II do seem to remember that there was a trick to getting it successfully unzipped on my QL based Aurora, sadly I cannot fully remember. If I recall correclly, there's something about the naming of the zip, whether it be _zip or .zip that causes the problem. Can anyone recall ? Thanks in advance Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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] PC to Aurora Zip files
Hi The *.zip was downloaded off dilwyn's QL page. I copied it onto a floppy. The Aurora expects a *_zip so on the PC i renamed it from *.zip to *_zip. However, when i take the floppy from PC to the Aurora, it doesn't see the *_zip curious ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08 April 2008 08:36 Exactly where is the *.zip file located (floppy etc...)? Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] PC to Aurora Zip files
Cheers bob, that appears to have sorted the problem. Funny thing is, I thought Id tried that combination, obviously not though. Thanks again, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08 April 2008 12:03 Op Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:59:57 +0200 schreef Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi The *.zip was downloaded off dilwyn's QL page. I copied it onto a floppy. The Aurora expects a *_zip so on the PC i renamed it from *.zip to *_zip. However, when i take the floppy from PC to the Aurora, it doesn't see the *_zip curious ! If you copied it to a DOS floppy then Aurora will not see filenames longer than 8+3 chrs. Replacing the dot with the underscore effectively made the name longer with no extension. So check / rename the filename on the PC side. Copy the *.zip to Aurora and rename to *_zip there. Copying from QPC2 to a QDOS floppy will allow for a longer name. Bob -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] PC to Aurora Zip files
Chaps, Thought i had this written down but no. I've been sent a zip file. abc_zip via email which i have now saved on my PC's C:/drive. II do seem to remember that there was a trick to getting it successfully unzipped on my QL based Aurora, sadly I cannot fully remember. If I recall correclly, there's something about the naming of the zip, whether it be _zip or .zip that causes the problem. Can anyone recall ? Thanks in advance Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] (no subject)
Hi Norman, I've only been on the QL 'scene' for a couple of years whereas some of the guys here have been here since day 1, back in 1984 which is pretty eye opening. At least I had an original QL which i waited months for for it to die within an hour of receiving it ( it was a very early machine ). Sadly, the QL was doomed from the start, Sinclair made some drastic errors of judgement IMHO by aiming the machine as a 100% business machine and why oh why didn't he fit a 68000 instead of the 68008. Anyway, he did, it failed... but it lived through hobbiests which is where the guys here come in.. back to your question.. Personally, I've amassed quite a lot of QL equiplment in a very short space of time. 2 QL's , 1 Trump Card, 1 GC, 2 SGC, 1 full spec AURORA, twin ED drives, loads of software etc etc and can say that Id skip the Trump Card and look for a GC or SGC, they are worth the extra money. Only concider a Trump card if your a bit of a games player and don't want the games running too quickly. Good Luck Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 March 2008 00:25 Hi Norman, The Trump Card will give you bags of extra memory (an extra 640k on top of the base 128k IIRC), the ability to plug in DD floppy disks (720k/disk), and the always-useful Tony Tebby Toolkit II (aka Toolkit 2, or TK2). If you're currently lacking any expansion on your QL, then a Trump Card is worth having for the disk interface memory. A Gold Card (or Super Gold Card, if you're one of the lucky few) will not only bring you bags of extra RAM (2MB or 4MB for GC or SGC respectively), a disk interface capable of driving DD, HD and ED drives (720K, 1.44MB (?) and 3.2MB per disk) - but most importantly it also replaces the CPU with (if I remember correctly) a 68020 or 68040 (GC, SGC) - or maybe it's a 68000/68020, I forget. At any rate, it goes a lot faster... GCs and SGCs are (rightly) considered the Rolls Royce of original equipment upgrades, before you get into the various QL-on-a-PC-card systems (sorry, can't remember it's name) and QL emulators. Other things you might find useful to expand/improve your QL: Minerva ROMs (which make many improvements over base QDOS); SuperHERMES which IIRC much improves serial i/o keyboard response (and also IIRC allows you to add an IBM type keyboard with relatively little aggro). Then there's QBIDE - a hard-disk interface; no longer manufactured, and I'd like one of those myself... Considering the relatively low level of sales Sinclair suffered (despite apparent evidence to the contrary on eBay - there's always plenty of QL stuff on sale there), it's remarkable just how much add-on hardware, and software, was - and in some cases still is - developed for it. Cheers! Ade. (using QLs since 1984!) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 March 2008 00:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] (no subject) Thanks for all your advice, guys. I missed the Gold Card auction :( but I have seen this one http://uk.four.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=1200854905-28140-8mo=aucti on for a Trump Card? I can see it isn't as much of an uprade as the Gold Cards, but is it worth having? Cheers, Norm Hello Norman (Cook) Welcome to the list. Exciting days lie ahead for you and your QL! Re your question - Is this (Gold Card) the sort of thing you need to beef up your QL? [Short] Answer: yes! But be aware that there is another and better version - 'Super Gold Card'. Is there a list member who can point Norman to the current web-pages of QL tech info - rather than me re-inventing the wheel for him? :-) Please. Have fun Norman(C) ... and, of course, all other #Normans hereabouts - and especially, do I like the 'kilter', of the newest web-site - just announced here ;-) Look forward to more @ same. Thanks. Regards to all John (in Wales) ___ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1331 - Release Date: 16/03/2008 10:34 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1331 - Release Date: 16/03/2008 10:34 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is
Re: [Ql-Users] Programming
A good place to start if you want to program games on the PC under windows is Dark Basic ( professional ), Good results can be achieved with effort. darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/ This is a decent list of other similar software http://www.amazon.co.uk/GAME-MAKING-SOFTWARE-BEST-UGLY/lm/RHHUAS8MFX2HH/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_2_rsrsrs0 Sorry if this is a little non QL. Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13 December 2007 16:27 On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 20:40 +, Dilwyn Jones wrote: The one thing he hasn't mastered yet is programming, though he's sitting up and taking note at how easy it is for me to write things in S*BASIC and he's wanting to get into writing games. Tell him to have a look at wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide I still use SuperBasic (endlessly putting off converting to FreeBasic) under QemuLator, but if I were starting again I'd definitely try Python. David ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QUBIDE problem
Yes, Im unclear of the age but can clearly re-play the walk up to the school with my mother, I think i remember that so well because We passed a crying child coming the other way and i wondered if school was in fact a bad thing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18 October 2007 18:20 At 17:13 18/10/2007 +0100, you wrote: of course, i clearly remember my first day in infants school when i was 4 or 5. A sort of uncertain clarity - like I used to be indecisive . . . now I am not so sure ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QUBIDE problem
How odd. The same trouble happens with my set up but the QUBIDE banner stops after about three full stops. Would my problem be due to the same cause? I had this exact problem George when I first got my second hand Aurora.. the fullstops stopped and i was left with a frozen Aurora. I think my problem was solved by first removing my RomDisq which allowed a full reboot as the boot up sequence existed on my WIN1_ as well as the RomDisq, after that I think i had to re-initialise my RomDisq, I think either Tony instructed me at this point or it may have been in the Manual. Either way, I believe this may ( or may not ) help you. I'm only 40 and yet my memory is and always been dreadful, of course, i clearly remember my first day in infants school when i was 4 or 5. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube
Nice one, YouTube is such a great idea. Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 August 2007 13:45 Hi all Not much QL, if any QL stuff on YouTube? Think so... Today I opened my personal YouTube account. I also opened a Group called Sinclair QL. First uploads are: - Sinclair QL TV advertisement 1984 - QDT demo by Jim Hunkins at 2002 US QL-show More to come... I also slightly updated my website http://mypage.bluewin. ch/QLvsJaguar/. QL forever! What do you think? Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Expansion Possibilities
Welcome Roberto. Apart from our Traders ( whom I've neglected just recently, sorry ! ) who doubtless will be in touch with you via this list, Ebay is a reasonable place to look. There's been a few Trump / Gold Cards lately and the occasional Super Gold Card which does fetch a good price. This reminds me ( again! ), i must get my SGC and QL sent off to Richard Mellor for some fettling (sp?) For me, this list is a constant source of amusment as there's a real good vibe to it. Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09 July 2007 16:46 Does anyone know where I can get a Trump, Gold or SuperGold Card for my QL? ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] What is .....
...Goldfire? Just noticed it in 'TF Services' MPLANE description. Mentioned in the same breath as Gold/ Super gold card. Was there a secret third member of the Gold Card family?? Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] What is .....
Excellent. I guess TF Services Ad needs an update ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20 June 2007 15:46 Yes and No. I dont think the Goldfire ever saw the light of day. It was designed by Nasta (a croatian Hardware genius) and I saw the circuit layouts at a US QL Show some years ago, but dont think a working model ever appeared - I stand to be corrected though. Darren. Neil Riley wrote: ...Goldfire? Just noticed it in 'TF Services' MPLANE description. Mentioned in the same breath as Gold/ Super gold card. Was there a secret third member of the Gold Card family?? Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] What is .....
Sorry Tony... In full, The Ad reads . A three expansion backplane with ROM port included for RomDisq etc. Aurora can be fitted in notebook case and powered off single 5V rail - contact QBranch for details. Two boards (eg Aurora and Gold Card/Super Gold Card/Goldfire fixed to base. Suitable for Aurora (ROM accessible from outside) QL Motherboard in tower case. Specify ROM facing IN towards boards, or OUT towards back of case. Taken from QL Today Vol 10 Issue 4 --- Jan-Mar 2006 Bit of a quiet day in work today.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20 June 2007 16:01 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: ...Goldfire? Just noticed it in 'TF Services' MPLANE description. Mentioned in the same breath as Gold/ Super gold card. Was there a secret third member of the Gold Card family?? That should be: Gold/ SuperGold card - a spurious space and only two cards 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 iD8DBQFGeUE2M3RzOs8+btoRAo6TAJ9gydm65tgemBYzg4u1TjJxdM8C3QCggsYO VGYFADlTVcGVdU0lZe0tZNg= =csum -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Zip Manager
Ah, the irony ! :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05 June 2007 11:24 Dilwyn Jones schreef: I've added a new program called Zip Manager to my website. This freeware program acts as a pointer driven front end for the Zip and Unzip programs, to make them a bit easier to use. SNIP Zip Manager is available to download from my website at: http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/arch/index.html Hi Dilwyn, I can't unzip the Zip manager with ACP and Winzip says it is not a valid zip-file. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven June 16
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 May 2007 21:57 Tony Firshman schreef: Mind you when I speak and write French I tend to use the present tense all the time (8-)# My writing in French is passed tense ;) more parsed tense, surely ! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old Iron
At 15:12 29/05/2007, you wrote: An Mdv can be connected at the side How so, spectrum microdrives? I was not aware that cased mdvs were exclusively Spectrum. The internal mdv sockets are bridged so the first external comes in as No 1, chain upto eight. PS, forgot to mention I still have the QXL, original enquirer did not respond. Interested! Emailed... Richard Morning. Ah yes, i remember now, there is a small port at the side of the QL for additional Microdrives isn't there, i forgot !! I think I'm after QL Software rather than hardware at the moment, there is a rather large gap with regard to commercial games / languages etc. BCPL by Metacomco for example. Spook, Pharaoh and many others. Sadly, I gave away an old PC a while back which would of been an ideal candidate for the QXL ! I still haven't gotten around to sending Rich my SGC QL so he can marry the SGC ( tested as ok by Tony last year ) against a QL it'll work with ( one with working microdrives! ). I really must do this soon before I loose interest in my black box QL. I've ordered a Compact Flash IDE adaptor off ebay ( £4 all in ) and armed with the Qubide mod that Mr P Fox recommends, I will see if I can make my Aurora HD' less by fitting a 512 or 1GB CF card. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven June 16
Hello, Who foresees to go to Eindhoven on June 16? Not me. I am taking and printing (on the spot) portrait photos at my local church fair! In 512 x 256 mode 4 ? ;-) Neil - -- 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 iD8DBQFGXUTbM3RzOs8+btoRAmLmAJ0Ws3t3FxqM3xBsiTlR8c8zjz4wYACcDmTw q+xC4NjJHcFvIkf33C2TnqY= =yLw+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Compact Flah IDE adaptors
My plan is to stop using the HD in my Aurora and use a Compact flash or suchlike instead. Ok, cf ide adaptor 40pin. male or female connector? Peter Fox mentions soldering being required...where, why.. ? I've seen single and duel CF slot ide adaptors, would due adaptors work out the box? There adaptors seem to cost about £4 on ebay inc delivery which seems pretty good but there are a few to choose from, hence the questions. cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
Norman, German spam doesn't get through our firewall although the occasional Viagra advert does and this morning 'Emma' wants to talk to me about 're: The other night' , sadly, i can't remember Emma, you'd imagine i would :-) Back on topic, no problem, I'm sure someone out there has a few items gathering dust. I notice a chap on ebay selling an add on for the spectrum which allows an SD card to be slotted in, It has it's own firmware and thus commands for the spectrum. Oh yes, a 1Gb + card would easily hold all spectrum software, a boom to an old gamer like myself. I think it costs around £70 ( minus the SD card ) which is not bad at all. I know this has been banded about before re the QL but the question begs to be asked, when and how much? Cheers Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 May 2007 10:35 Morning Neil, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, it's all a little bit quiet in here, is everyone on their Hols.!!? It has been a little on the quiet side recently. I wonder if people simply cannot get through all the spam about the German stock exchange that seems to be very 'popular' at the moment. I'm getting about 300 of these on a daily basis. Today, however, it is different. They are now arriving in German whereas before they were in English. Oh hum ! Anyway, back on topic. I'm afraid that I don't have any 'bits' for you at present, but happy hunting. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
Ebay auction nbrs 130114107154 - divIDE CF interface for ZX Spectrum - CompactFlash! 130115931446 - divIDE interface for ZX Spectrum - connect HDD to ZX Now, I'm actually quite impressed with this, why isn't there a QL varient !? actually, i know the answer but goodness, what a boost for the QL this would be and yes, along with the SDGC talked about a while back. Tony, I know nothing about USBWiz although i guess it's a similar device to the above with a little extra. Is there any information floating around for this? Cheers Neil p.s. I'm still after old software ( back on topic ! ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 May 2007 11:20 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Norman, German spam doesn't get through our firewall although the occasional Viagra advert does and this morning 'Emma' wants to talk to me about 're: The other night' , sadly, i can't remember Emma, you'd imagine i would :-) Back on topic, no problem, I'm sure someone out there has a few items gathering dust. I notice a chap on ebay selling an add on for the spectrum which allows an SD card to be slotted in, It has it's own firmware and thus commands for the spectrum. Oh yes, a 1Gb + card would easily hold all spectrum software, a boom to an old gamer like myself. I think it costs around £70 ( minus the SD card ) which is not bad at all. I know this has been banded about before re the QL but the question begs to be asked, when and how much? I now have two USBwiz cards. It was disappointing to find that the serial interface is not RS232C, which means an addon. I will use a superHermes board for prototyping RS232C. It will need an addon board with chip/4 caps probably. A very odd omission on their part. Speed will be up to 230,400 with superHermes. The system looks promising. It supports SD (and MMC) as well as many basic USB devices (printers, modems, mobiles, mice, joysticks, keyboards and others). It also supports other USB storage like USB hard drives/card readers and thumb flash. The storage device support is a mite basic. It supports FAT8/16/32 only and 8.3 filenames (damn DOS!) and directories. It also has a real time clock - with an addon battery. 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 iD8DBQFGVBWCM3RzOs8+btoRAqXNAJ0avRZ66y+UKTTdH1ldPf+UHRKIOACgjBV+ DDkS5QreT3PJiGPmaH7GX28= =JBR0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
Neil Riley wrote: Ebay auction nbrs 130114107154 - divIDE CF interface for ZX Spectrum - CompactFlash! 130115931446 - divIDE interface for ZX Spectrum - connect HDD to ZX Now, I'm actually quite impressed with this, why isn't there a QL varient !? There is - Qubide. I meant, a decent memory size Compact flash equalivant. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
There is - Qubide. I meant, a decent memory size Compact flash equalivant. So did I. Qubide runs a standard Compact Flash adapter. After all CF is IDE and requires no special hardware. Is that so. So how does one attach a nice fat SD card to Qubide? , i assume it would be via an interface ( an existing one? ). Am i asking the wrong questions or rather, is my question extra layman, lol :-) *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
Thats a shame, we just got rid of a dozen or so of those PCMCIA compact flash cards, only a few Mb each though. They fetch quite a price on ebay hence the reason why they were gotten rid of... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 May 2007 16:04 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: There is - Qubide. I meant, a decent memory size Compact flash equalivant. So did I. Qubide runs a standard Compact Flash adapter. After all CF is IDE and requires no special hardware. Is that so. So how does one attach a nice fat SD card to Qubide? , i assume it would be via an interface ( an existing one? ). Am i asking the wrong questions or rather, is my question extra layman, lol :-) PCMCIA Compact Flash, not SD. You will be subject though to Qubide's partition.exe, ie max partition size of 256mb, but no limit (as far as I know) to the number of partitions. 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 iD8DBQFGVFf8M3RzOs8+btoRAnkhAKCMIDlWvUoSn/uQ3j/Vq91ChRdYqwCdEY6I okxZju3nLqU2db4LXNdC0Yg= =CkeH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.
So, are we saying :- CompactFlash---Pcmcia adaptor-IDE interface-- Aurora or CompactFlash---Pcmcia adaptor-Aurora almost there now ! :-) Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 May 2007 16:32 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Thats a shame, we just got rid of a dozen or so of those PCMCIA compact flash cards, only a few Mb each though. They fetch quite a price on ebay hence the reason why they were gotten rid of... They are still dirt cheap. I got a 3GB one for about £40. It works brilliantly as the *only* drive on a Linux based MiniItx internet server. Total consumption is a max 22W and *totally* silent. A small USB will run it and the internet router for well over an hour. I have a 64mb CF that I will never use. All it needs to work with IDE (and therefore Qubide) is a pcmcia adapter (plastic), and an IDE interface card (this cost me about £25). Neither have any logic - they are just connectors. 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 iD8DBQFGVF6ZM3RzOs8+btoRApnBAJ9KZPJeS3vMl/3hcxAJp1IZwQ8wtQCcCS5t KA4ZwBq53l3S658PM15BPao= =I73Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Slightly off topic but it is local election time
Do you remember... 1979? , i suspect you chaps will but do you remember this rather funny sketch from Not the nine oclock news. Only sending it because i had a local MP brow beating me on my door step last night and his waffle to some awkward questions i fired across his bow reminded me of this.. enjoy... or flame me, your choice. have a good weekend all. Neil (ROWAN ATKINSON) A GRIMACING CROSS-EYED MP IS ABOUT TO ADDRESS AN ELECTION GATHERING. BUNTING DECORATES THE BACKGROUND, ALONG WITH A LARGE SIGN WHICH READS 'IT'S YOUR VOTE'. HE SPEAKS IN EXAGGERATED HAIR-LIPPED TONES WITH LOTS OF LIMBS FLAILING. MP (ATKINSON) My Lord Mayor... (MELIFLUOUSLY) My Lady Mayoress... (DOES EXAGGERATED WINK). My Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, and members of the press, there comes a time when we must all stand up and be counted. I am standing up now, and can be counted. BEAT One! (GRINS, SELF-SATISFIED) And, with an election pending, 'one's are about to become singularly important. Because Britain is facing the gravest constitutional crisis... since 1380! And, you know, many of us still remember the dark days! And if we're going to prevent the lights going out on our lives once more, we must ask ourselves crucial questions! PAUSE, FLOUNDERS, CONSULTS NOTES Where are we? How did we get here? Why did we come? Where do we want to go? How do we want to get to where we want to go? How far do we have to go before we get to where we want to be? How would we know where we were when we got there? HAVE WE GOT A MAP? PAUSES FOR EFFECT But surely, surely you can see my point. 'Cos what I'm talking about is life. Because life is one of those things, isn't it, that... that most of us find it very difficult to avoid. In the words... in the words of David Dimbleby, life is uncertain. My life certainly has a certain uncertaincy about it. And I'm certain that yours does to, and with your uncertaincy, and my uncertaincy, there's certainly a certain degree of uncertaincy about... of that we can be... quite sure... CONSULTS NOTES So, as a party we must not be frightened. And we must be prepared for this fight. It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a camel to... CONFUSED, CONSULTS NOTES ...that it is for a camel to. Because we don't want to end up, do we, like the blind man, in the dark room, looking for the black cat... that isn't there! Goodnight, thank you very much. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL question
Sergiusz, It takes but a few moments to register and become an ebay user and is very straight forward. Paypal takes a little longer as you have to wait a few days for bank account verifications etc but it is relatively painless. Current price £51 with just over two days to go, i have a feeling there may be a bidding war on this one which will drive up the final price a bit too far. Auction ends Sunday @ 6pm See how you get on. btw, i monitor this list monday - friday's. Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 April 2007 18:59 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 *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Any chance of you writing an account of your experiences returning to the QL ? This would be of interest to many people. Malcolm, I would love to :-) Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 10:18 Neil, No it is not the root folder. Is the PATH device written by Phil Borman. Basically it allows multiple locations to be transparently searched under a single name just like is done via the PATH statement in Windows. This means you can open a file using a filename of the form PTH1_FILENAME and all locations associated with PTH1 will be searched for FILENAME. I would highly recommend using it. Dave Yes, I can see how that would be very useful. I shall see how it is set up on my machine ( via the boot program I suspect) and try to understand if it's being utilised by anything. Cheers Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 22 February 2007 10:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know. Dave, Just reading the starting _doc file now and it is the sort of thing i needed to see first which leads me onto a something I've been meaning to ask for quite a while, if stightly off topic. What does pth1_ symbolize? My guess is thats it's the root directory on my HD but what is it's purpose? I'm reading through everyones responses, they are very useful. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Actually , no, pth1_ isn't set up so i guess it is being defaulted to win1_ , my boot references pth1_ mearly with PROG_USE pth1_ How can I reset pth1_ if need be? Cheers Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 10:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 10:18 Neil, No it is not the root folder. Is the PATH device written by Phil Borman. Basically it allows multiple locations to be transparently searched under a single name just like is done via the PATH statement in Windows. This means you can open a file using a filename of the form PTH1_FILENAME and all locations associated with PTH1 will be searched for FILENAME. I would highly recommend using it. Dave Yes, I can see how that would be very useful. I shall see how it is set up on my machine ( via the boot program I suspect) and try to understand if it's being utilised by anything. Cheers Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 22 February 2007 10:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know. Dave, Just reading the starting _doc file now and it is the sort of thing i needed to see first which leads me onto a something I've been meaning to ask for quite a while, if stightly off topic. What does pth1_ symbolize? My guess is thats it's the root directory on my HD but what is it's purpose? I'm reading through everyones responses, they are very useful. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Dave in your example LRESPR win1_PTH_rext PTH_ADD win1_C68BIN_ PTH_ADD win1_QJUMP_ PTH_ADD win1_SYS_ PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect DIR PTH1_ to show all objects in C68BIN , QJUMP SYS. In my example i have two directories 48k and 128k ( and they are directories off win1_) so ( and it seems the aren't really necessary ) 10 LRESPR rom1_pth_rext 20 PTH_ADD win1_48k_ 30 PTH_ADD win1_128k_ 40 PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect dir pth1_ to show all objects in 48K and 128K but it only shows objects in 48K !?! swapping lines 20 and 30 shows only the objects in directory 128k ! Argh ! Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 12:21 Neil, Just remembered - there is a copy of the PTH_rext file on the C68 RUNTIME 2 disk (amongst other extras) and there is an example BOOT file there as well with comments on how to use the various extensions. A lot of the options in the example BOOT file FOR c68 are purely in as REMark statements so they are not activated unless you modify that BOOT file (or create a custom one of your own). Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 22 February 2007 10:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 10:18 Neil, No it is not the root folder. Is the PATH device written by Phil Borman. Basically it allows multiple locations to be transparently searched under a single name just like is done via the PATH statement in Windows. This means you can open a file using a filename of the form PTH1_FILENAME and all locations associated with PTH1 will be searched for FILENAME. I would highly recommend using it. Dave Yes, I can see how that would be very useful. I shall see how it is set up on my machine ( via the boot program I suspect) and try to understand if it's being utilised by anything. Cheers Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 22 February 2007 10:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know. Dave, Just reading the starting _doc file now and it is the sort of thing i needed to see first which leads me onto a something I've been meaning to ask for quite a while, if stightly off topic. What does pth1_ symbolize? My guess is thats it's the root directory on my HD but what is it's purpose? I'm reading through everyones responses, they are very useful. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
I see, so even though pth1_ seems to be a list of separate directories, it doesn't fully work like that, therefore if an application asks for where to look for it's data, you can't just use pth1_ expecting the application to see all the data even if you've setup pth1_ to point to all the places where that data should exist. Shame that ! Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 13:37 Neil Riley scripsit:: Dave in your example LRESPR win1_PTH_rext PTH_ADD win1_C68BIN_ PTH_ADD win1_QJUMP_ PTH_ADD win1_SYS_ PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect DIR PTH1_ to show all objects in C68BIN , QJUMP SYS. In my example i have two directories 48k and 128k ( and they are directories off win1_) so ( and it seems the aren't really necessary ) 10 LRESPR rom1_pth_rext 20 PTH_ADD win1_48k_ 30 PTH_ADD win1_128k_ 40 PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect dir pth1_ to show all objects in 48K and 128K but it only shows objects in 48K !?! swapping lines 20 and 30 shows only the objects in directory 128k ! Argh ! Neil PTH is not used like that. PTH is good for your binaries' location. When it failed to find the binary in the first directory, it looks on the next, and so on. PROG_USE PTH1_ is fine. DATA_USE PTH1_ is dangerous: opening existing document is fine, but creating new file is a bad idea! Saving is also bad. PTH*_ devices are chained, so dir pth1_ show first directory, dir pth2_ the next... and so on. pth_list might be your friend too. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Dave, Im using ZM/hT and specifying the path where it should find the z80 snapshots, hence the reference to 48k_ and 128K_ . sadly, when I specify pth1_ it would appear that ZM/hT only looks at the first directory of pth1_ and not the others. Not a problem, just a bit of a shame. Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 15:26 Neil, I think you will find it can! As I understand it the PTH device intercepts OPEN calls for files so finds them in all the given locations. In the case of the DIR command it successfully opens the first item in the path, so does not look any further. As mentioned you need to be careful when using it with files you intend to write.This will always succeed in the first element of the path, so if you delete a file on the path, and then try and create a new instance, the new instance will not necessarily appear in the same folder as the one you just deleted. Note that Phil's documentation should be on one of the documentation disks as the file PATH.TXT. In terms of using quotes around the filename, I get into the habit of doing this as it allows for characters that would not be valid if used without quotes. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley Sent: 22 February 2007 14:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know. I see, so even though pth1_ seems to be a list of separate directories, it doesn't fully work like that, therefore if an application asks for where to look for it's data, you can't just use pth1_ expecting the application to see all the data even if you've setup pth1_ to point to all the places where that data should exist. Shame that ! Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 13:37 Neil Riley scripsit:: Dave in your example LRESPR win1_PTH_rext PTH_ADD win1_C68BIN_ PTH_ADD win1_QJUMP_ PTH_ADD win1_SYS_ PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect DIR PTH1_ to show all objects in C68BIN , QJUMP SYS. In my example i have two directories 48k and 128k ( and they are directories off win1_) so ( and it seems the aren't really necessary ) 10 LRESPR rom1_pth_rext 20 PTH_ADD win1_48k_ 30 PTH_ADD win1_128k_ 40 PROG_USE PTH1_ Id expect dir pth1_ to show all objects in 48K and 128K but it only shows objects in 48K !?! swapping lines 20 and 30 shows only the objects in directory 128k ! Argh ! Neil PTH is not used like that. PTH is good for your binaries' location. When it failed to find the binary in the first directory, it looks on the next, and so on. PROG_USE PTH1_ is fine. DATA_USE PTH1_ is dangerous: opening existing document is fine, but creating new file is a bad idea! Saving is also bad. PTH*_ devices are chained, so dir pth1_ show first directory, dir pth2_ the next... and so on. pth_list might be your friend too. *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
As a relative newby I've been overwelmed at the amount of catching up I've needed to endure, this is, in no small part, hindered with a bad memory. As you know, I've battled with my Aurora and whilst it is now behaving itself ( RomDisq ) problems solved, I've spent a lot of time getting used to what it can do. One thing I really want to get to grips with is C on the QL. Now that in itself is a task and a half as my C skills can best be describe as 'Beginner'. BUT, before I can tackle that I need to under the C68 programming environment. Is there a Tutotorial on the subject? Do i need to buy back issues of QL Toady or is there an idiots guide already out there? Also, Is there a fast way of checking what version of C68 I currently have, id like to get it bang uptodate first. Once I'm up to speed i can concentrate on my C and looking ahead, can understand the idea of interfacing to the ptr env / system traps / assembler big ideas etc etc. Maybe in a few years time I can become an expert like you chaps. We'll see. Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Thanks for the link, I've stumbled upon that page already and it doesn't cater for the beginner. For example, there is source but i haven't found a ' beginners start here' section . As Phil Kett stated in an earlier email, I'm willing to learn but have hit a wall. I shall just play around with the executables I have on my hard drive and hope it all becomes clear. Cheers Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21 February 2007 13:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under the C68 programming environment. Is there a Tutotorial on the subject? There have been a coupls of 'introductions' to C68 in recent years. None of them seemed to continue beyond the initial episode. Mind you, I don't remember if this was intended to be a series (similar to say my Assembly language or Herb's Graphics) in QL Toady, or not. Do i need to buy back issues of QL Toady or is there an idiots guide already out there? Also, Is there a fast way of checking what version of C68 I I don't think it is worth your while trying to buy back issues of QL Toadt for a C68 Tutorial, but it might be very useful for other stuff ! I don't know/Can't remember how to find out the C68 version at present. With all the Assembly I've been doing, my C68 skills, not that I had many, are sadly slipping away Dave Walker's web site is the best place to go for C68, he's at : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/index.htm And the latest version there seems to be 4.24f. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Hi Dave,
I have C reference manuals and numerous books on the subject but as
I sit in front of my QL I think, Now, how do i use C68 to write that
Hello
world C program, by that I don't mean the source, i.e.
#include stdio.h
void main(void)
{
// I hope this is right !
printf (Hello World);
}
... or whatever the correct syntax is.
I mean, what do i do/use to enter the source ( i shan't assume i could
use any text
editor although i guess I can). how do i Link / compile... what gets
generated etc
etc etc. It's that which is a mystery to me as is all the numerous
options i read about
in the c68_doc.
Amazed it wasn't PTR'izd with a rather friendly debugger thrown into
the mix ;-) ,
although I have come across a front end screen that seems to link
various parts
of C68 together, perhaps thats my starting point.
Cheers
Neil
p.s. I use Visual Studio 2005 Professional in work which deffo won't
run in 4Mb ram !
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 21 February 2007 15:34
You are correct in that there is no document for those who are not
already
familiar with C. It was deemed a lot of work to write such a document
and
there are plenty of books around that already cover that.
What is on the documentation disk is a guide to how C maps onto the
QDOS
environment. Also available is the detailed library reference
material.
Note that if anyone does provide any getting started type documents I
am
more than happy to add them to the standard set.
I recently took early retirement, so if anything interesting comes up
that
might be c68 related I should now have free time to work on it. There
have
not been any developments in c68 for quite a few years now, but that
does
not mean that there are not a number of things that have not been
identified
that might be worth working on.
Another thing that I have thought of working on is a port of gcc to the
QDOS
environment to replace c68.It would definitely not run on
unexpanded QL
systems as I would expect any system with less than about 4Mb RAM would
be
unable to run it, but would have the advantage of getting a maintained
compiler onto QDOS/SMSE as well as supporting C++ facilities in
addition to
standard C. However it is not worth putting any effort into this if
there
would not be a reasonable demand for it.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Riley
Sent: 21 February 2007 14:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.
Thanks for the link, I've stumbled upon that page already and it
doesn't
cater
for the beginner. For example, there is source but i haven't found a '
beginners
start here' section . As Phil Kett stated in an earlier email, I'm
willing to learn but
have hit a wall.
I shall just play around with the executables I have on my hard drive
and hope
it all becomes clear.
Cheers
Neil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 21 February 2007 13:27
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
under the C68 programming environment. Is there a Tutotorial on the
subject?
There have been a coupls of 'introductions' to C68 in recent years.
None of them seemed to continue beyond the initial episode. Mind you,
I
don't remember if this was intended to be a series (similar to say my
Assembly language or Herb's Graphics) in QL Toady, or not.
Do i need to buy back issues of QL Toady or is there an idiots guide
already out there? Also, Is there a fast way of checking what
version
of C68 I
I don't think it is worth your while trying to buy back issues of QL
Toadt for a C68 Tutorial, but it might be very useful for other stuff
!
I don't know/Can't remember how to find out the C68 version at
present.
With all the Assembly I've been doing, my C68 skills, not that I had
many, are sadly slipping away
Dave Walker's web site is the best place to go for C68, he's at :
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/index.htm
And the latest version there seems to be 4.24f.
Cheers,
Norman.
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Re: [ql-users] Would you believe it ? RomDisq
Thanks Tony, That worked a treat, RomDisq came back online immediatly. Haven't needed to format rom1_ though. :-) Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 February 2007 18:47 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Tony, I inherited this RomDisq as it came with my Aurora, so I must be excused for not backing up the driver. If you know what the driver is called or if some kind sole can furnish me with a copy, I can try to revive it. Have cleaned up the contacts with no joy. I have to say that it didn't die immediatly. there was a period of about 30 minutes with it playing up ( i wasn't aware what was happening, it was all a bit strange), finally the penny dropped when It started telling me that i was booting from win1_ whereas the previous boot was from rom1_ ( thank goodness for helpful PRINT statements in my boot file!! ) I have dug a very small coffin shaped hole in my garden next to the shed in preparation for the worst. It is on my website: http://www.firshman.co.uk/ftp/romdisq/romd214.zip This should be unzipped on the QL, and will give the EXECable file. Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +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 iD4DBQFF2fDAM3RzOs8+btoRAl9zAJ9+6c2vLDHcyF/v9rfqZ16UiZftRgCXVEcu axYbmTlX9mEMCYU/2pO5qg== =2Vfg -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Would you believe it ? RomDisq
Neil Riley wrote: Thanks Tony, That worked a treat, RomDisq came back online immediatly. Haven't needed to format rom1_ though. That is good. However I would backup all files, and format rom1_full. There clearly has been some sort of data error. Tony Hmmm, big mistake, perhaps I should of left it alone, did as you said. Format appeared to work as did the restore of backed up objects to rom1_ BUT when i reboot, it booted off WIN1_ not ROM1_ ( odd !) dir rom1_ gave lots of grey squares (# in example) i.e. # * - # * - # * - etc. Performing further FORMAT ROM1_full locks up Aurora and after subsequent reboots DIR rom1_ gives Medium Check Failed. EX win1_progs_ROMD214_EXE gives TF Services RomDisq v2.14 (c)1997 TT message but sadly no joy with dir rom1_ etc. Any ideas gratefully received. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Would you believe it ? RomDisq
Tony, Scrub that, format ROM1_ has worked. The original format only took a second and caused the problems. This time it took a while ( hadn't crashed the Aurora) and appears to be ok now. sadly, that backup of ROM1_ i spoke about was to RAM1_ :-( , so it'll take me a while to get it back together but hey ho. Cheers Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20 February 2007 13:47 Neil Riley wrote: Thanks Tony, That worked a treat, RomDisq came back online immediatly. Haven't needed to format rom1_ though. That is good. However I would backup all files, and format rom1_full. There clearly has been some sort of data error. Tony Hmmm, big mistake, perhaps I should of left it alone, did as you said. Format appeared to work as did the restore of backed up objects to rom1_ BUT when i reboot, it booted off WIN1_ not ROM1_ ( odd !) dir rom1_ gave lots of grey squares (# in example) i.e. # * - # * - # * - etc. Performing further FORMAT ROM1_full locks up Aurora and after subsequent reboots DIR rom1_ gives Medium Check Failed. EX win1_progs_ROMD214_EXE gives TF Services RomDisq v2.14 (c)1997 TT message but sadly no joy with dir rom1_ etc. Any ideas gratefully received. Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ 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] Hardware and software - new horizons
Where do i sign ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16 February 2007 09:28 Neil Riley wrote: GoMMC, a RomDisq on steroids but with the opportunity to remove the mem card, excellent. Once again, Id buy one if developed for the QL. How would it sound if a SD/MMC device for SuperGoldCard, Q40 and Q60 had already been prototyped and a free software to access it was already written? Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff
Perhaps QUANTA , Rich, Tony or anyone else for that matter could place a DONATE button on their websites with some form of barometer to show how much we need vs raised etc, a bit like what Blue Peter had back in the 80's when they wanted to save ( town farm / community centre roof / the whale / etc ). A bad idea, I don't think so ! Neil. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 February 2007 14:31 My God, this is all to good to be lost for ever. Someone has to take the lead on one or many of these projects or we have to find money to give to Nasta (who, I believe is still the best person to make it work). Also, I offer my help to write the firmware for such a beast. My assembly skills are still quite good. However it would be my first attempt at such a task so help will be welcome! François Le 07-02-19 à 03:17, Rich Mellor a écrit : Ah - I do have an email here from Nasta about the Ultra Gold Card project: Well, I wish I could give you good news about that project, but I can't. It has basically been mothballed at the same stage it was when last talked about. I have a number of parts ready and a partial design, but at the moment, trying to ressurect it would be VERY difficult financially. not impossible if it was only down to the money, but what makes it so is the complete lack of time. There is, however, a lot of documentation, which couldbe used as a good guide to completing the project. In essence, when last revisited, the GoldFire (that was the project name) spec and documentation was upgraded so that a pair of 68060 CPUs could be used. One was designed as optional, but would have been included in the prototypes, since I have a number of used ones graciously donated by Tony Firshman. These are the 68EC060 version, 66MHz if I recal right. They were to be coupled to a SO-DIMM SDRAM, 256Mb - the type that was used with (now older) laptops. It is still available. This was to be the standard, and also maximum configuration as in the eman time, RAm had become sufficiently cheap. On the IO side, there were the usual floppy and parallel ports (full bidiractional parallel port), but also PC style PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, as well as 2 fast serial ports. These were all handled by a single Ultra-IO chip, that also comes from the PC world. Extras were to be a PC style sound chip and a Ethernet 10MB/s network chip. A 2M byte flash ROM was intended to hold the system software (SMSQ/E), which would, of course, be upgradeable. All of this was designed and well documented. The part that was documented but was not fully designed was the singe large logic chip that conencts all of this into a usable single-board computer. The reason why it was not done, was that the manufacturer of the logic chip had been through a merger with another company, and as a result ended up changing all their developement software - requiring from me a seizable additional investment to buy it, along with an even bigger investment in time to learn how to use it (it's a different approach and programming 'l;anguage'). To make it worse, the actual logic chip ended up being scrapped by the new company, though, fortunately, there is still a compatible one available. The logic implemented by the chip is quite complex. It involved not only connecting the SDRAM to the twin 68060 (that was actually the simpler task) but also being a 'bridge' betwen the VERY fast world of the 68060 with the comparatively veruy slow world of the QL bus. In order to provide an open path to further peripheral developement (like an Aurora II and Qubide II), it also incorporated a protocol that could use the existing QL bus signals to transparently implement a fully 32-bit data transfer protocol for newer peripherals, while still providing compatibility with the old peripherals, as well as improving their performance. I have done a lot of work on this, the protocols and hardware signals are fully documented, but the logic for the logic chip was not designed fully. Finally, the GoldFire also was to include a small on-board switching power supply with very high efficiency, which made it un-necessary to have an extra heatsink (like GC or SGC) as well as adding anability to work in 9V or 5V powered bus systems without any alteration or hardware setup. In fact, the GF would even be able to supply +-12V at a small current for serial ports external to it, and enable the user to build a low power system running off of 5V only. This was fully designed and even tested as a separate module. However, today it could be made cheaper and smaller with theu se f more modern components. GF was a very ambitious project in a situation where the cash available for it's completion was fast dissapearing. Follow-up projects were also in the works, as the GF opened up a lot of new possibility. The road map included 3 key
Re: [ql-users] Would you believe it ? RomDisq
Tony, I inherited this RomDisq as it came with my Aurora, so I must be excused for not backing up the driver. If you know what the driver is called or if some kind sole can furnish me with a copy, I can try to revive it. Have cleaned up the contacts with no joy. I have to say that it didn't die immediatly. there was a period of about 30 minutes with it playing up ( i wasn't aware what was happening, it was all a bit strange), finally the penny dropped when It started telling me that i was booting from win1_ whereas the previous boot was from rom1_ ( thank goodness for helpful PRINT statements in my boot file!! ) I have dug a very small coffin shaped hole in my garden next to the shed in preparation for the worst. Cheers Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 February 2007 16:45 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Guys, All this chat of new hardware, new mmc memory expansion etc has upset my RomDisq, It has. over the last hour, breathed it's last breath and died just like that. It's no longer mentioned on the startup screen and i cannot DIR it from any method. I've taken it out and put it back in it's MPLANE slot with no joy. Luckely, Id pretty much kept my WIN1_boot in line with the ROM1_boot and also have a FLP1_ version. Weirdly enough, Id just done a MENUCONFIG of rom1_smsq_gold prior to the failure. has it really reached it's 1,000,000 write limit !!? 100,000. Unlikely. Tony Tebby's write algorithm used all empty space in rotation. To my knowledge, not one RomDisq has died of old age. Perhaps someone can hurry up on that MMC QL card ! I doubt if it has. Clean the contacts (with a rubber) and try again. If still not found, with clean contacts, EX the driver (you copied it to a safe place of course as instructed in the manual!). With the driver loaded, format rom1_full and it should be OK. Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +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 iD8DBQFF2dQlM3RzOs8+btoRApHXAJ9bIlmZxAmD56ORWVE/XNF5YytreACeKi96 W1krv757MUliOcRexHh1cJQ= =aBoz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)
Hello Jan, Thanks for your comments, I can understand your point of view and maybe you're right, The QL was doomed from the beginning as it was too expensive for the 'kids' and in my opinion should of been designed as a high end games machine/ business machine instead of just the latter. I really think if the QL came out with 64 colour capability and maybe dedicated graphics hardware then the QL scene now would be truly alive and well, just like the Speccy scene. The fact that My QL can emulate a Spectrum without breaking into a sweat ( admittedly with a SGC ) can only get my imagination working overtime. I cannot see why it cannot emulate a Sega Megadrive for example, And what about other Open Source code that lives in the wild. Am i the only one who gets excited at the possibilty? Yes, the QL could become a reasonable platform for hobbyists and whilst it would never cross swords with the Spectrum and the homebrew machine of choice, the Sony PSP, it could carve it's own niche. Re cost, Yes, I'm with you there, cost is prohibitive but sadly, thats the rut the QL scene appears to be in but there is plenty of free software out there and plenty of excellent software too which I'm discovering. Also, my experience is that the QL'ers out there are a great bunch and have a wealth of knowledge. Perhaps all this talk of new SDGC hardware should cease and a true QL project should be thought up, there is enough expertise out there. Sadly, my C / 68000 Assembler is weak but I'm willing to learn. reaches for Programming the M68000.. 2nd ed by Tim King Brian Knight' I could go on but I suspect Im waffling already. neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 February 2007 21:11 From: Neil Riley A comment Davide made to me has suddenly hit home. Basically he was pleased that someone was still having fun with his product after some 10 years or more but wait a minute, the spectrum scene is still strong so why on earth isn't ZM/ht etc still commercially available and being advertised on Auction sites like Ebay. With full respect to Davide - he did truly good job with his emulator, I do love it - I wouldn't probably buy it today. This time has gone. I like his approach to provide it for free, which promotes himself better than low selling product. I am from spectrum scene and I cannot believe what some people are writing here. Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still so strong? There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT. This makes the spectrum scene stable, strong and up to date with HW and SW. IDE HDD interface called divIDE (similar to Qubide) is great example of such activity : http://baze.au.com/divide/ Anyone can build it from schematics, buy a DIY kit for 20EURO(!) or buy a complete interface for 30EURO. For 30 EUROs (+/- price of the components) your ZX Spectrum has much higher value and more features. Reward for these authors is only success and feedback from users. Similar trends to have open projects can be seen in Atari scene, Commodore (look at Commodore One), MSX, CPC (look at try out SymbOS) etc. In contrary what I see here on QL scene is still push to commerciality. This doesn't attract newcomers, because unexpanded QL which you buy on ebay with four Psion microdrives is nothing more than poor computer with cool design and potential. Expanding QL is hard and expensive or not possible due to lack of expension cards. At the top of it there are no open source projects to change this status. Software on QL is special category... So, where is the QL heading? I don't want to be missinterpretted - it is nothing against you Neil, but certainly I see here big difference in ZX Scene and QL Scene. btw, as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT expects but i have even more .SNA's. Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed .sna to Z80_rom and whilst ZM/ht saw the Z80 and even showed initial splash screens, it crashes. Z80 is compressed, SNA is not. Decompressing not compressed data must certainly crash. Jan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk
[ql-users] The power of the Internet.
Guys, The Internet is rather wonderful, It's allowed me to track down that LP from the 70's, it's allowed me to re-discover the QL, I've even got the bits to make a proper Arcade machine. Even my father, who knows practically nothing about computers, earns part of his income via the Web ( or ebay to be precise ). The other day, I enquired and was kindly given the full version of ZM/hT by Davide Santachiara and whilst I haven't a clue as to some of the menu options and what they do, I've seen enough to realise what a professional piece of software it is, and with a few additional features would be brilliant ( peg to 100% spectrum speed for one ! ) A comment Davide made to me has suddenly hit home. Basically he was pleased that someone was still having fun with his product after some 10 years or more but wait a minute, the spectrum scene is still strong so why on earth isn't ZM/ht etc still commercially available and being advertised on Auction sites like Ebay. I'm certain it would sell and consequently would spur others to develop for the QL which would boister the QL community. The recent topic re the next QL development may well become a reality. btw, as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT expects but i have even more .SNA's. Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed .sna to Z80_rom and whilst ZM/ht saw the Z80 and even showed initial splash screens, it crashes. Also, is anyone in possession of the ZM/hT manual. Id like to know what all the options actually do. :-) Cheers Neil *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)
Thanks Tony and yes, i should have been clearer. I have that ZMXdemo_doc but was under the impression that there is a fuller version for the retail version of ZM/hT. Maybe it doesn't exist ! Neil p.s. It's easily readable in Xchange though. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 February 2007 10:17 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: snip Also, is anyone in possession of the ZM/hT manual. Id like to know what all the options actually do. :-) You ought to have said that it is Davide's and Marco Ternelli's Spectrum emulator. I had to Google to find out. http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zxemulators.htm This contains the manual: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zmx.zip but it is easily readable, even after the MS Word insalled the Import converter. There are many undisplayable characters and line breaks/formatting are bad. I wonder what the name is short for Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +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 iD8DBQFF0uHLM3RzOs8+btoRAj0eAJ9vrCfrRn+C3W4u84OrFTEFNZb4twCZAWht 0tf/G/10g4bCp7bYC1gBB14= =1OwY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] ZM/hT full manual ( was: The power of the Internet.)
Neil Riley wrote: ZM/hT Spectrum emulator Thanks Tony and yes, i should have been clearer. I have that ZMXdemo_doc but was under the impression that there is a fuller version for the retail version of ZM/hT. Maybe it doesn't exist ! Neil p.s. It's easily readable in Xchange though. :-) Ah yes - it is a Spectrum .doc file I suppose. Well it looked *very* good then (8-)# Were they Quill compatible or do you have to import? It's Quill compatible. Just reading it now, and yes, it states that I'm reading the cut down manual and with the full version you get a 96 page Laser Printed manual. Neil Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +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 iD8DBQFF0ue3M3RzOs8+btoRAp85AKCNNgFNM5sb8THHTTwOJIBkaqioFQCdEs9N 5WtHmUdYf5KBNuzSewUAAME= =orXD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England www.boxclever.co.uk *** ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
