Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN corrupted

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

On 02/01/2019 23:43, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:


The hard disk map can be corrupted by
a variety of software: the main culprits are probably the GST Linker (old
version, not the one supplied by Quanta) and any software which draws arcs
or uses ATAN, ASIN or ACOS (QDOS only, not SMSQ/E!).


Strange. Does anyone know why the above could result in a corrupted MAP 
for a hard disc?


Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN corrupted

[Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users]

Perhaps trying to alter printer_dat I have used also config and altered 
accidentally the starting drive, mdv_ or flp_

Can this explain the abnormal behavior ?
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From: Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users

Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 7:48 AM
To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Cc: Norman Dunbar
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN corrupted

On 02/01/2019 23:43, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:


The hard disk map can be corrupted by
a variety of software: the main culprits are probably the GST Linker (old
version, not the one supplied by Quanta) and any software which draws arcs
or uses ATAN, ASIN or ACOS (QDOS only, not SMSQ/E!).


Strange. Does anyone know why the above could result in a corrupted MAP
for a hard disc?

Cheers,
Norm.

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Registered address:
27a Lidget Hill
Pudsey
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Re: [Ql-Users] QMac source code

[Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 08:37, Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Marcel wrote:
> > Does anybody know who has the source code to QMac? The Quanta version
> > doesn't look like simple patches to the GST binary, so I guess somebody
> must
> > have had it at some point. I'd like to make a few small updates myself.
> From my records Phil Borman maintained the QUANTA edition of QMAC (latest
> version 1.06) and QLINK (latest version 1.03). From memory I've met Phil at
> one of the QUANTA workshops in the early 1990s.
>

QLINK has some serious issues compared to the GST version. The symbol table
dump in the _MAP file looks strange and the generated binary output file is
not executable. I tested with v1.01 (from Dilwyn's archive) and v1.03 from
QLE 3.18.

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[Ql-Users] QLFoum is down.

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

I'm attempting to get into the QL Forum and I'm getting an error 508 
that states:


Resource Limit Is Reached

The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded 
resource limit. Please try again later.



Hopefully there's a mod listening in here .. because I can't send a 
private message via the Forum.


Same problem for the qlwiki sub-domain - in case anyone is trying that 
as well.



Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLFoum is down.

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

It appears to be back. Please ignore my previous email.


On 17/12/2018 20:25, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote:
I'm attempting to get into the QL Forum and I'm getting an error 508 
that states:


Resource Limit Is Reached



Cheers,
Norm.

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[Ql-Users] QL Assembly eComic - Issue 6 Out Now.

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Issue 6 of the QL Assembly eMagazine is now, finally, available for download. 
Just in time for Christmas too! :-)

Things are a little different now. I'm hosting all the code in the eMagazine, 
as well as the source (LaTeX) for the eMagazine itself on GitHUb. Each issue is 
available as a "release". Don't worry, if you happen to go to the old download 
location, you'll see a message telling you where to go to get the latest issue.

All the releases are here: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssem ... 
e/releases while the latest edition, Issue 6, is at 
https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssem ... ag/Issue_6. 

You will most likely be wanting the pdf and the "CODE.zip" links, unless you 
want to see how the eMagazine is put together, in which case, feel free to help 
yourself to one or other of the "SourceCode" links.

And as there is only a few more days to go, may I take this opportunity to wish 
you all a very Merry Christmas (or alternative Winter festival as appropriate) 
and a very happy and prosperous 2019.

Cheers,
Norm
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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC 2 on Linux

[Graeme Gregory via Ql-Users]

Pretty sure from my previous issues with this its a GFX driver issue on Linux 
rather than a wine issue.

But I cannot now remember which combos work and which do not.

Also make sure your desktop is not in Wayland mode as that is utterly broken :-(

Graeme

On Thu, 27 Dec 2018, at 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I must have missed something regarding QPC under wine.
> 
> Here it works as expected (wine --version gives wine-3.7).
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> > QPC 2 works here on wine-3.0.4(stable) and wine-4.0-rc2(staging)
> > 
> > I'm on Kanotix Steelfire
> > Debian Linux 4.9.0-8 (NVIDIA) and 4.19.0-3 (INTEL)
> > 
> > you can get it here
> > 
> > http://nightly.kanotix.acritox.com/latest/
> > 
> > it comes in LXDE and KDE flavours
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings from Switzerland
> > 
> >      Markus
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Re: [Ql-Users] QPC 2 on Linux

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

I must have missed something regarding QPC under wine.

Here it works as expected (wine --version gives wine-3.7).

Wolfgang



QPC 2 works here on wine-3.0.4(stable) and wine-4.0-rc2(staging)

I'm on Kanotix Steelfire
Debian Linux 4.9.0-8 (NVIDIA) and 4.19.0-3 (INTEL)

you can get it here

http://nightly.kanotix.acritox.com/latest/

it comes in LXDE and KDE flavours


Greetings from Switzerland

     Markus
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[Ql-Users] Kilgus.net update roundup

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

For those that don't monitor my blog or the QL-Forums, here are a few
updates that happened the last few weeks:

I've decoded the GoldCard boot/patch ROM code
https://www.kilgus.net/2018/11/14/supergoldcard-boot-sequence/

I've hunted down a crash in Minerva
https://www.kilgus.net/2018/11/16/microdrive-mystery/
(includes comments by the man Lau Reeves himself!)
and released a new version "1.98a1" accordingly
https://www.kilgus.net/ql/minerva/

I've released QMON/JMON for free
https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qmon/

I've released a picture of the QMON successor SMON that was unfortunately
never finished
https://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3=1392=60#p25802

I've released a new QL-SD demo disc that now includes many QL games,
some for free for the first time
https://www.kilgus.net/2018/12/17/ql-sd-demo-update/

I've uploaded an update to my PNGConv tool as the 13 year old binary
exhibited some problems:
https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/sprite-converter/

I think that was it for now... have fun.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QMac source code

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users wrote:
> QLINK has some serious issues compared to the GST version. The symbol table
> dump in the _MAP file looks strange and the generated binary output file is
> not executable.

I've used QLink 1.03 for years on many many projects including SMSQ/E
without any problems. You need to supply the FILETYPE option on the
command line or linker file if you want the result to be executable.

Marcel

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[Ql-Users] Password protection

[Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users]

Hi,
Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive RTM to 
manage my patient’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new GDPR ( 
European Data Protection) I must use a password to protect the patient’s 
sensible data. Is there anyone who can suggest a procedure or a Superbasic 
program or something else to obtain such a result ?
I am in serious difficulties.
Best regards
Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

per proteggere tutto il disco devi agire dal lato Windows  pero' poi non
puoi accedere dalla qxl..
forse e' più semplice proteggere il file dbs. da dentro la qxl

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Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 12:06 Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Ciao Giorgio
> Grazie per la celerità nel rispondere, vorrei proteggere l'accesso al
> qxl.win.
> Saluti
> Renato
>
> -Messaggio originale-
> From: Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 11:58 AM
> To: ql-users
> Cc: Giorgio Garabello
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection
>
> Ciao Renato :-)
> Do you want to protect only the db or the whole disk.win? Giorgio Garabello
>
>
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> Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 11:54 Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users <
> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:
>
> > Hi,
> > Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive
> > RTM to manage my patient’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new
> > GDPR ( European Data Protection) I must use a password to protect the
> > patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who can suggest a procedure or a
> > Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
> > I am in serious difficulties.
> > Best regards
> > Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users]

Normally I use a QXL card

-Messaggio originale- 
From: chohag--- via Ql-Users

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 12:11 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ; Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users
Cc: cho...@jtan.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

Do you use a real QL or an emulator? If you use an emulator it's easy: 
encrypt the disc of the server which runs it with a passowrd.


Matthew

Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users writes:

Hi,
Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive 
RTM to manage my pati
ent’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new GDPR ( European Data 
Protection) I must us
e a password to protect the patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who 
can suggest a procedur

e or a Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
I am in serious difficulties.
Best regards
Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

Ciao Renato :-)
Do you want to protect only the db or the whole disk.win? Giorgio Garabello


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Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 11:54 Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Hi,
> Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive
> RTM to manage my patient’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new
> GDPR ( European Data Protection) I must use a password to protect the
> patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who can suggest a procedure or a
> Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
> I am in serious difficulties.
> Best regards
> Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] QMac source code

[Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 10:52, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users wrote:
> > QLINK has some serious issues compared to the GST version. The symbol
> table
> > dump in the _MAP file looks strange and the generated binary output file
> is
> > not executable.
>
> I've used QLink 1.03 for years on many many projects including SMSQ/E
> without any problems. You need to supply the FILETYPE option on the
> command line or linker file if you want the result to be executable.
>

I know I should have read the docs (and use CONFIG) 

Jan

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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users]

Ciao Giorgio
Grazie per la celerità nel rispondere, vorrei proteggere l'accesso al 
qxl.win.

Saluti
Renato

-Messaggio originale- 
From: Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 11:58 AM
To: ql-users
Cc: Giorgio Garabello
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

Ciao Renato :-)
Do you want to protect only the db or the whole disk.win? Giorgio Garabello


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Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 11:54 Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:


Hi,
Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive
RTM to manage my patient’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new
GDPR ( European Data Protection) I must use a password to protect the
patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who can suggest a procedure or a
Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
I am in serious difficulties.
Best regards
Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] QMac source code

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users wrote:
> I was trying to find the sources of all the GST software, updated QUANTA
> editions of QMAC and QLINK in specific. All my tries (through QUANTA,
> sending emails to all documented addresses of Phil) failed and I stopped
> seeking exactly 5 years ago.

I've last had contact with him in the year 2000, but the adress is not
valid anymore (I guess he let it lapse and some domain hoarder picked
it up as the current one was registered in 2003).

According to a 2013 freedom of information request he's still
registered with this address as a dentist with the Department of Health
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gp_and_dental_practices_2

I found an eMail adress for the practice, but I didn't try contacting
it.

In the meantime I've disassembled QMac into a state where it can be
altered without messing up any pointers and data structures.

Cheers, Marcel


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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

you have a private mail :-)

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Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 12:12 chohag--- via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Do you use a real QL or an emulator? If you use an emulator it's easy:
> encrypt the disc of the server which runs it with a passowrd.
>
> Matthew
>
> Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users writes:
> > Hi,
> > Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive
> RTM to manage my pati
> > ent’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new GDPR ( European
> Data Protection) I must us
> > e a password to protect the patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who
> can suggest a procedur
> > e or a Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
> > I am in serious difficulties.
> > Best regards
> > Renato Barigazzi
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Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

[Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users]

Ho anche una mail riservata

-Messaggio originale- 
From: Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 12:18 PM
To: ql-users
Cc: Giorgio Garabello
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Password protection

you have a private mail :-)

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Il giorno ven 14 dic 2018 alle ore 12:12 chohag--- via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:


Do you use a real QL or an emulator? If you use an emulator it's easy:
encrypt the disc of the server which runs it with a passowrd.

Matthew

Renato Barigazzi via Ql-Users writes:
> Hi,
> Since 1990 I am using in my dentist office a database written in Archive
RTM to manage my pati
> ent’s data with a Miracle QXL card. Now with the new GDPR ( European
Data Protection) I must us
> e a password to protect the patient’s sensible data. Is there anyone who
can suggest a procedur
> e or a Superbasic program or something else to obtain such a result ?
> I am in serious difficulties.
> Best regards
> Renato Barigazzi
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[Ql-Users] ProWesS - FSearch

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Thanks to Simon Balderson, I’ve been able to upload a copy of FSearch for 
Prowess.


Unfortunately, it’s not the original installation disk, just a copy of three 
files from his user directory, although it does include an html instruction 
file. If anyone has a copy of the original disk, I’d be grateful for a copy 
to add to the page.


http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/prowess/index.html

Dilwyn 


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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

Good news!! Many thanks!
Giorgio

Il ven 30 nov 2018, 17:46 Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Hi all,
>
> SMSQE 3.34 is out.
>
> Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOb command courtesy of Per
> Witte.
>
> Wlenerz.com/smsqe
>
>
> Have fun
>
> Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users]

Would be good to clarify the Syntax.

Am 30.11.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users:

Hi all,

SMSQE 3.34 is out.

Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOb command courtesy of Per 
Witte.


Wlenerz.com/smsqe


Have fun

Wolfgang
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[Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi all,

SMSQE 3.34 is out.

Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOb command courtesy of Per Witte.

Wlenerz.com/smsqe


Have fun

Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users]

No, if any new Keyword comes up, there has to be an explanation.

Am 30.11.2018 um 20:11 schrieb Phil Jordan via Ql-Users:

Try

http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/334/smsqe334_binaries.zip

Cheers

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 18:23, Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:


Would be good to clarify the Syntax.

Am 30.11.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users:

Hi all,

SMSQE 3.34 is out.

Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOb command courtesy of Per
Witte.

Wlenerz.com/smsqe


Have fun

Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

problem solved...

Have fun.

Wolfgang

Hi,


I tried to download the binary zip which the web site says temporary 
unavailable.



sorry about that, it's fixed now.

I changed the website yesterday so that it would be reachable via https 
instead of http.
Whenever I make a new version of smsqe, I have a small utility that 
makes an index.php file automatically, I then just have to copy that to 
the website.


For some reason which I haven't had time to figure out, since the change 
from http to https, I can no longer use the index.php file, but need an 
index.html file. So I remade the html file by hand - and somehow 
introduced a wrong link. I **thought** I had checked them all out...



Regards

Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,


I tried to download the binary zip which the web site says temporary 
unavailable.



sorry about that, it's fixed now.

I changed the website yesterday so that it would be reachable via https 
instead of http.
Whenever I make a new version of smsqe, I have a small utility that 
makes an index.php file automatically, I then just have to copy that to 
the website.


For some reason which I haven't had time to figure out, since the change 
from http to https, I can no longer use the index.php file, but need an 
index.html file. So I remade the html file by hand - and somehow 
introduced a wrong link. I **thought** I had checked them all out...



Regards

Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

On 30/11/2018 19:23, Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users wrote:

Would be good to clarify the Syntax.


Same syntax as the other job keywords
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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Derek Stewart via Ql-Users]

Hi,

PWFILE looks to of been a commerical Prowess application by Progs.

It is not on their download list.

WHat is the problem with PWFILE?

In the Prowess Distribution, Multiview works OK with SMSQmualtor NFA 
device, Q68 FAT device.


Regards,

Derek

On 04/12/2018 06:25, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:

Hi,

where can you get this program?

Wolfgang


Hi All,

Has someone been able to use PWfile (file manager ProWesS/ProForma) 
with a 'NFA'-device with SMSQmulator ?


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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:20:58 +0100 schreef François Van Emelen via  
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1. Launch PWfile (smsqumatator)

2.go to 'directory' and replace 'winx_ 'with ''nfax_'

All files in that device  should be visible now. My question is :Can you  
see them?


I don't see anything in SMSQmulator but I do see them in QPC2.

I hope this clarifies my question.

Thank you for your reply

Have a fine day,

François Van Emelen


Hi Francois,

I have just tried PWFile on SMSQm8 but I can see the files and can open  
them.

Are you sure you have a valid NFAx device and not renamed NFA to DOS?
By default PWFile selects only those directories that are configured in  
ProWess else you must edit the device by hand.


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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:18:37 +0100 schreef François Van Emelen via  
Ql-Users :



Op 4/12/2018 om 11:59 schreef Bob Spelten via Ql-Users:
Op Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:20:58 +0100 schreef François Van Emelen via  
Ql-Users :






1. Launch PWfile (smsqumatator)

2.go to 'directory' and replace 'winx_ 'with ''nfax_'

All files in that device  should be visible now. My question is :Can  
you see them?


I don't see anything in SMSQmulator but I do see them in QPC2.

I hope this clarifies my question.

Thank you for your reply

Have a fine day,

François Van Emelen


Hi Francois,

I have just tried PWFile on SMSQm8 but I can see the files and can open  
them.

Are you sure you have a valid NFAx device and not renamed NFA to DOS?
By default PWFile selects only those directories that are configured in  
ProWess else you must edit the device by hand.


Bob


Hi Bob,

You're right, replacing 'dos' with 'nfa' followed by a reset solves the  
problem.

But then my next question is : why is 'nfa' OK  and  'dos' is not OK?
Sorry for the delay,  problems with my mailing server.

Have a fine day.

François


You are right, there is a problem. But it seems to be PWFile itself.
Renaming the device is not recognised, it sticks to the original name.
Renaming DOS to NFA under QPC2 presents the same problem.
The same is true for renaming WIN to MDV.

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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Rich Mellor via Ql-Users]

On 07/12/2018 10:18, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote:

Op 6/12/2018 om 15:18 schreef Wolf via Ql-Users:

Hi,

Yes, their website states:
"
ProWesS is now available for free using the GPL, you can download it 
(distribution, documentations, examples, source) "


That's right but  I think this is  only true for ProwesS itself not 
for PWfile, Fsearch,Fontutils,DATAdesign, PFlist. Have a look 
http://www.progs.be/Information/prices.html. Only  ProWesS itself. is 
free and can be downloaded  .The others have a price tag ( still in 
Belgian Francs) and are not downloadable.


I hope I'm wrong here.


We seem to only be missing PWfile and Fsearch from Dilwyn's site.

I have emailed Davide Santachiara - he now runs www.sinclairql.it

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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

where can you get this program?

Wolfgang


Hi All,

Has someone been able to use PWfile (file manager ProWesS/ProForma) with 
a 'NFA'-device with SMSQmulator ?


François Van Emelen




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Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: ProWesS Files

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Thanks Rich.

Bob Spelten jr. has kindly sent me zips of Prowess apps PFlist and PWfile, 
which have been added to the Prowess (I suppose more correctly I should say 
ProWesS which is how PROGS used to type the name) page on my site at 
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/prowess/index.html


So FSearch and PWSbasic seem to be the remaining apps to find now.

Dilwyn

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Cc: Rich Mellor
Subject: [Ql-Users] Fwd: ProWesS Files

I attach an email correspondence I had with Joachim van der Auwera back
in 2013 about the status of the other ProWess programs.

You will see that he stated that they were all made open source so any
missing programs from the suite can be sent to Dilwyn for uploading to
his website!


Phew


Rich



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Subject: Re: Sinclair QL Software
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:56:33 +
From: RWAP Software 
To: Joachim Van der Auwera <>



Hi Joachim,

The released versions of software I seem to be missing is:

fsearch
PWFile
PWList
PWSBasic

I know according to the site, there is supposedly stuff on
ftp://triathlon98.com/pub/ProWesS (anonymous login), but I can't access it!

Rich

On 31/10/2013 20:58, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:

I is all (and has been) open source (GPL IIRC) for a long time.
Unfortunately though, I am unsure whether I still have sources (other than 
what is on the site) in a recoverable way. It seems the backup disks I 
have are next to useless because my IOmega ZIP drive no longer functions. 
ZIP disks have been sent to Urs K�nig who is trying to recover them.


Kind regards,
Joachim

On 10/31/2013 01:20 PM, RWAP Software wrote:

Hi Joachim,

I hope you are keeping well.

i know that ProWesS was released into the public domain some time ago, 
but it is not clear what the position is regarding your other software:


DataDesign
LineDesign
PWFile
PFList
fsearch
fontutils

Whilst the sources are provided for things such as the DataDesign BASIC 
engine, the actual compiled version is not available on your site.


I was wondering if all of these are now public domain, or whether you 
wish to retain them as commercial programs?


Certainly it would make sense to offer the download of the BASIC engine 
for DataDesign


Kind Regards








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Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: ProWesS Files

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi Dilwyn,


PWSbasic seem to be the remaining apps to find now.
If you mean the Prowess S*Basic interface, that can be found on the 
Prowess zip file, under the "ext" directory as "pwbasic_rext", so you 
have it already.


I should still have my sources for that. I'll try to find them

Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users]

One small issue for Q68 users: the file Q68_SMSQ.WIN is incorrectly named
Q68.SMSQ.WIN.
Also the SMSQE binary in this container is standard configured for German
keyboard layout, which is a bit of a challenge to find the underscore
character if you have US or UK keyboard (it's on the key left beside the
right shift key).

Jan.

On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 09:39, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> problem solved...
>
> Have fun.
>
> Wolfgang
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >>> I tried to download the binary zip which the web site says temporary
> >>> unavailable.
> >>>
> > sorry about that, it's fixed now.
> >
> > I changed the website yesterday so that it would be reachable via https
> > instead of http.
> > Whenever I make a new version of smsqe, I have a small utility that
> > makes an index.php file automatically, I then just have to copy that to
> > the website.
> >
> > For some reason which I haven't had time to figure out, since the change
> > from http to https, I can no longer use the index.php file, but need an
> > index.html file. So I remade the html file by hand - and somehow
> > introduced a wrong link. I **thought** I had checked them all out...
> >
> >
> > Regards
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

On 03/12/2018 10:24, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users wrote:

One small issue for Q68 users: the file Q68_SMSQ.WIN is incorrectly named
Q68.SMSQ.WIN.


Yes, this wan compiled under linux.


Also the SMSQE binary in this container is standard configured for German
keyboard layout, which is a bit of a challenge to find the underscore
character if you have US or UK keyboard (it's on the key left beside the
right shift key).


I generally configure it with the update option of menuconfig.


Wolfgang
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.34

[Phil Jordan via Ql-Users]

Try

http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/334/smsqe334_binaries.zip

Cheers

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 18:23, Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Would be good to clarify the Syntax.
>
> Am 30.11.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > SMSQE 3.34 is out.
> >
> > Mostly bugfixes for Q68, but also a new SSJOb command courtesy of Per
> > Witte.
> >
> > Wlenerz.com/smsqe
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> >
> > Have fun
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Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:26:04 +0100 schreef Wolf via Ql-Users  
:



Hi,


You are right, there is a problem. But it seems to be PWFile itself.
Renaming the device is not recognised, it sticks to the original name.
Renaming DOS to NFA under QPC2 presents the same problem.
The same is true for renaming WIN to MDV.




Do you mean that PWFile does not honour a device's usage name, but  
always insists on using its "true" name (a little bit like the menu  
extensions which normally don't show the "dev" device)?



That's exactly what happens.
When I edit the changed name by hand in the "directory" window, it changes  
back to the original name when Enter is pressed.


Bob

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[Ql-Users] QMac source code

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Hi everyone.

Does anybody know who has the source code to QMac? The Quanta version
doesn't look like simple patches to the GST binary, so I guess
somebody must have had it at some point. I'd like to make a few small
updates myself.

All the best, Marcel

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[Ql-Users] QMON manual

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Yesterday I asked on the QL Forum if somebody could maybe supply a PC
editable version of the QMON manual for me to work on. Many people
came forward and tried to help, thanks a lot! But Per mentioned that
he already has a well formatted PDF of it but doesn't remember where
he got it from. I was wondering if the author is maybe lurking here?

Cheers, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL and 3D printing

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote:
> http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/ql-parts-thanks-to-3d-printing/

Interessting, thanks. 3D CAD and printing is one thing that I'd like
to be able to do but better not try because I cannot do everything I
want to do as it is...

On the other hand we have some pretty cool machines at work that can
even print metal parts :-D

Marcel

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[Ql-Users] QL people - Antonio Gareffa

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

Antonio Gareffa, the official italian QL videomaker talk about himself and
his QL history

http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/ant-the-official-videomaker-of-the-ql-world-tells-its-story/
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL and 3D printing

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

Cooperation is the key, as John F. Nash teach.
Alone we have limits.
I think that Michele Perini will be happy to help us wirh new project, if
someone show interest for his project.

Giorgio
Sorry for my bad English


Il gio 22 nov 2018, 00:26 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote:
> > http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/ql-parts-thanks-to-3d-printing/
>
> Interessting, thanks. 3D CAD and printing is one thing that I'd like
> to be able to do but better not try because I cannot do everything I
> want to do as it is...
>
> On the other hand we have some pretty cool machines at work that can
> even print metal parts :-D
>
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[Ql-Users] QD 2018

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

I have just updated QD 2018 to version B.05:

; B.05  Implemented per-extension editor-usage (configurable) (MK)
;   Fixed BASIC usage for DEFine FuNction (MK)
;   Fixed colours in replacement confirmation dialog (MK)
;   Fixed DO on resize to keep the x window size (MK)
;   Bottom right corner stays where it is on normal resize (MK)
;   Allow CTRL+Z (mark current line) in read-only mode (MK)

As previously with the tab settings the editor-usage can now be
configured per extension, so you can say all "_bas" (or "_bsl" ;) )
files automatically invoke the "BASIC" editor usage, for example.

The rest is the stuff we've already talked about here.

https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/

Cheers, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

[Per Witte via Ql-Users]

Thank you, Marcel - !

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 00:55, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> I have just updated QD 2018 to version B.05:
>
> ; B.05  Implemented per-extension editor-usage (configurable) (MK)
> ;   Fixed BASIC usage for DEFine FuNction (MK)
> ;   Fixed colours in replacement confirmation dialog (MK)
> ;   Fixed DO on resize to keep the x window size (MK)
> ;   Bottom right corner stays where it is on normal resize (MK)
> ;   Allow CTRL+Z (mark current line) in read-only mode (MK)
>
> As previously with the tab settings the editor-usage can now be
> configured per extension, so you can say all "_bas" (or "_bsl" ;) )
> files automatically invoke the "BASIC" editor usage, for example.
>
> The rest is the stuff we've already talked about here.
>
> https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/
>
> Cheers, Marcel
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Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:55:45 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users  
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I have just updated QD 2018 to version B.05:

; B.05  Implemented per-extension editor-usage (configurable) (MK)
;   Fixed BASIC usage for DEFine FuNction (MK)
;   Fixed colours in replacement confirmation dialog (MK)
;   Fixed DO on resize to keep the x window size (MK)
;   Bottom right corner stays where it is on normal resize (MK)
;   Allow CTRL+Z (mark current line) in read-only mode (MK)

As previously with the tab settings the editor-usage can now be
configured per extension, so you can say all "_bas" (or "_bsl" ;) )
files automatically invoke the "BASIC" editor usage, for example.

The rest is the stuff we've already talked about here.

https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/

Cheers, Marcel


Thanks Marcel for Being So Laborious.

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Re: [Ql-Users] EasyMenu

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Derek wrote:
> EasyMenu has always been slow to startup on all QL platforms.

It takes about 2 seconds on an unexpanded Minerva QL, so I wouldn't
say this was generally the case.

It took 20 seconds or so on a Q68, which was not the Q68's fault at
all but a mere coincidence.

All the best, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] New QPC release ?

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote:
> There seems to be a new release of QPC2 in the pipeline.

It has been in the pipeline for the last 2 years... but yeah, it's
much further along now.

> It would be very useful if someone would/could debug the 'DMEDIUM_XXX'
> functions.

If you refer to the DOS device then someone must be me then. But this
is not a bug. It's maybe a missing feature, but one that is amazingly
difficult to pull off correctly for very little gain. I might try
halve-assing it though.

Marcel


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Re: [Ql-Users] DISK MATE 5

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:29:17 +0100 schreef simon629--- via Ql-Users  
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Hi There This morning I installed Disk Mate 5 on MY Version of  
LaunchPad2 it Runs OK But When you Launch it it comes up with a Red Box  
with RAC when I Press C key on my Keyboard   Runs Like A dream  can any  
on help me Fix That Tiny Error



There are two known problems with DM5.
When started it complains about the date.
Use ESC to ignore it. Don't try to fix the date, it will produce an error.

It also uses some FileInfo2 keywords: FEX, FEX_W, FEXF, FEX_W(), FEXF(),  
FEX$.
These conflict with SMSQ/E and are possibly switched off in your FI2 and  
while the replacements FI2_CALL can be used.

So if DM5 tries to use FEX it cannot be found.

My way around this was to patch the keywords to FFX in both DM5 and FI2  
and switch them on again. Hopefully no other tool uses the old keywords  
and no tool uses this new keyword.
Sadly the FI2 database is part of the same _bin so this patch needs to be  
done to the current _bin or the whole extensions database needs to be done  
again.


Bob

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[Ql-Users] ICEart and MiceArt (ICE)

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Damon Chaplin has kindly given permission for the ArtIce (v1.1) and MiceArt 
(v1.2) programs to be released as freeware now.


Formerly published by Eidersoft, these programs are intended for use with 
the ICE (Icon Controlled Environment) system. Artice v1.1 is for the 
original ICE system, while MiceArt v1.2 is for use with the mouse version of 
ICE.


Both versions come with PDF manuals.

I don't have a copy of ICE to ensure these actually work! If anyone is able 
to check them, we could do with a screen shot if possible to add to the QL 
Wiki.


Both Artice and MiceArt can be downloaded from the Graphics page on my 
website:
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html 


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[Ql-Users] Wallpaper program

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Wallpaper Program

Recent versionsof SMSQ/E from about version 3.00 feature high colour and 
high resolution screens along with the new Window Manager. This makes them 
very suitable for displaying colourful and attractive background images 
behind your program windows.


These images are called wallpaper. SBASIC provides a convenient to use 
command called BGIMAGE which lets you display saved screens as background 
wallpaper. With the wealth and variety of free images available on the 
internet as JPEG, GIF and PNG files, for example, I decided to write a 
program which converts these images to the type of QL screens which the 
BGIMAGE command can use.


My Wallpaper program uses David Westbury’s PHGTK toolkit which shoulders the 
burden of the work in converting these files and resizing images to fit your 
system or emulator’s screen. It can convert the graphics to mode 16 (Aurora 
and QPC2), mode 32 (QPC2, SMSQmulator and QXL), or mode 33 (Q40, Q60, Q68 
and possibly even a registered QemuLator with its own customised mode 33 
version of SMSQ/E).


Simply select a JPEG, PNG or GIF file using the pointer driven file 
selection menu, then select whether it needs to be rotated, and how to 
resize the image (e.g. preserve aspect ratio, stretch, crop) and wait a few 
seconds for the conversion to take place. Small previews help you view the 
screens. Once the conversion is done, you can see a preview in full-screen 
mode, apply it as a BGIMAGE wallpaper, save as a screen in the current 
screen mode for future use and even get help editing your boot program to 
add or amend a BGIMAGE command so that the wallpaper is loaded at startup. 
The program can even select a background colour to use in place of wallpaper 
if you wish (e.g. apply a dark background colour late at night to save your 
eyes from a bright screen).


The downside of using wallpaper on a high-colour system is the amount of 
memory it takes. On a 16-bit colour system such as QPC2 each pixel needs two 
bytes of memory, so a 1024×768 pixel display in mode 32 or 33 could need up 
to 1,572,864 bytes just to hold the uncompressed wallpaper – at the time of 
writing SMSQ/E does not support compressed wallpaper screen images. Couple 
this with the copious amounts of memory needed during conversion, and you 
can see that you will need to set your emulator to have quite a generous 
amount of memory! So, the Wallpaper program lets you choose whether the 
graphics are converted more quickly in RAM, or as files on your hard disk if 
you keep running out of memory.


The Wallpaper program uses the system palette so will follow whatever colour 
theme you’ve applied to your system (colour themes can be designed using the 
Q-CoCo program from Wolfgang Uhlig and Bob Spelten Jr.)


A Quill _doc file is included which explains a lot about wallpaper on SMSQ/E 
systems,the file formats used, the BGIMAGE command, use of programs such as 
Photon and so on.


Download the Wallpaper software and a few example graphic files from 
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html


Dilwyn 


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Re: [Ql-Users] Wallpaper program

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Op Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:19:19 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users  
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Wallpaper Program

Recent versionsof SMSQ/E from about version 3.00 feature high colour and  
high resolution screens along with the new Window Manager. This makes  
them very suitable for displaying colourful and attractive background  
images behind your program windows.

(...)
The downside of using wallpaper on a high-colour system is the amount of  
memory it takes. (...)



Thanks Dilwyn for automating the wallpaper process.

Just a word about memory and compressed images.
As other programs or other OSes appear to put compressed images straight  
to the screen, I suspect they all need to keep a final uncompressed  
version in memory to work.
The space demands may go unnoticed as other systems have more RAM to play  
with.

This is also true for compressed sprites that WMAN2 processes directly.
Compressing _pic or _scr files is feasible but it's mostly WIN space that  
is won.


Bob

Download the Wallpaper software and a few example graphic files from  
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html




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Re: [Ql-Users] Wallpaper program

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote:
> Recent versions of SMSQ/E from about version 3.00 feature high colour and
> high resolution screens along with the new Window Manager.

So "recent" being within the last 16 years ;-)

> The downside of using wallpaper on a high-colour system is the amount of
> memory it takes. On a 16-bit colour system such as QPC2 each pixel needs two
> bytes of memory, so a 1024×768 pixel display in mode 32 or 33 could need up
> to 1,572,864 bytes just to hold the uncompressed wallpaper – at the time of
> writing SMSQ/E does not support compressed wallpaper screen images.

Technically SMSQ/E never had the concept of a background, the
wallpaper is just a window that cannot be brought to the front. And as
such it needs the same amount of memory every full-screen window needs
for its save-area. This was even true if you set the background to a
plain colour!

For v3.00 I at least implemented true plain-coloured backgrounds so
that they do not need any additional memory but are drawn on-the-fly.

> Download the Wallpaper software and a few example graphic files from
> http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html

Nice one, thanks.

Cheers, Marcel


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL-World Mag

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Umm, so you expect Dilwyn to spend his time zipping files for you using his
time so you don't have to use yours?

Good luck with that. All the files are there.. You just have to get them.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone Xs.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, 17:33 simon629--- via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Dilwyn  on your Website Can you put All The Q-World Mags in to one Zip
> File so I can Download them in one go OK Thanks Simon Foster
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[Ql-Users] Updates SuQcess2 & QCoCo

[Bob Spelten via Ql-Users]

Hi All,

I have updated some programs on my site.

SuQcess2 is now version 2.07.
Not many new features but lots of internal improvements.
The Sort Key can be set from the DATA menu.
Bug in locating the edited and sorted record from View is fixed.
Better detection of Read-Only media.
Updated ReadMe and Help files.

QCoCo is now version 1.63.
Supports the new binary _thb files next to the ascii _thm theme files.
APPLY needs a Confirm or Undo action.
RESET can reset the current theme or to the startup theme.
A new Theme Viewer (by PJW) is included showing the colours and hex  
numbers.
Incomplete themes should not crash the program and are automatically  
completed through the SYNCHRO option.

Invalid, referenced and 3D items are marked when Viewing the colours.
Can be started with a theme as CMD$ which overrides the config item.
Updated ReadMe file.

Happy QLing,
Bob

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[Ql-Users] QL World magazine scans

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

QL World Magazines

Thanks to the hard work of Klaus Frank in Denmark, I've been able to add 
further scanned copies of QL World magazine to the Magazines Page on the QL 
Home Page.


This means we now have a pretty complete collection of the PDFs up to the 
end of 1991.


http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html 


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL World magazine scans

[Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users]

Great, I just read a few. Thanks in advance!

Cheers...Ralf

Am 13.02.2019 um 15:14 schrieb Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users:

QL World Magazines

Thanks to the hard work of Klaus Frank in Denmark, I've been able to 
add further scanned copies of QL World magazine to the Magazines Page 
on the QL Home Page.


This means we now have a pretty complete collection of the PDFs up to 
the end of 1991.


http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html

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Re: [Ql-Users] Updates SuQcess2 & QCoCo

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi Bob,

thanks for these!

Wolfgang



Hi All,

I have updated some programs on my site.

SuQcess2 is now version 2.07.
Not many new features but lots of internal improvements.
The Sort Key can be set from the DATA menu.
Bug in locating the edited and sorted record from View is fixed.
Better detection of Read-Only media.
Updated ReadMe and Help files.

QCoCo is now version 1.63.
Supports the new binary _thb files next to the ascii _thm theme files.
APPLY needs a Confirm or Undo action.
RESET can reset the current theme or to the startup theme.
A new Theme Viewer (by PJW) is included showing the colours and hex 
numbers.
Incomplete themes should not crash the program and are automatically 
completed through the SYNCHRO option.

Invalid, referenced and 3D items are marked when Viewing the colours.
Can be started with a theme as CMD$ which overrides the config item.
Updated ReadMe file.

Happy QLing,
Bob


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Re: [Ql-Users] Wallpaper program

[Dave Park via Ql-Users]

Having smaller, tiled images like the backgrounds often used on for example
the Acorn Risc PC helps with this. That machine did a tremendous amount
with a limit of 2MB of VRAM. Using smaller images actually increases the
CPU load, so that was the trade-off. Memory or CPU. Pick one ;)

Ah yes, fun times.

Dave



On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 6:26 AM Bob Spelten via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Op Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:19:19 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users
> :
>
> > Wallpaper Program
> >
> > Recent versionsof SMSQ/E from about version 3.00 feature high colour
> and
> > high resolution screens along with the new Window Manager. This makes
> > them very suitable for displaying colourful and attractive background
> > images behind your program windows.
> > (...)
> >The downside of using wallpaper on a high-colour system is the amount of
> > memory it takes. (...)
> >
> Thanks Dilwyn for automating the wallpaper process.
>
> Just a word about memory and compressed images.
> As other programs or other OSes appear to put compressed images straight
> to the screen, I suspect they all need to keep a final uncompressed
> version in memory to work.
> The space demands may go unnoticed as other systems have more RAM to play
> with.
> This is also true for compressed sprites that WMAN2 processes directly.
> Compressing _pic or _scr files is feasible but it's mostly WIN space that
> is won.
>
> Bob
>
> > Download the Wallpaper software and a few example graphic files from
> > http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html
> >
>
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[Ql-Users] SMSQ/E and SBASIC manual v1.06

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Version 1.06 of the SMSQ/E and SBASIC guide is now available to download 
from my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html .


The manual may be read online (HTML file) or downloaded in a variety of 
formats (including eBook formats) from that page.


The SMSQ/E operating system sources and binaries are available to download 
free of charge from Wolfgang Lenerz's site at http://www.wlenerz.com/smsqe/


Dilwyn 


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[Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Revision 2.15.5

1) Now compiles under Windows with Gcc. I used CodeBlocks with the built 
in 32bit gcc to do the builds. There's also a makefile for shell usage.


2) Fixed 32bit bug in formatting an ed image file. It would segfault on 
Windows 64bit when compiled as 32bit, but not as a 64 bit build. Turned 
out to be a bug in my 'ed' formatting code.


3) If the image file doesn't exist, it will now be created when 
formatting an image.


4) Files were being corrupted when extracted from an image with the '-n' 
option. This was because the 'DOS_LIKE' define was not being done on 
modern C compilers/operating systems. It is now! The corruption was to 
add a CR in front of every LF in the file.


5) When changing the dataspace of a file with '-x' the dataspace size 
was allowed to be an odd size. I'm sure this causes trouble on a QL, so 
it now gets rounded up if it is odd.


6) The '-M' option to create a level 2 directory wasn't working. This 
was because it was opening the image file in read only mode. I may have 
been responsible for breaking this - but don't quote me. It's fixed now.


7) Dumping an ED cluster with the '-u' option (ASCII dump) was only 
dumping 32 lines of 16 bytes - 512 bytes in total. The number of lines 
was hard coded. It has been changed to calculate the number of lines 
from the sector size. This option now works for ED drives as well.


8) Windows uses the '/' character for command line options, unlike Linux 
which uses '-' and while there was some code that allowed the '/' when 
'DOS_LIKE' was defined, it wasn't in all the places it needed to be. Now 
it is. Windows users have the choice of whichever flag symbol they like. 
(Well, '-' or '/' is all the choice actually!)


9) Slightly weird. If the '-w' option was used to write a file into an 
image, and that that file was already there, it didn't prompt to 
overwrite. I spent ages tracking it down and it turned out that running 
in a Windows command session does prompt, only running in a bash shell, 
on Windows, does it not prompt. As most users won't be in my development 
bash shell, I'm not fixing this.


10) Source Code is available from https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools.

11) Compiled binaries for 32/64 bit Windows and Linux are also available 
from https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools/releases - along with a new 
user guide.


If you enjoy using this half as much as I've enjoyed amending it, then 
I've had twice as much fun as you! :o)



Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

That's quite a changelog!

Wolfgang



Revision 2.15.5

1) Now compiles under Windows with Gcc. I used CodeBlocks with the built 
in 32bit gcc to do the builds. There's also a makefile for shell usage.


2) Fixed 32bit bug in formatting an ed image file. It would segfault on 
Windows 64bit when compiled as 32bit, but not as a 64 bit build. Turned 
out to be a bug in my 'ed' formatting code.


3) If the image file doesn't exist, it will now be created when 
formatting an image.


4) Files were being corrupted when extracted from an image with the '-n' 
option. This was because the 'DOS_LIKE' define was not being done on 
modern C compilers/operating systems. It is now! The corruption was to 
add a CR in front of every LF in the file.


5) When changing the dataspace of a file with '-x' the dataspace size 
was allowed to be an odd size. I'm sure this causes trouble on a QL, so 
it now gets rounded up if it is odd.


6) The '-M' option to create a level 2 directory wasn't working. This 
was because it was opening the image file in read only mode. I may have 
been responsible for breaking this - but don't quote me. It's fixed now.


7) Dumping an ED cluster with the '-u' option (ASCII dump) was only 
dumping 32 lines of 16 bytes - 512 bytes in total. The number of lines 
was hard coded. It has been changed to calculate the number of lines 
from the sector size. This option now works for ED drives as well.


8) Windows uses the '/' character for command line options, unlike Linux 
which uses '-' and while there was some code that allowed the '/' when 
'DOS_LIKE' was defined, it wasn't in all the places it needed to be. Now 
it is. Windows users have the choice of whichever flag symbol they like. 
(Well, '-' or '/' is all the choice actually!)


9) Slightly weird. If the '-w' option was used to write a file into an 
image, and that that file was already there, it didn't prompt to 
overwrite. I spent ages tracking it down and it turned out that running 
in a Windows command session does prompt, only running in a bash shell, 
on Windows, does it not prompt. As most users won't be in my development 
bash shell, I'm not fixing this.


10) Source Code is available from https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools.

11) Compiled binaries for 32/64 bit Windows and Linux are also available 
from https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools/releases - along with a new 
user guide.


If you enjoy using this half as much as I've enjoyed amending it, then 
I've had twice as much fun as you! :o)



Cheers,
Norm.


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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Peter.

One of the reasons I did some work was a recent almost total loss of over 300 
floppies going back many years. They had all seized in the cases and refused to 
rotate. I have "ripped" the ones that still work onto my Linux laptop for 
posterity. Qltools comes in handy as I cannot get QPC 4.0.5 to read a floppy 
image. I get not found errors. But I'm running under Wine, which might be 
contributing.

I have qxltools on my laptop but haven't looked at it for ages, I think I had 
problems compiling it - but I can't remember. It might well be in line for some 
tittivation!

Cheers,
Norm.

On 2 February 2019 08:28:53 GMT+00:00, Peter Graf via Ql-Users 
 wrote:
>Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote:
>> Revision 2.15.5
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> If you enjoy using this half as much as I've enjoyed amending it,
>then 
>> I've had twice as much fun as you! :o)
>
>That's great work! But like many, I went from floppy images to harddisk
>images to be honest. Most native machines now support SD cards as
>removable media.
>
>So what I have to use for the commandline is "qxltool" rather than
>"qltools". Is there any chance that "qxltool" also receives some
>maintainance?
>
>All the best
>Peter
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E and SBASIC manual v1.06

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Derek,


On 28/01/2019 20:18, Derek via Ql-Users wrote:

Hi  Dilwyn,

I received your Blog update email, can you remove the adverts from the email.

Regards
Derek


I suspect, given that Dilwyn's blog is at wordpress.com, that he is 
using a free blog setup there. In that case, the adverts are beyond 
Dilwyn's control I'm afraid.


You know the old saying, "you get nothing for nothing these days"? Free 
blogs are advert supported.


I agree that ads are seriously irritating, I never watch them on TV as I 
always record programs on the commercial stations, and fast forward, but 
if ads are a requirement of getting something for "nothing" then c'est 
la vie (as they sometimes say in Cardiff and other parts of Wales!)


The Superbasic online manual, at 
https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, has a single advert 
at the bottom of the contents list on the left of the screen - that 
advert pays for us to have the documentation hosted for "free" - it's 
not too intrusive.


HTH

Cheers,
Norm.


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Re: [Ql-Users] ice desktop

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Even If they could Co exist, why would you want to...

Darren Branagh

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On Thu 31 Jan 2019, 12:07 Rich Mellor via Ql-Users  On 03/01/2019 03:52, simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote:
> > Hi Rich M
> > Would
> > My QDT
> > And my
> > Ice desktop
> > Fit on one win file
> > Happy new year Rich
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> This is a general question - I have no idea if they could co-exist
>
> Probably they could as you would use the cursor keys still to operate
> the ICE desktop - the QPC / QPTR mouse does not work with ICE
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Re: [Ql-Users] ice desktop

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

why shouldn't they be able to fit on the same qxl.win file (provided you 
make that file big enough)? You could then have a boot prog that allows 
you to switch between them at boot time. You can't use both simultaneously.




Even If they could Co exist, why would you want to...


Good question - but a different one

Have fun

Wolfgang


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On 03/01/2019 03:52, simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote:

Hi Rich M
Would
My QDT
And my
Ice desktop
Fit on one win file
Happy new year Rich
Take care
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Simon,

This is a general question - I have no idea if they could co-exist

Probably they could as you would use the cursor keys still to operate
the ICE desktop - the QPC / QPTR mouse does not work with ICE

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

On 04/02/2019 17:25, Peter Graf wrote:


Sounds good. I could compile qxltools, but that was long ago. My concern
are image sizes over 16 MB and some strange characters in the
commandline output.


What problems do you have with 16MB files? I presume you mean that the 
qxl.win file is over 16Mb, and it's not a problem of writing something 
that big into a qxl.win?


I don't see any weirdness on the command line output though. I'm mainly 
on Linux which might be helping.


Can you give me an example of how to reproduce the problem(s) you are 
seeing? I've just created a 20 MB qxl.win with no problems. (So far!)



Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

On 05/02/2019 10:07, pgraf--- via Ql-Users wrote:
Hi Peter,


Can you give me an example of how to reproduce the problem(s) you are
seeing? I've just created a 20 MB qxl.win with no problems. (So far!)


Unfortunately not right now, and my memory is vague. I think that
all issues were gone with 16 MB and less. My next image size step
was probably 32 MB, not just 20 MB.

It could be, that just recompiling the latest qxltool source with an
up-to-date compiler and library makes the issues disappear.


I've created a couple of qxl.win files (at coffee time - I'm working) 
and checked them with my own QXLWin program. The headers looks strange 
to me:


On the 4 MB I see these dubious fields:

* Sectors per map = 21
* Number  of maps = 100
* Root directory length = 58

On the 20 MB I see these dubious fields:

* Sectors per map = $A1 (161)
* Number  of maps = 100
* Root directory length = 58

I've had a quick look at the definition of a QLWA header in the code and 
it appears slightly broken. Some of the fields I would think essential 
are not being used - sectors per block for example. That changes as the 
files grow bigger and might be related to your problems.


I'll see what I can do - there are still quite a few compilation 
warnings I need to get rid of first.



Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

this is the comment I wrote to myself for SMSQmulator in this respect:

"
Patch for badly constructed drives, like those built by qxltools. These 
drives do NOT have cluster entries for the FAT(). They just indicate 
the number of sectors taken by the FAT. I presume that it can then be 
presumed that the FAT's sectors are all contiguous and start at sector 0.

"

Treated like this:

int nbrOfSectorsInMap=firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTM)&0x;
// that many sectors are supposed to be in the fat

int temp=nbrOfSectorsInMap/(firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTG)&0x);
if (nbrOfSectorsInMap % (firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTG)&0x) 
!=0)

  temp++;   // these are the number of clusters needed to hold the map

if (temp!=this.fatClusterChain.size())  (...)
// if they both agree, all is ok, I have a valid drive map


HTH

Wolfgang



Can you give me an example of how to reproduce the problem(s) you are
seeing? I've just created a 20 MB qxl.win with no problems. (So far!)


Unfortunately not right now, and my memory is vague. I think that
all issues were gone with 16 MB and less. My next image size step
was probably 32 MB, not just 20 MB.

It could be, that just recompiling the latest qxltool source with an
up-to-date compiler and library makes the issues disappear.


I've created a couple of qxl.win files (at coffee time - I'm working) 
and checked them with my own QXLWin program. The headers looks strange 
to me:


On the 4 MB I see these dubious fields:

* Sectors per map = 21
* Number  of maps = 100
* Root directory length = 58

On the 20 MB I see these dubious fields:

* Sectors per map = $A1 (161)
* Number  of maps = 100
* Root directory length = 58

I've had a quick look at the definition of a QLWA header in the code and 
it appears slightly broken. Some of the fields I would think essential 
are not being used - sectors per block for example. That changes as the 
files grow bigger and might be related to your problems.


I'll see what I can do - there are still quite a few compilation 
warnings I need to get rid of first.



Cheers,
Norm.


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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Wolf,

On 05/02/2019 14:01, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote:


int nbrOfSectorsInMap=firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTM)&0x;
// that many sectors are supposed to be in the fat

int 
temp=nbrOfSectorsInMap/(firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTG)&0x);
if (nbrOfSectorsInMap % (firstSector.getShort(WinDrive.QWA_SCTG)&0x) 
!=0)

   temp++;   // these are the number of clusters needed to hold the map

if (temp!=this.fatClusterChain.size())  (...)
// if they both agree, all is ok, I have a valid drive map


That's very useful indeed, thanks. With a bit of luck, I might be able 
to get proper qxl.win files created soon. :)



Cheers,
Norm.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLTools - 2.15.5 available

[Peter Graf via Ql-Users]

Hi Norm,

> One of the reasons I did some work was a recent almost total loss of over 300 
> floppies going back many years.

Oh my. That sounds similiar to my Q60 harddisk loss long ago.

> I have qxltools on my laptop but haven't looked at it for ages, I think I had 
> problems compiling it - but I can't remember. It might well be in line for 
> some tittivation!

Sounds good. I could compile qxltools, but that was long ago. My concern
are image sizes over 16 MB and some strange characters in the
commandline output.

All the best
Peter
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Re: [Ql-Users] New QPC release ?

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote:
> DMEDIUM_TYPE returns -1 on DOS devices (the underlying iof.xinf call
> suggests: IOI_FTYP $2C Byte Format type (1=qdos, 2=msdos etc) but -1 
> is arguable..)

Oh, that actually is a bug. It's supposed to be 2 of course. I have
translated the code into C last weekend and thus already fixed it
without even knowing that it was broken.

> The other relates to iof.xinf directly, but that is not wired up to 
> any DMEDIUM_ command, namely:
> IOI_HDRL $28 Long File header length (per file storage overhead) - 
> which returns 512b on DOS, while all other devices return 64b. The 
> inconsistency here is that 512b doesnt relate to the actual file 
> header size, as I always assumed was the intention..

Looks like the structure is somehow offset by some bytes, as that is
also supposed to be 64.

I was thinking more about the line of DMEDIUM_RDONLY and
DMEDIUM_REMOVE. This is a bit more difficult to check but I think I
got the most common cases now at least.

Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] Updating my QLE

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

 To update the system, Black Phoenix has its own method of maintaining
(only a few).
The WIN1_SYS_DESKTOP_DESKTOP_bas file must be created and inserted into a
.WIN to be hooked as WIN2_ using the precise name: "WIN2_DESKTOP_bas"

In this way BP does not execute its own DESKTOP file but executes the one
in WIN2_

This way I can modify the file that configures the desktop and insert some
changes or loadings of extensions that I want to keep when I update to BP.

The method is not the best but at the moment we cannot do much ...
moreover, you need to know a little about SMSQE

Black Phoenix is still a product too recent ... when it comes in a more
complete form you can think of managing automatic updates ... but for now
it's not possible.


Giorgio Garabello


Il giorno mer 5 giu 2019 alle ore 11:37 François Van Emelen via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:

> Op 3/06/2019 om 18:52 schreef simon629--- via Ql-Users:
> > Hi can you help me I have an Old Version of QLE with all my Software
> what I have Bought what is the best way to upgrade to the QLE 3.19 it is a
> pain every version of QLE Comes out I have to keep on updated mine Can you
> please help OK Thanks simon629
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> Yes, that's a problem not only with QLE but also with Black Phoenix. I
> don't know if there is an easy solution.
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[Ql-Users] Message to Ralf Reköndt

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi,

sorry for hijacking this list, but:

Hi Ralf,

my messages to you, in reply to yours, keep coming back as undeliverable.

Do you have another mail address?


Wolfgang
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[Ql-Users] Sad news

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

Guido Masoero, manager of the Italian SPEM company that has made several
hardware for the QL has passed away.
he was 76 years old :-(

I remember the afternoon after his shop with him talking about QL for hours
... even though he hasn't been an active member of the QL community for
many years, we were still in touch with him and followed our work.

Today is a sad day for us in the Italian world QL
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Re: [Ql-Users] Sad news

[Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users]

Very sad.

Am 24.05.2019 um 20:07 schrieb Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users:

Guido Masoero, manager of the Italian SPEM company that has made several
hardware for the QL has passed away.
he was 76 years old :-(

I remember the afternoon after his shop with him talking about QL for hours
... even though he hasn't been an active member of the QL community for
many years, we were still in touch with him and followed our work.

Today is a sad day for us in the Italian world QL
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[Ql-Users] Announcing availability of a QLNET driver for the Q68 (ND-Q68)

[Martyn Hill via Ql-Users]

On this Father's Day (in the UK, anyway), I am pleased to announce the 
availability of driver software that allows you to finally network the 
Q68 with other QL-compatible machines via the standard QLNET ports.


The ready-to-run driver as well as the source code and a short 
commentary are available at the *QL Forum* post here:


https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3=2881

I'll be focusing on updates in the Forum post rather than this mailing 
list, but wanted to ensure the broadest coverage - if you don't yet 
frequent the Forum, perhaps now's a good time to start :-)


Happy QL-Networking!

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Re: [Ql-Users] Announcing availability of a QLNET driver for the Q68 (ND-Q68)

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Great job!

Wolfgang

On this Father's Day (in the UK, anyway), I am pleased to announce the 
availability of driver software that allows you to finally network the 
Q68 with other QL-compatible machines via the standard QLNET ports.


The ready-to-run driver as well as the source code and a short 
commentary are available at the *QL Forum* post here:


https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3=2881

I'll be focusing on updates in the Forum post rather than this mailing 
list, but wanted to ensure the broadest coverage - if you don't yet 
frequent the Forum, perhaps now's a good time to start :-)


Happy QL-Networking!

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[Ql-Users] Q68 serial buffers

[Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users]

 I've been doing some tests with the Q68's serial port.

It's well known that it doesn't support flow control. So this means that if
you receive data at, say, 38400 bps or higher, you need a buffer large
enough to hold all the incoming data to give the Q68 a chance to digest it
(for example to write a BBS page to the screen or save a block to SDcard).
I know that the Q68 uses external interrupts to transfer incoming data from
the UART to the input buffer so this shouldn't be a problem as long as the
buffer is large enough.

I noticed that at 38400 bps, the Q68 could keep up with a page of ANSI-BBS
graphics in QL MODE 4, but missed out in display mode 6 (512x384x65536). So
I'm wondering what the size of the Q68's input buffer is under SMSQ/E.

I also noticed that the SER_BUFF command which can be used to set the
buffer size in SMSQ/E is present in the Q68 version, but it always gives a
'not found' error message irrespective of the arguments I specify.
Is this a bug or a 'feature''?

Jan.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Q68 serial buffers

[Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users]

On 22-06-2019 21:30, Jan Bredenbeek wrote:
I also noticed that the SER_BUFF command which can be used to set the 
buffer size in SMSQ/E is present in the Q68 version, but it always 
gives a 'not found' error message irrespective of the arguments I 
specify.

Is this a bug or a 'feature''?

Jan.

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Found the bug. All the SER_* commands set the parameters through a Thing 
called 'ser_par_prt'. However, in the Q68 version it is called 'ser_prt' 
for some reason (because the Q68 has no PAR prt?). So the SER_* commands 
cannot find the Thing anymore.
Now the next challenge is to rebuild SMSQ/E (for some reason SMSQEMake 
crashes at line 7810 with a 'not found' error).


Jan.

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[Ql-Users] R: Knoware.no

[Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users]

This is great news!
I'm really happy

Giorgio Garabello

Inviato da Posta per Windows 10

Da: pjwitte via Ql-Users
Inviato: lunedì 13 maggio 2019 14:54
A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Cc: pjwitte
Oggetto: [Ql-Users] Knoware.no

Just to let you know that Knoware is up and running again after ten 
years or so of being nowhere. While I hope there will be something of 
interest for anyone interested in the QL and derivatives in general, 
its main interest will be for those of us who like to write programs 
for it and generally mess around with the software.
www.knoware.no/ <http://www.knoware.no/>

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Re: [Ql-Users] Knoware.no

[Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users]

pjwitte via Ql-Users escribió en/skribis je/wrote on/scrit in 2019-05-13 14:54:

> Just to let you know that Knoware is up and running again after ten years
> www.knoware.no

Great news. Thank you for sharing.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL World scans

[Marcos Cruz via Ql-Users]

Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users escribió en/skribis je/wrote on/scrit in 2019-03-04 
19:52:

> Klaus Frank in Denmark has sent me a disk with further scans of QL World
> magazines.
> 
> All of the 1992 and 1993 issues, plus the final five issues from 1994, when
> the magazine ceased publication.
> 
> Download them from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html

Thank you to Klaus for all the work. I have kept all my QL World issues
from 1987 to 1994, with the hope I could scan them someday.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL World scans

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi Dilwyn,

Thanks go to you and Klaus for this!

Wolfgang



Klaus Frank in Denmark has sent me a disk with further scans of QL World
magazines.




All of the 1992 and 1993 issues, plus the final five issues from 1994, when
the magazine ceased publication.

Download them from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html

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Re: [Ql-Users] Knoware.no

[Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users]

Hi Per,

this sounds great, I'll be sure to check this out ... soon... I hope.


Wolfgang


Just to let you know that Knoware is up and running again after ten 
years or so of being nowhere. While I hope there will be something of 
interest for anyone interested in the QL and derivatives in general, its 
main interest will be for those of us who like to write programs for it 
and generally mess around with the software.

www.knoware.no/ 

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Re: [Ql-Users] The Editor

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Paul,

On 04/07/2019 17:59, paul via Ql-Users wrote:
> ...

Was or is there a PC equivalent? I also recall thinking about this
way back in the past but don't recall ever chasing an answer.



Do you mean, a PC equivalent to the Editor? or, silly question I admit, 
a PC program to read PC Floppies? (I doubt it's this!)


I use for editing Notepad++ for Windows (at work) from 
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ or, at work and home, VSCodium, which is 
Visual Studio Code without the "ET Phone Home" stuff that Microsoft have 
embedded into the editor. Available from https://vscodium.com/ for Mac, 
Windows and Linux - many flavours thereof.



HTH

Cheers,
Norm.

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Registered address:
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United Kingdom
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[Ql-Users] QL User magazine scans

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Thanks to Brian Kemmett, the remaining issues of QL User magazine have now 
been scanned and are online as PDF files. He has also done the QL SUB 
magazines.


We *think* this means that all issues of QL User and QL World are now 
scanned and online at last - if anyone knows differently let me know!


http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html

Dilwyn 


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[Ql-Users] PCBdesign update

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Malcolm Lear has released version 7.59 of his PCB Design program for QL systems 
with expanded memory and pointer environment.
This is a minor update to previous versions, addressing an issue causing lack of
clearance around some polygons within a ground plane area.
Details of updates in each version may be found in the Revisions.txt file 
included within the zip file.
Download the Lear PCBdesign program from the Graphics page on my website at 
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html



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[Ql-Users] Themes 0.05

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

An update of Per Witte's Themes utility is now available to download from the 
GD2 software page on my website http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gd2/index.html

This is version 0.05, which fixes a couple of bugs in the software. On the 
page, scroll down to "themes05.zip" to download the package as a zipped file.

The Themes package consists of a small collection of, possibly, useful 
programs, scripts and code snippets to showcase the use of Themes in general 
and the new Theme File Format, THB, in particular.

In his README.TXT intro to the package, Per says: "This piece is only relevant 
to users of SMSQ/E and/or Wman2. (The rest of you might want to check out what 
youre missing ;) )"



Dilwyn
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[Ql-Users] vDrive Psion QL Programs

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Thanks to Rich Mellor, I’ve added vDrive QL versions of the Psion quartet for 
QL – version 2.35 of Abacus, Archive, Easel and Quill.

These are available to download as four “.MDV” files of 160KB each for use with 
the vDrive.

Download them from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/psions/index.html

The vDrive is an add-on interface from Charlie Ingley, which emulates up to 8 
microdrives stored as images on an SD card. Further details on the vDrive for 
QL available at https://vdrivezx.com/vdriveql/







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[Ql-Users] BMP v1.04

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Thanks to Bob Spelten, an update of the BMP graphics converter is now available 
from the Graphics page on my website.

Version 1.04 fixes a problem with conversion of Mode 33 images on Q68 (and 
probably Q40/Q60 too), which could result in incorrect colour conversion due to 
incorrect interpretation of the I bit.. The Files menu could go wrong when 
there was only one executable or relocatable file in a directory in the 
previous version. And the default pixel sizes of the Mode/Size menu defaults to 
0 for X and Y, which could cause problems if not manually changed, so now 
defaults to 512x256.

Download the v1.04 update from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html

Dilwyn
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[Ql-Users] More vDrive Games

[Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users]

Neal Card has kindly prepared a further 19 MDV images of QL games for use with 
the vDrive system.

The list includes 3DOxo, Attack Of Things, Bugs Bomb, Psion Chess, Froggy, 
Gunner, Pacman, Paladin, Pudge, QBall, Q-Bert, Q-Games (including Darts), Space 
Invaders, Space Pods, Space Raid, Starburst, Starport 2001, Wipeout and Zapman.

The images are 171KB each to download individually, or may be downloaded all in 
one go as a 350KB zip file from the same page. 

The page is at vDrive Interface for QL

vDrive Interface for QL
 Sinclair QL information plus downloads   

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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Wolf.

Thanks.

I use eComic, eMagazine, ePeriodical etc interchangeably. My wife calls all 
magazines comics, so it sort of stuck.


Cheers,
Norm.
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On 1 October 2019 06:46:03 BST, Wolf via Ql-Users  
wrote:
>Hi Norman,
>
>as always an enjoyable read.
>
>
>Wolfgang
>Nb Why e"Comic"?
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Re: [Ql-Users] Just a small

[Darren Branagh via Ql-Users]

Funnily enough, I got Alexanders reply before Paul's mail...

I really must join the forum.

Darren Branagh

Sent from My iPhone.

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, 08:13 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users, <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> paul via Ql-Users wrote:
> > test to see if this still comes my way.
>
> It came my way at least ;) These days the QL-forum seems to have taken
> over all talks about the QL.
>
> Cheers, Marcel
>
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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users]

Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote:
> In this issue there is an article by Tobias on the Q68, plus
> exciting stuff about the UTF8 character set encoding and how it can
> be used on the QL - or at least, how I can use it! Two world class
> (ahem!) utilities are supplied to enable conversion from the QL to
> UTF8 and back again. There's even, wait for it, a table of contents! ;)

As a pedantic ass I have to object so sentences like these:

"• The UK Pound symbol is character 96 ($60) on the QL, but in ASCII
it is character 163 ($A3)" (etc.)"

ASCII is, by definition, 7-bit, so it cannot contain a character with
the number 163. The tale of characters 128-255 is one fought in many
battles. Linux tended to be "ISO 8859-1" and later "ISO 8859-15"
before they adopted UTF-8, on Windows you will mostly find the
"Windows-1252" encoding. These are very similar, but differ when it
comes to the Euro sign for example (ISO 8859-1 is too old to have a
Euro sign and the others have adopted it in different places).

But, and that is the important thing, Unicode was made to unify them
all. And UTF-8 is a pretty darn cool invention, unfortunately it came
too late for Windows, which was a very early adopter of Unicode at a
time when everybody thought "65536 characters ought to be enough for
everyone!". So Windows started to used 16-bits for every character
("UCS-2" encoding), which makes coding somewhat weird, and then they
found out that 65536 characters are not enough after all, so now
Windows uses UTF-16, which is UTF-8's big brother, with sometimes 2
bytes per character and sometimes 4. What a mess. But when it comes to
data storage UTF-8 is the way to go these days, always!

For QPC I already implemented these translations 20 years ago when
copying text to/from the clipboard. But well done for bringing UTF-8
to the QL :-)

Cheers, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Marcel,

yes, I agree ASCII is indeed 7 bit. I have to confess that since the 
early eighties - at least where I've been working or at college - it has 
been considered 8 bit with all those extra characters above $7F. But I 
sit corrected. (I like pedantry!)


Do you mind if I use your feedback in the next issue please? Thanks (in 
advance) if so.



Cheers,
Norm.
On 02/10/2019 10:49, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote:

Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote:

In this issue there is an article by Tobias on the Q68, plus
exciting stuff about the UTF8 character set encoding and how it can
be used on the QL - or at least, how I can use it! Two world class
(ahem!) utilities are supplied to enable conversion from the QL to
UTF8 and back again. There's even, wait for it, a table of contents! ;)


As a pedantic ass I have to object so sentences like these:

"• The UK Pound symbol is character 96 ($60) on the QL, but in ASCII
it is character 163 ($A3)" (etc.)"

ASCII is, by definition, 7-bit, so it cannot contain a character with
the number 163. The tale of characters 128-255 is one fought in many
battles. Linux tended to be "ISO 8859-1" and later "ISO 8859-15"
before they adopted UTF-8, on Windows you will mostly find the
"Windows-1252" encoding. These are very similar, but differ when it
comes to the Euro sign for example (ISO 8859-1 is too old to have a
Euro sign and the others have adopted it in different places).

But, and that is the important thing, Unicode was made to unify them
all. And UTF-8 is a pretty darn cool invention, unfortunately it came
too late for Windows, which was a very early adopter of Unicode at a
time when everybody thought "65536 characters ought to be enough for
everyone!". So Windows started to used 16-bits for every character
("UCS-2" encoding), which makes coding somewhat weird, and then they
found out that 65536 characters are not enough after all, so now
Windows uses UTF-16, which is UTF-8's big brother, with sometimes 2
bytes per character and sometimes 4. What a mess. But when it comes to
data storage UTF-8 is the way to go these days, always!

For QPC I already implemented these translations 20 years ago when
copying text to/from the clipboard. But well done for bringing UTF-8
to the QL :-)

Cheers, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hi Dave,

strangely enough, I read that the 8th bit allowed parity as, the then, top 
notch paper tapes could cope with an extra (8th) bit and it was put to good use 
for a parity bit. I haven't read the various standards though, so willing to be 
corrected. (Again!)


Cheers,
Norm.
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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Dave Park via Ql-Users]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 12:38 PM Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:

> Hi Marcel,
>
> yes, I agree ASCII is indeed 7 bit. I have to confess that since the
> early eighties - at least where I've been working or at college - it has
> been considered 8 bit with all those extra characters above $7F. But I
> sit corrected. (I like pedantry!)
>

Then pedantry you shall get!

ASCII uses 7 bits of an 8 bit field for data. The 8th bit was initially
defined to be used as a parity bit. People don't read the X3.2 standard,
and usually start with the X3.4 standard. Which used "up to" 8 bits for
data.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Dave Park via Ql-Users]

I think we have to remember that people didn't communicate as easily or
freely then as we do today, so specifications were far more localized than
we'd suspect. If sites had 8 hole punched tape readers, it would be a
sensible use. When modems came along, and a parity bit was part of the
modem's protocol, it freed up that 8th bit. Lots of people hacking it to
their own purposes. Someone with the luxury of a CRT going, "h, I can
generate extra characters, graphical elements, all sorts!" and before you
know it, ASCII evolves by who communicates the best ;)

Fun times!

dp

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:18 PM Norman Dunbar  wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> strangely enough, I read that the 8th bit allowed parity as, the then, top
> notch paper tapes could cope with an extra (8th) bit and it was put to good
> use for a parity bit. I haven't read the various standards though, so
> willing to be corrected. (Again!)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
> --
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[Ql-Users] Assembly language eComic, issue 7, out now!

[Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users]

Hello to all (both?) my faithful readers. The latest edition of the somewhat 
irregular eComic about QL Assembly Language Programming is out now. Get it from:

https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssem ... ag/Issue_7

You only need the PDF (to read) and the Code.zip file, to save you typing. 
Enjoy.

In this issue there is an article by Tobias on the Q68, plus exciting stuff 
about the UTF8 character set encoding and how it can be used on the QL - or at 
least, how I can use it! Two world class (ahem!) utilities are supplied to 
enable conversion from the QL to UTF8 and back again. There's even, wait for 
it, a table of contents!  ;) 

Help yourselves and enjoy.

Cheers,
Norm.
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