Re: [ql-users] US QL Show 2004 - Web Site is on line!
Tony Firshman wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 at 17:31:21, Arnould Nazarian wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) For those who will attend from continental Europe, how, when, and at what cost do they intend to travel? I got a return flight to LHR <-> JFK (New York) for £180. I then intend to either get a lift to Orlando by car, or fly/bus. JFK <> Orlando $ 160 (about 100 pounds) Lift? I don't know... still I am trying to figure it how I am going to go (if I am going to go as the time is not exactly right) but if I do, I would be willing to do so, although another good solution would be the Acéla to one point and then pick up (it's a TGV variant) or just regular train to Orlando. I believe there is one direct from NY to FLA (Of course with Amtrak you run the risk of ending up in Mexico but that's another story ;-) hee-hee) Phoebus
[ql-users] DeskJet 520 Screen Dump
Hi all, a client of mine is trying to make a screen dump with a DeskJet 520. Has anyone ever attempted and succeeded to do so? Is there any software that works with that printer (he can print from XChange and Text87 btw) and can do screen dumps? I have never used a DeskJet with a QL so I have no clue on how the screen dump is done one one. (I know for sure it's not a IBM/Epson compatible so that's out of the question) Thanks, Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] isp
P Witte wrote: John Hitchcock writes: Why not the ubiquitous TISCALI ? I've set up many for different users. My personal experience with Tiscali.co.uk is that you get swamped with spam, the negotiation time with the host computer (both logging in and logging out) takes longer than with freeserve (thus clocking up extra revenue for Tiscali at your expense), that sometimes you are not allowed to log on to your email account via another ISP (thus forcing you to use Tiscali to get your Tiscali mail), and finally, that they dont permit your sending mail on another ISP account than your Tiscali account while connected via them. Freeserve offers an altogether cheaper and more reliable service. I was able to set up a freeserve account a year or two ago without using their CD which, however, is widely available from Dixons, PC World, etc, and on computer magazine cover disks. For what you mention, if you are running a Windoze variant, make sure that you unchek the "Log in to network" option. That will speed your connecting time dramatically in most cases. For some reason most free ISPs in the UK (and in Greece where I have the experience from) do not allow connections like this and until they negotiate out of it it will keep you in "limbo"
Re: [ql-users] Changing DISP_SIZE under SMSQ/e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 08/12/2003 15:16:37 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Job 0, the "mother of all SBasics" isn't killed off. I don't think
it can be killed at all.
The easiest way around your problem is to set up a hotkey
eg ert hot_wake ('b','sbasic'). This will call up a new sbasic, with
the standard windows,
whenever there is none there yet..
Hmm - very odd - I wonder why if SBASIC is set to OUTLN #0,512,256,0,0
and I execute QWord (which resets the screen to 640x480), it is fine
when I switch to SBASIC (or quit QWord). - Remember that QWord resets
the original screen dimensions when Quit. However, if I set SBASIC to
OUTLN #0,800,600,0,0 and then run QWord, on quitting QWord, the screen
dimensions are reset to 800x600, but there is no cursor available to #0
- in fact, QPC just hangs !!
Coming to think about it, Rich, I think that the cursor is shut off on
the non SMSQ/E versions to protect against garbled image... Surely if
that crept by mistake into the QPC version (and the cursor is not turned
on before exiting) QPC should appear dead (no curson, no switching right?)
Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Changing DISP_SIZE under SMSQ/e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Dec 2003 at 5:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(...)
Surely if the screen resolution is altered, any jobs which have windows which
fall outside the new area should be suspended rather than removed and only
reinstated once the screen size is large enough to accomodate their windows..
Umpf, and how do you test for that? What happens if the user unsuspends the job
whilst the screen is still too small?
I have made it configurable in QWord (similar to Launchpad) as to whether it
can alter the screens resolution and colour depth, but this does not help if
SuperBASIC is killed off, even after the program resets the screen resolution
and colour depth.
Job 0, the "mother of all SBasics" isn't killed off. I don't think it can be killed at all.
The easiest way around your problem is to set up a hotkey
eg ert hot_wake ('b','sbasic'). This will call up a new sbasic, with the standard windows,
whenever there is none there yet..
I think it cannot be killed but CAN BE replaced (ie from another shell
or whatever... at least I think that's what TT said at one point) (or
something)
Also, if anyone has followed my work on QWord, they will notice that I now
need to perform two main tasks if a QWord is QUIT - namely, remove the QTYP
device driver and reset the colour depth and screen resolution if necessary.
1-
As a general idea, I would think it to be a pretty bad idea to remove a device driver
simply because a job no longer needs the device. Surely it is better to load the device
driver separately by way of a boot program. Many of us will have it installed anyway.
What happens if the driver is there twice? Which one is removed?
(BTW - are you sure you're allowed to link the QPYP extensions into your program?).
IIRC he is ie the extensions are royalty free. (Of course don't hold me
to that but I can assure you that whatever Rich does is 1000% (yes the
extra 0 is intended) legal. And even if the extensions weren't freely
distributable Rich will always pay royalties...
2-
Surely it would be better if your QWord adapted itself to the existing screen resolution &
colour depth rather than the other way around?
Not really. Remember QWord (the same executable) works regardless of the
presence of Colour Drivers (ie it runs on Minerva and QDOS Classic). In
the latter cases it manually modifies the hardware registers to switch
to the colour depth and resolution required. So if QWord was to adapt to
the existing screen colour depth, you would only get 4 colour QWord on
the Aurora with Minerva or non-colour SMSQ/E ;-) Plus that the whole
thing is based around careful measurements that are resolution specific.
Unless of course someone wants to implement for just one game
scaleable graphics and draw every object on the screen (plus icons, plus
letters, 3D effects, shadows etc.) instead of using pre-rendered
graphics. They are sure welcome to try ;-)
Of
course, it cannot do this if the job is killed from outside or loses focus -
we really need an event which can be monitored (aka Windows) to allow a
program to take certain action when it is killed externally or loses focus.
Do you mean that you want to quit the job every time it loses focus? Does this make
any sense on a multitasking machine?
Again, the major problem is for systems without colour drivers where
Q-Word has to hog the system (suspending the scheduler would be a good
idea if it weren't for the Audio server ;-)
Sorry if I sound rather critical, perhaps I haven't really understood what you meant.
Rather the latter :-)
Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Thanks - 10th Italian QL meeting
Davide Santachiara wrote: I would like to thank all the prople that attended the 10th Italian QL meeting (I hope nobody has been forgotten): Romaldo Parodi Andrea Carpi Paolo Carpi Fabrizio Diversi Adelchi Moscardini Alberto Garlassi (with wife and daughter) Antonio Gareffa Emiliano Barbaini Eros Forenzi Roberto Orlandi Augusto Del Sante Gino Sestilli Ludovico Marchisio Siesto Mentore Giorgio Garabello Daniela Vacca Alberto Rubinelli Jonathan Dent (and Elizabeth) Switzerland Alessandro Marchettini Marco Ternelli Roberto Baciglieri Marco Banchero Gino Stragiotti Anthony Da Silva (France - Paris) Rossi Massimiliano Castagnoli Roberto Elia Bellussi Paolo Vanni Al Bohem (and wife) - United States and of course: Tony Firshman (UK) Roy Wood (UK) Jochen Merz (Germany) Marcel Kilgus (Germany) Zeljko Nastasic (Croatia) and myself Thanks to everybody ciao Davide A lot better than the last US show. Hopefully not better than the next show (although I will likely not attend as it is finals time then :-( as I just found out) Phoebus
[ql-developers] uQLx for Win32 homepage
Hi all, thanks to Peter Graf, I now have set up a uQLx page for Win32. The address is: http://www.dokos-gr.net/ql/uqlx.html> A couple of notes on that release. I have modified Peter's original distribution to run under Windows XP. That included the new cygwin dlls, which had a positive side effect of uQLx running rather well under Windows 9x. It may even possible to run uQLx under wine now :-) (Hehe QL on UN*X emulation on Windows Emulation on UN*X :-) A! Anyway for historical and practical reasons I am providing five binary packages: One with the executables only, one with the old Cygwin/XFree86 binaries/dlls and one with the new XFree86 binaries/dlls and one that contains the JM/JS etc ROMS (for use outside North America). I updated the package as well to contain the latest Minerva thanks to Lau. In the coming days, I will recompile uQLx using the latest cygwin distro as well as provide a Windows installer for it. Regards and many thanks to Peter, Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Quanta workshop support
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:42:12 +0100, thegilpins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have noticed the comments regarding a QUANTA 2000 type event but all the contributions are coming from the expected sources. (Thanks Dilwyn J, Darren B, Geoff W and John T). What about the rest of you? come on. Put your ten penn'orth in. (Should that be "Dimesworth" in USA or "Centsworth" in Europe?) Let's here from you ALL. I don't know about the rest of NASQLUG, but I would for one would like it to be an international event,on a good timeframe for international visitors to attend. Moreover, I think some computer press could be called in just to show the world we are still around and also retrocomputing journalists and user groups. Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] (Announce) SuperBasic syntax highlighter for free...
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:15:52 +0100, J. Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about a version for Emacs which is available for the QL I am not sure if Emacs supports syntax highlighting... I will install it and see what's going on. Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Question on SOQL
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:39:29 +0200, Arnould Nazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I didn't realize was that soQL was a complete IP stack, and not just a sockets library that relied on something else... I'll have to try to track soQL down now, since it sounds like I may be able to get ppp -> ip working on it. Thanks for the update! Hello, I would like to know if SOQL is foreseen for emailing only in the beginning, and if further protocols like FTP, IRC, or even HTTP web browsing will need additional work on top of it ? And if this additions, if possible, will be not too complicated (ie we have a chance to see them made) Arnould Hi Arnould, I am not so sure regarding what you're asking but email IS working right now on soQL (was forever really, what's changed now is the incorporation of PPP) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:03:06 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 14:45:44, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) , the food and wine is fabulous - and cheap ! Cheap! Have you lost your mind Man It's at least 4 times as expensive now than it was before the introduction of the Euro... I almost cried this year when I went back home! It is ACTUALLY cheaper now to go grocery shopping in the USA! The drivers leave a lot to be desired though, You're telling me? Hehe but many of these bad drivers (especially in Crete) are drunk Brits ;-) (That was half joke, half true by the way). Greek drivers are notoriously idiotic and have NO REGARD for safety whatsoever. I could never stand them (even before I left Greece) and now it's even worse... the funny part is that Pennsylvania (where I live is worse than Greece in crashes and fatalities but in every case some things you just don't do!) (ie having kids without a seat belt jumping up and down... Easy - download and install updated drivers (8-)# Hmm how about downloading a new population? It needs it badly :-) As I always told my wife... Greece is the country of the Gods and the most beautiful country in the world... pity about the Greeks though ;-) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:12 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 14:10:26, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) oh yes it was ! (AKA I beg to differ !) It started (?) in DOS where the print-scn button printed the text on screen to a printer (not sure if it was able to be redirected to a file though) in text mode. I never worked out how either. It was able to redirect to a file, still needed a little fiddling with ANSI.SYS IIRC (or was that Graphics.sys?) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:10:26 +0100, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Phoebus, oh yes it was ! (AKA I beg to differ !) It started (?) in DOS where the print-scn button printed the text on screen to a printer (not sure if it was able to be redirected to a file though) in text mode. In Windows (3.1 anyway) this was changed to copy the screen, or active window to the clipboard as a bit map. Under XP this has been removed - although Tony says that it works if the shift key is held down. Cheers, Norman. PS. Just had two weeks in Crete - very hot 42 degrees (C). True regarding DOS but it was a different output device and worked only in text-mode (could work with graphics but required an additional sys file in config.sys which I can't remember now). The only COMMON thing between these two methods was the PrtScr button :-P Tony is absolutely right although the sequences differ. PrtScr AND Shift-PrtScr have exactly the same effect (full desktop capture) and Alt-PrtScr is active window capture. And IT WORKS with XP (at least with the Pro that I have) Phoebus P.S. You lucky dog you... :-P~ -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:23:07 +0100, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But if you are running XP then the print-scn button no longer works - microsoft don't want any DOS backwards compatability in XP ! Not true. the screen capture feature was never a dos trick :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:26:37 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: I did include the ability to add small images (a-la sprites but not quite-in reality small pic files) next to each entry and full 3D look (ie new Wman dude) Sounds good. I just did the very minimum necessary to get the new look working. Any better implementations are certainly welcome ;-) Oh yeah... when I am done with recompiling succesfully c68 (the whole thing) under Windoze I will be able to finish stuff faster What's the advantage of compiling it under Windows? An (or more) IDE(s) ;-) (And speed certainly) However *I NEED* to recompile the rest and not only c68. I do use the new c68 in my new toolset but I would like to have the new AS68 and LD too. Now I have to read mingW's predefined macros to find what the real IFDEF (duh! that's what happens whenever you are used in NOT writing multiplatform stuff ;-) should be... that's the problem mainly plus some other minor issues. VS.NET's predefined macro is _WIN32 and _WIN64 but as for gcc under Win32 I honestly have NO CLUE :-) (Well a little reading will do me good I suppose) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:08:54 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Now off to finish the eMailer, GNU Midnight Commander and Qascade GD2 ;-) Ooh, ooh! Qascade GD2...gimme, gimmee Copy please when ready! (Assuming you're talking about Jonathan Hudson's Qascade) As I wrote in my QPC announcement, I have a high colour Qascade ready. Will put it up when time allows. Marcel I've seen it in your screenshots... IIRC it doesn't allow for "Icons" next to the buttons though right? Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:35:29 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now off to finish the eMailer, GNU Midnight Commander and Qascade GD2 ;-) Phoebus Ooh, ooh! Qascade GD2...gimme, gimmee Copy please when ready! (Assuming you're talking about Jonathan Hudson's Qascade) -- Dilwyn Jones Well Roy's first :-) I *DID* succesfully compile Qascade for GD2 in April, however since then my original source code was gone due to a nasty HDD crash on the Q40 and now I am re-doing it. I do have a nice S*Basic implementation for a configuration writer for it (gone the days of endless typing) which uses the Menu Extensions (GD2 thank you very much). I did include the ability to add small images (a-la sprites but not quite-in reality small pic files) next to each entry and full 3D look (ie new Wman dude) Oh yeah... when I am done with recompiling succesfully c68 (the whole thing) under Windoze I will be able to finish stuff faster Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] C IDE(s) and other questions
Hi all, I was just succesful in using c68 with both the Dev-Cpp IDE from Bloodshed software as well as SourceEdit which means we now have two IDEs for C development (albeit cross-development but it's better than nothing) for the QL. However I have a couple of problems/questions (actually more than that) and I would appreciate it if anyone could help me out: 1. I am using XTC68NT (J. Hudson's C68 port). However this is an old release (IIRC 1996) which means all recent developments with C68 are not covered. I succesfully recompiled C68's new version under MingW, VS 6 and VS.NET BUT I cannot seem to compile the rest of the stuff (ie CC, AS68, LD etc) using gcc (VS and VS.NET don't have such problems btw). I was wondering if anyone was lucky to do so. I am sure that if I look hard enough, I'll find the problems, it's just that I thought I would save myself some time. 2. XTC68NT adds 8 bytes on the header in order to recreate later on QDOS the appropriate header. Since that is such a cool feature, I would like to implement it on the new PC port as well. As I don't have the original sources of either XTC68 or C68 of the same versions to run a diff to see what JH has done, I would appreciate it if someone could send them (no use in reinventing the wheel there is it? :-) 3. I don't seem to be able to download qdos-gcc from Thierry's site. Anyone have another pointer (or a full distro in a zip that he could send me?) It would be great if I could modify qdos-gcc to accept finally c++ as it would simplify development/porting of apps significantly. Finally, I was also looking into either porting Turbo to Windows for cross compilation (Either by using CPort) or translating it into one of the inferior basic dialects out there (ie RapidQ, XBasic etc). Anyone ever thought/done that? All the best, Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:17:20 -0700, James Hunkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Jim, I figured there was something wrong with that picture... :-) Now off to finish the eMailer, GNU Midnight Commander and Qascade GD2 ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
I wrote: Anyone tried to use EX SLB;'-cvf LIBC_A GD2_O' as referred to by Dave Walker's page? Shouldn't that be: EX SLB;'-rvf LIBC_A GD2_O' (Rename/Add instead of Create since LibC_A already exists?) To that I want to add that SLB will NOT work with the Cache turned on, on my Q40. Anyone had different experiences? Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] c68 GD2 libc
Anyone tried to use EX SLB;'-cvf LIBC_A GD2_O' as referred to by Dave Walker's page? Shouldn't that be: EX SLB;'-rvf LIBC_A GD2_O' (Rename/Add instead of Create since LibC_A already exists?) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Status of QL trademarks
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:05:53 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 at 22:52:30, Phoebus Dokos wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) http://webdb4.patent.gov.uk/tm/number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=1206 950 Shows Sinclair QL as a Registered Trademark of Amstrad PLC (so please update your trademarks at your pages ;-) Although I believe the name does constitute fair-use. QDOS is not registered anywhere btw. :-) (That is as a software because for clothing it is :-) I see also that 'QL' is not trademarked. Sinclair QL is however. QL IIRC cannot be trademarked under British law (as a sequence of letters) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] Status of QL trademarks
http://webdb4.patent.gov.uk/tm/number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=1206950 Shows Sinclair QL as a Registered Trademark of Amstrad PLC (so please update your trademarks at your pages ;-) Although I believe the name does constitute fair-use. QDOS is not registered anywhere btw. :-) (That is as a software because for clothing it is :-) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:23:06 +0200, Jonathan Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon, I already sent it to him :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] soQL Emailer almost ready
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:25:29 +0200, Jonathan Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds great I look forward to trying it. I've been giving some thougt to a WMAN front end. I've been strugling with CPTR though. It won't work on my uQLx setup and although I've followed J. M.Sadlers excelent article in QL Today Vol.7 Iss.6 I'm not sure how to continue. But perhapps I should be looking into adding an authentication to PPP first? I'd also like to do somthing about releasing the sources. I think CVS is a good idea to help coordinate development but I not sure about SourceForge. Any Ideas? By the way Phoebus did you manage to evaluate tht serial to ethernet converter you talked about some time ago on the list? Happy QLing Jon. I think Sourceforge is THE way to go as it may attract other prior QL users that have no clue about this list or the current state of affairs in the QL world. As for the Serial-To-Ethernet, as I said it worked fine. However that was an expensive piece of h/w and I was now looking at a cheap design based on the CS Ethernet chip (about $40). That could also benefit of the PPP for the PPPoE portion of DSL connections. I am also looking into Tarquin's HB C port although because of Curses it restricts me a lot in things I want to do. The parser also needs a little help there as it is rather simple still... however that too is promising. I still haven't gotten around to recompile Lynx to see how that fares as a comparison. Also yes PPP authentication needs to be added. The front end isn't that important. The solution I thought of was to modify the existing SMTP and POP mailers package them together and provide a TPTR based SBasic front end. That way processes can run separately anyway and you can also make something nice graphically very quickly. A big advantage that TPTR has (as we discovered with QWord) is that it allows you to do mouse based GUIs without using the whole of the PE per se. Ie you set up the window but all of the terrible concepts of the PE ie the Menu/Window concept that is good for context sensitive actions but looks gross as a menu system don't have to be used. Instead you can make whatever you like looking the way you want it... ie pretty ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Turbo working on QXL?
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:06:16 -0600, Al Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, "charge" does not function with SMSQ. You have to EXEC_W the "Parser" and the "Code Generator" (not the file names) portions of the program, separately. Charge works fine with SMSQ/E and the QXL provided you have a new version of TurboTK and Turbo (both of which are free btw as opposed to QLiberator) Tried it 1000 times on my QXL with SMSQ/E v.2y99 and 3 -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:57:48 -0500 (CDT), Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Roy wood wrote: There are a lot of free programs around - go to Theirry's website and have a look. There are also a lot of commercial programs around too. One of the things I think would help would be a list just like Thierry's but with a couple of differences. Like versiontracker, it would list every single peice of software, including works on progress. It would list their fee/free/OSS status, version numebr, details etc. Much like Thierry's site, but moreso! It would also include a separate developer directory that would include names and contact details of developers, what projects they [are|have] work[ing|ed] on in which languages. There should also be a developer support forum just like the ql- developers list, but moreso! Basically, most of these resources mostly exist already. It's just a matter of getting everyone to update and maintain the details about themselves in a central location. Don't make Thierry ask you. If you're working on something, or release an update, let him know so he can keep his site current. Dave I did setup something like that and based on Thierry's repository, but he decided to pick up the maintaining himself as well. But for the stuff that I am doing, I was thinking of opening a sourceforge project ... Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:28:52 -0500, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Will you be releasing this as freeware or shareware, or as a commercial product? > > Mark Commercial (price undecided yet) and a demo version: useable, but limited by the number of program icons which can be set up. Please do NOT flame me. I mean no disrespect to anyone involved in developing QL software or hardware. I am a casual user, who has just recently gotten back "into" using QL after more than 10 years. I understand this is mostly a philosophical question, but I have a direct question I'd like an answer to. This is NOT a direct response or reaction to the above mentioned product, BTW. You are mistaken. There are plenty of commercial programs and many free ones. We have the c68 compiler and gcc-qdos cross compiler (for linux boxes), minerva-os is GPL'd, SMSQ/E is open source (you don't have to pay for it if you compile it yourself), Editors etc. etc. etc. The USA is NOT a viable commercial market btw (I am the only SMSQ/E dealer in the US right now). And NO most of the stuff we do is free. Not all, but most. The problem as I see it with QL development is that the Open Source style of community programming couldn't catch up with the QL world for plenty of reasons. So what you get is fragmented developers that work their #$#$ off to provide a product to other people. It's their right to be (or not compensated). Ie I prefer that my programs are free and gratis (except Q- Word maybe :-)which isn't my creation anyway, just the graphics). As for GRATIS and FREE you understand the difference of course (see fsf.org) I'm curious to understand why just about anything for the QL is commercial. Is there that much of a market for QL software in Europe or the rest of the world BESIDES the US? I might have a mistaken impression that any QL computing done nowadays is by dedicated hobbyists. I guess I've grown too accustomed to the Linux/BSD world of open source projects that anybody can hitch their wagon to. There seem to be a number of decent or really good QL programs that run great on hardware that is arguably almost 20 years old, but it _appears_ to me that the vast majority of it is commercial. Not terribly expensive, necessarily, but certainly not open source where a project can perhaps evolve quicker with more contributions. I had hopes of porting some useful applications to QL. Or of even writing them. I'm finding, after having only just recently purchased a QXL card and setting up a box, that I _almost_ have to purchase a bit more software to do any serious development on this box. I am also disheartened to realize that I can't contribute directly to any products or projects currently underway. I do see that there are still a number of companies and individuals selling software and hardware to this day. I could assume, I guess, that this means there's still a market, if only not in the US. Yes but the numbers are shrinking... it's only through open source development that we can attract people back to the QL anyway... In any case for a lot of FREE (both definitions) software go to: http://www.dokos-gr.net/smsrepository/> (I don't remember Thierry's new address right now) Also to: http://www.dokos-gr.net/~dj/> I would love to have an environment setup on the pQL (pseudo QL) box I have so that I can compile _and_ edit BASIC and C/C++ programs and release them. Port useful *nix userland utils where possible. I'd *REALLY* love to get ppp/tcp-ip up and running on this box so I can put it on the net. My first project would then be a port of thttpd or something similar. My biggest fear is that I'll have to bootstrap the whole process, reinventing what someone has done commercially for a box that's really just a hobby. :) uQLx supports TCP/IP via the host for ages now and so is Q40 Linux (Q40 is a QL compatible www.q40.de in case you don't know). soQL is practically ready (for even vanilla QLs thanks to Jon Dent) and also a port of QL-uwIP for also vanilla QLs (and Q40s) So things are not that bad after all! Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Turbo working on QXL?
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:32:35 -0500, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having difficulty with Turbo on my newly setup QXL card. Typing in a simple hello world type app and running "charge" seems to hang the machine, or eventually even reset it. I enter: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!" 20 GOTO 10 prog_use win1_tools_turbo_ data_use win1_ dest_use win1_ charge Am I just not reading the manuals right, or are there quirks with Turbo in certain situations? Also, am I write in assuming Turbo is the way to go for compiling SBasic apps? Thanks, Mark - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Which version of Turbo are you running? Also I have it a habit of putting data_use to the same dir as turbo btw. Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] mode 16 to mode 32
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:27:17 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Haha, I haven't sold one yet ;-) However I assumed it's the price you told me :-) (USA show) Probably surrounded by lots of words like "probably", "perhaps", "we're considering xyz"? ;-) We're currently in the process of fixing the details. Marcel Ah well no harm done anyway :-) Nonetheless, it's working great.. never let me down since the show It has been on for 20 days now (thank God for fans) and thanks to that little program on Tony's site (the module creator), with superHermes extensions built in... ;-) Moreover it works great with Conqueror SE :-) Redefinition of colours is a blast... like having an IBM PC/XT with EGA :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] (Announce) SuperBasic syntax highlighter for free...
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:21:09 +0100, Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jimmy MONTESINOS wrote: Hi all, For who want to edit or print highlighted and colorized SuperBasic source code, Phoebus and I have released Superbasic language extensions for SourceEdit. Funny thing is... I released a similar thing back in March for TextPad (which I quite like - even if I had to pay for it!). It's up on their site (and mine). It isn't very clever and just does the ROM keywords (I only spent a hour or so on it). I wonder if it would be a lot of effort to combine them? (Or really, I gues I'm wondering if you could adapt you one to replace my TextPad one. (I hate changing editors). Send it over and I will give it a shot :-) -Or at least give me your url again :-) (And TextPad's won't be bad either) I haven't tried SourceEdit - free is nice, but I'd like to find a good source file editor for Linux (I know there are millions of them, but I tend to just stick with vi(m)). I liked KEdit... I think btw, that SourceEdit's code is available... just in case :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] mode 16 to mode 32
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:24:16 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Aurora drivers ARE out. I've been using them for quite awhile and I have them available for sale as well (with SMSQ/E v.3.00). Huh, they are NOT yet official on sale! How can you sell them if you don't even know what my fee is? Marcel Haha, I haven't sold one yet ;-) However I assumed it's the price you told me :-) (USA show) Never be on a rush when you're quoting prices ;-) Gotcha! Phoebus :-P -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] mode 16 to mode 32
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:22:16 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been playing a little with Marcel's 256 colour mode 16 on QPC2. Not only does it work, most programs seem to run quite happily in it. Including (I'm pleased to say) my Launchpad and Screen Snatcher programs! My old Graphics Viewer program does not because it guesses the screen sizes from file sizes, and some screens in different modes and resolutions may well end up by coincidence having the same file size. I've been tinkering with some graphics routines as my recent message regarding mode 32 to bmp conversion suggested. One of the routines I came up with which has been useful for me is a mode 16 to mode 32 screen converter. It's rather slow, but the need doesn't really arise that often, so it's OK. Simply enter the filename of a 256 colour (mode 16) file, and the filename to save the converted mode 32 file. I've put REMs in showing the bit layouts, and converted basically by doubling up the bits which is a bit of a dirty method but it seems to work reasonably well. Obviously, as 16-bit graphics need twice the number of bits per pixel, converted screens are twice the size of the original. 100 REMark convert mode 16 picture to mode 32 110 CLS : CLS #0 120 INPUT #0,'Filename of MODE 16 screen > ';ip$ 130 INPUT #0,'Filename of MODE 32 conversion > ';op$ 140 fl = FLEN(\ip$) 150 IF fl <= 0 THEN STOP 160 base = ALCHP(3*fl) : REMark Mode 32 equivalent is twice as long 170 LBYTES ip$,base 180 addr16 = base 190 addr32 = base+fl 200 FOR a = base TO base+fl-1 210 byte = PEEK(a) : REMark pixel from mode 16 screen 220 REMark 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 230 REMark g r b g r b g x (x=rb) 240 : 250 REMark byte1 byte 2 260 REMark 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 270 REMark g g g b b b b br r r r r g g g 280 : 290 REMark do the BLUE bits 300 byte1 = 16*((byte&&32)>0)+12*((byte&&4)>0)+3*((byte&&1)>0) 310 REMark do the RED 320 byte2 = 128*((byte&&64)>0)+96*((byte&&8)>0)+24*((byte&&1)>0) 330 REMark do the GREEN bits 340 byte1 = byte1+128*((byte&&16)>0)+96*((byte&&2)>0) 350 byte2 = byte2+6*((byte&&128)>0)+((byte&&16)>0) 360 : 370 POKE addr32,byte1 : POKE addr32+1,byte2 380 addr32 = addr32+2 390 END FOR a 400 SBYTES op$,base+fl,2*fl 410 RECHP base : REMark release heap area used 420 PRINT #0,'Program finished' Any suggestions on improving this welcome. Oh, and I hope Marcel is happy someone's actually using the 256 colour mode. If I'm right, this should work on Aurora 256 colour screens as well since if I'm right Marcel wrote the QPC2 256 colour driver to be compatible with Aurora 256 colour modes (once Aurora colour drivers are out that is!) -- Dilwyn Jones Aurora drivers ARE out. I've been using them for quite awhile and I have them available for sale as well (with SMSQ/E v.3.00). Q-Word btw supports mode 16 :-) (And it's pretty impressive too :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] OnT (Finally)
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:52:50 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And have just remembered that after talking about missiles etc, I'm the one writing the program called LAUNCHPAD :-) Just remember, when SOQL comes out I'll put a feature in Launchpad that I can dial you up and destroy your QL files, OK??? Just around the corner... preliminary tests with my mailer work just fine... and soQL as it stands provides a very stable platform anyway... Phoebus P.S. I will send it over your way so you can try it as it stands and then the mailer so you may even incorporate its functionality in Launchpad (now how about that huh?) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] New(er) SourceEdit SuperBasic Language file
Hi all, Jimmy and I prepared a newer version of the SuperBasic Language File for SourceEdit.We sent it already to SourceEdit.com (not available yet though). Until it is, contact me or Jimmy for a copy. Among other new things in the newest release is inclusion of ALL operators (some were missing previously), new (previously missing) keywords for the (Super)Gold Card and removal of the FOR...NEXT construct (as Next is not really the formal end of the looping mechanism, just a "jumper" like RETurn. These two have been moved to the "operators" section, thus allowing for different colour that will attract your attention. All my best, Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Quantum Leap Software Authorized SMSQ/E reseller Visit us at: http://www.dokos-gr.net/>
Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:21:54 +0100, gwicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nonsense. Echelon has never been used against this list. Have you never thought there could just be old fashioned spooks in the QL community reporting on all our activities. No need for that :-) We have Spook(r) by Damon Chaplin :) (BTW: Now available for free at: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/RWAPSoftware/>) Also nonsense. I heard on the Today programme (where else?) that Bush has passed this on to Blair to deal with. He is about to introduce emergency legislation requiring all QL users to replace their ROM chip with one of Carol Caplin's crystals. Of course, it could just have been a bad dream. Definitely a bad dream. Everybody in his right mind knows that the legislation requires QL users to replace their ROMs with a PC-Jr Bios instead :-P Yours in subversion, Geoff. HaYuck! (Goofy's battle cry for anyone not remembering ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] soQL Emailer almost ready
Hi all, this quick note to tell you that the soQL-based emailer that I am writing is almost on the testing phase. Although it seems like a long time has passed since I announced the project, problems with C68, my month long holidays and school, made me devote very little time on it. However come summer session end in College I will be able to accelerate and hopefully by mid to end of August I will have it available for a beta test. Please note that this is a text only application (Which means that whoever wants to write a WMAN front end to it is more than welcome ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] Re: (Announce) SuperBasic syntax highlighter for free...
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:47:56 +0200, Jimmy MONTESINOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A new version of the language description file is out. It now includes 578 KEYWORDS plus other constructs and operators. Auto completion (with CTRL-SPACE) works pretty well. New version recognizes: All SBasic and SuperBasic keywords All QPC2 specific keywords All ROMDISQ specific keywords All (Super)Gold Card specific keywords All TurboToolkit Keywords All QLiberators runtime keywords Some Minerva Keywords All SuperHermes Keywords Thierry's CD Extensions Keywords Until we put it up somewhere, please ask us for a copy. Thanks, Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:19:24 +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Expect a wayward American missile to fly low over you soon... (just pray it has a QL controlling it not a PC!) No, no, let it have a PC by all means -it'll probably go down somewhere in the ocean (a blue screen of death...) My thoughts exactly... do you really want us to die? With a QL controlled missile, it would probably before crashing on us, would empty our bank accounts first ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] C structures
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:49:49 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
You could also get BMP2SCR from Malcolm and use it in reverse
(trivial to
do so and from the quick look I gave to your code you're on the
right
track).
Just had a quick look (it's on disk GE104 in my PD library) . However,
it doesn't explain the file structure except how to check it's 24 bit
and picture size. But it does show how to do the approximation of 24
bit colour to 16 bit QL colour (i.e. how to convert 8 bit RGB
component to 5 or 6 bit GD2 colour components - simply lop off the
extra info, you then simply get coarser steps of colour, so instead of
values 0-31 for a bit GD2 colour you get 0-255 step 8 in 24-bit
colour). A bit mind bending for a simpleton like me, but I'll get
there ;-)
The complete file format ('new' format which is the most common) (more like
the complete header of the BMP format is as follows):
Offset Field Size Contents
000h Id 2 bytes (Insert here 'BM' for BMP image file. Other options are
possible as well)
002h FSIZE 4 bytes Full file size in bytes
006h RESVD 4 bytes Reserved (Pad with 0s)
00Ah BMPD_OFF 4 bytes Offset of the beginning of bmp data from the
beginning of file
00Eh BMPH_SZ 4 bytes Length of the BMP Info Header (what describes bmp
colours, compression... possible sizes are:28h - Windows, 0Ch OS2 1.x, F0h
OS 2.x
012h WD 4 bytes Width of image in pixels
016h HT 4 bytes Height of image in pixels
01Ah PL 2 bytes # planes in the picture (not the flying kind ;-)
01Ch BPP 2 bytes BPP used for palette info. (Possible colours of sorts).
Possible values
1 - Mono, 4 - 16 colours, 8 - 256 colours, 16 - High colour, 24 - 24 bit
colour, 32 - 32 bit colour
01Eh CMP_SPEC 4 bytes Compression Specs. Possible values: 0 - none (Also
BI_RGB), 1 - RLE 4bit/pixel (Also BI_RLE4), 2 - RLE 8bit/pixel (Also
BI_RLE8), 3 - Bitfields (Also BI_BITFIELDS)
022h BMP_DSZ 4 bytes Size of the bitmap DATA in bytes. Must be rounded to
the next 4 byte boundary.
026h HRES 4 bytes Horizontal res in pixels/meter
02Ah VRES 4 bytes Vertical res in pixels/meter
02Eh COL 4 bytes Number of colours used by this bitmap (ie for an 8bit
colour image: 256)
032h IMPCOL 4 bytes Number of important colours (equal to COL above if
every colour is important)
036h PAL n*4 bytes Palette Specs. For every entry in the palette, 4 bytes
describe the RGB values as follows: 1 byte:blue, 1 byte: green, 1 byte red,
1 byte filler (filled with 0)
436h BMP_DATA n bytes Depending on CMP_SPEC, all bitmap data bytes that
represent indices in colour palette
Now since a Type structure is impossible in SBasic, you should use an Array
to conveniently manipulate all this blah-blah.
However to save space you should remember that there is a MAXIMUM size of
the header (and that occurs when a palette exists).
Also to try to go through the hoops and produce every possible combination
would be irrational (IMVHO) and I would recommend you use only the 24bit
option, as it simplifies calculations. Not to mention that you can have the
rest of the info hard coded for all screen sizes mode 32 and 33 support.
Moreover, in Mode 33 (and you should include Mode 33), remember the
importance of the Intensity (Extra Green bit) and cater for that in the
translation.
Hope this helped a bit,
Phoebus
--
Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS
Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] C structures
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:31:43 +0100, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phoebus I'd like a copy of that ! Do you have the .NET framework installed? Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] C structures
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:29 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dilwyn, You could also get BMP2SCR from Malcolm and use it in reverse (trivial to do so and from the quick look I gave to your code you're on the right track). If you go ahead with your own solution you should remember that BMP lines are padded too, so you should account for that (although for a straight even sized SCR that possibility wouldn't even arise). And (I don't know if you mentioned it in your message as I really didn't read it through, just a quick look) always remember that the lines on the bmp are stored upside down :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] C structures
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:29 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dilwyn, I do have a full program ready that does that, however you're killing yourself with no reason. Just press Print Screen while you're running QPC and then paste it in your favourite graphics editor :-) Presto you're screen capture is complete :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] German Show
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:34:32 +0100, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If any of our UK QLers are interested there is a seat on Peter Fox's plane for the German show in October. If anyone fancies the trip drop me a line and I will explain the cost and details. If you never flown in a small win engined plane it is well worth the trip! The show is usually good too. WIN engined? I never fly anything based on Windows ;-) Hee-Hee... -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Dynamic arrays?
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 05:25:25 EDT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a message dated 08/07/2003 10:16:25 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. However the temp array wouldn't survive the exit from the proc/fn and, moreover, I would have to redim each array specifically instead of just calling a general function. If you use a DIM statement (instead of LOCal), the temp array would survive the exit :-) I agree the problem with redimensioning each array is a pain though !! Any other ideas?? Hmmm we should ask Simon Goodwin? :-) (Now that's an idea...) Seriously, Simon has tackled the issue in the past IIRC and as always came up with an ingenious solution but I'll be damned if I could find the article where he describes it. -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.01
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:34:35 +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, version 3.01 of smsqe is now arriving at your friendly dealer. go & get it! Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com Yep and it includes something that was missing for a loong time from the window manager, namely an outline move Thanks to whoever wrote that :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] DIN 41612 cable.
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:31:57 +0200, Jimmy MONTESINOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone knows how to get a PCB DIN 41612 cable ( QL Expansion slot ) male and female ? Is there any QL reseller sell this such of cable ? Thanks, Jimmy. Depends on what you want to do with it Jimmy. If it's for repositioning a mainboard inside a PC case, then you should get the Mplane by TF Services (Available with a Credit Card from Q-Branch too). If you want simply to not have the "mile-long QL syndrome", You'll have to make it yourself, or locate an old ABC Elektronik one (many vendors actually had these in the old days, but now you're probably going to find it in a UK QUANTA workshop second-hand exchange/sale) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] DJW Software
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:22:34 -0600, Al Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For CAVERNS: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/A.Jaw.Venema/ It is, as I recall, referred to as the "Arachnoid type game." No it's not. That's Josiah Oobadiah (Like the spelling really matters ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] ABC Elektronik and Schon Kbd
Anyone have a ABC Elektronik internal expansion (the one with the 68008FN or a Schon Keyboard that he wants to part with? -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] Sandy CPMulator
Someone from the list (I think it was Andreas Berger) had asked me for a CPMulator EPROM . I have it here now and I would appreciate it if he would contact me (on the phoebusATdokos-gr.net address) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] funny but true.....(OT)
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:52:59 +0100, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got through to it today - they seem to be a bettery manufacturer in Italy. Hmmm so they're making machines that make you better? *snickers* Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] funny but true.....(OT)
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:13:14 +0200, TonyTebby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin Parsons wrote Try it without a comma, and it works, http://www.powergenitalia.com/ From still active Italian page!! It must have been cached - I've tried several times over 24 hours and the server is unreachable Nope it just sits on a very busy server somewhere I'd imagine... took sometime, but loaded fine Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] EPROM Images
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:55:39 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: For the ROM slot? IIRC it only has 16 address lines, i.e. yes, it can only have 16kb. Unless of course your name is either TT, SH or TF in which case you build a nice thingie that can hold 8 Megs and an EPROM image as big as my head ;-) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:07:46 +0100, Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Muses... that would be a project... A QL ROM without SuperBasic, but with multitasking OO Forth instead. Lots faster, but maybe a few compatibility problems. Any takers? H and the name of the beast would be Jupiter Ace 2003 ;-) (Couldn't be as bad as SB as a command line tho ;-) I don't think it would be too difficult. Thank God for Modular SMSQ/e ;-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] Back.
Hi all, Now that I am back home I realise that I did not bring the two email addresses that I requested (Herb Schaaf's and Mel LaVerne's) back from Greece (duh!). If anyone would be so kind to resend them again? :-) Also, anyone knows the details of an A3000 (Archie) keyboard membrane before I rip it out and replace it with a PC keyboard? (It is approximately the same size as an ACER or IBM standard PS/2 keyboard which if I can't find the details I will install in its place directly connected to my nice superHermes Lite) I am installing a QL inside an A3000 husk (hehe it was working fine but a QL is more important ;-) ) and I would like to retain the cool red keys and neat embedded-in-the-keys caps and numlock leds. Phoebus (Vacationed out ;-) -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
[ql-users] To anyone present at the US Show 2003
Hi all, I am looking for Dieter's email address to send him something that I promised him while at the US QL Show 2003. I don't believe that he's reading the list but I would appreciate a personal email from someone that has his address... Thanks, Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA
Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop - Do Different Computer Show
??? 5/4/2003 4:58:31 ??, ?/? Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: >>I know Jan 20 1084 was the announcement. Which makes it a perfect candidate as the 'Black Adder's' favourite medieval computer (ran on oxen) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] A message from Darren Branagh...
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:23:28 +, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Steve Reyal wrote: I don't post here often, but I've been asked by that genetic jackhammer Darren B to pass on some news. His better half, Sandra, has just produced a bouncing baby Branagh - Dylan Jack. He weighed in at 7lbs 0oz (without wellies) at 10.57 this morning in Co. Galway, Ireland. Darren kindly sent me a couple of pictures of the baby, I have posted them on the news page on my website for a few days, if anyone would like to see what a second Darren Branagh looks like! Before all the self-induced abuse and rugby injuries then ... :-) Hmmm that explains it... Darren has a baby and war breaks out ... Man, these Irish... always have to be loud :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:31:54 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tony your date is set in 2004... Are you experiencing Time warp? :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Test mail
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 20:15:11 + (GMT)X-Mailer: soqlmailer, Jonathan Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Test mail testing PPP Yipee!! PPP is working on the QL :-) Still a bit of tidying-up to do before I release it though. from Jon. Good cause I had enough of loading PC Conqueror, TCP/IP for DOS and lynx to get online with my QL... BTW: You may wanna update the headers on soqlmailer as it lacks a new line Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Job Communication
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:17:02 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a message dated 28/02/2003 09:11:36 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thankyou very much for spotting this change - I had not spotted it I must admit (my own fault I guess - Rich RTFM next time) Don't be hard on yourself Rich! RTFM does not apply to manual writers :-) (Same way as Printer never have their own business cards and Programmers do not have modern computers ) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Directory Devices
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:55:30 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on the 'MyQL' part of Launchpad and I'd like to ask for any additional information can offer on the following. I'd like to compile as complete a list of current directory devices on QL-style systems as possible so that I may provide icons for these devices as required. Obviously, 'default' icons will be available for any 'unknown' devices. The directory devices I am aware of at the moment are: MDV FLP/FDV/FDK (the 3 types of floppy systems over the years) RAM WIN ROM ATR - Atari/DOS disk device IIRC DOS - QPC2 CDR - Thierry's Atapi drivers. NUL - Nul device (+ BLACK_HOLE?) N, M and S - network devices (assuming these count) (DEV, SUB, PTH etc don't count as they could I suppose be anything) I tend to disagree on the latter... The reason to use SUB, PTH and DEV is a) to overcome the FS limitations or b) (My reason to use them) because I want all my most-used files to be grouped conveniently together... for that reason if I want to say back them up, it would be best if they could be accessed at one time and in one go instead of running around in my subdirectories :-) Any more known directory device driver names? Not as far as I know Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:22:15 +0100, FranÎ�βâ¬ï¿½ÎâΧois Van Emelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didn't know that! Do you mean that you can MERGE or MRUN a file in a TURBOed program? Can this be done? 500 MERGE 'ram1_my_prog_bas' THIS (as in what's written above) No. But a similar thing CAN be done with the LINK_LOAD command (Specifics in the manual, as I The Turbo manual (2nd edition 1986) says: 'Thus commands such as LIST,MERGE?LRUN AND SO ON ARE MEANINGLESS - they work with superBasic text, not compiled machine-code' FranÎ�ονββâ¬ονÎ�βâ¬â¢ÎâΧois Van Emelen -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:22:38 +0100, FranΧois Van Emelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Witte wrote: This was the sort devious stuff one was expected to do in Archive. In SuperBasic it is easiest just to MERGE or MRUN the code. Why go to all this trouble? I know, I used to do that in Archive. MERGE and MRUN can't be used in a compiled program. I don't know about Q-Slaverator but Turbo has facilities to do just that :-) (An harmless joke above ;-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:01:28 +0100, FranΧois Van Emelen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Any suggestions?
What about this quick&moderately dirty approach of employing the
existing SBasic parser?
100 r$= '('
110 l$ = ')'
120 f$ = 'UPPER$'
130 v$ = '"ql-smsq"'
140 c$ = f$ & r$ & v$ & l$
150 PRINT Eval$(c$)
160 STOP
990 :
1000 DEFine FuNction Eval$(e$)
1010 LOCal C%, ev$
1020 C% = FOP_OVER('ram1_eval_bas')
1030 PRINT#C%, "OPEN_NEW#3,PIPE_eval"
1040 PRINT#C%, "a$ = "; e$
1050 PRINT#C%, "PRINT#3,a$"
1060 PRINT#C%, "CLOSE#3"
1070 CLOSE#C%
1080 C% = FOP_IN('PIPE_eval')
1090 EX ram1_eval_bas
1100 INPUT#C%, ev$
1110 CLOSE#C%
1120 RETurn ev$
1130 END DEFine
Not as mighty as your solution but good enough for most cases, I
guess.
Marcel
Hi Marcel,
Thank you for your answer.
Wouldn't there be a problem when your Eval$(e$)function is used 1000s of
times?
Isn't there a limit to the number of times a channel can be opened and
closed in a program?
I don't see why... I've seen some other stuff (ie a little recursive
program from Bill Cable a while ago), that was far more brutal than that :-)
If that worked, this would work too ;-)
Phoebus
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Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:38:44 -0800, Timothy Swenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 05:55 PM 2/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi Tim, Thank you for your reply, but my example has mislead you somewhat,I'm afraid. Macro substitution is something completely different from 'IF DEF's' or '#INCLUDE'( if I do understand your explanation correctly). I gather from TT's reply that I was not getting what you had expressed. I was thinking more of a macro in C terms than the 'eval' that you were expressing. Since I'm replying to this thread, Phoebus is right in that FoxPro is not based on anything by M$. Fox's first product was a code accelerator for dBase II. I believe FoxPro is based on the dBase II/III language (which I used to program in many moons ago). Exactly right. The Rushmore engine is a Super Duper dbase III... exactly what dBaseIV should have been if Ashton-Tate hadn't mess up! :-) Too bad they were bought off by M$. Although their products still live somewhere in the core of M$ DB technologies, one can't help but wonder how different things would be today if it hadn't (ie no Slammer virus ;-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs - Parameter passing
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:23:50 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a message dated 19/02/2003 23:19:29 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that is a bug per se. You have to take into account that the implicit datatypes that are used are there to create faster code. So if you IMPLICITLY define a datatype to use and you feed it something else then it SHOULD complaine If you therefore 'trick' Turbo, it should not only report an error but get a hammer out of the screen and break your QL :-) Possibly so, but it is the incompatabilities with S*BASIC such as these, which make Turbo such a steep learning curve, even for someone who used it as my only compiler some 5/6 years ago... It's a point of view I guess... When you write with intent to compile some things need to be taken into account... You would never assume the same though for VisualBasic though would you? (Okay bad example ;-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs - Parameter passing
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:29:18 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The other quirk is that Turbo will report an error if you pass a different type of variable to the parameter type listed in the reference, for example: I don't believe that is a bug per se. You have to take into account that the implicit datatypes that are used are there to create faster code. So if you IMPLICITLY define a datatype to use and you feed it something else then it SHOULD complaine If you therefore 'trick' Turbo, it should not only report an error but get a hammer out of the screen and break your QL :-) -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:18:29 +0100, TonyTebby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This "macro substitution" in Foxpro is not really anything to do with macros - it is a run-time expression evaluator that parses and evaluates a string. Foxpro can do it because it is based on early purely interpreted Bill Gates BASIC which always parses all statements every time they are executed. JavaScript also has an eval() function because javascript is (nearly) purely interpreted. SuperBASIC, SBASIC, VisualBASIC and JAVA cannot because they program is compiled to execute a fixed sequence of pseudo instructions written for a "virtual machine" (Java bytecodes), an "engine" (Pascal p-codes) or a "run-time interpreter" (S*BASIC, VisualBasic). Hello Tony, My only comment regarding FoxPro is historical. FoxPro is NOT based on M$ Software (ie it did that way before FoxBase was bought off my Microsoft so they could use the Rushmore engine for Access. Many of the scripting technologies M$ uses now incorporated Fox technologies (As per usual if they can't replicate it, they buy it :-) Phoebus P.S. On the other hand S(uper) Basic does things most languages can't even dream of doing (In that aspect it would be rather interesting to see a .NET implementation of S*Basic) like for example the power of its coercive features is unknown anywhere! Try to add floating point numbers (of a standard S*Basic size) with a number string and integers in ANY other language... The results are rather interesting ;-) (If not incomprehensible ;-))) C++ is such an example :-). Not to mention that creation of strings that can make parts of commands that are almost impossible to do (without a lot of extra code) anywhere else. Recently someone at the university asked me why I still used SBasic (and I usually bring to the labs a QPC Zip disk)... I challenged him to do a vector addition program (with Graphics) in any Basic and it to be under 5 lines of code and it to be precise enough for the results to be used as scientific-grade data guess what? He couldn't ;-) -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] DISP_COLOUR on the Q40
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:41:26 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any reason why DISP_COLOUR is not implemented on the Q40?? I was surprised to have this pointed out by George Gwilt... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Software 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware On the contrary... DISP_COLOUR 3 is working just fine Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:25:17 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 13:16:06, Phoebus Dokos wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:10:18 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jochen will be there. Whether Roy and I make it depends on the return of Roy's new passport! He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# Sorry for being so ignorant... but what's UL? :-) A quiz for you - have a look at the neighbouring letters to 'L' and I think you might guess the answer (8-)# Oh I see :-) Isn't the UK a signatory of the Schengen though? Greeks for example can go to Italy or France without a passport... Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:26:27 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 19:35:58, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: (ref: <3E51399E.22485.7254A2@localhost>) He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# United Lapland? First half is OL (using the same mistype)? Hmmm using the same direction the mistype should be 'I;' :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:35:58 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# United Lapland? Ubiquitous Laughter? Unashamed User? Über Laxative maybe :-D hee-hee Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:10:18 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jochen will be there. Whether Roy and I make it depends on the return of Roy's new passport! He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# Sorry for being so ignorant... but what's UL? :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:35:49 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That sentence doesn't make sense. Did you mean to say that Dilwyn should send text only emails? html emails will treat '<' as the start of a tag surely. No... Dilwyn does send text only emails... What I meant is that if not sent as html (where the whole URL is preserved in the html code)... whenever he types a ' Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:28:31 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, let's try again, acrefully type in twice as described, with opening and closing and no space between : and http URL:http//homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware. html> URL:http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware .html> The reason why is simple: as you type in the url itself and > after then becomes part of the URL! Hi Dilwyn, I tried many ways of dealing with that but it seems that the ONLY way that your addresses won't be cut off is if that you write HTML emails... There is NO OPTION (at least one that I was able to find, that allows you to shut off the Auto "correction"). Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:14:57 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: URL:http://www.homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware.free ware.html> The second one would surely work although currently it does not as the '<' is missing before the URL :-) -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:42:55 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Well mine doesn't without the http:// appended.
Mine does but I wasn't suggesting we should ommit it... by definition a URL
does contain the protocol too :-)
One:
http://long.gg>
http://long.gg>
I was told you should _not_ leave a space!
Well it works either way (although at least M2 -and that's not according to
the standards-will not underline the first one as a proofreading measure)
... but one thing I realized just now is that if quoted more than one time
(at least on my mailer) provided that you ARE word-wrapping even that stops
to work as mailers do insert an LF (or CR&LF) in order to quote ('>')
successfuly...
The resulting address having an line break stops working period :-) (Except
for the first part that includes the http://
Tony
I know Outback includes the final '>' - that was your original problem I
recall.
I don't know about outlook... the problem I had was with Eudora but I could
check ;-)
Guilty as charged...
(8-)#
Yep. Outback simply does not recognise this.
However even if Outback splits line, my software (and loads of others I
expect) are clever enough to reassemble and correctly underline
everything.
As I said, provided that the URL follows some rules (and apparently when no
quoting took place in the meantime)
It usually does very well. Lets see what it does to the above.
I reckon this is ONT (I am trying to encourage that and the converse:
OFT rather than the totally ambiguous OT. )
Hmmm another netiquette issue ;-) Is it covered by an RFC???
Phoebus :-)
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Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:38:21 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 at 18:30:08, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <004301c2d459$665c5460$1129ff3e@blackpc>) Just what is this? Does it work even for plain text emails? I have to reply to this (Phoebus will understand (8-)# ) Yes if the mailer is written well - Outback is not! Someone has defined a standard to avoid splitting: Some mailers will not understand the above if there isn't a space between the ':' and the url Phoebus (and others) doubted this, but I was right (for a change) Guilty as charged... If your software allows you to extend the RH margin, and send unformatted, then that might work. Some people send like that routinely without even trying (8-)# Forgot? I've never even heard of this to prevent Lookout Excess splitting addresses! You must have been on holiday some while back. There was a very long thread on this very subject! I think that was when Dilwyn went to his previous job... Yep. Outback simply does not recognise this. However even if Outback splits line, my software (and loads of others I expect) are clever enough to reassemble and correctly underline everything. True but when the cut is only one character long even Turnpike or The Bat! may have problems... With more than one it is increasingly possible... I think that Turnpike has enough intelligence built in to check the legality of the address but then again I cannot be sure. I have even had four line URLs correctly linked. Without this one has to copy to a text editor and re-assemble. Not everyone and everything is as clever as Marcel (founder member of Marcel Kilgus Software fan-club). (8-)# Hee-hee Phoebus - Author of Fd-up(fouled-up) Software ;- hee-hee -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:30:08 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just what is this? Does it work even for plain text emails? That has nothing to do actually with what you did :-) Putting the "" around URLs serves only for the recipients of emails, as different users have different resolutions or word-wrap settings (throwing 'l's or even larger chunks to the lower line. Some mailers (like for example M2 that I am using) can deal with these problems but the best thing to do (as taught by Tony again ;-) is to wrap them up in a URL container. Almost all mailers can conform to these URL typing conventions (as they are described in various RFCs...). Again it will show up correctly in your mailer (where you wrote it) but not necessarily to anybody else's unless they have the exact same settings and even then IIRC Outlook Excess (In your case) stores internally the email before converting it to plain text and sending it out... For the recipient's Outlook it is as good as coming from any other mailer. Forgot? I've never even heard of this to prevent Lookout Excess splitting addresses! There was actually a pretty long thread in this list regarding this. I had the exact same problem with you and I was dumb enough (see below ;-) to think that it was everybody else's fault... not so :-) Until recently, I assumed that as it was capable of automatically showing it as an underlined address, even when sent as a plain text email (which I always do to this list except when replying to AOLisms and Phoebusisms which f*** it up - 'foul' in case anyone wondered), Hehe he Hmmm I didn't really f*** it up did i? :-) And if I did, you can blame Tony Firshman for it in any case HE IS THE REAL CULPRIT :-) it would be intelligent enough not to break the line later, obviously expecting too much here. Not everyone and everything is as clever as Marcel (founder member of Marcel Kilgus Software fan-club). True too... I am the dumbest there is (But I do design pretty graphics though ;-) Marcel can testify to that ;-) Dilwyn Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:26:04 +, Roy Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message <001c01c2d39e$8a4b9d60$8d36fd3e@blackpc>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Several people have had trouble with this. I made a mistake when uploading the file which may have created the problem. I've completely uploaded the files again to make sure they are in the right place. The program is now v1.01 which adds a couple of small new commands and fixes a couple of minor bugs. http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm I still get - 'the page you requested does not exist' Yes because (Tony is going to LOVE this) Dilwyn omitted to put "" around his url and as a result the last l of his url got wrapped to the next paragraph... his full url is: http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.html> Cheers Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] QL User Guide (Advanced ?)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:58:40 +0100 (MET), Jerome Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes some magical things to make me read } OK, } } I give in - can someone remind me please where this can be downloaded?? } Dilwyn's site only has the text files and I cannot send it by email - too } big!! I do not know, but I wonder also if there is somewhere the equivalent of the QL Advanced User Guide, updated for SMSQ/E (with a comparaison of the original QL) ? (Especially the documentation of all the trap calls and vectored utilities) (Documentation of the Basic variables is fine too, but accessing directly the system variable is not a good idea IMHO, even if documenting them is good!) Or I am doomed to write it myself ? Jochen Merz Software carries it :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Progress bar
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:47:22 +, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Has anyone written a progress bar in SuperBASIC ? To inform the user of the progress made during a longish operation like processing a file. A graphical presentation would also be useful. 0% ...100% ( Crude ASCII illustration above ). Hi Malcolm, I had written one a while ago in QuickBasic Professional, but it was so simple it can easily be adapted for QDOS/SMSQ/E. I will get to it right now (I was going to anyway as it is part of the Q- Word installation scheme). It can be both ASCII and Graphical (with the later having a Windoze-like 3D look *Norman knows these tricks of mine*). I will adapt it in a way that can be included as a procedure in any program... it is really a few lines of code... x MOD y at its glory ;-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:23:11 -, Duncan Neithercut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Been there & done that so so boring. No no suprise your file is as corrupt as the others according to bzip2. Have you used the recommended version of tar 0.05 and bzip2 1.0.1. Have you actually checked the integrity of your archive recently. Did anyone actually download a working copy of QDOS Ghostscript ever from the web. What prompted Jonathon Hudson to use this unix combination of archivers for a QDOS archive. Are we supposed to rewrite & recompile the whole Ghostscript file from partially resurrected sources. Is that what Jonathon Hudson intended. It actually would not suprise me if that was the case. Equally it would not at all suprise me if the documentation with these various files was in someway wrong, so average of the expert/commercial part of the QL scene. If anyone cares to challenge this observation I can list specifics chapter, verse, page and line of many manuals. Hi Duncan, I have experienced problems with bzip archives myself (they fail to decompress even under Win32 bzip). The reason for that was that the original place where the archives were hosted ie. Geocities had the habit of breaking the archives. The same problem happened with Wxqt2... I don't think that it's Jonathan's fault that all these seemingly useless files are distributed. This is a requirement of the GPL license and it has to be done that way. Ghostscript in its pure form is damn difficult to use even on Windows, that's why all these interfaces exist and support programs. Documentation of this and all other Linux/Unix ports is the original one and also covered by the GPL license (so it is there because it has to be there). Usually jonathan's files have a readme_qdos file inside that explains the differences from the Unix versions. If you run the Shell, even these usually do not apply as regular switches and expressions are possible with the Shell. Speaking of the Shell, anybody has its sources? (And the RK Utilities as well?) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] QLWA documentation
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:47:10 +0100 (MET), Jerome Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, does anyone have a synthetic and complete documentation regarding the QLWA filesystem (the one used on Qx0 and QPC). I have found some 'educated'-guess about the value of the first sector, but I wonder about: - a better documentation of that first sector - how the files are organised - what is the content and meaning of the map - how does a (sub)directory work (and what is its contains ?) The QLWA is basically from what I recall, a patchwork of a FAT-12 organization (ie Atari GEMDOS modified partition) with link-lists for FAT (and lacking fat 2). The subdirectories are really pointers to files IIRC... In any case I have notes on everything which I could dig up if needed. Wolfgang with his extensive research on the matter could answer better that question I'd guess How about however scrapping the QLWA and writing either an Ext2FS driver or something else (and new, and better ie. more secure)? Phoebus Or would I have to read the code and figures it out myself ? That ALWAYS helps :-) (Any helps appreciated) -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:31:29 -, Duncan Neithercut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Has anyone downloaded ghostscript 6.0 from either Thierry Godefroy's sofware repository or Jonathon Hudsons downloads page and sucessfully unpacked it. I have tried both using ACP4.01,tar 0.05 and BZip 1.01 from Thierry's pages. I get partial but different parts decompressed with both archives src with one and some docs with the other and an error message with both archives suggesting that they are corrupt. Is there different versions of the decompression programs or some configuration of them needed? Duncan Neithercut Try to get it from the actual repository... last time I ran it, it was working fine for me: Go to http://www.dokos-gr.net/smsrepository/indexsms.html> to find it -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:31:29 -, Duncan Neithercut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Has anyone downloaded ghostscript 6.0 from either Thierry Godefroy's sofware repository or Jonathon Hudsons downloads page and sucessfully unpacked it. I have tried both using ACP4.01,tar 0.05 and BZip 1.01 from Thierry's pages. I get partial but different parts decompressed with both archives src with one and some docs with the other and an error message with both archives suggesting that they are corrupt. Is there different versions of the decompression programs or some configuration of them needed? Duncan Neithercut Try to get it from the actual repository... last time I ran it, it was working fine for me: Go to http://www.dokos-gr.net/smsrepository/indexsms.html> to find it -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
[ql-users] Website migration started (SMS repository)
Hi all, following my previous message regarding my web and pop servers, the repair to my webserver is complete, which means my @dokos-gr.net addresses work again, and the website is functional again. The first change will be at the smsrepository which from now on will be found under: http://www.dokos-gr.net/smsrepository/> Until later today you will have to append the name: indexsms.html to it to work but thjat won't be necessary later on... Sorry for the inconvenience, Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Aurora/Qcdeze
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:05:21 -, Arnold Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have installed the rom_drive,upgraded Qubide,downloaded atapi files and qcdeze and I believe I have configured them correctly, but on boot up ,it stops at CDR_DRIVE 1,1,1 with the message "medium check failed". Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong. Arnie. Arnie, I will be able to answer that question when my QubIDE arrives this week from Nasta if you can hold on for a bit :-) I use my Aurora/SGC with a RomDISQ (no one should be without one!- PLUUU) currently Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Display_cde GD2 update
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:12:21 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4 Feb 2003 at 0:05, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Nice one regarding programming style: I have just spent several hours tracing through the SBasic compiler to find a bug that caused SBasic to crash. The program causing the crash used PROCedures with up to 358 (sic! three hundred fifty eight!) parameters. This was too much for a poor subq.b within the compiler's second stage. A shiny new subq.w can now handle even that one... 358 parameters? To a basic procedure? I'd be MOST interested in knowing what that procedure does... Wolfgang Hmmm most likely Windows XP emulation ;-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Feedback and suggestions for new sprted
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:23:17 -0800, James Hunkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And thanks for this program, as I said, it has been very useful (even without a manual [sorry, couldn't help myself :) ]. Jérôme has a VERY nice VISUAL manual on his webpage (I forget the address right now) which was VERY helpful to me... All the best, Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Feedback and suggestions for new sprted
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:12:37 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess what he means, is that it WMAN is not a true sprite handler - ie. although you can animate a sprite by switching between several images in a loop, there is no way of giving a sprite direction and speed, plus collision detection - this is what any games developers desperately need And what you ARE doing for us :-) Phoebus -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
Re: [ql-users] Small batch o factory new QL membranes
Ôçí 1/2/2003 1:27:55 ìì, ï/ç [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: > >Hi, all just got hand on a small batch (6 actually) factory new QL >membranes, i found them on a old shop and bought them all, im thinking >in putting them on ebay, any one interested ? how much you think is fair >? > > >Jorge I don't know but not VERY expensive as you could have say 10 days ago, as the new production run of brand new almost indestructible QL membranes has already started as my sources tell me :-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Graphics Compression
Ôçí 31/1/2003 5:43:38 ìì, ï/ç [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: > > Not sure - it will be gold card minimum anyway - currently the graphics for > > Aurora amount to 900K and the program and machine code to approx 110K plus a > QTYP dictionary Well the GoldCard won't need that much as the Aurora cannot work in extended modes with it :-( so memory requirements really fall down > > My aurora (under smsq/e) keeps crashing (resetting itself) if I try to run > the program from a ram disk - it is running out of memory here... Under > > Minerva, it just hangs... Don't think it is the code (hope not!!) Try to run instead of EXECing... I think it's too many LOCals that do the trick. it works fine (Have more faith in yourself :-) if you just run it... I made a trial turbo compilation run and didn't see any problems (yet) > -- > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH > TEL: 01977 610509 > http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
[ql-users] Internet with the Aurora :-) and some funny results from PC-Conqueror SE
Hi all, I managed just now to connect to the internet with my Aurora running SMSQ/E 2y99 but not through QDOS/SMSQ.E but via PC Conqueror SE, TCPIP for DOS (IBM ca 1995), MS DOS 6.22 and Lynx. Next I will try DR-DOS 7.03 which also has a graphical browser in it (I doubt it it can work with CGA though... anybody knows who wrote PC Conqueror so we could maybe amend the code a bit to use the extended resolutions that we have available? Bochs could be another solution but it's TOO big compared to PC-Conqueror... In the meantime, I ran some tests with PC-Conqueror with SMSQ/E 2y99, QPC, Aurora, Q40 and QXL. I had Checkit + v. 3.00 with stored results from a 386-DX @ 25 MHz I used to sell en masse in Greece (Altec 386i if anyone is historically inclined www.altec.gr ) and I compared it with the results from PC-Conqueror... The results are to say the least amazing Q40 CPU: 59x speed of an IBM XT (4.77MHz), 1.93x the speed of the aforementioned 386DX Math: 35x speed of an IBM XT (same), 1.85x the speed of the aforementioned 386DX Video: 95x speed XT (BIOS), 87x speed (Direct), 25x BIOS compared to 386DX25, 20x Direct VIDEO QPC's results (running on a Athlon XP @ 2200+ with Direct X 9, ATI radeon 6500 w/ 64Mbytes DDR under WinXP) are very similar (a little slower than the Q40 but around there) The Aurora I am testing as we speak. I wonder if anyone has Norton Utilities prior to v. 5 (4.5 preferrably so it can work with an XT) so I could try the SI instead which is a lot more accurate than Checkit's measurements. My copy is still in Greece and I only have v. 8.0 here (that runs under a 286 only) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Graphics Compression
Ôçí 31/1/2003 11:00:29 ðì, ï/ç [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: > > > Áðü: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Çìåñïìçíßá:Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:00:29 EST > ÈÝìá: [ql-users] Graphics Compression > Ðñïò: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Seems I may need to compress the graphics to get QWord to work on Aurora - > does anyone have any good code or better graphics compression techniques > than run line encoding??? > > Rich, anything else than RLE will be too costly on performance to recall the graphics... maybe implementing the tiles as 2 bit bitmaps would be a better and less memory costly idea... but again, Free memory reported on the SGC is 1 Mb and odd change after everything has been loaded. So there's no real problem there... other thing would be to reduce the res down to 512x384 or even 512x256 Phoebus > -- > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH > TEL: 01977 610509 > http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
Re: [ql-users] Fwd - help
??? 29/1/2003 4:33:54 ??, ?/? "Bill Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: > >Anybody else get a mail from Rich (RWAP) today with the above subject? >Text read "Hmm this mail does not appear to have got through" >and with attachment > >Never known Rich send an attachment before - suspicious > >All the best - Bill > > Not his fault bill, the attachment is from his mailer...AOL (whatcha expect) it's however straight text :-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emai ls !
Ôçí 27/1/2003 7:43:41 ðì, ï/ç [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: > No worries!! Bill Richardson's been calling me Rick for years!! Hmmm Rick Dangerous (Anyone remember that game?) Phoebus > > -- > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH > TEL: 01977 610509 > http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v.2y99 for Aurora with GD2!!!!!!
??? 27/1/2003 1:03:28 ??, ?/? "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: > >On 26 Jan 2003, at 15:51, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > > >> >> He has to be an android as he has been working around the clock >> apparently... at a certain point he sent me more than 3 versions in >> less than 20 mins ;-))) (Okay just happened once but you get the idea) > >Oh well, that only shows that we worked for 20 minutes > >:-) > >Wolfgang > Hehe, there is still some code from TT that was never fully tested from what I understand that he rewrote... there are some problems still but I am confident that he'll solve them. There was a nice side-effect from the new GD2 drivers... and that is that the superHermes whose keyboard stopped responding at times after a RESET command was given, now works fine (needs an enter to make it work still though). And the screen is EXTREMELY fast (I have said that about 500 times). It even feels faster than the same resolution on my 2200+XP with nVidia TI4000 w/ 128 Meg DDR memory graphics card Result: Nasta 1 (for the design) - Nvidia 0 (Take that!)... I wonder only how much faster it would be with the GoldFire... the Aurora manual speaks of a 'significant improvement with future products'... Now the only thing is left is have a decent filesystem :-) (And get rid of the _ separators... man these are SO hard to type :-) oh yeah and TCP (Jonathannn!!!) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v.2y99 for Aurora with GD2!!!!!!
??? 26/1/2003 2:03:40 ??, ?/? "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: > >On 25 Jan 2003, at 16:04, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > >> No, fortunately not. Otherwise I would be as depressed as Marvin (as >> anybody hitchhiking through the galaxy should now) ;-) > >Does that mean that you're an android? > >Now THAT explains a lot... > >Don't panic... > >Wolfgang >- >www.wlenerz.com > He has to be an android as he has been working around the clock apparently... at a certain point he sent me more than 3 versions in less than 20 mins ;-))) (Okay just happened once but you get the idea) Well he just finished it (as it looks like ;-) now Aurora supports Mode 4 'weird' resolutions as well (ie 768 x 384) etc. 512 x 480 is now fully supported and so is 512 x 384 (it was anyway). Screen loading even from an MSDOS floppy even beats QPC on the same resolution (okay not the same colours I know but I run QPC on an 2200+ Athlon XP so it's a good enough measure) Graphics are VERY fast, (I am impressed) which also means that when Nasta designed it he knew very well what he was doing :-). I quote also from the Aurora manual that 'Screen access can be further improved' as the hardware supports it, which means that with a GoldFire attached this can be a mean fighting machine ;-) Now anybody to restart production on Auroras for low end (colour wise) QLs? And maybe instead of a SGC, we can use something else. How about the SZ that Nasta had proposed? Phoebus
