Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?
Timothy Swenson wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:31:15 +0100, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only. Apart from that how come you have a 'World Series' that is only played by Americans ? The Major League Baseball (MLB) has a World Series because teams from the US and Canada are in the League. Canada has the Toronto Blue Jays and the Montreal Astros. The World Series started in 1903, long before Japan or other nations has professional baseball. Tim Swenson Baseball, as played in the USA, was invented or organised by Abner Doubleday sometime in the mid to late nineteenth century. For many years it was played by men only. Women and girls were were relegated to softball, which is played with a larger less dense ball. In early years the runner could be tagged by being hit by a thrown ball. Basketball was invented by Dr. James Neismith. Odly, in the list of University of Kansas basketball Coaches, Naismith was the only coach to post a lifetime losing record. In the early years of basktball, women played a modified version in which players were divided offence and defence, each restricted their own half court.Only men played full court. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] Knoware update
A.. 2004/07/11 Update and Additions a.. Updated Disclaimer. (Changed bit italicised) b.. QUIT works with Minerva Multibasics c.. Added Button - a MC toolkit to use the Button Frame d.. Added DelDir. A mini directory tree traversal tutorial. e.. Added HDRen. A routine to rename QXL.WIN (QLWA) hard disks. f.. Added Findname. A MC function to check for S*Basic function/procedure names. Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Knoware update
I wrote: A.. 2004/07/11 Update and Additions a.. Updated Disclaimer. (Changed bit italicised) b.. QUIT works with Minerva Multibasics c.. Added Button - a MC toolkit to use the Button Frame d.. Added DelDir. A mini directory tree traversal tutorial. e.. Added HDRen. A routine to rename QXL.WIN (QLWA) hard disks. f.. Added Findname. A MC function to check for S*Basic function/procedure names. Perhaps I shouldve added: All this and more can be found at http://knoware.mysite.freeserve.com/index.html. Not much to write home to Mum about, admittedly, but I thought yall should know that it's there.. Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] How to get a real SMSQ/E portable
On other paltforms it has been found the hard part of making a portable is getting a case, i.e. bit of plastic with a keyboard and screen. Motherboards have been designed for portables only to find 18 months later when the design process has finish, that the company making the case has changed it's range of portables including all the cases. While the cases could be bought up front this costs to much, and no one is prepared to pay to buy case as spares. I have a possible answer make a national lottery bid to design and make a case, for minority computer types and selling also to small companies to off lay the cost. -- Tarquin Mills Norwich Sinclair and Clones Show (ORSAM 2004) http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/orsam/ http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Sinclair/petition.html (Bring Back YS) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] sv_caps
After a little bit of naughty PEEKing in the system variables to update my old Caps Lock indicator programs, I noticed a slight difference in how the sv_caps (QDOS terminology) or sys_caps (SMSQ terminology) system variable at offset $88 works on QPC2 which highlights the dangers of usign PEEK and POKE This is a WORD length system variable, but the actual CAPS LOCK state seems to be in the lower byte only. For non-QPC2 systems, the value in this lower byte seems to be 255 for CAPS LOCK ON and 0 for CAPS LOCK OFF. On QPC2, the CAPS LOCK state seems to be in bits 0 to 6 only with bit 7 set afetr a change of state, then reset after you press a SHIFT, CTRL or ALT key with nothing else. Just thought I'd note this, and if anyone (Marcel? Wolfgang L?) can tell me why, so much the better! -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
