Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ- 68020+ Instructions
In a message dated 26/09/2004 09:11:51 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in the recent past I spent some time on this issue triing to change smsq/e source code to use some 68020+ instructions. I had on this issue some mail echange with Marcel and George (and Thierry) to try to understand why, only the specific function of pan and scroll in the 16 bit driver, are so slow for the q60 compared to the equivalent emulated QPC. The specific files iod_con2_16_mblock_asm make a massive use of move.l instruction in ciclic program loops and I am convinced that the use of MOVE16 could improve dramatically the performances results. Sadly the use of MOVE16 is not a simple replacement of move but need a complete rework of the logic cause the registers addressing changes Due my (still) poor programmer capacity I was not able to produce a working -r files, I renew the request of some help, obviuously from this changes will benefit also the Sgold card users. Was any discussion held on this at the Eidhoven meeting?? I do think that it would be advantageous to provide 68020+ instructions in SMSQ/e especially as this should significantly increase speed on Q40, Q60 and SGC. Perhaps the best person to look at the changes required would be George Gwilt - if only he had the time and incentive ! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers
studies to scrap direct printing from the QL completely.) Why? I use an Epson 740 connected to PC by usb and at one and the same time (can't spell simutainly) connected to a QL by parallel port ( it has a mac port also ), although I can't say if this model or an equivalent is still out there, Jochen would know maybe. We are still using Stylus Color 740 and 900 together with QPC. Both printers are rather old (4...5 years, maybe even older), but print very well. The Color 880 was the last model EPSON made which had the ESC/P2. I also tried Canons, but recent models (SmartBase, or the brandnew IP series) does not recognise a printer language. You can send whatever you like to them - they do not even react at all. And to the obvious question - no I have never attempted printing from both computers at the same time (;-) I have not either, but they are all connected via USB anyway. As far as I remember the manual does not say you can't use both ports at the same time... Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] QPC2 v3.22
Marcel, Having downloaded and installed this version, I have found that the printer is now the default printer rather then the name, even if you try to save the printer name. Worse, it defaults to the default printer even if I have designated another printer for PAR1 and I have to use Jochen's printer utility to be able to use the other printer at all. Best Wishes, Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] QL2004
Thanks to all the people who have praised QL2004. Just one clarification. This was not my show, but a Sin-QL-Air event. I say this for a good reason. There was a lot of behind the scenes work, and the brunt of this was done by Sjef v.d. Molengraaf with some extra help from Karl Boekema. Unfortunately we did discover that now Sjef has retired, and no longer works at the school, it is a little more difficult for him to get things done. However, he made great efforts to ensure that all our promises were kept. Two things deserve a mention. We were hoping to be able to use the school's network for the internet connection, but they refused this and we were dependent on a single telephone line. Sjef allowed us to use his account. As I understand it we were also unable to use any of the school's beamers, but Sjef was able to hire one. When we arrived at the school on Saturday morning, we discovered that nothing was ready for us, including a promised public address system. Sjef and Karl remained calm and ensured everything was ready on time. Also Sin-QL-Air backed the show financially - where else in the QL show circuit do you get free coffee and pay only 50 euros for a roll? (I mean bread rolls - I know we were in the Netherlands, but the other sort of roll is known as a stikkie there.) Two things from the above. I realised how much more professional the presentations were with a beamer. Something for other show organisors to think about. Secondly it is now becoming common for QL shows to have an internet connection. Might be worth a short article in QL Today about how this is done technically and what use QL-ers make of it. (I thought Tony was going to get lynched when he ordered other users off the line to make way for Jon Dent's presentation, which unfortunately could not finally go ahead because of technical problems.) Thank also to all the presenters. I was quite suprised how well attended all the activities were and at the number of questions afterwards. The QL community is still alive and vibrant. It was also great to come out of the lecture room and hear the buzz of activity in the main hall. It is a long time since I have seen so many people working on their own machines at a show. I would have liked attendance to have been slightly better - say another 10 - 15 people - and more representation from the UK, but attendance was still well above our minimum target. Apologies to Al Boehm that there was no ladies program - his email request arrived after I had left for the Netherlands. I hope the ladies present were not bored. Finally we had 25 people at the restaurant after the show. I have seen fewer at many an official show dinner. I was the last person to get to the restaurant and the show buzz was still present when I entered. I am surely allowed one little bit of naughtiness. For all you people who 18 months ago lectured me an shows being just tea, coffee and a hall, I have some very large raspberries. Thanks everyone for a great show, Best Wishes, Geoff PS If you are wondering how I managed to avoid Guantanomo Bay, the British government finds it easy to gather the intelligence, but sexing up the dossier takes time. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven - no! QL2005!!!! @ ?????
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Uhlig Subject: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven snip There was only one disappointment as to me: it was too short ;) Let's look forward to another show of this quality, perhaps next year? I hope so. If there is a QL2005, then this time it is the turn of the UK. On my way back from QL2004 I did a lot of thinking about this and see it as a highly viable option provided Quanta is given a good kick up the backside. Basically I would envisage that we would do the same as at QL2004 by splitting the logistics of the show (hall, equipment and catering) from the presentation (publicity and programme). In the UK we might just need a third arm for the ladies programme. Quanta would have to accept responsibility for the logistics and financing. I would envisage either a hotel with catering or a hall such as the Somerset Hall in Portishead with self-catering. They would also have to arrange for such things as beamer, screen and internet connection. I have learnt a lot from QL2004 and would be quite happy to take on the presentation side of things. This is subject to one condition, namely I require 6 to 9 months notice of the date and venue of the show. In practice this would mean the show would have to be in Autumn 2005 and that the date and venue known by the Quanta 2005 AGM. The activity programme could very similar to QL2004, although I would not expect all the 2004 presenters to repeat their performance. Given the different profile of the average UK from the average continental QL-user we would probably have to aim for a more populist and slightly less technical activity programme. It would be nice to have some hardware demonstrations as a way of encouraging Quanta to think about a possible role in future hardware development. I am sorry to disappoint everyone who wanted QL2004 to go on for ever, but I tend to be in favour of short and sweet. I would rather you go home frustrated through the lack of time than frustrated through boredom. That doesn't mean to say there couldn't be a dinner the night before or a social activity the day before or after. Now that kick up the backside! We have to be realistic. Quanta has talked about QL2004/2005 for about 18 months now. Last year I felt let down when nothing had been done by Byfleet. This year Byfleet is only six weeks away and I feel even more let down. Let's be realistic. There is little evidence that the Quanta committee will do anything to organise QL2005 unless the members demand it. What we need is a mass lobby. Every Quanta member on this list who wants to see a QL2005 should now email every member of the Quanta committee before the Byfleet show. And encourage your fellow members who are not on the list to do it as well. The email addresses of the Quanta Committee are: John Mason - chairman @ quanta.org.uk John Southern - secretary @ quanta.org.uk John Gilpin - treasurer @ quanta.org.uk Roy Brereton - editor @ quanta.org.uk John Gregory - software @ quanta.org.uk Geoff Wicks - gwicks @ beeb.net Please note these are their official emails and not their personal ones and therefore there can be no complaints of harassment. Also please remember that as a member of the Quanta committee I should also receive your email. Finally don't think you can give your support by a message on this list. Only two members of the Quanta committee subscribe to this list, two have never subscribed, two have formerly subscribed but found it rubbish (with good reason). Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers
- Original Message - From: Bill Waugh Subject: Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers - Original Message - From: gwicks - Original Message - Subject: [ql-users] Canon Printers I have a Canon BJ-200ex, which is my only QL compatible printer. About 8 years old and getting obsolete with cartridges going up in price and probably becoming more difficult to obtain. (I am already doing feasibility studies to scrap direct printing from the QL completely.) Why? I use an Epson 740 connected to PC by usb and at one and the same time (can't spell simutainly) connected to a QL by parallel port ( it has a mac port also ), although I can't say if this model or an equivalent is still out there, Jochen would know maybe. Very simple answer. I have a life. Put another way my life is not dominated by the QL. When I have to buy a new printer there will be a lot of things I shall take into account in making my choice and the QL is just one of them. I am not going to waste time or money looking for a QL compatible printer when the QL community has pussyfooted for years on solving the problem. More provocatively, in April 2004 three leading lights of the QL community sat on a Florida beach and decided that solving the printer problem was one of the main tasks for the 12 months ahead. We are now almost halfway through that 12 months. Could they give a progress report please? Best wishes, Geoff Wicks. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven - no! QL2005!!!! @ ?????
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 at 20:15:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) such things as beamer, screen and internet connection. What's a beamer? A projector perhaps? Exactly Somerset hall is a good venue for British visitors, but a bit far away from sea and air ports perhaps? As far as venues go, I think that either Somerset Hall or Horizon Centre might be the best ones in terms of facilities. The local sub-group in the Somerset Hall area is no longer active, but it is in Roy Brereton's area, so he'd bring local knowledge to it. There was always a tradition of well organised and attended shows there, and an enthusiastic microphone person in Henry Orlowski! I remember Quanta saying the Horizon Centre was too expensive. I liked the Walton Park Hotel, but I suspect that is expensive too. Not exactly convenient though for overseas visitors or people North of Watford. Not sure how easy access would be for international visits - is the local area served by an international airport for example? What are rail connections like to the south coast sea ports and Birmingham and London airports? Is the Birmingham group still fully active? Birmingham would be better for people north of Watford. TOny -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] QL2005!!!! @ ?????
I remember Quanta saying the Horizon Centre was too expensive. I liked the Walton Park Hotel, but I suspect that is expensive too. Not exactly convenient though for overseas visitors or people North of Watford. Not sure how easy access would be for international visits - is the local area served by an international airport for example? What are rail connections like to the south coast sea ports and Birmingham and London airports? Is the Birmingham group still fully active? Birmingham would be better for people north of Watford. Great that a good time was had by so many, how many ? Would it not be a good idea to take a poll of how many would come, and from where ? Would the Europeans come by road, air, rail or coach ? I imagine if you tried to strike a mean (after giving one point to all, but with an extra point to those you KNOW would turn up) you might find somewhere in the North of London, say between the North Circ' and the M25 and near a tube station. It does not surprise me to perceive this anti Quanta sentiment, way back I was in the Cambridge group, an independent operation well looked after by Peter Rowell, we had a vote on wether or not to affiliate - Not ! Committies are frightful monsters, I got on and tried to bring some common sense to the MENSA org when the whole thing had seemed to have descended to an IQ (not to be confused with intelligence) testing station. No such luck then, I wonder how Clive is doing there. DT ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Fw: [ql-users] Skype
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Skype Hi Calls to landlines from Skype are charged at receivers local rate, out of the 20 euros credit I took out, their is still 17.50 left, calls to all 5 continents, mostly USA and China, a lot to Europe. Can talk to whole groups all day free. Have had it about a year, not a problem. Great for fixing comps on help lines and forums, can talk to person while fixing their comp. Regards Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: [ql-users] Skype I was going to ask about this again, but today's Telegraph had this article :- YOU mean you actually pay for your phone calls? That's like... s 20th century. Thus brag the 12.7m customers of Skype, the upstart company that offers free calls over the internet between users of its software. Founded last year by the people behind Kazaa - the free music downloads service Skype and its rivals are serious headache material for the traditional telephone operators. Some analysts even compare the threat that Voice over Internet Pr9tocol (VoIP) providers like Skype poses to the /ikes of BT with that posed by file-sharing sites such as Kazaa upon the record industry. This time around there'll be no legal recourse either. Skype's operations are unarguably legitimate, so BT won't be able to pursue fanatic teenage tech-heads through the courts like its peers in music publishing. Tomorrow, Stephen Sale of industry research house Analysis will publish a report warning that western European incumbent voice operators lilçe BT could lose ?6.4billion in revenues to Skype and others between now and the end of 2008. Most of the revenues would disappear into the ether - rather than transfer to the new breed - because calls over the internet are free: provided you have a decent PC, a monthly broadband subscription and your call stays on the net. In fact it's difficult to describe most users of Skype's software - which is also free - as customers at all - at least not yet. Here's how the service works. Skype's software can be downloaded from the website www.skype.com. It converts analogue voice signals from a microphone into digital data, which is then turned into data packets that are sent over the internet in the same way as e-mails 'and Web pages. At the receiving caller's end the packets are collected, turned back into sound and pumped through the computer speakers or the listener's headset if they've got one (you can buy one for a flyer). The proposition is viral, as marketing nerds love to say, because the more users join, the more people you can call for free. At the moment, 70,000 people a day are signing up, most of them in Europe. It's rather like the Carphone Warehouse Talk Talk service - another irritant for BT - which uses the traditional switched network but also offers calls to other users for free; Take-up of Skype in the UK is lagging behind Germany, Sweden and other countries where fasterinternet speeds are more easily accessible. However, BT is fast rolling out broadband across Britain, which will make voice calls over the internet easy for millions more. The irony is that this could come at an unexpected cost as people use their traditional telephone less and less. BT's share of the voice market is already shrinking as more people make calls on mobiles. Those calls that people do make on the home phone tend to be longer, sit- down calls to family and friends. If those calls are all free on the internet via a rival company, that becomes a problem. Of course, companies like Skype need to make money somewhere, which is one reason to be wary of the hype around VoIP. Just to prove nothing is free, Skype has begun charging l.lp for calls to traditional landlines in Europe, North America, Australia and parts of South Africa and significantly more for calls to less developed places. Users can't receive calls from normal phones either, although the founders claim they are working on this. They also plan to start charging for new services such as voicemail. BT has launched more than one VoIPproduct for its own consumers but has failed to market these too hard for fear of cannibalising its own revenues. It has been lucky that until recently most other VoIP services for consumers suffered from poor quality. Now, however, that appears to be changing. To date, Skype has been the most successful upstart, perhaps because its founders had, in Kazaa's user group, a ready-made community of tech-savvy, heavy internet users to market to. BT, which is currently rebuilding its network to send all voice calls over internet technology, has a far more vast subscriber base to target with its own VoIP offerings. Shareholders can only hope it doesn't blow its big advantage yet again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
