[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maybe I just live in the centre of the universe ... London . :-)
Sorry Malcolm, I can't resist, I have to do it ..
London only *thinks* it is the centre of the Universe ! (GD&R)
Technically speaking, our very small and insignificant bit of the universe is
so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And as for the cover disk, I guess only someone like Per Witte could
> have come up with a name like POX for a program ;-)
Excuse me, I have come up with some good ones myself too, in the past. Remember
"ARchive Syntax Evaluator" all those years ago. :o)
One day I'll
> Phoebus Dokos put together a CD called the Interactive Fantasy
> Collection, which Darren Branagh sold for a while IIRC.
>
> That might be what you were thinking of.
No, it was a CD that someone else sent me. It was just a dump of a bunch
of inform type games. Not a commerical CD.
Tim Swen
In case you are all wondering about this Jochen sends his copies off
from Holland and the ones that I send out - i.e. all the UK ones and
most of the US ones - get sent to me by courier. I then have to put them
in envelopes and, in this case, label and add the disks. This is usually
2 days to a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard
Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Richard (I should join the club. I should also buy SMSQ/E but I don't
>actually know what it costs, or what it does - how it would affect my
>fairly light/trivial QL usage, but with a SCG and monitor etc, my QL
>is rat
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Malcolm Cadman writes:
>
>> Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2.
>>
>> I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ...
>> an unexpected "gift" ... :-)
>>
>> Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones
>> PO
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
>
> Which reminds me - at work we have a new name for visiting senior
> management. Seagulls. They fly in unanounced, make a lot of noise and
> drop piles of poo on you when you least expect it.
>
>
I like it! "seagulls" is (are?) bound to take off.
__
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Question for Dilwyn - how do you set a colour theme in Launchpad ?
>> You
>> make a brief mention of it in the article, yet with no example of
>> how.
>>
>> The Launchpad "Help" instructions also make brief mention, in par
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Hi Malcolm
>
>On Launchpad
>The MyQL Menu -> Display sub menu -> System palette item : set to a theme
>file using the pop down file menu eg Win1_Launchpad_green_theme and click on
>OK. Thats it I think.
Thanks, Duncan.
That is spot on .
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
>> According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is:
>>
>> FORMAT ram1_mdv1
>>
>> no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not
>> matter...
>> semantics are always difficult get right.
>>
>> Derek
> Ah, sorry, yes that is indeed correct.
>
> With this comm
Derek Stewart wrote:
> According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is:
>
> FORMAT ram1_mdv1
>
> no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter...
> semantics are always difficult get right.
You have to be right - you have the manual (8-)#
It is the *only* way to copy md
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:19:05 -, Richard Kilpatrick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 29 Nov 2006, at 02:28, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>>> I'm googling like mad, and can't find anything. I'm giving my friend
>>> my spare QL system, and I want to give her some softwar
> According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is:
>
> FORMAT ram1_mdv1
>
> no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not
> matter...
> semantics are always difficult get right.
>
> Derek
Ah, sorry, yes that is indeed correct.
With this command I am always scared of mistyping
According to my Trump card manual, the syntax is:
FORMAT ram1_mdv1
no underscore on the mdv1 or mdv2 device. Or maybe it does not matter...
semantics are always difficult get right.
Derek
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wedne
>> John Gilpin - after unmulled wine and no mince pies!!(aka 1994
>> vintage
>> Rioja, Apple pie tomorrow) (perhaps only the Chairman will get this
>> reference. JG.)
> An extra month next year (Quantember?) - would need AGM 2007
> approval
>
> Mince pies arrived 25 November. No gluhwein available
>>> Takes forever copying microdrives! I'd forgotten! And this is with
>>> the wcopy command!
>> With qpac2 it is easy.
>> FORMAT ram1_mdv1_
>>
>> This does a quick direct sector read and flags files that will not
>> copy.
>> Repeated use will often recover files.
>
> Wait. Did I forget a format co
> Hi Malcolm
>
> On Launchpad
> The MyQL Menu -> Display sub menu -> System palette item : set to a
> theme
> file using the pop down file menu eg Win1_Launchpad_green_theme and
> click on
> OK. Thats it I think.
> Dilwyn will give the definitive answer.
Ah, no need apart from mentioning that them
> Question for Dilwyn - how do you set a colour theme in Launchpad ?
> You
> make a brief mention of it in the article, yet with no example of
> how.
>
> The Launchpad "Help" instructions also make brief mention, in part 8
> System Settings, yet again no clear explanation -
Hmm, this does need upda
> There is a Infocom Interpreter (called ZIP) and game creator using
> the
> Inform language. They can both be found at the following location:
>
> Game Player
> http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/infocom.zip
>
> Game Creator
> http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/inform.zip
>
> The player comes with som
P Witte schreef:
> Malcolm Cadman writes:
>
>> Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2.
>>
>> I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ...
>> an unexpected "gift" ... :-)
>>
>> Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones
>> POpup eXtend - Per Witte
>> QL2PC - Geoff Wicks ( fu
On 29 Nov 2006, at 02:28, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I'm googling like mad, and can't find anything. I'm giving my friend
>> my spare QL system, and I want to give her some software with it
>> aside from the 4 applications - looking ideally for "The Quill"
>> adventure wr
Malcolm Cadman writes:
> Having just received the cover disk with QLToday Volume 11, Issue 2.
>
> I would like to say a thanks to the three authors ...
> an unexpected "gift" ... :-)
>
> Image Sampler - Dilwyn Jones
> POpup eXtend - Per Witte
> QL2PC - Geoff Wicks ( full version ).
Lucky you. Im
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