[Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread thorsten herbert
Hi Adrian, am very sorry to read your news! You have done a great job and I was very happy to see some movement and new hardware developments! My plan was to wait still the SD project is ready and than make my old QL working again which anyhow needs some repair ... In general as I see it,

Re: [Ql-Users] Easyptr manual

2012-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Before I reinvent the wheel and OCR my Easyptr manual to use on my eBook reader, has anyone else already done this? The Easyptr commands are the hardest syntax to remember of all the BASIC extensions, I think! After reading this I checked in my usual directories and found

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Adrian Ives wrote: I have sent the most recent sources to Peter Graf just a few minutes ago. The code may be placed in the public domain, but it is up to Peter how he wishes to move forward with it. I regret that I cannot offer any support with the drivers as I am moving on to other projects,

Re: [Ql-Users] Easyptr manual

2012-06-11 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Before I reinvent the wheel and OCR my Easyptr manual to use on my eBook reader, has anyone else already done this? The Easyptr commands are the hardest syntax to remember of all the BASIC extensions, I think! After reading this I checked in my usual directories and found nothing, thus I

[Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread thorsten herbert
Adrian Ives wrote: I have sent the most recent sources to Peter Graf just a few minutes ago. The code may be placed in the public domain, but it is up to Peter how he wishes to move forward with it. I regret that I cannot offer any support with the drivers as I am moving on to other

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum

2012-06-11 Thread Dave Park
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com wrote: Hi, If I create a REPeat loop thus: 100 Frame=0 : Keypress=0 110 REPEAT loop 120   a$=INKEY$ 130   Frame=Frame+1 140   IF a$ THEN Keypress=Keypress+1 150   AT 0,0 : PRINT Frame, Keypress 160 END REPeat

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread Dave Park
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net wrote: Adrian Ives wrote: I have sent the most recent sources to Peter Graf just a few minutes ago. The code may be placed in the public domain, but it is up to Peter how he wishes to move forward with it. I regret that I

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum

2012-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Park wrote: That being said, it's still a wrong behavior in the sense that INKEY$ is not like INPUT but is more like KEYROW - both should instantaneously check if a key is pressed and report if so. Unlike KEYROW INKEY$ does NOT check the current keyboard status, it just gets the next byte

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Park wrote: Of course, no idea if any hardware development for the QL could ever be commercially successfully nowadays, but it might have made for a nice KickStarter project to gauge real interest. Having worked it out myself for my own projects, I know they'd never be commercially

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-11 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I think the key advantage for an SD-card project is something Urs already said years ago, that it might appeal to computer collectors. These are not terribly interested in the QL per se but might pay something if it enables them to transfer files to one of their collector items without too much