Re: [Ql-Users] Stella

2017-03-23 Thread Arnould
.. But where are the "managers" who can understand this jargon? I think that they do not exist. Arnould On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:13:42 -0500, Dave Park wrote > Tony > > So, what *IS* happening with Stella? > > With quiet deference, not personally knowing your policy on

[Ql-Users] QL

2012-08-03 Thread Arnould
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Re: [Ql-Users] Interesting uses for QL parts

2012-01-09 Thread Arnould
> I have said this before but Laurence Reeves was a master of > this sort of programming. His QL Forth was under 4k of > machine code I think. > > Tony > Why "was"? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)

2011-06-13 Thread Arnould
to reduce the size of the scanned files by a factor of about 4. Arnould On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:47:13 +0100, Neil Riley wrote > Rich > > It would appear that the photocopier in work does rather > more than just photocopy! it has the option to email as > .pdf's also!! >

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-13 Thread Arnould
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:11:27 +0100, Adrian Ives wrote > Arnould, > > Thank you for this. The last time I looked at simser I > couldn't find an English translation, and had other things > to deal with, so I set it aside; but this helps a lot. I > will take a look and s

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-13 Thread Arnould
et/download.aspx?path=romeo-klive.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sinclair/ql/utils/simser.zip Maybe it could be worth to test this with your Ser-USB driver? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-03-14 Thread Arnould
especially as sometimes > one has to run dozens of times to eventually read some files. > Excellent! It really works. But is it by design or by chance? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Back on topic (was Re: Today Apple ...)

2010-01-31 Thread Arnould
ems developers love the complexity of posix-like multiprocessing/multithreading environments: it is because it secures their workplace and their wages. And BTW I did not dream this, one of them, system programmer at ABB robotics, wrote exactly this to me. Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show -> the youth hostel

2009-09-07 Thread Arnould
motorbike when there were catastrophic rains all over Switzerland, and it is not so bad a remembering as it could be. Google "Jugendherberge Luzern" or go to http://www.youthhostel.ch/ and everything is also explained in english. If I can come I think t

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-04 Thread Arnould
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:07:08 +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote > Arnould wrote: > > I did something like this in 1986/87 but only for pure ASCII text > > files. After the file was copied over, the PC still needed an end of > > file control code to understand what happened, CTRL+Z I t

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-04 Thread Arnould
ontrol code to understand what happened, CTRL+Z I think, wich had to be sent manually with something like: OPEN#3,SER1... PRINT#3,CODE(you will find the code of CTRL+Z) CLOSE#3 or with more modern systems you can use BPUT for example. Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] hypertext query

2008-08-27 Thread Arnould
commercial. I don't remember anything else though, like software title or author's name.. Arnould On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:14:19 +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote > > Dilwyn, > > a poke in a different direction , then: In the late eighties/early > > nineties, when C68 entered

Re: [Ql-Users] Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL?

2008-06-21 Thread Arnould
l-dithvide-2/ > > This should be supported - wonder if anyone would be > interested in writing a game using these techniques? The sample pictures are good! I did not know that my old QL was able to display such screens! Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailin

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
Nasta already had pointed out and Peter now confirms. Arnould On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:14:28 +, Malcolm Lear wrote > Hi Arnould > > This link is quite interesting. > http://www.microapl.co.uk/Porting/ColdFire/ > > Malcolm ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
t SMSQ/E + SBasic + some other tools like C68 and Turbo and forget about QL compatibility, at least in the beginning of such a project. I wonder how many thousands of hours of work this would mean. Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
an instruction set that is a subset of the 68k instruction set as well as developing a 68K emulator for Coldfire. This came after a (very) long presentation by Nasta: Hm, it IS worse than I imagined. Marcel At this occasion we also had the very last comment by Tony Tebby

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Arnould
could be considered a sort of existing prototype. And of course SMSQ/E (+ Superbasic + C68 + an assembler + EasyPtr + QDT + ???) for this board may be sold for a few hundred $ or Euros per licence. OK, only dreaming... Arnould On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:35:38 +, Derek Stewart wrote > I got this

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Arnould
OK thanks, at least someone got it! Arnould On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:12:45 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote > On 26 Feb 2008 at 12:43, Arnould wrote: > > > No answer to this message neither to a couple of older ones. Did > > anybody receive one of them? > > > Yes, I got

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Arnould
No answer to this message neither to a couple of older ones. Did anybody receive one of them? Arnould On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:18:59 +0100, Arnould wrote > I know that a little more than 3 years ago Nasta came to the > conclusion to use V4 Coldfire to possibly port SMSQ/E. But > then

[Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-24 Thread Arnould
/53209998cd0e8c016/index.html and http://elmicro.com/de/cobra5329.html If first URL too long, then search for cobra5329. What to think about this? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Working sotware (was Re: fast find)

2008-01-08 Thread Arnould
After long technical studies of what was done in the past (ie before 1983) Tony Tebby did software that worked (and still works). That Marcel managed to make QPC work on top of Windows is a kind of miracle. Arnould On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:33:34 +, Roy wood wrote > There are two paral

Re: [Ql-Users] Tops-10, SMP, NT and QDOS (was 2.5 inch HD)

2008-01-03 Thread Arnould
e wheel but was not successfull > either. As I am optimistic I think that the better > technology wins in the end, but it must come at the right > time (the story of gas vs electric engines in cars). So it > must be reinvented many times. IMHO it is definitely not Linux... >

Re: [Ql-Users] Tops-10, SMP, NT and QDOS (was 2.5 inch HD)

2008-01-03 Thread Arnould
lled a second time. Sinclair Research and Tony Tebby came about 15 years after DEC and did reinvent the wheel but was not successfull either. As I am optimistic I think that the better technology wins in the end, but it must come at the right time (the story

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-10 Thread Arnould
n, > > I don't know, I have a VERY hard time taking this subject > seriously at all. > > Wolfgang > Same for me: there definitely must be some differences in the brains on the Island vs continent! (no offense meant: without the big island we would not have the QL!) Arnou

[ql-users] QDT: how many jobs

2007-06-14 Thread Arnould
Hello, For those who use QDT: how many jobs run during a typical working session? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[ql-users] Eindhoven June 16

2007-05-30 Thread Arnould
Hello, Who foresees to go to Eindhoven on June 16? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] QXL... and WMOV

2007-03-14 Thread Arnould
ws interactively, > enter the command WMOV and move the pointer to some > location and press . To quit the second instance of > Sbasic enter QUIT. Is this new? It doesn't work in my QPC 3.21 (OK my QPC is maybe outdated, but it works well for my

[ql-users] Stella.html

2007-03-02 Thread Arnould
Hello, Did someone save the Stella text from TT but the htmlised version by Thierry Godefroy? I do not find it online anymore. Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] XChange bug

2006-12-07 Thread Arnould
ly for formatting and printing. Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Is Goldfire vapourware? I don't fhink so

2006-04-10 Thread Arnould
ot be very available for this project any more (In France my employer is forced to take me back at the same wages as long as 2 years later if creation of a company fails, the sort of advantage our youth is fighting for in the streets). Arnould, Paris, France On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:32:40 +0100,

Re: [ql-users] Today 20 years ago...

2006-01-25 Thread Arnould
My QL was 20 in November 84. I don't remember the exact date, but I still have the invoice somewhere in the handbook. It was version JM imported to France by a non official reseller. It still works well. Including the microdrives. Arnould On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:37:17 + (GMT), St

[ql-users] Wikipedia and QL nostalgy

2006-01-13 Thread Arnould
;http://www.jan-jones.co.uk/index.html> Who did all this work? Different people? Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[ql-users] Win apps from QPC

2005-12-20 Thread Arnould
advance Arnould ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm