Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:48 | Feb16:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:09 | Feb16:
Fun, huh? :)
It was particularly good fun with sH using similar decoding chips.
Firstly we *knew* we could use three pins only to output the 8
Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:09 | Feb16:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:30 AM, David Tubbs wrote:
The address decoder now knows that 1. "This address is for you" and two, it
has three pins which it can now pas through a 3 to 8 line decoder:
input output on 8 pins
000 = 0001
001 =
Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 10:30 | Feb16:
Dave/
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 09:12 | Feb16:
Dave/
Please can you disclose your Surname so we know it's Dave Smith or Jones
we're communicating with? Thanks.
Dave Park
Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 09:12 | Feb16:
Dave/
Please can you disclose your Surname so we know it's Dave Smith or Jones
we're communicating with? Thanks.
Dave Park of Austin, Texas, formerly of Bedford (where I worked at Sandy)
and Milton Keynes, England.
That is not comprehensive enough
David Tubbs wrote, on 15/Feb/11 17:58 | Feb15:
So that's why I think such wasteful distribution is equivalent to
spamming.
Indeed. Top quoting does need some editing and snipping.
Tony
I suspect some email clients an be set n how he quote rmght be unware of
the crud going out, I only use a
David Tubbs wrote, on 15/Feb/11 17:45 | Feb15:
At 14:55 15/02/2011 +, Bryan Horstmann:
The aove referenced post came with EIGHT layers of quotes.
After a long scroll down just one line addition of 10 words.
Text from the oldest quote is present in 8 other posts, two parties have
posted it
Plastic wrote, on 15/Feb/11 14:03 | Feb15:
I will include full, IKEA-style instructions :)
... so it will be flat pack then and have a strange name (8-)#
I think the best was a table top called "Bra".
Tony
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Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 15/Feb/11 13:42 | Feb15:
On 15/02/2011 01:39, Plastic wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Bob Spelten wrote:
On 14 Feb 2011, at 19:38, Plastic wrote:
... I would be happy to design and manufacture a limited run of these
adaptors to use CR2032s so we can all have
Dave Park wrote, on 15/Feb/11 08:54 | Feb15:
I have now been sent the schematic for an Issue 6 QL. I will need to clean it
up some though.
Thank you mystery benefactor.
I have corrected versions of that. There are errors in the original,
particularly in the monitors pinouts.
I have a whole
Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 20:50 | Feb14:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On 14 Feb 2011, at 20:01, Plastic wrote:
Is the CR2032 man enough though?
The CR2032 is 3V 235ma, and on this card would need to be replaced
every
three years or so, which would be a
On 14 Feb 2011, at 20:01, Plastic wrote:
Is the CR2032 man enough though?
>>>
>>>
>>> The CR2032 is 3V 235ma, and on this card would need to be replaced every
>>> three years or so, which would be a simple "pop a new one in" operation...
>>> The 40LF220 had a lower current ca
Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:54 | Feb14:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:38 | Feb14:
Hi all,
I have a Gold Card which has the discontinued 40LF220 lithium battery. The
equivalent MGL0025 is also discontinued, and even with the long
Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:38 | Feb14:
Hi all,
I have a Gold Card which has the discontinued 40LF220 lithium battery. The
equivalent MGL0025 is also discontinued, and even with the long shelf life
of these lithium batteries, the new old stock ones are now useless. When you
can find them, the
Lee Privett wrote, on 14/Feb/11 09:32 | Feb14:
Some more Minerva MKII upgrades which replaces the standard QL ROMs (a small
circuit board and new ROM) with real-time clock and I2C interface. :roll:
Ah yes. These are on my list to supply to Rich Mellor.
Current ETA looks like third week in Ma
Peter Graf wrote, on 13/Feb/11 23:10 | Feb13:
Hi Marcel,
In fact it's now the other way round, there is no native hardware that
can match QPC in speed or features. That's why I was a bit mystified
by your choices. Just saying.
no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much
pjwitte wrote, on 13/Feb/11 19:55 | Feb13:
pjwitte wrote:
<>
Thanks Dilwyn. Did you realise your brother has now beaten you in the
Google rankings, or maybe you are an electrician in Ascot during the
week. Nice van (8-)#
http://www.dilwynjones.com/
This is what Google Chrome thinks of the sit
On 13 Feb 2011, at 17:58, "Lee Privett" wrote:
> "as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene."
>
> Ok Tony, not sure what you mean by that, are you saying you may be making
> some more?
>
> Lee Privett
>
Some more what?
Tony
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gdgqler wrote, on 13/Feb/11 15:32 | Feb13:
On 13 Feb 2011, at 15:28, Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links?
The file links under http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/rdhist.htm are broken,
no driver, no
Tony Firshman wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:24 | Feb13:
I see Qemulator has moved form geocities.
What link should I use for it?
Found it on Dilwyn's site (ironically hosted by *my* server).
http://terdina.net/ql/q-emulator.html
Thanks Dilwyn. Did you realise your brother has now beaten y
I see Qemulator has moved form geocities.
What link should I use for it?
Tony
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Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:38 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:23 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:23 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the ROMdisq page.
Ouch - I had forgotten that was there. It doesn't
Rich Mellor wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:17 | Feb13:
I am fresh out of Minervae unfortunately, until Tony makes some more for
me
Unlikely I am afraid until March - I am in the final stages of a house
renovation.
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Tony
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Plastic wrote, on 13/Feb/11 06:57 | Feb13:
Hi all.
I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK
keyboards.
Here's what I have seen so far. The PCB most resembles an Issue 7 board, but
with some changes.
The first apparent difference is the odd serial and joystick connec
Plastic wrote, on 13/Feb/11 03:50 | Feb13:
If there's enough demand, I would be happy to make a few of these boards -
though they would be "prototype" PCBs and fairly expensive. Short run PCBs
tend to run around $40 each just for the PCB. Everything else would be
around $10. It might be easier to
Malcolm Cadman wrote, on 12/Feb/11 19:37 | Feb12:
In message <4d5690f5.20...@rwapservices.co.uk>, Rich Mellor
writes
On 12/02/2011 13:32, Lee Privett wrote:
I was just wondering what would be involved in burning my own EPROM
with my own set of routines for plugging into the ROM port (like
TK2
gdgqler wrote, on 12/Feb/11 16:40 | Feb12:
On 12 Feb 2011, at 15:16, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
Lee Privett wrote:
Thanks guys, I am now giving some serious thought to a Retro Arcade
Console with the QL at the core, but at switch-on I don't want the user
to have to see or press the F1/F2 configurat
Lee Privett wrote, on 12/Feb/11 16:31 | Feb12:
I have only ever seen the Minerva ROM in emulation packages, is it an actual
ROM I can get hold off and replace the JS/JM type or is it a little more
complicated than that?
It is. There is a small PCB but it would be easy to wire up a pcb to
emu
Lee Privett wrote, on 12/Feb/11 15:03 | Feb12:
Lee/
Thanks guys, I am now giving some serious thought to a Retro Arcade Console
with the QL at the core, but at switch-on I don't want the user to have to see
or press the F1/F2 configuration choice, so the next thing is in the EPROM code
(which
gdgqler wrote, on 10/02/2011 10:00:
On 9 Feb 2011, at 19:53, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 09.02.2011, 19:05 + schrieb Tony Firshman:
I wish we had 12 digits - base 12 is *so* much better than base 10.
Tony
If we had 12 digits, we'd probably have 12 fingers as
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 9/Feb/11 19:53 | Feb9:
Am Mittwoch, den 09.02.2011, 19:05 + schrieb Tony Firshman:
I wish we had 12 digits - base 12 is *so* much better than base 10.
Tony
If we had 12 digits, we'd probably have 12 fingers as well.
That's 20% faster typing we ha
Peter Baily wrote, on 9/Feb/11 17:52 | Feb9:
I have a large number of files stored on the hard disk of a Q40
(original version) with two floppy drives: - loads of interesting stuff
like Mark Knight's Fractal program. I wish to transfer this to a
computer on which I use QPC2. Can anyone sugges
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 9/Feb/11 17:21 | Feb9:
On 09/02/11 16:51, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
Why can't programmers tell Christmas from Halloween?
Because DEC 25 is OCT 31!
Oh dear, bad jokes R us!
There are 10 types of developer in the world, those who understand
binary and those wh
Plastic wrote, on 8/Feb/11 22:30 | Feb8:
Hi all,
During my time at Sandy, I learned microdrives (the part inside the case,
not the cartridge) were surprisingly reliable and fault-free. The only two
faults that came up on a regular basis were dirt, and damaged capstans.
The capstan, for those no
Malcolm Lear wrote, on 8/Feb/11 16:58 | Feb8:
Hi,
I've just been looking at a nice little 'barebones PC' that will be used
in a research project. Fitted with a hard disc with XP and QPC2 it
should make a nice replacement QL. QPC2 may even work with the open
source ReactOS.
http://www.pcupgrade.c
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote, on 8/Feb/11 09:49 | Feb8:
-- Yes indeed you are - it looks good.
--
-- I have two USBWIZ modules and I saw another two at the Vienna QL show.
--
-- so there is probably a market for firmware/drivers only.
--
-- Tony
Tony,
same with me - got a USBWiz s
Good God - it is hard to keep up here now.
What a great trigger for postings was Geoff's dramatic email.
Things were plodding along, but since then there has been unbelievable
activity.
Well done Geoff.
Tony
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Peter wrote, on 7/Feb/11 16:13 | Feb7:
Adrian Ives wrote:
Actually I think that's a shame, Peter. I know there are technical and
performance issues with going the MDV emulation route, maybe even
insurmountable ones, but it had that kind of "Wow Factor" about it.
Most won't care whether the da
Adrian Ives wrote, on 7/Feb/11 12:05 | Feb7:
Dave,
Bill of Materials: Yes
Schematics: Yes
Plan: This will depend upon the likely demand. My initial question was
intended to gauge this ... because, honestly, I don't know how many QLs
remain in circulation and, of them, how many owners would cons
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 7/Feb/11 10:49 | Feb7:
So, my advice to anyone considering writing documents is simple, do it
in Docbook. Do it once and create many different formats. Unfortunately
the learning curve is not shallow, but it's not steep either!
Well http://sourceforge.net/projects/doc
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 6/Feb/11 11:36 | Feb6:
Am 06.02.2011 12:19, schrieb Plastic:
Also...
One of the major problems I'm having is the "manual" I downloaded. The
"QPCKeywords V1_02" document has many keywords missing/ignored that I
remember, like RIGHT$, LEFT$ and INSTR... and I don't remem
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 5/Feb/11 20:10 | Feb5:
PS Purely off topic but I shall expect you all to rush to Derby. Apparently we
have come 4th in Lonely Planet's list of the top ten world places you must
visit because of the quality of our ales.
I have friends in Derby - Willington to be exact.
Plastic wrote, on 4/Feb/11 16:50 | Feb4:
Also, Tony, how feasible is it to repurpose the RomDisq work for use with
removable flash-type storage like CompactFlash or SDHC?
I have no documentation on Tony Tebby's driver.
Of course anyone is welcome to contact him.
Stuart Honeyball wrote the cod
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 4/Feb/11 16:05 | Feb4:
A lot of them nowadays have "load balancing" code in the hardware. If it
notices a hot spot, it reorganises the data to avoid that hot spot.
Cheaper ones, probably done.
I vaguely remember that Tony Tebby's drivers for RomDisq from TF
Services might
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 4/Feb/11 15:46 | Feb4:
Ian,
How many erase/re-write cycles is each bit in modern flash memory good
for nowadays? SD cards would be great for storing libraries of programs
and data that don't change frequently, but what about using them, for
example, for frequently changi
Lee Privett wrote, on 4/Feb/11 13:19 | Feb4:
Plastic wrote, on 4/Feb/11 11:31 | Feb4:
Everything you say is true. Common sense.
The main problem you have to overcome is 25 years of inertia. People are
familiar with hard drives. Also, people seem to think SD cars are
"dinky"
like microdrive
Plastic wrote, on 4/Feb/11 11:31 | Feb4:
Everything you say is true. Common sense.
The main problem you have to overcome is 25 years of inertia. People are
familiar with hard drives. Also, people seem to think SD cars are "dinky"
like microdrives.
Oh what a *brilliant* misprint. "Dinky cars
Billy wrote, on 4/Feb/11 10:54 | Feb4:
On 03/02/2011 21:23, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
Am 03.02.2011 21:09, schrieb Dilwyn Jones:
snip
his plans for the replacement Qubide (http://omega.webnode.com/ or
http://omega.webnode.com/products/product-1/) - Anybody still in
snip
"Hello readers, there ar
On 3 Feb 2011, at 23:25, Stephen wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm one of the apathetic subscribers but will put my head above
> the parapet to comment
>
> Having been a Quanta member since close to its inception I am happy to
> continue to pay my sub. It's trivial enough to be hardly worth the bothe
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 3/Feb/11 14:19 | Feb3:
By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
I access this group but don't use a PC.
Likewise, given the definition above. But not the same as you.
Guess how. Forbidden fruit is a clue (8-)#
Um, is a "pineapple"?
:-)
Not a 'pine'
Peter Baily wrote, on 3/Feb/11 13:11 | Feb3:
However, we should not be surprised that most
people use PCs; after all this exchange of views, news, etc. would not
exist unless we were using PCs.
By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
I access this group but don't use a PC.
Guess
Rich Mellor wrote, on 3/Feb/11 12:21 | Feb3:
We have now managed to resurrect an early example of the Sinclair QL
home computer as it was first unveiled to the expectant media, complete
with the slow v1 Psion software and the infamous Dongle (or Kludge)
which contained one third of the QL's opera
Stephen wrote, on 2/Feb/11 15:43 | Feb2:
Hear hear! They're impossible to read on my mobile too.
Impossible? My scroll down is quite fast and I do get there. I think
you meant 'more difficult'.
I wholly agree with Norman (of course (8-)#) and I use a mobile too.
Top quoting *does* require so
Rich Mellor wrote, on 31/Jan/11 11:26 | Jan31:
On 31/01/2011 11:14, Petri Pellinen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rich Mellor
wrote:
I am lucky to get 2GB download speeds, so if someone else was using
that,
and it halved to 1GB that would be very noticeable!
Holy smoke, Rich! I though
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 31/Jan/11 11:08 | Jan31:
Hi Dave,
being a private pilot and an ATC sim fan myself this is a very
interesting project. Looks like a nice initial concept. Are you going
to share the source code for this somewhere (github, sourceforge, ...)
?
Maybe couple of different type
Malcolm Lear wrote, on 31/Jan/11 10:16 | Jan31:
On 29/01/2011 22:43, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 29/01/2011 22:34, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Hi,
News clip, that could be useful for all of us.
O2 to launch free Wi-Fi hotspot network
Taking on BT and The Cloud, the mobile operator plans to give
custome
Malcolm Cadman wrote, on 30/Jan/11 18:13 | Jan30:
It seems that O2 are proposing a rival system of WiFi hot spots ... if
it ever gets put in place.
My local BTFon hot spot is located at the local McDonalds ... :-)\
Well you can always sit in the car outside (8-)#
Tony
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On 28 Jan 2011, at 22:05, Rich Mellor wrote:
>
>
> I did start a thread on the QL Forums about how to improve Quanta, but even
> the QL community seems divided here - some people will stick steadfast to the
> ql-users mailing list, whereas others prefer the forum, where it is easier to
> f
thorsten herbert wrote, on 26/Jan/11 16:01 | Jan26:
"Major QL hardware is practically impossible as long as the QL operating system
situation remains as it has been for almost a decade. The only reasonable
way out seems to be a restructured Minerva with new drivers. Work on it
continues slowly."
Roy Wood wrote, on 25/Jan/11 17:52 | Jan25:
On 25/01/2011 16:18, Tony Firshman wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 25/Jan/11 08:23 | Jan25:
My real heart's desire is, ironically, a hardware/software
project, to
put together a package of an ARM-based embedded computer with Linux,
booting
gdgqler wrote, on 25/Jan/11 16:58 | Jan25:
On 25 Jan 2011, at 16:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
...
I said "That must have cost you an arm and a leg" - innocently I
assure you.
He had physical problems and very little use of his arms and hands.
Oh dear! I used to have an expression for my unwilli
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 25/Jan/11 08:23 | Jan25:
My real heart's desire is, ironically, a hardware/software project, to
put together a package of an ARM-based embedded computer with Linux,
booting right into uQLx, so that it is basically a QL. Getting it so
it can fit inside a QL case with PSU
Plastic wrote, on 23/Jan/11 02:13 | Jan23:
Dave/
Well, today was fun.
First, I re-discovered that integer handling is about 30% slower than
floating point, which seems very counter-intuitive to me.
Yes that was to me too. Laurence Reeves (Minerva author) explained it
once but I forget. I thi
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 22/Jan/11 15:50 | Jan22:
Hi Rich,
What amazes me is how they can still claim up to 8Mbps service when the
vast majority of houses (except in cities) seem to get a lot less -
Welcome to the worldo slightly unscientific claims. Much loved by the
"woo" trade in health supl
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 19:05 | Jan18:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 17:31 | Jan18:
I need to ask a question which is slightly off-topic here.
Does anyone use BBC iPlayer on the same PC as the BBC iPlayer?
Urmm - what did you actually mean by that sentence.
Does anyone use it on
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 17:31 | Jan18:
I need to ask a question which is slightly off-topic here.
Does anyone use BBC iPlayer on the same PC as the BBC iPlayer?
Urmm - what did you actually mean by that sentence.
I suspect you are talking about the Iplayer desktop used for playing
peet vanpeebles wrote, on 17/Jan/11 22:14 | Jan17:
--- On Mon, 17/1/11, Tony Firshman wrote:
Martin Wheatley wrote, on 17/Jan/11 21:53 | Jan17:
Yes exactly. I used a ribbon cable adaptor with a twist. Bill Richardson got
me to make 100 of these, but he lost all of them!
> T
Martin Wheatley wrote, on 17/Jan/11 21:53 | Jan17:
Once upon a time I had a third microdrive that plugged into the side of
the QL
As far as I remember it was a Spectrum item that that worked when you
plugged it into a QL upside down
Yes exactly. I used a ribbon cable adaptor with a twist. B
Rich Mellor wrote, on 17/Jan/11 15:14 | Jan17:
The problem with copy protected microdrives continues to be an issue
even some 20 years after the practice was stopped!
A lot of software is cracked to overcome this issue, but not all.
The use of an external microdrive may be a solution to som
On 12/01/2011 13:48, Peter wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Speaking from pretty little low level knowledge, how about abandoning
the microdrives completely (I thought you were)
So far, I could have used just one SD card interface, keeping one
microdrive.
Abandoning the microdrives completely is
On 12/01/2011 12:30, Peter wrote:
Malcolm Lear wrote:
I was looking at the QL schematics a few weeks back and noticed the
Microdrives use a serial bus. I guess this is bit banged by the software
to transfer data. Could this be connected to the SD SPI serial interface
using level shifters (5V -
peet vanpeebles wrote, on 11/Jan/11 17:19 | Jan11:
--- On Tue, 11/1/11, Peter wrote:
From: Peter
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL SD/MMC-Card interface survey
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Date: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011, 16:59
Tony Firshman wrote:
It did strike me that Peter's hope to use it in
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jan/11 13:29 | Jan11:
Rich Mellor wrote, on 11/Jan/11 12:13 | Jan11:
after all, Miracle's hard disk did
still allow use of a ROM cartridge (from memory) although I may be wrong
there.
It did. I remember he had designed it around the std eprom pack, and I
had to file t
Rich Mellor wrote, on 11/Jan/11 12:13 | Jan11:
after all, Miracle's hard disk did
still allow use of a ROM cartridge (from memory) although I may be wrong
there.
It did. I remember he had designed it around the std eprom pack, and I
had to file the case to fit a full width romdisq card.
To
Peter Graf wrote, on 11/Jan/11 00:10 | Jan11:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I didn't see his his hard disk interface. Phil Borman told me he had
used the Rebel code. Was that right? Qubide also used this under
license. Phii was not aware of any license for his build.
What I can say is,
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 10/Jan/11 19:59 | Jan10:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I didn't see his his hard disk interface. Phil Borman told me he had
used the Rebel code. Was that right? Qubide also used this under
license. Phii was not aware of any license for his build.
AFAIK DS has writen hi
Rich Mellor wrote, on 10/Jan/11 16:49 | Jan10:
On 10/01/2011 16:32, Peter wrote:
does one of you know a valid email address or any contact to Dirk
Steinkopf, author of the QL-HD / Falkenberg Harddisk driver?
... I've found him :-) Thanks Ralf& Rich!
All the best,
Peter
___
Derek Stewart wrote, on 7/Jan/11 09:32 | Jan7:
On 07/01/11 09:20, Tony Firshman wrote:
Derek Stewart wrote, on 7/Jan/11 07:28 | Jan7:
On 04/01/11 15:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
- Maybe we can get back onto a new discussion topic, as to how you
would do this...
- QPC2, QXL and QLAY can all access
Derek Stewart wrote, on 7/Jan/11 07:28 | Jan7:
On 04/01/11 15:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
- Maybe we can get back onto a new discussion topic, as to how you
would do this...
- QPC2, QXL and QLAY can all access the same QXL.WIN file - but I
don't think they can at the same time...
- QXL and the QL c
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 5/Jan/11 13:17 | Jan5:
Also - see the odd mistake on the packaging shot for Vroom -
http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Vroom
- I wonder if that was a typo or an odd camera trick - does anyone
have a better photo as I must have sold that one!
--
Rich Mell
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 3/Jan/11 16:19 | Jan3:
On 03/01/11 16:07, Rich Mellor wrote:
Ermm. Of course, if he could access the website or send an email, he
wouldn't need the help..
eminds me of what happens when I start up a PC at work that is supposed
to run "headless". Without a keyboa
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 3/Jan/11 15:03 | Jan3:
Like I say, don't get me going on this one! I've gone into some detail
to show that Tony's experience in the south east of england is not
exactly representative of what's available in the other regions of the
country.
Yes indeed, of course.
Even
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 3/Jan/11 13:07 | Jan3:
How did you find out about this in Switzerland - or do you
watch a lot of British TV?
It's quite easy. My quadruple play provider Swisscom offers saved searches.
One daily search is "Clive Sinclair" and so it was in my inbox this morning.
Quadrup
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 3/Jan/11 10:39 | Jan3:
To keep things going here are the first Sinclair News in 2011:
Today at 20:30 Sir Clive Sinclair can be seen in Celebrity Mastermind (a
celebrity quiz) on BBC1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xc86z
QL forever, Urs
He he, it'll be interesting to
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 31/Dec/10 14:36 | Dec31:
... much like I suppose Superbasic's habit of implicitly adding missing
END statements.
Yup. Just try throwing some of those programs at SBASIC, it'll soon tell
you there's something missing, though not necessarily the correct point
in the listing
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 31/Dec/10 13:22 | Dec31:
each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a
converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that?
And then you have cells with COLSPAN and/or ROWSPAN to cope with!
And table captions
... and mis-configured ta
QL-MyLink-DT wrote, on 30/Dec/10 20:50 | Dec30:
I know.. I know... Dilwyn said "hasn't"!
But, as I'm John in Wales and West of Chester.
I report that I recieved my QUANTA yesterday (Wednesday), bearing an 'audit
trail' -
Manchester 07.08 pm. etc. etc. On which date? aaah... that's far too
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On 21 Dec 2010, at 16:54, "Dilwyn Jones" wrote:
>> I was interes
i found the most common break was where the tails joined the main part. when
fitting one should make a gentle bend, unlike the factory.
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Tony Firshman wrote, on 14/Dec/10 12:53 | Dec14:
George/
gdgqler wrote, on 14/Dec/10 10:44 | Dec14:
George/
More oddly perhaps, is that I don't get a copy from the list of
e-mails I send to the list unless I copy them to myself.
Hmm!
I have *exactly* the same issue for all mailing
gdgqler wrote, on 14/Dec/10 10:44 | Dec14:
George/
More oddly perhaps, is that I don't get a copy from the list of e-mails I send
to the list unless I copy them to myself.
Hmm!
I have *exactly* the same issue for all mailing lists under Gmail.
All was OK when we used our own server.
I ha
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 10/Dec/10 12:46 | Dec10:
On 10/12/10 12:19, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
-6=invalid channel ID.
You close the window after writing to it, twit!
Should that be "before"? ;-)
and 'closed' (8-)#
Tony
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Bob Spelten wrote, on 4/Dec/10 11:00 | Dec4:
Op Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:50:35 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman
:
I am getting really rusty.
I found my *own* program that automatically makes hard directories and
backs up.
However there is *something*, probably a rogue file, that is eating up
memory
Michael Grunditz wrote, on 4/Dec/10 18:16 | Dec4:
Do you check your spam folder?
Just occasionally user group messages - including my own - get diverted into my
spam folder. It appears to be a fairly random thing,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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I am getting really rusty.
I found my *own* program that automatically makes hard directories and
backs up.
However there is *something*, probably a rogue file, that is eating up
memory.
How can one copy *all* files using wcopy?
... or even from QPAC2.
I suppose with WCOPY it is something
Rich Mellor wrote, on 2/Dec/10 15:56 | Dec2:
On 02/12/2010 15:29, Rich Mellor wrote:
What is the earliest QL ROM anyone has a copy of?
I have recently come across a PB ROM, but unfortunately, it is only
the 8000h eprom - the other two are missing.
What surprises me is that WHEN Error stil
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 30/Nov/10 10:27 | Nov30:
Bryan/
Thanks everyone.
However, my grey matter is a little woolly as an octogenarian. I've
searched back, and Tony said "Qemulator works fine in second screen
under XP in VMware on a Macbook". That is what set me thinking. My Amilo
machine has
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 29/Nov/10 13:27 | Nov29:
The overflow is *below* the head area and has nothing to do with print
imperfections. On the 830P it was dead easy.
Tony
Oh, OK. Still not got the confidence to try tackling it though, even
though you say it was dead easy on the 830P!
Actually, t
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 29/Nov/10 12:37 | Nov29:
To give you an idea of how old the 880 is, a few months back the "built
in obsolescence" warning came up saying it was time to have it serviced
(in Epson-speak, "time for us to quote you such a high price that you
will buy a new printer"). That is,
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