[Ql-Users] Loft Clear out...
All, I've been clearing my loft. I'm not sure if these are of any interest to anyone, but I've uploaded three documents here: https://public.me.com/anthony.prime They are: 1. A promotional brochure for the Psion PC Four 2. A promotional brochure for Xchange (PC Version) 3. Psion Xchange newsletter dated Jan 1986 Each file is around 3mb and they make quite nostalgic reading Enjoy ;-) PS there are other items too, that I'll get round to scanning soon -- Anthony W. Prime anthony.pr...@mac.com Sent using Outlook 2011 for OS X. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Omega by Caret Limited
Does anyone else have a copy of this graphic adventure - see http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Omegalang=en I am having problems with the game - it works well on q-emulator, and I have both a Supercharged version and a Turbo version. However, if I kill an enemy in either version, the game just hangs... Am I missing something, or was this just a bug which was never fixed... I wonder whether we could ever persuade Simon Goodwin to produce his missing program - a program to de-compile Turbo compiled programs -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
I wonder if I may comment on the details of the problems with the Quanta Web Page on Page 4 or the latest QL Today. (I have extreme difficulty typing Today rather than Toady!) The statement that Internet Explorer correctly, displays the menu items on the left hand side, but the rest of the screen appears blank until the user scrolls down to below the menu. amuses me somewhat. I know exactly about this problem because my own web site at http://qdosmsg.dunbar-it.co.uk has the same problem with IE but not with anything else. (IE 9 does manage to display the pages properly I have to add.) Equally, my old website page for QStripper used to have a comment at the top that said something about the big blank space and the fact that the menu scrolled off the top when you scrolled the page. Only IE gave these problems. The cause is simple, Microsoft don't do standards. End of story. They think that they are too big and important for standards and ignore them, or change them as they see fit. The affected web sites are using CSS and versions of IE that I have tested on my old web site failed miserably, up as far as IE 8 Beta, to render the page correctly according to the CSS rules. At work I use the same Wiki system (DocuWiki) as I do for the above web site. Because the Government's chosen browser is IE 6.0 (the one with the most security holes and bugs in - go figure) we have to work with that. If I use a decent template for our work wiki, it's horrible under IE, so I have to use one that make the system look like a late 70's web page rather than something a tad more modern. My own web page doesn't display correctly using IE 6 and neither does the Quanta web page. Gone are the days, thankfully, when you used to see web sites with signs on them saying best views in Internet Explorer, now you see Using IE? Shame. Why not get a proper browser that follows standards and you will enjoy this site all the more. (Or words to that effect!) I decided with my own web site to use a template that I liked and if IE didn't work, then sorry, that's just tough. The properly written browsers do display the site correctly, so the solution is to get a proper browser. Harsh, possibly, but fair. The world no longer cow-tows to Microsoft. Moving on Also on Page 4, it mentions that I created a test PDF of Volume 5 issue 1, this was Volume 15 in actual fact, but no worries - I'm hardly one to criticise others for making typos am I! Not with the state of some of my articles. :-) The PD I produced was in the full defaults for Open Office 3 and as such, the font size may have been bigger than usual. I also produced it with white space between paragraphs - something not often done in QL Today - and my biggest bugbear with the magazine. As Geoff mentions, I created a single column layout at first as this is easiest to read on screen - you don't want to scroll down the page to read the first column, then back up and then down again to read the second column. In addition, where two articles share a page, you read down, up, down again to finish the first article, then down up and down to read the start of the second! It's excellent on paper where your eyes do the moving, but not on screen - unless you have one of those monitors that displays a full A4 page in portrait format! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
On 2 Apr 2011, at 17:08, Norman Dunbar wrote: I know exactly about this problem because my own web site at http://qdosmsg.dunbar-it.co.uk has the same problem with IE but not with anything else. (IE 9 does manage to display the pages properly I have to add.) This site appears not to exist! George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Omega by Caret Limited
--- On Sat, 2/4/11, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote: From: Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk Subject: [Ql-Users] Omega by Caret Limited To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Saturday, 2 April, 2011, 16:45 Does anyone else have a copy of this graphic adventure - see http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Omega〈=en I am having problems with the game - it works well on q-emulator, and I have both a Supercharged version and a Turbo version. However, if I kill an enemy in either version, the game just hangs... Am I missing something, or was this just a bug which was never fixed... I wonder whether we could ever persuade Simon Goodwin to produce his missing program - a program to de-compile Turbo compiled programs -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have an original MDV of it but it does have an error on. The game runs though! :) Pete. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
I know exactly about this problem because my own web site at http://qdosmsg.dunbar-it.co.uk has the same problem with IE but not with anything else. (IE 9 does manage to display the pages properly I have to add.) This site appears not to exist! This is why I said that I'm not in a position to criticise people for making typos! The proper URL should be http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk and not as above. Sigh! Cheers, Norman. PS. I note you are busy again George . updating pages all over the place! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
Right, are you wearing your flame-proof suit, Norman? Norman Dunbar wrote: I know exactly about this problem because my own web site at http://qdosmsg.dunbar-it.co.uk has the same problem with IE but not with anything else. (IE 9 does manage to display the pages properly I have to add.) But IE9 does not work on Windows XP machines. The affected web sites are using CSS and versions of IE that I have tested on my old web site failed miserably, up as far as IE 8 Beta, to render the page correctly according to the CSS rules. Well, I use IE8 and Firefox 3.6.16 and there are plenty of websites I visit from time to time which fail to display as intended on one browser or the other (mainly IE8 I hasten to add, though not always by any means). I have just spent an hour or two trying to figure out why a page on a site I maintain for a local craft association failed to display properly on Firefox - a table got its columns a bit scrambled. I am not sure what the problem was - I redid the page in a slightly different way and the problem eventually went away, but I didn't keep a copy to examine why. Using comment markers in table cells MAY have been the problem, but I am not sure. My own web page doesn't display correctly using IE 6 and neither does the Quanta web page. I am surprised anything displays correctly in IE6! Quanta home page has consistently failed to display as intended on IE8 too (Dan and Keith are fed up of me complaining about it - it won't get fixed before the move to the new hosts which should happen real soon I hope). It isn't just the Quanta home page that fails when using IE8 for me - I have great difficulties with the Typo3 CMS when trying to edit the pages via IE8. It is much easier (and seems to be faster, though that is probably subjective) when using Firefox. Gone are the days, thankfully, when you used to see web sites with signs on them saying best views in Internet Explorer, now you see Using IE? Shame. Why not get a proper browser that follows standards and you will enjoy this site all the more. (Or words to that effect!) While I would be the last person on this planet to stand up for Micro$oft, the plain home truth is that the majority of Windows users still use Internet Explorer of one version or another, despite its faults. To say that to your website visitors is laziness in many ways, as you are failing to ensure your website works for the majority. However, using modern web page editing software often produces code which is very hard or impossible to study and recode by hand, so this tends to become unavoidable sometimes. Of course, I suspect if you add up all the users of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and any other alternative browsers you may well find that the sum total of the others adds up to more than the number of IEs. If all the other browsers all display the pages correctly, your statement then starts to be valid. Rant over. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
On 2 Apr 2011, at 17:23, Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. I note you are busy again George . updating pages all over the place! At long last I've found out how (not to) set up a queue device. In the course of this I have found a most intriguing error in SMSQ/E which shows that no-one has ever used the vector written specially for queues. More of this later perhaps! George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
Corrections: On 02/04/11 18:11, Norman Dunbar wrote: While I would be the last person on this planet to stand up for Micro$oft, You only stand up just before you throw another PC running Windows out the window! ;-) You only stand up for Microsoft was what I meant to say! As of two months ago, the most used browser in all of Europe was Firefox 3. See http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/firefox-3-0-is-europe-s-most-popular-browser-588938 Sigh. As of March 31st 2009. Where I got two months ago I have no idea. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)
Norman Dunbar wrote: Hi Dilwyn, Right, are you wearing your flame-proof suit, Norman? No! Should I be? I'm only ironing, nothing dangerous! ;-) Ironing, or smoothing out the bugs? Anyway, how can you be reading your email while ironing ??? I have just spent an hour or two trying to figure out why a page on a site I maintain for a local craft association failed to display properly on Firefox - a table got its columns a bit scrambled. I am not sure what the problem was - I redid the page in a slightly different way and the problem eventually went away, but I didn't keep a copy to examine why. Using comment markers in table cells MAY have been the problem, but I am not sure. It's a shame you didn't keep a copy. Actually, I'm surprised you didn't. Making changes to a live web site is dangerous. My stuff is backed up daily and the Wiki software keeps n old versions - just in case. But you are an IT pro...I only take weekely backups because not enough changes (normally) get done in one week on any of the small-time stuff I do. Still, it used to be IE 5.5 and when we (the government) upgraded to IE 6.0, we have to get the vendors to build in different bugs to make the system work with IE 6. Go figure! He he, that I can believe ;-) It isn't just the Quanta home page that fails when using IE8 for me - I have great difficulties with the Typo3 CMS when trying to edit the pages via IE8. It is much easier (and seems to be faster, though that is probably subjective) when using Firefox. I suspect the problem is because the CMS uses an on screen editor to generate content. That is working inside a web page itself and probably using CSS. Hence, IE (whatever version) with its CSS problems, can't work with the editor properly. Just a hunch - I obviously don't know. Could well be the case. While I would be the last person on this planet to stand up for Micro$oft, You only stand up just before you throw another PC running Windows out the window! ;-) Yup! As the caption competition picture my son sent to me for the March issue of the magazine shows ;-) the plain home truth is that the majority of Windows users still use Internet Explorer of one version or another, despite its faults. As of two months ago, the most used browser in all of Europe was Firefox 3. See http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/firefox-3-0-is-europe-s-most-popular-browser-588938 - so unfortunately it seems as if all those Windows users are catching on to quality products and no longer being spoon feed mush by Microsoft. At long last! Seems that forcing M$ to allow Windows user to select other browsers might be having an influence. That article is not 100% clear on it, though, because the direct comparison was with IE7.0 specifically and mentions that the figure might be different if you base it on users using all versions of IE. Still that was 2009, so it must be even truer today. Thank goodness. To say that to your website visitors is laziness in many ways, as you are failing to ensure your website works for the majority. No, my website actually works for the majority. My site is based on a product that produces Web Standard HTML and CSS. It's not my fault that the people too lazy to get a proper browser (oops!) decide to stick with a broken one. One that has butchered web standards and now, the cows have come home to roost. (Cows? Roosting? Who's got the chickens then?) At the very best you'd have to admit that you are denying a big group the joys of accessing your website if it won't work on IE! Then you'd say (probably) thank goodness You do know, for example, that the web standard for email is plain text. So why then do Microsoft set their email clients up with default that send emails in bloody HTML. It takes masses more bandwidth and gives what extra? A bold text here or a colour there? It's content that is important - and that's why we have CSS, it separates the content from the styling. Yes, that's the difficult part. Give an average emailer the choice of pretty colours, fonts, pictures etc under their control against simple plain text, you probably know which they'd choose. Probably not the same as you and I would. Rant over. And a jolly good rant it was too. I enjoyed it. Cheers! Drat, failed in my efforts to annoy Norman :o( Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Omega by Caret Limited
On 02/04/2011 17:19, peet vanpeebles wrote: --- On Sat, 2/4/11, Rich Mellorr...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote: From: Rich Mellorr...@rwapservices.co.uk Subject: [Ql-Users] Omega by Caret Limited To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Saturday, 2 April, 2011, 16:45 Does anyone else have a copy of this graphic adventure - see http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Omega〈=en I am having problems with the game - it works well on q-emulator, and I have both a Supercharged version and a Turbo version. However, if I kill an enemy in either version, the game just hangs... Am I missing something, or was this just a bug which was never fixed... I wonder whether we could ever persuade Simon Goodwin to produce his missing program - a program to de-compile Turbo compiled programs -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have an original MDV of it but it does have an error on. The game runs though! :) Pete. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I think yours was the one I got the Turbo version from - try killing something... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
