Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.

2007-02-23 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see, so even though pth1_ seems to be a list of separate directories, it doesn't fully work like that, therefore if an application asks for where to look for it's data, you can't just use pth1_ expecting the application to see all the data even if you've setup

Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.

2007-02-23 Thread Norman
Dave Walker wrote: In terms of using quotes around the filename, I get into the habit of doing this as it allows for characters that would not be valid if used without quotes. If you put quotes around the file names etc in S*Basic you are effectively defining a string variable. If you

Re: [ql-users] Programming question

2007-02-23 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more question, anyone tried to develop QL apps on PC? For example have you tried Easy68k? Currently I'm using macroassembler AS (by Alfred Arnold). Spookily enopugh, I donloaded Easy68K just two days ago. Haven't had a chance to do anything with it though. It

Re: [ql-users] Programming question

2007-02-23 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jan, I also found fabulous source of documentation in QDOS Internals page. Greets to author. And greets to you to. Unfortunately, QDOS Internals (as featured in Linux Format magazine number 87 I think!) is far from finished. :o( One day soon, I hope to do more

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Gilpin wrote: - Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee - Original Message

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread Rich Mellor
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:18:27 -, Stephen Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, However, it is not the fault of SMSQ/e that only commercial assemblers can compile it. George Gwilt has done a sterling job with GWASS and converting smsq/e sources (and the compiler in some aspects) to

Re: [ql-users] Programming question

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Feb 2007, at 21:34, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I want to present kind of demo for QL on the retro-computing competition called Forever see: http://forever.zeroteam.sk I did some graphics already on PC and it looks good (looks cool in fact :-). But, I need to write special screen hadler with

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Feb 2007, at 21:48, Rich Mellor wrote: The only other way would be to find someone to volunteer to convert the smsq/e sources (which were originally written using QMAC) so that they could be compiled with another assembler. However, GWASL is the only public domain assembler so

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Feb 2007, at 08:58, Rich Mellor wrote: However, the problem is that in order to do this, you need someone with in depth knowledge of QMAC and the new assembler to be used, and someone who can follow the original smsq/e sources to ensure that they are all converted correctly. A

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Walker
This certainly looks as if it could be of interest.The issue I see is working out what modifications would be required to allow the output to be generated as (or converted to) the SROFF format used under QDOS/SMSQ for object files. If that was done it would probably be quite trivial to adapt

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Walker
I have now looked at the documentation for this assembler, and it states there that the assembler is not capable of generating linkable code. This would I fear make it non-viable as an option for assembling SMSQ/E and also for use with v68. A shame that as for a moment it looked exciting.

Re: [ql-users] Needing smsqe to compile smsqe

2007-02-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
No, you don't ned smsqe to compile smsqe. True, you need a dev device - but look no firther than Phil Borman's SUB device, which you can use for that. It's on Dilwyn's website somewhere. Yes, www.dilwyn.uk6.net/tk/index.html SUB and DEV can both be renamed, in other words, a DEV_USE flp

Re: [ql-users] Programming question

2007-02-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Thanks for mentioning that. I also found fabulous source of documentation in QDOS Internals page. Greets to author. There are some useful routines in Quanta's software library, including a nice little routine which sets a mixed mode display... That was one of my objectives as well. Can I

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread John Gilpin
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee gwicks wrote : Sorry, John, but you are missing the point. In this case Quanta should not

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread John Gilpin
I have passed this suggestion to Committee for IMMEDIATE consideration. John G. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff In a message dated 23/02/2007 00:58:08 GMT

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread John Gilpin
Thanks for the advice Tony, Are you suggesting that I just leave out the brackets? Like this, or do I have to set up something else in OE if so what? Is there a convention to follow as regards where the reply goes? Sometimes I get replies at the top of the original email, sometimes individual

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Gilpin wrote: Thanks for the advice Tony, Are you suggesting that I just leave out the brackets? Like this, or do I have to set up something else in OE if so what? Yes indeed. I have long since removed OE, but it *does* default the way you

[ql-users] Zip

2007-02-23 Thread Roy wood
Here is a little conundrum for you. I have a zip file which was sent to me by Jim Hunkins with QDT v 1.01 on it. It has sat on my downloads directory for ages since v1.02 is the current one. I was recently asked for a copy of it because the user had only v1.00 and you have to go through v1.01

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee gwicks wrote : Sorry,

Re: [ql-users] Zip

2007-02-23 Thread François Van Emelen
Roy wood schreef: Here is a little conundrum for you. I have a zip file which was sent to me by Jim Hunkins with QDT v 1.01 on it. It has sat on my downloads directory for ages since v1.02 is the current one. I was recently asked for a copy of it because the user had only v1.00 and you

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-23 Thread Matrassyl
Hi, To be fair about this discussion - see John's reply to my question about whether Quanta could buy out the copyright on QMAC Duncan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Need for Speed

2007-02-23 Thread Billy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Have finished upgrading the hardware on my PC for the moment. Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz, 1Gigabyte RAM, SATA hard disk, Windows XP. QPC2 3.13 achieves 141.6 bogomips (7 jobs running at time of assessment), compared with Q60 which got 156.06 bogomips ( 17 jobs

Re: [ql-users] Need for Speed

2007-02-23 Thread QL2K
-Message d'origine- De : QL2K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : samedi 24 février 2007 00:17 À : '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet : RE: [ql-users] Need for Speed Hi Duncan, I got a similar machine Core 2 Duo 6600 (2.4 Ghz), 2 GB of RAM - DDR2 667 And I got 149.33 at the bogomips test under

Re: [ql-users] Zip

2007-02-23 Thread Roy wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think the signal extension has to be installed before unzipping with the 'unzip' version found on the QDT cd. I had some problems with it and I had to modify 'qdtinst_bas too. François Van Emelen The signal extension is