Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread James Hunkins
Hi Marcel, This fast curser blink sounds like the same problem that I get running QPC under XP in a virtual Windows machine in OS-X. At times, the cursor goes nuts while other times it slows down to a reasonable speed. I also notice that when I move the cursor around the CPU pegs out at ma

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > QPC needs RAW sector access to read/write floppies. Not sure whether > WINE emulates this at all and cannot test as my server doesn't have a > floppy drive. Follow up: you might want to try creating two symlinks like cd ~/.wine/dosdevices ln -s /dev/fd0 a:: ln -s /mnt/flopp

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: >> OK, so get 0.9.52 > Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives > repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of. Hmm. Even on my trusty P3-600 server over a virtual VNC X session over a WLAN link QPC ran pretty usable

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, that's today's "something new" then. I had no idea that > assembly under Linux would be so different to Windows. (Which > assembler do you use on Windows by the way?) It used to be TASM (Turbo Assembler), but when Borland discontinued it and certain bugs made devel

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > I've typed this entire message in QD under QPC/Wine, then copied it to > the scrap and ctrl-c'd it into the mail prog. Good to know that it works for you. They are rewriting the graphics part and I still got a problem with it on my desktop, but I've submitted a but report

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Tim, > What I did when running UQLX under IRIX was to just put the floppy in > the disk drive and just use 'dd' to copy the entire disk to a file. This works : dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy bs=512 count=1440 and I get the floppy image on disc. When I start QPC up and configure the image as win2

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Timothy Swenson
> I'm currently researching 'how to write a Linux File System' to allow > me to do something like : What I did when running UQLX under IRIX was to just put the floppy in the disk drive and just use 'dd' to copy the entire disk to a file. Then I had UQLX read the file like a QXL file. You don'

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Wolfgang, > OK, so get 0.9.52 Version 0.9.52 obtained and installed. QPC runs, slowly, and still gives repeating characters - but not all the time. It is now workable - sort of. I notice that if I pause at the keyboard then start typing, I get the repeats. Pressing ENTER a few times then typin

Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

2008-01-06 Thread Tony Firshman
hitchies wrote: > hitchies wrote: >> Tony said - >> >> What a con! >> === >> >> I'll take that as an apology then. > Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising > anyone. > > Tony > === > > ..that's enough patronising. Th

Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

2008-01-06 Thread hitchies
hitchies wrote: > Tony said - > > What a con! > === > > I'll take that as an apology then. Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising anyone. Tony === ..that's enough patronising. Thank you Tony. Regards to all, John

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Norman Dunbar a écrit : > How on Earth did you get around the repeating keys - I find it > impossible to type anything at all. As I said, I ha that problem once, but it went away pretty quicly, I don't really remember how, but maybe when upgrading to ther latest wine, it already had gone by the