Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-26 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half I can confirm this; I saw him last Saturday at the QL meeting in Eindhoven...or was it a look-a-like ? ;-)

Re: [Ql-Users] Off Topic was The forgotten half

2008-10-26 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Off Topic was The forgotten half UK state pension is not too bad provided you've paid into serps, it's added another £90 a week onto my basic

Re: [Ql-Users] Off Topic was The forgotten half

2008-10-26 Thread Billy
Geoff Wicks wrote: In short John is just seriously overworked at the moment and having to do what the Dutch call mopping up while the tap is still running. I hope all members will have patience and understanding, Best wishes, Geoff No problem and here's hoping John gets the tap turn down

Re: [Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-26 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: It cannot cope with the new High colour window definitions, palettes and so on, only the old fashioned (!) mode 4 and mode 8 stuff. But once you get the initial menu definition converted, substituting palette entries is easy enough. Of course there is also the EP4 version

Re: [Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Of course there is also the EP4 version that has this bug fixed and also doesn't crash when encountering any high colour sprites and stuff. ;-) Which was much harder than it sounds. There's nothing worse, in my opinion, that taking someone else's code and running with it!

[Ql-Users] OT : Credit Crunch

2008-10-26 Thread Malcolm Cadman
Hi, Just to lighten things up ... I hope that everyone is enjoying the new breakfast cereal - Credit Crunch ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] OT : Credit Crunch

2008-10-26 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Careful Malcolm, John Gilpin might quote these jokes in Quanta like he did Norman Dunbar's recently. On the other hand, Geoff Wicks is the former probation officer, so he may need to take you under his wing as a cereal offender -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: Malcolm

Re: [Ql-Users] Patching EasySource_exe from Easy Pointer 3 to work in hi-colour mode

2008-10-26 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn and I used to call it Difficult Pointer all those years ago simply because it seemed to be not easy in the slightest. Once when I had a week off work for a holiday, I sat down with EP2 and just hammered away at it trying to find out how I could get it to do things. The tutorial series in

Re: [Ql-Users] The forgotten half

2008-10-26 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I can confirm this; I saw him last Saturday at the QL meeting in Eindhoven...or was it a look-a-like ? ;-) Why do you think I was only there for an hour? Otherwise you might have sussed me out. Think, there could be numerous clones of me infiltrating the QL community, Best Wishes, Geoff