Re: [Ql-Users] Chas Dillon's Archive Book
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I wonder if Urs König happens to have a copy in his archive of old Sinclair stuff? Even I know many software and documentation Chas Dillon was involved with, I have never heard of this one. I searched my pile of QL files for *archiv*doc all I found are two documents archive1_doc (66 pages) and archive2_doc (110 pages). They are part of the QL-PD CD-R. I could not find an author listed in those documents, so it could be Chas work or not. Alf and Dilwyn could check the content and state if it's what was seeked for. No I'm afraid it's not. Those are the main Xchange Archive documents. Although they are quite useful in their own right! I'll see if I can get in touch with Simon, though. I don't think he's on this list. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
On 25/09/2010 20:29, Geoff Wicks wrote: -- From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:35 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK Hi Peter, seems to be - you all issues except the ones to Germany were mailed at the same time, same post office (of course). March and June issues seemed to have arrived quickly at all destinations. I still don't think the Austrian post office stores the issues for different times before they get delivered to the various countries - the earlier they get them over the border, the earlier they have space again (at least that sounds logical to me). Anyway, I am sure it will arrive in the UK sooner (and hopefully not too much later). I think the problem could well be in the UK. I believe I am right in saying that all overseas mail goes through Mount Pleasant sorting office in London and it is notorious for its problems, Best Wishes, Geoff QLToday has finally arrived in (Sunny!!) Manchester UK. Will enjoy reading it over the weekend while I am away from home. Thanks Jochen. John Gilpin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
On 30/09/2010 12:31, John Gilpin wrote: On 25/09/2010 20:29, Geoff Wicks wrote: -- From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:35 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK Hi Peter, seems to be - you all issues except the ones to Germany were mailed at the same time, same post office (of course). March and June issues seemed to have arrived quickly at all destinations. I still don't think the Austrian post office stores the issues for different times before they get delivered to the various countries - the earlier they get them over the border, the earlier they have space again (at least that sounds logical to me). Anyway, I am sure it will arrive in the UK sooner (and hopefully not too much later). I think the problem could well be in the UK. I believe I am right in saying that all overseas mail goes through Mount Pleasant sorting office in London and it is notorious for its problems, Best Wishes, Geoff QLToday has finally arrived in (Sunny!!) Manchester UK. Will enjoy reading it over the weekend while I am away from home. Thanks Jochen. John Gilpin. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Yes, it has arrived here too in Stoke today -- 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
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
On 30 Sep 2010, at 12:31, John Gilpin wrote: On 25/09/2010 20:29, Geoff Wicks wrote: -- From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:35 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK Hi Peter, seems to be - you all issues except the ones to Germany were mailed at the same time, same post office (of course). March and June issues seemed to have arrived quickly at all destinations. I still don't think the Austrian post office stores the issues for different times before they get delivered to the various countries - the earlier they get them over the border, the earlier they have space again (at least that sounds logical to me). Anyway, I am sure it will arrive in the UK sooner (and hopefully not too much later). I think the problem could well be in the UK. I believe I am right in saying that all overseas mail goes through Mount Pleasant sorting office in London and it is notorious for its problems, Best Wishes, Geoff QLToday has finally arrived in (Sunny!!) Manchester UK. And also in (Sunny too!!) Edinburgh (Scotland) UK. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Today today
Yes, it did exactly what it says on the cover and arrived (UK) Today! Looking forward to reading part 4 of 25 Years but haven't had the chance for anything more than a glance through yet. On the subject of electronic vs. paper copy, electronic would certainly be convenient for archiving - I don't have enough storage space to keep back issues of the paper version - but I'm more likely to read cover to cover a paper copy; if it were just available on a website I probably wouldn't get around to looking at every issue. Please keep the paper version for the time being! The Future (or, oh what is to become of my Q40?) My Q40 is still working perfectly reliably and I even get a decent enough image on an HP Pavilion f1523 LCD monitor if I shrink #0 to 4 text lines. In Mode 8 the image is very good (except circles are elliptical), but this is not the problem. The Q40 is now the only computer I have which has a floppy-disk drive; it is also the only computer I have with an RS232 style serial port and the only one with a parallel port. So while I still enjoy writing my own programs and trying out those in the magazine, all the effort typing it all in is going to be wasted if I can't get the stuff off for backup or transfer to an emulator when it eventually bites the dust. Is this the future of the Q40/Q60? I could buy a USB Floppy drive (if they are still made and are reasonably priced) for the PC but no guarantee it will read Q40 formatted disks. What about the CF reader/writer? If I got one and formatted a card with a SMSQ file system, is there any software for the PC that could extract the files from it? I did have something else to add to the future of QL debate but will have to leave it until later - got to go to work now :-( Ian. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
In message 4ca47502.7030...@btinternet.com, John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com writes On 25/09/2010 20:29, Geoff Wicks wrote: -- From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:35 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK Hi Peter, seems to be - you all issues except the ones to Germany were mailed at the same time, same post office (of course). March and June issues seemed to have arrived quickly at all destinations. I still don't think the Austrian post office stores the issues for different times before they get delivered to the various countries - the earlier they get them over the border, the earlier they have space again (at least that sounds logical to me). Anyway, I am sure it will arrive in the UK sooner (and hopefully not too much later). I think the problem could well be in the UK. I believe I am right in saying that all overseas mail goes through Mount Pleasant sorting office in London and it is notorious for its problems, Best Wishes, Geoff QLToday has finally arrived in (Sunny!!) Manchester UK. Will enjoy reading it over the weekend while I am away from home. Thanks Jochen. John Gilpin. Hi, Arrived in equally sunny London, 30th September 2010 ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today
Evening all, QL Today arrived in miserable damp and grey Leeds today. I've read most of it already! On the subject of electronic vs. paper copy, electronic would certainly be convenient for archiving... Yes, I have a point on that very matter too. As you may well know, for a number of issues recently, I've been writing a series on Assembly language. What you might not know is that I'm working on a book where I've taken all the episodes and screen shots etc, and collected them into a book created in XML using Docbook and processed to give a reasonably nice PDF file. The book is configured as double sided, A4 sized pages, ready to print. Looking at it just now, it's 228 pages long - so 114 actual physical pages, assuming that there are no blanks - which there are. How big is the file, uncompressed I hear you wonder? 890KB. Less than 1MB in total. Now I realise that there are PDFs and there are PDFs and Geoff's comments about each page having to be a bitmap will indeed make the issues massive, but I'd be pretty sure that there's bound to be a way of getting actual text into the PDF. Some ways that I know of are OCR scanning the bitmaps to produce text - soemthing I'm having to look into for work at the moment. If I come up with something handy, I'll let you know. Another way is the fact that the files supplied to Geoff and Jochen (and Bruce?) and text based and could, most likely, be converted to Docbook XML format quite simply - at least, on Linux anyway. I'd be willing to have a go at doing an example QL Today in PDF format, just to see how it could be done and how big the resulting file would be. As they say on Top Gear how hard can it be? Just a thought. And, for those of us with a eReader that takes ePub files, guess what, Docbook XML source files can be output in ePub format too. That's another project I'm having to deal with at work. Wish me luck. Cheers, Norman. PS. Please excuse the following, it appears that by law, I must add it on to any communications going out from the company or from the company equipment. Guess which laptop I'm using to type this? -- 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] QL Today today
Ian Pine wrote: Yes, it did exactly what it says on the cover and arrived (UK) Today! Looking forward to reading part 4 of 25 Years but haven't had the chance for anything more than a glance through yet. On the subject of electronic vs. paper copy, electronic would certainly be convenient for archiving - I don't have enough storage space to keep back issues of the paper version - but I'm more likely to read cover to cover a paper copy; if it were just available on a website I probably wouldn't get around to looking at every issue. Please keep the paper version for the time being! The Future (or, oh what is to become of my Q40?) My Q40 is still working perfectly reliably and I even get a decent enough image on an HP Pavilion f1523 LCD monitor if I shrink #0 to 4 text lines. In Mode 8 the image is very good (except circles are elliptical), but this is not the problem. The Q40 is now the only computer I have which has a floppy-disk drive; it is also the only computer I have with an RS232 style serial port and the only one with a parallel port. So while I still enjoy writing my own programs and trying out those in the magazine, all the effort typing it all in is going to be wasted if I can't get the stuff off for backup or transfer to an emulator when it eventually bites the dust. Is this the future of the Q40/Q60? I could buy a USB Floppy drive (if they are still made and are reasonably priced) for the PC but no guarantee it will read Q40 formatted disks. What about the CF reader/writer? If I got one and formatted a card with a SMSQ file system, is there any software for the PC that could extract the files from it? I did have something else to add to the future of QL debate but will have to leave it until later - got to go to work now :-( Ian. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi Ian, QPC2 with a USB floppy disk drive reads Q40/60 formatted floppy disks, or should I say SMSQ/E formatted floppy disks. The Q60 is still in demand, but I have no boards available at present. In fact I do not have a Q60 of my own. I do not want to get into the age old discussion of which is best, I have all QL hardware and software emulators. I mainly use QPC2 on Ubuntu Linux which is much more stable than Windows. Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
