Re: [Ql-Users] New QL Assembly Language Book.
Norman, your psychic powers are amazing, how did you know I only had two friends! Many thanks for the update though On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 at 20:27 Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: Greetings everyone. After much work, some wailing, some gnashing of teeth and a good few hours typing on my phone while on holiday recently, I have finished updating the file at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf which is the good old Assembly Language book I released into the wild just before Christmas. Changes are: George's observations and comments incorporated, Numerous typos fixed, LibGen removed until I fix it as there looks to be a chapter rewrite required, A new, much nicer format used, Code reformatted to not wander all over the margins, Proper table layout, Much nicer code layout, Orange! (You'll have to read it to follow that one!) 375 pages of sheer bliss, and working cross references and a full, clickable index. Please download and give copies to both your friends! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] New QL Assembly Language Book.
Ok, I read Assembly language is very, very simple. Abandoned... ;-)) 7000 4E75 Works always. Good Job! Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 9:27 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] New QL Assembly Language Book. Greetings everyone. After much work, some wailing, some gnashing of teeth and a good few hours typing on my phone while on holiday recently, I have finished updating the file at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf which is the good old Assembly Language book I released into the wild just before Christmas. Changes are: George's observations and comments incorporated, Numerous typos fixed, LibGen removed until I fix it as there looks to be a chapter rewrite required, A new, much nicer format used, Code reformatted to not wander all over the margins, Proper table layout, Much nicer code layout, Orange! (You'll have to read it to follow that one!) 375 pages of sheer bliss, and working cross references and a full, clickable index. Please download and give copies to both your friends! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
On 17/07/15 20:53, pjwitte wrote: On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to format a 'win'. The manual says: WIN_FORMAT 1 Allow WIN1_ to be formatted FORMAT WIN1_10 Create a 10 Megabyte WIN device on C: ... you have to echo the two characters displayed ... WIN_FORMAT 1,0 protect WIN1_ again against unwanted formatting As far as I know you can't modify to size of a 'QXL.WIN' you have to create a larger (or smaller) one and copy your files. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. François Van Emelen SNIP Yes, but make sure youre not formatting your boot drive! ;) Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi, In Windows 8, users (even administrators) are not allowed to create files in the C drive root directory, otherwise, an error message like “A required privilege is not held by the client” or “access is denied” will be prompted. To fix it, just turn off the User Account Control (UAC). In Windows 8, do not turn off the UAC via control panel, it must go through the registry. Or create file, i.e. QXL.WIN files in your user area and change the Devices deintion in the QPC2 startup. Regards, Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] New QL Assembly Language Book.
On 17 Jul 2015, at 20:27, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: After much work, some wailing, some gnashing of teeth and a good few hours typing on my phone while on holiday recently, I have finished updating the file Wow! Every serious QLer should have a copy. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
Am 18.07.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 17/07/15 20:53, pjwitte wrote: On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to format a 'win'. The manual says: WIN_FORMAT 1 Allow WIN1_ to be formatted FORMAT WIN1_10 Create a 10 Megabyte WIN device on C: ... you have to echo the two characters displayed ... WIN_FORMAT 1,0 protect WIN1_ again against unwanted formatting As far as I know you can't modify to size of a 'QXL.WIN' you have to create a larger (or smaller) one and copy your files. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. François Van Emelen SNIP Yes, but make sure youre not formatting your boot drive! ;) Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi, In Windows 8, users (even administrators) are not allowed to create files in the C drive root directory, otherwise, an error message like “A required privilege is not held by the client” or “access is denied” will be prompted. To fix it, just turn off the User Account Control (UAC). In Windows 8, do not turn off the UAC via control panel, it must go through the registry. Or create file, i.e. QXL.WIN files in your user area and change the Devices deintion in the QPC2 startup. Regards, Derek Hi, There’s way too many good reasons for not creating files outside your user area - So, better use Derek's second option. Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
Hi Francois, Thank you for your input. My puzzlement is where do you actually type FORMAT Win1_10 to get a 10 Mb win device on C. I have tried the run command and it obviously tried to do something but I cannot find it. TIA Regards, Peter On 18.07.2015 10:53, Tobias Fröschle wrote: Am 18.07.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 17/07/15 20:53, pjwitte wrote: On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to format a 'win'. The manual says: WIN_FORMAT 1 Allow WIN1_ to be formatted FORMAT WIN1_10 Create a 10 Megabyte WIN device on C: ... you have to echo the two characters displayed ... WIN_FORMAT 1,0 protect WIN1_ again against unwanted formatting As far as I know you can't modify to size of a 'QXL.WIN' you have to create a larger (or smaller) one and copy your files. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. François Van Emelen SNIP Yes, but make sure youre not formatting your boot drive! ;) Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi, In Windows 8, users (even administrators) are not allowed to create files in the C drive root directory, otherwise, an error message like “A required privilege is not held by the client” or “access is denied” will be prompted. To fix it, just turn off the User Account Control (UAC). In Windows 8, do not turn off the UAC via control panel, it must go through the registry. Or create file, i.e. QXL.WIN files in your user area and change the Devices deintion in the QPC2 startup. Regards, Derek Hi, There’s way too many good reasons for not creating files outside your user area - So, better use Derek's second option. Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. Either alter the source code, assembling or hack smsq.bin or smsqe.bin by removing the drive locations, and keeping the file the same length by adding nulls after. I have done this for years and the win files finish in the same directory smsq(e).bin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
Hi, I think a little RTFM (Reading of The Fine Manual) is required. However. QPC2 has formatting of QXL.WIN disabled by default. To create a new WIN drive, you must issue the command: WIN_FORMAT 1 Then enter the command: FORMAT WIN1_10 This format a 10mb QXL.WIN file in the location defined in the QPC2 Devices setup. For completeness, issue WIN_FORMAT 0 to disable formatting. Regards, Derek -Original Message- From: François Van Emelen francois.vaneme...@telenet.be Sent: 18/07/2015 17:56 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8 Op 18/07/2015 om 17:12 schreef peterfox: Hi Francois, Thank you for your input. My puzzlement is where do you actually type FORMAT Win1_10 to get a 10 Mb win device on C. I have tried the run command and it obviously tried to do something but I cannot find it. TIA Regards, Peter SNIP Dilwyn answered this before I saw your question. Don't forget to copy your original 'QLX.WIN' somewhere else (in windows) before creating the new one in QPC2. Have a nice day, François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
jms1 wrote: The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. What are you talking about? This has never been the case for QPC. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
And also not for the two native access parts, Atari and Qxx- There were always SBASIC ways to select a WIN to format at will. - Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus jms1 wrote: The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. What are you talking about? This has never been the case for QPC. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
Just type the WIN_FORMAT and FORMAT commands into BASIC in QPC, like any other BASIC command. The FORMAT command is just the hard disk version of the normal FORMAT command. The '10' is just the size in megabytes, so if you want a QXL.WIN of size 100MB instead of a 10MB one, you would use FORMAT WIN1_100. The other command someone suggested (WIN_FORMAT) is just a command which enables and disables the formatting of a QXL.WIN. The authors included that because otherwise it was too easy to acceidentally reformat the wrong QXL.WIN, that’s all. Full details are in the QPC manual - you can download it from Marcel's website at http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/downloads.html That manual downloads as a PDF file you can view in Windows with just about any PDF viewer such as the Adobe PDF reader for example. If you want a more complete SMSQ/E manual (the whole of SBASIC, not just the QPC bit), try this one, available in several formats including a PDF file, in the section called “SMSQ/E Manual” near the bottom of the page: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html On a slight tangent, for people wanting to copy files between large media like QXL.WIN and wanting to ensure you have the latest copies of files on both media, try my SYNC program at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/files/index.html . This “synchronises” files between two media (whole disks or just individual directories), taking dates into account, ensuring the latest versions of files on both media. I wrote it myself in QL BASIC, so anyone familiar with QL BASIC should be able to tweak it for their own needs. Because I sometimes work from a desktop PC, sometimes from a netbook PC, I find it handy to make sure any changes made on either machine are kept up to date on the other more or less automatically without me having to remember which files I need to copy from which machine to which. Dilwyn Jones -Original Message- From: peterfox Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 4:12 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8 Hi Francois, Thank you for your input. My puzzlement is where do you actually type FORMAT Win1_10 to get a 10 Mb win device on C. I have tried the run command and it obviously tried to do something but I cannot find it. TIA Regards, Peter On 18.07.2015 10:53, Tobias Fröschle wrote: Am 18.07.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 17/07/15 20:53, pjwitte wrote: On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to format a 'win'. The manual says: WIN_FORMAT 1 Allow WIN1_ to be formatted FORMAT WIN1_10 Create a 10 Megabyte WIN device on C: ... you have to echo the two characters displayed ... WIN_FORMAT 1,0 protect WIN1_ again against unwanted formatting As far as I know you can't modify to size of a 'QXL.WIN' you have to create a larger (or smaller) one and copy your files. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. François Van Emelen SNIP Yes, but make sure youre not formatting your boot drive! ;) Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi, In Windows 8, users (even administrators) are not allowed to create files in the C drive root directory, otherwise, an error message like “A required privilege is not held by the client” or “access is denied” will be prompted. To fix it, just turn off the User Account Control (UAC). In Windows 8, do not turn off the UAC via control panel, it must go through the registry. Or create file, i.e. QXL.WIN files in your user area and change the Devices deintion in the QPC2 startup. Regards, Derek Hi, There’s way too many good reasons for not creating files outside your user area - So, better use Derek's second option. Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8
Op 18/07/2015 om 17:12 schreef peterfox: Hi Francois, Thank you for your input. My puzzlement is where do you actually type FORMAT Win1_10 to get a 10 Mb win device on C. I have tried the run command and it obviously tried to do something but I cannot find it. TIA Regards, Peter SNIP Dilwyn answered this before I saw your question. Don't forget to copy your original 'QLX.WIN' somewhere else (in windows) before creating the new one in QPC2. Have a nice day, François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
