Re: [Ql-Users] How to copy a directory tree?

Op Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:04:51 +0100 schreef Marcos Cruz : I forgot how to copy a directory tree with real directories. I'm using SMSQmulator, and I need to copy the contents of a .win file to a bigger one. But `wcopy` or the QPAC2 tools just copy the files with filename

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

Op Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:51:00 +0200 schreef Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 20/07/15 11:26, BSJR wrote: Op Sat, 18 Jul 2015 23:40:45 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: jms1 wrote: The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 2.06

Wolf schreef: Hi Bob, sorry I misread your comment,. I ran v2.05 on the new Raspberry Pi2 and it's now but quite usable in high colour mode compared to earlier tests. My normal boot is done in 35 seconds, taking 10 minutes on Pi1! OK, that's not too bad, then. How long does the current

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 2.06

Wolf schreef: Hi all, SMSQmulator 2.06 is out. There is a bugfix for the xxx_use$ keywords (e.g. print NFA_USE$(1)) which could completely crash the machine. You might want to upgrade. Have fun! Wolfgang Thanks Wolfgang for keeping it up to date. I had not used this command yet, lucky

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPointer 4 query.

Op Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:11:37 +0200 schreef John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com: (...) Can anyone out there help me not only with this information but also where it can be found. (Something like this, I like to highlight in the publication (manual etc) so that if I need it again, it

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: QLis30 update

Op Sun, 04 May 2014 18:37:19 +0200 schreef Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: Oct 4 or 11 is fine for me, but I will adapt. Bob On 04/05/2014 09:54, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Geoff Wicks wrote: One of our considerations is that Edinburgh is a tourist destination. If we hold the event too

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.01 released

Op Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:16:15 +0100 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Marcel Kilgus wrote: I hope the new QPC2 release works for everyone, I took great care to get every scenario for the installer right, but I didn't exactly have much time to get this thing out of the door...

Re: [Ql-Users] How to label a (fresh) (QXL.)WIN

Op Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:11:41 +0100 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: I've just created (FORMATted) a fresh (QXL.)WIN with QPC2 and cannot remember how to label (set/change the name which is listed at commands like STAT) it. I remember that floppy disks could be labelled using the FORMAT

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.21

Op Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:25:46 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hi all, SMSQmulator 1.21 is out - it contains several bugfixes (and comes with smsqe 3.17) www.wlenerz.com/SMSQmulator. Have fun. Thanks Wolfgang, For fixing the alpha move thing. Looking at the readme files

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD (QPC2)

Op Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:34:05 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: ... One minor comment that has come back from him is that the version of QPC2 on the DVD could not access his disk drives, whereas q-emulator could - seems very odd - has anyone else noticed this? If

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC

Op Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:31:38 +0200 schreef Hugh Cumper hcum...@usa.net: I have just received QPC from the QL Today disc having been a Qemulator user in the past and I have a couple of basic questions. The only way I can get the emulated QL to fill the screen is to drop down to 512x256

[Ql-Users] Hot Stuff

I had some strange results when using the Hot_Stuff buffer with lines that included some line-feeds. Then I realised, what I wanted to stuff exceeded the space reserved for this buffer. So my questions are: Can I test for the size of this buffer from S*Basic? Can one reserve more space without

[Ql-Users] Arrival of Final QL Today + DVD

Hi All, The final issue of QL Today arrived in Amsterdam yesterday. As always a pleasure to read, not all done yet, and sad it is the last one. A quick exploration of the DVD gave no problems. Compliments to all involved. I hope the writer-QLers will not stop doing that and a new platform -

Re: [Ql-Users] Phillips CM8833 Monitor

Op Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:33:18 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: Does anyone have the correct lead to connect a QL to a Phillips 8833 monitor - it has a scart like socket and an 8 pin din on the back. Unfortunately, the standard QL monitor lead only has a 6 pin din on the

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.40 Beta 3

Op Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:21:41 +0200 schreef gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com: (...) However, the delightful WM_MOVEMODE 3, which works well with most windows digs down too far and too erratically to show what's beneath the moving window if this is not the main one. For example, pressing File in

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC and standby

Op Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:32 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: not sure if that helps in any way - But i have the exact same problem with QPC on a new HP laptop and Windows 7 64 bit Professional. Computer goes to sleep, QPC dies. On another (older) laptop using

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL SMSQE3.16 SMSQmulator 1.16

Op Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:42:06 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: ... (QXL) Your program caused a divide overflow error. If the problem persists contact your vendor. or resets machine if one has been using the qxl for any length of time. But it doesn't crash during use? I

Re: [Ql-Users] SQRview Upgrade

Op Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:44:40 +0200 schreef Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl: Hi all, (...) Also QCoCo and QCP have been updated and tested in SMSQ/m (v1.19). No more excuses for not using High Colours. I have updated the QCP update of yesterday. There was a bug in the refresh routine. Bob

Re: [Ql-Users] SQRview Upgrade

Op Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:49:38 +0200 schreef Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl: Hi all, (...) Also QCoCo and QCP have been updated and tested in SMSQ/m (v1.19). No more excuses for not using High Colours. I have also updated the QCoCo update of yesterday. There was a minor bug in the startup routine

[Ql-Users] SQRview Upgrade

Hi all, I have put an upgrade of my SQRview program on the site. You can now easily browse through your current picture directory when DBAS is installed. SQRview also has its own RLE routines, so sprites can be saved with compression. QL-PIC files with excess padding, produced by other

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE v.3.16

Op Sat, 18 May 2013 10:17:13 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hi all, SMSQ/E 3.16 is out. It contains Marcel's bug fix for the AURORA COLOUR_NATIVE command. There is also a new window move mode : move with transparency. (...) I can confirm that on the Aurora COLOUR_NATIVE

Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora colours

Op Thu, 16 May 2013 15:47:04 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Bob Spelten wrote: When I execute the following line on Aurora: COLOUR_NATIVE: PAPER 15: CLS I do get the right plum colour but only every second pixel, so a vertically striped window. The same is true

[Ql-Users] Aurora colours

When I execute the following line on Aurora: COLOUR_NATIVE: PAPER 15: CLS I do get the right plum colour but only every second pixel, so a vertically striped window. The same is true for any other colour I tried, the right colour but striped (with black). This also happens on QPC2 set to

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

Op Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:26:40 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Here's my offering for this, using Easyptr in BASIC. Very similar in principle to George's offering, but without the clear window covering the screen. 100 REMark detect pointer at bottom of screen 110

Re: [Ql-Users] Auto-hide

Op Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:03:28 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: This is a little programming challenge I left with George Gwilt at the Quanta workshop this weekend. I’d like to create something which can behave a bit like an “auto-hide” Windows taskbar, using the

Re: [Ql-Users] WM_INK etc

Op Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:59:04 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: (...) 130 WM_BORDER #0,3,??? : REMark a 3D border (??? because I can’t remember the value used) Darn - it would be a good idea to find out. I'd bet that is the problem. Have had problems with some 3d

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:22:37 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Does QLIB compile directly from a file? ... Might be worth looking at how programs like the Structured SuperBASIC and BASIC Linker work to see if anything can be learned from those, perhaps. I write

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE v.3.15

Op Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:21:23 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hi, I just tried the new QXL version but M$DOS(W98) on old my PC claims the program is too big for the memory. The old v3.13 is running fine from M$DOS and was used to configure this v3.15. What exactly is the

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:34:06 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hi all, I have a problem with Qliberator. Consider the following program : 100 DEFine PROCedure increase_result_array 110 LOCal dim1,dim2,temparray$(0,0) 120 dim1=DIMN(result$,1) 130 dim2=DIMN(result$,2) 140

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:55:53 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Oops, sorry for double-posting my question! I am not laughing and can confirm your findings. (On QDOS/SGC it ran out of heap space.) ReDIMensioning to zero first doesn't help either. Darn. The Qlib manual

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:55:53 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Oops, sorry for double-posting my question! I am not laughing and can confirm your findings. (On QDOS/SGC it ran out of heap space.) ReDIMensioning to zero first doesn't help either. Darn. The Qlib manual

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:18:26 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: I did my testing under QPC2 (SBasic-380KiB/ Qlib-34MiB). Also QDOS was used on my Aurora/SGC (out of heap). Setting the $$heap directive to 800K doesn't keep it limited either. Yeah, well no it wouldn't. Qlib can

Re: [Ql-Users] Qliberator problems

Op Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:08:06 +0200 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Qlib can only claim 512K of heap, confirmed by the STATS. Err, no. The 32 MB are definitely on the heap. What I meant is that the $$heap directive only goes to 512K. Qlib will obviously claim more if needed.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

Op Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:26:31 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk: Timothy Swenson wrote, on 19/Mar/13 23:42 | Mar19: On 3/19/2013 4:13 PM, nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: It is produced using the Scribus publishing package which is available for free,form Linux, Windows and Mac

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.12

Op Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:37:17 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hi all, I've put v. 1.12 on the website. A few bugfixes (prowess works again) and you can disable the nfa,sfa,win and/or flp devices. Have fun. Thanks for this fix. For those that don't read the new README,

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and QD

Op Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:19:29 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Even in v1.09 the DIR_SELECT$ bug still exists. Memory corruption as soon as the menu is opened. Some of the directories in the list may not exist for this SMSQ/m but the main root it opens with is win1_, which

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and QD

Op Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:16:26 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: Hmm, strange, could you re-download v. 1.07 again? There may have been something wrong with it. Thanks for the new version. So far the bug with QD seems to have vanished. But... Shortly after I wrote the email

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and QD

Op Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:33:09 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@wlenerz.com: On 20/02/2013 12:10, Bob Spelten wrote: Shortly after I wrote the email yesterday I tried to configure ACP_obj, which resulted in memory corruption. I tried MenuConfig again this morning with the same result

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and QD

Just did a quick testrun with v1.07. While I was editing my BOOT file in QD I noticed that sometimes text gets garbled on the display. When moving the cursor left or right the last character is repeated and painted over the text. When doing a page up or down and coming back to that line it

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN

Op Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:30:12 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: ... 200 IF IS_EXTN('palette_ql') and RMODE4: pcol 4 I don;t see IS_EXTN anywhere in the raed me or user guide, nor can I find anything that supplies it in win1_extns (or anywhere else!). Palette_ql isn't an

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size

Op Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:45:35 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. I hope I'm

[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator Quick Update

Hi Wolfgang, Just now my QPC crashed in a spectacular way while working on my SQRview upgrade. It was still howling for a few seconds after removal by Task Manager. This gave me the opportunity to give the latest SMSQ/m a quick try. I must say it makes a HUGE difference in speed on my 4

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:04:01 +0100 schreef Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: -- From: Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 5:18 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator This would mean that my

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:02:52 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: ... The reason for this is that BMP_OBJ, after having opened a directory, tries to read just a few bytes from it (at first). I never condsidered, for these devices, that anyone would read anything other

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:52:19 +0100 schreef François Van Emelen francois.vaneme...@telenet.be: Op 31/01/2013 15:21, Bryan Horstmann schreef: Hello all, I've got this running now. Great potential for me. I made a folder in Program Files but it wouldn't install in there. I tried putting it

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:09:09 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: Hi Dilwyn, ... is a device which can read a Qubide format hard disk. I think some people had used flash memory cards in Qubide QL systems, as at one time there were IDE interface memory card readers.

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator DATE$

Op Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:01:53 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: Ho Bob, I have added this to the machine-test-routine and updated Qwatch2 on my site. Also the latest SMSQmulator now gives the correct Amsterdam time on my Vista system. So far, so good. It seems that

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:38:37 +0100 schreef John j...@sinoda.demon.co.uk: On 20/01/13 21:30:22, John wrote: I can also confirm that is does actually run on a 256MB Raspberry Pi, although very slow (19 seconds to draw the puzzle). I tried to run SMSQmulator on my 2Ghz, single CPU laptop,

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

Op Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:50:46 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: Hi, I tried to run SMSQmulator on my 2Ghz, single CPU laptop, under M$Vista. It started up first time and has not crashed, great so far. But I find it VERY slow, much slower than a standard QL, even QPC1

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 Issue 2 is on its way to ALL subscribers!

Op Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:52:46 +0100 schreef Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com: Just wanted to inform you that all letters are already on their way to the readers - to Germany, Europe and the rest of World. Let's see how fast the various post offices will handle them - all airmail (outside of

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 starts

Op Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:56:29 +0200 schreef Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com: Dear Readers, just wanted to let you know that issue 1 of volume 17 of QL Today has been picked up from the printer. 52 pages this time!! :-) It also reached Amsterdam yesterday. Never seen a postal delivery so late in

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

Op Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:26:04 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Lee Privett wrote: Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices

[Ql-Users] Website update

I have just uploaded my improved website. This includes two new freeware programs. One is a Screen Viewer called SQRview. This can display BMP, PIC, PSA, SCR SPR files in all modes and has many save options. The other is a QDOS version of SuQcess, SuQ120e. It is not as powerful as the SMSQ/E

Re: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide

Op Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:12:28 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Bob Spelten wrote: Can anyone explain this? I found another UPUT/BPUT related strange bug. I have the following lines in my program: FOR i%= 0 TO x(0,1) -1 : BPUT #c3%,aa$ Nothing to do with BPUT here

Re: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide

Op Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:20:14 +0200 schreef Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl: Can anyone explain this? I found another UPUT/BPUT related strange bug. I have the following lines in my program: FOR i%= 0 TO x(0,1) -1 : BPUT #c3%,aa$ When run this stops with: at line 1252:3 undefined loop control

[Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide

Can anyone explain this? I have the following line in a program: : aa$= PEEK$(address,length): UPUT #c3%,aa$ This reads a line from screen memory and writes this to a _pic file on win1_. The ten byte header has already been written to the file channel with BPUT's. Qlib reported an error

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

Op Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:50:01 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My

Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

Another interesting link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1777 With a Dickinson/Altwasser interview. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

Op Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:42:05 +0200 schreef Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: I think, that wasn't the question. Don't confuse this with QLiberator's option Line Numbers. As far as I know, QLiberator does not need line numbers, but this is not possible via the interpreter. It is in

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

Op Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:00:18 +0200 schreef Daniele Terdina danieleterd...@hotmail.com: SuQcess starts with testing the validity of devices and directories to prevent it from crashing later. For this the TK2 commands FTEST and FTYP are used but these don't seem to work on the device names used

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

Op Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:10:15 +0200 schreef Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: Hmm, but the TK2 Manual states about OPEN_DIR, so, apart from Level 2, it should be possible. But what kind of directory, if not Level 2? Perhaps just the root one. Section 10 Open and Close The

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

Op Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:55:38 +0200 schreef Daniele Terdina danieleterd...@hotmail.com: My tests were done on a W$-Vista with Q-emuLator 2.5 and 3.1., with JS and both the old DATA_bin and latest 2.13. Only 3.1 JS produces the errors, the DATA_bin version makes no difference. I looks

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

Op Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:35:15 +0200 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: Morning all, A few comments, it seems to have been busy on here over the weekend. ;-) On 15/04/12 13:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote: The bad parameter error is related to a file system TRAP#3 call with D0=$44. Do you

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

Op Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:59:18 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: On 13/04/2012 16:10, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 13/04/12 16:06, Rich Mellor wrote: You are correct - the full error is: Cannot open flp1_libguide_dbs as a database. -15 Press ENTER ... The database starts with DBAS

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

Op Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:13:03 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: On 12/04/2012 14:44, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4Xoz75yHI please help surely someone can convert a microdrive into a compact flash and sd memory read/write does she still need

Re: [Ql-Users] Disk format QPC2

Op Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:51:43 +0100 schreef Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: Makes me wonder. When I read A brief history about SMS from TT, there was a para about formatting disks. At least, he has written his own utility, so it *should* be possible. Perhaps, Marcel can tell

Re: [Ql-Users] Background colours`

Op Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:07:37 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Does anyone know if it is possible to have a transparent menu background with a pointer environment menu? I want part of the menu to be see-through and I can’t remember how to achieve this, or if indeed

Re: [Ql-Users] JPG question

Op Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:53 +0100 schreef Marcos Cruz q...@programandala.net: En/Je/On 2012-01-23 14:24, François Van Emelen escribió / skribis / wrote : Op 22/01/2012 20:23, Dilwyn Jones schreef: Would be interesting if the new viewer could be accessed from other programs in a direct

Re: [Ql-Users] JPG question

Op Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:44:18 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Bob Spelten wrote: As this was about jpg, Dilwyn did not mention his BMP program that also shows BMP files in a window, without distortion, but only 24 bits. Also does batch conversions. But only tested

Re: [Ql-Users] JPG question

Op Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:32:31 +0100 schreef Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: I have a question to ask to which I should already know the answer, but unfortunately do not. Someone has sent me an early version of a program to display JPG images on a GD2 QL system. Has this been done

Re: [Ql-Users] QXT-640 Revived

Op Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:13:45 +0100 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be nice to get some photos of this for the QL WIki - does it plug into the ROM port? In one of the pictures you can see the end of the flat cable, it has

Re: [Ql-Users] A QD quirk

Op Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0100 schreef George Gwilt grggw...@gmail.com: I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name. The name was actually ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple

Re: [Ql-Users] Extended Sprites and EasyPTR

Op Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:14 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: On 18/11/2011 18:57, Bob Spelten wrote: Does anyone have experience in using Extended Sprites as an EasyPTR AW menu item? The sprite should change to the current status when I move the mouse over

Re: [Ql-Users] Abacus file transfer PC to QL

Op Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:54:38 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Please give the procedure for converting Abacus files under Psion 4 (DOS) to Abacus files running on QL (QDOS) and QPC2. The above is a query received by Quanta Helpline. Does anyone have experience of

Re: [Ql-Users] Abacus file transfer PC to QL

Op Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:17:50 +0100 schreef Bryan Horstmann b...@newlan.org: What is the advantage of this Transfer (giving an abt file) over just using the normal aba file? On my test Transfer seems to need Psion option not dif(which only carries over figures) I have no other

Re: [Ql-Users] Extended Sprites and EasyPTR

Op Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:14:15 +0100 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Bob Spelten wrote: Does anyone have experience in using Extended Sprites as an EasyPTR AW menu item? The sprite should change to the current status when I move the mouse over it but it doesn't. Wolfgang did

Re: [Ql-Users] Ungif help request

Op Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:45:02 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: This is a help request which was sent to Quanta helpline. Dilwyn Jones - “Does anyone know the email address for: Carlo Delhez which is quoted in the text file that

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

Op Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:15:34 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: I am trying desparately to get the ED disk drive image working with the HxC floppy disk drive emulator. The ED disk drive parameters are 80 tracks 2 sides 10 sectors per track sector is 2048 bytes My BASIC

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

Op Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:32:24 +0200 schreef Memory Lane Computing Ltd sa...@memorylanecomputing.com: There's a confusion between sector and cluster here. ED disks really _are_ 36 physical sectors per track. That's in the IBM spec. They should only format to 5760 physical sectors, but

Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

Op Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:26:42 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro computing DVD which is out now. And QLToday plus The DVD arrived in Amsterdam this morning in good health. Compliments to all who contributed to this

Re: [Ql-Users] QPCII discussion...

Op Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:57:14 +0200 schreef Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com: A fading transparency is what I was originally referring to One way to achieve this could be: 1. Create 3 psa buffers in memory, 2. copy the screen part you want to overlay in buffer 1, 3. copy the overlapping

Re: [Ql-Users] QPCII discussion...

Op Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:10:21 +0200 schreef gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com: On 14 Sep 2011, at 15:48, Lee Privett wrote: A transparency option on the use of colour so that perfect antialiasing can be achieved I thought that was already available. I have certainly been able to superimpose two

Re: [Ql-Users] QPCII discussion...

Op Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:36:41 +0200 schreef Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com: This is the QPCII discussion thread :) I'll start with some questions :) One of the big problems with non-QLs is their handling of zip files stripping headers. Is there any way for QPC to handle zip files directly?

Re: [Ql-Users] Super Forth DP 1.0 manual

Op Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:10:13 +0200 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: Was Super Forth even included in the DP collection? Maybe I am missing a disk! I checked my copy of the DP-Collection. The program was included on disk 9, but not the manual. This apparently was deliberate

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 26

Op Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:19:20 +0300 schreef David Tubbs davet...@tiscali.co.uk: My daughter is in Crete at the mo', she is somewhat fluent, so I asked her. Amongst the peasantry it is said as Tea she but in what might be called high Greek it is Tie che where the ch is as in that Scottish

Re: [Ql-Users] Some good news on adding a Rodime RO652 harddisk to a CST Thor XVI

Op Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:38:29 +0300 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: thanks to the long eastern weekend I found the time to tinker again. Solution was easy: 1. Get a drive which is working and not damaged/dead. ;-) Always a good idea. 2. Set SCSI ID to 0 (No jumpers inserted). 3. You

Re: [Ql-Users] Simple HowTo to make SBasic jobs PEable...

Op Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:56:31 +0300 schreef Martyn Hill martyn.joseph.h...@googlemail.com: Whilst I suspect that there is no 'simple' way to make an SBasic job work with the PE - i.e. able to move #0/1/2 windows and put to sleep in QPAC2 frame - without going the whole hog of making a PE

Re: [Ql-Users] Simple HowTo to make SBasic jobs PEable...

Op Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:09:50 +0300 schreef Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: Bob Spelten wrote: To Sleep I use the following line: ERT HOT_THING('$','Button_Sleep') Well, I think, he just meant (as I do) a few simple SB commands, to do several things in a program. The above

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Image Repository

Op Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:50:39 +0300 schreef Adrian Graham wit...@binarydinosaurs.co.uk: I might be right in guessing that 1 and 21 go together - that's the same backplane isn't it, meaning the case is a QXT640... No it's not the same. 1 doesn't have any PSU connector like the one in 21. That

Re: [Ql-Users] Make EPROM

Op Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:57 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: Does anyone know of a free utility to convert QL extensions etc into an EPROM form? Commercially, I know of Liberation's RPM program, and Jochen Merz's Thing EPROM Manager. I found 2 programs in the

Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...

Op Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:29:23 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Memories. In the early '80 my employer wanted to sack me on the grounds that they didn't have work for me. I then used a program Formcalc typed in on my ZX81 from

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:38:15 +0100 schreef François Van Emelen francois.vaneme...@telenet.be: Op 3/03/2011 22:33, Bob Spelten schreef: Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:59:31 +0100 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: I have never worked out hot to change the colours of the pan/scroll bars

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:10:02 +0100 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Bob Spelten wrote: So this brings back another Sprite question, what is the current limit for pointer sprites? The maximum I could make was a line of 64 characters or 384x10 (or 12?) pixels. The maximum

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:51:58 +0100 schreef gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com: I have just looked at TurboPTR and discover that it allows you to set the colours of pan or scroll arrow, pan or scroll bar and pan or scroll section independently. EasyMenu allows you to do that too, but when you

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:17:46 +0100 schreef Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Marcel, ... GD2: - Introduced the extended colour modes - Can use high colour sprites - Can use alpha blending for the sprites - As sprite data can become huge, I added simple RLE compression This

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:59:37 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: On 03/03/11 14:56, Bob Spelten wrote: I have just produced my first piece of asm that Gwass turned into a working bin function. (it took only a handful of system crashes, and I haven't even read Norman's series

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:03:07 +0100 schreef Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: I did the same with Wolfgang's QPTR lectures, working through them when I really needed it. Bob Good grief, somebody admits to understanding QPTR! It's been a while since I looked at the program

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:39:18 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: On 03/03/11 15:41, Bob Spelten wrote: I will probably dig up my old QL Todays and have another look at it. It should make a lot more sense now. ;) Bob, there's something (fairly large) in your inbox

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:41:39 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com: I did the same with Wolfgang's QPTR lectures, working through them when I really needed it. Oh waoh, so, to guttenberg (sorry only the german readers will understand that) Norman, that's an increase in

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

Op Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:59:31 +0100 schreef Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk: I have never worked out hot to change the colours of the pan/scroll bars in QPTR correctly... I would have to revisit my Basic to check but I don't remember this being a problem. It is a problem in EasyPTR

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