Re: [Ql-Users] Early this time

2010-04-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:36 30/04/2010 +0100, you wrote: Maybe ql-users system removed it. There *is* an attachment called part1.2 but that is only the ql-users sig. Tony So far as I know you cannot send an attachment to this mailing list? I believed that to be the case, having once made the attempt. Was

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying

2010-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:50 03/12/2010 +, you wrote: wcopy win1_ to win2_ just copies the root files (of course). I am suffering from the BBS working *perfectly* for about 10 years or more, until a hard disk failure last week. All my 23 rotated backups (in a partitioned HD) seem OK. Tony Just a

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Musers] OCD things we've done to our QLs...

2011-02-13 Thread David Tubbs
At 22:04 12/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: I was never satisfied that I usually got 205-209 sectors out of a microdrive cartridge. I wanted more. I often received cartridges with anything from 190 to 222 good sectors! DANG! I wanted the extra 7K or storage. There were some longer loops around, I

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-13 Thread David Tubbs
At 00:57 13/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK keyboards. Keyoard differences batween nations are un the KEYROW table, one of my early machines was German, the '_' was much more conveniently placed so I changed that and several

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-14 Thread David Tubbs
Would you be willing to share the details/schematic? Dave I dont mind, only prolem is memory and no documentation. I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer. I also have a few dongle boards, some adapted for the 64k eprom, used in the past to slot in diff' QDOS,

[Ql-Users] Spam, spam and more spam

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:55 15/02/2011 +, Bryan Horstmannb...@newlan.org: The aove referenced post came with EIGHT layers of quotes. After a long scroll down just one line addition of 10 words. Text from the oldest quote is present in 8 other posts, two parties have posted it 3 times each.. Think about

Re: [Ql-Users] Spam, spam and more spam

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
So that's why I think such wasteful distribution is equivalent to spamming. Indeed. Top quoting does need some editing and snipping. Tony I suspect some email clients an be set n how he quote rmght be unware of the crud going out, I only use an old Eudora. No frills.

Re: [Ql-Users] Gold card battery...

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:51 15/02/2011 +, you wrote: On 15/02/2011 23:47, John Gilpin wrote: Hi Dave Please can you disclose your Surname so we know it's Dave Smith or Jones we're communicating with? Thanks. Seeing as we all must have grown up through the 80s -surely the answer to that one is.

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs...

2011-02-15 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:40 14/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, David Tubbs davet...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer. I also have a few dongle boards, some adapted for the 64k eprom, used in the past to slot in diff' QDOS, inside

Re: [Ql-Users] Gold card battery...

2011-02-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:15 16/02/2011 +, you wrote: I liked David Tubbs oblique reference. (only joking of course) Tony As,indeed, I liked Rich's ref. But was mine jokular or snide ? I'm not sure. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Pic test.

2011-02-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:30 16/02/2011 +, you wrote: If it is present, Modified eprom board, just as easyly hold two full ROM TK2 versions, Mainboard ROMs removed ofcourse. I tried to attach a pic, even reduced well below msg size limit of 40k no dice. I feel sure I saw one once, tho' might have been text.

Re: [Ql-Users] (no subject)

2011-02-18 Thread David Tubbs
Is Dave Park about ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Emulator options

2011-02-19 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:07 19/02/2011 +, you wrote: Emulators such as QL2K allow various QL ROMs to be preloaded by linking them to the relevant file, does anyone know if is possible to link to a set of extensions this way instead waiting for them to be LRESPR in a BOOT program? Put them into Eprom, I

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 19:33 21/02/2011 +, you wrote: Only in the JM and previous rom versions. From JS onwards I believe it works as it's supposed to. Certainly Minerva and MG tested each 16k ROM slot when I made my 256k EPROM expansion card Incidently I mapped the floppy drive code in that slot freom 64k

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:48 22/02/2011 +, you wrote: On the subject of backplanes.. I have one of these : http://www.rwapadventures.com/images/q+4-interface.jpg But alas don't have the little interface board that connects it to the QL, does anyone have one that can take a couple of high quality piccies

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:25 22/02/2011 -0600, you wrote: The card pictured is not a memory card, but instead looks like the buffer card that came with those backplanes. I'm sure the backplane would work without it, but you might have problems if you use more than the first two slots. Rich Mellor may be able to

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:16 23/02/2011 +, you wrote: Where was that - Harrow (8-)# Sedbergh, actually. My brother-in-law went there, a rugged institution I believe. Sarten. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:57 23/02/2011 +, you wrote: My brother-in-law went there, a rugged institution I believe. Sarten. Sparten, sorry ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:47 23/02/2011 +0100, you wrote: All this trickery finally explains to me why my innocent try to just put a 27256 and a 27128 as replacement in 10 years ago were bound to fail... Marcel, Pity I cant show my implemtation, two 27512's with a buffer chip to invert the enables.

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:33 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Could you then please put your survey results on your website with a link? Much easier to read that as a poor text file at the end of an email. I DOOO agree, no more informative than the non appearing results of the '95 survey, ie none atall.

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:25 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate. So today's (not Toasay) the Dai, I occasionally wondered. I suppose it's not the right season for lava bread ?

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:11 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: The QL community is a good deal more conservative that we probably would like to think, Strange one this - conservative in some respects yet not in others. We do have to bear in mind that as a community we are using a base computer which is not far from 3

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:54 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Someone scanned in one issue recently - check the list archives - and it came to around 50MB for a text searchable pdf. That was during a long run of emails on why can't we get a pdf copy of QL Today? - which has been covered here, in the magazine and I

Re: [Ql-Users] QL replacements - state of play...

2011-03-14 Thread David Tubbs
IThere was a Stewart or maybe a Stuart of Sawston nr Cambridge, worked at Team, Royston (where Johnathen Oakley went). He built a motherboard for the QL system, FLP included on board. Whatever came of thet, II've seen no mention of it since ? ___

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta AGM

2011-03-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:34 21/03/2011 +, you wrote: Deliwinn Jonse P.S. BTW, why 2 copies of the email? Stereo ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QUANTA Magazine Error.

2011-03-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:26 22/03/2011 +, you wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if you could vote against MPs in a national election? You can, it's called tactical voting I am unlikely to see the agenda for the AGM, is there an item :- When and in which brewery to hild the next piss0up

Re: [Ql-Users] Quorum

2011-03-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:43 22/03/2011 +, you wrote: This is more or less my opinion, but some people apparently argue that a proxy is a pseudo-presence. One of the arguments used by those in favour of counting proxies as part of the quorum is that some companies use this in their members and shareholders

Re: [Ql-Users] Make EPROM

2011-03-25 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:05 25/03/2011 +, you wrote: 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. Dilwyn Jones There was/is Eprom Manager, Jochen's I think. But you could

Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there

2011-03-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:28 28/03/2011 -0500, you wrote: C'mon, 'fess up! Dave ___ Even more of an Oik than previously exposed, IMHO ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

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

2011-04-25 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:52 25/04/2011 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, paul paulh...@ameritech.net wrote: I asked a retired university latin/greek teacher I know and he offer this opinion tie-key and sigh-key are the pronunciations he used -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy

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

2011-04-26 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:26 26/04/2011 +0100, you wrote: Oh tell me about it,my surname Waugh, pronounced in Scotland as in Scots Loch, not Wao, War, Woff or even weirder. Some 60yrs ago I knew a Geordie of your name,spoken of as Billy Yuff. When Evekyn wrote his autobiography a cartoon in Private Eye - Little

[Ql-Users] Wide Spread

2011-06-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:52 22/06/2011 +0100, you wrote: This takes A4 landscape which is useful for spreadsheets, printing a long strip although I have difficulty getting Windows to understand this. Many years ago I baffled the Purchase Tax boys when they came every quarter to check my books. I used a

Re: [Ql-Users] Fujitsu Printer ribbons

2011-06-22 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:52 22/06/2011 +0100, you wrote: Does anyone know a source of good ribbons for my Fujitsu DL1150 dot matrix printer. The last ones were old stock dried out. Is there anyone re-manufacturing them, perhaps. This takes A4 landscape which is useful for spreadsheets, printing a long strip

Re: [Ql-Users] Another QL mark 2 launched!

2011-07-06 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:26 06/07/2011 +0100, you wrote: I always thought it a pity that the QL wasn't released maybe only a year later, with a floppy drive where mdvs were. That then might have been a successful machine. There was talk of doing just that - I think Keith Mitchell had a go. Did anyone ever

Re: [Ql-Users] Another QL mark 2 launched!

2011-07-09 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:37 08/07/2011 +0200, you wrote: David, do you still have it or at least have a picture of it which you would share with the ql-users? Regards, Urs You point to the serious deficiency of this list, no pix. Last time I sent you some you failed to acknowledge reciept, and prior to that

Re: [Ql-Users] a VERY expensive QL substitute?

2011-08-08 Thread David Tubbs
Mind you, there was some VERY expensive bits of kit for the QL back in the hey day - see http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Quest%20Automation%20Ltd -- I followed your link. Why does the page have to look like it has faded in the sun, I know my eyes are not what they

[Ql-Users] Jpegging or what you will

2011-08-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:18 15/08/2011 +0100, you wrote: Indeed ... it is about the purpose of the data image. Sometime you want highest quality, sometimes lesser quality for a smaller data image file size. Ofcourse it is horses for courses. There are several ways to control image size before you get to

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

2011-08-18 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:43 18/08/2011 +0100, you wrote: This discussion is becoming an absolute farce. Totally agree, always the case, usually a subject can't go beyond about posts before it has changed. !: I changed the subject for a good reason. No one has taken any notice. 2: I am told there are no

Re: [Ql-Users] Video plug memory prod...

2011-08-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:40 27/08/2011 -0500, you wrote: Is a standard 7-pin DIN connector as used for MIDI suitable for the QL video socket? I want to make a composite video cable... Dave, Yep, 6oclock common 3 9 oclock mono colour, not sure which round ___

Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-11-29 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:27 29/11/2011 +, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Marcos Cruz q...@programandala.net To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com As I recall it ha already been done. I think it was Geof Wicks who produced a word gamewich could be demonstrated in a cut down QPC2.

Re: [Ql-Users] A runtime version of QPC2?

2011-12-03 Thread David Tubbs
Do you want t encourage mote QLers? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mote Great slip of the fingers. I suppose the QL scene is getting smaller but (8-)# Tony Something on which to speck ulate ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QaLendar 2012

2011-12-07 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:23 07/12/2011 +, you wrote: I'm wondering if it is the docx extension/format that is causing you grief. Does your version of Office allow you to save files as old-style doc? MSworks is a pain whith it's esxtra suffices, and a clumsy into the real progs. Back in days of DOS it was

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-05 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:04 04/01/2012 +, you wrote: I have just realised the ambiguity of IPA - but 4% alcohol is too little (8-)# Yes, and the malted stuff and whatever sugars are left in the beer would most likely be unwise of a print head. ;-) So that's ir, I was trying to find the relevance to the

[Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-11 Thread David Tubbs
I have assiduously avoided getting into Linux knowing I have not enough gray cells left to cope with another OS. But I am lumbered with a problem HDD, a SATA 320GB with damaged TIVO files to be recovered. Ex a Sagecom setop box. The suspision is they are written in Linux speak. I can

Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:13 12/01/2012 -0600, you wrote: The main issue I suspect you'll face has nothing to do with Linux: TiVo, under pressure from content distributors, saves the video files on the drive in encrypted form, and decrypts them on the fly when playing them. Each DiVo unit has a unique key used to

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 vs Q-emuLator

2012-03-16 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:58 16/03/2012 +, you wrote: I am running both of these programs on a Macbook Pro Now Mac people will know that there is no # key and you have to ALT 3 to get it. This works fine on Q-EmuLator the ALT 3 produces the # character as expected. Not the same for OPC2 unfortunately , I

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-04-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 03:23 26/04/2012 +0100, you wrote: Here is a review of Raspberry Pi http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/374290/raspberry-pi-model-b __ I saw no vids there But this series looks brilliant, includes Linux setup guidance absent in three distros that I tried.

Re: [Ql-Users] Posts

2012-10-29 Thread David Tubbs
Or do you want a copy, about 1Mb At 12:01 29/10/2012 +, you wrote: I haven't been getting any posts since 23rd September; I feel sure that everyone hasn't gone to sleep!! Bryan H ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:46 22/03/2013 +, you wrote: If contributors - no matter how correct they may be - choose to 'publically' correct (even humiliate) contributors here [as I am unashamedly attempting to do now] the excellent spirit we all usually enjoy will be spoiled and some would-be contributors

[ql-users] QXL SMSQ/E

2004-09-12 Thread David Tubbs
I have been idle on the QL side for too long. Need to get my QXL running again. Have two PCs with ISA slots still. 1. An 800Mhz running XP does not see the card. 2 A 500Mhz running W98, Qdos opens up, reads floppies but cannot format a QXL_WIN file., nor will it read one ported from an old

[ql-users] QXL SMSQ

2004-09-17 Thread David Tubbs
Dilwyn Roy Thanks both for the feedback, digestive problems. I did RTFM, before trying to format, the command WIN_FORMAT 1 is unknown to my version. However, I did explore the code in a hex editor and noticed a few spelling mistakes in the clear ASCII words - corruption ?? Used other

Re: [ql-users] browsers

2004-09-17 Thread David Tubbs
MSIE with SP2 is now crippled. It no longer shows file source. Not only does Mozilla cope perfectly with that CSS test, but it displays source in a -much- better way than MISE's notepad. It can wrap lines and does html colouring. Also the address line is a google search box. Brilliant, and I

Re: [ql-users] QXL SMSQ

2004-09-18 Thread David Tubbs
The ability to configure SMSQ/E for the QXL so that you can assign WIN1_ to WIN8_ to different drive letters or different files was only put into the latest version. I dont know the inner detail, just that it put a QXL.WIN on D: for WIN2_ WIN's 1 to 8 are visible in the SMSQ (no /E) 2.57

[ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-20 Thread David Tubbs
At 15:25 18/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: OK, here is the QXL SMSQ v2.76, attached a zipped file. I don't have a QXL now, it got sold a while back, so can't check to make sure this works or not! Best of luck. Many thanks Dilwyn Jones Es lauft shon, aber ist in eine fremde Stimme angefangen! Ich sehe

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-21 Thread David Tubbs
The version I got did not need any compiling. Pre-compiled binaries are included. You might as well go the whole hog and get the frontend for qltools and qxltools, namely wxqt2. Makes copying back and forth from QXL to Windoze (and other systems) a doddle. All should be available from Jonathan

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 19:00 21/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: Sadly not the problem, the whole exercise is about getting big files into the QXL environment. Depending how big the files are ... you could use external hard drives like Zip and the like. Or someone may offer to burn a CD-ROM for you. Or you can upload to

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 22:24 22/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: A thought - suppose I pasted it into a QXL.WIN in overwrite mode in a hex editor, then tried direct sector reads ? Roy's offer in another email is following my line of thought :-) -- Malcolm Cadman Kind offer , both of you ! But it is something that I have to

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-24 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:49 23/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: who said time is money Perhaps you know where I could cash some of my principal and over-abundant recourse in ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-24 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:17 22/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: Will this answer, David? If not please mail me directly at pj @ witte . fsbusiness . co . uk and Ill dispatch the goods. To Per, and ay other interested. When you wrote that I presumed you must have meant to send something ! When I downloaded the utils the

Re: [ql-users] QXL: SMSQ

2004-09-25 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:19 25/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: David Tubbs writes: As a matter of interest I think the economical and time-saving approach is to let QXL format a file create a dummy file of sufficient length. In PC mode use a hex editor to overwrite with required data ! qxltool does pretty much just

Re: [ql-users] WXQT2 executables

2004-10-11 Thread David Tubbs
go to http://www.daria.co.uk/ scroll down until you find wxqt2 0.09 and then scroll dwon a little bit firther (beneath the image) where is says For the benefit of Microsoft Windows users, a Win32 binary (90Kb) and required DLL (1.2Mb) are provided. I did not see what was below my window when I

Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take on it

2004-10-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:10 12/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: So, if they are so easy to find, what is all this topic about? It is obvious that Quanta's help is not required (again) :-( John Gilpin. Goodness, what planet If you had wanted to help and maintain confidentiality you would surely have sent an email

Re: [ql-users] Re imPerfection

2004-10-14 Thread David Tubbs
At 20:07 14/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Curiously the byte at HEX13357 is hex40 I can find no manifestation of hex 1f720 or 01f720. Hi per, looked carefully through the prog you sent, found the location in a hex editor in PC mode, there was a convoluted way of entering search string where not

[ql-users] QL2005!!!! @ ?????

2004-10-19 Thread David Tubbs
I remember Quanta saying the Horizon Centre was too expensive. I liked the Walton Park Hotel, but I suspect that is expensive too. Not exactly convenient though for overseas visitors or people North of Watford. Not sure how easy access would be for international visits - is the local area served

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:38 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Far better though is what I have (almost) set up. This is a dedicated Cisco VOIP phone. Worldnews is setting up a central server. This will allow me to use it as a phone to call and receive anywhere without installing software. All it needs is a network

Re: [ql-users] Skype

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:19 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: Gobbledegook to me of source! is sauce for the gander ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] Printers

2004-10-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:08 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: I paid £950 in 1986 for a top of the range wide carriage 24 pin dot matrix (Brother 2024) Ridiculous price of course, but it had the diablo codes I had coded in Archive. My little number was a Brother too. It was, though, a very good buy as it is still working

Re: [ql-users] swedish keyboard

2004-11-08 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:24 08/11/2004 +, you wrote: I am need a swedish keyboard map for my q40 , any suggestions ? Years ago, I started with half a dozen QL's, non-working returns from Sinclair's workshop. One was a German MG, I liked the _ next to SHIFT key. So I searched the rom code for the tables ,

Re: [ql-users] Texas Instruments Omni Dot Matrix Printer - HELP

2004-11-08 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:24 08/11/2004 -0500, you wrote: Boy, if we could keep a stock of second hand printers, we could make a fortune supplying all these legacy systems (as well as the QL, Spectrum and BBC market) Dont know what it is like round your way, but over here in Cambs the local recycling dumps hold

Re: [ql-users] raw2scr

2004-11-14 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:41 14/11/2004 +, you wrote: Mind you I was born in Wales and my mother was Welsh, but I don't speak a word. .. but I did leave as a baby. Half of my mother's family came from Spain a few generations back. Sephardic ? I had often wondered to myself when you might have lost the c,

Re: [ql-users] raw2scr

2004-11-14 Thread David Tubbs
Many years ago on my way to Spain (my first time 1988) I remember calling in on Tony to pick up a Spanish eprom for the QL. I was surprised that as soon as I crossed over the border that a rusty Italian came to the surface having lain unused for 30 years. So similar, but so different. A few

Re: [ql-users] raw2scr

2004-11-14 Thread David Tubbs
At 11:46 14/11/2004 +, you wrote: I use this language (mainly for the regexps) to program article collection for worldnews.com Is that a follow on from bar-coding videos ? DT ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-16 Thread David Tubbs
Just as a passing thought, does anyone have any idea as to how many of you guys who contribute to this list are current members of Quanta? Regards, John Gilpin. With my Membership Secretary's hat on. I would have thought that with that hat on the question would not be necessary. But seriously,

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:08 17/11/2004 +, you wrote: The quoted text above looks actually -slightly- better than it appeared when I was reading it. What I saw was --- I would have thought that with that hat on the question would not be necessary. NO PARA BREAK MAKES FOR CONFUSION. Not necessarily

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:57 17/11/2004 +0100, you wrote: RM Wrote: Hmm I see Joachim's point (is it me, or does everyone else not receive these posts from the QL-Users server in the right order???) Rich, it is not you, most mailers by default display mails in the order of time the mail was sent. Someones clock is

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership Survey

2004-11-20 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:39 20/11/2004 +, you wrote: There was another mainboard by a guy in Sawston Cambs ? Other add ons - Eprom Progger, A/D Converter Nome brewed stuff I thought drunk Nomes sat in gardens (8-)# Tony Such a dismissive response ! I do beg your pardon, never mind, run the whole thing for a

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership Survey

2004-11-20 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:24 20/11/2004 +, you wrote: You are touchy David. Maybe too much Nome brew (8-)# I was joking about your mistyping only. OK, a typo - big deal ! Surely the Tinkerers have been adding bits of their own making ? I thought only to make an intelligent contribution, but evidently I don't

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership Survey

2004-11-20 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:59 20/11/2004 +, you wrote: I thought only to make an intelligent contribution, but evidently I don't matter. Who said that? I certainly didn't. Tony OH YES YOU DID ! I still have nothing from the people that matter Added to which both my considered responses merited no comment at all.

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership Survey

2004-11-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 04:30 21/11/2004 +, you wrote: Tony wrote The -whole- point of doing the on-line survey was to get someone on the Quanta committee to say they would like to use the form. A forlorn hope I am sure. But I see no need for Qanta to be involved, the results of a survey (if any) would be of

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 10:56 21/11/2004 +, you wrote: Arnold Clarke egg hatching machine (controlled by QL) might make an article, please persuade Arnie to write one, but when I send articles to Quanta they do not get published. Our next meeting is at 1pm today and is an important one. --

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership survey

2004-11-21 Thread David Tubbs
At 01:14 22/11/2004 +, you wrote: 1680 wide screen. Must be a wet dream for many ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Quanta web form

2004-11-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 02:09 23/11/2004 +, you wrote: Do try and break http://firshman.co.uk/scripts/qq.cgi Does it not need the submit button to test breakpoint ? How is it designed to respond to no answer re DateJoined ? A DateOLapse ? Anyway much easier to view now, ta. You still don't like QEP III Qontrol

Re: [ql-users] Ethernet

2004-11-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:32 23/11/2004 +, you wrote: Hi all, I need to convert a standard (Cat5) ethernet cable to a cable to connect two machines directly. Which wires do I swap? The cable I have fully populates the connector, ie eight wires. Surely all eight dont have to be connected? I seem to recall we used

Re: [ql-users] MORE THAN ENOUGH

2004-11-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:19 23/11/2004 +, you wrote: Some people may not want to move on from microdrives. One hopes the survey will show up just how many they might be, but as a refrain for inaction it should be shelved. No point in development or growth for those that do not wish to participate, they

Re: [ql-users] Ethernet

2004-11-23 Thread David Tubbs
BTW, I am using a NETGEAR router/modem, it does not mind which way round (of the two options) At 21:31 23/11/2004 +, you wrote: If you want it nowish I could check the wiring on my adapter ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Questionnaire

2004-11-23 Thread David Tubbs
At 00:13 24/11/2004 +, you wrote: Should be OK now. Tx for your testing. Seems so ! Tho' I did comment that the rest of sect 4 is not entirely irrelevant to non or lapsed members. I have chipped in here out of a real interest in knowing just what the QL scene really consists of at this late

[ql-users] Thru the Looking Glass

2004-11-24 Thread David Tubbs
The thought of Rory Bremner and the Two Johns comes to mind, but here we have Three Johns who have shown themselves to be well and truly on the other side of the glass. Quote:- Thank you for doing me the honour of electing me as Chairman for 2004/2005. John Mason Oh no John, no John, no ! But

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-user) QWord - marketing

2004-11-24 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:16 24/11/2004 +, you wrote: Not large, but if you get no offers, I can bring a 17inch LCD 1280 x 1024. It even has a digital connector if you can support that. Tony He's boasting again, who said size doesn't matter ? ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Questionnaire

2004-11-24 Thread David Tubbs
At 01:19 25/11/2004 +, you wrote: I still _far_ prefer the QL for simple programming. superBasic is just so good. It also picks up any extensions in the environment. That and the Editor are the only reasons I am still dabbling ___ QL-Users Mailing

[ql-users] May Day, May Day

2004-11-26 Thread David Tubbs
Not waving - drowning ! The first 60 of todays avalanche amounted to 287642 bytes in 6110 lines. removing the voluminous headers - 2497 lines. down to 2000 without signatures 1100 lines of largely irrelevant quoted text A net 900 lines 31kb. Is this really the medium for the task ?

Re: [ql-users] May Day, May Day

2004-11-26 Thread David Tubbs
There really is no need to include all the rubbish. Tony PS but I sometimes forget of course. -- Not 'arf ! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...

2004-11-27 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:05 27/11/2004 +, you wrote: During my recent XPriences I had to set my PC to boot up from CD, as the CD would not install from DOS. I think that is quite proper, the CD is working properly, just the SETUP is intended to run in Windows. There is no external DOS with XP.

Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...

2004-11-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:24 28/11/2004 +, you wrote: It was a drivers issue. Hauppauge's Win-TV-PCI drivers for XP actually knacker other XP drivers (and I tried all driver versions for XP from 3.35 to 3.43beta). Hence the problems every other bit of hardware was having. Bin the Win-TV card (which worked fine on

Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...

2004-11-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:02 28/11/2004 +, you wrote: What exactly is the registry? Although I've had to change one or two settings, it's pretty gibberish to me. Gives me the impression of being something akin to what we would call a BOOT program or config block. If you have to ask you really don't want to know -

Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...

2004-11-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 17:00 28/11/2004 +, you wrote: Rich is right: back to a QL! No IV No Scanner No mobile disks No USB and printer problems as a bonus ! Incidentally, can anyone tell me if my line wrap at 70 characetrs is working now? It isn't on-screen as I type this, but you never know what it might be

RE: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-28 Thread David Tubbs
At 19:49 28/11/2004 +, you wrote: Duncan - what has happened to your formatting?? Also, please don't quote the whole of an email - just the relevent parts as it makes it awkward to read. For some reason your quoted text is coming thru unmarked - really hard to tell what is new, or in this

Re: [ql-users] Questionaire

2004-11-29 Thread David Tubbs
At 20:24 29/11/2004 +, you wrote: Just a quick question - does ROMDisq work with the 768K Trump Card, as I seem to remember that you cannot use an EPROM at the same time I think you will find that the code for the Trump floppy is mapped in the 16k just above the base 64k, that leaves the

Re: [ql-users] Questionaire

2004-11-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 09:04 30/11/2004 +, you wrote: I thought it was not to do with the code - more the fact that in order to provde 156K more RAM than the old 512K expansions, they used up the ROM space - certainly I have no EPROMs which will work with the Trump Card. Scan the code above 48k to find FLP ,

Re: Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict...

2004-11-30 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:36 30/11/2004 +, you wrote: Anyway, it's gone now, swapped it for something much more useful (front panel USB sockets and cabling so I no longer have to go round behind ot plug things in )from someone at work Dilwyn Jones For that very reason I have knocked up a couple of boxes in the

RE: [ql-users] QL Calendar

2004-12-07 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:08 05/12/2004 +, you wrote: It is interesting to see it was clearly intended as a standard QL add-on, as it has two slots. It is also very professionally made. The QL of course was designed originally for 32k ROM, and 32k rom slot. Showing my ignorance here, but I don't remember

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