Can anyone help Pedro with this query? I have no experience of using this
printer.
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-Original Message-
From: Pedro Roquete Ferreira de Carvalho
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:14 AM
Subject: Message via contact form
From : Pedro Roquete Ferreira de Carvalho
Email
have you considered using two jobs, one for the animation, one for ptr
reading?
Happy festive season everyone.
Yes, but wanted to keep it simple.
That will be the ultimate solution of course if I can't find a simpler way.
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> First: Merry Christmas to you and everyone else on the list!
Thank you!
> To your question:
> Why is it that you are trying to keep the RDPT timeout short? It should be
> as /long/ as possible, because the PTR environment is much better at drawing
> the mouse pointer at current mouse coordinates
different way
perhaps? Or what I might be doing wrong?
The game itself is basically a set of jack-in-the-boxes popping up in random
places which you have to “splat” with the pointer to hit as many as you can in
half a minute.
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Frank's Sprite Generator
FSG is a sprites package for QL SuperBASIC, written by Frank Linder in Sweden.
FSG stands for "Frank's Sprite Generator"! It was written in the 1980s but
never released commercially. Frank has now given permission for it to be
released as Freeware.
The package includes
Rich Mellor wrote:
Is there a prize for identifying all the hardware?
Merry Christmas everyone !
As long as you are providing the prize and doing the judging, Rich :-)
Merry Qhristmas!
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adaptation and so on.
Thank you Urs, that was interesting.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:04 AM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL keyboard on Raspberry-pi
Just spotted this on YouTube:
Raspberry Pi in a Sincla
t game over the last few months.
There are some articles about the new features in Easyptr 4 on my website at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/easyptr/index.html
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I did - it's great, full of typical English muddle-and-make-do and
corporate
incompetence... with our heros working within (and usually against) the
system to produce the laptop that almost never was...
Indeed, great article.
I don't think I've ever heard of the little machine - this was a very
the emulators are stable enough for public release I'd happily see what
we can do. (Emulator authors: keep me informed!)
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Thanks, Daniele. So that's where I must have read it before.
Dilwyn
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From: Daniele Terdina
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:35 PM
To: ql-users
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLPAK files
Trying again, all formatting was lost in my last message:
> Does anyone have informa
Malcolm Lear’s PCB Design package, version
7.25, is available to download from the graphics page at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/graphics/index.html
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r a editor?
Michael
Apart from QD, I also use Ralf Rekoendt's S_Edit. It is available in GD2 and
non-GD2 versions plus other free editors from my website at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/editview/index.html
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The trouble seems to be that although the manual says that "if D2 is a
negative long word"
the paper and oink will not be set, the actual code tests D2.B and not
D2.L.
Brilliant typo ("oink") !
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t checked through namesco
broadband speed check. Comes via standard BT phone line from exchange and
decrypting box fitted by BT during installation.
Regards
Duncan
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From: Dilwyn Jones
To: ql-users
Sent: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:25
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
I have reproduced the problem with Q-emulator. I get "not enough memory"
when I try to attach a 1 GB QXL.win file. I set the QL to as much memory
as I can and I still get the error. With an 800 MB QXL.win file, it
attaches just fine.
I'm thinking that 1 GB is hitting some boundary, meaning
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Subject: [Ql-Users] qxl.win on Q-emuLator
Does anyone know if there is a limit on qxl.win sizes supported by
Q-emuLator?
My QPC2 system has a 1GB qxl.win. QemuLator will not seem to
. Yes it found
it, then promptly stopped with a ‘bad or changed medium’ message. Starting
QPC2, it still recognises it, reads from it and writes to it fine.
Another qxl.win file of about 600MB is found and accessed OK, from the same
location.
Any ideas, anyone?
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registry! (I suspect Norman might have a comment or three about me
delving into the Windoze registry...)
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Strange problem with my website which I haven’t experienced before.
When I try to download a Word .doc file from my website, e.g. ql.doc it
prompts me to save
ql.wiz then of course tells me there is nothing on this computer to handle
“.wiz” files
(whatever those might be). It’s not just one spe
specific .doc
file it happens with, it’s each and every one.
Anyone with any idea what’s going on? Its just simple html, nothing fancy. I
did restart the PC and ran a virus check (just in case!)
Or is it time to throw this PC out of the windoze again?
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ear of behaving) to dropping down to dial-up
speeds at peak times (i.e. when kids come home from schools and people
return home from work tea time). Exchange is "only" 200metres down our road.
10mb/s would be heaven around here!
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After many years of trying unsuccessfully to have fun writing software for
other computers,
I recently realized that I missed writing QL programs, especially 68000
assembly. I know
that to maximize my motivation a project has to be challenging, as writing
a chess
program from scratch for the QL
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 together
using sophisticated software to remove artefacts etc.
Both my Android phone and digital
Have you Freegle/Freecyce round there, Dilwyn? It is surprising what
un-usual things can be found from a Wanted posting.
Bryan H
Ah, great idea, thanks Bryan. I'm not aware of one of those around here but
I'll see what I can find.
Unfortunately, some of the items to be scanned are historica
Thanks to Norman, I have now been able to add a copy of the Microvitec Service
Manual for their series-3 colour monitors to the replacement manuals page on my
website.
The document is a PDF file, 83 pages long and about three quarters of a
megabyte to download, from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs
Lee Privett wrote:
have you thought of photographing the documents with a high resolution
camera?
My local coop allow A3/A4 scanning and copying, Boots may also offer
something
Lee Privett
lee.priv...@gmail.com
I might try the photography, if I can rig up a tripod, stand and suitable
wider
I don’t suppose anyone on this list has a second-hand A3 scanner they’d like to
sell?
I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching
2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when the
two halves are joined after scanning.
I know A3 scan
h Simon Goodwin documented in his
rom bugs articles.
There we are Fern, some more nostalgia for you!
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Time to put together the News column for Quanta once more.
If anyone has any news items for publication, please could they send them to me
at the Quanta news email address news (at) quanta (dot) org (dot) uk
Thank you.
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be releasing it into the wild!
Yep. I want to make sure it's at least usable ;)
Regards,
Tobias
Great news!
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-pi-emulation-for-windows
While an emulator of the cheap little RPi might seem overkill, it might be of
interest to someone wanting to learn about the system, or possibly even to help
anyone trying to port uQLx to RPi for example.
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el 2 Compatible)*1, IBM mode,
ESC/P2, FX*2One of *1, *2 can be supported
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ribly addictive, but very good, program. I managed a score of
967
I think. What is the limit?
Agreed. Quanta mag may well be late this month while I try to stop playing
this game :-)
Tobias - do you know if there is a high score limit? I know 6 digits
nd files if you really want to. Or if you prefer, turn the sound off
altogether!
Having said that, I haven't yet been able to try it with SMSQ/E on
QemuLator, Aurora, Q40 etc - if anyone can try it on one of these systems
I'm sure Tobias
he maximum.
A high score table (to remember my scores) would a great addition to the
next version.
Along with an 'Undo' function to correct my mistakes...
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Brian Kemmett has now updated the QL Today magazine index to include all of
Volume 16 of the magazine.
The index is available to download free as a PDF file from my website at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/qltoday/qltoday.html
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John Alexander wrote:
You can drive a composite display from the Raspberry Pi so any old TV
should do not just the fancy HDMI. Support your "QL"(OK sort of formally
QL) trader and get one of my cases. Then your capacitor wont fall off ! ;)
Umm, which "QL" trader would that be?
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email has been hacked...
Does anyone have their phone no. to let them know (assuming they don't
already?).
So sad about all the hacking of late.
Computeractive said in a recent issue that millions of passwords had been
stolen from LinkedIn, Last FM/Spotify and eHarmony and now it looks lik
thorsten herbert wrote:
arrived this morning - great!
Yes indeed, nice variety of articles.
Might have to convene an emergency Quanta committee to discuss the QL Today
captions on the Quanta AGM photos though ;-))
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vidual blob mask elements to form a spray
shape that a pattern shows through.
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ad on there, although as it's
on the old PC it might take me a little while to dig it out.
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I have added Tobias Fröschle’s Analogue Clock program to the Utilities page on
my website.
It runs on GD2 systems, and features a choice of several attractive clock faces.
Download it free from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/index.html (about 60KB
download).
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ere's
always the possibilities of using the SD card for file transfer between QL
and other computers where the filing system permits.
So this is potentially good for existing users and retro computer
collectors.
I hope Peter manages to find someone to make it available.
Di
went along and
lo and behold, the result can be downloaded from my site unter
SMSQ/E-Development: http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/development.html
Have fun.
Cheers, Marcel
Thank you Marcel - my eBook reader can handle PDFs so this should work OK
for me.
Dilwyn
Umm, where? I can find the update notes for the version 4 upgrade, but not
the full manual.
(Let me state that this is purely for my own use and won't go on my website
for example)
Dilwyn Jones
-Original Message-
From: Ralf Reköndt
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 2:33 PM
To:
Before I reinvent the wheel and OCR my Easyptr manual to use on my eBook
reader, has anyone else already done this?
The Easyptr commands are the hardest syntax to remember of all the BASIC
extensions, I think!
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ults
you can get using that value with the integer DIV and MOD operators."
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, perhaps you could take a look to see?
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Well done, Norman!
Dilwyn Jones
-Original Message-
From: Norman Dunbar
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:44 AM
To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] QStripper included in the Softpedia software database
Looks like QStripper has become quite famous!
Cheers,
Norm
Geoff's site seems to be no longer available. Has he left the
(QL)-building?
François Van Emelen
http://www.gwicks.net/justwords.html seems to be working OK here at least .
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businesses used to do this.
I suppose this is same principle - putting variations in the email addresses
you use to back-trace where it got onto mailing lists in the first place.
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night
:-(
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fide, they will let you alter your email address later
to your regular email address if you wish. I'd probably go as far as to say
that unless you are 100% happy with a site, NEVER use your regular email
address to sign up to anything.
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> It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header):
^
Lovely typo, Tony! ----/
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On 11/05/12 14:55, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Don't. Having just spent time this weekend trying to help someone (who
is a programmer!) work out why his style sheets didn't work on Internet
Exploder, that was painful to read.
By "don't" do you mean "don't ever
painful to read.
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Now we just need a nice 'icon' to go with name ... :-)
Well, I worry that the smiley reveals what icon was probably going
through
your mind, Malcolm 8-/
Well, this here of course:
http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/pu
probably going through
your mind, Malcolm 8-/
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r his health), and it was him who gave rise to the "Really Bad
Day Theorem" in my Murphy's Law documents, that "hot soldering irons closely
resemble cold ones" (as testified by anyone who picked one up by the wrong
end when switched on).
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. Actually, the notion of "whacking" the board against
something to make the chips/sockets fall out after heating was what tickled
me most!
I have managed to fry a few components using just a soldering iron over the
years, never mind a blowtorc
Some years back QLToday wrote about testing the machine you are using by
reading the sys_vars (PEEK (sv +167)).
The test on Q-emulator returns zero, as the standard QL, so this could be
used to assume there is no Level2 device.
This number is held in the 5 lowest bits, I believe 14, 15, 18 to 23,
So like all the BASICS, it is interpreted as it is run.
Not quite the same. Yes- superBasic runs uncompiled but errors only show
when they
are encountered.
Python (and perl - my preference) compiles first, syntax errors show then
and it stops
with error display - often wildly confusing if thi
Can anyone help with the query below?
I think it refers to the Maths Toolkit now available on my website
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/maths.zip
(the toolkit includes the assembler source if anyone wishes to
investigate).
The MATREAD command is for example completely incompatible with
SBASIC, it t
Can anyone help with the query below?
I think it refers to the Maths Toolkit now available on my website
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/maths.zip
(the toolkit includes the assembler source if anyone wishes to investigate).
Dilwyn Jones
Years ago I bought a Superbasic kit software prepared by
Neil Riley wrote:
I have one of each on fleabay at the moment along with other items such
as PAWN the adventure game and a Trump card and a set of ED drives.
I still have a fully loaded Aurora so I can let these items go.
Neil
Uh oh, Super Gold Card for sale...super gold dust...I foresee a
Lee Privett wrote:
Someone already has atleast one emulator running on the Pi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/simcoupe.jpg
Looks good, but a QL emulator would be even better!
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
The BB QL emulated or not,
is still faster than a Windows PC booting up from power on, isn't it?
It is, yes, booting even from hibernation too. But you only boot once,
unless you are running Windows and/or you are Dilwyn (!) it's how
responsive it is when it's running that
Japanese emulator in Java, emulating a popular 68000 micro in
Japan" (to quote from his posting in September.
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> Daniele has looked at this issue and to quote his comments:
>
> " The bad parameter error is related to a file system TRAP#3 call with
> D0=$44.
> Do you know what this trap is supposed to do?
Here's the Trap #3 d0=$44 notes for the DATAREF_DOC document from DBAS.
Dilwyn
Have you tried a more recent version of DATA_BIN?
The supplied one is so old there is no version number, now 2.13
(21/2/98).
Bob
Have tried v2.13 of DATA_BIN dbase handler on Q-emuLator, and got the
following results:
1. works ok on version JM ROM
2. fails on version JS supplied with QemuLato
>> Have you tried a more recent version of DATA_BIN?
>> The supplied one is so old there is no version number, now 2.13
>> (21/2/98).
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> I don't have a more recent version of DATA_BIN - could you maybe email
> me one - if it works, I will send it onto Quanta and ask that they
> re
I have tried a few different configurations..
It works on MG ROM, and even Tyche ROM and a TB ROM (not sure what that
one is).
But not AH, JM, or JS ROMs.
--
Rich Mellor
For what it's worth, I get exactly the same results on Qemulator v 3.1.2
with the JS ROM image, and likewise it works OK on
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Can anyone come up with a suitable reply to this enquiry? Not sure where
to start (apart from mentioning the QL-SD card project).
I'm not being rude, but I didn't even understand the query!
I tried the YouTube link too, the comments under the video are just as
cryptic. May
this enquiry? Not sure where to
start (apart from mentioning the QL-SD card project).
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> Yup, tried it with Firefox, where it's much easier. One of these
> days I'll see sense and make Firefox the default browser on this
> system.
This is a wise statement in the most part, tis even better to plan on
doing that Soon!!
I already have Firefox on my system and it does get used. I just
knowing
which one would be nice. How ever as you said the composite output is best
just connected to the Scart input of the given TV!
John Alexander
--- On Fri, 6/4/12, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
From: Dilwyn Jones
Subject: [Ql-Users] Composite video device
To: "QL Users List"
Da
As Norman could tell, I was impressed (not) ... but then he's the IT pro
and knows best (plus he can out-argue me hands down every time).
I didn't think we ever argued Dilwyn, do we?
I'm sure if we ever to argue that you would beat me hands down every time.
Anyway, I can see why you are having
) have any suitable
adaptors for Composite video, although I don’t know if that works only by RGB.
Dilwyn Jones
> I have a Simmons SDX drum sampler. It outputs composite video at a resolution
> of 512x256. This won't display
> properly on a modern screen.Do you know of any way I
formats. Great work, Norman.
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We are currently putting together the next issue of Quanta magazine. If anyone
has any news or other items they’d like to see included, please send to Lee or
me at the usual email address.
Thanks to those who have already sent copy.
Dilwyn Jones
ry on reading the book!
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do bear in mind that the Quanta Chairman and new Treasurer are away
at the moment, as Geoff pointed out.
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that the ISP is accidentally
filtering out as spam some of those emails, in which case if they offer you
blacklist and white-list facilities to control the level of filtering it
might help. Comparing notes with someone else on btinternet might help to
judge if it is an ISP issue.
d to make sure we have an electronic version ready which
could form the basis for a legal reprint or e-publication.
Perhaps Malcolm Lear could let us know how far he got with his efforts to
make an electronic version (for the same reason).
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are we allowed to read the book
All the best - Bill
Now that has to be the most unhelpful and sarcastic comment so far. I was
only trying to help resolve the issue.
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John Taylor has at least some knowledge of the matter.
As Sarah is away, I'll ask Alison to delve into past Quanta minutes to see
what if any information we can find on the subject, as I don't know whether
the original Quanta permission was fo
stribution came about, or
as a fallback that Quanta could seek to renew the original agreement and make
it available on CD or as an eBook, depending on what we could agree with Jan
Jones and/or the original publisher as appropriate. Either way, we would have
the text ready to move
ce
guides.
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.
I have found a copy of pcfour here, but it fails to run on Windows 7 64 bit.
I'll see if I can persuade Ann's laptop (XP) to run it. If I can, I'll save
and send some sample files to you.
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ut what it is I could add it to the conversions
done by Doc2Html
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Ade Vickers wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I've just
heard on the radio that it's to be called the Pie Tax and
taxed at the rate of 3.1415926... %
:o)
Oh, boy, that went off at a tangent no matter which way you slice it.
Cheers!
Ade.
Hmmm, no SIN of an improvement in the jokes CO
For anyone who couldn’t get to the Quanta workshop and AGM over the weekend,
I’ve put a report and some pictures on my website at
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Let us think about this and how to put spin on this...
I will shortly be bringing out a new improved keyboard membrane for the QL
:-)
The postage price may be nearly doubling, but the good news is the
membranes will see a more reasonable increase in price of just £14,
'Consignia', so let's hope public pressure and consumer resistance leads to
second thoughts on the price rises.
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Lee Privett wrote:
2p in 1984 is roughly worth about 5p today
Your QL, bought for £399 in 1984 would have the equivalent purchasing
power
today of around £1052.28 according to the Bank of England.
So what QL equivalent can you buy for around £1000 now?
Umm, 2 or 3 Q60s?
Dilwyn
_
Pete van Peebles wrote:
In todays climate your 2p worth is probably closer to 20p Not to mention
the upcoming opinion tax :p
Pete.
Never mind the "opinion tax" - our beloved Chancellor is now to tax cornish
pasties and certain take-away foods. I've just heard on the radio that it's
to be ca
Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 27/03/12 19:50, Rich Mellor wrote:
Following the announcement of the new UK postal rates from 30th April, I
have done a quick calculation based on keyboard membranes, our most
popular item.
Those costs increases are diabolical. If the post office aka Royal Mail
wants to
501 - 600 of 1882 matches
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