and their adverts in issues at around that time.
OK great - now all we need is someone with a copy of those magazines!!
I'll scan them (when I get time) once I've found those issues.
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. - Welcome to 2009
with powerful PC's and fast Internet all around. ;-)
Regards, Urs
As long as we have broadband to download them ;-))
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I can't remember any details.
What is possible is to use a large hard drive and divide it into partitions,
effectively more than 2 virtual drives.
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. You may have to tidy it up a little by hand
(e.g. to remove blank lines or page breaks), but it is possible to save
typing time until the listing appears on the website.
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BTW, on your QL page, at the bottom there is a link to QTOP-Index version
1.30. The link seems to be broken (in case you weren't aware of this)
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By far not as important as the QL, but at least for me it's an
important anniversary.
Today it's exactly 15 years since the last
known QL names like Andy Pennell turn up for some
nostalgia at the event.
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.
Dylwin Jones also contacted me recently about the same issue.
OK, next Jones complaint:
On the page you mentioned, clicking on the picture of the chapel near the
top of the page gives a 404 Not Found.
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Test email only, please ignore.
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not have ignored and your condition-testing routine would have gone
into an infinite loop which you could ignore because it would seem as though
it was ignoring you.
Hang on, the men in white coats are here to take me away...
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Help. My laptop has been driving me mad today with the constant
disk activity. I've spent most of the day trying to find out what is
going on and drawn a blank.
Check out ProcMon, it will perhaps tell you what caused the activity:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us
, I'll just mention that the process is EXPLORER.EXE.
However, it's applicable for me because it prevents me runing QPC!
The anti-virus has kicked in for a routine scan now, so I'll leave it for
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work goes on that as a member I hadn't previously
realised.
I gave praise to John Gilpin in particular, but everyone on the committee
works very hard and everyone is very commtted in what they do.
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but it ain't.
At the moment I'm stuck with carrying my QPC2 between machines with a USB pen
drive, I'd rather use the network if I can.
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Both can see a folder called SharedDocs on Computer C, but
attempting to view files fails with the error message telling me I
do not have permission to access it, yet I have set sharing on for
SharedDocs on C, configured the firewalls to allow printer/file
sharing, run
the MSHOME default
of computer C and it was spotted straight away, but that was far as it would
go originally. Seems to work now when I did it myself instead of relying on
the Orange CD.
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Assistance connection, they were unlikely to need help with QL
emulators!
When I'm ready to take this next step of accessing one computer from another
I'll come to you for expert advice in a few weeks John... How's that?
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Does anyone have any knowledge of a QL game called Nebula II from the 1980s
sometimes?
Who published it? (maybe, just maybe, Pyramide in France???)
Trying to help someone who got in touch via my website form.
Ideally he'd like to buy a copy if anyone has one/
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organisation to Lycos - http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/
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on the amount of
memory you can reset to.
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, offering up to 1GB of space etc etc, when you try to sign up they just
redirect you back in a loop to the Lycos home page which says all web
hosting stops on 28/2/09...
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would ask that you bear with me while you try to teach this Old Dog new
Tricks.
That's what we do on this list... help each other. And sometimes have a
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.
Marcel's website still lists Wolfgang's site, so I guess we'll have to wait
until Wolfgang tells us what's happening.
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!?!?
Yes, the label printing is much better quality
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Dilwyn!).
Interesting stuff. I might even have made ROM images, but I'm not sure
whether I can find them.
Marcel
I hope you are taking good care of that rarity, the 68k/os board ;-)
After all, this was the QL that could have been had it not been for Tony
Tebby's QDOS.
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the file length of ASTROLOGER is 57,412 bytes hoping that
will identify which version it is, it's just labelled ASTROLOGER ont he
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://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/files/index.html and scroll down to md5sum.zip
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the same company.
Actually, it sounds bad (typically microdrive) but given that I was told
they hadn't been touched for 23 years, it's not bad at all.
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it handles. It should
appear as a WIN drive just like other IDE hard disks, subject to any
constraints on removable media.
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Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users
bidirectional working. Sorry, but if it works through the printer
port on your PC it doesn't stand a chance of working on the QL.
The IDE type I mentioned should connect via the hard disk connector on the
QUBIDE interface.
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Speaking of Qubide and Omega, has anybody heard anything from Jan Polenicek
(hope I spelled his name right) about his proposed new Qubide boards?
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block, qubide still sees the usual 512b sectors so
access is possible with GET from S*basic. The rest of the 2.5k is buffered
by the driver.
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Hi Derek,
What kind of connector does the IDE Zip drive have?
If it's an IDC connector, it may be possible to confuse the connections,
since the Qubide has such a connector, and so does the Super Gold Card's
printer port, though I don't think they have the same number of pins.
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with Not Found. So either I'm not
using them properly, or it needs a particular type of MDV image, or it simply
doesn't work.
(I had the emulator working when I wrote about itin Jun/July 08 Quanta but
can't remember if ever I got MDV, FLP, etc or how)
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, which I think
was badged by Sinclair, but I don't know who manufactured it. You can see
its manual at:
http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/docs/manuals/visionql.pdf
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to the composite signal part of a
Scart connection, but that may not have been quite as good quality as using
the RGB signals.
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. From Jochen Merz:
http://smsq.j-m-s.com
2. From Bruce Nicholls, who's set up a QL software ordering website:
http://www.ql-qvd.com/
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Dilwyn,
John (Gilpin) said the following:
Hi Doug,
Regarding your query about The Towers of Hanoi game, it is still in the
QUANTA Library on disc GG01 and is credited to P Kennedy on 22/08/1987
Contact Dilwyn Jones (QUANTA Librarian) who will be able to advise you the
best way to get a copy
at
http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html there's a couple of Towers Of
Hanoi games there too.
Apologies, I thought this was a private email so in my haste I just hit
Reply and inadvertently sent the reply to th emailing list.
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guide which gives an
idea of what it's about.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
Is this some kind of admission that people are wanting to go back to simpler,
easier to learn programming systems like our S*Basic for example?
What does everyone else think?
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/index.html
(just scroll down to the Q-Dict section, where you'll find a sample screen
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rolls perhaps?
Does it still require coal to be put in the back? LOL
I don't suppose you can tell - SER8056 is black, so's coal. Invisible?
;o)
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to COALlect it???
;-)
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My website has moved to http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/index.html
Please update your favourites (bookmarks) list.
The old site has a forwarding page pointing to the new site.
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To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 8:53 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] QL is 25 bash
Well? How did it go? Where can we view the pics
Toolkit on Dilwyn's site. What was its name?
It's on the toolkits page on my website:
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/index.htm
On the Toolkits page, scroll down to find:
Maths (41K) - Helmut Aigner's mathematics routines toolkit.
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Anyone know how to go about coding such a BOOT EPROM?
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systems like QPC.
It's available to download from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/edu/index.html (about
12K download).
Phillip has kindly given me some other games programs to release as freeware,
which I'll add to the website as soon as I get a chance to test them.
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To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 2:02 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32
Hi all,
just dropping a line to say that I found some time to fiddle with
uQLx-win32 and although I did not manage
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Should have said that if (unlike me) you alter the references in the Cygwin
installer to 'install' from 'default' to make sure you get the right bits
of
cygwin (ain't these installers wonderful!) you end up with around 512MB of
files, with 36,201 files. Of those, you only need
, it left nearly 2,000 files and didn't remove entries from the
start menu.
I think I'll stick to QPC2...At least Marcel made Windows easy for us ;-)
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files are supplied along with short instructions (in
English).
Sudoku is a 24KB download from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html
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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Fw: Message via contact form
Has anyone got an up to date email address for Bill Cable so I can put the
person who asked about this in touch
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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: Fw: Message via contact form
Can anyone help with the query received below?
Dilwyn Jones
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From: david
To:
Sent
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Quanta magazine, please let me know as soon as possible as I am compiling the
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turns white to blue instead of black
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,2 turns white to magenta instead of red
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,4 turns white to cyan instead of green
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,6 turns white to white instead of yellow
and so on. Anybody got any ideas what's going on?
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haven't got Toolkit II
on your system, you can get a copy for emulators from my website.
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To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC
Here is what I did
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,0 turns white to blue instead of black
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,2 turns white to magenta instead of red
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,4 turns white to cyan instead of green
RECOL #0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,6 turns white to white instead of yellow
and so on. Anybody got
got technical info to hand at the moment, I can't remember the
details, though I think it might be sv_rand (in QDOS terminology) at offset
$2E in the system variables. No doubt if my memory is as bad as usual
someone will correct me!
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I'm aware Qubide version 2 can have an Atapi IDE CD-ROM drive connected and a
version of Discover exists to read some CDs.
Does anyone know if a QXL.WIN CD can be read on such a system and if so what
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will disappear (if the entire picture fits inside the
window) and thus change the size of the viewable area. Hard to explain.
The other thing I find hard to handle is when you DO IIRC on a scroll bar
and split the sections, what to do with this when there is no menu (e.g. a
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, that it is possible to compile SMSQ/E on native
QDOS with QMAC. Does somebody know something about this?
And how should I proceed to by it?
Contact Quanta treasurer John Gilpin, email address is: treasurer AT quanta
DOT org DOT uk
Unfortunately, he is away for a few days this week.
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suppose, but I'd like to check
in case the cable is a wrong type.
Asking the mobile phone company to send the browser message to set the GPRS
settings on my mobile seems to have knocked out its bluetooth too, another
worry.
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Alternatively, if you are a QL-using individual in a country where you
are not aware of a user group, I would consider publishing a contact
request if you would like to invite other QL users in your country to
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(or a message) to him.
Dilwyn Jones.
Gerry Jackson wrote:
I was the author of the Code Generator and Library Manager of the
Small C compiler available on the Language compilers and
interpreters page on your web-site. This work led on to the Digital
C package sold by Digital Precision which offers
was so embarrassed about it he became
uncharacteristically quiet and seemed nearly in tears.
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may try to recompile the sources (hopefully
updated).
I think we can consider this thread closed for now, at least.
Although, I know very little about Digital C. What are the relative
merits of say, Digital C and C68? (I'm not a C user so the answers
might mean little to me!)
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by Gerry.
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.
I'm in the process of moving house by the middle of the month and
pretty well everything is boxed up ready to move, so I'm not going to
start putting that right at the moment, though I have just added
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. Where I went wrong was viewing this with the Windoze XPee
viewer which displays the introduction's index then promptly gives up
with text truncated at first binary zero. Doohhh!
www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/index.html
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to download free (92 KB) from the Sprites page on my
website:
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this...
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22 Erw Las
Coetmor New Road
Bethesda
Gwynedd
LL57 3NN
Email: dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
Mobile: 07749 643922
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:57 AM
Oops, sorry, was meant to be a private reply, didn't spot it was a
ql-users email. :-(
Ah well, at least you all know my new address from 17th August now :-)
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:11 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] Aurora + SGC problem.
I have two identical rigs each one comprising Aurora + Super Gold
With grateful thanks to the author, Gerry Jackson, the source files
for the Digital C SE compiler system are now available from the
Languages page on my website.
Once you have downloaded it, please read the README.HTML file it
contains.
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/index.html
Dilwyn
uses this system for its mode64 icons although the
sprite library maker program will work with sprites of any mode and a
mixture of modes in a single file.
Both packages may be downloaded from my website at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/sprites/index.html
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I just hope that not all magazines which have QL coverage go...keep an
eye on Retro Gamer now.
QL a jinx? Surely not :o|
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From: Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:00 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] PCW
just assaulted a fellow QLer at a QL meeting, and
the justification given was that I was provoked constable, he used
the word GOTO...
As Malcolm says, Halcyon days ;-)
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More info on my website's shows page
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/shows/shows.html and of course on Urs
Koenig's website which Tony refers to above.
Maybe this will become an international QL meeting!
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to get to any of the American ones, must have missed a lot of
fun at those! Never been to Switzerland before either so this will be
a nice outing if I do end up going (assuming I haven't driven Ann up
the wall about it by then!)
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So hi to all and maybe we will meet in Switzerland at the QL Mac
Are 25 event (a cool combination, as I am a Mac-user, too)!
Welcome back to black Anton! Hopefully we will meet in Switzerland.
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visions of you guys flying!!!
There are many many stories about those trips - will leave that to
Lucerne.
Of course - the chat and banter is one of the many reasons for
visiting a QL show!
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, I'll bring a Welsh sheep (just as dangerous)
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Alternatively, try www.villamaria.ch (German only...Google translate
has mixed results shall we say)
If you try www.luzern.com that site will let you book online and list
hotels by price etc, even giving you maps of Lucerne.
Dilwyn
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a few minutes
walk).
Our requirements are of course slightly different as we are combining
a holiday with this visit.
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, it might be too small!
Tony
...but are you sure it's the Swiss one this time Tony ;o)
Ha Ha!
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From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Your job then :-) Too late for the upcoming issue, but
plenty of time for the Xmas issue
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Now
Now all we need is a suitable cartoon in QL Today ;-)
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From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks ... hehee, it wasn't THAT recent
??? Maybe I
misunderstand the feature???
Can anyone else confirm this before I pester Marcel about it, I think
I'm already on his blacklist about Easyptr before I make things even
worse :o)
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. These are
accessible luckily! Would rare programs like this be of use to you if
I sent you the originals? Apart from collector value,, they are of no
real use to me if you can make use of them, plus any other rarities I
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to deal with by masking out the upper word.
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See you there!
BTW: It´s my first QL-show ever.
Kind Regards and greetings from Vienna,
Anton
Good - we'll see you there.
I might even hand you a Quanta membership form .. ;-)
Dilwyn Jones
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