Re: [ql-users] struct WM_menw size issue in C68 - qptr

2005-11-25 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Nov 2005, at 21:13, James Hunkins wrote: Hi George, I tried take a quick look for now but couldn't see the source code for this example. I presume the ex1.z was a compressed version of the source? The source code for ex1 is the file ex1_z. The point of the headers and programs in

Re: [ql-users] struct WM_menw size issue in C68 - qptr

2005-11-25 Thread George Gwilt
On 19 Nov 2005, at 04:42, James Hunkins wrote: I have hit a strange behavior with C68 in the qptr windows environment. Perhaps someone has some idea of what is going on. It has to do with trying to use menu structures for app windows. I quite often find that the C code I write produces

Re: [ql-users] Enhanced Pop

2005-12-27 Thread George Gwilt
|Still hoping someone will write a routine to print/display |large |and very small numeric values in a readable way; I can read |'9,876,543,210.00' but not 9.87653954E9 :( The FPU on a Q40 can produce numbers up to about 24 significant digits in BCD format. I used that to print FP numbers of

Re: [ql-users] Perfection, QPC2 and QPC Print

2006-01-09 Thread George Gwilt
On 7 Jan 2006, at 13:23, gwicks wrote: I have recently had a request via Quanta to help a person who has been having problems printing from Perfection using QPC Print. As I also have this problem I have been doing some research that may be of interest to others who are having similar

Re: [ql-users] Sudoku. Was: screenshoots

2006-01-12 Thread George Gwilt
On 11 Jan 2006, at 16:10, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: On 10 Jan 2006, at 20:27, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: It means: Balding Gentleman with Glasses and Beard Smiling Do the Glasses contain beer or something stronger? That would be eyeglasses :-) (Don't need to beat up on the English skills

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-12 Thread George Gwilt
On 11 Jan 2006, at 17:21, Ralf Reköndt wrote: I had this problem perhaps eight years ago or so. I tried about seven different PRINTER_DATs before finding one that did the trick. One use of Archive is to print labels. I think in this case I set the number of lines per page to 9 and issued FF

Re: [ql-users] Calendar programs

2006-01-15 Thread George Gwilt
On 14 Jan 2006, at 19:08, Ralf Reköndt wrote: The Japanese though being supremely logical, use 2006/02/01 for Feb first, I believe. Great for programmers! Hmm, what else should it be used for if not Feb.1st? 2nd Jan George ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-01-31 Thread George Gwilt
|I ahve found out, that my version of Qmon does not work under |QPC2, i.e. it |does not pop up in SBasic, when critical errors occure (ie, |privilege |vialation, illegal instructions etc.). | |SMSQ simply crashes. Does anyone have a working version? |Thanks in advance. I have found this too.

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-05 Thread George Gwilt
On 4 Feb 2006, at 03:18, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Not what I meant. That is qmon 0 as in monitor job 0. In this case it's just a habit, jmon won't start without a job-number, while qmon does default to job 0 anyway. Only, with the latest version giving a job number doesn't seem to work anymore

Re: [ql-users] Nightmare scenario

2006-02-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 19 Feb 2006, at 16:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote: My boot file for QPC2 has : LRESPR windrive$ '_turbo_sms_bin' included in it. This is the Turbo Toolkit maintained by Dave Gilham, and is the sms version, as QPC2 runs on SMSQ/E. My version is 3b33. I assume that this is available for

Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer

2006-03-15 Thread George Gwilt
On 15 Mar 2006, at 06:59, Derek Stewart wrote: Why not use QPC to write the QL files from the DOS directory to the QL disks. This is certainly my very much preferred method. But what about those PC directories with long names sometimes including spaces? The QL can't find these. George

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 Keyboard question

2006-03-30 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Mar 2006, at 21:03, wolfgang mühlegger wrote: Timothy Swenson schrieb: When using QPC2, the keypad seems to always work as a number pad, even if I turn the NumLock off. Is there a way to get the arrow and HOME keys working with QPC2? I've checked the manual and did not see

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-13 Thread George Gwilt
On 13 Apr 2006, at 09:17, Fabrizio Diversi wrote: Marcel Kilgus ha scritto: George Gwilt wrote: Next QPC2 version will probably be able to run it. The test version of QPC2 demonstrated at the recent Quanta meeting in Manchester certainly does run GWASS. At this point, does exist

Re: [ql-users] apostrophes

2006-05-27 Thread George Gwilt
On 26 May 2006, at 18:22, Tony Firshman wrote: As I said originally, I don't mind language changing at all - it has to, or die like Latin. What I don't like is the dulling down of meaning. sine die? George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] apostrophes

2006-05-28 Thread George Gwilt
On 27 May 2006, at 18:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Except I can't remember who wrote that one originally. Shaw? Yes GBS didit George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] apostrophes

2006-06-02 Thread George Gwilt
On 31 May 2006, at 14:29, Laurence Reeves wrote: Can I go sit quietly in the corner now? I am sure you are capable of that action. You would know best, so why ask us? Or perhaps you mean May I . . . George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Infinity

2006-06-02 Thread George Gwilt
On 1 Jun 2006, at 00:24, David Tubbs wrote: PEPS. Infinity. I considered introducing infinity in Minerva, but I wouldn't have been happy with just the one. -- Lau Marcel So if it is possible for the computer to handle infinity how and where is it done ? Processor or co-processor ?

Re: [ql-users] get back on topic

2006-06-07 Thread George Gwilt
On 6 Jun 2006, at 19:11, Roy wood wrote: What of Joyce and Ulysses? .. and Finnegans's Wake ... George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Array

2006-07-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Jul 2006, at 13:18, Claude Mourier 00 wrote: As the list is very quiet, a technical question : Is there any (simple) way to save/load an entire SBasic array to/ from disk (without saving elements one by one) as binary ? I suspect such item can be retrieved by some system variable and

[ql-users] System Sprites

2006-07-23 Thread George Gwilt
Has anyone noticed that the system sprites in recent versions of SMSQ/ E for QPC2 do not have Mode 8 versions. I looked at the move sprite and saw that it consisted of mode 8 and mode 64 but nothing else. This means that you get a cross instead of a move sprite for mode 8. George

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-07-27 Thread George Gwilt
On 27 Jul 2006, at 14:59, Marcel Kilgus wrote: However, one file sbsext_ext_exsbas_asm cannot be assembled (by any assembler) because the label fle_nm is not defined in the code or in any of the included files. File sbsext_ext_ex_defs: ---8---8---8---8--- cut here ---8---8---8---8-- *

[ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-07-31 Thread George Gwilt
I have found two more places where SMSQE v 3.12 might not assemble. 1. In uti_pulldown_long_asm the instruction xjmp appears. This is almost certainly a macro and I would expect it to be in mac_xref. It is not there. 2. The file uti_explanation_asm asks for mac_menu_long to be included.

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-08-03 Thread George Gwilt
On 2 Aug 2006, at 17:33, Marcel Kilgus wrote: That's because technically it's not part of SMSQ/E, it's a library by Jochen Merz, only a few parts being used in SMSQ/E. Previous releases only shipped with the _lib file of it, only recently the source code was added. Obviously true. But this

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-08-06 Thread George Gwilt
On 3 Aug 2006, at 15:34, Marcel Kilgus wrote: George Gwilt wrote: Obviously true. But this still leaves the problem of finding out which of the parts are in fact used in SMSQE. As far as I can see: uti_usemenus uti_hotstuff uti_usethings uti_thingjump uti_thingvector That should

Re: [ql-users] BMP second release

2006-08-23 Thread George Gwilt
of the former until George Gwilt released SVSCR, although both are documented in the QPTR manual. Officially the extra bytes are for the programmer's own use, but has anyone actually done this? In what circumstances would you make use of the extra bytes? _psa and _pic files have only one

[ql-users] SMSQE v3.12 and FTEST

2006-08-28 Thread George Gwilt
FTEST(a$) should return 0 if a$ is the name of an existing file that can be opened or the name of a directory, but should return a negative number otherwise. I was surprised to see that the following program produced 0 instead of -7. 1000 DIM k$(40) 1010 k$=win_j 1020 PRINT FTEST(k$(1 TO

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.12 and FTEST

2006-08-31 Thread George Gwilt
An excellent diagnosis! George On 28 Aug 2006, at 19:20, P Witte wrote: Finally, it appears FTEST/FOP_IN has a problem handling array slices, as the following demonstrates (SMSQ/E V3.12): 100 DIM k$(10) 110 k$=win_j 120 CLS 130 e = FOP_IN(k$): Disp k$: REMark Correct 140 : 150 FOR

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.10 and beyond

2006-09-04 Thread George Gwilt
On 1 Sep 2006, at 16:39, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: From SMSQE v3.10 I started having difficulty with the Q40, although the Q60 was OK. The Q40 refused to recognise the hard disk and so stopped early on in the BOOT after LRESPRing SMSQE. Typing RESET corrected this. Unfortunately v3.12 crashes

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.10 and beyond

2006-09-07 Thread George Gwilt
On 6 Sep 2006, at 17:10, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Erm, why don't you just use iop.flim? It does, after all, tell you the maximum dimension a window is allowed to have, which sounds exactly like what you're trying to do. Erm - because, although I would assume there was a trap#3 to use I did

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.10 and beyond

2006-09-08 Thread George Gwilt
On 6 Sep 2006, at 17:10, Marcel Kilgus wrote: I have discovered why some of my programs are so slow with v3.12 on the Q60. It is because changing the window size is now much much slower than with v3.10. The code causing the trouble finds the biggest dimensions of window. The width is easy to

[ql-users] SMSQE v3.12 and Q40

2006-09-11 Thread George Gwilt
I have altered q40_hwinit_asm to cut out reference to the Q40's non- existent PCR register. The resultant rom works with the Q40. However, the fault introduced in version 3.10 is still there and I have to issue RESET when the software fails to recognise the hard disk. I suppose I will have

Re: [ql-users] Q40 and SMSQE v3.12

2006-09-13 Thread George Gwilt
On 11 Sep 2006, at 23:01, hitchies wrote: '5 operating systems for SMSQE v 3.12' As they say in Liverpool, I can't get me 'ead 'round that. Would anyone like to climb in and help me please? The five are: Atari Aurora Gold Card Q40/60 QXL George

Re: [ql-users] Tandata Modem Q Con + Q Mod

2006-09-15 Thread George Gwilt
On 13 Sep 2006, at 16:56, Marcel Kilgus wrote: On a similar subject, whats the average age of you guys... Don't lie, I've seen the pictures :-) My average age is 26. Which, coincidentally, is currently also my upper and lower bounds! ;-) But that was yesterday! George

Re: [ql-users] Bug in SMSQ 312 maybe - or am I barking ?

2006-09-24 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Sep 2006, at 08:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, A6,A1 was a typo, I meant A4 - apologies. On the other hand, my QDOS Companion (Pennell) has the load/save parameters as $32 to $ff and not $ff31 to $ as you state. I went on a doc hunt last night and Dickens has the negatives

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-24 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Sep 2006, at 21:49, hitchies wrote: What am I to make of Bill's Q40,Q60, QPC2, Aurora and SGC ? and George's Atari Aurora Gold Card Q40/60 QXL Bill's five are in fact only four. The new arrival to this set of Operating Systems is Aurora which is almost identical with the Gold

Re: [ql-users] (OTramblings about left and right)

2006-09-25 Thread George Gwilt
On 24 Sep 2006, at 21:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Shall we ponder how this rumour will work? Start with clock faces changing from 1-12 to 1-10. Napoleon tried to make the time go metric. I actually saw an example of a French clock of the period which had ten hours per day. It didn't take on

[ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread George Gwilt
If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8, with win1 to win8 and so on. But it does not give the correct

Re: [ql-users] (OTramblings about left and right)

2006-09-26 Thread George Gwilt
On 25 Sep 2006, at 21:25, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Gone metric in 1959 and nearly 50 years later - hardly aybody's noticed. Sounds about right. So for about the next 40 to 50 years we carried on expecting a pint of milk, a pint of beer, filling station pumps deliver litres of petrol and

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-26 Thread George Gwilt
On 25 Sep 2006, at 17:30, Marcel Kilgus wrote: George Gwilt wrote: If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8

Re: [ql-users] NA QL SHow

2006-10-02 Thread George Gwilt
On 2 Oct 2006, at 01:01, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Well, simply look at this picture http://www.firshman.co.uk/ql/showphotos/niagara-falls-2006/images/ Mary-Cable-%26-Ann-Schaaf.jpg and tell me whether the file name matches the picture! No pictures at all! NOT FOUND it says. George

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/e on Gold Card / Super Gold Card

2006-10-17 Thread George Gwilt
On 16 Oct 2006, at 22:26, Rich Mellor wrote: Has anyone recent experience of using SMSQ/e on a Super Gold Card and Aurora with DD disks. I reformatted and reinstalled a customer's system over the weekend and although his Miracle ED disk drives worked fine under a JS ROM, when SMSQ/e v3.09

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/e on Gold Card / Super Gold Card

2006-10-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Oct 2006, at 01:14, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Any known problems with the Qx0? It shares approximately 95% of the code with the Gold Card. As with the Super Gold Card FORMAT 'FLP1_D45*D' is what I always use successfully on Qx0. George ___

[ql-users] Gold Card SMSQ/E v3.12

2006-10-18 Thread George Gwilt
I find that SMSQ/E v3.12 for the Super Gold card does not allow the hard disk to be recognised if the home module is included. If that module is not included v3.12 DOES recognise the hard disk. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Gold Card SMSQ/E v3.12

2006-10-20 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Oct 2006, at 15:16, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I find that SMSQ/E v3.12 for the Super Gold card does not allow the hard disk to be recognised if the home module is included. If that module is not included v3.12 DOES recognise the hard disk. OK, we're getting somewhere. What about v.

Re: [ql-users] floppy drive

2006-12-11 Thread George Gwilt
On 10 Dec 2006, at 17:01, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyone successfully using floppy disks under SSMQ/E v3.13 on Super Gold Card? Yes. Both DD and HD work without trouble. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] unzip

2006-12-14 Thread George Gwilt
On 12 Dec 2006, at 17:37, Marcel Kilgus wrote: EX win1_unzip;'win1_xch390e1_zip -d ram1_' This certainly is the better method - but does it work with a space between d and ram1_? George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-15 Thread George Gwilt
On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Try this on the current versions of SMSQE (on Q60 or QPC2) and you get the overflow message. However, f%=0-32768/1, and print -32768/1 both work. I don't normally want these answers, but a colleague of mine

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread George Gwilt
On 16 Dec 2006, at 17:01, Laurence W Reeves wrote: P Witte wrote: Marcel Kilgus writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just

Re: [ql-users] Using SSSS

2007-01-17 Thread George Gwilt
who sent it to me. I am currently working on the magazine and would like to include this article. If you sent it, PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF urgently as this issue is already considerably overdue. Thanks. It is probably me. My name is (probably) George Gwilt

Re: [ql-users] Using SSSS

2007-01-17 Thread George Gwilt
On 14 Jan 2007, at 11:50, John Gilpin wrote: Almost as soon as I pressed the Send button, I remembered who it was. If you are monitoring the list today, George, thanks for the article. Ah good! I can also confirm that my name is George Gwilt George

Re: [ql-users] Bug?

2007-01-17 Thread George Gwilt
On 17 Jan 2007, at 10:17, Malcolm Lear wrote: Is this normal behavior for a 68K processor. I'm doing a word comparison between a memory location and a data register. It seems that data in the most significant word of the register is effecting the result. In the example below the test

[ql-users] Sampled Sound System in SMSQE

2007-02-04 Thread George Gwilt
The Sampled Sound System (SSS) in SMSQE allows you to send different sounds to the left and right speakers, thus giving the possibility of stereo sound. This works as expected on the Q40 and Q60 but not on QPC2. In version 3.33 anything sent to the right channel is ignored and anything

Re: [ql-users] Using ED drives with Trump Card

2007-02-07 Thread George Gwilt
On 5 Feb 2007, at 19:34, Rich Mellor wrote: For SGC you need to remove the 68008 chip. Goodness me! I have been using SGC for years with the 68008 chip still in situ. What have I done wrong to make it work in this state? George ___ QL-Users

Re: [ql-users] Is there was any virus on QL ?

2007-02-13 Thread George Gwilt
On 12 Feb 2007, at 12:13, Dilwyn Jones wrote: QL jobs have a JMP.L job_start_address instruction in the first few bytes, to jump past the $4AFB flag and job name. This could in theory (never tried this part) be hacked to jump to an extra bit of code tacked onto the end of a program to run a

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-19 Thread George Gwilt
On 19 Feb 2007, at 00:50, omega wrote: - Expensive software (Qliberator 50UKP, EasyPtr 41.5UKP, QPTR 30UKP..etc) I hardly dare mention this - but: For Qlib ... Turbo is freely available (and faster!) For EasyPtr and QPTR. TurboPTR is freely available for

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-20 Thread George Gwilt
On 19 Feb 2007, at 19:08, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Can someone write an article for one of the magazines - Quanta or QL Today - around how to use Turbo and TurboPTR ? Beginning from the easy to the expert level of use. Sounds a good idea. Any volunteers apart from me? George

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Feb 2007, at 20:15, Rich Mellor wrote: On another note - having mentioned that I'd be willing to try and port SMSQ to the Amiga I decided to download the source today and have a look at it. Thinking that it'd be a good idea to build it for the existing hardware first so that I

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Feb 2007, at 20:08, Dilwyn Jones wrote: There's been several TurboPTR articles mostly by George Gwilt - I wonder if George has copies he could send? I'll try and find these, But they will may not be a simple guide to operating the system. George

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Feb 2007, at 22:14, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I may be wrong, yet I thought that GWASS was optimised for the 68020 for the new hardware, like Q60, and yet still backwards compatible. GWASS should certainly assemble any program suitable for GWASL. In that sense it is certainly backward

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-22 Thread George Gwilt
On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:37, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I am looking for some well developed examples to show the features of TurboPTR in practice. The application itself does not have to be very complex, just a vehicle for demonstrating the features. There are several examples included with

Re: [ql-users] Programming question

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Feb 2007, at 21:34, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I want to present kind of demo for QL on the retro-computing competition called Forever see: http://forever.zeroteam.sk I did some graphics already on PC and it looks good (looks cool in fact :-). But, I need to write special screen hadler with

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Feb 2007, at 21:48, Rich Mellor wrote: The only other way would be to find someone to volunteer to convert the smsq/e sources (which were originally written using QMAC) so that they could be compiled with another assembler. However, GWASL is the only public domain assembler so

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Feb 2007, at 08:58, Rich Mellor wrote: However, the problem is that in order to do this, you need someone with in depth knowledge of QMAC and the new assembler to be used, and someone who can follow the original smsq/e sources to ensure that they are all converted correctly. A

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-24 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Feb 2007, at 10:53, George Gwilt wrote: The only other way would be to find someone to volunteer to convert the smsq/e sources (which were originally written using QMAC) so that they could be compiled with another assembler. However, GWASL is the only public domain assembler so

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-24 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Feb 2007, at 18:44, Daniele Terdina wrote: What would prevent GWASS to be augmented to 'understand' Qmac macros? (In general terms... I'm not familiar with either assembler having only used Metacomco's assembler myself). GWASS macros, like HISOFT assemblers and others (in fact

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-26 Thread George Gwilt
On 13 Aug 2006, at 09:05, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Perhaps understandably, I don't want to go from a state where I have sources that work to a state where I have sources that no longer work, I think this is absolutely essential. I spent a lot of time comparing GWASS results with Qmac results

Re: [ql-users] Checking on Processor

2007-03-02 Thread George Gwilt
On 2 Mar 2007, at 14:14, Rich Mellor wrote: The easiest way to distinguish between 68020+ and the others is: MOVEM.L A7,-(A7) CMPA.L (A7),A7 ADDQ.L #4,A7 ;Reset A7 and leave condition codes unaltered BEQ LOW ;Not 68020+ This method

Re: [ql-users] Checking on Processor

2007-03-02 Thread George Gwilt
On 2 Mar 2007, at 14:14, Rich Mellor wrote: I thought it safer to try a real 68020+ instruction, such as BFTST, to check the type of machine. This is much more likely to be a proper test for an emulator. Problem with this is the need to go through TRAPV - something I have long

Re: [ql-users] typeface changing in Psion Archive

2007-03-12 Thread George Gwilt
On 12 Mar 2007, at 10:04, Renato Barigazzi wrote: the problem isn't printing within Archive using the old printer_dat with and old parallel printer; but printing within Archive using QPCPrint and a new Epson USB printer. I have used both Archive output and Perfection output to print

Re: [ql-users] clock adrift in SMSQE

2007-03-14 Thread George Gwilt
On 13 Mar 2007, at 20:51, David Gilham wrote: I seem to have an unusual problem with respect to the clock on my Q60 system. The system is Q60 60mhz 64M ram as seen by SMSQE 128M Physical memory SMSQE v 3.13 as assembled from sources. The problem is not with the hardware clock. but

Re: [ql-users] Trump Card v2 ROM

2007-03-26 Thread George Gwilt
On 25 Mar 2007, at 20:13, Rich Mellor wrote: Can anyone recall the changes which occured in the v2 rom for Trump Card - From memory I believe it added the ability to read dos formatted disks, but can anyone remember the commands / device name? I have a user manual update for the Trump

Re: [ql-users] Attracting others to the Sinclair QL

2007-04-01 Thread George Gwilt
On 29 Mar 2007, at 20:13, John Gilpin wrote: Let me know if I can help - maybe the authors can supply something - Dilwyn Jones, George Gwilt...? I should be able to trace my various articles. It just needs someone to tell me which to send to whom! George

Re: [ql-users] QL Supercharge

2007-04-04 Thread George Gwilt
On 3 Apr 2007, at 14:46, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Yes, it is one of those Digital Precision hard on the eyes productions :-) I think you probably mean one of those Digital Precision 'hard to photocopy' productions - Freddy was very very good at protecting his interests. All his

Re: [ql-users] QL Wiki

2007-04-08 Thread George Gwilt
On 7 Apr 2007, at 16:04, Laurence Reeves wrote: (And Tony, I always pronounce it Wi-ki-pe-di-op-hi-li-ac. I invented the word. I can define the correct way to pronounce it! So there!) Er - rather hermpty dermptyish. George ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [ql-users] QL, Spectrum, and PC

2007-04-11 Thread George Gwilt
On 9 Apr 2007, at 23:20, Roy wood wrote: I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An operating system is just there to run your applications and manage your files. It's the job of the creator of a

[ql-users] Config Blocks

2007-06-17 Thread George Gwilt
The Selection Keystroke mentioned in various places inside the definition of Config Blocks seems to have no effect on Menuconfig. Has anyone found a use for these Selection Keystrokes and if so what is it? George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Config Blocks

2007-06-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Jun 2007, at 09:47, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: The Selection Keystroke mentioned in various places inside the definition of Config Blocks seems to have no effect on Menuconfig. Has anyone found a use for these Selection Keystrokes and if so what is it? According to the specifications:

Re: [ql-users] Config Blocks

2007-06-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Jun 2007, at 11:35, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Hmm, how can a program assume the use of MenuConfig? IMHO it just can assume a program, which takes care of a given config standard. AndConfig was first, TT just never wrote an extended version. Strictly speaking my programs assume that a

Re: [ql-users] Computer One Programs

2007-06-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 22 Jun 2007, at 21:45, Rich Mellor wrote: Does anyone have a copy of the following Computer One languages on disk (or working microdrive copy) - : Pascal Forth Monitor I must have Forth since I have programmed using it. George ___

Re: [ql-users] Testing (new email system) please ignore.

2007-07-09 Thread George Gwilt
On 5 Jul 2007, at 16:14, Tony Firshman wrote: When did your computer last catch fire? It's not so much the computer - they are, I'm told, meant to be left on anyway. It's the routers and so on - they run a little hot for my liking. I've got three now - a Linksys, a D-Link and now a

Re: [ql-users] Testing

2007-07-09 Thread George Gwilt
On 6 Jul 2007, at 16:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah, no need. We lived up North in the wilds of Scotland and tere weren't any traffic lights up there for many many years. Half the roads were single track with passing places From a recent visit I can attest that the Lairg -

Re: [Ql-Users] SBASIC extras

2007-08-14 Thread George Gwilt
On 11 Aug 2007, at 13:57, Dilwyn Jones wrote: PAR_WAIT (presumably something to do with parallel port) This is part of SMSQ/E but its definition is not in my QPC2 manual. The code seems to set a pause for a period of time. Perhaps the author knows what for? George

Re: [Ql-Users] Drawing on the pointer coordinate system

2007-10-09 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Sep 2007, at 09:45, Tobias Fröschle wrote: I am currently getting myself accustomed again to programming using the pointer interface after years of inactivity. I would like to hear how the cracks would tackle a problem I have where I have some alternative solutions for. (My

Re: [Ql-Users] Drawing on the pointer coordinate system

2007-10-09 Thread George Gwilt
On 9 Oct 2007, at 10:52, George Gwilt wrote: It is not practical (or even possible) to use both pixel position and graphics coordinates for the same point on the screen. A foolhardy statement! I should have realised that a genius like Rich Mellor would make the impossible possible

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-12 Thread George Gwilt
On 8 Oct 2007, at 12:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, exactly, is wrong with being a punter? Other than having to stand at the back of a flat boat with a pole in one's hand :o) The poling person stands on the flat end of the punt in one of the two real punting places and the sloping

Re: [Ql-Users] QUBIDE problem

2007-10-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Oct 2007, at 06:12, Francois Lanciault wrote: My main QL setup consist of a Aurora+SuperGoldCard+QUBIDE. To the QUBIDE I have two HD one of 100MB and the other 270 MB. Up to today, I had no problem with this system. But now when I fire up the computer, it hang just after the QUBIDE

Re: [Ql-Users] QUBIDE problem

2007-10-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 18 Oct 2007, at 16:51, Neil Riley wrote: How odd. The same trouble happens with my set up but the QUBIDE banner stops after about three full stops. Would my problem be due to the same cause? I had this exact problem George when I first got my second hand Aurora.. the fullstops

[Ql-Users] Branching on the Q40/60

2007-10-18 Thread George Gwilt
Here is an interesting piece of program you might like to try out on a Q40 or Q60 or even a QXL. PEA LABEL MOVE.L (A7)+,D0 SWAP D0 BRA LABEL-1 If LABEL is even the program branches to it, but if LABEL is odd the program branches to

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Guide - Ideas Anyone

2007-10-22 Thread George Gwilt
On 21 Oct 2007, at 16:31, Rich Mellor wrote: I have just listed an odd Sinclair QL Guide on ebay - does anyone have any suggestions what this may be? I have two or three of these cut down Guides. They contain the list of Basic Keywords ABS to WINDOW. Then there is the section of

Re: [Ql-Users] Talent Macro Assembler by Eddy Yeung

2007-10-27 Thread George Gwilt
On 26 Oct 2007, at 14:58, Rich Mellor wrote: I am just listing a copy of Assembler Workbench on ebay. With it, there is a second assembler, which I do not recall Talent ever selling - a macro assembler by Eddy Yeung (who wrote Assembler Workbench). The main cartridge works fine, but

Re: [Ql-Users] macros

2007-11-22 Thread George Gwilt
On 21 Nov 2007, at 15:24, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I'm looking to write a little utility to record keypresses as macros, if necessary assigning them to a hotkey or altkey for later use. Some processes mean repeated strings of keypresses, so it may be handy to record these keypresses and replay

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC/Vista

2007-12-16 Thread George Gwilt
On 16 Dec 2007, at 01:36, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Yes, 3.34 beta 3 is on my site. Don't be fooled by the beta, nobody has reported any problems so far. I have been using it a lot and it has no errors that I have found. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] New Items on SQLUG site

2008-01-02 Thread George Gwilt
For 2008 there are three new items on the Scottish Users site at: http://jms1.supanet.com/ 1. SMSQ/E A simple quick method of compiling SMSQ/E v3.13 using the assembler GWASS 2. EXEG EXEG is a new keyword which is like EXEP in that it executes executable Things but, unlike EXEP, it allows

Re: [Ql-Users] List problems

2008-01-14 Thread George Gwilt
On 13 Jan 2008, at 11:07, Per Witte wrote: Since 8th January Ive replied to 3 mails on this list (4 with this one), but not one of those replies has arrived in my own inbox. Yet at least one appears to have gotten through to the list as I can see Norman's response to it. How many mails

Re: [Ql-Users] List problems

2008-01-18 Thread George Gwilt
On 16 Jan 2008, at 17:58, Per Witte wrote: Who the hell is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I never sent anything to them. And where's the mail been these past 8 days? And how come they arrived on the list, but I didnt get a copy? Apart from changing my address and resubscribing a few days ago, Ive done

Re: [Ql-Users] Daughter Job?

2008-01-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 21 Jan 2008, at 11:02, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi A rather odd request, but does anyone know how an SBasic program could determine if its running as job 0 or as an executed daughter job? Cheers Malcolm Print JOB$(-1) will give SBASIC in a daugther job and in job 0. Unless you

Re: [Ql-Users] BJ-10ex Quill driver

2008-02-21 Thread George Gwilt
On 20 Feb 2008, at 18:03, Christopher Cave wrote: The manual gives me the impression that with the DIP switches 6,78 set to OFF,ON,ON '#' should be replaced by the UKPound sign but it isn't. You have to be in LQ mode for this. The DIP switch 11 should be ON for this. My BJ-10ex broke

Re: [Ql-Users] IOP_RPTR event vector - where is it documented.

2008-02-28 Thread George Gwilt
On 26 Feb 2008, at 08:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the next issue of QL Today I'm starting on the Pointer Environment. To this end, I've started simple but I find that easier! In the second article - which I'm writing right now - I've built a small 'pointer record' decoder but I'm

Re: [Ql-Users] Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL?

2008-06-24 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 Jun 2008, at 20:19, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (no mc.stat register and probably timing issues too). And Jan says on his website it might not work on anything faster than Sandy SuperQBoard interface, so no Gold Card, no Super old Card :-( Oops...variation of Super God Card ;-)) Could I

Re: [Ql-Users] Sprites for Games

2008-08-07 Thread George Gwilt
There are sprite drawing programs in the TurboPTR suite. These allow production of simple sprites for mode 4 and 8 as well as sprites for GD2 colours. This includes the production of sprites with degrees of transparency. You can also produce dynamic sprites which alter with time. By

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