Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
OK the java 6 version actually has some files in it compiled for
java 7.
try to redownload 6122 now.
Downloaded and tested - now works as expected.
Thanks.
John
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When I try to run SMSQmulator V1.22 (Java 6) I get the following Java
Virtual Machine Launcher error message:
Could not find the main class: smsqmulator.SMSQmulator.
Program will exit
My previous version (V1.20) works as expected.
Has anyone else had this problem?
John
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Hi all,
I've released v. 1.13 of SMSQmulator.
Some bugfixes, SMSQmulator can now handle QXL.WIN files on read only
devices.
You should upgrade.
Have fun.
Wolfgang
A small bug: on start-up, the new warning sub-menu item is always
ticked, regardless of the setting in
Hi, Wolfgang.
1) The Time Correction item seems to invoke the Double Window Size
routine.
Fixed in 1.04.
Confirmed.
2) The WIN drive warnings settings in the .INI file are not
reflected in the state of the Warnings sub-menu items.
Fixed (due to change from QXL to win)
Yes, the
Wolfgang,
There seem to be some problems with the Config menu of the final
version of V1.03:
1) The Time Correction item seems to invoke the Double Window Size
routine.
2) The WIN drive warnings settings in the .INI file are not reflected
in the state of the Warnings sub-menu items.
3) The
I can confirm that for V1.01 of SMSQmulator the SMSQ/E time matches
the XP Pro time.
Thanks!
John
- Original Message -
From: Wolfgang Lenerz w...@scp-paulet-lenerz.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator DATE$
During
Has anyone else noticed a time offset between the host OS time and the
SMSQ/E time?
My SMSQ/E time is +2 hours (running on XP Pro SP3 with JRE6 Update 32
as a limited user)...
John
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Peter Graf wrote:
does someone still have C68 binaries and libs from around 1994?
A private email with ZIP-file(s) would be great.
... or better: Does someone still have the PDQ C compiler?
I have a PDQ-C floppy which seems to still be readable. The files are
dated 30/09/1989 and QPC2 was
Hi, Norman.
Ok, 0-1-2-3 but when we get to C-D-E-F-$. What's going on
here? Is this sequence telling me that the map groups (of 4 sectors
each) 0 through $F are all linked in a chain belonging to whichever
file has file_id 1 and that block group $10 is the final one in the
file?
Almost
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
At this weekend's Quanta AGM, I was voted onto the committee and
have been asked to be News Editor.
Hmm... should we offer our congratulations or our commiserations? :-)
Watch out for those committee meetings!
John
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Anybody know how to unlock or convert the object program to allow it
to be loaded into standard Archive and saved as a _prg file?
A special version of Archive was supplied as part of the Run Time
Module package that provides some additional features (like the m/c
interface
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Another one approaching the big 60 ... now the new 50 ... :-)
43, going on 21 :-)
Looking forward to Byfleet...
John
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Help!
The QPC2 pointer (via both the mouse and the cursor keys) on my
Windows XP desktop has become v... e... r... y... sluggish!
Since the QL2005 show I've been using QPC2 exclusively on my Windows
2000 laptop without any problems.
However, yesterday I needed to run one of my little SBasic
Per Witte wrote:
John Hall writes:
Help!
The QPC2 pointer (via both the mouse and the cursor keys) on my
Windows XP desktop has become v... e... r... y... sluggish!
The only time I get this behaviour is when Windoze is printing to
the parallel port. Then Qpc2 becomes unusable
John Gilpin wrote:
Thanks Tarquin for your thoughts on the weekend, you've set the ball
rolling.
Has anyone else any comments to make?
If it's been said before, then say it again so we know who feels
which way about it.
I personally enjoyed every minute of it - Great pictures Tony -
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and
recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and drvcheck or some
such names) don't know if those are still supplied and indeed if
they work on current systems.
DRVLNK (the one that performs various
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Stuart - I could probably get a free WANTED ad into QL Today
magazine for you (if publisher Jochen Merz agrees and space permits)
to see if anyone wishes to sell their copy of the DP bundle. Let me
know if you'd like to try this.
Of course, anyone who did sell or
John Southern wrote:
Off the top of my head, that's most of what I can remember, anyone
else remember anything else important to mention?
Not important, but I also stood down from the Quanta committee and
Sarah Gilpin became the secretary of Quanta ;-)
... and both special resolutions
Roy Wood wrote:
Re. the flyer for Hove, what (if anything) is happening on Saturday
16th?
Nothing is planned as such but Jochen, Bernd and Marcel will arrive
on Saturday so I could arrange a meal of some kind. Need to know how
many people would like to attend a meal so I can book.
Ah,
Re. the flyer for Hove, what (if anything) is happening on Saturday
16th?
John
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Geoff Wicks wrote:
I was surprised that there had been no comment re. the special
resolutions - I think that the new clauses 5.3 - 5.6 are a very
bad idea and will be voting against the resolution.
(If I was a conspiracy theorist I might read something into the
fact that they are not
John Gilpin wrote:
Special Resolution Number 1.
Cutting out the wording regarding how the various paragraphs will be
renumbered, this resolution boils down to in order to improve the
balance between continuity and refreshment of the Quanta committee
it is suggested that no member shall
Tarquin Mills wrote:
Questions.
1. What would Geoff Wicks do differently as leader?
2. Why should I approve Special Resolution 2 when they can have
enough members by co-opting?
3. Why should I approve SP1 when it stops the top posts changing
democratically (new clause 5.3), and the
Roy Wood wrote:
I have just done a little test here with a standard QL, twin
floppies and a Gold Card.
No software loaded.
Without TKII
MAKE_DIR FLP1_TEST gives bad name - nothing happens.
Load TKII from the Gold Card
MAKE_DIR FLP1_TEST creates a directory
I would say that is
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
How do you find this string? Have you tried finding the command
string from a QLibbed prog other than with the QLib internal CMD$
command? The problem is that once you get to the stage where your
keyword will be invoked, A5 will point to who knows what (in fact,
the
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I look forward to it, and I don't really care how it's written as
long as my little new programs can do something like:
Careful, Dilwyn - that's the sort of attitude that made Windows what
it is today!
One of the advantages of SMS* being under the control of one person
was
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Aarrgghhh. Forget I ever said that
Said what? :-)
John
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Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
There has been some talk on this list about some form of
currrent directory or home directory for programs that
are being executed.
As far as I understand it, the purpose of such a directory is to
give the program the name of the directory from which the file was
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Yes, that is the logic of it.
It clears the existing screen first - which is 800x600.
Then reduces the windows to a next to nothing size - which meant to
prevent a crash.
Then sets a 'High Colour' mode ( relatively speaking as it only has
256 colours ).
Then makes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
At present I have configured Launchpad to be extremely useful on
my QPC2 system.
Could you please tell me how to find the be extremely useful
configuration option in Launchpad (and, indeed, in all my other
software)? :-)
OK ... you got me there, John.
Explain
Roy Wood wrote:
And, of course, the QUBIDE firmware was based on the Rebel code,
albeit heavily modified by Phil Borman...
I had mentioned that and that was why I wanted the other
information.
I had a browse through my QL Product Information file this morning
(while listening to the cricket
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
100 REMark boot_colour for Win - Malcolm Cadman - update January
2005
120 REMark Set up for High Colour mode
130 REMark Set Ink colour White and Paper colour Black for 3 QL
Window channels
140 icol=7 : pcol=0
150 INK#0,icol : INK#1,icol : INK#2,icol
160 PAPER#0,pcol
Roy Wood wrote:
I do have a second request for information for the second article in
the series. This will deal with Hard drives and their uses. I have a
series of questions :
1. when did the Rebel Hard drive come out and what was it?
2. When did the Falkenberg Interface come out ? Does
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
At present I have configured Launchpad to be extremely useful on my
QPC2 system.
Could you please tell me how to find the be extremely useful
configuration option in Launchpad (and, indeed, in all my other
software)? :-)
John
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
1) The empty device name loose items in the Source/Destination
Directory window are solid black rather than a white/green stipple
That's the Shaded area colour.
Hmm... when I change things via QCoCo, it appears to pick up the App
Win paper colour instead!
2) The
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
If there will be other applications using these two, I will update
QCoCo.
One (small) thing I've noticed while messing about with the palette
colours - if you hit the SAVE_TH item and then ESCape from the File
Select window, the item text changes to save.
Also, the About
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Hmmm, doesn't look like shaded area can be separately set in
QCoco. Probably because this QPAC2 menu is the only application that
made ever use of it.
Yes, I'd come to the same conclusion after saving and comparing a
couple of before and after palettes.
However, when I
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
No, I'm not talking about QCoCo but the QPAC2 action
confirmation window, which is a little bit more buried and
complicated.
Okay, I confused the writer of this (also had a long night last
night ;:)
But even so, John could set the two colours to something he likes
Has anyone else tried to set up the system palette to mimic the old
black/green colourway?
I have created what seems like a sensible theme using QCoCo but when I
load it, Files V1.26 (QPac2 V1.42) exhibits the following behaviour:
1) The empty device name loose items in the Source/Destination
John Hall wrote:
Has anyone else tried to set up the system palette to mimic the old
black/green colourway?
Oops!
Before someone sets off on a wild goose chase, I've now checked my old
QPCII set-up and reminded myself that what I'm actually trying to
achieve is the equivalent
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
My fault. 3.08 was QPC only (as, so far, is 3.09, which is not been
released yet). So 3.07 should actually be the current version.
I was wondering why 3.08 had not appeared on the web-site :-)
How will 3.08 (and 3.09 if it remains QPC-only) be treated in the
version
John Taylor wrote:
The EMC directive failed to determine what levels were acceptable
and which were not.
If a complaint was lodged then the courts would decide based on
that one item only.
ie. The acceptable level would be related to what use would be made
of the item, so that a
Tony Firshman wrote:
There is no requirement to certify for Brussels.
Self-certification is fine, for CE specifically.
Was the rumour around at the time, emissions compliance.
Sorry - do not understand the question.
What rumours?
Self-certification for CE is build into the rules.
Nothing
Nasta wrote:
Someone said that there is a source of the GLUE20 logic floating
around, I would certainly like to see it!!!
As I mentioned last week, Keith gave me a copy at a semi-recent
workshop (Hove, probably) which I can send if required...
John
Re. the SGC INGOT sources, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
He did type them up, though I'm not sure whether it was already 100%
complete back then. Perhaps somebody could ask Keith? I don't have
his address.
Keith gave me a copy at a semi-recent workshop (Hove, probably) which
I can send if required
Per Witte wrote:
Please keep talking!
:-)
Sadly, neither of the above will work as described in /this/ case
as, as someone already pointed out, the trap stores the calling
job's PC, and the matching rte scribbles over any PC value set in
the JCB (blithly supported by the scheduler).
I
John Hall wrote:
I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task switch
occurs...
When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment...
Oops! PC and SR, of course :-)
In supervisor mode, the job's SP is in the USP...
Now I
Duncan Neithercut wrote:
I do not want to dismiss anyone's ideas, all are welcome to me.
To refine my response, the issue is not just the ideas but
what comes next. Without a next any ideas no matter how
good will wither. I considered your response a next without
focus. Success needs a firm
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The only other QDOS I've ever heard of was an old PC operating
system, a predecessor to CPM I think, called Quick and Dirty
Operating System. Don't know if that was the official name or just
something someone made up about it in the same way as QDOS in
Qludged early QLs
Tony Firshman wrote:
It was a pity the last Quanta was so incomplete (8-(#
I think that's being a bit unfair to the acting editor.
Pages 23 24 seem to have all the relevant info.
John
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