Peter Graf wrote:
> Before you get tempted too much, please consider the SDHC card driver
> issue. QDOS Classic and Minerva both work on the Q68, but the QL-SD
> driver clashes with other extensions. Similar effects were seen under
> Qemulator and UQLX, for which the same native driver minus the ha
Thierry Godefroy wrote:
> That would be nice too: I'm worried that the EPROMs contents will end
> up ebbing away with time (I saw this happening many times, even on
> military grade systems), and these EPROMs are so large that they don't
> fit any of my EPROM programmers (which are limited to 27C51
Bob Spelten wrote:
> This weekend I came across the sad announcement that Dutch programmer Dr.
> Ir. Carlo Delhez had died a week before. He was only 48.
That's way too young. The name rings many bells, but I guess mostly
because of the emulators he wrote. Very sad.
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Derek Stewart wrote:
> Maybe both of you could start reading the Forum, as your input would be
> greatly appreciated.
I don't really like web forums, too inconvenient to use for me.
Support for the Tapatalk-App might make it bearable, but that only
shows postings up to 2014 or so. Apparently that
Derek Stewart wrote:
> Is it possible to create a new directory device in SMSQEmulator to use
> filenames with a length of greater than 36 characters.
It is probably possible, but what's the point? Next to no QL program
will be able to use it. Sure, you could open a file on it in SBASIC if
you hap
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> Actually, for some floating point numbers, there is different forms
> you can express them correctly in floating point form - That’s what
> is called a de-normalized float (40*2^-1, for example, is the same
> as 20 * 2^1) - So floating point numbers having the same value do
Wolf wrote:
> Atari monochrome works again, though there still is a little quirk when
> moving the pouse pointer.
Congrats! What was the problem?
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Michael Grunditz wrote:
>> Frankly, I have no idea about Atari hardware. But I don't understand
>> what you're trying to do anyway, sorry.
> In lack of a proper source level debugger I would like to do printf
> like debugging. If it is possible to print to the serial port I can
> add loads of print
Michael Grunditz wrote:
> But before Thursday I can't do proper serial. However I can spool the
> serial port to a text file.
What for?
> So I wonder, can I send data to serialport just by moving data to
> the serial port address? I don't know which to use. I tried scc_data
> , but that did just
Michael Grunditz wrote:
> This might be a good idea. Does it need input to work or can it be
> configured to perhaps break when something fails?
It's been a decade since I've used it, but IIRC it breaks before the
boot process where you can give it a "g" command to get it running
again. Then it'll
Michael Grunditz wrote:
> So somewhere in the loading process it crashes. If I break with the
> hatari debugger and disassemble I end up in a loop that doesn't end.
> I have no idea where the loop is in the source tree.
There are multiple ways to find this, pretty much all involve noting
a few byt
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> It works well on QPC2 (which emulates kind of a 68010), though.
Full 68020 support since v3.33 thanks to some work and much prodding
by George.
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jms1 wrote:
> The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in
> the scource of smsq and smsqe.
What are you talking about? This has never been the case for QPC.
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peterfox wrote:
> I have looked on both D and E: and cannot find anything but thank you
> for the warning. I this a case of the file being called something else?
No, not on D or E, it would be somewhere on C:
> can you help me on the other matter of increasing the size of QXL.win
> partitions, p
I have no idea how you even managed to do put them there in Windows 8,
this should be pretty much impossible for normal users. Also, they
would be write protected there.
Note for everybody: DO NOT PUT FILES IN C:\
Search your drive for other copies of QXL.WIN which are more recent.
The ones in C:
my old
> diary files across to QXL2.Win. When I look at the Diary files on the
> Windows 7 machine, all the diary files are within Diary and nothing
> later than October 2014.
> I hope that I have managed to explain myself.
> TIA & Regards,
> Peter Fox
> On 17.07.2015
Peter Fox wrote:
> I have now tried to transfer QXL.win and QXL2.win back to a Windows 7 machine
> and have
> failed. The dates on the QXL files are 25 October 2014 even though there are
> files dated
> July 2015 within the files.
Where are the files located?
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Just a quick note that one prominent ex-member of the QL community
(Roy Wood) has written an autobiography called "The way to(o) weard".
Apparently Darren is to blame for this, but I did enjoy the book very
much and read the ~500 pages in just a few days. The time span is
mostly before he became s
ql wrote:
> We have a system at work with the Tech Preview eval version of
> Windows 10. This late afternoon I gave it a go (but only for about 5
> minutes) with the QL/E environment under QPC2. In a nutshell: It runs!
Great, thanks! Good to see that Windows 10 is still DirectX 3
compatible (the A
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Ironically, a "Get Windows 10" icon has appeared in the System Tray of PCs
> this week...
>
> Hope QPC2 and QemuLator continue to work on that (assuming my poor PC is up
> to it!)
We've only just migrated to Windows 7 at work, so Windows 10 is far
off for me. Hope it just wor
Derek Stewart wrote:
> I meant Windows 10... but then this is silly, cos I do not use Windows.
I guess Windows 3.1 was the last Windows that QL hardware could handle
in terms of power, but that one was not portable at all.
While the RasPi2 is a very tiny little computer (I use one myself as a
med
Derek Stewart wrote:
> If the C Source were available, could this be ported to the QL.
Could QPC be ported to the QL? I don't get it, what would that be good
for?
Anyway, no, that's not possible, the code is tightly linked with
Windows and not portable.
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Morning all.
>
> The Pi 2 does indeed run Win 10. However it's a special embedded
> Win 10 and uses ARM machine language.
Yes, it's not even "Windows" as we know it, there is no desktop, no
mouse or keyboard support. It's an OS for small remote controlled
appliances. So no,
Actually all #3 traps are implemented at the discretion of the device
driver, so it's always just a documentation of what they should do,
not necessarily of what they are actually doing ;-)
IOF.FLSH and IOF.CHEK don't make sense for RAM discs, for example,
there is nothing to flush, it's all just
derek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just looked in the SMSQ/E sources and can not fond IOF.TEST.
>
> Is the statement in Section 5.3 correct?
>
> If not how should read.
As I wrote I'm pretty sure they meant to write IOF.CHEK
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> In my printed copy of Jochen's QDOS/SMS Reference Guide, iof.posa and
> iof.posr also have the same key (d0=$42, whereas iof.posr should be $43
>
> All the other $4x trap #3s are defined leaving only $44, which must be
> iof.test
Actually $44 is defined as iof.posv in the so
Derek Stewart wrote:
> I can not find any reference to IOF.TEST
>
> Should this be IOB.TEST ?
No, doesn't make sense. I guess they meant IOF.CHEK.
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Wolf wrote:
> Why doesn't WM_SETUP return an error? Often it doesn't have any clue as
> to whether there was an error.
That's one point, but also because not checking for errors speeds up
the code and makes it smaller. Remember that this was supposed to run
on 8Mhz and 128kb of ram, so back then p
Marcos Cruz wrote:
> Does anybody know the Unicode char code of QL char 181 (0xB5)? I don't know
> its name. It looks a reversed S with a dot below it.
I don't think there is a ready character for it, but it can probably
be constructed ('COMBINING DOT BELOW' (U+0323) and 'LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER TONE
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> No messages of any sort (e.g. updates downloaded, scans finished etc) so I
> can only presume that a running scan or some such process has ended. There
> is still a little bit of hard disk activity, but the computer is now back to
> normal in terms of usability.
Next guess: t
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
> everything else in D:
Okay, one more. Download and run the "Process monitor" tool from MS
and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> 3GB physical RAM installed, task manager says:
>
> Total 3037
> Cached 979
> Available 930
> Free10
Was a long shot, but this sounds legit. Does the system still use IDE
drives? When, for some reason, the error rate of a device goes up the
IDE controllers used to switch from
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Any idea what else might be causing the continuous hard disk
> activity slugging the PC to an almost unusable crawl? Nothing
> identifiable in the lists shown in Task Manager for example.
Check how much RAM Windows reports and compare it to how much it's
supposed to have.
Ma
b...@newlan.org wrote:
> This is an automated reply to your message "Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30
> name badges" sent to b...@newlan.org.
>
> Dear extdgl42
>
> Thank you for your email. I am unable to respond to email at
> present but will reply as soon as I can.
Oh sod off! Can't some admin remove him
Rich Mellor wrote:
> I just do not have the time to keep working on the QL Wiki.
>
> When I have asked people for help / comments, all I seem to get is
> 'there is no information about X'
I will try to contribute a bit of what I know, though I have little
knowledge of most old software.
Are
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> thanks for your kind words.
>
> I must stress, though, that the most difficult part of this is to design
> the puzzles and I didn't do many of those.
Still, well done. I managed to solve all default levels in a few
minutes but am pretty much stuck on level 3 in the additio
Ralf Reköndt wrote:
> Ok, Floppy image...how?
>
> Folder icon in QPC? Have I missed something? Still using QPC 3.34.
You've missed QPC2 v4.
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Ha, this happens to me from time to time. I use Windows Live Mail (better
> known as Windows Half-Dead Mail).
Actually, your mail is "completely-dead".
> "dilwyn@[...]":
> SMTP error from remote server after transfer of mail text:
> host: mail-in.freeserve.com
> 5.2.0 Mail r
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I got asked the following question by a user in Italy – does anyone know the
> answer?
>
> Dilwyn Jones
>
>
>
> my printer epl 6200 (advanced) is practically out of service (afte
would be the only solution.
Yeah, I don't think it's worth the effort, anyhow. Most C++ stuff
tends to be so complicated that it would probably be hard to port in
any case.
Cheers, Marcel
> On 15/04/2014 21:38, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
>> Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
>>> Are you
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> Are you aware of this:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080507162255/http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/68ktester
>
> There is a test results file which is supposed to help for exactly that
> kind of situation - the results are those from a real cpu.
If anybody is se
Wiznet:
+ TCP/IP included. Implementation of socket API for QL probably pretty easy.
+ Reliefs slow 68008 main processor. But then I seriously question what
original QL owners are going to do with this thing anyway.
- Only 4 parallel connections. That's 4 more than QLs usually have,
but still
Daniele Terdina wrote:
> Marcel, do you know if any free VHDL simulation/analysis tools
> exist that may be close to a code debugger (breakpoints etc., if that makes
> sense)?
No idea, I've last worked with FPGAs 10 years ago and that was with
actual hardware, some Altera evaluation board running
pg...@q40.de wrote:
> In case you are thinking about hiring someone to design a better
> CPU, I'm not sure if software developers are the ones to ask. This
> is not software, it's hardware design. I'm sure folks like Daniele,
> Richard and Marcel know a lot about 68K instructions, but it seems
>
Timothy Swenson wrote:
> I'm way rusty on my DOS memory stuff. What changes did you make to the
> DosBox .conf file to get QPC1 to run?
I just changed EMS, XMS and UMB to False.
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Ralf Reköndt wrote:
> What kind of OS is there? Would be nice to have it running with Minni.
SMSQ/E. This is the normal (=latest) QPC1 release. The last QPC that
ran with Minerva is much too old to be usable.
> Any chance to run it under Windows XP?
For that I created QPC2 ;)
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Due to popular (= one) demand, the full version of QPC1 has now been
released, too. It's available from my web site and works amazingly
well under the DosBox emulator.
Fun fact: the QPC1 boot screen was modeled after my favorite game at
the time: Doom.
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Timothy Swenson wrote:
> Welcome to the world of fatherhood. I'd say that you have 18 years
> before you get rid of her, but my oldest is 22 and still living at home.
That's not too bad, I extended my stay until I was 25 or so ;-)
> I can't believe it's been 14 years since you visited my place.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> We could perhaps look at modernising the documentation too, although that's
> a secondary consideration at th emoment, at least.
If anybody wants to have a go at it, be my guest. I can provide the
Text87 originals if that helps.
> Marcel, I don't know how to start thanking y
Hello all.
I have put the latest releases of QPAC1&2 online at
http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qpac2.html
For the release Jochen provided me with the original disc contents and
Text87 manuals for QPAC2, which I converted to PDF using QPCPrint.
By the way, if anybody is waiting for QPCPrint to becom
Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote:
> Just a query - what is the status of QPAC1 and QPAC2 now ? Has Tony Tebby
> released them as public domain?
Well, I've been the sole maintainer of both packages for the last 10+
years and have decided that it's about time for QPAC2 to be released
freely. Haven't even t
Hi everybody.
QPC2 v4.02 has just been released. I have only recently converted to
Windows 7 and found that the SMSQ/E soft reset using
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+TAB didn't work anymore as Windows now uses
CTRL+ALT+TAB for one of its many task switchers (ignoring the SHIFT
key). It wasn't exactly easy, but I
Dave Park wrote:
> We would like to make further improvements, but unfortunately we do not
> have the source of the QubIDE II ROMs. If anyone out there has the source,
> we'd be grateful for a copy.
Google "qubide source" and voila:
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/qubide-gpl.zip
Not that difficult
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> I hope the new QPC2 release works for everyone, I took great care to
> get every scenario for the installer right, but I didn't exactly have
> much time to get this thing out of the door...
There was a bug in the installer that created the qpc.ini and
qpc
Thanks everybody! My daughter says hi and "good god am I tired":
http://www.kilgus.net/images/marla.jpg
And yes, she already has much more hair than me ;-)
I hope the new QPC2 release works for everyone, I took great care to
get every scenario for the installer right, but I didn't exactly have
m
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
> to my knowledge, the GC and SGC were the first (and only)
> interfaces to use the NEC765A (or compatible, my GC has a compatible
> NATIONAL chip) floppy disk controller - that's the same one that was
> used in the IBM PC/AT - and thus were able to support the H
Hello everybody.
I have mentioned that I intended to make QPC2 available and free for all
for some time and the first fruit of this could be observed for QL
Today subscribers with QPC2 v4 on the last QL-Today DVD.
Now, to celebrate the birth of my first and very lovely daughter (who
turns one wee
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Sometimes in Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium SP1 on my PC, I get notifications
> from Windows saying that a program running isn't compatible with the colour
> mode and it switches to Windows basic colours without transparency (aero
> glass or whatever) upon coming out of 'Sleep'
jms1 wrote:
>> Just curious, - what are you trying to run it on? Windows 3.1?
>
> Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000. Runs fine on Windows Vista.
This was not intentional but apparently happened with the switch to
the Visual Studio 2010 compiler suite. The compiler does not support
creating EXE
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> If I open #3,some_file and ex #3 to test_bin, I do get a channel Id
> on the stack (and a word count of 1) but if I run it again, the
> channel Id on the stack is different. I would have thought that the
> [qdosmsq] channel id for SuperBasic channel #3 would remain
> constant
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> In my code size 30 example, I get 42 which is an extra 12 as well.
> What's so special about 12 I wonder?
>
>
>
> Right, it must be something in the allocation of memory. I found the
> code that creates a job and it simply allocates memory for
> #jcb_end+d2+d3 and jcb_end
nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:
> My file size is 30 bytes. I checked. Default data space from GWASL
> is 4000 bytes. I expected that to end up as 4030 or possibly rounded
> to the nearest 8 or 16 which would be 4032.
What's the value of a4 then?
My test exe was 1024 bytes data space and 222 bytes
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> I have noticed something a little odd, well, even to be honest.
> Strangely enough, the answer is 42 - what is the question? ;-)
The question is: "What size is your EXE file?".
> I'm wondering if the mysterious 42 extra bytes is also accumulated in
> the space desired in TR
Hugh Cumper wrote:
> I have just received QPC from the QL Today disc having been a Qemulator user
> in the past and I have a couple of basic questions. The only way I can get
> the emulated QL to fill the screen is to drop down to 512x256 resolution and
> QL Colors, is there a way to get a usable s
Per Witte wrote:
> PS I havent put QPC v4.00 though its paces yet. At the moment all I can say
> is that it just works! I think it was a splendid initiative to make it
> generally available (at least to all QLT readers).
Thanks for all the feedback so far! I've just arrived back from a
(much neede
Peter Graf wrote:
> If I find the time to design suitable caches, I expect CPU core speed
> between 32 and 40 MHz. At 20 MHz, the Dhrystone benchmark gave something
> between SuperGoldCard and Q40.
>
> For the general public, I might hold back some design files until
> expenses for manufacturing ha
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> I'm just just back from vacation and I probably still have my head in
> the clouds.
>
> Could you describe the problem with a bit more detail?
Just open QD, open the "File" menu and try to drag it around.
>> Ha, good catch. Wolfgang, at least this one problem clearly lies
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> I guess asking Jochen or Marcel for an upgrade wouldn't hurt. Both
> are nice guys and don't bite, normally ;)
lol, thanks :-D
Actually I've sent him the files off-list already.
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François Van Emelen wrote:
> Bottom left in QPC configuration window, click on 'Don't show...' and SAVE.
Actually that is the only option that doesn't need the "SAVE" button
to be saved ;) It's always saved, doesn't make much sense otherwise.
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Malcolm Lear wrote:
> I'm using 3 monitors. Is it possible to select a particular one when
> full screen mode?
In the final release you will be able to drag the window to the
desired monitor and activate full-screen mode there. However, I
noticed that on both my XP test PCs the smoothing algorithm
Derek Stewart wrote:
> I have been using QPC v3.33 and v3.34 Beta 3, is faster on my Linux laptop.
>
> There was no problems with the machine crashing or locking up.
This is great news, thanks.
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pjwitte wrote:
> It works a treat! The new FSM an' all! Thanks again, Marcel.
>
> There is one thing, though - and it appears Im the only one with the
> problem(?) The QPC startup menu pops up every time I start an instance
> of QPC. I have, of course, tried all the obvious remedies.. or perhaps
>
gdgqler wrote:
> FSM seems to me to work fine on an Apple Mac plus VWWARE plus
> windows XP. Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F12+fn does the trick.
This is good to hear.
> However, the delightful WM_MOVEMODE 3, which works well with most
> windows digs down too far and too erratically to show what's beneath
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Now to leave it on overnight to see how this PC treats it coming out of
>> whatever sleep mode it decides to go into tonight!
> Ho hum, programs left running (Windows Live Mail, QPC2, Skype and a Windows
> Explorer window) had all locked up by this morning although Windows wa
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
> I like it much better than the old way of a FSM which did change the
> computers graphics card configuration (resolution/colour depth) and made
> Windows nervous in some occasions.
It made sense in the past for CRT monitors where you still got a crisp
picture when you redu
Per Witte wrote:
> Id love to try it, but I cant find 3.40 beta 3 anywhere..?
It's right there. Reload your browser cache perhaps? Alternatively
http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/qpc2v340beta3.zip
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Subtitle: The fullscreen mode is dead, long live the fullscreen mode.
After hours of messing with the fullscreen mode that I will never get
back I've decided to make a somewhat drastic step and remove it
altogether. This makes the display driver code infinitely easier to
work with.
But fear not, a
Per Witte wrote:
> Am I the only one getting this behaviour?
Do you by any chance have any kind of capslock utility loaded?
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Per Witte wrote:
> I am not able to get FSM on my laptop (Mac Pro running W7U) The screen
> resolution is 1280x800, but whatever resolution I supply the emulation
> crashes during startup.
Crash as in "Shows the Windows error dialog" or crash as in "Nothing
is happening, I need to force QPC to clo
Per Witte wrote:
> Thanks, Marcel, for the insights!
>
> I think there could be a bug in the keyboard driver, as something I did by
> pressing some keys hung the emulation. (Its been many years since the last
> crash :)
Hm, strange. The code is actually pretty straight forward (at least
once you h
Norman Dunbar wrote:
> PS. If someone has an annotated disassembly of MAWCLEAR, that would help
> too! ;-)
I got something better, I have the source code. DO NOT expect it to be
more readable than a disassembly, though...
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pjwitte wrote:
> I havent been able to test it before now, and only scantly at that.
>
> My machines now run Windoze 7, either 64bit or 32bit versions. I
> struggled a bit to configure SMSQE, as none of the changes I made to
> it via the QPC configuration screen, nor the MenuConfig application
>
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> I don't use full-screen mode at all - because I can't get that to
> work properly on MacParallels anyways.
Doesn't surprise me, even Windows support is becoming pretty spotty.
It was cutting edge when I wrote the code 15 years ago, though ;-)
> I do use a maximized window
Urs wrote:
> BTW: Did you add "suspend emulation when minimized" (good for all
> notebook users when using ql programs which do not have good "idle
> handling")
No. If I have ever heard of this feature request I have forgotten
about it ;) Will think about it.
> and" save and reuse last screen pos
George Gwilt wrote:
>> While I'm at it, does anybody still use the fullscreen mode?
> All the time.
Damn. But such a major change might need 6 more years anyway, for now
you might be safe ;)
> Although SHFT/CTRL/F12 (plus the fn key on my Apple Mac) sets full
> screen for v3.34 beta it has no eff
Surprise! It only took 6 years, but finally there is another official
beta of QPC ;-) Don't hesitate because it's called a "beta", it's very
stable, I only want people to test the new keyboard driver first
before calling it a release.
It includes the latest SMSQ/E v3.16.
New features:
- Added n
Rich Mellor wrote:
> This is rather an odd thing which I have never come across before
>
> QPC2 is acting as though the p key was pressed down - even though I can
> use the same PC to happily type this email.
SMSQ/E for QPC awaits "make" and "break" codes from QPC, just like
SMSQ/E for Q40 or QXL
Hello Dilwyn,
> If the QPC2 is left open, it locks up after coming out of standby –
> usual egg-timer icon or greyed out display.
Excuse my absence of the conversation, I'm back from enjoying the only
week of bad weather Lisbon has recently had.
This problem is actually the main reason why 3.34 n
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:11:48 PM, Wolfgang wrote:
> Because you can't define "something went belly up in an exceptional
> manner" ?
Recently I came up with the idea of combining the SYSMON
heap-walk-check with QMON's quick trace facility, so that after every
instruction the heap is checked for c
[These mails are older, but I just realized today that due to my eMail
setup still not completely restored I sent them from the wrong address
and they didn't show up on the list. Resending...]
Friday, May 31, 2013, 1:13:54 PM, Norman wrote:
>> Err, but running things like some C programs (e.g. Bog
Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 3:12:55 PM, Norman wrote:
> 2. Does SMSQ Need a Monitor Built in?
>
> On a completely different matter, I'm thinking that it might be a good
> idea (depends on your point of view of course) to have a built in
> "monitor" system in SMSQ/QPC etc. Ok, I can hear the screams f
François Van Emelen wrote:
Nice new features!
Thanks to both of you Marcel and Wolfgang.
Now waiting for the QPC2 version.
Yesterday my main SSD decided to commit suicide. There are backups of a
few things, but the latest SMSQ/E and QPC is not amongst them. It will
take a while for me to get
Bob Spelten wrote:
> When I execute the following line on Aurora:
>
> COLOUR_NATIVE: PAPER 15: CLS
>
> I do get the right "plum" colour but only every second pixel, so a
> vertically striped window.
> The same is true for any other colour I tried, the right colour but
> striped (with black).
>
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> the recent discussion about a window that pops up when the pointer is at
> the bottom of the screen prompted me to write a small "dock" application
> that pops up when the pointer is at the bottom of the screen.
> Moving the pointer up again will hide it again. Hit ESC to q
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Well, the format is well-explained.
>> Without knowing what colour is passed, we can't know happens...
> Will await a copy of the info to be sent to me before going any further.
OK, this is the minimal code to reproduce the problem
100 XM = SCR_XLIM
110 YM = SCR_YLIM
120
Bob Spelten wrote:
> The Kilgus system sprites I use are all about 20x20 and have their origin
> at the center.
> So I have set a margin of SCR_YLIM -10. The arrow is 17px high and has the
> origin at 0x0, so needs more margin.
Y-direction should be no problem, the sprite can leave the edge of the
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> This seems to work with any size of window, haven't tried many sizes though.
> Should work with an Easyptr menu too, though not tried that yet. Only run it
> in BASIC job 0 - intend to try it as an SBASIC job and compiled at some
> point. Only tried it in QPC2 3.34beta3 high c
Bob Spelten wrote:
> It's been done before.
> In Cuedark you can assign a corner to act as On switch.
> Move the pointer there and the screen saver will be invoked in a few
> seconds.
> The principle is the same, don't know how it's done however.
It directly checks pt_pos in the CON linkage bloc
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
>> What is the difference between the Aurora, GoldCard &
>> GoldCard_256colours .bins?
> The normal goldcard doesn't contain 256 colours drivers, the ...8 does
> contain them, aurora is for the aurora card.
Well, you can't have 256 colours without aurora, so I, too, have no
Dave Park wrote:
> It does seem, in this day and age, as if Minerva should be considered a
> base system, and the use of QDOS should be deprecated.
Hear hear, that's what I've tried to sell for years now ;-) I cannot
think of any single reason to not use Minerva, except perhaps the fear
of killing
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