Re: [Ql-Users] Prices of QL Books

2011-08-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Prices of QL Books

2011-08-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 09/08/11 08:46, Norman Dunbar wrote: OUCH! £82.13 for a QL book. When you read the small print, it's an ex library book as well. Someone is taking the p*ss! It seems everyone may be taking the p*ss: URL:http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0273021877/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8condition

Re: [Ql-Users] Prices of QL Books

2011-08-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
books from going to landfill and sell them at great prices so that you can never not afford to have a book. Hmm, we get the for free and flog them for an extortionate fee more like! Still, I can afford not to have this particular book! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

[Ql-Users] What's the current (available) version of the PE?

2011-08-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
Can someone please tell me the current version of the PE and WMAN please? Thanks. Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £15 PC

2011-08-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
develop as a new language/development system in its own right, I think so anyway, rather than a straight port from QDOSMSQ to ARM. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £15 PC

2011-08-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
I've grown up since then ;-) Ah yes, growing up. The joys of having to find work, stay in it, earning enough to live. No wonder they say that childhood days are the best in your life. Nostalgia, it's not what it used to be. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] Alien Hijack Re-released

2011-08-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
in the esteemed magazine? ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
appear to have appeared - I wonder why. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
to get their share of the netbook/tablet market. Ok, thanks. I was wondering about his choice of words. I have to admit, I never heard him say that they had recompiled Office. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 04/08/11 08:38, Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. I posted this last night from my tablet but it doesn't appear to have appeared - I wonder why. I've noticed that although I replied, it has come up as a separate thread. Interesting. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £15 PC

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £15 PC

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
had a built in 68000 emulator, then assembly will be a non-starter. None (I presume) of the system variables and so on would be the same either. The *language* would be there, just not the platform itself. I think! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
favourite 1980s home computers! Yes, you get to plug it in to the telly again - via an HDMI cable though, none of that UHFstuff here! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
programmes used infrequently. Yes, but for Windows only I'm afraid. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
... The possibilities seem endless... Bingo. This is what will make it a success (I sincerely hope) unless the youth of today are too far down the road of everything on my phone for free to be rescued from never having to do stuff for themselves. (Who's an old git then?) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi the £20 PC

2011-08-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening, interesting, very interesting. I watched and noted the following: * This is something we are working on. So it is not generally available (yet). * He kept saying Windows client running on ARM (natively) I wonder if that is some sort of Citrix type thing rather than proper windows?

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 on 64-bit

2011-07-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
and switches desktops. Interesting! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

[Ql-Users] QL gets a mention, and picture in Linux User Developer Magazine

2011-06-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
The current issue of LUD is doing a piece on the early years of Linux. On page 59, there is a mention of the QL and a photo of one with it's lid up exposing its innards. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] QL VROOM re-released

2011-06-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
, as to why (Top Secret!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] QL VROOM re-released

2011-06-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
. Unfortunately, I have no microdrives that I can use. I never did get BCPL though! :-( I do have backups pn FLP though. Unfortunately, I have no flipping FLP drive on my laptop. Sigh. I wonder if the one at work, works . Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth

2011-06-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
=enq=#94ac7a4e3d4d3a60 is his latest posting on June 8th. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] LaunchPad

2011-06-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
the name, court proceedings would have found in favour of the database. (So I'm told by the legal experts anyway.) So, Dilwyn could, if he wanted, ask Apple to cease and desist. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] QIMI Mice + RasberryPi

2011-06-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
such a thing? Of course, it would work just as happily as a Windows project as well, assuming we use decent cross platform tools (wxWindows, QT, Fox, etc). So, those are my ramblings on the matter. Any comments? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

2011-06-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Derek. Apologies for top posting, this tablet doesn't allow inline or bottom posting! I've seen the zip file there, but, it needs lots of preprocessing with TCL and such like to produce anything they say can be used. :-( What I'm doing is parsing the big file and recursively extracting

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

2011-06-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
to split the file into it's constituent parts and build a make file to cope I think. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

2011-05-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
to run much faster. I don't suppose there's one already compiled etc - or am I about to roll my own from the source? Time to dive into the docs again I think. It's been quite a few years since I did any C68 work, I'm having to try and remember everything I've forgotten! Cheers, Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

2011-05-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
, that progress will be slow. Probably very slow. :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] FAO: Dave Walker - possible bug in C68?

2011-05-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
to take no space while others do take a space. I never noticed how inconsistent this was in the past! Thanks again. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

2011-05-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
to be the bug-bear. :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Delaying code

2011-05-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
! ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Delaying code

2011-05-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/slowgold.zip also the slug: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/slug.zip HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Website Down

2011-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
, like Wordpress, when the system is under maintenance. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
port - typical Sinclair, get it working (almost) then ship it out! Maybe, one day when you get time, you can write up an article about writing a device driver! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
, parallel processing is wrong, multi-core CPUs are wrong. Etc. Well, this problem with the salve blocks doesn't sound very right to me and he wrote it (As far as I'm aware anyway). Having said that, I'm out of here for three weeks! How's that for hit and run? :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir C on radio4

2011-04-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, Well, thinking of the Asimov robot, there is a new exoskeleton which can help paralysed people walk, go up stairs etc (was on the news earlier this week, made in Israel I think). The solution for Norman might be an Asimov he can sit inside, tell it where he wants to go, then sleep

Re: [Ql-Users] Simple HowTo to make SBasic jobs PEable...

2011-04-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
, unless a program is written for the PE, it won't be making much use of the PE itself. Other opinions will arrive shortly I suspect - probably correcting me! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir C on radio4

2011-04-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 07/04/11 16:14, Tony Firshman wrote: He mentioned he has another electric vehicle in the offing. This new one just *has* to be better, but that is not saying much. Stuff the C5 or the X1, I want one of these from Honda! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ Cheers, Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir C on radio4

2011-04-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
though is that Hardware always goes worng! I'm sure that 'worng' was a deliberate typo! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Today, 25 years ago (IV)...

2011-04-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 07/04/11 09:29, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Amstrad and Sinclair computers got married! :-( I just had a horrible though, imagine what Clive and Alan's kids would look like! ;-) I'll get my coat ... Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe

Re: [Ql-Users] Tyche

2011-04-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
goes to show, never trust an Internet Search Engine to give you *one* definitive answer! ;-) For example: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=Tyche pronounces it completely differently. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
becomes frequently used. And a jolly good rant it was too. I enjoyed it. Cheers! Drat, failed in my efforts to annoy Norman :o( :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
in XP hence I changed to Chrome. That's strange, I used my XP in a VM system to run IE8 on my website and it was working fine for me yesterday! Still Chrome is good! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, Next point of course is that (as Norman suggested) should we go the extra mile to make sure that the body of IE users get web pages that will display as intended on IE or just take the viewpoint that This website doesn't display correctly on Internet Exploder. Tough. Try another

[Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
of those monitors that displays a full A4 page in portrait format! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
to criticise people for making typos! The proper URL should be http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk and not as above. Sigh! Cheers, Norman. PS. I note you are busy again George . updating pages all over the place! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta's Web Collapse, PDFs again (in QL Today)

2011-04-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Corrections: On 02/04/11 18:11, Norman Dunbar wrote: While I would be the last person on this planet to stand up for Micro$oft, You only stand up just before you throw another PC running Windows out the window! ;-) You only stand up for Microsoft was what I meant to say! As of two months

Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there

2011-03-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there

2011-03-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Petri your brain agrees with the QL User Guide Concepts section. I wish I had a memory like that. Trust me, that sort of thing doesn't happen all that often - ask my wife! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2011-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Apologies to George and everyone else, and if the staff at Quanta Magazine Towers are enjoying this, then it's my own fault, We all make mistakes. Said the dalek climbing off the dustbin! ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
, but surely we could ask/offer where we are willing and have the skills? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
as such. ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

[Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...

2011-03-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing

[Ql-Users] Wasted evening?

2011-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
rather than trap #3 - instead of printing a byte to a channel, I was force removing a (thankfully non-existent) job! Duh! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
have been IQLR or QL Today, not sure. I must fire up IDIS-SE though soon, just for nostalgic reasons. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
... Are copies available? Electronic is fine, if possible? Cost? Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

2011-03-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 03/03/11 14:56, Bob Spelten wrote: I have just produced my first piece of asm that Gwass turned into a working bin function. (it took only a handful of system crashes, and I haven't even read Norman's series. ;) ) Sigh! I knew it was only George and me! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

2011-03-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
and QMAKE. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

2011-03-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 03/03/11 15:41, Bob Spelten wrote: I will probably dig up my old QL Todays and have another look at it. It should make a lot more sense now. ;) Bob, there's something (fairly large) in your inbox. :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe

Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2

2011-03-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 03/03/11 16:41, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Oh waoh, so, to guttenberg (sorry only the german readers will understand that) Norman, that's an increase in readership of 100 % (or is it? If you go from 0 to 1; by how mùany percent have you increased?). Well, work it out 1/0 * 100 = 100/0

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
the conversion to DocBook XML. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Tim, I should be able to find it and give it to anyone who is working on making a better copy. It would save them some time. Yes please! Thanks. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
and the seeming lack of interest in getting QL stuff from the internet? Maybe, people using the QL can't be bothered to fire up a laptop or desktop just to get a magazine? Just a random thought. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
to England for that. We can't do that without a snappy name, like the Oscars for example. Suggestions? Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-02-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
though, The Guardian often has spelling mistakes and is known as The Gruniard. Mmmm. Very interesting point this person has brought up - should we stop calling it QL Toady? We could be sending out the wrong signals. ... Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] ATX controller...

2011-02-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
TF: I don't, but my memory is not what it used to be! Me: How long have you had this problem? TF: What problem? :-) (Sorry!) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] Finally a reply

2011-02-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
random thoughts mainly, and a bit of encouragement. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing

[Ql-Users] 57 images of dismantling a Sinclair ZX-81.

2011-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/sinclair-zx81-teardown/6196127?tag=nl.e101 Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 81

2011-02-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
to avoid the business end of a plug lead! I think today's kids are far too molly-coddled! No spark in them. (Ha ha!) ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Spring 2011 QL Survey Website

2011-02-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
/surveythanks.html. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] What the hell happened?

2011-02-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
I go to Madrid for 4 days, and when I get back, I have 207 emails, unread, in my QL-Users folder! Been busy around these parts then! I'll catch up later. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire

Re: [Ql-Users] Wishlist of future SuperBASIC extensions...

2011-02-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 11/02/11 15:06, Plastic wrote: I'll match your increments and raise you referenced pointers... I'll 'C' your increments and referenced pointers. In fact, I'll C68 them! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2011-02-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
will fail. I cannot get QPC to run simply because I can't find a way to get the system to recognise any option that I might have for installing it! Shame. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United

Re: [Ql-Users] GWASS is updated

2011-02-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 09/02/11 16:51, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: Why can't programmers tell Christmas from Halloween? Because DEC 25 is OCT 31! Oh dear, bad jokes R us! There are 10 types of developer in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] File transfers

2011-02-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
(it's on my 'eventaly to do' list) to extract any type of file and save it to local disc. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] SuperBASIC oddities...

2011-02-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 08/02/11 13:54, gdgqler wrote: Recursion is always fun. I had to look it up in the dictionary, it said: Recursion: see recursion. :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom

Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
! Have fun. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
I have already made it a project for the future to re-do the manual, make it into a searchable website, etc. Dilwyn supplies the UserGuide in PDF format on his QL On A Stcik system. It's already searchable. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
SVG format by any chance? Scales beautifully at [almost] any resolution. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Wondering...

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
likely. However, I'll check and see what's what. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] Wondering...

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
(to my eye) and adjusting the fine tuning around channel 36 makes no difference. I suspect the UHF modulator needs a bit of time to warm up perhaps. Drop me a private email to let me know where you want it sending please: Norman (at) dunbar (hyphen) it (dot) co (dot) uk. I've got two more, one

Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

2011-02-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
at http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/downloadperso.shtml Both are WIndows or Linux etc. HTH - and happy to answer questions. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] 12th February 2011

2011-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
have a factory. The red triangle is their registered trade mark. It, the red triangle, was the very first ever trade mark to be registered. That's about all! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire

Re: [Ql-Users] IDE versus SD card

2011-02-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
should be fine. I recommend http://www.crucial.com/uk - service is excellent and quaility is likewise, excellent. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Reality check

2011-02-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows. I access this group but don't use a PC. Likewise, given the definition above. But not the same as you. Guess how. Forbidden fruit is a clue (8-)# Um, is a pineapple? :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN

2011-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 30/01/11 13:04, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of files in a QXL.WIN directory (or the entire QXL.WIN for that matter)? No, not off hand, does http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:fs:qlwa help any? Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] GWASL and LIB instruction?

2011-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
win1_ass_pe_csprc_bin The SYM file defines the offsets into the LIB'd file as offsets from the current location. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
remember if it was Andy Pennell or Adrian Dickens or Chas Dillon. Someone did it though. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
years ago in QL Toady when I wrote some code with it in! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL On A Stick

2011-01-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
bit, OpenSuse 11.3 32 and 64 bit, OpenSuse 11.4 64 bit, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 64 bit, Linux Mint 10 64 bit, PCLinuxOS 32 bit as well. I can even, god forbid, install Ubuntu as well - just to make sure I cover the popular versions. Oh, ok, Fedora too then, if I must! :-) Cheers, Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version of QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
everything to be used. Only a number of the exception handlers and the traps from 5 to 15. I was meaning I'd like the standard features of the processor to be completely available in the ideal 680xx OS. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

[Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version of QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2009/05/whats-wrong-with-this-file-system/ for a pseudo-rant on the matter. * Industry standard floating point format. * Industry standard graphics format(s) - PNG, for example. JPG if we must! SVG would be nice. * Speed and efficiency! ;-) Cheers, Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version of QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
lacking though Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version of QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
I suspect, They are shared - the Menu Thing that Jochen produces is shared and usable by all sorts of programs, and only one version has to be in RAM at the time. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version ofQDOSMSQ?

2011-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Ralf, Would be better as a kind of THG% in the system. I see you beat me to it! However, that is in the existing QDOSMSQ system. A brand new one may decide to implement the JPEG Thing differently, perhaps. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new version of QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
One thing I would like to see in SMSQ is the correct MC680xx vector table at the start of the OS. :-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Programming project request...

2011-01-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
or compact flash cards Far too costly - it will cost you and 'ARM' and a leg. ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist!) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Programming project request...

2011-01-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
there and then! :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN queries

2011-01-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
. :-) Thanks for your help/input. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

Re: [Ql-Users] Programming project request...

2011-01-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
in that recursive routine coun be easily modified to delete all the non-directory files and then the directory. If you find that too easy, re-write it in assembler! :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

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