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

2007-02-10 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
I remember briefly that one or some Germans which were member of QUASAR wrote at least parts which could be used to build a virus. Those parts adressed infection of an _exe and once such an _exe was started (EXEC) randomly infection of other _exe on the disk occured. As far as I remember

Re: [ql-users] A QL Trip Down Memory Lane

2007-02-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Hi all One of my remaining QL tasks is to let the ITC profs remember from where the real experts/technologies are (were) coming from. Doing that I experienced the same impressions as Rick did. Once the young ITC profs hear and see what and how a QL and QDOS operated some 20 years ago they get

[Ql-Users] QL on YouTube

2007-08-15 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Hi all Not much QL, if any QL stuff on YouTube? Think so... Today I opened my personal YouTube account. I also opened a Group called Sinclair QL. First uploads are: - Sinclair QL TV advertisement 1984 - QDT demo by Jim Hunkins at 2002 US QL-show More to come... I also slightly updated my

Re: [Ql-Users] QL on YouTube - QL 2002 DVD now online

2007-08-24 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Nice to see that Darren picked up the idea and uploaded QL 2002 DVD for public viewing! I did upload two more QL videos: - QL-Midi session by Al Boehm at QL 2000 - Kodak-Camera session by Simon N Goodwin at QL 2000 Have fun...Urs Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum:

[Ql-Users] Website QLvsJaguar moved to a new host

2007-10-20 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Hi all Last week my ISP shut down the webs erver which was the host for my website. In the meantime I found another place to host my site. My personal website QLvsJaguar can now being reached here: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/ Users please update your bookmarks, webmaster please

Re: [Ql-Users] Pengi

2008-06-17 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
I loved Pengi back in 1986. It was a fast fun game even on a standard QL. Would be great to see it back on track. What about a patched version for emulators or even QPC2. Urs Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 16.06.2008 09:21 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re:

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines

2009-01-14 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Urs Koenig wrote: 2. We have a 15'000$ XEROX WorkCentre at work which has a powerful duplex scan engine. To scan 100 pages of A4 paper takes just a few minutes. Another contribution to the QLis25 year will be that on one evening or another I will scan some documents, mainly those

[Ql-Users] They launched the QL2!

2009-01-16 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all, I had a deja-vu this week! They launched the QL2 this week! No joke, it's real. No not Sinclair this time, Asus did it. They copied all the good old concepts and went for it. They even sent a buddy on stage to present the mock-up to the press. Not in London this time, they did it at

[Ql-Users] Time is running so fast, another 15 year anniversary today (last version of QTop)...

2009-01-16 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
By far not as important as the QL, but at least for me it's an important anniversary. Today it's exactly 15 years since the last official build of QTop has been finished and compiled. Just found the complete set of sources some minutes ago. Ralf motivated me to dig into QTop again... 10 REMark

Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday - aftermath I

2009-01-17 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
On 12 Jan 2009, at 07:05, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: On January 12th 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair presented the Sinclair QL Professional Computer in a Hollywood-style launch event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London. This was exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs presented

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL Website

2009-02-08 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Bruce Nicholls - Quo Vadis Design wrote: Quo Vadis Design, a UK based company, announces a new QL website selling Software and QL Today subscriptions. The website is immediately available for use at www.ql-qvd.com . Nice to see that the UK gets a resurection of a QL dealer. So the 2009 QL

[Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday - afterma th II

2009-02-22 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Logbook: Month one after the birth anniversary of our baby we look how the web and media took up the story. As expected there was poor feedback if any in most NewsGroups, only comp.sys.sinclair took it up: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/6888ea 8b4b1761cc

[Ql-Users] MD5 algorithm in SuperBASIC or 68K assembler?

2009-03-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all, did somebody implement the MD5 algorithm in S*BASIC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 Or is there a 68K assembler implementation? This could be the base for a Toolkit-command. Best regards, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Wanted

2009-03-02 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: I'm always in circulation, just very quiet :-) With the economy being bad as it is, we work extra long hours to automate as many things as we can that means very little time for the QL :-( Glad to see you're back on the list, Phoebus. Especially when the economy is

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-05 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Stephen wrote: Any suggestions? (I am a Linux newbie!) I use a later version of uqlx, release=10/22/02 16:10:00 This has different definitions in terms of big_endian. I'll post you this release with a private email. Best regards, Urs ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Stephen wrote: Beyond me I think! Just today I got the recent issue of Germans c't magazine which has Knoppix v6.1 (Debian Kernel 2.6.28.4) on a Live-DVD. So, I did try to compile uqlx but it failed with similar problem reports as at Stephen. On Knoppix v3.4/v3.4 from 2003/2004 (the Live-CD I

[Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th anniversary - 77 days summary

2009-03-31 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I'm a bit late with my monthly mailing. It's eleven weeks since the birth anniversary of our baby. The high street media coverage in the PCW magazine boosted access to the anniversary web-page and downloads. Download statistics since January 12th 2009 are: - 1064 downloads of the anniversary

[Ql-Users] How was QUANTAs QLis25 event and AGM?

2009-04-19 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
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[Ql-Users] Best practice to clean and restore MDV-Drive (Transport-Rubber, Tape-Head)?

2009-05-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all, A friend of mine had his QL stored away for more than a decade in a bad (wet) place (wet). The QL is working but looks very bad (slimy and rusty). Outside cleaning was easy, also was blowing the dust away internally. The first MDV cartridges we've tried to load were

Re: [Ql-Users] Mel LaVerne (D. LaVerne) QL

2009-07-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
That is very sad. I've met Mel first time back in 1995 in Oak Ridge. My condolence to Doug and Family, Urs extdgl42 wrote: The community could be interested to know that Mel LaVerne, QLer for decades, passed away early Wednesday morning, June 24th. He had suffered a stroke Jan. 15th and

[Ql-Users] International QL Mac are 25 e vent will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sa t/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009

2009-07-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
After some weeks if not months of evaluation and talks of what's next in the QL is 25 storyline I’m very happy to announce that an international QL Mac are 25 event will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sat/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009. It will be hosted in a very special place, the brand new

Re: [Ql-Users] Article on Sinclair QL

2009-08-31 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: A new article on the Sinclair QL written by Martyn Carroll appears in this month's Retro Gamer magazine which went on sale yesterday!! We had our summer holidays in Ireland. In our 3 weeks journey we did the complete south costal line from Dublin to Galway and then back to

[Ql-Users] PCW closed down

2009-08-31 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Sad news for connoisseurs of UK's computing press. After 31 years Personal Computer World (PCW) magazine had to close this summer. The last issue was August 2009. The last words from the editor: Hi Urs - I'm sorry to report that PCW has recently been closed down after 31 years of continuous

Re: [Ql-Users] PCW closed down

2009-09-02 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
QL a jinx? Surely not :o| In a way it may indeed be jinxed as almost all people and companies who tried to make their living in the QL market did not get their investments back or even lost money. It seams that the QL is only kind-hearted to those which use/play/work for the QL community.

Re: [Ql-Users] New User

2009-09-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Servus Anton way to Vienna). So I am back in black again;-) Herzlich willkommen! As the QL became 25 lately I will write an article about the QL for the next issue of Amiga Future (www.amigafuture.de). Feel free to use all information from my QL is 25 webpage

Re: [Ql-Users] New User

2009-09-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
that I visited a filmschool in Austria and have one-man movie-company (whis in on hold in the moment), too. But that´s a different story Apropos movie: Yesterday I shot videos of two original QL and Mac systems running side by side. Today I made a short movie out of the footage. The

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Dilwyn and Ann are at http://www.villamaria.cz/english.htm I had a shock reading this as it's not near the show. ;-) Good to see in following emails that the error has been found... As said we'll come back very soon with more Hotel details... Urs ___

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Pn the fly update: Villa Maria is one I can recommend. It's 2 Stars (only) but cosy and close to the event Location. CHF 80 per Person/ Night inclusive breakfast is where you should start. Depending on how man Nights and how many persons in the room it will be a little cheaper. Use the

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
About 800 Meters only. I'm on the way now to meet the Dents. Urs Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 07.09.2009 um 18:08 schrieb Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk: Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, On 7/09/09 17:01: Pn the fly update: Villa Maria is one I can recommend. It's 2 Stars (only) but cosy

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-10 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all On the fly update: Villa Maria is one I can recommend. It's 2 Stars (only) but cosy and close to the event Location. CHF 80 per Person/Night inclusive breakfast is where you should start. Depending on how many nights and how many persons in the room it will be a little

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Software Database

2009-09-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
We have been busy this summer trying to save as many commercial QL titles as possible to ensure the continued future of the QL. We have managed to get most of the software from microdrive onto a PC in a format for use with Q-emuLator in the main, although it does help us to make fresh

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-16 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all This afternoon I was at the prepartion site and continued to setup the systems which will be displayed in the exhibition. To prove progress2 another video has been shot, cut, edited and published on YouTube. Here's the second teaser for the upcoming international QL Mac are 25 show:

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-18 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
In the comming days the event wegpages will be updated with agenda, exhibition list and FAQ. Just a short note that the event-webpage has been updated today as promised. http://tinyurl.com/ql-mac-show Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Thanks to Derek who shared his capture with ql-users I've just seen the movie this morning. Yes, it's amusing. Even there are errors but no big harm to the whole story. It's well done, especially as it's a drama and not a documentary. A guy of the production team contacted me this January asking

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Neil Riley wrote: I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed a TV advert, Clive Sinclair was leaping over other computers of the time and it briefly showed the QL and a price of £645 or thereabouts, Screen included perhaps! It's £698 not £645. This was the RRP for the QL computer

Re: [Ql-Users] International QL Mac are 25 event will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sat/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009

2009-10-20 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Nachricht- Von: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Im Auftrag von Urs Koenig (QL) Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 21:50 An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: [Ql-Users] International QL Mac are 25 event will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sat/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Status Report

2009-10-26 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Just to close off my original request, I have now successfully recompiled C68 (as XTC68) under Open Watcom C Version 1.8 and MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) GCC 3.4.5. The latter version is useful because it integrates very well with the MinGW environment and allows MinGW Make to be

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Status Report

2009-10-27 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
UKQ 1. Are the binaries 1:1 (file compare)? 1. Yes - except you have to recreate the QDOS file header (file type and dataspace) once you get the file onto a QDOS volume. If I remember right, there can be a 30% increase in speed. If the compiled binaries are 100% identical this would be

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Status Report

2009-10-27 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Sorry to cause problems, but it is only what I read. No problem. I just wanted to be sure if running speed is the same no matter if compiled with C68 or XTC68. If I need th software to go faster, then I re-programme in Assembler and use a QL with a fast processor. Good one. ;-) I'm still

Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

2009-11-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Did you try to run TT's drvchk or drvlink on that drive? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Im Auftrag von Dilwyn Jones Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. November 2009 22:09 An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: [Ql-Users]

[Ql-Users] Anniversaries

2010-01-10 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all, I hope you started well into 2010! Something about Sinclair related anniversaries: Linus Torvalds, best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel, became 40 on December 28th 2009. Linux v1 had its 15th anniversary last year too. As a kind of a birthday present to him

Re: [Ql-Users] Anniversaries

2010-01-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Anton Preinsack wrote: Have you received my Amiga-disks? Not yet. Talking of snailmail, I've received my QL Today the last day in December. Good luck with your new job! Thanks! Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Anniversaries

2010-01-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Derek Stewart wrote: Do you have the GMOVE extension, I was going to OCR or even type the code in... Listings, manual and a downloadable ZIP-file containing the GMOVE package is on my website now. http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch It's a kind of present to todays QL's 26th

Re: [Ql-Users] Today Apple launched their latest product the iPad(not OT)

2010-02-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
But Steve's keynote speech somehow got back in time to 1987 and related to Clive's last computer, the Z88. Don't believe? See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL78UNSoajc Absolutely brilliant!! Thanks! Actually I like more doing Video stuff those days than doing software. But I'm sure

Re: [Ql-Users] Today Apple launched their latest product the iPad (not OT)

2010-02-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
You say Z88: no flash (memory) support. I corrected this to Z88: No flash (memory) support at launch. How do you define memory? Rakewell have had a flash card for a very long time - I have built over 300 for them over the years. They even have a spec to add a flash rom O/S chip which can

Re: [Ql-Users] Today Apple launched their latest product the iPad(not OT)

2010-02-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
The iSlate and Z88 do not run QL programs. So not relevant. Derek I used my Z88 back in 1990 at my military services to write all commands. While at home at weekends I connected it to my CST Thor XVI for backup and exchange purposes. So it was relevant. I don't think the iPad will be relevant to

Re: [Ql-Users] Anyone know about this message ... ?

2010-02-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I have just received the following email, does anyone know what this is about ? sinclairq...@gmail.com is one of my email addresses. I'm using this address and associated Google webservices for anniversary related stuff. Yesterday I did some experimenting with the photo services of Google and

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to all thereaders

2010-04-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: the current issue went to the post on Friday evening (for readers in Germany) and this morning to all the other readers (mailed from here in Austria). Let's see how fast it reaches you this time. This time we added even more extra pages (you know, 32 pages were

[Ql-Users] Guy Kewney (PCW journalist) passed away on 8 April, 2010

2010-04-23 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all, Just found this on the web. Guy Kewney (PCW journalist) has passed away two weeks ago. Sad news. Kelvyn Taylor, a former editor of Personal Computer World, wrote a tribute: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2261153/tribute-guy-kewn ey Urs

[Ql-Users] Hardware problem - Pcb, components and battery (on CST Thor computers)

2010-04-27 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all While continue to work on the Sinclair QL Preservation Project (SQPP) I was having a closer look at my Thor computers some weeks ago. I was surprised to see that the electronics showed at least two optical problems. 1. The printed circuit board (pcb) and the soldered components show some

[Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC4 today 22:30

2010-05-22 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all Micro Men - the battle between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry for the 1980s home computer market - is being broadcasted again today at 22:30 on BBC4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 Micro Men is a one-off BBC comedy-drama television show set in the 1980s, about the rise of the

[Ql-Users] Vote for Sir Clive Sinclair

2010-05-31 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi all The British Computer Society (BCS) has a campaign based on 'Information Pioneers' of which five, including Sir Clive Sinclair, are featured. You can vote for your favourite pioneer at the site. Here's the link to the only one you should vote for ;-)

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I've added a little Google Custom Search Engine to the home page on my website. It's set up to concentrate on searching for Sinclair QL related pages, although it's still being fine-tuned and tweaked for best results, and so on. Great Innovation. Thanks for that! Urs

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
(e.g. the beige bar which appears above the page in Internet Exploder) you should click where it tells you to, and tell it | Mine did not explode yet ;-) Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-02 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
P.S. Best wishes for a great time to Gerhard and everyone going to the Austrian meeting in Prottes, which runs from tomorrow to Sunday (the meeting, not Prottes!)! Can't be there myself unfortunately...hope someone can send me some pictures for Quanta mag to show what you all got up

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-02 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: We could do with some of those documents and pictures adding to the QL Wiki - I had forgotten that you wrote software for COWO. Rich, feel free to use pictures of my Windows Live Photo Gallery in the QL Wiki. Just mention the source (e.g. some pictures courtesy Urs König).

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-02 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Tony Firshman wrote: I keep it a secret for now... ;-) But have just now uploaded another picture with the serial number. http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.profile.live.com/ Damn early QL, isn't it? Indeed it is. However you have to return it - there is a broken seal saying If seal is

[Ql-Users] Vienna show - first pictures online...

2010-06-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Hi all Who calls this summer? I had a safe but wet journey today and will stay the night in in Salzburg (the city of Mozart). First few pictures are online. See: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.profile.live.com/ Good nite, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Vienna show - first pictures online...

2010-06-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Who calls this summer? Summer 2010 did finally arrive on Friday and stayed for the whole weekend. :-) I enjoyed the long weekend in Austria very much and believe the others did the same. While driving back home yesterday afternoon the sky got darker and darker and just after crossing the border

Re: [Ql-Users] Website makeover

2010-06-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
After a lot of prompting from my son, Iwan, I have finally got around to giving my website a bit of a makeover. I realise I'm risking a little after the problems I had with it in the last week (the message form works now!), but I do hope this will be worth it. I've tried to give the site

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
A case in point is the QL Wiki at http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki Great innovation to the QL and retro community. Good job Rich. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, the main contributors to the QL Wiki remain myself and Dilwyn Jones. When I ask for comments / feedback or

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-16 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Norman Dunbar wrote: Enjoy the FIFA world cup! No thanks! I'll enjoy the F1 on Sunday instead! I'll be supporting an English Team (ok, partially New Zealand!) as I support McLaren. Today Switzerland (the underdog) beat World Cup favourites Spain 1:0! At least that sound good for the

Re: [Ql-Users] Ruth Fegley obituary

2010-06-28 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Herb Schaaf wrote: Those who knew Ruth Fegley will be saddened by the news of her death. Obituary was in the Baltimore Sun newspaper. She was an active QL enthusiast and leader in the CATS computer group during the 80's and 90's. I remember Ruth as a person with good humor. I've met her last

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-28 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Stephen Usher wrote: Well, I see that there are two issues with the QL legacy, one which gives a QL-like experience (i.e. SuperBASIC etc.) and emulation for running old programs. Now, for the former, I can see a niche market just waiting to be filled. Firstly, read this link:

[Ql-Users] Clive Sinclair is part of Britain's pop culture!

2010-06-29 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
After a few years of silence Clive Sinclair gets more and more public interest again. After last years rush with Sir Clive (BBC's Micro Men and Electric Dreams programmes), his wedding with a former Lap dancer this spring and his 70th birthday coming soon the appearance of the recent pop song by

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-Meeting 2010 - Updated Video

2010-07-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Anton Preinsack wrote: I made an update of my video with some corrections and a new scene (at 3:35) where you can see the menus of QEmulator for MacOSX. Well done, Anton! Great to see more and more QL videos on YouTube. YouTuber d3x128 from Czech Republic uploaded recently a 4 minutes video

[Ql-Users] News: More Sinclair QL related videos published on YouTube today

2010-07-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Dear all, it has been a while since aftermath II (April) of the QL Mac are 25 show which was held on Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009. The remaining hard job to do was (in fact it still is) the video editing and cutting. Well, after some other folks uploaded some nice Sinclair QL related videos recently I

[Ql-Users] GST written QL software is PD now!

2010-07-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
After months if not years of research, seek, talks and other communication I'm proud to announce that Jeff Fenton, founder and owner of GST and legal successors, has declared all GST software written for the Sinclair QL as public domain. This includes 68K/OS, the Assembler, QC, Editor, Macro

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Petri Pellinen wrote: greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people active around this piece of hardware. Is it the Finnish or English version of the QL?

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Per Witte wrote: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/self.aspx/Sinclair%20QL/QL comput ers/SinclairQL^_Finnish^_version^_MGY^_ROM-P1050787.JPG This link doesnt seem to work Try this one which links to the folder with the pictures:

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: Is it me, or does that machine have two R letters on the keyboard with no apparent difference between the two? Thanks for letting me know. Even the seal is not broken the machine seams to be modified. Right, removing/changing QL keytops is possible without opening the case.

[Ql-Users] Geek Time! Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allison talk on the Sinclair QL

2010-10-01 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This has been filmed by Jeremy and the video is on YouTube now. Watch it!

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Jim Hunkins wrote on 24.09.2010: Arrived in Canada today. Mine arrived here in Switzerland today. So for me it's QL Today, for many of you it's already QL yesterday. I will have a first read later on today. I don't raise the question of how can it be that it takes 11 days longer for

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-05 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: I don't raise the question of how can it be that it takes 11 days longer for Austrian/Swiss post to ship from Austria to Switzerland than it took from Austria to Canada. In those 11 days I could walk to where Jochen sent it of easily

[Ql-Users] test

2010-10-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: I'd be willing to have a go at doing an example QL Today in PDF format, just to see how it could be done and how big the resulting file would be. As they say on Top Gear how hard can it be? That should take all of 6 minutes: 1 minute : take the staples off put

[Ql-Users] Today...

2010-10-14 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Does anybody remember what was up Today 10 years ago? http://tinyurl.com/QL2000 Cheers, Urs QLvsJAGUAR - Much more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever! Website: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch

Re: [Ql-Users] Peripheral of the day

2010-10-27 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Petri Pellinen wrote: just to lighten the mood here with all the talk about doing the taxes and so forth... I thought to amuse you with something totally ridiculous. Here's a pic of of a prototype of a wonderful new peripheral for the QL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrip/5118906714/

Re: [Ql-Users] Q-emuLator 3.0 for Windows

2010-10-30 Thread Urs Koenig (QL issues)
Daniele Terdina wrote: Version 3.0 of Q-emuLator for Windows is now available (http://www.terdina.net/ql/Enter.html). Great to see the final release! My beta will expire tomorrow, so this is just perfect timing. ;-) I will have a first look after the weekend as I spent my QL hours already.

[Ql-Users] Last year (QL Mac are 25 show Oct 31st/Nov 1st, session videos online)

2010-11-06 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi QL'ers Finally the video footage has been catalogued, ordered, brushed up (video noise, audio volume), edited and became a final directors cut. Then the 24 videos had to be uploaded to my YouTube channel. All this took much more human and processing power than expected. The session videos are

Re: [Ql-Users] In a week's time

2010-11-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Im Auftrag von Geoff Wicks Gesendet: Montag, 8. November 2010 19:41 An: ql-users Betreff: [Ql-Users] In a week's time Not another message from Urs, but a reminder that the

[Ql-Users] One week in November.

2010-11-30 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I was off-list some days and when I checked the list this morning I found 102 new entries in one week. That's awesome! Keep on GOing QLing... ;-) Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Arrange

2010-11-30 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Bob Spelten wrote: Does Windows or Linux have such a facility? Windows does. Just press the right mouse button on an empty spot on the taskbar to get an action menu. See: http://www.cowo.ch/Arrange_Windows_XP.jpg Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Arrange

2010-11-30 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Bob Spelten wrote: Does Windows or Linux have such a facility? Windows does. Just press the right mouse button on an empty spot on the taskbar to get an action menu. See: http://www.cowo.ch/Arrange_Windows_XP.jpg Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] One week in November...

2010-11-30 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I was off-list some days and when I checked the list this morning I found 102 new entries in one week. That's awesome! Keep on GOing QLing... ;-) Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair today on TV

2011-01-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi QLers, I hope you all did start well in 2011?! To keep things going here are the first Sinclair News in 2011: Today at 20:30 Sir Clive Sinclair can be seen in Celebrity Mastermind (a celebrity quiz) on BBC1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xc86z QL forever, Urs

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair today on TV

2011-01-03 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
How did you find out about this in Switzerland - or do you watch a lot of British TV? It's quite easy. My quadruple play provider Swisscom offers saved searches. One daily search is Clive Sinclair and so it was in my inbox this morning. Quadruple play? See:

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2011-01-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
François Van Emelen wrote: Mine arrived this morning. So did mine. Good to know that I do not have to solve my puzzle. ;-) Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair today on TV

2011-01-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
peet vanpeebles wrote: Gah! He didn't do very well, I think that pretty blonde girl put him off! :P Yes, poor Clive. Blondes seam to make him nervous and then he gets intro troubles... ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair today on TV

2011-01-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Stephen Meech wrote: I think he just picked too wide a subject but even I beat him on the general knowledge section. Yes, indeed his subject was much too wide. But the fact that he didn't recall/know where Tim Berners-Lee worked while inventing HTML and who the British designer is who works at

Re: [Ql-Users] QL SD/MMC-Card interface survey

2011-01-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Peter Graf wrote: what would be your favorite style for an SD/MMC card harddisk for the QL? Any would be better than none. I can _not_ promise to really make a piece of hardware available, but it would be nice to know, just in case... Last year I was thinking of such a device. This was my

Re: [Ql-Users] Sir Clive Sinclair today on TV

2011-01-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
8 days ago I wrote: To keep things going here are the first Sinclair News in 2011: Today at 20:30 Sir Clive Sinclair can be seen in Celebrity Mastermind (a celebrity quiz) on BBC1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xc86z Yesterday a YouTuber kindly prepared and uploaded the Clive Sinclair

[Ql-Users] Rodime RO652 harddisk in CST Thor/QL SCSI Interface. How To?

2011-01-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
I'm making some progress with my CST Thor rebuild project. Almost 3 of my 4 Thor computer work right now. One is still dismantled. This week I've got a RODIME RO652 harddisk from someone in the United States. The seller reported that the drive is in working condition. Today I connected it to one

Re: [Ql-Users] Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with Dongle

2011-02-04 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Yesterday Rich Mellor wrote: Urs - what were the issue motherboards you got hold of - was it an issue 2 I sent to you which was missing the expansion connector? I'm still lurking on the mailing-list. Amazing how busy it is those days. Go on! There's a video where I'm talking about this

[Ql-Users] QL game release! - TRON legacy light cycles 2D

2011-02-05 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi folks, there has been a lot of discussion going on this list recently. Many nice ideas and dreams of new QL products were raised. But will all this ever happen? Well, something is happening now! For the first time since the QL went into oblivion (must have been 1986 or so) the industry had

Re: [Ql-Users] QL game release! - TRON legacy light cycles 2D

2011-02-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Ralf Reköndt wrote: Nice to see 8-). We were years ahead, weren't we? Also nice to always see the Syntax font. That's real QLing. Yes, years ahead at least in operating system, industrial design and CI. Sinclair had a style which in todays ITC world only Apple can compete. No wonder a Jonathan

Re: [Ql-Users] QL game release! - TRON legacy light cycles 2D

2011-02-07 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: a video with a download link on this QL game. URL is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Q0sTLhqKw Play the game and enjoy the weekend! I am not quite sure I understand the background to this game Am I correct to understand that it was a public domain game

Re: [Ql-Users] Game idea...

2011-02-08 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
peet vanpeebles wrote: I was chatting with Rob on MSN last night and we saw the released source code for the classic Elite in BBC Basic. If the speccy could do it There's ELITE for the QL! Well not the complete game but at least a demo written in assembler by Dave Barker way back in

Re: [Ql-Users] Back on the list...

2011-02-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
QL2K wrote: As I think to myself that a long time I haven't got any QL user list email, I just redo an new subscription to this mailing list. Welcome back! I'm not very updated about the QL scene since months so if there is something noticeable ... You've missed the busiest weeks for years

Re: [Ql-Users] Q-Tron

2011-02-11 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: I have just come across a game by Axel Berle (c) 1987 Gallic Digital. It is called Q-Tron. Is is the one with the nice animated Splash-Screen in MODE 4? Cheers, Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Today, 25 years ago (III)

2011-03-31 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Some days ago I opened an old ring binder searching for a specific document. As it turned out it was the wrong binder. By accident my eyes discovered old program listings of my early Sinclair QL work. The earliest listing dates March 1986. So there we have it. Another 25th anniversary! Picture

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