On 11 Feb 2011, at 10:00, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 11/02/2011 09:43, Plastic wrote:
Hi all,
I know QDOS saves SuperBASIC as plain text, and re-parses and tokenises it
on the fly when you load a program. Is there any functionality or method to
save and load tokenised SuperBASIC? I saved a
On 11 Feb 2011, at 14:02, Plastic wrote:
I wish I could...
count++ instead of count = count + 1
count-- instead of count = count - 1
Here are two solutions:
1. You could define two procedures Pl and Mi
DEFine PROCedure Pl(k)
k=k+1
END DEFine
DEFine PROCedure Mi(k)
k=k-1
END DEFine
On 11 Feb 2011, at 10:17, Alex Wells wrote:
Do you have a non-SMSQ version of Sud? I would like to run it in uQLx
(Minerva rom) and have not tried hacking it myself yet.
I'm afraid Sud at the moment needs SMSQ/E and a screen size bigger than 706x406.
George
It is gratifying that some have tried to access my website.
I can now reveal that:
A new version of GWASS is now available from my website http://gwiltprogs.info/
This allows the input of octal numbers by using the prefix AT (@).
Thus 46 can now be entered as one of:
46
$2E
@56
%101110
On 9 Feb 2011, at 20:47, Tony Firshman wrote:
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 9/Feb/11 19:53 | Feb9:
Am Mittwoch, den 09.02.2011, 19:05 + schrieb Tony Firshman:
I wish we had 12 digits - base 12 is *so* much better than base 10.
Tony
If we had 12 digits, we'd probably have 12
On 10 Feb 2011, at 10:52, Adrian Ives wrote:
btw George, did you know that the links to SUDOKU and UCONFIG on your
download page are broken?
No. Try them now. Thanks for telling me.
Are you updating the SUDOKU Solver to support octal as well? ;)
Hmmm! What is it now? Nonal and
On 8 Feb 2011, at 21:35, Plastic wrote:
That said, interpreted BASIC was always too slow to do anything too
complicated, and I didn't fancy learning m68k assy. Still don't.
Compiling, especially with Turbo, adds speed.
George
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A new version of GWASS is now available from my website http://gwiltprogs.com/
This allows the input of octal numbers by using the prefix AT (@).
Thus 46 can now be entered as one of:
46
$2E
@56
%101110
George
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On 7 Feb 2011, at 19:52, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Perhaps the entire constitution of Quanta needs altering.
Now where did I hear that recently ;-)
I once was involved in rewriting an entire constitution. When Works Council
Law was changed in the Netherlands all Works Councils had to
On 8 Feb 2011, at 13:37, Plastic wrote:
Here are two fun weird things I like about SBASIC. Maybe others on this list
will add their quirks too...?
1. the MISTake keyword.
If you load a BASIC program that contains an error that would normally
provoke a bad line response, it inserts the
On 6 Feb 2011, at 21:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message 4d45ec4b.7030...@sbcglobal.net, Timothy Swenson
swenso...@sbcglobal.net writes
On 1/30/2011 10:48 AM, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Were Officers to be elected, directly, at an AGM, it would open the door
to someone incompetent to get
On 4 Feb 2011, at 20:09, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Until 2005 an item on the agenda of the AGM was always Any Other Business.
When John Mason became chairman he ruled that Any Other Business was
unconstitutional. Instead we now have an open discussion which does not
have decision making
On 4 Feb 2011, at 00:01, Peter Baily wrote:
I shall continue to use the QL notwithstanding its lack of internet
access because, as I noted before, it enables me to devise routines to
do what I need without the clutter of what someone else thinks I should
have.
'
This hits my nail on the
On 3 Feb 2011, at 14:24, Tony Firshman wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 3/Feb/11 14:19 | Feb3:
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
On 3 Feb 2011, at 13:08, Rich Mellor wrote:
Turbo and Q-liberator would have fun compiling the AT command if it was
written on the FB ROM !
Since anything is possible Turbo could be adapted to cover this . . . BUT only
if there is sufficient real demand.
George
On 3 Feb 2011, at 15:05, Ade Vickers wrote:
I'd always understood the order to be FB, PM, AH, JM, JS, MGx; I think I
read that in an early edition of QL User. PM was supposedly never released.
FB allegedly stood for Full of Bugs, AH for Angela's Holiday. Not sure
about the others...
I
On 31 Jan 2011, at 10:29, Petri Pellinen wrote:
It suddenly makes perfect sense :) I guess I can edit the SYM file to
only export the labels I want to expose to other modules to hide
internal-use-only labels?
That's exactly what I do. Of course you need the _SYM_LST file which is the
My new website address is http://gwiltprogs.info/
The previous address run by ukonline is obsolete.
This contains a recent update of GDLIB which is a library of routines for
Assembly programs. The update consists of an improvement in the routine
allowing a non PE program to be moved by
On 29 Jan 2011, at 20:24, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Can a person who has been appointed treasurer of Quanta in a breach of the
constitution - a legally binding document - legally sign cheques under
British law?
If the bank accepts the signature it doesn't matter whether it is legally
binding
On 29 Jan 2011, at 17:39, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Now hands up those those who are prepared to be treasurer of Quanta.
If absolutely no one else is willing to do this then I would attempt the task.
However, the results could be unpredictable. You might find that subscriptions
had to be paid in
On 30 Jan 2011, at 10:05, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 30/01/2011 09:29, gdgqler wrote:
On 29 Jan 2011, at 20:24, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Can a person who has been appointed treasurer of Quanta in a breach of the
constitution - a legally binding document - legally sign cheques under
British law
On 30 Jan 2011, at 10:25, Adrian Ives wrote:
I am in the process of rewriting the USBWiz driver to get around the
problems with supervisor mode that I encountered last year.
The new driver spawns independent jobs to handle reads and writes
asynchronously in the background (because it
On 30 Jan 2011, at 16:33, Norman Dunbar wrote:
This is the code that I'm using at the end of my USB_RD (and USB_WR) job:
moveq #mt.frjob,d0
moveq #me,d1
moveq #0,d3
trap#1
On 30 Jan 2011, at 16:47, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Interesting. I've never to my knowledge needed the final branch in any of my
programs. With the branch in, the program is not going to do very much until
it eventually decides to stop. Without that anything may presumably occur.
I have a
On 28 Jan 2011, at 22:18, Tony Firshman wrote:
My view is that Quanta is still needed and rightly so - plenty of people are
still returning to the QL and need a source of knowledge and hand-holding,
it is just that Quanta needs more members and particularly committee members
to help
On 29 Jan 2011, at 15:31, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Would anyone be willing and able to help us with this? I'll gladly send
a CD copy of the Windows version to anyone willing to help.
Bung me over the CD then please and I'll see what works and what
doesn't. I have access to XP running in an
On 27 Jan 2011, at 16:07, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Of course. but why at runtime?
Code reuse and/or share-ability. If you have 10 applications running and
each one needs the same library code, isn't it much better to have one
copy used by all, rather than running the system with 10 copies of
On 27 Jan 2011, at 17:23, Norman Dunbar wrote:
One thing I would like to see in SMSQ is the correct MC680xx vector
table at the start of the OS.
Is this because some of the space is taken up with QDOS vectors thus covering
up some of the Motorola exception vectors? The solution is to use
On 28 Jan 2011, at 12:10, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Plastic wrote:
Apologies for the off-topicness, but one thing I'd like to see from Turbo
or other compilers is a command maker that can take a PROCedure or
FuNction, compile it, and package it up so it can be loaded to extend
BASIC.
Works
On 28 Jan 2011, at 13:28, Ian Pine wrote:
I would like to be able to do something like:
LET a=PI
PRINT #3,HEX$(a)
which would write an ASCII string of the form $ which would be
the internal representation of the floating point value.
In reverse, something like:
On 26 Jan 2011, at 16:11, Tony Firshman wrote:
thorsten herbert wrote, on 26/Jan/11 16:01 | Jan26:
Major QL hardware is practically impossible as long as the QL operating
system
situation remains as it has been for almost a decade. The only reasonable
way out seems to be a restructured
On 27 Jan 2011, at 11:51, Norman Dunbar wrote:
I may regret starting this, but as the subject says, what would you like
to see in QDOSMSQ given that we were starting from scratch with the
intention of writing a completely new OS?
Disclaimer: No, I'm NOT thinking of writing one!
For me,
On 27 Jan 2011, at 15:14, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
* A windowing system that is simple to use. From any language.
This also is true of SMSQE
Ahem...he meant *simple*... ;-)
Yes . . Well . I've tried Visual Basic and I very much prefer ... TurboPTR.
(And also Assembler, after prodding by
On 27 Jan 2011, at 15:18, Norman Dunbar wrote:
* Libraries that applications can link to at run time, as opposed to
static linking at compile time.
How would that work? If I write a program I like to know in advance what it
will contain
True, but lets say you have a graphics application
On 25 Jan 2011, at 16:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
...
I said That must have cost you an arm and a leg - innocently I
assure you.
He had physical problems and very little use of his arms and hands.
Oh dear! I used to have an expression for my unwillingness to carry out
a requested task, or
On 24 Jan 2011, at 10:53, Lee Privett wrote:
On a slightly different note, I used to own the compilers Supecharge and
Turbo the first time around and now I have a copy of the latest Turbo. I have
bought Qliberator to compare them both as eventually I want to compile my
programs so that
On 24 Jan 2011, at 13:07, Norman Dunbar wrote:
I simply use QMON. Putting a break point at ahit0...
Very wise, that's what I did. Interesting results.
Starting the program and pressing TAB to activate the application
sub-window gives two hits. On entry to the first hit, I see the pointer
On 24 Jan 2011, at 16:52, Norman Dunbar wrote:
1. The expected use of the hit routine is to call WM_MHIT by JMP WM_MHIT(A2).
Yes, I read that - I don't understand why, if this is the case, I can
have a hit routine that is expected to jump back into the WMAN code to
handle it internally.
On 23 Jan 2011, at 08:38, Tony Firshman wrote:
It is worth looking at Minerva - wasn't it you who was wondering?. It is not
*all* about work in depth. There are many front end improvements, not least
being the ram failure report.
Have a look at the manual on Dilwyn Jones' site:
On 22 Jan 2011, at 15:44, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 22/01/11 10:22, gdgqler wrote:
I think you have to test at the start of the hit routine ahit0 what key was
pressed. Any key at all pressed while the pointer is in the application
window will cause the hit routine to be called. D2
On 21 Jan 2011, at 12:58, Norman Dunbar wrote:
The hit routine is called by PE in many cases. For example the manual says
If there is no keystroke, or the keystroke is not the selection keystroke
for a loose menu item or an application sub-window, then, if the pointer is
within a
On 21 Jan 2011, at 10:14, Norman Dunbar wrote:
I've written a small demo program to show the things that happen when an
application sub-window is hit in a PE program. The program has a window
containing a single application sub-window.
The hit routine does nothing more than this:
On 21 Jan 2011, at 12:58, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Commenting out WM_SWAPP is not a good idea. When I tried this program, or
something very like it, HIT appeared in the main window. However, accessing
the application window by a selection key caused HIT to appear in the
application window.
On 16 Jan 2011, at 15:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
190 line_diff=(101*Yratio/hi)*wid/('135.5041505'*Xratio)
Blimey! How do you get 135.5041505? Surely you could let us have twenty more
significant figures?
Jan Jones, on page 115, says that
OPEN#3,SCR_137x100 will give a square window. I found
On 11 Jan 2011, at 09:01, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 11/01/11 04:27, Tony Firshman wrote:
What a pity *true* sub-directories were not possible. That is where DOS
and successors really win.
What a struggle it is copying file systems, and one often hits the
length limit.
I've had a rant or two
On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:32, Lee Privett wrote:
In QDOS/SMSQ/E the 'AT' keyword allows the print statement an imaginary y/x
character cursor location to be used. Is there away of knowing where this is
as a function?
for example:
10 AT 10,20 PRINT FRED;
20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would
On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:32, Lee Privett wrote:
10 AT 10,20 PRINT FRED;
20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would return 24
30 PRINT LOCY: remark this would return 20
10 AT 10,20 PRINT FRED
20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would return 1 (or 0)
30 PRINT LOCY: remark this would return 11
As a
On 10 Jan 2011, at 15:14, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
In QDOS/SMSQ/E the 'AT' keyword allows the print statement an imaginary y/x
character cursor location to be used. Is there away of knowing where this is
as a function?
for example:
10 AT 10,20 PRINT FRED;
20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would
On 30 Dec 2010, at 20:50, QL-MyLink-DT wrote:
I know.. I know... Dilwyn said hasn't!
But, as I'm John in Wales and West of Chester.
I report that I recieved my QUANTA yesterday (Wednesday), bearing an 'audit
trail' -
Manchester 07.08 pm. etc. etc. On which date? aaah... that's
On 31 Dec 2010, at 15:12, Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 31/Dec/10 14:36 | Dec31:
snip
... much like I suppose Superbasic's habit of implicitly adding missing
END statements.
Yup. Just try throwing some of those programs at SBASIC, it'll soon tell
you there's something
On 22 Dec 2010, at 21:08, Billy wrote:
To get back on subject, I find retirement not quite the financial
challenge I feared and hope to contact Jochen to resubscribe QLToday
soon.
I'm sure Jochen will be glad to hear that. Does retirement mean more
QL time for you?
(There, back on
On 23 Dec 2010, at 17:12, Geoff Wicks wrote:
--
From: John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:53 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Sandy Futura (PDF from Urs)
Mind you,
On 15 Dec 2010, at 15:52, Lee Privett wrote:
Having playing around with setting up windows the old fashioned way (program
submitted in the future)
I came across this bug (feature)!
try this first
WM_BORDER 25, 1026
and even edged 3d type border
now try this
WM_BORDER
On 2 Dec 2010, at 15:29, Rich Mellor wrote:
What is the earliest QL ROM anyone has a copy of?
AH
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On 27 Nov 2010, at 18:16, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Main() always returns int.
True.
Main always takes two parameters int and char **.
Not true, int main(void) is valid according to C99 spec (see chapter
5.1.2.2.1 ;-) )
But in context of the IOCC contest Tobias
On 28 Nov 2010, at 12:37, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone know if any (or all!) of the QL emulators can work on the second
screen of a two-monitor PC setup? My PC can only handle a single monitor, so
although I have QPC, QemuLator and QL2K on this PC, I can't test them.
I had to set my
On 28 Nov 2010, at 14:51, Laurence Reeves wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 26/Nov/10 17:02 | Nov26:
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
1for i=1to 100
2a$=:if i mod 3=0:a$=FIZZ
3if i mod 5=0:a$=a$BUZZ
4print i,a$:next i
(91 bytes including 4 LF)
Damn, missed something:
1for
On 27 Nov 2010, at 13:25, Norman Dunbar wrote:
This meets all Rich's requirements:
--
The rules are simple -
write out the values 1 to 100 on screen
If the value is divisible by 3 write 'FIZZ' after the number
If the value is divisible by 5 write 'BUZZ' after the number
If the
On 18 Nov 2010, at 11:01, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
John Hitchcock wrote:
Dilwyn said (15th October) :-
Could someone (or you, even, John) put together a list of words which
cause difficulty and I could try to put something together as an
article sometime?
On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:33, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
However, there's always a positive side (at least I hope it was) as QL Today
was born: Stuart Honeyball and I decided we had to do something
immediately, and so we did :-)
And that was an amazingly good step forward for which we must all
On 4 Nov 2010, at 12:20, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Norman Dunbar Does It In Assembler
George Gwilt Does It Turbo-Charged
Tony Firshman Does It In Pearl(s)
Now all I need is one for Rich Mellor, which I failed to provide, possibly
something like Rich Mellor Does It With Second User Hardware,
On 4 Nov 2010, at 13:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Norman Dunbar Does It In Assembler
George Gwilt Does It Turbo-Charged
Tony Firshman Does It In Pearl(s)
Now all I need is one for Rich Mellor, which I failed to provide, possibly
something like Rich Mellor Does It With Second User Hardware,
On 16 Oct 2010, at 16:13, gdgqler wrote:
QDOSMSQ - a term to describe any computer system running with any
variation of QDOS or SMSQ.
I liked it so much, I created a website with the same name!
It's well worth a visit. In fact I'm just about to look at to see if it will
tell me
On 14 Oct 2010, at 08:55, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
Does anybody remember what was up Today 10 years ago?
It doesn't seem that long ago!
George
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On 30 Sep 2010, at 17:04, Ian Pine wrote:
I could buy a USB Floppy drive (if they are still made and are reasonably
priced) for the PC but no guarantee it will read Q40 formatted disks. What
about the CF reader/writer? If I got one and formatted a card with a SMSQ
file system, is there
On 1 Oct 2010, at 13:20, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
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
On 30 Sep 2010, at 12:31, John Gilpin wrote:
On 25/09/2010 20:29, Geoff Wicks wrote:
--
From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:35 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
Hi
On 20 Sep 2010, at 21:06, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
gdgqler wrote:
From the SMS reference manual: The linkage block [...] must be
allocated in the common heap so that SMS.ZTHG, or SMS.RTHG called from
another program, can de-allocate the linkage block correctly.
I cannot find this quote in my
On 21 Sep 2010, at 12:20, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
From: Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote:
Just to be sure, none of the trap #1 thing entry routines are
supported in SMSQ/E. Just the traditional HOT_REXT way of calling
them.
Which makes me wonder, why these TRAPs are never included in
On 19 Sep 2010, at 21:35, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
gdgqler wrote:
(but remember where the system assumes your likage block lives - directly
after a common heap header)
This may be obvious - but only after a very large amount of digging into the
software. Unless . . .
Is there somewhere
On 18 Sep 2010, at 22:25, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
you seem to be taking this from HOT_REXT. Where did you get the sources for
this?
When looking into SMSQ/E sources, there is nothing comparable to what you see
there (sms.lthg is in util_thg_lthg_asm. Nothing in there touches memory on
On 19 Sep 2010, at 14:48, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
gdgqler wrote:
If you add a Thing to the list of Things by using the software
described in the manual for the Trap #1 routine sms.lthg you will
Just to be sure, none of the trap #1 thing entry routines are
supported in SMSQ/E. Just
On 19 Sep 2010, at 17:06, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
(but remember where the system assumes your likage block lives - directly
after a common heap header)
This may be obvious - but only after a very large amount of digging into the
software. Unless . . .
Is there somewhere in the manuals that
On 20 Aug 2010, at 16:09, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 20/08/2010 16:04, gdgqler wrote:
On 20 Aug 2010, at 15:59, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 20/08/2010 15:49, gdgqler wrote:
There is no THING in a JS ROM, but there is in SMSQ/E for example. Is
there any way of adding a THING to a QL operating system
On 20 Aug 2010, at 17:31, Christopher Cave wrote:
There is (was) a file called THING_REXT distributed with the C68 runtime
stuff. Could this do what you want?
Yes, I think that was it.
However, thanks to replies, I have proceeded to LRESPR HOT_REXT and the THING
has miraculously appeared.
On 14 Aug 2010, at 10:12, Rich Mellor wrote:
I have been testing some boxed QLs over the past couple of days, and will be
listing some for sale on www.sellmyretro.com
However, as part of one of the boxed QLs, I came across a sheet - not headed,
but in the normal font used by Sinclair
On 19 Jul 2010, at 21:37, Rich Mellor wrote:
I just wondered if this message ever made it to the list - as all I seem to
be receiving of late is discussions about a windows based notebook
Yes - it came to me at any rate.
But I have no knowledge of any of the items.
George
On 27 Jun 2010, at 00:28, John Gilpin wrote:
There seems to be a lot going on despite the rapid reduction in contributions
(as usual in the summer months) to the QUANTA Magazine. Very many
contributors to this list have made a very welcome return recently after
lurking for some
On 18 Jun 2010, at 19:32, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
5 - Scottish - George Gwilt's home.
Meet second Sunday of every month.
12 times a Year ?
Yes
George
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On 19 Jun 2010, at 11:39, P Witte wrote:
gdgqler wrote:
On 17 Jun 2010, at 23:44, P Witte wrote:
The current trend appears to be towards Cloud computing, where data storage
and even processing power is an off-site, on-line service. Thats a major
paradigm shift - back to square one, some
On 17 Jun 2010, at 23:44, P Witte wrote:
The current trend appears to be towards Cloud computing, where data storage
and even processing power is an off-site, on-line service. Thats a major
paradigm shift - back to square one, some three or four generations ago.
Aha! But how do you
On 15 Jun 2010, at 19:26, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Sounds like the same experience I had. Totally unpredictable results on
that particular USB floppy drive (well, might be predictable to someone
like Marcel who knows the underlying code).
SNIP
Doesen't work here on XP with an USB drive (which
On 15 Jun 2010, at 23:29, Roy Wood wrote:
The QL was a business computer in concept. Very few games of any note. Right
now, as was pointed out earlier, there is no decent word processor and no
other, modern, usable, software. QPC2 runs just fine on my W7 machine, but
why would I use it?
On 15 Jun 2010, at 11:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
the QL and Aurora are only brought out for the specific use fo testing
programs or, sorry Rich, formatting DD disks for the very occasional Quanta
library request.
It seems as if I am the only person actually able to format blank DD disks
On 14 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone else have as much trouble as me trying to format floppy disk
drives
I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with a USB floppy disk drive.
Unfortunately, although QPC2 and Q-emuLator can normally read a DD disk, it
is a real pain to
On 14 Jun 2010, at 16:16, Jochen Merz wrote:
I think it probably is a Windows 7 issue - I never had the problem on
Windows XP, but then I never had a USB floppy drive with XP
Worked fine here with Win XP all the time - with two different USB floppies
which I used to bring to the shows
On 13 Jun 2010, at 13:43, Anton Preinsack wrote:
More possibilities (please not, that I am aware, that this is wishful
thinking): A original QL with some addons (and maybe with additional
Sinclair spectrum-compatibility) in a FPGA (like the Minimig in the
Amiga-scene) for the Retro-Fans
On 8 May 2010, at 10:58, Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone have the details of the standard Sinclair QL disk format for a
DSDD disk:
MFM/FM ? number of track , number of side, sector per track, sector size,
bitrate
From memory - I think it is:
80 tracks
Yes
2 sides
On 29 Apr 2010, at 20:18, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Just a reminder that we have an early copy date for QL Today this time.
Namely 5th May.
Attached there should be a letter and an article.
Cheers
George
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On 30 Apr 2010, at 10:54, gdgqler wrote:
Attached there should be a letter and an article.
So, if this is not published anyone can read it anyway!!
And in advance!!
George
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On 30 Apr 2010, at 12:53, Tony Firshman wrote:
Well we would if you had actually attached anything (8-)#
That is interesting!
There was an attachment on my email when I sent it. It must have dropped off en
route.
George
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On 27 Apr 2010, at 10:58, Neil Riley wrote:
Well I never, 69yr old Sir Clive Sinclair has wed a former Lap dancer.
She's rather lovely too, lucky Clive!
From QL to laptop
George
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On 31 Mar 2010, at 18:59, Derek Stewart wrote:
On 31/03/2010 18:39, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 31/03/10 17:59, Rich Mellor wrote:
I would prefer bottom quoting - that is the default in Thunderbird!
If I may offer an opinion too...
If we choose the standard bottom posting then we
On 22 Mar 2010, at 11:03, John Gilpin wrote:
QL Today arrived in Manchester, UK this morning.
Many thanks. - will read it in bed tonight.!
Regards to all,
John Gilpin.
On 15/03/2010 15:14, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
Hi everybody,
the current issue went to the post on Friday
On 22 Mar 2010, at 12:44, Tony Firshman wrote:
How odd.
I have received neither Jochen's message sent on 15/03/2010 nor, as yet, the
current issue of QL Today.
I wonder how many other emails to the group have missed me. Is anyone else
in the same position?
I have the
On 20 Mar 2010, at 11:23, Rich Mellor wrote:
I installed QPCPrint some years ago and have never looked back since, as
that allows you to print to ANY printer which the PC uses - no longer do you
need to worry about it recognising control codes from the QL
QPCPrint is indeed fantastically
On 26 Feb 2010, at 15:01, Rich Mellor wrote:
The wiki appears at http://www.rwapadventure.com/ql_wiki
Not from Safari on my Mac
George
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On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:08, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
George,
this is where my method qpc_exec comes in handy - It will just show
you where qpc was started from - regardless of drive mapping.
This an excellent idea which certainly works. I have never used QPC_EXEC before.
George
On 21 Feb 2010, at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote:
Maybe it is time to try QPC (8-)#
Marcel - will it be happy under VMware running XP within Mac Snow Leopard
and using a USB floppy?
An HD floppy under VMware with Snow Leopard attached to a USB slot is read on
my machine by QPC2 as flp2_
On 22 Feb 2010, at 09:42, Rich Mellor wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20:
Daniele/
I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator.
Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5
(uninstall your
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