Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 168, Issue 3
Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 168, Issue 1 (Paolo Del Bene) 1: Re DM5 by Paolo Del Bene I am a supporter for Free Software, that software released under the terms of GNU General Public License, https://www.gnu.org/ so I haven't any idea of how can I help you, with that type of software that is a freeware. A freeware hasn't nothing in common with Free Software. I can suggest to decompile DM5, to read the source code and to provide to write from scratch a new one emulator, and provide to release it under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt or version 3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt These are the ROM's. http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/index.html bye Paolo Del Bene QRA: Paolo QRZ: iw0fzw-5 QTH: Monterotondo Marittimo (GR) ZIP: 58025 WWL: JN53KC LATITUDE: 43.12350 LONGITUDE: 10.84567 CQ ZONE: 15 DXCC ZONE: 248 ITU ZONE: 28 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 168, Issue 1
1: Re DM5 by Paolo Del Bene I am a supporter for Free Software, that software released under the terms of GNU General Public License, https://www.gnu.org/ so I haven't any idea of how can I help you, with that type of software that is a freeware. A freeware hasn't nothing in common with Free Software. I can suggest to decompile DM5, to read the source code and to provide to write from scratch a new one emulator, and provide to release it under the terms of GNU General Public License. These are the ROM's. http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/index.html Starting from 90 years I used winzozz till the end of 90 years, During 90 years and in particular way from 95 till 96, i started to use IBM AS/400 mainframe, and I started to develop in COBOL, RPG, SQL, QBE, QMF During 1996 I gave the exame to take the hamradio license, and from 1996 i am a radioamateur, this is my callsign: iw0fzw Then I gave the Regional exame to have the certificate of Analisys Programmer in COBOL, RPG, SQL. During 1997 I started to read books on Communication to BroadBand, TCP/IP, IPv4 During 1998 I started to read issues on open source, as normally happen, I found interesting Richard Matthew Stallman, his own Free Software Movment, the GNU'S Not Unix Project and from 2000 I started to take contact with him. In 2000 i migrated to Macintosh, i bought a PowerPc G3 233 Mhz that i updated in the years as hardware and software. It arrived to have 448 Mb of Ram, 160 Gb of hdd ide, cd-rw samsung and from mac os 8.6 it had mac os 9.0.4 and then mac os 9.2.2 In 2004 I wrote the website: http://www.gnu-linux.it some year after I haven't updated anymore the website and isn't more mine. I started to write a new website: http://barcamp.org/f/MassachvssettsInstituteOfTechnology.html If I remember well was 2006 In 2007 I wrote the italian version of http://paolodelbene.pbworks. com/Richard_Matthew_Stallman and one year later i wrote: http://paolodelbene.pbworks.com/Richard_Matthew_Stallman_en On 1 Feb 2018 10:07 p.m., wrote: Send Ql-Users mailing list submissions to ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com You can reach the person managing the list at ql-users-ow...@lists.q-v-d.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ql-Users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Disk Mate 5 (simon...@sky.com) 2. Re: Disk Mate 5 (Marcel Kilgus) 3. Re: Disk Mate 5 (simon...@sky.com) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:55:13 + (UTC) From: "simon...@sky.com" To: QL Users List Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Disk Mate 5 Message-ID: <1919231706.1425934.1517482513...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Everyone Is there and more news when Disk Mate 5 is being updated OK Thankssimon629Simon Foster -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:58:58 +0100 From: Marcel Kilgus To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Disk Mate 5 Message-ID: <984464012.20180201115...@kilgus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote: > Hi Everyone > Is there and more news when Disk Mate 5 is being updated > OK Thankssimon629Simon Foster Disk Mate will never be updated, there are no sources for it anymore. Marcel -- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:05:40 + (UTC) From: "simon...@sky.com" To: "ql-us...@q-v-d.com" Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Disk Mate 5 Message-ID: <1135790118.1766900.1517497540...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 OK Thanks for the info On Thursday, 1 February 2018, 10:59, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote: > Hi Everyone > Is there and more news when Disk Mate 5 is being updated > OK Thankssimon629Simon Foster Disk Mate will never be updated, there are no sources for it anymore. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ QL-Users mailing list -- End of Ql-Users Digest, Vol 168, Issue 1 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 5
On 5 Jan 2018 10:06 p.m., wrote: Send Ql-Users mailing list submissions to ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com You can reach the person managing the list at ql-users-ow...@lists.q-v-d.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ql-Users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 (Jan Bredenbeek) 2. Re: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 (pjwitte) 3. Re: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 4 (Paolo Del Bene) I found the name of AH which is Angela's Holiday, I suppose that JM is Jochen Merz and I don't know for JS, MG, MINERVA. -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:35:03 +0100 From: Jan Bredenbeek To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On 5 January 2018 at 15:49, Tobias Fr?schle via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > AF = Awfully faulty > JM = jerkily mended > JS = just stable > MG = mainly good FB - Full of Bugs (has anyone this ROM around? Would be a collector's item ;-)) Jan. -- *Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:04:52 +0100 From: pjwitte To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 Message-ID: <6345054c-338f-2491-e13a-aa313688c...@online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hehe! Spot on, Tobias Per On 05/01/2018 15:49, Tobias Fr?schle via Ql-Users wrote: > AF = Awfully faulty > JM = jerkily mended > JS = just stable > MG = mainly good > > ;) (just joking) > > Tobias > >> Am 05.01.2018 um 12:56 schrieb Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>: >> >> Hi Paolo, >> >> as far as I remember, the code letters for the various QL ROMs have been named after: >> >> * Taxi Drivers used by Sinclair staff; >> * Engineers at Sinclair; >> * Women in the Sinclair offices. >> >> There may bo other "uses", but the letters in JM and JS etc are the initials of certain people from the above list. I have not seen a full list of the various names actually used though, so I can't tell you who JM and JS were. Sorry. >> >> >> HTH >> >> Cheers, >> Norm. >> >> On 04/01/18 18:30, Paolo Del Bene via Ql-Users wrote: >>> Today's Topics: >>> 1. Re: about JM and JS roms >>> (Paolo Del Bene) >>> 34 years are passed, and I haven't >>> anymore a QL Sinclair from 27 >>> years when my father before bought >>> it for me and then he sold without to >>> say nothing to me. >>> I am here only to ask for what stand >>> the name JM and JS in the roms. >>> I haven't found any information >>> about, if you can help me I'll be >>> happy >>> Happy GNU Year 2018 >>> Paolo Del Bene iw0fzw >> >> >> -- >> Norman Dunbar >> Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd >> >> Registered address: >> 27a Lidget Hill >> Pudsey >> West Yorkshire >> United Kingdom >> LS28 7LG >> >> Company Number: 05132767 >> ___ >> QL-Users Mailing List > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > > > -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ QL-Users mailing list -- End of Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 5 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 3
Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue (Paolo Del Bene) Has never anyone thinked to port GNU/HURD on QL Sinclair? Awaiting for your reply as soon as possible, Greetings, Paolo Del Bene iw0fzw -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 19:30:16 +0100 From: Paolo Del Bene To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Today's Topics: 1. Re: about JM and JS roms (Paolo Del Bene) 34 years are passed, and I haven't anymore a QL Sinclair from 27 years when my father before bought it for me and then he sold without to say nothing to me. I am here only to ask for what stand the name JM and JS in the roms. I haven't found any information about, if you can help me I'll be happy Happy GNU Year 2018 Paolo Del Bene iw0fzw -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 10:13:51 +0100 From: Jan Bredenbeek To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Norman, On 31 December 2017 at 19:43, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > Happy New Year one and all. > > I started pcb design a while back too. I use Fritzing and/or Kicad for > mine. Manually routing a pcb can seriously use up a good few hours of your > life! But it's [still] fun. > > I will probably live to regret this but, let me know how/where to get the > DISA source and I will take a look and try to understand it. I must say in > advance that time, as ever, is probably limited as my wife and I are in the > middle of dealing with a severe case of dementia affecting my mother in > law. This, as you can imagine, is a bit of a time killer, and the worst of > it is, she'll never get better. > I'm sorry to read this. Well we've come a long way already commenting MultiMon so DISA would be a nice GitHub project to do next ;) Best wishes for 2018, Jan. -- *Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:53:54 + From: Norman Dunbar To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E Message-ID: <8584475f-0e71-4763-ac95-784a762e1...@dunbar-it.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Afternoon Jan. Happy New Year to you, here's hoping that 2018 is a good one. DISA would possibly be a good one - if the original author is ok with his code being publically available on Github, which I hope he is. Mind you, we need to finish Multimon first. ;-) I'll be getting back to that very soon, I hope. Cheers, Norm. On 2 January 2018 09:13:51 GMT+00:00, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: >Hi Norman, > >On 31 December 2017 at 19:43, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < >ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> Happy New Year one and all. >> >> I started pcb design a while back too. I use Fritzing and/or Kicad >for >> mine. Manually routing a pcb can seriously use up a good few hours of >your >> life! But it's [still] fun. >> >> I will probably live to regret this but, let me know how/where to get >the >> DISA source and I will take a look and try to understand it. I must >say in >> advance that time, as ever, is probably limited as my wife and I are >in the >> middle of dealing with a severe case of dementia affecting my mother >in >> law. This, as you can imagine, is a bit of a time killer, and the >worst of >> it is, she'll never get better. >> > >I'm sorry to read this. Well we've come a long way already commenting >MultiMon so DISA would be a nice GitHub project to do next ;) > >Best wishes for 2018, > >Jan. > >-- >*Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net >___ >QL-Users Mailing List -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ QL-Users mailing list -- End of Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ QL-Users mailing list -- End of Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 3 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2
Today's Topics: 1. Re: about JM and JS roms (Paolo Del Bene) 34 years are passed, and I haven't anymore a QL Sinclair from 27 years when my father before bought it for me and then he sold without to say nothing to me. I am here only to ask for what stand the name JM and JS in the roms. I haven't found any information about, if you can help me I'll be happy Happy GNU Year 2018 Paolo Del Bene iw0fzw -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 10:13:51 +0100 From: Jan Bredenbeek To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Norman, On 31 December 2017 at 19:43, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > Happy New Year one and all. > > I started pcb design a while back too. I use Fritzing and/or Kicad for > mine. Manually routing a pcb can seriously use up a good few hours of your > life! But it's [still] fun. > > I will probably live to regret this but, let me know how/where to get the > DISA source and I will take a look and try to understand it. I must say in > advance that time, as ever, is probably limited as my wife and I are in the > middle of dealing with a severe case of dementia affecting my mother in > law. This, as you can imagine, is a bit of a time killer, and the worst of > it is, she'll never get better. > I'm sorry to read this. Well we've come a long way already commenting MultiMon so DISA would be a nice GitHub project to do next ;) Best wishes for 2018, Jan. -- *Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:53:54 + From: Norman Dunbar To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E Message-ID: <8584475f-0e71-4763-ac95-784a762e1...@dunbar-it.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Afternoon Jan. Happy New Year to you, here's hoping that 2018 is a good one. DISA would possibly be a good one - if the original author is ok with his code being publically available on Github, which I hope he is. Mind you, we need to finish Multimon first. ;-) I'll be getting back to that very soon, I hope. Cheers, Norm. On 2 January 2018 09:13:51 GMT+00:00, Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: >Hi Norman, > >On 31 December 2017 at 19:43, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users < >ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> Happy New Year one and all. >> >> I started pcb design a while back too. I use Fritzing and/or Kicad >for >> mine. Manually routing a pcb can seriously use up a good few hours of >your >> life! But it's [still] fun. >> >> I will probably live to regret this but, let me know how/where to get >the >> DISA source and I will take a look and try to understand it. I must >say in >> advance that time, as ever, is probably limited as my wife and I are >in the >> middle of dealing with a severe case of dementia affecting my mother >in >> law. This, as you can imagine, is a bit of a time killer, and the >worst of >> it is, she'll never get better. >> > >I'm sorry to read this. Well we've come a long way already commenting >MultiMon so DISA would be a nice GitHub project to do next ;) > >Best wishes for 2018, > >Jan. > >-- >*Jan Bredenbeek* | Hilversum, NL | j...@bredenbeek.net >___ >QL-Users Mailing List -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ QL-Users mailing list -- End of Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2 ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 166, Issue 16
Have you ever thinked to port GNU/linux on the QL Sinclair? Here the list of those GNU/linux distributions 100% Free Software https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html Awaiting for your reply as soon as possible Greetings, Paolo Del Bene On 30 Dec 2017 10:08 p.m., wrote: > Send Ql-Users mailing list submissions to > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.q-v-d.com/listinfo.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ql-users-ow...@lists.q-v-d.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ql-Users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: New document on DV3 drivers (Wolf) >2. Re: Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E (Marcel Kilgus) >3. Re: Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E (pjwitte) >4. Re: Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E (Marcel Kilgus) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:11:14 +0100 > From: Wolf > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] New document on DV3 drivers > Message-ID: <3e5e84e3-4a57-c301-a1a3-08e84584a...@wlenerz.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi Per, > > > Some programs, such as Qpac2 Files and Qmenu's DIR_ and FILE_SELECT$ > > seem to assume a maximum of 8 DDDs so, presumably, devices beyond that > > would not be accessable via these programs. > > > > Sure, the number of devices displayed is applicton specific. Marcel's > latest version of the menu extensions dir_select (not file_select) > allows for up to 10 devices, Qpac2 only 8, as you noted. > > Of course, in all you can also manually enter the device to display. > > Regards > > Wolfgang > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:39:45 +0100 > From: Marcel Kilgus > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E > Message-ID: <1587313466.20171230133...@kilgus.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote: > > If you want a really miserable Christmas, you could try the following > > - without saving your work first: > > > > 1 x% = 32000 > > 2 y% = x% > > 3 z% = 1600 > > 4 t? = x% * y% * z%: REMark Kabm!!! > > 5 PRINT "-- Im dead!" > > Nice find and, as usual, good repro, thanks. As good as TT's code > usually is, here he has used too many "magic numbers" instead of > speaking EQU symbols and promptly used the wrong number (6 instead of > 8) when calculating a code offset. I will send Wolgang the fix for the > next release. > > What's happening: > > 1. "x% * y%" is "int16 * int16" and results in an "int32" > 2. Then z% in "* z%" is promoted to "int32" so the operation is "int32 * > int32" > 3. It checks if the result will overflow, which it will in this case, >so the operands are converted to "float" and it retries again using the >"float * float" code path > 4. But the code to retry jumps back into the "int32 * int32" path instead >of the "float * float" path and hilarity ensues. This path has never >worked since the dawn of SBasic :-o > > > The above crashes SMSQ/E 3.32 on QPC2 and SMSQmulator! Even the > > four-finger reset wont work. The following is, as youd expect, fine: > > > > 1 x% = 32000 > > 2 y% = x% > > 3 z% = 1600 > > 4 t? = x% * y% > > 5 t? = t * z% > > 6 PRINT "Yippi! - Im still alive!" > > "t" is float in this case, so "t * z%" is "float * int16". In this > case z% is promoted into a float, so the operation is "float * float" > from the start and everything is happy. > > Marcel > > > > -- > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:55:59 +0100 > From: pjwitte > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E > Message-ID: <332633e6-1fee-a817-d365-adda84e6a...@online.no> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Thanks, Marcel. Yes, I thought you might enjoy this little holiday > from "industrial" programming ;) > > BTW, no criticism was ever intended of the creators of either SMSQ/E > or DISA! Bugs are a fact of life, and not even Nature is imune (My > brain is full of them, for starters - and thats not the inter-festive > DT's talking!) The deeply philosophical line 5 (in the light of line > 4) in the first code sample, is for anyone to ponder in the New Year - > for which I wish y'all a happy one!.. > > Per > On 30/12/2017 13:39, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: > > pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote: > >> If you want a really miserable Christmas, you could try the following > >> - without saving your work first: > >> > >> 1 x% = 32000 > >> 2 y% = x% > >> 3 z% = 1600 > >> 4 t? = x% * y% * z%: REMark Kabm!!! > >> 5 PRINT "-- Im dead!" > > Nice find and, as usual, good repro, thanks. As good as TT's code > > usually is, here he