Re: [Ql-Users] One Per Desk: Computer One floppy interface. Need the ROM image.
I have emailed Dan Abbot and a Dave Warne I found on Sellmyretro !! Rich On 14/12/2023 14:53, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: On 14/12/2023 07:59, Rich Mellor via Ql-Users wrote: ... Unfortunately, having lost all of my emails last year, I cannot even recall who it was that had quite an extensive ICL One Per Desk collection? Does anyone else remember? I wonder if that might have been Dave Walker or C68 fame? He wrote a few OPD->QL utilities, if I remember correctly. Cheers, Norm. Norman Dunbar. ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] One Per Desk: Computer One floppy interface. Need the ROM image.
Just checked and the PDF is dated March 2018 - does anyone have quanta magazines from around then to check if it was covered in the magazine? Rich On 14/12/2023 07:59, Rich Mellor via Ql-Users wrote: I assume that the project is based on the notes I received from Quanta: https://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/oneperdesk/C1%20Compatible%20OPD%20Disc%20Interface%20Project%20Notes.pdf According to that a Dave Warne provided a copy of the firmware / ROMs, but I have no idea as to whom was doing that project, nor do I have any details for Dave Warne. Unfortunately, having lost all of my emails last year, I cannot even recall who it was that had quite an extensive ICL One Per Desk collection? Does anyone else remember? Rich On 13/12/2023 19:00, Stephen Usher via Ql-Users wrote: I'm recreating the Computer One OPD floppy interface, reverse engineering it from the information on the RWAP web site. I thought that the ROM image was included there but I can't find it. Seeing as I have the PCBs arriving on Friday and all the chips I could really do with a ROM to go with them. Any pointers? Steve ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] One Per Desk: Computer One floppy interface. Need the ROM image.
I assume that the project is based on the notes I received from Quanta: https://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/oneperdesk/C1%20Compatible%20OPD%20Disc%20Interface%20Project%20Notes.pdf According to that a Dave Warne provided a copy of the firmware / ROMs, but I have no idea as to whom was doing that project, nor do I have any details for Dave Warne. Unfortunately, having lost all of my emails last year, I cannot even recall who it was that had quite an extensive ICL One Per Desk collection? Does anyone else remember? Rich On 13/12/2023 19:00, Stephen Usher via Ql-Users wrote: I'm recreating the Computer One OPD floppy interface, reverse engineering it from the information on the RWAP web site. I thought that the ROM image was included there but I can't find it. Seeing as I have the PCBs arriving on Friday and all the chips I could really do with a ROM to go with them. Any pointers? Steve ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Peter Baily
For those of us who came across Peter Baily - just some news from his son, that he passed away yesterday after a short illness. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] ice desktop
On 03/01/2019 03:52, simon629--- via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Rich M Would My QDT And my Ice desktop Fit on one win file Happy new year Rich Take care ___ QL-Users Mailing List Simon, This is a general question - I have no idea if they could co-exist Probably they could as you would use the cursor keys still to operate the ICE desktop - the QPC / QPTR mouse does not work with ICE -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Fwd: ProWesS Files
I attach an email correspondence I had with Joachim van der Auwera back in 2013 about the status of the other ProWess programs. You will see that he stated that they were all made open source so any missing programs from the suite can be sent to Dilwyn for uploading to his website! Phew Rich Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Sinclair QL Software Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:56:33 + From: RWAP Software To: Joachim Van der Auwera <> Hi Joachim, The released versions of software I seem to be missing is: fsearch PWFile PWList PWSBasic I know according to the site, there is supposedly stuff on ftp://triathlon98.com/pub/ProWesS (anonymous login), but I can't access it! Rich On 31/10/2013 20:58, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: I is all (and has been) open source (GPL IIRC) for a long time. Unfortunately though, I am unsure whether I still have sources (other than what is on the site) in a recoverable way. It seems the backup disks I have are next to useless because my IOmega ZIP drive no longer functions. ZIP disks have been sent to Urs König who is trying to recover them. Kind regards, Joachim On 10/31/2013 01:20 PM, RWAP Software wrote: Hi Joachim, I hope you are keeping well. i know that ProWesS was released into the public domain some time ago, but it is not clear what the position is regarding your other software: DataDesign LineDesign PWFile PFList fsearch fontutils Whilst the sources are provided for things such as the DataDesign BASIC engine, the actual compiled version is not available on your site. I was wondering if all of these are now public domain, or whether you wish to retain them as commercial programs? Certainly it would make sense to offer the download of the BASIC engine for DataDesign Kind Regards -- Rich Mellor RWAP Software Specialist Retro Computer Dealer http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] PWfile and SMSQmulator
On 07/12/2018 10:18, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users wrote: Op 6/12/2018 om 15:18 schreef Wolf via Ql-Users: Hi, Yes, their website states: " ProWesS is now available for free using the GPL, you can download it (distribution, documentations, examples, source) " That's right but I think this is only true for ProwesS itself not for PWfile, Fsearch,Fontutils,DATAdesign, PFlist. Have a look http://www.progs.be/Information/prices.html. Only ProWesS itself. is free and can be downloaded .The others have a price tag ( still in Belgian Francs) and are not downloadable. I hope I'm wrong here. We seem to only be missing PWfile and Fsearch from Dilwyn's site. I have emailed Davide Santachiara - he now runs www.sinclairql.it Rich -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] GDPR and 25th May
On 04/05/2018 17:23, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: Article 30, section 5: "5. The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to an enterprise or an organisation employing fewer than 250 persons unless the processing it carries out is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, the processing is not occasional, or the processing includes special categories of data as referred to in Article 9(1) or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10." That is surprising - you could of course have a huge mailing list... Jochen was put off his own website because of the GDPR - I have not seen this exemption mentioned anywhere as it would apply to my 10,000+ mailing list too! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] GDPR and 25th May
Hi all, With the new GDPR legislation coming in on 25th May - how will the mailing list cope with this? We seem to need to: a) Keep a record of any emails sent asking to join the list b) Keep a record of any emails sent to get removed from the list c) Ensure there is simple to understand information on how to join the list / be removed; and who has access to the emails on the list d) More problematic is the right to be forgotten - as surely all emails included in the thread history etc would need to be removed or at least anonymised in that case Can the mailing list admin already cope with this? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] FW: The wonderful Rick
That is indeed such sad news - Rick Dickinson was a true visionary when it came to computer design and will be sadly missed... Rich Mellor www.rwapsoftware.co.uk On 26/04/2018 07:10, Urs Koenig (QL) via Ql-Users wrote: Dear all, I'm so shocked and in deep sadness to hear that Rick passed away. I was in tears when I read the email from his wife (see below). I last met Rick last October in Cambridge around the Spectrum35 celebration. He was such a great guy, very smart, with a great sense of humor and so gifted. He created so many amazing an beautiful things. In autumn 2014 he was on vacation with his mother at the beautiful Lake Lucerne, just a few miles from my home. http://www.qlis30.org.uk/#Rick May he rest in peace. Urs Von: Lizzy Dickinson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. April 2018 05:31 Betreff: The wonderful Rick Dearest Friends With the hugest hole in my heart and a sadness I can't being to understand, the wonderful person known to many as Rick the Viking, opened his wings and started on another journey on Tuesday 24 April. And sadly I am not yet able to join him, despite wanting so much to be with him. I know that this will come as a shock to many as we had not been open about his health issues, preferring rather to deal with them in private, even from both of own families until fairly recently. Rick was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and despite successful treatment in 2016, he became unwell again in early January 2017. I am sure some of you may have guessed something was not quite right, and to those of you that perhaps did not understand why we became less and less social during 2017, I hope now you can understand that this was in no way a reflection of our friendship with you but rather circumstances dictating what he was or was not able to do. We have been at a specialist clinic in America - Texas to be precise - since the end of March undergoing complimentary treatment as a last attempt at hoping to heal him when he passed away quickly, without warning having collapsed in the apartment we were rented here. He was in no pain and surround by huge love from the amazing people that have become firm friends here - that Texan southern hospitality truly was - and continues to be - laid at our door. Rick will be cremated here in Texas and I will travel home with his ashes once the paperwork is sorted probably at the end of next week. And, rather than a traditional funeral (which you know is really not his style) his much loved daughters that he was so proud of - Grace and Daisy - and his mother Ursula and I will be planning for a celebration of his life where we can all get together and remember him with love, laughs, smiles, anecdotes and a few beverages. I will of course let you know details once we have finalised plans. Please also do pass on this email to any that you feel may wish to know; Rick had many, many friends across the broad spectrum of his work and interests and I have tried to find as many emails as I can from his computer but am sure I have left some out. And can I ask that - for the time being - please don't call as I simply can't face talking right now, but I would dearly love to receive your messages, emoticons and any photos or memories you wish to send of the person who was - simply - the wonderful Rick, love of my life. And please take 5 minutes , raise a glass or 10 , and think about the beautiful Rick, the one and only Viking and all the good times we have all had with him. As they always say - but I do believe - he is watching over us and sends love to you all and is only sorry that he was not able to see you all before he left. XXX ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 4.04 BUG
On 23/04/2018 09:57, Bob Spelten via Ql-Users wrote: Op Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:00:20 +0200 schreef RWAP Software via Ql-Users : Does anyone know why the following in QPC2 reports "Invalid Channel ID" WINDOW 448,200,32,16 PAPER #1,3 In fact, any attempt to change #1 after the WINDOW command reports an invalid channel. Tested on a bare QPC2v404, this could happen if channel #1 is closed. The WINDOW command does then not produce an error on the default channel, which will be #0 now, but the PAPER #1 command does. Bob On QPC2 v4.04 here I didn't have to close anything - I just entered the two commands above as soon as it started As stated, this does not happen in v4.05 so there must be something which has been altered -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 4.04 BUG
Confirmed - it affected v4.04 but is fixed in v4.05 :) I also found some of the character combinations were not working in v4.04 (eg CTRL SHIFT - did not produce a down arrow). That also now works in v4.05 but CTRL \ does not produce the left arrow still. Rich On 23/04/2018 05:24, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users wrote: Hi, no problem with these commands here. (QPC 4.05; not 4.04) Wolfgang Does anyone know why the following in QPC2 reports "Invalid Channel ID" WINDOW 448,200,32,16 PAPER #1,3 In fact, any attempt to change #1 after the WINDOW command reports an invalid channel. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Classic Adventures
On 05/04/2018 14:33, Ralf Reköndt via Ql-Users wrote: Great! BTW: Both AD1 and AD2 are written in C. Cheers...Ralf I guess you might need to update the QL Wiki entry then -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball
-Original Message- From: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users Sent: 29 March 2018 10:40 To: QL Users List Cc: Dilwyn Jones Subject: [Ql-Users] Stuart Honeyball I regret to have to report that I heard this morning of the death of Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems. He passed away peacefully last night (28th March) at 23:45 of cancer, according to his wife, Karin. I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in extending our condolence to his wife and family and express our great admiration and gratitude for all the work he did for the QL over the years. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List A really sad bit of news. In recognition of Stuart's contribution to the community, I have been using a Trump Card and Miracle Centronics adaptor today to do some more testing of my Retro-Printer -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Buying DATA DESIGN Version 4.12
Excellent - I had not seen this version either Rich On 27/02/2018 15:20, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users wrote: Pleased to say that thanks to a user in The Netherlands, DataDesign 4.12 update (German and English executables and a version.asm updates file only) has now been added to the Prowess page on my website. Apparently this is a high colour update to the program. Dilwyn -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 12:28 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Wolfgang Lenerz Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Buying DATA DESIGN Version 4.12 Hi, Datadesign is freeware now, you should be able to get it from Dilwyn's site (perhap in the prowess section). HTH Wolfgang Hi Everyone can you help me does anyone no where I can Buy DATA DESIGN Version 4.12 FromOK Thanks simon629Simon Foster ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] CPORT
On 02/11/2017 09:18, Derek Stewart via Ql-Users wrote: On 01/11/17 21:01, Michael Bulford via Ql-Users wrote: Hi Norman, I have both CPORT and CFIX. I find that CFIX doesn't work correctly in QPC2, so to get around that problem, I use Q-emulator for that one. CPORT does work well in QPC2, provided that memory is limited to 16M. There's also some other related files. I'll dig them out. How can I get them to you? Kind regards, Michael ___ QL-Users Mailing List Hi, Does any one know the commercial status of the DP Collection. The rights to the various programs in the DP Collection reverted to the software authors when Digital Precision ceased trading. Some have released their programs into the public domain (or as freeware), but the vast majority remains protected by copyright -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QTYP II
I have 3 boxed second hand copies of QTYP II on disk here for £10 each plus postage if anyone needs one. Other than that, Jochen might be able to supply QTYP II Rich www.rwapsoftware.co.uk On 25/09/2017 05:56, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote: I don't know. Sorry. Il 24 set 2017 21:17, "simon629--- via Ql-Users" ha scritto: Where can I buy QTYP From Thanks imon629 Simon Foster On Sunday, 24 September 2017, 19:54, Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: QTYP is still commercial Il 24 set 2017 20:51, "simon629--- via Ql-Users" Hi can anyone help me I have GotQSpread2003QD20003Q-RouteFIFi 4.31Is there any more Paid Software What is worth gettingOK Thanks Simon Foster ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QubATA 3.10
On 12/05/2017 08:42, Alain HAOUI wrote: Thanks to Dilwyn, QubATA V3.10 package is now available from his EXCELLENT QL Home(less ;) Pages. This package contains all driver binaries, docs and utilities at the same version level for all supported platforms. Utilities (Trashcan manager, IDE monitor, CD Player and CD Explorer) are now common and should work on all configurations with the same binaries. V3.10 is backward compatible and as usual comes with some improvements and bug fixes. Please, update if you can. >From this version, driver (_Rext form) has the ability to be configured as a main WIN driver or as second QUB driver. You may even have both 2 instances (I don't know what utility). It can be added to any SMSQ/E binary version as an extra module and started automatically with SMSQ/E. On Qx0 platforms, if driver is configured as WIN driver then SMSQ/E will be able to start normally from a QubIDE (QLW1) master device but beware no more access to QLWA disks format. Wiser starting as QUB driver. Please refer to included release notes for more details. Excellent news - for me, QubATA has revolutionised the QubIDE :) -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit II v2.31
On 31/03/2017 12:22, pg...@q40.de wrote: On 31 Mar 2017 at 12:12, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Fabrizio Diversi wrote: if someone is wondering, Tk2 2.31 is perfectly working also in Mist (at least as far as I can see:-)) Thanks for the feedback. Are there people badly missing the network code in the new TK2, i.e. is this still a thing? Depends on ROM or RAM. The network code is an essential of the ROM version. If removed, I would not call the result TK2 ROM anymore. So QL tinkerers who actually burn that into ROM, are aware to lose a major feature they probably expect. Pure BASIC extensions can run from RAM, while the network code is hardware dependant and must run from ROM. I would not remove code from ROM which needs to run there, and replace it by code which can run elsewhere. By the way, retro-computing with the original hardware seems to happen more often, not less often in recent years. Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List Hmm - yes, I hadn't spotted the loss of the network routines and think these are essential in the ROM. It would probably be better to offer a separate toolkit which can be loaded from disk and sit alongside the ROM version, containing the new commands and just update the existing Toolkit II ROM to include any updates / bug fixes or improvements, rather than removing features which users might expect to use. The full RAM version of the Toolkit II should actually be listed as an upgrade to the 'configurable Super Toolkit' version which Care used to sell :) Rich -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)
On 24/03/2017 08:57, Ralf Reköndt wrote: I remenber, you say, that Quill generated programs do not execute on QPC2, or SMSQ/E, where ACT executables do run. Where is the problem with The Quill? Alas I cannot remember (it was almost 30 years ago) and do not have any of the original programs for testing - I think it was down to extra memory to be honest... It also looks as though the Quill was updated since the original release -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] The Quill (Adventure Writer)
Good morning all, Does anyone have a copy of the Quill adventure writer by Gilsoft? Tim Gilberts (who ran Gilsoft) has been looking into this and found a version A03 copy. I myself only have version A00. Tim asked if anyone has a later version than A03. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Future of the QL Wiki
On 10/02/2017 10:59, Graeme Gregory wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:55 AM, Rich Mellor wrote: On 10/02/2017 10:49, Graeme Gregory wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:25 AM, Rich Mellor wrote: Taking account of my ongoing health issues, I have been considering what would be best for the QL Wiki and other community projects which I currently run (such as the Z88 forums, the ZX80/ZX81 forums and the Sinclair QL GitHub). Looking at what happened with World of Spectrum when Marjin was unable to continue with the site, it is important to consider the long term viability and what should happen if I (for example) were to walk under a bus tomorrow. My health issues also mean that I no longer have the time or energy to continue in the way that I have been. My family would not really know what to do with the forums - and would not continue to pay for the hosting. There is also not really anyone else involved in the administration of the site. I also think that the QL Wiki is itself a barrier to people being involved, as there are certain people out there who cannot see beyond the fact that it was set up by me initially and is hosted on my server - so seem to think that it is my duty to update it! After deliberation, I think the answer is to set up a non-profit organisation (Sinclair World ?) which could then own these resources and be responsible for their maintenance, improvement and upkeep. It would take some fund raising to set up the organisation, as well as willing hands to set everything up and create the necessary constitution, book-keeping etc to keep it viable. What do others think - and who are the willing hands? I wonder if we could get van/rob interested in this as part of qlforum activities. Graeme ___ QL-Users Mailing List I think it is probably more a case that the non-profit organisation would take over the QL Forum too - and maybe Van / Rob would be interested in helping to run the organisation... I did think about Quanta (of course), but they don't have enough willing hands to help with their website and their membership model is too restrictive What is the overhead on setup and maintenance of an NFP in UK? My only experience is in Germany where it was a bit of a bawache to setup. But once setup was basically just a yearly form. Graeme ___ QL-Users Mailing List Probably about the same over here - there are annual accounts to be done (and audited) and sent for tax (although the UK is moving to a system of quarterly tax returns) - nothing else would have to be done on an annual basis. Initial setup costs are just preparation of the constitution (Quanta's could be used as a starting point), opening accounts etc and then the costs of hosting fees, domain names etc The main cost would come if the organisation wanted to try for charitable status, or decided to register for VAT so that they could at least recoup the VAT on everything that was paid for. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Future of the QL Wiki
On 10/02/2017 10:49, Graeme Gregory wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, at 10:25 AM, Rich Mellor wrote: Taking account of my ongoing health issues, I have been considering what would be best for the QL Wiki and other community projects which I currently run (such as the Z88 forums, the ZX80/ZX81 forums and the Sinclair QL GitHub). Looking at what happened with World of Spectrum when Marjin was unable to continue with the site, it is important to consider the long term viability and what should happen if I (for example) were to walk under a bus tomorrow. My health issues also mean that I no longer have the time or energy to continue in the way that I have been. My family would not really know what to do with the forums - and would not continue to pay for the hosting. There is also not really anyone else involved in the administration of the site. I also think that the QL Wiki is itself a barrier to people being involved, as there are certain people out there who cannot see beyond the fact that it was set up by me initially and is hosted on my server - so seem to think that it is my duty to update it! After deliberation, I think the answer is to set up a non-profit organisation (Sinclair World ?) which could then own these resources and be responsible for their maintenance, improvement and upkeep. It would take some fund raising to set up the organisation, as well as willing hands to set everything up and create the necessary constitution, book-keeping etc to keep it viable. What do others think - and who are the willing hands? I wonder if we could get van/rob interested in this as part of qlforum activities. Graeme ___ QL-Users Mailing List I think it is probably more a case that the non-profit organisation would take over the QL Forum too - and maybe Van / Rob would be interested in helping to run the organisation... I did think about Quanta (of course), but they don't have enough willing hands to help with their website and their membership model is too restrictive -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Future of the QL Wiki
Taking account of my ongoing health issues, I have been considering what would be best for the QL Wiki and other community projects which I currently run (such as the Z88 forums, the ZX80/ZX81 forums and the Sinclair QL GitHub). Looking at what happened with World of Spectrum when Marjin was unable to continue with the site, it is important to consider the long term viability and what should happen if I (for example) were to walk under a bus tomorrow. My health issues also mean that I no longer have the time or energy to continue in the way that I have been. My family would not really know what to do with the forums - and would not continue to pay for the hosting. There is also not really anyone else involved in the administration of the site. I also think that the QL Wiki is itself a barrier to people being involved, as there are certain people out there who cannot see beyond the fact that it was set up by me initially and is hosted on my server - so seem to think that it is my duty to update it! After deliberation, I think the answer is to set up a non-profit organisation (Sinclair World ?) which could then own these resources and be responsible for their maintenance, improvement and upkeep. It would take some fund raising to set up the organisation, as well as willing hands to set everything up and create the necessary constitution, book-keeping etc to keep it viable. What do others think - and who are the willing hands? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL screw set needed :)
Hi Alexandre, I can supply a set of screws - send me an email with which screws you need and quantities! Rich On 20/01/2017 16:31, Alexandre Souza wrote: Howdy people! :D Finally I finished the mods on my QL. I'll put it on a proper page soon, but a list of the mods is: - Changed 7805 for a swtiching regulator, so no more intense heat - Changed ROMs' sockets (they were green...) - Changed ROMs for a Minerva home-made board (MK1 of course) - Changed 8749 for a Hermes coprocessor - Cleaned the green goo of the board with some MEK - Repaired power input (and I still don't have an original power supply, but I can live with mine) - Made a "connector" for the microdrives' cables, so no more messing up with bare wires for connecting to te board - Home made RGB cable - Home Made mouse interface + PS/2 mouse adapter - Changed that dammed push-lock connectors for the speaker and leds to more common (and easier to handle) dupont connectors - Disabled the RF modulator - 512K memory extension But something bad happened: Since I left it on a shelf (and another, and another, and another...) for some time, I lost the screws of the case. Is there a good soul who could sell me a set of the 8 screws and send it in a letter to Brazil, please? :o) Thanks! Alexandre --- ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Level 2 Device Drivers
That is great and a potential way forward - I will email you direct Rich On 29/11/2016 10:29, Alain HAOUI wrote: Rich, For the Qubide side of question, I have no idea how to contact Phil but I inform you that I rewrote entirely for my own need the Qubide driver derived from the code written by Phil compatible with the ROM V2. Initially, the driver was written to work with the Expander interface to drive several IDE devices but it can run without the Expander, of course. I use it with enough reliability for a yet long time with 1 CF card, 1 ATA/IDE disk, 1 ZIP 100 drive and 1 CDROM drive. This driver includes all necessary code to manage partitioning, formatting without need to extra software like partition.exe and deals successfully with QDOS slave blocks. It includes also a set of commands for audio CD (like QPC) and RAW (Aliens) access. Trashcan is working also. All codes fit happily within the 16K ROM and can be (re)loaded from ROM or RAM if needed. So, I know now the source code pretty well. Let me know what kind of changes you want to add for the new tetroid interface and I will see if I can help. I can also send you a compiled ROM & RAM version to try. IDE Registers base address can configured in config block. Regards, Alain -Message d'origine- De : Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de RWAP Software Envoyé : lundi 28 novembre 2016 23:26 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] Level 2 Device Drivers On 2016-11-28 21:12, RWAP Software wrote: Does anyone have any contact details for Jurgen Falkenberg, or Jochen Hassler ? Tetroid (on SellMyRetro) is working on a new QL interface which merges the Trump Card and QubIDE interfaces and ideally it would be good to include the Level 2 device drivers and ATR device for the Trump Card element. Alternatively, is there another way of adding Level 2 device drivers? More details of the interface and pictures appear on the QL Forum thread - http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1670 Whilst on this subject - does anyone have any contact details for Phil Borman - there are a few things it would be nice to include in the QubIDE driver. There is also the problem, that whilst the source code for the QubIDE v2 ROM was released, the v2 GAL code required to use that ROM code does not appear to be available anywhere! Rich ___ QL-Users Mailing List --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] RWAP Software 30th Anniversary - Week 4 Competition
For the final competition to celebrate RWAP Software's 30th Anniversary - we have decided to aim this competition solely at QL Users (after all, it was the QL which inspired the launch of our business back in 1986). It is a big prize fund worth over £200. For your chance to win a complete copy of the QL Adventures Box-Sets (1 to 3), the QL Games Box-Sets (1 to 6), plus QWord for QPC2, simply comment on our thread on the QL Forum with which is your favourite game for the QL and why. Get an extra entry for including a valid link to the game on the QL Wiki (if the link does not exist, you might need to create the page !), and another entry for a valid link to where you can get the program. Winners will be chosen at random from all entries received on 1st December 2016. Entries have to name the actual name of the QL Game - but they can be commercial, freeware or public domain games. The QL Forum thread appears at: http://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1714#p14957 -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Italian meeting
On 04/11/2016 09:32, d.santachi...@libero.it wrote: Hi everybody, I take again the chance to inform that if anybody is interested to make even a very short speech at our Italian meeting on Sunday 20th of November, subscriptions are open :-) Subjects for intervention are free (i.e. QPC2, SMSQ/E, software or hardware etc.), baseline is to manage everything via web-ex sessions. Instead if there are listeners interested I would need their email address to send-out the web-ex link (which can be used also on e.g. tablets with the appropriate app). Regards Davide ___ QL-Users Mailing List Davide, I have forwarded this to Tetroid in case he would like to talk about his existing Trump Card clone and his new interface (which is just being tested) You can see some details of his new interface at: http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1670 Might not be too easy for him as he lives in Russia - so I guess it depends whether he is confident to speak in another language as I assume there will not be many Russian speakers at the meeting! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Software Preservation
On 07/08/2016 17:54, Ralf Reköndt wrote: I remember, there was a problem to read your list. Would you please give the URL again? Cheers...Ralf https://www.dropbox.com/s/84m3eizdplf9fv3/%21%21%20Full%20QL%20Software%20List%20-%20Preserved.xlsx?dl=0 It is an Excel xsls spreadsheet -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Software Preservation Project - Tasks
Yes - Simon Goodwin was the author of Turbo and Supercharge and released the source code for Turbo when Digital Precision ceased business and all rights reverted to the authors. Chas Dillon also released his code as freeware (possibly even public domain). No idea what happened with the other authors however... Rich > On July 10, 2016 at 2:14 PM Wolf wrote: > > > Hi all, > > isn't Turbo maintained by Grorge Gwilt? > > Wolfgang > > On 07/10/2016 02:22 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > Afternoon all. > > > > I think, but I'm not 100% certain, that the source code for Turbo, The > > Editor etc, by the author who's name escapes me right now, are or were > > online many years ago. I may even have downloaded them at some point. I > > remember definitely looking through the source for The Editor so I did get > > it somewhere legal. > > > > Having said that, I don't remember if Cport was included. > > > > Reverse engineering a compiled SuperBasic task might be more trouble than > > simply rewriting from scratch? If necessary there's a program I wrote yes > > ago, which Dilwyn updated, that decodes a QSAVE'd program. I'm certain that > > could be used as the basis for a new Cport lexer perhaps. It is called > > something like decode_qsave or similar. > > > > There's a doc file here, I think it's Word format: > > http://www.sitelevel.com/click?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dilwyn.me.uk%2fdocs%2fformats%2fsavfiles.doc&sid=YCsXx5g7rfbNG11e > > - which contains a listing of the program. > > > > Doing it as new should allow the cfix stuff to be included without needing a > > separate task to do it. Plus, it could be made easier to translate to C - > > how hard could it be? ;-) > > > > To be honest, I paid for Cport all those years ago, but have used it > > infrequently. It's a great idea, it fell down in practice. There always > > seemed to be far too much work post conversion just to get a clean C68 > > compile,never mind getting the code to work! > > > > > > Cheers, > > Norm. > > > > On 9 July 2016 22:17:45 BST, Michael Bulford > > wrote: > >> On Thursday 7 July 2016, 21:29:04, Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote : > >> > >> > >>> Shirley Butler (C-Fix program for use with SuperBASIC C-Port) - not > >> sure if she > >>> had any more involvement in C-Port. I also emailed Dave Walker, but > >> no response > >>> from either > >> > >> Hi Rich, > >> I also wrote to Shirley, but had no response. This morning, > >> I tried ringing her on the number she gave in the C-Fix user manual > >>from 1992, but this was unobtainable. Are you still in contact with > >> Freddy Vaccha? Perhaps he might know something. > >> What I would like to do is to get a copy of the source SuperBASIC code > >> for both C-Port and C-Fix. The idea being to update them so that they > >> can work fully with modern day emulators, and also to cure some bugs > >> and generally improve them. I have actually managed to use C-Port > >> with some success. Recently I have C-Ported a 58k SBASIC program into > >> Cee without any problems. I did of course have to keep on changing the > >> code until it finally Cported. The resulting Cee code certainly needed > >> some tinkering with before it would C68 compile. The program was a > >> version of the Travelling Salesman program, which I have been working > >> on with Steve Poole. In my opinion, C-Port is far better than its > >> reputation, but is certainly in need of some improvement. The C-Fix > >> addition is very useful, however it is not complete. The numeric array > >> bases have not been treated. > >> If however the source is unavailable, then how about reverse > >> engineering?Derek, have you thought any more about your idea of reverse > >> engineering Turbo? I would be willing to work with you jointly on > >> this. I am well acquainted with the Turbo parser and understand how it > >> works. If you can regenerate the pseudo-code for C-Port, I am sure I > >> could regenerate the SuperBASIC code from there. What we could end up > >> with is a SuperBASIC program that perhaps works, but would be totally > >> unreadable, since we would not know the original variable names used. > >> We would just have to guess at how it works. But this would be a > >> start. This may take some while to complete, but the more time spent > >> on it, the better it would become. > >> About the legal aspect, I
Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright
> On July 9, 2016 at 5:41 PM Lee Privett wrote: > > > There is an interesting bit on copyright that's list four things relating > to Software. One covers the code as literary, the other covers the output > from code as far as I can ascertain. > > The code is a literary work > The on-screen display could be an artistic work > The soundtracks are musical works > Moving images can be protected as a film and so on > > It goes on to cover non-literal copying of software, full article here. > http://www.inbrief.co.uk/intellectual-property/copyright-protection-for-software/ > > For me there is no question, it's copyrighted unless there evidence that is > not. Qliberator is a case in point, it's copyright protected until both > authors state it can be public domain. > > Now it is interesting for a discussion perspective about non-literal > copying if a protected programme is hacked and the software no longer has > its anti copying protection then effectively it's not the same software > anymore. > I am fairly certain that just bypassing the copy protection would fail the substantial parts test (and any of hte other tests) as it would be easy to prove on a byte by byte comparison that there were only very limited changes to the original code. Arguably it would be harder to prove that some of my MKII software breached copyright under these rules (had I not originally obtained permission) - because the original code can no longer easily be proven - eg, substantial changes to D-Day and War In the East, which were originally SuperBASIC programs, then I re-wrote large sections in native machine code, added a large amount of my own code and then compiled them in Turbo - although here there is the issue of access to sources could easily be proven, as the sources (SuperBASIC) were provided in the originals. I am not sure whether Nemesis and possibly some of the other Talent adventures would be viewed in this light, as they were written in Quill, so had to be de-compiled, changed and then re-compiled as a Q-liberated program - leaving very little to compare apart from the actual text on screen. That said, both myself and Richard Alexander (when my programs were published by CGH Services) always felt that it was only fair to pay royalties on sales to the original copyright holders, or to offer my version as an upgrade to people who proved they had the original. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright
> On July 9, 2016 at 4:26 PM Wolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Entering the sordid topic of coin, it is difficult to imagine that it would > > profit any originator of a QL program to seek recompense from the courts for > > infringement of copyright. Consider the value of past sales, future possible > > sales, and legal costs. The case would have to be based on the miss-selling > > of a number of programs to create a sufficiently large claim. > > Think: > > - statutory damages > - punitive damages > > depending on where you sue... > > OK, 'nuff said on that subject. > Wolfgang > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Copyright exists as soon as someone creates an item. They are the owner of the rights to that item - be it a physical item, some program code, a painting or even a turn of phrase (this is why it has been generally referred to in legislation as intellectual property). Many people originally proved copyright by posting a copy of an item to themselves, so that it is dated by a third party in a sealed envelope - just in case they ever needed to prove that they created the item before someone else. There used to be some countries which demanded registration of copyright but since countries signed up to the Berne convention, they all agreed to do away with this, but most countries retain the ability to voluntarily register copyright if you wish (similar to posting a copy to yourself). As for ever bringing court action - most countries will actually prosecute the person on your behalf, as it is seen as a criminal offence under international law; so there is no question of cost for the copyright holder. Does QL software have copyright messages? The answer is a resounding YES - out of all the stuff I have preserved, there is probably less than 5% which has no statement in the code as to copyright, or who wrote the program. It is generally clearly stipulated in the boot program, loading screen, manual or the code itself. As to what you do with the stuff which has nothing to indicate copyright - who knows what the intention of the author was It could have been donated to the Quanta library, in which case, the terms of their constitution stipulate that the library was available to members only. It could have been a program which appeared in QL World / QL User - which paid for the program listings, so the rights may well have been transferred to the magazine publisher (all depending on the terms of the submission and who the publisher was at the time). Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Software Preservation Project - Tasks
Ian Stewart is happy for the Liberation software to be made freeware, but has said that Adrian needs to also give his consent On Facebook, I have contacted the following, but no response - Peter Mackeonis (Metacomco) Grae Yeandle (Gilsoft - he wrote Quill for the ZX Spectrum, but not sure if he wrote the QL version) Michael Slatford (QL Investment Monitor) Janko Mrsic Flogel Plus several others although they might not be the right people. Rich On 08/07/2016 08:31, Lee Privett wrote: Can I add Adrian Soundy to that list of QLiberator fame (Liberation Software <http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Liberation%20Software>), I have tried to no avail to get a response from him regarding his part of the compiler program, as far as I know he is living in New Zealand, and I have messaged through one of the people at Intercreate.org <http://intercreate.org/> who passed this on to Adrian. If anyone lives there or is going there you may have better luck. Over a year now of trying, Facebook and Linked-in also proved unsuccessful routes. Lee On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote: I thought it would be worthwhile listing the people I have tried contacting by letter but not received a response from: Steve Sutton (Lightning, some of Perfection, ACT Alan Bridewell (Text N Graphics) Robin Barker - Di-Ren (letter returned no longer at this address) Graham Kirk (MAXIM and QLART) - I spoke with his brother, who provided me with Graham's address, but there was no response to my letter Jurgen Falkenburg (Level 2 Trump Card drivers) Simon Okoloko - Okoloko Engineering, USA (FRAME, GRID, TRUSS) - I have a letter sending the software to QL World for review, plus the manuals, but alas no software! Shirley Butler (C-Fix program for use with SuperBASIC C-Port) - not sure if she had any more involvement in C-Port. I also emailed Dave Walker, but no response from either Alex Waye - Waye Ahead (QL Ambition) I have had more luck with emailing and contacting people on facebook / linkedIn - but Facebook is not reliable as unless you are a friend of the person, your messages get put in an 'Other folder' and are not obvious! Rich Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright
The only slight difference on copyright for software purposes has been to allow a backup copy for personal use. There are also rules applicable as to the length of time copyright is active which have bearing. Basically it is life or lives in being plus 70 years. However, if the authorship of the work is unknown it is 50 years from date of publication. If a Company owns the copyright, then it is 70 years from the end of the business. Alas that is it - copyright law is something that does not get changed too often, because of it being subject to the Berne treaty - ie it is an international law, and therefore at least a majority of countries would need to agree to any changes Rich > On July 7, 2016 at 9:21 PM Colin McKay > wrote: > > > Has copyright in the electronic sense been investigated? > > An author publishes an article, and an individual makes one copy of it for > only his use. That is allowable, but there could be qualifications of the > situation. > > > > Colin McKay > > > > > > _______ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Software Preservation Project - Tasks
I thought it would be worthwhile listing the people I have tried contacting by letter but not received a response from: Steve Sutton (Lightning, some of Perfection, ACT Alan Bridewell (Text N Graphics) Robin Barker - Di-Ren (letter returned no longer at this address) Graham Kirk (MAXIM and QLART) - I spoke with his brother, who provided me with Graham's address, but there was no response to my letter Jurgen Falkenburg (Level 2 Trump Card drivers) Simon Okoloko - Okoloko Engineering, USA (FRAME, GRID, TRUSS) - I have a letter sending the software to QL World for review, plus the manuals, but alas no software! Shirley Butler (C-Fix program for use with SuperBASIC C-Port) - not sure if she had any more involvement in C-Port. I also emailed Dave Walker, but no response from either Alex Waye - Waye Ahead (QL Ambition) I have had more luck with emailing and contacting people on facebook / linkedIn - but Facebook is not reliable as unless you are a friend of the person, your messages get put in an 'Other folder' and are not obvious! Rich Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project
> On July 7, 2016 at 7:13 PM Kurt K wrote: > > > If I may reframe the matter not as a discussion on the relative merits of > Copyright but in regard to the effect on the greater community. It is simply > wrong to discontinue a worthy project, harm and reduce the viability of those > supporting the QL due solely to a sad minority of individuals. This is an > extreme approach that punishes all and rewards the malcontents by caving to > their actions. As a community, we have shown the willingness to help one > another and find a more appropriate redress. Changes that lock down your site, > altering and filtering communications and allowing others to assist to spare > you the sole burden is a measured approach. By ending the project in this > matter, it is more a condemnation on all of us, rather than those few who are > driving this action. I would suggest a migration of the project if you feel > you can no longer deal with this onerous issues. I know we need you and want > you to continue but recognize we also must assist if your efforts are > to survive. > As I have stated on the QL Forum - I wish I could continue with this project - but having put up with these comments for 2 years, it does have an impact on the reputation of my business and the extra stress does not help with my current ongoing illness. There is plenty of opportunity for others to step forward who are interested in preserving QL software with plenty of jobs to do: a) Check the spreadsheet I created on dropbox to see if any more titles are already on Dilwyn's website (or even similar sounding ones so we can check them against the preserved version). b) Similarly check against software in the Quanta library - whilst that software is generally not public domain (being donated to Quanta for the use of its members), some titles are actually public domain when you read accompanying quill files c) Try to find copies of the software which is MIA or where they are marked as corrupt on the spreadsheet d) Try to identify and track down / contact the copyright holders for other titles which are not currently available e) Check the spreadsheet against the QL Wiki to identify where entries need to be created or updated f) Work through old QL User / QL World magazines (and other magazines) to identify even more software titles and add details (however basic) to the QL Wiki - particularly about when they were first sold and prices. Watch out for interviews or letters / news items which might indicate the name of the author or person behind a publisher. That is just off the top of my head - I am sure others will spot things that they can do . Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project
On 07/07/2016 11:13, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi, Just my 2 cents worth. As I understand it, Rich came under attack from some (as yet unnamed) sources because he (i) sells old programs for the QL and (ii) sent take-down notices (or was suspected of sending them) to sites that apparently hosted copyrighted files without the owners’ consent. It goes without saying that being attacked for these actions is just unacceptable. I’m alarmed, Rich, that this should cause you health problems. I believe that the echo your decision got on the list here shows that people here do support you. Except for the health problem, I’m not sure that I understand why this causes you to stop your preservation project. Surely the best strategy to adopt is to ignore the who bring these attacks - and go on as before ? I think, Rich, that you should publish here extracts of the offending emails or whatever form that correspondence took, together with the author’s names, so that I, for one, could be sure not to have any contact with them. The discussion now seems to center on whether all QL software should be made available for free. I agree with much of what Marcel writes, in that I also think that all of this 30+ years old software **should** be free. Like Marcel, I’m in the process of releasing my commercial programs as freeware, as and when I get around to it. However, the decision to do so is mine and nobody else’s. Likewise, the decision for others to do so with their software is theirs. Do I think that that old software should be released for free, like Marcel does ? Sure ! Would I, like Marcel, refuse to pay a cent for any old game ? Yup : if it isn’t free, I don’t even look at it. But I don’t see what’s wrong with copyright owners holding on to their property, nor with Rich trying to sell some software and make some money from it. I do not understand the mindset of people who believe that these things MUST NECESSARILY be free and if they aren’t, then the copyright owners and traders are evil, and fair game for any sort of abuse (I’m not accusing anybody on this list of thinking that way!). Is the fact that some copyright owners try to make a buck off their software in any way nefarious or detrimental to the QL scene ? In other words, do we loose users because of it ? I don’t believe so. I frankly fail to believe that someone new to the QL scene would look at it, look at the software available, think « hey that’s a game I must have » and then go away when he discovers that the game is still being sold…. As to the problem of hosting these still copyrighted files, I like Marcel’s analogy with (minor!) traffic law violations – you can choose, say, to double-park « just for a few minutes » and run the risk of getting a fine. Likewise, you can also choose to host copyrighted files and run the risk of criminal proceedings (with much higher penalties). The risk of being sued is probably minimal. The operating words being « probable » -i.e. not certain, and « minimal » i.e. not null. It is up to each of us to assess that risk and ask themselves whether they want to run it. However, as one of those darned lawyers myself, what would I tell a client if he asked me whether he should/could host copyrighted files (w/o the copyright owners’ permission, that is) ? The answer would be a clear and unequivocal « no ». QL forever! Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List Maybe with our legal backgrounds, we both see the need to protect rights and for that reason neither of us would get involved in hosting copyrighted files. I think the need to obtain the copyright holders' permission is paramount - if you do not bother to approach them and are later found out as having breached their copyright, then it is a much more fraught position than if you contacted them first and ascertained what they would like to happen. Let's face it, if someone approached a best selling author and said - could we host downloads of your books from the 1980s which have been out of print for 20 years, they may well say yes - I would love to see it. But if you offer the books for download and then someone pointed them to your site, they are much much less likely to think that is acceptable. As for the impact on my health - the problem is that (as some people are aware) I have been struggling with poor health now for 2 1/2 years - the stress of dealing with these personal attacks on both myself and my business just compounds that as it adds to my (already) poor sleep. I would rather not publicise the attacks further by including extracts - but there are several (generally Spanish) forums and even a well known Spectrum forum where these attacks have been levied (generally started by the same username, but then carried on by others). -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Use
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personalSoftware PreservationProject
I can't issue a working email address - but I found him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-toussi-41227591 Rich > On July 6, 2016 at 6:40 PM Ralf Reköndt wrote: > > > Ok, has anyone a working email address for Fred Toussi? > > - Original Message - > From: "Dilwyn Jones" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 7:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personalSoftware > PreservationProject > > > >> For those of us who are unfamiliar with T87, is there some (short) > >> example document and the ASCII of the text contained? > >> > >> Graeme > > The drivers_info_t87 file supplied with it states that the sources for the > > printer drivers were not included on the disk for lack of space but were > > available on request from the author Fred Toussi. I'm not in contact with > > him now, but if anyone did go to the trouble of getting these from him, it > > might possibly help I suppose. > > > > There is some information at the end of the above file: > > > > STRUCTURE OF PRINTER DRIVERS > > > > Each printer driver file consists of tables of numbers and strings and a > > small amount of machine code. The supplied files vary in size. The > > Assembly Language source code for the driver files is available separately > > from Software87. Some of the source code files are for more than one > > printer driver. Modifying the driver files requires the use of an > > assembler to re-assemble the modified source file. Modification can be > > very simple, as in the case of changing a number representing the pitch of > > a daisywheel, or more complex when a printer with a completely different > > standard is aimed at. With many Epson compatible dot-matrix printers, the > > width tables for proportionally spaced characters are different from those > > of the Epson printers for which there is a driver. This means that when > > proportional spacing is used within a line, that line may not justify > > correctly. The width tables within the printer driver should be modified > > for correct justification. > > > > The source listings are in the form of _T91 or _T87 documents. Extensive > > comments on the structure of the printer driver files can be found in the > > LX800 file. Once modifications have been made, driver files must be > > |Export|ed using the |Ascii| command to make them readable by assemblers. > > The SINCLAIR Macro Assembler or Assembler (written by GST) can be used for > > assembling the printer drivers. The Macro Assembler can be purchased from > > QUANTA. > > > > I have a working Text 87 (thanks to Marcel for the patch program) so could > > export the data to help anyone prepared to look into this if we can find > > these sources. > > > > As it is, I’ll privately send you some Text87 files to experiment with > > along with exported ascii text to compare. I’ve not looked at it myself, > > but I suspect that with all the options such as proportional spacing etc > > etc Text 87 has to handle it might be a very complex file format. > > > > Dilwyn > > > > > > - > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2016.0.7640 / Virus Database: 4627/12565 - Release Date: 07/05/16 > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject
On 06/07/2016 13:50, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Hosting old software is more problematic than parking on a double yellow line (sorry not sure what the equivalent is in Germany). Tell that to e.g. http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/ They've been in the business of hosting abandonware for 18 years and running. That is a risk they are willing to take. They admit that what they do is strictly illegal and yes, they say that they "will gladly remove download links to any game that is either 1) still being sold by the publisher, or 2) at the request of the publishers themselves" Alas the issue has come about because people keep publishing the same titles which are still being sold by the publisher, and when asked to remove links, kick up a huge fuss about it! World of Spectrum has been very successful in its repository of ZX Spectrum titles - mainly because it took the step of trying to contact as many copyright holders as possible before hosting their files. Could I ask what your approach would be if you found (before QPC2 was made freeware), sites who just offer free downloads of QPC2, QPCPrint etc? Would you have been happy and let them do it whilst you were continuing to sell the programs yourself? Don't muddle the issue. We're strictly talking about software here that was written a long time ago and which the original authors have long lost interest in. I still support QPC2 EVEN though I made it free. But we are not - I am in contact with a lot of the copyright holders and they are still very interested in what happens with their software. The titles everyone seems to moan about are the titles which I still sell and support, so how is that different to QPCPrint and QPC2 just because the support is not done by the original author, but by me as authorised distributor? The thing hit the fan when somebody send take-down notices to a site that has actually put copies for everybody to use on the internet. So we're left with less copies than there were before. But the software was mainly software which could readily still be purchased online from myself and Jochen. For example? I only see 3 QL software products left on Jochen's page to purchase, which is QMENU, Lonely Joker and QD (last updated 13 years ago! With my help even). And yes, I think at least QD and QMENU should now be free, too. The Spanish sites included a lot of the Talent and Pyramide software titles, Text87, Hyperdrive, and at least one of Jochen's titles. Rather than concentrating on trying to increase the range of free QL software available, it tends to be the same 10 titles or so which were published by a similar site in 2014 (and subsequently removed at the request of the copyright holders). Who are those mysterious copyright holders? The last request at the Spanish site was apparently anonymous. How can an anonymous person claim copyright to anything? I can't imagine Jochen sending out any take down orders either. Jochen emailed them in 2014 and was also involved this year. Other copyright authors involved (that I know of) have been the man behind English Software, Tom Dolezal (Talent), Fred Toussi (Software87), Daniel Purlich (Pyramide), Ken Brown (Eidersoft), Simon Goodwin and Steve Hollywood (Arrakis). As to who contacted their hosting company 'anonymously' I don't know - it might well be that the hosting company didn't ask for details, or simply did not want to provide them to the website owner once they realised that they were in danger of being fined by the Spanish government. It is always the danger that by approaching copyright holders, they will look to see whether their software or name is mentioned online anywhere, and might then take offense that whilst one person has found them quite easily and approached them on friendly terms to ask if the software could be made available freeware, they then find that someone else has decided to just offer it as a free download without making any attempt to contact them! Unfortunately, in the 9 years since I decided off my own back to set up the QL Wiki and start preserving what QL software I could, the number of people who have shown willing to help take the project any further forward can be counted on one hand. Once again, I appreciate any work you have done. I also have contributed to the Wiki a bit, but I was far too young back then so I don't really know most of the titles listed. And will probably never know them because they have either been taken down or are just available "commercially". But ok, I will try to exert what little influence I have left to get a few more titles released. Great - there are still various titles by Tony Tebby for example... - have a look at the long list on my spreadsheet - there are plenty of German authors too who need to be tracked down. The whole argument about this could have easily
Re: [Ql-Users] R: Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject
On 06/07/2016 13:09, Simone Voltolini wrote: "Your email is understandably aimed at authors. Please bear in mind the rough treatment Rich Mellor has had from some quarters for nothing more than trying to keep some form of QL trading going. I presume that things like keyboard membranes might not be available were it not for the little profits Rich makes from his commercial activities. Dilwyn Jones" I totally agree ;) Actually, it has been the small profits I have made from selling the commercial software and QL membranes which has enabled me to gather the 100s of disks and microdrive cartridges needed to preserve the amount of software I have ! As everyone knows - microdrive cartridges are not very reliable, and when they are listed for sale on ebay, they are not cheap! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject
project any further forward can be counted on one hand. As I have said, I will now stand back - if people want the software which I have managed to preserve, then send me authorisation from the owner (or show that it was already public domain / freeware through an old PD catalogue) and I will forward it to Dilwyn. If you want to go some other way and do file sharing of copyright material, then unfortunately, I will not be part of this. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project
In view of the highly negative (and offensive) comments which I have received on various forums about my approach to the preservation of QL software, I have now taken the decision to formally close my project. It is interesting to read that World of Spectrum is also going through similar problems due to people becoming abusive to the people who invest time and money in the site. Thankfully ql-users has remained immune, but since all of this is having a negative impact on my health, and taking me away from the small amount of time I am well enough to work each day, it is with regret that after 9 years, my own project has now come to an end. It is a shame as over 120 titles have been released as freeware in the past 2 years mainly due to my efforts in tracking down and contacting the copyright holders to ask them what they wanted done with their software. A further 29 titles have also been re-released commercially as a result. The majority of feedback seems to be that my commercial interests are ruining the software preservation and that a project where software is preserved and simply made free to download by all is what is required (without any willing hands to do the work). I shall therefore no longer be updating the QL WIki and if there is not enough interest to keep this going (and updates by others), then perhaps I should remove its hosting as it is obviously of no value. Similar comments apply to the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online. The QL community will now need to find others to take software preservation and the QL Wiki forward - there is a spreadsheet available for reference which shows the current list of known programs and status of preservation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/84m3eizdplf9fv3/%21%21%20Full%20QL%20Software%20List%20-%20Preserved.xlsx?dl=0 There is also the Italian software preservation project - which has been running alongside my own personal project and concentrates on preserving img dumps of microdrive cartridges and disks (complete with copy protection etc) - although again, Simone (Outsoft) has been criticised for not making what he has preserved to date freely available for download, in breach of copyright. So - where does it go from here? That is up to the community to decide. There is now a huge opportunity for the community to decide exactly what QL preservation should look like, how it should be funded and who should be responsible for preserving the software and maintaining any repository, dealing with copyright holders and hosting the websites / QL Wiki etc If anyone can provide evidence that permission has been obtained for even more software to be released as freeware, then I can of course release it from my stored backups - although you may still need to remove copy protection, find additional copies to merge together into one fully working copy, or alter the software to get it working on modern systems and emulators. I shall however, not get involved in software piracy. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Basic Linker
> On May 21, 2016 at 1:12 PM Wolf wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've released the Basic Linker, a formely commercial title. > > I also updated outptr and the basic library. > > http://wlenerz.com/qlstuff > > Have fun! > > Wolfgang > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Excellent - many thanks Wolfgang - I always found this quite useful Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file
Change the 500 to 1000 - I think that sets the memory usage to 500K > On May 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM Renato Barigazzi wrote: > > > I use exep win1_archive,P,500 > > -Messaggio originale- > From: Rich Mellor (RWAP) > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:56 PM > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file > > OK - how are you launching QL Archive? > > The standard version grabs all of the QL memory, unless you use QPAC II's > grabber which sets the maximum memory available to the programs. > > You may be better with Xchange - that has a QL configuration block (from > memory) > to set the maximum space available, so you would need to use QL Config or > MenuConfig to change the space available > > Rich > > > On May 8, 2016 at 11:44 AM Renato Barigazzi > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > I am using QPC II v.4.04, I have expanded the memory to 128 MB, but with > > the > > same result. > > Best regards > > Renato > > > > -Messaggio originale- > > From: Rich Mellor (RWAP) > > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:35 PM > > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file > > > > It is rare to come across this. Do you have expanded memory on your QL > > and/or a > > disk drive? > > > > If you are loading it from microdrive cartridge, then ensure that anything > > else > > which uses the QL memory is disabled (such as Toolkit II and other > > toolkits). > > Disk interfaces also use some of the QL memory. > > > > If you only have a bare QL and have nothing but QL Archive running - > > ensure > > you > > are running v2.38 of Archive (the last version) as that may help. Ask > > someone > > else to put the database on disk for you. > > > > If you have it on disk, then use an emulator on a PC to set up a QL > > session > > with > > more memory, and then you will need to find some way of splitting the > > database > > into smaller segments, or reducing some of the data for example. > > > > Rich Mellor > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > www.sellmyretro.com > > > > > On May 8, 2016 at 11:04 AM Renato Barigazzi > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > Using Psion Archive I made a _dbf file too big and now I cannot open it: > > > “error 80, out of memory”. Is there any solution to open tihs file ? > > > Best regards > > > Renato Barigazzi > > > ___ > > > QL-Users Mailing List > > Rich Mellor > > RWAP Software > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > www.sellmyretro.com > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > www.sellmyretro.com > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file
OK - how are you launching QL Archive? The standard version grabs all of the QL memory, unless you use QPAC II's grabber which sets the maximum memory available to the programs. You may be better with Xchange - that has a QL configuration block (from memory) to set the maximum space available, so you would need to use QL Config or MenuConfig to change the space available Rich > On May 8, 2016 at 11:44 AM Renato Barigazzi wrote: > > > Hi > I am using QPC II v.4.04, I have expanded the memory to 128 MB, but with the > same result. > Best regards > Renato > > -----Messaggio originale- > From: Rich Mellor (RWAP) > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:35 PM > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file > > It is rare to come across this. Do you have expanded memory on your QL > and/or a > disk drive? > > If you are loading it from microdrive cartridge, then ensure that anything > else > which uses the QL memory is disabled (such as Toolkit II and other > toolkits). > Disk interfaces also use some of the QL memory. > > If you only have a bare QL and have nothing but QL Archive running - ensure > you > are running v2.38 of Archive (the last version) as that may help. Ask > someone > else to put the database on disk for you. > > If you have it on disk, then use an emulator on a PC to set up a QL session > with > more memory, and then you will need to find some way of splitting the > database > into smaller segments, or reducing some of the data for example. > > Rich Mellor > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > www.sellmyretro.com > > > On May 8, 2016 at 11:04 AM Renato Barigazzi > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > Using Psion Archive I made a _dbf file too big and now I cannot open it: > > “error 80, out of memory”. Is there any solution to open tihs file ? > > Best regards > > Renato Barigazzi > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > www.sellmyretro.com > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Archive file
It is rare to come across this. Do you have expanded memory on your QL and/or a disk drive? If you are loading it from microdrive cartridge, then ensure that anything else which uses the QL memory is disabled (such as Toolkit II and other toolkits). Disk interfaces also use some of the QL memory. If you only have a bare QL and have nothing but QL Archive running - ensure you are running v2.38 of Archive (the last version) as that may help. Ask someone else to put the database on disk for you. If you have it on disk, then use an emulator on a PC to set up a QL session with more memory, and then you will need to find some way of splitting the database into smaller segments, or reducing some of the data for example. Rich Mellor www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com > On May 8, 2016 at 11:04 AM Renato Barigazzi wrote: > > > Hi > Using Psion Archive I made a _dbf file too big and now I cannot open it: > “error 80, out of memory”. Is there any solution to open tihs file ? > Best regards > Renato Barigazzi > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] smsqe3 v 3.26 and smulator
The link to the ebook on Amazon is: *http://tinyurl.com/zhnmhfd *Rich On 29/04/2016 14:59, Caroline Mathieson wrote: there was an email recently about jan jones ebook. Can anyone remind me of the amazon details please? To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com From: de...@q40.de Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:52:23 +0100 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] smsqe3 v 3.26 and smulator Hi Wolfgang, The new update works great. SMSQmulator looks to running faster on my Ubuntu 14.04 X64 Core i7 laptop. Regards, Derek On 28/04/16 19:57, Wolf wrote: Hi, yes, sorry about that. I've updated the binaries zipfile on the SMSQE website. I also just uploaded SMSQmulator v. 2.19 with a certain number of bugfixes. Support for the Java 6 version of SMSQmulator has now been discontinued. Have fun! Wolfgang On 04/28/2016 02:48 PM, David Gilham wrote: I just download the binaries for smsq3.26 Unless I have done some thing nstupid It wolud appear that the binary for SMQmulator seems not to work needeing me log out version 3.25 of SMSQE works ok I am using full screen mode and hi colour in my configuration. My setup is an IBM Thinkpad running linux kernal 3.13 The version of SMsQmulator is 2.18 and Iam using Java7 ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler
You could also have a look at the source code for the display toolkit by Dilwyn - http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/ This works on all QL systems. > On January 13, 2016 at 9:02 PM Tobias Fröschle > wrote: > > > Marcos, > > that is not exactly trivial to do portably over all QDOSMSQ platforms. Below a > recipe how I do it: > > Check for PE (IOP.PINF). If available, screen extent is easy: you can get > scr_xlim and scr_ylim via the IOP.FLIM PE call. (If not, xlim is a bit more > difficult and ylim not 100% possible afaik) > open a con_ channel (or use channel id 0, which might give you wrong info on > Minerva) > Get System Variable address (MT.INF) > get the channel table address from SV_CHBAS from system variables > Walk the channel table starting at that address, looking for the tag part of > your channel id from (2) in $10. Some people simply take the first channel > table entry, which is for con_ #0 most of the time….. But sometimes it > isn't... > once you found your channel, look into sd_scrb (or scr_base, $32 from start of > that con_ channel definition block) and scr_llen at $64 from start > If you don’t have PE, scr_xlim can be derived from the current mode (which > gives you bits per pixel, 2==Mode 4, 4 == Mode 8, 8 ==Mode 256,…) . You simply > divide scr_llen * 8 by the # of bits/pixel and get the number of pixels per > line. > I currently have no idea how to properly get at scr_ylim without PE - My code > normally just guesses from the above. The only platform that does not > necessarily have PE loaded (because of SMSQ/E) and still supports other than > the standard QL resolutions is uqlx, to my knowledge. > > For the exact layout of the data structures, have a look at the QL Technical > guide or the QDOS/SMSQ Reference Manual. > > Hope this helps, > Tobias > > > > Am 13.01.2016 um 21:26 schrieb Marcos Cruz : > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need some help. > > > > Which is the easiest way to get the screen info from assembly is SMSQ/E? > > I mean, what `scr_base`, `scr_xlim`, `scr_ylim` and `scr_llen` do in > > SBASIC. > > > > I've found the code of those keywords in the SMSQ/E sources, and I'm > > studying it in order to remove the SBASIC stuff, but I'm wondering if > > someone has done this before. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Marcos Cruz > > http://programandala.net > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] Trump Card Clones
I see that someone from Russia has now cloned the Trump Card and is offering them for sale (they have a few in stock at the moment): http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Sinclair-QL-RAM-expansion-and-floppy-disk-interface-10861 At last someone has managed to make a replica :) -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit 3
So far as I know I only have the files which are on the Sinclair QL Homepage - certainly I can't see anything on my hard disk! Rich On 28/06/2015 10:51, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Rich Mellor has the complete package, as has George Gwilt. So maybe one of them can send this to Dilwyn. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: "Derek Stewart" To: Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit 3 Hi Ralf, Thank you for the clarification, I remember in the early 1990s Martin sent me an message via FidoNET: QL.INIT indocating that the WIN device could be included in the DEVLINK process, by patching the TK3 file the the WIN device. This allowed the WIN to have TK3 style directories, at that time I used Minerva, as SMSQ/E was not stable at that time. I will see if I can find the echomail message and post it here. With regards to the Manual, there is a manual in the archive with the ROM. I have just noticed that the TK3_ROM is a rom image, so LRESPR will not load it, you have use EPROM_LOAD. I have a Digital Precision Disk of TK3, which has a LRESPRable file, I will send this to Dilwyn, since it id freeware now. Seems all the QL software I have bought is free now... Regards, Derek On 28/06/15 09:16, Ralf Reköndt wrote: No, they aren't "Hard Devices". Martin has developed an idea from me a s follows: I had quite a few games on one flp. And I wanted to put them in a kind of directory, say Game1_, Game2_ and so on. That was long before TT's hard directories, lets call them "TK2 directories", just an addition to the filename. As the different game programs can't cope with this addition in the filename, I asked Martin to make a solution to that, so I can (of course with TK2) DDOWN Game1_ LRUN BOOT And the games code finds all of its files, TK3 pushed the addition GAME1_ to all of its file operations. That worked under SuperBASIC and under machine code level. As I said, all without TT's hard directories. It is not guaranteed, that it will work with that. Martin links all drectory devide drivers during initialisation of TK3 (or DEVLINK), except the device WIN, as this should always do his own stuff. A problem is, that Martin uses some kind of free places of system variables, which TT later used on his own, although Martin has sent documentation about that early enough to TT. One can read in the SMSQ/E version documentation, that from one version, TT has disabled the intialisaton of TK3. So things may go wrong. There were times in the 1980s, where not all programmers are loved. Cheers...Ralf I hope, to make it a bit clearer. - Original Message - From: "Derek Stewart" To: Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit 3 On 28/06/15 07:54, Michael Bulford wrote: Hi, In the latest Quanta magazine, Toolkit 3 is now advertised as freeware. After downloading and unzipping the file, it wouldn't work, it just freezes the QL. I've tried using LRESPR with both QPC2 and Q-emuLator, both without joy. There's no instructions in the user manual. Has anyone tried this? Michael ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Hi Michael, I used use on a Minerva when the Toolkit 3 was commercial. As far as I can remember Toolkit 3 has a procure called DEVLINK, which alters the QDOS devices MDV, FLP, RAM to use attempt at hard directories. This was prior to SMSQ/E and Level 2 & 3 device drivers, Toolkit 3 maybe not run on an SMSQ/E system for that reason. There is a manual in the Digital Precision software. Regards, Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit 3
>From memory, LRESPR does not work with it - you need to get the file size and add another 2K It has been a while since I tried it! Rich > On June 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM Michael Bulford > wrote: > > > Hi, > > In the latest Quanta magazine, Toolkit 3 is now advertised as freeware. After > downloading and unzipping the file, it wouldn't work, it just freezes the QL. > I've tried using LRESPR with both QPC2 and Q-emuLator, both without joy. > There's no instructions in the user manual. Has anyone tried this? > > Michael > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Workshop in Manchester - 26th & 27th September 2015
That's a shame, but I am sure if you make some stock someone will sell them on your behalf :) On 29/05/2015 10:15, p...@zx81.de wrote: Hello Richard Unfortunately I won't be able to attend. I have a seminar that weekend. And I doubt I will be able to make any profits regarding the travel costs. But if you are able to attend I can send you a package with some QLSD and ram cards. If you can't attend but know a trusted person I can send the package to someone else. Kind regards Paul Am 29.05.2015 um 09:59 schrieb Rich Mellor : NEMQLUG have asked if I could promote a QL workshop which they are running in Manchester on the weekend of 26th and 27th September. Everyone is invited to attend - would be great if Paul could come along with some QL-SD interfaces for sale (for example). I am hoping that I will be fit enough to attend also :D More details appear on my website: www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/nemqlug-Sep2015-qlevent.jpg -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Workshop in Manchester - 26th & 27th September 2015
NEMQLUG have asked if I could promote a QL workshop which they are running in Manchester on the weekend of 26th and 27th September. Everyone is invited to attend - would be great if Paul could come along with some QL-SD interfaces for sale (for example). I am hoping that I will be fit enough to attend also :D More details appear on my website: www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/nemqlug-Sep2015-qlevent.jpg -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook
I thought there was already an online version - or is it just pdf? > On May 12, 2015 at 8:09 PM Derek Stewart wrote: > > > Hi Rich, > > I am using Sigil to edit the epub file, which formats each page pr > section into a series of HTML files and uses ZIP compression to produce > the final epub file. > > Which is how I produced the SBASIC Reference Manual Ebook, I dumped the > HTML web pages into Sigil and after a little reformatting produced a > nice ebook for my Kindle. > > Sigil can merge all the HTML pages into a single HTML file. > > So I suppose a web version is possible, on the assumption the detail can > be corrected. > > Regards, > > Derek > > On 12/05/15 16:56, Rich Mellor wrote: > > That is great - any contributions to correct errors in the text are of > > course welcome, so that they can be incorporated into the free online > > version of the manual! > > > > > > On 12/05/2015 16:32, Derek Stewart wrote: > >> I have been converting the QDOS/SMS Reference Manual PDF manual to > >> work on my Kindle, using Sigil to convert the screen copied text to > >> epub -> mobi. This for my reference. > >> > >> I have nearly finished and corrected some obvious mistakes. > >> > >> However, there is a little problem in the manual: > >> > >> Section 5.2 File I/O, Page 3, Last Paragraph: > >> > >> > >> > >> The IOF.FLSH and IOF.TEST commands are subtly different: IOF.FLSH > >> ensures that all write operations are complete, whereas IOF.TEST > >> ensures that all write and read operations (including > >> prefetches) are complete. > >> > >> > >> > >> I can not find any reference to IOF.TEST > >> > >> Should this be IOB.TEST ? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Derek > >> ___ > >> QL-Users Mailing List > >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > >> > > > > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook
That is great - any contributions to correct errors in the text are of course welcome, so that they can be incorporated into the free online version of the manual! On 12/05/2015 16:32, Derek Stewart wrote: I have been converting the QDOS/SMS Reference Manual PDF manual to work on my Kindle, using Sigil to convert the screen copied text to epub -> mobi. This for my reference. I have nearly finished and corrected some obvious mistakes. However, there is a little problem in the manual: Section 5.2 File I/O, Page 3, Last Paragraph: The IOF.FLSH and IOF.TEST commands are subtly different: IOF.FLSH ensures that all write operations are complete, whereas IOF.TEST ensures that all write and read operations (including prefetches) are complete. I can not find any reference to IOF.TEST Should this be IOB.TEST ? Regards, Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Sinclair Prototypes
It is a real shame to see, but someone has been listing prototype mock-ups / casings which were given to his father by Sinclair from their archives many years ago. The user has already sold a ZX Spectrum and ZX81 prototype, but has a ZX80 case prototype or two, as well as some others (including a ZX90 !) - no sign of any QL related items, although there is something which looks very similar to a Z88 !! - see http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574650064&toolid=10001&campid=5336429263&customid=&icep_item=261717863599&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
> On December 3, 2014 at 8:42 PM Norman Dunbar wrote: > > > Christmas is coming, > Norm is getting fat, > Time to put something, > In everyone's hat! > > Ok, I'll stop doing the "poetry"! > > Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up > if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the > previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, > and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a > small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. > > The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as "dot" files which > then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can > get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws > it for you. > > All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper > images now. > > The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which > takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a > pile of "latex" files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as > opposed to an English lock!) > > These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and > (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you > will find at: > > http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. > > I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received > since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) > that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! > > Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. > > > Cheers, > Norm. > Many thanks Norm - a huge amount of re-reading there as I enjoyed your original articles - it is nicely laid out and easy to pick out the actual assembly listings which is useful. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Paruse Partyp
Hi all, There is some more explanation and worked examples of PARNAM$, PARTYP and PARUSE in the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual - see http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/KeywordsP.html#PARTYP Rich On 29/11/2014 14:04, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi all, (Is there still someone listening here?) Three questions 1. Can someone tell me why the values printed for PARTYP and PARUSE in lines 240 to 350 are always 2? Is there something wrong with these functions or am I missing something? 100 :REMark test return values of par_use,par_typ,parnam$ 110 REMark string 120 pay$="Belgium" 130 REMark array 140 DIM langue$(2,10):langue$(0)="Dutch":langue$(1)="French":langue$(2)="German": 150 REMark float 160 keyboardcode=32 170 REMark integer 180 a%=1 190 PRINT TEST_PARAM(pay$,langue$,keyboardcode,a%):PAUSE 200 : 210 DEFine FuNction TEST_PARAM (p$,l$,k,i%) 220 : 230 : 240 PRINT PARNAM$(1) :REMark prints 'pay$' as expected 250 PRINT PARTYP(1) :REMark prints 2 :shouldn't that be 1 ->string 260 PRINT PARUSE(1) :REMark prints 2 :shouldn't that be 1 ->variable 270 PRINT PARNAM$(2) :REMark prints 'langue$' as expected 280 PRINT PARTYP(2) :REMark prints 2 :shouldn't that be 1 ->string 290 PRINT PARUSE(2) :REMark prints 2 :shouldn't that be 2 ->langue$ is an array 300 PRINT PARNAM$(3) :REMark prints 'keyboardcode' as lexpected 310 PRINT PARTYP(3) :REMark prints 2: correct -> keyboardcode is a float 320 PRINT PARUSE(3) :REMark prints 2::shouldn'tthat be be 1 ->string 330 PRINT PARNAM$(4) :REMark prints 'a%' as expected 340 PRINT PARTYP(4) : REMark prints 2 :shouldn't that be be 3 -> a% is an integer 350 PRINT PARUSE(4) : REMark prints 2 :shouldn't be be 1 ->variable 360 REMark the values for partyp and paruse are always 2:why? 370 RETurn "What's wrong?": 380 REMark the returned value is not important here 390 : 400 END DEFine TEST_PARAM 2. Is there a way to find out how many languages are supported (English,French,..)? 3. Once we know which language is active (with language($), can we access the strings containing the days of the week and the string with the names of the months? Some help would be appreciated. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4040/8354 - Release Date: 10/09/14 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta News
Hi Dilwyn, If the magazine is due to come out after 11th October, please include details of the new QL Games Box-Sets (3, 4 and 5) as they will be launched at the show in Edinburgh Rich > On October 1, 2014 at 6:55 PM Dilwyn Jones > wrote: > > > I’ll be putting together the news column for Quanta magazine later this week, > and this month we are very light on news! So if you have any QL-related news > you’d like to see in print, please send it to me by the end of this week. > > Dilwyn Jones > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Prowess Printer drivers
It depends - there are standard ESC/P drivers built into ProWess which support up to 360dpi and work with QPCPrint, or you can install my enhanced ESC/P2 drivers which support 720dpi - never did manage to work out how they get 1440dpi! There is a program configure supplied with Prowess which allows you to install the default printer driver if it is not already set to an Epson printer Rich > On September 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM François Van Emelen > wrote: > > > Peter Fox schreef op 17/08/2014 om 19:38: > > Hi there, > > > > Having installed QPCPrint, I need to change the printer driver in Prowess > > but have completely forgotten how to do this. > > > > Can someone please help? > > > > TIA & Regards > > > > Peter > > > > --- > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > > protection is active. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > > Hi, > > I reinstalled QPCprint yesterday and the only thing I had to do is > configurate QPC2. > No need (at least for me) to modify the printer drivers in Prowess. I > can print from within Prowess/Paragraph using the default driver. > > François Van Emelen > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner - urgent
> On August 16, 2014 at 7:23 PM Geoff Wicks wrote: > > > On 16/08/2014 19:00, Michael Bulford wrote: > > On 13/08/2014 17:45, John Gilpin wrote: > >> Hi all intended diners at QL is 30 Dinner. > >> > >> QUANTA has, today added an extra page to it's Web Site containing two > >> new PayPal Payment buttons which can be used to pay for the dinner at > >> the QL is 30 event. > >> > >> In an effort to limit the possibility of misuse by the general public > >> who have general access to this site, this new page has not been added > >> to the navigation details and will therefore be difficult for anyone > >> to find without the following info:- > >> > >> Please enter (or Copy) the FULL URL into your browser. The URL is > > >> https://quanta.org.uk/ql-30/< > >> > >> any problems, please let me know. > >> > >> Kind Regards, > >> > >> John Gilpin. > >> QUANTA Membership Secretary > >> and QUANTA Treasurer > >> membership @quanta.org.uk > >> treasurer @quanta.org.uk > > > > I cannot find the above link mentioned anywhere on the Forum. This means > > that for those QLers who only read the Forum and do not read these pages, > > they will be unable to order their dinner. Do you think the above link > > should be advertised on the Forum? > > > > Michael > > > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > Thanks for the email. The problem is that none of us is a member of the > forum - I look at it occasionally, but I am not happy about anonymous > contributions. > > If you want to post it on the forum please feel free to do so. Or > alternatively a member of the Quanta committee who is also a member of > the forum. > > I am also unable to post the details on the dinner page of the QLis30 > website, because Quanta does not want the address to become public > knowledge, > > Best Wishes, > > > Geoff > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have just added the details to the forum - unfortunately, although I am not certain why Quanta don't want the link to be made public (as such) - search engines will find it thanks to the link appearing in this list and on the forum I am just not certain why Quanta think the link would be open to abuse by members of the public - if they pay for a meal and then do not attend the event, they can hardly claim through PayPal that goods were not delivered! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] MicroP QJUMP ROM
Can anyone actually get Tony Tebby to respond to emails? I emailed him ages ago to ask about whether we could make the QJUMP ROM upgrade for MIcroP and Medic Interfaces available for free download, but have not received a response. I know that QPAC1, QPAC2 and QPTR have now been made freely available - but what about QRAM, QTYP and QMON ? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
Hi Robert, Yes please send it to me for uploading - however, please bear in mind that we are still working on the automated translation program, especially when it comes to some of the international characters, so it might be worth holding off manual translation for now, until we get to the point where we feel the automatic translation cannot be improved upon. Rich > On August 12, 2014 at 8:04 AM Robert Newson wrote: > > > On 11/08/14 13:23, Rich Mellor wrote: > > On 11/08/2014 11:45, Robert Newson wrote: > >> On 11/08/14 09:56, Rich Mellor wrote: > ... > > Thanks for the suggestions - hopefully this should now have fixed the > > CSS issues - I managed to do it without specifying a percentage width... > > I randomly clicked on one of the sidebar links and got up Appendix 16 > which was full of colour tables, program examples and a couple of diagrams. > > I've had a "little" play with the html to tidy it up and got it to > display in some reasonable format - would you like me to send you a copy > of the revised version? > > I could possibly have a bit of time (excellent procrastination fodder) > to have a look at some of the other files > > Robert Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
ect to be interpreted as an > XML-compatible "self-closing" tag, then you need to use XHTML or HTML5. > > This warning and related errors may also be caused by an unquoted > attribute value containing one or more "/". Example: href=http://w3c.org>W3C. In such cases, the solution is to put > quotation marks around the value. > > > ... and the following 2 warnings: > > Line 22, Column 12: document type does not allow element "HR" here; > assuming missing "LI" start-tag > > > Line 50, Column 12: document type does not allow element "HR" here; > assuming missing "LI" start-tag > > > > > HTH > > Cheers, > Norm. > > > -- > 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 > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm OK - glad it seems to now be working... I know the header is wrong - it was stolen from something else - I can't remember what - just email what you would want me to put in the header. Please remember that this is designed to be a community project now - it is no good people moaning about the HTML etc - maybe you don't know the history of the online version of the manual... The SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual is written in Text 87 using the ESC/P2 drivers - to create the online version, basically it has been printed to a file (in full ESC/P2 glory) which is then run through a SuperBASIC conversion routine to generate the HTML code. The header is stored separately and merged as part of the conversion program. I wrote the original conversion program, but ran out of spare time to finish it, with my current health, I have had to concentrate on spending what little time I am available to do anything on doing paid work which covers my bills. Thomas Kral has done some further work on the conversion code and will soon be publishing this on the QL Forum thread - sorry for those of you who will not use the forum, but it is too convoluted to post everything twice on there and on here. Because of the way the conversion works, I doubt that it would be possible to add tags to paragraphs automatically - much in the same way that the pages will need hand editing to get rid of the extra line breaks in the middle of paragraphs (as that will ruin the program listings and other information!) If you want to contribute to the project or have ideas on how to improve the conversion program, then please join in on the QL Forum thread. The sidebar was just a rough and ready way of demonstrating what could be done so people could navigate around the manual - if someone wants to tidy it up and make the HTML compliant, then please do so!! I don't mean to rant over this, but people need to work together to resolve these issues Current projects which I have instigated which ALL need more hands: - QL Commercial Software Preservation Project - QL Wiki updates - SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online - Tracking down the copyright holders of QL Commercial Software to get it re-released. There is still more work required on the Sinclair QL Homepage - Dilwyn is slowly still working through lots other public domain software libraries and adding information. Lots of hands make light work. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
On 11/08/2014 11:45, Robert Newson wrote:
On 11/08/14 09:56, Rich Mellor wrote:
Thank you Davide - Thomas Kral will soon upload the latest conversion
tool to the QL Forum.
Someone needs to look at the CSS and why the page edited by Dilwyn does
not display correctly on Firefox - see
http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/ForewordDJC.html
compared to
http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html
Rich
Hi,
It's not just Firefox that has the problem, Opera (on my tablet) shows
the same problem - which is the text jumps to the bottom of the page
instead of being displayed to the right of the sidebar.
The difference is in the mark-up of the text itself:
In the original, each line of the paragraphs of the text is followed by
a break line () whereas in DJC's version the only the last line of
the paragraph has the break line tag.
This actually affects the original as well: if I reduce the width of the
window on Firefox to 798 pixels wide the text jumps to the bottom of the
screen.
A suggested "fix" is to change the ccs #mainText to include:
width:66%;
to give:
#mainText {
float:top;
display:inline-block;
border-left:2px solid #000;
padding-left:15px;
padding-bottom:20px;
width:66%;
}
which allows the window to be reduced to 758 pixels before the jump
occurs; a width of 67% jumps at 779 pixels - the problem of setting a
percentage width is that the sidebar is a fixed width (about 254 px) and
as the window is shrunk it takes a larger percentage of it.
A width of 75% jumps at 1018 px - which may be more reasonable as most
people should be able to do 1024 pixels wide. Alternatively you could
specify it as a width:
width:472px;
will make the text near enough the same as the original with similar
word breaks (511px is the same width, but the line breaks originally
inserted may have been due to a constant, as opposed to proportionally,
width font and they occur else where). Alternatively, 490px requires a
minimum 768 pixel window, 746px requires a minimum 1024 pixel window,
before the text jumps.
Also, adding:
text-align:justify;
may make the output look neater.
Hope this helps,
Robert
Thanks for the suggestions - hopefully this should now have fixed the
CSS issues - I managed to do it without specifying a percentage width...
Works here on Safari...
--
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Re: [Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
Derek, I don't know the best way forward - it might be useful to take the HTML pages and convert them to WORD format, but that would make the document much bigger - a lot of the automatic reformatting has already been done, as you will have seen. I would not do much else at the moment until there is some sort of discussion as to what people want to make this most useful... Rich On 11/08/2014 10:04, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi Rich, I do not much about CSS,WIKI, HTML... I was coverting the manual to WORD format in LibreOffice, so that it could be converted to HTML or maybe EPUB as well. Do I stop doing this. Regards, Derek On 11/08/14 09:56, Rich Mellor wrote: Thank you Davide - Thomas Kral will soon upload the latest conversion tool to the QL Forum. Someone needs to look at the CSS and why the page edited by Dilwyn does not display correctly on Firefox - see http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/ForewordDJC.html compared to http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html Rich On 11/08/2014 09:10, Davide Santachiara wrote: Dear Rich, I would like to congratulate for this great job Regards Davide -Messaggio originale- Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Rich Mellor (RWAP) Inviato: domenica 10 agosto 2014 20:47 A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Oggetto: [Ql-Users] SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML) Thanks to some sterling work by tcat to further develop the automatic conversion tool, the first version of the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual is now online at: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html JOBS to do - volunteers are required, as I will not have time for this - it is now going to be a community project If you don't come forward with changes, then they are unlikely to be done! a) Write a home page to form the main link to the manual b) Improve CSS and layout c) Some more work on the conversion tool to handle the non-English characters - especially needed for Appendix 8 and 9. d) tcat to add the latest version conversion tool source to the forum for comments / changes to be suggested and made - you might spot more ways in which it can be improved to reduce the amount of manual effort needed. e) Volunteers to take ownership of a specific page and hand edit it to improve the layout - remove some of the line breaks for example in each paragraph. If you download a page to edit the HTML in a WYSIWYG editor, you will need access to the CSS file: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/css/QLManualSty le.css If someone wants to set up some sort of online system where people can edit pages (eg. a wiki ?) then let me know and I can send a zip with all of the HTML files. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] R: SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
Thank you Davide - Thomas Kral will soon upload the latest conversion tool to the QL Forum. Someone needs to look at the CSS and why the page edited by Dilwyn does not display correctly on Firefox - see http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/ForewordDJC.html compared to http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html Rich On 11/08/2014 09:10, Davide Santachiara wrote: Dear Rich, I would like to congratulate for this great job Regards Davide -Messaggio originale- Da: Ql-Users [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Per conto di Rich Mellor (RWAP) Inviato: domenica 10 agosto 2014 20:47 A: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Oggetto: [Ql-Users] SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML) Thanks to some sterling work by tcat to further develop the automatic conversion tool, the first version of the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual is now online at: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html JOBS to do - volunteers are required, as I will not have time for this - it is now going to be a community project If you don't come forward with changes, then they are unlikely to be done! a) Write a home page to form the main link to the manual b) Improve CSS and layout c) Some more work on the conversion tool to handle the non-English characters - especially needed for Appendix 8 and 9. d) tcat to add the latest version conversion tool source to the forum for comments / changes to be suggested and made - you might spot more ways in which it can be improved to reduce the amount of manual effort needed. e) Volunteers to take ownership of a specific page and hand edit it to improve the layout - remove some of the line breaks for example in each paragraph. If you download a page to edit the HTML in a WYSIWYG editor, you will need access to the CSS file: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/css/QLManualSty le.css If someone wants to set up some sort of online system where people can edit pages (eg. a wiki ?) then let me know and I can send a zip with all of the HTML files. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Online (HTML)
Thanks to some sterling work by tcat to further develop the automatic conversion tool, the first version of the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual is now online at: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/Foreword.html JOBS to do - volunteers are required, as I will not have time for this - it is now going to be a community project If you don't come forward with changes, then they are unlikely to be done! a) Write a home page to form the main link to the manual b) Improve CSS and layout c) Some more work on the conversion tool to handle the non-English characters - especially needed for Appendix 8 and 9. d) tcat to add the latest version conversion tool source to the forum for comments / changes to be suggested and made - you might spot more ways in which it can be improved to reduce the amount of manual effort needed. e) Volunteers to take ownership of a specific page and hand edit it to improve the layout - remove some of the line breaks for example in each paragraph. If you download a page to edit the HTML in a WYSIWYG editor, you will need access to the CSS file: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/SBASIC_reference_manual_online/css/QLManualStyle.css If someone wants to set up some sort of online system where people can edit pages (eg. a wiki ?) then let me know and I can send a zip with all of the HTML files. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
On 04/08/2014 00:19, Marcos Cruz wrote: En/Je/On 2014-08-03 16:56, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : I’ve added a new page to my website where I hope to include scanned copies of QL-related magazines. Thank you! These are downloaded as zipped collections of scanned pages, one jpeg file per page. If anyone would like to make these into PDFs, please feel free! I suggest an easier alternative: The filename extension can be changed to ".cbz"; then a comic viewer will open the file, and you can read it as comfortably as with a PDF viewer. scan copies of other QL related magazines, copyright situation permitting Do you know what's the copyright situation of Sinclair QL World? Sinclair QL World rights are still (so far as I am aware) owned by Arcwind Limited. However, it is impossible to get them to respond to an email about QL World -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL WIki - HELP NEEDED !!!
If I had time to develop the wiki software then I could add some form of picture upload. As it is, send them to me and when I get chance I can upload them - the preservation project goes alongside this, so basically when we test software, we try to save a screenshot ready to upload onto the wiki Alas my time is limited (for unpaid work), and my health is also hampering progress. It does not help that when I asked for help 2 years ago, very little help was forthcoming - just criticism about the Wiki content and the preservation project ! > On June 4, 2014 at 9:50 PM Marcel Kilgus wrote: > > > Rich Mellor wrote: > > I just do not have the time to keep working on the QL Wiki. > > > > When I have asked people for help / comments, all I seem to get is > > 'there is no information about X' > > I will try to contribute a bit of what I know, though I have little > knowledge of most old software. > > Are there any plan to support easy upload of pictures? I think > screenshots would be a welcome addition to most articles. > > Marcel > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL WIki - HELP NEEDED !!!
Hi Alexandre, Many thanks for the offer. You will first of all need to register on www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki Do you have access to QL User / QL World magazines at all? Basically, what we need is someone to enter some of the information about the Digital Precision products (as an example) - some of them already have entries - so if you take something like: http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Media%20Manager&lang=en Once logged into the site, you can click on edit and then use the text which has been entered for that title as a template for other programs. To use it, go to the main Digital Precision page http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index.php?title=Digital%20Precision%20Ltd And click on each software title - if there is no entry, you can click on Edit Content to start the information. If you don't have any details about Digital Precision, then see what you do have - you may have copies of manuals, or inlays etc which will give you most of the information required. Rich > On June 4, 2014 at 6:48 PM Alexandre Souza > wrote: > > > > Being a N00B, how can I helP? > > --- > Enviado do meu Motorola PT550 > Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Rich Mellor" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 3:29 AM > Subject: [Ql-Users] QL WIki - HELP NEEDED !!! > > > >I just do not have the time to keep working on the QL Wiki. > > > > When I have asked people for help / comments, all I seem to get is > > 'there is no information about X' > > > > This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair QL - we should be > > making the most of any publicity surrounding the anniversary, and > > promote the QL, its hardware and software as much as possible, so as to > > get some impetus behind the various projects going and maybe tease out > > some of the copyright holders, so that more software can be re-released. > > > > The Wiki is crucial to this effort - there is masses of information > > which could be added to it - by anyone with half an hour to spend > > looking at a QL World / QL User magazine and entering some of the > > information from an advert (say the Digital Precision adverts which had > > a mass of information / hype about their programs). > > > > If people want to sit back, bemoan the lack of software and information, > > then expect me / Dilwyn and Urs to enter all of the information - well, > > give us another 30 years and we might find time. > > > > 8-) > > > > -- > > Rich Mellor > > RWAP Services > > Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services > > > > www.rwapservices.co.uk > > > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL WIki - HELP NEEDED !!!
I just do not have the time to keep working on the QL Wiki. When I have asked people for help / comments, all I seem to get is 'there is no information about X' This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Sinclair QL - we should be making the most of any publicity surrounding the anniversary, and promote the QL, its hardware and software as much as possible, so as to get some impetus behind the various projects going and maybe tease out some of the copyright holders, so that more software can be re-released. The Wiki is crucial to this effort - there is masses of information which could be added to it - by anyone with half an hour to spend looking at a QL World / QL User magazine and entering some of the information from an advert (say the Digital Precision adverts which had a mass of information / hype about their programs). If people want to sit back, bemoan the lack of software and information, then expect me / Dilwyn and Urs to enter all of the information - well, give us another 30 years and we might find time. 8-) -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] GST QC
Realistically without more information as to what he means by 'won't work' is needed Has he unzipped it in Windows or inside the QL for example - he should have attached the zip file directly as a drive in q-emulator and then extracted to a folder - I just tried the version here which is in the Preservation Team's shared folder and that seems to work fine in q-emulator (although I am not sure how to test it!) Rich On 01/06/2014 19:45, Dilwyn Jones wrote: A user in Belgium has reported a possible problem with the GST QC compilers on my website - it looks like it doesn't work on QemuLator at least. Not being C literate, I haven't a clue how to address this - can anyone help us? (BTW - I realised it was messy having one version on my C page, another on my Programming Languages page, so I've moved them all onto the C page at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/c/index.html ) Dilwyn Jones I'm a bit confused with the GST-QC package. When I download it from the 'C and C68' directory, this version will unzip, boot, show a nice shell environment...and won't work. I use Q-emulator BTW. (and i'm having the same problem with Xchange) In the Programming Language Section there is another version of GST-QC. This won't even unzip, a problem with the directory or something. Maybe you know this quick and easy way to make it work? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL backplanes....
I no longer use a QL with a back-plane - when I did have that set up it was to use an Aurora, Super Gold Card and QubIDE in a PC Tower Case. I also liked to have a spare slot for access to a QEP III for example (although I never had one at the time)... The main issue now is that ATX cases (for which this combination was designed I think) are now hard to find. The main problem I used to have with that original set up (and with other backplane setups I have looked at) was how each card is fitted into the backplane - typically with nothing to support them other than a bit of cardboard between each board, or maybe some plastic toothed strips which it was not always easy to attach onto the edge of the boards (due to chips near the edge) and quite often fell off in transit... > On May 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM Dave Park wrote: > > > I tried to start a discussion earlier on > QL forum about > QL backplanes, and asked people to send photos of their systems and tell me > how they used them, and what factors made their decisions... I got a very > poor response of zero to th > at > request. :) > > I have decided I phrased the question too narrowly. The area I am looking > at is much wider than my question, so I have decided to rephrase the > conversation in a new thread. > > QL2 looks like it will have some built-in expansion, possibly including two > or three pre-decoded areas. It will need to be able to work as a swap-out > replacement for QLs or Aurora in cased systems, while still fitting in the > footprint of the original QL board so it can fit in a QL case. This implies > an edge connector like the QL's own... > > Given the generally poor signal quality of the Qplane, and the (some say) > uncomfortable layout of the Mplane, and the slew of new hardware soon > looking for a spot in systems that are already full, I have to consider the > possibility of a new backplane learning lessons from everything currently > existing. > > I asked my question in the light of the above. I was hoping to learn what's > important and what's not to most people. > > This doesn't just feed into a maybe new backplane, but also feeds into the > ultimate design and expansion possibilities of QL2 itself. > > So, what do you think about expansion? What's the deal with your set-ups? > What would you like to improve them? > > If you are both here and on QL Forum, please reply there: > http://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=951&p=7631#p7631 > > Thanks! > > > -- > Dave Park > Sandy Electronics, LLC > d...@sinclairql.com > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Is there any interest?
Depends on weight, but it might be worth sending it to Dave Park first to replace the sponges on the microdrive cartridges - then if it all came to me (you send the other stuff direct), then I can disseminate it to the various user groups who are specifically interested in the ZX81 / TS1000 and the TS2068 - as well as preserving the QL stuff. Rich > On May 1, 2014 at 8:08 PM paul wrote: > > > Secreted away in my trove of Sinclair materials is a box of goodies left > over from the days of SyncWare News. > > SyncWare News was a technical and software featuring USA publication of > about 6 years, 1983-1989, totaling somewhere around 42 issues before it > retired. > > Software (on a varity of media), articles, reviews, contest submissions, > and various bits and pieces of what was once interesting stuff, all > ZX81, TS1000, TS2068, and QL related. > > Would anyone be interested enough for it to be worthwhile cattylogging > some of it and listing it for sale here? > > I believe that most of the box's contents are the original submissions > for publication, so what would end up available would be the original > media, Docs, proposed article writeups and what ever else is located and > attached with the material. > > -- > Paul Holmgren > > _______ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Things I have learned...
> On April 28, 2014 at 10:02 PM Dave Park wrote: > > I have the utmost respect for Rich at RWAP, who has hundreds of items and > also very limited space. How does he do it? Simple - my office is designed as a Tardis - I remember moving - I emptied the contents of my office and they filled the van! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Quanta AGM Tomorrow (27th April 2014)
Just a quick reminder that the Quanta AGM is happening tomorrow (27th April) - I have to admit that I had forgotten about this, until I received an email from Keith Dunbar reminding me to add quanta.org to Skype if I intended taking part. Is anyone else taking part in this virtual AGM ?? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Meeting Italy
Whereabouts are you planning on holding the show? I can email the QL users in Italy for you - maybe other countries if it is in the North! Rich > On April 23, 2014 at 9:41 PM Davide Santachiara > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > We are trying to organize a QL meeting in Italy on 18th of May (Sunday) very > similar to the last one held in 2008. You will find information and a report > on www.sinclairql.it - i.e. it will be something very informal with the main > goal to spend a day together and having a good lunch in a nearby trattoria. > > However we would really appreciate if somebody from outside Italy would be > willing to join us by teleconference presenting his products or latest > software or hardware development. That could be easily (tbc) managed by > skype or other videoconference systems as we did in 2008 with Daniele from > the US. > > The date is not yet fixed in stone as we are trying to reach a minimum > number of person to justify the effort but it appears likely so far. If > anybody is interested in joining us with a telecon for a presentation please > write me privately. > > Thanks in advance > > Kind regards > > Davide > > > _______ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: QLis30 update
> On April 8, 2014 at 6:10 PM Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > > From my point of view, I know of no particular weekend that is not possible > for me, although I expect that early autumn might be preferable for me. At > this stage, I don't know if Rich is still hoping to go ahead with the event > he proposed earlier. > > Obviously the later in the year, the more the risk of weather disruption. > > Dilwyn > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >From my point of view - at the moment, there has been no improvement in my health and tests are failing to diagnose the issue. No-one else came forward to help organise an event in Cambridge, so it looks as though Edinburgh is the only option open at the moment. I am hopeful I will be able to attend as a trader, but cannot guarantee that without a drastic improvement in my health unfortunately. Rich Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Bestmalt Limited - QL Cadette and more
Richard, That is excellent - it will be interesting to see what else you might have for the Preservation Project!! We are still missing all sorts of titles, and foreign versions of Psion software - but then there are only a handful of people offering stuff for the project! Rich On 08/04/2014 11:49, Richard Howe wrote: Hi Rich The author gave me a copy of QL Cadette at the time of its release. I seem to recall the A4 manual had a yellow front cover and red spine. All my QL software is in boxes in a shed but I will see if I can locate it in the next few days. It will probably be on a 20 year old floppy if it is still there. Best wishes Richard Howe (Tech) -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor (RWAP) Sent: 07 April 2014 20:02 To: QL Users Subject: [Ql-Users] Bestmalt Limited - QL Cadette and more Does anyone have a copy of the software released by Bestmalt Limited - their best known title was probably QL Cadette? The copyright holders have confirmed that this can now be re-released as freeware - if only we can find a copy of the software !! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] ByteBack Software
Does anyone know anything about Byte Back that used to advertise software for the QL - they published Quest for the Dragon Sword for the QL, and a few other titles for the Amiga and Atari. They were NOT the same company as Byte Back which produced interfaces for the ZX81 unfortunately (as I am in contact with them) Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Bestmalt Limited - QL Cadette and more
Does anyone have a copy of the software released by Bestmalt Limited - their best known title was probably QL Cadette? The copyright holders have confirmed that this can now be re-released as freeware - if only we can find a copy of the software !! Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Mailing List News
I have had a quick glance, but struggling to find the time to read it at the moment - there is just SO much material to consider :) Rich > On March 21, 2014 at 7:24 PM Ian Burkinshaw > wrote: > > > Hi Norman > > Yes, I have read it. > Yes, I like it, more please. > Yes, the PDF version looks great, to me. > Nothing, to be changed as far as I am concerned. > I prefer PDF. > I am sure I will have questions, when I try to make it all work. But working > on another QL project which is exciting, hopefully more news soon. > Keep going George, keep Norman on his toes. > > Ian Burkinshaw > - Original Message - > From: "Norman Dunbar" > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:12 PM > Subject: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Mailing List News > > > > Evening all, > > > > the latest news from the Assembly language mailing list is: > > > > 1. Kindle version now available. > > > > Issue 1 of the QL Today Memorial Assembly Language Mailing List irregular > > eMagazine is now available in a fourth flavour, added just today we now > > have: > > > > MOBI (aka Kindle) - > > qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/AssemblyLanguage/Issue_001/Assembly_Language_001.mobi > > > > * You can download the Mobi version and then transfer it to your Kindle > > via the USB, or; > > > > * You can send the file directly to your Kindle using your Kindle's email > > address (You can find this under settings on your device) - however, make > > sure you are on WiFi otherwise Amazon will charge you for this service if > > you have or use 3G to download the file. > > > > > > 2. The amount of feedback I have had on Issue 1 so far has been a > > resoundingly huge amount of nothing! :-( > > > > Has anyone read it? > > Do you like it? > > What don't you like? > > Is the format reasonable? > > What would you like to see changed? > > Does it look ok on your eReader, if you use one? > > Do you prefer HTML, PDF, ePub or Mobi? > > Do you have any questions? > > Will George find something wrong? ;-) (I hope so!) > > Etc? > > > > Anyway, enjoy the added flavour! > > > > > > Cheers, > > Norm. > > > > -- > > 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 > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Ekotek The Simulator
On 18/03/2014 12:13, Ian Burkinshaw wrote: Has anybody been able to get passed the copy protection on this Flight Simulator program. I am trying to run it on QPC, but get "Illegal Copy" notice. I guess the program looks up something hidden on a MDV. Thanks to Dave Parks felt pads, they do work. I have rescued all the files off my MDV's but am now stuck. Ian Burkkinshaw ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm This is one of the most problematic programs. I have a disk based version which can be used under q-emulator to make new master disks, but that is it. Email me separately if you need a new master disk (you will need to supply me with a photo of the cartridge or packaging as proof of ownership of the original). Rich -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Superbasic Syntax rules for Textpad
I use TotalEdit as my preferred text editor - anyone fancy working on one for that? On 17/03/2014 12:34, Lee Privett wrote: Unbelievable I am currently working on one for Sublime Text a far better Text Editor :) On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Superbasic Syntax rules for Textpad If anyone has the Textpad editor for Windows and would like to use it to edit QL SuperBASIC programs (with user definable sytax colouring etc) I've added a copy of SuperBasic.syn from Laurence Reeves (author of Minerva) to my website. There is a link to it from Laurence's website at http://www.bergbland.info but it's a broken link, however, luckily I had saved a copy of it some time ago which happens to still be on my PC. To use it, unzip the superbasic_syn.zip and place the file called superbasic.syn in your "Program Files" for TextPad, inside the "Samples" folder. Textpad can be downloaded from http://www.textpad.com Download it from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/basic/index.html (near the bottom of the page with the other syntax rules systems). Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQ/e - Some oddities in PRINT
For those of you not on the QL Forums, one of the users has noticed a minor oddity when using multiple instances of a string in a PRINT statement and that string is amended by a Function at the same time. Although the way it works is understandable, it has highlighted an issue in SMSQ/e where the resulting PRINT statement gets confused - see http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=836&view=unread#unread -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QFLP Replacement ROMs
OK - I have now emailed Tony Tebby as no-one else offered On 12/03/2014 20:21, Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote: I don't have Tony Tebby's email address - could someone who is in fairly regular touch with him, ask him if the QJUMP QFLP ROM upgrades for the Medic and MicroP disk interfaces could now be made freely available please? QPAC1 and QPAC2 have now been made available as freeware (thanks Marcel and Tony). We should also ask about the other QJUMP products QTYP II QMON QPTR (or is this already available?) Was there anything else produced by QJUMP ? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QFLP Replacement ROMs
I don't have Tony Tebby's email address - could someone who is in fairly regular touch with him, ask him if the QJUMP QFLP ROM upgrades for the Medic and MicroP disk interfaces could now be made freely available please? QPAC1 and QPAC2 have now been made available as freeware (thanks Marcel and Tony). We should also ask about the other QJUMP products QTYP II QMON QPTR (or is this already available?) Was there anything else produced by QJUMP ? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Foreign versions of Psion Software
Does anyone have a copy of the French Psion software? At the moment, Dilwyn's site only has the English, American, Italian and German versions. I presume there may well have also been other versions - possibly Spanish.... Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Mailing List
Norman, Many thanks - I received my copy - how do you confirm? Rich > On March 3, 2014 at 9:22 PM Norman Dunbar wrote: > > > Evening all, > > I've just sent out the first email to the Assembly Language mailing > list. If you are a registered and confirmed subscriber, you should have > received it. Most of you have requested plain text emails and a few are > getting the fully HTML'd version. > > There isn't a "magazine" as yet, it's coming though - as the mailing > should explain. > > If anyone who has subscribed doesn't get an email then please check your > spam bucket and if you find it there, please whitelist the mailing list. > > This is a small test to be sure everything is working as well as can be > expected for something I'm involved in! ;-) > > If you don't get the email, and it is not in your spam bucket, let me > know your username and email address (the one you subscribed with) and > I'll see what's what. > > email to assembly @ qdosmsq . dunbar-it . co . uk (delete the spaces!) > if you did not get an email from the list, and you did not fidn it in > your spam bucket. Please don;t clog up the QL Users list with > "complaints", send them to the address above. Thanks. > > > FYI there are 56 subscribers and one of you has not yet confirmed. > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > -- > 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 > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ARK (Applied Research Kernel)
Dilwyn has now found v3 of Spy - he has v2.1 of MasterSpy > On February 26, 2014 at 7:52 PM Ralf Reköndt > wrote: > > > I think, I have a Spy, Master or not, I will look. > > Cheers...Ralf > > - Original Message - > From: "Rich Mellor (RWAP)" > > > Richard Howe has provided a license to add the former ARK software titles > > to the > > QL Homepage - > > > > Does anyone have a copy of these please: > > > > Spy v3 > > MasterSpy v3.3 > > Mailfile > > Librarian > > Stripper > > Mailmerge > > > > I have Cardfile and Archivist already > > > > Rich Mellor > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] ARK (Applied Research Kernel)
Richard Howe has provided a license to add the former ARK software titles to the QL Homepage - Does anyone have a copy of these please: Spy v3 MasterSpy v3.3 Mailfile Librarian Stripper Mailmerge I have Cardfile and Archivist already Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Jurgen Falkenberg QL Scanner
Does anyone have the software for the Jurgen Falkenberg QL Scanner ? A user has contacted me who has the hardware, but his floppy disk is corrupt! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] UnARJ, QATS, Home Finance
On 18/02/2014 19:07, Ralf Reköndt wrote: As Home Finance is written in MC, I do not really understand, why the author do not change it, so it may be run with more memory. Or simply make the source code available. The program is very good (I have used it in early times a lot) but has a few things like lower case printing. Cheers...Ralf I guess the answer there is to try and track down the original author - Ron Dunnett managed to find him and get it released as freeware in the days of QUBBEsoft Public Domain, which was quite a few years ago now... It was only by coming across one of Ron's old catalogues that I realised that this program should have been made available on Dilwyn's site... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Anelpum Quat Text Adventure
Does anyone have a copy of Anelpum Quat - it was written by Nick Ward, and published by CGH Services Nick has agreed that his software can be released as freeware - unfortunately, I no longer have a working copy of Anelpum Quat -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Colossal Cave
> On February 16, 2014 at 8:54 PM "Tobias Fröschle" > wrote: > > I won’t bet. > He has. > > > Am 16.02.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Rich Mellor (RWAP) : > > > > >> On February 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM Wayne Weedon wrote: > >> > >> On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >>> The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by > >>> William Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the > >>> sources from http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/ and ported > >>> it > >>> to the QL. > >> > >> Does anyone remember the "Squaddies" Text adventure? by Bob Weeks. > >> > >> Now whatever happened to that! > >> > >> W > >> > >> ___ > >> QL-Users Mailing List > >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > I am sure that was a public domain adventure - I just remember all the bad > > language!! > > > > I bet Dilwyn has this somewhere > > > > Rich Mellor > > RWAP Software > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > www.sellmyretro.com > > ___ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm So he does - Squaddies appears at : http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Colossal Cave
> On February 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM Wayne Weedon wrote: > > On 16/02/2014 14:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > The first ever “interactive fiction” adventure game, Colossal Cave by > > William Crowther, is available for the QL. Tobias Fröschle obtained the > > sources from http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/ and ported it > > to the QL. > > Does anyone remember the "Squaddies" Text adventure? by Bob Weeks. > > Now whatever happened to that! > > W > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I am sure that was a public domain adventure - I just remember all the bad language!! I bet Dilwyn has this somewhere Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.02 released
On 09/02/2014 23:26, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Rich Mellor (RWAP) wrote: Just a query - what is the status of QPAC1 and QPAC2 now ? Has Tony Tebby released them as public domain? Well, I've been the sole maintainer of both packages for the last 10+ years and have decided that it's about time for QPAC2 to be released freely. Haven't even thought of QPAC1 because apart from sysmon that's pretty much useless, but yeah, why not. Have at it. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Excellent - can you please send the latest QPAC2 to Dilwyn to include on his Sinclair QL Homepage. I will send him QPAC1 if you do not have it. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v4.02 released
> On February 9, 2014 at 7:22 PM Marcel Kilgus wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > QPC2 v4.02 has just been released. I have only recently converted to > Windows 7 and found that the SMSQ/E soft reset using > CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+TAB didn't work anymore as Windows now uses > CTRL+ALT+TAB for one of its many task switchers (ignoring the SHIFT > key). It wasn't exactly easy, but I finally found a workaround for > this. > > Also, QPC_VER$ was broken on QPC2v4. > > Includes SMSQ/E v3.19 with fixed appsup-window support. > > Also, there is a new qpcdemo.win with updated software on it. Plus it > now includes QPAC2, as every proper system should have that ;-) Great - many thanks for the update Just a query - what is the status of QPAC1 and QPAC2 now ? Has Tony Tebby released them as public domain? Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
