Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Fern, oops! sorry that'll teach me not to jump the whole thread straight into the bit *i* can asnwer :-) so blooming early in the day. Ha, been there, done that, got embarrassed! i just use it to back up my ql disks and didn't think beyond that No worries. And the tool kit I

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
John in Wales wrote: . chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with that! Not really, I quite like this new system. QL2K

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 (Norman Dunbar)

2011-08-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Fern, most unices come with dd, which can be used to generate raw media images. I know. :-) But the image itself then cannot be read unless you have a QDOS Filesystem driver installed either as a module or as a fuser system. It's easy enough to duplicate a QDOS floppy using dd to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-24 Thread QL-MyLink (f/fh)
. chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with that! ATB. John in Wales

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-24 Thread fern
hi norman -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:58 +0100 From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Morning Fern, most unices come with dd, which can be used to generate raw media images. I know. :-) But the image itself then cannot be read unless

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread QL2K
:37 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 22/08/2011 23:31, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning all, Dilwyn Jones (breaking [in] a Windows 7 64 bit PC) Oh oh! You thought 32 bit Windows was trouble, welcome to your worst nightmare! :-( It should be in c\Program Files (x86)\q-emulator As Rich points out, Windows 7 decided that all 32 bit applications should live in a folder

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Malcolm Lear
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Ade Vickers
Norm wrote: a windows 7 rant Agreed! With bells on! My advice to Dilwyn is simple, if you ever want to stop effing about with Windows and having to rebuild your PC from the bits that survived a heave out of the nearest (open I hope) window, install Linux. I thoroughly advice Linux

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Memory Lane Computing Ltd
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 Welcome to the worst Windows ever!!! I spend at least 2 weeks with a large sledge hammer beating Windows 7 64-bit into submission. Finally it yielded and started looking and performing like XP. Turning off UAC is an essential

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, On 23/08/11 13:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I have got it to run now in one-off mode. Ensure your user account is Administrator. Oh dear! Ensure your account has admin rights then open an HTML email. Oops, it had a payload and now your user is letting some scumbag run your PC as a

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
If you are logged in as you and need to do admin things, right-click and run as administrator, but never login to an admin session, unless you have absolutely no choice. Well, OK, I'll give it a go. Right now I am installing programs etc. to get this PC to a comparable level to the 1TB or so of

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread QL2K
drivers installed properly. Cheers, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Norman Dunbar Envoyé : mardi 23 août 2011 16:12 À : ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 Hi Dilwyn

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Only 1TB? Surely you must have more than that! ;-) Yes! Only 1TB on the old PC itself in its internal drives. My calculator gives an overflow error when I try to work out the grand total including everything else ;-) I can see that turning off UAC would benefit in some ways, although I don't

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread BryanHorstmann
On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: Snip. I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access the floppies or not. I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access the floppies or not. I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy support. Can anyone confirm this? Bryan H

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
Time for booting in to Linux an creating images from your floppies with DD or similar. If nothing else the media must be quite old and doing so should preserve them! On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:00 BST Dilwyn Jones wrote: I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Bryan, I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy support. Can anyone confirm this? Sorry no. However, i did a quick google for Windows 7 +floppy and got quite a few hits. The first

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening John, On 23/08/11 18:25, John Alexander wrote: Time for booting in to Linux an creating images from your floppies with DD or similar. If nothing else the media must be quite old and doing so should preserve them! Good advice. In case anyone is wondering, the command is: dd

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL, but it is something I have to complete in due course. I hope. Except, I think it can. CTOOLS or similar? I'm sure that can read a QL floppy image, mounted on a loopback, on Linux. Cheers, Norm. --

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Malcolm Cadman
-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 I had this problem awhile back with the same request, alas no solution presented itself, save running in administrator mode On 22 Aug 2011, at 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Malcolm Cadman wrote: I see you are finally getting along with PC Windows, and not breaking it too much ... :-) Sadly, this PC seems (so far) to be Dilwyn-proof :-( Windows 8, or whatever name it gets, is currently in development. So, maybe that will sort out all your woes ... ? Will

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
What about running the emulator on say an Android or probably more easily a Linuxy linux phone like my N900 for instance ;) John A --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 20:10 On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Walker
...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of BryanHorstmann Sent: 23 August 2011 16:40 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: Snip. I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 (Norman Dunbar)

2011-08-23 Thread fern
From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL, but it is something I have to complete in due course. I hope. Except, I think it can. CTOOLS or similar? I'm

[Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to run this I get a brief flash of the round

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Mellor
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to run

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Mellor
On 22/08/2011 23:31, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Lee Privett
I had this problem awhile back with the same request, alas no solution presented itself, save running in administrator mode On 22 Aug 2011, at 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-24 Thread QL2K
d'origine- De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Rich Mellor Envoyé : mercredi 23 février 2011 21:09 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K On 23/02/2011 19:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While ploughing through the 500-odd emails

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-24 Thread Rich Mellor
On 24/02/2011 14:29, QL2K wrote: MDV images is already supported on QL2K in the same way as QLAY / QLAYw and QLay2 does I think there may be some misunderstanding here - can QL2K access a direct sector copy of a microdrive cartridge (eg. so that you can load an image of a copy protected

[Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
While ploughing through the 500-odd emails from this list today, I noticed one by Jimmy Montesinos about QL2K. I can't find the original email now, so I'll start a new thread. If Jimmy is listening, please can I have (1) floppy disk FLP driver access and 2) QXL.WIN access (that should keep

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Rich Mellor
On 23/02/2011 19:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While ploughing through the 500-odd emails from this list today, I noticed one by Jimmy Montesinos about QL2K. I can't find the original email now, so I'll start a new thread. If Jimmy is listening, please can I have (1) floppy disk FLP driver access

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 23/02/2011 19:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While ploughing through the 500-odd emails from this list today, I noticed one by Jimmy Montesinos about QL2K. I can't find the original email now, so I'll start a new thread. If Jimmy is listening, please can I have (1) floppy disk FLP driver access and

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Phill Harvey-Smith wrote: The next release of MESS should have Trump Card emulation built in, and maybe also Sandy SuperDisk if I can work out how it addresses the 1770 Feel free to ask if you want details of the remapping gymnastics that the TC performs so that the ram test detects all

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Dave Park
If it helps any, the 1770 controller can be replaced with a 1772... Dave On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Phill Harvey-Smith a...@aurigae.demon.co.uk wrote: On 23/02/2011 19:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While ploughing through the 500-odd emails from this list today, I noticed one by Jimmy

[Ql-Users] QL2K : Plan for next release,

2008-11-12 Thread QL2K
Hi all, I'm sending you this email just to announce that we are working on the next release of QL2K in order to support : - 64 Bits and Vista : QL2K will be supply in two editions ( one for 32 bits and a another one for 64 bits ), - Correction for buggy sound under Vista,

[Ql-Users] QL2K website now repaired.

2008-10-10 Thread QL2K
Hi All, Some QL2K users have seen that there is some malfunctions with the help page of QL2K. That wasn't a problem of QL2K itself but this was a problem with my website architecture. I finally solved this small but multiple problems by changing many stuffs on this architecture. That was not so

[Ql-Users] QL2K : Alpha Release 100 now avalaible,

2008-06-20 Thread QL2K
Hi QL Users, I just release out QL2K Build 100. You'll may download it from http://www.jadiam.org/QL/Download.php Sincerely yours, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : QL2K Hi all, I managing to release out the latest Alpha Release 100 to the community. Updates are concerning : - QL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-06-19 Thread David Tubbs
. I hope the server will not crash again. Cheers, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de David Tubbs Envoyé : mercredi 18 juin 2008 22:15 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [Ql-Users] QL2K Anybody know what's up with the websites ? Neither

[Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-06-18 Thread David Tubbs
Anybody know what's up with the websites ? Neither of the links on Dilwyn's site work - one crashes IE. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-06-18 Thread QL2K
-Users] QL2K Anybody know what's up with the websites ? Neither of the links on Dilwyn's site work - one crashes IE. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-02-14 Thread Dilwyn Jones
-Users] QL2K At 22:50 11/02/2008 +, you wrote: Has anyone had any experience in getting QL2K or QLay2 emulators to print from the parallel port of a PC? My printer is connected to USB, so I can't test the printing. I rather think you will need not only a parallel port but also a pretty old

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-02-12 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: Has anyone had any experience in getting QL2K or QLay2 emulators to print from the parallel port of a PC? My printer is connected to USB, so I can't test the printing. I suppose youve considered using QPrint..? Per ___

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2008-02-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 22:50 11/02/2008 +, you wrote: Has anyone had any experience in getting QL2K or QLay2 emulators to print from the parallel port of a PC? My printer is connected to USB, so I can't test the printing. I rather think you will need not only a parallel port but also a pretty old printer, one

[Ql-Users] QL2K Update, I forget to mention,

2007-10-07 Thread QL2K
Hi all, I forgot to say yesterday, that my website is only open from 9 AM to 12PM (Paris time -GMT+1) So if the link appear to be broken you may retry later. We have another and better hosting possibility but we want to host on it the new website which is under development. Jimmy.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K Update.

2007-10-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
, October 06, 2007 2:49 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] QL2K Update. Hi all, I just post on my website a new patch for QL2K (http://www.jadiam.org/QL). Well I want to say more on this email but all I should say is on the website now. Just note that I will make a new setup program after users testing

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K Update.

2007-10-07 Thread QL2K
PROTECTED] De la part de Dilwyn Jones Envoyé : dimanche 7 octobre 2007 21:50 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K Update. I just downloaded this update (I am a registered QL2K user). It seems to work OK on Windows XP. I like the fact that you can just set its speed as a multiple of QL

[Ql-Users] QL2K Update.

2007-10-06 Thread QL2K
Hi all, I just post on my website a new patch for QL2K (http://www.jadiam.org/QL). Well I want to say more on this email but all I should say is on the website now. Just note that I will make a new setup program after users testing. Jimmy. ___

Re: [ql-users] QL2K Emulator

2006-10-03 Thread Dilwyn Jones
One of the members of the Nemqlug Sub Group brought up the following Question: Using QL2K (an emulator similar to QLay) on a laptop running Windows 2000, is there a specific sequence to follow in order to save or open a file from the hard disk. It seems that there is an index file in

Re: [ql-users] QL2k on Windows CE/Mobile Edition

2004-12-17 Thread P Witte
Phoebus Dokos writes: I just found out (never new that because the Uni gives it without manual) that Visual Studio.NET 2003 can compile directly for Windows CE and Windows Mobile Edition. I tried it with a version of the Source code of QL2K that Jimmy Montesinos had given me and it works

Re: [ql-users] QL2k on Windows CE/Mobile Edition

2004-12-17 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:18:30 -,() P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Phoebus Dokos writes: I just found out (never new that because the Uni gives it without manual) that Visual Studio.NET 2003 can compile directly for Windows CE and Windows Mobile Edition. I tried it with a version of the