-Original Message-
From: Wolfgang Lenerz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ql-users] QPC2v2 again
"work PC" - Isn't that an oxymoron (or a simple moron???)
:o) :o) :o)
It could also have been a contradiction in
-Original Message-
From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:10 PM
To: ql-users
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2v2 again
A source level debugger is the least I expect nowadays.
Oooh, yes please !!!
Norman.
On 1 Feb 2001, at 20:06, Geoff Wicks wrote:
The point I wanted to make is that we are a "Broad Church" in the QL
Community. That is, we embrace a wide range of people and opinions. To
survive we have to have a high degree of tolerance. We need both QPC and the
Q40 as well as those people
On 1 Feb 2001, at 21:04, Peter Graf wrote:
Wolfgang wrote:
There are a lot of reasons why a M$ Windows PC is not a QL system. One of
them you have given yourself: It would have to behave like a QL! When I
need minutes to boot the machine and my emulator crashes because of a
Windows
On 1 Feb 2001, at 8:47, Timothy Swenson wrote:
1] I prefer pure QL platform. The Q40 gives me this. Plus buying it helps to
support the QL hardware community.
Yes of course, that's why I want a Q60 when it comes out!
2] My wife mostly uses the PC. Getting her off to use QPC would be a
On 2 Feb 2001, at 8:21, Norman Dunbar wrote:
It could also have been a contradiction in terms, especially if I said
'working PC' !!
Well yes, but nobody would have believed it, anyway
Wolfgang
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From: P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2v2 again
I then got a huge black hole on the screen for my troubles, which
swallowed
my mouse any time it ventured near it. More or
P Witte wrote:
QPC2:
CreatSurface(GetDesktopMode) failed
Error code: (and this I found particularly rude:) 887600e1.
Well, unfortunately there is no function which translates error
codes into readable text. And there are hundreds of them. 887600e1
is a DirectDraw
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
I'm not so sure. If the users show enthusiasm, the software
developers may do more. I think that Marcel wouldn't have done
QPC2 if he hadn't had much feedback from all concerned.
Let's say it this way: the original plan was to release QPC1 v1.00 and
then go on to some
And indeed you do - trust me !
Norman.
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Personaly I think QPC2 and Q40 are both importants. But considering the lack
of production, QPC2 is nowaday the only way to upgrade your QL (and have
access to GD2). And it is a good product that gives us the opportunity to
have SMS evrywhere with only a HD disk (and a CD if you need
Hi everyone,
You are all invited to the 2001 North America QL show that will be held this year on
june 2 at the Loyola High School in Montreal (Canada). Motel location and and all
other relevant information will follow soon. Hope to see as many QL freaks as possible
! If you want to come (I
Norman Dunbar wrote:
I then got a huge black hole on the screen for my troubles, which
swallowed
my mouse any time it ventured near it. More or less same
phenomenon
whether
QL- or full-colour modes used.
AHA - I get this when my screen saver has been running and I then
kick it
out !
Try this
Hi All,
I recently purchased this pocket computer - RiscStation OSARIS.
Check these web sites for information :-
www.riscstation.co.uk
www.oregonscientific.co.uk
It a neat and well built pocket sized computer, that probably has more
features than the now well know Psions. The shape is a
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2v2 again
"Hehe, the reason was your really useful work software. (It is not useful to
me as my needs do not include english (and thesaurus or spell checking
algorithms are generally unusable for a
Wolfgang wrote:
It was just an example. Lets say I want to use MAC software. Under Q60
Linux it can run native and fast (because of the 68060), but on PC Linux I
need to emulate a MACs CPU so I lose 95% of the speed.
A rather bad example, because I could say the same for PC
programs
Of
Marcel wrote:
Of course not. QPC is a platform all by itself. It does not need to
imitate anything.
IMHO QPC is a good software emulator, but not a platform by itself. If it
was a platform, you could run an operating system on it!
QPC can't do that. For examle it can not run QDOS. Or any other
Marcel wrote:
For me a Windows PC is never a QL system!!!
Point of view. I see it this way: if it smells like tea, tastes like
tea and looks like tea, it probably is tea.
Hm. If it smells like Bill Gate's feet, tastes a little like Pentium
silicon and sometimes looks like coffee, I have my
Wolfgang wrote:
Well, I'd say that a hardware developper has hardware problems,
and a software developper has software problems... I don't think
that developping either QPC or the Q40 was a mean feat!
The size of problems depends not only on development itself.
After I developed a program, I
Marcel wrote:
There are a lot of reasons why a M$ Windows PC is not a QL system. One of
them you have given yourself: It would have to behave like a QL! When I
need minutes to boot the machine and my emulator crashes because of a
Windows graphic driver problem I really don't have the
At 03:13 2/2/2001, you wrote:
Don't denigrate people who don't buy new software and hardware. We can still
learn from them, if only to discover why they don't. With a bit of luck we
may learn what to produce to start them buying again. Last year a black
box/gold card QDOS user upgraded to
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