Re: [ql-users] EtherQL project.

2002-01-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 at 01:16:46, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Also, I have an old CGA/VGA monitor set aside. If anyone can remind me how to hook up a QL to this, I would be very grateful :o) Tony (Firshman) as always will give you his infinite wisdom :-) Not infinite I am

RE: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Claude Mourier 00
Interesting but at the moment I don't have a 'hardware' QL ;-( only QPC ;-) -Message d'origine- De : Phoebus R. Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : samedi 12 janvier 2002 20:55 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters. Hi all, I secured a batch of 50 IDE

RE: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 11:32 ðì 14/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Interesting but at the moment I don't have a 'hardware' QL ;-( only QPC ;-) It works with QPC as well :-) (And Windows... And Linux AND BeOs) PLUG :-) Phoebus -Message d'origine- De : Phoebus R. Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé :

RE: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Claude Mourier 00
How can I pay it ? -Message d'origine- De : Phoebus R. Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 14 janvier 2002 15:03 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters. At 11:32 ðì 14/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Interesting but at the moment I don't have a

RE: Re: [ql-users] Making PCBs (was Q40/Q60/??? Ultra IO card)

2002-01-14 Thread Ian . Pine
Thanks for all the information that's been posted in response to mine and others' questions on this subject. I've certainly learned a lot that I never knew before. Even though soldering all those wires onto veroboard is so tedious, especially when trying to pick up where you left of if you

RE: [ql-users] CF Adapters

2002-01-14 Thread Ian . Pine
If I had one of these it would be for use with the IBM Microdrives. I'd need to do some research - reliablity, prices, other people's experience using them on Q40/60. I don't have a digital camera that uses CF cards (yet); still using SmartMedia. Tentatively interested though. Ian.

[ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread John Hitchcock
Dave Dexter writes: How do people actually use their machines these days? What's in demand? === If I may (please) borrow Dilwyn's words - I tend to do anything computer related on the QL (well, QPC2) where possible and resort to the PC for anything I can't do from the QL half -

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dexter asked : How do people actually use their machines these days? I use mine, well QPC2v2, : - for my series on assembly language programming in QL Toady. - to catalogue my record collection in Archive. - to play The Wall - which I have yet to finish :o) - to play Scrabble - for C68

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Dexter
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Hitchcock wrote: Dave Dexter writes: It's D@ve P@rk, but my email says Dexter Fletcher because I fave a stalker, and she's very persistent and knows how to use a search engine. Which is why I never put the two togetherm and have deliberately corrupted the first ;)

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
But the dimensions are wrong to be the monolith :o) And if you've read '3001 Final Odyssey' you'll realise that the monolith wasn't a 'good thing'(tm) to have around. Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 04:00 ìì 14/1/2002 +, you wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Hitchcock wrote: Dave Dexter writes: It's D@ve P@rk, but my email says Dexter Fletcher because I fave a stalker, and she's very persistent and knows how to use a search engine. Which is why I never put the two togetherm and

Re: [ql-users] QL font euro symbol

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2002, at 9:46, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Nonetheless this is a good idea, I'll get to work right away to change the font I use to include the Euro... between us I always HATED the standard ROM font (I don't like my L's looking like fishing hooks ;-) It'll be difficulmt to do much

Re: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2002, at 12:47, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: P.S. If enough interest is generated (and from the looks of it it will, I might badge the CF media with Sinclair QL Logos '-) (Will ask permission from SRL first ;-) Wouldn't THAT be fun? Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] Patching SMSQ Mouse routines

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2002, at 13:33, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Any ideas how I could do this 'legally' in such a background job? This is how I did it for az job that blzanks the screen if no keyborad/mouse activity after a certain time: truejob MULU #$3C,D7 ; number of seconds

Re: Re: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2002, at 20:50, Dave Walker wrote: As far as I know none of those could take the adapter and be able to access it directly from within the QL side of the system? I would have thought that it would work under QPC if windows can see it as a normal drive, thanks to the WONDERFUL DOS

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 13 Jan 2002, at 21:12, Richard Zidlicky wrote: you see, its not only me who is asking for this feature. I am convinced once it is reasonably possible to write drivers in SBasic and 'c' we will have an abundance. Sbasic? you've GOT to be joking. Shock, horror! Wolfgang -

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Ian . Pine
... Sleek, black, looks like the slab in 2001, exquisite. Well mine isn't. It's in a boring PC mini-tower box, with a door on the front to cover the floppy drive slots and the leds behind a grey perspex window. Oh well, It's the best looking mainboard I've ever seen. Sleek, flat (except

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 14 Jan 2002, at 16:02, Dexter wrote: When will someone turn around and say it's the best looking computer I have ever seen. Sleek, black, looks like the slab in 2001, exquisite. And when the chips are acookin', it even makes that strange noise... Unfortunately, I don't get any smarter

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 at 16:00:35, Dexter wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) One of the neatest educational toys with the BBC model B was the 1MHz bus. Is there any current product giving programmable IO? See my web site - I2C interfaces. Is there any demand for it? Yes (8-)# I have sold over

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
ZN wrote: if I recall correctly, the size of the slave block table and therefore the number of slave blocks is established at SMSQDOS init time after the amount of free RAM is determined. Unfortunately, the neurons that held information on how the actual SBT search is performed (what

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: There should be a SCSI driver in there somewhere too. Is that transferable to other SMSQ/Es? Probably, the hardware dependant part seems to be somewhat separated. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 08:12 ìì 14/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: ZN w The QPC kernel is currently limited to (IIRC) 256MB. This is due to the fact that some applications use the upper address bits for data purposes, therefore 4 bits are masked out. In fact current versions don't allow more than 128MB, but this is just

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: The QPC kernel is currently limited to (IIRC) 256MB. This is due to the fact that some applications use the upper address bits for data purposes, therefore 4 bits are masked out. In fact current versions don't allow more than 128MB, but this is just an artificial config

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 08:20 ìì 14/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: The QPC kernel is currently limited to (IIRC) 256MB. This is due to the fact that some applications use the upper address bits for data purposes, therefore 4 bits are masked out. In fact current versions don't allow more than

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: So although it accepts the parameter it doesn't really do anything... h I beg your pardon? Probably you missed my earlier message... I had entered a value of 384 in qpc's configuration screen... I assumed it saw the whole thing (then again I never bothered to

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 08:34 ìì 14/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: So although it accepts the parameter it doesn't really do anything... h I beg your pardon? Probably you missed my earlier message... I had entered a value of 384 in qpc's configuration screen... I assumed it saw the

Re: [ql-users] Patching SMSQ Mouse routines

2002-01-14 Thread P Witte
Wolfgang Lenerz writes: On 13 Jan 2002, at 13:33, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Any ideas how I could do this 'legally' in such a background job? This is how I did it for az job that blzanks the screen if no keyborad/mouse activity after a certain time: snip MOVE.L(A3),A3

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part 1E121 (I had to increment it ! ;-)

2002-01-14 Thread P Witte
Wolfgang Lenerz writes: NOT AT ALL !!! This is perfectly documented: the documentation for the IOSS (see the QDOS/SMS reference manual) DOES says that A0 must stay unchanged or at least be restored if the device driver did not recognize its own device in the name during an open

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL - its uses

2002-01-14 Thread Dexter
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, ZN wrote: He he, some people would be flattered :-) One wonders what you did to deserve a stalker :-) I was in England, and she was a friend of a friend. I helped her through a rough time with her husband, being a shoulder to cry on. Then I came here, got married. She

Re: [ql-users] EtherQL project.

2002-01-14 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:01:05AM +, Dexter wrote: Hi again :o) I think it would be really useful to get QLs connected to networks more easily. Therefore, I've commenced the following project: EtherQL. I know nasta has a similar project in late planning stage, but I think Goldfire

Re: Re: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Walker
From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 14/Jan/2002 16:16 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters. On 13 Jan 2002, at 20:50, Dave Walker wrote: As far as I know none of those could take the adapter and be able to access it directly

Fw: [ql-users] ISO-9660 CD-ROM file utility

2002-01-14 Thread Thierry Godefroy
Hi ! I'm afraid my last message about the new QCDEZE utility got unoticed among all the heavy trafic (over 400 messages in 2002 (i.e. in 15 days) already in ql-users, wow !) the list is experimenting now... Did anyone tried it ? Any feedback ? QDOS/SMS forever ! Thierry.

[ql-users] CF Adapters

2002-01-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Hi all, This is for anyone that mailed me about the CF adapters. I received the first batch today and hopefully I'll have the whole lot tomorrow afternoon, which means I can begin mailing them on Thursday. Anyone that ordered one and hasn't sent me his address please do so by private mail so