- Original Message -
From:
Geoff
Wicks
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Reading PC
formatted disks
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From:
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Subject: [ql-users] Reading PC
- Original Message -
From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SNIP
that is the optimist view. However there is nothing in the license
that would guarantee me that the source code would be continuously
available in the future.
There is nothing in the license that would
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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: [ql-users] QIMI Mouse
Interface
Does anyone have the drivers and
disk for this mouse interface - I have a manual and two interfaces if anyone
is
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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: [ql-users] QIMI Mouse
Can someone please confirm what
mice will work with this interface??Will any 3 button PC serial mouse
work?? Or do we need an
- Original Message -
From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: [ql-users] ROM versions
The circular wheel thingy was a Russion Nokolia something or other, back
about 1850 ish (+- 30 years).
JLB did the first scanning
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From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: [ql-users] ROM versions
I wrote :
Maybe, Alexander G Bell invented it first, but his version used a
rotating
wheel (or something) and wasn't very
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: QL-Chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 11:52 AM
Subject: [ql-users] virus
My virus checker caught a virus carried by an email attachment this
weekend. It was caught and
- Original Message -
From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] [OT] Joke (Short)
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 at 15:41:01, Norman Dunbar wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
So did Douglas :o)
Whoops - who was
- Original Message -
From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] CF Hot Removable adapters
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 at 02:37:27, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 02:22 ðì 13/4/2002, Tony The
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last time we got into this thread I heard the sound of toys being
thrown
out of prams and children sulking in
- Original Message -
From: Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:47 AM
Subject: [ql-users] QL Forum
Hi all,
Well, I'm scratching my head...
I really want to do something constructive for the QL community. I'm
working on the
- Original Message -
From: DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am absolutely sorry for the virus you received, my panda antivirus version
did'nt detect it. Now it's updated and cured
AVG just trapped a virus - worm type badtrans
came in a mail from DINOUX (re.re.smsqe licence criticism) attatchment
contains docs.D.pif
this is the second one detected in the last month from this list - any ideas
All the best - Bill
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From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 at 23:25:46, P Witte wrote:
(ref: 002b01c1db5e$edf5c400$0200a8c0@home)
Hiall,
This is
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms
Oh boy.
It is little Jimmy's birthday party. All his little friends are there.
Little Jimmy's dad instructs (with naive
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From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice
My Sinclair addictions started before that :
- I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out about
RPN.
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From: Peter Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: [ql-users] C/F Card Reader
Hi there,
I have found that the card reader that came from Phoebus came with a
message that there are certain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Membranes
Dilwyn wrote:-
My favourite though was the little Diren keyboard interface. Tiny,
easy to install and reliable. Pity Robin Barker stopped
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip
Wish I knew where he got his CDsa from - they are BLACK on the
recording side rather than silver, gold, blue etc, never seen those
black ones before. OK, guess you can take the love affir with black QL
things a bit far
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Well I had this program for ages and I never even tried it
Nasta is right, it doesn't run with anything other than the original QL
screen addresses which makes me wonder if QPC2_v3 could run it right.
(Screen at $2)
It doesn't appear to mess up anything
Norman Dunbar wrote:
I have a funny feeling that Digital Precision dod a sprite editor/manager
system a long time ago.
I can't remember the name though - sorry.
there is a slight possibility that it started with SUPER
Super Sprite Generator rings a bell ( with a picture of ET on bike ?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you're right - was it called Eye-Q?
Nope that was a graphics prog, remember the fancy lenslock do dah ???
All the best - Bill
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 at 19:11:58, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ah - like me - a young looking fifty plus.
Lau you owe me a pint (:-)
and now you have to guess my age (8-)#
(barely audible) 25
-What
Dave wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Lau = Laurence Reeves, author of Minerva :-)
The name is *very* familiar. I remember talking with someone who IIRC
lived in London, around 84-85, who was called Lau,
Can't be the same bloke, I 've seen him at a few workshops and
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 at 21:43:18, Bill Waugh wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dave wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Lau = Laurence Reeves, author of Minerva :-)
The name is *very* familiar. I remember talking with someone who IIRC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:14:38 -
Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please don flame proof clothing before reading this !!
BEGIN RANT MODE
I think your attitude sucks (to be quite brutally honest) but you have made
your choice to go, then so be it.
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Tony,
I tried to configure it, but it didn't like me much !
I got the Flo Flo thing but deleted it, AFAICR there was no attachment with it
although I think there was reference to one.
I recently upgraded this PC and thought about using Outlook 2000, I tried it but
Phoebes R. Dokos wrote:
At 02:09 ìì 19/1/2002 +, you wrote:
Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
Duncan,
yes it is really a good product, it work perfectly
also on my q40 (just the time to test it).
I tested it on my system with the two unit , cdrom
reader on ide controller 1 and
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Hi all,
For all of you that ordered one or more CF readers, I would appreciate it
if you contact me the moment you receive them so I can cross you off the
list :-) (Just to feel okay about myself :-)
Phoebus
PLEESE do not jest about the Post Office
In the
Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
Duncan,
yes it is really a good product, it work perfectly
also on my q40 (just the time to test it).
I tested it on my system with the two unit , cdrom
reader on ide controller 1 and the cd-writer on ide
controller 2 .
I recently add a second ide controller so
Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
Bill,
My actual Q40 configuration is :
- 2 ISA HD/Com Controller cards (no more ISA Slot
free)
- 1 CD-Rom 50x
- 1 HP CD-Writer Plus
- one SMSQ/E 6GB HD mounted on a removable bay (in
caddy) and a second hd with Qdos Classic (in caddy
too).
- CF Reader (as soon
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Hi all,
I secured a batch of 50 IDE compact flash adapters for 15.99$ each (+ s/h).
(about 17 Eur)These are not hot swapable (the hot swapable ones will go for
about double the price) but they can accept huge CF cards and even IBM
Microdrives (hehe the Irony of
Robert Newson wrote:
Right now am having enough trouble just getting windows to work
reliably.
Isn't that a contradiciton in terms? The words 'windows' and work
reliably can't exist together in one sentence, can they?
Of course they can, as in you can't get Windows to work reliable
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Morning Bill,
just a reminder, I'm a Celt as well :o)
Norman.
Oops (;-)
Funny thing though, lots of people like to claim celtic origins, maybe
the allure of poetic and literate gifts but I've yet to meet anyone keen
to claim to be a Pict - where did they go?
all
Norman Dunbar wrote:
So I'm Asian then ?
:o)
What - one of the Patell celts then
( no racial offence intended )
All the best - Bill
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 at 22:00:17, Bill Waugh wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yep I spoke to Arnie once or twice, I think the Italian keyboard was
SPEM, they flogged them off eventually as they fitted straight into the
QL connector and I bought one it was pretty good
Dexter wrote:
Hello,
This is a note to introduce myself to the list, since I'm newly
subscribed. My name's Dave Park. I currently live in Houston, TX, but was
raised in Bedford, England, where I was the first employee of Sandy (UK)
PCP Ltd.
I used to make and ship most of the
Dexter wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Bill Waugh wrote:
Ok Dave here's a starter, I was one of the folks that ordered a Futura,
possibly it might have been a dead end job considering the hardware that
come since but my question is this -
Who was Maria Futura ( I may have the name a bit
Al Feng wrote:
Before you try anything drastic, you may want to try the drives in a
different PC case ... your power supply may be dodgey and not putting out
enough amperage -- a particularly plausible potential hazard with the
trim/slim profile cases which have a 150 watt or smaller PS.
Timothy Swenson wrote:
In the server world, you always let recently shipped servers come to room
temperature before turning them on. They are usually get cold during
shipment and firing them up right away could cause thermal stress, so they
are allowed to sit a number of hours in the
Peter Graf wrote:
Hi Bill,
don't think you're alone!
I now have little faith in this drive ( 2.1 meg Cavier ).
Just wondered if anyone had any ideas why this could of happened.
Caviar is Western Digital I guess.
Also had a lot of bad luck with harddisks. 3 died in a PC.
2 Quantum
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 23:56:22, Roy Wood wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
One QLer in East Anglia uses Minerva I2C to heat his incubators.
Does it really get that hot ?
(8-)#
He should
Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
And this is a shame, although I would agree the image on screen may not
benefit a great deal from the increased colours it would be nice to be
able to print out to a printer that can use 24 bit colour and I'm not
sure we can do this if we can't display them
Roy Wood wrote:
snip
If you can't get this to work I can send you a floppy which will do the
job.
Thanks Roy but I have two or three start up discs ( amazingly ) there
was I think a problem with the drive as well handicap of Win98.
got it formatted as drive D: then put it back in its C:
Roy Wood wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Norman
Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Darren,
Hmmm, my wife hated (with a vengeance) my Blue Quanta sweatshirt. Must be a
girl thing !
Mine hates my green one too. It must be something they put in the
fleece. Mind you I have caught her
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Bill,
when (!) it happens again, try finding and deleting either win.bat or
win.com. I think, if I remember correctly, the installer looks for these
files and barfs because it thinks it has an OS already and the type of
install disc is for a new pc. Alternatively,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/ANORAK ON
Wasn't he a brother of Peter Sarsted, ie. who had a hit with Where do you
go to my Lovely?
/ANORAK OFF
Cheers,
Darren Branagh,
Spot on, and in fact there is another brother also in Show biz I think
Where do you go to my lovely when I'm on my Ql at
Tony Firshman wrote:
Snip
What I _really_ hate about the PC is not being in control (of W98).
So often the only solution is to re-install Windows - and even then not
the proper 'clean' install. What a monster W98 is - and what a con.
Having spent the best part of a recent Sunday
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WHATT? No Star Trek? How can a trekkie live?
Sorry this is OT but important rivia for trekkies
Listened to a wireless interview last week with Eden Kane ( sixties
singer - Well I ask you )
very entertaining but big suprise was that he figures in Star Trek now
and
Norman Dunbar wrote:
I was/am a Monty Python fan - but I can't remember a moose ...
Norman.
Me too and me neither, but if there was one it would probably be an
extra in the lumber jack song.
and just to stay on topic I'm a Qlumber jack and I don't care .
All the best - Bill (
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Freddie Vachha, pronounced Vakha, when he was in Quanta was probably the
most robust member we had. He was absolutely tireless and would talk
endlessly about anything that took his interest
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I don't seem to be getting through, this is my third try with this.
--
From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:44:44 +0100
To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
If it gets really bad I'll start using Geordie- wor Geordies lost
his
penker ..
All the best - Bill
Err, I think we might stick with the Dutch thank you Bill!
How do you say My QL needs a new keyboard membrane in Geordie?
--
Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geoff Wicks wrote:
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and others:-
I agree totally:-))
François,
Ik ben val plan om QPC2 op mijn PC te installeren maar gebruik natuurlijk
wel een Belgisch toetsenbord. Ik meen mij te herinnereen dat jij dit
probleem
Q Branch wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 at 11:44:30, Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I get thrown out of the plane next week on the way to Salzburg (8-)#
Take care ! This could be considered by US as
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 at 20:50:55, Peter Graf wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
like you I feel deep sympathy to the americans. I hope nobody on this list
has lost friends or relatives.
I know someone in Credit Suisse who worked in one of the towers. They
were near
Tony Firshman wrote:
It was very depressing to get one very tart and impersonal reply saying
that he did not like to get spam.
... and from someone very well known in the QL field.
Some people!
I hope this is not a general attitude. There are no commercial traders
left now, and I
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Looks like the Nigerian scandal has moved to Sierra Leon :o(
Norman.
PS. Did anyone miss me in the latest QL Today ?
Don't know mate, I aint got through it yet, still somewhere in the
middle of emulator wars.
Did glance quickly through the rest and noticed a
Help quickly please
A friend on another list has a stove that he is tinkering with, it has
on it an inscription in german - nur fur benzine he thinks this
means only for petrol
Knowing how many german speakers are on this list can anyone confirm he
is right before he gets to the matches.
Thanks Marcel and Timothy
Have passed your wisdom on
All the best - Bill
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone have experience of using Windoze-specific printers from
SMSQ/E? I notice that QPC2v2 has a facility to allow its PAR port to
be defined as 'printer'
My local computer shop has some very cheap colour Epson printers which
would be good as a backup printer,
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 at 09:41:47, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
(ref: 3B6FB7DB.15851.70128@localhost)
On 6 Aug 2001, at 21:41, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Even these emails are being monitored ...
So why don(t we all adopt the follwoing byline:
Death, terrorists, kill
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 at 20:20:00, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tony maybe getting more, as I believe he has permanent link, rather than
a dial up ?
Well I am on the net a great deal (programming for wn.com) but that
wouldn't affect me getting
Adrian Vickers wrote:
At 09:58 am 30/07/2001 +0100, Tony Firshman wrote:
There certainly seem to be more components in there than I remember from my
other QLs, and yes, there's a bit of foil at each end of the KB plate. I'm
not sure about the chokes and GD(?) connector - I'll open it up
Hi all
I just downloaded Thierry's cd stuff and have a couple of questions for
your combined wisdom
1. will this allow me to use a cd writer on Q40
2. if the answer to 1 is no then would be I able to read cd's on q40
that I had written files to on a cd writer in a PC.
I can imagine Thierry
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Oddly quiet though isn't it? It's almost as if everyone is at work!
What's that then ?
:o)
C'mon you lot, they were all filling in their census forms
Be interesting to see how many Jedi there are (;-)
All the best - Bill ( may the force be with you )
Norman Dunbar wrote:
snip
I can beat your £5.00 for a QL as I won a QL in a raffle at a QUANTA show in
Newcastle many years ago. I bought a single ticket for 50p.
Regards,
Norman
I remember that occasion well Norman, I won a Hermes courtesy of Tony,
its still in use in my backup
Ron Dunnett wrote:
Everybody on holiday i think Tony
Ron
Except us four it seems
Can Q40's atrophy, it seems an age since I had time to use it.
My wife is into helping the Alziehmers Society who are in the process of
buying a new PC, I seem to get lumbered with doing posters and stuff for
ZN wrote:
With all this FM stuff having been posted, I thought this might be
slightly appropriate :-)
News Flash
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS
UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App
Doesn't Like
Robert Newson wrote:
My reply of a few minutes ago to the Geoff Wicks letter was supposed to go a
couple of miles up the valley to Darren Branagh, not all over the place to
you lot!
Sorry about that,
Why? I enjoyed it! I'm an Englishman from Llundain.
Technically speaking, TRUE
And to Bill (plus any other list members with vulnerable livestock) I'm sure
that all here will join me to sincerely wish you and your farm well
during the present very serious crisis for you all.
Regards to all,
John in Wales
Many thanks for the sentiment John
All the best - Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 1981, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Most people on this list have access to a PC, are another machine
(UnixBox) which already has Intrernet progs, else they wouldn't be
on this list. I, for myself, use
Q Branch wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Pizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hi All
Here is a strange thing: Text87 works fine with QPC2v154 but with QPC2v2f
it loads badly such that nothing is visible thus cannot be used. This may
well be a function of my setup but I wonder if
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Hi Geoff,
Colin Baskett's revue in QUANTA magazine ...
Mmm, isn't that one of those topless things then ?
:o)
Norman.
"One of those topless things" I thought they came in pairs(;-)
all the best - Bill
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Branagh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hi All,
By Now, you all will have noticed my absence at the Hove Show -
unfortunately this couldn't be helped for two reasons..
Firstly, I was seriously snowed in!! About 10-12 inches of snow
Peter Graf wrote:
Nasta wrote:
Snip
In the QL scene we have got (in our own style) what the Atari has not.
Maybe we have the fastest 68K computer there ever was. It is reality and it
works. And now? Are we proud? Is there a lot of interest? A lot of noise?
Not yet. I get some positive
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
snip
only one proviso the printer must be off when you switch on the Q40
else the Q40 will not boot properly ( why?)
This is not a problem I just bring power to the Q40 and from Q40 to PC
so Q40 has to be fired up first or nothing works.
Most probably a power related
Peter Graf wrote:
Bill wrote:
Presently I run a Q40 and a PC sharing a Sony monitor and epson printer
, no switchboxs required, the monitor has two inputs and its own switch
for selection, the printer runs on USB from the PC and Parallel from the
Q40
Very good idea.
only one
Peter Graf wrote:
Wolfgang wrote:
I think it is native hardware that keeps a system alive. A system that
mostly depends on emulation is dead.
No.
Maybe the Ql is not dead enough (:-{
There is a movement about called Retro, people are looking for something
that is missing from
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 14 Dec 2000, at 9:57, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Quick, I need to mention QL in order to get on topic (:o), what can I do ?
Just say that there never will be a .. for dummies book about the
QL - because no QLer is a dummy!!
Wolfgang
UMM don't jump to that
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