On Thu, 30 May 2002, dndsystems1 wrote:
right, but the variants of O/S that the numbers refer to are copyright
so the numbers are an identification of O/S with its own copyright.
version 1.xx in an O/S will mean to us (QL users) that this is QDOS
(as far as the program running is
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:44:29AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm afraid that the discussion about GPL (and whether I know it or
not) will lead us too far astray. Let's just say that I will abide by my
opinion on it.
you do not have
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Bruce N wrote:
I knew I should have checked the reply header first!
Now everyone has my address please use this address for any
submissions to Quanta as the one published last month was incorrect.
The next issue is very light on material and if you feel like writing
It arrived this morning. The SMSQ source is in the wild.
Now, the work can begin :o)
Dave
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Sorry Norman, I'm at or very near my 50MB site limit.
Dilwyn
- Original Message -
Probably Dilwyn would be able to help out as well.
Guys guys guys!
I own a webserver, and am happy to host anything anyone wants that's QL
related. This
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Derek Stewart wrote:
No that is not waht I meant, people who want to compile SMSQ/E and have not
got QMAC, QLINK and QMAKE will have to buy them.
Obviously, when talking about commercial products, especially where Jochen
has kindly lowered the price for a period to
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Final analysis
On a PC, run FreeBSD... THE ONLY true Unix ;-) (Okay NetBSD and OpenBSD are
included ;-)
Phoebus, you *n*x snob! ;P
Dave
Hi Jonathan,
Sorry to hear about your accident, but know how it goes.
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Dent Jonathan wrote:
Dilwyn's message here broaches the question of _exe files.
There is however a more controversial aspect: What about
direct execution of exe files? It could be really useful
but
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
In essence you are including the second within the url whereas you
should leave it out. Turnpike (and any receiving mailer) correctly
interprets the %3E as part of the url and feeds it to the browser...
however there's no address that corresponds
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jonathan Dent wrote:
The soql ppp driver is managing to connect and
negotiate for an IP address etc. I still have to debug
the actual data transfer which (at least with ping) is
only working in one direction at the moment.
This is excellent news. If you'd like any
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Voyager wrote:
I thought to be clear, that replacing membranes is something completelly
different than refurbishing and replacing parts of the QL itself.
Qeyboard might be a very nice idea, but useless if you need to keep the
QL in original condition. My point of view
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Graphics by Sinclair QL and SMSQ.
Highly original, I know, but .
I've at best come up with:
Computers .. Sinclair Research Ltd
Additional hardware .. Miracle Systems
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
My mind is going... I can feel it...
Phoebus
So THAT'S why you've been talking all this greek rubbish lately ;)
Dave
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, ZN wrote:
I would still lean towards the 68SZ328.
Can it support:
A simple expansion interface?
Some kind of expandable flash area?
What roughly would be the cost of such a system, and the design period? I
understand the issue with it being a BGA, as I have had to
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Callum Davidson wrote:
I've been exchanging emails with Thomas at Sintech on the subject of his
planned production of keyboard membranes recently, with very encouraging
results.
Great!
On a similar note, does the replacement 'non-intrusive' keyboard discussed
here
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, ZN wrote:
Well, the part that I disagreed on was 'on board'. It is a big decision and
has to do with what you decide is going to be 'the board'. If the expansion
needs to be very fast and/or flexible, it is a great problem to design it.
But something very simple, a
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
Insider talk has it that Motorola will soon pull out of chip manufacture
altogether.
That is indeed insider talk. Apple is repositioning to use IBM
manufactured parts. The cell chip part of the business is moving to using
foundries...
Dave
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
The weather included a bit of snow
but no wind to show off the new Bergey XL1 wind machine.
It did power up for a little bit (about half an hour Sunday morning right
after the clouds came) - I have two consecutive pictures of it turning :-)
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Those would be, uhhh, *still* pictures, right? *sarcasto-ironicism ahoy!*
With 1 sec delay between them... well YES you can see the blades moving...
not that anything else can move them as they are 30 ft up in the air
OMG! I know this is a
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Usually every toolkit has a name. IMO the prefix should be derived
from that. This can as well be the name of the author (anybody
remember Beule-Tools from Peter(?) Beule?).
As we're talking about SBASIC, I have spent much time thinking about this,
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Marcel, just a thought, would it be possible to include an SBASIC
command (+ m/code equivalent) in a future QPC version to disable QPC
audio from SBASIC (assuming I ain't missed an existing one!) ?
Why not just write an empty command that takes any
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to point out something to the general QL world at
large: as you all know, SMSQ/E is being made available publicly,
under a licence that was discussed at length here.
This licence is now the current licence for all versions
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
The whole point of the licence was to stop people modifying the code
without some central controlling authority - which would be Wolfgang.
And the question is Is Wolfgang able to treat DD fairly in light of his
sense that they are seemingly ignoring his
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, dndsystems1 wrote:
Has this bloke gone nuts? We have been producing the Q60 for over a
year and Wolfgang has never contacted me once, even though he agreed
to do so with Tony Firshman and Derek. So I am still waiting for this
contact or is this above the contact he
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just DON'T assume that I haven't tried to settle this previously in a
discreet and diplomatic way.
Dude! :o)
Ok, so this was a mistep because you got the wrong tone, even if the
message was right. There is now public awareness of the ambiguity of
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
The main point of the license is to ensure there is only one approved
version in the field.
DD, according to their adverts, are selling a patched version.
This is precisely what Wolfgang is striving to avoid.
Hmmm, another problem with the
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, dndsystems1 wrote:
Thanks for your support Dave, always welcome :-)
Well, it's such a polarised debate, I figure I should at least take both
sides to be fair ;)
Since you're here - what's the chance of a Q60 that comes without a
processor, for those of us that have 060's
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This also requires them to contribute their
changes to other branches of SMSQ too, and to divulge their
intellectual property.
NO. Read the licence again.
quote:
When such a proposal is made, the person proposing it may state
whether its
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote:
is ql chat still online ?
I got the following back when I sent a message to it just now :
Thanks Norman. I moved the mail server to a new machine and that was the
first post using a mailing list since then.
I'll get it patched up and running within
Before replying to Phoebus' post, I'd just like to say that I have the
utmost respect for someone who changes their mind after expressing a view
for so long.
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, [windows-1253] Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote:
If someone has copies of the list in-or-around '98 he will remember that
I
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
May common sense return to the land of the sheep,
Baa!
I don't want common sense. I want extraordinary sense!
Yes, TT surely clarified the situation. I read it in my mind's ear in a
God-like voice. I was waiting for him to go to Eindhoven and jump
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, ZN wrote:
Obviously, this excludes all platforms where such
feature simply makes on sense or is impossible (by design - leack of need),
but does at least suggest some form of forethought, so that we don't get
'my way or the highway' style features. This breeds
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
I was waiting for him to go to Eindhoven and jump up and down on
stage screaming Developers! Developers! Developers! :o)
Is this some obscure reference I don't get? A joke? Or just
extraordinary sense?
Some top guy at Microsoft did this on stage
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Phoebus wrote:
I just installed a 33MHz 68040 (no EC) on my QXL-II and I have the other
one (68EC040-25) as a spare. If anyone wants it, please let me know :-)
Did you just invalidate yer warranty? :o)
I hope you stuck a good heatsink on the logic.
Dave
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dave P wrote:
Well, that's illegal in every European country. Once someone owns a
license to software, they're free to sell it to whomsoever they wish under
the first sale doctrine.
I don't think anybody suggested that this is not the case
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Thanks, but this begs the question - have I been acting in
accordance with these reassurances?
Put it this way; every time an issue is raised, you have worked diligently
to resolve it. Sometimes I question your methods, but your results are
usually
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Under penalty of being qualified by Dexter as a TT groupie, I must
say that, if there were defects in the OS and he was made aware of
them, he did fix them.
Ummm, no, you're not a groupie! If anything, I am more of a groupie than
you are. I used
Hi all,
While I've done a lot of work on look-and-feel stuff for Qeymail, there
are some behind the scenes things I'm not too sure about. Where three or
four strategies exist to solve a problem, different solutions will benefit
different types of user, and I want to create the best experience
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
Why not use one the of databases which are available (DATAdesign (as in part
of ProWesS) springs to mind).
This will be a free, open source program. If it relies on any other
program, that program would also have to be free, and I would
The man himself has been very low key about it, so I'll remind y'all!
Phoebus Dokos is now an official SMSQ/E reseller, and I am his first
customer. :)
Congratulations, Phobey, and I hope you sell many tens of thousands of
copies! :o)
Dave
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
In that case DATAdesign for the use you want is the best Dave!
I plan to do developmental work in S*BASIC. I like to clearly lay out in
very readable fashion how everything works, especially the transactions
between servers. It'll be a simple
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
A good index is essential.
I plan to give every email a serial number. Whether a single file or one
file per email, there will be an index file with serial number, filename,
length, date, status, etc.
I am even considering copying exactly the pine
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, James Hunkins wrote:
Yes, ProWess is much, much, MUCH easier to program and more powerful.
You could even, one day, add HTML email rendering...
That isn't a 'one day' thing. I plan to incorporate understanding of HTML
from day 1, and have configuration that allows
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, James Hunkins wrote:
I don't like the idea of a single file. Take a look at Microsoft's
email program - there have been many problems with the single file once
it gets too large. Things slow down, corruption is possible, and
trying to extract and save individual
I am led to understand that this is the most communicative Mr T has been
in many years. I am flattered that my return to the scene has had such an
impact :o) =- *chuckle*
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, TonyTebby wrote:
One of the registrar's jobs is to ensure that the modifications are
properly
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Hi Dave,
Hi Norman,
if you are going to use PE and you want to do it 'easily' get hold of
EasyPtr (somehow) and there is a totally excellent tutorial avaiulable for
download somewhere (Dilwyn's web emporium I think) which shows how to use it
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
For, it would be PE, Prowess or nothing...
It'll be open source, and I can do it with pointers, and anyone who wants
it without pointers can take the source and edit it ;)
If you want, I could probably rapidly build you a prototype PE
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
The relatively small take up is also the reason I haven't yet seen fit
to call upon Dexter's help for setting up a website for the sources.
For those who missed out on that conversation, I offered Wolfgang a
password protected site where
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, TonyTebby wrote:
OK, so if the open source system is working fine, why are some people
making such of fuss
Hi Tony,
I'm one of the people making one of the fusses. It's a very simple fuss
and is well intentioned :o)
I'm worried that the all features should be
I got hung up on the bitfield and forgot the rest. Let's try again.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Dave P wrote:
I'm currently working on how much to put in the index - quite a lot,
because it'll save a lot of time.
121102001:[EMAIL PROTECTED]::[timeasinteger]:[timezone]:Subject text
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, ZN wrote:
'Has attachment'
'Attachment removed'
Every once in a while sort by attachment is VERY useful (as in: someone
sent me a file, where is it?).
Attachment removed is also interesting in case you want to only archive the
actual messages without attachments or
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
Indeed?
I never heard of this one.
Maybe it turned into that by default as people did not talk of anything
else (8-)#
As a subscriber of ql-developers I was never told it was a Qx0 mailing
list either ;)
It has been a bit Q60-centric lately, but
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Just to go on record (AGAIN), nothing in this licence stops this
from happening, I've ALWAYS stated that I'd be open to
suggestions in this respect etc. etc. etc...
You haven't said this before, but now you have, well, ok, I'll shut up.
:o)
Dave
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, James Hunkins wrote:
Have you run (or anyone else) QPC under Virtual PC on a Mac. I am
interested in getting some performance comparisons and also to see if
anyone has had any issues with multiple key entries (such as in QD).
I don't have Virtual PC, because I jabe
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, James Hunkins wrote:
I understand the desire for some kind of central 'organizational' place
for the efforts (assuming that there are more than just 2 or 3 people)
working on this kind of project. But I also understand Marcel's
'reluctance' to participate - presumably
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are 23 people left messages on my bulletin board, wanting at least 52
membranes between them. They seem to be willing to pay no more than £15 -
£20 each.
I remember selling them for 26 ukp in 1984! :o)
Maybe this would be a viable
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Hehe it's not you. Just the concept of writing a Hello World type of program being
aboyt 700 lines is enough to scare even the bravest! :-)
Abstraction is very important. It's what the QL was all about in 1984.
It's a shame that became less true
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Roy Wood wrote:
I may have a couple of Super Gold and Gold Cards this month. Knowing how
rare these are I thought I would let you know. Sorry for the blatant
advertising, they are actually not mine but belong to a friend who want
to sell them on.
I would very much like
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tony Firshman wrote:
OK Bruce was worng to tell us to use '@quanta.org.uk' but can we carry
on with that one only please.
Bruce isn't wrong. According to the RFCs, the subdomain www. is reserved
for web servers. It's not exclusive, but at a later date www. may resolve
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, John G Hitchcock wrote:
There's a lot of it [nu english] about. Wot about the new deity Zalot, az
in -
Gee.
Imagine being a Brit in Merka. After 4-5 years you start to pick up the US
vowel sounds and start sounding Australian to the Merkins, and Merkin to
the Brits.
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, ZN wrote:
Yes, I know - I can't discern the date code from the pictures provided, so
I emailed the seller and am awaiting an answer. What I can see looks like
BGC87... but that sounds FAR to early for the -20 speed grade. It could be
a 91... difficult to tell. Auction
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jonathan Dent wrote:
Test mail testing PPP
Yipee!! PPP is working on the QL :-)
Still a bit of tidying-up to do before I release it though.
Woohoo!
Almost ready for me to start work then :o)
Dave
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
No good - there is a QL show in Reutlingen planned for that weekend -
well that is what I have in my diary. Jochen can confirm.
Sorry getting totally confused here.
I am singing in Reutlingen that weekend.
By all means have it then, but I will
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, John Taylor wrote:
Sorry to hear that Syd has received hate mail.
Surely it has a postmark?
Suggestion. Every page of every Quanta in future should contain a
different spelling mistake for each copy. By identifying the spelling
mistake you can find out who the user is.
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Roy wood wrote:
There are a lot of free programs around - go to Theirry's website and
have a look. There are also a lot of commercial programs around too.
One of the things I think would help would be a list just like Thierry's
but with a couple of differences. Like
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Sadly, as Norman Dunbar found out when he tried to visit, from the east
there's no village sign at all!
Ahh yes. The Angles come from the East!
Dave
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
The only person that we know that has access to a G5 is well... er
let me just find the appropriate word... oh yeah!: YOU! :-)
We have a dual G5 2GHz here at work... But then we have quite a few
xserves and Apple loves us... It's been
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, they are :-) How many would you like??
Are they available from Phoebus in the US yet?
Dave
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-7] Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò) wrote:
thanks to the efforts of James Weatherly, uQLx now also runs on Mac OS X!.
(And better than it does on Win XP). I am expecting to have a separate page
ready by tonight, in the meantime I am going to flood Dave
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Tarquin Mills wrote:
** Press Release **
That's kinda optimistic. Why don't you just say Quanta and QL Toady
Release? ;)
Ok, so it's longer, but...
Dave
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, [utf-8] Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκ[utf-8] ος)
wrote:
Other alternatives like QL-Chat have been shut off (QL-Chat was actually
the most responsive of all mail lists).
ql-chat has not been shut off. There are currently 12 subscribers. It has
very low traffic because
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I always thought that slices could work in reverse as well (and they
should actually) so eg.
a$ = hi
b$ = a$ (2 TO 1)
PRINT b$ should return ih but maybe it's just me :-)
Phoebus
What happens when you push the envelope?
a$ = 123.45
b
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
I found some documentation in Internet that say that the bit ordering within
each byte can also be big or little endian and some architecture actually
use big endian ordering for bits and little endian for bytes and vice-versa.
Anyway my problem
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
'ql_now' would be an apt domain name - that is what is happening with
the QL now.
404 Not Found.
The page you are looking for could not be displayed ;)
So, what does that say? ;)
Dave
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Bill Waugh wrote:
The obvious answer to all this is would be some form of RGB to UHF
modulator to connect SCART socket video output to a standard aerial
socket for a UHF TV. Does anyone know if such devices are available?
If they are, they'd be ideal for connecting
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
This puts the seemingly massive current SMSQ/E for QPC in perspective
(currently at 287kb. However, last version for QPC1 was 191kb big! A lot
has happened since then... the 3 included screen driver alone take up a
whole lot of space).
Does anyone
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Tony Firshman wrote:
... then you do not think carefully about the maths.
In the UK, anyone who buys a lotto ticket on Wednesday is more likely to
die that win the Saturday jackpot - a sobering thought (8-)#
Not to mention that the pool of cash being redistributed
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
Lies, damn lies etc.
How many HEALTHY persons die of
physician's error
gun accidents?
Well, actually those stats aren't lies. They were produced by the Houston
Health Science Center of the University of Texas. In fact, the stats were
the best
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Ian L. Pine wrote:
might be able to come up with a permanent solution, e.g. removing the
sockets and soldering the RAMs in place; or maybe there are some spare chips
with longer pins (some of the pins on mine seem too short to be gripped
properly by the sockets); or
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have to use OpenOffice on a PC to print QL documents, why not get
rid of the QL altogther and just use OpenOffice to begin with?
1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;)
Dave
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks like a fundamental misunderstanding. I do not want any money
for my work.
A person who does not want money must want something more valuable. ;)
Dave
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed, but the problem is that if someone converted Peter's work to run
under SMSQ/e and it does involve changes to the operating system. Why? Because
the GPL says that any future changes must also be released under the GPL
licence terms
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