On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 at 18:45:47, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
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Does anyone know of an extension that allows the RAM seen by SMSQ/E to be
altered. I want to play around with different memory sizes for SMSQ/E on a
Q60.
Why not use the Tony Tebby idea of ALCHP
eg:
10 new_size
Quite an exciting day today.
ADSL is working and my Linux box now acts as a gateway for all our
network (Windows and Linux). No more negotiating for a line.
As I have a fixed ISP, we have set up Apache as a web server, so my QL
web page is now on my own machine.
I will get DNS to host my
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 at 17:41:15, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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One thing I didn't figure out yet is how to boot the cd in the first
place (ie where I
can find the boot disks).
You could try
cd \images
\dosutils\rawrite.exe
Asks for a disk
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 10:10:14, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:editor;quanta.org.uk]On Behalf Of
Tony Firshman
Sent: 13 November 2002 20:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Memory
On Wed, 13 Nov
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 22:53:49, Robert Newson wrote:
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator.
Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he
gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 21:13:05, Mike MacNamara wrote:
(ref: 000201c28c22$d973d920$d299893emacnamars9pihh)
Very good Tony, nearly died when you spoke
He he. It is much better at grabbing attention than the dreaded
animations.
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 at 12:50:43, Robert Newson wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
...
The exec_w would give 'not found' if it hadn't read the disk.
I realised that this afternoon in the shower (amazing what sleep does
to ones thinking) - especially as it had managed
Malcolm.
I don't know whether you are aware your email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
has been hijacked (apparently) by the bugbear worm.
It could of course be someone else being infected, and forging your
emails.
Results of my email to you:
QUOTE
Your email has not been sent. NO MORE ATTEMPTS
I am re-assigning my non-demon email to my current provider.
Unfortunately there will be a gap, so if you need to email me please use
tonyATfirshmanDOTdemonDOTcoDOTuk for a while (8-(#
How long does the mailing list server try to send before it deletes me I
wonder.
--
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I am re-assigning my non-demon email to my current provider.
Unfortunately there will be a gap, so if you need to email me please use
tonyATfirshmanDOTdemonDOTcoDOTuk for a while (8-(#
How long does the mailing list server try to send before it deletes me I
wonder.
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 14:48:55, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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I remember Paris, I went there once.
It was cold and the streets were paved with something not unlike dog poo !
and the cycle routes are paved in glass (8-)#
I got two punctures once on the way back to Gare du Nord
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 09:42:09, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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Mitchel can make a PS/2 mouse work with a superHermes Lite but that is a
direct wiring. Most converters just do not work.
I am not sure what you meant exactly by that... If
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 at 15:53:39, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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I am in the process of moving ISP.
My new email address with immediate effect will be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The old Softnet one will probably remain active until mid December)
The website has
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 at 20:34:00, Christopher Cave wrote:
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O.K., I know its an old-fashioned issue
I gave up trying to set mine to my favourite font/pitch for QL work as
it required 34 characters!
but I really don't have
an owner's manual for a recently acquired HP
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 at 20:45:25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: 004d01c29657$41366440$0a26ff3e@blackpc)
Don't wind him up...he sent me a few pictures of a Tyche ROM running
on QemuLator or QLay (can't rememebr from memory) but sadly we haven't
used the article following Tony's comments on Jonathan
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 at 20:48:20, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: 004e01c29657$421097a0$0a26ff3e@blackpc)
Norman Dunbar wrote:
And for C68 programmers, there is EasyC from Bob Weeks of Pointer
Products
which turns EasyPtr menus into C68 stuff.
I think (not sure, as I ain't been there for a
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 at 18:39:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: 003e01c29719$3dce44e0$5630fd3e@blackpc)
And for C68 programmers, there is EasyC from Bob Weeks of
Pointer
Products
which turns EasyPtr menus into C68 stuff.
I think (not sure, as I ain't been there for a while) it was on
TF's
This might be of interest:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cucps/20012002/
Pity no-one took pictures.
Ben in particular enjoyed displaying his Powerpoint slide show using a
video projector onto a giant screen.
It ended with him playing 'Theme Hospital' on the same screen!
Marcel - the HP talk is
I have had an email with only attachments (no text) from Bill Horner -
saying they are Xmas cards.
Apologies and thanks to you, Bill, if you did send them intentionally.
If I were a worm writer, this is _exactly_ how I would send them.
I got similar emails last year, and I am afraid I simply
I need to be able to search a drive directory for a specific file using
'C' code. Is there somewhere that I can find either a piece of sample
code ('C' or assembly) for reading file names (or traversing
directories) from a directory/device? Or perhaps just general
documentation on SMSQ/E
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 at 13:27:46, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Happy celebrations
What is really embarrassing is when someone from England reminds us in
the States just how bad our
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 at 18:00:36, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: 003801c2a91c$b27844c0$6024ff3e@blackpc)
Actually, I'm constantly amased (as editor of a QL magazine) by the
^ I am 'amazed' by our misspellings too
(8-)#
number of people who apologise for their English and
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 at 20:12:51, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Hello everyone,
after some hard work during the last two weeks the new WMAN is
finally approaching completion. :-)
Beta versions have been sent out to the tester and for the rest I
made some snapshots which
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 at 14:46:10, Davide Santachiara wrote:
(ref: 003201c2ace5$2b279da0$0300a8c0@ergonnotebook)
Hello to all QL users,
After a while I was eventually able to give a light update to my web site:
http://www.geocities.com/dsantachiara
Not a lot work, I have just removed
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 at 11:14:46, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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English was probably my worst subject at school ( but then I am a
Geordie (;-) ) however even I get annoyed at the way it gets abused ( my
biggest cringe is the use of uz instead of us ) but do we not have to
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 at 16:53:25, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Perhaps this shows the need of a compose character function similar to
that provided on Minerva - I wonder how many people (like me) found
that indespensible at the time!!
Still indispensable for me (8-)#
It was a very clever
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 20:34:56, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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I came across an interesting problem tonight when using QPC2 to type a
German text on a UK keyboard. Chr$(128) on the QL character set (ä) is
entered by CTRL + ESC. In Windows this is the keyboard shortcut for
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 at 23:33:13, Andrea Carpi wrote:
(ref: 1X04MH71ZWLHPWUNMZVVPKHDATSX3X.3e35b3a9@towero)
Since today the pages dedicated to Sinclair QL edited by QL user group of
Beginners' Club, completely renewed, have the following new address:
http://ql.beginnersclub.org
Lots of
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 11:05:50, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
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Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read
}
} The Epson Stylus 800 was indeed a Parallel printer - I had one. I think, but
} I'm not sure, that there was a serial interface available for it.
Jumping
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 05:42:03, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
In a message dated 06/02/03 10:19:45 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jumping the technology back to the early age of QL, we had a serial
to parallel
converter then for your black hero!
But classical serial
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 at 16:38:45, Arnold Clarke wrote:
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I have a ROMdisq how do I connect it to the Aurora.
If you had Mplane you would have a rom socket on it (8-)#
As you have Qplane, use an Aurora adaptor - £3 from me.
(or a s/h qubbesoft
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 at 23:26:04, Roy Wood wrote:
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In message 001c01c2d39e$8a4b9d60$8d36fd3e@blackpc, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Several people have had trouble with this. I made a mistake when
uploading the file which may have created the problem. I've
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 at 00:38:21, Tony Firshman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Someone has defined a standard to avoid splitting:
URL:long
ggg
Try again- should work this time:
URL:http
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 at 21:39:28, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:38:21 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Someone has defined a standard to avoid splitting:
URL:long
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 at 10:35:50, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:28:31 -, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, let's try again, acrefully type in twice as described, with
opening and closing URL: and and no space between : and http
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 15:04:54, François Van Emelen wrote:
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Just received the free CD on the cover of the QL
Today magazine.
Thanks to all who made this possible!
By the way, no QL meeting in Eindhoven this spring?
François Van Emelen
1 March
Jochen will be there.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 13:16:06, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:10:18 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
Jochen will be there.
Whether Roy and I make it depends on the return of Roy's new passport!
He is currently trapped in the UL (8
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 19:35:58, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
(ref: 3E51399E.22485.7254A2@localhost)
He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)#
United Lapland?
First half is OL (using the same mistype)?
I think there are enough clues now (8-)#
--
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 18:26:31, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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Oh I see :-) Isn't the UK a signatory of the Schengen though? Greeks
for example can go to Italy or France without a passport...
No we aren't.
The ferry companies actually are the only check both ends routinely,
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 21:23:03, Bruce N wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Testing email list
Yes we are here. I has been incredibly quiet. Even Jochen was
wondering (8-)#
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tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 15:45:29, Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
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Marcel gives already the right (and only ?) answer : always use integer
representation for number then convert them with IDEC$/FDEC$.
Sad method as this slow down a lot the process.
This is no good for QDOS -
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 17:44:27, Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
De : Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoye : lundi 10 mars 2003 17:32
A : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 15:45:29, Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
(ref
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 at 16:14:30, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:31:54 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tony your date is set in 2004... Are you experiencing Time warp?
:-)
It is a pain. My local time is fine (synchronised to the atomic clock
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 00:20:31, Roy Wood wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
That's if one person the discount for all who reply before the end of
the month whatever now.
Reminds me of the dentist joke (impossible to write down
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 10:20:57, P Witte wrote:
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François Van Emelen writes:
It is not too difficult to write your own fixed
or floating point routines in Basic using basic school maths, but they
would
be relatively slow. (The book Mathematics on the Sinclair QL,
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 23:55:51, P Witte wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tony Firshman writes:
Monetary calculations normally only require the four basic
operations, add, subtract, multiply and divide.
Surely two only - addition and subtraction?
Multiplication and division are shorthand
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 at 01:57:39, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Oddly, given the problems that we have all experienced over the years
with QL mdvs, using cartridges in the Spectrum drives on a Spectrum are
very reliable, formatting to around 90Kb. I have hardly ever
experienced the bad
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 at 18:51:22, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
ACCUS (the East Anglian QL user group), proposes to hold a QL Workshop
in Norwich early in 2004. On several occasions traders have expressed
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 at 17:43:25, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Does anyone know the history of the QL Manual??
I have now seen 3 versions -
a) marked 1st edition with hand written amendments prior to printing.
b) unmarked - each page is dated 6/84 and there are 4/5 pages of
addenda
c)
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 at 19:35:24, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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As we are sort of 20 years into the QL's life, it might be possible to
plan a special event around this, unless of course it's already in
hand for the AGM or USA show!
This sounds great, could the show be tied to
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 at 20:15:17, Lau wrote:
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I'll wait to see which (if any) of them work for you all.
Winzip likes both tar and gzip, but cannot understand .gz file. It
wants to know the extension of the enclosed file! ... or the tz2 file.
I haven't got to my QL yet,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 at 22:08:07, Tony Firshman wrote:
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 at 19:02:02, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
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A London QUANTA Workshop is to be planned for Sunday 16th November 2003
( 3rd Sunday in month to avoid clash problem last year
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 at 18:36:25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Norman Dunbar wrote:
We need The Idiot's Guide to Floating Point Number Theory I think
!
Eek, I'm scared already...
Last time Floating Point Theory came up in my case was a few years ago
when my son threw one of my
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 at 17:56:03, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
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This message failed to reach you as a QL Trader ... I hope that it was
just something temporary at fault.
--- Forwarded message follows ---
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 at 09:03:22, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Tony Tebby wrote:
You son would do fine here (in France). My son has just taken his
French
essay paper for the baccalauriat. This year the French paper has
Calculators not allowed for this
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 at 21:00:52, Robert Newson wrote:
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The slide rule I used as school was my dad's old one which even had
inches and centimetres marked down the opposite long edges (it was a
12 rule).
My brother, a doctor, when her was a student used to keep a 6 rule
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 at 08:36:41, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hi Roy,
90% of the time, when you do this, it is OK - on the odd occasion though
the mixture of Air to gas is just right to explode in the bunsen burner.
CO2 mainly - so no explosion.
All it did was make the
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 at 00:43:09, Lau wrote:
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My suggestion of one byte buffers was a little facetious (one of the
two words was the five vowels in order - there's one with them
reversed).
'was' - 'with'
Ah that is worth remembering as it help spell the damn word (8-)
I
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 at 17:13:28, TonyTebby wrote:
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ZN wrote
The big omission on the ROM slot is a 'write' signal. Clever hardware can
be used to 'remember' the state of the lower 8 address lines when a read
is
done from an area (obviously at least 256 bytes in size)
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 at 10:15:45, TonyTebby wrote:
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powergenitalia.com seems genuine enough - domain registered late 2002, site
put up mid 2003 and taken down almost immediately
Domain Name: POWERGENITALIA.COM
Registrant:
POWERGEN S.R.L. (POWERGENITALIA-DOM)
VIA
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 at 16:13:14, TonyTebby wrote:
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Colin Parsons wrote
Try it without a comma, and it works,
http://www.powergenitalia.com/
From still active Italian page!!
It must have been cached - I've tried several times over 24 hours and
the server is
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 10:08:10, wrote:
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I know Roy will, and Tony probably (I assume)
Oh yes indeed.
I will contact Sturat as well.
and John Hall has also said
he'll come. Anybody else??
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 12:46:29, wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
While you're contacting Sturat, maybe you should see if Stuart Can come too
:-))
It was an entirely intentional typo.
It is like 'forst' and 'QL Toady'
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 at 00:02:10, Roy wood wrote:
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By the way Darren I would prefer the Bank Holiday weekend like last
time because I could take an extra day. This may appeal to others too.
This would mean a 'show' on the 23rd.
Bank holiday usually though means no cheap
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 at 06:36:00, Peter Fox wrote:
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The whole point about this is that it is a *twin* engined plane which
means that it goes even when one stops
.. but hard to fly in a straight line (8-)#
(I have never had this happen to
me).
Phew.
--
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 at 09:10:22, Laurence Reeves wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Peter Fox wrote:
The whole point about this is that it is a *twin* engined plane which
means that it goes even when one stops (I have never had this happen
to me).
When I flew with you, you did have one that
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 at 22:52:30, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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http://webdb4.patent.gov.uk/tm/number?detailsrequested=Ctrademark=1206
950 Shows Sinclair QL as a Registered Trademark of Amstrad PLC (so
please update your trademarks at your pages ;-) Although I believe the
name
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 09:23:07, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED])
But if you are running XP then the print-scn button no longer works -
microsoft don't want any DOS backwards compatability in XP !
SHIFT Print Screen does.
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 14:10:26, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED])
print screen not DOS
oh yes it was ! (AKA I beg to differ !)
It started (?) in DOS where the print-scn button printed the text on screen
to a printer (not sure if it was able to be redirected to a file though) in
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 15:33:39, wrote:
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The other one is prising off the keys from the keyboards and switching them
about, or spelling out rude word on the keyboard with them - this won't
bother the touch typists, but as for the rest of us.
Sturat Honeyball did
to start
work
again :o)
Cheers,
Norman.
First, we had the secrets of what Tony Firshman got up to in physics
class at school.
Now, we know how 'hard' Norman Dunbar works ;-)
I wonder what other evil people are on this list!!! (Cue Darren
Branagh no doubt...)
Must admit though Norman, that one
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 20:33:22, Dave Walker wrote:
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The other nasty trick for Windows users is to install the screen saver from
www.sysinternals.com that realistically simulates your system crashing and
rebooting! I have seen users hit the reset button before they
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 at 09:18:10, wrote:
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Europe or UK? There have only been a few voices so far, so what are the
rest of you thinking?
Eindhoven is a good venue, of course, for those in Europe.
I suspect though that attendance would be considerably less than for a
UK
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 at 14:43:25, Mark Martin wrote:
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I set up a poll at www.sinclairql.net if anyone's interested...
Well I tried. It is no wonder there are zero votes.
I registered - and it provided me with the complicated and instantly
forgettable password.
I then
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 at 20:11:40, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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Hi
Am doing several secret projects for the QL, one was writing a Webcam
driver. So there I am mottled black Q60 with webcam plugged in. Printed
copy of a manual on how to develop non-wintel webcam drivers for my
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 at 22:46:45, Peter Graf wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tarquin Mills wrote:
Am doing several secret projects for the QL, one was writing a Webcam
driver. So there I am mottled black Q60 with webcam plugged in. Printed
copy of a manual on how to develop non-wintel webcam
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 at 20:54:54, Roy wood wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I won't quote back any of the long and detailed list Geoff has just
given us but I have a great tendency to agree with him on ninety
percent of it. If we
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 at 21:20:25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tony Firshman wrote:
... and the time when Phil Borman left my passport in Dover, and I
had
to be smuggled around for days.
...and the Volvo chase around London when someone's suitcase got left
on the minibus driven
) - giving us the
spare 'rabbit food'.
The time Roy Wood, Jim Hunkins, Tony
Firshman and I ended up in a Gay Bar in Montreal,
Two from what I recall, but we recognised the first as gay (men
dancing!) I will never forget the reaction of the (very) gay barman to
Darren's attempts to teach him how
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 at 02:36:46, Lau wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... and Freddie Vachha's breakfast there (four helpings) - giving us
the
spare 'rabbit food'.
I remember Freddy Helping a waitress or three to put out a fire on
an
egg griddler
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 at 14:48:53, ZN wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On 8/8/2003 at 2:55 PM Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
I have an ISA NE2000plus3 pcb marked Microdyne 1996
but no jumpers.
It uses AT/LANTIC DP83905AVQB chip.
Btw: Theoretically the 15D connector is the Ethernet connector and the
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 at 17:55:24, wrote:
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qword snipped
I may have missed it, but has anyone said _what_ Qword is here?
A word processor?
The QL market is thriving in some ways - since I started running my
website properly last year (was it only then??), I have added
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 at 16:02:19, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Jerome Grimbert wrote:
But why do you want such behaviour ?
Programs running in a sort of kiosk mode?
Yes - I could have done with something like this when Ben was running
QL games.
QPC has an option to disallow
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 at 20:22:00, wrote:
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Maybe it shows the general apathy amongst the users.
Indeed.
Mind you when I last looked, there were only 150 on this list.
My database is over 500.
Wow - twice the size of mine !! :-)
I mean the _email_ list of
Subject: [ql-users] QL2004
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Date:Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:36:38 +0100
(Copied from Malcolm C's email - he cannot send to the gorup for some
reason)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
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On Sun, 3
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 at 10:38:21, ZN wrote:
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On 8/9/2003 at 3:25 AM Tony Firshman wrote:
I can't see any mention of 'pnp' in the datasheet.
Ah there is a jumper - 'jp1' marked 'default' to p39 EECONFIG - load
from EEPROM.
Note pins 50..58 (CA0..7), 40..48 (CB0..7), 22..31
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 at 19:52:16, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
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Hi !
I'm trying to find a Q60-compatible ISA Ethernet card (NE2000),
but in France I only find Plug'n play cards (I tried one and
the Q60 doesn't even boot... IRQ problem, I guess) while what
is needed is a
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 23:10:33, Roy wood wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills
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Tony Firshman wrote:
... but I find very few people think properly about termination.
Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 01:55:34, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Roy wood wrote:
As a general rule single devices on double headed cables should always
be plugged into the last connector. I have never had a satisfactory
explanation of this from anyone
I'm far from being a
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 at 10:57:25, Roy wood wrote:
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All it takes is something to start the thing off and a bit of open-ended
thinking from a small group of QL leaders well in advance of the show. And
if need be let it happen just once a year at the AGM. Add a show dinner
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 at 22:47:25, Derek Stewart wrote:
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There is no benfit of using 80 wire IDE cables, as the IDE controller can
not take advantage of the higher speeds like on PCs...
Indeed. ... and the blanked single socket will (or should) stop you
using it!
I have
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 14:33:18, Lau wrote:
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Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Thierry Godefroy wrote:
I see where is the confusion: by name table, I meant definition
table,
you _must_ keep the name of each function/procedure even, padding it with
a null byte _if_and_only_if_ the
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 11:02:53, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
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Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read
} Marcel wrote :
}
} I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of
} the cable is not terminated when there's no drive attached you get
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 at 21:17:32, Roy wood wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
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and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of
chaining IDE devices.
At the moment it is one device to each SATA port. I have
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 14:56:31, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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Has the latest version gone out to the Postie in the UK yet ?
Just wondering because Marcel read my article last week and I'm getting
'withdrawal' symptoms as I have nothing to read :o)
I got mine two days ago.
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 14:04:26, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
... but I find very few people think properly about termination.
Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong
termination (much like IDE).
and SATA (serial IDE
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 at 10:58:49, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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Just a little bit off topic, but as of Friday 15th August I will no longer
be receiving emails from this list at this email address - I'm leaving work
on Friday never to return :o(
Not in the slightest OFT.
I wish
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 20:06:26, Roy wood wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
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I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines!
However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of
you
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 22:47:40, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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Actually no Tony.
You can select the administrator options and download all the updates
separately without using Windows Update.
I have been in again to
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
and I
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 at 08:39:54, thegilpins wrote:
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You could try Keith Mitchell on
akmitchell A T totalise D O T co. D O T uk
You might not be aware that publishing literal email addresses like this
in _any_ group, even an email based one like this, is favourite spam
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