Hi all,
Yep, it's the 20 th birthday. Congrats all around. I really can't remember
what I did on the fatal day. I do remember, though, typing on a cardboard
keyboard that was an advertisment for the QL in a magazine (PCW?) in 1:1
size
Anyway, there have ben several attempts to get a
On 17 Jan 2004 at 13:41, gwicks wrote:
Indeed the response has been disappointing.
As is usually the case.
Just 4 replies to a possible
Eindhoven event, and 3 of those were business replies on specific matters.
The present Eindhoven situation is that we are now waiting for Sin-QL-Air
On 17 Jan 2004 at 20:24, Timothy Swenson wrote:
Well, I'm flying 2,400 miles to attend the US QL Show. I think that shows
that I'm still committed to the QL.
It certainly is more than I'm doing!
Wolfgang
On 18 Jan 2004 at 10:20, P Witte wrote:
(...)
How about a panel
of Wise (Wo)Men to answer specific questions from the audience? That way we
could have a number of short talks (eg 2 to 15 minutes each) on a varitey of
special interest questions.
Who could propose a topic to be talked about?
On 25 Jan 2004 at 17:36, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
In the ideal case, we just need a simple remote screen (black and white
will do, we need to be able to display one line of buttons, two lines of
small text and one line of big text (or buttons and five lines of small
text). If we can
On 29 Jan 2004 at 11:28, Davide Santachiara wrote:
After a small investigation I have found out that the cable that I would like
to interface to QPC2 via PC i/o port is a serial one so things should be
much easier than using a parallel port. The cable is meant to be
connected to a serial
Hi all,
just as a warning, I got a message purporting to come from this list,
with some form of binary attachment (a zip file).
It most probably was some form of mydoom virus.
Don't open it!
Wolfgang
Hi all
BMP2SPRT v. 1.12 can be got at the usual place...
Wolfgang
On 4 Feb 2004 at 23:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(...)
[Geoff Wicks for Quanta chairman or editor if he retires from trading,
now that Robin Barker is stepping down!!!]
Seconded.
Wolfgang
On 10 Feb 2004 at 20:31, Timothy Swenson wrote:
With all honesty, I find Qlib to be an easier compiler to use. Now, both
have their problem compared to a real compiler like C68. Both require
you to LOAD the program into SBASIC.
This is, actually, not quite true. QLIB requires the program
On 13 Feb 2004 at 0:03, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote:
True. In any case I was talking about QDOS (Classic) and Minerva.
Unbelievable as it may seem, there are users that still require full
compatibility with QDOS and SMSQ/e is not an option for them.
Why should that be inbelievable?
On 13 Feb 2004 at 4:13, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
But then again, I could also win the lottery on Saturday.
Well I hope you don't - you'd probably off to laze in the sun in
Barbados, and the QL world still needs you...
grin
(what you mean you actualyl play the lottery?)
Wolfgang
On 13 Feb 2004 at 10:57, Dave P wrote:
Similarly, for our US QL users, think about this:
a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
(...)
Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
(..)
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more
On 13 Feb 2004 at 9:15, Phoebus R. Dokos ( . wrote:
Most likely, but where the user is concerned they really don't care as
long as it works correct? :-D
Yes - just as long as
I do not think that it doesn't work. On the contrary.
Sorry, wans't that what you were saying -
On 13 Feb 2004 at 9:17, Phoebus R. Dokos ( .
) wrote:
Why not? I do :-) (Especially with Powerball loterry jackpots running
usually at US$ 50.000.000 (or more!)
I'd rather spend my money on something else.
Wolfgang
On 13 Feb 2004 at 11:26, Timothy Swenson wrote:
Yea, yea, Yea.
American have guns, Europeans don't. No need to start a long thread about the
merits of either. I can always start the thread that our royality are not
on the taxpayers' dollar. :-)
There hasn't been royalty in this
On 14 Feb 2004 at 14:45, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote:
Well live in Indiana, PA and then you'll realise that there's not many
options on where to spend your money anyway (the little that I have that
is :-D)
there is always some QL stuff to buy...
(Uff, back on topic).
Wolfgang
On 14 Feb 2004 at 14:44, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote:
Pah! How about for
The-Place-That-Bill-Gates-Will-Go-After-He-Departs-This-Futile-World' s
sake then?
Well I wouldn't want to stoop that low, either!
Woflagng
On 29 Feb 2004 at 7:59, Christopher Cave wrote:
At the last London show, I picked up a disk from Roy Wood which
enabled me to have nice 3-d borders to buttons etc. Over the
last few days, I have been getting to grip with using the new
wman colours in my latest program(in C68). All is
Hi all,
SMSQ/E 3.05 should be available soon from your dealers...
The sources are out now at:
www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe
Have fun!
Wolfgang
On 1 Mar 2004 at 14:21, Christopher Cave wrote:
Thanks for the response. I have boiled the program down to just
the main window, one loose item and one application window. It
still displays the offending behaviour.
Do you want just the source? Should I send it to you off this
list?
Has anyone given serious thought as to the best way to set up a
program that will run in QL-mode 4 as well as hi-colour, and
that will run on the old as well as the new window manager? For
the moment, I have used a mixture of separate declarations of,
e.g., WM_wwork_t's and of runtime
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote:
Hi all,
I have a wee problem with Menu_rext,
('...)
This is a problem that's been in menu_rext for ages.
In my experience, though, it only happens on virtual drives, i.e. the dos
device in QPC and the dev device.
Menu_rext cleverly takes the
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote:
(...)
On 13 Mar 2004 at 3:17, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
(...)
Don't you guys ever sleep?
On 13 Mar 2004 at 1:37, P Witte wrote:
(...)
I've now also tested this on ram,
and the problem does, indeed, exist there
But this is still with a patched version of menu_rext
Wolfgang
On 13 Mar 2004 at 10:40, P Witte wrote:
Don't you guys ever sleep?
Of course. Only we get up a wee bit earlier than you ;)
Per
I didn't realize we had vampires on this list.
Back into the coffin at the crack of dawn, huh?
Wolfgang
On 13 Mar 2004 at 11:59, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Isn't there a possibility to make a sprite out of the string on the
fly?
Possibly with a background-system-colour?
I know that there is something like blobs and patterns but I have never
understood how this works.
I'd like that very much
On 13 Mar 2004 at 19:29, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
Per was referring to WIN and RAM ... and I tried it the way
described and it worked fine - no directories listed, no crash.
It does crash here, though, as said in my second message...
I just never used win, because I use dev
It happended
I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first
attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably around
in this matter.
Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my 2 cents' worth.
I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for
On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:37, Dave P wrote:
A person who does not want money must want something more valuable. ;)
Value, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder...
Wolfgang
On 17 Mar 2004 at 18:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
How much of SMSQ/E for Qx0 is modular and how much inbuilt (i.e. has
to be rewritten every time a new SMSQ/E is released)?
Nothing has to be rewrittenfor the Q60 (or any other machine) every time a new
SMSQ/E is released, unless some changes are
On 17 Mar 2004 at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote:
(...)
You had to dial manually, listen for the tones, and fit the coupler.
... and the 'monitor' was a wide carriage IBM golfball printer.
Those were the days (8-)#
May they never come back!
Wolfgang
On 18 Mar 2004 at 9:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might try driving without tyres.
But would that be driving?
Wolfgang
On 18 Mar 2004 at 14:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Space permitting, I might put a little summary of recent changes and
version numbers into QL Toady soon.
Want me to wend you a text file with the changes?
Wolfgang
On 18 Mar 2004 at 13:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(...)
That's what I meant. Not having a Q60 here I didn't know if SMSQ/E for
Q60 was same SMSQ/E version as QXL, QPC, Gold Card etc etc
Yes.
Of course.
That's the whole purpose, innit?
Wolfgang
On 19 Mar 2004 at 9:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bumpily - as without SMSQ/E.
On the other hand SMSQ/E does seem to give the, er, bumps to some...
Wolfgang
On 19 Mar 2004 at 16:54, Tony Firshman wrote:
Maybe we ought to resort to old fashioned sheep.
No thanks, I already look sheepish enough most of the time.
Wolfgang
On 19 Mar 2004 at 21:41, Tony Firshman wrote:
No thanks, I already look sheepish enough most of the time.
I thought you were more wolf like (8-)#
but in sheeps' clothes, of course...
Wolfgang
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