Re: [ql-users] CTRL ALT left/right

2005-03-04 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that with QPC v3.11 that the keys CTRL/ALT with up, down, right, left produce $D3, $DB, $CB, $C3. But perhaps that is just my peivate Keyboard Table. George Which is correct, and this is what it does on my PC at home. I know QPC2 works OK in this respect as long as

Re: [ql-users] QL filename length revisited

2005-01-14 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: jms1 wrote: Surely the trick is to check whether the directory is type 5. If so treat it like a new directory and file naming. If not treat it like a type 255 directory. Careful with file types. Some have been used in the old days. I am sure we used file types for

Re: [ql-users] QL filename length revisited

2005-01-14 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
P Witte wrote: Marcel Kilgus writes: Just an unrelated note to the DOS long-filename-hack: They had to do this because a single file name was limited to only 8 characters. We have 36 characters to work with, which is much less of a burden. So I don't see the need for something similar. But they

Re: [ql-users] QL filename length revisited

2005-01-13 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/01/05 06:08:07 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question here. Currently, the way directories are handled is by making a directory a somewhat special file (file type -1, IIRC). Apart from that, though,a directory ia a simple

Re: [ql-users] Eprom Programmer

2005-01-04 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Does anybody know what kind of Eprom programmer would be suitable? Any eprom programmer able to handle 27C1024 ! (DIP 40 format, beware of cheap programmer which are a few bit short!) Wolfgang, I can offer you the programming of eproms if you want. (as

Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?

2005-01-02 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
David Tubbs wrote: At 16:56 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote: David Tubbs wrote: http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip Nice one, danke ! Just spotted 'FLP_STEP' entry is present twice, but I'm guessing the first one should be read 'FLP_STOP'. You're welcome. By the way, is anybody

Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT

2004-12-12 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
P Witte wrote: Phoebus Dokos writes: However in all truth, there is a GREAT SMSQ/e partition tools only it doesn't run under SMSQ/e... it runs under Linux (atari-fdisk) and it's worth to boot a ram-based linux only for atari-fdisk :-) Is there any reason why it could not be ported to Qdos/Smsq?

Re: [ql-users] Trump Cards and FORMAT

2004-12-12 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The major part is more radical. It is high time that hard drive partitions and formats be unified on QL platforms, and in fact, it is only Qubide that does not directly conform to the norm. It should be possible (indeed,

Re: [ql-users] locking a window?

2004-10-01 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
James Hunkins wrote: I had considered that but things like dropdown menus and error messages should have the original window left open so that you can have a reference. Not to mention, with folders, I would not like a full folder closing every time I wanted to run do a change to it or pick a

Re: [ql-users] use of new system sprites from C68?

2004-09-16 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
James Hunkins wrote: Jerome, Since no one else has jumped in with help on this yet, would you mind digging through for a sample of your 'C' code showing the proper use of the new system sprites. It would really help me a lot. Ok. You will have to wait till monday, but just be patient...

Re: [ql-users] use of new system sprites from C68?

2004-09-14 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
James Hunkins wrote: Has anyone used the new system sprites from C68? This would be using it in the window definition which was originally a pointer to a sprite file. I have tried it by defining 2 bytes such as: unsigned short test_sprite = 0x0008;[ byte 0 = 0x00 for a system

Re: [ql-users] WIN drives

2004-06-24 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Is the facility to have WIN1 to WIN8 redefinable limted to QPC2 or does it exist on QXL, QemuLator, UQLx etc (systems handling QXL.WIN)? It is also available to Q40. From old memory, QXL use [letter]:\QXL.WIN with letter starting at C for win1. If you can create subdrive (was

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 vs Word 97

2004-05-27 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Dilwyn Jones wrote: QPC is a CPU cycle hog, but it seems to share with other programs willingly enough. The only thing that slows QPC to a crawl on my system is the Epson printer driver: When I print from Word or other PC programs, QPC is unusable. The Epson printer driver does tend to swamp other

Re: [ql-users] QSI

2004-05-21 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Davide Santachiara wrote: Just for curiosity I had the chance to run QSI with QPC on a P4 3200 Mhz with extra fast ram and it's actually slower than my Athlon 2600+ (2562 vs 2733 - i.e. 27,33 times faster than a GC). Maybe QPC is optimised for AMD processors? Nope, at least I do not think so. P4