Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?

2005-01-12 Thread Michael Berger
Hello! recently Wolfgang Mühlegger pointed my attention to the excellent Keywords/Concepts documents by Martin Head.which can be found on Dylwin's QL documentation site. I am really VERY enthusiastic about those documents! This is the first time I find all required information about QL + TK2 +

[ql-users] You can never have it all...

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Berger
Hello! First off I would like to wish you all a happy and healthy 2005. Inspired by the discussion on a good superbasic book on this mailing list I managed to get a second hand copy of Jan Jones QL SuperBASIC - the definitive handbook. In my opinion this book was written in a fairly technical

Re: [ql-users] You can never have it all...

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that mentioning it as an extremely powerful etc... BASIC Jan Jones was probably avoiding a suit for defamation by Commodore Inc :-) Oh I have to apologize - this was my failure: the second statement was not from Janet,

[ql-users] Ain't that a shame?

2004-11-07 Thread Michael Berger
Hi, just came across the page on Wikipedia about QDOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDOS They only tell the story that led to M$DOS, not even a single statement there was still something else :-( The good thing about Wikipedia: everyone could edit an article. However such changes are watched

Re: [ql-users] Ain't that a shame?

2004-11-07 Thread Michael Berger
this is just an alert: please be careful... With best regards Michael - Original Message - From: Michael Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: [ql-users] Ain't that a shame? Hi, just came across the page on Wikipedia about QDOS: http

Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60? Imagine the xchange suite running on your mobile phone Please do not forget: if you go for text based applications, then

[ql-users] PLaying with QLAY source code

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Berger
Hi out there! I still think that Jan Venema's QLAY (with available sources) is an invaluable resource for getting started with for a QL emu programming beginner ... Last weekend I started the experiment ... a very modest attempt to install CYGWIN and then to compile the package just as it is,

[ql-users] Goldcard 2 getting started with questions

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Berger
Hi, since today I am a proud owner of a GC2. Just plugged it into my QL and was amazed (QSBB benchmarking results). Still have some questions that I guess are an easy answer for most of you: 1) With GC2 plugged in I do not have TK2 available right from the start. Found out trial and error I

[ql-users] chips wanna go walking ...

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Berger
Hi, that is another amazing thing: with my new old Gold Card I first found it behaved somewhat strange (recognized the attached floppy as FLP2_ instead as FLP1_) I am really not experienced very much with hardware problems but one of the things I ever try first in such cases if there are

Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60? I recently upgraded my Nokia mobile phone, from a 7650 to a new 3660 with video playback. On surfing the web, I found a really

Re: [ql-users] there must be a fashion lable...

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] there must be a fashion lable... If yes it should (besides the hardware/software aspect) definitely also give some credit to the creator of the QL design.

Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-08-03 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible? Once someone gets QL to other computer sernet working, I would be most grateful if someone

Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-08-02 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible? On QPC2 using SER2 10 BAUD 2,9600 20 LRESPR SERNET_SER2_REXT 30 SNET 1 40 SERNET : REMark Sernet file server

Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-08-01 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: wolfgang mühlegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible? michael there is a very good manual in the above mentioned zip-file (sogar auf deutsch) ;-) i think

[ql-users] self explaining software

2004-08-01 Thread Michael Berger
? Michael Berger wrote: Completely agree. Having the configuration information within the executable file itself is a messy and error prone thing. Why's that? What's error prone about this? And once you're used to this, it's actually a piece of cake. Level 2 is especially nice because it can

Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-07-30 Thread Michael Berger
Hello out there, is sernet for the QL free or does it cost money? As far as I understand the matter it is already built into the OS of QPC2, but I would need a software counterpart for the Sinclair black box? So far I only found webpages containing discussions on sernet but not a download page

[ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Berger
Hello out there does any of the existing QL emulators support a QL network link between PC and QL? - I do not mean by Serial port (as I know QPC2 can do this) but by the QL network connection - probably to a pair of data/ground pins on the PC's parallel port? Regards Michael

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2004-07-26 Thread Michael Berger
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Re: [ql-users] README_TXT

2004-07-25 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Gerhard Plavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] README_TXT Simply enter 1 REM ...and your text... then SAVE file (enter NEW first to be sure there is no programm loaded) that is a

Re: [ql-users] Toolkit II

2004-07-25 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Daniele Terdina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:28 PM Subject: [ql-users] Toolkit II I don't think there is potential for selling copies of TK2 anymore, nor that a freely available TK2 would hurt SMSQ/E, as SMSQ/E is

[ql-users] my all time favourite QL code

2004-07-25 Thread Michael Berger
Hi out there It is now maybe two years since I started scanning old QL magazines, sometimes there is really amazing information but until today I never found a more amazing piece of code than the following one - both how it is done technically (recursion) and the graphical effect. I really

[ql-users] README_TXT

2004-07-24 Thread Michael Berger
Hello Folks! Here is another simple question: How can I quick and dirty create a text file under QDOS? I think of something equivalent to MS_DOS: COPY CON README.TXT mary had a little lamb bla bla bla ^Z Used this a lot to write notes such as start addresses, commands, findings etc. The disk

Re: [ql-users] Software - was how to get QL2K

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software - was how to get QL2K hello Geoff, I must admit you are probably right: there is very little commercial potential left for the QL today in

Re: [ql-users] Toolkit II software on a real QL

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Toolkit II software on a real QL IIRC, TK2s loaded as files didn't need any value placed in the register on startup. Thanks for your hints,

Re: [ql-users] Toolkit II software on a real QL

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Toolkit II software on a real QL IIRC, TK2s loaded as files didn't need any value placed in the register on startup. Thanks for your

Re: [ql-users] how to get QL2K

2004-07-18 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouldn't the alternatve be to install QPC2? You are completely right. But only if you imply that every user is a power user. No doubt QPC2 is the most powerful software that has ever been written to emulate an environment

Re: [ql-users] how to get QL2K

2004-07-18 Thread Michael Berger
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] how to get QL2K Why not try QemuLator? you are right, good proposal, I will try it as soon as I can. In the meantime I would have one question:

Re: [ql-users] how to get QL2K

2004-07-17 Thread Michael Berger
Cygwin provides a Unix environment under Windows, doesn't it? [Sorry for this question, but feel i have to to break out ...] ... puuh for a non-Unix guy this is a nightmare - my computer is already messed up with windows - should I really put that kind of Cygwin stuff on top of it?: install

[ql-users] how to get QL2K

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Berger
Hello! Is the QL2K project still active and is it possible to get that emu from somewhere? Tried contacting the author through his homepage's email link, but got my email undeliverably returned. Must admit although I do have a registered copy of QPC2 I mostly use QLAY when playing around with

Re: [ql-users] how to get QL2K

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Berger
] how to get QL2K On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:13:21 +0200, Michael Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Is the QL2K project still active and is it possible to get that emu from somewhere? Tried contacting the author through his homepage's email link, but got my email undeliverably returned