On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 at 21:18:05, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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Sat, 1 Jan 2005 01:48:33 +,() Roy wood
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What are you talking about ? Firmware is what is on the board itself.
Each Chip has a set of instructions built into it and you have
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:45:29 +,() Tony Firshman
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... ah and that reminds me of one major 'firmware' deficiency.
The PC I/O cards send an IRQ pulse only. The on-board firmware as
supplied had no way of registering these.
Which on-board firmware? You mean the ROMs of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
You obviously have it confused...
I do not see how any of what you wrote makes what I said confused.. The
controller chips on I/O boards are firmware by the definitions you gave.
(And which I have removed so no one has to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy, please do not start this up all over again -
I was not trying to start anything up just correcting your statement. I
will shut up about it now.
There are incompatabilities due to the different processors used and
the fact
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:14:53 +, Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy, please do not start this up all over again -
I was not trying to start anything up just correcting your statement. I
will shut up about it now.
Good -
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
1) The empty device name loose items in the Source/Destination
Directory window are solid black rather than a white/green stipple
That's the Shaded area colour.
Hmm... when I change things via QCoCo, it appears to pick up the App
Win paper colour instead!
2) The
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 at 06:14:28, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
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Whe he said Firmware is on the board he was talking Eproms, logic
chips etc.
Yes but these are two different things. Firmware is NOT logic chips -
unless these logic chips are complete CPUs-
Then we are talking
Very well done - you have spent some time on this. Just took a
quick scan and nothing really bad stood out. If you get carried a
way, a couple of small graphics at the top might help the initial
look (to keep the casual browser's attention long enough to start
reading it) but that is a very,
Oh please go ahead... comment (You owe me that much after the drill
thing ;-) heeheeehee)
Referring to the caption compo in QL Today? We never did get any
serious entries for that, sadly.
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Have a read and see what you think. I would welcome any other
suggestions for material to help those returning to the QL scene
and possibly those who are into retro-computing in general and
perhaps approaching the QL for the first time.
I don't know if Jochen has mentioned this but I am working
Does anyone know why unzip is looking for the signal extensions
and what they add? It would be nice to have a copy available or
a command line option that would totally avoid this minor
inconvenience, especially in this case or for new users. People
tend to panic over notes like this ;)
I also get these, as they usually have an empty subject line I tried
to block them via OE's filters by rejecting an empty string in the
subject line, wouldn't work though, same thing in Thunderbird you
can mark them as junk but it wont work with the next one to arrive,
it a dodgy strategy
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James
Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Guys,
Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you want to
keep talking about this other stuff? Trying to monitor for any QDT
specific stuff but instead end up reading all about something else.
Indeed :-)
John Hall wrote:
Yes... but, as I pointed out in my follow-up message, the old QPac2
has both a main border colourway and a menu window colourway,
whereas the current version uses a single palette number :-(
Actually I did check that both options are still available but now
that I check again
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:28:37 +,() Malcolm Cadman
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I solved the installation difficulty by starting QPC2 v.3.23 without
running my normal boot sequence at all. Just went straight to the Demo
disk. Ran the installation from there, used the 'Easy' option to write
Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:07:12 -,() Dilwyn Jones
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Oh please go ahead... comment (You owe me that much after the drill
thing ;-) heeheeehee)
Referring to the caption compo in QL Today? We never did get any serious
entries for that, sadly.
Reason being of course
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Well I am not so sure that QDT would be right if it weren't
preinstalled. Moreover, I have found SMSQ/e 3.07 to be extremely
unstable on the Q40 and Q60 and QDT doesn't work that well with
older versions of (stabler)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I like to have a basic BOOT program to get a working system, and
everything else into a 'boot1'.
I don't really see the point in that unless you are using the JM
Ok, so I was using the JM ROM, but I had a BOOT file that
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
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:19:06 +0100,() Michael Berger
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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
- 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,
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
... And just when we thought it was safe to have v1.39 ... :-)
Is that on your web site ?
Nah, cannot. I did the updates for free but its basic status is still
commercial. It can however be updated from the usual sources.
I will have to now have a look at all these
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 at 03:10:15, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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snip
Amazes me that people are prepared to waste their time pestering people
like me who have never and never will knowingly respond to junk
mail/email/texts. Always amazes me how people take the attitude that
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:57:22 -, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
With Launchpad, 9 out of 10 problems are installation directory. Since
QDOS or SMSQ don't tell programs which directory they were executed from
(if you EXEC win1_programs_MYPROGRAM_exe the poor program doesn't
John Hall wrote:
That's the Shaded area colour.
Hmm... when I change things via QCoCo, it appears to pick up the App
Win paper colour instead!
Hmmm, doesn't look like shaded area can be separately set in QCoco.
Probably because this QPAC2 menu is the only application that made
ever use of it.
After hearing all about the natural disasters affecting the
populations of some Asian countries, it was not nice to realise I have
parts made by Tsunami on this PC. Without meaning to make light in any
way of the awful situation those people find themselves in, it makes
me wonder why anyone
There's no way that AVG dumps anything into Documents and
Settings...
I'd be careful about blanket statements like that about AVG7, after my
well documented WinTV problems which seemed to do anything and dump
things anywhere and however it felt like and uninstall files it had
nothing to do
Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you
want to keep talking about this other stuff? Trying to monitor
for any QDT specific stuff but instead end up reading all about
something else.
Thanks!
jim
Of course you are right :-)
Ffibys
After our chat about the Welsh
Perhaps QL Today could print a little regular item listing the
latest
versions available, and what they are required for. As a prompt to
us to keep as up to date as we can.
--
Malcolm Cadman
I doubt we could be fast enough to keep up with Marcel and Wolfgang.
--
Dilwyn Jones
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No virus found
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:49:23 -,() Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you want
to keep talking about this other stuff? Trying to monitor for any
QDT specific stuff but instead end up reading all about something
else.
John Hall wrote:
That's the Shaded area colour.
Hmm... when I change things via QCoCo, it appears to pick up the App
Win paper colour instead!
Hmmm, doesn't look like shaded area can be separately set in QCoco.
Probably because this QPAC2 menu is the only application that made
ever use of it.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Nah... I just use for everything... a touch of Welsh is always cool I
guess ;-) (At least to my Greek eyes)
Only the Greek could find the Welsh cool !
(no I have offended two races and it is only January 1st)
--
Roy Wood
Q
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:55:03 +,() Roy wood
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Nah... I just use for everything... a touch of Welsh is always cool I
guess ;-) (At least to my Greek eyes)
Only the Greek could find the Welsh cool !
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
If there will be other applications using these two, I will update
QCoCo.
One (small) thing I've noticed while messing about with the palette
colours - if you hit the SAVE_TH item and then ESCape from the File
Select window, the item text changes to save.
Also, the About
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Hmmm, doesn't look like shaded area can be separately set in
QCoco. Probably because this QPAC2 menu is the only application that
made ever use of it.
Yes, I'd come to the same conclusion after saving and comparing a
couple of before and after palettes.
However, when I
Now if I only had a clue where the colour is set, this is some damn
complicated code.
But that's very easy, actually :)
As I already said, Shaded area and vertical area fill are number 48
and 51 in the list,
what I mean with list can be seen on:
http://home.tiscali.nl/wuhlig/ql/syscolours.html
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Now if I only had a clue where the colour is set, this is some damn
complicated code.
But that's very easy, actually :)
No, I'm not talking about QCoCo but the QPAC2 action confirmation
window, which is a little bit more buried and complicated.
Marcel
No, I'm not talking about QCoCo but the QPAC2 action confirmation
window, which is a little bit more buried and complicated.
Okay, I confused the writer of this (also had a long night last night ;:)
But even so, John could set the two colours to something he likes by
editing them in his
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
No, I'm not talking about QCoCo but the QPAC2 action
confirmation window, which is a little bit more buried and
complicated.
Okay, I confused the writer of this (also had a long night last
night ;:)
But even so, John could set the two colours to something he likes
Phoebus Dokos writes:
The last version of SMSQ/E which was 'approved' for the Q40 / Q60 by its
builders was, I believe, patched to remove problems with the caches.
Again, I am out of the loop with this now and the Q40 is rarely switched
on so I am not sure but I ran it all day today on v
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus
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Malcolm Cadman wrote:
... And just when we thought it was safe to have v1.39 ... :-)
Is that on your web site ?
Nah, cannot. I did the updates for free but its basic status is still
commercial. It can however be updated from
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Perhaps QL Today could print a little regular item listing the
latest
versions available, and what they are required for. As a prompt to
us to keep as up to date as we can.
-- Malcolm Cadman
I doubt we could be fast enough to
Launchpad is less ambitious a project than QDT but you'd be amazed
how many people have managed to make a total mess of it. I went as
far as to supply it deliberately misconfigured so that people would
have to read the instructions as I wouldn't expect anyone to be able
to use it without
Hopefully he will have the free QL emulator working on it soon.
QemuLator for Mac Daniele Terdina style or the Mac uQLx on Phoebus's
site?
Getting confusing now, too many good emulators around ;-)
--
Dilwyn Jones
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With junk mail and email I take the attitude that if they have to
reach
out to me in this way, their product is obviously such a lot of crap
that nobody in their right mind would buy it of their own free will.
Even worse are junk phone calls.
I am sure you are pestered by these, including
Rather than pester a very busy Marcel with a trivial problem, does
anyone know if the QPC2 CD Player could either play 2 separate CDs
from 2 separate drives at the same time, or a CD and and image on hard
disk somewhere?
A lad at work is looking at setting up a mobile disco based on a PC
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:07:20 -, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rather than pester a very busy Marcel with a trivial problem, does
anyone know if the QPC2 CD Player could either play 2 separate CDs from
2 separate drives at the same time, or a CD and and image on hard disk
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 at 16:10:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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The Quick start guides are probably the best way with modern programs,
most manufacturers issue them now. The big manual with my Epson 880
printer is pretty useless, the Quick start guide is excellent. One the
Personally I would like someone to add on a 3D sculptured look to the
QDT windows - which are essentially flat at present. Then the 'eye
candy' appeal will be even greater.
Scheduled is a finish to implementation of full color palettes and
themes, which will include more of the 3D look that
On Jan 1, 2005, at 6:14 AM, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
QDT takes that approach by scanning the 'windrive' contents, so that
it sets up a users system for them. It tries to take away all the
'pain' from the user !
Note that, even with the pre-scanning of the drive and other work that
QDT does the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte
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You may be using one of the beta versions of the updated Qpac2 suit. View
the top few bytes of the binary for the version numbers. My sysmon is 2.09
and Qpac2 is v1.42 - but a number of test versions have the same version
number! Get
So much for using my mail filters to sort anything with QDT in the
topic :)
Thanks for making the topic clear for me though!
Cheers,
jim
On Jan 1, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Can you do me a bit of a favor? Change the subject line if you want
to keep talking about this other stuff?
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:15:40 -0800,() James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/wrote:
Yes, but I won't be going quite that far with QDT. After all I am one
person plus the help of a few on a fairly old OS while Apple has the
latest hardware and tons of programmers :)
But still -even-older
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hopefully he will have the free QL emulator working on it soon.
QemuLator for Mac Daniele Terdina style or the Mac uQLx on Phoebus's
site?
Getting confusing now, too many good emulators around ;-)
He is trying both QLAY and
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones
To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: [ql-users] tsunami
After hearing all about the natural disasters affecting the populations of
some Asian countries, it was not nice to realise I have parts made
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:26:30 -0800,() James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/wrote:
So much for using my mail filters to sort anything with QDT in the topic
:)
Heey I did change it to Firmware ... of course I left the was: on it
:-) ***ooopsss
Ffibys
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
And there is some truth in the hand him over to colleague theory. Not
to cause your colleague grief, but very often the problem is two people
not quite getting on. A different person's different approach is often
neither
Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:38:16 -0500,() Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Started but never started (kinda like the Clintonesque never inhaled)
thing ;-)
Of course that didn't come out right even for my Greeklish :-)
I meant started but never touched :-)
Ffibys
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 at 20:38:48, Roy wood wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn
Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
And there is some truth in the hand him over to colleague theory.
Not to cause your colleague grief, but very often the problem is two
people not
Re:
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 style, it is an
excellent and comprehensive resource for reference
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:50:05 -, hitchies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re:
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
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene,
because the website is so old that it doesn't even recognize
browsers different from Netscape 3.0 of higher ;-))
Maybe so, but Thierry's website entry addresses have remained the same
since 1996 (which is not
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined paragraph and character styles instead of manual
formatting, no formatting by multiple spaces, empty lines and manual
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Rather than pester a very busy Marcel with a trivial problem,
:-)
Trivial stuff at least has the advantage that I can easily answer
them, unlike many mails that have been coming in the past few months
that often require hours of work to answer (which I often don't have).
One more thing, is anybody here or does anybody know a real expert on
ESC/P2 programming, especially when it comes to proportional fonts? If
so, please contact me.
Marcel
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Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:44:07 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
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Phoebus Dokos wrote:
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined paragraph and character styles instead of manual
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James
Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
snip
Personally I would like someone to add on a 3D sculptured look to
the QDT windows - which are essentially flat at present. Then the
'eye candy' appeal will be even greater.
snip
Anyone else tried
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Surprisingly he has bought a little from me, but only chips and a
membrane, and not since 1997. We are talking about the same CM I think.
Yes
Time to oil your bicycle, Tony (did you ever read the Third Policeman?)
I
Another option in the SuperBasic book issue, is to write one from
scratch. Wasn't there a series of articles in QL Today on beginning
SuperBasic? If so, we could use that as a start (if the author is
willing) and go from there. Heck, a number of people could be volunteer
to write chapters
Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:29:42 -0800,() Timothy Swenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Another option in the SuperBasic book issue, is to write one from
scratch. Wasn't there a series of articles in QL Today on beginning
SuperBasic? If so, we could use that as a start (if the author is
willing)
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