Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Marcel Kilgus schrieb: Tobias Fröschle wrote: What I'm basically interested in right now is how I can revive my old collection of software, most importantly Text87, which is by far the most expensive piece of my software collection. It just doesn't seem to like the QPC. Any hints on

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 P Witte wrote: Robert Newson writes: P Witte wrote: ... I have serious doubts whether modern, CD-ROM based systems could keep the data for so long. I would never use CDs or DVDs for long-term storage of important data. CDs and DVDs are the

Re: [ql-users] Text87

2007-04-19 Thread David McCann
Marcel Kilgus wrote: For high colour mode there is a patch available against a small fee (12 EUR from JMS). Tobias Fröschle wrote: tried it, doesn't work (recon, Text87's config, does work indeed in 512x256). Thanks for the tip, anyway. Which bit didn't work? If the problem was that

Re: [ql-users] Backing up..

2007-04-19 Thread David McCann
On the question of backups, it's not just the media that pose the problem. I once got a QL floppy corrupted by accidentally leaving it under a sheet of paper and then running an electric cable over the top! I made the damaged sectors readable by overwriting each with 512 0s and so recovered the

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread Sergiusz Jarczyk
Hi Neil Neil Riley wrote: Hi Sergiusz try www.ebay.co.ukAuction number 230117457180 if you search for SINCLAIR QL you'll see plenty of other niceties for sale at the moment. Regards Neil Unfortunately, I'm not an eBay user. I'd be ready to pay two times the current price,

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007

2007-04-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007 Hi, Enjoyable event ... :-) What made it especially enjoyable was the degree of

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:07 18/04/2007, you wrote: As there are more and more new QLers (among which I'm counting myself too), as well as returning ones, I'd like to try again and ask if anyone here have unneeded SGC and/or QXL card. I know there are many people with such a needs, but maybe I'd be the lucky one :-)

Re: [ql-users] new hard disk

2007-04-19 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires. I wouldn't expect that (fdisk d:) to work as d: wouldn't exist. IIRC when you run fdisk on a PC under [some form of] DOS, you select the drive number you wish to partition from a prompt [somewhere]. Although there's a Command Prompt

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Clip Oh well, just backup your entire disk then, they will say. The problem is that by doing that you also back up a whole heap of totally unnecessary stuff, thereby creating extra work for you and a logistical nightmare, as each

Re: [ql-users] new hard disk

2007-04-19 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about that!) I dont know for sure whether QXL.WIN files ever need defragging. However, if they do, the easiest method currently available (I

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Tubbs wrote: What ever the monitor lead if the TV is seeing nothing it is probably the display chip, 8302 ? Surely the weakest one of the lot. Yes indeed - but it is the 8301 (often labelled 8345) Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67)