It should be possible to install a version of Linux with UQLX on an USB stick
so it either starts up with an icon so UQLX starts in Minerva with a
reasonable size screen or boots up directly in that form.
For ease of use the TK2 toolkit should be patched so that you can Lrespr at
any time.
Plastic wrote, on 13/Feb/11 03:50 | Feb13:
If there's enough demand, I would be happy to make a few of these boards -
though they would be prototype PCBs and fairly expensive. Short run PCBs
tend to run around $40 each just for the PCB. Everything else would be
around $10. It might be easier to
Plastic wrote, on 13/Feb/11 06:57 | Feb13:
Hi all.
I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK
keyboards.
Here's what I have seen so far. The PCB most resembles an Issue 7 board, but
with some changes.
The first apparent difference is the odd serial and joystick
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote:
[SNIP]
Here is a tidier version of the example S*BASIC program that I posted in my
last mail. It shows how to use the interface in its current form. Requires
SMSQ Turbo Toolkit (and the Ser-USB Driver).
[SNIP]
Is
Well, in that version it was because of the NUL device (although there are
ways around that - any channel could be used as the target of a Turbo
Toolkit SET_CHANNEL).
However, I have now implemented three new commands which remove the need for
all that mucking about ...
USB_PUTCMD Byte [,Byte]:
Looking on EBay the prices for the EPROM's are just a few pounds if M27C512-15
is the same thing, the 28 pin DIL socket less than a pound, the ROM codes
Minerva Toolkit II are freely available so other than getting the code burnt
on to the EPROM I have everything or am I missing something?
Refreshingly nicely styled website for the QL, Dave.
Lee Privett
¦¦
Sent from my Laptop running XP
but emulating the QL using QPC2
¦¦
- Original Message -
From:
If you buy an EPROM on eBay and it needs erasing, remove the label (you'll
find letting the label soak in some lysol is the best way to do this) and
then putting the EPROM with the window facing the sun for approx 30 mins
should erase it. On a dull day it doesn't take longer, as UV goes right
Check out my awesome Apple template kills :)
But thank you anyway.
Dave
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote:
Refreshingly nicely styled website for the QL, Dave.
Lee Privett
¦¦
Sent from my
Rich Mellor wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:17 | Feb13:
I am fresh out of Minervae unfortunately, until Tony makes some more for
me
Unlikely I am afraid until March - I am in the final stages of a house
renovation.
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Tony
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Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the ROMdisq page.
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Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:23 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the ROMdisq page.
Ouch - I had forgotten that was there. It doesn't work
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:23 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the ROMdisq page.
Ouch - I had forgotten that was
Op Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:10:41 +0100 schreef Adrian Ives
adr...@acanthis.co.uk:
250 REMark ===
260 REMark :
270 DEFine FuNction GetDWordResponse$(Cmd%)
280 LOCal Response, High%, Low%
290 USB_PUTCMD Cmd%
300 Response= USB_GETCMD
310 High%=
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:38 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 13:23 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
... as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Hopefully...
Cheers...Ralf
BTW: Always good to hear you speaking, when I switch to the
Bob,
Hn.
Well, I'm using SMSQ and I get this ...
65537 DIV 65536 = 1
65537 MOD 65536 = 1
128000 DIV 65536 = 1
128000 MOD 65536 = 62464
It's academic, anyway. This is just an example to show how you _could_ use
these facilities. Thanks for pointing it out, though.
Adrian
-Original
I see Qemulator has moved form geocities.
What link should I use for it?
Tony
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t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk
Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman
TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING,
Try here:
http://www.terdina.net/ql/winql.html
-Original Message-
From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman
Sent: 13 February 2011 14:25
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] Qemulator download
I see Qemulator has
Tony Firshman wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:24 | Feb13:
I see Qemulator has moved form geocities.
What link should I use for it?
Found it on Dilwyn's site (ironically hosted by *my* server).
http://terdina.net/ql/q-emulator.html
Thanks Dilwyn. Did you realise your brother has now beaten you in
On 13 Feb 2011, at 14:02, Adrian Ives wrote:
Hn.
Well, I'm using SMSQ and I get this ...
65537 DIV 65536 = 1
65537 MOD 65536 = 1
128000 DIV 65536 = 1
128000 MOD 65536 = 62464
Yes. SMSQ/E allows larger numbers than integers for DIV and MOD. However, Turbo
does not allow this.
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links?
The file links under http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/rdhist.htm are broken, no
driver, no manual available.
Cheers...Ralf
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links?
The file links under http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/rdhist.htm are broken,
no driver, no
On 13 Feb 2011, at 15:28, Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links?
The file links under
gdgqler wrote, on 13/Feb/11 15:32 | Feb13:
On 13 Feb 2011, at 15:28, Tony Firshman wrote:
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 13/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb13:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I use IE. Andthe links to the corresponding files for ROMdisq are
broken!
Whoops - should be OK now.
Any other broken links?
Tony Firshman wrote:
I found a few more broken links and they are repaired.
One *tries* to make the site fully relative, but it is hard.
It should all be now.
Thank's a lot!
Cheers...Ralf
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Hi all,
15 responses so far, and already some definite and surprising trends
forming.
If anyone with QUANTA or QL Today or any other sites would like to put the
survey URL on their site, please feel welcome to do so. The more responses,
the more meaningful it is.
I'm really surprised by a
On 13 Feb 2011, at 17:45, Plastic wrote:
15 responses so far, and already some definite and surprising trends
forming.
If anyone with QUANTA or QL Today or any other sites would like to put the
survey URL on their site, please feel welcome to do so. The more responses,
the more
as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Ok Tony, not sure what you mean by that, are you saying you may be making some
more?
Lee Privett
¦¦
Sent from my Laptop running XP
but emulating the QL using QPC2
Not at this stage.
I plan to do another more detailed survey in a couple of months that looks
at the users and their experience levels.
This survey is aimed squarely at finding out what people use and how they
use it. It's the information that's most urgently needed. I wanted to keep
this survey
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote:
as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Ok Tony, not sure what you mean by that, are you saying you may be making
some more?
Lee Privett
I think he's saying he has a stalker that wants to talk to him
Lee Privett wrote:
as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene.
Ok Tony, not sure what you mean by that, are you saying you may be making
some more?
I am *very* sure, what he means. After more than 10 years beeing absent, I
have received an original boxed QL from Urs König and
Gents, (and especially to Peter Scott, should you read here)
has anyone tried to register with the QL Forum?
When I try to do that and Agree to terms and Conditions, it tells me
Error: ! Sorry, but that doesn't appear to be a valid API key. -
Whatever that should tell me, I can't register.
I
If you email *Robert Heaton **r...@robheaton.co.uk* he can create the
account for you manually. He would probably also like to know about your
problem registering :)
Dave
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Tobias Fröschle
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote:
Gents, (and especially to Peter
http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=IIMDML_e8265930
Hmm, somewhat hardware biased for my taste. Given that QPC was in
recent years probably the most widely used QL platforms of all, it
seems a bit strange to have it simply referred to as just A
commercial software emulator.
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=IIMDML_e8265930
Hmm, somewhat hardware biased for my taste. Given that QPC was in
recent years probably the most widely used QL platforms of all, it
seems a bit strange to have it simply referred to as just A
All the emulators can be reconfigured to cover most of the hardware out there.
Therefore I treated emulators ad two product lines: free, and commercial.
Actual al hardware is by definition less configurable so it's definition is
more fixed. It pays to tunnel deeper there, as people will be
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Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator download
pjwitte wrote, on 13/Feb/11 19:55 | Feb13:
pjwitte wrote:
Thanks Dilwyn. Did you realise
As Ralph said -
Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator.
John in Wales
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:26 PM, QL-MyLink (f/fh)
q...@mylink.adsl24.co.ukwrote:
As Ralph said -
Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator.
John in Wales __
I'm using Q-Emulator for Mac 1.0 which is very good. The broken membrane
Dave Park wrote:
All the emulators can be reconfigured to cover most of the hardware
out there.
Well, you seem to have the notion that there is QL hardware, and there
are emulators that emulate said hardware. That's probably true for
most form of emulators but not for QPC. QPC does NOT emulate
In message
aanlktimvnyo+fgsgvbzk1jdmmazo-pbb+uwphrxnb...@mail.gmail.com, Plastic
plasticu...@gmail.com writes
The ZIF carrier would be a neat way of doing it.
The BBC Micro also has a slot, to the left of the keyboard area, for
this purpose (it is a perforated).
It is normally covered
I have dug thru a box or two of my QL stuff.
I have a small supply of virgin QL Membranes I will make available to
any in the US wanting to save some shipping time.
These are the later (90's) design that didn't age, have been stored in a
heated home environment in a vertical position
Thanks for the comments and apologies to Tony for any misunderstanding and for
Malcolm I am not sure if a ZIF socket is needed for what I have in mind but
thanks anyway.
I only need the QL to run the boot file from floppy (or SD card if that becomes
a real possibility) from a cold power up
Plastic wrote:
Software is simple to duplicate, and it does not wear out.
Not entirely correct, software often has to be updated when new
operating systems (i.e. Windows) are released, but okay, I get your
point ;)
That said, QPC runs all the same software as all the other options. When
Hi Marcel,
In fact it's now the other way round, there is no native hardware that
can match QPC in speed or features. That's why I was a bit mystified
by your choices. Just saying.
no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much faster
PC hardware (which you didn't design)
Peter Graf wrote:
no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much faster
PC hardware (which you didn't design) and the Windows features (which
you didn't write, e.g. TCP/IP) as QPC achievements?
So? Does this change the reality in any way? No. I've never taken
credits for
Hi Marcel,
It is really really hard to make new QL hardware possible... I find
public statement that QL hardware can not match in features
somewhat depressing...
It's not that it can't match it. It's that, at this time, it doesn't
match it.
It depends on the definition again :-) I can hold
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.netwrote:
Peter Graf wrote:
no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much faster
PC hardware (which you didn't design) and the Windows features (which
you didn't write, e.g. TCP/IP) as QPC achievements?
Peter Graf wrote:
It is really really hard to make new QL hardware possible... I find
public statement that QL hardware can not match in features
somewhat depressing...
It's not that it can't match it. It's that, at this time, it doesn't
match it.
It depends on the definition again :-) I
Plastic wrote:
I think the point here is that emulators have to emulate something. If
there's nothing innovative to emulate, even the emulator cannot move forward
- it can just go faster at the same old stuff.
I think this is a logical fallacy here. Why should an emulator be
restricted to the
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.netwrote:
Plastic wrote:
I think the point here is that emulators have to emulate something. If
there's nothing innovative to emulate, even the emulator cannot move
forward
- it can just go faster at the same old stuff.
Plastic wrote:
It IS a logical fallacy if you consider an emulator that doesn't emulate
something pre-existing but does something original to still be an emulator
for the literal meaning of the word.
Well, what else could you call a hybrid that emulates the CPU but
nothing else? A platform
At 22:04 12/02/2011 -0600, you wrote:
I was never satisfied that I usually got 205-209 sectors out of a microdrive
cartridge. I wanted more. I often received cartridges with anything from 190
to 222 good sectors! DANG! I wanted the extra 7K or storage.
There were some longer loops around, I
At 00:57 13/02/2011 -0600, you wrote:
I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK
keyboards.
Keyoard differences batween nations are un the KEYROW table, one of my
early machines was German, the '_' was much more conveniently placed so I
changed that and several
Once again we are on the eternal debate about what makes one computer
different than the other. It is the hardware or it is the OS?
With an Intel system I can run a number of OS's; Windows, Linux, MacOS,
BSD, etc. With an OS like Linux or BSD, I can run them on different
CPU's; Intel, MIPS,
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