Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Fern, oops! sorry that'll teach me not to jump the whole thread straight into the bit *i* can asnwer :-) so blooming early in the day. Ha, been there, done that, got embarrassed! i just use it to back up my ql disks and didn't think beyond that No worries. And the tool kit I

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
John in Wales wrote: . chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with that! Not really, I quite like this new system. QL2K

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 (Norman Dunbar)

2011-08-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Fern, most unices come with dd, which can be used to generate raw media images. I know. :-) But the image itself then cannot be read unless you have a QDOS Filesystem driver installed either as a module or as a fuser system. It's easy enough to duplicate a QDOS floppy using dd to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-24 Thread QL-MyLink (f/fh)
. chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with that! ATB. John in Wales

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-24 Thread fern
hi norman -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:58 +0100 From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Morning Fern, most unices come with dd, which can be used to generate raw media images. I know. :-) But the image itself then cannot be read unless

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread QL2K
:37 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 22/08/2011 23:31, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning all, Dilwyn Jones (breaking [in] a Windows 7 64 bit PC) Oh oh! You thought 32 bit Windows was trouble, welcome to your worst nightmare! :-( It should be in c\Program Files (x86)\q-emulator As Rich points out, Windows 7 decided that all 32 bit applications should live in a folder

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Malcolm Lear
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Ade Vickers
Norm wrote: a windows 7 rant Agreed! With bells on! My advice to Dilwyn is simple, if you ever want to stop effing about with Windows and having to rebuild your PC from the bits that survived a heave out of the nearest (open I hope) window, install Linux. I thoroughly advice Linux

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Memory Lane Computing Ltd
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 Welcome to the worst Windows ever!!! I spend at least 2 weeks with a large sledge hammer beating Windows 7 64-bit into submission. Finally it yielded and started looking and performing like XP. Turning off UAC is an essential

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dilwyn, On 23/08/11 13:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I have got it to run now in one-off mode. Ensure your user account is Administrator. Oh dear! Ensure your account has admin rights then open an HTML email. Oops, it had a payload and now your user is letting some scumbag run your PC as a

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
If you are logged in as you and need to do admin things, right-click and run as administrator, but never login to an admin session, unless you have absolutely no choice. Well, OK, I'll give it a go. Right now I am installing programs etc. to get this PC to a comparable level to the 1TB or so of

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread QL2K
drivers installed properly. Cheers, Jimmy. -Message d'origine- De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Norman Dunbar Envoyé : mardi 23 août 2011 16:12 À : ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 Hi Dilwyn

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Only 1TB? Surely you must have more than that! ;-) Yes! Only 1TB on the old PC itself in its internal drives. My calculator gives an overflow error when I try to work out the grand total including everything else ;-) I can see that turning off UAC would benefit in some ways, although I don't

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread BryanHorstmann
On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: Snip. I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access the floppies or not. I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access the floppies or not. I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy support. Can anyone confirm this? Bryan H

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
Time for booting in to Linux an creating images from your floppies with DD or similar. If nothing else the media must be quite old and doing so should preserve them! On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:00 BST Dilwyn Jones wrote: I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Bryan, I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy support. Can anyone confirm this? Sorry no. However, i did a quick google for Windows 7 +floppy and got quite a few hits. The first

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening John, On 23/08/11 18:25, John Alexander wrote: Time for booting in to Linux an creating images from your floppies with DD or similar. If nothing else the media must be quite old and doing so should preserve them! Good advice. In case anyone is wondering, the command is: dd

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL, but it is something I have to complete in due course. I hope. Except, I think it can. CTOOLS or similar? I'm sure that can read a QL floppy image, mounted on a loopback, on Linux. Cheers, Norm. --

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Malcolm Cadman
-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 I had this problem awhile back with the same request, alas no solution presented itself, save running in administrator mode On 22 Aug 2011, at 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Malcolm Cadman wrote: I see you are finally getting along with PC Windows, and not breaking it too much ... :-) Sadly, this PC seems (so far) to be Dilwyn-proof :-( Windows 8, or whatever name it gets, is currently in development. So, maybe that will sort out all your woes ... ? Will

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
What about running the emulator on say an Android or probably more easily a Linuxy linux phone like my N900 for instance ;) John A --- On Tue, 23/8/11, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread John Alexander
, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Date: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011, 20:10 On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Walker
...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of BryanHorstmann Sent: 23 August 2011 16:40 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: Snip. I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 (Norman Dunbar)

2011-08-23 Thread fern
From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL, but it is something I have to complete in due course. I hope. Except, I think it can. CTOOLS or similar? I'm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Mellor
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to run

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I try to

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Mellor
On 22/08/2011 23:31, Dilwyn Jones wrote: On 22/08/2011 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for each version until the most recent. I have installed the 64-bit Windows

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

2011-08-22 Thread Lee Privett
I had this problem awhile back with the same request, alas no solution presented itself, save running in administrator mode On 22 Aug 2011, at 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the