In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Gilham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Unless I am mistaken what wolfgang has got is lightning special edition
>which in its complete form consisted of several modules several to speed
>up screen handilng and another to speed up the the floating point
>operations sin,tan,exp etc in basic.They are both redundant under SMSQ
>,the scren spedd up modules will refuse to load ,the maths routines are
>redundant under minerva whose maths routines arejust as fast. I do have
>the manuals in electronic format, I purchased the DP collection and hence
>have a zipfile containing the manuals. I think distributing the manuals
>might be bit dodgy copyright wise without DP's permission , that is if
>they still have the publishing rights, but if you want them I could email
>them to you.
>On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang
>> Wolters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> >Hi folks,
>> >
>> >yesterday I received a module for the Ql called "Special Lightning". Does
>anyone
>> >has some Docs of this module?
>>
>> I believe that I do, somewhere, as it was a Digital Precision production
>> that I purchased at the time that it was sold.
>>
>> However, like all DP documents it is likely to be quite long :-( Anyone
>> converted it to computer format ?
>>
>> Its purpose is to speed up certain QL operations, hence the 'Lightning'
>> name. Useful on older QL's if you do not have TK2, Turbo Toolkit, or a
>> ROM like Minerva. Otherwise I believe it is now redundant ? Anyone
>> know ?
Yes, I surmised that it was by and large redundant now, depending on the
hardware involved. Then, again, still useful in the right context.
How do intend using it Wolfgang ? It will be of use on hardware without
a Gold Card expansion, for example.
--
Malcolm Cadman
