On 09/06/10 21:21, Anton Preinsack wrote:
SD/SF Card Readers are quite easy to do, most CF readers can plug into
the IDE Interface. But the card has to be formatted to SMSQ/E or QDOS.
Reading and writing to FAT formatted Card is another story, no device
drivers.
... well that fits in wel
Rich Mellor wrote, on 10/Jun/10 06:07 | Jun10:
As for Marcel's and Jochen's comments about posting information on
wikis being regarded as self-advertising - well, there are some views
on this:
1. Surely the software / hardware designers are best positioned to
provide the background of the h
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:06 | Jun10:
These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader
living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his name -
can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s.
Tony
Care Electronics...Ed Bruley perhaps?
No.
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10:
These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader
living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his
name -
can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s.
Tony
Care Electronics...Ed Bruley perhaps?
No
Jerry Davis wrote, on 10/Jun/10 12:02 | Jun10:
I thought I'd stop lurking and post I only joined this group a few weeks
ago out of pure curiosity. Many, many moons ago I set up the London
sub-group with the help of Frank Merrison. University, the discovery that
there was life outside London,
Bruce N wrote, on 10/Jun/10 13:21 | Jun10:
Tony,
Was it Dennis Briggs aka Adman Services ?
No - he lived in East London, maybe Gants Hill.
He was the person that kicked the component and rebuilt QL trading into
life when he sold his stock.
I don't think he actively traded them.
He lived
Geoff Wicks wrote, on 13/Jun/10 20:43 | Jun13:
2: A couple of years ago two UK traders ceased active trading after
making a loss for several years. A third trader remained and is
running a successful QL/retro business. Over a 2 year period he also
provided Quanta with a quarter of its income
Rich Mellor wrote, on 14/Jun/10 16:15 | Jun14:
I think it probably is a Windows 7 issue - I never had the problem on
Windows XP, but then I never had a USB floppy drive with XP
Indeed. Once I realised it was drive B, despite the fact that there was
no other floppy, it worked fine under XP
Stephen Usher wrote, on 15/Jun/10 15:54 | Jun15:
I was just wondering if there were any QL representatives at this
weekend's Vintage Computer Festival taking place at Bletchley Park.
Rich Mellor - RWAP.
He will also be selling Z88 items for Rakewell (Vic Gerhardi)
Tony
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Roy/
I may not raise my head above th e parapet too much. I am in the throes
for finishing my Album - those who are interested can get a taste at
www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion
Seems a mite borken (whoops - but because that was a superb accidental
mistype I will leave it). I am getti
Tony Firshman wrote, on 15/Jun/10 19:25 | Jun15:
Roy/
I may not raise my head above th e parapet too much. I am in the
throes for finishing my Album - those who are interested can get a
taste at
www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion
Seems a mite borken (whoops - but because that was a
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 15/Jun/10 19:42 | Jun15:
I could offer free space on my server, and, if you have a wooden lion
domain name, you could use that without advertising the host.
That was meant to be private but but I forgot to edit the address- so
reply to me personally please, Roy.
Tony
Si
Roy Wood wrote, on 15/Jun/10 20:06 | Jun15:
MySpace is a free social networking site - where have you been?
Working.
I just clicked on it and it worked straight away.
Doesn't work for me (8-)#
The bands actual website is hosted by a friend of mine.
www.woodenlion.com
Way too off
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 15/Jun/10 20:16 | Jun15:
I may not raise my head above th e parapet too much. I am in the
throes for finishing my Album - those who are interested can get a
taste at
www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion
Seems a mite borken (whoops - but because that was a superb accide
Evening Roy,
On 16/06/10 20:32, Roy Wood wrote:
I am typing this in Thunderbird (which I don't really like
but Turnpike, which dealt with these lists much better, will not run on
W7.
Funnily enough, I never got to grips with Turnpike when I first started
up with Demon. Thunderbird ha
P Witte wrote, on 19/Jun/10 20:00 | Jun19:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
George,
The current trend appears to be towards Cloud computing,
Aha! But how do you program for this?
Cloud is the latest marketing paradigm/buzz word to hit the IT world.
Like most other "next great things" it will pass and f
Malcolm Cadman wrote, on 19/Jun/10 20:45 | Jun19:
Interesting stuff ... :-)
I agree that the "personal computer" may just become another
technological casualty as the 21st Century progresses.
Devices like iPads look like being the way forward that most people
will go for.
After all "PC
Norman Dunbar wrote (an awful lot), on 20/Jun/10 20:52 | Jun20:
Nice to see so much good stuff from you Norman - your silver sporran
must contain good stuff..
... and my check as you type speel checker is now working.
I think I missed it as the underlines disappear randomly.
The 'speel' above
Martin Wheatley wrote, on 21/Jun/10 09:04 | Jun21:
Malcolm wrote
So, iPad like devices will succeed all of the above, and we will all
be using them as they get more capable.
You have to distinguish between those things that are long term
computing trends and those which are short term fads
Roy Wood wrote, on 20/Jun/10 23:29 | Jun20:
On 20/06/2010 20:03, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 18/06/10 00:15, Tony Firshman wrote:
I have that set but it doesn't spell check. Looks like a bug (3.0.4).
That's interesting Tony. Roy on Windows and you on Mac and me on Linux,
all usin
Rich Mellor wrote, on 23/Jun/10 22:01 | Jun23:
I would also like a java based Sinclair QL emulator and perhaps that
would be a project which Quanta could help fund the development of -
it would attract a much wider audience and enable demos of programs to
be played online to show what the QL
Herbert Schaaf wrote, on 25/Jun/10 13:50 | Jun25:
Those who knew Ruth Fegley will be saddened by the news of her death.
Obituary was in the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
She was an active QL enthusiast and leader in the CATS computer group during the
80's and 90's.
http://www.legacy.com/obituar
QL-Mylink wrote, on 28/Jun/10 22:51 | Jun28:
[Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code - 'BASIC']
Stephen said -
"...
I'd disagree greatly with a lot of these arguments for people just
starting out. Line numbers, although a pain for advanced programmer, do
help novices think about order. Data ty
Tony Firshman wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:20 | Jun10:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10:
These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader
living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his
name -
can anyone remember? He died I believe in the early 90s
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 1/Jul/10 11:01 | Jul1:
Tony Firshman wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:20 | Jun10:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 10/Jun/10 10:17 | Jun10:
These were from a vast quantity of QL parts I bought from a trader
living in East London, near Ilford I think. I have forgotten his
name -
can anyone
Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1:
Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the QL show in
Austria and made a little video.
You can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI
That *looks* good.
I know he does not want to appear, bu
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 1/Jul/10 13:18 | Jul1:
Anton Preinsack wrote, on 1/Jul/10 12:53 | Jul1:
Finally I found the time to look into the material I filmed on the
QL show in Austria and made a little video.
You can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJPLZCKVpHI
That *looks*
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 9/Jul/10 15:21 | Jul9:
Urs/
As my web service provider failed to provide me FTP access to my website for
more than a week now, I’m unable to update my website (arghhh!). Later on
the GST story will be available on this webpage:
http://tinyurl.com/QL-SW-GST
For the time
Tony Firshman wrote, on 9/Jul/10 15:52 | Jul9:
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 9/Jul/10 15:21 | Jul9:
Urs/
As my web service provider failed to provide me FTP access to my
website for
more than a week now, I’m unable to update my website (arghhh!).
Later on
the GST story will be available on this
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 9/Jul/10 18:43 | Jul9:
Ouch. Dilwyn hosts his site on my server for £18 a year plus VAT.
You would be very welcome to use my server if you wanted.
I’m off for summer holidays now.
Happy hols,
Whoops - that was meant to be private.
Sorry,
Tony
He he, good job I'm very
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jul/10 13:25 | Jul18:
I've just had a chance to use this ultra-cheap 10 inch screen netbook
from Zoostorm and I loved it!
In the UK, it's on offer for just £199 from Argos (part number
508-3053) and seems to work just fine with QPC2 (albeit I've only used
it for a da
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Get a ASUS eeePC, they are tha same price and better battery life.
Derek
On 18/07/2010 14:14, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I've just had a chance to use this ultra-cheap 10 inch screen netbook
from Zoostorm and I loved it!
In the UK, it's on offer for just £199 from Argos
Does anyone have a working email address for Bill Cable?
He has retired from Burlington Caots (coats.com).
Tony
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gdgqler wrote, on 14/Aug/10 10:56 | Aug14:
On 14 Aug 2010, at 10:12, Rich Mellor wrote:
I have been testing some boxed QLs over the past couple of days, and will be
listing some for sale on www.sellmyretro.com
However, as part of one of the boxed QLs, I came across a sheet - not headed,
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 21/Aug/10 10:47 | Aug21:
Hello!
I have a superHermes and I think it has some pins broken. Anyone can send a
high quality photo for comparison? How many pins should be entering the 8049
socket?
Just look and see which have pins (or remains) soldered on - there is
one that
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 21/Aug/10 12:41 | Aug21:
El 21/08/2010, a las 12:21, Tony Firshman escribió:
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 21/Aug/10 10:47 | Aug21:
Hello!
I have a superHermes and I think it has some pins broken. Anyone can send a
high quality photo for comparison? How many pins should be entering
Rich Mellor wrote, on 7/Sep/10 15:15 | Sep7:
The Gadget Show on Channel 5 have asked if we have a Type 1 Sinclair
Executive Calculator to lend them (presumably they want a working one)
Does anyone have one going spare? They need one by 15th September at
the latest!
I saw one in the Scienc
dan volvo wrote, on 8/Sep/10 18:47 | Sep8:
Hi Dilwyn and Rich
Jason is happy to supply a Sinclair calculator - please see below.http://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/pages/sinclair-executive-calculator-892.htm
I've passed on his email address to you both.
CheersDan.
Hi Dan,
We do have one avai
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 9/Sep/10 11:05 | Sep9:
El 21/08/2010, a las 13:45, Tony Firshman escribió:
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 21/Aug/10 12:41 | Aug21:
El 21/08/2010, a las 12:21, Tony Firshman escribió:
JJ Ruiz wrote, on 21/Aug/10 10:47 | Aug21:
Hello!
I have a superHermes and I think it has some pins
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 12/Sep/10 18:05 | Sep12:
Thanks for the pointers, Dilwyn. And by the way, your web site is
absolutely marvellous, a treasure trove of information! I think I will
try the SCART connection just to see if I get a better picture and
also to see if the picture changes when th
Rich Mellor wrote, on 13/Sep/10 08:55 | Sep13:
On 13/09/2010 07:32, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
Petri Pellinen wrote:
greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in
my father's attic and am going to put in some quality
retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still
people
Tony Firshman wrote, on 13/Sep/10 09:04 | Sep13:
BTW to reply to what John (in Wales?) said about line broken URLs.
Two solutions:
1) still can break:
http
Malcolm Cadman wrote, on 13/Sep/10 21:44 | Sep13:
In message <8dc375c04ba74aaa97ecc1b57990e...@pcvanluk>, Luk
Vangenechten writes
Hi
I've already mailed to Microvitec but i'm sorry to say their answer was
"Unfortunately we don't have anything to offer which is compatible
with the QL."
Luk
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 1/Oct/10 13:20 | Oct1:
Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon
in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao
Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This
has been filmed by
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc floppy
drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at best. I have
QDOS-formatted a DD floppy on t
Rich Mellor wrote, on 5/Oct/10 09:19 | Oct5:
On 05/10/2010 09:00, Tony Firshman wrote:
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5&
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 11:39 | Oct5:
Thanks Tony
You are right in assuming modern drives are seen as flp2_.
It may have a DS jumper somewhere if you want flp1_. These now are
generally solder jumpers on the pcb, but it may have external links.
One of my three drives does have the
Al Feng wrote, on 5/Oct/10 18:52 | Oct5:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:05 +0300 Petri Pellinen writes:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc
floppy
drive... So far, the results have been med
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 19:09 | Oct5:
Petri/
Thanks, I actually had some 720k disks from way back so didn't have to
use the tape trick.
I salvaged yet another floppy drive from one of the old carcasses at
the office and this one actually works! It seems that the cumana
interface is v
MIne arrived too.
Sorry about the vast URL to Ruth Fegley's obituary. I had no idea it
would be published - congratulations to anyone who successfully types
it! I didn't bother to convert as links in emails are clickable.
QL Today editor whoever you are (Geoff?) - you should use
http://ti
Jochen,
How about offering an electronic (pdf?) version?
Costs for you would be a great deal less.
I for one would *prefer* that and it would save you a *long* walk (8-)#
Tony
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Voice: +44(0)1
Jochen Merz wrote, on 6/Oct/10 13:24 | Oct6:
Jochen/
Tony Firshman wrote:
Jochen,
How about offering an electronic (pdf?) version?
Costs for you would be a great deal less.
I for one would *prefer* that and it would save you a *long* walk (8-)#
Tony
Hi Tony,
this subject has been
Jochen Merz wrote, on 6/Oct/10 13:32 | Oct6:
Jochen/
Tony Firshman wrote:
Jochen,
How about offering an electronic (pdf?) version?
Costs for you would be a great deal less.
I for one would *prefer* that and it would save you a *long* walk
(8-)#
Tony
Hi Tony,
this subject has been
Jochen Merz wrote, on 6/Oct/10 13:42 | Oct6:
Well, if you know about the PDF problems, what sense makes it to
suggest to me to offer a PDF version?
The situation has not changed since Norman tried it 3 days ago
without success.
That is why I put a '?' - I know there are issues.
There are o
Rich Mellor wrote, on 7/Oct/10 13:33 | Oct7:
Rich/
Has anyone ever come across a blurry picture from the QL on a
Microvetic Cub monitor?
I know it is not the QL at fault as I have tried it with another
monitor - does anyone else have any suggestions?
There do not appear to be any controls o
Rich Mellor wrote, on 7/Oct/10 19:16 | Oct7:
On 07/10/2010 13:37, Tony Firshman wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote, on 7/Oct/10 13:33 | Oct7:
Rich/
Has anyone ever come across a blurry picture from the QL on a
Microvetic Cub monitor?
I know it is not the QL at fault as I have tried it with
Bob Spelten wrote, on 9/Oct/10 10:28 | Oct9:
Op Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:12:21 +0300 schreef Ralf Reköndt
:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Has anyone ever come across a blurry picture from the QL on a
Microvetic Cub monitor?
I know it is not the QL at fault as I have tried it with another
monitor
- does
Rich Mellor wrote, on 10/Oct/10 10:33 | Oct10:
On 10/10/2010 09:18, "Bryan Horstmann" wrote:
One of my customary QL's has gone faulty on the Ser1 port and I dug
out another one fitted with Minerva 1.97. It seems to be fine with a
Sandy expansion, and Trump card, but when I fit a Super Gold card
"Bryan Horstmann" wrote, on 12/Oct/10 09:08 | Oct12:
on 10/10/10 11:40 PM, ql-us...@q-v-d.com wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote, on 10/Oct/10 10:33 | Oct10:
On 10/10/2010 09:18, "Bryan Horstmann" wrote:
One of my customary QL's has gone faulty on the Ser1 port and I dug
out another one fitted with Min
Dave Walker wrote, on 12/Oct/10 12:29 | Oct12:
If an alternative format is looked at, rather than XML I would recommend
HTML as this is both more likely to be available as an output option and is
relatively trivial to transform into any of the current electronic reading
formats. Another fo
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 26/Oct/10 22:30 | Oct26:
Hello everyone,
just to lighten the mood here with all the talk about doing the taxes
and so forth... I thought to amuse you with something totally
ridiculous.
Here's a pic of of a prototype of a wonderful new peripheral for the
QL: http://www.f
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 27/Oct/10 09:57 | Oct27:
Norman/
Here's a pic of of a prototype of a wonderful new peripheral for the
QL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrip/5118906714/
That's a serious breadboard you have there!
... and starting to work towards hooking this baby to
an Arduino micr
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 27/Oct/10 13:03 | Oct27:
Norman/
On 27/10/10 10:59, Tony Firshman wrote:
and only £18 plus vat if you buy a hundred (8-)#
http://uk.farnell.com/multicomp/mc-nove/board-atmega328-arduino-duemilanove/dp/1813412
Not a bad price! I got mine and a "starte
Rich Mellor wrote, on 02/11/2010 19:53:
I was just reading that 99/100 job applicants for programming jobs
apparently cannot write a short "fizzbuzz" program when given 10
minutes to do so in an interview.
The rules are simple -
write out the values 1 to 100 on screen
If the value is divisble
Rich Mellor wrote, on 02/11/2010 19:53:
I was just reading that 99/100 job applicants for programming jobs
apparently cannot write a short "fizzbuzz" program when given 10
minutes to do so in an interview.
The rules are simple -
write out the values 1 to 100 on screen
If the value is divisble
Rich Mellor wrote, on 03/11/2010 17:49:
On 02/11/2010 17:34, Tony Firshman wrote:
10 FOR j = 1 TO 100
15 sp$ = " ";
20 PRINT j;
20 if j/3 == int(j/3)
25 sp$="";
30 PRINT " FIZZ";
40 END IF
30 IF j/5 == int(j/5)
40 PRINT sp$&"BUZZ";
50 END IF
60 PRIN
Rich Mellor wrote, on 03/11/2010 20:47:
By the way Tony,
Have you built a time machine in one of your sheds? Just your
messages seem to be sent a whole day before the message they are
responding to!
I am using a spare laptop that has a dead bios battery!
Tony
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gdgqler wrote, on 04/11/2010 10:52:
On 4 Nov 2010, at 10:44, gdgqler wrote:
My S*BASIC program is:
10 CLS:FOR x=1 to 100:PRINT x&isit$(3,"FIZZ")&isit$(5,"BUZZ"):PAUSE 5
20 DEFine FuNction isit$(m%,a$)
30 IF (x MOD m%):RETRurn "":ELSE:RETurn a$
40 END vDEFine
This will work better if you r
Bob Spelten wrote, on 04/11/2010 12:09:
Two types of bikes have become more popular in the Netherlands over the
last few years.
One is a normal model but has a battery and electric motor to help the
'elderly' biker.
The other is a 'ligfiets' (lay bike?),
Recumbent
a long model usually lower t
girls were talking and one
exclaimed that "When he invited me back to his place to see his
hardware, I didn't realise he meant his QL, his Aurora, etc etc)
And I think there was once a picture in IQLR of Tony (as editor Bob Dyl
put it): "Oops, Tony Firshman caught dangling his Minerv
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 06/11/2010 10:22:
and I think my dangling Minerva in public is a fertile
imagination on someone's part. I don't remember seeing that picture.
I did scan it and try to send it, but the list must block pictures or
attachments.
It was in IQLR Vol 3 Issue 2 page 33, the
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Nov/10 11:27 | Nov18:
In time, I'd like to build a beginners section (needs a bettername as it
would be for "returners" too) on my website with articles like this and
some of the more commonly asked questions (such as how to transfer files
between QL and other computer
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Nov/10 11:41 | Nov18:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Nov/10 11:27 | Nov18:
In time, I'd like to build a beginners section (needs a bettername as it
would be for "returners" too) on my website with articles like this and
some of the more commonly asked questions (such as ho
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Nov/10 14:18 | Nov18:
Simple hardware repairs?
Tony
Yes indeed, though I don't have expertise in that area.
Hrrmm - I had better do something then (8-)#
I am *sure* I have in past.
Ah:
http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/trouble.htm
That is 12 years old so I had bett
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 21/Nov/10 16:12 | Nov21:
On 20/11/10 16:09, gdgqler wrote:
This sounds a very good idea, An article called A6, of course, would
bring to mind a superior means of transport.
Or, an Audi of some sort! ;-)
Well the A6 road is not a means of transport, so surely he meant
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 26/Nov/10 17:02 | Nov26:
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
1for i=1to 100
2a$="":if i mod 3=0:a$="FIZZ"
3if i mod 5=0:a$=a$&"BUZZ"
4print i,a$:next i
(91 bytes including 4 LF)
Damn, missed something:
1for i=1to 100
2a$="":if i mod 3=0:a$="FIZZ"
3if i mod 5=0:a$=a$&"BUZZ"
4print i,
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 26/Nov/10 18:09 | Nov26:
Tony Firshman wrote:
and CTRL SPACE after 100.
Cheater! ;-) Also, one can only run your program once.
This meets all Rich's requirements:
--
The rules are simple -
write out the values 1 to 100 on screen
If the value is divisible
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 26/Nov/10 18:48 | Nov26:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I obeyed the rules (8-)#
Maybe, but that is more creativity in applying the rules than
creativity in programming. You clearly have chosen the wrong career,
you should have been a lawyer ;)
... and there is nothing to say
P Witte wrote, on 26/Nov/10 19:34 | Nov26:
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I obeyed the rules (8-)#
Maybe, but that is more creativity in applying the rules than
creativity in programming. You clearly have chosen the wrong career,
you should have been a lawyer ;)
... and there is
Marcos Cruz wrote, on 27/Nov/10 18:12 | Nov27:
I remember an excellent article I read some months ago, concerning this issue.
Its title is "Why Johnny can't code":
Original by David Brin:
http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2006/09/14/basic/
Interesting but awful page coding.
There was a
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 27/Nov/10 18:16 | Nov27:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Main() always returns int.
True.
Main always takes two parameters int and char **.
Not true, "int main(void)" is valid according to C99 spec (see chapter
5.1.2.2.1 ;-) )
But in context of the IOCC contest Tobias referr
Is there any automated way to copy files *and* hard directories without
manually using MAKE_DIR?
Presumably WCOPY will only copy the files and not the directories.
Can MAKE_DIR be used after copying?
I am restoring my BBS from backup.
Tony
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Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Nov/10 12:37 | Nov28:
Does anyone know if any (or all!) of the QL emulators can work on the
second screen of a two-monitor PC setup? My PC can only handle a single
monitor, so although I have QPC, QemuLator and QL2K on this PC, I can't
test them.
I think that what you h
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 28/Nov/10 16:02 | Nov28:
Laurence Reeves wrote:
1PRINT CHR$(RND(TO 255)):GO TO 1
Great thought in the spirit of Tony's cheating :-)
But there's always room for optimizations:
1REP:BPUT RND(90)
Will probably also need a few thousand years less! :-)
He he - infinite
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 29/Nov/10 11:05 | Nov29:
Except (1) I never needed QPCprint with QPC, so (2) I never bought
it, so (3) I don't have it!
Ahh, got it. I somehow was under the impression that nowadays
everyone would need/have QPCPrint.
Definitely a serious omission from your software librar
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 29/Nov/10 12:37 | Nov29:
To give you an idea of how old the 880 is, a few months back the "built
in obsolescence" warning came up saying it was time to have it serviced
(in Epson-speak, "time for us to quote you such a high price that you
will buy a new printer"). That is,
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 29/Nov/10 13:27 | Nov29:
The overflow is *below* the head area and has nothing to do with print
imperfections. On the 830P it was dead easy.
Tony
Oh, OK. Still not got the confidence to try tackling it though, even
though you say it was dead easy on the 830P!
Actually, t
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 30/Nov/10 10:27 | Nov30:
Bryan/
Thanks everyone.
However, my grey matter is a little woolly as an octogenarian. I've
searched back, and Tony said "Qemulator works fine in second screen
under XP in VMware on a Macbook". That is what set me thinking. My Amilo
machine has
Rich Mellor wrote, on 2/Dec/10 15:56 | Dec2:
On 02/12/2010 15:29, Rich Mellor wrote:
What is the earliest QL ROM anyone has a copy of?
I have recently come across a PB ROM, but unfortunately, it is only
the 8000h eprom - the other two are missing.
What surprises me is that WHEN Error stil
I am getting really rusty.
I found my *own* program that automatically makes hard directories and
backs up.
However there is *something*, probably a rogue file, that is eating up
memory.
How can one copy *all* files using wcopy?
... or even from QPAC2.
I suppose with WCOPY it is something
Michael Grunditz wrote, on 4/Dec/10 18:16 | Dec4:
Do you check your spam folder?
Just occasionally user group messages - including my own - get diverted into my
spam folder. It appears to be a fairly random thing,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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Bob Spelten wrote, on 4/Dec/10 11:00 | Dec4:
Op Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:50:35 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman
:
I am getting really rusty.
I found my *own* program that automatically makes hard directories and
backs up.
However there is *something*, probably a rogue file, that is eating up
memory
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 10/Dec/10 12:46 | Dec10:
On 10/12/10 12:19, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
-6=invalid channel ID.
You close the window after writing to it, twit!
Should that be "before"? ;-)
and 'closed' (8-)#
Tony
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gdgqler wrote, on 14/Dec/10 10:44 | Dec14:
George/
More oddly perhaps, is that I don't get a copy from the list of e-mails I send
to the list unless I copy them to myself.
Hmm!
I have *exactly* the same issue for all mailing lists under Gmail.
All was OK when we used our own server.
I ha
Tony Firshman wrote, on 14/Dec/10 12:53 | Dec14:
George/
gdgqler wrote, on 14/Dec/10 10:44 | Dec14:
George/
More oddly perhaps, is that I don't get a copy from the list of
e-mails I send to the list unless I copy them to myself.
Hmm!
I have *exactly* the same issue for all mailing
i found the most common break was where the tails joined the main part. when
fitting one should make a gentle bend, unlike the factory.
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On 21 Dec 2010, at 16:54, "Dilwyn Jones" wrote:
>> I was interes
QL-MyLink-DT wrote, on 30/Dec/10 20:50 | Dec30:
I know.. I know... Dilwyn said "hasn't"!
But, as I'm John in Wales and West of Chester.
I report that I recieved my QUANTA yesterday (Wednesday), bearing an 'audit
trail' -
Manchester 07.08 pm. etc. etc. On which date? aaah... that's far too
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 31/Dec/10 13:22 | Dec31:
each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a
converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that?
And then you have cells with COLSPAN and/or ROWSPAN to cope with!
And table captions
... and mis-configured ta
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 31/Dec/10 14:36 | Dec31:
... much like I suppose Superbasic's habit of implicitly adding missing
END statements.
Yup. Just try throwing some of those programs at SBASIC, it'll soon tell
you there's something missing, though not necessarily the correct point
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