this morning in
Co.
> Galway, Ireland.
Darren kindly sent me a couple of pictures of the baby, I have posted
them on the news page on my website for a few days, if anyone would
like to see what a second Darren Branagh looks like!
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rogram of mine
in the Quanta and PD libraries.
Will pop them in the post to you tomorrow morning.
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you
> got hiding in there?? I can always sell it for you!!
Must get around to making a list of it all sometime, shame for it just
to lie there when it might prove useful to someone.
Anyway, you said you had hi-tech spy equipment to scan for old QL
stuff, so get on with it.
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t variable or perhaps in part
of the job header code, though this might make the job self-modifying.
What I;m getting at is that as the program is executed, the EXEC code
(at OS level, not BASIC of course) stores the execution drive/dir name
in somewhere where the job can access it, as it would potentially be
different for each job of course.
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he format of ZX, QL and OPD/Tonto cartridges are different
4) presumably you have tried these drives on a Spectrum to check that
they do actually work on a spectrum system?
Dilwyn Jones
Rich Mellor wrote:
> Here's a little oddity...
>
> I have got 3 ZX microdrives which supposedl
e
1290 END FOR y
1300 END DEFine Grad
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ractive proposition
at first, at least, but I'm happy to discuss and listen to opinion!
As we are sort of 20 years into the QL's life, it might be possible to
plan a special event around this, unless of course it's already in
hand for the AGM or USA show!
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7;s Quanta index which goes up to about 1995
and couldn't find any entries under QDOS, IEEE or 'Number'.
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a
suitable version of the emulator that he is happy with.
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Anyone know how to read the current keyboard table setting (as set
with KBD_TABLE command) from SBASIC?
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an - Organiser London QL and Quanta Group
I was under the impression that Ken Bain was organising a Byfleet
workshop on 9th November 2003. Does it make sense to have two separate
workshops so close?
If Ken's reading this, can you confirm?
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int was it didn't Float ;-)
Not quite sure why he did it, he was only about 2 years old at the
time and doesn't remember it now!
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Minis-QL Aurora and a QL+Gold Card although only the QPC/PC is in
regular use now.
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7;s Windows
in his case not qdosmsq :-(
(there, just about back on topic!)
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straight he
could draw, or how good he was at using a ruler. ;-)
No mention of banning QL Turtle Graphics to make the stright line I
take it...PENDOWN:MOVE 50:PENUP (if I remember correctly, the turtle
starts off facing rightward).
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> >ask was "what advantage does a slide rule have over a calculator
other
> >than you can draw a straight line with it?"
> You can flick ink pellets and swat flies.
Is this some indication of what Tony Firshman was like at school :o|
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to this house by enabling
me to do everything on a single computer via QPC2!
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f things, usually while one or
both of us was programming at the same time!
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s which would
do some annoying little tricks like picking a random job to interrupt
whatever we were doing at the time, or randomly button-ise a program
just when you were trying to use it.
(OK Colin, I'm sure this will generate a new QL-related thread!)
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l) if I define Today as the correction for Toady. A lot
of the proof reading of QL Today involves correcting my mistypes and
swapped letters when typing at speed (one hand faster than the other!)
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an Embarrass The Editor page...
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if you are listening, I need a copy of the source files
for the little SORTER database. I have the main program files but the
source disks are unreadable.
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y son and I often play the 'Pie Gates' game
where you have to lob custard pies at Bill Gates. Will think about
this...a game where you have to destroy PCs while they are being
installed sounds like a great idea!
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!
Although I used to think my boss at a place I used to work was a nice
guy, until he confessed during a training course that as a teenager
one of his pastimes was lighting yoghurt pots loaded with petrol under
bushes at night!
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Ta, Darren. Rich Mellor has kindly sent me the 1994 version of the
Archive/pipedream transfer. IIRC there was one version after that
which was a minor update only.
Dilwyn Jones
> OK, that shouldn't be a problem, although I'm not at home again
until next
> Monday - heading w
Roy Wood wrote:
> I just put a couple of hundred or so of these into envelopes and
never
> noticed that
Never mind, remember how long it took me to notice my old email
address was still in there!
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be concealed in his gown. No marks
on the
> body so nothing in the punishment book!
Ah! So it was the teachers who misbehaved at your school!
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create
alternative operating systems or some such application.
As to the address, forget hex since Marcel's memory doesn't seem to
work too well 10 years after he last did something ;-)
use the self explanatory
sbytes 'flp1_rom_image',48*1024,16*1024
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longer!
Now where did I put Goeff's Solvit Plus...
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, please!
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Squirreled ?
or Gophered?
> -Original Message-
> From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> How about a puzzle thread on here?
> > >> Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref)
> >
> >
loppy disks drives at about £30 - could this be accessed by a QL
emulator as an external floppy drive?"
As far as I know, as long as the floppy drive is seen by the PC as
drive A: it should work, but does anyone have any info on this I could
pass on to him?
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ped with replies on RFC and RC.
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: a "wearable" QL to take with me on
walks to go with Darren's 64MB QXL.WIN on a keyring!
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Phoebus
restore corrupt files on original microdrives.
Meteor Storm, Diffusion, Caverns, Spook, Karate, Vroom.
Any help appreciated!
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First half of the month is likely to be best for me.
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- Original Message -
From: Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
>
> Suggest
ghaire, and its cheap as a foot passenger.
oops, sorry, posted the other reply before seeing this one.
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of August is a busy one for them, the usual discount fares might not
be available from Stena or Irish ferries. Sadly, looks like the other
service from Mostyn in N.Wales has bitten the dust.
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rate this, in
much the same way as we had QL2000 or whatever that one in the Horizon
Centre was called. A one off special, well advertised so that
international visitors can have the chance to attend as well, in other
words, at a venue reasonably close to either sea or air ports.
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have a few more talks again, even if its on older software - or
maybe a
> Q&A session with all the traders and know-it-alls in attendance is a
good
> idea?
He he, Darren is doing Launchpad demos this year (only he doesn't know
it yet, he already has an alpha test copy to learn, assuming he
doesn't break it or lets his son loose on it!)
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> Time for a plug for Darren's Irish QL social event at the end of
August.
> Just a weekend of chat, food and the odd alcoholic libation. Over to
you
> Darren.
> --
> Roy Wood
Thought you didn't drink, Roy? Or is it just wine?
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play with it this
> weekend. The Icons etc. Dilwyn has designed are fantastic - it has a
really
> professional look to it, and (dare I say it) a Windows-like feel.
Oops, I'll change that at once ;-)
> Will have
> to see can I break it... :-))
Knowing what you sometimes do to my programs...
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ned, an update to Easyptr (Basic for me, and C for
others) to quickly and easily rattle off programs. The window save and
restore already seem to handle the new colour schemes (they're
probably simple block memory moves), so writing a graphics viewer
program for example is possible in Easyptr.
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s I'v enoticed one or two older programs of mine work in high colour
now, but didn't on the previous QPC2 (admittedly I've not looked at
the updates texts yet).
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Remember that one Darren, with Irish security people on walkie
talkies in every cafe and shop door?)
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es of people like me over the last 10-20
years that I hope we won't let the opportunity to celebrate 20 years
go to waste!
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ifferent dimensions, the content opf the old array
was copied into the new array automatically as far as permitted by the
dimensions of the array. DIM of an array to the same size cleared the
array.
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-))
If QLs were illegal I'd be looking at life in jail by now I think ;-)
I can just imagine a typical crazy day out with Darren - take a
laptop, sit down in the middle of such a protest rally and start
working on the latest QL application, impromptu QL meeting surrounded
by Irish gardai!!!
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it is well worth the
^
|
> trip! The show is usually good too.
Aha, on-topic, a plane that has WIN1_ and WIN2_ engines I guess.
Gives a whole new meaning to QL Workshop I suppose (first workshop
ABOVE the English channel?)
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it dead easy and got it going
> without and manual as much, just a few pointers from Dilwyn. What a
great
> programmer this guy really is (there - you owe me a tenner jones)
:-))
Only a tenner? ;-)
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om Friedemann Oertel:
(Fri 3rd October to Sun 5th October)
Dilwyn Jones
> Remember: 3.10.2003 there are holidays in germany!
There may be a lot of traffic and many booked rooms!
Please do your booking in time!
Hi, here you will find some further informations for the QL-meeting at
Berchtes
The way things are going, attending QL shows may become a full time
occupation in the next 12 months!!!
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- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] 20th Anniversary Show
'foreign subversives' by now.
Expect a wayward American missile to fly low over you soon... (just
pray it has a QL controlling it not a PC!)
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? How many bytes?
LONG - Like a QL 32 bit integer?
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s and pokes
END FOR word
REMark build file header once I've sussed it all out!
Getting too tired after 2 weeks of early shifts, resume tomorrow!!!
Perhaps meantime, if anyone understands the above, can they give me an
indication if I am on the right track to build such a program? (PC
stuff does
s -
BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF etc - if anyone wants them they're on disks
GE145 and GE146 in the library. If there's enough interest I could put
them onto my websites for download (might help stimulate development
of GD2 graphics-ware). If I do come upwith a reasonable SBASIC program
to do the BMP conversion I might print it in QL Today as a follow up
to my recent GD2 article, if it wouldn't be hypocrisy having an
article about a Windoze file format!
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x27;t you know, that's why the Americans call them missiles. Or
Miss-iles (they miss their targets)
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> > Given that the name 'Blair' has appeared on this list, I'm sure
their
> > automated keyword searchers have by now detected Wolfgang and
others
> > as 'foreign subversives' by now.
> >
>
> Nonsense. Echelon has never been used against this list. Have you
never
> thought there could just be old
my
He he, when the QL first came out, I remember reading that the 68008
was originally used in military applications, though at the time I
assumed it was probably in communications and other more traditional
computer based electronics etc rather than bombs as such.
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Would be nice to hear a bit more about this - just what is SourceEdit
(must have missed something somewhere about this)?
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> Jimmy and I prepared a newer version of the SuperBasic Language File
for
> SourceEdit.We sent it already to SourceEdit.com (not available yet
but
I'lm on
> the continent
Dohh, never thought of that.
Anyway, you'll never get hit by anything British, not because British
bombs and bullets are accurate but our poor soldiers end up having to
borrow and scrouunge American kit and bullets while overseas...
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And have just remembered that after talking about missiles etc, I'm
the one writing the program called LAUNCHPAD :-)
Just remember, when SOQL comes out I'll put a feature in Launchpad
that I can dial you up and destroy your QL files, OK???
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e "rattles getting thrown out of prams" and
so on.
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SBYTES op$,base+fl,2*fl
410 RECHP base : REMark release heap area used
420 PRINT #0,'Program finished'
Any suggestions on improving this welcome.
Oh, and I hope Marcel is happy someone's actually using the 256 colour
mode. If I'm right, this should work on Aurora 256 colour screens as
well since if I'm right Marcel wrote the QPC2 256 colour driver to be
compatible with Aurora 256 colour modes (once Aurora colour drivers
are out that is!)
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gt;
> BTW, just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean that they aren't
out to
> get you.
>
> Geoff
I knew something odd was going on when I tried your code. Dohh, I
should have known. And it was you who sabotaged my attempts at a QL
virus a few years ago!!! (damned QXL...)
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is as freeware or shareware, or as a
commercial product?
>
> Mark
Commercial (price undecided yet) and a demo version: useable, but
limited by the number of program icons which can be set up.
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ching.
Hope you ain't been too clever and put pictures, html etc into it. I
rarely use anything but plain text for my emails, and if I'm emailing
from the QL side all i'll need is plain text and the facility to
attach zipped files.
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- Original Message -
From: P
thanks, this might well come in useful.
Dilwyn
- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ql-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] mode 16 to mode 32
>
> Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> > Any sugge
- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ql-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] mode 16 to mode 32
>
> Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> > Any suggestions on improving this welcome.
>
> A tabl
at:
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/launchpad/launchpad.html
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ree for the QL.
Not flaming you by any means! Glad to see you taking such interest in
the QL.
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If there's any information material you'd like to borrow from my
website to help you with this, please feel free
Dilwyn Jones
> I have sinclairql.{net,org,com} registered now. I'll be putting up
postnuke
> and a few other things. The idea of a program list
> with
> Now off to finish the eMailer, GNU Midnight Commander and Qascade
GD2 ;-)
>
> Phoebus
Ooh, ooh! Qascade GD2...gimme, gimmee
Copy please when ready!
(Assuming you're talking about Jonathan Hudson's Qascade)
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EG or GIF.
>
> Stephen
What is the difference between ALT PrtScreen and ordinary PrtScreen
(might come in useful to know as I use PrtScreen a lot to capture
screens from QPC to print my hi-colour tinkerings via Windoze progs
until we have SMSQ/E hi-colour SDUMPs).
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s on the screen, add a random number
to the CODE of each paracter and write it back.
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er who suggested Pointer Pranks . :o)
Oh yes, forgot about those. But who wrote most of them???
(Anyone who doesn't know what we are on about, Norman and I wrote some
routines for pointer environment some years ago which did annoying
things like randomly zap programs into the button frame, or pick a
random job to the top, or other pointer environment specific jokes)
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ibus or some
such group travel arrangement, i.e. discourage individual travelling
by cars over long distance)
I hope that, although England is probably the best place to organise
such a meeting due to it having th elargest number of QLers, we will
be able to get as many visitors as possible from the QLing countries
of Europe and North America.
Just some ideas, I'm sure there'll be plenty of flaming/more
ideas/improvements!
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n Centre, I'd add the Portishead
or Clevedon venues as excellent and well attended past venues, though
they are not close to the major sea or air ports).
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would like to join any
possible mini-bus trip from the north or whatever? As possibly one of
the last major events before QL-2004, I think it would be a good move
to make a strong attempt to publicise QL-2004 at the AGM.
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be
a good idea if enough people expressed interest in time.
Horizon centre might be better attended, but both venues would make
excellent event sites for QL2004.
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can enjoy using it.
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> a little visit to ql-users after long absence. News for the Windows
users
> among QL folks, so I guess the best place to let them know is right
here :-)
>
> I've ported Richard Zidlicky's emulator UQLX to Windows. My first
> impress
and large
screen
> support. QL emulation speed is top.
An afterthought, Peter, does your port of uQLx include the TCP/IP
socket facility - in other words, would it be possible to use Jonathan
Hudson's Lynx, Email and FTP programs on uQLx for Windows as it is on
the Linux version of uQLx?
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nd excellent software
over the years. To think, Just Words probably started from comments I
made after DJC came to an end :-)
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rly low cost instead of it (i.e. a cheaper whole computer than what
add-ons are viable)
* good selection of emulations
* close knit and friendly circle of users
* active user group
> - I'm pretty bad in english and I writing a long email to you and
our
> friends,
He he, you think your English is bad, wait until you see my French ;-)
(I can follow written French, but would not dare reply in French!)
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hink I bury my head in QLs? To try to stay sane around
here!
(OK, that last line was just to get back on topic)
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ed was the
chocolate gateaux which became a gooey mess all over my shirt. Yuk. At
least we managed to force feed him pizza and chips once the dislike of
curry was established.
Yup, the social side of QL shows is not to be forgotten. For anyone
who wants to know a bit about the unpredictable side of QL shows, read
my essay on one of the Bristol shows in an early QL Today!
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at one point (might still be there!) - might be worth looking
at these to see how he stopped BREAK working.
With (2) above, it might be worth looking in this list to see if there
is a way to identify the BREAK polled task and just disable that?
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!
Ah, but we remember the sort of things you claimed you got up to in
the physics lab at school etc, Tony!
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display this information as a
frame
> within their own webpage (thus allowing them to retain the customers
on their
> website)...
>
> Volunteers??
You'll probably find it's out of date as soon as it's done. I try to
keep mine up to date but hardly anybody tells me when they change an
address!
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>
> --
> Rich Mellor
> RWAP Services
> 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH
> TEL: 01977 610509
> http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
Thanks, even though I know some links from my page don't work, I just
can't find the latest ones!
I agree with what you say about the 'central database' though.
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> correctly (8-)#
Well, OK, but I have to agree with him on one thing, once you've got
used to the real Irish variety you don't want to know any other
variety!
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hers as they
come back to me!
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ied to visit, from the east there's
no village sign at all!
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ut please make it flexible enough to allow for whatever might
happen, for example, the latest CD (v1.24) now has QL2K and the
Windows version of uQLx, just added "as is" with additions to the
readme files.
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e ROM, but I don't know enough
about the device drivers to know how feasible this might be.
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r kerbstone ;-))
> What exactly was Freddy doing when we came through customs and he
nearly
> got everyone arrested? It involved his dual nationality - and
shouting.
Wasn't there that time I don't think, but can well imagine it!
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to be made bootable for Amiga, Mac, Windows, ST and
Linux systems though, as there are emulators for all of them.
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- Original Message -
From: Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users
Hey guys, didn't your mums and dads ever tell you not to smoke in
public?
Dilwyn Jones
> Holy Smoke Batman !
>
> -
> Norman Dunbar
ove the water horizontally, but mostly VERTICALLY. (unless
Thank goodness for that, or it would surely fall of the end of the
(flat) earth wouldn't it ;-)))
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gt; When I was in Aberdeen the post was really slow, it took 2 weeks
from
> >> Surrey. I remember buying Sinclair QL World when I was up there
from the
> >> main John Menzies who used to stock it (was it for you). I had
the
Age old problem. My Quanta newsletter always seems to arrive a couple
of days AFTER the workshop it promotes
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