[Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My birthday present is a video (follow link) for you guys to enjoy! http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Birthday Anniversary 2012 The Movie Please have a look to the video description for more information including a *News Ticker* plus a download link to the exclusive Media Kit. Feel free to share/spread/use this as you like. Cheers, Urs http://www.youtube.com/QLvsJaguar Sinclair, QL, ATARI, JAGUAR, NUON, APPLE more... Videos, pictures background information ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
- Original Message - From: Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Sent: Monday, 23 April 2012, 7:50 Subject: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum! Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My birthday present is a video (follow link) for you guys to enjoy! http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Birthday Anniversary 2012 The Movie snip Good stuff :) google.uk has a speccy logo too! 30 years ago does sound scary mind. Peter. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide
Can anyone explain this? I have the following line in a program: : aa$= PEEK$(address,length): UPUT #c3%,aa$ This reads a line from screen memory and writes this to a _pic file on win1_. The ten byte header has already been written to the file channel with BPUT's. Qlib reported an error invalid parameter for UPUT, on my Aurora. I checked the parameters, aa$ has length and the channel is valid. The program and this line does work fine on QPC. I thought it might have to do with the CF-card I use as win1_, where the channel is opened. So I tried my other Aurora, with a real drive as win1_, this gave the same error. Then I used ram2_ instead and everything worked as it should. The picture came out fine. This looks like a Qubide issue to me. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide
Bob, is aa$, by any chance, a LOCal variable? Qlib sometimes reports LOCal variables as parameters to external PROCs as invalid. Regards, Tobias -Original-Nachricht- Von: Bob Spelten b...@upcmail.nl An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: [Ql-Users] UPUT Qubide Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:20:14 +0200 Can anyone explain this? I have the following line in a program: : aa$= PEEK$(address,length): UPUT #c3%,aa$ This reads a line from screen memory and writes this to a _pic file on win1_. The ten byte header has already been written to the file channel with BPUT's. Qlib reported an error invalid parameter for UPUT, on my Aurora. I checked the parameters, aa$ has length and the channel is valid. The program and this line does work fine on QPC. I thought it might have to do with the CF-card I use as win1_, where the channel is opened. So I tried my other Aurora, with a real drive as win1_, this gave the same error. Then I used ram2_ instead and everything worked as it should. The picture came out fine. This looks like a Qubide issue to me. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide
Further investigations. 1. strfnd() was originally in the c68 library/ies with three parameters as I originally suspected. I don't know when it changed to lose the last parameter which allows continuations, but when I grepped for strfnd in the whole of the c68 include directory on my hard disk I found this: string_h: int strfnd _p_((const char *, const char *)); cport_h: #define sd_instr(str,pattern) (strfnd(pattern,str,0)+1) So it has changed at some point since 1992! Unfortiunately, it's b*ggered the libguide. :-( 2. The undefined reference to _oserr in the linker MAP file is definitely a bug in the libdbas_a library. When I compile a minimum application to open the libguide as a file (FILE *) and close it, there are no undefined references. When I subsequently open and close it as a dbas database, there is. So this is a problem in the DBAS system and as I no longer seem to have SP07 for the dbas 2.12 version, I can't fix it. :-( I can sort of get around it by defining an int oserr in my own code so the extern int oserr in libdbas finds it, but I can't do anything with it unfortunately. A bit more testing, setting my oserr to 666 before every system call shows that every dbas routine, that I tested, seems to reset my oserr to 0 if it worked. Sigh. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Op Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:50:01 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch: Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectrum. The rest is history! Happy 30th birthday anniversary, Speccy! My birthday present is a video (follow link) for you guys to enjoy! http://youtu.be/Kh4hkIyjdNE Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Birthday Anniversary 2012 The Movie Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. To add to the celebration I thought, why not let my Speccy out of the box and have a run. Only 5 keys were working, a new membrane was only installed in 2004 and never used! So I replaced it again, with a more recent and better quality one from RWAP. Now all the keys were working again. :) But none of my 6 microdrives and 2 IF-1's were able to read any tapes. Speccy was also deaf to the cassette tape, not even a flicker of the border. He's showing his age.:( Anyone still has a working one? Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts
Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts
more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 +0200 Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts
On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privettlee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 +0200 Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ My Google search shows a St George logo. Bryan H UK ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Another interesting link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1777 With a Dickinson/Altwasser interview. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts
Well, it seems to be on google.com. On 23/04/2012 15:23, Bryan Horstmann wrote: On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privettlee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 +0200 Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ My Google search shows a St George logo. Bryan H UK ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts
On 23 Apr 2012, at 11:40, Malcolm Lear malc...@essex.ac.uk wrote: On 23/04/2012 15:23, Bryan Horstmann wrote: On 23/04/2012 03:15, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: more specifically: google.co.uk only (They don't seem to consider this an international anniversary) -Original-Nachricht- Von: Lee Privettlee.priv...@gmail.com An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Betreff: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:02 +0200 Google image is very retro today ZX Spectrum anyone ___ My Google search shows a St George logo. Bryan H Well, it seems to be on google.com. Not when loaded in NH, USA. We are getting the normal logo. Tony -- t...@firshman.co.ukhttp://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44 (0) 1442 828254 Fax: +44 (0) 1442 828255. Skype: tony firshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Bob Spelten wrote: Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. Thanks! Anyone still has a working one? I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since then. Touch wood... Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Am 23.04.2012 20:09, schrieb Urs Koenig (QL): Bob Spelten wrote: Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. Thanks! Anyone still has a working one? I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since then. Touch wood... I still have mine - With a keybord made by ICantRemember (tm) (But nice Cherry modules) and an Opus Discovery disk drive. Used to be working until beginning of this year when some C's in the Opus decided to explode and had to be replaced (fortunately, nothing else broke - But it still was a mess to clean all the inside). But I guess the original membrane has long gone where all dust goes. Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
Urs, I have a lot of QL bits and pieces which were working at the time my monitor blew up, must have been some 15/20 years ago. I also have a lot of QL manuals and the club newspaper. I have always meant to get a new monitor and put it together again. I am getting past it now and if anyone is within commute of Potters Bar you are welcome to come and peruse. Tony Church -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Urs Koenig (QL) Sent: 23 April 2012 19:10 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] OT: 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum! Bob Spelten wrote: Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video. Thanks! Anyone still has a working one? I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since then. Touch wood... Urs ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
