[ql-users] Bug?
Hi Is this normal behavior for a 68K processor. I'm doing a word comparison between a memory location and a data register. It seems that data in the most significant word of the register is effecting the result. In the example below the test ends up at notequal. Unfortunately I've not got access to a real CPU to try this on (only QPC). Malcolm start move.l #$,d0 lea test,a4 cmp.w(a4),d0 beq.sequal bra.snotequal test dc.w 0 equal nop notequal nop ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Bug?
Thanks Wolfgang, I'll investigate further. The code I've got problems with is obviously slightly more complex, but a group of comparisons that failed were fixed by clearing the data register before loading with a word from memory. Malcolm Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 17 Jan 2007 at 10:17, Malcolm Lear wrote: Hi Is this normal behavior for a 68K processor. Hmm, here (QPC) the test works OK, it branches to the equal label as expected, the Z flag is set by the CMP. Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ 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] I want your software
Written I believe on a 68000 based Sage computer. Malcolm Phil Kett wrote: extdgl42 wrote: Is that the Psion chess below? I highly recommend it to anyone. Psion, despite being only 67K and old, played one of the most amazing games I've ever seen, any chess package, even a master, maybe grandmaster. This includes Francois Lanciault's Blackknight (I wrote reviews for QL magazines). (In fact, I need to find my notes; while Psion was playing White, it may have been Blackknight playing Black indirectly). Yes, it is Psion Chess - and the last time I tried it that one actually works! I have to agree - it's a fantastic game. Phil ___ 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] How Much Space Do I Have?
My system gives some very strange results. STAT dos1_ (153GB) is: 238221176/321669424 and returns 238221152/321669424 dos2_ (8GB) should be: 321744/16787488 and returns 238221168/321669424 It seems that dos2_ is reporting back the capacity of dos1_. I'm running the latest QPCII on XP Pro. Dos1_ is a SATA drive and dos2_ an old ATA. Malcolm George Gwilt wrote: If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8, with win1 to win8 and so on. But it does not give the correct answer for dos1 to dos8 for QPC2. To find out how much space I have left on, say, a memory stick I have to climb down to Windows to find the answer. Is this restriction intentional? WSTAT works perfectly well. It is only SATA that fails. George ___ 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
[ql-users] QPC Sockets
Hi All Is it possible to download a file from a web address using the TCP/UDP sockets and an Sbasic program? I've been looking for documentation and programming examples with no success. Hope someone can help. Malcolm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC Sockets
That's just what I wanted. Thanks Marcel!! Malcolm Marcel Kilgus wrote: Malcolm Lear wrote: Is it possible to download a file from a web address using the TCP/UDP sockets and an Sbasic program? I've been looking for documentation and programming examples with no success. Yes, it is possible. The protocol you have to speak is HTTP and described here http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Here's a very very basic program that requests the main page from the QL-Today web site: 100 OPEN_IN#3,tcp_www.qltoday.com:80 110 PRINT#3,GET / HTTP/1.1 120 PRINT#3,User-Agent: QPC browser 130 PRINT#3,Accept: */* 140 PRINT#3,host: qltoday.com 150 PRINT#3 160 REPeat 170 INPUT#3,a$:PRINT a$ 180 END REPeat Marcel ___ 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] QPC Sockets
Hi Marcel And if I required a sub page such as 'http://qltoday.com/latest.htm'? Malcolm Marcel Kilgus wrote: Malcolm Lear wrote: Is it possible to download a file from a web address using the TCP/UDP sockets and an Sbasic program? I've been looking for documentation and programming examples with no success. Yes, it is possible. The protocol you have to speak is HTTP and described here http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Here's a very very basic program that requests the main page from the QL-Today web site: 100 OPEN_IN#3,tcp_www.qltoday.com:80 110 PRINT#3,GET / HTTP/1.1 120 PRINT#3,User-Agent: QPC browser 130 PRINT#3,Accept: */* 140 PRINT#3,host: qltoday.com 150 PRINT#3 160 REPeat 170 INPUT#3,a$:PRINT a$ 180 END REPeat Marcel ___ 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] QPC Sockets
Thanks Marcel, I understand now. Cheers Malcolm Marcel Kilgus wrote: Malcolm Lear wrote: And if I required a sub page such as 'http://qltoday.com/latest.htm'? That's the / after GET. Best read the documentation for this, there's plenty of it on the net. Marcel ___ 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] QPC Keyboard
I thought it was only me! Since using XP I've not been able to get the config menu up using the shift key. I have now set it to always show. But you do have to get to the menu to set that option. Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terrific. What ignorance on my part. I tried as you said but that does nothing. Maybe because of Windows XP? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] ESC/P2
Well if you do need the Reference manual it can be found at: http://support.epson.ru/products/manuals/000350/part1.pdf By the way does QPCPrint handle the colour modes? Cheers Malcolm Marcel Kilgus wrote: Jérôme Grimbert wrote: I do not know any expert, but I have a book with the ESC/P2 programming information. The user-defined-font loading is barely two pages in it. Thanks, but in the meantime I have solved all my problems myself (for a change ;-)). It might be time for a heads up, the reason I have been asking this is that I have been working on a complete printing solution for QPC, called QPCPrint (yes, like the last project from Ewald that at some stage got abandoned). It swallows pretty much any ESC/P2 code you throw at it and prints the emulated result onto any Windows printer you like. It now works from Easel FX-80 hardcopy to 720dpi ProForma printing and from simple Quill printout to complex multi-font proportional Text87 output. Incidentally, what it doesn't do, is user-defined-fonts, but that should be a negligible feature. At least I didn't find it worth the trouble. The coding is now basically finished, therefore I can say with some confidence that this is no vapourware. Of course between having the code ready and be able to sell it as a product there is still a lot of work to do, but it will appear in not too long a time. Marcel ___ 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] ESC/P2
Well I think you could do just about anything! Marcel Kilgus wrote: Well, do you really think I could have done this without that manual? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL filename length revisited
Quite agree. I too have recently been driven nuts with the limitations. A new set of traps to an advanced directory system sounds good. Perhaps with a new 'CD' navigation command. I suppose the old traps could be rewritten such that older software has access to the new system to a path length of 36 characters. Does anyone know the history of the 36 character limit. Was it a file name length limit set before directories came about? Cheers Malcolm P Witte wrote: Not quite. Ive always lobbied for an advanced new file system. Im now prepared to accept something less ;) The reason is order and sanity. Ive hit the path depth limit in trying to arrange things the way I need to have them, and I rarely use directory names of more than three of four letters. One letter is too limited. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book ?
Its quite possible that it already exists in Adobe Pagemaker format. Cheers Malcolm Equally we should be realistic about electronic publication. My copy is an original MgGraw-Hill copy and has 257 pages. That would be a huge scanning job and an even worse PDF conversion job. Given that there could well be several second hand copies floating around, is it really worth the investment of someone's time and energy? Best Wishes, Geoff ___ 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] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH
After that it gets difficult: Some people may not want to move on from microdrives. They wont want PE or anything newfangled like that, otherwise Id suggest that the following products were also considered a fundamental part of the system for ALL platforms: Microdrives! I'd actually forgotten that such things existed. Surely people don't still use them. Malcolm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Microdrives
Amazing. I was having problems using them nearly 20 years ago! At the last Eindhoven workshop, Arnie Clarke had a catch 22. He had not put a superHermes keyboard driver in his boot program, so had no keyboard! This can be added to romDisq to load prior to F1/F2. His romDisq though was dead and need to be re-formatted. I had to do this on my QL - the only other native QL in the room. It needed the romDisq driver, but no-one had a floppy disk system. I copied the driver to microdrive from my romDisq and re-formatted his romDisq from that file and added the driver as rom1_rom1. ... so there _are_ still uses for microdrives. Tony ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Since most QL software requiring printer output (all?) have either epson or postscript drivers, I should think a combination of 'epsonps' (epson to postscript convertor) and ghostscript would be a possible solution. The list of printers supported by ghostscript does seem quite impressive. Maybe the process can somehow be transparent to the user. Malcolm Convert Postscript or whatever to Windows-only printer output. Why oh why couldn't these have all worked in the same way so that all printers could have a common driver - seems to contradict the very idea of standards if even in this day and age every single printer on the planet needs different software just like the very first home computers in the early 1980s did! Now quite how the various stages are achieved is open to discussion of course (Proforma...device drivers, PFF_USE, pipes...), let the print experts on this list loose on the project with the end view in mind and let them argue among themselves as to the best way to do it! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC and Windows XP SP2
Have been using 3.20 continuously with SP2 for a couple of weeks now without any problems. Cheers Malcolm Fabrizio Diversi wrote: Did anyone tried to use Qpc (last version 3.20) in a WinXP SP2 machine ? There is a general instability, without any reason QPC close itself randomly, also, i had to cancel some extension in the boot file cause they crash QPC. This happended after the SP2 installation. Ciao Fabrizio Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you are looking for an MFM/RLL drive. These do occasionally come up on eBay. Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm - Scopri Mister Yahoo! - il fantatorneo sul calcio di Yahoo! Sport' ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
