Re: [Ql-Users] the british way
!!? Shift who what ? Sent from EarthLink Mobile mail On 6/18/22, 11:35 AM, Dave Park via Ql-Users wrote: Or, just shift the hosting and country of publication to an EU country or the US? Dave On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 3:32 AM Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > "Red tape" existed because companies and individuals couldn't be > trusted to be legal, decent and honest by themselves. Laws and > regulations were introduced for a reason. So when politicians use the > phrase "reduce red tape" or "free ourselves from the EU shackles", > expect an ulterior motive. Somebody with a connection to the > government will profit. Ordinary people will suffer. Just like we've > come to expect from the Johnson government. Sadly, we have such an > ineffective opposition in this country that they know they'll get away > with just about anything now. > > I've no wish to learn the necessary web programming skills and no wish > to invest in software to cope with this, so I'll just close my sites > down if it comes to that. > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 23:56, Richard Howe via Ql-Users > wrote: > > > It's one of those times when you genuinely wonder if they really are > stupid, > > or intelligently progressing a hidden agenda. > > > > Richard Howe > Precisely, Richard. > > Dilwyn > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > -- Dave Park d...@sinclairql.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] Today 20 years ago...
I remember too, as one of the Oak Ridgers! I was pressed into duty as (informal) social chair, so you csn blame me! Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: ql q...@bluewin.ch Sent: Jun 10, 2015 11:51 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Today 20 years ago... US QL Show 1995 in Oak Ridge https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=C250D8748980CE5Aid=c250d8748980ce5a%21730sc=photos ___ 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] QLis30 dinner
-Original Message- From: p...@zx81.de p...@zx81.de Sent: Jun 18, 2014 4:49 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner As I am coming from a foreign country I definitely prefer a Scottish meal when I visit Scotland. As Tobias said, you find Chinese and Italian food everywhere. Friday evening would be ideal. If you need to select between a choice of Scottish restaurants I think it would help to have a look at the Whisky card ;-). If you need pre payments just tell us. We will happily prepay for us and our wife. Kind regards Paul Am 18.06.2014 um 17:42 schrieb Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: At the moment we are looking at a lot of the mechanics of QLis30. One of the things that is causes us a problem is the possibility of a QLis30 dinner. We want to do this as we believe informal contacts as just as important as the event programme. When we sounded out opinion on the date, you gave us some helpful suggestions and we would like your ideas about any dinner. Our main problem is that it is impossible to estimate numbers attending QLis30 at this stage. There has been an enthusiastic response to the web page - 168 hits so far - but that does not translate into attendance. It is more an indication of interest. The first question would be whether people would prefer a dinner on the Friday evening or as an after workshop event on the Saturday. The latter would be slightly easier to organise in that we could get final numbers (and a deposit!) on the day itself. The other question is the cuisine. At the moment we are looking at 3 options: 1: A traditional British Carvery 2: Italian 3: Chinese By large numbers the first would probably be the easiest, but we have had a good recommendation for the Chinese which is near to the show venue. However, I wonder whether UK QL-ers have had enough Chinese cuisine stuffed down their throats in Manchester!, 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 Coming from Across the Pond, I too would like other than Italian and Chinese. And while I am evenly divided between Friday or Saturday dinner ... let's call that somewhat for Friday more than Saturday. Rather, for dinner Friday and certainly informal gathering after Saturday finish. Thanks, Doug (LaVerne) 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 web page
-Original Message- From: Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de Sent: Jun 15, 2014 3:09 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 web page Hmm. Page doesn't work for me. 'you don't have permission to access...' Regards, Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 15. Juni 2014 10:15:18 schrieb Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: The QLis30 web page is now online: www.gwicks.net/QLis30.htm It is permissible to download the logo at the top of the page and place it on your own website provided a link to QLis30 is added (hint! hint!). Just a word about tables because I caused a bit of a stir when I last mentioned this. When you see the hall you will realise why I am calling QLis30 a workshop and not a show. The hall is smaller than would be usual for a typical Quanta style QL show and this means there is a limit on the number of tables we shall have. Priority will have to be given to the hardware people as they have lots to demonstrate. To be fair to all the non hardware people I am thinking of setting up a largish communal hot table so there will be space to work on your laptop etc. for an hour or so even if you have no table of your own, 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 I just accessed the page, so I have little guess what might be occuring. Looks very good at first glance, BTW; thanks. Doug L. 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Edinburgh is go!
-Original Message- From: Petri Pellinen p...@iki.fi Sent: May 7, 2014 2:06 PM To: ql-users ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Edinburgh is go! This is great news! Regarding the pledge, we need to figure out the best way to transfer the funds. I'll be happy to send in my contribution as soon as necessary. Thank you very much to everybody who are putting in the work to make this happen. Looking forward to meeting a lot of QLers! Cheers, Petri On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com wrote: The Edinburgh QLis30 event is booked for 11th October 2014. This was the date that most people wanted. The venue is the Gyle Hall of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Glasgow Road, EH12 8LJ. The venue is on the main road from Edinburgh city centre to Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow. The bus service too and from the airport has a bus stop outside the church. We shall be posting a dedicated website giving details of accommodation and travel arrangements, but this is unlikely to be online before mid June. I need to go to Edinburgh to do some research and photography for the site. I am in Edinburgh on 31st May and 6th June so it is saves me time and money to wait until then. So far 17 people from 6 lands have expressed an interest so we have achieved our first aim of getting an international group of QL-ers together. There are Marriott and Holiday Inn hotels on the same bus route as the church but we shall publish detailed information of these and other hotels on the website. Also travellers from the continent may like two early details. Any one wishing to come by car may like to consider the overnight DFDS ferry from IJmuiden in the Netherlands to Newcastle. This would save a long drive in the UK. Any one thinking of travelling by Eurostar should note that the London terminal is next door to Kings Cross station with trains to Edinburgh. We hope to have Skype at the event, but none of the organisers has Skype experience. I hope to have this by October, 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 My pledges come in soon as methods are published, I certainly hope. Very good news. Doug 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: QLis30 update
I prefer early October, although I expect I could make any of the October dates mentioned. Doug (LaVerne) 37830 USA QL since 90s QL Forever -Original Message- From: p...@zx81.de p...@zx81.de Sent: May 4, 2014 1:28 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: QLis30 update I am new to this List and from Germany. No date would stop me from coming :-D but early October would be better. Kind regards Paul ___ 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] QLis30
-Original Message- From: jms1 j...@supanet.com Sent: Mar 28, 2014 6:22 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dear QLis30 fans. That is one thing that SQLUG has not thought off. I can imagine it will enable a number of people to take part who otherwise would not be able to attend. Will an optical fibre connection and wireless router to the internet do? What other facilities would be desirable to achieve this? John Sadler SQLUG On 2014-03-28 19:51, Dave Park wrote: Hi Geoff, I am happy to support this. When this gets off the ground, I will send in my sponsorship money well before the event is held. If you choose a location that has reasonable internet access, I'd like to attend by telepresence, and show off some of the items we're designing and making, a few more of which should be available by then. Exciting times! Dave On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com wrote: Typed in afresh: I am pleased to report there is a glimmer of hope for QLis30. At the moment we are looking at the possibility of an event in Edinburgh, although the discussions are provisional. We are thinking of a late Autumn one day event, preferably on a Saturday, at a venue near the airport. A one day event is easier to get off the ground than a two day event for both financial and practical reasons with a greater choice of venues. One venue being considered is a church hall unavailable Sunday a.m. It would be possible to have some activity such as a meal on the Friday. Some of you will remember the last show held in Portslade in 2007. The hall was booked for one day but we had a very successful dinner the night before at an unusual Belgian restaurant. When the possibility of an event in Edinburgh was first raised some weeks ago several German QL-ers, very active in the QL-community, expressed an interest. We would like to get a group of developers and other highly active QL-ers together for both formal and informal contacts. We want a good cross fertilisation of ideas to hopefully give the QL a push forward. I have agreed to work on the theme, programme and content, but will need quite a bit of feedback. To avoid this email becoming too long, I'll write again in a few days time, 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 Hearing all this today I am seriously considering, already, flying. Doug LaVerne 37830 (SE USA) QL since 90s QL Forever ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Issue 1 now available.
-Original Message- From: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com Sent: Mar 6, 2014 4:34 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Issue 1 now available. Read the ebook, 50 sheds of grey :-) On 6 Mar 2014 09:31, WILLIAM WAUGH bill.wa...@btinternet.com wrote: Works on my Asus prime with Sony Reader app, although twould be better if I tweak to one page displayed instead of two. I'm not up to the standard of all you guys but will have another peruse, at least I could have all the stuff in one place for further reading if and when time allows (shed restoration in progress - priorities a man must have a shed or three) All the best Bill From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 21:14 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language Issue 1 now available. On 05/03/14 21:08, Norman Dunbar wrote: EPUB - qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/AssemblyLanguage/Issue_001/Assembly_Language_001.epub The epub has been tested on my own iRiver eReader and works fine, other than some of the cod'e sections comments slip off the right side of the page in portrait mode. It's fine if you switch to Landscape. To read the ePub version in a browser, use Firefox, add the epubReader add-on, and configure it for single column. Works like a charm and you get the images in colour! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ 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 Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm The spoof title on the fridge magnet bought in Canadian Rockies calls it ... rum droll ... Fifty Shades of Grayling :-) . Doug L. 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 pledge...
-Original Message- From: Dave Park d...@sinclairql.com Sent: Jan 6, 2014 10:33 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 pledge... Mark, Petri, Doug, THANK YOU! Doug, I translated it as £133, but I'd consider it generally understood that you'd PayPal $200 and they'd do the conversion at current exchange rates at that time, so it might be more or less. Current running total of pledges: £363 On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:24 AM, DougL externa...@earthlink.net wrote: USD200 let me xlateto pounds/xlate say tomorrow. Doug L. 37830 USA QL Foreverr Sent from my U.S. Cellular® Android phone Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Dave Park d...@sinclairql.com wrote: I offer to sponsor £150 towards the cost of any organized 'QL is 30' show. If others would like to chip in a little, it could make a Kickstarter-style fund. *Conditions:* Event must be held between March 2014 and December 2014, in a generally accessible location to QL users. This includes any traditional location like a scout hut, Eindhoven, etc. The Outer Hebrides or rural Romania probably won't count. The event must be properly open to the public, properly advertised, and what the members of this list consider 'properly organised'. Event can be organised by an individual or a company. In the event of an individual or company combining with Quanta to run the event, the fund will be divided equally between them. The pledge will be paid towards costs of running the show, and will be sent to the organiser(s) by paypal four weeks before the organized event. In the circumstance the event is cancelled for *any* reason, the pledge(s) must be returned *immediately*. *List of pledges:* *Sandy Electronics / Dave Park£150* Mark Martin£30 ___ 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 -- Dave Park Sandy Electronics, LLC d...@sinclairql.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Dave et al: let's increase that from USD200 to BP150; I had guessed that of the two the USD200 was greater. So, that should be BP380. I hope this doesn't clutter up the thread; I don't think so. Doug 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] More than may be apparent....
-Original Message- From: Rod H rod...@hotmail.com Sent: Sep 24, 2013 5:17 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] More than may be apparent Hello, I'm a long time lurker of this forum who hasn't commented or contributed mainly because the content has advanced farther than I have. BUT that hasn't blunted my interest to read and follow the various discussions. Interest in the QL still lives. Example: I had two QLs that would not boot. As I have four that do I saw no reason to keep the bad ones. Yesterday I put them on eBay, asking a very minimal price, $10 each, being just sufficient to cover my time to pack and take them to the post office. They both sold in one hour! To a guy in the US. I looked at his feedback. His preceding purchase was a working QL! Just my tuppence worth to show interest in the QL still exists. Best regards to all, Rod Humphreys Delta, BC, Canada ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm It does. I greatly expanded Mr. Kennedy's version of the Tower of Hanoi game and want to expand it further. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] A seat in the lifeboat?
-Original Message- From: Peter Graf pg...@q40.de Sent: Sep 14, 2013 8:53 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] A seat in the lifeboat? Hi, since the turn of the century, I invested a lot of time into some QL hardware and software projects. Except the Q60 Graphics Card, all of them actually worked, and have been shown to a few friends. I didn't have the motivation to finish them. For a long time, the reason was that I saw the requirement for a free QL operating system first. I spent time on that area, trying to help others who had a similar goal. But we did noch achieve a breakthrough, and my other projects suffered. Life has changed, time has become even shorter nowadays. It is absolutely unrealistic that all my projects can be released someday. But maybe I can rescue at least *one* of them, before all work is lost forever. Everything related to my Coldfire based Q60 successor makes no sense anymore. The point was high speed, but todays PCs are so fast that emulation easily beats it. Here are those projects which might still have relevance: * QLwIP: QL native TCP/IP support, and some applications for it like email, webserver, browser etc. * QLPUI: A modern GUI for QDOS, with themes and proportional fonts. Runs on native hardware and on emulators. A simple demo can be found at http://terdina.net/ql/software.html * Q60 Graphics Card: Flatscreen monitor support and other improvements for the Q60 * QLMMC: An SD/MMC card adaptor for the parallel port of Q60 and SuperGoldCard, easy to plug in, but speed only similar to floppy * QLSD: Internal SDHC card harddisk for the original QL, using the microdrive slots * Q68: Native QL computer on a 8x10 cm board, flatscreen support, SDHC cards, sound, SER, ethernet. CPU is within an FPGA chip. Runs both QDOS Classic and Minerva. The operating systems themselves seem to work allright by now, also Basic and some programs. Other programs might never work, I suspect further bugs in the CPU. Which project deserves a seat in the lifeboat? Which one would *you* prefer to see finished - even if it comes with limitations? All the best Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm QLwIP! Doug LaVerne 37830 USA Ql Forever into the Modern Day even if BBx ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey
Dave, Here's the list I sent to ql-users a day or two ago, but which seems not to have hit the list yet. QL Freebies List: Stack of four boxed Black Boxes and one unboxed B.B. + 3 power supplies; QL Home Finance other s/w; dual 3.5 drive; unused membranes; one GC. Some of the foregoing boxes have manuals power supplies. One Acorn RGB Vision III monitor power box/strip. Quanta Magazine Vols. 1-22, boxed. Tower system of forgotten components. This likely is the Aurora+backplane+etc system my dad, RIP, worked on hard to try to get running. I am _keeping_ two SGC systems--the minitower w/ quad floppies my 1st Black Box (for which I need to buy a working dual floppy drive). There are even non-QL items, such as IDE drives I will never use again. Even some Mac items possibly. Taker is free to re-sell things they pick up. But, strongly want to dispose of to one person/one pickup not fragment the lot and increase the likelihood of orphans increase the difficulty of getting these out of the house. Thanks: Doug LaVerne 37830 USA QL FOREVER! Dave gets first dibs. -Original Message- From: Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 14, 2013 2:10 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM, extdgl42 externa...@earthlink.net wrote: Doug LaVerne 37830 USA BTW, I have an extensive list upcoming of freebies for anyone willing to pick up, southern USA (e.g. five Black Boxes still in original packing boxes). No shipping, pickup only; likely someone in eastern USA. Paul? Or the New Orleans fellow? I would happily drive from Austin, TX for a couple of QLs (I have good uses for them) or maybe a floppy drive (something I desperately lack on the QL and can't find with a US-friendly power supply)... Dave ___ 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] Quick QL Today Survey
May I give an amen (or me too :-) ) to Lee. I was in computers for 34+ years (now retired) and approve maintaining perspective and keeping possibilities for individuals open. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA BTW, I have an extensive list upcoming of freebies for anyone willing to pick up, southern USA (e.g. five Black Boxes still in original packing boxes). No shipping, pickup only; likely someone in eastern USA. Paul? Or the New Orleans fellow? -Original Message- From: Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 10, 2013 7:59 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey I concur, as well as any QL related articles, feedback positive or otherwise gives atleast an indication of something that has prompted people in to a response. Norman, I read your Black Hole article with interest on the DVD collection last year and likewise there are articles about machine code, assembler, C etc. that I struggle to understand (being more of a S*BASIC fan/user), does not mean I dont enjoy reading them, I do. May I point also out that as the Sinclair QL approaches its 30th year, and that today the C5 was launched (ahem) according to the radio and wikipedia in 1985. To encourage new and possibly returning people to the auspices of the QL and systems, the retelling, updating or reiterating such articles in todays fast paced society wouldn't do any harm if contextulised well. As Geoff mentioned about games, other than IT support industry, careers involving computers are fairly similar, if you want to get into the Computer Games Industry (which has seen the biggest growth in recent years) as a programmer there are several ways in which you can do this by learning machine code, assembler high level languages based around the 'C' family as already mentioned. However a knowledge of retro computing; skills in a procedural language; being able to program in other languages as well as those expected, could do just that. May I make a plea for such contributions to either magazine, it is much needed and welcomed. Regards Lee Privett On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.comwrote: --** From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:55 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey As an author of a couple of articles in QL Today over the past 16 volumes (That's 16.5 years - my first article was The Black Hole in Volume 1, Issue 2 in July/August 1996!) I'm wondering, who (other than George) actually reads my stuff? Anyone? Is it useful? Do you make use of it? What could be better? What would you like to see? Etc. Just wondering, that is all. It is not just on your articles I would like feedback. There has been more emphasis on hardware in the last couple of years. Is this what people want? More recently we have had more coverage on games - a largely forgotten area in the magazines. I am also concerned about the lack of SuperBasic and general articles. Even if you don't want to write yourself it is always useful to have ideas. I am sure these comments would be echoed by the Quanta Magazine. I think I am the only person to have ever commented on the successful efforts that have been made to have a regular helpline, Best Wishes, Geoff __**_ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/**smsqe.htmhttp://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 Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2
12th or 13th (M-T) in southeast USA. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com Sent: Dec 14, 2011 6:24 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Malcolm Cadman q...@mcad.demon.co.uk wrote: In message EF8854B6-A3B0-4468-9332-**47469a35a...@jdh-stech.comef8854b6-a3b0-4468-9332-47469a35a...@jdh-stech.com, Jim Hunkins j...@jdh-stech.com writes Hi, Received in London today - 13th December 2011 ... Drat -- the U.S. is always behind in these things...yesterday evening for me. I suspect the Jet Stream. ___ 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] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!
Southeast USA-- East Tennessee/Smoky Mountains--today. Doug L. -Original Message- From: John Impellizzeri jjimpellizz...@gmail.com Sent: Sep 19, 2011 5:41 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now! Arrived here and well in the US (Detroit area) today the 19th. DVD is very well done, lots of good info for someone like me trying to return to the QL... John On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Wow, THIS is a real record! So many reported arrivals throughout Europe, considering that I posted them on Thursday afternoon - two days ago! Glad they arrived fast and hopefully well ... Jochen ___ 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] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!
I haven't seen this despite looking for it eagerly, and while all sorts of Europe people have reported getting it some days ago, I haven't heard any USA reports of receipt, on the list. Am I hallucinating as if I'm lost in the Bermuda Triangle, or am I right that I just haven't received it yet like other Yanks? Doug LaVerne 37830 USA I hope I haven't dropped off the renewal rolls, after all the hassle Jochen and I went through to get past the credit card payment restrictions. But I suppose that's a matter for Jochen and/or Geoff. -Original Message- From: Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch Sent: Sep 16, 2011 7:26 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now! This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro computing DVD which is out now. The DVD holds searchable PDFs of all issues (15 years, 1996-2011) of QL Today magazine, plus as Bonus Material seven software, documentation and picture collections which were previously only available on CD-ROMs or on web picture galleries. Plus there's a copy (mirror) of the biggest QL related website. All in all gigabytes of information for you to discover. Even though the Sinclair QL is the main topic, both the QL Today magazine and the Bonus Material cover other Sinclair (ZX) and Retro Computing aspects as well. Articles by Rick Dickinson (Sinclair Research Ltd. Industrial Designer January 1980 - April 1987), Tony Tebby (Sinclair Research Ltd. System Software Designer 1982-1984, author of Qdos), Simon N Goodwin (remember his many articles in the 80s computer magazines and software like the ZIP-compiler for the ZX Spectrum) are just a few hot-spots to name here. The DVD is only available together with a one year subscription of the current volume (4 issues) of the QL Today magazine. The QL Today DVD 2011 and the first issue of volume 16 are ready to ship now (http://smsq.j-m-s.com/). For more information and subscription information please visit the magazine's website (http://www.qltoday.com/). There's a sample issue available as PDF for you to download and try. Cheers, Urs - QLvsJAGUAR - Much more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever! Pictures: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/albums.aspx http://www.flickr.com/photos/qlvsjaguar/ Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p Website: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch Old school but cool ;-) ___ 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] Panasonic driver(s), KX-1124(?)
Hope this is appropriate for the list: Can someone point me to Panasonic driver(s) [printer]? Where does one look? I am sending an article to QUANTA and may need to, or have to, print from the QL in question for the hardcopy required. The above printer, despite years of inactivity, worked last night except for some overprinting and garbling. Sounds like the right driver is needed. I am using a SGC, Rebel HDD, mini-tower (w/ 4 floppies), Panasonic on SER1 (KX-1124 I believe), and to see if the printer works at all, Quill print from Xchange 3.90. Maybe that's P(X?)-1124; yes, 24-pin. I've googled (Sinclair QL printer drivers or Sinclair QL printer drivers panasonic) and done initial investigation of some QL sites such as RWAP--that could take forever rather than a day or few. I'm thinking on ways to get this article going. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA P.S. The next few months, with the parents' estate settled and the housse largely refurbished, I will be able to catalog all the extra QL kit, for whomever might be able to pick it up. I am in E. Tennessee, near where Interstates 40 75 intersect. Four or five original black boxes, some still in styrofoam, and more bits pieces. Logically for a USA QLer who passes through. Few of such critters have been seen in the wild, but, I've heard they exist :-) . ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Wishlist of future SuperBASIC extensions...
2 + 2 = 5 ... for large values of 2 -- old chestnut. Speaking of 5 :-) . -Original Message- From: Plastic plasticu...@gmail.com Sent: Feb 11, 2011 10:06 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Wishlist of future SuperBASIC extensions... On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Malcolm Lear malc...@essex.ac.uk wrote: On 11/02/2011 14:02, Plastic wrote: I wish I could... count++ instead of count = count + 1 count-- instead of count = count - 1 How about count++5 instead of count = count + 5 I'll match your increments and raise you referenced pointers... Dave ___ 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] [QL-Users] Sandy Futura (PDF from Urs)
BTW, for QLT, and QUANTA if I can find John Gilpin's @, I have had a change of address which I doubt I have yet given you: Old: Doug LaVerne 301 Briarcliff Ave. #J3 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA New: Doug LaVerne 103 Endicott Lane Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA Thanks, Doug LaVerne Although this may not be urgent for QUANTA, as my copy of the actual mag is electronic. Somewhere in the bowels of QUANTA records, though, is most likely a snail mail @. -Original Message- From: John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com Sent: Dec 22, 2010 7:53 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Sandy Futura (PDF from Urs) From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:37 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Sandy Futura (PDF from Urs) Where is this PDF on Sandy Futura - have I missed something? http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/QL_FUTURA.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Ah right - now that looks interesting... You know the sad part I came across some expansion boards (two or three) which had those connectors like the QL edge connector with 3 rows of pins, but no-one seemed to know what they were, so they got thrown out -- Rich Mellor Yes indeed, very interesting. Be wary of downloading the zip file BTW, about 154MB. My PC said 2 hours to download it (showing only about 20Kb/s at the moment though, so much for broadband). The original Futura was to be a QL compatible, then the Italian parent company were said to have pulled the plug on Futura and Sandy went ahead only with a QXL-style plug in card for PC (anyone know what that was called?), though I don't know if that went into production and how many got sold. The variety of boards Urs shows in the video probably implies both typed of boards were in the box, along with a few other Sandy RAM cards etc. Would be interesting to hear from Urs how he got hold of all this! A question many people are asking. To put people out of their misery this is a QL Today scoop and our German readers, who have already received their copies, have blown the gaff. I am afraid the rest of you will have to wait patiently for the magazine to arrive in which Urs tells all. Mind you, some of us in the UK have forgotten what post is. Yesterday I received my first post in three weeks, Best Wishes, Geoff I hope you have had your QUANTA Magazine - Bumper Christmas Issue They were posted last Friday - 17th December. ENJOY, and Season's Greetings to all. John G. ___ 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] Oops XIII
Didn't address that last post to QLT/QUANTA correctly. I knows there's iron in blood, but outright rust? Also attribute in part to the bother of the broken foot (one or two more weeks of boot camp boot). Tim and Paul, I've already sent Jim a query about some US person making me a floppies box cable to get a near-original setup (modern generic no-jumper pair of floppies); I'll be bugging you guys, maybe even Don W. too. An Ethernet card would be heaven. Setting up the new home office With several Macs (yes, an old PC too) and certainly including the QL[s]. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: uQLx]
Me too (10.4.11 currently; 10.6 not yet). Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com Sent: Nov 24, 2009 5:19 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: uQLx] On 23 Nov 2009, at 20:37, Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 23/11/09 19:58: I'm pretty sure this would be welcome. I'm not a Mac user myself, but I know quite a few QLers who use Mac OSX. Me for one! Tony Count me as well. 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] Fw: Mel LaVerne (D. LaVerne) QL--our thanks
Dear QLers, My or our thanks for your expressions of sympathy and empathy on the passing of long-time QLer Mel LaVerne, our father. That includes, but is not limited to: Bill (Cable) Francois (Van Emelen) Herb Ann (Schaaf) Jochen (Merz) John (Impellezeri) Tony (Firshman) Urs (Koenig) Doug LaVerne 37830 USA My apologies for using mere email for personal thanks, but anything could take forever to get to. -Forwarded Message- From: extdgl42 externa...@earthlink.net Sent: Jun 29, 2009 5:58 PM To: qlList_QL ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Mel LaVerne (D. LaVerne) QL The community could be interested to know that Mel LaVerne, QLer for decades, passed away early Wednesday morning, June 24th. He had suffered a stroke Jan. 15th and declined slowly since. He retained his faculties but his body would not cooperate. Mel acquired his first QL, the ubiquitous black box, in the 80s although I don't know the year. He moved up to floppies, HDDs and Aurora. He acquired his first desktop (admittedly, a non-QL machine) through QLers. He had extensive collections of QL magazines, manuals, and even 5 1/4 floppies. He wrote articles for the defunct IQLR; I would have to do research to know whether he did or did not for QLT or even Quanta. He attended QL NAs including Rhode Island 1994 and one hosted by NESQLUG and hosted one in Oak Ridge, TN, USA (1995 I believe). The last few years, as his wife Eleanor's health declined, his participation in many things decreased. At the time of his death I, Doug, his son, was encouraging him to keep his mind stimulated in the skilled nursing facility by making certain enhancements to Mr. Kennedy's Tower of Hanoi game program from an old Quanta issue. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Hacker's Journal
Speaking of which, I appear to have, or my dad's estate appears to have, complete _QUANTA_ 1 - 20, or maybe it's 22. Can someone, esp Quanta itself, use this? Shipping could be a bother, but I hate to just throw this in the 30-yd dumpster out in the driveway. Many other things QL which I hope to catalog soon. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk Sent: Aug 6, 2009 1:52 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Hacker's Journal With geocities due to close later this year, I have, with the agreement of Tim Swenson, now added the QL Hacker's Journal to my RWAP Adventures website - see URL: http://www.rwapadventures.com/qhj.html -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.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] International QL Mac are 25 event will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sat/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009
Ditto. Sounds like we have quite a Mac/XP/QPCx family. Doug (LaVerne) 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk Sent: Jul 4, 2009 8:16 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] International QL Mac are 25 event will be hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sat/Sun Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009 gdgqler wrote, On 4/07/09 15:42: On 3 Jul 2009, at 00:40, Tony Firshman wrote: and I will probably bring my Macbook Pro rather than QL hardware. I have given most of my QL stuff to Rich Mellor. My MacBook Pro runs Windows XP and so, of course, QPC2 too. ... so does mine, and Qemulator. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ 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] SMSQ.J-M-S.COM pointing to something else
Jochen, Not clear how all these things work. However, I wonder if the below was involved in my considerable frustration with the JMS site recently: I've been trying to get the latest QPC v3 (now 3.33, unless you want the 3.34 beta). I would click on Details for QPC, not seeing anything else to give info on how to get it from JMS, one of two major distributors. This simply brought up another instance of where I had just been--this happened four times, taking me in circles. After half an hour of that and some other frustrations, I gave up. FYI, I then went to Marcus' (Kilgus) site and tried to send email requesting a QPC password. The message failed and was sent back after 48 hours or so of non-delivery. So, unless something changes, I will abandon trying to get the latest QPC. I will try to take my old v3 diskette and put it under XP on my MacIntel (MacBook Pro, Mac OS X/ 10.4.11, Parallels VM, XP Pro). Again, FYI, 397 Doug LaVerne (Cust. #). Thanks much sorry for the troubles, Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: SMSQ s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Apr 9, 2009 4:45 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] SMSQ.J-M-S.COM pointing to something else Hi everybody on the list, I received an email from a QLer this afternoon, being surprised and worried that smsq.j-m-s.com points to my shareware services. Actually, ALL my subdomains of j-m-s.com are pointing to the main index.htm ... I have had my provider putting an SSL certificate over www.j-m-s.com and it seems, while doing this, all subdomains got changed as well. http://j-m-s.com/smsq hold the contents of smsq.j-m-s.com so you can get to it if you want, but I hope it will be fixed very, very soon. (Previously, I only had an SSL certificate for j-m-s.DE ... so order and contact and everything went to j-m-s.DE). However, I would like to have things properly divided and set up, so I bought a certificate for .COM as well. So, no need to worry, I haven't given up QLing suddenly and I do not plan to do so!!! Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.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] SMSQ.J-M-S.COM pointing to something else
Nuts!!! That last post was for Jochen alone, not the list! Goofed on the addressing. Don't know a withdraw command. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: SMSQ s...@j-m-s.com Sent: Apr 9, 2009 4:45 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] SMSQ.J-M-S.COM pointing to something else Hi everybody on the list, I received an email from a QLer this afternoon, being surprised and worried that smsq.j-m-s.com points to my shareware services. Actually, ALL my subdomains of j-m-s.com are pointing to the main index.htm ... I have had my provider putting an SSL certificate over www.j-m-s.com and it seems, while doing this, all subdomains got changed as well. http://j-m-s.com/smsq hold the contents of smsq.j-m-s.com so you can get to it if you want, but I hope it will be fixed very, very soon. (Previously, I only had an SSL certificate for j-m-s.DE ... so order and contact and everything went to j-m-s.DE). However, I would like to have things properly divided and set up, so I bought a certificate for .COM as well. So, no need to worry, I haven't given up QLing suddenly and I do not plan to do so!!! Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.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] QPC - XP
Dilwyn, Odd, the only thing I can find is a URL for smsqe , no reference to anything else, rather than a Tower of Hanoi (I do want Mr. Kennedy's version, even if with others. I can make a whole Towwer of Hanoi folder). Am I missing something (not unlikely)? Thanks, Doug 37830 USA I emailed John about [re]joining QUANTA. -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Sent: Mar 20, 2009 7:44 AM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC - XP Dilwyn, John (Gilpin) said the following: Hi Doug, Regarding your query about The Towers of Hanoi game, it is still in the QUANTA Library on disc GG01 and is credited to P Kennedy on 22/08/1987 Contact Dilwyn Jones (QUANTA Librarian) who will be able to advise you the best way to get a copy. Also QUANTA Magazine had a similar program from Steve Poole in Volume 23, ... At the moment I am after the Kennedy original; I have a feeling the similar program from 2006 is quite different (although I will try it in the QPCxx I _do_ have). Can you indeed show me how to get a copy? I have a feelling the GG01 I do have by now will be bad medium or it's one of the ones I've formatted. Thanks, Doug L. 37830 USA Hi Doug, Please find attached the hanoi program by P Kennedy from Quanta Library disc GG01. I've attached the original QL basic program listing (HANOI) and a zipped copy in case the original basic program doesn't survive email. The zipped copy should survive whatever damage this PC can do! Also, if you look on my QL website, in the games section at http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html there's a couple of Towers Of Hanoi games there too. Quanta members will be getting an up to date copy of the Library Guide disc with their next newsletters in a few weeks, so finding library programs like this should be easier for members. Normally as Quanta Librarian I'd ask you to send me a disk for the program and return postage, but for one small program like this to USA it just seemed a lot easier to send by email. I am assuming of course that you are still a member of Quanta - I take it that you are since John Gilpin is membership secretary and wouldn't have suggested this if you weren't. It's so nice to hear from our QL friends over there again! -- Dilwyn Jones -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card
Same here, but USA. I've been meaning to ask again for some time. I put generic floppies in my case, but still can't get them to do everything right that the dinosaurs used to do. I know something has to do with two lines being swapped, and nominally had two lines swapped at one of the last North American shows, but suspect they didn't get fully seated, and I'm no expert at doing this. I may use QPC on the PC to get some QL things done, then go to the QL with the lamed floppy drives just for the pleasure of the QL and to get the cockles of my little black heart warmed at doing something useful on This Old Boat I mean computer he he. Again, can I get a cable built to have the lines swapped for using modern floppies on the QL. Must ship to USA though. Have $$, will pay :-) . Doug LaVerne 37830 USA SGC, GC, Trump, unexpanded, 2 x 3.5, 14.4 (!) (no use now), Acorn III RGB (repaired, thanks Tony for your efforts at last QL NA though), IBM kbd, microdrives (but not _reallly_ working), and many of the old programs... -Original Message- From: Dr M. Hanias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 9, 2008 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card Thanks Derek Can I purchasea ready made cable cable from you to test it? I can pay via paypal or cash Michael - Original Message - From: Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card Hi, Norman, Older floppy drives have a switchable resistor to select the drive 0 -3 which refers to FLP1_ to FLP4_, but the modern PC HD drives have a resistor soldered onto the drive select part of the board to permanently select drive 1. The cable to the I/O card or motherboard has a twist in the control lines, which allows Drive 1 and Drive 2 to be selected. To get PC floppy disk drives to work on a QL Disk Interface i.e. Supergold card, Gold card, a another cable is required with the drive select wires going to Drive 0 for FLP1_ and Drive Select 1 for FLP2_ I think I had some cables made up. Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning Michael, Is any way to connect a moderd floppy with GOLD CARD? I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have a Gold Card and it was able to run the modern3.2 MB ED drives simply by plugging them into the floppy interface. Cheers, Norman. ___ 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 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] Second User Hardware Available
Roy, Would you be able to ship to eastern USA? What prices? Interested GC, and/or SGC, and/or Aurora system. Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 4, 2007 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ql-Users] Second User Hardware Available I still have a Gold Card and Super Gold Card available and I should be getting a complete Aurora system (Super Gold Card, Aurora Motherboard, Qubide, RomDisq) ,which I will spilt up for sale. Best thing is to email me because I am not home much at the moment. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.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] Testing
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 6, 2007 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Testing Yet, every day, many of us have new(ish) PCs and run QL emulators ( 20 year old system) on them which is probably just as unexplainable to many ... (phew, back on topic). A bit contrived there Dilwyn - must try harder next time. The reason I run QPC on my PC is because we should alway stry to better ourselves, so I'm bettering my PC :o) They said Win 9x or better -- so I got [Linux, Qxx, etc]--old quip. Doug (LaVerne) US 37830 Cheers, Norman. ___ 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] A QL Trip Down Memory Lane
As an example of variety, I'll mention my confuser (computer :-) room: Three Macs (two of them laptops), two PCs (One 733, the other 133[!], a custom build long ago), and several QLs (many still in styrofoam boxes; one somewhat working). Yes, internet connectivity for four of the above. All as old as about 1999 or farther back, with OS's as old as 98SE or QDOS, or as recent as SuSE 10.x and Mac OS 10.3 . The Macs e.g. have been an education. My life? What life? I have no life. O insuportable! O heavy hour!--Apologies to Messrs. Bill the Bard and Othello. Actually, I _do_ have a life outside computers. Doug L. 37830 -Original Message- From: Rick Chagouri-Brindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 11, 2007 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] A QL Trip Down Memory Lane Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Chagouri-Brindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Not forgetting, that there is just as much value in hand skills too. I couldn't agree with you more. I have two young sons and the older boy, who is four ,has his own laptop, but we ensure that he mixes sitting at the computer with actually physically making things with kicking a ball around with . . . . . . . I have no problem with software investment going into PC applications. What I find disappointing is that in many schools/colleges it is purely a Microsoft environment and that students have no concept of the history and development of ICT. That, in my view, is a real shame. Even in programming, the concentration seems to be totally on Visual Basic - with all the bad habits that gives us - without considering the huge variety of better cross-platform languages. Oh well, that's life, I guess! Yes it is boring, but the way it is at present. A colleague of mine actually had a student penalised for thinking outside the box and using an alternative language - Ruby - for a project. My school has a Humanities specialist grant, that gives us even more M$ products, as a part of the deal. MS aren't stupid, are they? Actually, that reminds me. I also teach on a volunteer basis at a local pre-school. I use the term teach with this age group very loosely, but I was amazed how much these children pick up and how quickly. As part of the project, I setup and installed four PCs for them, and we installed the Edubuntu Linux variant - partly for reasons of cost, and partly because it is designed for young children. They have all taken too it so well, it is amazing. Many of the children use the machines with more confidence than some of the staff!!! ___ 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] QL NA: Now 20 snow
Good grief! We were in the Buffalo (NY, USA) area just two weeks ago for the NA show. It was neither cold nor hot. InternetWeek newsletter says today that they're under 20 of snow. Doug L. 37830 USA ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL NA show lost+found if you'll pardon the expression:-) :-(
John et al, Very interesting idea. I would like to get something in QLT saying some of us are trying to summarize, then move forward on, 'Netting for the QL, as near original as possible w/o super extensive upgrades. I suspect the deadline for a soon-to-be issue of QLT is past and any such will have to wait a couple months for the next issue. (No, I don't 100% know what I'm doing/have done in volunteering to head up such an idea--would I be doing this if I really _knew_ what I was getting myself into?). This could be what amounts to a regular QLT department, with differing contributors from time to time. And I suspect there are numerous QLers out there who do not use their QLs for much 'Netting and rely on post/snail mail for many things--such as the printed QLT. Notification by paper might produce results amongst lurking QLers that other efforts have not. Mm-hmm, I'm aware that large efforts have already been expended and milestones have been reached--e.g. Johnathon Dent's SoQL and Phoebus' three-part series of articles. However, I don't think anyone really _knows_ we can't go further, and can't draw old devotees and draw lurkers back to or closer to renewed QL involvement. Some folk at the QL NA show were saying lack of modern abilities such as Internet or at least email (which Johnathon's SoQL addresses) is one of the main stumbling blocks to having some old-line QLers using their QL for much. Hmm, looks like John is thinking of Quanta and I'm thinking of QLT, but ultimately that should not be a handicap. QL Forever, Doug 37830 USA Today I have so many emergencies (e.g. family) on my plate I can do little on the above--but will keep trying to get to it. And as I've said, if you think I'm nuts (never voluneer, at least in the army), do you think I'd volunteer if I _knew_ what I'm getting myself into? :-) . And Tony, I haven't had time to open up the case on my floppies to see what information if any there is on the drive bodies about make, model etc. -Original Message- From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 4, 2006 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL NA show lost+found if you'll pardon the expression:-) :-( - Original Message - From: extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qlList_QL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:13 PM Subject: [ql-users] QL NA show lost+found if you'll pardon the expression:-) :-( Folk, Did anybody find, in cleaning up the room after the show Saturday, a 10-outlet protected power source? I think Urs and I were the only ones using it earlier. Dark grey like so many computer gadgets. Can't find it anywhere in the car. It was plugged into the wall that was behind Tony's and Bill's tables. Don't remember if it got moved elsewhere after the show ended. Thanks, Doug L. 37830 USA Thanks to everyone in general, and also to those who participated in our discussion of what is done or to be done for Internetting with a near-original QL. Now, this would make an interesting article (or series of articles) for Quanta Magazine - reporting ideas, requirements, technical observations, etc with perhaps a progress report as a follow-up in a later issue. I suspect that there are plenty of USERS like me (with very little technical know-how) who will need a blow-by-blow account of what is needed, hardware, software etc and how much it's all likely to cost!! Any offers to write the article(s)?? Offers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, John Gilpin. ___ 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] Tony: 3.5's per QL NA show conversation
Tony, You said as we packed up, after there wasn't time for you to get to the 3.5's I wanted fixed, to get into an email correspondence w/ you we'd see what could be done. I can see such a conversation benefitting QLers beyond just myself; still, should we do this on or off list? Of course, it occurs to me folk routinely fix QPC2 and other problems on list. Synopsis: o Old 3.5's from either Don Waterman or a fellow named Sherman stopped working or some such. o Whatever the reason, I made a guess two new, generic 3.5's could be put in. o After further problems even with those, Roy or some person reversed about 4 lines on the ribbon cable at I believe the Maryland NA show a few years ago. o Last known, they half worked, half didn't. They would at least read a diskette. However, format never formatted, and the only way to write a file to diskette was to take a diskette in use and write to that, or take a diskette in use and delete an existing file and write there. I haven't tried the 3.5's on the QL you updated (Minerva again, + sH) at the show. Doug No Aurora, Qubide, etc. Just a black box with more readily doable upgrades, e.g. have Trump/GC/SGC, Hermes/sH, Minerva, had Falkenberg on the old black box, 14.4, IBM kbd. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] (no subject)
I concur, and commend Tony. I watched him as he worked on four or five items of mine alone. Doug L. 37830 USA Strange, the persons on the picture labeled Mary Cable Ann Schaaf look a bit like Bill Boehm and Alf Kendal! He he - will correct. Hope you all had some fun. I was sprinting from 10am to 4:15pm and no time to think of having fun (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ 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
Further: Francois' Blackknight was not being any slouch, don't get me wrong. But Psion played a surprising sacrifice early in the game, really surprising for a program esp a small one, slowly ground it out in seemingly adverse circumstances into the better game, then into an endgame with only a few pieces left on the board, then checkmated in that endgame with requirements which your child even with experience might find difficult. And it was about 100 moves! Years later I can still give that description off the top of my head (even if there's not much left up there :-) . Thanks for all the comments. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Malcolm Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QL NA show: repairs
Tony, As you may know (you don't? uh-oh :-) you've been listed for the NA show as fixing things. I'd like to mention beforehand something I'd like done: getting my floppy drives working. Years ago the previous ones, old, had trouble I replaced them with new generics. They had some sort of trouble, and at a NA show (Maryland US?) Roy or somebody flipped four wires in the cable. They worked a little better, but e.g. they still won't format, and putting a new file on a diskette is done only by deleting an existing file from a used diskette and inserting--not say by format just write. Puts a crimp in your day. Installing the sH I bought from you looks involved, and I expect you the expert could do in five (ten?) minutes with myself needing an afternoon for reading dickering... If as a matter of principle, and you needing to ration your time at the show maybe, I should do it myself, I can. Thanks, Doug L. 37830 USA If you can evaluate the Minverva I also bought recently, that could be handy; as I say I dropped it and don't know yet, through installation or just check-out, whether I've damaged it. Even I the non-specialist can install one of those though. I will have the black box which is in the process of being converted to main QL (newer Minerva, sH, remove old 68008; SGC, repaired floppies; SMSQ maybe in forseeable future--yes, I still run without). Maybe even the old black box (older Minverva, maybe shot). ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QL NA show: QL monitor?
If anyone has a QL monitor they'd like to part with, please bring it to the show and we likely can negotiate a decent price. Esp if you take plastic. May not have checks before I leave. What I am looking to replace: Currently I have an old Acorn III RGB, roughly a foot or foot and a half cube, which has given up the ghost. The only semi-useable one is an old Datapoint green monochrome, which just isn't good enough. The old black cubes which say Sinclair or a similar item would probably do. I am not looking to have to do noticeable rewiring, make adaptors, repair, etc. The old Acorn (from someone named Sherman I think) just plugged in its power cable and its video cable. Doug L. 37830 USA I would not be entirely averse to items which are somewhat above the foregoing characteristics but allow for expansion beyond the old QDOS; as I've said in other posts, it's likely I'll upgrade to SMSQ finally, although I doubt I'll go beyond the black box to say Aurora. (I maintain a life outside even the QL ... e.g. several Linuces, OS X and OS 9, though absolutely _no_ Winnie--Wintel/IE--except at work. There is no Earthlink phone # in N.F. Ontario, and that was the final factor in deciding not to bring the old G3 400 laptop). Black box, SGC, 2x 3.5 needing repair, new Mk II uninstalled, sH uninstalled, IBM keyboard (also GC, Trump 896), 14.4 (surely 56K after sH installed), monitor needed, SMSQ in foreseeable future, QPC, Xchange (3.91?), Psion chess as mentioned, more. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] I want your software
Nuts--too late--there is, or used to be, a place in town with not just old systems but boxes of old serial mice--cheap too. I only have one in my place. One can, though, ship within the continent without breaking the bank. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Francois Lanciault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] I want your software BlackKnight... now this brings memories... My first attempt at a chess program... But yes, it could not beat Psion chess. This program is a marvel. I should try to pitch my latest chess program against it one day... On to another topic... My (main) QL is a Aurora/SuperGoldCard/Minerva MKII/Hermes machine, running SMSQ/E. Recently my mouse died. I had this mouse since the first release of the sermouse driver. Now sermouse is included in SMSQ/E. I don't remember the type of mouse, something like PC system mouse. Anyway microsoft serial mouse did not work with sermouse at the time. I said to myself: after all these years, sermouse must now support serial microsoft type mouse! But no! And that is the only working serial mouse I have in my house. Now try to find a serial mouse these days, especially a PC mouse system type... So my question is : can a microsoft serial mouse be used on a QL with hermes in any way ? Anybody has a compatible mouse that they could sell me at the U.S. show ? Regards François Lanciault Le 06-09-27 à 10:14, extdgl42 a écrit : Further: Francois' Blackknight was not being any slouch, don't get me wrong. But Psion played a surprising sacrifice early in the game, really surprising for a program esp a small one, slowly ground it out in seemingly adverse circumstances into the better game, then into an endgame with only a few pieces left on the board, then checkmated in that endgame with requirements which your child even with experience might find difficult. And it was about 100 moves! Years later I can still give that description off the top of my head (even if there's not much left up there :-) . Thanks for all the comments. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Malcolm Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 ___ 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 Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] I want your software
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). Come to think of it, an annotated version of the Psion game could even make a QLT article. Even an interesting one :-) . Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Phil Kett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 26, 2006 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] I want your software Neil Riley wrote: Hi All. Being an admittedly nerdy collector ( just ask the wife ). I am slowly building up a collection of original games and other such things for my QL. This collecting also extends to other things like Metacomco languages, Utilities and the like. This is not a request for you to donate your unwanted items, but a request for those who have that copy of SPOOK or THE LOST PHAROAH or METACOMCO BCPL, THE PAWN, CARTRIDGE DOCTOR, WEST (on Microdrive ) , Abersoft Classic Adventures, JMF games etc etc , to come forward and let us do a deal. If your copy is dead but you have the packaging then this could be ok as I will get a working version somehow. I already have some of the mentioned items but the microdrives are faulty... Cartridge Doctor is a funny example but im not laughing :-( Ok, Thanks for listening. this only applies to those who read out loud :-) I like yourself have been an avid collector of all things QL for a long time. Unfortunately time and money has left this sort of thing to the wayside. I do have quite a collection of software on microdrive if you're interested - to be honest I was thinking about putting some of this stuff on Ebay but hadn't got around to it - to be honest I'd rather it went to someone in the community anyway. Here's what I've got Scrabble Lands Of Havoc Zapper Cosmos Zkul 3D Slime The Assembler Workbench BJ in 3D land Pawn Fictionary Meteor Storm Astracom 1000 Software West Ornak BJ The Return QL Art Super Sprite Generator Cavern Bounder Chess Classic Adventures I can't at the moment say for certain what works and what doesn't but if you're interested in any of these then let me know and I'll rake out an original QL and test them for you, 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
[ql-users] Fw: Re: Niagara Show update HOT DAWG!!!!!!!!!! (?)
OK, formally reserved. See everyone (excuse me, that's y'all , another good Southernism) there. Unless I sober up when I actually get around to calculating the distance. Reminds me of the German relatives of friend Dita who visited the US figuring, oh, they'd drive from East TN to California in a day or so ... cross country as they did in Europe. Doug (LaVerne) 37830 USA -Forwarded Message- From: extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 21, 2006 4:40 PM To: Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Niagara Show update HOT DAWG!! (?) Yes, that's a US Southernism. Yes, I'm geographically/location-wise from the US South, but not culturally. Long story. I hope I'm not counting chickens before they hatch, but I plan tonight to call the hotel and see if they still have QL rooms available. I figure on coming, with things to be fixed and the attitude of an absolutely shameless ham which will once again allow me to Get Up, In Front of People no less, and give five (_surely_ no more than ten) minutes of the problem of an article on QL Net-ing and what I'm looking to do and find out. This meeting would be the perfect place, as one can buttonhole F2F (face to face). The list is nice but doesn't work as well. Again, there are others who can treat on that subject but I'll keep on till it's obvious I should quit, if it ever is. If Johnathon Hudson could do What Needs To Be Done (US Prarie Home Companion) in a week, possibly I could do it over ... a couple of months? Anyway, it _might_ be doable (in my copious spare time--wake me when my cane falls from my hand). I've been in computers for most of 30 years, although it has been a while since I've done much line-by-line, hard coding. Are there any problems I innocently might fall afoul of crossing the border? Airline passenger inspection has gotten hairy; might f'rinstance confusers/computers in the back seat look odd to Customs, in either direction? Doug LaVerne 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 20, 2006 9:36 AM To: extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Niagara Show update Hi Doug, I understand as it is a big trip for you. If you can get away it will be nice to see you. We will see of those who come if anyone can demonstrate online QL use. Most likely this will be the last show I try to organize. I do not actually use the QL anymore. I just like to see old friends and hear the latest news. Too bad an experienced C programmer like Jonathon Hudson did not take a big interest in getting an open source version of internet connecting software working for the QL. All the software has been written on other platforms and it just takes someone who knows some of the details to port it to the QL. A weeks worth of work from someone like him would be all it would take. Unfortunately the best programmers on the QL are partial to machine language and not C and also not big on the open source approach. -- Bill On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, extdgl42 wrote: Bill, I seriously doubt I will make the NA show: family, work emergencies, etc. As far as a presentation for 'Net-ing with a near-original black box, the new fellow (I'd have to hunt his name down) might actually be a better bet, either at NA or over time in QLT. He seems as far along as anybody and may have the resources, time and desire and other. I haven't written for QLT or the ill-fated IQLR or any of that ilk in ages. I'll really miss it. If by some miracle I make it, well, I make it. Doug LaVerne 865.482.6691 (h) 865.660.7453 (c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 20, 2006 7:49 AM To: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Niagara Show update I have listed below people who have indicated they are planning to come and people who have shown an interest in the show. Please let anyone else know who ...snip... Expressed an interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Davis Paul Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Holmgren extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Laverne Not attending but coordinating Quanta support ...snip... ___ 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] QHelp
I think they're affectionately as confusers :-) . Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 22, 2006 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QHelp Hi David Glad to hear it - yes, computers are wonderful !! On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:30:05 +0100, David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've re-installed QHelp from the zip files. Everything is in exactly the same directories as before, yet now it works. Aren't computers wonderful? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapadventures.com URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk URL:http://www.internetbusinessangels.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] month number
Google is your friend--e.g. googling zeller's congruence for starters or just visiting US NIST or similar will turn things up. I've been thinking to mention zeller's for some time. Maybe that's one thing the QLT articles dealt with; I haven't looked in a while to say the least. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 20, 2006 1:22 PM To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] month number Is there a way of returning the current month as a number? I had thought I had come up with a function for this, but it is getting the ends of some months wrong, eg 1 May is coming out as 31 Apr! (Which ...snip... ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QLer ages
Gnuts, systransoft.com should have Welsh ... but doesn't :-( . Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 15, 2006 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLer ages The last show I attended was in Chester, some time in the '90s. I ...snip... [Age: pedwar deg chwech - only known to Welsh speakers :-) ] -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Tandata Modem Q Con + Q Mod--thanks
Thanks--that's as much as succinctly as I've seen on 'Net-ing the QL... Bill Cable thought I might give a session at QL-NA in Canada end of the month. I don't see any way I can leave some emergencies here in town at that time. I had hoped at least to make it without material for a session but with the purpose of picking everyone's brains to aim to next year. However, the below gives me a start. And it seems to assume a fairly basic QL--I have SGC and now SuperHermes. Doug (LaVerne) 37830 USA -Original Message- From: David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 12, 2006 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Tandata Modem Q Con + Q Mod On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 11:35 +0100, Neil Riley wrote: I seem to remember these items appearing originally. Are they still used today or are they museum pieces? They were very slow (remember the QL serial port is only capable of 19K and only reliable for reception at 9K!) To get 56K you would need to upgrade your QL with a SuperHermes (£53 new from Tony Firshman). Then you could use a conventional serial modem, which are still made: I have one with my PC (£30 new). No broadband, though! Jon Dent's soQL-PPP has got as far as giving email access, but not (yet) web access. When (if?) the latter comes, there's already a QL version of Lynx for browsing. Until then, the only way to browse the web on a QL seems to be by finding a secondhand copy of the MSDOS emulator, PC Conqueror, and running Arachne (graphical) or Bobcat (text). However, I remember that the Minix operating system was ported to the QL, which should be faster than a DOS emulator. If you could get that, I assume it would be possible to compile and run a Linux/Unix version of Lynx. ___ 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] Impressive: QL in Ghostscript 8.14 docs
I expect a number of QLers are aware of this already, but in downloading installing Ghostscript 8.14 (a major product for viewing PostScript PDF), for work, I happened through the ReadMe file, and there in front of God country as they say, was: SMS/QDOS For information on a port to the SMS/QDOS operating system, contact Jonathan R. Hudson +44-1703-867843 telephone and fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jrhudson.demon.co.uk/ The Web site has precompiled binaries, and the port includes includes drivers for: pic: native graphics format (PIC, 1-, -2, 4-, 8-colour formats) qfax: fax files (1D, 2D normal and fine) Plan 9 [etc.] The World knows of us, at least here and there. Doug L. 37830 USA ___ 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] Not recognised message II
I would've been interested in the monitor advertised here recently, if it were in the US. However I have a problem which a replacement monitor, whether an actual Sinclair or other (QLers here in Oak Ridge may make the Walterman adapter for using a non-Sinclair monitor) would only partly solve: A year ago, or whenever it was, the QL worked. The 3.5 drives didn't behave entirely right, wouldn't format a diskette e.g., but for the most part things worked. At some point I took the platform out of service--something to do with the 3.5's I believe, or maybe it was a guess of there being problems with the batteries. I eventually replaced both the square red battery on the SGC and three-layer battery on the end of the long wires under the hood off I believe it's the Minerva. When I finally fired the QL up again, the first time or two I got the whir from the microdrives, the one LED on the black box that still had juice lit I believe, the 3.5 drives had one LED come on stay on (flp1_ I believe) and the other flickered on off for quite some time. The monitor, an old Acorn RGB-III, always had a loose part (the knobs that stick out the front their base) which had to be poked (with a pencil, certainly not a screwdriver!) to get it to come on. Eventually I had it on in one startup, and got only black white stripes overlaid with the message QL ROM ... not recognized / Please contact Miracle Systems. Phoebus said off-list this most likely was a problem between the SGC card and its socket--a bent pin and/or bad seating. So I popped the hood, saw no bent pins, and re-seated it. It seemed to jump into the socket. The monitor gave out; I substituted a monochrome I had, put the hood back, and fired up. Now there is no whir from the microdrives, no LED lighting on the black box, no LEDs on the 3.5 drives, and again the not recognized message (the monitor does come up). The modem when turned on at this point does show the first two LEDs. The printer is live. So, Phoebus, while I can't say you were wrong, I don't know what _is_ going on. I've never heard of these sorts of symptoms before. Analyses anyone? Direction(s) to go? I now have several QLs, two PCs and a few Macs... printer, scanner... it would (could?) be fun to get them all talking to each other and making use of each other (in your dreams!) . Doug L. 37830 USA SGC, 4MB, 2 x 3.5, Falkenberg, Minerva, USR 14.4, Hermes, no HDD / Aurora / etc.--near/half original Black Box. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Irish Show
The recent(?) profile of Linus Torvalds in _Wired_ claimed that Linus' first love was not a woman but a Sinclair QL. So there you are, material for a love song. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 29, 2005 4:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Irish Show Q-Celt wrote: So, when is a good time for a Show? Mid-Summer? Or do we leave it until Sept/Oct? Mid summer - August - suits me. And me Anyone else? The weather will be good too. BTW Darren I have just come back from an evening with Steve Bensusan (you others will not know him) and he is onboard for the new band. Brilliant news!! (Steve is a gifted Guitarist. I have Roy's Album with Last Post and he is amazing on it - unbelievable solos.) I had thought you'd lost touch with himI was just listening to him in the car last night on my way home from work (that album occupies slot 4 on my CD Multi-changer!!) Has Roy's band done any songs about the Sinlair QL or SMSQ/E, there back on topic. If he has I would buy a copy. -- Tarquin Mills (Chairman) ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society) http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/comp/accus/ http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Spectrum/ (We want a Spectrum +4) ___ 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] Ffibys version 2.0
Should that be Ffibys 2.1 or 1.7? I think that, according to gov't statisticians, is how many children couples actually have :-) . Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 28, 2005 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Ffibys version 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manual... sample of which I sent to Marcel) but due to the birth of my son .. however the time draws near ;-) Morning Ffibys, Congratulations due then ? I'm intrigued by the mention that you will have 'time' soon to do some QL'ing - how come you have time when you've just had a child and I don't have any, and I never have enough time for anything ? Cheers, Norman. ___ 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] SGC battery
No, that was my Minnie battery; my dad obtained a replacement for me some time ago from an electronics shop. I've wondered for some time if that could be contributing to various peculiar behavior. Although the same day (yesterday) we discovered a small amount of blue-ish muck across some of the terminals on the bottom of the SGC removed it... Anyway, Minnie and everything is mine--a _really_ old black box with SGC being the main update, no Aurora, Super Hermes, what have you. My dad's Minnie battery was replaced some time ago. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 20, 2005 11:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] SGC battery On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:53:35 -0500 (GMT-05:00), extdgl42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have for sale the SGC card battery? The red creature about 3/4 inch square. I have an index card recording the stamped in printing ...snip... Doug, I replaced mine with a run of the mill Lithium battery bought from Walmart. It just needs soldering in the appropriate positions :-) As for the Minnie battery I assume you mean Mel's... I am glad you finally got around to it :-) Ffibys ___ 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] SGC battery
Does anyone have for sale the SGC card battery? The red creature about 3/4 inch square. I have an index card recording the stamped in printing on the top surface, but not with me at the moment. Today we replaced the Minerva battery, which registered about .1 or .2 V. The SGC battery barely even made the multi meter needle quiver. I believe we were touching with the probes correctly. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 19, 2005 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi :) That story sounds all too true. I have actually seen some very fast Java but unfortunately, that is more the exception than the norm. It ...snip... I keep quoting Lau's brilliant superHermes documentation, but it is worth repeating. ...snip... ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi
-Original Message-
From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Feb 19, 2005 12:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 at 14:50:13, James Hunkins wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
:) That story sounds all too true. I have actually seen some very fast
Java but unfortunately, that is more the exception than the norm. It
...snip...
I keep quoting Lau's brilliant superHermes documentation, but it is
worth repeating.
The sH _asm was vast, but is mainly documentation.
He wrote giant introductions, where he had a dialogue (with himself) on
how to approach basic logic, listing out -all- his thoughts.
Brilliant. Not only does a future programmer know what he did ('cos it
is there) but what he rejected.
...snip...
+Reminds me of a favorite story from work years ago (I think this is
+what's being talked about): I had a particularly important mod due
+yesterday. I tried several times to jump into coding without
+success, getting caught in tangles of logic, both sensible and
+coding. I stepped back, took a day or so to write a page and
+a half of structured English, and then the code, less than
+half a page, fell together from that.
+What's just as funny is that we were a text-crunching shop
+(and still are to a degree), using (rum droll) FORTRAN!
+But that's another story.
+Doug L. Oak Ridge, TN USA.
Tony
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[ql-users] QL 'Net help (Was: Visit to Switzerland)
Greetings from a mostly lurker. Who can help with the following: Hasn't someone written a TCP/IP stack for the lowly QL? Can one get on the 'Net without having to have a QLx0 or Aurora or the various newer hardware? Here is what I've heard and what I've done in the past that no longer works (and the hardware I currently have): Mozilla, Firefox and Gecko-based browsers are already building up a portfolio of vulnerabilities. IE already has tons of vulnerabilities, known and as yet to be discovered. These will only grow. I'm tired of all this and would like something, however slow and however limited (viz., to text) that is unlikely to get these problems. Plus it warms the cockles of my little black heart to make use of such a modest platform to do what the power platforms don't really do for me. One can do on the QL most of one's daily business and leave the PC for only when it is really needed. Supposedly SoQL and I'm not sure what else got one on, or had _something_ to do with getting on the net. I used to use the venerable QTPI with its VT100 emulation to get to the area freenet via a shell account and from there out to the wide world, using as I remember the just as venerable lynx (which appears to be still alive, and not just in the third world) on the freenet's machines. The freenet eventually decided it was being an ISP and for various reasons the above fell apart. Nobody allows shell accounts or shell acounts and VT100. Dealing with the one area ISP who catered to older platforms has been unhelpful. Using QPC might allow Net access, but that is really using the PC. I am looking for a use for the physical QL. Hardware: SGC mainly, but have GC and Trump ~ 1M. Minerva, 14.4 USR, Falkenberg, IBM kbd, Hermes (not SuperHermes, but could use it), dual 3.5 FDD (if I can ever get a working pair--see other email), no HDD. Old Acorn monitor, RGWBlk. 24-pin printer, can't recall the make model (something with P and a four-digit number come to mind). Even have MicroDrives, though not sure they work anymore. Thanks much, Doug LaVerne Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 8, 2005 6:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [ql-users] Visit to Switzerland The only QLer in the village - for all you Little Britain fans. Can't imaging Dilwyn in those trousers though. Or, at least, I don't want to. Neither do I! Now that puts a different face on it ... :-) You had better be careful, Tony, about making a potential visit to the village ... laplink, null modem cable, and all ... :-) I vaguely remember a picture and caption in IQLR magazine along the lines of Tony Firshman caught dangling his Minerva Mkii in public. Now if that were to become a LapLink I'd start worrying ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005 ___ 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] FDD help? (Was: Visit to Switzerland)
Greetings once again from LurkLand. Can someone help with the following: Does anyone have a pair of FDDs known to work (viz., for SGC and preferably GC as well)? Or maybe I just need a cable that is twisted right or otherwise set up right. I cannot get my dual 3.5 FDD to work. Haven't been able to for some time. I had a pair from long, long ago and far, far away that somehow stopped working (maybe the latch pooped out on one; don't remember). I decided to try replacing both with new generics and plug the cable from the Black Box back into the FDDs. I remember they never worked right. E.g. I have never been able to format (and previously could). I could take a disk full of files, delete one, and put my new file in, but not start fresh via format. John, Don, and Roy have all worked on my various tries at cabling, generic (or the old) boxes, etc. at various US shows. Roy even took the existing cable, took two pairs of four wires each and reversed them relative to each other. Things worked better in ways that again I don't remember, but never fully satisfactorily. Still couldn't format. So who has run into this before? Should I be able to get away with a pair of generic boxes and a cable that is wired right? Or is that an iffy setup and should I just get the full setup of a pair of boxes (yes, in one housing maybe) and a cable all known already to work? Possibly would have to be in USA given shipping $$. I am looking to get a physical QL within shouting distance of original to do a large part of my daily business. I am not ruling out the QPC I have; just want use for my black box. Hardware: SGC (also GC and Trump ~1M), in general original black box; 14.4 USR, Falkenberg, Hermes, Minerva, old Acorn RGWBlk monitor, Pxxx 24-pin printer. Thanks much, Doug LaVerne Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 8, 2005 6:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [ql-users] Visit to Switzerland The only QLer in the village - for all you Little Britain fans. Can't imaging Dilwyn in those trousers though. Or, at least, I don't want to. Neither do I! Now that puts a different face on it ... :-) You had better be careful, Tony, about making a potential visit to the village ... laplink, null modem cable, and all ... :-) I vaguely remember a picture and caption in IQLR magazine along the lines of Tony Firshman caught dangling his Minerva Mkii in public. Now if that were to become a LapLink I'd start worrying ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005 ___ 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
