Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
Hi Geoff, On 20/03/13 12:26, Geoff Wicks wrote: Why do we have to think in terms of a magazine? Good point. Maybe because we are discussing a replacement for a magazine perhaps? What's wrong with a (simple) rolling website? I cannot read a web site when I'm on a train or a plane. Nor can I read it when I'm in the bath - which is actually where I do most of my reading these days! :-) Also, Dilwyn has complained many times about the speed of his broadband link, so people who have less than speedy internet connections may have a problem. I agree that that applies to downloading PDFs as well, obviously. I love books and magazines, paper will never die I'm afraid, no matter how much we think we might want it to. My DocBook stuff, a seriously bad way to create a magazine I admit, but it can be used to create a web site and a PDF (and may other formats including ePub) from the same source file. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
On 20/03/13 13:03, Tony Firshman wrote: Paper is readable by anyone anytime anywhere. In the foreword to one of his books, Arthur C Clarke explains the problems with being a writer. He apparently had a safe full of his old manuscripts, typed on various computers over the years and in numerous formats. None of them readable any more because there's nothing to load the tapes/discs/whatevers into and no software exists to read the files. Should have used Libre Office! :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
Dave, excellent proposition - thanks. Peet, I had a look at Joomla a while back. I found it awkward and not user friendly compared to wordpress which I later settled on using at work. I've got experience of both. A little with Joomla! and quite a bit with Wordpress. They are both good at what they do, but Joomla! is a bit better, I think, for magazine type stuff. As Tony mentioned earlier, use the tool you are most familiar with, maybe Dave's experience is with Joomla! over Wordpress. Or, we could all learn Typ03 and help Quant maintain its web site too! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
Hi Jochen, On 20/03/13 16:16, Jochen Merz wrote: All issues are already in the post. 54 pages this time. A bumper issue then! Nice. Can't wait. It was a hard decision - after 17 years of QL Today ... but a detailed explanation will be in the issue, as Geoff already wrote. 17 years is a great time. I think I've been there most if it. I'd like to say thanks to everyone involved, past and present, for keeping us informed all these years. I think QL Today has to be the longest lasting QL Magazine of them all? (That's as opposed to Quanta, of course!) A final issue will follow - can I expect feedback, please? :-) Yes. And no, I don't think this is the end. At least I don't hope so. I'm sure I will miss it at least as much as some of you do. Well, if the problem is postage, a pdf is the way to go I expect. With a download, there's no postage. How many of us readers cannot download a PDF every now and again I wonder? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today
On 19/03/13 14:16, peet vanpeebles wrote: One thing that made me very sad the next issue which will be brought up in September may with a DVD or CD will be the last issue of QL Today. I love to receive QL Today (as a print magazine) ... what can we do? What! But I'm not finished my series on Assembly yet! I'm only half way through LibGen for goodness sake! :-( I haven't got mine yet, but if this is true, I apologies. I've caused the demise of yet another great QL magazine! Every one of the three I've written for has closed. I'm a jinx! I am officially distraught. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - change memory size problem
On 22/02/13 11:14, Tobias Fröschle wrote: However, there's still the standing offer to send out binaries (or even current sources) to anyone who wants them and feels capable to manually install. Yes please! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - change memory size problem
Linux Mint 13 64 bit with KDE. Using SMSQMulator 1.07. Screen size = 800x600. 16 bit colours. I wanted to try out QJewels. With 8M of RAM, I only got a whole lot of red 'X' sprites in the game which made it difficult to play! ;-) I used config-Set memory size to change it to 16M. On the auto reset, I can no longer see a 'K' pointer when I move the mouse over the window, and pressing any of the menu options has no effect. ESC doesn't work either. Using a manual reset from the menu also has no effect. I have to kill it and restart it. I can reproduce this at will. The hang that is, not the missing sprites in QJewels - that appears only at the very first usage of the game after downloading! Hmmm. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - change memory size problem
On 20/02/13 12:55, Dilwyn Jones wrote: The video memory alone takes up a huge amount of RAM in high colour mode and high resolutions. This is fine, but when I changed it from 8 to 16 and back to 8, with kill and restart in between, it now works perfectly on 8M. Spooky! I'm still hugely impressed by this system. Yes the sound takes a while with QJewels to catch up, and sometimes the falling jewels stop for a bit, but this is a Java Emulator after all. java isn't known for it's velocity! Also, I'm pretty sure there's a hell of a lot of thinking going on in QJewels every time something moves. Cheers, Norm. PS. Still attempting to get you a working QL on a (Linux) Stick! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
Morning Wolfgang, On 18/02/13 17:35, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Alright, this is a keyword I have in my boot system and that somehow made it onto the demo .win file. Just delete the reference to this keuword and leave the rest of the line (or use disp_type). That fixed it, and all is working well now. I have to say, I'm extremely impressed. Well done, that's an excellent piece of programming. Thanks for all your efforts. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
I wonder if I'm the only person seeing this because I have not seen it reported here previously. I use config-Set screen size to set a new screen size. I choose, for the sake of argument, 512x256. The screen redraws and reboots SMSQ/E and the screen is bigger than I wanted. Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. All of this is 1.05 and with 16 bit colours or QL colours. Not all screen sizes give the error message though, but all of them go double sized. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator and IS_EXTN
FYI and apologies for the omission: I'm running SMSQmulator under Java 1.7.0_13 (the full JDK) and this is on Mint Linux 13, with the KDE window manager. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
I wonder if I'm the only person seeing this because I have not seen it reported here previously. SMSQmulator 1.05 under Java 1.7.0_13 (the full JDK) running on Mint Linux 13, with the KDE window manager. I use config-Set screen size to set a new screen size. I choose, for the sake of argument, 512x256. The screen redraws and reboots SMSQ/E and the screen is bigger than I wanted. Going back in to config-set screen size again, shows that the current size is 1024x512. Double what I requested. In order to get the screen size I want, I have to set it to half what I want. Also, when I do set the screen size, rounding the X size to the next divisible by 8 value diesn't appear to be happening. If I select 101x101 I actually get 202x202 and this Illegal Instruction $4afb at $7f6a6a in the shell window I started SMSQmulator from. All of this is 1.05 and with 16 bit colours or QL colours. Not all screen sizes give the error message though, but all of them go double sized. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
On 18/02/13 16:45, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in the Config menu) Thanks Dilwyn. That's what it was. I could see halve the screen size but until I clicked that, I couldn't see double the screen size. Everything in that option is now working fine. Thanks. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator - set screen size
On 18/02/13 19:00, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Errm, just a question - the rounding to a multiple of 8 only happens when in Ql colours mode - were you? Errm, yes, I was. Oops! I consider myself duly slapped. It was in 16 bit mode when it wasn't rounding yup and of course, I can clearly see this in the manual now! hangs head in shame Still got the error about illegal instructions though. Dilwyn has solved my double sized problem too. I apparently had double screen size on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: Message via contact form-68k/os
On 14/02/13 13:45, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Has anyone else tried 68k/os and got this result? Any idea what to do about it? Far from helpful reply alert: No, no and no. I have the software, I haven't tried it yet, no time. :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K
I've given this a try, with a couple of the example programs, running under Wine on Linux. I'm seriously impressed. Single stepping and/or debugging code is much much easier when the debugger steps through your own code listing! Wish QMON/JMON had that ability! Back in the days when I wrote stuff for DJC, there was talk of a Pointer Environment version of a QMON-a-like utility. It obviously never came to anything did it? Does anyone know? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K
On 31/01/13 14:39, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Stumbled across something seemingly useful for 68K assembler developers, not sure if it’s been mentioned before but here goes. It’s something called Easy68K, an editor, assembler and simulator for the 68000 (integrated development environment), running on Windows. (OK Norman, I know...) The website description is: “EASy68K is a 68000 Structured Assembly Language IDE. EASy68K allows you to edit, assemble and run 68000 programs on a Windows PC or Wine. No additional hardware is required. EASy68K is an open source project distributed under the GNU general public use license.” Website is at http://www.easy68k.com/ I played with that years and years ago. I note that it was last updated in 2012, so that's good news. I also note that the source code is available - so it should/could/might be possible to compile it to run natively under Linux or Mac, if it will work under wxWidgets or Qt. (And no, I don't have time, thanks!) Windows isn't all bad you know Dilwyn, I quite like Windows 7 to be honest. However, given the review I just read of Windows 8, I doubt that I'll be using that release any time soon! Point to note for anyone who might misunderstand, this system simulates a 680xx CPU but it doesn't mean that you can run SMSQ on it and expect to have a QL Simulator. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K
On 31/01/13 16:51, Ian Burkinshaw wrote: Must admit I have always kept away from machine code. Hmmm. Do my QL Today articles on the matter, since many many years ago, not inspire you? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K
On 31/01/13 14:47, Norman Dunbar wrote: I also note that the source code is available - so it should/could/might be possible to compile it to run natively under Linux or Mac, if it will work under wxWidgets or Qt. (And no, I don't have time, thanks!) Couldn't resist it could I? I had a look and it seems that one of the professor's students started a port to wxWidgets back in 2009/2010. The port was never finished, but the source code is available. I've downloaded it, it requires an IDE named Code::Blocks to load the project file (Code::Blocks is available for Linux and Windows by the way). I've opened the project but as the student did all his work on Windows rather than being a true cross platform application, it's still very much tied to Windows. Which is a shame and rather ruins the cross platform bit if you ask me. Still, it could be done... Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator not loading
On 28/01/13 11:14, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
Useful tip, Bill. I extracted to a new folder on my personal set,
instead of in Program Fles, and it works!! No inkling of why; leave
that puzzle to the experts! Extracted the same way Genj also runs.
I wonder if it is because there's a space in at least one of the folders
in the full path name? I know some programs don't like spaces (or other
weird characters) in the path. They get confused at the first one.
Linux, on the other hand, copes!
On 64 bit Windows, all 32 bit applications are installed into program
files (x86) or similar, and quite a lot of them barf at the space, and
the '(' or ')' - so Microsoft give you a folder by default that many
programs cannot actually use. Go figure.
Cheers,
Norm.
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 28/01/13 15:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: He firmly subscribes to the notion that Guinness doesn't travel well outside of Ireland. Like most Irishmen, he would say Guinness can only be at its best in Ireland and event hen only if properly poured and left to stand a little before drinking. I tried Guinness once. That was enough. My opinion is that Guinness shouldn't be allowed to travel outside Ireland - or the brewery for that matter. In addition, it is best enjoyed by simply pouring it down the toilet and cutting out the middle man! I suspect a quick bout of running away might be advisable at this point? Cheers, Norm. PS. I have the same opinion on all beers, so don't feel victimised if you are a Guinness fan! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Oh well, in for a penny ... On 28/01/13 16:16, Billy wrote: ... but it's mostly the English that can't pronounce it, but Bill, the English can't even pronounce their own language! For example, where is the R in Law and Order? (ok, I see one!) Pronounced as Lawr an Order. How about drawring and sawring as another example? There is no R in those words, so why put one in? Of course, we Jocks are prone to adding them in as well, how about There's been a mude! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Hi Tony, On 28/01/13 16:21, Tony Firshman wrote: I had a single malt from Islay on New Year's Eve and it tasted like tarmac (8-)# I might agree, but I never drink the stuff. The smell puts me off. My mother is the same. My brother and father are alcoholics! My brother lives on Islay (eye-la) and works, sometimes, for one of the stills there! I think the Islay malts are pretty peaty but I've never heard them described as tarmac though. I think you might be getting whisky mixed up with John McAdam's invention! Hrmm - how on earth can we haul this back to the QL (8-)# It's too late, we can't! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 28/01/13 16:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote: You've been watching too much Taggarrrt on TV! Lord of the Rings actually, Scottish version: There's been a murrrderr in Morrrdorrr! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Is there a bug in QPC or am I bonkers (again!)
Morning all, I'm doing a bit more work on the next exciting episode of QL Today's LibGen utility. I have spotted a huge pair of bugs in my code, viz: li_libfile equ $03 ... li_unavmove.l #$,ws_litem+li_libfile(a1) bra.s li_rdrw ... li_avail move.l #$01011101,ws_litem+li_libfile(a1) li_rdrwmoveq #-1,d3 jmp wm_ldraw(a2) The idea was to set 4 consecutive loose item status bytes to unavailable (#wsi_mkun) in the first case, and to set three of them to available (#wsi_mkav) and one to unavailable (#wsi_mkun) in the second case. The code above is a huge problem because li_libfile is odd, A1 is even as is ws_litem at $40. I would expect an address exception at the very least. Running the code under QMON2 shows that I'm attempting to store a long word at $43(a1) where a1 is $4ABBA6. That works out at $4ABBE9 which is most definitely odd. In QPC, version 3.33, the above works without any exceptions. PRINT PROCESSOR gives 20, I must assume that either a 68020 doesn't barf at a long word access to an odd address or something is not working correctly any more! I've checked and rechecked my paper and pdf copies of the Motorola processor manual, and there is no mention that you can do a long move to an odd address. I'm not running any monitor code that would intercept the address exceptions and quietly swallow it. I have stepped through the code for both, and it works, the MOVE.L is carried out, after executing the code at li_avail, I can see the following results at $43(a1) in QMON2: QMON d $43(a1) 4 4ABBE9 0101 0101 004E FF6F .NV. Is it any wonder I'm confused? What am I missing? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 25/01/13 11:53, Marcel Kilgus wrote: I'm sorry, due to the recent loss of my father I was not in the mood to participate in any discussions. Just a short answer: Please accept my sympathies. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Is there a bug in QPC or am I bonkers (again!)
Thanks all for the information. It seems my Motorola books don't mention this fact! I'll need to change the code then. It's supposed to work with a bare bones QL and hence, 68008. None of mt assembly books bother to mention this fact either, I've spent the last hour or so looking up everything that could be possibly related. Sigh! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 23/01/13 11:21, Bryan Horstmann wrote: Thanks Dilwyn, but how do I find the Java version. please? It just seems to ask to install updates from time to time, which I accept. The command java -version should give you something like: java version 1.7.0_10 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_10-b18) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode) 1.7 is Java 7, 1.6 is Java 6. Don't ask me why they call it that! HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator DATE$
At the risk of teaching granny to suck eggs, and hopefully Wolfgang will forgive me, but does this help? http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html There's a getOffset function that seems to be able to work out the correct time offset from UTC for a given locale. Not being a Java guru, I have no idea if it works! However, I'd also wonder what happens when the time is coming in from NTP and there's a setting to adjust for daylight savings time - which I can't remember if Windows has. Linux doesn't. At least, not in KDE anyway, I have my systems running with the NTP server setting the clock, and all seems well at present. The hardware clock, on the other hand, I have no idea what it is set to. So, we could have three problems: * the hardware clock is wrong; * the hardware clock is adjusting the time; * Java is also adjusting the time; HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator DATE$
On 23/01/13 13:17, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Defintely, yes! I now use that TimeZone object. Thanks a lot. No worries, you are very welcome. IIRC, Java gets the system time from the OS, so it shouldn't matter how the time is set by the OS (I use ntp, too ). I have had problems in the past with my times being an hour out. The clock was set to NTP but, the hardware clock was set to BST (I think) because that's what it was set to when the PC was first set up. Reading the time was ok, because NTP set it to UTC aka GMT but some software was reading the hardware clock and some was adjusting for BST/UTC as appropriate, and getting it all wrong. This was Windows 2000 by the way. Confused? I was! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Dilwyn, Brian, open a command session (aka dosbox) type the command java -version without any quotes and press return. You will get a response that says something like: Java version 1.x.y.z-bnn X = the Java version 6, 7, whatever. Y = minor release of X Z = update number. bnn = build number. Using Control panel, in XP, I didn't have Programs, but I did have Java. Double-clicking it opened a dialogue. On the Genearl tab is an about button. I clicked it. It said Java 6 Standard Edition in the heading, and beneath that it said version 6, update 29 (build 1.6.0_29-b11) That corresponds to my 1.x.y.z which is 1.6.0_29-b11. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 23/01/13 15:24, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I know nothing about Java. When I try this from Windows CMD box, it gives 'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Even when in the Sun/Java folder??? You've broken it again! ;-) Just wondering, I replied to this thread earlier on this morning with details of how to use the java -version command in a Dos box to get your version, did it arrive? Just wondering. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
On 22/01/13 06:27, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hmm, they're getting closer and closer, Orcale will soon be based on OpenJDK or vice-versa. They might be getting closer, Java is standard after all, but the two are not yet compatible. I do documentation for the Firebird Database project (www.firebirdsql.org) using DocBook and the xsl-fo to pdf conversion utility fop, barfs with a null pointer exception under OpenJDK and works perfectly under Oracle Java. In addition, when building HTML, which works with both JDKs, it takes 32 seconds with Oracle and 12 minutes with OpenJDK. Unfortunately, OpenJDK isn't always faster than Oracle and I'd rather not use Java if I didn't have to! ;-) Anyway, slightly off topic, I'll stop ranting now! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLay Linux
Hi Tim, On 21/01/13 16:14, Timothy Swenson wrote: On 1/21/2013 7:40 AM, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: bash: ./QLAY: No such file or directory That's a pretty generic Linux error message and not enough for any person to determine what the cause is. Unless, the folder it's looking for is actually called ./QLAY? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Website
On 10/01/13 10:40, Norman Dunbar wrote: Morning all, I know this is a PITA - it is to me when someone tells me my web site is out of date - but the QL Today web site (www.qltoday.com) appears to be quite out of date. I would like to thanks Bruce and Jochen. The QL Today web site is fully up to date. Sorry to dump on you gents! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
Morning John, Screenshot at http://tinypic.com/r/169hxc7/6 That screenshot shows that your Pi is running at 100% CPU and has been for some time. You might find the following article on my blog helpful - if yo haven't already set up turbo mode on your pi. In turbo mode, the Pi will ramp up the CPU frequency from the standard 700 MHz to anything up to what you set as the maximum. This can me 1 GHz, but there are reports of SD Card corruptions with this setting. I've never had it - I corrupt my cards with other methods! However, just in case, my Pi is set to max out at 950 MHz. http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2012/09/give-your-raspberry-pi-turbo-mode/ You never know, it might just help. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Snowbound?
On 18/01/13 09:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyone (U.K.) not snowbound yet? Or are we all stuck indoors happily using our QLs? Nope, nothing here in Leeds yet. I'm cosy and warm, in my office, working from home! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] It's not a QL on a Raspberry Pi yet, but .....
Just about everything else is there. Have a look at http://http://chameleon.enging.com/ Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] .co.uk domain, where to register?
Morning Urs, On 14/01/13 09:56, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: I intend to register a .co.uk domain and host the site at my swiss hosting partner. Nominet has details on how to go about registering, a list of registrars etc. http://www.nominet.org.uk/uk-domain-names/registering-uk-domain HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi
Hi Tony, On 11/01/13 16:49, Tony Firshman wrote: Do you have a link to the mod? Googling fails, although there are *plenty* of references to it. It will save me back-engineering the connector pins. I'm not sure about the PiPass mod of which you speak, but I soldered a couple of short bits of wire over the two USB polyfuses on my Pi - with no ill effects. If your eyes are like mine, a decent magnifier will come in handy. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey
On 10/01/13 11:33, Tony Firshman wrote: It is great that this very good programming keeps being done, even if only you and George understand (8-)# Trust me, if it wasn't for George, I wouldn't understand it either! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Did someone mention Python?
Re a recent conversation when it was mentioned that Python looked interesting. (See the QL Emulation on Raspberrypi thread). Anyone interested in a number of free [possibly on-line only] Python books at all stages of the learning curve, might be interested in: http://pythonbooks.revolunet.com/ Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Ql emulation on Raspberrypi
On 10/12/12 11:26, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Probably because your phone doesn't seem to generate the In-Reply-To: header. Thanks.That would most likely be the reason. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL on Raspberry-pi
... Java is not optimized for the ARM ... Java is not optimised for *anything*! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QDOS/SMS Questions
There is a system variable for the current keyboard queue. I assume that as there is only one, that it refers to the currently executing job? So If SuperBasic is executing, it will refer to the QDOS channel ID for Channel #0 in SuperBasic. Ok, given that the above is true, I assume that when the scheduler reschedules a task, then the above system variable will be loaded with the keyboard queue for the (now) current job? If so, then how on earth does QDOS/SMS manage to find the keyboard queue for the job that the scheduler has just switched to? I've looked in the QDOS Manual and I can find no way from a Job Id to a channel ID for the keyboard input or to the keyboard queue for that job. Does anyone know how QDOS/SMS does it? I have a reason for asking. At some point soon(ish) in QL Today, I want to do an article on the Pointer Environment and I have a utility in mind where I can pointerise a non-pointer application by wrapping it in a PE application and attempting to grab the keyboard/screen channels. It might not be possible, but I'd love to be able to, say, wrap George's GWASL in a pointer environment application and have it (the PE) allow me to select a filename (using QMENU perhaps) and pass that to GWASL for assembly, then grab the result of the assembly, and on no errors, run the SYM_BIN utility on the generated symbol file. A bit like make, but interactive. GWASL opens a con_ channel and accepts keyboard input from that. I'd like to intercept that channel, and feed it input from the PE wrapper. I remember (or do I?) a long time back, there was a similar sort of utility that enabled Quill to have certain commands fed to it from a file, I think it was run from SuperBasic. I'm sure I looked at the code and it did stuff with the keyboard queue, and at a certain point, started feeding F3 command sequences to the queue. I'd like to do something similar. Any ideas? Am I barking mad again? ;-) I suppose the ultimate outcome would be something like an IDE where you could choose an editor, assembler, linker etc as desired and have the PE wrapper pass commands to the appropriate utility, all of which would hopefully display their output in one or more of the wrapper's application windows, perhaps? Too ambitious? Cheers, Norm. PS. My Thunderbird spell chequer wants to change GWASL to HOGWASH! I was most offended. I put it right and added GWASL to my dictionary. Hogwash indeed! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS/SMS Questions
Afternoon Gents, thanks for the information and pointers. I'll have a rummage in the bowels of QDOS/SMSQ and see what, if anything, I come up with. I get the impression I'll be doing this: * create a job. * activate the job. * wait a bit. * scan the QODS channel table for channels owned by my job. * scan the CON channels looking for the keyboard queue. * stuff it. Or something similar to the above. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS/SMS Questions
Hi Tobias, On 05/11/12 14:59, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: I can find sd_keyq at offset $68 of the Screen Driver Channel Definition Block in the SMSQ/E sources. But nowhere in the documents. In my docs, updated recently, I see sd_end at that offset in the screen driver channel definition block. For QDOS 1.10 onwards. Interesting. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembler demo
On 17/10/12 09:28, John Alexander wrote: I'm thinking that this may give you some current ARM 1337 5k1ll5 or some such ;) And there was me trying to figure out exactly what an ARM 1337 was. Sigh! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembler demo
On 16/10/12 20:55, Michael Grunditz wrote: Btw , is there a way to assign hotkeys to the assembler , editor and monitor. I have some other stuff running (qpac2) and control-c:ing is a little bit slow. Have you tried ALT-P (Pick) and then DO the job you want? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
On 16/10/12 22:08, Malcolm Cadman wrote: If it is 256MB, then you have the 'Model A'. Now that would be difficult as there is no Model A on sale yet. ;-) It's definitely a Model B - it has USB (2) and Ethernet. Neither of which, the A has. Also, as the SD Card is the OS source at present, then we can experiment with different flavours of OS on different Cards. Indeed. I recently purchased a couple of 8GB SD cards at Costco for £4 each. (Inc VAT.) Then we will be adding larger storage USB Hard drives, etc, and I guess we will have multiple boot options. Mine is running with an 8 Gb Sd card, a 60 Gb USB drive, another 500 Gb USB drive partitioned as a 350 Gb Ext 3 and a 150 Gb FAT32 partition plus a USB Floppy. ;-) Talking of floppies, I noticed a lot of my old QL floppies (DD, HD, different manufacturers) are now stuck or extremely stiff. Does anyone have a working (and data safe) method of freeing up the internals to make the discs readable again? (Not the drives, the floppies themselves). What's the point of having two boxes of backups if the damned things don't turn in the drive. Sigh! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
On 17/10/12 09:33, Norman Dunbar wrote: It's definitely a Model B - it has USB (2) and Ethernet. Neither of which, the A has. Except, of course, the A has a single USB port. And, if you are interested, they are now made in Wales - if you buy from Farnell/Element 14. RS are still manufacturing in China. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
Hi Tony, You need a good ringlight magnifier and 1mm soldering iron. That set-up, even with my old eyes, allowed soldering of the .5mm pitch pins on Romdisq. Well, I have a helping hands with a decent magnifying glass that I used and a geologists 30* illuminated Loupe. I was soldering my Gerboard last night and it has 20 surface mount components to do, got they are tiny p- about 3 mm by 1 mm for a pile (10) capacitors. Took me ages, and I dropped two of them as well. Took ages to find them. I don't have a ringlight, but mu head torch (LED) works fine when positioned on the circuit board close to where I'll be sticking a hot iron! I managed 15 SMDs last night, 5 to go! Took over an hour. This is my first foray into SMDs - I can't say I'm keen, they are too damned small and even getting them out of the packaging is tense. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
Hi Malcolm, On 16/10/12 21:45, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I have purchased a 10 Port USB powered Hub, from Maplins, on offer at 14.99ukp. Two ports upright, and four each at front and back. In a small and neat housing. That I am now using with Pi. So plenty of room for any future expansions and experiments . :-) Have you read this http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2012/08/the-dangers-of-cheap-usb-hubs/ - you need to be sure that your power supply is man enough (500mA per port - so you should have a 5A supply) plus, there's a link to a disassembly and testing of a cheap power supply supplied with other USB hubs. Interesting viewing and explains a lot! Does your Pi's power light come on when the Pi is connected only to the uplink to the Hub while the Pi is powered off and the hub powered on? If so, it's bad for your Pi and completely not USB 2.0 Compliant. Hopefully, yours will be ok. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
On 17/10/12 03:09, Dave Walker wrote: The Model 'A' is still quoted as shipping with 256MB of RAM (the same as the 'original' Model 'B') although I guess there is always a chance it might come with 512MB like the 'new' Model 'B'. The Model A will ship with 256 Mb of RAM and no more. The Model B (or B+) will not be upgraded on memory again, it has reached the limit of module sizes for the type of memory it needs. There are announcement/comments on the foundation web site detailing these facts. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
On 17/10/12 14:27, John Alexander wrote: Chances are you no longer have backups as the data as probably fell off(Demagnetised) well before they even ceased up! This is true, however, a number of the floppies in the drive (some older, some newer than some of the affected ones) still work and still have the data. At least, I can read them. I also checked the bottom of the boxes, and I can't see any data that has fallen off. of course, it could have fallen inside the floppy case itself, in which case it wouldn't be on the bottom of the boxes. I also shook one of the affcted ones to see if it rattled with bits of loose data, no sound at all. :-) :-) :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180 If you don't have your Pi yet, when it arrives, you'll have twice as much RAM as I do. Enjoy! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
On 15/10/12 14:17, Neil Riley wrote: Great, I now own a Model B- or is it a Model A+ ? Model B. Same as the new Model B! Either way, I've been punished for being an early bird :( Nah, you and I both got what we ordered. A Model B with 256 MB RAM. No worries here! I had a similar problem with my ZX-81, it came down in price after I bought mine. Then my Specrtum 16 Kb did the same, and interface 1! Then I paid for my QL, after the price came down - yippee - my colleague bought one a week later and got a free Serial 8026 (I think) printer with his. Life goes on. Enjoy your Pi and remember, us early adopters knew what was likely to happen. And finally, consider this - 256MB RAM upgrade for free with a Pi, how much for a few measly MB with an Apple? And for how much? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
56 Hi Neil, Well, no, it's a B- or an A+, the A has 128Mb and the New B has 512Mb which leaves us with a 256Mb model. I'll call it the Model B256 then. As opposed to the Model B. You are aware that the Model A will be coming with 256 MB? That was announced months ago. Same priced chip - 128 MB or 256 Mb for the same cost? No brainer that! Yes, progress and all that but still, call it Model C and drop the price of the Model B by a fiver, don't just change the Spec of an existing Model. If they'd done the that I wouldn't feel a little cheated like...what... I do! It appears that the RAM chip is 512 Mb, and won't get any bigger, ever. That's the limit. The reason for the upgrade is that the 512 Mb chip is the same price as the 256 Mb chip. So no change in price. But, I'll bet there will be plenty of Model B256 Pis appearing on Ebay any second now Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
Hi Bryan, My Pi is due soon; I've a USB keyboard, USB hub and card reader, and PSU. The missing bit is a monitor. I use a mono Philips on the QL, video input and have another later style Philips as spare. Will the Pi work through the video input? Otherwise I have got video i/p on the TV. The Pi has HDMI sound and vision output from the HDMI connector, there's a suitable cable on Amazon, gold plated contacts, for around £1.00 - I have one, and it just works. The HDMI output can be converted to DVI with a suitable converter, and I'm told by a contributor to Everyday practical Electronics, Mike Hibbett, that this DVI can be further converted to VGA with another converter. Sounds very early QL with bit hanging off everywhere to me. Maybe that's why I like it! The DVI and/or VGA output will be devoid of sound as the DVI system doesn't cater for sound, I'm told. However, you can redirect sound to a 3.5mm stereo jack on the side of the Pi with a simple command: sudo amixer cset numid=3 0 Where the final digit, zero above, is as follows: 0 = Auto (I have no idea what this actually means, or does!) 1 = Sound goes to the headphone socket 2 = Sound goes to HDMI Yes, I know, the command makes a whole lot of sense doesn't it! I have a apid of X-mini speakers with a built in amplifier connected to mine, and it works perfectly. My own Pi is running headless and is configured on my network with a static IP address. I can ssh -X onto it from my laptop etc, and as I'm running Linux, my Pi programs appear on my laptop, thanks to the wonders of X redirects. Also attached to the Pi, for anyone without a HDMI monitor, is a composite video output socket - so you should be able to get something working. However, you might need to delve into the config.txt file on the /boot partition. Details in the Raspberry Pi Users Guide by Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree - which I have and thoroughly recommend for anyone taking their first Raspberrry flavoured steps. By then I hope to be able to get an SD card with a QL emulation; is anyone going to market one, please? Uqlx is currently undergoing some development and testing in the wild. Watch this list for details as and when there are some and as and when Tobias puts them online. One thing, you might want/need a powered USB hub for your Pi if your USB keyboard and mouse draw too much current. Read the article on the end of the following link before buying a cheap USB hub. http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2012/08/the-dangers-of-cheap-usb-hubs/ Have fun. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
On 29/09/12 18:42, QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote: (Not to mention the Distant Dunbar Duchy.) Duchy? Kingdom, surely? ;-) Just checked by up to 60 Virgin speed - I'm getting 57-58 at the moment. Which is fine for allowing me to work from my own office, plus running all the Oracle downloads I need to do each time there's a new patch out. You used to get a patch kit with changes to be applied, now you get a full installation kit which is a DVD sized download, or bigger, depending on stuff. There was an item on the Radio 4 news the other day about broadband speeds and it seems that it is now a limiting factor on selling or buying a house. It used to be schools, buses, railways etc, now it's broadband, schools, buses, railways etc. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Websites
I'm late to the party again! I use these http://www.5quidhost.co.uk/ who will give you a whole heap of stuff for £5.00 per month, discounted by paying a year in advance. Support is excellent, emails enquiries are promptly answered, servers are UK based in the main. They have a free setup, £5 per month and £10 per month. You can install anything (legally!) you wish when you have set up your account. My own web site (http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk) is hosted on a no-longer available plan costing less that £5 but I'm serioulsy considering upgrading due to the amount of stuff that now lives on my host server. This is mainly thanks to George updating the QDOS/SMSQ stuff on my web site. For £5 you get 1,000 MB disc, and an infinite number of the following: Email accounts, MySQL databases, Add on domains, sub-domains, FTP accounts (including, if I'm not mistaken SFTP) and unlimited bandwidth. There is also a packaged installer in your control panel, where you can download backups of your entire site, databases, etc, Install numerous blogs, forums (fora), Content Management Systems, E-commerce, etc - over 200 different applications are supplied included in the price. (Some of these are not available on the free hosting though, that has other limits too) One of the CMS systems is TYPO3, which is, as far as I remember, the very one used by Quanta. I'm only a happy customer, not involved with these people at all. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!
Morning Adrian, On 20/09/12 07:58, Adrian Ives wrote: I think those last two sudo commands (steps 3 4) should be: I think you are 100% correct! Thank you. Anyway, they are correct over here at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2012/09/give-your-raspberry-pi-turbo-mode/ Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!
Overclocking and overvolting without voiding your warranty! Details at http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: QL Today Volume 17 starts
On 19/09/12 14:45, Bob Spelten wrote: This means that the Times typeface on a iOS/OS-X system runs wider than under W$. Getting the intended typeface is still a weak point in web design. Google Web Fonts any good? https://www.google.com/webfonts Cheers, Norm -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1
Morning all, On 18/09/12 10:32, François Van Emelen wrote: QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1 has arrived. Yup, mine arrived 5 mins ago (Postie was early today!) and is looking good in a natty pink cover! Cheers, Norm. PS. Thanks to all involved in continually bringing us this quality publication - authors, editors, volunteers etc. Thanks. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner
On 13/09/12 23:15, Lee Privett wrote: Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices together using sophisticated software to remove artefacts etc. Hmmm. Apple stealing something that's been on Sony camera's at least for a good while now. Wonder if Sony will sue them? I'm sure Panorama is the Sony name for the feature as well, so two birds for Sony there! checks the internet Looks like it's called Sweep Panorama and has been Sony's since at least 2009 from what I can find. Cheers, Norm. PS. Yes, I'm not an Apple fan, not since the Apple ][e - which I used in college and coveted, but couldn't afford. It had two 5.5 floppy drives built in. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
Hi Bryan, On 07/09/12 15:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote: It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did, providing programming straight away, or the Xchange suite if needed. No need for it to be a QL look-alike. Login to your pi as the pi user, for example. Then create/edit a file in your $HOME directory, named .xsession - leading dot and all lower case. Add the following: #!/usr/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/qm Save and exit. You can of course, replace qm with qx, qxx or qxxx to run Uqlx on login, or indeed, any other GUI type program can be started in the same file. Just add it's name into the file with a trailing ampersand to make it a batch job. Make it executable: chmod 755 ./xsession This causes Uqlx (the qm version) to be run whenever you connect with a GUI session. This works when you login as the pi user directly and the Pi is connected to the HDMI/TV or when you login to the pi user via a VNC session. (Which is what I tend to do.) It only affects logins to a GUI and as the pi user. If you have more users set up and you want them to run something on login to a GUI, then instead of creating the same file in everyone's $HOME, create it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d and call it startup instead. Well, that's the theory at least, I haven't tried the latter version myself. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
PS. If you are running a vncserver, you have to stop it first, make changes to .xsession, restart it and log back in to the GUI. It seems that the user's .xsession gets loaded at startup of the VNC Server daemon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!
any one got any tales of annoying little things which in retrospect are quite charming? How about debugging DJToolkit way back when, by single stepping through my code and making sure everything was doing what it was expected to, and just as I was about to get to the stage where I suspected a bug was, the freezer started up and hung the whole system. That was irritating to say the least. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!
Hi Tobias, On 23/08/12 15:22, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, another aspect of computing in the early eighties - not related to heat (even if it had some potential to heat up the atmosphere) - were the competing interests for the (sole) TV set in the house. Kids of today can't really understand that. They will. Just as soon as their Raspberry Pi arrives and they want to plug it into the TV! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!
On 23/08/12 16:26, Tony Firshman wrote: I find mine *does* need an external power supply when running some keyboards. Yes, the two USB ports are poly-fused to 100mA each. Some keyboards and/or mice draw more so the fuses kick in and increase resistance (why am I telling you this?) reducing current. This causes the keyboards to act like a QL with a dicky membrane, and misses keys or start auto-repeating at a huge rate. I have a USB wireless keyboard and mouse for mine, a Perixx Periduo 707 Plus, and it too draws too much from the USB port. Plugged into the Benq monitor's powered hub, though, it works as good as it does on my work laptop - both show the same problems such as it hangs unless I leave it connected after power up, for about 30 seconds - or I can unplug and replug the wireless dongle to get it working fine again. The Apple keyboard for instance wouldn't work at all when Pi was run off my monitor usb. I know they say 700ma, but it can be a *lot* less than that. 700 mA is the minimum required for the Pi, but the USBs are limited to 100 mA each. I suspect a wireless keyboard (and mouse if really wanted) and the pi would quite happily run off a TV usb output. There's a web page at http://www.elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals which has a list of what works and what doesn't. Of course, I didn't find it until after I'd bought by keyboard! HTH My USB powered hub, separate from the monitor, seems to feed power back down the interconnect cable to the Pi. The Pi's power LED comes on when the hub has power and the Pi doesn't. :-( It also refuses to boot with the hub attached. It also kills the network when I connect the hub after booting the Pi. Guess what, I bought that before finding the above page as well! Sigh! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux
Arnold, I have got as far installing wine, but the bit about agreeing with the Micrsoft conditions I click on 'ok' and nothing happens. What you have to do is use the down arrow to get to the bottom of the agreement. Then the OK button is enabled. Then you can press TAB to make sure the highlight is over it, then press ENTER to activate it. It's a ploy by MS to make you pretend to have read the agreement before you simply click OK! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux
Afternoon Tony, On 12/08/12 16:23, Tony Firshman wrote: There ought to be a prize to *anyone* who has read any of these agreements. I certainly haven't. Right at the bottom, I am sure, is the one allowing M$ to allow hackers access to their systems - M$ accept no responsibility for loss of data or misuse of the system (8-)# I'd get about half a prize then. I once read as far as I could, but the language is designed to irritate and confuse people so the nasties, I suspect, are buried in the text about half way down. I used to have to write reports at work, these were urgent and necessary. I'd put a bit of text in saying are you still reading? Claim your free £5.00 note from Norman. Still haven't paid anyone yet! :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi emulation
On 01/08/12 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: While an emulator of the cheap little RPi might seem overkill, it might be of interest to someone wanting to learn about the system, or possibly even to help anyone trying to port uQLx to RPi for example. I'm sure Tobias won't mind (at least, I hope not!) but uqlx is already running on the Pi. Emulated and on real hardware. A few of us who mentioned having/getting a Pi on this list, have been volunteered to do some testing. When it's fully ready, Tobias will be releasing it into the wild! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
Morning John, On 16/07/12 22:23, QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote: Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites! No worries. Have you got one yet? I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted in QJewels ;) That would be Dilwyn in Wales then! ;-) Read all the MagPi magazines. Fascinating and informative. They are not bad for a freebie. We shall see how it progresses. These things tend to start off well, and then fade a bit/lot after a while as people gravitate away from bothering to write stuff. It's got a good layout though, graphic heavy a bit I think, but has a good professional commercial magazine look to it. Cheers, Norm -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QStripper update
I suppose it really had to be done. Or did it? Qstripper 1.07 is now available for Raspberry Pi! Unfortunately, it seems to suffer from the Linux 32 bit/Windows any bit Euro problem. (You can type one in, but for some reason, converting one appears not to work - for now!) No changes to the source code required, just recompile on the Pi. Took a lot longer than I'm used to though! The joys of Qt! Anyone got a spare Mac they might want to send me and I'll do a version for Mac as well? ;-) http://qstripper.sourceforge.net/#downloads Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi
http://themagpi.com/ is a website for a pdf Raspberry Pi magazine. Now at issue 3. Back issues are available. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Book
It's not even out yet, but is already the best selling book in Computers and number 56 in all books on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/111846446X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8camp=1634creative=19450creativeASIN=111846446XlinkCode=as2tag=gastronomydom-21 Using the above link will cause Amazon to pay additional money to the Raspberry Pi Foundation - which is a charity. You can read a bit about the book here http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1498 Cheers, Norm. PS. Going offline or intermittent for a while. :-( -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Book
On 30/06/12 10:27, Norman Dunbar wrote: It's not even out yet, but is already the best selling book in Computers and number 56 in all books on Amazon. And now, it's up to number 17 in all books! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived
Morning Jochen, On 21/06/12 20:46, Jochen Merz wrote: All issues are already on their way ... amazing how FAST the postal services sometimes are and how slow on some occasions. I'm impressed as well. Recently, delivery has been excellent. Mine arrived yesterday, unfortunately soaking wet due to the slightly damp weather we are having at the moment. I had to sit it on the radiator to dry out before I could read it! Did you ever get my email about the QPTR manual? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived
Hi Jochen, On 22/06/12 07:09, Jochen Merz wrote: Not only you. I guess our summer took place in April, like it did last year. I think ours was a week in May this year. Did you ever get my email about the QPTR manual? No. When did you send it? To which address? Ah, that would explain why I didn't get a reply. I sent it to jmerz (at) j - m - s (dot) com. I sent it to Marcel at the same time and I know he received it as I have had a reply from him. I'll send it again, maybe it got caught in your spam trap. It was sent on the 8th May this year. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now
Qstripper 1.07 is now available for Linux 32 bit. http://qstripper.sourceforge.net Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now
On 21/06/12 11:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Just happened to notice that http://qstripper.sourceforge.net/ says that 'only 64-bit Linux is supported'. Unless I'm seeing old version of the page. Thanks Dilwyn. I had not spotted that, old eyes! I've fixed it (in numerous places). I've also added a section on how you can create Kindle ebooks (*.mobi) after processing a file with QStripper. Anyway, many thanks for the Windoze 7 64 bit version which I use, invaluable. Welcome. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now
Morning all, François Van Emelen alerted me to a slight bug in version 1.06 whereby a PC Quill file had the lower case a with an umlaut converted to a lower case o with an umlaut. Obviously wrong! This has been fixed and version 1.07 is now available for Windows 32 and 64 bit as well as Linux 64 bit. Have fun. http://qstripper.sourceforge.net Cheers, Norm. PS. My Windows 7 install has finally decided to become not genuine. Seeing as how it was installed on the laptop when it was brand new, I'm just a little surprised. I only use it for qStripper builds anyway -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market
Morning all, On 12/06/12 09:58, Rich Mellor wrote: It is just a shame that there was not all this enthusiasm and discussion some months ago when Adrian needed to see some interest in the QL-SD Interface. Agreed. I think it's truly wonderful that people are still putting effort and time and money (too many ands, not enough commas!) into hardware for the old QL. Unfortunately, what is the ratio of people using QLs as opposed to emulators or even QXL cards (anyone still running one?) While an SD drive would have been a brilliant addition to a QL, it's hardly of use on an emulator on a PC. Don't get me wrong, I'm not peeing on anyone's chips here (to use one of my wife's Yorkshire expressions!), Adrian, Dave, Nasta etc are to be admired and encouraged for their efforts - unfortunately, we live in a country/world where encouragement is not really, ahem, encouraged. Personally, I think that an internally fitted option is a non-starter - collectors want to keep the QL as original as possible, but still have a simple means of getting software onto the computer and using it Agreed. What use is an old QL if it doesn't have loads of cables and extensions hanging off of and out of every orifice? Mine used to have Trump Card or Gold Card, Miracle Hard Drive, Miracle Serial to Parallel converter, and a mouse hanging off the other serial port. With the Gold Card I had the 4 drive expander card, a pair of HD floppy drives and a pair of ED floppy drives. And for my Quanta sub-librarian duties, I also had a 5.25 floppy drive for the people needing software on that. Not to mention my Star LC10 Colour printer. There was no room for me on the computer table - thank god I didn't have a separate keyboard! Something to fit internally would have been great - in my case! ... As to whether it is viable commercially, who was it that said 'Build it and they will come' ? Henry Ford? ... I have to draw parallels here with the ZXpand interface for the ZX81 - Hmmm. Ok, I loved my ZX-81 and I wish I still had it. But, how many ZX-81s sold compared to QLs? It's all down to numbers I'm afraid. If yo have 20 million of one and 75 thousand of another, which are you going to target with a commercial offering? (Those numbers are grabbed out of the air and bear no resemblance to anything accurate, by the way.) admittedly there was an upsurge in interest because of its 30th anniversary (we need to start on plans for something to celebrate the QL's 30th anniversary ), Already? (2014 i think!) - it was only half an hour ago it was the QL is 21! Time flies. (Which is its job after all!) however, the original designer was planning to build 20-25 interfaces and sell them just for the cost of the parts. A hobby then, not really a commercial interest. Although there were not even 20 people who had expressed an interest, following discussions, we decided to get 150 units made, and sell them commercially - and are now just starting to get the next batch of 200 interfaces made (having sold out). The original designer has made a nice little profit on his efforts and it has inspired him to create more hardware for the ZX81 (an AY sound and joystick module) which has similarly sold well. This is a good thing, but I'm not so sure it would work in the QL realm, due to numbers of original sales, and comparing physical QLs still in use with those that are in use on assorted emulators on PCs and Macs. Just my £0.02. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum
On 08/06/12 11:25, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Anyone else having problems accessing QL Forum? Yes, SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Table ‘./qlforum_phpbb/phpbb_sessions’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145] An sql error occurred while fetching this page. There's a corruption in the phpbb_sessions table that needs to be fixed. If Rob or Pete are reading this, perhaps you could take a look to see? This might help http://community.mybb.com/thread-32115.html where there are instructions on using phpMyAdmin to fix tables in a MySql database. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum
On 08/06/12 11:57, peet vanpeebles wrote: Second time it's gone off this week! I'll have a quick look but it might be a job for Rob. It's been up and down like brides nightie! Sounds to me like you have a table going corrupt. Could be down to a bad bit of disc? Especially if it's the same table each time. I'd be thinking of shutting down, taking a backup, and recreating the table (at the very minimum) and reloading it again from the backup - assuming MySql lets you do that - I'm more of a Firebird and Oracle man myself! Have fun. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Easyptr manual
On 08/06/12 14:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Before I reinvent the wheel and OCR my Easyptr manual to use on my eBook reader, has anyone else already done this? Not yet, no. The Easyptr commands are the hardest syntax to remember of all the BASIC extensions, I think! I'll second that! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QStripper included in the Softpedia software database
Looks like QStripper has become quite famous! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 Original Message Subject: QStripper included in the Softpedia software database Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 05:05:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Softpedia Editorial Team softedi...@softpedia.com To: nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk Congratulations, QStripper, one of your products, has been added to Softpedia's database of software programs for the Windows operating system. It is featured with a description text, screenshots, download links and technical details on this page: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office- Tools/QStripper.shtml The description text was created by our editors, using sources such as text from your product's homepage, information from its help system, the PAD file (if available) and the editor's own opinions on the program itself. QStripper has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep these high standards in the future. To assure our visitors that QStripper is clean, we have granted it with the 100% FREE Softpedia award. To let your users know about this certification, you may display this award on your website, on software boxes or inside your product. More information about your product's certification and the award is available on this page: http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/QStripper-Clean-216203.html Feel free to link to us using the URLs above. If you choose to link to the clean award page for your product, you may use the award graphic or a text link: 100% FREE award granted by Softpedia. Your developer page on Softpedia can be reached at the URL below. It contains the list of software products and a link to your website. http://www.softpedia.com/developer/Norman-Dunbar-88105.html If you feel that having your product listed on Softpedia is not a benefit for you or simply need something changed or updated, please contact us via email at webmas...@softpedia.com and we will work with you to fix any problem you may have found with the product's listing. -- Sincerely, The Softpedia Team --- Softpedia is a library of over 400,000 free and free-to-try software programs for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, games and gaming tools, Windows device drivers, mobile devices and IT-related articles. --- Softpedia - the encyclopedia of free software downloads http://www.softpedia.com/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QStripper updated to 1.06
Qstripper has been updated again. The new version is 1.06 and the changes, which only comprised about a dozen lines of code, means that a new export option is available. Now you can export your Quill files to Open Document Format, which can be read by the Open Office/Libre Office suite. The project website at http://qstripper.sourceforge.net has had a slight makeover too. Enjoy. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Errors with uQLx on Raspberry Pi
On 24/05/12 15:38, Malcolm Lear wrote: Yes, just received mine. Odd thing is its got a Samsung CPU. Are you sure? The chip on top is the RAM but the CPU is underneath it. They are piggy backed. The CPU is a Broadcom device. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare
Hi Ian, On 23/05/12 12:52, Ian Pine wrote: Damn damn damn ... ... because I forgot that on m68k CPUs the MOVE instructions alter the flags ... Well, it does alter the flags, unless: * You specifically use the MOVEA instruction; or * You specify MOVE with an address register as the destination AND your assembler quietly converts the MOVE to MOVEA. Just to make things interesting. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] French School Holidays?
Any QL-ers in France just now? Can you tell me when the French schools break for holidays in Summer please. Thanks. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] French School Holidays?
Hi Jimmy, I'm in France... And I don't know exactly when my childs holidays un Summer will occurs : But as far as know, they should stop from thurday 5 july 2012 (last day of school) to Tuesday 4 september 2012 (first day of school) These dates seems to be valid for the 3 french school zones. Ok, thanks very much (merci beaucoup). We are trying to sort out a holiday and avoid the kids on holiday period. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] French School Holidays?
Hi Jimmy, On 14/05/12 18:44, QL2K wrote: Let me know to get a drink if you're near Paris :D A kind offer - thanks. I think we are heading for either Corsica or Languedoc (again). Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05
Morning (!) Tony, It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header): Norman: 01:30 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) Dilwyn: 01:54 PDT Maybe, Norman, you are on SST (Scottish Summer Time) (8-)# Scottish summer time? That's when it rains then! No, my laptop is set to an NTP server so the time is always correct. But having said that, I checked and noticed that it had lost the NTP connection and I never noticed! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05
Morning Dilwyn, On 11/05/12 14:55, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Don't. Having just spent time this weekend trying to help someone (who is a programmer!) work out why his style sheets didn't work on Internet Exploder, that was painful to read. By don't do you mean don't ever use IE for web browsing or don't bother to try and fix the web page to cater for IE users? ;-) The web page is fully standard compliant, so IE will just have to get its act together and start doing things properly. MS have to realise that they no longer call the shots! Did you manage to get your programmer's style sheets to work at all? There are some pretty good web sites out there that have lists of hacks that are required in many versions of IE to get it to do what other browsers do with standard CSS. I'm afraid that IE is quickly becoming the Ford Edzel of the browser world. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!
On 10/05/12 23:11, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Now we just need a nice 'icon' to go with name ... :-) Funny you should mention that Malcolm, I've just uploaded one! And it has been incorporated into version 1.05 of the application as well. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05
On 09/05/12 16:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening all, qStripper has been updated to version 1.05. The project web page, which has links to the download pages, has been updated (http://qstripper.sourceforge.net) and there are files online for Linux 64 bit and Windows 32 and 64 bit. You can go direct to the downloads at https://sourceforge.net/projects/qstripper/files/ and pick your required OS version. I've tested it under Windows 8 as well. Seems to work. And, as noted on the project web page, IE 10 still can't display the web page properly. Sigh. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!
Why not? Sourceforge offer me free web sites, a forum, and lots of other stuff like bug trackers etc. I've taken advantage of the web site option and created http://qstripper.sourceforge.net which is a dedicated web site for qStripper. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
