Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Norman, all, just again a big „Thanks“ for the book. I managed to print the whole thing on A4 double-sided and stapled before Christmas so I now have a nicely readable book. It made a fine bedside (and bathtub, sometimes ;) ) reading over the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately I’m finished with it now…. I should have all of the original QL Today issues with the articles somewhere, but having them all together in one single volume is really great. Thanks again and keep up the good work! Tobias Am 03.12.2014 um 21:42 schrieb Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images now. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of latex files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an English lock!) These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. 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
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Norman, I defer to your wider programming experience, of course. However, certain groups I am in contact with claim the i86 bits to be the work of The Other Guy. The world is big-endian after all (except, perhaps, for certain buggy spots here on Earth, that for the sake of world peace shall remain unnamed.. ;) Per On 05/12/2014 22:09, Norman Dunbar wrote: Hi Per, I'm sure the universe was written in 4004 assembly! Cheers, Norm. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Nice one, Norman. Thank you. Im sure God wrote large parts of the Universe in MC68 assembler. Your anthology should help ease future generations into its mysteries ;) Season's best to you too! Per On 03/12/2014 21:42, Norman Dunbar wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images now. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of latex files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an English lock!) These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. Cheers, Norm. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Hi Per, I'm sure the universe was written in 4004 assembly! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Norman, the universe is known to be endless - So it must have been implemented on a CPU supporting virtual memory - 68020, at least. Tobias Am 05.12.2014 um 22:09 schrieb Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: Hi Per, I'm sure the universe was written in 4004 assembly! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ 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] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
This is excellent work Norman. It brings back many memories of QL dissassembly and programming from back in the late 80s for me. Caroline On 3 Dec 2014, at 20:43, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png his is images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images now. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of latex files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an English lock!) These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. 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
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Hi, I still disassemble programmes now... Regards, Derek -Original Message- From: Caroline Mathieson caroline.mathie...@hotmail.com Sent: 04/12/2014 10:46 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News This is excellent work Norman. It brings back many memories of QL dissassembly and programming from back in the late 80s for me. Caroline On 3 Dec 2014, at 20:43, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png his is images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images now. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of latex files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an English lock!) These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. 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
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
En/Je/On 2014-12-03 20:42, Norman Dunbar escribió / skribis / wrote : The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. I've used Graphviz for several projects. It's great but tricky as you say. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, Do you edit DocBook XML files directly?! Have you tried the AsciiDoc format? It's an ASCII light markup representation of DocBook. The original implementation of AsciiDoc (http://asciidoc.org/) is written in Python. There's a more recent one in Ruby, Asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org). It's backward compatible with the AsciiDoc format, but adds many new features; and the engine is much faster and powerful. http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. Impressive. Many thanks, Norman. -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
Thanks to all who have said nice things about the book, please feel free to say some more! Bear in mind the ending could be a bit better! However, I'm working on the sequel already, all the eMagazine stuff should find its way into the follow up. At least, that's the plan. Marcos: I write docbook in raw XML sometimes, but mostly in XML Mind's XXX editor which used to be free some number of releases ago, but no longer is unfortunately. I use it for my occasional work with Firebird Database manuals. (firebirdsql.org) So I already had my files and it was a simple enough task to convert to LaTeX but the hard part was sorting out the various special characters, maths, etc from the originals. Db2latex did most of the hard work though. I use VerbTeX on my phone too, for the LaTeX stuff. I find it amusing that I can get typeset quality on a phone! I also use Markdown, from time to time. I think these days, anyone writing in a proprietary or one format only format is causing themselves no end of hassle. Don't mention Word! I have enough problems at work with that! I am aware do Ascii Doc too, tried it a couple of years back before standardising on Docbook and a Fedora utility called publican but after the author of the Debian Administrators' Hand Book told me about LaTeX, I decided to try it out and was I pressed with the quality. And finally, Caroline, if you did write assemblers in the 80's, please don't look too hard at my code! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Oh bother! For XXX read XXE! Autocorrect, your worst enema! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Hi Norman, Thanks to all who have said nice things about the book, please feel free to say some more! Consider it done Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
On December 3, 2014 at 8:42 PM Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages. The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as dot files which then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for you. All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images now. The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of latex files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an English lock!) These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. Cheers, Norm. Many thanks Norm - a huge amount of re-reading there as I enjoyed your original articles - it is nicely laid out and easy to pick out the actual assembly listings which is useful. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News
On 2014-12-03 20:42, Norman Dunbar wrote: Christmas is coming, Norm is getting fat, Time to put something, In everyone's hat! Ok, I'll stop doing the poetry! Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! Well done Norman, A very professional production. Solves any problem of Xmas reading! Not to mention the education. Happy Xmas, John Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. 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
