Re: [ql-users] Membrane update (and progress)
In a message dated 18/10/02 17:11:51 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... not the original clear plastic membrane, in the first 1000 or so units. That is very very durable, and I use for testing QLs. Of course it could fail, but only, I think, if attacked. That sort of plastic should be used in any replacement I agree with that statement Tony - however, how do we find out about the type of plastics used (or the keyboard membrane manufacturer at the time)?? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Software 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
Re: [ql-users] A funny thing...
- Original Message - From: "Dave P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] A funny thing... > > > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > > Graphics by Sinclair QL and SMSQ. > > > > Highly original, I know, but . > > I've at best come up with: > >Computers .. Sinclair Research Ltd >Additional hardware .. Miracle Systems > Zeljko Nastasic >Displays kindly furnished by.. ADI >Operating System .. Tony Tebby >Programming Dave Park > My but how we have progressed, original QL might have the suggested text of " allow twenty eight days for credits" (:-) All the best - Bill
RE: [ql-users] A funny thing...
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > "My mind is going... I can feel it..." > > Phoebus So THAT'S why you've been talking all this greek rubbish lately ;) Dave
RE: [ql-users] A funny thing...
"Hello Dave. Would you like to play a game of chess? I'm really very good." "My mind is going... I can feel it..." Phoebus
RE: [ql-users] A funny thing...
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Graphics by Sinclair QL and SMSQ. > > Highly original, I know, but . I've at best come up with: Computers .. Sinclair Research Ltd Additional hardware .. Miracle Systems Zeljko Nastasic Displays kindly furnished by.. ADI Operating System .. Tony Tebby Programming Dave Park > It won't be a proper file if you don't :o) "Hello Dave. Would you like to play a game of chess? I'm really very good." No! Dave
Re: [ql-users] A funny thing...
??? 18/10/2002 12:41:47 ??, ?/? Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: >One thing we have to do in this production is complete daily "credit >cards" that say what we did, and I want to make sure the QL and SMSQ/E >make it into the production credits. > >How would you credit this? Depends on what you are using, emulated QL or regular... For regular you could write something like this: Computer Equipment: Sinclair Research Ltd. UK Computer Software: Dave P. w/ portions Tony Tebby For emulated: Computer Software: Dave P. w/ portions Marcel Kilgus, Tony Tebby etc... Phoebus
RE: [ql-users] A funny thing...
Dave, how about : Credits : Graphics by Sinclair QL and SMSQ. Highly original, I know, but . Cheers, Norman. PS. Do you have to get the text to print up one character at a time, slowly, in a large font, in the centre of the screen, with a sort of 'whee' noise as each letter.word appears on the screen, with the screen clearing automatically between sentences, and a voice-over reading the words out as they appear ? It won't be a proper file if you don't :o) - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:Norman.Dunbar@;LFS.co.uk Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dave P [mailto:dexter@;spodmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:42 PM To: QL Users Subject: [ql-users] A funny thing... I am working on an independant film project with a small group of people. I am helping build a high-fidelity set of a space station of the skylab era. The task I have been set is to reproduce a cockpit-style area with working lights and buttons. I have to have two LCD panels for green-screen displays of text and orbital elements. They suggested I use a PC and DOS, or doze, but they're not appropriate - doing a simple thing is made too complicated. They suggested I use linux, but the framebuffer is a pig. So I'm doing it with SMSQ/E. One thing we have to do in this production is complete daily "credit cards" that say what we did, and I want to make sure the QL and SMSQ/E make it into the production credits. How would you credit this? Dave This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
Re: [ql-users] Membrane update (and progress)
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 at 18:15:52, =?windows-1253?Q?=D6=EF=DF=E2=EF=F2=20 =D1.=20=CD=F4=FC=EA=EF=F2?= wrote: (ref: quantumcentral>) >ANY membrane will fail give it >sufficient time and enough tinkering with the QLs inside but not the Qeyboard ... not the original clear plastic membrane, in the first 1000 or so units. That is very very durable, and I use for testing QLs. Of course it could fail, but only, I think, if attacked. That sort of plastic should be used in any replacement. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
[ql-users] A funny thing...
I am working on an independant film project with a small group of people. I am helping build a high-fidelity set of a space station of the skylab era. The task I have been set is to reproduce a cockpit-style area with working lights and buttons. I have to have two LCD panels for green-screen displays of text and orbital elements. They suggested I use a PC and DOS, or doze, but they're not appropriate - doing a simple thing is made too complicated. They suggested I use linux, but the framebuffer is a pig. So I'm doing it with SMSQ/E. One thing we have to do in this production is complete daily "credit cards" that say what we did, and I want to make sure the QL and SMSQ/E make it into the production credits. How would you credit this? Dave
Re: [ql-users] Movep
In a message dated 08/10/02 17:37:12 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > GWASS treats 0(a4) as (a4), so the shorter version is always used here. > > George It takes some effort to force an assembler that "helps" like that, when you really do want it to generate the zero offset. You have to define an external that will supply a zero a link time. IIRC there is a bit of code in the debugger that I wrote that needed to do it. It wanted to generate a live sequence of code to push on the stack with an offset to be filled in. I'm not too sure about assemblers that "help" too much. E.g. when you are writing I2C drivers and need to account for every cycle, it's no fun if the assembler quietly replaces your instructions with ones it thinks are "better". A good solution is for an assembler to accept an override control saying "don't mess with what I write". The effective address 0(a4) which GWASS sets to (a4) is an exception to the normal GWASS rule, which is just what you state, namely that a programmer should be master of what he writes. For example, GWASS will shorten branches where possible if they are written BRA but will leave them as requested if written BRA.W, BRA.L or BRA.S. I made GWASS use (a4) in place of k(a4) when k was zero because it seemed obvious at the time that this should be done. It has certainly caused me to use DC.W when I really did want 0(a4) and not a4. If a change were to be made in GWASS over this instruction, I would simply delete the change from 0(a4) to (a4). George
