[ql-users] Quanta ISSN there
According www.issn.org the international centre for ISSN numbers in Paris, of the 1 million periodicals it has registered, Quanta magazine is not one of them. QL Today (English, German and Welsh ;-) versions are) as is Sinclair QL World (it's ISSN is still current publication status), BTW Arcwind still exist and are publishing other mags from their old address. ISSN numbers are free and available from the British Library, the are given to magazines and are what the bar codes are produced from. Is Quanta's non ISSN number status linked to the fact that it is only sold to members, even though it has been in print for over 20 years? BTW I am right in thinking there are no QL disczines at the moment? I have been trying BBS on my Q60 resently, I will put the results on the ACCUS website, results so far: Works TF Service Pbox +44 (0)1442-828255 QBOX (JMS) Pbox +49 (0) 203-502014 Failed so far QBOX (USA) +1 810 254 9878 = number not recogised, BTW I can ring the USA for 3p a minute anytime and Holland 2p minute. QLCF +33 (0) 498-430320= engaged first time, did not answer 2nd time Holbern View = gone -- Tarquin Mills (Quanta member) ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society) http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/comp/accus/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] BBS'
Works TF Service Pbox +44 (0)1442-828255 QBOX (JMS) Pbox +49 (0) 203-502014 Failed so far QBOX (USA) +1 810 254 9878 = number not recogised, BTW I can ring the USA for 3p a minute anytime and Holland 2p minute. Closed down for a while. QLCF +33 (0) 498-430320= engaged first time, did not answer 2nd time Holbern View = gone -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Meeting in Spain
> > Careful it is not too near the Quanta AGM. That clashed with the US > > show last year. > > I don't know whether a date for the AGM is fixed. > > There is nothing on the website (www.quanta.org.uk). > > It doesn't even mention the Byfleet Quanta workshop in a few weeks. > > Odd. > > > > Geoff - is anything fixed, and why is there nothing on the website? > > > > Why should I know? I am only a committee member! > > Seriously, now you know why I have been jumping up and down screaming for > the last few weeks. > > At the last committee meeting on Saturday 23 May 2004 (sic) the proposal was > that there would be an early AGM in February probably in a hotel somewhere > in the South East combined with QL2005. As you well know since then nothing > happened until Dilwyn's intervention. It wasn't so much an intervention, more canvassing of opinion regarding dates following an email conversation with Roy Brereton and others. There were dates available end february/early march for the venue suggested, but the general feeling among traders etc (regular show attendees) was that it was too soon after QL2004. Given that QL2004 worked quite well in October after the effort you and Sin-QL-air put into it over a long period of time including a specific show web page and all the other publicity, general opinion seemed to show that most people seemed more in favour of a show in the second half of 2005, giving more time to publicise and plan the event. Although it wasn't specifically mentioned to any great degree, one person did make a good suggestion that the end of Feb/early March dates were perhaps a bit close to the AGM normally held a month or two later. The views expressed were sent on to Roy and that's as much as I know at the moment. I wasn't trying to interfere, I just hoped that my position as editor of Toady would help solicit views, that's all. Given that I'm geographically far apart from most QLers, and don't get to attend as many workshops as I used to, I was just glad to be able to use my editorial position and email group facilities to do what I could to help. Your QL2004 website contributed a lot to the success of that event I'm sure. Whatever your level of frustration within the committee, are you prepared to host such a page again for a QL2005 whenever (and I think it is more WHEN than IF even though there's not much public output from the committee about it yet) it may occur? I'd quite happy to host one as well, now I've got more web space available if people send me the material to use for it. Careful use of search engine keywords mean we should able to get it quite well ranked, in response to searches for "QL", "show", and the usual keywords people would use, since there isn't that much competition out there for "QL" and such subjects as long as we're careful to get the search keywords right. The more publicity for the event the better. Attendance at QL shows is lower than it used to be, but well publicised events can still work well as QL2005 showed. -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL2004
> Perhaps we could organise a "hunt the committee member" competition at > Byfleet! > > Best Wishes, > Geoff Having just been playing a Pie-Gates game where you try to lob custard pies at Bill Gates, I'm sure we could come up with such a game for the QL if we converted photos of the committee (or just photos of Geoff!) into sprites and made a simple game a bit liek the old duckshoot games at fairgrounds of old! The photos are on my QL Rogues Gallery page, Wolfgang Lenerz has written a BMP2SPR .BMP graphics to QL sprite graphics converter IIRC...there you go Geoff, the next Just Words software product is in your hands! -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] raw2scr
Hello. The news of Dilwyn about the program bmp2spr moves me to inform of an article that I have written recently for my web titled "Expressing the palette of the QL", it speaks on how turning images in RAW format to SCR format. The article explains like using a program like Photoshop to prepare an image so that it can become a QL easily. The article is in spanish, but if somebody is interesting, surely it will be able to use an automatic translator by Internet and to read it. It includes a program in SuperBASIC to make the very simple conversion. This it is the link: http://sinclairql.info/docs/trucos/qlpal.htm and this is a gallery with some examples: http://sinclairql.info/docs/trucos/qlpal/galeria.htm I'm preparing now another article to turn bmps. In both articles the limitation be in the way of screen support, since both are think for mode 4 or mode 8 screen of QL. Next I add an example of a very short program to turn BMPs to SCR: 100 REMark bmp2scr v.1 110 REMark Javier Guerra 2004 120 : 130 fic$="example" : REMark file 140 dis$="win1_" : REMark unit 150 offs=86 : REMark header offset 160 modo=8 : REMark mode 8 or 4 170 c_fi=5 : REMark file channel 180 c_pa=6 : REMark screen channel 190 : 200 MODE modo 210 IF modo=8 THEN 220 linea=255 : valor=1.475 230 ELSE 240 linea=511 : valor=.7375 250 END IF 260 OPEN #c_pa,scr_512x256a0x0 270 SCALE #c_pa,255,0,0 280 PAPER #c_pa,7 : CLS #c_pa 290 OPEN_IN #c_fi,dis$&fic$&"_bmp" 300 : 310 REMark jummping the header 320 FOR i=1 TO offs : cab$=INKEY$(#c_fi) 330 : 340 FOR y=0 TO 255 350 FOR x=0 TO linea 360 color=CODE(INKEY$(#c_fi)) 370 INK #c_pa,color 380 POINT #c_pa,x*valor,y 390 END FOR x 400 END FOR y 410 CLOSE #c_fi : CLOSE #c_pa 420 : 430 PAUSE 440 SBYTES dis$&fic$&"_scr",131072,32768 450 PRINT #0,"OK" It is necessary to complete the values for the lines from the 130 to the 180. The value of offs usually is always the same one when the same program of treatment of graphs is used. This program supports BMP files of 8 bits/pixel without RLE compression. In order to make agree the colors of the BMP with those of the trowel of the QL, it is necessary to follow the indications of the proposed article above. If your read it, say me your opinion. Javier Guerra Sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://sinclairql.info ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quanta ISSN there
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 at 18:59:37, Tarquin Mills wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) I have been trying BBS on my Q60 resently, I will put the results on the ACCUS website, results so far: Works TF Service Pbox +44 (0)1442-828255 Great. QBOX (JMS) Pbox +49 (0) 203-502014 Will die soon Failed so far QBOX (USA) +1 810 254 9878 = number not recogised, BTW I can ring the USA for 3p a minute anytime and Holland 2p minute. Ended quite a few years ago (seven?) QLCF +33 (0) 498-430320= engaged first time, did not answer 2nd time I didn't know they had one. Holbern View = gone Derek Stewart. Yes I think he shut it down quite a few years ago. I think Jan Bredenbeek still runs one, but I haven't got details. The syncnet number I have (+31 35 237 178) does not work. He wrote the first QL BBS software - Qbox. BTW the mail archive does pretty well with messages. eg http://www.mail-archive.com/ql-users@nvg.ntnu.no/msg01466.html from 2001: - Has anyone got Jan Bredenbeek's email address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] no longer works. - Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] raw2scr
Την Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:11:05 +0100,ο(η) Sinclair QL ES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε/wrote: Hello. The news of Dilwyn about the program bmp2spr moves me to inform of an article that I have written recently for my web titled "Expressing the palette of the QL", it speaks on how turning images in RAW format to SCR format. The article explains like using a program like Photoshop to prepare an image so that it can become a QL easily. The article is in spanish, but if somebody is interesting, surely it will be able to use an automatic translator by Internet and to read it. It includes a program in SuperBASIC to make the very simple conversion. This it is the link: http://sinclairql.info/docs/trucos/qlpal.htm The RAWtoSCR idea is a very old one... as a matter of fact there is an article on the web somewhere from a guy that does what you do in perl. I use my own photoshop filter to prepare the thing. I would distribute it but it needs the damn Photoshop SDK (some 45 Megs worth of stuff) and I haven't had time (as usual) to sit down and make it in usable form -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] raw2scr
Την Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:14:45 -0500,ο(η) Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε/wrote: The RAWtoSCR idea is a very old one... as a matter of fact there is an article on the web somewhere from a guy that does what you do in perl. I use my own photoshop filter to prepare the thing. I would distribute it but it needs the damn Photoshop SDK (some 45 Megs worth of stuff) and I haven't had time (as usual) to sit down and make it in usable form Now I saw that you are actually mentioning that specific article. There's a lot more that you can do with RAW files, namely convert to Mode 16 and 33/32. Of course the plain 4/8 colour modes are okay but the Thor and Aurora with their 16 and 256 colour modes (for the latter Aurora only) are not covered. I also have a small program (I have given a version to Dilwyn and he had it online IIRC) that did just that with additional Thor and Aurora graphics modes (plus ultra hi-res Mode 4 screens for uQLx for example) Phoebus -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quanta ISSN there
on 11/12/2004 4:13 PM, Tony Firshman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 at 18:59:37, Tarquin Mills wrote: > (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > >> I have been trying BBS on my Q60 resently, I will put the results on >> the ACCUS website, results so far: >> >> Works >> TF Service Pbox +44 (0)1442-828255 > Great. >> QBOX (JMS) Pbox +49 (0) 203-502014 > Will die soon >> Failed so far >> QBOX (USA) +1 810 254 9878 = number not recogised, BTW I can ring >> the USA for 3p a minute anytime and Holland 2p minute. > Ended quite a few years ago (seven?) QBox-USA started operating in Sept 1993 and shut down around April 2002. It had a good run but it was getting hard to justify the $30 a month to keep the phone line for one or two callers every other month or so. -- John Impellizzeri mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] raw2scr
Hi Phoebus, Phoebus Dokos escribio': Την Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:14:45 -0500,ο(η) Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε/wrote: The RAWtoSCR idea is a very old one... as a matter of fact there is an article on the web somewhere from a guy that does what you do in perl. I use my own photoshop filter to prepare the thing. I would distribute it but it needs the damn Photoshop SDK (some 45 Megs worth of stuff) and I haven't had time (as usual) to sit down and make it in usable form Now I saw that you are actually mentioning that specific article. There's a lot more that you can do with RAW files, namely convert to Mode 16 and 33/32. Of course the plain 4/8 colour modes are okay but the Thor and Aurora with their 16 and 256 colour modes (for the latter Aurora only) are not covered. I also have a small program (I have given a version to Dilwyn and he had it online IIRC) that did just that with additional Thor and Aurora graphics modes (plus ultra hi-res Mode 4 screens for uQLx for example) I know. The idea to use a new method was born of that article that you say to me and I mention. There are several considerations. The method that I propose in the article is advantageous front to the other by several reasons: 1.- I can use especific customized colour palettes who can be in 4, 8, 16, 32... or 256 colours. In the article it is spoken exclusively of 4 and 8 colors because the Spanish users of QL do not enjoy greater resolutions habitually, and it's better don't complicate with nonnecessary information the article to focus the attention on the method. 2.- All the work of creation, modification and adjustment can do directly in the photographic program, and can turn and see the result before even transfer the image to the QL. Next, single be necessary overturn the result in the QL. The colors already appear in their correct order because they have been added correctly in the different customized palettes. 3.- By the saying previously, any effect, filter or resize can also be applied in programs like Photoshop or The Gimp even after haver fact the conversion to the suitable color palette, previously to the transfer to the QL. Even, the indexed color tool of Photoshop allows to fit the plotted and the degree of diffusion. Truely it's much more interesting to have programs in the QL that does this, but the article that I wrote exclusively tried to take the maximum advantage of the images treatment programs most commonly used. 4.- The small proposed program of conversion is easily modifiable for each one of the different modes and resolutions of screen, and the method to view the image in the QL is as simple as to use a "POINT" by point. The method proposed in my article is then less automatic, but it offers much greater control on the result that what it was possible to be obtained with the article that we said before. I am going to try prove your program, because it interests much this subject to me. As you can see in my messages in the forum, I still consider an apprentice, for that reason, any received commentary is appreciated. I only hope that my terrible English, so direct, will not bad interpreted or considered like an impoliteness. It's very dificult to find the exact phrase when the language is not known, for that reason I hope don't be arrogant in my answers. What would be of me without my automatic translator! :) Regards Javier Guerra Sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://sinclairql.info ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
