Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
wolfgang mühlegger writes: > P Witte schrieb: > > > > How do you make this work? > > > > marcel hacked sernet to work 'over udp' > and it's working great! I think I got that part of your earlier message ;) What do you need to connect and how do you make it work? Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
P Witte schrieb: wolfgang mühlegger writes: P Witte schrieb: How do you make this work? marcel hacked sernet to work 'over udp' and it's working great! I think I got that part of your earlier message ;) What do you need to connect and how do you make it work? Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm what you need is ask marcel for the udprext.zip plus 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) ciao wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] SMSQE 3.09
In a message dated 29/01/05 12:28:46 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually, I'm getting nowhere. > The last Email I had, i think, told me that George was now testing > everything, so I was under the impression that this is not finished yet. > > Do you know where he's at? > > I now have a complete source code for SMSQE v3.07 which I have successfully compiled both with GWASS and with Qmac. I am using the GWASS compilation on my Q40 and Q60. I have also compared the Qmac versions obtained by using both the unaltered and the altered source code. They are effectively identical. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:18:25 +0100, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Dilwyn seems to have got this running - seems to be the best bet (lets give Marcel a rest) That's music in my ears. But anyway, as more people will probably have problem settings this up, get http://www.kilgus.net/soft/lynx.zip and start QPC with the lynx.win file as WIN1_. It will directly boot and run LYNX. With this minimal system anybody should be able to see how to set up ones own. I'm afraid that's all the support I can give on this issue. Thanks Marcel - the only thing is that the Help function does not work - some files missing?? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Rich Mellor wrote: > Thanks Marcel - the only thing is that the Help function does not work - > some files missing?? Yes, the help files... Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:33:07 +0100, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Thanks Marcel - the only thing is that the Help function does not work - some files missing?? Yes, the help files... Well yes I guessed that - we need to include them in the package, or are these one of the sets of files which falls foul of the long filename problem?? DILWYN help !! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Rich Mellor wrote: > Well yes I guessed that - we need to include them in the package My package is a quick demonstration on how to set it up so that it runs. Nothing more, nothing less. Anybody is welcome to enhance, it of course. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Rich Mellor schrieb: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:33:07 +0100, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rich Mellor wrote: Thanks Marcel - the only thing is that the Help function does not work - some files missing?? Yes, the help files... Well yes I guessed that - we need to include them in the package, or are these one of the sets of files which falls foul of the long filename problem?? DILWYN help !! yes, they are but if you'd unzip them under dos/windows there should be no problem wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Email in SBASIC
Hi Try this in QPC 3.30 100 OPEN_IN #8,"tcp_pop.freesurf.ch:110": REM replace pop.freesurf.ch with your account 110 inst$="": stage=0 120 crlf$= CHR$(13) & CHR$(10) 130 REPeat 140 a$= INKEY$(#8,100) 150 IF a$<>"":inst$= inst$ & a$ 160 PRINT a$; 170 SELect ON stage 180 =0: 190 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 200 inst$= "" 210 PRINT #8, "USER username";crlf$; 220 stage= 1 230 END IF 240 =1: 250 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 260 inst$= "" 270 PRINT #8, "PASS password";crlf$; 280 stage= 2 290 END IF 300 =2: 310 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 320 inst$= "" 330 PRINT #8, "LIST";crlf$; 340 stage= 3 350 END IF 360 =3: 370 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 380 PRINT #0,"view which mail number ? 0 to QUIT": 390 INPUT #0,number$ 400 IF number$<>0 410 PRINT #8,"TOP ";number$;" 5";crlf$; 420 ELSE 430 PRINT #8,"QUIT";crlf$; 440 END IF 450 CLS:CLS #0 460 stage= 2 470 END IF 480 END SELect 490 END REPeat Then post your improvements ;-) Jon. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
Dent wrote: > 210 PRINT #8, "USER username";crlf$; For anybody trying this, here "username" must be exchanged with the POP3 user name. > 270 PRINT #8, "PASS password";crlf$; Likewise the password here. > Then post your improvements ;-) Very well ;-) Although I'm often a fan of state machines I find them a bit hard to maintain in this case. Here's a quick&moderately dirty procedural approach: 100 server$="pop.gmx.de" 110 user$="your-user-name-here" 120 password$="your-password-here" 130 : 140 CLS#0 150 OPEN_IN #8,"tcp_"&server$&":110" 160 out%=2 170 crlf$=CHR$(13)&CHR$(10) 180 PRINT#8, "USER "&user$&crlf$; 190 IF NOT(CheckResponse) THEN STOP 200 PRINT#8, "PASS "&password$&crlf$; 210 IF NOT(CheckResponse) THEN STOP 220 REPeat 230 PRINT#8,"LIST";crlf$; 240IF CheckResponse THEN 250 CLS#out% 260 GetMultiLineResponse 270END IF 280CLS#0 290PRINT#0,"view which mail number ? 0 to QUIT" 300INPUT#0,number$ 310IF number$ <> 0 THEN 320 PRINT#8,"TOP ";number$;" 10";crlf$; 330 IF CheckResponse THEN 340CLS#0: CLS#out% 350GetMultiLineResponse 360PRINT#0,"Hit key to continue" 370key$ = INKEY$(#0, -1) 380 END IF 390ELSE 400 PRINT #8,"QUIT";crlf$; 410 EXIT 420END IF 430 END REPeat 440 CLOSE#8 450 : 460 DEFine FuNction CheckResponse 470 r$ = GetLine$ 480 IF r$(1 TO 3) == "+OK" THEN RETurn 1 490 PRINT#0,"Error: "; r$ 500 PRINT#0,"Hit key to continue" 510 key$ = INKEY$(#0, -1) 520 RETurn 0 530 END DEFine 540 : 550 DEFine PROCedure GetMultiLineResponse 560 REPeat 570 r$ = GetLine$ 580 IF r$ = '.' THEN EXIT 590 PRINT#out%,r$ 600 END REPeat 610 END DEFine 620 : 630 DEFine FuNction GetLine$ 640 LOCal x$, L 650 INPUT #8,x$ 660 L = LEN(x$) 670 IF x$(L) = CHR$(13) THEN x$ = x$(1 TO L - 1) 680 RETurn x$ 690 END DEFine Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] A QL in Spain
Roy wood escribió: Jochen, Marcel and myself are planning to be in Spain at some point between 1st and 16th of June. This is partly our usual excursion to get Marcel and I third degree sunburn and throw ourselves down impossible Roller Coasters but we would like to combine it with meeting up with QL users there. You would not need to organise much. a small room with some tables and power sockets would do. If there is any interest in getting this together we need to know now. It does not have to be a big event and it does not have to be that commercially oriented. Anyone interested? Hi, Personally I have interest, but I do not guarantee to you that exist more interested people now. A good date to ask will be after of the MadriSX event. I have asked personally to the users who I know through e-mail or in some forums and have received few answers. If we obtained that people come to MadriSX we will be able to convince them for a second meeting this year with you. We spoke about MadriSX in this forum last November. The event is in Madrid, the 5 of march. I hope that you do not discard the possibility of this event in June. There is still time. Regards Javier Guerra ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- Pål Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html Cavern is there. Not sure if this is the same game as you mention (I think there was a commercial game called Cavern and a PD game called Cavern and I can't remember which was which. QemuLator with a version JM or JS ROM image is probably the best emulator for older games programs, although QPC2 and QLay seem to manage quite well with many older programs too. QPC2 should be set to QL colour 512x256 screen mode for maximum compatibility. There is a QL screen emulation command in QPC2, started with a command called QPC_QLSCREMU QPC_QLSCREMU -1automatic mode QPC_QLSCREMU 0(disabled - default) QPC_QLSCREMU 4(force to 4-colour mode) QPC_QLSCREMU 8(force to 8 colour mode) Seems to set aside the same area of memory for a "QL" screen (32 kilobytes at address 131072 decimal) for games to write to and invisibly copy that to the "visible" screen memory, doing some colour format conversion in the process. It's described on page 8 of the QPC2 manual if you need more information. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > QPC2 should be set to QL colour 512x256 screen mode for maximum > compatibility. There is a QL screen emulation command in QPC2, > started with a command called QPC_QLSCREMU Of course if you do set QPC to QL colour 512x256 then QPC_QLSCREMU is not needed. It's only of use if you run high colour or high resolution screens. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wolfgang mühlegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes P Witte schrieb: wolfgang mühlegger writes: P Witte schrieb: How do you make this work? marcel hacked sernet to work 'over udp' and it's working great! I think I got that part of your earlier message ;) What do you need to connect and how do you make it work? Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm what you need is ask marcel for the udprext.zip plus 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the >> '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it >> on one of the emulators for the PC? >> >> Any other old games available? >> -- >> Pål Monstad > There's quite a lot of games on my website > www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html > > Cavern is there. Not sure if this is the same game as you mention (I > think there was a commercial game called Cavern and a PD game called > Cavern and I can't remember which was which. Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems to not find the command at all. I thought ALCHP was a standard command in the old QDOS. Am I wrong? -- Pål Monstad ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:20:55 +0100, PÃl Monstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- PÃl Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html Cavern is there. Not sure if this is the same game as you mention (I think there was a commercial game called Cavern and a PD game called Cavern and I can't remember which was which. Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems to not find the command at all. I thought ALCHP was a standard command in the old QDOS. Am I wrong? -- Yes you need a TK2.ROM to link in with Qemulator - that contains ALCHP Dilwyn - is there a link to this on your website yet? Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Leon Heller
I recently had an email from Leon Heller, one of the founders of Quanta. I mentioned in my reply to him that Quanta was having a big 21st bash this autumn and asked if he could be present. I thought it would be nice if we could get Leon or Brian Pain to attend after all these years. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Pål Monstad wrote: > Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded > QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the > cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the > ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems > to not find the command at all. I thought ALCHP was a standard > command in the old QDOS. Am I wrong? Suddenly I remembered! I replaced ALCHP with RESPR and now it works! Is ALCHP a command found in Toolkit II? The game was a bit slow, but I got the nostalgic feeling. I guess it is more than 15 years sincle I played the game, from microdrive. It was impossible to copy the game to a floppy. -- Pål Monstad ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OT: Sheds
Hmm, build a new house, clad it in wood and claim it's a shed then see how long you get away with it! -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] OT: Sheds On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 at 10:29:26, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - seven in total. I am even thinking of extending my office (shed) to make a print room. Dear Mr Services ... are you clear on planning permission for all these sheds ? ... :-) Amazingly, sheds do not need planning permission in this borough. I could fill the garden with them! Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.co.uk http://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.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
"Dear Mr Services," Tony The counter clerk at the bank kept calling me 'Mr. Branch' so I asked him if I could have a Branch Manager. Did he Twig what you were on about? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:17:05 +, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> what you need is ask marcel for the udprext.zip plus 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. Maybe if you want to write a game that can be run on the two QPC2's and would play against each other - like DiRen did with their ship game - can't remember the name and never got to play it alas... Hmm - maybe Robin should re-release that game, so we can start playing it against each other over the internet !! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Roy wood schrieb: <---> 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible no, it is not for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. well the point COULD be: EX "n1_*win1_myprog_exe" ciao wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Leon Heller
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:49:56 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently had an email from Leon Heller, one of the founders of Quanta. I mentioned in my reply to him that Quanta was having a big 21st bash this autumn and asked if he could be present. I thought it would be nice if we could get Leon or Brian Pain to attend after all these years. Yes it sure would be nice - it was a shame when they left the QL fold -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Rich Mellor schrieb: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:17:05 +, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> what you need is ask marcel for the udprext.zip plus 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. Maybe if you want to write a game that can be run on the two QPC2's and would play against each other - like DiRen did with their ship game - can't remember the name and never got to play it alas... Hmm - maybe Robin should re-release that game, so we can start playing it against each other over the internet !! indeed an excellent idea i did not think of. or mayby you could enhance qword to play over the (inter)net? :-) wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Roy wood wrote: > Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running > QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have > a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have > done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible > for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. No, it can't. UDPNet, on the other hand, could do this. Plus, it is a native solution and is basically cross-plattform. If Q40 had IP support, it could be used to sync QPC and Q40. OTOH the more I know about the SERNet/UDPNet code, the less I like it. It probably should be rewritten from scratch (and use TCP instead of UDP). But this is not exactly a minor task. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OT: Sheds
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 at 16:06:34, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >> Amazingly, sheds do not need planning permission in this borough. >> I could fill the garden with them! >Hmm, build a new house, clad it in wood and claim it's a shed then see >how long you get away with it! There is a height limit. OK I suppose if you are a dwarf. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.co.uk http://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.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
- Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers > >>"Dear Mr Services," > >> > >>Tony > >> > > The counter clerk at the bank kept calling me 'Mr. Branch' so I > > asked him if I could have a Branch Manager. > Did he Twig what you were on about? JG Perhaps that was the root of the problem you went to the bank for in the first case?? John Gilpin. > Dilwyn Jones > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Leon Heller
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 at 15:49:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I recently had an email from Leon Heller, one of the founders of >Quanta. > >I mentioned in my reply to him that Quanta was having a big 21st bash >this autumn and asked if he could be present. I thought it would be >nice if we could get Leon or Brian Pain to attend after all these >years. Leon would be very welcome. How is he getting on in France? Can I have his address (email and sanil) please. I saw him just before he left. He packed up his whole world into a Volvo estate (and trailer) and went off to a chateau, near Tours I think. He even sold his motorbike (8-(# He bought the house very cheaply. His solicitor then told him there was a problem. Someone had forgotten to tell the estate agent about the fields and large forest which was part of the property. "Would he mind if they were included" "How much for" "Ah non, la meme" What luck. Brian Pain is a different matter. I was at an AGM in Swindon, when Leon and Brian were ousted by Freddie Vachha, John Silk (another sordid story!) and another, Sturat I think. Brian had been annexing his family as IQLUG staff, and had been paying them some £9000 per year I think. In 1985 that was a -vast- sum. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.co.uk http://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.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 at 17:21:06, John Gilpin wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >- Original Message - >From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:05 PM >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers > > >> >>"Dear Mr Services," >> >> >> >>Tony >> >> >> > The counter clerk at the bank kept calling me 'Mr. Branch' so I >> > asked him if I could have a Branch Manager. >> Did he Twig what you were on about? > >JG > >Perhaps that was the root of the problem you went to the bank for in the >first case?? Come on lads, Roy has the copyright on puns (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.co.uk http://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.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Roy wood wrote: Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. No, it can't. UDPNet, on the other hand, could do this. Plus, it is a native solution and is basically cross-plattform. If Q40 had IP support, it could be used to sync QPC and Q40. OTOH the more I know about the SERNet/UDPNet code, the less I like it. It probably should be rewritten from scratch (and use TCP instead of UDP). But this is not exactly a minor task. What does UDP stand for - obviously a Protocol ? Did it precede TCP ? I installed the QPC2 v3.30 upgrade in the usual painless way ... :-) ... thanks. As I am using WIN95, I took the advice on your web site and upgraded to Winsock2 first. Not being certain that I had already done so ... however, that was painless too ... :-) Obviously I will explore the new and improved features. First impression with real applications is that it is, once again, a lot faster. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
On 30 Jan 2005 at 17:43, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > What does UDP stand for - obviously a Protocol ? 1) Short for User Datagram Protocol. (2) Short for Usenet Death Penalty Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: >> What does UDP stand for - obviously a Protocol ? > 1) Short for User Datagram Protocol. AKA unreliable datagram protocol. Unlike TCP packets UDP data is not guaranteed to arrive at the other end, the higher up protocol must therefore cater for data loss and data re-sending (which SERNet does). Though data loss in a LAN should be near nil anyway. TCP is a connection based protocol. The two partners first establish a connection and when a station sends data it can be sure that it will arrive intact and in the right order at the other end. > (2) Short for Usenet Death Penalty That, of course, is something entirely different :-) It's mostly a threat to cut off news servers that spam or are somehow rogue. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wolfgang mühlegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Roy wood schrieb: <---> 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible no, it is not for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. well the point COULD be: EX "n1_*win1_myprog_exe" If you mapped the qxl.win file on the other machine to be win6_ ,say you could then do: EX WIN6_myprog_exe no difference. I do this all the time here to -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gilpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes - Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers >>"Dear Mr Services," >> >>Tony >> > The counter clerk at the bank kept calling me 'Mr. Branch' so I > asked him if I could have a Branch Manager. Did he Twig what you were on about? JG Perhaps that was the root of the problem you went to the bank for in the first case?? Oak A, I think it's time to leaf it out now, buddy. Don't tangle with the pun meister! -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Old games
> Probably the best emulator to use to play these sort of games is Qemulator > - certainly seems to be more able to cope (unless they use copy protection > of course). In fact, Q-emuLator can run most copy-protected QL games (for example, the unpatched Psion Chess 1.0). But you need to own the original microdrive, have a QL capable of reading it, and a way of moving files between the QL to the PC (this usually means a QL with a floppy disk interface). Q-emuLator includes a utility to copy the copy-protected files from microdrive to another location while preserving the copy protection information. Daniele ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
Roy wood wrote: >>Perhaps that was the root of the problem you went to the bank for in the >>first case?? > Oak A, I think it's time to leaf it out now, buddy. > Don't tangle with the pun meister! "Roy Wood, putting the pun in PUNishment since 19xx" ;-) Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:06:35 -0800, Daniele Terdina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Probably the best emulator to use to play these sort of games is Qemulator - certainly seems to be more able to cope (unless they use copy protection of course). In fact, Q-emuLator can run most copy-protected QL games (for example, the unpatched Psion Chess 1.0). But you need to own the original microdrive, have a QL capable of reading it, and a way of moving files between the QL to the PC (this usually means a QL with a floppy disk interface). Q-emuLator includes a utility to copy the copy-protected files from microdrive to another location while preserving the copy protection information. That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header Would be interesting to know if we could get QL Pawn onto Qemulator - but that loads specific sectors from the microdrive cartridge (not files per se). -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
Hi again By the way don't worry about trying either Marcels or my version of the programs on your mail account. All mails are left in takt for you to download in the usual way after previewing them. If you do spot a mail you would rather not download the command to delete a mail is DELE n where n is the number of the mail you wish to delete. You could add your own lines. Marcels version has added some polish :-) now what about some GD2 colour someone ;-) Jon. P.S. more info at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/std/std53.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:06:35 -0800, Daniele Terdina > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the > microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on > the microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header > > Would be interesting to know if we could get QL Pawn onto Qemulator - but > that loads specific sectors from the microdrive cartridge (not files per > se). I have been thinking about a virtual microdrive for SMSQ/E, as way of making SMSQ/E more compatible with old software, this would solve the above problem. In other words an image filing system. -- Tarquin Mills (Chairman) ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society) http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/comp/accus/ http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Spectrum/ (We want a Spectrum +4) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 30 Jan 2005 at 17:43, Malcolm Cadman wrote: What does UDP stand for - obviously a Protocol ? 1) Short for User Datagram Protocol. (2) Short for Usenet Death Penalty Umm ... I figured it would be harmful to humans ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Tarquin Mills wrote: > I have been thinking about a virtual microdrive for SMSQ/E, as way of > making SMSQ/E more compatible with old software, this would solve the > above problem. In other words an image filing system. I think software that does need this would probably not run anyway. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
No, ALCHP is only present in Toolkit 2 extensions. From SuperBASIC, you can use RESPR instead as long as no other jobs are running. Snag is that RESPR memory cannot be released later, only be a reset. There was talk of Toolkit 2 being released freely now or soon. If this is really rthe case, I'd happily put a copy of v2.12 (the most recent ROM image I have) on my website for download or email one privately if anyone (Roy? Tony?) can truly confirm this is the case. Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. I imagine any toolkit with ALCHP extension it might be OK, there's a few in the Toolkits page on my website. www.dilwyn.uk6.net/tk/index.html The first item there is an ALCHP extension. -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Pål Monstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Old games Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- Pål Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html Cavern is there. Not sure if this is the same game as you mention (I think there was a commercial game called Cavern and a PD game called Cavern and I can't remember which was which. Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems to not find the command at all. I thought ALCHP was a standard command in the old QDOS. Am I wrong? -- Pål Monstad -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I used to play a game called Cavern (I think) on my QL back in the '80. Is this game available somewhere, and is it possible to play it on one of the emulators for the PC? Any other old games available? -- PÃl Monstad There's quite a lot of games on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/games/index.html Cavern is there. Not sure if this is the same game as you mention (I think there was a commercial game called Cavern and a PD game called Cavern and I can't remember which was which. Thanks! The Cavern game on your site is the correct one! I downloaded QemuLator and JM ROMs, but I get an error in line 300 in the cavern_bas: r=ALCHP(72000): error in expression. As I remember the ALCHP command reserves some memory, about 72Kb in this line. It seems to not find the command at all. I thought ALCHP was a standard command in the old QDOS. Am I wrong? -- Yes you need a TK2.ROM to link in with Qemulator - that contains ALCHP Dilwyn - is there a link to this on your website yet? Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. Have been up to my ears in non-QL stuff last week or so, not really read the list thoroughly. Am catching up...what was the final verdict on TK2? And the most recent version available? Should be easy enough to put a v2.12 image on the website if we are OK to do so. I've just put a rather nice Othello game written and sent to me by Ken Tait onto the games page. It's rather old, but works well on QPC2. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] smsq gold
I seem to have got myself into a bit of a muddle. First, I manage to destroy a QL+RomDisq with a corrupt copy of smsq_gold 3.06 (revived with romd214_exe) and now I can't get 256 colour mode to work on the Aurora. Is the same smsq-gold v3.06 used for 256 colour on Aurora or is there a separate version for Aurora? DISP_TYPE will change resolution on the Aurora/SGC (a MinisQL) but DISP_COLOUR 2 is ignored and configuring it to start in 256 colour mode seems to make it lock up at a black screen. If a separate version is needed, fine, just thought that as both machines had Gold Card and SuperGold Card I thought I'd try the Gold Card version which seems to run as long as the Aurora stays in QL colour modes. Not having the best of days today, the PC is behaving and the QLs ain't. Somewhat unuusal in this household. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:20 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Silly QPC2 does not need Toolkit II as it is part of smsq/e -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] smsq gold
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:13:27 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I seem to have got myself into a bit of a muddle. First, I manage to destroy a QL+RomDisq with a corrupt copy of smsq_gold 3.06 (revived with romd214_exe) and now I can't get 256 colour mode to work on the Aurora. Is the same smsq-gold v3.06 used for 256 colour on Aurora or is there a separate version for Aurora? DISP_TYPE will change resolution on the Aurora/SGC (a MinisQL) but DISP_COLOUR 2 is ignored and configuring it to start in 256 colour mode seems to make it lock up at a black screen. If a separate version is needed, fine, just thought that as both machines had Gold Card and SuperGold Card I thought I'd try the Gold Card version which seems to run as long as the Aurora stays in QL colour modes. Not having the best of days today, the PC is behaving and the QLs ain't. Somewhat unuusal in this household. Now now - SMSQ_Gold colour version is the right one for Aurora - but are you sure you have the colour version of SMSQ/e Dilwyn - here we go back to the moans that there is no way of telling one from the other... Otherwise, you might need the guide on setting up the Aurora hardware for high colours which Phoebus put together. -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] smsq gold
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Is the same smsq-gold v3.06 used for 256 colour on Aurora or is there > a separate version for Aurora? DISP_TYPE will change resolution on the > Aurora/SGC (a MinisQL) but DISP_COLOUR 2 is ignored Then you probably don't use a version that includes my driver. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send > you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, > although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Why oh why should anybody want to load a TK2 image on QPC2? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Roy wood schrieb: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wolfgang mühlegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Roy wood schrieb: <---> 2 computers connected with ethernet, running QPC2 (at the moment it only works with 2) Not sure I understand the point here. If you have two machines running QPC2 and connected by ethernet why not just map the drives so they have a letter and then use that letter as one of the QXL.WIN files ? I have done it like this for ages. I believe Marcel has even made it possible no, it is not for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. well the point COULD be: EX "n1_*win1_myprog_exe" If you mapped the qxl.win file on the other machine to be win6_ ,say you could then do: EX WIN6_myprog_exe no difference. I do this all the time here to wrong because it runs on the other machine! wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Leon Heller
I got a reply to the reply - Leon says he may well attend the Quanta bash on the south coast (he keeps an eye on a few QL websites like Quanta's), and he is still in touch with Brian Pain, although it may prove a bit far for Brian to attend. Still, getting one of the two founders of Quanta to attend the meeting is a good start! Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Leon Heller On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:49:56 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently had an email from Leon Heller, one of the founders of Quanta. I mentioned in my reply to him that Quanta was having a big 21st bash this autumn and asked if he could be present. I thought it would be nice if we could get Leon or Brian Pain to attend after all these years. Yes it sure would be nice - it was a shame when they left the QL fold -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Maybe if you want to write a game that can be run on the two QPC2's and would play against each other - like DiRen did with their ship game - can't remember the name and never got to play it alas... Hmm - maybe Robin should re-release that game, so we can start playing it against each other over the internet !! Fleet Tactical Command. You could run it on a single computer and play against computer, or two players could play against each other over a serial link. I never really got into it despite selling it back in DJC days, but I knew people who spent ages playing it once they'd got into it. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
Jon, should this work equally on soql, QPC2 v3.30 and uQLx TCP/IP? Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Dent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC Hi Try this in QPC 3.30 100 OPEN_IN #8,"tcp_pop.freesurf.ch:110": REM replace pop.freesurf.ch with your account 110 inst$="": stage=0 120 crlf$= CHR$(13) & CHR$(10) 130 REPeat 140 a$= INKEY$(#8,100) 150 IF a$<>"":inst$= inst$ & a$ 160 PRINT a$; 170 SELect ON stage 180 =0: 190 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 200 inst$= "" 210 PRINT #8, "USER username";crlf$; 220 stage= 1 230 END IF 240 =1: 250 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 260 inst$= "" 270 PRINT #8, "PASS password";crlf$; 280 stage= 2 290 END IF 300 =2: 310 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 320 inst$= "" 330 PRINT #8, "LIST";crlf$; 340 stage= 3 350 END IF 360 =3: 370 IF "OK" INSTR inst$ THEN 380 PRINT #0,"view which mail number ? 0 to QUIT": 390 INPUT #0,number$ 400 IF number$<>0 410 PRINT #8,"TOP ";number$;" 5";crlf$; 420 ELSE 430 PRINT #8,"QUIT";crlf$; 440 END IF 450 CLS:CLS #0 460 stage= 2 470 END IF 480 END SELect 490 END REPeat Then post your improvements ;-) Jon. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Rich Mellor wrote: Yes you need a TK2.ROM to link in with Qemulator - that contains ALCHP Dilwyn - is there a link to this on your website yet? Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. Following Roy Wood's announcement that pointer environment and Toolkit 2 can be freely made available, I've put them on the Toolkits page on my software download site: www.dilwyn.uk6.net/tk/index.html These are the latest versions that I have here, with manuals, but if anyone has more recent versions which can be distributed I would gladly replace them. Toolkit 2 v2.12 rom image Reconfigurable disk Toolkit 2 v2.06b PTR_GEN 1.71 WMAN 1.53 HOT_REXT 2.29 -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Doh, thanks. It can load ROM images but obviously not needed even in the demo version. -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Old games On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:20 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Silly QPC2 does not need Toolkit II as it is part of smsq/e -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] smsq gold
I seem to have got myself into a bit of a muddle. First, I manage to destroy a QL+RomDisq with a corrupt copy of smsq_gold 3.06 (revived with romd214_exe) and now I can't get 256 colour mode to work on the Aurora. Is the same smsq-gold v3.06 used for 256 colour on Aurora or is there a separate version for Aurora? DISP_TYPE will change resolution on the Aurora/SGC (a MinisQL) but DISP_COLOUR 2 is ignored and configuring it to start in 256 colour mode seems to make it lock up at a black screen. If a separate version is needed, fine, just thought that as both machines had Gold Card and SuperGold Card I thought I'd try the Gold Card version which seems to run as long as the Aurora stays in QL colour modes. Not having the best of days today, the PC is behaving and the QLs ain't. Somewhat unuusal in this household. Now now - SMSQ_Gold colour version is the right one for Aurora - but are you sure you have the colour version of SMSQ/e Dilwyn - here we go back to the moans that there is no way of telling one from the other... Otherwise, you might need the guide on setting up the Aurora hardware for high colours which Phoebus put together. No I am not certain. All I am certain of is that it's SMSQ_GOLD v3.06. It probably ain't the colours version as DISP_COLOUR 2 does nothing it seems. I don't use the QL and MiniSQL Aurora that much, so have probably not installed the right versions. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Use RESPR instead of ALCHP for now, until I know if it's OK to send you a TK2. I think QemuLator and QPC2 can load a Toolkit 2 ROM image, although I can't remember the commands needed from memory. Why oh why should anybody want to load a TK2 image on QPC2? Marcel That was just me being totally stupid and brain dead. Doh, told you I was having a bad day. Too little time to do anything properly, the "death" of the RomDisq totally threw me today as I had so much to do and wasted several hours on silly little problems that needn't have arisen in the first place. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.3 - Release Date: 24/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] smsq gold
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:15:15 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> No I am not certain. All I am certain of is that it's SMSQ_GOLD v3.06. It probably ain't the colours version as DISP_COLOUR 2 does nothing it seems. I don't use the QL and MiniSQL Aurora that much, so have probably not installed the right versions. Only way of telling for sure is the file length - maybe Roy can remind us all of the file length for the two versions... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
ÎÎÎ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:48:30 -,Î(Î) Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ÎÎÏÎÏÎ/wrote: Jon, should this work equally on soql, QPC2 v3.30 and uQLx TCP/IP? Dilwyn Jones That will work on QPC 3.30, QemuLator 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 and uQLx but NOT on soql as there's no tcp device. However this is really a simplified version of the qlpop3 application which is written in C. So for all purposes that already works under soQL. (Somewhat ;-) Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
- Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC > Jon, should this work equally on soql, QPC2 v3.30 and uQLx TCP/IP? > > Dilwyn Jones > It should work on uQLx. soQL doesn't have a TCP_ device as jet. The device driver itself would be quite simple as its not a directory device. But without an underlying operating system as on an emulator it's difficult to see how to get the connection made while the device driver is in supervisor mode and soQLengin (daemon) can't run. Jon. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email in SBASIC
Dent wrote: > It should work on uQLx. soQL doesn't have a TCP_ device as jet. The > device driver itself would be quite simple as its not a directory > device. But without an underlying operating system as on an emulator > it's difficult to see how to get the connection made while the > device driver is in supervisor mode and soQLengin (daemon) can't > run. Connections on QPC and uQLx are done asynchronously, so it's actually the *next* call to the I/O interface that will block until the connection is done (and blocking just means "is it done yet? No? Then back to SMSQ/E). Whether you poll the host OS or your daemon at that point shouldn't really matter, I guess. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wolfgang mühlegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes If you mapped the qxl.win file on the other machine to be win6_ ,say you could then do: EX WIN6_myprog_exe no difference. I do this all the time here to wrong because it runs on the other machine! Oh no it doesn't. I just tested it. It runs on the machine that calls the code. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
Rich Mellor writes: <> > Otherwise just use RESPR instead of ALCHP. ..provided no jobs are running (Qdos). Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.30
Roy wood writes: <> > I believe Marcel has even made it possible > for two machines to access the same file although I have not tried it. Not the same QL file, but the same QXL.win file, yes. This works a treat. You can even have more than one instance of QPC2 running off the same set of drives, although you do have to take care. I use this to test software or design menus and sprites using the EasyPtr suit, which is much more stable running in a QL-colour environment. Best of both worlds! Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Old games
> That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the > microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the > microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header The QL utility I mentioned embeds some sector header information in the file. This is then transparently read and used by Q-emuLator. > Would be interesting to know if we could get QL Pawn onto Qemulator - but > that loads specific sectors from the microdrive cartridge (not files per > se). Loading specific sectors is not currently supported, as it would require imaging the entire microdrive. An interesting feature to consider. I think Qlay may use this approach. Daniele ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Old games
ÎÎÎ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:22:18 -0800,Î(Î) Daniele Terdina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ÎÎÏÎÏÎ/wrote: That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header The QL utility I mentioned embeds some sector header information in the file. This is then transparently read and used by Q-emuLator. Would be interesting to know if we could get QL Pawn onto Qemulator - but that loads specific sectors from the microdrive cartridge (not files per se). Loading specific sectors is not currently supported, as it would require imaging the entire microdrive. An interesting feature to consider. I think Qlay may use this approach. It actually doesn't. In reality Qlay is a lot less sofisticated in mdv emulation than QemuLator. A full image of a microdrive would be great btw (It will help save a lot of software for posterity as well in its original form with protection)... The imaging system of Locksmithe/4matter would be ideal btw Ffibys ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
