RE: [ql-users] Irish Show
Well... I've had a sort of beard for a few years now, well, a goatee anyway, and I'd afraid age has caught up with me too already and am relying more and more on my glasses, so..its 8-)# nowadays... Darren. -Original Message- From: P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 April 2005 19:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Irish Show Darren Branagh writes: > No customers ever come so probably best to do it when it suits us! 8-)# 8-)# - ? ->groan<- Not another Taliban, I hope? Per ___ 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] Irish Show
>So, when is a good time for a Show? Mid-Summer? Or do we leave it until >Sept/Oct? >>Mid summer - August - suits me. And me Anyone else? The weather will be good too. >>BTW Darren I have just come back from an evening with Steve Bensusan >>(you others will not know him) and he is onboard for the new band. Brilliant news!! (Steve is a gifted Guitarist. I have Roy's Album with Last Post and he is amazing on it - unbelievable solos.) I had thought you'd lost touch with himI was just listening to him in the car last night on my way home from work (that album occupies slot 4 on my CD Multi-changer!!) Darren. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > =?windows-1253?B?UGhvZWJ1cyBSLiBEb2tvcyAo1u/f4u/yINEuIM30/Orv8ik=?= > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> Someone asking me to tamper with Unixy or Windows-style software? I > >>can just see Roy Wood gritting his teeth in fear now ;-) > >> > > > >Tsk tsk... I am sure Roy won't mind ;-) > I have only sympathy for the software itself if it has to stand being > handled by Dilwyn. Hey maybe we should start a new O/S 'Dilwyndows' I > will throw this open to suggestions as to features. Lets see how > creative you can be. Dilwyndows = LaunchPad (+ Woomera) surely. -- 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] Irish Show
Q-Celt wrote: > >So, when is a good time for a Show? Mid-Summer? Or do we leave it until > >Sept/Oct? > >>Mid summer - August - suits me. > > And me Anyone else? The weather will be good too. > > >>BTW Darren I have just come back from an evening with Steve Bensusan > >>(you others will not know him) and he is onboard for the new band. > > Brilliant news!! (Steve is a gifted Guitarist. I have Roy's Album with Last > Post and he is amazing on it - unbelievable solos.) I had thought you'd > lost touch with himI was just listening to him in the car last > night on my way home from work (that album occupies slot 4 on my CD > Multi-changer!!) Has Roy's band done any songs about the Sinlair QL or SMSQ/E, there back on topic. If he has I would buy a copy. -- 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: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
> One more reason to believe that Irish are similar to Greeks... they > try to maximise profit in all situations:-) Why do you think we > invented Ouzo? (Which is the drink made out of the crap left when > ALL other possible alcoholic drinks are made...) > > Ffibys >>My step-daughter brought a small bottle of ouzo back for me from >>holiday last year. I'd had a bad day and sat down with the bottle one >>friday night. Wasn't a happy chappy for a day or two after (well, my >>excuse is I don't drink much usually unless with Darren and I wasn't >>up to Ouzo) - it even made me stay off the QL for a day or two, now >>that is BAD :o( Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)# I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the next day to sort me out, and I made friends with a large packet of alka-seltzer too. Darren. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:52:41 -0400, Darren Branagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)# It's known the world over that our friend Darren is the root of ALL evil ;-) I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the next day to sort me out, and I made friends with a large packet of alka-seltzer too. Darren. Tsk tsk... foreigners... Ouzo should ALWAYS be consumed with extremely salty food and diluted with 3 parts water for each part ouzo (it is an aperitif after all) ;-) OR with Orange juice... a screwdriver of sorts (but with a blunt edge and crooked stem I guess ;-) ___ 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: Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
> >> Someone asking me to tamper with Unixy or Windows-style software? I > >>can just see Roy Wood gritting his teeth in fear now ;-) > >> > > > >Tsk tsk... I am sure Roy won't mind ;-) > I have only sympathy for the software itself if it has to stand being > handled by Dilwyn. Hey maybe we should start a new O/S 'Dilwyndows' I > will throw this open to suggestions as to features. Lets see how > creative you can be. > -- > Roy Wood Hey, that's one way of killing off Micro$oft...get them to advertise me as their ideal user!!! I can just see it now..."QDOS and SMSQ/E...the only OSes good enough to survive the Dilwyn Jones experience." Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.18 - Release Date: 19/04/2005 > > Look at the nasty virus youve got on your computer. Probably trying to shame > you into forking out more dosh. What lowlife! Time to get something better, > dont you think? > > Per What, AVG is a nasty virus? Didn't know it appended THAT signature! At least you can tell what came from home and what from work. It's geared up for people with always-on connections. Dial up users have to force it to update unless they happen to be online when AVG7 reckons it's time to update. It normally tries to update every 2 days and normally has downloads of anything from 150K to 2MB of updates every time. Our Symantec one here at work has the habit of popping up to do updates just when it's busiest, just like Windows updates. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: RE: [ql-users] Irish Show
> >So, when is a good time for a Show? Mid-Summer? Or do we leave it until > >Sept/Oct? > >>Mid summer - August - suits me. > > And me Anyone else? The weather will be good too. Anytime except Autumn because of the existing shows at that time, e.g. Byfleet, QL Is 21... Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
> Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)# Who else is there to blame ;-) > I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a > greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the > next day to sort me out, and I made friends with a large packet of > alka-seltzer too. > > Darren. Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-( Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Hm Neither does coffee flavoured sausages... remember that? 6am I think at a services stop on the way to Bristol with Hilary O'Kelly. Darren. -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2005 12:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product. > Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)# Who else is there to blame ;-) > I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a > greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the > next day to sort me out, and I made friends with a large packet of > alka-seltzer too. > > Darren. Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-( Dilwyn Jones ___ 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: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
> Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is > usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-( > Hm Neither does coffee flavoured sausages... remember that? > > 6am I think at a services stop on the way to Bristol with Hilary O'Kelly. > > Darren. Yes! First and only time I heard Hilary o'Kelly swear I think. Good job it was coffee all over his sausages and not his QL as we were on the way to a QL show! How is Hilary these days? I haven't heard from him in ages. Is he still living in the castle in Laragh? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] WIN_FORMAT command
Hi, When setting up a SMSQ/E drive partition on Qx0 or QPC2, what is the state of the drive partition protection after the formatting of the partition. Do I have have to type in WIN_FORMAT 1,0 to protect WIN1_ from being accidentley formatted or does the format command protect the drive partition after the formatting has been completed. Derek ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
By experience of many years heavy drinking, always better to have the breakfast first then the alcohol. Never quite sure if drinking during breakfast is OK, but I always seem better with food in first then drink. That is only in the morning. Derek Dilwyn Jones wrote: Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)# Who else is there to blame ;-) I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the next day to sort me out, and I made friends with a large packet of alka-seltzer too. Darren. Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-( Dilwyn Jones ___ 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] WIN_FORMAT command
Derek Stewart wrote: > Do I have have to type in WIN_FORMAT 1,0 to protect WIN1_ from being > accidentley formatted Yes. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Hilary is fine, and still in that HUGE Castle, all on his own. Still beavering away with his Gold Card QL - I call on him when I visit my parents. I think hes on email still - Hilaryokelly AT hotmail DOT com He has written some amazing QL programs, and I'm sick nagging him to write manuals for them and release them. He has a brilliant yachting simulator which is amazingly accurate (does all the calculations and he updated it regularly, you can go sailing anywhere fro your living room and all the beacons etc are correct) Not to mention some rather addictive puzzle games and stuff. He also wrote an enigma code machine emulator for the QL which is totally authentic - he even contacted Bletchley Park in the UK for info to get the coding right. Darren. -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2005 12:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product. > Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is > usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-( > Hm Neither does coffee flavoured sausages... remember that? > > 6am I think at a services stop on the way to Bristol with Hilary O'Kelly. > > Darren. Yes! First and only time I heard Hilary o'Kelly swear I think. Good job it was coffee all over his sausages and not his QL as we were on the way to a QL show! How is Hilary these days? I haven't heard from him in ages. Is he still living in the castle in Laragh? Dilwyn Jones ___ 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] WIN_FORMAT command
Hi Marcel, Looks like I have being doing it right all these years and not being paranoid. Derek Marcel Kilgus wrote: Derek Stewart wrote: Do I have have to type in WIN_FORMAT 1,0 to protect WIN1_ from being accidentley formatted Yes. Marcel ___ 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] WIN_FORMAT command
Derek Stewart wrote: > Looks like I have being doing it right all these years and not being > paranoid. ;-) But of course the flag will be gone by the next re-boot. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It's geared up for people with always-on connections. >Dial up users have to force it to update unless they happen to be online >when AVG7 reckons it's time to update. It normally tries to update every >2 days and normally has downloads of anything from 150K to 2MB of updates >every time. Well I use it at home and I'm on a broadband connection (now) which is fine. I did use it before when I was on a dial-up link and as you note, it tends to produce large downloads. My version simply tells me that it is out of date and waits for me to click on the 'update' button to do the actual updating - so I can fit it in to suit me. My laptop has Symantec and it is configured to check at connect time for any required updates. As I'm usually using my laptop on customer sites, I need to be fully up to date with a 'recognised' AV system (plus firewall). I can configue this to run on demand, but I prefer to leave it on. The reason for all these big downloads is quite simple. Windows is a pile of non-secure poo and there are literally hundreds of new virusses, variants on old ones etc appearing almost every day. I've had Symantec downloads of as little as 50Kb and as large at 4 Mb at times. There has never been a day when I didn't have to download something. If MS actually wrote a decent set of programs, and the OS itself, we might not be in this situation. Linux is far far more secure and being open source, fixes get produced pretty damned quickly. There was a recent article in New Scientist entitles 'Not so clever now eh' (or similar) whereby it was announced that Linux had had 24 alerts notified but Windows only had 6. The missing information was that the Linux ones were all already fixed, while Windows still hasn't fixed their 6 - who's clever now then ? Still, and in an attempt to at least mention our esteemed platform of choice, at least we don't have to worry about virusses on the QL do we ? Apart from the one I wrote many years ago :o) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Irish Show
The recent(?) profile of Linus Torvalds in _Wired_ claimed that Linus' "first love was not a woman but a Sinclair QL". So there you are, material for a love song. Doug L. 37830 USA -Original Message- From: Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Apr 29, 2005 4:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Irish Show Q-Celt wrote: > >So, when is a good time for a Show? Mid-Summer? Or do we leave it until > >Sept/Oct? > >>Mid summer - August - suits me. > > And me Anyone else? The weather will be good too. > > >>BTW Darren I have just come back from an evening with Steve Bensusan > >>(you others will not know him) and he is onboard for the new band. > > Brilliant news!! (Steve is a gifted Guitarist. I have Roy's Album with Last > Post and he is amazing on it - unbelievable solos.) I had thought you'd > lost touch with himI was just listening to him in the car last > night on my way home from work (that album occupies slot 4 on my CD > Multi-changer!!) Has Roy's band done any songs about the Sinlair QL or SMSQ/E, there back on topic. If he has I would buy a copy. -- 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
>> Someone asking me to tamper with Unixy or Windows-style software? I >>can just see Roy Wood gritting his teeth in fear now ;-) >> > >Tsk tsk... I am sure Roy won't mind ;-) >>>I have only sympathy for the software itself if it has to stand being >>>handled by Dilwyn. Hey maybe we should start a new O/S 'Dilwyndows' I >>>will throw this open to suggestions as to features. Lets see how >>>creative you can be. Well 1. Only runs in MODE 4 colours - Green and red mainly, as per welsh flag. 2. Plays "whats new pussycat?" by Tom Jones while loading. 3. Has a choice of sheep or leeks as a wallpaper theme. 4. Has an LWPM (large Welshman protection mode) in which the keyboard and mouse don't work (only way to prevent Dil doing any damage) 5. Has dual processor/motherboard functionality - one intel/AMD and one 68xxx, so if Dil buggers up the Intel part, he can switch to 68xxx mode. 6. Has Welsh language Icons and help files (by default) 7. Has in-built, anti-virus protection called "know-leeks 1.0" 8. Supports a new graphic file format, similar to GIF and TIFF, called CarDIFF. 9. The error sound is a sheep going "baa" How that for starters? Darren. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] www.kilgus.net updated
I'd just like to inform you that a somewhat bigger update has happened to www.kilgu.net. QPC: New SMSQ/E, new manuals, new demo hard disc(!) read to check out, more utility software QPCPrint: New QPCPrint section including free demo to check out SMSQ/E: new version of sprite converter that can produce solid sprites (sprite without a mask, i.e. just a pattern). This format is drawn more rapidly and produces much smaller files, good for big images within menus and the like or even images in general. Only supported from SMSQ/E 3.10 onwards (or more specifically PTR CON driver 2.02). Have fun. Any feedback, especially regarding the demo hard disc, is appreciated. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updated
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > I'd just like to inform you that a somewhat bigger update has happened > to www.kilgu.net. Of course thats www.kilgus.net ... Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] list bug
Dilwyn Jones must have written: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It's geared up for people with always-on connections. > >Dial up users have to force it to update unless they happen to be online > >when AVG7 reckons it's time to update. It normally tries to update every > >2 days and normally has downloads of anything from 150K to 2MB of updates > >every time. .. but it never arrived in my inbox! Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? Also, some days ago I wrote: <> > 250 END IF >From my quick skim through the documentation Id say 200 DEBUG 9 <> however, I never put the > in front of the line "From my quick.." and it also doesnt show up in my copy of the file that was actually sent. Any idea wots going on? Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updated
Hi Marcel, I cant download (error 404: Datei nicht gefunden!). Can you check whether the link is working, please? Per - Original Message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updated > Marcel Kilgus wrote: > > I'd just like to inform you that a somewhat bigger update has happened > > to www.kilgu.net. > > Of course thats www.kilgus.net ... > > Marcel > > ___ > 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] www.kilgus.net updated
P Witte wrote: > I cant download (error 404: Datei nicht gefunden!). Can you check whether > the link is working, please? Argh, true. Try again. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Branagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I have only sympathy for the software itself if it has to stand being handled by Dilwyn. Hey maybe we should start a new O/S 'Dilwyndows' I will throw this open to suggestions as to features. Lets see how creative you can be. Well 1. Only runs in MODE 4 colours - Green and red mainly, as per welsh flag. 2. Plays "whats new pussycat?" by Tom Jones while loading. 3. Has a choice of sheep or leeks as a wallpaper theme. 4. Has an LWPM (large Welshman protection mode) in which the keyboard and mouse don't work (only way to prevent Dil doing any damage) 5. Has dual processor/motherboard functionality - one intel/AMD and one 68xxx, so if Dil buggers up the Intel part, he can switch to 68xxx mode. 6. Has Welsh language Icons and help files (by default) 7. Has in-built, anti-virus protection called "know-leeks 1.0" 8. Supports a new graphic file format, similar to GIF and TIFF, called CarDIFF. 9. The error sound is a sheep going "baa" How that for starters? Hilarious, Darren, you obviously know your Dilwyn ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updated
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'd just like to inform you that a somewhat bigger update has happened to www.kilgu.net. Umm ... does this finally reveal that Marcel is really a Klingon, of Star Trek fame ... :-) ? Hence the large brain power . QPC: New SMSQ/E, new manuals, new demo hard disc(!) read to check out, more utility software QPCPrint: New QPCPrint section including free demo to check out SMSQ/E: new version of sprite converter that can produce solid sprites (sprite without a mask, i.e. just a pattern). This format is drawn more rapidly and produces much smaller files, good for big images within menus and the like or even images in general. Only supported from SMSQ/E 3.10 onwards (or more specifically PTR CON driver 2.02). Have fun. Any feedback, especially regarding the demo hard disc, is appreciated. Thanks for the info and work, I will check out the site this weekend. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] unrar
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Derek Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I did port unrar v2.41 a while back... well it was when I lived in Newcastle had quite a large BBS system in the North East and drank weak Geordie beer. Interesting. Probably worth reviving the work. I still have the code somewhere, but never really tried to expand on it. It is not as well developed as WINRAR, which seems to handle anything including ISO9660 image files. WinRAR is shareware . you have 40 days use with the software before continuing use requiring a registration. I only used it for the Phoebus RAR files, and it worked a treat. Easy to use. The graphic icons have a very slick, glossy look ... very nice. Dilwyn Jones wrote: 1. I have purchased it ;-) 2. For some reasons the zip archives were broken 3. It compresses 20-30% better that specific archive and it's even better in not-too-full qxl.win files but if that is the consensus, then I will replace all archives :-) Ffibys RAR is great, but QLers are too used to ZIP. Even though someone (might have been Derek Stewart possibly?) did port a "Unrar" program to QDOS. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Irish Show
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, extdgl42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The recent(?) profile of Linus Torvalds in _Wired_ claimed that Linus' "first love was not a woman but a Sinclair QL". So there you are, material for a love song. Umm ... QL Love ... by Roy Wood, could be very catchy ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Branagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hilary is fine, and still in that HUGE Castle, all on his own. Still beavering away with his Gold Card QL - I call on him when I visit my parents. I think hes on email still - Hilaryokelly AT hotmail DOT com He has written some amazing QL programs, and I'm sick nagging him to write manuals for them and release them. He has a brilliant yachting simulator which is amazingly accurate (does all the calculations and he updated it regularly, you can go sailing anywhere fro your living room and all the beacons etc are correct) Not to mention some rather addictive puzzle games and stuff. He also wrote an enigma code machine emulator for the QL which is totally authentic - he even contacted Bletchley Park in the UK for info to get the coding right. Keep nagging him, Darren. We need interesting new applications to enliven the QL software scene. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] WIN_FORMAT command
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Derek Stewart wrote: Do I have have to type in WIN_FORMAT 1,0 to protect WIN1_ from being accidentley formatted Yes. That is useful information - I had not thought of this before. I suppose that the format protection reverts on reboot then? -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Irish Show
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Branagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Brilliant news!! (Steve is a gifted Guitarist. I have Roy's Album with Last Post and he is amazing on it - unbelievable solos.) I had thought you'd lost touch with himI was just listening to him in the car last night on my way home from work (that album occupies slot 4 on my CD Multi-changer!!) I told him how much you and Marcel liked his work and he said "I can't see it myself - I'm just an ordinary guitarist" -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] list bug
Re: Per's - ...reckons it's time to update. It normally tries to update every > >2 days and normally has downloads of anything from 150K to 2MB of updates > >every time. .. but it never arrived in my inbox! Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? No! I got it [all] Also, some days ago I wrote: <> > 250 END IF >From my quick skim through the documentation Id say 200 DEBUG 9 <> however, I never put the > in front of the line "From my quick.." and it also doesnt show up in my copy of the file that was actually sent. Any idea wots going on? Now this one does ring a bell. Many is the time when I am about to delete a list message because it appears as if there is **no** new stuff in it! i.e every message line begins with at least one '>' or equivlt. As Per said - "Any idea wots going on"? Have fun all, John in Wales PS I Like the sound of "Dilwindoze"!! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25/04/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Knight Safe
I have not sold any copies of Mark Knight's Knight Safe for some years and a purchaser from some time back asked me for an update because it did not run under the current SMSQ/E. I checked it here and it does just give a black screen and nothing else. I will look into this during the weekend but, if anyone has any ideas on what is happening here I would be grateful. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
