Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκ\"\"ος
Την Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:02:52 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Reköndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > What a pity. It had been so much easier just to look a QL Quill doc in > XChange PC if the formats were compatible. God only knows, why they are > not. > > Cheers...Ralf R. They are but not all versions. Later

Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Ralf Reköndt
What a pity. It had been so much easier just to look a QL Quill doc in XChange PC if the formats were compatible. God only knows, why they are not. Cheers...Ralf R. - Original Message - From: "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 7:59

Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Dave Walker
My TexTIDy program should be able to convert between the QL and PC versions formats of these files.You run this conversion on the QL side before transferring them to PC disks (possibly using DiscOVER) for use on the PC. Also provided with TexTIDY is some documentation on the file formats cover

Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: "P Witte" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC) >Sadly, they dont appear to be entirely file-compatible with the QL >versions, >so rather pointless to have them.. There wa

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

2005-11-27 Thread P Witte
Phoebus R. Dokos writes: <> >> I think something has to be loaded in config.sys - on my machine at >> least. But all that fright has been a long time ago now. Just >> wondered if anyone still had this stuff at their finger tips? > > WinXP hasn't got a "config.sys" per se. What it DOES have is con

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

2005-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > I suppose all this is seriously off-topic ;) However, Id love to get > it going, as I dont find any of the cracked QL versions playable for > a variety of reasons (most of them just crash). Hm, my QL version works just fine. Too good, actually, I can't beat it. But then it's not r

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

2005-11-27 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκ\"\"ος
Την Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:38:31 -0500,ο(η) P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > wolfgang mühlegger writes: > >>> Great! Anyone got any info on how to set it up for Wxp/W2k? I can see >>> the >>> graphics but the text is unreadable. > > <> > >> right click the chess.exe >> choose properties -> c

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess - Was Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Jeremy Taffel
Does anyone have a "cracked " version that runs under any of the emulators? Better still, does nayone know the format of the saved game files in the QL version? I play chess reasonably seriously (used to be county standard - but not any more!). All my games from the 80s are carefully stored as

[ql-users] Psion Chess

2005-11-27 Thread P Witte
wolfgang mühlegger writes: >> Great! Anyone got any info on how to set it up for Wxp/W2k? I can see the >> graphics but the text is unreadable. <> > right click the chess.exe > choose properties -> compatibility -> win95 > and on the screen tab tick the fullscreen option. > > (i have to guess th

Re: [ql-users] OT: 15" CRT's

2005-11-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >In message ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Koenig Urs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>15pin video lead (VGA-connector). >> >>Thanks for the tip of local waste/recycling organisations, but we are >>not looking for mixed brands/models. >Our l

[ql-users] QL.Psion Chess on Emulators

2005-11-27 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Does anybody know, why the original code from QL.Chess does not run on emulators in 3D Mode? The text-only screen does run (on Atari SMSQ/E) but after switching to 3D, the machine crashes. Does it write into ROM area, where there is RAM on emulators? Cheers...Ralf R. _

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread wolfgang mühlegger
P Witte schrieb: > > > Great! Anyone got any info on how to set it up for Wxp/W2k? I can see the > graphics but the text is unreadable. > > Per > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > per, right click the

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess on PC

2005-11-27 Thread Ralf Reköndt
> Great! Anyone got any info on how to set it up for Wxp/W2k? I can see the > graphics but the text is unreadable. > > Per Hmm, works ok here under XPpro SP2. No knowledge why it shouldn't work. Anyway: It seems, there is a DOS, it shouldn't work otherwise As Tony says, it is just monochrome.

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 at 15:13:41, P Witte wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >Ralf R writes: > >> it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the Net >> for >> PC not an official one. >> >>> Are you sure? Dont you mean the Psion Chess for Series3? If not, please >>> point me to

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread P Witte
Ralf R writes: > it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the Net > for > PC not an official one. > >> Are you sure? Dont you mean the Psion Chess for Series3? If not, please >> point me to it. Same for XChange for PC. Great! Anyone got any info on how to set it up for Wx

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the > Net for PC not an official one. Yeah, but at least one of the authors doesn't seem to mind: :-) http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/Psion%20Chess/231/ | Posted by André Shapps on October 29th 2005 03

Re: [ql-users] OT: 15" CRT's

2005-11-27 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Koenig Urs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >15pin video lead (VGA-connector). > >Thanks for the tip of local waste/recycling organisations, but we are >not looking for mixed brands/models. Our local Technical College just replaced all its CRTs with TFTs. They then had

Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Per, it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the Net for PC not an official one. Cheers...Ralf R - Original Message - From: "P Witte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XC