In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Hi Roy
>
>I think you too miss some of points I am making.
>
>I am arguing for a continuing mixed economy with a place for both emulators
>and hardware. I do not have a partisan stance on the emulator vs hardware
>debate.
But look at the num
I have the full manual in Quill _doc format should anyone want me to email
a copy.
Davide - do you not have a full copy to upload to the website?
I agree with some of the comments below. Low cost hardware has indeed
been developed for the Spectrum, but it is hard to justify spending £30 on
Thing is, there are basically 3 motivations for a developer:
1) The challenge
2) He/she wants the result for him/herself
3) Money
QPC did fit all three of them. But in the case of hardware money
cannot be the motivator because building hardware is expensive and one
can probably be glad to cover c
> From: "Neil Riley"
> A comment Davide made to me has suddenly hit home. Basically he was
> pleased that someone
> was still having fun with his product after some 10 years or more
> but wait a minute, the spectrum
> scene is still strong so why on earth isn't ZM/ht etc still
> commercially
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From: "Malcolm Cadman" <>
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
>In other words Quanta could give £5,000 of members' money to develop a card
>and see no return on that money whatsoever.
>Although
Hi Roy
I think you too miss some of points I am making.
I am arguing for a continuing mixed economy with a place for both emulators
and hardware. I do not have a partisan stance on the emulator vs hardware
debate.
Other comments on the list I think would support this general position.
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wolfgang mühlegger wrote:
> Tony Firshman schrieb:
>> Neil Riley wrote:
>>
>> Ah yes - it is a Spectrum .doc file I suppose.
>> Well it looked *very* good then (8-)#
>
>> Were they Quill compatible or do you have to import?
>
>
>
>> Tony
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>
> ?
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Tony Firshman schrieb:
> Neil Riley wrote:
>
> Ah yes - it is a Spectrum .doc file I suppose.
> Well it looked *very* good then (8-)#
>
> Were they Quill compatible or do you have to import?
>
>
>
> Tony
this is QL-Software, what kinda doc
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Hi Per
>
>I think you miss the point sometimes.
>
>You said
>
> "The QL was never only about hardware for quite a number of enthusiasts,
>and therefore it is still going strong in its emulated form. If you want
>the best QL platform money
Mm-hmm; that turns out to be the one for which I was suggesting some google
keywords a day or two ago:
"Philadelphia City Paper, November 17-23, 2005
...fascinating and improbably hilarious...Bagnall keeps the book from becoming
circuit porn for Byte! buffs by focusing on characters.
Book Desc
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Basically you are in an "all or nothing" situation. You have to first of
>design your board on paper and try very hard to make sure it will be a
>working board. Once you start to actually build the hardware, then you
>cannot talk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Alain Hauoi wrote:
>> My last thought will be that I am not saying that we "must" developp
>> a new
>> performant hardware and there is or not a suffisient market..., but
>> if we
>> do, we cannot dont consider implementing
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>>As an example of variety, I'll mention my confuser (computer :-)
>>>room:
>>>Three Macs (two of them laptops), two PCs (One 733, the other
>>>133[!], a
>>>custom build long ago), and several QLs (many still in styrofoam
>>
Wonderful, I shall have a look. Neil
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Neil Riley wrote:
> btw, as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT
> expects but i have even more .SNA's.
> Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed
> .sna to Z80_r
>
> Commodore was an important player here is the UK.
>
> Eventually they went for the then emerging PC market, and more or less
> lost out.
>
I would recommend anyone interested in the Commodore story read "On the
Edge - The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" - it makes a
fascinating r
Neil Riley wrote:
> btw, as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT
> expects but i have even more .SNA's.
> Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed
> .sna to Z80_rom and whilst ZM/ht
> saw the Z80 and even showed initial splash screens, it crashes.
>
Daniele Terdina wrote:
> It would be great to be able to fit a PC in a QL case, with a 100%
> compatible QL emulator running on it and able to access the microdrives
> (or better 1 mdv and a memory card reader in the right slot) and QL
> keyboard, plus plenty of USB ports on the back for floppy d
Neil Riley wrote:
> Thanks Tony and yes, i should have been clearer.
>
> I have that ZMXdemo_doc but was under the impression that there is a
> fuller version for the retail version of ZM/hT. Maybe it doesn't
exist
> !
>
> Neil
> p.s. It's easily readable in Xchange though. :-)
>
>Ah yes - it
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Neil Riley wrote:
> Thanks Tony and yes, i should have been clearer.
>
> I have that ZMXdemo_doc but was under the impression that there is a
> fuller version for the retail version of ZM/hT. Maybe it doesn't exist
> !
>
> Neil
> p.s. It's easily r
Thanks Tony and yes, i should have been clearer.
I have that ZMXdemo_doc but was under the impression that there is a
fuller version for the retail version of ZM/hT. Maybe it doesn't exist
!
Neil
p.s. It's easily readable in Xchange though. :-)
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Tony Firshman wrote:
> Neil Riley wrote:
>
>> Also, is anyone in possession of the ZM/hT manual. Id like to know what
>> all the options actually do. :-)
>
> This contains the manual:
> http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/6533/zmx.zip
> ...
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Neil Riley wrote:
> Also, is anyone in possession of the ZM/hT manual. Id like to know what
> all the options actually do. :-)
>
You ought to have said that it is Davide's and Marco Ternelli's Spectrum
emulator. I had to Google to find out.
http://
Guys,
The Internet is rather wonderful, It's allowed me to track down that LP
from the 70's, it's
allowed me to re-discover the QL, I've even got the bits to make a
proper Arcade machine.
Even my father, who knows practically nothing about computers, earns
part of his income
via the Web ( or eb
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