Re: [ql-users] Text87

2007-04-19 Thread David McCann
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > For high colour mode there is a patch available against a small fee (12 EUR > from JMS). Tobias Fröschle wrote: > tried it, doesn't work (recon, Text87's config, does work indeed in > 512x256). Thanks for the tip, anyway. Which bit didn't work? If the problem was that

Re: [ql-users] Backing up..

2007-04-19 Thread David McCann
On the question of backups, it's not just the media that pose the problem. I once got a QL floppy corrupted by accidentally leaving it under a sheet of paper and then running an electric cable over the top! I made the damaged sectors readable by overwriting each with 512 0s and so recovered the fi

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread Sergiusz Jarczyk
Hi Neil Neil Riley wrote: > Hi Sergiusz > > try www.ebay.co.ukAuction number 230117457180 > > if you search for SINCLAIR QL you'll see plenty of other niceties for > sale at the moment. > > Regards > Neil > > Unfortunately, I'm not an eBay user. I'd be ready to pay two times the curren

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007

2007-04-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: "Malcolm Cadman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007 > Hi, > > Enjoyable event ... :-) > What made it especially enjoyable was the degree of inter

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread David Tubbs
At 16:07 18/04/2007, you wrote: >As there are more and more new QLers (among which I'm counting myself >too), as well as returning ones, I'd like to try again and ask if anyone >here have unneeded SGC and/or QXL card. I know there are many people >with such a needs, but maybe I'd be the lucky one :

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread Dilwyn Jones
>> Some have already wrote it, but if you have Text87plus4 it should >> already work fine if you start QPC in QL colour mode (try 512x256 >> if >> it still doesn't work). For high colour mode there is a patch >> available against a small fee (12 EUR from JMS). For this I >> basically >> had to re

Re: [ql-users] new hard disk

2007-04-19 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> >>Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires. > > I wouldn't expect that (fdisk d:) to work as d: wouldn't exist. > IIRC when > you run fdisk on a PC under [some form of] DOS, you select the drive > number > you wish to partition from a prompt [somewhere]. Although there's a Command

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Oh well, just backup your entire disk then, they will say. The problem >is that by doing that you also back up a whole heap of totally >unnecessary stuff, thereby creating extra work for you and a logistical >nightmare, as each

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread COLIN F PARSONS
I'll offer you £50 for it. Cheers Colin - Original Message - From: "David Tubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL question > At 16:07 18/04/2007, you wrote: >>As there are more and more new QLers (among whic

Re: [ql-users] new hard disk

2007-04-19 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: <> > Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever > need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about > that!) I dont know for sure whether QXL.WIN files ever need defragging. However, if they do, the easiest method currently availabl

Re: [ql-users] New here....

2007-04-19 Thread P Witte
Malcolm Cadman writes: <> >> In other words, if you take your data seriously you cannot leave it to >> anyone else to keep it safe and accessible. > > You are right ... you have to make backups of the important - to you - > stuff, which is the data files, not the application programmes. > > I h

Re: [ql-users] QL question

2007-04-19 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Tubbs wrote: > What ever the monitor lead if the TV is seeing nothing it is probably > the display chip, 8302 ? Surely the weakest one of the lot. Yes indeed - but it is the 8301 (often labelled 8345) Tony - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(