Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the expected behaviour of the SBASIC cmd MRUN in a program...

2009-10-12 Thread gdgqler
On 11 Oct 2009, at 22:17, Martyn Hill wrote: Could anyone say whether the behaviour that I'm seeing when using MRUN in a running SBASIC prog is expected? As part of my initial SB boot prog, I include an MRUN statement that successfully merges some useful SB definitions (only). I expect

Re: [Ql-Users] (Another) Question - Is it possible to save the QPC state?

2009-10-12 Thread gdgqler
On 11 Oct 2009, at 22:24, Martyn Hill wrote: While I'm at it, I was also wondering whether anyone knew if QPC can be made to save the QL environment before closing so that one could start-up where one left off? I know QPC copes well if I place my laptop to sleep, but it would be

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and direct sector access

2009-10-12 Thread gdgqler
On 11 Oct 2009, at 22:30, Gerhard Plavec wrote: Yo :) then it's some sort of miracle. Usually I do know what my code can do and what not. The generally used name for this sort of miracle would be bug :)) Usually more code a programmer is generating, more miracles can be discovered... In

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and direct sector access

2009-10-12 Thread Gerhard Plavec
Yo :) then it's some sort of miracle. Usually I do know what my code can do and what not. The generally used name for this sort of miracle would be bug :)) Usually more code a programmer is generating, more miracles can be discovered... In very rare cases a bug can be used as a feature -

Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the expected behaviour of the SBASIC cmd MRUN in a program...

2009-10-12 Thread P Witte
Hi Martyn, Could your problem have to do with line numbers? Per Message Received: Oct 11 2009, 10:17 PM From: Martyn Hill martyn.joseph.h...@googlemail.com To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Cc: Subject: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the expected

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Thanks to Derek who shared his capture with ql-users I've just seen the movie this morning. Yes, it's amusing. Even there are errors but no big harm to the whole story. It's well done, especially as it's a drama and not a documentary. A guy of the production team contacted me this January asking

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Neil Riley wrote: I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed a TV advert, Clive Sinclair was leaping over other computers of the time and it briefly showed the QL and a price of £645 or thereabouts, Screen included perhaps! It's £698 not £645. This was the RRP for the QL computer

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Anton Preinsack
I really enjoyed the movie! And I like the fact, that an Austrian (Hermann Hauser) played a big role in British computer industry;-) Greetings from Vienna/Austria, Anton Am 12.10.2009 um 15:10 schrieb Urs Koenig (QL): Neil Riley wrote: I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and direct sector access

2009-10-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
You are right...;-). That's a lonely bug... Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Gerhard Plavec Often it's a real miracle when the written code does what the programmer wanted... but may be that's onely a bug :) ___ QL-Users Mailing

[Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread Rich Mellor
Can anyone please confirm that both QPC2 and q-emulator will work with a USB floppy disk drive - I am looking to upgrade my PC, but most of them don't have built in floppy disk drives any more :-( Rich ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread Adrian D. Ives
Rich, Yes, they both work. QPC2 treats the drive as a native QDOS floppy right away. With Q-emuLator you have to mount it as a QDOS floppy on one of the MDV slots, but it works. Regards, Adrian --- On Monday, October 12, 2009, 6:54:33 PM, you wrote: RM Can anyone please confirm that both

Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread Adrian D. Ives
fyi. I'm running both emulators under Vista on a Sony VAIO laptop with no onboard floppy drive, so USB is the only option. --- On Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:04:03 PM, I wrote: ADI Rich, ADI Yes, they both work. QPC2 treats the drive as a native QDOS floppy ADI right away. With Q-emuLator you

Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
I can confirm that it works too. If you plug in two USB floppy disks, the first becomes A: and the second B: ... quite the way it should be. I wonder what happens if you plug in a third one :-))) Jochen Adrian D. Ives wrote: fyi. I'm running both emulators under Vista on a Sony VAIO laptop

Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Adrian D. Ives wrote: But, actually, it's a good question. If Windows did mount a third USB floppy as, say, F: would QPC mount it as FLP3_? No, QPC supports only 2 FLP drives. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the QDT desktop and SBASIC job 0 windows...

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Martyn Hill wrote: I guess I am missing some understanding of the way PE windows work - what I would like to achieve is to treat the job 0 windows in the same way as any other job and have them hidden by the QDT desktop whenever QDT is brought to the top, just as one might click 'Show

Re: [Ql-Users] (Another) Question - Is it possible to save the QPC state?

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Martyn Hill wrote: While I'm at it, I was also wondering whether anyone knew if QPC can be made to save the QL environment before closing so that one could start-up where one left off? That was always something I wanted to have, but it's actually very difficult to do properly so I've never

Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: Here is the ADrive.com link for the Micromen file. Thanks a bunch for that, interesting movie. If one can believe it, Sir Clive was basically a giant dick. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Question regarding the expected behaviour of the SBASIC cmd MRUN in a program...

2009-10-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message 4ad24b63.5030...@googlemail.com, Martyn Hill martyn.joseph.h...@googlemail.com writes Hi Martyn. I know that LRUN works fine, in Boot links, as I use it successfully to chain a number of smaller Boot files; rather than one long one. As well as making choices to go to differing