Re: [Ql-Users] QubIDE II Source Code

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Ives
I have said this so many times that I am getting really tired of the repetition! The QL-SD driver was derived from QUBIDE. It was turned inside-out to implement replaceable hardware interface routines. It's all there. Don't reinvent the wheel again! Just look at the hw_xxx routines in the QL-SD

Re: [Ql-Users] QubIDE II Source Code

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Ives
conservative. When QL-SD is in a lot of peoples' hands, we'll see how it handles the different needs and systems it's in. Then, we'll happily consider it. Dave On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: I have said this so many times that I am getting really tired

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
Rodriguez Jodar miguel.an...@zxprojects.com wrote: El 09/01/2014 20:35, Rich Mellor (RWAP) escribió: The first QL-SD Card Interface based on Peter Graf's design, and with drivers written in part by Adrian Ives is now available on SellMyRetro - http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/QL-SD-internal

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
Not what you think. It's a Tesco HUDL Android Tablet. Sent from my Hudl Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind about all that Adrian, what's this Head Up Display your using? On 11 Jan 2014 15:33, Peter Graf pg...@q40.de wrote: Hi Adrian, you had contributed a large amout of

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
References in the manual are OK, but I do not want to see my name in any advertising blurb - as I have done these last couple of days. Anyway I'm very pleased to see the QL-SD getting distributed at last. Well done to all involved. Sent from my Hudl Peter Graf pg...@q40.de wrote: Hi Adrian,

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
version of the QL-SD. Rich On January 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: References in the manual are OK, but I do not want to see my name in any advertising blurb - as I have done these last couple of days. Anyway I'm very pleased to see the QL-SD getting

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
Peter's your man for that. -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor (RWAP) Sent: 11 January 2014 21:17 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface As to Javier (I thought his

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface

2014-01-11 Thread Adrian Ives
. Good luck. Adrian -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Angel Rodriguez Jodar Sent: 12 January 2014 05:26 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD Card Interface El 11/01/2014 15:08, Adrian

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.13

2013-03-21 Thread Adrian Ives
fyi SMSQmulator7.zip is reported as corrupt. Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 21/03/2013 05:56, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Hi A small bug: on start-up, the new warning sub-menu item is always ticked, regardless of the setting in the .INI file... Thanks, fixed in 1.14 Shift+Tab

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.14

2013-03-21 Thread Adrian Ives
Thanks. It's working OK now. Great piece of work btw. Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 21/03/2013 09:02, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Thanks, I've reupped this. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!

2012-09-20 Thread Adrian Ives
I think those last two sudo commands (steps 3 4) should be: sudo raspi-config Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 19/09/2012 15:37, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 19/09/12 14:03, Norman Dunbar wrote: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Actually, that should have been the following:

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi WiFi Update

2012-09-20 Thread Adrian Ives
As well as the overclocking mentioned previously, the latest Raspbian build also supports WiFi out of the box (for adapters using the RTL8188CUS chipset). Go here for the full story: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008 And here for details on how to update the previous Raspbian Wheezy

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-12 Thread Adrian Ives
It's a bit of an over-simplification to lay the reasoning for my decision to withdraw solely on the lack of interest. It has more to do with simple economics. It costs money to buy the stock to build the units. As I have said before about the Ser-USB, unless the stock can be bought in bulk, it is

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-10 Thread Adrian Ives
Dave, I've no problem with doing that but right now I don't have the time to take it forward. I will put the schematics and code online just as soon as I can get around to it ... but it won't be anytime soon. Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 10/06/2012 03:42, Dave Park wrote: Adrian,

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-10 Thread Adrian Ives
I have sent the most recent sources to Peter Graf just a few minutes ago. The code may be placed in the public domain, but it is up to Peter how he wishes to move forward with it. I regret that I cannot offer any support with the drivers as I am moving on to other projects, but the code is very

[Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-09 Thread Adrian Ives
I am sorry to announce that I have taken the decision to withdraw from developing QL hardware. In the current economic climate, it is no longer practical to devote resources to such a small (almost non-existent) market, and I need to concentrate my energies elsewhere. Unfortunately this means

Re: [Ql-Users] [OT] Email to Adrian blocked

2012-03-31 Thread Adrian Ives
Peter, I can also be reached at: adrian AT acanthis DOT co DOT uk I will register another complaint with my provider (EasySpace). Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 31/03/2012 13:14, Peter Graf wrote: Hi Adrian, I received your email, but your provider's crappy Trend Micro RBL+

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Ethernet/TCP/IP card prototype version 2

2012-02-15 Thread Adrian Ives
Great work, Petri. It's good to see more new hardware coming on stream and I wish you every success with it. Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 15/02/2012 22:10, Petri Pellinen wrote: Hi everyone, in case anyone is interested, there's a pic of the second prototype version of an

Re: [Ql-Users] QL manual

2012-02-15 Thread Adrian Ives
/02/2012 20:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Working from a scanned QL User Guide kindly supplied by Adrian Ives, I have produced both eBook and online HTML versions of the QL manual. To keep file sizes down, it’s available in four parts – the Introduction, Beginner’s Guide, Keywords and Concepts

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB 2.0 Drivers Released + Ser-USB End of Life Announcement

2012-02-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Norman, Yes, I am planning to make use of SourceForge. Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 12/02/2012 14:02, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 11/02/12 17:45, Adrian Ives wrote: The reason that I won't release any sources until the QL-SD is ready is because there may need to be core library changes

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB 2.0 Drivers Released + Ser-USB End of Life Announcement

2012-02-11 Thread Adrian Ives
else. Fair enough? Adrian www.memorylanecomputing.com On 11/02/2012 17:10, Dave Park wrote: Any prospect you might open-source the drivers, so others can continue your work on a non-commercial basis? Dave On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Adrian Ives adrian.i...@memorylanecomputing.com

Re: [Ql-Users] Wherefore art thou, SMSQ?

2012-01-31 Thread Adrian Ives
wrote: On 30/01/12 15:44, Adrian Ives wrote: Does anyone know if there is a documented and reliable way of finding out the address address range that any version of SMSQ has been loaded into? Um, no, sorry. Alternatively can anyone suggest a better way of performing the test? Off the top

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB 2.0 Driver - Blog Update

2012-01-22 Thread Adrian Ives
Here is where we are with the Ser-USB 2.0 driver on legacy hardware: http://www.memorylanecomputing.com/blog/?p=122 I had been aiming for a 2.0 release on the first anniversary of the original USBWiz driver (01-FEB-2012) but it seems likely that testing will take a bit longer. Now that I have

Re: [Ql-Users] A question about the MGx ROMs

2012-01-19 Thread Adrian Ives
John, Thanks for taking the time to look. I seem to remember that it was something to do with an on-screen clock, but I might be thinking of something else. On 19/01/2012 22:25, John Alexander wrote: I simply can't remember... I know it was something sensible but can't remember what. I

[Ql-Users] Some good news on Ser-USB

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Ives
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I can now confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL fitted with Hermes at speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still necessary to load the asynchronous I/O module (the Queue Manager), though. This takes up an extra 5K of RAM. It

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Ives
Laurence, I'm a little bit surprised by your comment that I am misusing slave blocks. Obviously the authors of the original QUBIDE driver, on which Ser-USB was based, were also misusing them!!! Like them, I use the slave blocks to keep mirrors of the data on the drive in memory to save having to

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Ives
Well, original, or son of original, it's all the same difference and this slave block flushing issue happens on an expanded QL as well. -Original Message- Tony wrote: . but the qubide driver is not original. Phil Borman based it on the Rebel disk code. Qubide got away with it, I

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-20 Thread Adrian Ives
of Ser-USB Adrian Ives wrote: - As a further bonus, if QDOS has decided that you WILL flush a large number of slave blocks, the driver will exhaust all of the available memory trying to double buffer the requests. How can the driver exhaust all of the available memory. when

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-13 Thread Adrian Ives
-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Arnould Sent: 13 April 2011 11:05 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:18:53 +0100, Adrian Ives wrote Urs, File transfers to and from FAT

[Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Ives
. Many thanks for your interest and assistance, Adrian Ives Memory Lane Computing Ltd 10 Hillcrest Shortlanesend Truro Cornwall TR4 9DS United Kingdom Registered in England Wales, No: 7074678 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Rich, Thanks. It _could_ have been demonstrated at the QUANTA AGM but I am not a QUANTA member and an article published in their newsletter did not result in any interest from their membership. Unfortunately, it's not now possible to organise a demonstration as I am away on other business this

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Ives
-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Urs Koenig (QL) Sent: 12 April 2011 12:44 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB Adrian Ives wrote: I know the Ser-USB works with superHermes and works very well. Hermes is an unknown because I have

Re: [Ql-Users] Announcement about the future of Ser-USB

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tony, 1) Yes - or with a File Manager written by anyone else. The USBWiz command set isn't rocket science. You are limited to FAT format with old style 8.3 DOS shortnames (no native QDOS file system) but it's still a very useful capability. 2) Yes, input; but the USBWiz can't do split baud rates

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver now in Public Beta

2011-03-14 Thread Adrian Ives
All, fyi Version 0.07.004 of the Ser-USB driver along with its extensions and add-ons were released for public beta to those who had previously volunteered this morning. Those users should already have received e-mails with the download locations. If not, please contact me directly. If

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Beta Test Web Site

2011-03-14 Thread Adrian Ives
I believe the QL Users list has been deluged with quite enough information about this project for now, especially as there are other interesting hardware-related topics now open for discussion, so today I have set up an official beta testing page where people who are interested can check on the

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-13 Thread Adrian Ives
Try these: http://img135.imageshack.us/i/medicinterfacecircuitdi.png/ http://img153.imageshack.us/i/medicinterfacecircuitdi.png/ -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Reköndt Sent: 13 March 2011 08:19 To:

[Ql-Users] Draft Ser-USB User Manual now available

2011-03-13 Thread Adrian Ives
If anyone is interested, the draft Ser-USB user manual can be found here: http://www.memorylanecomputing.com/files/serusb_manual.zip Please note that this is a PDF file. This document will be important to anyone who is participating in the beta, but may be of general interest to

Re: [Ql-Users] Draft Ser-USB User Manual now available

2011-03-13 Thread Adrian Ives
: [Ql-Users] Draft Ser-USB User Manual now available Adrian/ On 13 Mar 2011, at 12:36, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: If anyone is interested, the draft Ser-USB user manual can be found here: http://www.memorylanecomputing.com/files/serusb_manual.zip Please note

Re: [Ql-Users] Draft Ser-USB User Manual now available

2011-03-13 Thread Adrian Ives
would work? Is there any plan for someone to sell the device, comlete with cable ? François Le 2011-03-13 à 08:36, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk a écrit : If anyone is interested, the draft Ser-USB user manual can be found here: http://www.memorylanecomputing.com/files

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tobias, I agree 100% with everything you say. And ... by the way ... USBWiz can talk SPI, which is where I'm coming from with all of this. With a faster throughput it suddenly becomes more possible to use the other USBWiz functions, such as keyboard and mouse and maybe ... just maybe ... a USB

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Sent: 12 March 2011 17:59 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva) Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 11:00 + schrieb Adrian Ives: I agree 100% with everything you say. And ... by the way ... USBWiz can talk SPI, which is where I'm coming from with all

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tony, Sorry, but as I was poking around, clicking on links ... that link at the top of the page is wrong (Patched I2C drivers (I2C_IO_REXT) for SMSQ) it should be: http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/ftp/minerva/i2cio.zip and not http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ftp/minerva/i2cio.zip Adrian

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
Well it wasn't as bad as I had feared, but not as simple as I had hoped. And I'm certainly not going to mention the still unsolved mystery of the mm.alchp vectored call that reported success but actually zeroed out an entirely different area of the common heap, thus trashing the in-memory copy

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
. -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park Sent: 12 March 2011 01:26 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: btw

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park Sent: 12 March 2011 01:57 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: Yes please. I'll do the driver

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver running under Q-emuLator

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
Feb 2011, at 23:49, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: I was asked this question recently and have only just got around to testing it. Yes, it does work! Tested this evening under Q-emuLator 3.0.2 with a JS ROM image on Windows 7 64 bit with a USB to Serial adapter

[Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is better than QL standard

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
I know I've seen this somewhere but, as usual, when you really want something it refuses to be found! I'm looking for a function to use in S*BASIC that will tell me if the display driver is capable of providing resolutions greater than the QL's mode 4 8 defaults - it would be enough just to

Re: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is better than QL standard

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
display_cde toolkit that incorporates this (and a few other display related calls into a wonderful S*Basic extension. Cheers, Tobias -Original-Nachricht- Subject: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is better than QL standard Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:01:55 +0100 From: Adrian Ives

Re: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is better than QL standard

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
is better than QL standard On 28 Feb 2011, at 14:01, Adrian Ives wrote: I know I've seen this somewhere but, as usual, when you really want something it refuses to be found! I'm looking for a function to use in S*BASIC that will tell me if the display driver is capable of providing

Re: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is betterthan QL standard

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
Message - From: Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is betterthan QL standard Yes, display_cde is the one I was thinking of. I think I can get all I want from

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver running under Q-emuLator

2011-02-28 Thread Adrian Ives
2011 21:58 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver running under Q-emuLator Adrian Ives wrote, on 28/Feb/11 11:33 | Feb28: Tony, If you're talking about the drivers built into the USBWiz, there's USB printer support and HID for mice and keyboards SNIP The Ser-USB driver

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver running under Q-emuLator

2011-02-27 Thread Adrian Ives
I was asked this question recently and have only just got around to testing it. Yes, it does work! Tested this evening under Q-emuLator 3.0.2 with a JS ROM image on Windows 7 64 bit with a USB to Serial adapter connecting to the Ser-USB unit. Adrian

Re: [Ql-Users] Ranting: A Story of two Operating Systems

2011-02-24 Thread Adrian Ives
It's easier said than done, though. You can't exactly whip the JS ROMs out of a QL and slap in SMSQ. So for those people who want to keep their QLs in service, or are just emotionally attached to them, they don't have the ability to enter the 90s in that way :) Hmmmn ... is it possible to make a

Re: [Ql-Users] Ranting: A Story of two Operating Systems

2011-02-24 Thread Adrian Ives
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Marcel Kilgus Sent: 24 February 2011 18:54 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ranting: A Story of two Operating Systems Adrian Ives wrote: It's easier said than done, though. You can't exactly whip the JS ROMs out of a QL and slap

[Ql-Users] Ranting: A Story of two Operating Systems

2011-02-23 Thread Adrian Ives
So, in order to allow users to RESPR additional extensions after loading the Ser-USB driver, I changed the mechanism for the way in which it starts its Queue Manager task. It was quite elegant, really: setting a flag bit the first time that Queue Manager services were needed to be picked up later

Re: [Ql-Users] Ranting: A Story of two Operating Systems

2011-02-23 Thread Adrian Ives
Page 34 of the QL Technical Guide; 6.3.3 Scheduler Loop Tasks states that: Calls from the scheduler loop do not interrupt atomic tasks. This means that operations such as allocating or releasing memory can be performed safely. Now admittedly it doesn't say This means that operations such as

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Testing Screenshots

2011-02-23 Thread Adrian Ives
Here are some screenshots, taken off the image of an LCD monitor connected to an Aurora/SGC/superHermes QL: http://img202.imageshack.us/g/serusbtesting012.jpg/ There will be more pictures of the Ser-USB prototype in the forthcoming QL Today article. If the screen layout is not the

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update

2011-02-22 Thread Adrian Ives
Current version is 0.04 Build 002. Development is now frozen while I finish testing so that I'm satisfied it's good enough to put out as a beta. The INPUT bug reported last time is fixed (slave block issue). Problematic initial handshaking under JM QDOS is fixed (yet again!) with a better

[Ql-Users] MasterSpy Configuration

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Ives
Has anyone out there got the top secret list of configuration offsets for the MasterSpy editor executable? I've wasted over an hour trying to change the size of the primary console, but I don't seem to be hitting the right bytes to poke. It's not just a question of overwriting the CON_

Re: [Ql-Users] MasterSpy Configuration

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Ives
-capable editor went missing a long time ago, but wasn't there ever a configuration utility written for it? Adrian -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Ives Sent: 20 February 2011 10:14 To: ql-us...@q-v

[Ql-Users] A Landmark Moment for the Ser-USB Driver!

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Ives
This morning at 10:50 GMT the latest version of the driver, running under a QDOS JM ROM, successfully loaded a file into the MasterSpy editor without crashing. This issue has been bugging me for days, but was finally traced to some errant mode swapping code that allowed an IOSS retry to happen

Re: [Ql-Users] A Landmark Moment for the Ser-USB Driver!

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Ives
. Is this the USBWiz module you are writing the driver for? http://www.crownhill.co.uk/product.php?prod= Best regards, Petri On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: This morning at 10:50 GMT the latest version of the driver, running under a QDOS JM ROM

[Ql-Users] Looking for inspiration: Death by MT.CJOB

2011-02-18 Thread Adrian Ives
I'm scratching my head over this ridiculously simple piece of code that works fine under SMSQ but locks a QDOS JM-ROM Aurora/SGC every time: moveq #mt.cjob,d0 moveq #0,d1 ; Independent job moveq #16,d2 ; Enough room for

Re: [Ql-Users] Looking for inspiration: Death by MT.CJOB

2011-02-18 Thread Adrian Ives
Of Adrian Ives Sent: 18 February 2011 17:37 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Looking for inspiration: Death by MT.CJOB I'm scratching my head over this ridiculously simple piece of code that works fine under SMSQ but locks a QDOS JM-ROM Aurora/SGC every time: moveq #mt.cjob,d0 moveq #0

Re: [Ql-Users] Looking for inspiration: Death by MT.CJOB

2011-02-18 Thread Adrian Ives
for inspiration: Death by MT.CJOB Excellent Adrian, glad to se you making progress, sorry couldn't make any suggestions, machine code like my partners Greek is a language I have great difficulty with understanding. Lee - Original Message - From: Adrian Ives To: ql-us...@q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Gold card battery...

2011-02-15 Thread Adrian Ives
Yes, I did this a year ago for my two SGCs and found the same difficulty - in my case it was proximity to the card in the next expansion slot of the Qplane. A surface mount battery holder will sort that. Rich, whatever did you do with the PCB design that I sent you for these battery holders back

Re: [Ql-Users] Outputting from QPC to HTML

2011-02-14 Thread Adrian Ives
This, on the other hand I have used to do PDF to Word: http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-converter.html -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor Sent: 14 February 2011 12:08 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject:

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update: External Command Interface (and Progress Update)

2011-02-13 Thread Adrian Ives
at 1:09 AM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: [SNIP] Here is a tidier version of the example S*BASIC program that I posted in my last mail. It shows how to use the interface in its current form. Requires SMSQ Turbo Toolkit (and the Ser-USB Driver). [SNIP] Is the SMSQ requirement

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update: External Command Interface (and Progress Update)

2011-02-13 Thread Adrian Ives
+0100 schreef Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk: 250 REMark === 260 REMark : 270 DEFine FuNction GetDWordResponse$(Cmd%) 280 LOCal Response, High%, Low% 290 USB_PUTCMD Cmd% 300 Response= USB_GETCMD 310 High%= Response DIV 65536 320 Low

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator download

2011-02-13 Thread Adrian Ives
Try here: http://www.terdina.net/ql/winql.html -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman Sent: 13 February 2011 14:25 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] Qemulator download I see Qemulator has

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update: External Command Interface (and Progress Update)

2011-02-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Here is a list of the commands that the current version of the Ser-USB Driver can execute through its command pipe interface. This interface supports run-time interrogation and configuration of the driver and is intended to enable the development of utility software that does not require detailed

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update w/e 11-FEB-2011

2011-02-11 Thread Adrian Ives
As of today there is a Ser-USB driver that's around 85% complete. The current version can mount, read, write and format SD cards/USB storage with a QLW1 partition, but it doesn't yet support multiple partitions on the same drive. All traps are implemented and some optimisation has been started,

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update w/e 11-FEB-2011

2011-02-11 Thread Adrian Ives
you need it. You seem to be making very good progress. Regards, Tobias -Original-Nachricht- Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update w/e 11-FEB-2011 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:53:41 +0100 From: Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Adrian Ives wrote: As of today

Re: [Ql-Users] GWASS is updated

2011-02-10 Thread Adrian Ives
btw George, did you know that the links to SUDOKU and UCONFIG on your download page are broken? Are you updating the SUDOKU Solver to support octal as well? ;) -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of gdgqler Sent:

Re: [Ql-Users] File transfers

2011-02-09 Thread Adrian Ives
Peter, I'm afraid it's yet not possible to do SER to USB. There is only one Ser-USB prototype in existence at the moment, and the File Manager software (which would allow this to happen without the need for a special driver) has not been tested with such large volumes of data. Anyway, I'm not

Re: [Ql-Users] GWASS is updated

2011-02-09 Thread Adrian Ives
George, As I think was mentioned in another posting here, that link isn't working at the moment. Not for me on BT broadband, anyway. Adrian -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of gdgqler Sent: 09 February 2011

Re: [Ql-Users] GWASS is updated

2011-02-09 Thread Adrian Ives
For anyone who has been trying to download this, the correct URL is http://gwiltprogs.info George - Thanks for the update. -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of gdgqler Sent: 09 February 2011 16:21 To:

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB Driver Update

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Ives
Heh . talk about bad luck. Build 13 and the completion of the drive_capacity call, which establishes the true physical size of a drive (this was previously hard coded, as the USBWiz module cannot return media size information unless it has mounted a FAT file system). And that's when my old 256MB

Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Ives
$1e60df30$@acanthis.co.uk, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk writes Hi Adrian, Yes, using the USBWiz is a good idea. A new hardware project always creates interest. PS - This list is getting very busy, too. Just catching up on over 100 emails ... :-) I have no idea if anyone is remotely

Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Ives
-d.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: 07 February 2011 13:39 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update Adrian Ives wrote: Maybe they would like to wait and see if a microdrive-emulating SD card slot comes along ... There will definitely be no microdrive-emulating SD card slot

Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Ives
] On Behalf Of Plastic Sent: 07 February 2011 14:30 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: Actually I think that's a shame, Peter. I know there are technical and performance issues with going

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB (USBWiz) Driver Update

2011-02-06 Thread Adrian Ives
For anyone who is following this project: Build 009 of the driver was completed and tested today. This fully implements the io.formt trap, meaning that you can now issue the command: FORMAT USB1_ Note: The Ser-USB format routine is much simpler than the QUBIDE original; it only

[Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update

2011-02-01 Thread Adrian Ives
I have no idea if anyone is remotely interested in this project to attach USB devices to a QL using a small card called a USBWiz. This device presents a serial interface and accepts AT style commands to communicate with many classes of USB device. I started working on this last year, but was

Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update

2011-02-01 Thread Adrian Ives
-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] USBWiz Driver Update Hi Adrian, if this would work on a standard QL I would very interested in a commercial product. Best regards, Petri On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: So, my question is this: Is anyone actually

[Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
I am in the process of rewriting the USBWiz driver to get around the problems with supervisor mode that I encountered last year. The new driver spawns independent jobs to handle reads and writes asynchronously in the background (because it has to invoke serial IO). I'm doing the work in QPC2

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
-Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of gdgqler Sent: 30 January 2011 10:37 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing On 30 Jan 2011, at 10:25, Adrian Ives wrote: I am

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Ives Sent: 30 January 2011 11:18 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing George, That had occurred to me as well, but this section of code

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
It's worth bearing in mind that I'm developing under SMSQ/E on QPC2, which post-date Pennel and Dickens, either environment may have an effect. In any case, my job definitely continued to execute after the Trap #1 and even doing the kill_me looping branch didn't solve the problem - it just kept

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
Failing Adrian Ives wrote: moveq #mt.frjob,d0 moveq #me,d1 moveq #0,d3 trap#1 Check the disassembly. I guess D1 is set to 0. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing

2011-01-30 Thread Adrian Ives
for your insight! -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Marcel Kilgus Sent: 30 January 2011 21:33 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Help! Reasons for MT.FRJOB Failing Adrian Ives wrote: No, it isn't. me

Re: [Ql-Users] What would you most like to see in a new versionof QDOSMSQ?

2011-01-29 Thread Adrian Ives
Apart from the fact that you would need several orders of magnitude more processor power and a massive operating system rewrite to drive that little lot, it's a grand idea. ;) Honestly, I think the future of the QL - as with most retro computing - lies in emulation, but that doesn't have to be

Re: [Ql-Users] iPlayer

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Ives
I doubt QPC is having any effect. There's probably so much demand for that DRM-riddled proprietary media player that half the world are trying to download it simultaneously. I once thought about installing BBC iPlayer ... to recoup some of the cost of the criminally extortionate license tax

[Ql-Users] USBWiz Update

2010-10-12 Thread Adrian Ives
When reading the latest QL Today I noticed a very brief mention of the USBWiz project, so this seems to be an approporiate time to give a brief update of where things stand. Firstly, the last six months or so have been hectic and any development has been impossible, not the least of which