On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, QL-MyLink (f/fh)
wrote:
> I've followed this thread... or so I though, but Dave (Plastic)
>
> what does this mean please? -
>
> "strong characters"
>
Forceful characters, strong personalities.
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Lee Privett wrote:
> Can I suggest that for any survey done in the future that the QL community
> are notified through as many channels as possible well in advance so that
> timing of other such initiatives can be self-regulated or coordinate. For
> example if two
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> On 16/02/2011 17:13, Plastic wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Geoff Wicks> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ------
>>> From: "Plastic"
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> I have several backplanes available if anyone needs one:
>
>
> a) A Jurgen Falkenberg 2 slot unbuffered / unpowered backplane
> b) An unknown unbuffered / unpowered backplane which has a nice blue PCB -
> oddly it has 2 female connectors and 2
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>
>
> --
> From: "Plastic"
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:08 AM
>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The Spring 2011 QL Survery
>
> Hi all!
>>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> gdgqler wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:53 | Feb16:
>
>
>> On 16 Feb 2011, at 10:30, Plastic wrote:
>>
>> was born at platform 11 waiting room, New Street Station, Birmingham.
>>>
>>
>> In a
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:48 | Feb16:
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Tony Firshman
>> wrote:
>>
>> Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:09 | Feb16:
>>>
>>> Fun, huh? :)
>>>
Hi all,
I have been asked off-list if I could make some backplanes. I have a stack
of the connectors already, so, if there was demand, I could do this quite
easily.
The questions are:
Is there any demand for this?
Is there any deficiency or design issue with previous ones that needs
correcting?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:53 AM, gdgqler wrote:
>
> On 16 Feb 2011, at 10:30, Plastic wrote:
>
> > was born at platform 11 waiting room, New Street Station, Birmingham.
>
> In a handbag?
>
Brummie women didn't 'ave 'andbags in the 60s. They 'ad c
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 14:09 | Feb16:
>
> Fun, huh? :)
>
>
>> It was particularly good fun with sH using similar decoding chips.
>
> Firstly we *knew* we could use three pins only to output the 8 bit keyrow
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:30 AM, David Tubbs wrote:
> If it is present,
> Modified eprom board, just as easyly hold two full ROM & TK2 versions,
> Mainboard ROMs removed of course.
>
Unfortunately, the lines aren't brought through to the ROM port to select
chips outside of the 48-64K memory bloc
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
> That birthplace is very good isn't it - could be the subject of a David
> Lean film. Do you like steam trains (8-)#
>
> I was born in the same room as my mother in the village post office,
> Rhydlewis, Wales. Again unusual but not nearly
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 16/Feb/11 09:12 | Feb16:
>
> Dave/
>
>
>> Please can you disclose your Surname so we know it's Dave Smith or Jones
>>> we're communicating with? Thanks.
>>>
>>>
&
Hi all!
I now have 55 respondents. The results so far have definitely upset a few of
my pre-existing views. Fascinating.
I will close the survey on February 28th and release the full results on
March 1st.
I'll be sharing preliminary results with a few people before then, as the
trends are fairly
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM, David Tubbs wrote:
> At 15:40 14/02/2011 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, David Tubbs
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer.
>> >
>> > I also have a few dongle boards, some adapted for the 64k eprom
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:47 PM, John Gilpin wrote:
> Sorry I have been out a bit today and therefore have missed quite a bit of
> the goings-on on the list. Firstly, my 3 Auroras - all with SGCs attached
> need new batteries and I even went to the trouble of building a prototype
> using vero-boar
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> David Tubbs wrote, on 15/Feb/11 17:58 | Feb15:
>
>
>>
So that's why I think such wasteful distribution is equivalent to
spamming.
>>> Indeed. Top quoting does need some editing and snipping.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>>
>> I suspect s
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:10 AM, wrote:
> To all members.
>
> I am now able to update the SQLUG site and it should now be up todate.
>
> If there are any errors or alterations needed please let me know.
>
> John Sadler
>
Link?
Dave
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> On 15/02/2011 02:03, Plastic wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Tony Firshman
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 15/Feb/11 13:42 | Feb15:
>>>
>>> On 15/02/2011 01:39, P
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 15/Feb/11 14:03 | Feb15:
>
>
> I will include full, IKEA-style instructions :)
>>
>> ... so it will be flat pack then and have a strange name (8-)#
>
> I think the best was a table top cal
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 15/Feb/11 13:42 | Feb15:
>
> On 15/02/2011 01:39, Plastic wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Bob Spelten wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14 Feb 2011, at 19:38, Plasti
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Bob Spelten wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2011, at 19:38, Plastic wrote:
>
> ... I would be happy to design and manufacture a limited run of these
>>
>> adaptors to use CR2032s so we can all have our battery backed clocks
>> working again.
>
Hi all,
I am trying to collect together all the schematics I can for any and all
QL-related hardware. Could you please take a few minutes to look through
your files and see if you have any schematics for anything at all, from the
QL itself to the gold card to the serial to centronics printer inter
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> On 14/02/2011 22:53, Plastic wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Phil Kett
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 14/02/2011 21:23, Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>
>>> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Phil Kett wrote:
>
>
> On 14/02/2011 21:23, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 20:50 | Feb14:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman
>>> wrote:
>>>
>
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, David Tubbs wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> Would you be willing to share the details/schematic?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> I dont mind, only prolem is memory and no documentation.
>
> I could send you photos with which you might reverse engineer.
>
> I also have a few dongle boards,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 20:50 | Feb14:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Feb 2011, at 20:01, Plastic wrote:
>>
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> And here, Peter, I have to apologise, in that as a trader I have not
> completed the survey, as I feel my answers would be pointless (eg. how many
> QLs do you have? Answer - over 30 but only 2 or 3 which I regularly use,
> depending on what I
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>
> On 14 Feb 2011, at 20:01, Plastic wrote:
>
> >>>>
> >>>> Is the CR2032 man enough though?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The CR2032 is 3V 235ma,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:54 | Feb14:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Tony Firshman
>> wrote:
>>
>> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:38 | Feb14:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>&
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 14/Feb/11 19:38 | Feb14:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a Gold Card which has the discontinued 40LF220 lithium battery. The
>> equivalent MGL0025 is also discontinued, and even with the long she
Hi all,
I have a Gold Card which has the discontinued 40LF220 lithium battery. The
equivalent MGL0025 is also discontinued, and even with the long shelf life
of these lithium batteries, the new old stock ones are now useless. When you
can find them, they were manufactured in 2002 and cost $30+ - o
Good morning all,
I currently have 38 responses. For some questions with fewer answer choices,
the answers are now statistically significant with a margin of less than +/-
5% but those with more answer choices are still not there yet (+/- 12% or
so.)
I am very surprised by some of the early resul
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:58 PM, David Tubbs wrote:
> At 00:57 13/02/2011 -0600, you wrote:
>
> I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK
>> keyboards.
>>
>
> Keyoard differences batween nations are un the KEYROW table, one of my
> early machines was German, the '_' wa
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Plastic wrote:
> > I think the point here is that emulators have to emulate something. If
> > there's nothing innovative to emulate, even the emulator cannot move
> forward
> > - it can just go faster at the sam
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Peter Graf wrote:
> > no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much faster
> > PC hardware (which you didn't design) and the Windows features (which
> > you didn't write, e.g. TCP/IP) as QPC achievements?
>
> So? Does this
What you say is entirely correct.
When I wrote the questions, I was considering answers that would help people
focus their developments on something that is in demand.
Hardware is in relatively short supply and is getting older - replacements
have the dual benefits of being faster and more reliab
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:26 PM, QL-MyLink (f/fh)
wrote:
> As Ralph said -
>
> "Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator."
>
> John in Wales __
I'm using Q-Emulator for Mac 1.0 which is very good. The broken membrane
emulation isn't qu
If you email *Robert Heaton *** he can create the
account for you manually. He would probably also like to know about your
problem registering :)
Dave
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Tobias Fröschle <
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Gents, (and especially to Peter Scott, should you read
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lee Privett wrote:
> "as I said, one can never *really* escape the QL scene."
>
> Ok Tony, not sure what you mean by that, are you saying you may be making
> some more?
>
> Lee Privett
>
I think he's saying he has a stalker that wants to talk to him about his
ha
t; On 13 Feb 2011, at 17:45, Plastic wrote:
>
> >
> > 15 responses so far, and already some definite and surprising trends
> > forming.
> >
> > If anyone with QUANTA or QL Today or any other sites would like to put
> the
> > survey URL on their site, p
by a couple of the answers - not at all what I
expected.
Dave
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Plastic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please help the community by completing this 24-question survey. It will
> take less than three minutes to complete.
>
> The reason for this survey is that
Hi all,
Please help the community by completing this 24-question survey. It will
take less than three minutes to complete.
The reason for this survey is that there have been others, but they have
either been internal to an organization or the results haven't been made
entirely public. This survey
Laptop running XP
> but emulating the QL using QPC2
> ¦¦
> - Original Message -
> From: Plastic
> To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-USAers] USA QLs
If you buy an EPROM on eBay and it needs erasing, remove the label (you'll
find letting the label soak in some lysol is the best way to do this) and
then putting the EPROM with the window facing the sun for approx 30 mins
should erase it. On a dull day it doesn't take longer, as UV goes right
throu
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Adrian Ives 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 requireme
wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 13/Feb/11 06:57 | Feb13:
>
> Hi all.
>>
>> I have been looking at my US QL, and noting many differences from UK
>> keyboards.
>>
>> Here's what I have seen so far. The PCB most resembles an Issue 7 board,
>> but
>> with
on a pair of wires in the power
supply section, tucked under the heatsink.
The ROMs are JSU, and are the plastic type. Weirdly, the $ was made in
Korea, and the $8000 was made in Mexico.
There is a small 2cm x 2.5cm daughter card stuck to the top of the on-board
memory with 4 dabs of si
Hi all,
I received a USB floppy drive in the mail today, which will help things
along nicely. I just need to find somewhere locally that still sells
floppies.
However, when I was formatting "My First Floppy" it reminded me of something
I did to my QL back in the Sandy days.
I was never satisfied
use once we put four Sinclair plastic-cased ROMs in
there and the current draw was too much and popped something in the power
section! Weird.
Dave
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Peter Graf wrote:
> Hi Lee,
>
> > So I need to look out for a Gc, SGC or Minerva conversion kit,
> >
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Malcolm Lear wrote:
>
>
> On 11/02/2011 14:02, Plastic wrote:
>
>> I wish I could...
>>
>> count++ instead of count = count + 1
>> count-- instead of count = count - 1
>>
>>
>> How about count++5 instead
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 14:02, Plastic wrote:
>
>> I wish I could...
>>
>> count++ instead of count = count + 1
>> count-- instead of count = count - 1
>>
>
> Not possible without re-writing the BASIC par
I wish I could...
count++ instead of count = count + 1
count-- instead of count = count - 1
I wish I could...
DEFine PROCedure run_faster(a$)
REMark Any procedures called with this wrapper will always execute in a
short enough time ;)
Dave
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Hi all,
I know QDOS saves SuperBASIC as plain text, and re-parses and tokenises it
on the fly when you load a program. Is there any functionality or method to
save and load tokenised SuperBASIC? I saved a tokenised program and it was
1/3rd the size and therefore loads much more quickly.
Is there
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Lee Privett wrote:
> With regard to your text going off screen, one solution would be to use
> (something I am currently working on but not yet finished) drawn text, using
> either turtle graphics or line command etc.
>
> In simple terms the algorythm below hopefu
Hi all,
1. I would like to be able to identify the hardware and OS my timing
critical programs are running on.
To this end, I can use ver$ to identify the QDOS version. However, what ver$
returns do Minerva and SMSQ/E give?
Is there a surefire way to identify if the execution environment is a QL
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote:
> Problem is endian. My recollection is Qx0 hard disk format is pretty much
> QXLwin except that QXLwin on a PC is organised in the PC byte order
>
> Duncan
How dare you, Sir! How dare you ruin my perfectly good joke with "FACTS!"
*grins*
Dave
_
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> >> Another option already mentioned (and perhaps with the highest
> >> probability to actually work) would be sernet.
> > ...talking to myself again???
>
> Sernet is actually a pretty comfortable solution, albeit not t
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Plastic wrote, on 8/Feb/11 22:30 | Feb8:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> During my time at Sandy, I learned microdrives (the part inside the case,
>> not the cartridge) were surprisingly reliable and fault-free. The only two
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Lee Privett wrote:
> Hey I got a great idea based on graphical lines etc. what about a TRON
> light cycle game playing against the computer but where the computer doesn't
> cheat against the human player?
>
Anyone remember the TRON lightcycle game lawsuit about un
t slightly
stretches the tape. The microdrive design contacts a plastic wheel in the
cartridge, so it only touches something when a cartridge is left in.
However, some people leave a cartridge permanently in the drive when not in
use, and this can cause problems eventually.
The wires that enter the m
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> In message , gdgqler <
> gdgq...@gmail.com> writes
>
>>
>> On 7 Feb 2011, at 19:52, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>>
>>
Perhaps the entire constitution of Quanta needs altering.
>>> Now where did I hear that recently ;-)
>>>
>>> I once w
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
> In message ,
> Plastic writes
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Any new game, with graphics at the forefront, would be great for the QL.
>
> Generally an area that did not get fully exploited.
>
> Perspective/3D illusion wou
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Rich Mellor wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I think that there is interest in more games for the QL, but the game idea
> has probably not enthused many people, as it sounds too simplistic - a bit
> like the old lunar landing types of games that formed the basis of many a
> mag
Here are two fun weird things I like about SBASIC. Maybe others on this list
will add their quirks too...?
1. the "MISTake" keyword.
If you load a BASIC program that contains an error that would normally
provoke a "bad line" response, it inserts the word "MISTake", to indicate
that the line will
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM, peet vanpeebles
wrote:
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Plastic wrote:
>
> > From: Plastic
> > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Game idea...
> > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
> > Date: Tuesday, 8 February, 2011, 12:29
> > Ah yes, Elite... I st
urate
enough to be a "sim"...
Was it written in 6502 assembly, or BBC BASIC V?
Dave
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:54 AM, peet vanpeebles
wrote:
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Plastic wrote:
>
> > From: Plastic
> > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Game idea...
> > To: ql-
e greatly in quality over that time,
too. I'm open to any ideas...
Dave
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Plastic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a game idea back in the 80s. I feel like it might be a good followup
> project after the flight sim, but the idea is fun so I thought I would
I seem to recall having a roll of MAX232s around here somewhere. I also
recall having 25 or so of the hard-to-find Altera CPLDs in a tray, a box of
the QL connectors (I don't remember M or F) and assortments of other SMD
components and etc. These were bought for Nasta's aborted Goldfire project.
If
Norman,
It's wonderful that you offer that. I'm in Texas, USA and I'm told by RWAP
that shipping a QL from England is over 50 ukp. I couldn't ask you to do
that.
Let me check out local options first...
Dave
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Evening Dave,
>
> I've dug out a
e
out and post some high resolution pics of it so people can compare.
Dave
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> On 2/7/2011 10:08 AM, Plastic wrote:
>
>> I'm only aware of two US QL users and they're both ex-pats anyway, I think
>>
>
> Actu
I have a US QL, therefore I have a US QL PSU ;) Though I am capable of
building a replacement PSU if needed, or converting a UK to US PSU. Also, US
houses have 110v and 220v circuits, so 220v is available if I get really
stuck (and don't mind QLing on the tumble dryer). The 50/60Hz issue is a
non-i
It seems I will have to start saving for a UK spec QL, pronto. Having a real
QL to work on is important to me.
Dave
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Malcolm Lear wrote:
>
>
> On 07/02/2011 15:57, Rich Mellor wrote:
>
>> From memory (as both D-Day MKII and War in the East took account of the
>>
ear wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Are you sure it has a vertical resolution of 256? Maybe the video ULA has
>> been replaced with a UK one.
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
>>
>> On 07/02/2011 15:14, Plastic wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>&
>
>
> On 07/02/2011 15:14, Plastic wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a US (samsung?) QL with JSA ROMs. I have a replacement membrane
>> coming in a week or so.
>>
>> 1. It has the standard 512x256 resolution, but the font type/size is
>> different than
gt;
> -Original Message-
> From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
> [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] 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, Ad
Hi all,
I have a US (samsung?) QL with JSA ROMs. I have a replacement membrane
coming in a week or so.
1. It has the standard 512x256 resolution, but the font type/size is
different than EU QLs. I am looking for some JM or JS ROMs, but meanwhile,
does anyone have an easy way for me to load the UK
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Adrian Ives wrote:
> Actually I think that's a shame, Peter. I know there are technical and
> performance issues with going the MDV emulation route, maybe even
> insurmountable ones, but it had that kind of "Wow Factor" about it. I
> imagined it as the microdrive
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Malcolm Lear wrote:
> That would be great, Dave. I'll carry on going through the book
> concentrating on getting a full text version for you. It would make a good
> replacement to the 'Beginners Guide' in the original manual. I've seen Jan a
> couple of times in Ne
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Dave Walker wrote:
> Just a suggestion - if you are going to work on producing a better version
> of the manual then I would suggest that PDF is NOT the best format. It
> does not tend to display well on modern ereader type devices, and does not
> support feature
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Tobias Fröschle <
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 06.02.2011, 17:56 -0600 schrieb Plastic:
> > Let me play with some code and see what I come up with over the next
> couple
> > of days. I think I can be a lot more co
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 06/02/11 20:14, Plastic wrote:I bought this book years ago from Quanta,
> and was completely horrified
> by the quality of print. Nothing to do with Quanta of course, just a
> commercial book that looks like it was run off on
If it helps any, I have a period of 6 months plus of medically-enforced
non-work, so I have LOTS of free time. I would be happy to convert books to
PDFs in the style of the manual, if they are in the public domain or if I
have permission from the rights holder. I have already made it a project for
Do you have a BOM for the hardware? A schematic? Or is it only ready-made
boards, and if so, what is the bulk cost? How do you plan to make this into
a product? Is that your plan?
Dave
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Lee Privett wrote:
> Well I am definately interested in purchasing such a devi
Wow. You really thought about it. 221 lines of code!
I have this notion that I need to scan through the characters and split the
input into words. I can simplify a lot because the bounds are known and very
limited.
For example, " S " INSTR cmd$ is a very simple case and so is " L " - so for
these
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:58 AM, QL-MyLink (f/fh)
wrote:
> Tobias helpfully said -
>
>
> Dave,
> the "manual" is right here and your memory is wrong ;-).
> -
>
> Brave Dave,
> Do you have a copy of Jan Jones?
>
> It's great for *all*
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Tobias Fröschle <
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 06.02.2011 12:10, schrieb Plastic:
>
> For clarity: ABC is the format of the flight number. eg: AAL2123,
>> CAL2260, FDX1001, etc... Sometimes, there are three digit flight
got my QL.
Thanks again.
Dave
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Tobias Fröschle <
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 06.02.2011 12:19, schrieb Plastic:
>
> Also...
>>
>> One of the major problems I'm having is the "manual" I downloaded. The
>&
e old printed manual, but it's
FREEZING out there!
One of the other things that might come out of this process for me is a
heavily revised and annotated new manual, with better examples yet more
concise instructions. Which I'd post for everyone's benefit.
Dave
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at
For clarity: ABC is the format of the flight number. eg: AAL2123,
CAL2260, FDX1001, etc... Sometimes, there are three digit flights like
BAA418, etc...
I like the way you have the parser call a function to isolate each
component. I have until this point been thinking in terms of... (pseudo-cod
Hi all,
I had a game idea back in the 80s. I feel like it might be a good followup
project after the flight sim, but the idea is fun so I thought I would share
it here and see what others might make of it.
The game occurs in a two-dimensional gravity well. The yellow "sun" occupies
a fixed point
I'm working on the command parser for my Air Traffic Control sim. I have not
written a parser in this sense before.
The parser takes input from the user, and parses it into meaningful
instructions to pass to an aircraft. It emulates a unified "ear" for the
pilots of all the aircraft.
It deals wit
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:47 PM, QL-MyLink (f/fh)
wrote:
>
> What do I know about Derby?
>
>
> It's where they say Twosdee. That is, unless it isn't.
>
> And "give over", if you 'avn't. I hear it a lot!
>
> John in Wales
>
> PS: Off topic? Of course not -
not necessarily indicate an early
> version motherboard.
>
>
>
> On 04/02/2011 15:14, Plastic wrote:
>
>> It's interesting that this is a D07- machine. My first QL was a D07- with
>> JM
>> ROMs, and my second was a D13- with JS ROMS. The first was $399 and
Also, Tony, how feasible is it to repurpose the RomDisq work for use with
removable flash-type storage like CompactFlash or SDHC?
Dave
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Dilwyn Jones
wrote:
> A lot of them nowadays have "load balancing" code in the hardware. If it
>> notices a hot spot, it reorgan
It's interesting that this is a D07- machine. My first QL was a D07- with JM
ROMs, and my second was a D13- with JS ROMS. The first was $399 and as
reliable as a Lada. The second was $99 and probably still works.
Dave
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Neil Riley wrote:
> Remembered last night that
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> data transfer from an SD card takes 0.4 microsecond per Byte in the most
> simple mode, while the minimum cycle of the QL bus is 1.0 microsecond. So
> both IDE and SD card are faster than the QL bus.
>
> SD cards are smaller and cheaper than
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Dilwyn Jones
wrote:
>
> Sad though that, as Tobias said, it seems that Jan has no plans to do any
> further work on the 'new' Qubide.
>
> Dilwyn Jones
>
If I had a schematic and code, I would be happy to (re)design anything out
there. I don't have any production a
And for complete off-topicness, the huge storm just blew through and the
temperature just dropped from 68F(20C) to 27F(-3C) in about 150 seconds.
Unbelievable - I have never experienced anything like it.
Snow flurries in Austin, TX at 3:50am, and 5 minutes ago it was comfortable
t-shirt weather. T
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:43 PM, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de <
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Dave,
> please see more comments below
> (Using the web-mailer of my ISP, there's really no reasonable way to
> top-quote. Sorry to anyone willing to complain)
>
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