Hi Peter,
Re:
I invested a lot of time into some QL
hardware and software projects.
but todays PCs are so fast that
emulation easily beats it.
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Many thanks for your extensive work for the QL community.
Alas it seem to be true that 'todays PCs are so fast that emulatio
Re:
Does anyone have the correct lead to connect a QL to a Phillips 8833
monitor - it has a scart like socket and an 8 pin din on the back.
Unfortunately, the standard QL monitor lead only has a 6 pin din on the
monitor end...
Hi Rich,
Sent me (alas, off list
Hi François,
Regarding your reference to Fabrizio's -
"Attached you can find a screenshot of my desktop"
Fabrizio included a dynamic link which I sucessfully used to see his fine
desktop.
I'll reproduce it below in the hope that it might take you where you wanted
to go -
http://www.q-v-d.demo
Dilwyn wrote:
It already had Win XP Service Pack 3, so I didn’t expect too long to update.
Two hours later it’s still only got as far as update 19 of 127. Is this a
record?!?
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Two months ago I had just this Xp experience. Par for the course. Sometime
before 6 hours, it co
Dilwyn wrote -
Gives me a nice feeling that Windoze is under QPC control ;-))
the longed for 'Promised Land'. at last!
John in Wales
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Hi Geoff,
Re: My problem is that btinternet is Yahoo under an assumed name and Yahoo
does have security issues. Both Yahoo and Microsoft seem to want you to put
your address book on their servers and, for obvious security reasons, I want
my address book to remain firmly on my own machine,
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There's quite a comprehensive Pi hard/software feature in the current
edition [401] of Computer Active pp48 - 53 incl.
Also
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/search?sort=Relevance1&query=rasberry+pi
I don't have one yet - so can't comment further!
Greetings,
John in Wales
There were
Tony said -
" ... but grammar is the foundation of language *and* understanding.
Let grammar slip and meaning becomes less clear, or even entirely
different!"
No one, least of all those who write 'code', could fail to see the
importance of this.
But this list is open (and usually overtly
George wrote -
"A long time ago I used to pause while reading articles when I found "faulty
grammar".
'The Times' is in current QL-List mode. But it's especially concerned with
the
disposition and future safety of CHAR(39)! (16-03-13 etc.)
John in Wales
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Marcel said -
"Well, that was meant to be private... thank you, eMail program ;-)"
OK Marcel, I'll pretend I haven't seen it - just until you tell us again.
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I agree with Peter -
"The QL Today team have done wonders over the years and it's going to be a
big miss."
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Re:
You've been watching too much Taggarrrt on TV!
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I may never have drunk whiskey/whisky but I know that as 'Taggarrrt' was
playing a Glaswegian, it should be 'Tgut'!
John in Wales
Hi Wolfgang,
Re your:
If I had had those "speeds" when developing - SMSQmulator wouldn't have
seen the light of day.
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I realised that after I posted here - a few days ago - that I forgot to say
'congratulations' to you on SMSQum'.
May I
Hi Wolfgang.
Thank you for your work on the emulator. And thanks too to all the listers
who have carefully added their comments and experiences.
For the moment it's all collected into a folder - where I shall dig,
sometime soon, to be wiser when I install the program.
Best wishes to all,
John
jon wrote -
I think the keyboard issue is specific to my Lenovo desktop pc...not
sure
what the problem actually is, but in QPC I don't get the correct characters
from the keyboard making work difficult. SMSQmulator fixes it
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On my Lenovo G
So, we in the UK are all at home in snow chat-mode! (Our fellow
Scandinavians will laugh, I know.)
I was 19 miles from home last evening on my push bike when the snow started
(West Cheshire). And then it went dark! I had all the 'gear' and I likes a
challenge!
Some denial of service today
Frank said -
"May I be the first to wish the entire QL community a very happy new
year!"
Thank you Frank; and may I be the first to thank you on behalf of all list
readers? [Promotion... at last!]
Regards and best wishes to all,
John in Wales
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Thank you Urs, for the TinyURL.
I found the whole related article very interesting.
Goodaye all,
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Norman said -
"This is true, however, a number of the floppies in the drive (some
older, some newer than some of the affected ones) still work and still
have the data. At least, I can read them.
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From experience -
If push comes to shove - peel off the flop
Brian asks -
"Will the Pi work through the video input? Otherwise I have got video i/p on
the TV.
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In the current 'Computer Active' (382) at page 12, a correspondent has
written -
"I have been using my Pi with a HDMI to VGA adapter which costs about £14.
Usi
Dilwyn said -
" but as usual the north west of Wales always seems
to be last to get anything, way behind the M4 corridor and north east
Wales.."
But just think Dilwyn, if you didn't have people (like me) in north East
Wales, you in the west would be next
Dilwyn said -
".. there is nothing on this computer to handle “.wiz” files (whatever those
might be). It’s not just one specific .doc file it happens with, it’s each
and every one.
Anyone with any idea what’s going on?"
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.wiz files are produced by M-S Publisher.
Greetings!
I live in the UK and have a BT ADSL connection (400 metres by wire to the
exchange).
Generally, bandwidth was in the order of 6 to 8Mbps - usually the latter
provided I did not switch of my router too frequently.
Move over copper, glass has arrived.
Stable reported speed (W/Xp s
Dilwyn said -
I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching
2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when
the two halves are joined after scanning.
My local 'STAPLES' offers a discrete sc
Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites!
I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted
in QJewels ;)
Read all the MagPi magazines. Fascinating and informative.
John in Wales
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Rich said -
Does anyone have a daisywheel printer for sale ...?
I have an Epson DX100 (wide carriage) in perfect working order. {Guts of it
made by Brother?}
Have relevant selection of perfect daisy wheels.
Have several relevant new carbon ribbons.
Ha
Lee asks -
"What will they think of next as the new hip thing - Progs?"
No, it's about time "Comms" was dusted off.
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Dilwyn (and Adrian Ives, Andy Dansby)
Thanks for this at -
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/olqlug/index.htm
Excellent.
Must have been finnicky OCR and "changing-formats" jobs. Much appreciated.
John in Wales
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http://w
printer which is recalcitrant if it is
allowed to be dormant for any period of time ... if one did not know
better, one would think that it, too, was broken.
When THAT happens, it is necessary to spend 5-to-10 minutes (maybe, it
took a longer time -- who can remember?) pressing the button
. now if you were 13 in 1979. !
and yet enthusiasm is *still* alive and well. ;-)
I thought SST stands for Super Sonic Transport when, all the time, it really
designates Silicon Storage Technology
from a Sinclair Schoolyard Trader.
You're doubly qualified. Welcome SST Allie.
Jo
Tony said -
Does anyone use the BBS now?
If not, it probably makes sense to retire this machine
Not I, any longer. But it has been of tremendous utility.
Thank you Tony for all the associated work .and for meeting its power
bills! (You
Re: 2012 Calendar
Thanks Dilwyn. Just what I was looking for.
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. chances are Dilwyn that your W7 recovery software will be (or will
offer an option of - if you're lucky) the W7 32bit version. If push comes
to shove... and you should get all 'unhappy' again, start once more with
that!
ATB.
John in Wales
Norm' (him wots against Jpegs) said -
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Given that you are John in Wales, how about "Taffs" instead of Tifs? ;-)
I have some near neighbours (each with a different base-1 OS). They are
famous for their 'tiffs'. The Tales of Wales!
On th
Malcolm said -
Does anyone use Word for HTML's?
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By coincidence - because I'm to distribute some text intended for the widest
possible non-technical/academic audience - I've recently done one or two
tests i.e. -
saving MS-WORD docs in HTM format and
Re:
I received this email this morning.
I have no idea if it is genuine...anyone know anything about it?
Dilwyn Jones
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My WLM uncharacteristically filtered your mail
directly into my junk-items - with a notice to me.
As this rarely happens, I wonder if that was tri
Dave said -
"Well, I got married yesterday, "
Well Dave, congratulations and every best wish to you both - now you are
soldered to one PCB.
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Norman said -
"My main task was to hold onto the bare plug lead wire while he cranked
the engine over - to see if it was generating power!"
I had nearly finished installing a 240v generator in an unroaded village
remote in the Eritrean Highlands - a
I've followed this thread... or so I though, but Dave (Plastic)
what does this mean please? -
"strong characters"
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As Ralph said -
"Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator."
John in Wales
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It has recently been said -
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> That is what I was saying - 'digits' means both fingers and thumbs
in English. We usually say (incorrectly) that we have five fingers on each
hand. We don't. We have four fingers and one thumb.
Dave said -
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.
Before Norman pulls muscle in his attic AND/OR goin' down the Post Office...
what about a possible PSU 50/60Hz mains supply problem - especially if Dave
is in The State
221 lines of code!
Tobias, do have more 'lazy Sunday afternoons', please.
Wish I could have written the same - it's poked some valuable ideas into my
memory. Thank you.
In there however, is a small shadow, specifically regarding your SELect
ON's. Does your code rely on the additional utili
Tobias helpfully said -
Dave,
the "manual" is right here and your memory is wrong ;-).
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Brave Dave,
Do you have a copy of Jan Jones?
It's great for *all* SBasic INSTR-uctions.
John in Wales
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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 - it's a space-filler for the Toady Editor ;)
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Re: Malcom's and Dilwyns recent references to Wales and broadband speeds.
I pay for 'up to 8Mbps' About 20% of the time I get a reported (and
experienced!) '8.1'
This, I have enjoyed for about 15 months. Lucky me. '5.8' is the lowe
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