[Ql-Users] Small but in SMSQ/E Reference Manual

2022-07-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
(This is mainly to Wolfgang, but might help others as well who are confused as me) The QDOS_SMS_Reference guide v4.7 has a small bug on section 22.5 (the entry for SETD, setting the HOME directory of a job): The table says „A2: Pointer to parameter list“, while it should actually be A1, and

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE instr_case QLIB

2022-04-08 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
> > The main reason, I believe, is that INSTR_CASE is a global setting and so > shouldnt be set by a program, but only by the user in the main console That's actually not the problem: INSTR_CASE seems to work "local" to each instance of the SBASIC interpreter (I just checked). Turbo

Re: [Ql-Users] QTImage 1.5

2021-12-09 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
François, the mailing list doesn't forward attachments - You need to put them somewhere else for us to see or describe textually. Cheers, Tobias > Am 09.12.2021 um 17:04 schrieb François Van Emelen via Ql-Users > : > > Op 9/12/2021 om 16:03 schreef Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users: >> Il

Re: [Ql-Users] Select on

2020-06-21 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
That's probably the best solution for the problem - String$ SELECT has always been a half-baked solution in SuperBASIC. Tobias > Am 21.06.2020 um 13:38 schrieb Bob Spelten via Ql-Users > : > > Op Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:46:23 +0200 schreef Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users > : > >> I have a vague

Re: [Ql-Users] Memory cards and the Q60 (was Re: SMSQE 3.36)

2020-05-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Well, you can bring up the OS from ROM without working mass storage. That's definitely an advantage, especially for the early days, when we didn't have fast storage (i.e. floppy only). Compared to the Atari, that's ROM-TOS vs. Disk-TOS (but not running from ROM) Tobias > Am 12.05.2020 um

Re: [Ql-Users] QL User grapic competition from 1985: Tree

2020-04-16 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Rich Mellor should know the guy. A Andy Pritchard is named as the author of his "Spy" adventure game first published in 2016. Tobias > Am 16.04.2020 um 13:36 schrieb Dilwyn (gmail) via Ql-Users > : > > I wonder if this could be the same Andrew Pritchard who wrote some QL > software such as

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E 3.35

2020-02-09 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Wolfgang, that sounds like a corrupt file system on the web server. Have the hosing guys look after that - It's probably not the only glitch that you will see. Tobias > Am 09.02.2020 um 06:48 schrieb Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users > : > > > Hi, > > > > > Something's wrong, I'm afraid. > > >

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

2020-01-20 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Done. > Am 20.01.2020 um 22:02 schrieb Dilwyn (gmail) via Ql-Users > : > . Ignore! ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] The Pawn adventure with graphics on the Q68

2020-01-03 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
In case you missed it: The Magnetic Scrolls Adventurs are now available for _all_ QL platforms - See the QL Forum at https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3=3069 The QL has received special graphics routines incorporating Markus's proposal

Re: [Ql-Users] The Pawn adventure with graphics on the Q68

2019-11-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Markus, Well, /technically/ yes (even if it would be quite a bit of work to make this proof-of-concept into a piece of distributable software for anyone, especially given the strong QL hardware speed dependency of dithvide). It would, however, imply conversion and very probably also

Re: [Ql-Users] Proposal about the file system

2018-10-10 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Giorgio, nothing dangerous here. DEC VMS, for example, does it in exactly in the same way. The danger you seem to see (application sets a backup date, other app uses something different) is circumvented by supplying an old "full" backup to any incremental one for the programs to compare. In

Re: [Ql-Users] File header info

2018-09-28 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Giorgio, File access key: Don't know of any software that uses this. For "data space" you didn't read far enough: It"s in the next sentence: "In the case of file type 1, the first longword of type-dependent information holds the default size of the data space for the program." - The data

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD order page

2018-08-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
And some more shameless advertising, because I forgot and the product is worth it: That combination works flawlessly with GC SMSQ/E. Tobias > Am 31.08.2018 um 21:52 schrieb Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users > : > > Just a short note on my experiences with some (old) QL-SDs that

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD order page

2018-08-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Just a short note on my experiences with some (old) QL-SDs that were updated with Marcel's PLD and new drivers plus a dual-slot card that I have been using for some time now: While the original PLD/Driver combination has always been a bit, say, capricious, after the upgrade everything has been

Re: [Ql-Users] Qptr manual 6.04

2018-07-22 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Wolfgang, thanks for keeping these documents up-to-date. Thanks especially for this sentence in the QPTR manual (that made it in a couple of releases ago) >Note also that most device drivers, when requested to open a directory will, >if no such directory exists, open the next >existing higher

Re: [Ql-Users] FiFi

2018-03-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Hi Wolfgang! Great news, FiFi is one of the most useful things on a crammed hard drive. Now QMon is the last piece of commercial software I have that's not freely available. Tobias > Am 30.03.2018 um 06:48 schrieb Wolf via Ql-Users : > > Hi all, > > FiFi, my

Re: [Ql-Users] TK2 v2.32

2018-03-04 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
That is great! As one of the - apparently rare - QL-Net users a special thank you from the neighborhood. Tobias > Am 04.03.2018 um 16:59 schrieb Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users > : > > I have released a new (or actually two new) versions of TK2. > > One versions only

Re: [Ql-Users] QA.RESRI - QDOSMSQ eference guide

2018-02-16 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
> Am 16.02.2018 um 10:27 schrieb Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users > <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>: > > On 15 February 2018 at 19:33, Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users < > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > > >>> 1. Not called from an S*BASIC context: --> re

Re: [Ql-Users] QA.RESRI - QDOSMSQ eference guide

2018-02-15 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Neet to reprase my below statement: > Am 15.02.2018 um 16:26 schrieb Tobias.Froeschle--- via Ql-Users > : > > Wolfgang, > > (For some reason, I only seem to see half of the discussion, so bear with me > if I repeat something that was said already) > > What I meant

Re: [Ql-Users] QA.RESRI - QDOSMSQ eference guide

2018-02-15 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Hmm. Are we sure about that? When having a glance at the code, it looked to me as SMSQ/E would not use a1 at all, but rather use BV_RIP(a6) instead for the location of the RI stack (just as QDOS does). Tobias > Am 15.02.2018 um 05:08 schrieb Wolf via Ql-Users : > >

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD new driver

2018-01-22 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Marcel, that Schmidt-trigger is already there. Nice little SMD bug under the socket that sits in the ROMOEH line. Apparently, it doesn't help. I have mixed experiences with GoldCards - One doesn't work at all, the other one (at least in one specific QL) rather well for days together with a

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-01-06 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Jan, with an FB-machine, you would probably have had much harder 30+ QL-years than you actually had ;) Tobias > Am 06.01.2018 um 12:06 schrieb Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users > : > > On 5 January 2018 at 22:33, Dave Park via Ql-Users > wrote: >

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-01-05 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Yes, apparently it did: TY - How creative ;) Tobias > Am 05.01.2018 um 16:33 schrieb Dave Park via Ql-Users > <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>: > > Did the Tyche ROM ever get letters? > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users < > ql-users@li

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 167, Issue 2

2018-01-05 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
AF = Awfully faulty JM = jerkily mended JS = just stable MG = mainly good ;) (just joking) Tobias > Am 05.01.2018 um 12:56 schrieb Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users > : > > Hi Paolo, > > as far as I remember, the code letters for the various QL ROMs have been > named

Re: [Ql-Users] Merry Christmas with SMSQ/E

2017-12-27 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Doesn't crash here but ends up in QMon signalling an Address error ;) Tobias > Am 27.12.2017 um 17:20 schrieb François Van Emelen via Ql-Users > : > > Op 26/12/2017 om 18:31 schreef pjwitte via Ql-Users: >> If you want a really miserable Christmas, you could try

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.32

2017-12-10 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
That’s really great. Eager to try an IDE-to-SD Adapter and see how direct data exchange will work. Tobias This mail was sent from my mobile. Any typos are entirely its fault. > Am 10.12.2017 um 15:37 schrieb duncan . via Ql-Users > : > > Hi Wolfgang, > > Fantastic

Re: [Ql-Users] Dock

2017-11-08 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Failure or success might probably depend on whether you set an OUTLN on S*Basic in the BOOT or not. Will do some further checks tonight. Tobias > Am 08.11.2017 um 14:17 schrieb pgraf--- via Ql-Users > : > > On 8 Nov 2017 at 13:09, François Van Emelen via Ql-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] Dock

2017-11-07 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
That is why I proposed 2x2 - Depending on window position, the PE might round down the outline to the next even size, which is 0x0 when you have 1x1 ;) - So, you're back at the starting point. Not really sure that is the problem, but might be it. I did try to check the same, but on my system I

Re: [Ql-Users] Dock

2017-11-07 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Peter, you obviously seem to have a RPTR on your system, so that is most probably not the problem. I would have a look at the OUTLN and WINDOW commands a bit up from there - They seem to be setting #0 to a zero size/outline (which is basically the whole point of the program) - This might

Re: [Ql-Users] Dock

2017-11-07 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Peter, you obviously seem to have a RPTR on your system, so that is most probably not the problem. I would have a look at the OUTLN and WINDOW commands a bit up from there - They seem to be setting #0 to a zero size/outline (which is basically the whole point of the program) - This might

Re: [Ql-Users] TYPE_IN

2017-09-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Lee, are you running on SMSQ/E? Are you maybe running PE with PE_BGOFF? That will not allow your background program to run when it has (even partially) obstructed windows. So, if you "TYPE_IN" something into an obstructed S*Basic window, the job owning that window will not be able to digest

Re: [Ql-Users] TYPE_IN

2017-09-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
You _can_ open a cONsole window with more than 128 bytes of input buffer ("con_512x202a0x0_256", for example). But you _cannot_ tell S*Basic to open #0 like that as default. I just checked: close#0:open#0,"con_512x256a0x0_1024" seems to work. Unfortunately, I cannot check how large the

Re: [Ql-Users] Stupid AND

2017-09-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
ptember 2017 at 23:36, Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users < > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> Neither Turbo nor QLiberator do short-circuit evaluation. >> C68 does. >> > > Because it's part of the language definition. > > Jan &g

Re: [Ql-Users] Stupid AND

2017-09-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Neither Turbo nor QLiberator do short-circuit evaluation. C68 does. Tobias > Am 19.09.2017 um 23:25 schrieb Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users > : > > On 19 September 2017 at 21:27, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users < > ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just a

Re: [Ql-Users] TURBO and testing it exists

2017-08-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
-d.com> wrote: > >> Hi Tobias, >> >> The WHEN solution is great, but on some version of QODS, the WHEN ERRor >> did not work. >> >> There are some people still using AH,JM, roms which may have problems with >> WHEN ERRor >> >> -- &g

Re: [Ql-Users] TURBO and testing it exists

2017-08-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
hoke on a different error than "bad name". MANIFEST is pretty ideal for this. Tobias > Am 17.08.2017 um 11:25 schrieb Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users > <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>: > > Lee, > > there are a number of toolkits that allow you to check for sp

Re: [Ql-Users] TURBO and testing it exists

2017-08-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Lee, there are a number of toolkits that allow you to check for specific other toolkit commands loaded or not - But this is a bit useless as it leaves you with a chicken-and-egg problem: How to check whether the checking toolkit is loaded? Your best bet on SMSQ/E would be a WHEN ERRor clause

Re: [Ql-Users] Function type error

2017-08-10 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
The type of a function is not determined by the function name ending in a $ or % sign, but rather by what it returns - You can even write a function STRING% that returns a string or a function a$ that returns an integer value. The name you give your function is simply a hint to yourselves on

Re: [Ql-Users] R: R: R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle via Ql-Users
Davide, dd is a utility program that allows you to dump raw file systems or partitions to image files and back. It is a standard program that comes with all Unix and Linux systems. It is available as near function-equivalent implementations on Windows systems as well:

Re: [Ql-Users] Test email

2017-05-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
No. Doesn't work. Not at all :D > Am 12.05.2017 um 21:35 schrieb Dilwyn Jones : > > Just a test to see if latest emails are getting through or not > Dilwyn > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Graphics aspect ratio

2017-05-01 Thread Tobias Fröschle
2017 at 16:01, Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: > >>> Am 28.04.2017 um 15:30 schrieb Tobias Fröschle < >> tobias.froesc...@t-online.de>: >>> >>> Right. Somewhere there ;) >>> >>> I seem to recall I saw that variable ref

Re: [Ql-Users] Graphics aspect ratio

2017-04-28 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Right. Somewhere there ;) I seem to recall I saw that variable referenced somewhere in the "official" documents - But when I looked for it, I couldn't find it either and had to refer to the sources as well. Tobias > Am 28.04.2017 um 15:25 schrieb Jan Bredenbeek : > >

Re: [Ql-Users] Graphics aspect ratio

2017-04-28 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Jan, SMSQ/E uses the variable pt_asprt equ$14a ; 6 bytes float pixel aspect ratio in the extended channel definition block for exactly that purpose. You can poke this address in order to change the pixel aspect ratio. Tobias > Am 28.04.2017 um 13:52 schrieb Jan Bredenbeek

Re: [Ql-Users] Xchange 3.90N bug?

2017-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
m original Quill and never got fixed, not even when Quill evolved into XChange. Tobias > Am 19.04.2017 um 19:44 schrieb Tobias Fröschle <tobias.froesc...@t-online.de>: > > I can confirm it happens on all my QLs and -alikes. Not very often, but > regularly. > > - Q40 / SMS

Re: [Ql-Users] Xchange 3.90N bug?

2017-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
I can confirm it happens on all my QLs and -alikes. Not very often, but regularly. - Q40 / SMSQ/E - QL / Minerva - QL / SGC / SMSQ/E - QL / GC / QDOS - QPC2 SMSQ/E - x86 Linux / uQLX / Minerva - x86 ARM / uQLX / Minerva (time to show off a bit ;) ) At least once I had XChange crash when

Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit II v2.31

2017-03-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle
I would rather chain-load some other, non-critical commands from disk than refraining from the network server and client in ROM. But just my 2 cents. No worries. Tobias > Am 31.03.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Marcel Kilgus : > > pg...@q40.de wrote: >>> Thanks for the

Re: [Ql-Users] Toolkit II v2.31

2017-03-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Here. The one single reason why I would not use your new TK2 over the traditional one. My QLs and QXLs are all networked, one of them is diskless and thus depends on the network. Otherwise: very good job bringing TK2 and SMSQ/E to the same code base! Tobias > Am 31.03.2017 um 12:12 schrieb

Re: [Ql-Users] German Minerva ROM

2017-03-07 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Peter, Marcel, I have yet to discover a program that doesn't run on SMSQ/E, provided it's set to mimic a QL memory map, and does on Minerva (but I'm open to suggestions). Weird programs are normally sooo weird that they won't run on either... Minerva is a miraculous thing in terms of code

Re: [Ql-Users] R: SMSQE 3.30

2017-02-18 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Only on a side note and not really a problem: MT.BAUD (and the equivalent SMSQ/E trap) is documented to return "ERR.BP" on an unsupported baud rate. "BAUD 9700" on QPC does, however, return "not implemented" Tobias > Am 18.02.2017 um 11:23 schrieb Marcel Kilgus : >

Re: [Ql-Users] R: QPC2 and a few more surprises

2017-01-26 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Marcel, judging from the birthday cake picture, Miss Kilgus seems to be the chocolate type ;) Happy Birthday! (And thanks for making some more QL stuff available) Tobias > Am 25.01.2017 um 21:39 schrieb d.santachi...@libero.it: > > Thank you Marcel (and the other guys who kindly released

Re: [Ql-Users] Behaviour of DIV with negative numbers in SBASIC (QPC2)

2017-01-06 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Yep. Same is true for the Turbo compiler. Tobias > Am 06.01.2017 um 17:07 schrieb Bob Spelten <b...@upcmail.nl>: > > Op Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:49:09 +0100 schreef Tobias Fröschle > <tobias.froesc...@t-online.de <mailto:tobias.froesc...@t-online.de>>: > &

Re: [Ql-Users] Behaviour of DIV with negative numbers in SBASIC (QPC2)

2017-01-06 Thread Tobias Fröschle
h.h...@gmail.com>: > > Thank you Tobias! > > Makes sense with that context. > > M. > > On 05/01/2017 15:49, Tobias Fröschle wrote: >> Martyn, >> >> Integer division for negative numbers is not very well defined. Language >> designers get to choo

Re: [Ql-Users] Behaviour of DIV with negative numbers in SBASIC (QPC2)

2017-01-05 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Martyn, Integer division for negative numbers is not very well defined. Language designers get to choose if their language will round towards zero, negative infinity, or positive infinity when doing integer division. Different languages have made different choices. S*Basic designers have

Re: [Ql-Users] QPAC2 and Buttons

2016-10-16 Thread Tobias Fröschle
> Am 16.10.2016 um 17:14 schrieb Bob Spelten : > > Op Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:11:10 +0200 schreef pjwitte : > >> On 14/10/2016 17:34, Bob Spelten wrote: >>> Op Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:18:31 +0200 schreef pjwitte : >>> Could poeple please tell

Re: [Ql-Users] QPAC2 and Buttons

2016-10-14 Thread Tobias Fröschle
For some reason, my (German) QPC + QPAC2 installation has both a "Button_Schlaf" and a "Button_Sleep" thing. I do, however, go with you, Ralf, that localization of Thing names isn't the brightest of ideas Tobias > Am 14.10.2016 um 18:11 schrieb Ralf Reköndt : >

Re: [Ql-Users] Why so slow?

2016-08-06 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Have you tried converting to a *freshly formatted* (instead of "made empty") win7 qxl-win file? It could well be that the win7 format is somehow corrupted. Tobias > Am 06.08.2016 um 11:46 schrieb François Van Emelen > : > > Yesterday evening I copied my win2_

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

2016-07-09 Thread Tobias Fröschle
What the whole thing boils down to is probably: Do I care if someone is blocking my driveway? Do I care if someone is blocking my neighbor's driveway? Do I care if someone is blocking my neighbor's driveway that hasn't been used by them for 25 years? In all but the first case, I don't - It's

Re: [Ql-Users] Balled

2016-06-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Hmm. I did that? And, according to the docs there is no IS_EXTN in there? Tobias > Am 19.06.2016 um 19:29 schrieb Wolf <w...@wlenerz.com>: > > Hi, > As the site says, load the outptr extensions first... > HT > > Wolfgang > > On 06/19/2016 07:20 PM, T

Re: [Ql-Users] Balled

2016-06-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Wolfgang, very nice of you to make this available. I do, however, get a QLib error message: Job 12 BALLED! Line 18900 IS_EXTN I seem to be missing a machine code file. Thanks, Tobias > Am 19.06.2016 um 14:55 schrieb Wolf : > > Hi all, > > I've uploaded the game BALLED (a

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 arrays

2016-06-03 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Michael, I am using C68 quite a lot on the QL and have not experienced anything like that. I would rather suppose the problem is somewhere else in your code. Can you specify the exact version of C68 you are using? Are you willing to show a minimum version of your code that exposes this

Re: [Ql-Users] Buffering for native drivers

2016-03-15 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Peter, I have a small SD card driver here that I can compile either with the "standard" QDOS slaving mechanism or, alternatively, no slaving (except buffering the directory and one additional "scratch" block buffer) at all. Benchmarking even small, repeated accesses to files is 99% identical

Re: [Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions

2016-01-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, to my knowledge, none of the available PC emulators except QPC2 support CPUs >68000. QDos on Amiga possibly can, but that would be a different story. Tobias (who is also looking forward to the continuation of your series) > Am 30.01.2016 um 12:46 schrieb Wolf : >

Re: [Ql-Users] lower bound of common heap allocated space

2016-01-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
All, Apparently the header of a heap item is a data structure we’re not supposed to know what it is like, but some seem (or mean) to know. Apparently, this is also different for QDOS and SMSQ/E: The QDOS Technical guide describes the heap item header a bit differently: "Each heap item is an

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

2016-01-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Dilwyn, The duplicates you get are the ones that miss me, apparently. The list seems to be eating up somewhat like 40% of the messages since some months Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 17. Januar 2016 18:13:41 schrieb "Dilwyn Jones"

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

2016-01-13 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Marcos, that is not exactly trivial to do portably over all QDOSMSQ platforms. Below a recipe how I do it: Check for PE (IOP.PINF). If available, screen extent is easy: you can get scr_xlim and scr_ylim via the IOP.FLIM PE call. (If not, xlim is a bit more difficult and ylim not 100% possible

Re: [Ql-Users] screen info in assembler

2016-01-13 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Yep, Dillwyn’s code does more or less what I described, except that it uses SD.EXTOP to get to the channel definition block. But it doesn’t get the screen extent right on uqlx without PE. (Which, as I said, is not possible for scr_ylim anyhow and thus maybe not so relevant ;) ) Code I write

Re: [Ql-Users] Floating Point Questions

2015-08-14 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Jan Jones is right on the 0 She’s wrong on the -1 (because the value „07c000“ is -0.25) She’s right on the „1“, I can verify that, also the manuals say the same Actually, for some floating point numbers, there is different forms you can express them correctly in floating point form - That’s

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL clone

2015-08-13 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Well, GC is already there somehow ;) It implements a 68000 CPU at 7.5 MHz, so is already somewhat faster than the original. Other 68k implementations on the MiST have 68k20 CPUs running at well beyond 25MHz. There’s still a lot of potential. Tobias Am 13.08.2015 um 21:36 schrieb Urs Koenig

Re: [Ql-Users] [OT] W10

2015-08-01 Thread Tobias Fröschle
except Edge and Cortana, which means nothing to me, as I use FF. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Tobias Fröschle Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 137, Issue 27 Yes W10 has the very nasty tendency to „phone home

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 137, Issue 27

2015-08-01 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 31.07.2015 um 22:57 schrieb paul paulh...@ameritech.net: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:58:43 +0200 From: pjwitte pjwi...@online.no To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win10 On 29/05/2015 13:09, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Has anyone tried QPC2 on the Windows 10 technical

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-08-01 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 01.08.2015 um 18:29 schrieb Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: ... Please excuse my brevity... I had a laugh at this one. Somehow the list decided to send me your post three times ;) Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Nice! That means you were able to fix it? Great. Can’t wait to try that myself. Tobias Am 30.07.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15146505/IMG_20150728_230655.jpg. SMSQ/E 3.22 on my STe. Michael On 30 July 2015 at

Re: [Ql-Users] wtd: QXL2

2015-07-24 Thread Tobias Fröschle
with a processor and ISA slot. Ian - Original Message - From: Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] wtd: QXL2 Am 23.07.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund

Re: [Ql-Users] wtd: QXL2

2015-07-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 23.07.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: Hi Since I have set out on the quest of getting a dedicated QL like computer I am now considering the alternatives.. My first thought was to use my Atari, but since it got a very limited screen it is a little

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-20 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 20.07.2015 um 19:28 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: Is there documentation on how the kernel starts up? Ie where are the drivers? Does SMSQ/E always depend on another kernel? The _driver_ files seems most empty. For example where does it get the framebuffer (the

Re: [Ql-Users] atari smsqe revisited

2015-07-20 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 20.07.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: Is there a way to let the user generate a SMSQ.PRG for Atari? SMSQ/E is not only SGC or QPC2 or SMSQmulator. Atari was in the first place, so still has to be maintained. Cheers...Ralf That’s what Michael is

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 19.07.2015 um 10:12 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 18/07/15 22:36, jms1 wrote: The real problem is the locations for the win1 to 8 is hard coded in the scource of smsq and smsqe. Either alter the source code, assembling or hack smsq.bin or smsqe.bin by removing the drive

Re: [Ql-Users] gwass , SMSQmulator

2015-07-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 19.07.2015 um 13:03 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: Hi I am trying to relearn M68K assembler using the excellent book that was posted to this list. The problem I have now is that I can't get gwass to work. It starts ,but as soon as I try to do something (quit

Re: [Ql-Users] gwass , SMSQmulator

2015-07-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 19.07.2015 um 17:26 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: On 19 July 2015 at 13:15, Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: Am 19.07.2015 um 13:03 schrieb Michael Grunditz michael.grund...@gmail.com: Hi I am trying to relearn M68K assembler using

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Well, I have som win files lying on the SAN’s network drives. That makes it easy to exchange files between QPC2s running on different machines. Tobias Am 19.07.2015 um 19:45 schrieb John Gilpin thegilp...@btinternet.com: I have a .win file on a pen-stick which I use for storing the NEMQLUG

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-18 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 18.07.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: On 17/07/15 20:53, pjwitte wrote: On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win10

2015-05-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, no comments on your sanity :) , but yes, you’re right: QPC2 will not run on the (any) RasPi, because it’s x86 architecture vs. ARM on the Pi (at least unless Marcel is going to do an entire rewrite, which I dare to doubt) Tobias Am 30.05.2015 um 10:12 schrieb Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS / SMS,Reference Manual ebook

2015-05-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Dilwyn, Derek: There’s no mentioning of an IOF.TEST anywhere in the SMSQ/E 3.21 sources. Tobias Am 12.05.2015 um 21:10 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: Hi Dilwyn, I have not looked at my paper copy of the manual, just used the PDF version. According to the PDF version: IOF.POSA

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: Why does WM_SETUP - never return an error?

2015-04-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 23.04.2015 um 11:34 schrieb Wolf w...@wlenerz.com: Hi Marcel, so back then programmers were expected to know what they're doing ;-) Well that never worked, did it? Really good comment, Wolfgang - Made my day! ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Why does WM_SETUP - never return an error?

2015-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, it probably was a „If we can’t get them all, we probably shouldn’t even start looking for them“-decision. Potential of lurking errors in window definitions is immense and a full check of the definition in WM_SETUP is maybe a bit ambitious. After all, the Tebby team used the QPTR

Re: [Ql-Users] Why does WM_SETUP - never return an error?

2015-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, this is the best I could possible come up with so far (can’t find my own code anymore…) These are routines Easysource includes as app win menu handling code when you generate an application without a fixed menu. They don’t, however, cover any of the actual list allocation tasks.

Re: [Ql-Users] Why does WM_SETUP - never return an error?

2015-04-19 Thread Tobias Fröschle
in the working definition. The code goes in easy understandable steps, nicely commented and is nice to follow as it is C and comes with an explanatory document (in the EG sub-directory). Tobias Am 19.04.2015 um 11:06 schrieb Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de: Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News

2015-01-06 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, all, just again a big „Thanks“ for the book. I managed to print the whole thing on A4 double-sided and stapled before Christmas so I now have a nicely readable book. It made a fine bedside (and bathtub, sometimes ;) ) reading over the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately I’m finished

Re: [Ql-Users] DEV_ device and Q-emuLator

2014-12-31 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Petri, The dev_ device needs HOTKEY System 2 to work on bare-bone QLs. (That is where the „not implemented“ comes from, and, in my opinion, an omission from the manual) Once you load that, everything should work as needed. Happy New Year to all, Tobias Am 31.12.2014 um 14:13 schrieb Petri

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News

2014-12-05 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Norman, the universe is known to be endless - So it must have been implemented on a CPU supporting virtual memory - 68020, at least. Tobias Am 05.12.2014 um 22:09 schrieb Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: Hi Per, I'm sure the universe was written in 4004 assembly! Cheers, Norm.

Re: [Ql-Users] Paruse Partyp

2014-11-29 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Hi Francois, Hi all, (Is there still someone listening here?) I guess so ? Three questions First one has apparently been answered already. 2. Is there a way to find out how many languages are supported (English,French,..)? Not to my knowledge. 3. Once we know which language is

Re: [Ql-Users] Unicode translation of QL char 181 (0xB5)?

2014-10-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Ah. Someone looking into VFAT? Could be (although that’s a „real“ „S“) Unicode Hex U+1E63 Character Name LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW General CategoryLowercase Letter [Code: Ll] Canonical Combining Class 0 Bidirectional Category L Decomposition Mapping 0073 0323

Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 attendees

2014-10-10 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Well, it's actually not that bad. After the first wee dram was down, I got everything Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 10. Oktober 2014 22:22:29 schrieb Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt

Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 Dinner

2014-09-04 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 04.09.2014 um 22:49 schrieb Derek Stewart de...@q40.de: I have got no problems with the menu, except I do not like whiskey these days… Can I have yours, then? ;) I’m fine with the menu as well. Cheers, Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Sudoku. Was: screenshoots

2014-07-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle
truey retro ;) Tobias Am 30.07.2014 um 03:55 schrieb paul paulh...@ameritech.net: On 1/9/2006 6:17 AM, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) wrote: Την Mon, 09 Jan 2006 03:33:44 -0500,ο(η) nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk έγραψε: snip In addition, Geoff, I have *almost* got a working Sudoku

Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 dinner

2014-06-18 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Geoff, my 2ct on that: Italian and Chinese can be had just about everywhere in the world - British food (maybe for one or the other good reason ;) ) only in the UK. As a foreign visitor, I’d vote for the local food. With respect to the „when“ question, I’d personally prefer to have the dinner

Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 web page

2014-06-16 Thread Tobias Fröschle
/2014 12:48, Geoff Wicks wrote: On 15/06/2014 20:09, Tobias Fröschle wrote: Hmm. Page doesn't work for me. 'you don't have permission to access...' Regards, Tobias I have no idea what has gone wrong here. Could it be the device you are using? Try going to my normal website and access the page

Re: [Ql-Users] QLis30 web page

2014-06-15 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Hmm. Page doesn't work for me. 'you don't have permission to access...' Regards, Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 15. Juni 2014 10:15:18 schrieb Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com: The QLis30 web page is now online: www.gwicks.net/QLis30.htm It is

Re: [Ql-Users] GST QC

2014-06-02 Thread Tobias Fröschle
This is a new feature of qpc v4. You can mount floppy disk images. Tobias Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 2. Juni 2014 17:35:58 schrieb Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de: How did you do THAT??? Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Wolfgang

Re: [Ql-Users] QPTR Manual

2014-04-30 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Wolfgang, are you willing to further maintain the documents? Two issues came to my mind that are present in newer PTR/WMAN versions and not covered in the documents anywhere yet (Some people will never be satisfied… ;) ): There’s still some mentioning here and there that jobs that don’t have

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