Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 23/Aug/12 18:37 | Aug23: On 23/08/12 16:26, Tony Firshman wrote: I find mine *does* need an external power supply when running some keyboards. Yes, the two USB ports are poly-fused to 100mA each. Some keyboards and/or mice draw more so the fuses kick in and increase

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-24 Thread Tony firshman
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Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-26 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 23/Aug/12 18:37 | Aug23: On 23/08/12 16:26, Tony Firshman wrote: I find mine *does* need an external power supply when running some keyboards. Yes, the two USB ports are poly-fused to 100mA each. Some keyboards and/or mice draw more so the fuses kick in and increase

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-26 Thread Tony Firshman
Tony Firshman wrote, on 26/Aug/12 12:12 | Aug26: Norman Dunbar wrote, on 23/Aug/12 18:37 | Aug23: On 23/08/12 16:26, Tony Firshman wrote: I find mine *does* need an external power supply when running some keyboards. Yes, the two USB ports are poly-fused to 100mA each. Some keyboards and/or

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 7/Sep/12 16:10 | Sep7: Hi Bryan, On 07/09/12 15:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote: It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did, providing programming straight away, or the Xchange suite if needed. No need for it to b

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 starts

2012-09-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Bob Spelten wrote, on 19/Sep/12 11:25 | Sep19: Bob/ Op Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:56:29 +0200 schreef Jochen Merz : Dear Readers, just wanted to let you know that issue 1 of volume 17 of QL Today has been picked up from the printer. 52 pages this time!! :-) It also reached Amsterdam yesterday. Ne

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: QL Today Volume 17 starts

2012-09-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Bob Spelten wrote, on 19/Sep/12 13:35 | Sep19: --- Doorgestuurd bericht --- Van: "Bob Spelten" Aan: "Tony Firshman" Cc: Onderwerp: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 starts Datum: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:25:55 +0200 Op Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:31:44 +0200 schreef Tony Firs

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: QL Today Volume 17 starts

2012-09-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Bob Spelten wrote, on 19/Sep/12 14:45 | Sep19: Op Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:41:12 +0200 schreef Tony Firshman : Bob Spelten wrote, on 19/Sep/12 13:35 | Sep19: --- Doorgestuurd bericht --- Van: "Bob Spelten" Aan: "Tony Firshman" Cc: Onderwerp: Re: [Ql-Users] QL To

Re: [Ql-Users] Websites

2012-09-23 Thread Tony Firshman
cheaply than I run mine. The host is Tony Firshman and I understand the owner of the site gets a good service from him. You missed out a line I think. You are talking I am sure about Dilwyn's site. I currently charge £18 per year plus VAT. Last year Quanta spent £346 on its website, whi

Re: [Ql-Users] New game for the QL under development

2012-09-24 Thread Tony Firshman
Francois Lanciault wrote, on 25/Sep/12 04:03 | Sep25: Hi Thorsten, I had the idea for this project after designing a gimbal for an antenna on a satellite at work. I had to work with 3D transformation matrices for the beam pointing, especially rotation matrices. Having this renewed knowledge of

Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up

2012-09-27 Thread Tony Firshman
Dave Walker wrote, on 27/Sep/12 07:50 | Sep27: -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of QL-MyLink (f/fh) Sent: 26 September 2012 16:59 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up Greetings! I live i

Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up

2012-09-27 Thread Tony Firshman
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 27/Sep/12 08:46 | Sep27: Hello John, We have Virgin (ex Nynex) in the street and my neighbour is on it. The essential difference is that the copper to the house is broadband co-axial, not ordinary twisted pair, as it was set up for cable TV. The Government trumpeted a

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Ql-Users Digest, Vol 103, Issue 10

2012-09-27 Thread Tony Firshman
Quanta Webmaster wrote, on 27/Sep/12 22:30 | Sep27: Hi All (my apologies if this mail has been sent twice but I seem to have difficulties sending from my main account) This year I took over as the web master, but I had been working alongside the previous web master as the web admin for some time

Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up

2012-10-08 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 8/Oct/12 14:40 | Oct8: On 29/09/12 18:42, QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote: (Not to mention the Distant Dunbar Duchy.) Duchy? Kingdom, surely? ;-) Just checked by "up to 60" Virgin speed - I'm getting 57-58 at the moment. Which is fine for allowing me to work from my own office,

Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 16/Oct/12 16:17 | Oct16: Norman/ On 16/10/12 11:43, Bryan Horstmann wrote: Somehow we've got into top reply, so I will follow. I've just realised that one USB keyboard I have is a radio one so I get a bonus of keyboard and mouse using only one USB. Back to bottom pos

Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi

2012-10-17 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 17/Oct/12 09:47 | Oct17: Norman/ > You need a good ringlight magnifier and 1mm soldering iron. That set-up, even with my old eyes, allowed soldering of the .5mm pitch pins on Romdisq. Well, I have a "helping hands" with a decent magnifying glass that I used and a geo

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Web site down?

2012-10-18 Thread Tony Firshman
matras...@aol.com wrote, on 18/Oct/12 20:10 | Oct18: The Quanta site has been down for at least 2 days. Has Quanta closed down? Regards Duncan The domain is still valid: Domain name: quanta.org.uk Registrant: Mr John Gilpin for QUANTA Registrant ty

Re: [Ql-Users] QL keyboard on Raspberry-pi

2012-10-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 19/Oct/12 09:32 | Oct19: Bryan/ Is there an easy/in-expensive way to use the QL keyboard, which I find quite OK, on a R-pi? Interesting to know though if anyone can come up with a method. The starting point I guess is an I/O device to convert the QL row/column into a

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Web site down?

2012-10-19 Thread Tony Firshman
George Gwilt wrote, on 19/Oct/12 17:10 | Oct19: Geirge (sic)/ On 19 Oct 2012, at 12:48, Geoff Wicks wrote: The Quanta site has been down for at least 2 days. Has Quanta closed down? Regards Duncan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Web site down?

2012-10-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Tony Firshman wrote, on 19/Oct/12 17:22 | Oct19: George Gwilt wrote, on 19/Oct/12 17:10 | Oct19: Geirge (sic)/ On 19 Oct 2012, at 12:48, Geoff Wicks wrote: The Quanta site has been down for at least 2 days. Has Quanta closed down? Regards Duncan

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Web site down?

2012-10-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 19/Oct/12 17:29 | Oct19: "Geraldine Muchova, a Scot who loved through the communist Czech darkness and emerged with her integrity intact, has died at the great age of 95." It would be nice to imagine it wasn't a misprint. I gather, perhaps, that the communists didn't

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL running a qualification test for a space component

2012-11-23 Thread Tony Firshman
On 23 Nov 2012, at 06:13, Francois Lanciault wrote: > Hi group, here is a short story for you this morning: > > My trusty QL is controlling a test setup built to qualify a new component for > space use as we speak. > > To make the story short, I work for a company that build satellite and o

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL running a qualification test for a space component

2012-11-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote, on 23/Nov/12 09:17 | Nov23: On 23/11/2012 07:13, Francois Lanciault wrote: . But it did work. I closed the door and set the temperature to -50degC. Hi, was the QL in the chamber, too, or outside and just connected through a serial lead? Yes that was a mite ambiguous.

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL running a qualification test for a space component

2012-11-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Francois Lanciault wrote, on 23/Nov/12 12:23 | Nov23: The QL is sitting outside the chamber... The servo controller is connected directly on the back of the QL and long leads are going from the controller to the test setup through an opening in the thermal chamber. The chamber is also purged wi

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQE Licence Change

2012-11-24 Thread Tony Firshman
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote, on 24/Nov/12 07:38 | Nov24: Hi all, this is just to let you know that the SMSQE licence will be changed. From the SMSQE licence, we will move towards a (new) BSD style licence, which essentially means that anyone can do with the source code anything he likes, and also d

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql emulation on Raspberrypi

2012-12-09 Thread Tony Firshman
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 9/Dec/12 11:41 | Dec9: Is Python procedure/function based like SBASIC? Absolutely - like Perl. No line numbers used either. It is ironic that superBasic actually needs none but forces them. Python differs from most similar languages (including Perl and C) in not u

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql emulation on Raspberrypi

2012-12-09 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 9/Dec/12 16:11 | Dec9: On 09/12/12 15:43, Tony Firshman wrote: Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 9/Dec/12 11:41 | Dec9: Is Python procedure/function based like SBASIC? if anyone is interested, and/or if it's deemed applicable fro QL Today, I'd be willing to do a sm

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql emulation on Raspberrypi

2012-12-10 Thread Tony Firshman
Computer Research Centrum, Ltd wrote, on 10/Dec/12 08:05 | Dec10: I was looking at the Python 3.3.0 sourceswith a view to porting to the QL with C68. Will be porting of Perl instead Python easier and more appropriate for a QL limited in its resources (speed, memory, ...)? Perl was running quit

Re: [Ql-Users] QL keyboard on Raspberry-pi

2012-12-18 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Dec/12 10:18 | Dec18: That's a great little video. I like things such as the SD card being plugged in via the ROM slot and the original plastic being put in place over the SD card. If you follow the link given, there's a web article about it with useful information such

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 Issue 2 is on its way to ALL subscribers!

2012-12-24 Thread Tony Firshman
thorsten herbert wrote, on 24/Dec/12 10:41 | Dec24: Thorsten/ Got it today, thank you very much! At he meeting in Hamburg ... will there be some hardware gurus? I may could get my QL + Goldcard + Qimi fixed? To all a very nice Christmas and a happy new year! Best,T

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from a RasPi

2013-01-08 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 8/Jan/13 19:34 | Jan8: Tobias/ Amazon EU is currently selling the Mororola Atrix docking station (originally intended to extend one of their smartphones onto a netbook and priced at rather steep 299€) at ~70€. This is a perfect extension for the Raspberry pi as it al

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from a RasPi

2013-01-08 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 8/Jan/13 19:34 | Jan8: all, Amazon EU is currently selling the Mororola Atrix docking station (originally intended to extend one of their smartphones onto a netbook and priced at rather steep 299€) at ~70€. This is a perfect extension for the Raspberry pi as it also c

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi

2013-01-08 Thread Tony Firshman
On 8 Jan 2013, at 23:14, Tobias Fröschle wrote: > All, > (Have somehow been cut off from ql-users and have now resubscribed) > > the modifications to the cabling as shown in the video seem to be necessary > only on older RPi revisions. Mine (received in November) worked without > modificatio

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi

2013-01-09 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 9/Jan/13 15:19 | Jan9: Tony, Instead of using a second adapter, I use a micro HDMI male to standard HDMI male Adapter, Plus a standard HDMI male to female cable. That was the simplest to get from within easy reach. Two adapters in line are probably too easy to break with

Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey

2013-01-10 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 10/Jan/13 10:55 | Jan10: Norman/ As an author of a couple of articles in QL Today over the past 16 volumes (That's 16.5 years - my first article was "The Black Hole" in Volume 1, Issue 2 in July/August 1996!) I'm wondering, who (other than George) actually reads my stuff?

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from a RasPi

2013-01-11 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 8/Jan/13 19:34 | Jan8: Tobias/ Amazon EU is currently selling the Mororola Atrix docking station (originally intended to extend one of their smartphones onto a netbook and priced at rather steep 299€) at ~70€. This is a perfect extension for the Raspberry pi as it al

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi

2013-01-11 Thread Tony Firshman
Dave Walker wrote, on 9/Jan/13 12:05 | Jan9: Dave/ Regarding the USB, then yes the newer Pi's can back-power through their standard USB ports. If you have an older Pi with polyfuses on the USB ports, then the easiest thing to do is the 'PiPass' mod which connects the +ve and Ground wires of th

Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi

2013-01-11 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 11/Jan/13 16:51 | Jan11: Hi Tony, On 11/01/13 16:49, Tony Firshman wrote: Do you have a link to the mod? Googling fails, although there are *plenty* of references to it. It will save me back-engineering the connector pins. I'm not sure about the PiPass mod of

Re: [Ql-Users] .co.uk domain, where to register?

2013-01-14 Thread Tony Firshman
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 14/Jan/13 10:55 | Jan14: We use gandi.net at work. .co.uk domains seem to cost 7 euros per year through them. I use gandi (French owned) as well. Gandi have proved perfect in every respect. All my domains (and I run dozens for people) in one account. Their settings

Re: [Ql-Users] QLs and Super Gold Cards

2013-01-15 Thread Tony Firshman
Rich Mellor wrote, on 15/Jan/13 11:04 | Jan15: Rich/ Has anyone ever come across an issue with using a QL and Super Gold Card ? I sold a Super Gold Card to a customer, and he said that when plugged into his QL, he gets just vertical black and white stripes. He has tried it with and without the

Re: [Ql-Users] QLs and Super Gold Cards

2013-01-15 Thread Tony Firshman
Rich Mellor wrote, on 15/Jan/13 11:16 | Jan15: Rich/ On 15/01/2013 11:12, Tony Firshman wrote: Rich Mellor wrote, on 15/Jan/13 11:04 | Jan15: Rich/ Has anyone ever come across an issue with using a QL and Super Gold Card ? I sold a Super Gold Card to a customer, and he said that when

[Ql-Users] Bill Richardson

2013-01-15 Thread Tony Firshman
I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson and EEC. He has just died well into his 90s. His funeral is at 15:15 on January 21st at Amersham crematorium. All are welcome to come. Driving west out of Amersham on the A413 take the A404 to High Wycombe (straight on

Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson

2013-01-15 Thread Tony Firshman
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 15/Jan/13 19:06 | Jan15: Tony Firshman wrote: I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson and EEC. He has just died well into his 90s. Very bad news, how sad! My deepest condolences. I've met Bill a couple of times at QL-Shows and

Re: [Ql-Users] Bill Richardson

2013-01-19 Thread Tony Firshman
Thanks for all the kind words about Bill. I am going to pass them on to his son and daughter on Monday. Any more received by midday on Monday will be passed on to them in person. thanks, Tony -- t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255

Re: [Ql-Users] QLay Linux

2013-01-22 Thread Tony Firshman
Timothy Swenson wrote, on 22/Jan/13 03:08 | Jan22: Another option is for the user to try the DOS version using DOSBOX on Linux. DOSBOX is great for running old DOS software. I've run stuff that was created in 1986 and it ran fine. I too use it for my 16 bit Arcplus business software (Archi

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 23/Jan/13 16:01 | Jan23: Not on my system it doesn't in a dos box!!! That's exactly what I typed in. It gives the error I mentioned earlier. Must be some setup option or paths option which affects this. The view in Control Panel varies between Windows versions, obviously.

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 23/Jan/13 16:33 | Jan23: Dilwyn/ That may be because your java is old (or non-existent!). Java 7 Update 10. Maybe a reinstall is in order... Check where your java.exe is and that it is ith the system PATH. Mine is in C:\Windows\system32\ >PATH PATH=C:\Windows\system32

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 23/Jan/13 17:42 | Jan23: That may be because your java is old (or non-existent!). Java 7 Update 10. Maybe a reinstall is in order... Check where your java.exe is and that it is ith the system PATH. Mine is in C:\Windows\system32\ PATH PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Wi

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-27 Thread Tony Firshman
Marcel Kilgus wrote, on 27/Jan/13 18:05 | Jan27: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Well, drawing to the screen is heavy on the resources, ESPECIALLY when one is in QL compatible mode. Basically, I redraw the ENTIRE screen once for every pixel changed (or every 2 or 4 fixels in QL mode). If anyone could poi

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 14:39 | Jan28: Woflgang Oops I've been typing "Wolfgang" in error for years it would appear... ;-) Dilwyn Jones You're 'speaking' as someone half the world thinks is Dylwin. Tiny (As I sometimes type by mistoke. Deviously I typed 'Tony' when I tried to

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 15:19 | Jan28: Dyliwin/ Woflgang Oops I've been typing "Wolfgang" in error for years it would appear... ;-) Dilwyn Jones You're 'speaking' as someone half the world thinks is Dylwin. He he, that's certainly the most common (of many) miss-spelinnggs of my nam

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 15:52 | Jan28: Dulooin Now that is getting silly (8-)# Of course, that was the point. I know, I know, hence my smiley. English almost makes it a valid spelling (remember the "ghoti"="fish" from a well known author?). Apparently not. It is supposed to be

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 28/Jan/13 16:18 | Jan28: On 28/01/13 15:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: He firmly subscribes to the notion that Guinness doesn't travel well outside of Ireland. Like most Irishmen, he would say Guinness can only be at its best in Ireland and event hen only if properly poured and

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
George Gwilt wrote, on 28/Jan/13 16:27 | Jan28: On 28 Jan 2013, at 16:21, Tony Firshman wrote: I had a single malt from Islay on New Year's Eve and it tasted like tarmac (8-)# I find it better from a glass than from the road. Was it Ardbeg? I can't remember - too much wine befo

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 16:29 | Jan28: Of course, we Jocks are prone to adding them in as well, how about "There's been a mude!" ;-) Cheers, Norm. You've been watching too much Taggarrrt on TV! (8-)# That is *exactly* who/what I was thinking of well before I got to the '

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 16:32 | Jan28: I tried Guinness once. That was enough. My opinion is that Guinness shouldn't be allowed to travel outside Ireland - or the brewery for that matter. I suspect that might just provoke Darren to appear! In addition, it is best enjoyed by simply pou

Re: [Ql-Users] Names

2013-01-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Jan/13 16:27 | Jan28: Must be hard for a non-Welsh speaker (although IIRC you have a Welsh parent?) Mum. She learned English only at primary school. I know very very little as Welsh was not spoken to us at home at all. Language dies in one generation so easily. T

Re: [Ql-Users] help shake cobwebby loose in Yee Old Brain

2013-01-29 Thread Tony Firshman
John wrote, on 29/Jan/13 10:05 | Jan29: On 28/01/13 21:33:39, paul wrote: But (Murphy's Law) after a bit of reflecting on what I saw inside this old QL has me questioning that memory. I Do recall reading that most PM version QL's had the 'dongle' to get the ROM code past the 32K memory range.

Re: [Ql-Users] Easy68K

2013-01-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 31/Jan/13 14:47 | Jan31: On 31/01/13 14:39, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Stumbled across something seemingly useful for 68K assembler developers, not sure if it’s been mentioned before but here goes. It’s something called Easy68K, an editor, assembler and simulator for the 68000

Re: [Ql-Users] Printing from XCHANGE

2013-02-04 Thread Tony Firshman
Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 4/Feb/13 10:29 | Feb4: Hello all, Printing from XCHANGE My printer has parallel interface. For QL, a ser/parallel convertor is fine. PC XCHANGE in DOSBOX on W2000 laptop with parallel O/P printed ok. Current VISTA laptop USB only. USB/parallel convertor works fine

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator v. 1.10

2013-02-26 Thread Tony Firshman
François Van Emelen wrote, on 26/Feb/13 17:19 | Feb26: Op 26/02/2013 17:45, François Van Emelen schreef: Op 23/02/2013 20:45, Wolfgang Lenerz schreef: Hi all, v. 1.10 is on the website. Please upgrade, v. 1.08 & 1.09 could under some circumstances screw up the free space list of a qxl.win con

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: Acrobatic QL

2013-02-28 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 28/Feb/13 21:05 | Feb28: Hi everyone, I received the email below from a Quanta member. Can anyone help? He hasn’t mentioned what add-ons are on his QL, I suspect if it’s a Super Gold Card or Minerva it might be set to restart automatically (e.g. AUTO_TK2F1 or AUTO_TK2F2 o

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Francois Lanciault wrote: > A stupid idea just came up to me. > > Knowing that it is difficult for various reasons to make a 680X0 board as > fast or faster than the GoldCard, would it be possible to... make an > accelerator board for the GoldCard itself ? (Or SGC for t

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: > The Gold Card and Super Gold Card are quite different in this respect. > > The custom logic on the GC and SCG that I have are both Altera chips that > max out at 50MHz, which gives a top CPU speed of 25 MHz. However, the SGC > clocks the CPU at 24MHz,

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Tony Firshman > > > wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: > > > > > The Gold Card and Super Gold Card are quite different in this respect. > > > > &g

Re: [Ql-Users] MPlanes....

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Dave Park wrote, on 12/Mar/13 19:36 | Mar12: I have assembled the remaining stock of TF Services' MPlane. These are a great upgrade if you're using a less reliable backplane. Mplane is a low profile backplane to allow three QL expansions and the original motherboard or Aurora to be fitted in a

Re: [Ql-Users] MPlanes....

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 12/Mar/13 20:01 | Mar12: Well, I once built a QL board in a case with a simple expansion PCB for connecting an SQB, a QFlash EPROM board and a QEP III programmer outside to a separate connector. No separate power supply and no capacitors and all worked well the whole time.

Re: [Ql-Users] MPlanes....

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Dave Park wrote, on 12/Mar/13 20:11 | Mar12: Some people have really great, nicely tuned, quiet QLs that will be running 'til the power goes. Some people don't. :) I can attest from my own experimenting to find out why my QL+QPlane kept crashing, some of the lines were noisy and the power wasn't

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] CPU/OS differences.

2013-03-16 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 16/Mar/13 19:15 | Mar16: Am 16.03.2013 um 17:16 schrieb Dave Park: Hi all, It's been mentioned that vanilla QDOS/Minerva doesn't run happily on 68EC020 due to CPU differences. The GC/SGC copies and patches the OS to work with the EC020 CPU, and to relocate certain re

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Timothy Swenson wrote, on 19/Mar/13 23:42 | Mar19: On 3/19/2013 4:13 PM, nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: It is produced using the Scribus publishing package which is available for free,form Linux, Windows and Mac (as far as I know). I've been a user of Scribus for about 6 years. I did an e-zine

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 20/Mar/13 10:45 | Mar20: Morning Tony, On 20/03/13 08:26, Tony Firshman wrote: Am I missing something here? Probably not. Any software under any system, be it Windows, Linux or Mac, can print to pdf. True these days. However, would you want to set up a magazine in

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Bob Spelten wrote, on 20/Mar/13 10:58 | Mar20: Op Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:26:31 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman : Timothy Swenson wrote, on 19/Mar/13 23:42 | Mar19: On 3/19/2013 4:13 PM, nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote: It is produced using the Scribus publishing package which is available for free

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
WILLIAM WAUGH wrote, on 20/Mar/13 11:34 | Mar20: Well if everyone bought as many newspapers as I do the problem would no longer exist but then who would tell taxi drivers what to think (apologies to any free thinking taxi drivers). How did PDF become so popular anyway, I find it a bit Par

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 20/Mar/13 12:31 | Mar20: Hi Geoff, On 20/03/13 12:26, Geoff Wicks wrote: Why do we have to think in terms of a magazine? Good point. Maybe because we are discussing a replacement for a magazine perhaps? What's wrong with a (simple) rolling website? I cannot read a w

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
WILLIAM WAUGH wrote, on 20/Mar/13 13:46 | Mar20: Bill/ BTW you need to set your mailer to use quote characters. Without them the email you were replying to (snipped) looks part of what you were saying. Apologies to all firstly for duplicate posting and also for this top posting reply ( I'm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Dave Park wrote, on 20/Mar/13 17:02 | Mar20: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Geoff Wicks wrote: So let's move on to another problem that everyone has dodged so far. Where are the writers going to come from? One of the reasons QL Today is closing down is that we did not have sufficient write

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: Sad though this is, I have to say it seems me inevitable this was going to happen sooner or later. The constant increase in postal rates is self defeating, the more they go up, the less poeple send. Really - so one leg is sending letters (8-)# Yo

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
George Gwilt wrote, on 20/Mar/13 18:07 | Mar20: On 20 Mar 2013, at 18:00, Tony Firshman wrote: Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: Sad though this is, I have to say it seems me inevitable this was going to happen sooner or later. The constant increase in postal rates is self

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
- From: "George Gwilt" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today > > > >> On 20 Mar 2013, at 18:18, Tony Firshman wrote: >> >> George Gwilt wrote, on 20/Mar/13 18:07 | Mar20: >>> >>>> >>

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
John Taylor wrote, on 20/Mar/13 21:27 | Mar20: John/ On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:06, Tony Firshman wrote: On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Ian Burkinshaw wrote: Thankyou to everybody for correcting my grammer, I am now considered told off. so I had better not tell you of for your spelling

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: I have just noticed you are in the future! You need to give your computer clock a kick. Tony -- t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfiel

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Tony Firshman
Tony Firshman wrote, on 21/Mar/13 00:11 | Mar21: Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27: I have just noticed you are in the future! You need to give your computer clock a kick. . or if you are really in next week, please tell me Saturday's lottery numbers (privately!).

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
George Gwilt wrote, on 21/Mar/13 11:05 | Mar21: On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:06, Tony Firshman wrote: Thankyou to everybody for correcting my grammer, I am now considered told off. so I had better not tell you of for your spelling of 'grammar' then (8-)# A long time ago I use

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote, on 21/Mar/13 21:19 | Mar21: 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.) H

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-22 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 22/Mar/13 09:17 | Mar22: On 21/03/13 23:51, Tony Firshman wrote: ... but grammar is the foundation of language *and* understanding. Let grammar slip and meaning becomes less clear, or even entirely different! Punctuation and spaces too are important: The pen is

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