Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >At 12:42 ìì 21/3/2002, you wrote: > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Cave >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Peter >> > >> >I am sorry if this is a time waster (I was off line

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Me too :-)) I have a Sinclair TV though And one of the new X-1 FM >radios he is currently selling on his website. > >>- I did get a ZX-81, and it was hooked from then. I wouldn't be where I am >>today (ie Married and working with Orac

Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >At 12:42 ìì 21/3/2002, you wrote: > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Cave >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Peter >> > >> >I am sorry if this is a time waster (I was off line

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "Norman Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:25 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice > My Sinclair addictions started before that : > > - I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out abo

Re: [ql-users] "Q40 people" incompatible?

2002-03-22 Thread Arnould Nazarian
For me the reference in my hobby is not Q40/60 or QPC, it is QDOS/SMSQ and the man who developped QDOS/SMSQ who is neither Claus or Marcel or Peter. And this man decided that both QPC and Q40 were good enough platforms for his life's work. Hence I have no preference between Q4P0C either. And wish

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-22 Thread Arnould Nazarian
I am surprised because the same Z88 <-> QL transfer worked also very well for me, at 9600 baud. However IIRC the speed was not about 960 cps, it was very much less than this, so maybe the Z88 is slow enough for the QL? However I did my cable by myself and don't remember exactly the wiring. Arnoul

Re: [ql-users] "Q40 people" incompatible?

2002-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi Just a small addition: The fact that I happened to intervene after Marcel's comments DOES NOT mean that my reply was prompted by his comments only! Just to disperse a small misunderstanding... Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Duncan Neithercut
Hi TF services once made me up a serial to serial cable with one QL conector and one standard connector. I used it to transfer files from a basic QL with microdrives to an AMIGA 1200 running the QL emulator. Transfer was accomplished by using a basic program to send and receive from QL to emulator

Re: [ql-users] "Q40 people" incompatible?

2002-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 22 Mar 2002, at 15:48, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (attacks on QPC) IIRC, I wrote 'c'me on, people grow up'. Lest this thing gets out of hand, I didn't single out Marcel or Peter or Claus or or or in that comment. I often don't comment when anybody on this list "attacks" anybody else - do not co

[ql-users] Free 68K to Coldfire etc. tools for download

2002-03-22 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Ppl check this out http://www.microapl.co.uk/index.html

[ql-users] John Rish?

2002-03-22 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Hi All, Does anyone know the email addy for John Rish (Home Electronics Service). I sent him a couple of emails in his Compuserve address and I got no answer back so this email might be not valid anymore (Before you say anything... it's a common practice in the US for major ISPs not to delete e

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-22 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 08:15 AM 3/22/2002 +, you wrote: > >When I was using my Z88 and the QL, to copy data from the Z88 to the QL > >all I did on the QL was: > > > >copy ser1_ to ram1_file_txt > > > >and then have the Z88 send the file. When the Z88 was done, I hit > >CTRL-C on the QL to break out of the copy.

Re: [ql-users] "Q40 people" incompatible?

2002-03-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: > Now stop this.. It might have already stopped if you hadn't answered... > I have recently entered the QL world. I bough myself a Q40 because I felt > that a native QL clone is what I needed. Which is a fine thing. Did anybody say anything against that? > If I disagre

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
>> I remember the Writer of Driller from Incentive listing a routine to >> use the memory in the printer buffer when doing Driller. Advanced Spectrum Machine Languge (or similar) was a great book. It had advanced stuff in there that I still don't really understand to this day. Interrupt driven p

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
>> I'll show him some of the Z80 machine code routines I wrote on a 1K Zx-81 some day... ;-)) I remember coding Space invaders on a 1K ZX-81, but it wouldn't fit, so I recoded it to fit into the shadow ROM at 8192 instead. ;-)) I remember the Writer of Driller from Incentive listing a routin

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
>> I'll show him some of the Z80 machine code routines I wrote on a 1K Zx-81 some day... ;-)) I remember coding Space invaders on a 1K ZX-81, but it wouldn't fit, so I recoded it to fit into the shadow ROM at 8192 instead. >> Or course, you never get people arguing over the QL;-)) (back on T

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
Norman Dunbar wrote:- >Darren, >Computing isn't as much fun these days I think. When I was a lad (warning : >old git stuff coming next) we had a choice of lots of different and strange >computers (most of which seem to be in your collection) but nowadays its a >PC or nothing (ok, PC or SGI :o

Re: [ql-users] "Q40 people" incompatible?

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Grunditz
Now stop this.. I have recently entered the QL world. I bough myself a Q40 because I felt that a native QL clone is what I needed. I dont have a pc to run QPC2 , and from my perspective, its more fun to develop operating system with real hardware then a emulator. If I disagree with someone on w

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
Darren, Computing isn't as much fun these days I think. When I was a lad (warning : old git stuff coming next) we had a choice of lots of different and strange computers (most of which seem to be in your collection) but nowadays its a PC or nothing (ok, PC or SGI :o) ) and it isn't fun because pr

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
N. Dunbar wrote:- >My Sinclair addictions started before that : >- I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out about RPN. >A fried had one back in school around 1973-74-75 ish, and when you did 0 0 >divide, it started a stop watch counting upwards in seconds :o) My Dad ha

Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-22 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
>And if you have an extra SGC maybe Someone??? Contact Roy Wood, I know for sure that he has a complete SGC system (including Aurora, QubIDE and backplane) for sale. Joachim

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
My Sinclair addictions started before that : - I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out about RPN. A fried had one back in school around 1973-74-75 ish, and when you did 0 0 divide, it started a stop watch counting upwards in seconds :o) - I wanted a 'black watch' - but nev

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
Dilwyn Wrote:- >Fleet Tactical Command didn't actually need the QL-PC Fileserver, it >worked with any suitable serial cable (or was that network, memory let >me down!) There! Told you all he'd know!! >The serial connection software norman referred to was QL-PC >Fileserver, Darren, it was so

RE: [ql-users] QPC and Knightsafe/HD disks

2002-03-22 Thread Claude Mourier 00
As far as I know SMSQ/E does support ED drives if present, at least mine. Real matter is to find PC with such drives : I never saw one ! I think only IBM ones were shipped with this drives. I think this is a reason why disks were so hard to find ... and expensives. A pity because there was no alte

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
Phoebus wrote:- >Ahhh all this because you're jealous, since Darren is coming to Greece for >sun 'n' fun and not you! :-) >Go ahead come too :-) In case all are wondering, I've agreed to donate my liver to Phoebus for a week this summer (ie. lots of alcoholic beverages with him in Greece i

Re: [ql-users] QPC and Knightsafe/HD disks

2002-03-22 Thread Darren . Branagh
Rich Mellor wrote:- >By the way, talking of ED disk drives - the QL formats them at 3.2Mb (we know), whereas the PC formats them at 2.8Mb >(and the BIOS only recognises them as 2.8Mb) - does this mean that if I put an ED disk drive in my PC, QPC will not be >able to use QL formatted ED disks?