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} Hello everyone,
}
} I have a standard ql with a qubide and a gold card. If i connect the gold
} card or the qubide separatly they work fine but as soon as i put them
} together (quibide first and after this the gold card at the left hand sl
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} > I've got no clue of C68 or assembly programming but I know that what
} you describe, is NOT the
} > normal case. I have been using EasyPtr (Albin Hessler) for years now
} and every wanted positioning
} > works very well, before, after res
Sorry, it might be long.
I will try to [snip] what I do not want to discuss.
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} Hi all,
}
} This is to keep you informed of the state and
} status of the SMSQ/E source code.
}
} The future licence-to-be has been a bit
} modified, not
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} Does anyone have the drivers and disk for this mouse interface - I have
} a manual and two interfaces if anyone is looking for one.
}
I do not remember you would need any driver with QIMI interface.
All you need is the PE and a mouse
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} Hi all,
}
} I'm not saying anything here as personal opinion - I am playing devil's
} advocate for the sake of creating a little controversy, which will
} hopefully result in some discussion. At the moment there is too much
} agreement. :o)
O
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} Outside ones own country, IRCs have to be used which is 'payment' of a
} sort - but in stamps.
} Surely no problem with this?
Probably not any problem, as long as it does not appear on
the accounting system and thus leave no trace for the
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} >I have understood the bit about no charge in giving copies. As someone
} >running a PD library I'll mention here I'm happy to adhere strictly by
} >this.
} I was surprised that media/post costs were vetoed I must admit.
} Surely that is a
[skipping a very long message]
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} Thus I make a PLEA for volunteers. Obviously, for SMSQ/E running on QPC, Marcel
} KILGUS will be the key developer.
} For SMSQ/E on Q60/Q40, the obvious persons would be Claus and Peter GRAF (yes, I
kno
A serial cable is all you need, with the right connection...
One of the two must be a DTE and the other DCE.
Best thing is to use Ser2 on QL with normal QL serial cable,
(if you have one for a printer for instance).
Then setting same baud rate and parity on both machines.
copy_n (or just copy
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} Has anyone noticed that Qascade does not appear in their button frame if
} more than about 10Mb of memory is set aside for QPC II (v3.02)??
Using QPC2v2 and 96Mb, no problem.
Not yet upgraded to v3...
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} >> I believe that the solution to this problem also includes the
} >> solution to programs continuing to produce screen output even when
} >> burried.
}
} > Probably, yes.
}
} What I mentioned in an older post. If the save areas are kept in their
}
I recently updated my W98 system to support dual-screen (with two video cards).
After that, I tried QPC2 v2, and seems to only detect the primary video card
(which in my case is now the worst one, with only a 17" monitor) (at least the
selection list only show one entry in the QPC start-up menu,
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} still searching for a pre D05 (D00 to D04), a post D16 (D17)
} and a S13 QL. If someone knows how I could obtain such a machine,
} please let me know, Thank You!
} ===
} Hi Urs!
}
} Please post a little reminder where these (a
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} With large sprites you can reduce flicker significantly by combining the
} background redraw
} and sprite data in memory and write the lot to screen in one go. This
} eliminates the problem
} of writing to screen memory twice where the ol
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}
} True but see what I say above. All these are already done, but I am afraid
} you misunderstood me too...
}
}
} I seem to have a talent in being misunderstood lately...
}
Ok-dokee... So, all you need is drawing your background wit
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} Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
} > So what I see is writing some sort of toolkit (a-la SSG) which can do this
} > in high-colour (and more)... for example clever background redrawing of the
} > screen on the anticipated movement of the sprite,
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} Well I don't think memory is of any concern for people with hi-colour mode
} capabilities...
} I don't think there are users of QPC2 and Qx0 without at least 16 Megs of
} RAM...
Well, just think of QXL user ! at most 8 Megs.
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}
} What? That 32bit per pixel is far too memory consuming for a windowing
} system that does the saving of backgrounds itself? Nothing proprietary
} in this knowledge ;-)
}
} The PE was designed for 2 bit per pixel with a small resolution
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} A BGIMAGE type of command, with the difference that it will be able to
} display on screen and at the point we want RLL encoded BMP files at all
} colour depths (if it is 24bit of course it will be slow :-))
If it is for displaying p
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} Ian,
}
} can't remember offhand, but doesn't RJOB require a name, or id plus an error
} code ?
>From my old memory, in basic,
rjob can take three arguments, all integers:
rjob int1, int2, error
where int1 and int2 come from the jobs
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} Would someone please point me in the direction of documentation
} on PIC files?
>From head to tail of file:
Word: width
Word: height
Word: number of row (special, more later)
Byte: mode
Byte: Spare (but might be set to 64 to fo
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}
} I recall that a couple of years ago someone was working on a sound
} sampler. I think it could sample sound, and play it back. Basically an A/D
} and D/A converter. I think it plugged into the ROM socket.
}
} Does anyone have any information abo
} Silly question from a hardware ignoramus :
}
} what is a 6 layer (or 4 layer) board ?
} I suspect it is to do with the track layour, but all the boards I ever used
} were 'double sided' = 2 layer ???
}
} Your in ignorance,
} Norman.
}
} PS. Be gentle when you reply !
Well, you can also have
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} Hi,
}
} Take out the 68000 CPU in the QL. There is not enough power in the Sinclair
} Power supply to power the Super gold card and 68000 CPU.
This remind me that I changed the three-legged beasty inside the QL (the screwed
to the metal
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} Hi
}
} I just installed a supergoldcard in my ql and it wont start.
} Sometimes it shows wierd colors on the screen , but more often
} nothing.
}
} Why ?
I do not know.
If you remove the SGC, does the QL works normally ?
When you
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} BTW: The next QPC will again have 16bit shadows.
That's a great news!
} Anyway, the result looks nice and I'm a fan of eye-candy. In case
} anybody's interested http://www.deuschle.de/qpc/shadow.png shows how
} it looks like.
It looks g
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} Hi all,
Hi Wolfgang,
}
} has anybody noticed that, when in multicolour mode, SMSQE
} doesn't draw shadows under windows any more?
Yes, it was like that since high-colors is available
}
} Does anybody care?
Yes, I miss it.
}
} Doe
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} matrix thermal printer. I didn't realize how fast a thermal print would
} fade! If you wanted to keep anything you had to photocopy it. Having
} said that I have some listings I kept in a folder which are still
} readable - maybe the
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} >} Is it possible to place the text cursor ABSOLUTELY according to a given
} >} window or the screen (that is without using @#!@$~~!@## SCALE)
} >
} > ?? AT ??
} > or you want 'pixel' precision ?
}
} PIXEL precision :-)
Shortest
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} Hello again and thanks for everyone that responded to my previous question.
} The question now is:
} Is it possible to place the text cursor ABSOLUTELY according to a given
} window or the screen (that is without using @#!@$~~!@## SCALE
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} Ah, would that be the FPSAVE one? I wasn't sure whether that allowed
} SBASIC to use FP, or just allowed compiled C68, etc. programs with FP
} instructions to run correctly.
Yes, it is FPSAVE.
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} Peter points out that there is Intel FP
} code in SMSQ/E for QPC but none for 68k hardware. Is this true of
} SBASIC as well? Is the 68040 FPU in the Q40 never used except in
} assembler or C applications?
}
>From memory, there is
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} > Wafer memory...
} "Wafer Scale Integration" I believe he referred to it as at the time.
B. Wrong. It refers to a bigger microdrive like device, with magnetic
tape. The same infinite tape trick as in microdrive, no rewind needed
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} He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-)
}
} Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ?
In french, it is masculine.
I do not know for german and english (neutral ?).
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} >Alas, it's survival is limited to about 2 or 3 times the longuest subscription.
} >(But who cares about that, it's easy money now!, and maybe in the meantime
} >we can sell the magazine team to some other publisher..., just like selling
}
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} >Ah ! I think it was just a french problem where magazines looks more an more
} >catalogues with lot of advertising and propaganda (guru Bill do this, guru
} >Bill thinks that...)
} >
} >-Message d'origine-
} >De : Malcolm Cadman
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} Plus the need to develop screen and printer drivers, handle colour
} issues etc.
As you talk about that, is there any Prowess driver for the high colour
mode of QPC2v2 (final) ? (Or even only the 256 fixed colours mode ?)
If yes,
Writing an OS for a processor family is nothing, compared to the needed writing for
peripheral supports.
So, as well as generic x86 support, what about GENERIC x86 compatible supports
of hardware in the OS. Natively of course, NO PC BIOS. (there is no Bios on some
embeded card, so you cannot
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} SBasic compilers always were (are) for me a mystery on SMS : TT told me
} there is no gain compiling a SB program except the size in ram (because
} there are two versions of source in memory), and in most case I notice it's
} true (whe
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} >Is it worth upgrading from previous versions ?
} If you have a very early version, then of course.
} I don't have a change by change list, but I suspect the last few
} versions adding nothing significant.
} One change was the FLP_JIGGLE t
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}
} >} That is a good point ... about the ROM based OS.
} >I like ROM based OS.
} >OS should be stable. and Rom based provided a virus-free quick install !
}
} A ROM based OS is ok, but it's always nice to have an option to
} use a newer ver
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}
} >I just saw a new book about Linus Torvalds life tranlated in French, so
} >I think that it is a few months old in the USA. It was at FNAC, a French
} >store where everybody can impolitely read the books without the security
} >being i
} Hi Malcolm
}
} Thanks for your suggestions re impossibility to use zip-100. I followed
} your suggestions and they responded correctly, yet win3, which is E, still
} gives No Medium.
} It looks like QPC2 works correctly but my WIN98 SE fails somehow to connect
} to the driver.
Is the QXL.WIN o
I have found at a local store two (!) different ISA card
that would provide additional IDE drives for my Q40.
(ISA is really becoming hard to find !)
But before I buy one of them, is there something particular
I should check ?
I had a look at one of them, it provide 2 IDE as well as 2 floppy.
W
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} Didn't Amstrad use a small 3" drive around that time as well - look how
} popular that became :o)
No, it was years later... at that time, the amstrad came with an integrated
tape. ... and the power supply was in the monitor !
The 3" sta
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} Has the list been modified so I don't get duplicates of my own missives?
I do not think so, because I do get a copy of my messages.
Must be something on your side.
As promised,
pic2bmp (version 1.0 delta) is now available online.
(I updated the file, so be sure to flush any cache)
I should update it in a month or two to add the support of QPC2 high color.
}
} It's version 1.0ß that I downloaded today again fron your site.
} The program tells that it only can display mode 4 and 8 pics.
}
It's my fault, the website is not up to date
(Ok, it crashed, and I had to download it again...)
I will update the pic2bmp.zip file by monday.
Sorry for the del
My Q40 IDE is currently fully used. (One hard disk and an EZ-135,
for a total of 5 partitions).
I was wondering if it was possible to add a second I/O board on it,
and would it work with SMSQ/E ? Or even only with Linux ?
(Target: moving another HD from my PC to my Q40, as well as a CD-Rom reade
I installed the QPC 2.03 yesterday evening.
It works better, but there is still some problem with floating point:
try that:
PRINT 1e-615
PRINT 1e-615/10
PRINT 1e-615/100
PRINT 1e-615/1000
It's at least interesting results.
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} Hi,
}
} I've dowloaded the program pic2bmp and tried to convert high color
} pic-files into bmp. The program immediately stops. OTOH Jerome's webpage
} says that it supports high color pics. Has anybody a working copy?
}
Probably a
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} } Hi Malcoln
} }
} } Thanks for your reply, but when using disp_colour 3 (start with "QL
} } colours" for QPC2) anything tried closes QPC2.
} } There is a program
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} Hi Malcoln
}
} Thanks for your reply, but when using disp_colour 3 (start with "QL
} colours" for QPC2) anything tried closes QPC2.
} There is a program in Thierry Godefroy's web site called col.zip. Run in
} "QL colours" it does not work prop
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} Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} > The high color of other systems is different, it's R5G3 G3B5.
}
} It's actually G3B5 R5G3.
I guess it depended on the Endianness used (Intel or Motorola).
QPC2v2 is probably the only system with
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} At 05:20 ìì 28/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:
} Hi all again,
} on my previous question I have an additional one.
} After all these years I finally decided to take a look at TurboTK and I SAW
} THE LIGHT! The Move_Memory plus the PEEK$/POKE$ wi
I have a strange question about float number:
what are the maximal and minimal values for a float, on the QL.
I have found the answer for Abacus (it's in the doc!), but
not for the SBasic/whole system.
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} On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:58:33AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
} > Wolfgang Lenerz makes some magical things to make me read
} > } On 12 May 2001, at 21:41, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
} > }
} > } > I can confirm this as
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} On 12 May 2001, at 21:41, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
}
} > I can confirm this as I just acquired a Q60 from Peter
} Hey, this is favoritism - can I buy one, too?
}
Me too ?
What's the max memory size ? Could I use some 64 MB EDO ship o
} >
} > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1296/index.html
} > --
} Thanks Tony,
}
} It's very odd, but I haven't been able to get access to the zip file when
} trying over the last 2 days. I can get the index.html page no problem, but
} can't download the zip from my demon account -
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} >
} > Hi
} > Richard Zidlicky made a patch for MMU and Qlib problems for SMSQ/E 2.98 on
} > Q40.
}
} Oh goody, where can one get the patched QLIB then Or is it
} the Q40 OS that was patched?
}
It is the Q40 SMSQ/E 2.98 file which
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} Hi
} Richard Zidlicky made a patch for MMU and Qlib problems for SMSQ/E 2.98 on
} Q40.
} Having used it I have found 3 things
} - the Qliberator compiler now works & compiles on my Q40 - at last - many
} thanks Richard.
} - ProWesS does
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}
} > Entering "PRINT start" at this juncture yealds:
} > 4.07296E6
} >
} > Running the program again immediately (using the same data) yealds:
} > 4.07192E6
}
} This difference is because you've just RESPRed another 1024 bytes of
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}
} I can't come because I am singing Bach's St John Passion that weekend!
What?? You're singing the Passion *A WEEK BEFORE* Easter !!!
Where is the holy inquisitor ???
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} > I remind you from Robert's previous mail: 1=red, 2=blue, 3=magenta,
} > 4=yellow, 5=orange, 6=green
}
}
} 0-Black, 1-Magenta, 2-Cyan, 3-Violet, 4-Yellow, 5-Red, 6-Green
}
} CMYK is a subtractive printing model:
}
} Magenta (Red +
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[Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...]
The fact that "dir flp2_" will motion the flp1_ floppy after trying the
flp2_ floppy is normal, it's part of the TK2 behavior
(When "dir something" fails, TK2 next try "dir DATAD$&'something'"
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}
} >BTW. does Motorola actually still make the 68XXX processor, or is there just
} >an enormous stock in a warehouse somewhere that people are buying chips
} >from? Coming from the Mac world, I tend to look on them as being a bit
} >ante
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}
} Cjb.net cloaks the redirected address through a Perl script they use. So
} every address on your browser address bar appears as xxx.cjb.net. I.e.
} http://www.ql2k.50megs.com/aboutql/aboutql.html (uncloaked address) appears
} as http:
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} Hi,
}
} I cannot access Jeromes site. Does anyone know whats the matter?
}
The logs of the server indicates a downtime around the 6 march.
I tried to access my site this morning, and it seems ok...
URL: http://grimbert.cjb.net/
(ali
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} >
} >4. Why don't they vaccinate
} >fact - it is a LIVE vaccine
} >fact - some animals vaccinated would become carriers
} >fact - susceptible wild animals that weren't vaccinated would become
} >infected
} >fact - the vaccine covers one str
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} Hi,
}
} is there anybody on this list who has experience with highcolor on QXL?
I did (before I resold it last Autumn...).
} Is it usable for real work?
I was able to run sprted (I'm the author!!), and from memory, even
if it did not comp
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} The QLSSS (Sampled Sound System) version 2d from Simon Goodwin and
} Mark Swift for QDOS Classic (Amiga and Q40) and SMSQ/E (Q40) featured
} in a recent QL Today article is now available from my web site.
Great!!
} The files may be found
As requested in the last QLToday, it is now possible
to save binary from sprted.
So, now, there is no excuse to not provide a lot of PE program
with a lot of nice sprites...
Hi all,
I just received QLtoday (floppy get smashed by the postal service,
but was still readable, so the first thing I did was to backup it).
I'm very interested in the SOUND device,
where can I find it ?
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} Me:
} > I have been looking for months to upgrade my PC (P1-MMX, 180 MHz, 4 PCI and 1 ISA
used, 4 IDE HD, 2 SCSI HD, 1 IDE CDROM, 1 DVD and 1 CD-R burner on SCSI,
} > 256 Mega of EDO). And the simple change to a 'viable' configuration
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} Marcel wrote:
}
} >>>...haven't tried bogomips yet
} >> And my 80 MHz Q60 (GCC-compiled): 101010 Dhrystone/s
} >
} >Wow.
} >
} >> BTW the effective speed of the x86 chips seems to rise slower than their
} >> clock frequency so it'll probably
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} Peter Graf wrote:
} > I will no longer lose my money and sparetime for QL style hardware!!! If
} > you find the Windows PC the better investment, you can save me a lot of work!
}
} No, Peter, don't say that. I really think the QL world n
I have just installed the final version
It's great but:
- I have a problem in full screen mode (screen 1280x960, QPC2 about 1200 x 800)
when issuing BGCOLOUR_QL 255 when in 65536 colours mode
after the command, the mouse pointer gains a BIG pattern
(note: it also happen with BGCOL
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} > Forget the display for this type of gadget - give it a video output.
} > The one I bought my son only has composite video and mono audio out
} > (via phonos, phono to SCART leads supplied for most modern TV sets)
} > and uhf out, pic
} >} >>The problem is that we don't have a logo to represent
} >} >>QDOS or SMSQ/E.
} >} >>..
} >} >> The main QL screen.
}
} Personally ... I think still think that the QL screen is rather boring
} for a logo.
}
} We need a good simple image, which will also help to take us forward.
}
} L
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} I must have missed that - I remmebr a small discussion (I suggested a TOAD
} from the QL Toady mis-type) and there was a QuaiL mentioned. I never knew
} about the vote on the web site though !
Well, I also had the Toad and Quail (as well
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} >>The problem is that we don't have a logo to represent
} >>QDOS or SMSQ/E.
} >>..
I agree.
} >>
} >> The main QL screen.
} >>..
} >>
} >>So, what do you think? Would it be worthwhile to have a logo?
} >>Would the QL screen work?
I
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