Re: [ql-users] Was Eindhoven workshop now OT

2002-06-23 Thread ZN
On 23/06/02 at 21:57 Tony Firshman wrote: >>> I gather you are all muscle (8-)# >> Honestly, I have been working out seriously (for the sake of mental health >> as much as physical, if not more, especially in the last 3 years) for the >> last 6 years. Not much change in the last two, so I suppo

[ql-users] FastFind

2002-06-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I've added the latest version of Per Witte's FastFind utility to the Other Software Page. ffb91.zip is a 111kB download and fixes some issues reported by early users. Download from thee Other Software Page on www.soft.net.uk/dj/other/other.html -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Would be happy to send you a copy when it is in a compiled form, which it isn't yet. Have only done test compilations, nothing really runable so far. Darren Branagh and Claus Graf (and a few others at the Manchester Quanta AGM) saw it running. Oh, Claus, it's working on Q60 now too! I keep getti

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 at 15:04:09, ZN wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >> BTW what on earth have you been doing in the US - eating Cow Pie (UK >> Dandy readers will get the reference). > >Hm... the closest translation of 'Cow Pie' to the Croatian idiom would be >the round flat pile of cow d

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread James Hunkins
By the way, I am looking forward to seeing LaunchPad! I suspect that I will get some inspiration from it too. After all, most of 'my' good ideas were originally someone else's or a derivative of something that I had seen earlier :) Jim On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 01:58 AM, Dilwyn Jones

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread ZN
On 22/06/02 at 23:36 Tony Firshman wrote: >Another Eindhoven workshop has come and gone. >This one was memorable for: > ... > 4) Finding that a non-working returned Mplane was probably due to the > owner drilling holes through the pcb. This is a mite silly with multi-layer > boards (8-)# A mit

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > I am not talking about boot speed but running speed - that is certainly > worth the extra boot time. The first thing all versions of SMSQ/E do is copying themselves to some RAM location anyway. I.e. there is no waste of memory when loading SMSQ/E from disc. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-23 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 at 09:21:32, Bill Waugh wrote: (ref: <003201c21a8f$027d3240$eaf47ad5@famwaugh>) > > >- Original Message - Now not (8-)# >From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:41 PM >Subject: Re: [ql-users] This is the L

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 at 09:58:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <004401c21a9a$e157ab20$28075cc3@default>) > >Tony Firshman wrote: >>6) Seeing a pretty functional QDT alpha. It is going to be a >> very essential addon to the QL. Pity Jim Hunkins is only coding >> for SMSQ. >This is why Launchpad

[ql-users] PIC files

2002-06-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I've added a short article to the QL Docs page on my website about PIC files. If you can, it's always best to use pointer environment facilities to save and handle these area save files, if you really must try to handle them with your own code, this article provides some theory, including basic i

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Tony Firshman wrote: >6) Seeing a pretty functional QDT alpha. It is going to be a > very essential addon to the QL. Pity Jim Hunkins is only coding > for SMSQ. This is why Launchpad is continuing to be written despite the obvious (to me) superiority of QDT. Launchpad will provide a GUI for

Re: Re[6]: [ql-users] Come & get it

2002-06-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> The format of a Partial Save Area is: > > Spare Long available to a user > FlagWord $4AFC > X_size Wordwidth in pixels > Y_size WordHeight in pixels > IncrementWord length of one line in bytes > Mode Byte mode of saved

Re: [ql-users] QL Pawn

2002-06-23 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 23/06/02 10:40:18 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich, I once looked into this.   The copy protection itself is easy enough to break - if I remember correctly it was based on reading some hidden sectors from the microdrive.  The issue was that it had to be read

Re: [ql-users] QL Pawn

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Walker
Rich,   I once looked into this.   The copy protection itself is easy enough to break - if I remember correctly it was based on reading some hidden sectors from the microdrive.  The issue was that it had to be read into a specific address in memory and executed from there - and the address i

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-23 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE > > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 at 11:52:28, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > >On Thu, Jun 20,

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop

2002-06-23 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "James Hunkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven workshop > > > 6) Seeing a pretty functional QDT alpha. It is going to be a > >very essential addon to the QL. Pity Jim Hu

Re: Re[6]: [ql-users] Come & get it

2002-06-23 Thread Geogwilt
In a message dated 17/06/02 21:14:41 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gac> Are PSA, ie Partial Save Areas, as defined in Jochen's QPTR Manual on page Gac> 110, acceptable? I would hope so as I now can grab any rectangular area on a Gac> screen in that format when I want. Gac> Georg