[ql-users] Vintage Computer Festival

2002-10-28 Thread Timothy Swenson
Time for a little Sinclair news from the West Coast. I attended the 5th Vintage Computer Festival, held at Moffet Field, CA (in the heart of Silicon Valley). I exhibited my Sinclair collection (ZX80, ZX81, T/S 1000, T/S 1500, T/S 2068, Spectrum, Sprectrum+, QL, and Z88). I had a display

Re: [ql-users] WANTED

2002-10-28 Thread Phil Kett
You'll probably get loads of people telling you this but Sintech can supply both of these. The URL is www.sintech-shop.de The hard microdrive connectors are 3 Euro each (I bought one myself recently) not sure about the flexible ones though. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions toolkits

2002-10-28 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, I've read this thread about names clashes in toolkits etc. with quite some interest. It would seem to me that, at least for the time being, the path of least resistance would rather be to make sure that names just don't clash, rather than try to devise various -very ingenious- schemes

RE: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread Ian . Pine
Personally, I'm very happy for being able to use QLAY nowadays, but we perhaps must think about not repeating the history. If QLAY, uQLx, QPC or other emulators are what we want to conserve for the future... well, but an independent operating system of the propietary hardware would be, in

[ql-users] NESQLUG website, Q-Word etc...

2002-10-28 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Hi all, in about a week or so the new NESQLUG website will be on: www.dokos-gr.net/~nesqlug and for NESQLUG matters the director's (Al Boehm) email will be [EMAIL PROTECTED] (You may want to check with Al's regular address before you start sending him email to the new address however). We are

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread Dave P
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, ZN wrote: Well, the part that I disagreed on was 'on board'. It is a big decision and has to do with what you decide is going to be 'the board'. If the expansion needs to be very fast and/or flexible, it is a great problem to design it. But something very simple, a

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread QL recursos en castellano
Ian wrote: Rewriting SMSQ in C and then, like Linux, porting it to run on various hardware platforms starting with Intel based? Yes, that's the idea. Or maybe port an emulator for use that hardware :) The idea has been discussed here before. (i'm new members of this list) But what would

RE: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dave, we're talking about technology/engineering departments, where robotics, data acquisition/control practical work is done... sorry - I did indeed get the wrong end of the stick. I thought you meant for general use in IT departments. Cheers, Norman.

RE: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread ZN
On 28/10/02 at 18:30 Dave P wrote: Maybe I wasn't clear... :o) ... If we had a really compact embedded board with serial/IR keyboard/ programming in BASIC (a bit like a super BASIC STAMP module, but more powerful ;) it could sell by the bucketload. PRECISELY This is THE market for

Re: [ql-users] WANTED

2002-10-28 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 28/10/02 12:57:03 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You'll probably get loads of people telling you this but Sintech can supply both of these. The URL is www.sintech-shop.de The hard microdrive connectors are 3 Euro each (I bought one myself recently) not sure

Re: [ql-users] mode 33

2002-10-28 Thread .
??? 28/10/2002 3:04:14 ??, ?/? Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: I'm looking for a program which would do (ideally) two functions for me: Convert mode 33 to mode 32 GD2 graphics Convert mode 32 and 33 screens or PIC files to Windows graphics files like BMP or GIF or JPG or whatever. I'm

Re: [ql-users] Vintage Computer Festival

2002-10-28 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes One of the organizers is from the former East Germany and organizes VCF Europe in Germany. The next VCF Europe should be this Spring. He even asked me about getting some Sinclair folks (like the Q60 developers) to come

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 at 21:54:36, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: I suspect you'll find that scholls nowadays are all 'mainstream' in that they have a pile of PCs running

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-28 Thread .
??? 28/10/2002 6:29:33 ??, ?/? Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 at 21:54:36, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: I suspect you'll find that scholls