Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-29 Thread James Hunkins
Peter, You might make sure that your XP audio drivers are completely up to date. There have been many early driver issues with XP that were or are being fixed. Some of these problems will not always be noticed with some operations but may with other calls to the system. Jim On Tuesday, Oc

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread wlenerz
On 29 Oct 2002, at 23:43, Derek Stewart wrote: (...) > What about the other way, say a BMP2PIC converter, as I want to use my > Q60/QPC/Atari QL/QL to view the graphics files. > > Derek I wrote something like that some time ago,as a basic keyword IIRC. Do you want me to send it to you directl

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread wlenerz
On 30 Oct 2002, at 1:10, P Witte wrote: > > Toolkits will often be grouped for special purposes, such as array > manipulation, string parsing, or to manipulate some low-level object > (such as a database or timer, etc). Wouldnt it be more logical and > aesthetically pleasing to use prefixes such

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

2002-10-29 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
??? 29/10/2002 1:15:06 ??, ?/? "P Witte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: > >Phoebus Dokos writes: > >Q-Word? I must have missed something here. What is it? > >Per > > It's a Word puzzle game :-) You get a screen with mixed up letters and you find words in it... when you do so the tiles dissappear

Re: [ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-29 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: > Can anybody please explain why, using QPC 3.03, I get a pleasant noise > from the Wall under Windows 98 and a rather nasty noise for the same > thing under Windows XP? Strange as with 3.03 the sound code is almost exactly the same on both OSs. > I would love to be able to kil

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
>Wolfgang writes: > >I've read this thread about names clashes in toolkits etc. >with quite some interest. <> >3 - As a guideline, perhaps authors of future toolkits might >want to envisage that they should, indeed, preface their >extensions with, say, their initials, such as WL_ASEARCH >instead o

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Stephen Meech writes: > There are other problems with QLAY such as it's inability to utilise > ToolkitII's directory handling commands ("DEST_USE" etc), it's instability > when trying to run games and, for me, its failure to update's Minerva's second > screen whilst displaying it. The Qlayt tool

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Tony Firshman writes: > IBOX - the thought in the mind of me and Stuart, went a fair way down > this route. I even started building a prototype. > It was planned have Minerva/68xxx/pic. > > It was primarily for I/O but could easily have had keyboard and some > sort of display. > > and it would h

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Javier Guerra writes: > > 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 :) Rewriting SMSQ in C seems rather pointless to me, as you wouldnt be abl

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

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Phoebus Dokos writes: Q-Word? I must have missed something here. What is it? Per

Re: [ql-users] Vintage Computer Festival

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Timothy Swenson writes: > Time for a little Sinclair news from the West Coast. I attended the 5th Nice one, Tim. ;) Hope you're number one next year! Per

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread P Witte
Dave P writes: > Ok, let me elucidate my vision... <> > I think if it's tiny, and looks like a super-PDA, and has a rechargeable > battery but less expansion, it could also find a market. I'm not > comfortable in the capability of the community to produce timely or > suitable software for that fo

Re: [ql-users] Keyboard Membranes

2002-10-29 Thread Voyager
I think that you are jumping to very wrong conclusions. I do not think that anybody was obliged to sign in your personal mini-poll. Alot of people (including me) have expressed their interest so far in public.   I believe that you should be (personally) worried why no one signed in your per

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
??? 29/10/2002 7:28:26 ??, ?/? Derek Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: > >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:07:51 -0500 >Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks, but I do not use a Windows based PC now, gone to Linux totally, Q60 Linux for >Email and the PC has Redhat 7.3 on it. >Much bette

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Derek Stewart
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:07:51 -0500 Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 06:43 ìì 29/10/2002, you wrote: > > >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:06:46 - > >"Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > } Convert mode 32 and 33 screens or PIC files to Windows graphics > > > files

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 06:43 ìì 29/10/2002, you wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:06:46 - "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > } Convert mode 32 and 33 screens or PIC files to Windows graphics > files > > } like BMP or GIF or JPG or whatever. > > > > I also have a pic2bmp program that work fine on my Q4

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>>I agree with you on this! The QL will not be making any kind of >>>resurgence. However, elements of the QL can go forward in other things, >>>and in such a way that the community benefits. If we had a really compact >>>em

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Derek Stewart
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:06:46 - "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > } Convert mode 32 and 33 screens or PIC files to Windows graphics > files > > } like BMP or GIF or JPG or whatever. > > > > I also have a pic2bmp program that work fine on my Q40 and QPC. > > (as well as with nati

Re: [ql-users] Keyboard Membranes

2002-10-29 Thread QL recursos en castellano
Hi   I am interested in 2 membranes, but I have interested people.  In the end I calculate we will be able to need 7 membranes.    I am sure that there is more people interested outside this list.    Greetings   Javier Guerra Sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://badared.com/QL     - Ori

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread ZN
On 29/10/02 at 22:15 Dave P wrote: >OMG! I know this is a little OT, but guess what new paperwork they just >introduced at work. TPS Reports! >TPS Reports! >PS: See: Office Space Well, look out for the evaluators and optimizers (= consultants) I've recently visited friends in Greenville SC, they

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 18:11:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <004901c27f7a$21a515c0$a1075cc3@blackpc>) > >> you must have so much stuff on your web site, that you have >forgotton what >> you have :o) >> >> The source is available for download from your own web site. >Just my job driving me towards

[ql-users] Keyboard Membranes

2002-10-29 Thread RWAPSoftware
Well, It is a sad thing to say that only 5 people have added their details to the mini-poll I was running on the keyboard membranes.  I wonder if anyone else has received more response after several people on this list seemed to want new membranes?? Maybe it just reflects the fact that people on

Re: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs

2002-10-29 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 29/10/02 18:57:21 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used to play cribbage when I had an idle moment(Library GG 02 but I have been unable to play since using QPC. Is it possible to get it working?. Arnie Erm, not too sure - if you want to email me the program, I c

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Dave P
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > >Those would be, uhhh, *still* pictures, right? *sarcasto-ironicism ahoy!* > > With 1 sec delay between them... well YES you can see the blades moving... > not that anything else can move them as they are 30 ft up in the air OMG! I know this is a

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 03:49 ìì 29/10/2002, you wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > > The weather included a bit of snow > >but no wind to show off the new Bergey XL1 wind machine. > > It did power up for a little bit (about half an hour Sunday morning right > after the clouds came) - I have two

[ql-users] The Wall, etc, etc

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Fox
Can anybody please explain why, using QPC 3.03, I get a pleasant noise from the Wall under Windows 98 and a rather nasty noise for the same thing under Windows XP? I would love to be able to kill the XP noise, somehow Regards, Peter Fox

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Dave P
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > > The weather included a bit of snow > >but no wind to show off the new Bergey XL1 wind machine. > > It did power up for a little bit (about half an hour Sunday morning right > after the clouds came) - I have two consecutive pictures of it turning :-

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread ZN
On 29/10/02 at 15:38 Dave P wrote: >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Roy Wood wrote: > >> Insider talk has it that Motorola will soon pull out of chip manufacture >> altogether. > >That is indeed insider talk. Apple is repositioning to use IBM >manufactured parts. The cell chip part of the business is moving

RE: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Sounds pretty crappy. Our lot are making 10% redundancies in the next couple of months :o( Hope you find something. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:Norman.Dunbar@;LFS.co.uk Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax:

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 12:26 ìì 29/10/2002, you wrote: I must have missed your previous message. Are you suggesting the acquisition of an Amiga and QDOS Classic as a good alternative to Qlay? How does this relate to the PC filesystem? What is "UAE"? Stephen Hi Stephen, UAE means "Unix Amiga Emulator" (An ol

Re: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs

2002-10-29 Thread Arnold Clarke
I used to play cribbage when I had an idle moment(Library GG 02 but I have been unable to play since using QPC. Is it possible to get it working?. Arnie   - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:26 PM Sub

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> } Convert mode 32 and 33 screens or PIC files to Windows graphics files > } like BMP or GIF or JPG or whatever. > > I also have a pic2bmp program that work fine on my Q40 and QPC. > (as well as with native mode 4 and mode 8!) > Thank you, I have downloaded this program. -- Dilwyn Jones

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> you must have so much stuff on your web site, that you have forgotton what > you have :o) > > The source is available for download from your own web site. Just my job driving me towards a nervous breakdown...no time to do anything at all, even less enthusiasm for anything at all at the moment. A

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 10:59 ðì 29/10/2002, Bill wrote: We just had the fall QL meeting at our house and we had Phoebus and his lovely wife as guests for a couple of days. We are still enjoying the Moussaka that Phoebus made. He is a Greek of many talents. *blush* Thanks :-) I need to send you the recipe I used a

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Meech
I must have missed your previous message. Are you suggesting the acquisition of an Amiga and QDOS Classic as a good alternative to Qlay? How does this relate to the PC filesystem? What is "UAE"? Stephen - Original Message - From: "?? ?. ??" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROT

RE: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Remember, there's no such thing as Gravity - the Earth sucks !!! Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:Norman.Dunbar@;LFS.co.uk Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com -

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Bill Cable
> >BTW Tony, loved the plumbing at Bill's house ;-) Mighty nifty as my > >wife says :-) > For those who don't know, this was a gravity fed spring water system > that Bill and I installed 18 months ago. > He gets fresh cold spring water from a tap in his kitchen! > Most of you will know Bill lives

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Darren Branagh
:Dave P Wrote:- > > > If more of the people on this list subscribed to QL Today and/or Quanta, they > > would be able to inform you that the full version of QPC2 v3 costs £65 from > > QBranch, or Eur 99,90 from Jochen Merz. > > *grins* > > So how come it's so much cheaper from QBranch? 65 quid is

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 at 20:15:35, =?windows-1253?Q?=D6=EF=DF=E2=EF=F2=20 =D1.=20=CD=F4=FC=EA=EF=F2?= wrote: (ref: ) > >??? 28/10/2002 6:29:33 ??, ?/? Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??: >BTW Tony, loved the plumbing at Bill's house ;-) Mighty nifty as my >wife says :-) For those who don't

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Dave P
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Roy Wood wrote: > Insider talk has it that Motorola will soon pull out of chip manufacture > altogether. That is indeed insider talk. Apple is repositioning to use IBM manufactured parts. The cell chip part of the business is moving to using foundries... Dave

Re: [ql-users] Hardware platforms

2002-10-29 Thread Al Feng
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:20:14 - "Stephen Meech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < snip > > It's a pity the author didn't continue development. It's been a > while now so > he's almost certainly lost interest. During the course of QLAY's development, and subsequently, I had been under the impre

[ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Jerome Grimbert
It seems me previous message did not get through. Dilwyn Jones makes some magical things to make me read } } I'm looking for a program which would do (ideally) two functions for } me: } } Convert mode 33 to mode 32 GD2 graphics For sprite definition, I have such code in libxmenu.a (a C libra

RE: [ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs

2002-10-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Rich, if the 'executable' is something like Visual Basic, or any of the .NET stuff, or JAVA, then I believe that it can be done quite simply - because these langauages are interptreted (regardless of what MicxroSoft say on the matter). If the executable is a proper executable which was compil

[ql-users] Turbo Compiled Programs

2002-10-29 Thread RWAPSoftware
I know that one of the problems which any modern QL system faces is the users desire to use existing programs, rather than upgrade to new programs and need to follow a steep learning curve. Whatever happens, this means that to many people, QPC2 or the emulators are too difficult to use, because th

Re: [ql-users] mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Dilwyn Jones makes some magical things to make me read } } I'm looking for a program which would do (ideally) two functions for } me: } } Convert mode 33 to mode 32 GD2 graphics For sprite definition, I have such code in libxmenu.a (a C library) (it's just a matter correcting the header and aft

RE: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions & toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn, you must have so much stuff on your web site, that you have forgotton what you have :o) The source is available for download from your own web site. Cheers, Norman. PS. Most of the commands are 'specialised' names anyway and have not, so far, broken anything I use.. -