RE: [ql-users] Fwd - help

2003-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Dilwyn, I suspect the foaming stuff in the sea off Whitby is probably the result of something a lot less socially acceptable than a group of QL users (Feeble attempt I know, but !). I'm pretty sure there's plenty of sewage type stuff around there. Or maybe, for the oldies amongst us,

RE: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning George, I wrote an expression evaluator once, many years ago, in SuperBasic and then converted it to C. Yeuch - all that recursion. I suspect the obvious answer to how the EE should be written is 'so that it conforms to arithmetic priority' as in brackets, multiplication/division

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-31 Thread Robert Newson
Norman Dunbar wrote: Morning George, I wrote an expression evaluator once, many years ago, in SuperBasic and then converted it to C. Yeuch - all that recursion. I suspect the obvious answer to how the EE should be written is 'so that it conforms to arithmetic priority' as in brackets,

Re: [ql-users] Assembly question

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Walker
I think the Motorola specification states left to right except as modified by brackets. In other words multiplication/division does not get priority over addition/subtraction unless you use brackets. Dave - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ql-users] Detecting GD2 Drivers

2003-01-31 Thread RWAPSoftware
OK, I asked before and got not suggestions, so here goes again: What is the best way to detect if the GD2 drivers are present ?? Probably call one of the new traps, but which one?? Anyone?? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Software 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977

[ql-users] Graphics Compression

2003-01-31 Thread RWAPSoftware
Seems I may need to compress the graphics to get QWord to work on Aurora - does anyone have any good code or better graphics compression techniques than run line encoding??? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Software 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509

[ql-users] Internet with the Aurora :-) and some funny results from PC-Conqueror SE

2003-01-31 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Hi all, I managed just now to connect to the internet with my Aurora running SMSQ/E 2y99 but not through QDOS/SMSQ.E but via PC Conqueror SE, TCPIP for DOS (IBM ca 1995), MS DOS 6.22 and Lynx. Next I will try DR-DOS 7.03 which also has a graphical browser in it (I doubt it it can work with

Re: [ql-users] Detecting GD2 Drivers

2003-01-31 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 31/01/03 16:22:02 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I asked before and got not suggestions, so here goes again: I can only repeat what I've already wrote last time: "Have a look at keys_con "pt_ident". GD2 can be identified by this."

Re: [ql-users] Graphics Compression

2003-01-31 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 31/01/03 17:58:11 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems I may need to compress the graphics to get QWord to work on Aurora Just out of interest, why? What minimal memory requirement do you want to achieve? Not sure - it will be gold card minimum anyway -

Re: [ql-users] Graphics Compression

2003-01-31 Thread Phoebus Dokos
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