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by swensont
Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: The Sinclair QL in North America
Replies: 4
Views: 349

The Sinclair QL in North America

I've just posted a new paper called "The Sinclair QL in North America" on my website. It has details on the launch of the QL here in the US, the QL & T/S community, the QL shows, the vendors and even QL software written on this side of the pond. The link is: http://swensont.epizy.com/Q...
by swensont
Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:56 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: C68 Source Compiling
Replies: 4
Views: 551

Re: C68 Source Compiling

I know that standard include files can be referenced with .h, and the preprocessor converts the '.' to a '_'. Here is what the C68 manual says: Filenames given to the #include directive may contain a '.' as the extension separator. During processing, any '.' will be translated to an underscore, and ...
by swensont
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:01 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Coding SuperBasic
Replies: 17
Views: 14550

Re: Coding SuperBasic

Ok, I swear that I've not paid Dilwyn or Norman or anyone else to mention SSB. :-) SSB was first created in 1991. It just took some time to get some attention. I like to view SSB as a pre-processor, as the inspiration was the C preprocessor (include statements, conditional compilation, etc). For an ...
by swensont
Sun Nov 19, 2023 6:14 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: EXIF
Replies: 5
Views: 5394

Re: EXIF

M68008 wrote:
> I would use an existing tool. Exiftool is pretty good and it works on most operating systems (except QDOS, until someone ports Perl to it).

Perl 4 was ported years ago by Jonathan Hudson. I think he said porting Perl 5 would be much more difficult.

Tim
by swensont
Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:38 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Archive pdf
Replies: 6
Views: 5170

Re: Archive pdf

Derek,

Check my PDF's and see if you like them. They are created from .DOC files (which I can send you). Might have you a bit in scanning and OCRing.

Tim
by swensont
Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:39 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Archive pdf
Replies: 6
Views: 5170

Re: Archive pdf

I did my own version too: http://swensont.epizy.com/Archive.pdf For example programs, see the stuff from Bill Cable: DBeasy - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbeasyfo.zip DBProgs - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbprogsf.zip DBTutor - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbtutor.zip Bi...
by swensont
Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Archive auto Primary Keys?
Replies: 18
Views: 5882

Re: Archive auto Primary Keys?

In Bill Cables series "Archive Made Easy", in chapter 19, he discusses joins between tables and creating key fields. He describes the user defining the values in the key field; "but is is best if the user can define their own keys and even in QLerk the user has final say". I thin...
by swensont
Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:56 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Night time "Dark Mode"
Replies: 6
Views: 2415

Re: Night time "Dark Mode"

How about just turning down the brightness on the monitor? :-)
The QL Vision monitor had a nice knob for that.
by swensont
Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:31 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: New mdv discovery - QL Expert (an expert system shell)
Replies: 30
Views: 2894

Re: New mdv discovery - QL Expert (an expert system shell)

That looks like it could be interesting to tinker with. Hope it can be released.

Tim
by swensont
Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?
Replies: 13
Views: 5893

Re: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?

Digging through my collection of floppies, I found one labeled "Qtalk". Not sure where I got it. The handwriting on the disk is not mine. I created a floppy image file using dd and confirmed that I can read it with SMSQmulator. I zipped up the image file and it is attached here. Tim Swenson