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by swensont
Sat May 04, 2024 5:19 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: QSTAR 1
Replies: 17
Views: 573

Re: QSTAR 1

I just tried with SMSQmulator 2.31 and all I got was a blank green screen. I unzip the flp version into ram1_ then called the program: exec_w ram1_qstar_exe;"ram1_" if I run with with EXEC instead of EXEC_W, I can switch back to QDOS and check that the program is running. I can even kill t...
by swensont
Fri May 03, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Psion Abacus
Replies: 7
Views: 203

Re: Psion Abacus

All my zines and stuff are on my website:

http://swensont.epizy.com/

Tim
by swensont
Fri May 03, 2024 2:07 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Psion Abacus
Replies: 7
Views: 203

Re: Psion Abacus

bwinkle, You might find the following SMSQzine articles interesting: Astronomical Calculations with Abacus and Archive - Issue #3 PC Four to QL Xchange - Issue #6 History of Psion Xchange - Issue #6 Abacus - Issue 38 converting spreadsheets from Abacus to others will work with .csv files, but I don'...
by swensont
Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: The Sinclair QL in North America
Replies: 4
Views: 1361

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: 614

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: 16317

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: 5521

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: 5280

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: 5280

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: 6080

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...