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by NormanDunbar
Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: In the market
Replies: 14
Views: 1437

Re: In the market

Hi Andrew. I can't help with actual QLs, but if you want to run Quill, then any of the emulators available will be happy to do that for you. I use Marcel's excellent QPC2 https://www.kilgus.net/qpc/ which is written for Windows, but I run it on Linux under Wine and it's fine, other than not being ab...
by NormanDunbar
Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello
Replies: 9
Views: 1010

Re: Hello

Talking of keyboards..... I loved the "dead fish" rubber keyboard on my Spectrum. The original one, not the [cough]Amstrad[cough] ones! ;) I also loved the original QL's excellent keyboard too. A far leap from the rubber one on the spectrum, and a huge, some may say, Quantum, leap from the...
by NormanDunbar
Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ql+ prototype rebuild ? possible
Replies: 50
Views: 3183

Re: ql+ prototype rebuild ? possible

Andrew wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:11 pm I think you can still buy the ebook here https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo ... 20557.html
Thanks Andrew, unfortunately, that appears to be a different book. It's "Computer", :( we are all looking for "Delete" by the same author.

Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Piggyback 4164 to Diagnose Memory Fault
Replies: 87
Views: 4205

Re: Piggyback 4164 to Diagnose Memory Fault

Thanks, but am breaking the board for spares. Ok, I'm not a hardware expert -- just ask anyone here -- but if you have not solved the problem, then breaking the board for spares is going to mean, I think, that you will never be sure if the spare part is working or faulty! Just a though. Cheers, Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Heelo from the Netherlands..
Replies: 6
Views: 540

Re: Heelo from the Netherlands..

Hello. And welcome to the mad house! :D

Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:19 pm
Forum: QL Wiki
Topic: A Hotmail of spam users incoming!
Replies: 2
Views: 11912

Re: A Hotmail of spam users incoming!

And today's deluge of new users signing up for spam purposes are using email addresses at "hujk.blahtok.com", soon to be confined to the bin! There is another user which is also suspicious: "Pamala Tilley" but with an email address of "jorgwillard7835@qiott.com", which ...
by NormanDunbar
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: C++ Initialised Static (Class) Variables with Source and Explanation
Replies: 5
Views: 751

Re: C++ Initialised Static (Class) Variables with Source and Explanation

ql_freak wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 2:16 am
NormanDunbar wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:57 am I'm getting a 404 page when I follow that link. :(
Oops, I have thought, I have had answered this problem.
Hi Peter,

it is indeed fixed on the original URL. Thanks.


Cheers,
Norm.
by NormanDunbar
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: C++ Initialised Static (Class) Variables with Source and Explanation
Replies: 5
Views: 751

Re: C++ Initialised Static (Class) Variables with Source and Explanation

Proud to present a new article on my homepage ([at least] currently only available in English): http://peter-sulzer.bplaced.net/htdocs/index.php?pagefile=develop/cpp/classVarsWithInit.hti (WARNING: Link opens in SAME Window/Tab, albeit linking to another site!) I'm getting a 404 page when I follow ...
by NormanDunbar
Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:17 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Bug in string handling in SMSQ/E
Replies: 11
Views: 1158

Re: Bug in string handling in SMSQ/E

While I'm happy to agree about returning an empty string in this case, it should be consistent so that any attempt to slice from a larger index to a smaller one should either return the empty string or return an error, but not this pile of pants! This is, currently, as I found in SSB, a bug. Cheers,...