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by Derek_Stewart
Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:50 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Today I Received...
Replies: 642
Views: 287928

Re: Today I Received...

XorA wrote:
Derek_Stewart wrote:H,

he OSSC is open source with all the schematics, PCB files and Gerber files, I wonder if there could be manufactured?
There are loads of people making them so yes!
Do you have a link for the purchase web site?
by Derek_Stewart
Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:04 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Metacomco C Manual
Replies: 47
Views: 25920

Re: Metacomco C Manual

Hi Chr$, Could scan your manual dame the pages you upliaded and I will do the rest as with the McGrawhill manual. Mine also had this 2-page errata. Each time I scan I have to walk around my desk to the printer/scanner to change the content. At approx. 225 pages, scanning the whole thing would be qu...
by Derek_Stewart
Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:03 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Today I Received...
Replies: 642
Views: 287928

Re: Today I Received...

H,

he OSSC is open source with all the schematics, PCB files and Gerber files, I wonder if there could be manufactured?
by Derek_Stewart
Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:02 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Metacomco C Manual
Replies: 47
Views: 25920

Re: Metacomco C Manual

Hi Chr$,

Could scan your manual and send me the pages you uploaded and I will do the rest as with the McGrawhill manual.
by Derek_Stewart
Thu Apr 14, 2022 6:45 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Metacomco C Manual
Replies: 47
Views: 25920

Re: Metacomco C Manual

Hi Chr$

Yes that is the one the Spanish scanned version is rubbish.

I will add the pages you kindly sent and see if I can get the manual in a better form.
by Derek_Stewart
Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:26 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Metacomco C Manual
Replies: 47
Views: 25920

Metacomco C Manual

Hi, I have been looking at the scanned PDF of the Metacomco C manual, that was scanned on a Spanish QL web site. The resultant PDF was very badly scanned with 2 pages per A4 page. Which I can split this into single pages very easily. But the scanned file have scanned out of order, I spent nearly an ...
by Derek_Stewart
Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:17 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 21353

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi, I mainly use Open Source software these days, LibreOffice is pre-install in Linux Mint 20.03, so I use that. I use gscan2pdf to split any double scanned pages, which actually unpaper which gui on top of it. The OCR software is ocrmypdf, a really silly name for an excellent application that will ...
by Derek_Stewart
Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:36 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 21353

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi,

I have scanned and OCRed the book, I am working throught the ASCII OCR file in LibreOffice Writer formatting the pages as per the book, any diagrams are uaually constructed as tables.

I will submit the finished file here for proof reading.
by Derek_Stewart
Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:48 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Dhrystone benchmark QL vs Amiga
Replies: 24
Views: 5174

Re: Dhrystone benchmark QL vs Amiga

Hi Peter, I always thought SYSINFO was written in assembler, which is confirmed by the Wikipedia entry: Sysinfo is a shareware program written completely in Assembler for the Motorola 68k equipped Amiga computers to benchmark system performance. Sysinfo shows which version of system software is pres...
by Derek_Stewart
Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:28 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Andy Pennell's books.
Replies: 96
Views: 21353

Re: Andy Pennell's books.

Hi Like Xora, I have 2 copies of the QDOS Companion, one perfect, the other is nearly loose leaf. So I intend to scan that one with a Protek Opticbook scanner. This allows scanning upto edge of each page edge. Should not take too long. I have OCRed Assrmbley Languagre Programming on QL, just need to...