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pjw wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:27 pm .... and "numpty bollocks", Graeme Gregory is AKA XorA?

Yes indeed.

XorA wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 3:20 pm Dyin' here, what a numpty bollocks he must be

I'm not sure why a separate version was needed though, I just delete "flp1_" and type "win1_quanta_" at the startup screen.

Cheers,
Norm.

I downloaded the official Quanta libguide from the Quanta web page supplied by Dilwyn.

I notice that there's a "dv4" version and boot file, created by someone called "Graeme Gregory" --- whoever he might be ( ;) ) --- and the boot file has a bug. The file "boot_dv4" is only allocating 11.6KB for ...

Thanks Andrew and Dilwyn, I have the current/latest version.


Cheers,
Norm.

Afternoon All,

does anyone have a copy of the Quanta Library DBAS file that I could have please? My copy dates from 10th October 1999 and might be a tad out of date. I'm building an article for the next installment of the Assembly Magazine and I would like to have an up to date version as I've come ...

Looking at the image there Dilwyn, I have a feeling I'll be converting from ACP to ZipManager when I get home from Fife!

Cheers,
Norm.

There is a utility called ACP which makes compressing and uncompressing simple. It's a Pointer Environment front end to zip, arc, etc. it obviously needs those programs available, at least the one you want to use.

I use it all the time to create and unpack compressed archives.

HTH


Cheers,
Norm.

desin wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 7:57 am switch to Linux

Cue Dilwyn.....


Cheers,
Norm.

My bad, sorry. I'm using the DuckDuckGo browser with javascript seemingly off. Both files downloaded on Firefox.

Panic over!

Thanks for confirming though.


Cheers,
Norm.

swensont wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:40 pm http://swensont.epizy.com/QLirc2.zip
http://swensont.epizy.com/QLirc2.pdf

Both those links download a chunk of HTML text for me. Anyone else having the same result or is it just me. Both downloads are 839 bytes long.

Cheers,
Norm.