Miracle’s New QXL

At the 4th Italian QL Meeting held January 24th of this year, Miracle Systems unvailed their NEW PC card officially dubbed the “QXL”.

Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems informed IQLR that it will operate on a PC XT or above (including clones). The operating system is SMSQ (a derivative of Tony Tebby’s SMS-2) and is fully QDOS compatible, (at least, programs that run with the Gold Card will run on the QXL). A disk supplied with the QXL contains an application program running under MS-DOS, that when activated puts you in SMSQ (QL) mode. SBASIC is also supplied on disk. An EGA monitor or better is required to display Mode 4 and Mode 8. Stuart also stated, that available PC hardware (floppy drives, hard drives, etc.) should run in SMSQ mode as the BIOS and operating system are transparent.