| Bus Expansion And The QL |
Almost from the beginning, QL’ers realized the need for bus expansion. A company by the name of QUEST was the first to advertise a bus expansion system that included additional memory, disk drives and an OS-9 type operating environment. I’ve never seen one in person, but have been told only a small number were sold |
Sinclair QL |
| Continuing Rumors |
From the Italian QL Show held in January, comes information on the Miracle Graphics Card. It will have two NEW modes. The first, will be an enhanced mode 4 with as many as 256 colors and will be usable with standard QL monitors. The second will be a High Resolution mode of 1024 pixels x |
Sinclair QL |
| Dust Covers |
Awhile back, IQLR subscriber Kenton Garrett of Lansing, Kansas, USA raved about a company he’d found in Florida that manufactured dust covers for computers and their peripherals. Kenton had them make a few special covers for him, and to his surprise, the prices were quite reasonable. To quote him, “custom covers at standard item pricing”. |
Sinclair QL |
| Editorial |
This issue completes Volume One of IQLR, and we look forward to our second year of publication. You, our subscribers and readers have made IQLR a voice in the International QL Community, for this, we owe you our thanks. This past year has established or reestablished lines of communications. No longer are NORTH AMERICANS isolated |
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| FLP/RAM Level 2 Replacement Eprom |
Once in a great while, a product comes along that is a MUST, the FLP/RAM Level 2 EPROM Replacement Chip from Jochen Merz of Germany is just such a product. |
Sinclair QL |
| Helpful Hint |
Unbranded Sony 3.5″ diskettes can be purchased in bulk at prices far below the retail price of the disks with Sony’s name imprinted on them. |
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| International QL Meeting |
On Saturday the 21st of March 1992, the Sinclair QL User Club of Germany will be hosting the “INTERNATIONAL QL MEETING” in the city of Munster-Roxel in northwestern Germany, at the Tilbecker Strasse 24, from 8 am until 10 pm. This meeting is dedicated entirely to a discussion of current QL/QDOS developments.In addition, there will |
Sinclair QL |
| News Flash! |
With the recent collapse of Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire, and most if not all of its operations scheduled for the auction block, there was real concern for the fate of “QL World”. We are happy to report, that we have been informed, the employee’s of MCPC Ltd. have purchased the group publishing “QL World” along |
Sinclair QL |
| NEWS RELEASE - QL HDD-CARD |
The QL HDD-CARD is an interface board for the QL’s expansion port that allows you to connect a standard PC-hard drive controller of either the MFM (controller type OMTI 5520 or WD 1002A-WX1), or RLL hard drive (controller type OMTI 5527, WD 1602-27X or 1002A-27X) to the Sinclair QL. The driver for the new device |
Sinclair QL |
| OOPS! |
Issue #5 : in Doug Dewey’s article “What Use Is The QL In Education“, the program “DBTUTOR” was mentioned. We apologize for not mentioning that this program was written by Bill Cable (a frequent contributor to IQLR), and could be purchased from Bill. |
Sinclair QL |
| TEXT_WIDTH |
The following program demonstrates how to set up a procedure for printing text you’ve written, so that your choice of characters per line will be printed while still looking neat. |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Using Pointers And Structures In The C-Programming Language |
This article is intended to emphasize the importance of pointers and structures in order to gain a better understanding of the C Programming Language. It is important to have a through understanding of this topic since many of the operations in C use these facilities. |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
