| A Portable Forth Model, eFORTH |
eFORTH is the name of a FORTH model designed to be portable between a large number of the newer and more powerful processors existing now, or becoming available in the near future. FORTH for the QL is a version 32 bits absolute address and 32 bits stack. |
Sinclair QL |
| CGP-220 Color Printer Converter |
I wrote the program that follows to overcome the difficulty of generating QL characters on my CGP-220 (an older Radio Shack/Tandy printer, which I believe to be one of the first color ink-jet printers). With a little tinkering you can get this program to work with any dot matrix printer. |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Editorial |
With the approach of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, comes a wealth of NEW products for the QL. Some like HERMES, a new co-processor, and QSPREAD, a new spreadsheet are major developments (see the articles pertaining to them in this issue). |
Sinclair QL |
| Flightdeck - A Review |
As the name implies, FLIGHTDECK is a flight simulation program for the QL. The cost of the program including shipping and handling is 15 Pounds Sterling. |
Sinclair QL |
| Helpful Hint #1 - Un-numbered Boot Programs |
Following up a hint in a previous issue, boot programs do not have to be manually typed in to add line numbers. You can, of course, load them into an editor and manually add line numbers, but it is much easier to let the QL do it automatically. |
Sinclair QL |
| Helpful Hint #2 - Using Printer Control Codes in Quill |
rovided your printer is set to ignore the MSB (Most Significant Byte) of byte values sent to it, (many are shipped with this as a default setting and normally this can be changed by a DIP switch inside the printer or from software), it is possible to send control codes by using CHR$(155) from the |
Sinclair QL |
| International Computer Glossary |
I thought this might be a good time to bring you up to date on the status of the International Computer Glossary, especially to those that worked so hard to provide input and resolve discrepancies. |
Sinclair QL |
| Matcher: An Archive Utility Program |
We have all had the experience of receiving 2 or 3 copies of the same catalog each with a slightly different version of our address on it. Mail order companies buy address databases from many sources and often the same address may be in more than one in a slightly different form. This fools the |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| maus.comp.ql |
This article is intended for QL users who have access to Usenet or any other means to receive such conferences or forums. Intl.QI is an international area to discuss anything related with the QL. It originates from the QBOXnet, an independent private network of bulletin boards (Fido) which run on QLs or compatible machines. |
Sinclair QL |
| New from Jochen Merz Software |
QSPREAD a spreadsheet for the 1990’s is now being shipped. Written by Oliver Fink a highly respected guru of the Pointer Environment, QSPREAD can be completely driven by the mouse or the keyboard. |
Sinclair QL |
| New! Hermes Co-Processor from QVIEW |
The QL’s second processor, the Intelligent Peripheral Controller (IPC 8049), handles sound and the serial port, as well as keyboard input. The code in the present 8049 suffers from a number of problems. |
Sinclair QL |
| News from Miracle Systems |
Miracle is now shipping their re-designed DISK ADAPTER (allows the use of up to 4 disk drives with Trump or Gold Cards), and they are presently re-designing their QL CENTRONICS interface, we’ve been told that the new version will fit under the hood of a Centronics male connector and eliminate the need for the box. |
Sinclair QL |
| QL Spares & Repairs |
A growing number of our North American readers have written us concerning SPARE PARTS and/or QL REPAIRS. We find that this is a worldwide concern of many QLer’s. Therefore the reason for this article, |
Sinclair QL |
| Reading MSDOS Disks on the QL - Part II: Copying MSDOS Files |
Part I contained a brief description of the MSDOS disk organization. Table 1, below, expands on that description to include placement of clusters. The tabular form should allow visualization of interrelations among the disk parameters superior to any verbal description. For instance, the expressions in Procedure trsise should be fairly readily derivable from the Table. |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Super Disk Utility |
Most cataloguing methods applied to collections of items, be they books or chapters in a book, involve relatively complex indexing techniques such as alternating between numerals (Arabic or Roman) and alphabetical characters. On the other hand, it is generally simpler, and often preferable, to use a straightforward numerical order when dealing with collections of closely |
Sinclair QL |
| The Lonely Joker |
The Lonely Joker is an excellent implementation of the card game Solitaire (Patience). When used with a mouse, this version is certainly equal to or better than the ones bundled with “Windows” for the IBM or commonly found on the Macintosh. |
Sinclair QL |
