| 3D Terrain |
3D Terrain, written by Ian Thompson and Rich Mellor, is a well thought out, addictive program, that takes data from Abacus and presents it in a 3 Dimensional form ED Note: Unlike some utility programs that generate 3D bar graphs or pie charts, this program produces a topigraphical 3 dimensional landscape presentation of the data).. |
Sinclair QL |
| Dilwyn Jones Computing |
A POTTED HISTORY OF MY COMPANY AND I! My involvement with Sinclair computers goes back to the very early days when I wrote some books on programming the ZX81/TS1000 and Spectrum/TS2068. After writing a great deal of BASIC programs in the first few years of the QL, | eventually wrote what were my first large |
Sinclair QL |
| Disk Drive Cable Extender |
The DISK DRIVE CABLE EXTENDER is a product that came about out of necessity. After hasseling with the tight cable and cramped working conditions when changing drive cables on the Gold Card (works equally well on the Trump Card), and frequently pulling the Gold Card loose from the edge connector, we decided that what was |
Sinclair QL |
| Editorial |
With this issue, we begin a new feature entitled “MORE THAN A NAME”. Along with a picture on the front cover, will be an auto-biography. We intend to highlight those people/companies that you have heard of over the years, but probably know very little about. These are people who have, and are contributing much to |
Sinclair QL |
| QL Rom Switching Board - Review |
The QL ROM Switching Board is a small circuit board, produced by members of the QLEA Quanta sub-group in England. This board allows you to install both a Minerva EPROM plus an original Sinclair ROM into the QL. Either of the two ROMS can be selected by means of a switch and a reset of |
Sinclair QL |
| QL Serial Cable Pinouts |
The following diagrams illustrate the pinouts for the two connectors required for assembling a serial to printer/modem cable. The parts are available at any Radio Shack (Tandy) store. |
Sinclair QL |
| Reading MSDOS Disks on the QL - Part III: The Boot Record and File Allocation Table |
Parts I and II implicitly assumed a 40-track disk being used on an 80-track drive. Examining the boot record will be primarily useful in determing whether this is, in fact, the case. All the MSDOS disks I have so far examined have been the 40_track (720 sector) type but others are possible. In fact, there |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Save And Load Arrays |
If you have ever created an array in SuperBasic you may have run into a slight problem. How do you save it? The manual is of no help, At least I couldn’t find instructions there. Even Jan Jones excellent book was, in this area, totally lacking. The program that follows will show the procedures to |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Screen Snatcher |
Screen Snatcher is a powerful utility which has one purpose, to save a copy of the current screen display to disk, microdrive or RAM disk. This program may not appear to be of value to everyone using a QL, however, if you have ever wanted to save a copy of text mixed with some foreign |
Sinclair QL |
| Statistical Analysis System |
Mechanical Design Analysis Consultants (MeDAC) has decided to market their Statistical Analysis System. This system was designed by our Chief Design Analyst (Glen E. Smelcer) after 12 years working in the Design Analysis Department of INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. and 15 years working in the Reliability Design Analysis Department of the JOHN DEERE Dubuque Works. |
Sinclair QL |
| Strings And The C-Programming Language |
Strings are a means of storing and manipulating text, such as names and sentences. In C, strings are not a formal data type but an array of type “char”. When you think about a string in C, it is a series of characters, formed into an array. In other programming languages strings are also treated |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
