International QL Report V3 I1

Date: May/June 1993
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
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Title Description Computers
A Report - International QL Meeting Friday February 26th fourteen of us depart from Great Britain for Eindhoven in the dreaded Quanta minibus, driven by Phil Borman (not that Phil’s driving is any reason to dread travelling in it!). Our destination was St Joris college, Eindhoven, for the latest International QL. Meeting, organised by the Dutch and German QL user clubs. Sinclair QL
Editorial This issue marks the beginning of our THIRD year of operation, and we’d like to thank you, our readers for making it all possible. This is a BIG year for our community, with two International QL Meetings already behind us ( the 4th Italian QL Meeting , and the International QL Meeting held at Eindhoven Sinclair QL
Ergon Development - Who Are We? To answer the first question, we are Marco Ternelli and Davide Santachiara and together we’re Ergon Development. Our interest like yours is in the QL/QDOS and we’re writing some really interesting programs (see our advert elsewhere in this issue) for this system. Now about us. Sinclair QL
Floppy Disk Drive Troubles and My Solution After experiencing some problems with my QL’s disk drives and troubleshooting the problem, | wrote this account of what I found and what I did. Hopefully my experience will help someone else. Sinclair QL
Helpful Hint - Serial Mouse Many users have reported problems when attempting to use Albin Hessler’s Serial Mouse software. Frank Davis of Mechanical Affinity reports that most of the problems he has seen can be solved by following three basic steps: first, its necessary to make a small QL cable to hook to a serial mouse; the second, requires people Sinclair QL
Late Breaking News Miracle Systems has announced 4 different configurations for their new QXL PC CARD. It will be offered as either Meg, 2Meg, 5Meg, or 8Meg boards with the sockets in place for future upgrade. Sinclair QL
QL - PC Fileserver In the past, a number of articles have been written describing how to transfer files from a QL to a PC. These usually involved using terminal programs on both ends or writing some basic program to manage a file transfer. These methods are cumbersome at best. I will admit that I’ve always wished there was Sinclair QL
QL 2000 Tower Case QL All you need in one box, expandable yet affordable, with plenty of space for tinkering and upgrading. With the QL-2000 we are presenting a completely new concept for expansion of your QL system to a compact, professional reliable unit. Sinclair QL
QMATHS 1 “QMATHS'” first appeared in DP’s ads around December 1991 (not having the Sept & Oct 91 QL Worlds, I can’t be more precise) as the “QMATHS MATHEMATICAL SYSTEM”. In June 1992, like an amoeba, the system split into two parts. It is Part One that will be reviewed here. I have no information at this Sinclair QL
Text87 plus 4 - A Review This review of text87 plus 4 is being written using text 87. I rarely turn on my QL without using text87 for something. This doesn’t mean I’m always writing letters. I also use text87 to find information. I have a 1.2 MByte file containing all the zip codes of cities in the United States. To Sinclair QL
The ZM Spectrum Emulation Package A little more than a year ago, the Italian software house, Ergon Development started writing a program to emulate the Sinclair Spectrum 48K on the QL. The first version of the emulator was launched at the International QL meeting in Muenster – Germany, in March ’92. Other versions followed, with the very latest in January Sinclair QL
Xtricator - A Review Xtricator is a ZX81 emulator for the QL, In other words it allows the QL to emulate or act like its older brother, the ZX81 (TS1000 in the US). You may be wondering why someone would want to emulate the old ZX or how do you get a 68000 series CPU to run Z80 CPU Sinclair QL
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