| A Review of Sidewriter |
The Sidewriter documentation makes modest sounding claims: Sidewriter prints spreadsheet files (exported from Abacus to Quill) or plain text files in landscape print (sideways). Sidewriter offers options on fonts, output destination, 9 or 24 pin printer, print intensity via number of printing passes, paper width, file line width (sideways down the page), columns per inch |
Sinclair QL |
| DJToolkit - A Review |
Let me start with a few historical notes. During the development of the QL, much effort was devoted to keeping QDOS (and SuperBasic) as compact as possible. As a result, performance was not all it could have been, opening the way for system accelerators such as “Lightning”. |
Sinclair QL |
| Editorial |
With the approach of the fall and winter computing seasons and most of us back from our holiday/vacations we leave behind us what proved to be a very active QL summer. If only a third of the rumored NEW software and hardware actually sees the light of day, the months ahead could be one of |
Sinclair QL |
| File Transfers - QL/Archive to PC/DBase |
This is the first of several articles concerning the interchange of data between QL/QDOS applications programs and MSDOS applications programs. While I have both a QL and an MSDOS computer, by choice I do my work on the QL. Often it may involve either database information from a computer at work, or database information that |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Grey Wolf - A Review |
This was my first introduction to “Grey Wolf,” a World War II submarine simulation game. Upon boot, up you are asked three questions; if you want to hear engine noise, if you want a training mission, and the degree of difficulty 1-5 with 5 being the most difficult; the default to the first two questions |
Sinclair QL |
| Lightning Gold Card S/E |
Let me start with a few historical notes. During the development of the QL, much effort was devoted to keeping QDOS (and SuperBasic) as compact as possible. As a result, performance was not all it could have been, opening the way for system accelerators such as “Lightning”. |
Sinclair QL |
| Megatoolkit Review |
Megatoolkit adds over 200 new extensions to SuperBASIC (226 by my count!) that can be roughly grouped into the following categories: channels, screen handling, system, system traps, devices, basic utilities and miscellaneous. These new commands and functions can be used to help make your computing life with the QL easier. |
Sinclair QL |
| New from Digital Precision |
We have recently released our latest update to “PERFECTION SPECIAL EDITION’. This version has a massive 35 million megabyte file handling capacity, or put another way, 4 billion lines or paragraphs (seems just about the right size for IQLR). |
Sinclair QL |
| Notes on XCHANGE |
With the recent release of XCHANGE into the Public Domain (QL version only), and the lack of available documentation (at least in North America), it became apparent that QL users needed something in addition to their knowledge of QUILL. The following notes on XCHANGE have been extracted from the XCHANGE HELP and QUILL HELP files |
Sinclair QL |
| Perfection Plus S/E (version 5.09) |
If you are still using Quill, you probably have a huge wish list for improvements. What would you do if you could get all these wishes fulfilled (and more)? The authors of Perfection have obviously listened to the many complaints people have with the original Quill word processor. These complaints have all been addressed. Perfection |
Sinclair QL |
| Psion Chess - Version 2.02Q |
I have just rediscovered an old friend of mine, Psion Chess, thanks to Gunther Strube. Gunther has kindly made a new version of Psion Chess available to owners of the program. I just received my copy and am very pleased with it. Improvements include: no copy protection, no need for microdrives (this is great for |
Sinclair QL |
| Quanta Library Update |
We have recently received the latest additions to the Quanta Library. The first four disks are in a compressed form. It’s all very easy, just run the boot program on each disk and follow the menu. The 4 disks translate into 10 NEW Quanta disks plus upgrades or additions to three others. |
Sinclair QL |
| Quick Notes for Gold Card Users |
Some 1.44 Meg drives can be set by the jumper pins to NOT check for the additional hole that identifies the disk as a high density disk. I inadvertently set my drive that way, and find that it automatically formats regular (cheaper) 3 1/2″ 720K disks to 1.44 megs without any problems. |
Sinclair QL |
