| "Black Beauty" |
Bob named it. After helping Don Walterman build and review the Falkenberg DIY kit to put a QL into a PC type mini tower case and seeing the system that Bob had built for his own QL that was all in black, it inspired me to want to do the same. |
Sinclair QL |
| "DiskTidy" A Quanta Library Gem |
One of the most interesting and useful utility programs which I have been using for some time is called DISKTIDY. This program allows you to catalog all of your many disks in an orderly manner and brings a definite means of maintaining useful data files. |
Sinclair QL |
| A Note from DI-REN |
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Sinclair QL |
| BlackKnight Version 1.4 |
For those who didn’t see the review of BlackKnight v1.01, BlackKnight is a chess-playing program by Francois Lanciault for QDOS and compatibles. V1.01 had 10 levels of play with time to respond to a move averaging from S seconds at Level 1 to 60 minutes at Level 10. To these 10 levels v1.4 adds a |
Sinclair QL |
| DEV Device Driver & DEV Manager |
DEV Manager is a software utility for setting up and controlling the ‘DEV’ device driver. While you can do these same things direct from SuperBASIC, DEV Manager makes it easier by using the Pointer Environment to make it a point and click operation. |
Sinclair QL |
| Going Dutch for the Weekend |
Ah, the best laid plans of mice and QLers! With the best of altruistic motives I offered to transport three members of Quanta in my car to the Eindhoven meeting on the 4th March but my car had other ideas. A couple of days before the meeting it’s radiator decided to commit Hari Kari and |
Sinclair QL |
| More on Timing |
Eros Forenzi’s article on operating speeds (IQLR 4-6) got me to thinking about timings other than those shown. For instance, only three of the four cache and second screen combinations are shown and SMSQ/E is not covered. The following constitutes my feeble efforts to date. |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| PFData & the DATAdesign APL |
DATAdesign was the first program I bought when I made the transition to Pointer Environment programs and I have been a PROGS fan ever since. Archive, for me at least, was a seriously annoying program to deal with but I think that is because I tend to use databases in a different way to a |
Sinclair QL |
| QXL In Command |
A program can be started in the QXL and it will continue computing when control is passed back to the PC by pressing CTRL SCROLL LOCK. This feature is handy when using a long number cruncher type of program. Of course, the program will pause when it tries to print to the screen, access a |
Sinclair QL |
| Running a Gold Card from 5 Volts |
The QL normally runs as we all know from 9 volts, which if you have transfered your QL to a PC case (with a switch mode power supply), causes a few problems. The solution to this problem is to run the whole system on 5 volts, but the backup clock on Gold Card will not |
Sinclair QL |
| Seeing is Believing |
You sit down, switch on your QL and patiently wait for the start-up prompt to appear on the screen… how easily we take for granted that a computer can display pictures an a monitor. Would you ever think that a complex process is performed by about 30% of the hardware in your computer just to |
Sinclair QL |
| SMSQ Language Dependent Modules |
n order to be able to distribute versions of SMSQ which provide messages in more than one language and to support multiple keyboard layouts, SMSQ uses a uniform “language dependent module” structure. |
Sinclair QL |
| The 3rd North American QL Show |
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Sinclair QL |
| The Greek New Testament (on the QL) |
Those of us who have an intense desire to understand the reasons and purpose of life, search, study and discuss what we can of the contents of many different records of the past, including the Sumarian Scripts, the Egyptian Cuneform writings and the Mayan Records. Many of these writings are to-day being studied by scholars |
Sinclair QL |
| Tips/Tricks & Problem Solutions |
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Sinclair QL |
| When It All Started |
A co-worker dropped a copy of an old PC World on my desk a few weeks ago, asking me if its date was about when the Sinclair QL was first introduced. The year on the magazine, 1984. Thumbing through the magazine, I found it interesting to compare where computer technology stood when the QL was |
Sinclair QL |
