| Basic Archive | ARCHIVE, as everyone knows, is a very powerful database. Unfortunately, it is only as powerful as you are a programmer. Anyone con create a mailing list file, or a customer file or a stock file. It is the ability to write procedures which utilize the information in the records that makes ARCHIVE one of the | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Bits and Pieces | We have some items we want to mention. Brett Lidstone in Canada is having problems connecting a Hayes 300/1200 baud modem to his QL. He cannot get it to work either with the modapter or just with a straight cable. If anyone out there has been successful in hooking up a Hayes, write us and | Sinclair QL |
| Fractured Fractals | You have no doubt seen some computer generated landscapes or other objects. If you saw any of the Star Trek movies, you did see a computer representation of an object on the screen amde up of repetetive squares, triangles, circles or curving lines. Unless the geometric objects making up the surfaces are filled in or | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| New Version of Sidewinder | A new version of SIDEWINDER has been released which will make it more compatible with more printers. The initial version was only intended for printers which were fully compatible with the Epson RX80. | Sinclair QL |
| QL News | We lead off this issue by apologising for jumping the gun about the battery clocks. We knew they were coming and would be here shortly after we went to press and “assumed” that they would work fine, coming from a reliable source. As it turned out, that batch would not work at all. Every time | Sinclair QL |
| Working With Pascal Files | A reader wrote this month with a problem that is certainly not unique to programmers who are trying to learn Pascal. His problem was how to do I/O. While I went over his sample code, I found a number of other basic errors, again of a type that are not uncommon to novices to this | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
