Articles (179)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
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| “PATHS” on the QL Following on from the article above using the DEV device on Gold Cards to adapt software to run from subdirectories... | Dilwyn Jones | International QL Report | July/August 1994 |
| A New FORMAT FORMAT_BIN, a public-domain 68000 SuperBASIC extension by Réal Gagnon (November 1989) that redefines the dangerous FORMAT command: the medium name... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| A QL Address File A simple address database program presented as a tutorial. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| A QL Index Program When you want to repeat something in Superbasic, the easy way is to englobe everything in a REPeat END REPeat... | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| A QL Printing Primer Here is a little tutorial for setting up the QL to print to paper "without a word processor". It does... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| A Selective Menu-Loader On QL utility disks which contain both Basic and data files, this program provides for the display of only the... | Update Magazine | April 1992 | |
| A-Dee-Doo-Dah: A Front-End for the Unzip Utility A month-or-so-ago, I received several ZIP’ed files from Nazir Pashtoon (CATUG) and the UNZIP utility (version 2.00) which had been... | Update Magazine | January 1994 | |
| Abaclav_exe ABACLAV_EXE, a small 68000 machine-code job for the QL that speeds up data entry in the Abacus spreadsheet: ALT plus... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Abacus Application: Sorting Files An alternative to DLO_BAS for listing a disk or microdrive directory in sorted columns, using Psion's Abacus spreadsheet. A short... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| About TOOLKIT II Are there any QL owners who if they don't have TK2, have not been strongly advised to get it? Article... | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | October 1988 |
| Accessing PRINTER_DAT This article sets out to explain the file structure of the PRINTER_DAT printer driver used by Quill, Archive and Abacus.... | Dilwyn Jones | International QL Report | March/April 1994 |
| Adding Config Blocks To Qlib Programs BasConfig is a utility, written by Oliver Fink, that creates config blocks for Qliberator compiled programs. For those that don’t... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| Alternative to True Multitasking n the March 1995 issue of QREVIEW there appeared an article titled “BEYOND QUILL” that expressed the sentiment regarding whole... | International QL Report | January/February 1996 | |
| Archive Indent I have always thought that Archive has always been one of the underrated programming languages for the QL. When I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Arithmetic: An Arithmetic Drill Program for the QL A program designed to aid children in learning arithmetic. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Base Conversion In some postings in on Usenet, there have been some conversations about converting from different bases. I found this task... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| BEEP BEEP Yeah!: The SuperBASIC BEEP Command A parameter-by-parameter explanation of the Sinclair QL's SuperBASIC BEEP command: duration, pitch_a, pitch_b, grad_x, grad_y, wrap, fuzz and random, with... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| BetterBasic And CrossRef BetterBasic and CrossRef are two SuperBasic programming utilities written by Chas Dillon (of THE EDITOR fame). Chas has released these... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Big Letters: The ENLARGE Procedure A SuperBASIC procedure, ENLARGE, that draws enlarged text on the screen with BLOCK by reading the character patterns of the... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Bigprint_bas BIGPRINT, a SuperBASIC procedure that draws large letters on the QL screen by reading the character patterns from the system... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Biorhythms_bas BIORYTHMES_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by JC Touzin of La Sarre, Québec, that asks for a person's birth date and a... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| Boot Up Reminder Productivity tools for the QL are far and few between. On the PC, there is a dearth of these tools;... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 |
| Bootsort Without TK2 The following version of the selective menu-loader (BOOTsortCOPY) may be used without initializing TK2. It automatically shows only Basic titles... | Update Magazine | April 1992 | |
| Byte Input in SuperBasic In the last QHJ, I mentioned that I could not get single byte input to work in SuperBasic for my... | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 | |
| Calendar Generator (Version 2) Jean-Claude Touzin presents a second version of his SuperBASIC calendar generator for the QL (JS ROM), first shown in SIN.... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| Case Statement Implementation When I recently was working on SSB 2.6, I was using a SuperBasic implementation of a CASE structure for the... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Cellular Automata Back in college, I was short 1/2 a unit from graduating. To make up the unit, I enrolled in a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Chaos Program #2 from Scientific American Second QL chaos program adapted from Scientific American, implementing a chaotic attractor with parameters a=2.24, b=0.43, c=-0.85, d=3.4. Colors plotted... | Mark Wahl | Timelinez | July-December 1989 |
| CIMENT_BAS Jean-Claude Touzin's CIMENT_BAS, a SuperBASIC concrete calculator for home renovation projects. Given rectangular or cylindrical sections in feet and a... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Clavier_exe: A Québécois Keyboard CLAVIER_EXE, a multitasking 68000 job by Réal Gagnon that makes French accents easy to type in Quill, typewriter-style: an apostrophe,... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Complex ASCII Rotation While reading one of the many computer magazines that I read in a month (got to have something to do... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| Contest Program — Attendance Tracker, Part 1 First installment of a QL SuperBASIC attendance-tracking program submitted as a SMUG programming contest entry. Tracks monthly attendance for up... | Bill Heberlein | SMUG Bytes | June 1991 |
| Contest Program — Attendance Tracker, Part 2 Continuation of the QL SuperBASIC attendance-tracking program from v8 n6; covering lines 2050 through 14000+, including display and print routines,... | Bill Heberlein | SMUG Bytes | July 1991 |
| Contest Program — Attendance Tracker, Part 3 Final installment of the QL SuperBASIC attendance-tracking program; covering lines 15000 through 17180+, including routines to delete records by number,... | Bill Heberlein | SMUG Bytes | August 1991 |
| Core War for QL Documentation and SuperBASIC listing for a Core War game implementation on the Sinclair QL, in which competing programs battle for... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | February 1989 |
| CPT_bas CPT_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by Jean-Claude Touzin that calculates the coefficient of heat loss (CPT) of a house from walls,... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| Creating Loadable Extensions Using Qlib One of the things that has always amazed me about the QL was the ability to load a binary file... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Decoding CompuServe’s Run-Length-Encoded Graphics on the Sinclair QL A SuperBASIC program for the Sinclair QL to display off-line CompuServe RLE (Run-Length-Encoded) graphics files. Explains how to download files... | Norm Lehfeldt | Timelinez | June 1986 |
| Designing Windows Program for determining window sizes. | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1988 | |
| Deskjet Print Filter Once I got my DeskJet printer, I wanted to be able to produce nice looking text output. Quill and other... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Dice Percentages I’m still distracted by my other hobby, wargaming. In tying the two together, I thought about dice, percentages, and To-Hit... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| Disk Eraser In one of my program idea brainstorming sessions, I came up with the idea of writing a program to completely... | Tim Swenson Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Disk Text Search Utility Over the years, to keep various e-mails and newsgroup postings, I’ve printed them out and kept them at home. I’ve... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Diskinfo This program started out as an attempt to examine a disk with corrupted files. The problem may have been with... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | February 1991 |
| DLO_BAS DLO_BAS ("disk label organizer"), a SuperBASIC program that reads a floppy disk's directory, sorts the file names alphabetically and prints... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| DLO_BAS Version 0.6 Version 0.6 of DLO_BAS (Disk Label Organizer), Réal Gagnon's public-domain SuperBASIC program that reads a floppy or microdrive directory, sorts... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| Easel Print The program shows how to use the graphics dump provided with EASEL. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Editor SE (Part 4) This section of the tutorial will be devoted to setting up ALTKEY (Hotkeys) commands within The EDITOR. If you haven’t... | Bob Gilder | International QL Report | May/June 1994 |
| Equal Loan Payments Calculator This program is based on one written by Ward Seguin in the March “85 CATS for the 2068. It had... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | October 1989 |
| ETAT_BIN: A SuperBASIC Extension ETAT_BIN by W. Lenerz, from the QLCF, adds a SuperBASIC function ETAT that tests whether a file exists before a... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Exploring FLP_ A guide to the lesser-documented commands of the Tony Tebby floppy-disk toolkit found on most QL disk interfaces (a limited... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Exploring New Environments ZX Spectrum emulation; QL subdirectories. | Update Magazine | October 1992 | |
| Exploring the Mysterious QL: JOS – Adding Your Own Commands to Super BASIC Using procedures to add your own commands to Super BASIC | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1987 | |
| 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.... | Tom Robbins | International QL Report | September/October 1993 |
| Fletcher’s Checksum The May issue of “Dr Dobb’s Journal” focused on data communications and included articles on checksums. One article covered Fletcher’s... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Fractured Fractals You have no doubt seen some computer generated landscapes or other objects. If you saw any of the Star Trek... | Marshall Stiles | QL Report | October 15, 1987 |
| French-Speaking QL: French Characters with Quill How to print French accented characters from Quill. The article lists the ten TRANSLATEs for an Epson-compatible printer (switching to... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Games for the Sinclair QL: A Potpourri Unlike previous Sinclair computers, the Sinclair QL was not–by design–optimized for computer games. The sound and graphics systems of the... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1986 | |
| Helper: A SuperBASIC Program A set of toolkit-like functions presented in menu format. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| HELPER: A SuperBASIC Program A set of toolkit-like functions presented in menu format. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Hex Movement Library Recently I’ve been distracted by one of my other hobby, wargaming. There has been a discussion on USENET about freeware... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Horloge_bas (Clock Setter) HORLOGE_BAS, a public-domain SuperBASIC utility by Réal Gagnon for setting the QL's internal clock. The date and time are adjusted... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Internet Conciseness Contest Mark Schnitzius (schnitzi@eustis.cs.ucf.edu) has started and runs the Internet Conciseness Contest. The contest is designed to provide an outlet for... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 |
| Iterated Function Systems IFS is what Michael Barnsley calls his Iterated Function Systems, and IFS is another part of fractals (remember those Mandelbrot... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Keyrcod & Keycod Two small SuperBASIC procedures for program development, by Bruno Gadrat of the French QLCF club: KEYRCOD shows the values returned... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| Label Program — Part 2 Continuation of the QL SuperBASIC mailing label program; covering lines 1580–9999 including window definition procedures, disk file load and save... | Bill Heberlein | SMUG Bytes | January 1992 |
| Layout Program to display a single sheet with scale outline of a page to allow the user to set margins, etc. | Update Magazine | April 1993 | |
| Learning SuperBasic, Or How I Got out of the WHEN ERRor Loop After nearly a year of only using the Psion® sofware on my QL, I finally tried to do a little... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | July 1987 |
| Letter about converting Microsoft BASIC programs to SuperBasic Letter includes a program to replace MID$, LEFT$ and RIGHT$ functions with Sinclair equivalent functions. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Lighthouse, QL Graphics Program to print a lighthouse on a Tandy CGP-220 printer. | Update Magazine | April 1992 | |
| Linked Lists in SuperBASIC Tutorial explaining linked list data structures for QL SuperBASIC programmers. Covers the concept of pointer-based dynamic ordering, where records store... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | December 1988 |
| Lottery LOTERIE_BAS, a short SuperBASIC program by Réal Gagnon that generates nine random number combinations for Loto-Québec's Lotto 6/49 and Select... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| LZW Compression Through work I have come to know one Alex Bocast. When I first met Alex, he mentioned working on a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Mailing Labelmaker A QL SuperBASIC program for printing mailing labels on a full-size printer. Menu-driven with options to print return address labels,... | Walt Gaby | Timelinez | March 1987 |
| MAJI_EXE: A Multitasking Utility MAJI_EXE by W. Lenerz, from the QLCF, is a small job that multitasks with Quill and shows "Maj.:" in Quill's... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Mandelbrot – A Fractal World, Part Two Program to generate Mandelbrot diagrams. | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1988 | |
| MANDELBROT — A Fractal World Welcome to the magical world of fractal geometry (“the mathematical study of forms having fractional dimension”). Fractal geometry has been... | Time Designs Magazine | November/December 1987 | |
| Menu_bas MENU_BAS, a SuperBASIC function that gives a program a one-line menu bar: it takes an array of option names, an... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| Menu-Driven Printer_DAT Selection Program to allow user to select one of several printers at startup. | Update Magazine | April 1993 | |
| Minerva II Tidbit Here is a small utility for snooping about in the Minerva II ram. There’s nothing sacred about the limits on... | Mel E. LaVerne | International QL Report | September/October 1994 |
| 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,... | Mel E. LaVerne | International QL Report | May/June 1995 |
| Offset_bas OFFSET_BAS, a SuperBASIC formatted-number procedure in the spirit of PRINT USING, by J.C. Touzin. Called with a channel, the number,... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Oh No! Not Another Interest Computation Program! Once upon a time a few idle hours I did find. Oh me! Oh my! What to do? Well why... | Update Magazine | April 1992 | |
| Parameter Passing Techniques In S*Basic In QHJ#24 and #25 there were articles on parameter passing techniques (By Tim Swenson and by Peter Tillier, respectively). I... | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1998 | |
| Passing Parameters When I was learning Pascal, one of the hurdles I had to get over was the concept of parameter passing.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Paycheck Analyst A Sinclair QL SuperBASIC program that analyzes a paycheck’s deductions. User answers 9 questions about a weekly/monthly pay period and... | Carlos Lytle | Timelinez | November 1988 |
| PC-IMPORT File transfer and BASIC language dialect translator. | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1988 | |
| Permuations [Below is an interesting permutation program sent to me by Herb Schaaf. He did not include any article or explanation,... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| Philosophy Of Structured SuperBasic Philosophy is defined as a system of principles for guidance in practical affairs. The Philosophy of Structured SuperBasic (SSB) is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| Piano Allows you to use the keyboard of your QL as if it were a piano. | Update Magazine | October 1995 | |
| Playing With Electricity Short program to support switching between screen areas in RAM. | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1988 | |
| Pretty_bas PRETTY_BAS, a SuperBASIC utility that rewrites a program file with its listing indented to show the structure of procedures, loops... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| Prime Number [This article was sent in by Mike Fink, owner of Domino Cubes, a Z88 Dealer. Once Mike told me about... | Mike Fink | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| Programming in SuperBASIC for the T/S 2068 Programmer As I suggested in the last issue, the most enduring contribution of the Sinclair QL™ system may turn out to... | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1986 | |
| QColumn Regular QL column with two hardware tips (Microdrive safety during power-off and humidity considerations) and a full SuperBASIC type-in program... | Gabe Schaffer | The RAMTOP | Sep-Oct 1987 |
| QHJ Print Formatter The last four issues of the QHJ have beed done using Quill. Quill is a decent word processor but it... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| QL <-> MSDOS <-> QXL In previous articles, I have discussed file transfer techniques between the QL Psion suite and the *de facto” MSDOS standard... | Tom Robbins | International QL Report | July/August 1994 |
| QL Acey-Digety Game I am really impressed with QL SuperBASIC and since my computing expertise is still mostly limited to Basic, one of... | Update Magazine | January 1993 | |
| QL Chaos Program SuperBASIC program implementing the logistic map chaotic attractor for the Sinclair QL. Uses WINDOW, FOR/NEXT loops, and POINT commands to... | Andy Hradesky | Timelinez | April 1989 |
| QL Column Reprints computer emoticons/smileys from the January 1987 issue of Office Automation, then presents a SuperBASIC graphic clock program originally written... | Gabe Schaffer | The RAMTOP | Apr 1987 |
| QL Column: Tips A collection of practical SuperBASIC tips for the Sinclair QL covering TV/monitor mode switching POKEs, CAPS LOCK POKEs, screen freeze... | Gabe Schaffer | The RAMTOP | Mar 1987 |
| QL Etcher Etch-a-Sketch for the QL. | Time Designs Magazine | November/December 1986 | |
| QL Kill Conversion of Russian Roulette from mainframe Pascal. | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1986 | |
| QL Logo Implementation in SuperBASIC Implements a subset of Logo turtle graphics commands as SuperBASIC procedures for the Sinclair QL, including FD/BK (movement), RT/LT (turning),... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | February 1989 |
| QL Numbers Into Text This program converts a number (entered as numerals) into an equivalent word string. | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | October 1989 |
| QL Printer Codes Presents a SuperBASIC procedure Set_Codes that defines Epson-compatible printer escape sequences as string variables, plus companion procedures Test_Run and Save_Codes.... | Frank Toemay | The Sinc Times (2) | May/June/July 1988 |
| QL Productivity Tips A collection of three SuperBASIC productivity tips for the Sinclair QL: using the slash-zero character (CTRL+SHIFT+FP) in printer output for... | Peter Hale | Timelinez | November 1988 |
| QL Serial Connections Provides wiring diagrams for connecting the QL SER2 port to a modem and for a direct QL-to-PC serial cable. Includes... | Harvey Taylor Mark Wahl | The RAMTOP | Winter 1993 |
| QL Sound Explorer Program to make sounds. | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1988 | |
| QL Super Basic In the last issue I gave you a brief overview of the hardware angle to Sinclair’s latest computer, the QL.... | SyncWare News | Jul-Aug 1985 | |
| QL System Variables Reference guide to selected Sinclair QL system variables with addresses, sizes, and usage notes. Covers RAMTOP+1 (memory expansion detection at... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | July-December 1989 |
| QL VAL String Function Short program to evaluate functions in strings. | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1988 | |
| QL-Crypt File Encoder A QL SuperBASIC utility for encrypting and decrypting Sinclair ASCII text files using a password. The password is hashed to... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | June 1987 |
| QLPatch One of the problems I’ve encountered in publishing souce code in the QHJ, is the dilemma of publishing a newer... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| QPAC2 (My) Boot There has been a lot said and written about QPAC 2. The designer of this program (Mr. Tony Tebby) made... | Bob Madaris | International QL Report | July/August 1994 |
| QROFF Postscript Filter I know of a few QL users that have postscript printers at work and transfer QL documents to another word... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| Quantum Leap The Sinclair QL at the CES show. | Synchro-Sette | June 1984 | |
| Quick Copy Utility for the QL (Part 1) Introduces the Qcopy microdrive backup utility for the Sinclair QL, describing four versions (with/without volume name, with/without directory). Provides a... | Christopher Raynak | The RAMTOP | Mar 1987 |
| QUILL Filesaver This program reads a damaged QUILL file and converts it to a plain text file. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Random Dot Stereograms Random Dot Stereograms (RDS) can give the illusion of depth if you have binocular vision. Instead of the usual pair... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| RDS (Random Dot Stereograms) Somewhere in this issue of IQLR there should be a page with lots of dots on it; dots that seem... | Herb Schaaf | International QL Report | July/August 1993 |
| Real Windows for SuperBasic The QUANTA library has a number of routines that will allow real non-destructive windows in SuperBasic. Since I started working... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| Renaming a Floppy Disk DISKreNAME, a short SuperBASIC program by Réal Gagnon that changes the name of an already formatted QL floppy disk without... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| Resident Procedures One of the many powers lurking within the QL is the ease of extending SuperBASIC. The simplest means of doing... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1988 | |
| Response To Day_Of_Week While playing around with the function on paper there appears to be a slight error. I am sure that I... | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 | |
| Reverse String In one of the programming newsgroups I read, I saw a couple of postings dealing with how to reverse a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Revision Control System (RCS) Whether it’s source code or system configuration files, it’s nice to be able to keep track of changes made to... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| RLE Decoder for the QL A SuperBASIC procedure named ‘picture’ that decodes run-length encoded (RLE) images and renders them on the Sinclair QL screen. Demonstrates... | The RAMTOP | Apr 1987 | |
| Routine Auto-Locator Have you ever, in the course of developing a moderately complex SuperBasic program, found yourself scrolling madly up and down... | Mel E. LaVerne | International QL Report | May/June 1994 |
| RPN Calculator Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) is mathmatical convention for handling expressions. RPN is most commonly found in Hewlett-Packard calculators. RPN, like... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| Scripting in QTPI Jonathan Hudson’s QTPI program has been evolving for some time, beginning as a ‘simple’ terminal program under another name and... | James Hunkins | International QL Report | July/August 1995 |
| Scrolling Banner A QL SuperBASIC program that scrolls up to 10 user-entered text strings across the screen in a repeating banner display.... | Timelinez | March 1987 | |
| Shelling Out To Superbasic The QL is unique in how QDOS and SuperBasic are sort of rolled into one. Just as we can only... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1998 |
| Sinclair Lotto Simulator Converted from the 2068 program by G. Mockridge. | Update Magazine | January 1995 | |
| Size Base Listing for the QL A complete SuperBASIC listing for Qmonix Size Base Rev 7.9, a clock and time-display utility. The program defines procedures including... | Frank Toemay | The Sinc Times | February 1987 |
| Software Reuse And SSB Through work I get a number of computer related magazines, either directly to me or ones that are received by... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Some Thoughts On Programming Style In QHJ #24 Tim talks about a colleague’s style of writing Perl and contrasts it with his own. I have... | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 | |
| Sorted Directories Program to save programs in alpha order. | Update Magazine | January 1992 | |
| Sound Experimentor Unlike most home computers, the QL has a very limited noise making capability. What there is can only be dragged... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Special Effects A short SuperBASIC demonstration of the QL's RECOL command: in MODE 8 it opens a window with a message, then... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| Speed_bas SPEED_BAS, a short SuperBASIC test showing why a QL with memory expansion runs programs faster: it POKEs a small machine-code... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| Stochastic Indexing This demo program, SID (Stochastic Indexing Demo), see listing 1 below, simulates clouds as seen by a satellite looking straight... | Al Boehm | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| String Slicing, Coercion & Concatenation String concatenation is a subject that can't easily be covered in a vacuum. It must include string slicing and coercion... | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | October 1989 |
| Structured SuperBasic 2.6 Structured SuperBasic is a utility that has been printed a couple of times in this newsletter. I have recently dusted... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Structured SuperBasic 2.6.1 One project keeping me away from working on the QHJ was updating Structured SuperBasic. I’ve made a few minor changes... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1999 |
| Structured SuperBasic Version 2.5 Structured SuperBasic (SSB) has been sitting on my shelf for a number of years without having any upgrades. I really... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| SuperBasic Data Types Whenever we use variables in a SuperBasic program, we tell the SuperBasic interpreter what type of data it may hold... | Update Magazine | October 1993 | |
| SuperBASIC Editor for the QL Using Quill to edit SuperBASIC programs. | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1987 | |
| SuperBASIC for Beginners Continuing from last month’s column, we move on to PRINT. Most of us have a pretty clear 1dea of what... | Peter Hale | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | May/June 1988 |
| SuperBASIC Tips & Tricks A collection of SuperBASIC tips for the Sinclair QL: detecting monitor or TV mode with PEEK 163890 after a reset,... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| Supercalafragalistic Phone Number Word Generator A BASIC program for the Sinclair QL that generates all possible words that a phone number could spell, useful for... | Lawrence Souder | Timelinez | June 1986 |
| Task Commander Task Commander is a utility that will convert a TURBO compiled program into a resident extension or Toolkit, that can... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Telecommunications on the QL Simple terminal program. Reprinted from the May 1988 issue of Nite-Time News, which itself was reprinted from the Data Expansion,... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Telephone Dialer Yves Gagnon describes a simple circuit, plugged into the QL's NET 1 socket, that lets the computer pulse-dial telephone numbers... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| The Cable Column This featured column, by Bill Cable, starts with this issue. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The Chaotic Return Corrected QL SuperBASIC chaos program responding to the challenge posed in issue 4. Replaces POINT with BLOCK for the physical... | Mark Wahl | Timelinez | July-December 1989 |
| The Hanoi Tower This version of the old game of moving a tower of disks from one peg to another, with one intermediate... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | October 1989 |
| The Sinclair QL Screen An explanation of how the Sinclair QL's 32K screen memory is organised: where it starts and ends, how to save... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| The Stripper No, this is a program to strip out control codes froma Quill _ DOC file leaving it with no end... | Dilwyn Jones | International QL Report | November/December 1993 |
| The Super-QL: Using the Sinclair QL with 640K RAM Used with additional memory, particularly a 512K RAM card, the Sinclair QL is transformed, as are its bundled software programs.... | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1986 | |
| There’s Bugs in My SuperBasic Part One Digital Precision has a sheet with the above-mentioned name that lists most known bugs and what the “fix” is for... | QL Report | August 15, 1987 | |
| There’s Bugs in My SuperBasic Part Two This is the second and final part in a listing we received from Digital Precision that we started in last... | QL Report | August 15, 1987 | |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column In the last few articles we started looking at some of the features of the QL’s built-in programming language, SuperBASIC.... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | November 1988 |
| Tip: 32 Lines per Screen François Lanciault explains how to get 32 text lines on a QL with the JSU (American) ROM in monitor mode:... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| Tips and Tricks Two SuperBASIC tips taken from QL Clef: reading DATA in a REPeat loop until EOF, so no counter is needed,... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| Translation of SuperBASIC into Fortran 77 In the last issue we looked at implementing some of the SuperBASIC maths functions and the majority of the memory... | International QL Report | March/April 1993 | |
| Translation Of SUPERBASIC To FORTRAN 77 As a gentle introduction, let me tell you how I came to write this article/note/letter, call it what you will!... | International QL Report | January/February 1993 | |
| Turbo 3 (Untold Stories) This column is intended to bring together new and/or changing developments within the QDOS community. The information contained here has... | Simon Goodwin | International QL Report | November/December 1994 |
| Turbo Compiler TURBO, the SuperBasic compiler, has been updated and released for almost a year. Simon Goodwin is the original author with... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Turbo Config TURBO does not support standard Qjump Config Blocks. George Gwilt has created TURBO Config, a tool that allows Config blocks... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Turbo Support Page To assist in the support of TURBO, I’ve created a TURBO Support Page on my web page. The page will... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Turbo Utilities Another zip file contains a number of other TURBO utilites: LIBRARY MANAGER, DATASPACE and Utility_Task. The zip file does not... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| TurboPTR TURBO is not compatible with all SuperBasic extensions, esp. those with array paramaters or return values through parameters. QPTR is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Why the QL? Reasons Why You Should Take The Quantum Leap The Sinclair QL, with its compact and efficient keyboard console, its 32-bit CPU, its twin Microdrives, its excellent operating system... | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1986 | |
| Windex WINDEX is a collection of public domain programs to create a “word index” of any text file. | Bill Cable | International QL Report | November/December 1993 |
| Window Defining: A Program, Part I When programming, to get the full power out of your Sinclair QL one must learn how to effectively use its... | Update Magazine | July 1989 | |
| Window Defining: A Program, Part II In this article we will write and discuss the different functions that will be used. SuperBASIC gives us the ability... | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Window Defining: A Program, Part III The following article, by David McCall, is second in a series. The first article was given in the October 1989... | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| Z88 Programs, Tips, and Other Useful Info Tips and a QL SuperBASIC program for transferring files from the Cambridge Z88 to the Sinclair QL using the Z88... | Peter van Dijk | Timelinez | November 1988 |