Thank you. Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koenig Urs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "QL Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL roms
> Some information which may help: > > Mai 1985: Sinclair's QL armada FOREIGN language versions of the QL > are now coming into production with software packages translated. > The first of the new machines, a Spanish version, has already been > launched, and Sinclair Research is to follow that with French, > Italian and Danish. Further planned launches include Turkish, Greek, > German, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Arabic. > "Some countries, such as Greece, require completely different > keyboards, and others, such as France have different keyboard > layouts," says a spokeswoman.(Sinclair User Issue 39, June 1985) > > 2.1 QDOS > (this part of the FAQ is mainly based on articles in SQLW Aug. > 1987 and Dec. 1990) > QDOS is the original QL operating system. The versions are: > % v0.05 : mentioned on Sinclair's prelimary 150 pages QDOS > Manual written by Tony Tebby, later becomming the > 195 pages QL Technical Guide written by David > Karlin & Tony Tebby (according to readers letter > from Alan Turnbull in Popular Computing Weekly > Vol 3 No 34, 23-29 August 1984) > % v0.06 : dito > % v0.07 : dito > v0.08 : last pre-release version. > v1.00 'FB' : came out in April 1984. This version of QDOS had > lots of errors. > v1.01 'PM' : Faster than FB, more tolerant of the microdrives, > but it had still lots of errors. > Both FB and PM ROMs were packed with bugs and needed a 'kludge > board' to carry extra chips outside the computer. > v1.02 'AH' : three 16K EPROM chips, the 'first useable version > of QDOS' (Sinclair QLW Aug. 1987 p.18) > v1.03 'JM' : first ROM supplied in two chips. Similar to AH but > four bugs less (according to QLW Aug. 1987 p.18). > AH and JM ROMs soon replaced the FB and PM ROMs. These were > inside the box and had fewer bugs. > v1.10 'JS' : arrives early in 1985. Last version used in > machines made for sale in britain. First version which is able to > link more than one plug-in device to the QL. New problems with > function VER$ in the JS ROM. > 'JSU': a special version for American QLs because of > other television standards. contains 'all the JS bugs and > features' (QLW Aug 87 p.20), plus the changes for the American > TV. > v1.13 'MGx': European ROMs. Has one new bug in the line drawing > routine and kills several bugs. The third Character indicates > the national variant of the ROM. The national messages, > character sets and so on are in the smaller 16K ROM. > % MGD : danish ROM > % MGx : dutch ROM > MGE : spanish ROM > MGF : french ROM > MGG : german ROM > % MGx : greek ROM > MGI : italian ROM > % MGS : swedish ROM > % MGx : turkish ROM xxx > (danish, dutch, greek, turkish ROMs according to Sohail S Bhatti, > Quanta magazine Volume 9 Issue 12, January 1993) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.9/417 - Release Date: 11/08/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
