[Ql-Users] Q-Talk Module
Does anyone know how to use the Q-Talk speech synthesizer - I have one here to test... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Sinclair QL documents, manuals and magazines
This is the year of the 25th anniversary of the QL. For several months in Sinclair QL Spanish Resources been preparing for this event a wide collection of PDF material about the QL now put at your disposal. More than 100 manuals, books and magazines (yes, in English) that have gone through the scanner with better or worse luck in terms of quality concerns, but that insurance will be useful for the community because this material years ago which has started to dwindle and unfortunately we are increasingly less to keep alive the flame of QL. The documents include: The book The definitive handbook QL SuperBASIC of Jan Jones, the creator of the QL programming language: The SuperBASIC. This is a book published by McGraw Hill and was re-edited by Quanta later. It also highlights the manual QL Technical Guide by Tony Tebby, with all the secrets on a QDOS programmer. Items on the other hand is varied: Leguajes programming and compilers, toolkits and extensions to the operating system, game manuals, manuals of many productivity programs, manuals on specific hardware, 5 books and 12 issues of the journal QL World. And the thing does not end here, as we have several books and manuals in preparation. DOWNLOADS: All this documentation is available on the link: http://www.speccy.org/sinclairql/archivo/docs/docs.htm If you want to download all the material once for storage and off-line review, we have created a torrent to help: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4636229/Sinclair_QL_documents_manuals_and_magazines CONTRIBUTE: The web, as always, is open to anyone who wants to contribute. If you have any book, magazine or manual, contact us to tell the best way to pass the documents to PDF. You can even send copies (who gladly pay) so that we deal with it. To contact use the e-mail: sinclairql AT badared DOT com We sincerely hope you enjoy learning with this material. Happy 25th anniversary! Javier Guerra (aka badaman) sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://sinclairql.es ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
On January 12th 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair presented the Sinclair QL Professional Computer in a Hollywood-style launch event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London. This was exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs presented the Apple Macintosh. Today, 25 years later we congratulate and celebrate the 25th birthday of the Sinclair QL! http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/SinclairQL_25th_anniversary_1984_t o_2009.html The QL still is a very good example of an innovative, stylish, powerful and underestimated product. On one hand it failed in the market in the long run but on the other it influenced many developments which ended in todays products. At least in seven aspects the QL was a real Quantum Leap: 1. First 32bit micro for both home and office use (Motorola MC68K CPU). 2. First PC with preemptive multitasking operating system with linear addressing, Windows and Mac OS offered those important features only years to decades later. The QL could run hundreds of jobs in parallel. 3. First PC with bundled Office suite (PSION XCHANGE offering word processing, spreadsheet, business graphics and database). 4. First PC with a highly integrated two chip North-/Southbridge, IBM and Apple still used dozens of standard chips. 5. Innovative and timeless industrial design (case, motherboard and keyboard), Sonys Playstation 2 or some later Apple designs look very similar. 6. Innovative SuperBASIC Programming Language for Rapid Application Development (RAD), years later Microsofts Visual Basic closed the gap. 7. Even only around 150000 QLs were sold, one user became very important to the industry. Linus Torvralds used and programmed a QL before he created what became Linux. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.misc/browse_thread/thread/ebc0ad37943 4cb7c?q=linus+torvalds+ql Check out this 25th anniversary presentation. http://www.cowo.ch/downloads/SinclairQLis25-compressed.ppt Try QPC, a virtual QL: http://www.cowo.ch/downloads/QPC_a_virtual_QL.zip Happy 25th anniversary and QL forever! Urs König (aka cowo) http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SPAM-HIGH: Re: QLIB Free-Running Procedures
i Tobias, Qlib 3.35 Runtimes 3.36 modified (by Thierry Godefroy?) Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
