As Ralph said -
Quite right. It [QPC2] is *the* QL software emulator.
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I've followed this thread... or so I though, but Dave (Plastic)
what does this mean please? -
strong characters
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Army arrived, they were very puzzled at the presence -
40 miles from the nearest town - of those 'telephone wires'.
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Dave said -
Well, I got married yesterday,
Well Dave, congratulations and every best wish to you both - now you are
soldered to one PCB.
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Some days ago I opened an old ring binder searching for a specific document.
As it turned out it was the wrong binder. By accident my eyes discovered old
program listings of my early Sinclair QL work. The earliest listing dates
March 1986. So there we have it. Another 25th anniversary!
Picture
version of their basic software. And nobody
was harmed. It was just a peccadillo...
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be found on the QL-PD/CD-R.
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Sandra and I got married. :-)
Picture:
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Sorry for the long URL, my next post will have a shorter one. ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
No wedding picture though?
The two on the bottom are from the day 10 years ago.
And no QL pictures in the anniversary photos ;-))
Well, the QL is in the picture at least 3 times!
1. Fount used is Syntax, the one used by Sinclair Research.
2. The family picture
Amstrad and Sinclair computers got married! :-(
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marriage (ZX Spectrum 128K +2/+3)
looked terrible compared to the puristic Sinclair design by Rick Dickinson.
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video stream. But I did not make the Sinclair Microvision picture
look colour. Must be some kind of distortion.
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your development with great interest. As said a while ago in a
pm Great work!
It's sad you decided to skip standard QL serial ports support. Maybe you can
rethink the story as I see big chances for Ser-UsbWiz spreading. I'm
following the world-wide Retro-Scene where collectors exchange (sell/buy
Adrian Ives wrote:
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I
can now confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL
fitted with Hermes at speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still
necessary to load the asynchronous I/O module (the Queue
Manager), though. This takes
: There's no information concerning the drive on the Thor startup-screen.
@Bob: Did you ever see such a message on any Thor computer?
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Hi all,
Yesterday I've got my personal copy of QL Today which is great. I like the
cover and Geoff's review of Volume 15 which both show what has been achieved
in the passed QL year. I also like Wolfgang's Animal World and George's
Queue Device articles to name just two. I share Wolfgang's view
In January 2009 it was Asus who presented the QL2 in form of their EEE
Keyboard PC, see
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/asus-eee-keyboard-revealed/
This year its Cybernet who launches the another QL mark 2 in form of their
ZPC-D5, see
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/all-in-one-pc/Keyboard-pc
Geoff Wicks wrote:
The second thing is for those people who are not QL Today
readers. All subscribers to volume 16 will receive a free DVD
of the complete QL Today archive. That's sixteen years for
the price of one!
I'm one of a few ql-users who are also active in Sinclair and general retro
David Tubbs wrote:
I always thought it a pity that the QL wasn't released maybe only a
year later, with a floppy drive where mdvs were.
That then might have been a successful machine.
There was talk of doing just that - I think Keith Mitchell had a go.
Did anyone ever produce such a layout
on the items in the box. The unit itself
and all the other pieces (cables, power supply, ROMport-Dongle,
etc.) look great. As I did not have more time and there's no
QL available at my current location I had to postpone the
first usage to coming Thursday the earliest.
This is my last post today. Due
Earlier I wrote:
I will investigate the very early standard QL next week.
First I will check the hardware (e.g. with loopback cable as
Tony suggests), then I will do several tries (e.g. swap ROM
chips with JM, swap ZX8302/IPC). I'll report my findings.
I swapped each socketed chip (first
have right now with Ser-USB and what Adrian is
heading for native FAT and FAT32 (e.g. SD-Cards by digital cameras) file
access would be great.
I'm off now for our summer vacation.
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and using a web browser to view them
Results are *so* bland.
Don't you dare respond... this is OT. ;-)
Goodnite all,
John in Wales
PS Yes, .pdf's!, tif's and more, are up for evaluation.
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On this list, I've always answered to 'John in Wales'. When I joined (last
century) there were already more than enough 'John's' to go 'round (and
'round).
However, you can go far with a 'Dunbar'.
Best wishes to all,
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This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro computing DVD
which is out now. The DVD holds searchable PDFs of all issues (15 years,
1996-2011) of QL Today magazine, plus as Bonus Material seven software,
documentation and picture collections which were previously only available
your weekend!
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pjwitte wrote:
The first reference I can find in the ql-users' archive is a
mail I wrote 24/04/98. It said:
I've been seeking for S*BASIC in my QL folder and found first appearance in
a file dating...
(Drum Roll Please)
October 18 1994.
I've made two print screens and uploaded them
Hi all,
it all started earlier this month with an invitation for coffee and cake in my
offices.
Yesterday afternoon
some of the Swiss QL fellows met. There was even a South German QLer who joined
the party. It was not only about coffee
and cake (even we enjoyed that). We found the time to do
Re: 2012 Calendar
Thanks Dilwyn. Just what I was looking for.
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did, didn't you?!)
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(Anyone seen a Higgs boson hereabouts toady (!)?)
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George Gwilt wrote:
How many people have a password for this list?
I have one, tested it (works for the archive) a minute ago.
Official archive which needs the password:
http://lists.q-v-d.com/private.cgi/ql-users-q-v-d.com/
As an alternative there's this archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ql
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into direction of TRA, but when checking I re-learnt
that TRA is already in JS.
Beside the dramatic POINT/LINE bug, the MGx ROM (QDOS 1.13) was the best
ever official QL firmware.
Cheers, Urs
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Sinclair, QL, ATARI, JAGUAR
%
211914sc=photos
In case this links doesn't works, you can use the link to my main site in
the footer below, then choose Picture gallery on the left, then Sinclair
QL, then Computers then SANDY.
Even I know that nor all cables are connected or soldered right, I've tried
to power it up. The result can
bus, and nothing between that and the QL, so that
may be a good starting point.
I will check the machine the next time I'm in my Retro Lab.
The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be
nice to get some photos of this for the QL WIki - does it
plug into the ROM port?
This has
ago I've assembled a PDF with
valuable information. Here's the link:
www.cowo.ch/downloads/198x_SinclairQL_Firmware_stories_ROMblings-SQPP.pdf
Cheers, Urs
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Videos
Dilwyn (and Adrian Ives, Andy Dansby)
Thanks for this at -
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/olqlug/index.htm
Excellent.
Must have been finnicky OCR and changing-formats jobs. Much appreciated.
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but also tell the story behind and
have an eye on the hi-storical context and leave a legacy.
More of the QL scene needs to be digitized and archived for
future reference.
There's more to come. It may take a while but watch out...
Enjoy the weekend!
Cheers, Urs
. They are not there.
Only the ROM image and manuals are there.
Yes I'm still unable to read the 68K/OS formatted microdrive
cartridges from QDOS side.
I'm also still unable to bring its content/files out of a
68K/OS QL. IIRC 68K/OS doesn't have network support.
What I have in mind is to use
. My master and my copies are almost
unreadable. Will need to invest some hours.
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*.PROG files. Right?
Urs
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Bob Spelten wrote:
Thanks Urs for reminding us, and the nice video.
Thanks!
Anyone still has a working one?
I repaired mine in the weeks before the 2009 QL-Mac-Show in Lucerne to be
able to show the Speccy in action there. It still works since then. Touch
wood...
Urs
Gerhard Plavec wrote:
If you want to come on the meeting in Prottes (near to Vienna, Austria),
so it's time to get your ticket and book a room :)
All details at http://kuel.org;
I hope to see you there
This (long) weekend is the QL meeting in Vienna, Austria. This year I
couldn't make
Adrian Ives wrote:
I am sorry to announce that I have taken the decision to withdraw from
developing QL hardware. In the current economic climate, it is no longer
practical to devote resources to such a small (almost non-existent)
market,
and I need to concentrate my energies elsewhere.
Sad
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Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites!
I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted
in QJewels ;)
Read all the MagPi magazines. Fascinating and informative.
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Hi folks,
summer is almost over and I'm still recovering from my Sinclair Microdrive
Nightmare *1.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
And if you plug a ZX Spectrum microdrive drive unit into the QL expansion
port there were several problems:
1. It faced away from you with a standard microdrive ribbon cable
scanning service.
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system tray) for the past 3 days? 21.3Mbps.
I like glass... and I had to tell someone. ;-) [Also might be of teccy
interest - eh?]
Best wishes to all,
Through the glass,
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There does not appear to be an official converter (covert or otherwise!)
which converts from doc. to wiz.
Perhaps you should market your copy Dilwyn?! ;-)
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to explain how all this has to do with QLing do I?!
Best wishes,
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Jochen wrote:
Plans for QL 2013
Those are great news!
Hamburg is awesome, have been there several times.
@Jochen, see PM for my preferred dates.
I'm currently in greater Tel Aviv (also an awesome place), working at a
partner company.
I've heard the sirens yesterday and have seen the Iron Dome
Thank you Urs, for the TinyURL.
I found the whole related article very interesting.
Goodaye all,
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Just spotted this on YouTube:
Raspberry Pi in a Sinclair QL case
http://youtu.be/qnvpVBQ44hQ
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Frank said -
May I be the first to wish the entire QL community a very happy new
year!
Thank you Frank; and may I be the first to thank you on behalf of all list
readers? [Promotion... at last!]
Regards and best wishes to all,
John in Wales
On today's date 29 years ago Sinclair Research launched the Sinclair QL
professional computer. On January 12th 1984 - exactly 12 days earlier than
Steve Jobs launched the Apple Macintosh - Sir Clive Sinclair and Nigel
Searle presented the QL to the world in a Hollywood-style launch event
Gerhard Plavec wrote:
As I remember, after that, QL was not available for a long time...
Do you know - just for fun - when the first QLs were puchased to normal
people and when the first Apple Macintosh were ?
Yes, first customers had to wait a long time for their QLs to arrive.
Reference http
propose.
Many thanks for any feedback.
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Tony Firshman wrote:
I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson
and
EEC.
He has just died well into his 90s.
Very bad news, how sad! My deepest condolences.
I've met Bill a couple of times at QL-Shows and will keep him in good
memories.
Here's a picture of him
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say it now, please.
With the myriad of QL related configurations world-wide, how could anyone
possibly guard against some less than design-efficient situation arising
somewhere?
I have not installed your simulator yet, but I have read here so much
appreciative feedback that I know that the QL
and all I needed was the domain names for use with my web hoster.
Many thanks to all who responded and shared their experiences.
Urs
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this idle, see below). None
the less I must say:
CONGRATULATION FOR YOUR GREAT WORK, WOLFGANG!
This will bring the QL forward!
The other day I gave it a try on my son's notebook (2011 Samsung with Intel
multi core i7-2670QM CPU running under Windows 7 64-bit and Java 6). Windows
Taskmanager shows
John wrote:
EXTREMELY RARE QL PM EPROM Chip (8000h) - this is out of a very early
KLUDGE - unfortunately, the other two EPROMs and/or the code stored on
them have not been found. This is the PM version of QDOS - the earliest
release version of QDOS we know of which escaped the doors
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and the ReadMe/UserGuide should be amended.
QXL as device name, born 2012, dies 2013, RIP. ;-)
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to Snow Leopard on the Mac. ;-))
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and two Thor XVI (UK made).
See:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHAWWG2O0e2joYOlqaVgEyXHT7h__C-U
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C250D8748980CE5A!1912
Just a personal note: Unmodified Thor XVI are worth more.
Gerhard Plavec owns a homebrew MC68020 powered QL. See:
https
I agree with Peter -
The QL Today team have done wonders over the years and it's going to be a
big miss.
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Marcel said -
Well, that was meant to be private... thank you, eMail program ;-)
OK Marcel, I'll pretend I haven't seen it - just until you tell us again.
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George wrote -
A long time ago I used to pause while reading articles when I found faulty
grammar.
'The Times' is in current QL-List mode. But it's especially concerned with
the
disposition and future safety of CHAR(39)! (16-03-13 etc.)
John in Wales
will become/remain 'lurkers'. We shall all be
the poorer then.
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of the upcoming film look promising.
Supporters and funding are still very much welcomed. Visit
http://kck.st/V0U89j
Happy Easter.
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Hi all,
out of the dark I'm asking a question:
Did the QL network ever work with ZX Spectrum Interface 1?
Anyone?
Thanks for any feedback.
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John wrote:
Yes, I remember Jerry Davies running one of Simon Goodwin's routines to
print out of the QL over the network cable and via an interface one. I
cannot remember why we were doing this and not direct to the printer.
He also had Pong running across two machines. From memory three
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Did the QL network ever work with ZX Spectrum Interface 1?
Although I never tried it myself, I have read articles in the past that it
would, although with limited success (e.g. transferring short BASIC programs
or text files).
There are programs in the Quanta Library, e.g
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
It definitively worked, have tried it myself some 20 years ago. (I no
longer have a Spectrum) And was, BTW, the most convenien way to get data
across when you upgraded from the Spectrum to the QL, as the Microdrive
format was incompatible.
Thanks for your feedback Tobias
Hi folks,
got my Raspi (just the board and a power supply) two weeks ago. Had to do quite
a bit of web research to get what I need to start my projects (which are -
among others - run QL software on it). Yes, SMSQmulator runs, stable, but is
too slow (especially the screen handling
these ten Welsh men who went to Australia. .
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Dilwyn wrote -
Gives me a nice feeling that Windoze is under QPC control ;-))
the longed for 'Promised Land'. at last!
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Benchmarks on Sinclair QL compatible systems on YouTube. Enjoy
watching.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHAWWG2O0e1tF38M6q_r262Y2_Th1rZt
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, it completed all 128. Make a cuppa, go for a run, read
about Linux, curse M$. .
Best wishes to all,
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Re:
Does anyone have the correct lead to connect a QL to a Phillips 8833
monitor - it has a scart like socket and an 8 pin din on the back.
Unfortunately, the standard QL monitor lead only has a 6 pin din on the
monitor end...
Hi Rich,
Sent me (alas, off
Is there a good working free online UK phone address directory?
I've tried BT but this is not finding the person, http://www.192.com/people/
found him but is not giving me the details for free. Argh!
Anyone?
Thx, Urs
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