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)
v1.13 'EFP': should mean sigma-FP but the mexican chip makers
couldn't find a sigma stamp (according to QLW Aug. 1987 p.21).
These ROM's are further developments of the "MG" ROM and cannot
be mixed with other QDOS 1.13 chips.
(QL FAQ Firmware.txt)
Best regards...Urs
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Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] im Auftrag von Dilwyn Jones
Gesendet: Sa 12.08.2006 12:02
An: QL Users List
Betreff: [ql-users] QL roms
I've had an email from a former QL user in Finland concerning some
international ROM version letters. I know that Sinclair used JS-U
(USA), MG-G(Germany), MG-I (Italy), MG-F(French) and MG-E (Spain).
Does anyone know of any other national ROM variants - what were the
codes for Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Greek,
Portuguese and other national variations of the ROM?
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Dilwyn Jones
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