Am 09.06.2010 um 21:17 schrieb Martin Wheatley: > > I came on this list a couple of days ago. I was a QL user for > many years and a regular attender at the London group. Some > of you may even remember me > I stopped using the QL a number of years ago and moved > out of London. In an idle moment I wondered what was > happening and rejoined the list. > The thing that is immediately worrying is that so far every one who > has posted is someone whose name I know. If no one new > and active has come in during the last few years then the > big bell is tolling! > > martinw > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
I am kind of new here (although I owned a QL in the late 80ies). It started with a QL I bought on Ebay last year. In the meantime I own a Q40, two QLs and use QPC3. The QL brought my interest for coding back. Its more fun to code for a simple (but elegant) system like the QL. So I train my skills in SuperBasic and Assembler at the moment and hope, that this ends in new programs for the QL from me. So it´s not impossible, that at least users, who owned a QL in the past come back. I also noticed, that there is a high interest on QLs on ebay. What I miss (but what is understandable, because of the costs) is the lack of new hardware. Especially (apart from new Q60s;-)) some kind of SD-/CF-card-reader for the QL would be nice. Urs Koenig hit on this idea at the QL-meeting in Vienna last weekend. I knew from people, who bought a QL on ebay, but couldn´t use it, because of the microdrives and the lack of an easy way to transfer software from the internet to the QL (I know, that there are disk-interfaces, but for an QL-newbie its not so easy, to buy and use a disk-drive on the QL). With an SD/CF-card-reader someone would be able to "load" the SD/CF-card on the PC with software and then use it on a QL. There are similar solutions for the C64 or the Sinclair Spectrum. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
