I have come across a letter from Sinclair Research (undated) which
appears to relate to the very early days of the Sinclair QL before they
issued a software catalogue.
They list various interesting hardware and software items - many of
which I have never come across. This includes:
Care Electronics own Centronics Printer Interface (a snip at £65.09) -
although Miracle's also appears on the list £39.95 and one from Sigma
Research for £34.90
The QL Computermate Disck interface (only £149) and various disk drives,
from £159 for the MicroP 3.5" disk drive to £574 for a CST 800K 5.25"
disk drive and of course, the Quest International Winchester drive at
£1149 (I wonder if they ever sold any?)
Unusual software includes:
Ariolasoft - QDoctor
Bedsoft - Screen Editor / Gambler / Beat the Clock / Autodraw
Blain Software - Merry Muncher / Fire Towers / Advance Invaders
Brainstorm - Westmonster Palace
Cenprime Software - QL Bank Account
DA Bandoo - Assembler and Screen Editor
Equate - Solar Invaders/Wall Breaker/Draughts/Mind your Path/Statistical
Averages/Calendar
Goose Software - Printing Format Utilities
GST - Small C
Intersoft - Executive Adventure - I think I have seen this as PD since?
Lattice - C Cross Compiler for IBM PC - QL
MicroAPL - APL
Micrologic Consultants - QL Terminal Emulator
Micro Processor Engineering Lts - QL Forth 83
New Horizon Software - Pacman/QBERT/Golf
PCML - CPM/80
PCS - PCS Utilities
Peak Electronics - QL Colour Quest
Portfolio Software - Stockmarket Manager
Posi-Tron - Hi-Res graphics screendump
Q-Soft - Agenda
QCode - 3 Games - Sprite shooting, Lander and Moon Landing
QCode - 68000 Assembler / Editor
Quantum mechanics - Qspell (I wonder if this was the version later
released by Eidersoft)
Quest CP/M 68L
RE Jackson - Forth 79
Rodent Software - Adventure Writer /. QL Artist / 2 x 7 Games Cartridges
Saltgrade Software - File Manager / File Editor
Sigma Research - Sketchpad
Snowsoft - Hungry Harry in the Haunted House
Summit Software - Frogger / Dungeon
Swansoft - Space Trek
TDI Limited - UCSD Pascal / Fortran-77 / P-System / Prolog and Advanced
Development Toolkit
TR Computer Systems - QL Payroll
All of this needs adding to the QL Wiki at some stage (any volunteers) -
I wonder what happened to the software?
I guess some of it may now be in the public domain?
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Rich Mellor
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