Hi Nick,
go to Dilwyns web site and download Stripper for Windows. Run it, and load
in any _DOC files that you download.
You can then print them out, or save them in text file format as required
(see the help file for details).
If you download onto a PC any zip files, you can open them under dos/windows
but executable files will not have a correct header and won't work, so what
you have to do is the following :
Download onto your PC
Copy to a floppy
Startup the QL and use something like XOVER or Dave Walker's DiscOver to
copy from DOS format disc to QL.
Now that you have it on QL format disc, run unzip_exe (from the C68 program
discs) to extract all the stuff in the zip file and correctly preserve the
exe file headers.
If you have the pointer environment then you can use ACE (or is it ACP ??)
to run a GUI front end to the unzip programs - much easier.
How's Aberdeen these days then - still as grey and miserable as ever ?
(I worked there for 12 years until 1996.)
Regards,
Norman.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Ashby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] re: As things are quiet..
Dilwyn
Like Paul, I have just acquired a QL (re-acquired actually as I used to have
one).
Seen all the downloadable manuals and software on your web site.
They all seem to be in QL format.
I can only access your web site from a PC, so how do I either read them
(manuals) on my PC or transfer them (software) to my QL (via floppy I assume
but they are different formats !?).
Thanks for your (anyone's) help.
Regards
Nick Ashby
Aberdeen (currently)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] re: As things are quiet..
> Paul Chapman wrote:
>
> >Many thanks to all who have responded already both on and off list.
>
> We like to think we can help on this list, we are very happy when
> someone new joins and STAYS with us!
>
>
> >Apart from the QL itself I do have an A4 folder entitled Sinclair QL
> >User Guide, two books by Robin Bradbeer namely 'Making The Most Of
> >The Sinclair QL' and 'Introducing The Sinclair QL', 'The Sinclair QL
> >Companion' by Boris Allen, 'QL SuperBasic' by Jan Jones and another
> >folder which seems to contain a photocopied version of 'Professional
> >and Business Uses of the QL' by Colin Lewis.
> Be a little bit wary of the 'QL Companion' by Boris Allen. It was
> written before the QL was launched and the specs of the QL changed a
> bit after the book was published.
>
> >Locksmith
>
> This was a microdrive cartridge copier program intended to help make
> backup copies of "protected" software on microdrive cartridges.
>
> >Editor 1
>
> As the name implies, a text editing program, good enough to use as a
> simple word processor, but takes some getting used to if you don't
> have instructions.
>
> >There is a black object measuring 7x3.5x2 cm with the wording
> >'Supertoolkit' and 'Care Electronics. Is that meant to fit in the
> >'ROM' socket at the back?
>
> Yes, it is a set of extensions to the operating system and the BASIC
> interpreter. Many users now find SuperToolkit (or TK2 as we call it
> now) an essential add on for a QL, to the degree that many floppy disk
> interface cards for the QL (like the TrumpCard and Gold Card series)
> came with TK2 built in. The TK2 EPROM cartridge will be useful if you
> are using a microdrive only unexpanded QL. Copies of the SuperToolkit
> manual are available on my website for download if you need one.
>
> >There is a "QL TRUMP CARD 768K' by Miracle Systems but I have no
> >cables to attach that to anything as far as I can see.
>
> It can still be used without the plug in devices. It gives:
> Facility to add up to 2 floppy disk drives to the QL (uses the same
> floppy disk drives as the dear old BBC micro). A QL with floppy disk
> drives is much better (and more reliable) than a microdrive only
> system.
> Adds 768K of RAM memory to the QL's 128K, giving a total of 896K. This
> is well worth it even if you have no floppy disk drive, as extra
> memory boosts microdrive tape performance by holding copies of the
> cartridge in unused memory for faster access, these copies being known
> as 'slave blocks', a kind of data-caching arrangement.
> Adds SuperToolkit or TK2 to the system. You need to type in the
> command TK2_EXT from BASIC to activate it.
>
> Miracle Systems have kindly allowed me to place copies of their
> manuals on my website for those who need a replacement manual.
>
> >There is another 'thingy' about the same size as the above 'TRUMP...'
> >which has the lettering 'PCML Q+ DISK' but again no way to attach it.
>
> This is another disk interface expansion card, don't know if it has
> TK2 or extra memory or not.
>
> Both of these plug into the expansion slot on the left of the QL -
> remove the plastic cover and gently insert the card into the large
> socket you can see a few centimetres inside the QL.
>
> >No other cables came with it and I have yet to even power it up. I'm
> >wondering what TV or monitor to use
> RGB monitors are best. It can also be used with TV sets with SCART
> connections, or via a TV aerial socket.
>
> >but will probably go the slightly
> >unusual route and use the screen of my Apple iMac. I have a
> >digitiser for that which can accept all varieties of TV, VCR,
> >camcorder etc. inputs and it could be amusing to have the QL appear
> >in a window there.
> If you have an Apple Mac, you can also get a Sinclair QL Emulator to
> run on that, there is a program called QemuLator Lite by Daniele
> Terdina. You can find it via the QL websites links on my website.
>
> >OK, that's it for now and again many thanks for the enthusiastic
> >welcome...anyone would think you were desperate :):):)
>
> We'd probably get desperate if it wasn't for our QLs ;-)
> Just think...the QL must have something going for it to attract new
> users a decade and a half after it was last manufactured.
>
> You may like to know that there are more modern QL compatibles too.
> Zeljko Nastasic of Croatia designed a motherboard called the Aurora
> (sold by Qubbesoft P/D) in Britain, and Peter Graf has built one
> called the Q40 (and a more recent one called Q60). There have been
> other attempts at QL compatibles too over the years, few of them still
> going.
>
> Welcome to the list, Paul, don't be she about asking questions. We get
> a bit technical at times, but we like to help less experienced users
> too.
>
> --
> Dilwyn Jones
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
>
