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QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
Nice find, remember when the QL came out back in the day, remember reading about it in Sinclair User. Did look cool at the time but as it seemed to be a business machine i wasnt so interested as a 12 year old !
Doesnt time fly though ! -
QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
... such; in performance terms the QL was nothing special compared to ... parallel.
Probably the QL's best feature, although those ... solution three years earlier. The QL was also originally a three ... around 150'000 QL's were sold, one user became very
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... for:
* AlchNews & Z88 User
* CSSFAQ (as a former ... - Amstrad (although they sold the QL one)
* Getting GPL distribution ...Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…
... of Long Shadows from Sinclair User circa 1985/6. I never ... 'd moved on to the QL, so I was converting ZX ... the fact I had no QL games than anything else.Commodore AmigaJust downloaded a Commodore Amiga emulator. What are the top ten games for Commodore Amiga? My fav types of game are dizzy type games, rpgs and shm…
... as far as similar community/user base/successor?....the MSX ... could perhaps have been the QL, but that was a ... you were a Spectrum user it was quite possibly the ... older wiser audience of power user gamers who wanted a ... premium for it; if the QL had taken off, I' ...+2 serial port adaptorSome year ago, a friend, electronic expert, soldered a small flat (five cables) on the motherboard on one of my grey +2s, where the internal electron…
... solutions that were presented. One user replaced the aux bt socket ... because of space limitations. Another user made a cable like [URL ... /Sinclair-Spectrum-128K-2-3-QL-Serial-Port-Adapter-NEW_W0QQitemZ390070605497QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VintageComputing_RL?hash ...BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy
... to make your code more user friendly.
As for ... never got to use the QL - I think I had moved ...BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy
... now possible to emulate the QL with an open source replacement ... to make your code more user friendly.[/quote]
There ... compiler that would transform elegant user friendly BASIC into a functional ... you about another 6K of user RAM.Loss of innocenceI suppose my ZX Spectrum era lasted longer than most (although not sure longer than most of you on here). I received my first Speccy back in '83, and…
... press coverage of the QL in Sinclair User had been a good ...Sinclair QLCan the QL save to tape recorder?
... a QL. Check out some of the videos from this user:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar[/url]
To ... ]http://omega.webnode.com/screen/ql-dithvide/[/url]
And ... general idea of what a QL Setup can look like, visit ...Sinclair QLCan the QL save to tape recorder?
... QL. Check out some of the videos from this user:< ... /> [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar[/url]
... ]http://omega.webnode.com/screen/ql-dithvide/[/url]
QL Setup can look like, ... power supply for the QL, is it a similar ...Microdrive CartridgesI've read many posts regarding these, and now I have a couple of Microdrives and a few carts I can see what all the fuss is about, those felt pads. …
... . Eigth microdrives would let the user access to 1,05MB of ... surely well received into the QL community :)2 hours of Sinclair and computer gaming related TV documentariesHi folks, for a few weeks now I?m allowed to upload videos of unlimited length to my YouTube channel. This weekend I took the opportunity to publish…
... more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever!
Website: [url]http ... : [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar[/url]
Pictures: [url ...5 live Bill Nicholls interview5 live had a '1981' day yesters and heard this at work last night, former head of public affairs for Sinclair Research, [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ipl…
A good interview. Thanks. Reading Sinclair User, Bill Nichols seemed to be regularly in the thick of it from the Spectrum 'famine' of 1984 to the challenges of the QL and C5 era.Sinclair Serial Numbers - What have we learnt so far.So JakeyW has been collecting our serial numbers for a while now. What are we learning from this that we did not know before hand? Also, would it n…
... per machine type (Rubber, +, 128, QL)?
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Some explanations on QL S/N:
[url]http ... more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever!
Website: [url]http ... : [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p[/url]
Did you own a spectrum QL?This machine seemed very futuristic in its design,i was sad to know you couldnt play any commercially released games on it.
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I see 'spectrum QL' used in various contexts, I ... Spectrum emulators for the QL allowing you to ...
There are dedicated QL forums - [url]www.qlforum. ... and also an emailing list (Ql-users) - [url]http:// ... as well as the Quanta user group - [url]http:// ...Did you own a spectrum QL?This machine seemed very futuristic in its design,i was sad to know you couldnt play any commercially released games on it.
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I see 'spectrum QL' used in various contexts, I ...
There are dedicated QL forums - [url]www.qlforum. ... and also an emailing list (Ql-users) - [url]http ... as well as the Quanta user group - [url]http:// ... Wish more people made QL games, whether on floppy ...QL in bits from car boot saleI was at the car boot sale today, and I bought the following for ?40: * Spectrum+ * Tape recorder * An external Microdrive (no Interface 1 unfortuna…
... you with any and all QL parts you need - even have ... the flat cables for the QL microdrives as well as the ... has originals) as the previous user has added custom sockets to ...Sir Clive Sinclair did it again! (X-1)Surprise, surprise! Check this out! [url]http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk[/url] Cheers, Urs ------------------------------------------------------…
... for a (working) QL in 1984. Eventually first QL?s were shipped ... launch press conference. First reliable QL?s showed up some 2 ... more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever!
Pictures: [url]http ... : [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p[/url]
QL Fondler up for $1.3 million prizeEl Reg report that Linux developer Linus Torvalds is up for a Finnish Academy prize [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/20/linux_founder_linus…
I remember one joke quiz in [i]Sinclair User[/i], where one of the answers to the question "What happened to the QL?" was "It came in very useful in Finland, where its heat sink was used to thaw the hands of frozen Finns". Truer than they knew...30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectr…
... ) as printed in the ?sinclair user annual 1983?.
[B ... August 1992 issue of ?Sinclair QL World? (QLW) magazine including a ... , the 1992 ?Instant? list of QL traders (where my former company ... my former company offering my QL product range of that time ...So what makes a great OS?So what if you were given a free hand in designing an Operating System what would you want. The reason I ask is every time a new version of Windows …
... .[/QUOTE]
The Sinclair QL offered basic multitasking; being able ... /68060 libraries which allowed the user to tweak the MMU tables ...Full disk systems for ZX Spectrum?Hello. Although I don't use much more than TR-DOS, but an acquaintance of mine, a user of Atari XL/XE, always says (which is annoying and irritatin…
... MB02 (a system any Atari User can just dream of) and ... have a look at the QL? At the end I had ...QL Super BasicDoes anyone know if the Basic on the QL was any good and if so would it be good to write platform games and such ? I am really interested in all ty…
QL SuperBASIC is a very powerful ... />
A lot of commercial QL programs were written in SuperBASIC ... for download from the Sinclair QL Homepage - [url]http://www.dilwyn ... active QL forum ([url]www.qlforum.co.uk[/url]) and user group ...Spectrum items for saleI have many Spectrum items like Spectrum, Spectrum +, power adapters, Centronics Interface, Kempston Interface, Light Pen Interface(these are built b…
... unpacked.
Mags Sinclair User May 87 - Dec 87 and ... +, Spectrum rubber, Spectrum 128 +2, QL Case, Disciple, Spectrum Interface I ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... forum - a first time Speccy user (I was as C64 guy ... premium :)
Maybe a QL down the line too? Who ...What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... In some ways, the QL did make sense (using ...
Setting aside the QL, which was never officially positioned ... with money pouring into C5/QL/flatscreen, the money wasn ... that despite the huge user base of the Spectrum, ... been to re-think the QL (which, by 1985, ...What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... 'd got at making the QL, but ran out of time ... . Home machines need to be user friendly and have great graphics ... . Sinclair provided neither with the QL
2. What is ...What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... machines need to be user friendly and have great graphics ... . Sinclair provided neither with the QL[/quote]
Sure ... at the time; the QL might not have many ... the likes of Vroom and QL Karate . A larger ... of them with the QL. Probably too far ahead ...What did the QL come with ?Just wondering this. :) What was actually 'in the box' so to speak for a QL ? Obviously the machine itself and power / tv lead. Blank carts ? Demo…
Here's the user's guide:
[url]ftp:// ... /> It suggests (a) the QL (b) the user guide (unbound, so they ...
