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by 1024MAK
Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:22 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Help! My QL has entered the Matrix !!!
Replies: 38
Views: 13693

Re: Help! My QL has entered the Matrix !!!

Where the function MOD does not exist, you can use something like this:

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IF a/3 = INT(a/3) THEN …
Then it’s even possible to write a short program on most versions of BASIC on most machines, especially as nowhere does it say that the output has to be neatly lined up :lol:

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by 1024MAK
Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:25 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Happy Christmas Everyone!
Replies: 47
Views: 18716

Re: Happy Christmas Everyone!

‘Tis the day to devour a pagan feast. I say to all, enjoy your day!
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by 1024MAK
Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:33 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: What is this?
Replies: 3
Views: 1378

Re: What is this?

Looks like someone has been busy with a 3D printer to me…

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by 1024MAK
Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Sir Clive passed away.
Replies: 45
Views: 11801

Re: Sir Clive passed away.

Yes, very sad news :(

May he enjoy the inventors heaven.

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by 1024MAK
Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:06 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: did sir clive copy the bbc micro with the ql to get back at acorn with a better 16 bit machine?
Replies: 2
Views: 1894

Re: did sir clive copy the bbc micro with the ql to get back at acorn with a better 16 bit machine?

Acorn’s efforts to get their machines into the business market were a flop. See here . And Clive knew that trying to get the QL into the educational market would be hard. In the end of course, the QL was not very successful in the business market either. I would not consider the QL to be particularl...
by 1024MAK
Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:40 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Think before you type
Replies: 3
Views: 1655

Re: Think before you type

He/she must now feel like a Tetley tea bag... :lol:

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by 1024MAK
Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:35 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: My ZX81's stopped working. :-(
Replies: 35
Views: 10796

Re: My ZX81's stopped working. :-(

Good to hear that you have got your Zeddy back up and running 8-)

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by 1024MAK
Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:56 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: My ZX81's stopped working. :-(
Replies: 35
Views: 10796

Re: My ZX81's stopped working. :-(

The Sinclair UK700 and UK1200 PSUs are unregulated types, so at anything less than full load, the output voltage will be greater than 9V. 10.5V to 11.5V with an unexpanded ZX81 connected is normal. 7805 voltage regulators typically have an output tolerance of 4% or 3%. The +5V should be within +/-5%...
by 1024MAK
Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: There's a pre-production model on eBay
Replies: 5
Views: 2220

Re: There's a pre-production model on eBay

Definitely looks like a seller trying to get the maximum amount of money from an unsuspecting naive buyer. And “M.O.D” may or may not stand for what you think it does. And I don’t think Sinclair would have produced many hundreds of so called “pre-production” machines, but the serial number is D05-00...
by 1024MAK
Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:40 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: How many language keyboard of the QL were made?
Replies: 9
Views: 3132

Re: How many language keyboard of the QL were made?

I hear that the fire button operation is overly sensitive on that model :lol:

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