The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi, sorry I had no time for QL activities recently. When QL-SD started in Germany, we gathered an archive of complementary files for it. In my opinion, this "QL-SD starter package" should now be made available for the world. It contains the MAKE_DIR extension for the QL, the MageImage Prog...

Hi,

I saw with regret that Mark Swift's website
http://www.mswift.unisonplus.net/ql/index.html
seems permanently down.

I wonder wether his QL/Amiga related downloads are available somewhere else?
I think Mark's work is very much worth to be conserved.

Peter

tofro wrote:And it's not in the way if you want to develop another WIMP system.

Just funny things like two mouse pointers.

This is the threat: http://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=584

I wouldn't do anything which makes use inside the QL case difficult, like the proposed 164-pin connector. Fitting the QL case seems the main point for this mainboard.

(Outside the QL case, the board would be compared to Q60 and Q68.)

I'd keep things as simple as possible, so the major goal can be reached at all. A mainboard with incompatible or less than optimal expansion slot seems better to me than a perfectly defined expansion slot with an unfinished mainboard. ;) E.g. when defining the expansion connector for the Q68, I firs...

Just a personal thought... it seems to me that writing, reading, considering, changing and re-reading those specs takes quite some time. I have to admit that my concentration is beginning to fall. Wouldn't it be more effective to build a working mainboard prototype first? I see three advantages: 1. ...

For new peripherals, if drivers can be developed maybe only USB should be supported for new peripherals devices? I'd estimate the likelyhood that USB drivers will ever be written for the QL below 1%. USB would almost certainly mean another little computer running the USB drivers, and connecting to ...

I consider the chat a strictly private conversation. It is like persons meeting in a room or a phone conference in real life. I'd like to be asked for permission, even if the chat is recorded only privately. And I clearly disagree that a log with my chat conversation becomes public. If this is chang...

I'm looking for a working replacement keyboard, which fits into the QL case, called the Schön keyboard. Only German version.

See here: http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/i ... ards#toc_1