The Sinclair QL Forum

Happy Birthday to me

Was unaware there's a special group we can join for birthdays.

Today I received a copy of QL World Vol 1 Issue 5 December 1985. At this date QL User was a far superior magazine, but when the two merged it became QL World and not QL User. I'm still collecting the hard copy copies of the QL mags - there's a batch of QL Users on the way so I'll update my wants lis...

Lack of good games on the QL : 1) After the initial enthusiasm, most of the larger software houses soon left, for either the established 8-bits - C64 and Spectrum (where the game-playing user base was) or to the new 16-bit Atari ST and Commodore Amiga series. QL sales were low and slow. Microdrive c...

Thanks for info

Another non-techie person question. Watched a YT video showing an Amiga with a PATA SSD which plugs into the Amiga IDE interface (uses simple cable) No adapter needed. Worked fine with the Amiga without any fiddling about. Video also has disk-on-module. The DOM plugs directly into the IDE i/face htt...

Pr0f wrote:Probably the ease of connecting an 8 bit bus rather than a 16bit one, and also the pic is emulating the boot rom forthe 68K part

OK. Thanks for this.

Thanks for the link.

Wonder if there's any QL adventures in there ?

I wonder why they went for a 68008 instead of a 68000 ?

In UK, a lot depends on the contract between the software author and the publisher as to copyright. When I was doing CGH Services the deal was simple - I had exclusive right to sell the product and paid a royalty on each sale. Once CGH Services ceased trading the copyright reverted to the author - w...

A little more on QL disk drives : I had two disk drive set-ups - one with 2 x 3.5" drives and the other with 2 x 5.25" drives. The two systems were networked - one of the best things about the QL. CGH Services offered all titles on mdv or floppy - where they would fit - as users had differ...