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I agree with the comments made by derek_stewart:- I really like the QBITS manuals. stevepoole:- Your program looks great. bwinkel67:- All these programs seem really neat. My problem is that I can't get them to run well (or even at all) on my SMSQE configuration. I have a question:- Where is the file...

I am not sure what I am looking at (FPGAs that is). But here goes anyway:- The SMS2 PEROM has a capacity of 128Kbytes. This is large enough to contain the OS and its drivers, the Thing system, user interface, QPAC2, SBASIC, an editor, CLI etc. etc. The Stella kernel is more powerful than SMS2 and sm...

Postby RalfR » Mon Feb 21, 2022 6:13 pm Does anyone know how far the OS for Futura had progressed? Postby RalfR » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:48 pm I would like to have an Futura, it would also be interesting, what TT had planned for his "QLT". The SMS2 project began just after the Futura project ...

Sparrowhawk » Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:01 pm Is that A4 colour? If so that is a great price and a way better deal than I got. (£42.76) Norm's greyscale book is accessed as per my post as follows:- https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3294&hilit=assembler+manual&start=40#p35207 It costs £...

Martin_Head » Sun Feb 20, 2022 9:27 am The thing is, I don't have any experience of I2C, and I don't have any I2C devices. I thought I would see what I2C devices one can buy. There are plenty of them:- Digital compasses, 3-axis accelerometers, gyroscopes, Ambient light, Spectroscopy, Lidar, Relays,...

I have never read the docs mentioned above. I have just downloaded them and gave them a brief glance.
They seem very interesting. I find post QL history fascinating.

Unread postby tofro » Sat Feb 19, 2022 12:37 pm No, he wasn't. He was offering Stella to anyone else but QLers because he didn't fancy to support legacy anymore. I sort of understand your point of view. I was using "QLers" as shorthand for fans of QDOS rather than fans of the QL. As I men...

Ralf's link to Wikipedia, is pertinent. In my view the last paragraph of the article is the most interesting:- "How much more is it reasonable to do with SMSQ which, by its need for compatibility with a 10 year old computer, is locked into a 10 year old design? Is there enough interest in the t...

Martin Head wrote:-I have been toying with the idea of writing a driver for the Q68's I2C bus. Has anybody done anything with the Q68's I2C bus yet? No, but I am raring to go. The only reason I have not done anything yet, is because I don't know how to use the I2C bus. The ability to use the Q68 to...

SMS2 is, post Futura, but when I look at SMS2 source code Is seems that a lot of it was developed for an earlier project, probably the Futura. I downloaded a PDF titled:- http://www.sinclairql.net/downloads/1986-12_Brochure_SANDY_FUTURA_4pages.pdf The System software is described as QDOS compatible ...