The Sinclair QL Forum

NormanDunbar wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 8:34 am As well as reading about Retro Printer, you get a photo of Rich so people like me, who have never met Rich, knows what he looks like!

He's so beautiful...

I bought one of these...a Spectrum wannabe ZX81 monstrosity created by Timex. Was never interested in the TS2068, but this one I was always curious about.

@bwinkle67 I'd never heard of that system or indeed the company until the post on Mastodon. Interesting history. I found this pdf which may bring back some fond memories for you - if it's the right system? http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/charles/CharlesRiverSystem-Universe.pdf Yup, that was the form f...

I used one of the Charles River Data Systems 68K computers at my first job in 1990. It used 8" floppies as well as tape drives that I used to install UNIX on for my company (I started as a sys admin). Pretty cool system though I don't remember much about it other than it was about the size of a...

I'll just add a little note of caution here as regards a warning in the Toolkit 2 manual of what can happen with un-numbered lines in a BASIC file on some QDOS ROMs, which is also mentioned in Simon Goodwin's ROM bugs articles in QL World. "If you try to RUN a BASIC program from a DO file, the...

If there is no device entered on the command line, the Toolkit 2 default is used. If you note in the code, the FTEST specifically hit up an existing device (i.e. microdrive), since otherwise it would crash as it couldn't load Toolkit 2 from that same device. Only the file is missing, so default dev...

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:51 pm The Cave doesn't (yet?) do external events.

Do you mean RMC's place? That would be a great place to have it (not that I could make it from the US). Did anyone contact Neil and ask?

Are you going to restore those 6 mutilated QLs?

-7 NOT FOUND (QDOS & SMS) This error message is generally issued by file-related commands (eg. LOAD) if either the supplied device name or file name do not exist. -16 BAD OR CHANGED MEDIUM(QDOS) - MEDIUM CHECK FAILED(SMS) This message occurs when you try to read or write to a medium and an erro...

Really cool. I knew you could put non-line numbered statements into BASIC since I've seen boot files that did that. But never thought of doing a status bar. Curious why it's not more common in long BASIC listings. I added a twirling clock to minesweeper program and it works really well: 10 REMark MI...