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This is not a Sony TV - it is a Sony Video Monitor PVM-1554QM . It has separate inputs for Red, Green, Blue and Sync with BNC connectors - so I use a QL RGB to SCART cable bought from RetroComputer Shack and a SCART to BNC adaptor. The image is rock steady ! Much better than any QL monitor. As I am...

Andrew wrote:Nice catch today
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So at some point if I can't find in USA an original Sinclair Vision 14 or a CUB, maybe my next option is a Sony. So what special cabling is needed to make a stock QL work on these Sony type TVs?

TJ

asapreta wrote:Hi all!!!

Just a new QL owner from Brazil.
Hope to learn a lot here!

Thanks!

Cheers!!!

Welcome... I just joined recently myself.

TJ

Yeah but we are hardware tinkerers, while TJ seems more software (and mouse) oriented ;) Think of TJ in this way.... :P average joe that buys a new computer and learning as he goes.... plays with both hardware and software... but is no tech... just a dude that tries what he sees documented... some ...

Will the Gold Card be enough or even the future #8 QL Board Dave is working on allow mic more easily if using this PE? Amply. When 512k was the best available, I was happy as a pig in poo with that ;) Cool. That will be my end goal. Will learn the basics "mouse-less" at first but hope to ...

Regarding mice on QL hardware, if you want anything other than a retro museum piece, you need decent software to use it, ie PE. That requires about 40k extra, and ideally, with Hotkeys and all that, about 50-60k. PE application software is also comparatively chubby, and real multitasking dramatical...

Just to add a little more to the discussion.... I have been talking with Fred Toussi about Text87 and releasing the sources for his printer drivers etc later this year... The answer to the lack of a modern printer for the QL will be the Retro-Printer (http://www.retroprinter.com) - you just need to...

Most of the DTP programmes for the QL are not supplied with the source code. DO you think it is worth trying to write an open source DTP programme? I think, neither was. In our days, I think, everyone wanted to use a pointer driven DTP System. Simply ask Francois Lanciault, why he doesn't has devel...

dex wrote:For me it is simply "the Unix for the rest of us".
Simplicity and imminence of Basic combined with power of all that multitasking, networking, pipes, windows, ...

So in general terms, do you feel QDOS is easier to grasp for a commoner like me versus learning Linux or Unix?

TJ

From those that know the QL well... what to you males the OS that came with the QLs any better, different, or unique compared to other flavors of OS on other platforms. I have heard a comment before that the OS is better... but curious what that means. Something that can back that up? I don't know t...