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- Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:37 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Retro Computer Festival 2021
- Replies: 4
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Retro Computer Festival 2021
Anyone thinking of going to the Retro Computer Festival 2021 at the Centre for the History of Computing in Cambridge (UK) on the 9th/10th October? I'll be exhibiting on both days but only have the QL (+Tetroid SGC clone, vDriveQL and Mice) on display on the Saturday (along with a couple of non-mains...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14245
Re: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?
THis is why Linux has elf - "eXecutable and Linkable File" format. Invented in the early 1990s. QL invented in the early 1980s. I remember Linux pre ELF :-D a.out format for the win! ;-) The ELF format wasn't taken up by most UNIXs until the mid-90s. Linux just followed the crowd. Until r...
- Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:57 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14245
Re: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?
BASIC is/was the best starting language (controversial!) BECAUSE it doesn't have typing and it reasonably limited. For a start it can pass the "annoy your parents/siblings in 10 minutes" test, at least on the old micros, with easily accessible sound commands etc. That's a great hook for 13...
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:13 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Gotek 720K
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2467
Re: Gotek 720K
Well, the files you'd store on the USB drive you put into a Gotek are merely pure images of the contents of a floppy disk, as you would use with "rawwrite.exe" on a PC * . I'm not sure what you mean by "bootstrap". If you want a set of images on the USB drive then you have to cre...
- Mon Jun 14, 2021 7:38 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: The Computers that made Britain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3135
Re: The Computers that made Britain
No Z88 or any Psions either! Tatung Einstein? Well, that last one would be out as it's Korean(?) Also, the Z88 is rather later (88), as were the (usable) Psions (90s). If you're thinking non-home machines (as the Psion Organiser was aimed at business) then you have the ACT Apricot range of machines...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: The Computers that made Britain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3135
Re: The Computers that made Britain
It'd be very difficult to map every UK computers as there were so many. Some not mentioned so far:
NASCOM
UK101
Tangerine
Camputers Lynx
Fan/Flan/Elan Enterprise 64/128
NASCOM
UK101
Tangerine
Camputers Lynx
Fan/Flan/Elan Enterprise 64/128
- Sun May 23, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: The QL's original competition (business market)
- Replies: 2
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The QL's original competition (business market)
There's a lot been said about how the QL when it was released was obviously not a business computer but few have looked at what the competition was in the UK at the time. So, here we have the British business micro which would have been closest in capability to the QL, though very much more expensiv...
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:17 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 15535
Re: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
Well, if you can fit an amp into the size requirement then I don't see why not.
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 15535
Re: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
Oh wow, that's great. I'll have to check it out. What kind of speaker are you using for something like this? I just used a generic, small, 8 ohm paper cone one from RS Components. I tried one of those plastic membrane "cone" speakers and it was too tinny. You can see one of the speakers I...
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:23 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 15535
Re: Video: Sinclair QL Upgrades (PSU and vDrive mostly)
I just used a generic, small, 8 ohm paper cone one from RS Components. I tried one of those plastic membrane "cone" speakers and it was too tinny.llopis wrote:Oh wow, that's great. I'll have to check it out. What kind of speaker are you using for something like this?