The Sinclair QL Forum

bwinkel67 » Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:46 pm That's one large print bed you have to get the full-size QL printed. The Barely QL box is printed as 4 pieces. The keyboard box and lid are just under 300mm wide. It is designed to house the Cooler master SK620 keyboard. The Pi5 box is called comp_box_pi.stl an...

mhanias » Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:12 pm A new case with the help of a 3D printer is a rather an easy task. I can't say I found it a particularly easy task, but here is my take on QL replica. The Barely Black QL (BBQL?) is based on SMSQE in a Raspberry Pi5, a cased micro PC and Q68. Only the Pi5 and PC v...

Well, I thought that was obvious Amazingly not for me, which is why I asked the question. One thing I did not learn from Covid was how to interact electronically. No zooming facebooking or tweeting for me I'm afraid to say. My brother zooms like mad (he works for the NHS) and I have occasionally wa...

tofro posted:- How about you begin again, maybe even as a common interest group with multiple participants, then, as soon as you reach a stumbling block ask here? Me (and, I think everyone who has experience with QPTR and BASIC) are perfectly willing to help in case you get stuck. The long winter e...

BSJR posted:- There was also an 11 part series of lectures about QPTR in QL-Today by Wolfgang Lenerz , explaining in more detail what was missing in the manual. (See volume 7 issue 2 to volume 9 issue 3.) Some time ago I posted the lectures as a PDF file. I attach the file again here:- Lenerz qptr....

Like you I have been spending a bit of time learning to program in SBASIC. My original interest was in SMS2. SMS2 has a high resolution QPTR SBASIC programming environment built into it, (see forum post SMSQ/2 on Atari page 8) and I still use this form of programming in SMS2 and SMSQ/E. I have exper...

PE_BGON does the trick. Thanks for the tip. I don't know what the CON setting does. Its NO/YES setting has no effect on background updating. One more session and I think I will have my Q68 looking like my QPC setups. I use mode 4 (1024 x 768) in monochrome for maximum display performance. None of th...

My on-off use of the Q68 has been a partial success so far. I have been trying to configure the Q68 to look like my high resolution QPC setup and, in the process, have "mashed" the contents of quite a few 4GB SDHC cards. I am now able to easily format and partition FAT16 cards using Linux ...