The Sinclair QL Forum

I replaced the flakey QL membrane keyboard connecter with turned pin sockets. Also replacing Schon lead with a ribbon cable soldered into turned pins, improving reliability. One of the problems with replicating Schon QL keyboard was the fact Schon supplied a very neatly cut out QL top case (along w...

Hi,

Here are the ACT Manuals that I have converted for my own use on a Kindle.

I have converted the files with Calibre to: PDF, TXT, AZW3

I had to zip up the files, as the forum software did not like the Kindle azw3 format.

Hi Thomas,

Have you thought about extending the PCB to accommodate the 68000 CPU, so the CPU connections are on the PCB, rather than wire links.

But I am sure I have seen something like this in the past.

Do you think a QL implementation cold be made?

Hi,

I converted the manual to be rad on the kindle.

I will convert it to pdf and post it here.

One question, is the manual copyright as the software is.

Maybe David Batty, who holds the rights to Digital Precison software, would release the DP Collection.

Hi Andrew, The Schon Keyboard to QL connection uses a custom PCB, which may of been OK when the Keyboard was designed, but 20 years on, the QL membrane connector spring steel has become not very "springy" The solution is to fit similar connector, which are hard to find, Molex do not supply...

Hi, I have one in bits, because I was gonna copy it. But I did not think it was very good, so I had a go at designing my own. I just have to do the PCB layout. The main problem with the Schon keyboard is the connection to the QL board, the Schon connectors expand the keyboard connectors. So that the...

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion.

I can not remember a support disk or cartridge for the book.

I suppose sinceitis aprogramming book, the code examples are to typed in by the programmer.

Hi Bill,

I have a copy of the book by Adrian Dickens.

I will post a photo later today.

Hi, I made a slight error in my previous post. The -d option allows definition of the extract device. So to extract a zip file to ram1_ using QL SCReen channel as the console output would be: EX mdv1_unzip,#1;"-dram1_ mdv1_q_zip" There does not require a space in the command option for -d ...

-x does not extracts files from archive - it eXcludes files from extracting Use: EX mdv1_unzip to see the help screen To extract: DATA_USE win2_ : REM set the device/directory to extract to EX mdv1_unzip -d; "mdv1_q_zip" : REM extract to the data directory Hi, Infounzip does not have a -d...