The Sinclair QL Forum

Thanks, Dilwyn!

I need to read up on floppy disk transfers too..

Hi all

Where are the best QL software archives to be found? I scored a double disk upgrade and am keen to download!

Cheers

JonB

Yes please, I'll take all of them.. PM sent.

I'll have another look. Got to say, I don't get on with the Sinclair guides, they are too tutorial-esque for me. I would have expected all that to be documented in the open statement section, or at least a reference to the relevant bit in Concepts. Anyway, thanks to everyone and dex in particular I ...

What a nice fellow you are, Dave!

If only I had your level of expertise, Dave! I have had to buy a Trump card and disk drives. Maybe I can chip in some cash or drivers? I need to get familiar with the QL architecture first, of course, and for that I need documentation and time. But I am very interested in it, so who knows? Once I ge...

Dave wrote:I'll take the Jan Jones book. PM sent.

Darn it. I turn my back for 5 minutes and look what I miss out on!

Derek, if Dave changes his mind I will take them all for £50.

Sorry, not the numbers, the names. I feel I have missed something in the QL manual... or is it not in there?

Ah, that's better. Handshaking is killing it. Where are these channel numbers documented?

With ser2h, nothing happens. With ser2_ or "ser2_", I get a "bad name" error. What about ser1, might that do it? Or is that just for modems? Update: Ser 1 is giving rows of "~" (tilde) characters with no running program. However, when I run the program with OPEN #3, ser...