The Sinclair QL Forum

Hey guys I've been going through my software (what little i have) for Outsoft. Basically my intention was to send him some of the micro tapes i have containing software. Almost all of them I've had trouble reading from. This came to a head this morning when I had a look at two original programs I ha...

That was a nice read, I did like the program listings.

I'm pretty sure I read in my QL manual that ZX Spectrum micro tapes, will not work in the QL as the format is different. The QL and the ZX Spectrum use different operating systems, if you can call what the Speccy has an OS. Plus they both have different processors.

I hope this helps

Hi buddy I'm new here myself :) I was fortunate that my QL came with a floppy drive. Like you I discovered the microdrives havent stood well against the test of time. If you find that your getting in to the QL, there is a chap in Russia who sells a memory expansion board which has a floppy drive con...

Thanks for those suggestions I'll check them out! :-) Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying playing about with the system. It's been a lot of fun. Today I converted my first quill doc to rtf. I'm writing a piece for my blog about the QL and how I've found using it thus far. As I said this forum ha...

I think I learnt at an early stage to just leave the microdrives alone. As fun and novel as they might be, floppy drives are far superior to those tiny tapes. I know after the initial release, later microdrives were pretty reliable, but tape storage was no medium for a professional 'business' comput...

Hi Rich I can't really comment about what other people say, though if your getting flak form several different quarters. I'd look at what they are saying and try to find some middle ground. You can't please everyone, but I like to think by listening to criticism we can also find a means for self imp...

Thanks for that. At first I was worried something might be wrong with my QL hehe

Hi Rich I think it is great that your taking the time to reach out to the developers, so this software can be legitimately distributed. Even in the short time I've been exposed to the QL, it's obvious that software is sparse on the ground. It reminds me of the Memotech MTX in a lot of ways actually,...

Wedgie - a chess game written in superbasic, does not appear to work on my QL either, but fine in QPC2. I get to entering my name and i'm back at command prompt DOH!