The Sinclair QL Forum

Dave wrote: How did you get such a clean cut on the ABS? Pretty much as Mark and Tobias posted; drill holes and lots of careful filing. First I marked out the aperture in the ABS by scoring outline with a craft knife (pencil/indelible pen easily becomes too indistinct when filing). Then I drilled a...

IanJ wrote:

Being new to QL, and with the idea I'll be working on some hardware projects I figure I'll need a backplane so I can plug in a memory card floppy controller and a slot free for the project I'm about to start.

My quick solution to the same problem was to fit DIN41612 as shown...

RWAP wrote : Great - could you please email me Viewpoint for the preservation project - I have a copy preserved, but it's on the unsorted pile, so I don't know whether my copy works properly! Dilwyn wrote : This program is listed as a commercial program on Rich Mellor's website (£10+£2.50 P&P) ...

Just finished learning Python (on Ubuntu laptop, to have a programming language to use on it). One of the things it covered was using SQLite, I thought wouldn't this be great on the QL... This is definitely on my wish list also (along with TCP/IP access like Python).

Ive lost the thread which this topic was originally on (a while back) but now having the ability to upload my contribution (from local library) I'll add it as a new one: Back in the mid 1980s the QL rumour mill was that the ZX8301 video chip was meant to run at 16MHz, with the 68008 CPU running at h...

Concept3D.zip Here is a copy of Concept 3D that will now work from FLP etc, (unzip on QL to retain file types). The Supercharged program 'con' will not work on Minerva or SMSQ/E, it reports 'Line 1 bad parameter'. It does work on JS rom, also with the pointer environment (ptr_gen, wman, hot_rext). ...