The Sinclair QL Forum

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Sorry for confusing the issue, I dud not realise that really old disk drives were being used.

Hi, The Drive Select resistors, which are jimpers or wire links are labelled DS on the controller board. Which is where you have soldered some wires. All PC floppy drives come pre-configured as Drive 1 Which on a QL relates to FLP2_ To change the hard wired drive select, twist IDC Floppy canle lines...

Hi, I nearly bought a Dragon to use OS/9, but a single user licence was required and is still required from Microware. Here is s link to some OS/9 archived software and documentation: http://www.os9projects.com/Newsletters/Newsletters.html I do not think it is worth the effort of porting OS/9 to the...

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I had a 80 Track 5.25" Disk Drive on a QL with a Trump Card, which I have a copy of Turbo on 5.25"disk. All seemed to work okay.

I have old BBC Micro switchable 40/80 Track 5.25" disk drives, I will try them out over the weekend.

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Nice video, have tried the other ZX81 emulators for the QL?

Just thought, convert your Elite programme to Superbasic and compile it with Qliberator or Turbo.

Hi,

Thank you for the great work, once I had changed my boot file, every thing worked great.

Is there an environmental variable that can be preset to define the screen location of the compiler front end?

Hi, I downloaded the current stable version, Python 3.7.7 I compiled the source on my Linux laptop, which compiled okay and installed it to my system. I looked at the source code to Python 3.7.7 which looks like C source code to me and referring to the Python Developers documentation, in the section...

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Why not make the SMSQ/E Language support file modular, so that they can be loaded at boot time or configured

Hi, I downloaded the xtc68 master file, from: https://github.com/stronnag/xtc68 read the documentation and compiled the XTC68 software, loaded the C68 runtime disk to the "support" directory, ran the install.sh file. Which XTC68 was installed in my Linux computer, I compiled a simple hello...

Hi, The defaults can be overridden by entering the KBD_TABLE and LAN_USE command in the boot file: 10 LANG_USE "D" 20 KBD_TABLE "D" In the Q68, I have the theses commands in the first lines of lines of the boot file, as 'GB', as I can only speak English... If QPC2 is being used, ...