The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Chr$, I have got all combinations of QL hardware, even a QXLII 8mb, 25mhz,which, I use MSDOS, the PC is only a K6 500mhz with 768 ram, only Windows 98SSE would run smoothely. But DOS works okay and networks to my Raid server. If you need any help getting anything running, send me zip file or FLP ...

Hi Chr$, I would suggest writing your own boot system and not rely on pre formatted systems that may work but could have only 10% of what you really need. The software included with Q68 includes QL/E,Black Phoenix and some sample boot files I have tried to show how easy it is to write a QL Boot file...

Hi, Basically, if you are not using using SMSQ/E, which includies the QXL SMSQ, Minerva, QDOS Roms, the following is required to be installed: PTR_GEN WMAN HOT_REXT Note: they must be installed in this order. SMSQ/E includes all of the above, then Extended Environment 2 applications can be loaded in...

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I was going to port ncurses to C68, do you think this would be of any use?

This card is very very interesting. I hope you can solve the issues related to the software. I take this opportunity to thank Tetroid for his work, and remember the good work that José Leandro and Habi did from Spain with his QubIDE clone . Hi, I bought one of José Leandro expansion cards, which is...

Hi TJ,

Nice Video, I might get a vDriveQL case from Charlie.

With regards to microdrive images you could use the free QPC2 and MDI (microdrive image system) extensions to generate microdrives images.

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I am wondering whether reverse engineering, which involve software disassembly of QL software where the source code is not available is legal or not.

Hi, The power switch on a cased Q68 is located on the front panel, which is connected to the 3 pin header on the Q68 PCB. On uncased Q68 boards, I fit a jumper on the pin header, on pins 2-3 See Q68 manual, Chaper 2, page 4 for details. It is important not to connect Pin 1, which is a Ground connect...

Hi, I have had many QXL Cards, with the standard Miracle Systems 68EC040 CPU running at 2Mhz and the QXLII running at 25Mhz. I also fitted a 68RC040 to the QXLII, which gave it an internal CPU based FPU. I only have used the SMSQ or SMSQ/E QXL application from DOS, not Windows. Never really used the...

Hi, The Q68 QLNET connection is derived from the internal Q68 expansion port. I started to fit a male 2 x 12 DIL X 2mm connector to allow simple connection to the Q68 expansion port. The placement of the Q68 QLNET connectors are proving a little bit hard to incorporate into the Q68 case. Where I hav...