The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi all ! Jedi is back In another post, I showed a random dot autostereography generator written in Oberon for an emulation of the Ceres workstation. Why no try it in a BBQL ? Indeed, with the limited display resolution, you may not reach nice 3D, only kind of basis low-relief images. ( by the way, d...

As a student, my better "worst thing" was to program FORTRAN on a formatted paper sheet and have it corrected by my teacher with red ink. POLKa Indeed, my engineering school did not own a single computer at that time : got one the next year, where you had to program on punched cards. (but ...

Actually, the Oberon kind of Pascal was the langage used for developping the runtime/framework environment (and applications) for CERES, a graphic workstation that was designed (in 1985!) at ETHZ by a team led by Niklaus Wirth for educationnal purposes. Shortly after that, this framework was ported ...

Here a little program to show what a Component Pascal source looks like : Racine.zip This program demonstrate the square root operation (algorithm) formerly taught at school ; the zip file contains the Component Pascal source and a picture of the graphic interface, that a Black Box tool let compose ...

Component Pascal is the last langage of the lineage of Niklaus Wirth (starting with ALGOL). Start looking here : http://blackboxframework.org/index.php?cID=home,en-us Component Pascal is a general-purpose language in the tradition of Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. Its most important features are bloc...

Hi all ! This is not about FORTH nor about QL. As I got back from my Alp confinement, I could play again with my other (old ) computers here, especially two of them still under Windows XP. There, I used other development tools since the early 90's, which I found as interesting as FORTH. Niklaus Wirt...

Hi ! Good news, yesterday, I just returned from my confinement in the Alps ! Concerning directories, I tried them with my Tetroid card (before, I had only 720k floppies and did not really need them), but after experimenting, I am dubtious of their interest. What I noticed (and disappointed me !) is ...

Hello, I have two QLs (both fully working at this time, both with Shoen keyboards - red function keys, both with Tetroid CF expansion cards and dual 720K floppies). I bought the first (JM rom) in Paris end 1984 even before the french version was available, for 4000FF (4000 french francs = 700 euros)...

Hi all ! As promised, some speed comparisons between Computer One Forth and SuperForth : I will use the PERSPECTIVE.FTH program adding only a word to replace the infinite loop of AROUND by a DO loop. This word is called BROUND (why not ?). And I will also add a simpler word for DREAM called BREAM. :...

Hi all ! I hereby consecrate my yesterday mistyping (naming Digital Precision "SupperForth") because, as I tried to transfer securely PERSPECTIVE_FTH from the environment of my Qemulator (where I developped it), to my BBQL+TetroidCF : I almost missed my supper ! To make sure that all of yo...