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- Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:13 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: SuperFORTH Editor
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7350
Re: SuperFORTH Editor
Hey ! At last, some FORTH fanatics onboard ? An opportunity for my two cents view about blocks and text files : 1024 byte blocks were invented by Chuck Moore as a way to manage from inside FORTH the primitive mass stores that they had in those times. They were kept for a long time by the FORTH commu...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:24 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Inactive members
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6880
Re: Inactive members
I cannot tell how many members never logged in, but looking at the post statistics of the member aera, it is easy to find out that 119 members never posted any message. I am still often lurking rather often into this forum but by now have less to tell about the QL because for the time being I am mor...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 4:58 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: External QL-SD
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12945
Re: External QL-SD
Hello,
If it's by design for the ROM port, I would be interested getting one.
I am living in France : no problem ?
Paul alias POLKa
If it's by design for the ROM port, I would be interested getting one.
I am living in France : no problem ?
Paul alias POLKa
- Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:53 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Why was the QL never successful?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 22892
Re: Why was the QL never successful?
1024MAK wrote: A standard video signal so that existing designs of VDU ( monitors) could be used rather than people having to buy special QL compatible VDUs. I don't see an issue here ; in 1985, I bought an "Oceanic" branded VDU with a SCART input for 1V/75ohms standard RGB and Csync sign...
- Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: older things
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4503
Re: older things
Those old kits look like something from a sci fi film set 8-) Sci-fi ? That would mean "anticipation" more than 30 years old :mrgreen: When I was a kid in the fiftees (not a kit :? ) I was a fan of the american sci-fi cartoons published by Artima (in France, I guess), and I remember well ...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: older things
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4503
Re: older things
Here is an old picture of my late SC-MP system :
Bye, Paul- Sun Aug 31, 2014 5:20 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: older things
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4503
older things
Hello, Three years ago I revived my 1984 QL on a recent LCD TV ; this last month, I tried to resurect even older things. First, my 1981 ZX81 : I had to repair the keyboard wires (the membrane is still OK - all keys - but the connections with the circuit board were partially cut where they were bent....
- Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:31 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Changing the small sponge on the microdrive carts
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6853
Re: Changing the small sponge on the microdrive carts
As an analog photography fan, I successfully used as a replacement for the Sinclair microcartridge felt : very small pieces of the black velvet that covers the opening of used 135 (24x36) film cartridges (initially suited to ensure light-tightness), it works well and will be totally (I hope) undestr...
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:10 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: QL-SD card project
- Replies: 43
- Views: 29044
Re: QL-SD card project
I would prefer a PROM port SD card interface, because I'd like to keep the Mdv units functional as long as they work, and I find it more convenient just to be able to plug the interface into an existing unused slot, without opening and fiddling inside both my QLs.
Paul
Paul
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:35 am
- Forum: Help for New Users
- Topic: What to do with a QL?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7404
Re: What to do with a QL?
As I said, with a "plain" QL, you can almost only develop and run SuperBasic programs and use the Psion suite, because of the limited 128k memory and the microdrives (and FORTH, because it's a powerful interactive programming tool resident in only a 64k memory segment). But if you want to ...