The Sinclair QL Forum

Well, Christmas came and went, with little time to work on the game. However, January has been much more fruitful and I have now produced an alpha-quality version of the game, which you can download from the QL GitHub repository: https://github.com/SinclairQL/akalabeth --and run a BBQL system or in ...

Thanks for the various replies. My interest stems from porting Akalabeth to the BBQL. The original Akalabeth, on the Apple II, deals only with capitals, both for input and output. I'm trying to make the QL port as authentic as possible, but am conscious people may get confused if they play the game ...

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to enable Caps Lock from within SuperBASIC? I expected there to be a system variable I could poke to do this, though couldn't find anything obvious in the SuperBASIC manual.

Thanks in advance for any help,
George.

Hi Whopper, I recently bought a broken Microdrive off eBay, with the same idea as you (though for the Spectrum rather than the QL). However, I thought I should make some effort to try to repair the drive before discarding the innards to the bin and (sadly!) a good clean and re-seating the pinch roll...

Hi Steve (everyone),

Thanks for your help. Hopefully these tips will help me debug the dodgy logic in Akalabeth both.

Speak to you soon,
George.

Hi Tobias, Thanks. I'm working on a real QL, so that may explain why I don't see an error, even with a syntactically wrong version of the program. Can I check if the same rules apply to SELECT statements--that is, does the following represent robust code that should work across various ROM versions:...

Thanks, though re-reading the description carefully, I wonder if the long form is actually only triggered if there is nothing (other than THEN or : ) after the condition, so I should write: 100 INPUT a 110 IF a > 0 THEN 120 PRINT "POSITIVE" 130 END IF 140 IF a > 20 THEN PRINT "REALLY ...

Hi everyone, I have a naive question to ask about inline constructions in BASIC (apologies in advance, if this is obvious). Based on the SuperBASIC online manual [http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/] many of the SuperBASIC flow-control constructions have both an inline short hand and a full for...

Hi Tom, Sorry, I only just saw this post. I didn't write the ZX Spectrum port, just did some testing. Someone called Battelbunny gets the credit for that. However, I am making good progress with the QL port. After a few months distraction over the summer writing articles for The Spectrum Show Magazi...

You asked why - because a QL RGB to SCART cable on my CRT TV produces a pretty authentic and clear display... I can then use Mode 4 or Mode 8 depending on what I want. I struggled with just the UHF for a long time... I have a TV/ monitor with poor connectivity. It supports just composite (separate ...