The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi All, I am seeking a piece of advice, as to which type of mouse can be easily connected to the QL. Serial mice are hard to get these days. I have found this mouse, please see picture, I hope is serial type, rather than PS2. Also read Simon Goodwin's DYI article on serial driver for the QL. My idea...

As I learnt on QDOS, ZIPINFO can be executed as follows,

ew unzip;'-ZMv qed'

where options mean,

-v verbose, showing QDOS specific fields
-Z for zipinfo mode
-M for paging the output through MORE

TCAT

Hi All, Anyone tried to inspect zip archive for QDOS? I did, because I was so curious where the file header information is stored. I tried on linux first displaying the archive content of the QED.ZIP $ zipinfo -v qed.zip But I was not able to see the header information, only the QDOS extra subfields...

All, Just to let you know, I tried following... $ cat FF.B QED.HDR QED > /dev/ttyS1 Where, FF.B is a file containing a single byte of the $ff value QED.HDR is trunctaed header to 14 bytes QED actual binary IT WORKS! I was not able to set higher rate than 2400 bauds so far. BTW where in the QL manual...

Dear All, I have built a serial cable recently. I have Linux COM2 port at one end, QL SER2 on the other. No TK2, only 128K, JS ROM so far. This enables communication at 2400 bauds at Linux end $ stty -F /dev/ttyS1 2400 cs8 clocal cstopb raw crtscts This sets baud rate on the QL BAUD 2400 I can load ...

Dear All,

I am looking for a suitable plug to go in SER and CTL ports.
I found this on eBay, please see picture. The latch appear on the right hand side. What do you think, would it fit QL either socket, after the latch is cut off with a knife.

Many thanks in advance
TCAT

Let me thank you ALL for all the effort, it is nice to have originals complete and resurrected
TCAT

Hi, I am reading Colin Opie's manual on assembly progarmming, trying to make my first steps in it. Colin referres to McGraw-Hill macro assembler, that I cannot find in the archive, so I use GST, that has slighlty different syntax, also does not support ORG directive. I have downloaded GST_ASM and QE...

Dear All, Would anyone help with an RS232 cable wiring between Linux and QL? Linux standard tty terminal driver does not use DTR / DSR signals, only RTS / CTS lines for handshaking So to connect a QL with a Linux system, I was thinking of this cable wiring, but not sure. QL <==> Linux //////////////...

Hi all, I wish to ask you for advice, as to which QL, a year of release to look for on ebay, to be able to later expand it with the toolkit and additional memory, etc? I learned on wikipedia, that 1983 was sort of difficult a year, and QLs built in that year required more effort to upgrade, internal...