The Sinclair QL Forum

If a person personally owns a copyright and dies, not leaving the copyright to anyone in a will, outside of the UK, the copyright continues but the item is abandonware. Within the UK, the copyright converts to the Crown, unless the original holder simply specified otherwise. Actually not strictly t...

Basically, it is the same as with software, copyright laws are there to protect publishers and authors alike. There is a great myth on the internet about "abandonware", or publish and be damned - neither of which are protection against international copyright laws. Some people decide to ta...

Wow - looks a good machine - where can I get one?

As far as I know, the plug in Sinclair Expansion pictured was never released was it?

Have you ever gone through the provisional manual to see what changes were made after launch?

I have quite a few of these - it would be easier to list the ones which are missing

I might do a deal if you can help add some of the information to the QL Wiki about software and hardware detailed in them!

Sorry I have not been on here over the weekend.

If I had realised you were connecting the mouse via SuperHERMES, I could have pointed out that you just use the built in mouse driver on SuperHERMES - just enable it with IPCMOUSE 6.

For anyone else following this thread. I do have some Tandata modem stacks plus software and manual available if anyone wants one - £25 plus postage The last version of the Q-Connect software was released by Quanta and should still be available through them (although only on disk). The manual covers...

Realistically, you need to get a hold of the SMSQ/e for Gold Card manual from Jochen Merz - I can't find my copy at the moment to look this up. Basically there should be a configuration block from memory in the sermouse driver which you need to configure with: exec flp1_config;'flp1_sermouse' This w...

I have the microdrives here and can make sure you have a working set if you are still looking for these

I have a few copies of the manual if you are still looking

Oops - forgot that there is also the DIY Toolkit serial mouse driver available from Dilwyn's site - that emulates the cursor keys, so will work with the pointer environment. The only mouse interface which does not work with the pointer environment is the early MICE interface form Eidersoft which had...