The Sinclair QL Forum

Probably one or more of the memory chips on the board is not making good contact with the socket - you could carefully take each one out and reseat them in the socket - if the pins look a little tarnished - give them a gentle rub with some contact clearner before reseating them in the sockets. Hope...

10 a$ = "1234567890" 20 b$ = a$(4 to 3): REMark This works 30 c$ = a$(4 to 2): REMark This fails with an error. Neither Qdos JS nor Minerva accept line 30, so that seems to be normal behaviour. SMSQ/E seems just to catch the error before the program runs; the others fall over when they re...

My new microdrive arrived today :-) s-l1600.jpg One inch form-factor hard disk. One of my side interest is mechanical miniaturizations -- I also do N-scale railroading...I'd do Z-scale but I'm too old to see it too clearly :-) I could probably never get the train back on the tracks. I have N, Z and...

sQLux runs the game without using Minerva, as the Second Screen is disabled, use JS, JM

I guess I should enable that for QL native screen modes

So I stick with the Q68, it has more potential, and the less expensive.

You forgot full support from its creator too

3. Most awkward is CTRL-SPACE for QL's break is not available in any of the three keyboard modes, neither is backslash or vertical bar nor cursor arrow keys.

There is a good chance the Ctrl keypress is eaten by Android before browser even sees it unfortunately!

A blutooth Tablet Keyboard. £8 from Poundland in UK. Switchable Android/Windows/iOS. Just 20 x 12.5 x 0.5cm, my phone alongside for comparison in the picture. Really handy for typing longer messages on phone or tablet instead of using tiny on-screen keyboards. Rechargeable via micro-USB, 80 hours b...

Can I join your Qlub

Lovely looking boxes!

Pr0f wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:47 am It does make you wonder where all this old hardware ended up - someone must have a bit of it stashed away somewhere

Unfortunately it is probably in recycling/landfill as house clearance companies only resell the easy stuff!