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by ZX_Steve
Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:37 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)
Replies: 9
Views: 5281

Re: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)

You certainly already know, but since forum posters are international, I probably should have mentioned the PCW was Amstrad's proprietary Z80 based machine that stole much of the market sector the QL wanted here. With the IBM compatibles taking the top of the market and the PCW taking the bottom. La...
by ZX_Steve
Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:59 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)
Replies: 9
Views: 5281

Re: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)

I have actually read a few old PCW mags out of curiosity recently (while looking for Spectrum/QL ones). It bothers me that Amstrad had an option on the QL, and the QL solved most of the problems the better selling PCW clearly suffered from. They were both targetted at similar markets and both missed...
by ZX_Steve
Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:45 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)
Replies: 9
Views: 5281

Re: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)

Joking aside, I think that screen shot actually displays several of the QL strengths. It is interesting to see the QL actually demonstrating no millennium bug, literally a decade before it hurt other systems. You could never have had that screen display on the contemporary PCW. The PCW depended on C...
by ZX_Steve
Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:39 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)
Replies: 9
Views: 5281

Re: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)

I don't think we need to worry about about sending a disk back in time today. I presume the timestamp shown is the creation time, not the deletion time. So as long as the files are created, we can delete them any time we like and send them back after time travel is invented. Perhaps another 27 years...
by ZX_Steve
Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:48 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)
Replies: 9
Views: 5281

Quantum Leap Paradox 16th July 2017 (crosspost)

I just posted on the wos forum about page 27 of the June 1990 edition of QL World. Someone in the past is trying to use a Quantum Leap to undelete a file created today, 16th July 2017. https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54903/quantum-leap-paradox-16th-july-2017 I would not normally cr...