The Sinclair QL Forum

Anyone thinking of going to the Retro Computer Festival 2021 at the Centre for the History of Computing in Cambridge (UK) on the 9th/10th October? I'll be exhibiting on both days but only have the QL (+Tetroid SGC clone, vDriveQL and Mice) on display on the Saturday (along with a couple of non-mains...

THis is why Linux has elf - "eXecutable and Linkable File" format. Invented in the early 1990s. QL invented in the early 1980s. I remember Linux pre ELF :-D a.out format for the win! ;-) The ELF format wasn't taken up by most UNIXs until the mid-90s. Linux just followed the crowd. Until r...

BASIC is/was the best starting language (controversial!) BECAUSE it doesn't have typing and it reasonably limited. For a start it can pass the "annoy your parents/siblings in 10 minutes" test, at least on the old micros, with easily accessible sound commands etc. That's a great hook for 13...

Well, the files you'd store on the USB drive you put into a Gotek are merely pure images of the contents of a floppy disk, as you would use with "rawwrite.exe" on a PC * . I'm not sure what you mean by "bootstrap". If you want a set of images on the USB drive then you have to cre...

No Z88 or any Psions either! Tatung Einstein? Well, that last one would be out as it's Korean(?) Also, the Z88 is rather later (88), as were the (usable) Psions (90s). If you're thinking non-home machines (as the Psion Organiser was aimed at business) then you have the ACT Apricot range of machines...

It'd be very difficult to map every UK computers as there were so many. Some not mentioned so far:

NASCOM
UK101
Tangerine
Camputers Lynx
Fan/Flan/Elan Enterprise 64/128

There's a lot been said about how the QL when it was released was obviously not a business computer but few have looked at what the competition was in the UK at the time. So, here we have the British business micro which would have been closest in capability to the QL, though very much more expensiv...

Well, if you can fit an amp into the size requirement then I don't see why not.

Oh wow, that's great. I'll have to check it out. What kind of speaker are you using for something like this? I just used a generic, small, 8 ohm paper cone one from RS Components. I tried one of those plastic membrane "cone" speakers and it was too tinny. You can see one of the speakers I...

llopis wrote:Oh wow, that's great. I'll have to check it out. What kind of speaker are you using for something like this?

I just used a generic, small, 8 ohm paper cone one from RS Components. I tried one of those plastic membrane "cone" speakers and it was too tinny.