The Sinclair QL Forum

Without anything else than a plain QL, apart SuperBasic and the Psion suite, he should try FORTH

The Digital Precision SuperForth is now public domain.

Paul

how about using "KEYROW" instead ?

Paul

I have a windows editor that may invoque a dos command line and thus lauch an application with parameters (including the fliname currently edited). But the question is : does any QL emulator have the capacity to boot, loading and automatically running a PC text file which name it gets in the command...

You should use evenly-spaced fonts like "Courrier New", then there would be no formatting issues.

Paul (or I don't understand your problem ?)

Yes, 117 but still 46 who never post, not even once ?

Paul

Yes, very righth your last point ! In those times, I often desagreed with the opinions of the "magazines", but indeed, without Internet, had no way to forward MY point of view. But I don't mind that the QL was or was not a success, for me, it was anyway a very interesting machine... more t...

My own version : 1/ have you kept your QL, and does it still work ? I bought my first QL end 1984 in France like Steve Poole, and of course it was a QWERTY model ; it still works. Then a few years later, I found another one in Brussels for bargain price - just in case the first one would crash. It s...

He,he... I asked the question to steve_poole, but you are all free to give your own version

Bye, Paul

Just curious :

1/ have you kept your QL, and does it still work ?

2/ did you expand it (more RAM, floppies...) ?

3/ did you use other programming tools than SuperBasic ?

Bye Paul

I googled this , where there are some (relatively simple) ideas for serial interfacing a miniature railroad with any computer (thus a plain QL). But with a QL, you will have to write the programs yourself, there is no support. However a multitasking OS like Qdos may be a convenience ? A high level ...