The Sinclair QL Forum

1/ have you kept your QL, and does it still work ? Which one ? My original went back to John Menzies for repair after 11 months (in 1985), then I had a new one because they lost the original. After about 5 years, I had it put into a PC tower case, with dual disk drives, Trump Card. I then sold that ...

There is a trace_bin (and the assembler code) on the Minerva support disk - are you missing this disk perhaps?

A zip of the support (utilities) disk appears on Tony Firshman's website:
http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/fminerva.htm

I can't say that I have any experience of using emulators under Linux - I guess it is one of the problems which face any programs released for Linux - basically the authors tend to release them on the GPL license, complete with sources, and then lose interest, leaving it up to someone else to try an...

A Vbcc cross-compiler sounds interesting. I guess the QDOS-GCC version was a one shot which did not get updated as Linux was improved over the years which is a shame - I wonder if Richard Zidlicky is still lurking somewhere out there... The other option is surely to use C68 running on a QL emulator,...

Well I might be biased (as I have the Super Gold Cards...), but the main thing which annoyed me about the Gold Card was the double boot screen, which takes an age compared to the SGC. For software development, you want a QL as fast as possible - however, with emulators to do the development, you are...

Welcome to the forums Marq - it is good to see new people joining the forums and we can help in any way we can. Some good QL demos are required - but if you want to use dual screens, Minerva is certainly a help on that score, as you can access the QL's main screen (located at $20000 - or 131072) as ...

Welcome to the board - it is good to see more people trying out the QL for the first time.

You may find the QL Wiki of interest also to provide some background information

Ah - who is the author for the program though?

I have now re-released another QL arcade game - Blast Buggy by Paul Tuck - this was originally sold by Shadow Games, but the rights to it were acquired by Talent+ so I have now re-released it. See http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Sinclair_QL_Arcade_Game%3A_Blast_Buggy-2094 I find this game q...

For anyone looking to convert BMP to QL screen format, I have just been looking at this myself. Whilst the QL Graphics Convertor (which we used for QWord) and the bmp2pic program by Phoebus Dokos work for 24 bit BMP files, they fail on converting them to MODE 8 pictures The QL Graphics Convertor was...