The Sinclair QL Forum

This was the first QL emulator I used other than the QDOS on Amiga port. Although very basic, it's quite a nice emulator. However, setting it up was a real pain. So much so that I wrote a GUI to manage the config file. However, as I was running OS/2 back then rather than Windows, it's only available...

A thread to discuss Q-emuLator , my emulator of choice. Version 3 has just come out for Windows and Version 1 for Mac OS X. Although I now mostly use the Mac version, I can heartily recommend both platform versions as I do use the Windows version too (when my wife lets me have the Windows laptop bac...

Oh, I didn't answer the question of what Midnight/MU is like! sorry. Heh. It uses the same graphics as the original, but instead of playing against the computer you play against other players, sometimes alone or in teams. There are loads of new enhancements, such as alterations to the original map t...

How I wrote Dreamlands? Rather haphazardly, as I recall. This was back in '88 or thereabouts so I can't remember the detail. However, I do remember spending hours drawing out the map and working out new puzzles in a rather organic manner. I wrote it whilst at university in Leeds, so development was ...

Hi,

I have introduced myself in another thread, but it's pushed this thread down. Maybe you could make it a sticky so it stays at the top of the list?

Jean-Yves

Hi, Jean-Yves here. One-time huge QL fan and recent returnee. What's funny is that I just wrote a letter/article for Quanta containing my musings on how I saw the QL scene as somebody who has been only a very-occasional observer over the last few years. And one of the things I was bemoaning was the ...