Graeme Gregory has just announced his new QL software site, which is available at https://pansexual.ninja/page/ql-software/ He is probably best known for his work on sQLux, an adaptation of the original uQLx emulator to SDL2 library, which thanks to additional work from Petri Pellinen is now available to run in a web browser – point your […]
My QL-themed calendar, the QaLendar, is now available to download for 2023 as a PDF or Word document from my website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/calendar/calendar.html
Having written about the QL Forum earlier this week, I thought I’d better mention the Sinclair QL For Everyone group on Facebook too. This is a group owned by SellMyRetro.com, which I think is part of QL trader Rich Mellor’s RWAP group of businesses. It is administered by a small team of admins, including former […]
Great to see that the QL Forum is now approaching 900 members! When I looked this morning, it showed a membership of 898, fantastic to see that one of our leading sources of QL information has grown to this level, almost 40 years after the QL was originally announced! If you’ve never used the QL […]
I’ve completed the first update to my Launchpad GUI desktop system for nearly a decade! v2.12 is a set of relatively minor bug fixes for the previous v2.10 and v2.11, both first issued in 2013, and a recompile using more recent versions of programming tools QLiberator and Easyptr. This version is the first to be […]
I’m very grateful to Dean Payne of the Retro Computer Museum for supplying me with a scanned copy of the manual for the Sandy SuperQBoard interface. Although I had copies of a small “generic” manual for some Sandy interfaces, it’s great to be able to offer a full replacement manual for the SuperQBoard interface. And […]
Martin Head has updated his MDI and FDI microdrive and floppy imaging software. Updates are available for both the version 1 and version 2 FDI drivers. Martin says: “This fixes a problem with the MDI_FILE$ and FDI_FILE$ functions damagingthe maths stack.” This would mean that while the software appears to work, damage to the stack […]
Dino is a QL version of the classic browser game where you control a little dinosaur running through the desert. Jump over the cactuses – they are fatal if you crash into them. A horizontally scrolling simple platform game. Written in SuperBASIC, with notes on modifying the program yourself. Can be compiled with Turbo or […]
Thanks to the dedicated hard work of Martin Head, I’ve been able to upload two complete QL PD libraries to my website, one containing nearly 150 floppy disk images, the other about 480 disk images. Giving a total of over 600 floppy disk images of QL software, albeit there is a lot of overlap between […]
A new set of programs to handle animated GIF images on SMSQ/E systems. View animated GIFs, convert individual frames to individual PIC files or GD2 sprites, or convert the entire animation to a GD2 dynamic sprite file, compressed or uncompressed. Support for resizing, rotation and alpha transparency. There is a GIF conversion program, and an […]
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