P.I.Cole2-The Invisible Case – The second in Andrei Tenu’s P. I. Cole series of adventures for Sinclair QL and compatibles. You are the detective Cole and you have to find and retrieve a stolen item, in order to receive the reward paid by the insurance. The story then gets more complex, and much darker, as […]
Bruce Nicholls has kindly given permission for all seven issues of QReview magazine to be made available via my website. The magazine ran from July 1993 to March 1995 as a quarterly paper magazine, which focused mainly on reviews, as its title implies. Richard Alexander kindly scanned the seven paper issues and they are available […]
Thanks to a user on QL Forum, I’ve been able to add a Replacement Manual for the old Tandata Q-Connect modules for the QL to my website. Download the manual as a PDF file – it’s about 5MB in size – from the Replacement Manuals page on my website: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/index.html#Tandata
I’ve put together a little QL-themed calendar for 2021 – The QaLendar. Download it from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/calendar/calendar.html as a PDF or a Word document. Here’s wishing all QL users a very happy new year.
A copy of the latest version of the QLirc Internet Relay Chat program for QL emulators which can access TCP/IP for network access is now available to download from QL Forum. This is not a final version, and is uncompiled, but is fairly stable and seems to run reliably. It was written on a QPC2 […]
After the comments on the Sinclair QL For Everyone group about all the OCR errors in the QL Service Manual last week, an updated version is now available in a variety of formats – PDF and various eBook formats – from my site’s eBooks page at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html (on the page, “QL Service Manual” is in […]
I decided to have a quick look around at where you can get spares and repairs for the QL nowadays. For Ql repairs, try this site, called Mutant Caterpillar. It offers a QL repair service (and for other retro computers) from just under £70: https://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/index.php?cPath=39&sort=2a&page=2&osCsid=jf9s4qrqfc7301veh1kqv6vvg5 Or you can access it through SellMyRetro.com: https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/sinclair-ql-repair-service-4065 SellMyRetro.com is […]
Using DOSbox in a browser, two separate users on QL Forum have got a DOS-based QL emulator running in a browser window. One has set up QPC1 (the older DOS version of the QPC emulator) in DOSbox to run a small collection of demo programs. Try this out at https://www.kilgus.net/qpc/live/ Another has set up QLay […]
Marcel Kilgus has redesigned the QL-VGA board, which allows a Sinclair QL to be connected to a VGA monitor. No great increase in functionality that I know of, more of a redesign to make it easier to manufacture. Or at least that was the theory before some companies decided to make life difficult. Marcel has […]
The British QLs use an unusual type of plug and socket system for serial and joystick connection, which superficially looks like a BT telephone connector. But it is different – the angle and keying are different. The Samsung-made QLs sold in America and Germany are quite different and use 9-way D connectors, albeit with slightly […]
