I’m still having a lot of success with the prototype QL-VGA board from Marcel Kilgus. To recap, it’s a board which allows the QL RGB output socket to be connected to a SVGA monitor, something which was difficult or impossible before this unless you had some form of SCART to HDMI converter, and even those […]
I have been trying out a new video converter called QL-VGA from Marcel Kilgus. QL-VGA lets you connect a Sinclair QL’s RGB video output, from the 8-pin DIN socket, to a monitor or TV with a computer VGA video input. For a long time, connecting a QL to a modern monitor has been a problem […]
Javier Guerra (“Badaman”) has launched a new QL news stream website. Access it at https://badaman.badared.com/ql/planet/ He says that he has created the “resource to keep up to date on the news of the Sinclair QL international blogs”, and that he has created it as “a personal resource” but hopes it will prove useful to others. […]
Thanks to Christos Kotampitsis, I’ve been able to add a DD disk image (plus a zip file version) of the four Psion programs for the QL – Archive, Abacus, Easel and Quill. The package is based on version 2.43 of the programs, if the boot programs are to be believed. Christos told me that this […]
Per Witte has released version 02 of his QLWARZ utility to stretch, refresh, or defragment a hard drive on QPC2. As there is no way to extend a QXL.WIN filing container, this program takes the next best approach and formats a new one with a different capacity and copies directories and files over to the […]
I’ve added quite a few QL software packages from QBits to my site this week. These are mostly updated versions of older QL software from the company. Games, file handler, sound and graphics programs are included. Mostly in BASIC with PDF manuals. When these were announced on QL Forum, many of the early adopters remarked […]
I’ve been a bit busy of late and not had a chance to do much with the QL, so I’m pleased to announce a new page containing scanned magazine articles. Thanks to the work of individuals like Klaus Frank who’ve been busy scanning articles for me, the first draft of the page is ready with […]
