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Hello from NE England
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:00 pm
by MHedley
I have been a professional programmer from as far back as 1983 and own numerous retro computers but never had a QL - until now.
After a matter of mintues I realised I needed an alternative to microdrives and managed to get a Silicon Express insider disk interface with dual floppy drives and now I am happy. I have quickly grown to really like the QL a lot. I would be a whole lot happier if I could manage to find a copy of Hisoft's Devpac for the QL - something I used extensively on Atari ST and Amiga.
Anyway hello to everyone - it's nice to now be a part of the QL community.
Re: Hello from NE England
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:19 pm
by vanpeebles
Hello and welcome aboard!
Re: Hello from NE England
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:23 pm
by RWAP
Yes, welcome to the forums - it is good to see a growing number of users making good use of the QL.
I can't help with Devpac I am afraid (well not at the moment) - there are more modern assemblers available for the QL, which are in the public domain - GWASS (for 68020 based QLs) and GWASL for the standard QL - see
http://www.jms1.supanet.com/SQLUG/gwilt/gwilt.htm
Re: Hello from NE England
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:51 pm
by dilwyn
MHedley wrote:I have been a professional programmer from as far back as 1983 and own numerous retro computers but never had a QL - until now.
After a matter of mintues I realised I needed an alternative to microdrives and managed to get a Silicon Express insider disk interface with dual floppy drives and now I am happy. I have quickly grown to really like the QL a lot. I would be a whole lot happier if I could manage to find a copy of Hisoft's Devpac for the QL - something I used extensively on Atari ST and Amiga.
Anyway hello to everyone - it's nice to now be a part of the QL community.
Welcome to the QL. Glad to see several new names on here recently - QL Forum seems to be getting more and more successful at attracting new QL users.
Don't hesitate to ask questions, we're a helpful bunch here.
There's also the ql-users email mailing list, user group Quanta, QL Today magazine and of course QL traders like Jochen Merz, Quo Vadis Design and RWAP Services where you can buy QL hardware and software, not to mention auction sites like SellMyRetro.com and eBay. A lot of very useful QL info can be had on Rich Mellor's QL Wiki too.
Dilwyn