The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi All,
I joined because I dug my old QL out of the shed (along with other vintage micros), and having just bought a vDrive, am looking at getting some software running on it. I bought mine (a JM ROM) when I was on offer at Dixons for £200? £100? with a thermal printer and serial cable probably 1985/1986 as I wrote up my CS degree project in Quill. I did buy BCPL, a macro assembler and QL super monitor for it, but did not do a huge amount with it as I had Vaxen and proprietary 680x0 Unix machines to play with at my first jobs, but nostalgia is making me to take a look at it again!

-- Tim

P.S. My QL super monitor is v3.0, which I notice is requested on the QL wiki -- to whom should I send a copy?

Hi there! Welcome back to the wonderful world of the QL

Richard (RWAP) and Simon (Outsoft) both maintain software archives - I do not know if they synchronise their collections, so might be worth sending to both?

JY

If you click on the "QL Hompage" link above in this forum, you'll get to Dilwyn Jones' Sinclair QL page, a comprehensive repository of QL software, including vDrive-ready MDV files.

Thanks for the information! I will have a dig around when I get a spare moment; work is busy at the moment, and I still have to plumb the vMap into the QL -- A new keyboard membrane arrived today, as a backup if the original breaks when the open the QL.
Like a lot of people, I will be looking around for any ROM upgrades available (the Toolkit sounds like a must-have!) but at least I can experiment on one of the emulators and learn my way around the environment, with a decent keyboard!

cheers,

Tim

Welcome!