The QL Toolbox ’98 Collection
Today, I’d like to give you some information regarding a small utility set: these programs are really useful, but sadly not many people
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Survey: the Italian average QL user
In order to understand and define the Italian QL community I decided to start a survey and publish the answers in a few
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Mail merge with Quill, a powerful feature for an historical software
While it’s true that Quill is really obsolete as a word processing software (even on the QL there’s something better, like Text87 or
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13° italian meeting Sinclair QL
The 13th Sinclair QL Italian meeting will take place on Sunday 20th November at DTM Technologies premises in Modena. We will start
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Be careful exchanging files between PC and emulator!
One of the first problems I encountered in writing programs is just about the encoding and formatting of text that occurs between the
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From S*Basic to HTML
In the May 2015 issue of QUANTA, the magazine, I published a program called SBldr. It takes a S*BASIC source code file and
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The sorting numbers routines
A classic of programming required in the industrial technical schools is the realization of the so-called bubble sort : comparing two numbers so
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BORDER, PAPER, INK: let’s color our display!
Who comes from the ZX Spectrum world knows perfectly these commands that are his bread and butter. For QL there is not much
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A new QL!
Yes, after years of oblivion (the Q60 project has stopped in 2006!) it’s “Mist” time. It’s a “multiform computer” which, with ARM
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QL and random numbers
Recently in the Italian mailing list we’ve discussed about the real randomness of the “random” numbers created by QL through its command RND.
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