QL Hacker’s Journal 3

Date: April 1991
Issue: 3
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Articles

Title Description Computers
C Compiler Comparison A while back I was thinking about the two C compilers available for the QL. The Small C compiler is easy to use, quick to compile, but limited in it’s scope of the C language. The Lattice C compiler is not so easy to use, slow to compiler, but supports the full C language. The Sinclair QL
Editor's Forum After putting out two issues rather quickly, your all probably wondering what happened to this issue. There is one simple explanation: bad keyboard. My QL feel ill by the most common ailment of older QL systems, a bad connection between the keyboard matrix and the motherboard. My QL went bad in early February, just after Sinclair QL
File Comparison Fcomp_c is another C program from the C User’s Journal disk #236 (Highly Portable Utilites). I only had to make a few minor changes to port it to the QL. The biggest change being uncommenting the #define NO_STRING_H. I have tried the program out with two short test files. Below is the two files and Sinclair QL
Herb Schaaf's Small C Programs Editor’s Note – Herb Schaaf has sent me a couple of Small C programs via e-mail. He did not include an article about the two programs, so I am just presenting them as is. One is an update of my previous find_c. Be aware that Herb adds a number of bells and whistles in his Sinclair QL
Real Windows for SuperBasic The QUANTA library has a number of routines that will allow real non-destructive windows in SuperBasic. Since I started working with C, I wanted the same feature written to used with both C compilers. Before going straight into C, I decided to test my algorithm in SuperBasic. SuperBasic is far easier to do developmental testing Sinclair QL
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