| D.I.Y. Keyboard |
Since on interest had been expressed in a lower priced replacement keyboard for the QL, I determined to attempt to build one. The following will relate my experience. |
Sinclair QL |
| Desktop Helpful Hints |
We are very much indebted to Joe Morris for his simple but overlooked advice on making it easier to import QUILL documents into DESKTOP PUBLISHER. All you have to do is to run your”install_bas” program from QUILL and set up a printer driver that only has a carriage return, not a carriage return and a |
Sinclair QL |
| Eidersoft Troubles? |
When we received a recent order from Digital Precision, Freddy Vacha had scribbled on the bottom of the invoice, “Friendly tip-Eidersoft in trouble.” Eidersoft was one of the first companies to support the QL and has produced some excellent QL software and hardware- I.C.E., Aspell, Karate, ICICLE, their Mouse System, and were listed as the |
Sinclair QL |
| Other News |
In the news department, we keep hearing rumours that Amstrad “may” want to do something with the QL but officially they say “no decision has been made.’ |
Sinclair QL |
| QL News |
This is our second Report using Digital Precision’s DESKTOP PUBLISHER (DP) only this time we are actually writing the Report from within DP with the help of SPELLBOUND. The two so far seem to work find together. As we have said before, we dislike the fact that DP will not word-wrap but that is the |
Sinclair QL |
| RLE and Desktop |
RLE stands for Run-time encoded grophics and we first did an article on it in an issue of QLR last year. We printed a listing by Norm Lehfeldt which enabled you to download pictures from Compuserve (they have a whole section for screen pictures of all types) onto your monitor. With one of many of |
Sinclair QL |
| There's Bugs in My SuperBasic Part One |
Digital Precision has a sheet with the above-mentioned name that lists most known bugs and what the “fix” is for each, if any. We will list some of them in this Report and finish the list either next month or the month after. We hope it proves beneficial. |
Sinclair QL |
| There's Bugs in My SuperBasic Part Two |
This is the second and final part in a listing we received from Digital Precision that we started in last month’s issue. We hope you find it useful. |
Sinclair QL |
| Zitasoft Programs |
Zitasoft has some new titles out we want to draw your attention to. A lot of you have heard of 4MATTER ond LOCKSMITHE. LOCKSMITHE will allow you to make on identical copy of practically any microdrive original cartridge. You would, in a lot of cases, still need to first make a backup and have an |
Sinclair QL |
