| Archive English/French Dictionary | A two-page table pairing the English command and function names of Psion Archive with their equivalents in the French version of Archive (available from QL_DOC), credited in the editorial to the French QLCF club. It ends by explaining how to move programs between the two versions by saving them as objects (SAVE OBJECT / SAUVE OBJET) and loading or running them in the other version. | Sinclair QL |
| French Character Codes of the Sinclair QL and Other Computers | A reference table giving the character codes of the French accented letters (é, è, ê, à, â, î, ô, ù, û, ç) on the Sinclair QL, the IBM PC, the Macintosh, the TRS-80 Model 100 and in the ASCII/ACNOR (Canadian national) set. | Sinclair QL |
| Letters (Le courrier): The DEF_TMP "Virus" | A reader from Ottawa reports a suspected virus, a file called DEF_TMP that appears on microdrive cartridges bought from Sharp's, grows and spreads, and complains about Sharp's after-sales service. The editor replies that DEF_TMP is simply Quill's temporary overflow file on low-memory QLs, that the QL's ROM-based operating system makes it hard for viruses to take hold, and explains how to recover lost text from a DEF_TMP file after a crash by copying it to a _doc file and merging it in Quill. | Sinclair QL |
| REMark: Summer Issue | The editorial outlines the issue: a test of Digital Precision's MS-DOS emulator The Solution (working but slow), an English-French command dictionary for the French version of Archive from the QLCF, and an introduction to the TSL language of Psion Xchange; the French Psion programs and Xchange remain available from QL_DOC. The next issue is due in early September, and an erratum corrects answer 2 of the issue 9 quiz to "B". | Sinclair QL |
| Sinclair News | News items: a 3-inch disk drive for the Z88 and a rumoured cheap, light PC compatible from Cambridge; Miles Gordon Technology's SAM, a Spectrum-compatible computer (from ZX Appeal); the apparent end of SyncWare News/Quantum Levels, Time Designs still running late and T/S Update now the leading American magazine; and new products: the Transformer PC emulator from Schön, PDQL's PDQC C compiler, a French Text 87 v2, Flashback Special Edition from Sector Software and Miracle Systems' 32 MB hard disk at £399. | Sinclair QL |
| Task Sequencing Language for Psion Xchange | A French translation and adaptation of Psion's documentation for TSL (Task Sequencing Language), the keystroke-macro language of Psion Xchange, the integrated successor to Quill, Archive, Abacus and Easel. It lists the brace codes for special keys, the & commands for messages, labels, jumps, key tests and pauses, explains how to write a TSL program in Quill and export it as a _tsl file, walks through a six-line example that creates an Easel task and draws a 3D graph, and notes Xchange's memory and disk requirements. | Sinclair QL |
| The Solution: The Final Solution? | A review of Digital Precision's The Solution, which turns an expanded QL with a disk drive into an MS-DOS PC compatible. Programs such as Lotus 1-2-3, dBase III+ and WordPerfect run, but very slowly (a few percent of an XT's speed), so graphics games are impractical while text editors are bearable. It covers the manual (no MS-DOS introduction), setup with CONFIGURE, drive and port assignment, CGA support, keyboard mapping, multitasking, the need to supply MS-DOS (or buy the Chocolate version), and the bundled XOVER QDOS/MS-DOS disk-transfer utility, noting the free public-domain QLIBM available from QL_DOC. | Sinclair QL |
| Tip: 32 Lines per Screen | François Lanciault explains how to get 32 text lines on a QL with the JSU (American) ROM in monitor mode: poking 255 into the system variable SV.TVMOD at 163890 makes the QL use its 8-pixel TV-mode characters, CSIZE is set, and the variable is reset to 0. A short SuperBASIC example is given; the trick only works in SuperBASIC, and NEW or MODE resets it. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Tips and Tricks: Quill Default Settings Template | A Quill tip: since Quill cannot change its default footer and margin settings permanently, and saves those settings with each document, one can save an empty document with the preferred settings (for example FOOTER NONE, UPPER MARGIN=0) as "vide_doc" and load it as a template when starting a new letter. | Sinclair QL |
| Tips and Tricks: Saving Part of a Quill Document | A Quill tip: although Quill has no command to save only part of a document, a passage can be isolated with page breaks and "printed" to a file on the data drive (with the program cartridge removed so PRINTER_DAT is not used), then imported back into Quill or another document. It notes that the new Quill in Psion Xchange does this directly with EXTRACT. | Sinclair QL |
