| Biorhythms_bas | BIORYTHMES_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by JC Touzin of La Sarre, Québec, that asks for a person's birth date and a month and year, then plots the physical, emotional, intellectual and intuition biorhythm curves for that month in four screen windows. It needs a graphics screen-dump routine to print the result, such as GPRINT_PRT from the Easel microdrive, loaded at line 100. A sample screen and the full listing are given. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| DLO_BAS Version 0.6 | Version 0.6 of DLO_BAS (Disk Label Organizer), Réal Gagnon's public-domain SuperBASIC program that reads a floppy or microdrive directory, sorts it alphabetically (with a quicksort procedure credited to Sinclair QL World) and shows or prints it in six columns, with an optional title. Printing can be in very small (superscript compressed) letters for disk labels, compressed for disk sleeves, or normal 80-column. Bugs from the first version are fixed and the user interface is new. A sample screen and the full listing are given. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Lottery | LOTERIE_BAS, a short SuperBASIC program by Réal Gagnon that generates nine random number combinations for Loto-Québec's Lotto 6/49 and Select 42 draws. The article explains its LOTTO, TROUVE_UNE_COMBINE and BUBBLE_SORT procedures, gives Loto-Québec's table of winning odds, and adds a sidebar on the history and finances of lotteries in Québec. The full listing follows. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Tips and Tricks | Two short tips: how to read the four-digit manufacturing date code stamped on a microdrive cartridge (day of the year plus the last digit of the year), and how a Seikosha SP1000 printer can be turned into a Sinclair QL Printer by fitting a copy of the QL Printer's ROM on a 27128 EPROM and setting all its DIP switches off. A closing note points to BYTE's history of MS-DOS, whose first version was also called QDOS. | Sinclair QL |
| REMark: Programs by Mail | The editor offers this issue's three BASIC programs on the reader's own medium for $1, to save typing them in, and asks readers to report bugs, noting a report that DLO_BAS may not work on Seikosha/QL printers. He also points out that Sharp is selling QLs for $99 US for anyone wanting a backup machine. | Sinclair QL |
| Sinclair News | News items: Sector Software's new replacement ROM "MGUK" by Richard Alexander, which fixes bugs in the JM/JS/MG ROMs and adds commands such as TRACE (24 pounds), and its OVERDRIVE printer utility for Quill (16 pounds); British maker Ablex ending production of microdrive cartridges by the end of 1989 because demand is falling and BASF is stopping the tape; and the election of the executive committee of the Sinclair North America User Group (SNUG), which covers all Sinclair machines from the ZX81 to the QL. | Sinclair QL |
