| BEEP BEEP Yeah!: The SuperBASIC BEEP Command | A parameter-by-parameter explanation of the Sinclair QL's SuperBASIC BEEP command: duration, pitch_a, pitch_b, grad_x, grad_y, wrap, fuzz and random, with their ranges, a worked example of how the pitch steps between two values, and a diagram of the wrap effect. A table gives BEEP settings for sound effects such as a death ray, general alarm, racing car, French police siren, alarm clock and laser. | Sinclair QL |
| DLO_BAS | DLO_BAS ("disk label organizer"), a SuperBASIC program that reads a floppy disk's directory, sorts the file names alphabetically and prints a compact disk label on an Epson-compatible printer in elite, compressed and superscript mode. The article explains the printer control codes, how to adapt the program for microdrives, and how to run it; the sort and qsort procedures came from Sinclair QL World. A sample label and the full listing are included. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Letters (INPUT<->OUTPUT) | Jean-Claude Touzin writes about the North American QL's JSU ROM, which suits North American TVs but is incompatible with many programs (Sign Designer, CADPAK, GraphiQL, Front Page Extra). He describes replacing both ROMs with a single JS ROM from Sharp's, which also lowers power consumption, and gives a scaling factor for the x coordinates of graphics commands to move programs between JSU and JS ROMs. The editor replies that the replacement he saw at Gagnon Electronique came from Curry Computer and combined the JS ROM with Super Toolkit II on a CMOS 27C512 EPROM. | Sinclair QL |
| REMark: The Second Issue | Réal Gagnon presents the second issue of QL_DOC, which he describes as the only French-language newsletter in North America devoted solely to the Sinclair QL, and admits that writing in French limits its reach outside Québec. This issue covers the SuperBASIC BEEP command, the organisation of the QL's screen memory, and a program for printing disk labels. | Sinclair QL |
| Special Effects | A short SuperBASIC demonstration of the QL's RECOL command: in MODE 8 it opens a window with a message, then repeatedly cycles the window's border and recolours all the window's colours to one colour, stepping up and back down through the palette; a sound-effect BEEP line is left commented out. No explanatory text accompanies the listing. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Sinclair QL Screen | An explanation of how the Sinclair QL's 32K screen memory is organised: where it starts and ends, how to save a screen with SBYTES, and how each 16-bit word encodes 8 pixels in 512x256 four-colour mode or 4 pixels in 256x256 eight-colour mode, including the flash bit. Worked examples show how to build a word and test it with POKE_W, and two SuperBASIC functions, color_l and color_h, return the colour of a screen point like the TS2068/Spectrum POINT function. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
