| CPT_bas | CPT_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by Jean-Claude Touzin that calculates the coefficient of heat loss (CPT) of a house from walls, ceiling, doors, windows, foundation and air infiltration, and estimates yearly heating costs by electricity, natural gas, oil, coal and wood. The author explains the importance of accurate input, suggests testing it against an existing house's bills, and notes that sample data can be loaded from DATA lines (option 5 then 3), that it uses a function version of the offset routine, and that it was written on a JS ROM. The roughly 300-line listing follows. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Keyrcod & Keycod | Two small SuperBASIC procedures for program development, by Bruno Gadrat of the French QLCF club: KEYRCOD shows the values returned by KEYROW(0) to KEYROW(7) as keys are pressed, and KEYCOD shows the character and code of each key pressed. They are meant to be merged into a program and called by name; CTRL + space leaves them. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Psion Xchange | A short look at Psion Xchange for the QL, which joins rewritten, faster versions of Quill, Archive, Abacus and Easel under one module with quick switching and the TSL task-sequencing language. It lists the new features (Quill's EXTRACT and keyboard-macro glossary, protected cells, passwords and TAB entry in Abacus, USR() machine-code calls in Archive, 3D graphs in Easel), notes that it needs memory expansion and disk drives and seems to require Toolkit II and QFlash in memory, and regrets the lack of documentation. | Sinclair QL |
| Quiz: Are You a QL Expert? | An eight-question multiple-choice quiz on QL trivia: what "QL" stands for, the basic machine's total memory, who Jan Jones is, the latest official version of Psion Archive, the link between Samsung and Sinclair, the QL's second processor, the QL's first Canadian distributor and its original Canadian list price. The answers are printed upside down. | Sinclair QL |
| REMark: A Late Issue | The editor apologises for the late issue: the disk holding all its texts failed and, having no backup, he had to retype everything. He outlines the contents (QL networking, J.C. Touzin's SuperBASIC program for the coefficient of heat loss of a house, and a look at Psion Xchange) and offers readers the French versions of the Psion programs for the cost of media and $3 postage. | Sinclair QL |
| Sinclair News | News items: version 2 of Ant Computing's IBM PC emulator for the QL (multitasking, MDA and CGA, optional Q-Jump mouse support); Digital Precision's MS-DOS emulator The Solution in "Vanilla" and "Chocolate" (with MS-DOS 4.0) versions; Text 87 version 2 from Software87; a review of the Z88 in the American magazine Compute! (March 1989); and a QL hard-disk controller mentioned in Quanta at £185. | Sinclair QL |
| The QL Network Exists! I've Seen It... | An introduction to networking QLs through their built-in NET ports with Tony Tebby's Toolkit II. After a short editor's note on keeping a spare QL, the article (adapted from J. L. Dianoux of the French QLCF club) explains station numbers, the FSERVE file-server job, NFS_USE to redirect microdrive names to another machine's floppies, sharing printers and screens, using Quill and other Psion programs over the network, and giving FSERVE low priority; the network is slow next to Ethernet but adequate. | Sinclair QL |
