Articles written in French, such as the Québec Sinclair QL newsletter QL_DOC.
French language
Articles (94)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A New FORMAT FORMAT_BIN, a public-domain 68000 SuperBASIC extension by Réal Gagnon (November 1989) that redefines the dangerous FORMAT command: the medium name... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| A Short History of the Sinclair QL A brief history of the Sinclair QL from its January 1984 launch: the choice of the 68008 over the Z80... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Abaclav_exe ABACLAV_EXE, a small 68000 machine-code job for the QL that speeds up data entry in the Abacus spreadsheet: ALT plus... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Abacus Application: Sorting Files An alternative to DLO_BAS for listing a disk or microdrive directory in sorted columns, using Psion's Abacus spreadsheet. A short... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Abacus Applications: Adding Times and Printer Codes Two Abacus spreadsheet tips. The first adds up hours and minutes in separate columns with SUM and INT formulas, noting... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| ACT Special Edition (Review) S. Vandezande reviews Digital Precision's ACT (Adventure Creation Tool) Special Edition, an improved version of Shadow Games' APT. It describes... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| Big Letters: The ENLARGE Procedure A SuperBASIC procedure, ENLARGE, that draws enlarged text on the screen with BLOCK by reading the character patterns of the... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Bigprint_bas BIGPRINT, a SuperBASIC procedure that draws large letters on the QL screen by reading the character patterns from the system... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Biorhythms_bas BIORYTHMES_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by JC Touzin of La Sarre, Québec, that asks for a person's birth date and a... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| Blank the Screen A 68000 assembler program, BLANK_EXE, that blanks the QL's screen after about three minutes without a keypress, to keep a... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| Calendar Generator (Version 2) Jean-Claude Touzin presents a second version of his SuperBASIC calendar generator for the QL (JS ROM), first shown in SIN.... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| CIMENT_BAS Jean-Claude Touzin's CIMENT_BAS, a SuperBASIC concrete calculator for home renovation projects. Given rectangular or cylindrical sections in feet and a... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Clavier_exe: A Québécois Keyboard CLAVIER_EXE, a multitasking 68000 job by Réal Gagnon that makes French accents easy to type in Quill, typewriter-style: an apostrophe,... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| CPT_bas CPT_BAS, a SuperBASIC program by Jean-Claude Touzin that calculates the coefficient of heat loss (CPT) of a house from walls,... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| DLO_BAS DLO_BAS ("disk label organizer"), a SuperBASIC program that reads a floppy disk's directory, sorts the file names alphabetically and prints... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| ETAT_BIN: A SuperBASIC Extension ETAT_BIN by W. Lenerz, from the QLCF, adds a SuperBASIC function ETAT that tests whether a file exists before a... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Exploring FLP_ A guide to the lesser-documented commands of the Tony Tebby floppy-disk toolkit found on most QL disk interfaces (a limited... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| 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,... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| French-Speaking QL: French Characters with Quill How to print French accented characters from Quill. The article lists the ten TRANSLATEs for an Epson-compatible printer (switching to... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Front Page Extra A review of GAP Software's Front Page Extra, desktop publishing for an expanded QL (384K or more). It keeps two... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| Horloge_bas (Clock Setter) HORLOGE_BAS, a public-domain SuperBASIC utility by Réal Gagnon for setting the QL's internal clock. The date and time are adjusted... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Keyrcod & Keycod Two small SuperBASIC procedures for program development, by Bruno Gadrat of the French QLCF club: KEYRCOD shows the values returned... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| Letters (INPUT<->OUTPUT) Jean-Claude Touzin of La Sarre, Québec asks about Quanta deliveries, RGB TTL monitor signal levels, choosing 3.5" disk drives (NEC... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| Letters (INPUT<->OUTPUT) Jean-Claude Touzin of La Sarre asks for a list of QL publications, and the editor surveys them: Sinclair QL World,... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| Letters (INPUT<->OUTPUT) Jean-Claude Touzin passes on Peter Chambers' advice for running Front Page with Taskmaster (start it from SuperBASIC instead), notes that... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Letters (INPUT<->OUTPUT) Yves Gagnon proposes standard file-name extensions for QL programs (_BAS, _EXE, _BIN, _PIC/_SCR, _ASM, _DOC), and the editor adds the... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| 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,... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| MAJI_EXE: A Multitasking Utility MAJI_EXE by W. Lenerz, from the QLCF, is a small job that multitasks with Quill and shows "Maj.:" in Quill's... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Menu_bas MENU_BAS, a SuperBASIC function that gives a program a one-line menu bar: it takes an array of option names, an... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| New Programs A roundup of new commercial QL software with UK prices and supplier addresses: PDQL's BASIC C-Port (SuperBASIC to C), Text... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Offset_bas OFFSET_BAS, a SuperBASIC formatted-number procedure in the spirit of PRINT USING, by J.C. Touzin. Called with a channel, the number,... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Page Designer II A short review of Sector Software's Page Designer II, the desktop publishing program now used to produce QL_DOC. It needs... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Pretty_bas PRETTY_BAS, a SuperBASIC utility that rewrites a program file with its listing indented to show the structure of procedures, loops... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| Programming Languages A short survey of programming languages by W. Harmer, first published in the Ottawa-Hull user group's TS Bulletin and translated... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| Psion Xchange A short look at Psion Xchange for the QL, which joins rewritten, faster versions of Quill, Archive, Abacus and Easel... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| QL + CP/M = Success A long review and how-to for Digital Precision's Success, a CP/M 2.2 emulator that translates Z80 code for the QL's... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| QL Books Short reviews of five books about the QL: Laurent Besle's Au coeur du QL (Eyrolles), an excellent French guide to... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| QL Resources: Reader Survey At a reader's request, QL_DOC launches a survey of its readers to find the typical QL configuration and the most-used... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| QL User Profiles Answers to the QL_DOC reader questionnaire from two active QL users. Pierre Gaudet of Québec, a teacher, describes his 640K... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| QL_DOC Software: Public Domain Library QL_DOC's public-domain software library, as of July 1988. Programs are sent in five groups for $3 postage each on the... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| QL_DOC Software: Public Domain List No. 1 The first list (March 1988) of public domain QL software offered to readers by QL_DOC for postage only, at $2... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| QL_DOC Software: Public Domain List No. 2 The second list (May 1988) of public domain QL software that QL_DOC distributes to readers for $2 postage per group... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| 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,... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| REMark: A Full Issue The editor introduces an issue covering the disk interface's lesser-known commands, French characters with Quill, and books about the QL.... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| REMark: A Late Issue The editor apologises for the late issue: the disk holding all its texts failed and, having no backup, he had... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| REMark: Looking Ahead to 1989 Réal Gagnon's outlook for 1989: PC compatibles strengthening their hold (the Amstrad PC-200), trouble ahead for Atari, the Amiga keeping... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| 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,... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| REMark: Switching to Page Designer II The editorial for the first QL_DOC of 1989 announces that the newsletter has dropped Front Page in favour of Sector... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| REMark: The First Issue Réal Gagnon introduces the first issue of QL_DOC, a French-language newsletter devoted entirely to the Sinclair QL. It is produced... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| REMark: The Z88 in the Press, and a Public Domain Library The editor notes that Clive Sinclair's Z88 is being reviewed in Science & Vie Micro, Computer Shopper (by Stan Veit)... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| REMark: Three Years of Newsletters Réal Gagnon marks the third anniversary of his first newsletter, SIN, begun in August 1985 on a TS2068 with Tasword... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| REMark: Why the QL? The editor answers the "why not a PC?" soul-searching in American Sinclair newsletters: it is simply fun, and he compares... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Renaming a Floppy Disk DISKreNAME, a short SuperBASIC program by Réal Gagnon that changes the name of an already formatted QL floppy disk without... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| Sinclair News News items: version 2 of Ant Computing's IBM PC emulator for the QL (multitasking, MDA and CGA, optional Q-Jump mouse... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| Sinclair News News items: the International QL Day held in Hasselt, Belgium, with over 350 visitors; the Thor XVI QL compatible, now... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| Sinclair News News items: a 3-inch disk drive for the Z88 and a rumoured cheap, light PC compatible from Cambridge; Miles Gordon... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| Sinclair News News items: the May/June 1988 Time Designs, devoted to Sinclair user groups and dealers in the USA and Canada, mentions... | QL_DOC | October-November 1988 | |
| Sinclair News News items: Sinclair's Z88 laptop shown at COMDEX (Z80, OZ operating system, PipeDream, BBC BASIC, 8-line LCD, about $400 US);... | QL_DOC | January 1988 | |
| Sinclair News News items: QL Report's mention of Archive version 2.38, which allows a 64K index file for the ORDER command; a... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| Sinclair News News items: Tony Tebby's plan for a ROM version of QDOS for the Atari ST, replacing TOS and turning the... | QL_DOC | December 1989-January 1990 | |
| Sinclair News News items: QLusa, a new US national QL newsletter (bimonthly, $15 US a year); two US regional Sinclair shows in... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | August-September 1989 | |
| Sinclair News News items: the US magazine Update now covers the QL regularly (about 50 pages, half QL and half 2068, $15... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Sinclair News News items: a review of the Z88 in the April 1988 issue of PICO magazine, with Sharp's Inc.'s US price... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Sinclair News News items: the Voyager II probe's Neptune encounter in August 1989, built with 1970s technology and a 30K on-board computer... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| Sinclair QL Peripherals A buyer's guide to standard peripherals for the Sinclair QL, with typical 1988 prices: TV, composite and RGB monitors (and... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| Software Review: QATS A review of QATS from COPE (Gordon Henson), a keyboard-driven program launcher and file utility, translated and adapted by Pierre... | QL_DOC | December 1988-January 1989 | |
| Software: 4MATTER, QFLASH and QEP III Short reviews of three QL products. Zitasoft's 4MATTER makes backups of copy-protected key microdrives (the reviewer moved Psion's QDraw to... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| Special Effects A short SuperBASIC demonstration of the QL's RECOL command: in MODE 8 it opens a window with a message, then... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| Speed_bas SPEED_BAS, a short SuperBASIC test showing why a QL with memory expansion runs programs faster: it POKEs a small machine-code... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| SpeedScreen A hands-on look at Creative Codeworks' SPEEDSCREEN, which speeds up the QL's screen output. It describes the configurator for choosing... | QL_DOC | February-March 1989 | |
| SuperBASIC Tips & Tricks A collection of SuperBASIC tips for the Sinclair QL: detecting monitor or TV mode with PEEK 163890 after a reset,... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| Telephone Dialer Yves Gagnon describes a simple circuit, plugged into the QL's NET 1 socket, that lets the computer pulse-dial telephone numbers... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| The Little Secrets of Archive A complete list of the undocumented control codes (CHR 0 to 31) in Psion's Archive database for the Sinclair QL,... | QL_DOC | June-July 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | April-May 1989 | |
| The QL’s RGB Output Pierre Goudet recounts his struggle to connect his QL to a colour monitor: a Radio Shack CM-4 failed, and a... | QL_DOC | April-May 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | February-March 1988 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| 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:... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| Tips and Tricks Two SuperBASIC tips taken from QL Clef: reading DATA in a REPeat loop until EOF, so no counter is needed,... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 | |
| Tips and Tricks: Easel, Abacus and the QL Screen Three tips: two undocumented key combinations in the Easel graphics program (SHIFT F3 clears the command lines to free the... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| 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... | QL_DOC | June-July 1989 | |
| What’s New? Short product news: Digital Precision's Lightning Special Edition, up to 30% faster than the original and supplied on ROM or... | QL_DOC | October-November 1989 | |
| What’s New?! New QL products: Digital Precision's Lightning, which speeds up QDOS text, graphics and maths routines (compared with Speedscreen); Sector Software's... | QL_DOC | August-September 1988 |