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Last Saturday, 2025-03-01, we had the Spanish QL Users Meeting 2025 at the Museum of Computer History .

https://badared.com/badaman/ql/galeria/photos/RU-MHC-2025/07-presentaciones.jpg

See the photo gallery of the event

We arrived on Friday to drop off the computers at the Museum, and from ...

Finally the Museum of Computer History opens its doors in Extremadura.

In this post (in spanish) I tell the story of the visit that a group of friends of the Museum made last Saturday, which includes a mini-photo gallery.

See entry: https://javguerra.github.io/blog/mhc/

See small photo gallery ...

Dear Dilwyn, thank you very much for your reply. It was a pleasure to read it, as was Tofro's reply.

Both projects sound promising, but now I can better see the effort that this idea requires. Perhaps the XorA proposal is the most suitable for novice users.

Regarding Q-Browse, until you can get ...

GINGE.gif & TOWER.gif


The use of amplitude modulated screens (dot diameter) will surely look better on higher resolution screens, unlike frequency modulated screens (dot spacing), which, even on low resolution screens, give apparently acceptable results.

I was thinking that there was still ...

XorA wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 5:17 pm For emulators Q-Emulator already has qlpak which is sort of what is asked for.

https://www.terdina.net/ql/software.html

Exactly. That's the idea, but extended to systems, not just the emulator. It seems that Q-emuLator is also the only one that supports that format.

It's complicated, but...

Surpassing expectations once again. Thanks Andrew. And thanks for the tests napsternds.

Tofro, thank you very much for your comments. I think they are very reasonable arguments.

¡Feliz año nuevo!

We are lucky to have a lot of QL software available online for download, but we have heterogeneous QL systems: BBQL, extended QL, emulators, graphical environments, distributions...

Sometimes it is a bit of a pain to download the programs and deal with their configuration, installation in the right ...

Kind of a random contest. I watched the video on the site and some entries are like 100+ characters, but because they tokenize things like PRINT (i.e. ala ZX81) they can claim it's much shorter (there was one that claimed 66). Or, some use substitute single or double characters for print (i.e. P ...