The Sinclair QL Forum

Derek_Stewart wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:15 am SQLUG Newsletters No.236 - 275

I will get them scanned.

None of those are already on my site (I have a few lower numbered issues), so it would be nice to make those available!
Nice find, Derek.

Not been following this discussion too closely, so forgive me if this post is repetition or unhelpful.

If the Auto Integer FOR is the root of the problem, would using Qlib_Patch_Obj to turn off the AUTO setting in a compiled program achieve a similar result? This still wouldn't deal with programs ...

Instead of doing LINE #channel,TO x,y just use LINE #channel TO x,y

i.e. instead of both comma and TO, just use TO alone (one separator)

A Minerva ROM board for my spare QL from Chr$. Thanks Chris!

My Q68 takes the time via NTP, so no change necessary. :)

And my Gold and SuperGold Cards have long lost their batteries for danger of leaking, so they enjoy a live without time....

For systems which have battery backed clocks but not the luxury of connecting to such services, here's a little ...

I wonder who had the most QL clocks to change time today? I'll start with my four which have battery backed clocks:
QL+Gold Card
QL+QIMSI with RTC
Aurora+Super Gold Card (Minis-QL)
Q68

The battery on the Super Gold Card is more or less dead, so occasionally it "forgets" the date.

The original sources were on Quanta Library disc SP08, but were a couple of versions older than you have.

DBAS 2.11 on The Library disc SP62, 2.12 and 2.13 were on The Library disks P64 and P85. Don't know if they included sources, sorry.

Edit: sorry about the fat fingered typing on my phone first ...

Here is an extract from Simon Goodwin's QL ROM Bugs articles from QL World, explaining the shortcomings of WHEN that were known at the time he wrote the articles.

WHEN WILL IT WORK?

From the start, QL ROMs contained WHEN keywords to trap errors and monitor variable-values. At first they did ...

An Aurora plus Qubide interface just sold for 50 pounds.

And a Supergold Card for the same. I got that. :)

Congratulations. The Super Gold Card is a great add-on for QL. I have one in my Aurora system and apart from a flat RTC battery which no longer allows it to remember the time/date etc, I ...

Andrew, did you ever test MDxxx with your 14TB disks?

I did some tests a few weeks ago - up to 4 TB is ok, beyond 4TB the info is not correct, but at least is not crashing. I will test again today.


Well, there seems to be a bit of capacity in reserve, then :)

4TB... and that's just for ...