QL Commercial Software Preservation

[vanpeebles]

I keep meaning to buy CP/M for my plus +3 but I've not got round to it yet. Welcome to the forum!

[sdmicro]

I keep meaning to buy CP/M for my plus +3 but I've not got round to it yet. Welcome to the forum!

Thanks very much. I've been meaning to post in the forum for some time.

Do you have a real +3 or the emulator? if the latter I can email you the disc image, don't worry about the fiver! The +3 was a real humdinger, a Spectrum with an Amstrad 3" drive bolted on. When I bought LocoScript I'd forgotten that they had produced CP/M and Mallard BASIC for the machine until I came across the master disc and paperwork. This became one of the "assets" I'd acquired. I have no idea how much software was converted to run under 40 columns on the +3, I suspect not much but it was an interesting diversion.

Steve.

[vanpeebles]

A real one I'll get round to ordering one at some point. I keep meaning to try CP/M on the QL too!

[1024MAK]

Ahh now, there is an Acorn Electron expansion that is known as a plus 3 as well. Add some extra bits on top of this (a Z80 co-processor) and in theory , the Electron can run CP/M

I have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 and I think I have also got the CP/M disk somewhere, but have not tried it out yet.

The Spectrum officially has 32 columns , but if you have 5 bit (plus a one pixel space) characters can do 42 columns. Or with 3 bit (+1) wide characters, you get barely readable 64 columns.

Mark

[RWAP]

I have been doing a little more preservation this morning - I seem to have two versions of Better Basic (a v1.19 and a v2.01) both on microdrive cartridge - need to check which is preserved (if either) - unfortunately the v2.01 cartridge was corrupt.

I also came across a little oddity - it has a label on it

"ESLEK SYSTEMS CAR DATA ONE - OCT 1987"

Unfortunately, the data is corrupt, but it does not look like any form of database I have ever come across on the QL - I assume there was a proprietary database program which accesses the data...

The outer sleeve for the cartridge has another label on (although this may not be relevant):
"PHILIP HOPKINS, xx BATEMAN ROAD, LOUGHBOROUGH... and a phone number"

I wonder if this is who wrote the program - does anyone recognise the name?

[QLvsJAGUAR]

There was of course the 3D elite demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoTSGvWf78

The Charvel Soft 3D and Elite Demos (5) by Dave Halls Barker, Robert James Nash and Mark Handley are on “QL IS 30 2014 - THE DISTRIBUTION” http://sinclairql.net/repository.html#TheDistribution. Download, try out (under Qemulator or on a real QL) and enjoy! QL forever, Urs

[Ralf R.]

David Batty is still selling DP's "Desktop Publisher" for GP 10 .

Someone should tell him, that it is now freeware.

[RWAP]

Some more recent successes here have been Space Paranoids written by Paul Tuck, Star Guard and Glactic Invaders published by Shadow Games; and the recovery of J.A.M v2.7 (is there an even later version out there)...

[Ralf R.]

Haven't I send my version of J.A.M. to you? I do not know the version number.

Some more recent successes here have been Space Paranoids written by Paul Tuck, Star Guard and Glactic Invaders published by Shadow Games; and the recovery of J.A.M v2.7 (is there an even later version out there)...

[RWAP]

Possibly - but send it again