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

vanpeebles wrote: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.

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

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

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?

radastan wrote:

RWAP wrote: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

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

Someone should tell him, that it is now freeware.

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)...

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

RWAP wrote: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)...

Possibly - but send it again