The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi guys, please, exists somewhere such history? what was original QL ROM and what was later added (as TK2 now almost mandatory? mine UK BBQL still is without better ROM...)
I already understood that specifically TK2 is considered a MUST HAVE, but are there other similar extensions? how alternative ROMs fall into that history? expecting TK2 is in Minerva or so? what are other extensions which were developed but not so much fundamental and why? is there some "base load" state of ROM? is it Minerva or other? I will probably seek in selling section here the alternative ROM and that cool alt-MDV based on pico and may be some RAM, but ultimate for me seems to be that QIMSI Gold (with PC kbd known for me, maybe ideally configurable? - aka drivers?? and some LCD panel - so out of BBQL), although its not yet considering any linkage to outside world - at least some paralel/serial port would by nice...

...here I can only offer my 7xbus (16bit MIPI DBI-B + SPI DBI-C, 16bit IDE - 2x15pin, 2mm pitch) spec - not used anywhere still too, but planning to use it for retro CPU testing with modern peripherals - but this is not OT

So, I am sure somewhere such comprehensive history is described in some compact form, or it isnt??

thanks
Petr

here I tried to ask for the thing, not much success, but at least basic things are noted, but guys I dont know if this is all true
https://chatgpt.com/share/67316b46-60ec ... c87932e8e3

Regards,
Petr

There were a number of roms. Check Dilwyn's site for a full list. I think the most common were JS (UK) and JSU (US). TK2 was a common extension that almost everyone used. There were a lot of others. The Pointer Enviroment is one. QMENU is another. ENV for environmental variables. PATH is one that I use for implementing something like DOS paths. DJTK is another toolkit. Both compilers, QLiberator and Turbo had their own (TTK was the turbo toolkit). IIRC, Qlib allowed you to compile SB procedures into toolkits.

I don't see these as part of SuperBASIC, as any SB procedure or function is added to the name table, just like a toolkit.

Tim