Thank you John. This will be a very useful document for others trying to
achieve what you did, hopefully without the trial and error and frustration
you experienced.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you say about QemuLator. My main system is
a QPC2 emulator which I use for day to day QL work, although I also have a
QemuLator on this PC for when I want to run software which won't run on
QPC2, or when I need to quickly test something on an original Sinclair ROM
version.
The Toolkit II you mentioned is a rom of extensions for the QL. It adds a
lot of useful new and revised keywords to the QL basic and improves the
network of a Sinclair QL. Once you've used a system with Toolkit 2, it's
awkward going back to a 'bare' QL system without it. It was included in many
floppy disk interface systems over the years. These days you can even
install it as a back eprom image in QemuLator. If you haven't got Toolkit II
on your system, you can get a copy for emulators from my website.
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Dilwyn Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC
Here is what I did; I wrote it so that hopefully even someone in my
situation (i.e. pretty clueless on QL tech aspects) would be able to get
results. I am not a regular QL user; but I am very fond of my QL, and
occasionally fire it up to remember how things were. It was the first
*real* computer I ever owned.
Just as a reminder, I have a QL that I haven't used since the late
eighties
when I was a teenager. It is a plain QL with no fancy bits and pieces
that
have come along since, like floppy drives, toolkit II's (whatever that
is),
gold cards, etc. I also have about thirty microdrives with old files I'd
created as well as some commercial games with considerable sentimental
value
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