QL Service List ZX83 ________________ _______________ ________________ /_______________/\ /_______________\ /\_______________\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \ ||||||||||||||||| / ///////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||||||||||||||| / ///////////////// \\\\ \ ||||/___________\ / ////___________\ \\\\ \ ||||||||||||||||| / ///////////////// \\\\ \____________ ||||||||||||||||| _\///////////////// \\\\/____________/\ /-----------\|||| /\____________\//// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \ ||||||||||||||||| / ///////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||||||||||||||| \///////////////// comp.sys.sinclair service list for the Sinclair QL This list has last been modified at 1998-Jan-05 1 Preface Dear reader, this is the third edition of the service list for the Sinclair QL computer. The hypertext version of this list is much easier to handle than the second edition. Due to historical reasons the entries aren't ordered very well. Sometimes the first name of a person has been taken as sorting field, sometimes the second name. Furthermore some of the vendors may be in the wrong section (e.g. in the hardware part instead of the software part). You've been warned. PLEASE! someone check some or all of the entries! Much of them are outdated and I lack the means to check them all personally! Entries marked with (?) or similar are very likely to be wrong. Be aware that other entries may be incorrect too! If there's someone out there who is willing to help me converting telephone numbers from national to international format please contact me. Telephone numbers are in international or local format. I still don't know how to convert local numbers to international format. ATTENTION: The phone numbers have changed in the UK. Older numbers will not be correct anymore. If you are looking for a list that covers the availability of QL resources on the internet more, please have a look at the QL Internet Resource list from Richard Zidlicky. It is posted regularly to the newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair and maus.sys.ql.int. This Service list as well as the QL FAQ is available via World Wide Web at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~roklein/ql Notes: Only larger dealers have Fax, often on the same number. Some numbers no longer active in the QL world are give for reference and support queries. If you have any ideas, suggestions, criticism please mail me at RoKlein@Goofy.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE. Well, now relax and enjoy. Robert NEWS *** NEWS *** NEWS IQLR has closed with vol5 iss6 (i.e. march 1996) due to a serious illness of its editor, Bob Dyl sr. A new magazine will take its place, QL Today. It is published by Jochen Merz Software, Germany in cooperation with Miracle Systems Limited, UK and edited by Dilwyn Jones, UK. Watch comp.sys.sinclair and your snail mailbox for further information. Addresses in the magazine part. QL world has closed with vol3 iss5 (i.e. may 1994). If you think you have a claim concerning undelivered subscriptions, write to Arcwind at the following address: Arcwind Ltd The Blue Barn, Tew Lane Wootton, Woodstock Oxon. OX7 1HA Great Britain 2 Contents 1 Preface and News 2 Contents 3 Warranty and miscellaneous information 4 Hardware dealers 5 Services 6 Software dealers 7 Club adresses 8 Magazines 9 QL Internet Resources 9.1 ftp sites 9.2 UseNet News 3 Warranty information In no circumstances will the maintainer of this list be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damage or loss including but not limited to loss of use, stored data, profit or contracts which may arise from any error, defect or failure of the QL Service List or the information supplied with it. The list maintainer has a policy of constant development and improvement of this list. Therefore, the right is reserved to change the lists contents at any time and without notice. Each part of this list may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the written permission of the list maintainer. How to submit new material to the Service List Just drop me a mail at RoKlein@Goofy.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE. The Subject should at least contain the term QL. 4 Hardware dealers Care Electronics (?) 0923 / 672 102 - Tebby connection but no longer dealing directly CL Systems (?) 081 / 459 1351 - Real Time Digitizer Computer Technik (Juergen Falkenberg) (?) Parkstrasse 25 D-75223 Niefern-Oeschelbronn phone/fax: +49 - 7233 / 81515 (Germany) - Hard disk interface/systems, tower housings for QL systems. Dilwyn Jones Computing (defunct) 41 Bro Emrys Tal-y-Bont Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 3YT (Great Britain) phone/fax: +44 - 1248 / 354 023 - Process controller, power regulator, network prover. (closed in March 95) Ing. Buero Michael Klein Martinstrasse 23 D-64285 Darmstadt Germany - QL compatible computer (Primus). Miracle Systems Limited 20 Mow Barton Yate Bristol, BS17 5NF (United Kingdom) phone/fax +44 - 1454 / 883 602 - (Super) Gold Card expansion card; QXL/2 25 MHz hardware QL emulator for PC. Qubbesoft PD 38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree Essex CM7 5BU (Great Britain) phone: +44 - 1376 / 347 852 fax : +44 - 1376 / 331 267 email: 101634.776@compuserve.com - Miracle Trump Card, Expanderam, twin 3.5" disk drives. Sales and support. Qubide QL AT/IDE hard disk interface. QL Mini Tower Kit. 2nd user QL hardware and software. QPlane. AT/IDE hard disk drives. Soon: Aurora Graphics Card (QL motherboard replacement) W N Richardson (EEC Ltd.) 6 Ravensmead Chalfont-St.-Peter Buckinghamshire, SL9 0NB (United Kingdom) phone/fax: +44 - 1494 / 871 319 car phone: 0850 / 597 650 - Complete QL systems, monitors, keyboards and interfaces, disk drives and printers, peripherals. TF Services 29 Longfield Road TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG (United Kingdom) phone: +44 - 1442 / 828 254 Fax: +44 - 1442 / 828 255 email: tony@firshman.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk - Hermes IPC, Minerva ROM, keyboard membrane, repairs, spares, superHermes (fast ser3, kbd interface ...), superHermes LITE, QL RomDisq etc. 5 Services Adman Services (Dennis Briggs) (?) 0952 / 255 895 - Spares, repairs, support, peripherals. Joe Atkinson (?) 36 Ranelagh RD, London W5 5RJ - Roms, mdvs, spares, PD software. For QL products in the U.S., contact: FWD computing (former Mechanical Affinity) P.O. Box 17 Mexico, IN 46958 USA (317) 473 - 8031 Tuesday thru Saturday only, 6 to 9 pm fax: (317) 472 - 0783 7 pm thru 11 am email: fdavis@walnut.holli.com - Hardware, software, services, repair etc. Main US hardware and software supplier. Seacoast Computer Services (defunct ?) 15 Kilburn Court Newport RI 02840 (USA) phone/fax 401 / 849 3805 - IQLR magazine Suredata (?) 081 / 902 5218 - Repairs QL World (Readers' Services) (? -- F*@! 'em, I never got my money back!) 0993 / 811 181 (Ask for Fran) - Subscriptions, binders, recent backissues. Quanta Secretary: Roy Brereton 94, Teignmouth Road Clevedon, Avon BS21 8AJ Tel/Fax: 01275 871 917 - User group, support, library. Quanta Membership Secretary: Bill Newell 213 Manor Road Benfleet, Essex SS7 4JD Tel.: 01268 / 754 407 6 Software dealers Albin Hessler Software (?) Im Zeilfeld 25 D-72631 Aichtal phone: +49 - 7127 / 952 890 fax: +49 - 7127 / 952 898 - Cueshell, Easyptr, Disa (dist. by J. Merz) Athene Consults (?) 0705 / 511 439 ARK Distribution (?) 0983 / 79496 - Archivist, Master Spy, Spy. CGH Services (Richard Alexander) (?) 0559 / 384 574 (Closed 31 March 1993 - enquiries about past products only.) COWO Electronic (Switzerland) (?) c/o Urs Koenig Muensterstrasse 4 CH-6210 Sursee Switzerland 010 - 41 - 45 / 211 478 QTop, Atari QL emulator, Thor support. Deltasoft (?) 7 Tyrell Way, SToke Gifford, Bristol. - FlightDeck, Image D, AMD Airplan. Digital Precision (?) 222 The Avenue London, E4 9SE (United Kingdom) phone +44 - 81 / 527 5493 - Perfection, PC Conquerer, Lightning, Professional Publisher, Eye-Q, Solution, Spellchecker, The Editor, Media Manager, Professional Astrologer, QMaths, CPort, and others. They currently sell the "QL Collection" which is a collection of _all_ their programs for a price of 179 GBP. DJW Software (?) phone 0256 / 881701 - homebanker Dilwyn Jones Computing (DJC) (defunct) 41 Bro Emrys Tal-y-Bont Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 3YT (Great Briatin) phone/fax: +44 - 1248 / 354 023 - lots of software. (closed in March 95) Di-Ren Jelanda Wyndley Drive Sutton Coldfield B73 6EU (Great Britain) phone/fax: +44 - 121 / 355 3943 email: support@di-ren.demon.co.uk www: http://www.forthrt.com/~di-ren/homepage.html - Fleet Tactical Command, keyboard interface Amadeus token ring network system. Di-Ren also maintains an extensive amount of QL pages on their world wide web site. They're covering virtually every QL related internet address. Check it out. Ergon Developments (Davide Santachiara) (Italy) (?) c/o Davide Santachiara Via Emilio de Marchi 2 42100 Reggio Emilia (Italy) phone/fax: +39 - 522 / 70409 FIDOnet 2:335/21.11 - ZM-X ZX Spectrum emulator, Open World, other QL software. Grange Technology Limited (?) Rosebank, Stream Road Upton, Oxon, OX11 9JG United Kingdom Tel/Fax: +44 - 235 / 851818 - GT-Prolog/QL Joe Haftke (defunct ?) 7 Lansdown Road Sidcup, Kent DA14 4EF United Kingdom Tel.: +44 - 181 / 302 6154 Printmaster plus; Filemaster plus; Vision mixer plus; Home bills budget; Picturemaster plus; Remind me plus; JDir. (All at 15 GBP each; Upgrades 7 GBP + old Master disk) Jochen Merz Software (Germany) Im Stillen Winkel 12 D-47169 Duisburg (Germany) phone: +49 - 203 / 502 011 fax: +49 - 203 / 502 012 mailbox: +49 - 203 / 502 013 mailbox: +49 - 203 / 502 014 (orders from 10am to 8pm local time) - QL/Atari emulators, QSpread, File Finder, QPTR Pointer Environment Toolkit and other PE programs, QDesign 2, various games, and others. He also sells SMSQ/E as well as often needed hardware components, e.g. ZX8301, ZX8302, keyboard foils etc. Accepts Eurocheques, Eurocard, Visa, Access, Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club. Lear Data Systems (?) 6 Southview Green, Bentley, Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2DR - PCB-CAD. Liberation Software (Liberated Software ???) 081 / 546 7795 Ocean Computer Services (?) 061 / 740 9002 - Professional Poolster Pointer Products (?) 0258 / 455 117 - Pointer Environment programs. PM data Engja 4 N-4200 Sauda Norway Tel/Fax: +47 - 5278 3413 email: pmonstad@sn.no - Disk Mate 5 Progs (Van Auwera) (Belgium) Dr. Fr. Hemerijkslaan 13/1 2650 Egdem (Belgium) phone: +32 (0) 3 / 457 8488 Fax: =32 (0) 3 / 458 6207 email: joachim@club.innet.be WWW: http://www.club.innet.be/~year2827 - LineDesign, The Painter, The Clipart, DataDesign, Proforma, ProWesS PROGS Window Manager. Q Branch P.O. Box 7 Portslade East Sussex BN41 2ND (Great Britain) phone: +44 - 1273 / 386 030 fax: +44 - 1273 / 381 577 email: qbranch@qbranch.demon.co.uk They have almost everything there is concerning the QL. Qubbesoft PD 38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree Essex CM7 5BU (Great Britain) phone: +44 - 1376 / 347 852 fax: +44 - 1376 / 331 267 email: 101634.776@compuserve.com - QL Home Finance, Public Domain Software, see also hardware section. Quo Vadis Design (?) 57 Shaftesbury Road Romford, Essex, RM1 2QJ United Kingdom Tel.: +44 - 1708 / 755 759 email: 101366.3534@compuserve.com www: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/qcd Lots of QL Software including the full range from Albin Hessler and Ergon Development. SD Microsystems (?) 0462 / 422 897 - General Ledger, Small Traders' Pack/Invoicer and Stock Accounting. Other business software. SJPD Software Steve Johnson 36 Eldwick Street Burnley Lancashire, BB10 3DZ (United Kingdom) phone/fax: +44 (0) - 1282 701 767 email: SteveJohnson@compuserve com - Public Domain Software. Send formatted QL disk plus return postage for a free catalogue. Software 87 (?) 33 Savernake Road London, NW3 2JU (Great Britain) - Text87 Plus4, Publishers' Pack. Geoffrey Wicks (Just Words!) 28 Ravensdale Kingswood, Basildon Essex, SS16 5HU Tel.: +44 (0) 1268 / 281 826 Specialist software for writers and word lovers. Thesaurus, Style-Checker and Word Games Solver Wood and Wind Computing (?) Bill Cable RR3 Box 92 Cornish NH 03745 USA phone: (US) (603) 675 - 2218 WS Software (?) 0534 / 81392 7 Club adresses The following Club list is alphabetically ordered. I added only the contact adress. Austria: DER Computer Club c/o Peter Postl Stiegerg 5 5110 Wien Austria Belgium: Club Sinclair BruQsl c/o Jaques Tasset Aarlenstraat 104 1040 Brussels Belgium QL Club c/o Leon Thianche Rue Paul Wemaere 12-14 1150 Bruxelles Belgium France: QL Contact France c/o Jean-Louis Dianoux 22 Avenue Lenine 93230 Romainville France Germany: Sinclair QL User Club eV Please contact Jochen Merz for more information! Greece: QL Athens Club c/o Stathis Grigoriadis Tarsu 6-8 10440 Athens Greece Holland: Sin_QL_Air Nederlandse QL-gebruikers Groep Chairman (Voorzitter): ........... Jan Bredenbeek Bonifaciuslaan 16 1216 PS Hilversum Tel.: 035 - 6236 823 (Alleen tussen 19.00 en 22.30 uur) Secretary/Editor (Secretariaat): . Sjef v.d. Molengraaf Mullerweg 17 5624 JC Eindhoven Tel.: 040 - 2442 309 (Alleen tussen 20.00 en 23.00 uur) Treasurer (Penningmeester): ...... Frans v.d. Laar Kroezelstraat 10 5632 XM Eindhoven Tel.: 040 - 2426 318 magazine: Quasar Italy: QItaly Club c/o Roberto Orlandi Via Brescia 26 25039 Traveglianto (BS) Italy magazine: QItaly magazine Editor: Dr. Eros Forenzi Via Valeriana 44 23010 Berbenno (SO) Italy Tel. +39 - 342 / 590 450 Fax +39 - 342 / 590 451 Norway: Norwegian All Sinclair Assosiation (NASA) c/o P Monstad N-5580 Oelen Norway magazine: Sinclair Magazine Scotland: Scottish QL Users Group c/o Alan Pemberton 65 Lingerwood Road Newtongrange Midlothian EH22 4QQ Great Britain (they have a newsletter) Spain: Qliper c/o Marcos Cruz Acacias 44 (Monteclaro) E-28233 Pozuelo de Alarcon Spain magazine: Qliper Sweden: Svenska QL-Gruppen c/o Johan Boman Toftaasgatan 73 42147 Vastra Frolunda Sweden magazine: QL-Bladet Jamten-TCL (International QL echomail conferences) BBS +46 - 63 - 133 330 Michael Cronsten Radhusgatan 61E 83137 Ostersund Sweden Turkey: QL Club c/o Bul9ent Artuz Prof. Sitesi B/1 D/5 Etiler 80600 Istanbul Turkey UK: Quanta (UK) Membership Secretary c/o Bill Newell 213 Manor Road Benfleet Essex SS7 4JD Great Britain phone: (01268) 754 407 magazine: Quanta Editor: Colin Baskett 3 Stonor Green Watlington OX9 5PT Tel: 01491 614 293 Great Britain Please send your email submissions to Quanta magazine to Graham Underwood at 100121.3564@compuserve.com Ashstead sub-group c/o Derek Stewart 13 Beales Road Great Bookham Surrey KT23 4NA Great Britain Bristol sub-group c/o Roy Brereton 94 Teignmouth Road Clevedon Avon BS21 6DR Great Britain East Anglia c/o Geraint Jones 1 Bridgate Court Thetford IP24 3AJ Great Britain Essex sub-group c/o Dave Walker 22 Kempton's Mead Potters Bar Herts EM6 3HZ Great Britain London sub-group c/o Basil Lee 31 Fairdale Gardens London SW15 5JW phone: 0181 789 1976 or email Martin Wheatley at martinw@mail.bogo.co.uk c/o Jeremy Davis 6 Elmcroft Crescent Harrow Middx HA2 6HN Great Britain North-East c/o Derek Stewart 20 Emily Street Gateshead Great Britain Northern Ireland c/o Billy Turkington Fairy Hill Rostrevor Newry Co. Down BT34 3BB Great Britain Mid-Southern sub-group c/o Geoff Fish 44 Billing Avenue Wokingham Berks RG11 4JE Great Britain QL User Group (West Midlands) c/o Mike Bedford-White 16 Westfield Road Acocks Green Birmingham B27 7TL QL MUG (Merseyside) c/o G Reynolds 051 / 932 1484 (fortnightly meetings) Solent sub-group c/o Graham Evans 32 Reeves Way Lowford Bursledon Southampton Great Britain Tel.: 0701 / 403 350 USA: New England Sinclair QL User Group (NESQLUG) General meetings held near first Saturday of odd numbered months. Special meetings held near first Saturday of even numbered months. NESQLUG will exchange newsletters with any group supporting the QL. A software library is available to members. Director: Bill Cable ..... RR3 Box 92 Cornish NH 03745 USA email: cable@cyberportal.net Editor: Mike Jonas ..... 1654 Massachusetts Ave Apt #12 Cambridge MA 01821 USA Treasurer: Gary Norton .... 43 Richardson St. & membership Billerica MA 01821 USA email: gnortal@ziplink.net magazine: THE NESQLUG NEWS is published six times a year. Annual membership is USD 12 in North America and USD 20 in the rest of the world. 8 Magazines note: Sinclair QL World is dead. Their last issue is vol3iss5. note: IQLR is dead. Their last issue is vol5iss6. QL Today (published bimonthly) Contact Jochen Merz Software (German office and publisher) Im Stillen Winkel 12 D-47169 Duisburg Germany phone: +49 - 203 / 502 011 fax : +49 - 203 / 502 012 box 1: +49 - 203 / 502 013 box 2: +49 - 203 / 502 014 or Miracle Systems Limited (English office) 20 Mow Barton Yate, Bristol United Kingdom BS17 5NF IQLR (International QL Report) (appears every two months) (defunct, address only for reference) P.O. Box 3991 Newport RI 02840 USA Tel/Fax: +1 401 / 849 3805 or IQLR 23 Ben Culey Drive Thetford IP24 1QJ United Kingdom Tel.: +44 842 / 762 406 email: iqlr@nccnet.com QReview (quarterly) c/o Bruce Nicholls 57 Shaftesbury Road Romford Essex RM1 2QJ United Kingdom phone: (01708) 755 759 (now merged into IQLR) QL Hacker's Journal c/o Tim Swenson 5615 Botkins Road Huber Heights, OH 45424 USA (513) 233 - 2178 email: swensotc@ss1.sews.wpafb.af.mil www: http://www.serve.com/swensont The QL Hacker's Journal (QHJ) is published by Tim Swenson as a service to the QL Community. The QHJ is freely distributable. Past issues are available on disk, via e-mail, or via the Anon-FTP server, garbo.uwasa.fi. The QHJ is always on the look out for article submissions. Update! magazine P.O. box 17 Mexico, IN 46958 USA - covers QL, Spectrum, TS 2068, ZX81 and Cambridge Z88 Also there is a disc-based QL newsletter that has been running for over 6 years now. Anyone interested should send a blank formatted 31/2" disc + a padded bag and if possible return postage to Mike Kennealy 6 Barnaby Road Poynton Cheshire SK12 1LR England phone: 01625 878 207 9 QL Network and BBS Resources 9.1 Internet ftp sites ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ql Has only stuff in ASCII text, e.g. QHJ backissues, some BASIC programs, some pascal programs. ftp://maya.dei.unipd.it/pub/sinclair_QL Here you can find ca 8MB of QL programs (zoo'd and zip'd binaries). For example C68, XLisp, Scheme, Rogue, some packers etc. Some of the packers are not compressed, you have to restore their fileheader on the QL before you can use them. You can restore the fileheader with the follling commands: a=alchp(length of program) lbytes program sexec program,a,length of program, dataspace where 'dataspace' should be enough for the program; I recommend to use 64K, most programs are well with this value. (I don't think this will work on a standard QL, you will need a memory expansion). This site is not longer existing. Please look at the mirror sites. ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/sinclair This site mirrors both maya and garbo. ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair This site is dedicated to all Sinclair Computers, preferably to the Spectrum, but there's also some QL stuff. Has a mirror of maya too. 9.2 World Wide Web I apologize for this section being uncomplete. However I'm pretty sure that you will find pointers to all other existing QL Web sites on these pages. There a site dedicated to the history of microcomputers with a bit about the QL: http://pcsupp1.cc.rl.ac.uk/home/chris/hchof/ql.html Peter Jaeger has a new Web page at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/peta Di-Ren's web page is at http://www.forthrt.com/~di-ren/homepage.html This WEB site also maintains WEB pages for other QL related stuff, e.g. several QL vendors have a homepage there. I recommend this as starting point. The pages here are well structured and they are up to date. NEWS: Di-Ren's page has moved. Pointer is at the above address. Don't forget to take a look at Tim Swenson's page at http://www.serve.com/swensont And at last my personal QL pages at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~roklein/ql 9.3 UseNet News Nu, there are four QL related News Groups. First comp.sys.sinclair, which is dedicated to the various brainchildren of Sir Clive Sinclair (not Sinclair Research Limited, though there's an amount of discussion about devices from Sinclair Research after they've been bought by Amstrad, e.g. the Sinclair PC 200 Arghh!). Then there are three groups from the maus net. They are: maus.sys.ql.c68-int (discussion about the QL C68 compiler) maus.sys.ql.int (general discussions about the QL) maus.sys.ql.ger (general QL discussions in german)