Path: news.uni-mainz.de!ROKLEIN@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de From: roklein@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Robert H. Klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: QL FAQ part 4: services Date: 8 Aug 1994 06:16:03 GMT Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz Lines: 616 Message-ID: <324ij3$ssf@bambi.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: roklein@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de 4 dealers, clubs, magazines, ftp sites, Internet This part of the FAQ is (at the moment) a copy of the 'instant access' and 'club access' page in SQLW with only minor changes. Telephone numbers are the one you have to use when phoning from Great Britain or in international format. Adresses will be added and phone numbers converted to international format soon. 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 Some numbers no longer active in the QL world are give for reference and support queries. 4.1 Hardware dealers Care Electronics 0923 / 672 102 - Tebby connection but no longer dealing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 41 Bro Emrys Tal-y-Bont Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 3YT (Great Briatin) phone/fax: +44 - 248 / 354 023 - Process controller, power regulator, network prover. Miracle Systems Limited 25 Broughton Way York, YO1 3BG (United Kingdom) phone +44 - 904 / 423 986 - (Super) Gold Card expansion card; QXL PC card; disk adapter; Centronics adapter/lead. Qubbesoft PD 38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree Essex CM7 5BU (Great Britain) phone/fax: +44 - 376 / 347 852 - Miracle Trump Card, Expanderam, twin 3.5" disk drives. Sales and support. W N Richardson (EEC Ltd.) 6 Ravensmead Chalfont St. Peter Buckinghamshire, SL9 0NB (United Kingdom) phone: 0494 / 871 319 fax: 0753 / 892 235 - Complete QL systems, monitors, keyboards and interfaces, disk drives and printers, peripherals. TF Services Holly Corner, Priory Road ASCOT, Berks, SL5 8RL (United Kingdom) phone: +44 - 344 / 890 986 Fax: +44 - 344 / 890 987 - Hermes IPC, Minerva ROM, keyboard membrane, repairs, spares 4.2 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. Seacoast Computer Services 15 Kilburn Court Newport RI 02840 (USA) phone/fax 401 / 849 3805 - IQLR magazine Suredata 081 / 902 5218 - Repairs QL World (Readers' Services) 0993 / 811 181 (Ask for Fran) - Subscriptions, binders, recent backissues. Quanta General Secretary: Joe Haftke 081 / 302 6154 - User group, support, library. Quo Vadis 0708 / 755 759 - QReview. 4.3 Software dealers Albin Hessler Software Im Zeilfeld 25 D-72631 Aichtal phone/fax: +49 - 7127 / 56280 - 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. Dilwyn Jones Computing 41 Bro Emrys Tal-y-Bont Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 3YT (Great Briatin) phone/fax: +44 - 248 / 354 023 - lots of software. Di-Ren 081 / 291 3751 - Fleet Tactical Command (Dist. by Dilwyn Jones). Ergon Developments (Davide Santachiara) (Italy) c/o Davide Santachiara Via Emilio de Marchi 2 42100 Reggio Emilia (Italy) phone: +39 - 522 / 70409 FIDOnet 2:335/21.11 - ZM-X ZX Spectrum emulator, Open World, other QL software. Jochen Merz Software (Germany) Im Stillen Winkel 12 D-47169 Duisburg (Germany) phone/fax: +49 - 203 / 501 274 mailbox: +49 - 203 / 591 706 (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. Lear Data Systems 6 Southview Green, Bentley, Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2DR - PCB-CAD. Liberation Software 081 / 546 7795 - QLib Basic compiler and utilities (Dist. by Dilwyn Jones). Pointer Products 0258 / 455 117 - Pointer Environment programs. Progs (Van Auwera) (Belgium) Haachtstraat 92 3020 Veltem (Belgium) phone/fax: +32 - 16 / 48 8952 - LineDesign, The Painter, The Clipart, DataDesign and others (Dist by Dilwyn Jones; LineDesign dist. by Software87). Qubbesoft PD 38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree Essex CM7 5BU (Great Britain) phone/fax: +44 - 376 / 347 852 - QL Home Finance, Public Domain Software. SD Microsystems 0462 / 422 897 - General Ledger, Small Traders' Pack/Invoicer and Stock Accounting. Other business software. SJPD Software 36 Eldwick St Burnley Lancs, BB10 3DZ (United Kingdom) phone +44 - 282 / 51854 - Public Domain Software. Software 87 33 Savernake Road London, NW3 2JU (Great Britain) - Text87 Plus4, Publishers' Pack. TF Services 071 / 724 9053 - Qualsoft QL Terminal Emulator, File Transfer. WS Software 0534 / 81392 4.4 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 c/o Franz Herrmann Talstrasse 21 D-53545 Ockenfels Germany magazine: Quasar Greece: QL Athens Club c/o Stathis Grigoriadis Tarsu 6-8 10440 Athens Greece Holland: Sin_QL_Air c/o Marco Holmer J P Coenstraat 3531 EN Utrecht Netherlands 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 Bulent Artuz Prof. Sitesi B/1 D/5 Etiler 80600 Istanbul Turkey UK: Quanta (UK) c/o Bill Newell 213 Manor Road Benfleet Essex SS7 4JD Great Britain magazine: Quanta Editor: Bill Fuggle 20 Widnes Avenue Selly Oak Birmingham B29 6QE Great Britain 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 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 (meet fortnightly) 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) c/o Sherm Waterman POBox 8763 Boston MA 02114 USA magazine: NESQLUG Editor: Peter Hale 195 Central Ave Chelsea MA 02150 USA 4.5 Magazines note: Sinclair QL World is dead. Their last issue was vol3.5. IQLR (International QL Report) (appears every two months) contact Sea Coast Services 15 Kilburn Court 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 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 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. 4.6 QL Internet Resources 4.6.1 ftp sites sitename: garbo.uwasa.fi directory: /ql Has only stuff in ASCII text, e.g. QHJ backissues, some BASIC programs, some pascal programs. mirrors of garbo are ftp.nvg.unit.no in the /pub/sinclair/mirrors/ql/garbouwasa.fi directory. Also ftp.tu-dresden.de carries it. Look in the sinclair directory under flode.mirror/mirrors/ql/... (similar to ftp.nvg.unit.no, its a mirror from nvg. [This thing in dresden is awfully slow, so best you forget it if you have access to garbo or flode. -ed] sitename: maya.dei.unipd.it directory: /pub/pub/sinclair_QL Here you can find ca 6MB 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 under this value. (I assume this will not work on a standard QL, you'll need a memory expansion). sitename: wuarchive.wustl.edu directory: /systems/sinclair [I think this site mirrors both maya and garbo, but I'm not sure -ed] 4.6.2 UseNet News Nu, there are four QL related Groups. First comp.sys.sinclair, which is also dedicated to the other micros made by Sir Clive Sinclair (not Sinclair Research Limited!). Then there are three groups from the maus net. (Also available from fido afaik.) 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) (The following hints are only for Unix systems!) If you don't have Usenet access or don't have access to all of the groups, try following to get them (note: then you can only read but not write to them): start emacs (X windows version!). Type CTRL-U. Type X. Type gnus . After some seconds emacs asks for a nntpserver. (Offers a default) Try one of the following: news.uni-stuttgart.de rz.uni-karlsruhe.de xlink.net howland.reston.ans.net news.uni-oldenburg.de rz.uni-hildesheim.de (I've only tried news.uni-stuttgart.de, and since then I get the three groups from the maus net. -ed) Alternatively if you hate emacs, try the following: setenv NNTPSERVER news.uni-stuttgart.de nn  -- Robert H. Klein email: RoKlein@MzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE papermail: Bluecherstrasse 24, D-56349 Kaub, Germany