Hi folks!
I'm sure there are a goodly number here proficient on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - anybody also active on the QL? It was quite popular in its day, the first (?) to break the 16-bit address-bus 64KB limit, and targeted at business with a full 'office' suite - a competitor for the 'Beeb'. I have 2 of them, both inactive with keyboard faults, and a twin-floppy setup (2x 720kB).
At one point I keyed in the Stellaris game (Superbasic), and saved it to disk, but have lost that. I still have the magazine article (QL World June 1987), and have OCR'ed it. I've never managed to get an emulator working to run the game (there was one at least for Windows, may have been 3.1 or 98se), but I've not been able to find one (freeware, I'm a pensioner) that 'just works' these days. I had hopes that RetroPie might have one, but no ... pity, there's one for ZX, and that should not be too onerous a task to extend (IIRC it had BASIC).
BASIC was the extent of my Programming skill, though I dabbled with Assembly on an Acorn Electron and 8031 (microcontroller, precursor to Arduino et al.) for NZ Cert of Engineering. Pascal and C were the next step I couldn't quite make.
Anyone with a pointer? Stellaris looked like a good 'strategy-Spacie' game, something that would challenge any player (especially contrasting today's point-and-click shoot-'em-up/biff-bash games), and I'd like to re-live the era with it.
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Fester Bestertester
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Re: Superbasic (Sinclair QL)
Downloaded uQLx - seems to work - at least for a simple basic program 
