SinclairQL (for Quantum Leap) is a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the ZX Spectrum. The QL was...
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to...
machine's new features. This led to an entirely new BASIC for the following SinclairQL, as well as a number of 3rd-party BASICs for the Spectrum and its various...
1987 for Atari ST. The game was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Amiga and SinclairQL. An MS-DOS version was released in 1988 adapted by Clement Roques. Mortville...
title was relaunched as Your Sinclair, with the intention of expanding coverage of the QL into the main magazine (previously, QL User had been a pull-out...
are the same as the ASCII set. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII for this character encoding. ASCII is one of the...
The Lotus International CharacterSet (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding introduced in 1985 by Lotus Development Corporation. It is...
the Amiga clone DraCo non-linear video system. The Q60 extended the SinclairQL design similarly from the slowest start to the ultimate pace of the 68K...
Iron, to produce the game for the SinclairQL for release in early 1985. Sinclair withdrew funding in 1985 when the QL version never appeared and the directors...
by Anita Sinclair, Ken Gordon and Hugh Steers in 1984, London-based Magnetic Scrolls initially dabbled with development on the SinclairQL home computer...
precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard. The International CharacterSet (ICS) is compatible with XCCS. The XCCS 2.0 (1990) revision covers Latin...
in the characterset the 26 × 2 letters of the English alphabet. Later standards issued by the ISO, for example ISO/IEC 8859 (8-bit character encoding)...
and Macintosh, and followed by the Amiga, Atari ST, and X68000. The SinclairQL microcomputer, along with its derivatives, such as the ICL One Per Desk...
East-German "Kleincomputer" KC85/1 and KC87 calls them DEEK and DOKE. The SinclairQL has PEEK_W and POKE_W for 16-bit values and PEEK_L and POKE_L for 32-bit...
and Lawson, Fire Iron, to produce the game for the SinclairQL for release in early 1985. Sinclair withdrew funding from Fire Iron in early 1985 and Psygnosis...
technology was the ZX Microdrive, developed by Sinclair Research in the UK, for their ZX Spectrum and QL home computers. Eventually, mass production of...
less complicated keypress detection routines could be used. Although the QL-style keyboard on later Spectrum + and + 128K models introduced various dedicated...
less-commonly-used Sinclair BASIC keywords. It also featured three different font sizes, user definable keys, copy-and-paste, a SinclairQL-like windowing...