QL/E v3 ======= Welcome to QL/E! In a nutshell ------------- QL/E is the pre-configured and ready to go portable QL Environment offering a bootable virtual WINchester disk drive container file named QLE.WIN to be used with the SMSQ/E, Minerva or QDOS operating systems on multiple Sinclair QL compatible platforms, may they be real computers or virtual/emulated machines. The QL/E distribution does include the most recent QL virtual machines and emulators and QL compatible operating systems. QL/E is explicitly non-commercial. It is a well maintained project and updated versions will be published from time to time exclusively on the sinclairql.net website. https://sinclairql.net/repository.html#QLE To learn more about QL/E and make explorations easier, please read the manual (QLE_manual.txt in the Documentation folder). What's in the package? ---------------------- Delivered either as stand-alone (SA) edition (ZIP file THE_DISTRIBUTION_qle.ZIP) or as part of THE DISTRIBUTION (ZIP file THE_DISTRIBUTION.ZIP), after unZIPping you have a folder named THE_DISTRIBUTION with at least the following content (List of files): e\ This folder holds external files; this folder is mounted inside QL/E as HFS6_ V3.*.txt This TeXT file is the version information file of THE DISTRIBUTION QL_is_30_2014_The_Distribution.pdf This PDF file is the overview documentation of THE DISTRIBUTION QL_icon.ico This graphical ICOn file visualises a QL computer system !HFS7-Yes_this_is_the_HFS7_device\ This folder help to "see" that one works on the right folder !HFS7-Yes_this_is_the_HFS7_device.txt This TeXT file is a information/placeholder to signalise that its folder is mounted inside QL/E as HFS7_ qle\ This folder is the core of the QL/E system; this folder is mounted inside QL/E as HFS8_ The folder named e has the following content (List of files): !HFS6-Yes_this_is_the_HFS6_device\ This folder help to "see" that one works on the right folder !HFS6-Yes_this_is_the_HFS6_device.txt This TeXT file is a information/placeholder to signalise that its folder is mounted inside QL/E as HFS6_ The folder named qle has the following content (List of files): !HFS8-Yes_this_is_the_HFS8_device\ This folder help to "see" that one works on the right folder Additional_instances\ A prepared storage for additional 7 instances of QL/E app\ A storage location of BACKGNDS (desktop wallpapers) files from QDT and game files for the Magnetic Scrolls interpreter which are to bulky for WIN1_ ControlFiles\ A storage location of control files to be copied from dat\ A storage location of audio and video files Documentation\ Apart from the *.txt files in the qle folder, this is the location of the pretty huge docomentation Fonts\ Founts for the QPCPrint Windows application lib\ Library and licence files related to SMSQmulator MIST\ All needed to bring the QL to the MIST FPGA computer system Q68\ The SMSQ/E operating system for the Q68 FPGA computer system Q-emuLator\ Sample configuration of Q-emuLator to run QL/E QL-SD\ All needed to have an easy go with QL/E on QL-SD QPC1\ QPC1 QL emulator for DOS, with Sample configurations QXL\ The SMSQ/E operating system for the QXL computer ISA card for PC ROMs_OSs\ The SMSQ/E (v III), Minerva (v II) and Kudos/QDOS/Qdos (v I) QL compatible operating systems ST-TT\ The SMSQ/E operating system for the ATARI ST and TT computer systems, with Sample configuration for Hatari !HFS8-Yes_this_is_the_HFS8_device.txt This TeXT file is a information/placeholder to signalise that its folder is mounted inside QL/E as HFS8_ AN IMPORTANT QUICKSTART HINT - UNDER WINDOWS JUST START THE PROGRAM FILE QPC2 bat.txt This TeXT file is a QUICK START information/hint qpc.ini This INI file holds the dynamic configuration of QPC2 SMSQmulator.ini This INI file holds the configuration of SMQMulator sqlux.ini This INI file holds the configuration of sQLux QLE.WIN This binary file (ID QLWA) is a virtual WINchester disk drive container file mounted inside QL/E as WIN1_; it holds the QL/E runtime system V3.*.txt This TeXT file is the version information file of QL/E README.txt This TeXT file is the overview of QL/E (a copy of this file) SMSQmulator8.jar \ SMSQmulator11.jar / This Java runtime files are the current version of SMSQmulator, a virtual QL machine SMSQmulator8.sh This UNIX/Linux SHell script file can be used to start the Java 8 edition of SMSQmulator SMSQmulator11.sh This UNIX/Linux SHell script file can be used to start the Java 11 edition of SMSQmulator sqlux_arm64 \ sqlux_armv7 \ sqlux_armv6 \ sqlux_w32.exe > Those Linux executable binary files (ELF/MZ) are sQLux version 1, successor of uQLx, a QL emulator for multiple platforms sqlux_w64.exe / sqlux_x86_32 / sqlux_x86_64 / QPC2.bat This Windows BATch file must be used to start the new version 5 of QPC2.exe QPC2.exe This Windows EXEcutable file is the new version 5 of QPC2, a virtual QL machine QPC2v405_OSv336.bat This Windows BATch file must be used to start the older version 4 of QPC2.exe QPC2v405.exe This Windows EXEcutable file is the older version 4 of QPC2, a virtual QL machine SMSQE338.WIN This binary file (ID QLWA) is a virtual WINchester disk drive container file mounted inside QL/E as WIN8_; it holds the SMSQ/E source code and build system uqlxchmod.sh This UNIX/Linux SHell script file can be used to CHangeMOD the uQLx binary files uqlx.sh This UNIX/Linux SHell script file can be used to start uQLx uqlxrc-QLE This is the configuration file for the uQLx QL emulator qm_i64 \ qm_i32 / Those Linux executable binary files (ELF) are uQLx version 0.50 uqlx2018a Release, a QL emulator for Intel based systems qm_armv8 \ qm_armv7 > Those Linux executable binary files (ELF) are uQLx version 0.50 uqlx2017 Release, a QL emulator for ARM based systems qm_armv6 / autorun.inf This AUTOmatic RUN file will start the go.bat in case QL/E is being used on removeable media (e.g. CD) go.bat This Windows BATch file can be used to start the Windows program QPC2.exe QPCPrintDemo.exe This Windows EXEcutable file is an ESC/P printer emulation (Demo version of a commercial software package) QL_icon.ico This graphical ICOn file visualises a QL computer system The folder named ROMs_OSs has the following content (List of files): Kudos\ The place for original Sinclair ROM images Minerva\ The Minerva operating system in various versions and editions minerva_rom This binary file is the Minerva operating system, build for the QL or QL emulators SMSQ_QEM This binary file is the SMSQ/E operating system, build for Q-emuLator SMSQE This binary file is the SMSQ/E operating system, build for SMSQmulator SMSQE.BIN This binary file is the SMSQ/E operating system, build for QPC2 version 5 SMSQEv336.bin This binary file is the SMSQ/E operating system, build for QPC2 version 4 QL forever! Cheers, Urs Koenig mailto:ql@bluewin.ch https://sinclairql.net/ This Readme created by Urs Koenig, last updated 10:09 03.01.2024