Last Updated: 19.07.07
Atapi-CD - Atapi and CD-ROM system extensions, which include Atapi Extensions Thing v0.20 for Qubide and Q40/Q60. SMSQ/E is required. Handles the hardware related ATA or ATAPI protocols. Use with the CDROM thing, a CD-ROM driver and extensions thing v0.06. Used with the Atapi thing to give access to "QLWA" and "QXL.WIN" type CDs along with a degree of access to audio CD facilities. QCDEZE (see below) is an ideal companion program. (Thierry Godefroy) (71K) [9/3/03]
catalogr.zipCataloguer v1.12. Directory to screen or printer (E. Verbeek) (24K) [08/07/05]
comparedirs040.zip Compare directories utility (Adrian Ives) (61K) [08/07/05]
convertr.zip Converter - microdrive to floppy disk program converter (E. Verbeek) (3K) [08/07/05]
converter.zip - Converter is a drive conversion program, allowing you exchange strings in a program, e.g. MDV to FLP or FLP to WIN (not just limited to 3 character names). Needs WMAN 2, which means SMSQ/E v3.00 or later or QDOS with pointer environment version 2.00 or later. Also needs Toolkit 2 and expanded memory. (D. Jones) (44K) [19/07/07]
The Copier is a very useful little program for copying entire disks including sub-directories. It reads the subdirectories on a disk and can optionally recreate them on the destination disk. (D. Jones) (35K) [05/07/05]
copiers.zip File copiers and MORE viewing utility (David Burns) (9K) [08/07/05]
dataspace.zip Utility to set dataspace of an executable jobs (Norman Dunbar) (10K) [08/07/05]
ddext.zip Directory device driver extensions allowing shared files in read AND write modes (Tiago Leal) (4K) [10/10/06]
dirnames.zip - DirNames is a set of functions written in BASIC for simple parsing of filenames (David Denham) (5K) [05/02/06]
dirto.zip DirTo. Disk directory readers, can create files for Abacus to import, sort etc (Ed Kingsley and Real Gagnon) (8K) [08/07/05]
dirtools.zip DirTools is a pair of programs, DirList v0.40 which creates a list of directories present below the specified root, writing the output to a plain text file, and MakeDirs v0.80 which operates in the reverse direction, reading the contents of a plain text file (as created by DirList) and re-creating the directories on the target. (Adrian Ives) (115K) [08/07/05]
cdisk.zip Disk/Directories copying extension for the Sinclair QL, version CD19 (H.P.Recktenwald) (30K) [08/07/05]
diskdir.zip DiskDir is a rather old program to display a sorted directory listing to screen or printer (D. Jones) (9K) [08/07/05]
dispp02.zip Disp v3.12 is a directory display utility (George Gwilt) (7K) [15/10/06]
disps02.zip Disp v3.12 sources (George Gwilt) (13K) [15/10/06]
dm5.zip Diskmate 5 is a disk and file management utility. Needs pointer environment and menu extension (menu extension not supplied). Includes English and German manuals. It used to be a commercial program, but is now freeware (Pål Monstad) (217KB) [30/01/05]
dm5gd2.zip A version of Diskmate 5 "hacked" by Marcel Kilgus to use the GD2 colours. (51K) [30/01/05]
doctor.zip Hex editor program (Arvid Borretzen) (17K) [08/07/05]
editfname100.zipEditfname v1.00 - Change filename case without needing COPY (Adrian Ives) (16K) [08/07/05]
encode.zip - Encode v0.80 is a very simple utility for encrypting the contents of any type of QDOS/SMSQ file, binary, text, etc. (Adrian Ives) (58K) [25/01/06]
fastcopy.zipFast cartridge/disc copier (Rob Sherratt) (6K) [08/07/05]
Fast Find - v0.91 of a program designed for very rapid file searches and a multitude of ways of finding files on a hard disk for example. The author claims this program leaves other file finders standing - it certainly does seem to be one of the fastest I've used. (Per Witte) (111K) [9/3/03]
fcomp030.zipFComp or File Comparator, a utility to compare two files (Adrian Ives) (56K) [08/07/05]
File Finder is a little program for searching for files containing given text strings. Can optionally search through sub-directories. Great for finding those lost files in the dark depths of your hard disks system or in a floppy disk full of text files! (D. Jones) (29K) [05/07/05]
filefinder.zipFile Finder is a boot program allowing single key seelction of programs (3K) [08/07/05]
filemana.zip File Manager is a program to list, view and handle files (5K) [08/07/05]
fileselector.zip File Selector is a small program to use the files menu of QPAC2 (Roy Wood) (20K) [19/10/06]
find050.zip Find is a 'quick and dirty' (quoting the author) file finder program (Adrian Ives) (61K) [08/07/05]
flpclone.zip FLPClone is a low level disc copier capable of copying whole discs using direct sector access etc. It can also copy disks that are in alien format such as MSDOS format disks. (Dave Walker) (35K) [05/07/05]
Floppy Disk Utilities- Floppy disk editor, file recovery, disc copier/formatter/verifier etc. Former commercial program from Ergon Development, now freeware. (168K) [21/05/05]
ftidy.zipFTidy is a file handling utility (Howard Clase) (27K) [08/07/05]
Gopher - file search utility, locate files containing given strings, can search through sub-directories. Ideal for locating mislaid files on a hard disk, for example! (Norman Dunbar) (47K) [9/3/03]
HD Utils - a set of BASIC programs for handling sub-directories on QL hard disk systems - shows how to use recursion to good effect when reading sub-directories. Routines to DIR whole sub-directories, search for names through sub-directories and copy whole directories. Based on an article published in QL Today magazine Volume 3 Issue 5. (D.Jones) (10K) [05/07/05]
Make Dirs is a directory creation aid - select the drive/directory in which you wish to create a new directory and type in the directory name. Much simpler directory creation - no more trying to remember a long path name for long winded MAKE_DIR commands! Pointer driven files/directories menu. Needs Toolkit 2 and Pointer Environment. (D. Jones) (59K) [05/07/05]
Media Manager SE sources - Media Manager SE was a comprehensive disk handling package by Chas Dillon, most recently sold by Digital Precision. Some time ago, Chas made the sources public. I don't think I'm allowed to put the actual compiled program here, but the sources are mostly in BASIC for the Turbo compiler, so anyone wishing to write their own foreign media reader or damaged disk handler may find this of interest (Chas Dillon) (99K) [21/05/05]
locate.zip Locate files by searching for filenames through subdirectories (D. Jones) (15K) [08/07/05]
manager.zip Cartridge Manager, a front end program (John Pennycook) (11K) [08/07/05]
md5sum.zipMD5SUM is a file checksum generation utility (J. Hudson) (31K) [08/07/05]
menudu.zip MenuDiskUsage is a utility to scan subdirectories in a recursive way and report disk usage for each directory entry. This program is intended to be usefull for people coping with hard disk(s), sub-directories and many files. It will be useful to locate quickly directories which hold a significant space or to compute disk space on some media needed to backup a whole directory or a tree. PE and Menu_Rext needed. (21K) (Alan Haoui) [05/11/06]
menuhead.zip Menu driven utility to set QDOS file headers, needs PE and Menu_Rext. (21K) (Alain Haoui) [05/11/06]
msearch.zip MenuSearch v1.04, a filename based search, wildcards allowed. (Alain Haoui) (27K) [05/11/06]
mtoolsql38a.zipMtools for QL is a QL port of a Unix utility to handle MSDOS disks from a QL (J. Hudson) (501K) [08/07/05]
pmf.zipPMF lets you DIR, VIEW, PRINT and pattern match files (Mike Jonas) (7K) [08/07/05]
QCDEZE - v1.12. A GUI front end for the Atapi-CD thing above. Browse an ISO-9660 CD-ROM on a compatible Qubide or Q40/Q60 system. Works only on an SMSQ/E system. Some useful additional files supplied, one with information on ISO-9660, a Scrap-Manager program and a graphics conversion and viewing program for Q40/Q60 screens able to display PCX, BMP, IFF, PIC and 32k QL screens. (Duncan Neithercutt) (177K) [31/10/03]
Q-Trans is a pointer driven dual window file handler from the Launchpad suite, but can work independently. Copy, view, delete, format, print, create directories, all the usual file handler facilities plus a new Trash-can facility for non-permanent file delete if you use the Trash command instead of delete. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
QFiles - A short and simple program to provide a button which fires up the File_Select$ menu from Q-Menu to select a file and stuff its filename into the stuffer buffer ready to be inserted into another program with the usual ALT SPACE keypress to recover the content of the stuffer buffer. Provides an indirect means of pointer driven file selection for older non-pointered programs such as Quill. Requires the Menu Extension from Jochen Merz Software. (D. Jones) (16K) [05/07/05]
QFormat - Quickly reformat DD, HD or ED disks with this useful program. See below for pointer driven version. (Norman Dunbar) (18K) [9/3/03]
QH is a system for storing file headers for executable QDOS programs on non-QDOS formatted media. We have all run into the problem of managing to copy QL programs onto the native hard drive or floppy disks of another computer, only to find that the programs won't execute from there due to the loss of the file type byte and dataspace value. QH stores the dataspace of such QDOS programs in a separate short "_qh" file, enabling you to restore this header later via a simple short SuperBASIC program, ready to execute. The main program can either create QH files for all programs on a given drive or in a given directory, or scan through all sub-directories creating "_qh" entries for all executable programs. (D. Jones) (6K) [05/07/05]
qristen.zip - Qristen is a pointer driven utility for renaming floppy disk medium names, using direct sector access. (36K) [05/02/06]
qvfs06.zip QVFS - a virtual filing system for QL systems, which gives long filenames (up to 255) characters (H.P.Recktenwald) (49K) [10/10/06]
Qwirc - QL Winchester Rename Console v0.64. Lists all WIN devices attached to your system by name, with summary of size and free space and other information. Qwirc lets you rename the hard disk, set the read/write status as seen by SMSQ/E and mount and unmount devices. (Per Witte) (59K) [05/03/05]
qxl.fschk.zip QXL.FSCHK lets you check SMSQ/E QXL.WIN hard disk file systems. (9K) (J. Hudson) [13/02/06]
qxlformat.zipv1.5 of the disk formatting utility for QXL users (Dave Walker) (15K) [08/07/05]
QXLWIN - a copier for Q40/Q60 which allows you to copy files from a QXL.WIN file held on a CD-ROM on a Q40/Q60. Needs the Atapi-CD thing system above. Version 1.08 (Wolfgang Lenerz) (85K) [31/10/03]
QXLWIN Manager - utility to assist with setting WIN and DOS device names on a QPC2 or similar system with redefinable WIN and DOS device names. This version can use System Palette colours on suitably equipped systems. Version 1.02 (D. Jones) (38K) [30/06/05]
readonly.zip - ReadOnly is a simple write-protecting system for files on a QL hard disk system which works by maintaining a list of files to be write protected and the readonly job opens a readonly channel to those files so that other programs are prevented from writing to them. (Franz Krojer) (12K) [08/07/05]
recode.zip Recode converts files from QDOS-MSDOS-MAC-Mainframe etc (Franz Krojer) (167K) [08/07/05]
Recover - An Archive database recovery utility. BASIC source included for you to see how it works. (34K) [21/05/05]
RecoverQ - RecoverQ is a program which can be used to recover damaged files from HD/DD/ED floppies, backing up (and possibly repairing damaged) floppy disks, copying foreign media such as DOS, Atari or QL with "bad" structures, surface testing, fast formatting or formatting to user defined specifications. Needs the IO2, PEX and QLiberator runtime extensions - follow this link http://members.tripod.com/phpr/e-qhpbits.html#rcq to the author's website. (Hans-Peter Recktenwald) (49K) [21/05/05]
RecoverX - RecoverX can be used to recover and/or extract single or all files en bloc from QXL.WIN files or (pseudo-) drives. F6 Forth program. Sources available below. (Hans-Peter Recktenwald) (72K) [21/05/05]
RecoverX Sources - F6 Forth sources for the RecoverX program above (Hans-Peter Recktenwald)(115K) [21/05/05]
Reformat - v1.01 of a pointer driven fast disk reformatter for rapid reformatting of QL format DD, HD and ED floppy disks. Needs Window Manager 2 or later, pointer environment and Toolkit 2. Based on QFormat by Norman Dunbar. (51K) [02/07/06]
ResQL - Program for recovering damaged files or floppy disks (Hans Lub) (32K) [21/05/05]
Restore Dataspace is a pointer driven program to restore the executable file header on programs which have lost the dataspace and executable file header, e.g. when unzipped in Windows on a PC or older programs compressed or archived with older archiving utilities which do not preserve the QL executable program file header. You will need to know or be able to guess the dataspace required. Program requires extended environment and Toolkit 2, and works on QDOS or SMSQ-E. (D. Jones) (35K) [05/07/05]
Rettunge - Rescue deleted files on QL disks. (Ralf Biedermann) (10K) [21/05/05]
search.zip Search is a file locater program, useful for hard disk systems (Arvid Borretzen) (26K) [08/07/05]
Sector Copier - a simple to use program for making fast copies of DD disks using Direct Sector Access. Source basic file is included. (Norman Dunbar) (15K) [9/3/03]
Sector Editor - Disk sector editor program for DD QL disks. Written in SuperBASIC (6K) [21/05/05]
sformat.zipSformat formats DD disks to increase capacity and speed up data transfer (Thierry Godefroy) (23K) [08/07/05]
shlines.zip - ShowLines v0.30 can be used to scan a text file, displaying all lines that contain a given string. (Adrian Ives) (61K) [25/01/06]
Sortback - lets you create a backup of a disk with the filenames sorted into order (as long as you use a freshly formatted blank disk for the copy). Of course, there are other ways of doing this including use of the QPAC2 files menu, but offered here for those who don't use such QL software. (D. Jones) (31K) [05/07/05]
tcopye.zipTCopye is a very fast sector copier and file compacter (Ralf Biedermann) (13K) [08/07/05]
translit.zipTransliterator, exchanges strings in files e.g. MD to FLP (13K) [08/07/05]
typeinfile030.zipTypeInFile v0.30 Pass a file to another as if typed in, or use the Menu Extension's 'scrap' facility (Adrian Ives) (64K) [08/07/05]
xtract.zip - Xtract v1.00 extracts the text following the first (or nth) occurrence of a key string in the specified data files. (Adrian Ives) (19K) [25/01/06]