QL Today

published by Jochen Merz Software, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302, D-47169 Duisburg 11, Germany

Updated: 13.12.2008

Volume 4 Issue 4 of QL Today QL Today is the definitive source for news and information around the QL scene. Includes not only news and articles about the QL, but about its compatibles and emulators too. Caters for everyone from beginners to advanced users.

QL Today was set up in 1996. Each issue consists of up to 60 pages and is only available by subscription by mail order from Jochen Merz Software or QBranch (see below for details). The magazine is now edited by Geoff Wicks.

All the major QL hardware and software suppliers advertise in QL Today - if you want to be informed about news, you need to subscribe to QL Today. The following advertise regularly in QL Today for example:

Jochen Merz Software, PROGS, QBRANCH, D&D Systems, WN Richardson,
TF Services, Just Words, RWAP Software, Quanta and Q-Celt Computing.

There are lots of articles by famous QL authors - series on programming in BASIC and assembler, about graphics, show dates, reviews, hardware, cartoons even!

QL Today has its own website - click here to visit www.qltoday.com

Cover Disks

Picture of 5 cover disks

From time to time, a cover disk is included with QL Today - you can download the back issues of the English cover disks in case you have lost your original copy or missed an issue. You will need a copy of QL Unzip to decode the zipped cover disk files, you can get a copy from Jonathan Hudson's Web site or from the Archivers Page on this site. Note that apart from fixing broken zipped files on disk 1 and a minor fix to allow disk 2 to run on non-SMSQ systems, the disks are as originally published, so you may need to seek out more recent versions of some of the programs which have since been superceded.

Cover Disk 1 - Volume 1 Issue 6 (HTML Machine broken ZIP file now fixed 6/11/00) [434KB]
Cover Disk 2 - Volume 2 Issue 2 (Club QL 100th Anniversary Issue) [502KB]
Cover Disk 3 - Volume 2 Issue 6 [585KB]
Cover Disk 4 - Volume 3 Issue 6 [600KB]
Cover Disk 5 - Volume 4 Issue 4 (CueDark system) [232KB]
Cover Disk 6 - Volume 4 Issue 6 [486KB]
Cover Disk 7 - Volume 5 Issue 1 (ProWesS system) [639K]
Cover Disk 8 - Volume 5 Issue 5 (Updated Turbo 4.4 and manuals) [458KB]
Cover Disk 9 - Volume 5 Issue 6 (Updated Turbo 4.7, TurboPtr 2.4, Gwasl 1.6 and Sprted) [614KB]
Cover Disk 10 - Volume 6 Issue 3 (Demo versions of commercial software, disk 1) [624KB]
Cover Disk 11 - Volume 6 Issue 4 (Demo versions of commercial software, disk 2) [606KB]
Cover Disk 12 - Volume 7 Issue 3 (Atapi/CD drivers and front ends) [411KB]
Cover Disk 13 - Volume 8 Issue 4 (Launchpad demo version) [543KB]
Cover Disk 14 Volume 9 Issue 4 (QDT demo version) [555K]
cdisk15.zip Volume 11 Issue 2 (Image Sampler, POX and QL2PC) [1270K]
cdisk16.zip Volume 11 Issue 5 (archives) [668K]
cdisk17.zip Volume 12 Issue 4 (toolkits) [483K]

Magazine Index

If you'd like a list of what's been in past issues of QL Today, click on the links below to get an index to the English volumes published so far. An index to the current volume will be added when complete. The indexes to Volumes 5-11 were prepared by Brian Kemmett, to whom I am very grateful.

These are plain text versions, to view online:

Index to Volume 1 of QL Today (27KB)
Index to Volume 2 of QL Today (31KB)
Index to Volume 3 of QL Today (30KB)
Index to Volume 4 of QL Today (25KB)
Index to Volume 5 of QL Today (17KB)
Index to Volume 6 of QL Today (15KB)
Index to Volume 7 of QL Today (15KB)
Index to Volume 8 of QL Today (15KB)
Index to Volume 9 of QL Today (15KB)
Index to Volume 10 of QL Today (11KB)
Index to Volume 11 of QL Today (13KB)

The index files are also available for download as individual zipped Word DOC files:

Alternatively, download the whole lot zipped into one archive:

indexesq.zip (61KB) - As Quill DOC files
indexest.zip (48KB) - As QL plain text files

Brian Kemmett has kindly prepared a complete index for Volumes 1 to 11 as a single PDF file which may be viewed with most PDF file readers:

qltoday1_11.pdf (177KB)

Timothy Swenson has kindly compiled an index for up to somewhere in Volume 8. Tim's work is in two formats, as an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a Comma Separated Values file for easier conversion to other formats for those who can't read Excel files. Volunteers to bring this up to date anyone?

qltodayindex.xls (34K) - the Excel format spreadsheet
qltodayindex.csv (11K) - CSV format file

Subscription

QL Today is not expensive. Produced with a lot of effort for a small number of readers and compared to the old QL World magazine, it is cheap: QL Today's price includes postage and the magazine contains much, much more information - an average of 60 pages per issue!

So, QL users, please help the QL community to stay alive for a long time by subscribing to QL Today, it is in your interest!

As the main readership will be able to read English, QL Today is published in English. Regrettably, the German edition is no longer published.

Subscription Rates (4 issues per year)

One volume consists of 4 issues and starts in May. Subscription can start at issue 1 of current volume or current issue of current volume. Renewal is always due on the 4th issue and you will be informed when the time for renewal comes. You can get a single test issue for only EUR 3,- or 3 international reply coupons from Jochen Merz Software. Note: These prices are reproduced her in good faith, but please double check the prices with JMS or Q-Branch adverts or websites (follow links from my QL Links page)

MAIL DESTINATION	PRICES (EUROS) J.M.S.	PRICES (POUNDS) QUO VADIS DESIGN
Germany, Netherlands, U.K.	€ 27.90 (to 30/4/09) € 29.90 (from 1/5/09)	£25.50 (until 30/4/09)
Rest of Europe	€ 29.90 (to 30/4/09) € 31.90 (from 1/5/09)	-
Rest of World	€ 39.40 (to 30/4/09) € 42.90 (from 1/5/09)	-

To order QL Today, you should contact Jochen Merz Software in Germany Tel: +49-203 502011 Fax: +409-203 501517 Email: smsq AT j-m-s DOT com,
or
Quo Vadis Design in the U.K. Tel: +44-20 71930539 Fax: +44-870 0568755 Email: bruce AT ql-qvd DOT com

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