Utilities section
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Updated: 29/08/07
A collection of general utility programs for the QL, software which does not fit in anywhere else on this site!
Alarm Alarm is a simple pointer driven alarm program, which lets you specify an alarm time, up to 8 advance warnings and an alarm message or filename for a program to be started at the alarm time specified. Written for use with the Q-Diary program below, it can also be used as a stand-alone program. (D.Jones) (30K) [03/10/06]
Anaclock - analogue clock display program (David Denham) (16K) [19/9/04]
Analogue Clock - an analogue clock/timer for the button frame. Needs SMSQ/E, menu extension and PEX/PICE extensions. (Phil Jones) (34K) [19/10/06]
areas.zip adaptation in BASIC of an old ZX80 program from somewhere. Lets you define an irregular shaped area then calculates its area - useful for calculating areas of awkward shapes.
basecon.zip A pointer driven base conversion utility. Converts between binary, decimal and hexadecimal numbers.(D. Jones) (31K) [05/07/05]
Baudrate Baudrate Adjuster is a short program written in German with a short English instruction file for setting baudrate values for up to 8 serial ports. (Rolf Ritter) (35K) [19/10/06]
Black Hole (3K) - a 'nul' device driver for all QLs (Norman Dunbar) [4/8/04]
buttocks.zip Buttocks is a package offering buttons to provide some novel screen pointers, to kill, PEX enable/disable or Buttonise (partially) visible jobs. Requires SMSQ/E and menu extension 7.02 or later. (Phil Jones) (70K) [20/10/06]
Button Clock - (17K) A clock program which runs in the QPAC2 button frame. Can be configured for several time display formats, or may be configured to display free memory count, or even as a CAPS LOCK indicator. (David Denham) [19/9/04]
cache.zip CACHE_BT is a small program which resides in the QPAC2 button frame, showing the state of the processor cache (on or off). For use on 68020, 68030, or 68040 systems only. (2K) [19/10/06]
calcul1e4.zip Scientific RPN calculator under pointer environment with HEX/DEC/OCT/BIN capabilities. English version (Thierry Godefroy) (24K) [23/09/06]
calcul1f4.zip Scientific RPN calculator under pointer environment with HEX/DEC/OCT/BIN capabilities. French version (Thierry Godefroy) (24K) [23/09/06]
Calculator - a simple pointer driven calculator from the Launchpad suite. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
Calendar - a pointer driven calendar program with a basic diary function (D. Jones)
calender.zip A non-pointer GD2 colour calendar program which needs a minimum screen size of 800x600 pixels. Can display English public holidays. (Geoff Wicks) (13K) [08/01/07]
caps.zip Caps Lock indicators for use with Quill or BASIC - displays CAPS ON or CAPS OFF in a little window on screen when you press CAPS LOCK key. Rather old programs, still surprisingly useful! (D. Jones) (19K) [05/07/05]
Character Pick - Select accented characters etc from an on-screen menu and transfer them to your programs via the hotkey system's stuffer buffer. Needs pointer environment. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
Chars Select - Character Select v1.00, a simple pointer driven character selection program, which lets you select any character (including accented characters) from a menu and place it into the stuffer buffer for transfer to other programs. Needs the Jochen Merz Menu Extension (Andrea Carpi) (11K) [19/10/06]
csb218.zip ClipScrapBoard v2.18, a suite of six programs for Scrap and Clipboard handling. ClipScrapBoard to clip text to the scrap. ScrapMC to access the Scrap. Pasteit_obj to paste text into an unlocked window. ScrapIcon_obj to dynamically display the scrap contents as an icon in the button frame. StufferStore_obj monitors the content of the stufferbuffer and stores this in an SMSQ/E history device. GSH_obj is a hot keyed program to access this stuffer buffer history and reinsert selected items into the stuffer buffer. (Duncan Neithercut) (118K) [20/10/06]
converts.zipMetric/Imperial units conversion utility. Pointer driven. Can't handle litres? Can't cope with British inches? Get mixed up between degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit? Try this conversion utility. (D. Jones) (61K) [05/07/05]
ctags403a.zip Exuberant Ctags v4.0.3a, which is a QL port of a "tags" file generator for use with MicroEmacs, which now understands SBASIC, C, ASM, PERL and SCHEME sources among others (Thierry Godefroy) (251K) [20/10/06]
Dev Manager (168K) - program execution utility. Store a list of your favourite programs, complete with DEV, SUB, etc settings for older less straightforward programs like Quill. Pointer driven. (D. Jones) [19/10/04]
drive.zip - Drive v0.00 is a command line utility for linking and unlinking Qubide hard disk partitions. (Adrian Ives) (22K) [25/01/06]
expl191h.zip Explorer v1.91h is a disk editor for the Miracle Systems hard disk. (44K) (Chris Fowler) [05/11/06]
fileinfo.zip FileInfo 2 v2.04, a utility which lets you associate programs and file types by filename extension, allowing you to execute data files and have their associated program start up, e.g. associate _doc files with Quill and FileInfo 2 can start up Quill to load the document for you. This is the original version - see below for a more recent version. (W. Lenerz) (51K) [23/09/06]
fi2inst.zip FileInfo 2 installation utility. A skeleton SBASIC installer program for FileInfo 2, aimed at programmers using FileInfo 2 in their own software and willing to write an installation program (W. Lenerz) (6K) [23/09/06]
fi2v3e50.zip FileInfo 2 version 3e50 and Pic Viewer 1.30 with its configurator under pointer environment. This version adds "HOME" thing and SMSQ/E version 3 support. This is the English version. (T. Godefroy) (177K) [23/09/06]
go.zip Go! version 1.02 is a simple to use program launching front end. Text based, no GUI's here. Build menus and sub-menus with lists of the programs on your system and any special settings needed to run them (e.g. Go! can set DATA_USE, PROG_USE, DEV settings etc). Pointer driven, needs Window Manager 2 which means SMSQ/E version 3 or later, or QDOS with pointer environment version 2 or later. Expanded memory and Toolkit 2 also needed. (D. Jones) (61K) [29.08.07]
hdutils.zip DrvCheck and DrvLink are utilities for checking and repairing QXL.WIN files. (7K) (Tony Tebby) [05/11/06]
hotdodo.zip Hot_Do Do is a utility written to enable you to execute several hotkeys one after the other. (W. Lenerz) (5K) [23/09/06]
Klipboard (67K) - a clipboard utility for the QL. Use it to read text from the screen and insert or transfer to another program. Rudimentary text editor built in (Mark Knight) [4/8/04]
MiniCal (14K) - a calendar program designed to take up as little space as possible on the screen. Displays calendars for years from 1582 to 4902 (David Denham) [19/9/04]
minicron109.zip Minicron is a small program to schedule job execution. (P. Borman) (5K) [23/09/06]
MKUtils (265K) - Mark Knight's utility programs for the QL. Includes Auto Indent, Blist (BASIC program lister), Configure, Condense, File Manager, Printer Install, Quickset character set editor, Super Alarm, Turbopatch and QL Calendar. [4/8/04]
Multi-Cal (17K) - Calendar making program which lets you generate 12 month per page calendars, daily and monthly planners, diary pages and line per day calendars. Calendars can be printed or saved as text files for import into word processors or DTP programs. Calendars can start with any day of the week. Written in uncompiled basic, it should be fairly easy to modify this program to print calendars to your requirements, e.g. day and month names are held in DATA statements, so are easily edited for other languages. (Dilwyn Jones) [12/1/06]
nroff.zip QL port of "nroff", a Unix utility to convert "man" and "ms" pages to text. (Jonathan Hudson) (118K) [20/10/06]
olifink.zip Oliver Fink Utilities package, consisting of Colours (explore stippled colours), a small program launcher, Number base converter, file renamer, ScanTree which builds up a copy of the drive's directory tree and stores it in a file, and SysInfo which displays various bits of System information. Needs poitner environment. (Oliver Fink) (23K) [23/09/06]
PeekDisp (28K) - Disp is a program to display file directories, while Net Peek is a program to display QL RAM either on the host computer or across the network. [4/8/04]
Phone (63K) - Telephone call costs calculator [4/8/04]
pindown.zip Pin-Down generates rhyming phrases to aid memorising of PIN codes up to 10-digits long. (Geoff Wicks) (47K) [08/01/07]
PopCalc (55K) - Pop up calculator (M. Knight) [4/8/04]
Qascade v1.13 lets you set up program starting menus akin to something like a Windows Start menu, but with QL-specific features. Requires pointer environment. (Jonathan Hudson) (56K) [19/10/06]
Qascade v1s14 is an enhanced version of Qascade, allowing use of System Palette colours and adding support for the "home directory" Thing. Needs pointer environment and Window Manager 2. (updated by Marcel Kilgus) (71K) [19/10/06]
Q-Diary Q-Diary v1.00 is a diary program, letting you enter events for given dates and times, with daily events list, imminent events list, warning facility scheduling from 2 to 90 minutes ahead, and external alarm and program scheduling program control. Includes a copy of the Alarm program listed above. Pointer driven, needs Window Manager 2 - i.e. SMSQ/E or QDOS with pointer environment version 2 or later. (D.Jones) (87K) [03/10/06]
qpacer.zip (86K) - Qpac2 setup aid. Qpacer asks you plain and simple questions and once you've answered them, it writes a boot program to set up Qpac2 just how you specified. (Jeremy Davis) [25/01/06]
scrapstuff_zip ScrapStuff is a small program which lives in the button frame and when selected can give you brief detailsof what's on the Menu Extensions's Scrap system (text or graphic types) and gives you the option of copying brief text or address of the graphic on the scrap into the hotkey stuffer buffer so that it can be fed into programs which do not understand the Scrap system. It also offers the option of stuffing the current time and date string into the stuffer buffer, so that a simple ALT SPACE keypress can recover it into most programs. Needs the Menu Extension, pointer environment and Window Manager 2.00 or later, i.e. SMSQ/E v3 or later or QDOS with pointer environment version 2 or later. (42K) (D. Jones) [20/10/06]
scratch3.zip Scratch is a "drag and drop" active scrap icon for the QPAC2 button frame. Requires SMSQ/E and MENU_REXT. The Scrap button updates to indicate the type of scrap content (text or graphic). Text can be dragged from the icon and dropped into another program awaiting keyboard input. (47K) [19/10/06]
sethead.zip SetHead is a small utility to set the executable file header and dataspace in job programs which have lost theirs for some reason. (3K) (Jonathan Hudson) [05/11/06]
SimSer (24K) - serial port extensions to provide split receive and transmit like SMSQ/E under QDOS. [4/8/04]
sld.zip System Load Display or SLD is an executable program to display the load as imposed to the system by executing code, i.e. any sort of program, background tasks, interrupt routines, etc. (H.P.Recktenwald) (11K) [20/10/06]
Slowgold (51K) - computer running old QL programs too fast? Slow it down with Norman Dunbar's speed reduction extensions. [4/8/04]
slug.zip Slugger - a program to slow down some programs which run too fast on modern QDOS or SMSQ/E systems. (29K) [18/10/06]
Status is a simple program for both pointered and non-pointered system which shows a multitude of machine-dependent information in a small window on-screen, including the current DATA_USE and PROG_USE settings, free memory, version numbers of BASIC and operating system, and of pointer interface and window manager if PE is present. It also shows machine and processor information where the operating system makes this available. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
systemst.zip pointer driven program with three main functions. First, it helps you check and set the system clock without having to type in tedious SDATE statements from S*BASIC. Second, it helps you set such commands as PAR_USE, FLP_USE, WIN_USE, RAM_USE, SER_USE and DEV_USE and provides a MAKE_DIR facility for creating new directories on hard disk systems. Thirdly, it includes a pointer driven file selection menu, where once you have clicked on a filename, it is inserted into the Stuffer Buffer ready to be inserted into any program (including older non pointer driven programs) when you type ALT SPACE in that other program, giving you in essence a pointer driven file selection menu for almost all programs. Needs toolkit 2 and pointer environment (D. Jones) (70K) [05/07/05]
temperat.zipTemperature. This program was the predecessor to the Conversions program above, but is still useful in its own right. This converts between degrees Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin. Click on any of the three units, enter a temperature value and it's displayed in the other two units. This program is pointer driven and requires Toolkit 2. (D. Jones) (35K) [05/07/05]
The Cat (43KB) - List your files in columns on the screen or to the printer with this handy little extension. Resident extension and executable versions. (D. Jones) [19/10/04]
utilities.zip A package of utility programs, including Clock, ESCstrip, Disk Re-Labeller, OpenFile and Snapshot (Per-Erik Forssen) (15K) [19/10/06]
wallpaper.zip Wallpaper or background image display utility. (151KB) (D.Jones) [14/02/06]
wallpapr.zip Wallpaper display software for QDOS systems (204KB) (Dr Carlo Delhez) [14/02/06]
whatkey.zip - WhatKey v0.50 displays the ASCII code of the key you just pressed. (Adrian Ives) (44K) [25/01/06]
windraw.zip BASIC program to help with moving and resizing BASIC windows. (2KB) (J.Lucy) [14/02/06]
winlink003.zip Pointer driven utility to link/unlink Qubide partitions. (30K) (Graham Underwood) [05/11/06]
Wordscheck (41KB) - Utility to count the number of words in a file, complete with occurrences of each word. (D. Jones) [19/10/04]