Last Updated: 01.05.2007
A selection of replacement manuals for various QL hardware. Available here in only one file format for space reasons - a choice of other formats may be found on the QL Documentation CD. All manuals are placed here with the permission of the various product owners, please respect their copyright as applicable in each case and the permission to download and use these extend only to their use as replacement manuals for these products (e.g. for someone who has lost their manual or purchased a second hand device without a manual). In particular, please note that rights to the QL Manual itself and QL ROMs are held by Frank Davies and Paul Holmgren in North America and you need permission from them to download and use the QL Manual below in North America.
Digitiser | DiRen | Disk Interfaces | Level 2 ROM | Miracle Systems | Monitors | Q40/Q60 | QIMI | QL Manual | Qubbesoft | Ser8056 Printer | Sernet | TF Services | Toolkit 2
A Quill DOC file replacement manual for the CL
Systems (Lang) QL video digitiser.
cl.zip (7K)
A replacement manual for the Di-Ren keyboard
interface. Consists of a plain text file and the 5 diagrams as 512x256
mode 4 screens. Also available for download is v1.02 of Diren's Keyboard
Translate Utility for remapping keys on the keyboard.
Diren Keyboard Interface manual (11K)
Download Keyboard Translate Utility (6K)
The Micro Process Controller is a 6 relay switchbox which works from any
parallel interface (or via a serial to parallel converter) and programmed
simply by sending byte values to it. The MPC has a through port to connect
a parallel printer or a second MPC unit. The zip file contains a Word DOC
file version and a PDF file version of the manual.
mpc.zip (76K)
A small box with an LED which shows the status of the QL network. So
simple to use, it doesn't really need a manual, but here is a copy in
case.
netprovr.zip (14K)
Replacement manuals for older QL disk interfaces, further manuals can be found under Miracle Systems Manuals above.
CST Qdisc - replacement manuals for three versions of CST's
QDisc interface, one of the best known of the early QL disk interfaces.
This interface has no on-board RAM. If you are uncertain which version of
the interface you have (I have no information to assist with identifying
them), I suggest you download version 3. The diffference between the
manuals is just documentation of the extra commands contained in the ROM
on each version of the interface - the later interfaces had a greater
subset of the Toolkit 2 commands. CST did release 4 versions of the QDisc
interface, but I only have manuals for the first three.
CST QDisc version 1 (12K)
CST QDisc version 2 (13K)
CST QDisc version 3 (23K)
Cumana QL disk interface. Replacement manual as a Word DOC
file (diagrams included)
Cumana disk system manual as Word DOC file
(73K)
Falkenberg Hard Disk Interface. A replacement manual for Jürgen
Falkenberg's QL interface for MFM/RLL type hard disk systems.
Hard disk interface manual as Word DOC file
(58K)
Generic disk interface manual. A general purpose manual
suitable for most older disk interfaces which conform to the QJump FLP
type of interface. If you need a manual for one of the interfaces listed
here, download the specific one for that interface, it is best to use the
correct manual after all! If all else fails, download the Generic one
which should be enough to get you going!
Generic disk system manual as Word DOC file
(73K)
Sandy disk interfaces. A general manual for several of the
interfaces released by Sandy UK PCP, includes the SuperQBoard interface.
Quill DOC file.
Sandy disk interfaces manual (26K)
Technology Research Ltd Delta 128 disk interface with 128K
RAM. Quill DOC file, with 3 QL PIC file diagrams.
TRL Delta 128 interface manual (42K)
This is a replacement manual in plain text
format for the Level 2 Upgrade ROM for Trump Card and SuperQBoard. The
level 2 ROM itself is not included, it is copyright Jochen Hassler. This
provides level 2 filing system (hard directories etc) and the ATR device
for reading Atari and DOS format disks. Note that this download does NOT
include the ROM image, and that the level 2 Trump Card versions supplied
by Qubbesoft P/D do not include the ATR device driver.
lev2man.zip (8K)
Replacement manuals for Miracle Systems products. Over the years, Miracle Systems produced many of the best known QL add-ons such as memory expansions, disk interffaces, printer interfaces and so on.
Miracle Systems Ltd manual for the Trump Card as a plain text file -
useful if you have bought a second hand Trump Card which came without a
manual, since the manuals are now out of print. You will also need the
Toolkit 2 manual above. Thanks again to John Hitchcock for this file.
Trumpcard manual (12K)
Miracle Systems Ltd Gold Card manual as a plain text file, scanned by
Dave Westbury.
Gold Card manual (8K)
Miracle Systems Ltd Super Gold Card manual supplement, scanned by Dave
Westbury.
Super Gold Card manual (7K)
Miracle Systems Ltd QXL manual supplement, scanned by Dave Westbury.
QXL manual (24K)
A replacement manual for the Miracle Hard Disk system.
Miracle Hard Disk manual (10K)
One of the most popular QL add-ons of all time. These were serial to
parallel centronics printer adaptor cables, allowing parallel printers to
be plugged into the QL serial ports.
Printer Interface manual (1K)
A small disk adaptor card was produced allowing 4 disk drives to be
plugged into interfaces such as Gold Card and Super Gold Card which
normally only allowed 2 drives to be used.
Disk Adaptor manual (2K)
The manual for the black Miracle Extra High Density (ED) disk drives
supplied for the QL. These disk drives allowed ED disks to be formatted to
a capacity of 3.2MB on QL systems, and were also capable of reading DD and
HD disks.
ED Disk Drives manual (2K)
A short article showing how to construct an adaptor lead from the
printer connector on a Super Gold Card to a standard Centronics-style
connector.
Printer Cable Adaptor article (1K)
A scanned replacement manual for the original
black Sinclair Vision-QL RGB monitor. Includes a scanned circuit diagram.
Originally an A3 sized sheet, I have scanned it in 2 halves, as 2 A4 sized
sheets (left and right halves).
visionql.pdf (57K) - Adobe Acrobat PDF format
circuit1.gif (417K) - Left half of circuit
diagram
circuit2.gif (249K) - Right half of circuit
diagram
A scanned replacement manual for the original black Microvitec Cub QL
RGB monitor.
mvcub.pdf (54K) - Adobe Acrobat PDF format
scart.zip (29K) - Article from QL Today about hooking up a QL to a SCART video connection (use a TV as a monitor).
The Q40/Q60 mainboard user manual, Q40/Q60 hardware
documentation and the Q40/Q60 SBASIC part of the SMSQ/E manual. This is
only the Q40/Q60 specific part of the SMSQ/E manual, you'll need a
legitimate general SMSQ/E manual to complement this.
qx0.zip (183K)
Dave Westbury has kindly supplied a circuit diagram
of the QIMI mouse interface and some programming information about the
registers used, etc.
Click here to download a 512x256 QL _PIC file
circuit diagram. (6KB)
Click here for the register programming
information. (2KB)
The Introduction to the user guide, SuperBASIC
Programming section, Keyword and Concepts guides from the QL manual are
available for download here. Useful if you bought a second hand QL or have
lost your copy of the manual. See also under 'Articles' below for
introductions to the Pointer Environment. Click on the links to download
the files.
North American readers: Please note that you will need permission
from the joint rights holders Frank Davis and Paul Holmgren to download
and use these files!
Click
here to send an email to Frank.
Introduction to the QL manual (30K) (Plain text)
SuperBASIC programming section (114K) (Plain
text)
Keywords section (25K) (Plain text)
Concepts section (35K) (Plain text)
QL Manual as a zipped PDF file (2.4MB)
N.B. Note size of file prior to downloading!
QPC Keywords Guide (125K) Martin Head's
QL-manual style enhanced Keywords guide (Word DOC)
QPC Concepts Guide (86K) Martin Head's
QL-manual style enhanced Concepts guide (Word DOC)
servman.zip (222K) QL Service Manual, scanned by Andy Dansby, available here are plaintext and Quill DOC file, with PIC file diagrams.
A replacement manual for the Aurora QL
compatible motherboard. Useful if you have lost your manual or bought a
second user Aurora without getting a manual with it!
As a Quill DOC file (37KB)
The Aurora technical details (registers, screens, detecting Aurora,
extended ROM details etc) from Aurora designer Zeljko Nastasic
Aurora Technical Guide (6K)
This is a Quill DOC file manual and a PIC file diagram of the QPlane
backplane from Qubbesoft P/D.
qplane.zip (6K)
Replacement manual for the QUBIDE QL IDE interface from Qubbesoft P/D,
along with various ROM version images and a few technical information
files. Includes copies of manuals for version 1 and 2 QUBIDEs in Quill DOC
and plain text file formats. Includes a file called CHANGES.TXT which
lists differences between the various ROM versions up to 2.02. Also
includes a few basic utility programs.
qubide.zip (155K)
With thanks to Roy Wood, here is a version of the Qubide manual and
version 2 upgrade sheet as a M$ Word file. This has been slightly updated
since the above version.
qubide_qbranch.zip (78K)
A replacement manual for the QEP III Eprom Programmer for the QL,
formerly sold by Care Electronics and latterly by QUBBESoft P/D.
qep3qdoc.zip Quill DOC file (9K)
The Ser8056 was a very popular low cost thermal
paper printer in the early days of the QL, and is still to be found second
hand. This version of the manual has added information about graphics
modes. Quill DOC, plain text and RTF file versions, with PIC file
diagrams.
ser8056.zip(123K)
A manual (all 3 pages of it) for the Sernet serial
link network. Includes a couple of other helpful articles from QL Today
magazine on the subject.
sernet.zip (24K)
Replacement manuals for some off the hardware add-ons from TF Services.
A replacement manual for the superHermes LITE from TF Services.
superHermes LITE provides a replacement QL second processor (improved
Hermes) and an IBM AT keyboard interface for the QL. Useful if you have
lost your manual or bought a second user board without getting a manual
with it (although you will still need the Supplementary Filesdisk from TF
Services)! The manual is available in plain text or Quill DOC file
formats:
As a Quill DOC file (9KB)
Also available, courtesy of Phoebus Dokos, is the US
keyboard driver (38KB) for superHermes LITE
The SuperHermes manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format, in fact comes
in two formats, one a printable PDF file. Supplied by Tony Firshman of TF
Services.
SuperHermes PDF manuals (614KB)
Documentation for the add-on devices available from TF Services for the
Minerva Mkii's I2C (Inter-IC Communication) interface, supplied in Adobe
Acrobat PDF file format.
I2C products manual (308KB)
Replacement manual for the RomDisq flash memory device for the QL from
TF Services, supplied in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.
Romdisq PDF manual (22KB)
Replacement manual in PDF file format for the MPlane low profile
backplane for QL and Aurora from Tony Firshman of TF Services.
MPlane PDF manual (8KB)
Replacement manual for the Hermes IPC replacement chip from TF Services.
DOC, TXT and RTF files.
Hermes manual(21K)
Tony Tebby has authorised the distribution of
the user guide for Toolkit 2, a suite of QL extensions now built into many
hardware expansions and some QL emulators. This is a plain text file
version of the Toolkit 2 manual, which may come in useful if you have lost
your manual, or bought second user hardware with Toolkit 2 on board, which
came without a manual. Thanks to John Hitchcock for sending me the manual
on disk originally.
Toolkit 2 manual (40K)
Reconfigurable Toolkit 2 (2K)
Toolkit 2 Tutorial (15K) - A tutorial originally
published in QReview magazine
