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          GST QL stuff             July 2010             Public Domain (PD)

          prepared by Urs König (coWo)

          published under the Sinclair QL Preservation Project (SQPP)
          http://tinyurl.com/sqpp25

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          1. What it is:
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          This ZIP file holds resurected files of the Sinclair QL related
          work of GST. GST was a Cambridge based company founded by Jeffrey
          (Jeff) Fenton.

          The following software products are included in this distribution:

          - GST QL-Assembler (ASM) for the Sinclair QL under QDOS

          - GST QL-Macro Assembler (MAC) for the Sinclair QL under QDOS
            
            includes LINK, the Standard Sinclair QL S-ROFF Linker
            
            both the original Sinclair silver label package and the
            updated QUANTA package are included
            
            the subdirectory QT1 holds the latest version 1.06 of QMAC

          - GST QC, a C Development System, (QC) for the Sinclair QL under
            QDOS includes COMPILE the IDE which controls the build process,
            QCASM (another GST MC68000 assembler) and QED, GST's text editor.

          - GST 68K/OS alternate operating system for the Sinclair QL
            
            the 32KByte binary can be fitted in a QL at address $0000
            (instead of QDOS) or being used in QemuLator > version 2.9a1

          The distribution also includes the manuals and other documentation.
          Also included are snippets (articles, ads, etc.) from various
          computing magazines.

          As the copyright status of the Metacomco text editor (ED)
          - which was included in the ASM and MAC packages when published
          under the Sinclair silver label - is unknown (at least to me)
          I did not include this alien (non GST) program into this
          distribution. Instead of ED please use GST's QED which is part
          of their QC package or the other QED_exe of Jan Bredenbeek which
          is part of the QUANTA distribution of MAC called QMAC.
          or any other of the many text editiors available for QDOS.

          This distribution lacks the content of the two Sinclair
          Microdrive cartridges which were shipped for usage with the
          GST 68K/OS operating system. I own those two cartridges, but for
          the moment I'm not able to take the content out of the 68K/OS
          world. Under 68K/OS I can not write any media and format other
          than 68K/OS formated Microdrive cartridges. Such Microdrive
          cartridges are unreadable on any system other than 68K/OS.
          So this is the trap I'm in and the files are somehow in
          prison in the 68K/OS environment.

          There are two file systems in this ZIP file. The generic one
          holds the content including this ReadMe_txt. The QL - yet more
          precisly QDOS/SMSQ specific - one, which holds the QDOS software
          comes in a file called QXL.WIN (^1). Subdirectories with the
          name md? are the place where the content of the original
          Microdrive cartridges of each software package are stored in.

          ^1 QXL.WIN files are virtual (winchester) "harddisk drives"
          which hold the QL's filesystem QLWA. Once "mounted" you can
          access those drives on a QL system using the device driver
          called WIN (e.g. DIR WIN1_)


          2. LEGAL STUFF:
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          a) Copyright notice:
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          This distribution (all files) is a public domain (PD)!

          Here's the original statement made by Jeff Fenton in an eMail
          to me:

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          Von: Jeffrey Fenton
	  Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010 22:20
	  An: Urs Koenig
	  Betreff: Re: GST QL software as public domain / your GST/QL story.
	  I am sorry about my communication delays but my life has been very
	  hectic.
	   
	  I confirm that I an happy to announce that all GST software
	  written for the QL is now declared public domain and may be freely
	  used and copied by anyone. It or any derivative products may NOT
	  be copied or sold for profit
	   
	  I will also put this on Linkedin too.
	   
	  Jeff
          /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


          Jeff made a restriction which is that there should be made no
          profit not even from derivative products if one likes to use
          some GST software in their own packages.

          QUANTA did release their updated version of MAC called QMAC
          into public domain too.

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          Von: Dilwyn Jones
	  Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Juli 2010 19:46
	  An: John Gilpin
	  Cc: Urs König
	  Betreff: Re: QMAC and QLINKER
	  
	  > Following discussion with Sarah, we have now received more than 50% of 
	  > the committee votes FOR my motion to release the QUANTA versions of 
	  > QMAC and QLINKER to Public Domain.
	  >
	  > Please can you pass this information on behalf of QUANTA to Urs Koenig 
	  > for inclusion in his forthcoming release.
	  OK - Urs, please let me know you got this information.
	  <...>
	  
	  Dilwyn Jones
          /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
          

          b.- Disclaimers:
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          Nobody cannot be held liable for any loss or damage
          - direct or not - resulting from the use of this software or its
          documentation. Remember: Software is never bug free!
          This distribution is free, use it at your own risks or
          just don't use it at all.


          3. WANTED!
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          If you have any more GST written QL software please forward
          them to me for inclusion in this distribution. Especially if
          you have any source code (even snippets) or any 68K/OS programs,
          that's what's most wanted!


          Enjoy tinkering and always remember: QL forever!

          Urs Koenig (coWo)			mailto: ql@bluewin.ch

          V1.00 2010-07-08 KU initial package

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