Q-emuLator Sinclair QL emulator

Q-emuLator is a software emulator of the QL, running as an application in the Windows and Mac OS environments.
Q-emuLator has an interpreter of the 68008's instructions, and emulates the basic QL's hardware, redirecting input and output to the Mac's or PC's video, keyboard, mouse, disks, sound hardware and serial ports.

To download Q-emuLator, visit either the Windows or OS X page on this web site.

Q-emuLator snapshots [outdated]

To see some pictures of the program in action look at these snapshots of Q-emuLator...

...running Qpac 2 on Mac OS (29KB)
...with the QL Configuration window open and the QL prompt in the background on Mac OS (12KB)
...running full screen on my Windows PC (45KB)
...running Minefield and the Gold Card version of SMSQ/E on Windows XP (104KB)
...running the QDOS ports of the Lynx internet browser (12KB) and FTP (11KB) on Windows
...first released versions running Psion Chess on Mac System 7 (20KB) and on Windows 95 (12KB)

Q-emuLator source code and UQLX

Q-emuLator is written in C and part of its sources (the 68008 processor emulation sources - .ZIP file (28KB) or .SIT file (32KB)) are freely available to anyone interested.
The emulator has been ported to UNIX by Richard Zidlicky, under the UQLX name. All its sources are included in the UQLX distribution.

QL technical information

jsrom.zip (104KB) is the disassembly of the QL rom (version JS) that was available on the Maya ftp site, plus a few more comments and corrections.
Zeljko Nastasic has released to the public technical information about his Aurora card (aurora.zip (7KB)). If you want to read the document now, I converted it to HTML.
The QL Service Manual describes the QL hardware.
QDOS internals documentation by Norman Dunbar.
Lots of scanned QL related documents and manuals.
The SMSQ/E sources are available for download.
More QL-related documentation can be found at https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/index.html.

QL discussion lists and blogs

Follow the official Q-emuLator blog.
The Sinclair QL Forum is a great web forum for QL related discussions.
The ql-users mailing list is the traditional virtual meeting place for all things QL.
QBlog (in Spanish, but you could try automatic translation) regularly posts articles about the QL and retrocomputing.

QL links [outdated]

A good starting point with lots of links to QL-related sites are the pages of Thierry Godefroy.

QL Software screenshots

Email Q-emuLator's author