Welcome to QXL.WIN, the QL Container 

Contact me on: collector (followed by the usual email symbol and) qxl.win. Or via the qlforum.co.uk, I am user Chr$.

Recent additions - 4/2/25 added the Volume 7 Quanta Magazine downloads

WANTED: The missing 3rd of the ROM data for my pre-production QL

This is QXL.WIN, the online container* for my 'show and tell' of Sinclair QL related collection of hard/software. I like to focus on originality, so for each item I try to show a number of large images and for software I also list the names and sizes of all files on the original media plus the original media name - so you can compare your items (let me know about any differences). I often have swaps available or for sale and am always on the look-out for anything QL related that isn't on my list - especially original microdrive cartridges.

This website has been constructed (initially in 2021) using very basic HTML with just pictures and text in the hope that users of computers with less sophisticated browsers may also be able to access it.

Some related info: PDF intro to the QL and some hardware developments : Info on the Psion versions and labels : My Rarity Scale : Why I Collect QL? : Tips on Microdrive Cartridge Recovery : Cartridge Data Structure : My Recovery Statistics.

Eventually, when I find the time, I hope to add a page for every item (those in bold already have a page).

Fun fact: The text on this page (NOT including the images) and the HTML code that formats it (inc. Frontpage bloat), is 120kb in size, which is already too large to fit on the maximum amount of storage space available on a single QL Microdrive Cartridge (normally around 110kb).

*QXL.WIN was originally the name of the container file on IBM compatible FAT partitions that the 16-bit ISA Miracle Systems QXL(II) card used as its hard drive. Since then, it has become the main container file type for QDOS files and has been implemented on other QL compatible systems, is also implemented in a number of emulators and just recently got added support as a container file on SMSQ/E - the OS evolution of the QL's original QDOS. Ironically, QXL.WIN type container files can, in conjunction with the QL-SD interface, now be used on original QL computers.

ALSO  WANTED, do you have any of these cartridges: (I have annoyingly empty original boxes for them!)

Omega (Caret), Super Arcadia (Digital Precision), Super Sprite Generator (Digital Precision), The Designer (Pyramide), Transact (Dialog), QRam German version (QJump).

BEST PRICES PAID.

Sinclair QL Microdrive Games

The names in bold are links to separate info pages.

(original boxed Microdrive cartridges)

Text Adventure Games (original boxed Microdrive cartridges):

Loose Microdrive cartridges - many of which were not originally supplied in boxes:

Sinclair QL Microdrive Software

Bonus: Sinclair Branded brochure (PDF) and letter from Sinclair with price-list (PDF)

(utilities, business, programming etc, original boxed Microdrive cartridges):

Loose Microdrive cartridges - many of which were not originally supplied in boxes:

Sinclair QL Floppy Disk Games/Software

(many of which were not originally supplied in boxes):

Sinclair QL related Hardware, including modern QL compatible systems:

Test Equipment

Original Thorn EMI Factory Test Jig for UK made QL's

QL or QL Based Computers

Expansions/Accessories

Website Extras

The complete Volume 7 of the Quanta monthly magazines as PDF files.

(non QL related) - The Grundig GV280S-PC VCR, with pdf manuals and software etc.

QXL.WIN (c) 2021 - 2025 by Chr$. RIP Sir Clive.