The Dead Letter Drop

aka Jonathan Hudson's Home Page

17th August 1997


The Dead Letter Drop (aka DLD) is the support resource for free software written or maintained by Jonathan Hudson (Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk). This page is not particularly exciting, but should be useable with most browsers.


New Software

Other SMS/QDOS software can be found at ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/qdos and ftp.nvg.unit.no:/pub/sinclair/ql.

uqlx news

Richard Zidlicky's (rdzidlic@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) port of Daniele Terdina's (sistest@ictp.trieste.it) 680x0 emulation engine to UNIX/X continues apace. This emulator runs on Linux and many other Unices.

It copes admirably with complex software such as Ghostscript, qfv, printfax, zip, unzip, QTPI etc. E-mail Richard for more info or to join the mailing list.

Two small support packages are:

Click me (14Kb GIF, 10/11/96) to see the beta uQLx in action (this is the new look XAW interface). It's running some pretty complex programs in a 4Mb uQLx (virtual) machine (on a 32Mb/Linux P5/100 system).

Visit the official Q-emulator home page for further Mac and Unix info.

Some software

PGP2.62i - Public key encryption software

Click here to upload PGP 2.62i for QDOS Binaries, full documentation and source. (679Kb, 16/11/96).

qltools - SMS/QDOS disk reader/writer for Unix,W32,OS2,DOS,VMS

qltools v2.70 is available for all supported platforms (and as source code) from the Demon ftp site.

Beta test software

This page currently makes available some beta test software.

tar 0.02 Beta tar. Fixes some directory issues, sets file date as original.

SMS and QDOS

SMS and QDOS are operating systems for 680xx based computers, originally (popularised ?) by the Sinclair QL. Modern, debugged, compatible operating systems, supporting more recent, reliable hardware include SMS/2, SMSQ/E and Minerva.

SMS and QDOS Web Resources

BBS supporting SMS/QDOS users include (e&oe):


The Author ?


Click Me for picture (36Kb GIF) Jonathan R Hudson is the author of some moderately buggy SMS/QDOS programs. Jonathan lives in sunny Hampshire after malingering in the Omani desert for many years. Caught here having a sunny day off exploring the historic Nizwa Fort in the Oman Interior. Nice mountains, not much desert.

This document is an experiment in HTML and not necessarily informative or accurate.


Jonathan R Hudson
Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk
Fax: +44 (0)1703 867843

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