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List of Sinclair QL clones

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The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's Sinclair QL microcomputer:[1]

  • Sandy QLT / Futura (only produced in prototype form)[2][3]
  • CST Thor series (Thor 1 / Thor 20 / Thor XVI)[2][3]
  • Qubbesoft Aurora (a replacement QL motherboard)[1]
  • Peter Graf's Qx0 series of motherboards: Q40, Q40i and Q60[4]
  • Peter Graf's Q68 (a stand-alone FPGA-based SMSQ/E-machine) and QIMSI Gold (an FPGA-based expansion for the original QL's ROM port that basically is a Q68)
  • The ZX Spectrum Next FPGA-based computer [5]

The following hardware devices provided QL compatibility for other computer platforms:

The ICL One Per Desk (also sold as the BT Merlin Tonto or the Telecom Australia Computerphone) shared some hardware components with the QL but was not intended to be software-compatible.

In addition, several software emulators of the QL exist including QPC, uQLX, QLay and Q-emuLator.[10]

Not exactly software emulators, but rather QDOS-like OS replacements for other 68k-based machines are

  • SMSQ/E for the Atari ST
  • QDOS Clasic for the Amiga
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Klein, Robert. "QL history FAQ part one: Hardware". www.staff.uni-mainz.de. Archived from the original on 4 May 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060504000555/http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/roklein/ql/Hardware. Retrieved 23 July 2010. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 HELLER, LEON (September 18, 1986). "Supplement: Alive and leaping". Popular Computing Weekly: pp. iv-v. https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1986-09-18/page/n25/mode/2up. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Goodwin, Simon (January 1988). "Tech Niche - AMSTROLOGY The future of the Spectrum - can a superclone challenge Amstrad?". Crash (48): pp. 143. https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-48. 
  4. ↑ "Infos about the Q60 - A Sinclair QL successor". 2006. http://www.q40.de/. 
  5. ↑ "SYSTEM/NEXT 24.11". 2024-11-29. https://www.specnext.com/latestdistro/. 
  6. ↑ "Sinclair QL Home Computer Emulators for Other Computers". https://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/emulators.html. 
  7. ↑ "JMS Homepage for SMSQ/E (QL-compatible operating system and more)". March 27, 2006. http://smsq.j-m-s.com/index.htm. 
  8. ↑ Merz, Jochen (May 1996). "My BOOT". QL Today: pp. 7. https://sinclairql.net/qlt/QLToday_V01-I1_en.pdf. 
  9. ↑ Jäger, Peta. "QL-HARDWARE und PRODUKTINFORMATIONEN". http://sinclairql.emuunlim.com/hardware.html. 
  10. ↑ Jones, Dilwyn. "Sinclair QL Software - Emulators". Dilwyn Jones Sinclair QL Pages. https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/emu/index.html. Retrieved 24 February 2025. 



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