QL Today

The new magazine for all QDOS/SMSQ users !

Published by Jochen Merz Software, and edited by Dilwyn Jones, QL Today is a magazine for everyone who has a QL or compatible. It contains listings of events, news, reviews of hardware and software, reports from QL shows and meetings, programming articles, letters, histories of QL alumni and many more subjects. Articles are written by a number of prominent QL users, and (we hope) by the readers too. QL Today also includes a German language supplement for German subscribers.

Jochen Merz has been supplying software and hardware for several years and built up a good reputation for quality and fair trading. The representative in Britain is Miracle Systems Ltd, who take subscriptions and do the distribution.

There are many exciting QL hardware developments currently in the pipeline. QL Today will keep you in touch with all the latest news. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, we hope you will find articles of interest in QL Today.

Issue 1 included the following articles :

Subscription details

QL Today is published bi-monthly. Our volume begins on 15th May. Subscriptions begin with the current issue at the time of sign up. Subscription rates are as follows.

  • Germany : DM 70,-
  • Great Britain : DM 60,- or `25.00
  • Rest of the World : DM 70,- or `30.00
  • Payment in DM (drawn on a German bank) can be made by either cheque or Eurocheque. Payment in Sterling (GBP) by cheque (drawn on a British bank). Please make cheques payable to Jochen Merz Software (German office), or to Miracle Systems Ltd (English office). Credit card holders may subscribe by either calling or sending their credit card number and expiry date. Credit cards will be charged in DM (German office) or in Pounds (English office).

    News / articles / advertising deadlines

    Issue 1 : 15 April
    Issue 2 : 15 June
    Issue 3 : 15 August
    Issue 4 : 15 October
    Issue 5 : 15 December
    Issue 6 : 15 February

    Articles for publication should be on a 3.5 inch disk (DD or HD) in ASCII (plain text), Quill, or Text 87 format. Pictures can be in _SCR (QL screen), and we can also handle GIF and TIF formats. To enhance your article you may wish to include saved screen dumps. Please send a hardcopy of all screens to be included and specify clearly where in the text you would like the screen placed.

    German Office and Publisher

    Jochen Merz Software, Im stillen Winkel 12, 47169 Duisburg, Germany.
    Telephone: +49 203-502011 Fax: +49 203-502012

    English Office

    Miracle Systems Ltd., 20 Mow Barton, Yate, Bristol, BS17 5NF, Great Britain.
    Telephone and Fax: +44 1454-883602

    Editor

    Dilwyn Jones, 41 Bro Emrys, Tal-Y-Bont, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 3YT, Great Britain.
    Telephone and Fax: +44 1248-354023

    IQLR subscribers

    If you have issues outstanding from your IQLR subscription and have not received a refund, read this before subscribing.

    If you subscribed through Miracle Systems Ltd (i.e. you were issued an invoice from Miracle Systems Ltd) or through Jochen Merz Software then you will get the number of QL Today issues free of charge that you were owed by IQLR. If you have an outstanding subscription to IQLR purchased through a different channel then tell us - you will be eligible for half price issues to substitute for the IQLRs you are owed provided you take out a subscription. Contact Miracle Systems Ltd or Jochen Merz Software for more details.


    written by Dilwyn Jones
    last edited July 15, 1996