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Outsoftware · Digital preservation · 2016–present

The collection preserves original media and their copy protection. Supplied backup copies are also used to document the software and are identified in the screenshot captions.

Digital preservation / Sinclair QL

CA 1.0 — Richard Kettlewell

Floppy IMG derived from archived files. Mount as FLP1 and boot using Minerva 1.98a1 ROM, 640 KiB emulator RAM and Toolkit II 2.32. Randomized the 128×128 grid and started evolution; successive frames show changing coloured regions. The original C source selects an eight-state cyclic automaton with Moore neighbourhood. Kettlewell’s 1992 program differs from Alan Pemberton’s 1990 Demon. Basic functional check in sQLux, not full validation or a physical-hardware test. Audio untested. ROMs are not included.

CA 1.0 — Richard Kettlewell — Randomized the 128×128 grid and started evolution; successive frames show changing coloured regions. The original C source selects an eight-state cyclic automaton with Moore neighbourhood. Kettlewell’s 1992 program differs from Alan Pemberton’s 1990 Demon.
Randomized the 128×128 grid and started evolution; successive frames show changing coloured regions. The original C source selects an eight-state cyclic automaton with Moore neighbourhood. Kettlewell’s 1992 program differs from Alan Pemberton’s 1990 Demon. · sQLux
Source: ca-1-0-richard-kettlewell.img

ca-1-0-richard-kettlewell.img

Derived Working IMG selected by the curator. This is not a public-domain declaration; rights remain with their respective holders.

Download Working IMG720 KB · IMG

Platform
Sinclair QL
SHA-256
8bd97eabe33cefa150cf51fe0900b59aa654166c0c30d91ca9bc128f5d120158
File timestamp

Timestamp stored in the original ZIP; timezone unspecified. It does not certify the dump acquisition date.

Media contents (6)
QDOS floppy directory
Original nameTypeByte
rjk_ca_cQL file5.309
rjk_ca_oQL file2.080
rjk_plot_oQL file285
rjk_plot_sQL file2.123
rjk_caExecutable14.628
bootQL file67

Names are preserved as recorded on the medium. “≤” indicates allocated space, not the exact file length.