Compware

Compware released quite a lot of small useful utilities for the Sinclair QL in the mid 1980s. In 1987 they were based in Haslington, near Crewe.

The programs they published are:

• 1 to 1 DUMP (Screen dump routine for printers)
• BOOT 128K (Short routine to re-boot an expanded QL with only 128K memory)
• Compware C (NEVER PUBLISHED)
• Copycat - Backup utility
• Microdrive Subroutines - set of routines to allow you to read and write microdrive cartridge sectors from SuperBASIC (MISSING IN ACTION)
• Multi-Print - also known as M-Print (MISSING IN ACTION)
• QL Assembly Language Microdrive Toolkit - Source code for QL Microdrive Toolkit
• QL Expert - Environment for programming, debugging and operation of rule based expert systems.
• QL Microdrive Toolkit - set of functions for accessing microdrive data directly
• Superficial Operating System (SuperBASIC tools for file handling) (MISSING IN ACTION).