Sinclair Research Ltd
Sinclair Research Limited was a company set up by Sir Clive Sinclair to create and promote his computer products.
Their computer products heralded the start of the home computer revolution, making them into a household name during the 1980s and included:
- Sinclair ZX80
- Sinclair ZX81
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum +
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum +128
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
- Sinclair QL
As well as producing and selling the Quantum Leap (known as the Sinclair QL), Sinclair Research added a software range, using their silver label branding - the titles released for the Sinclair QL were:
- Archive - the Psion database program provided with the Sinclair QL.
- Abacus - the Psion spreadsheet program provided with the Sinclair QL.
- Easel - the Psion business graphics program provided with the Sinclair QL.
- Psion Chess - a classic game with a 3D view of the board
- QL Assembler - 68000 machine code assembler
- QL Bounder - An arcade game
- QL Cavern - Platform arcade game featuring BJ
- QL Cash Trader - Accounting package
- QL Classic Adventures - a package consisting of The Adventure and Mordons Quest
- QL Decision Maker - a powerful tool for resolving complex decision-making problems
- QL Entrepreneur - sold as a complete business start-up kit
- QL Project Planner - teaches and applies the principles of critical path analysis.
- QL Fictionary - word game
- QL Gardener - a program to provide advice on plants
- QL Home Finance - a bank account manager
- QL Integrated Accounts - an accounting package
- QL Jabber - an arcade game
- QL Macro Assembler - 68000 machine code assembler
- QL Meteor Storm - classic arcade game
- QL MONITOR - 68000 machine code monitor
- QL Toolkit - a suite of additions to SuperBASIC by Tony Tebby
- QL Paint - a drawing package
- QL Pawn - classic text based adventure game
- QL Reversi - classic board game
- QL Quboids - arcade game
- QL Touch n Go - a typing tutor
- Quill - the Psion word processing program provided with the Sinclair QL.
Sinclair also had a couple more arcade games which were never released:
Sinclair also licensed various hardware add-ons which were then sold Sinclair badged
- Sinclair QL 128K RAM (only released to developers)
- Sinclair QL 128Kbyte ROM (never released)
- Sinclair QL Expansion Development Kit (never released)
- Sinclair Wafer RAM Expansion (never released)
They also published QL specific books
- QL User Guide - the standard manual issued with the Sinclair QL
- QL Technical Guide - technical guide to programming machine code which interfaces to QDOS, the Sinclair QL's operating system
- QL Service Manual - repair manual for the QL.
Sinclair also issued the following tools to help retailers: