RWAP Software

Sinclair QL

Cambridge Z88

ZX Spectrum

ZX80

ZX81

ICL
One Per Desk

All RWAP Software products are produced in the UK and written or updated by Rich Mellor.

We provide some software for the Windows environment, Sinclair QL programs and also custom software modules for use with the Enuuk PHP Auction platform. We have also produced our own printer capture and printer emulators for use with our Retro-Printer Module project which are now proven across a range of home users and industries. We also get involved in some PLC controls projects when required, bringing a wealth of knowledge, experience and user focussed design across a wide variety of platforms and requirements.

Sinclair QL Software

Many of our programs for the Sinclair QL, are re-releases of software previously written by other companies, now updated to ensure that they work on the latest operating systems and with some improvements. We have obtained their permission to release the updated versions, and still pay royalties on any software which we sell. Unless otherwise stated, all programs require a minimum of 256K memory.

How we Supply Software

We can supply almost all of our software for any QL system or emulation, so please feel free to ask. Examples are:

3.5" DSDD (or HD) Floppy Disks for use with the Sinclair QL or some emulators. Alternatively, we can provide a digital floppy disk image.
Standard vDrive Images - for use with the vDrive or other virtual microdrive systems in use on a standard Sinclair QL.
QL Core microdrive images - for use with the QL Core on the Spectrum Next computer.
Q-emuLator .qlpak files - click on them to launch the game instantly within Q-emuLator.
Zipped Windows Folder which you can attach to q-emulator or other emulators and run the software from within the emulator.
Microdrive cartridges (if you supply a working, formatted and refelted microdrive cartridge).
Windows Executables - you can easily run our Adventures, a demonstration version of QWord and a QL Software collection on a Windows PC.

Box-Sets and Collections

As part of the 30th Anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair QL (and the later 30th Anniversary of RWAP Software), we released a series of Sinclair QL box-sets featuring a range of commercial adventures and games, all supplied on 3.5" disk in presentation boxes. All of these can be used with an emulator on a PC, or from a standard QL with a disk drive and extra memory. These can also be found as digital versions (disk images plus PDF manuals). Buy the box-sets on SellMyRetro.com

We also offer a Shadow Games Collection featuring most of their programs as .qlpak versions for use with Q-emuLator.

RWAP Software Approach

Since 1988, we have written all of our proprietary software is written in small modules which enable easy testing of the software at all stages of development. This approach also allows us to speed up the process of program design by utilising ready-tested modules from other programs.

Unfortunately, this is not always the case where we are asked to update earlier versions of software, some of which we do not have the source code for. As a result, we have become accustomed to understanding various other programming languages and methods of writing programs and are able to cope with programs written in C, machine code, BASIC, Perl, HTML, Ladder (PLC-5 and SLC-500) and MS-Access.

We are constantly looking out for new programs to release and update - if you know of any commercial projects which would benefit from our depth of experience, please do contact us.

We offer a selection of public domain software and are happy to assist copyright holders with re-releasing QL software as freeware.

A CD containing various public domain and demo versions of commercial emulators is now available; allowing PC, Macintosh and UNIX users to still enjoy the delights of the Sinclair QL.

For details of any of our software products, please select one of the categories shown above.