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Peter, you will tell us when you will release them for sale and prices. The release will be at the international QL meeting on May 17/18/19 in Dormagen. The price for the initial batch will be 75 € per unit, and 90 € with buffered realtime clock. Component prices are volatile, so pricing could chan...

lliont wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:27 pm Yes and this with an 8-bit bus vs 16 bit of Gold card but speed is not everything.

Yes, the specialty is that you are doing it with a 68008, which gives it a nice retro flavour.

An simple internal DIN41612 to ROMport connector board might be useful :idea: You may have noticed 2 x 2 extra pins in addition to the QL ROM port (the smaller ones near to the edge). One of them is leading QLNET and one is a "detection" pin. The other two could be used with such a connec...

This is really great news, Peter! Now I know what i want for my birthday! Well, my birthday was today, so if there is a waiting list please sign me up! I want want to buy me a birthday present :D Wow! Thanks. Happy birthday to you! There is no list yet. We struggle to even be ready for the launch a...

If I understand well Qimsi Gold is a Q68 to insert into the QL Rom Port and the original QL is used just as power supply, dont you? Wrong! QIMSI Gold already uses the QL matrix keyboard and joystick with the accelerated CPU. As well as gimmicks like the QL speaker. Microdrives are not supported yet...

Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:23 pm I am really fed up I can not attrnd, but I woukd be grateful, if you reserve a QIMDI GOLD for me. The expansion facilities look excellent.

Hi Derek, we will miss you a lot! I will try to reserve one for you.

Out of curiosity, two questions: . Will it have a high speed rs-232 output (qimsi style "ser4")? (I believe I understood that yes). Yes. And it has higher throughput now, if used directly with Minerva or SMSQ/E on the accellerated CPU. - If it has video, memory, keyboard/mouse... Will it ...

Hi folks, would you like to improve your QL with... ... a digital connection to modern displays ? ... 1024 x 768 graphics resolution ? ... 65536 colors ? ... a 40 MHz 68000 compatible CPU running Minerva and SMSQ/E ? ... 32 MB RAM ? ... a buffered realtime clock ? ... a 115200 Baud serial port ? ......

lliont wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:07 pm But this I think it is the final version maybe with only minor changes.

Not bad! Almost Gold Card speed which has Q-Top Index 5.127.

It also needs two wires and a small board over zx8301 socket but it is so much easier to install and no need for 3d printed plate for the ports. One or two wires are not too bad. For QIMSI I also needed one for the QL speaker. I had the luck that one ROM port pin has no dedicated funktion, so the c...