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by martyn_hill
Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Serial QPC to QL
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Serial QPC to QL

That's a good call, Martin :-)
by martyn_hill
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Serial QPC to QL
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Serial QPC to QL

Hi again Jbizzel! A few points: A. Did you use the device names 'ser1hz' or just 'ser1'? B. The 2x SER ports on the QL are indeed wired differently - RX/TX and RTS/CTS are swapped between them, so I would expect you to need a different wiring than you show in that image for SER2. (SER1 is wired and ...
by martyn_hill
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Serial QPC to QL
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Serial QPC to QL

Hi again! Glad to hear that. I shall assume that you are using the handshaking option as suggested, so as to avoid buffer overrun across the Serial link. Also, that your serial cable actually has the handshaking lines correctly wired (RTS/CTS). Depending upon just how long you are waiting before hit...
by martyn_hill
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Help for New Users
Topic: Serial QPC to QL
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Serial QPC to QL

Hi JBizzel! From what you have described, it sounds like you are hitting a slight 'incompatibility' between the SAVE and LOAD commands between SMSQe (as running under QPC) and the version of QDOS and/or TK2 on the target QL. If that is the case, the cause is the missing 'Byte-serial header' expected...
by martyn_hill
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:38 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: SMSQmulator v3 and the QLUB Adapter...
Replies: 4
Views: 262

Re: SMSQmulator v3 and the QLUB Adapter...

Ciao Daniele! SER is supported on Mac... you just need a 68000-based Mac :D Yes, apologies - I should have been more precise in my terminology :-) I myself still have a PowerBook 190cs somewhere (68LC040) - but no USB port for the Virtual SERial port connection to the QLUB - I don't suppose any of t...
by martyn_hill
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: ND-MQ - New Network Driver for the QLUB Adapter
Replies: 53
Views: 6289

Re: ND-MQ - New Network Driver for the QLUB Adapter

Hi everyone!

Just to say that, with Wolfgang's recent release of SMSQmulator v3.0 and it's support for the SERial port, the QLUB Adapter has another supported emulation platform!

See viewtopic.php?t=4720 for my test results.

Thanks Wolfgang!
by martyn_hill
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:37 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: SMSQmulator v3 and the QLUB Adapter...
Replies: 4
Views: 262

SMSQmulator v3 and the QLUB Adapter...

Hi everyone! Not quite sure where to post this, but I'll start here... With Wolfgang's recent announcement of the v3.0 release of his Java-based QL Emulator, SMSQmulator and its new support for the SERial Port, I thought to test it with the QLUB Adapter (QL LAN to USB Bridge Adapter). To recap, the ...
by martyn_hill
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: CPLD replacement for ZX8301
Replies: 223
Views: 50102

Re: CPLD replacement for ZX8301

Good morning everyone! Having received one of Leon's excellent (basic) ZX8301 ULA replacements recently, I proceeded to test a number of configurations. Full test results appear below but overall, the replacement ULA works perfectly in both my Issue-5 and Issue-6 QLs until a Gold or Super Gold Card ...
by martyn_hill
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: File modified date/time
Replies: 7
Views: 328

Re: File modified date/time

Hi tonyt

Just to add that TK2 also has the 'WSTAT' command that acts like DIR but adds datestamp and filesize to the usual directory listing.
by martyn_hill
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: My rare old QL version AH
Replies: 22
Views: 1063

Re: My rare old QL version AH

Hi badaman!
badaman wrote: I refer to this in both comments.
Aha - ok, so that is just a tunable capacitor that was used on the Iss5 boards to tweak the 32kHz clock that drives the RTC timing on the ZX8302.

By the time the Iss6 boards came out, they just did away with that and used fixed timing for the RTC.