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You can (carefully) replace the felt pads on the microdrive cartridges - you can remove the old felt pad and replace it with a new one - either take one from a normal cassette and cut it in half (and then use superglue), or look at: http://www.8-track-shack.com/cassette-tape-replacement-felt-pressur...

A Quanta section on the forum would be the easiest way forward - if some areas could be read only for non-Quanta members, and some areas only accessible for Quanta members, then the library disks could be uploaded to the second area, along with other things which Quanta has rights to for its member...

I have a stock of JM or JS ROM QLs here and can guarantee to sort out a working one if anyone needs one

Boxed ones are extra (of course!)

From memory, the problem with TURBO is that the restore could not just be calculated - it had to be or As then Turbo could update the initial pointer - I could be wrong however.

Steve Poole has been working on translating this, but has had problems - the main issues being that the SuperBASIC did not run under SMSQ/e and the program appears unfinished to tell you the truth. Whilst the translation of the program is almost done - maybe you could have a look at translating the ...

Welcome to the forums - always good to see a growing number of users

You should have used FLP_STEP 6 (or even FLP_STEP 12 although that is unlikely)

The other thing to try is FLP_JIGGLE 1

I wonder who bought it?

We will probably know in a few weeks time, when someone comes on here asking how to fix Gold Cards and remove inches of dust / rust from motherboards!

I do have one QL customer in Argentina, but none in Chili (as both seem to share Patagonia). I also have other QL contacts in South America (Brazil mainly) If you want me to pass your details send me a PM with a message you would like circulated to them. Thanks Rich It remains to be confirmed if yo...

Excellent news Good job it wasn't a SGC - they tend to be irreparable if plugged into a QL with the 5V regulator bypassed and no backplane.