The Sinclair QL Forum

Good luck. How does QIMSI replace QLNET for you? By SERNET? Yes, with the new Minerva SER driver I get about 8Kbytes/second when sending from QIMSI to Q68. The other way round is slower but works when I lower the baud rate to 57600. (BTW, I have been in a long conversation with Mark Swift about the...

I just read that SMSQ/E attempts to emulate it but I don't know if that's limited to only the BEEP command or the IPC trap as well It works even with games like Spook or Cuthbert, Tony Tebby implemented it for Q40/Q60 and I think he did quite a good job. From the source I gather that the smsq.hdop ...

Great job! I see that the incompatibility with my mouse driver is now also solved. With the KEYROW dependency on interrupts gone, Minerva for Q68 is now getting ahead of SMSQ/E when it comes to backward compatibility. Well, we could even emulate the IPC sound trap through SSSS though this won't be ...

BREAKING NEWS : I have tested Pudge with the just released v1.6 of Minerva4Q68 and as far I can see it works now, except for the sound of course. I have added the SLUG command which can be used to slow down the Q68 (0 = full speed, 255 = slows down to a crawl; 128 will be about original QL speed). ...

I would try it in Q-emuLator with both Sinclair and Minerva, to see if is a Minerva issue in general, or specific to Q68. Most games use the keyrow IPC QDOS trap. On Sinclair ROMs, the trap works fine when the rest of the OS is halted or disabled. Yes, but this depends on the IPC hardware being emu...

I've recently been playing around with pre-historic QL games etc but using my Q68. I've been booting it with Jan's Minerva mod for the Q68 (here: https://github.com/janbredenbeek/Minerva4Q68) and in conjunction with Martin's MDI microdrive device driver I can get an original cart assigned as mdv1_ ...

Would that be extra colours in mode 4 as well, or just mode 8? I'd love 8 (or more) colours in mode 4. I have a feeling it's been mentioned that it's not for mode 4 though, is that right? In mode 4 there are only two bits available per pixel, so extending that would require relocation of the displa...

If you have Minerva you can use CALL 390,<new RAMTOP>. E.g. CALL 390,(384+128)*1024 gets you 384KB RAM.

What version is the Trump Card's ROM? I know that older versions work only with DD drives and have problems with HD/ED drives.

There are two versions of my driver, one UQLX2017, and one UQLX2018. Don't know what the difference is yet. I might try looking through old posts here, It might remind me. And I will fire up my old Linux PC and see how many different UQLX's are on there. UQLX versions before 2018 used *tcp and *sck...