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I am sure that amongst all my 8301 chips, I must have one of these - £8 plus shipping

If you swap mdv1_ and mdv2_ drive assemblies, does the problem follow the drive, or continue to be at mdv2_? This will at least isolate if it's logic on the main board or on the microdrive itself that is causing the problem. Hee hee - as I said I am not messing around any more with this as the QL h...

vanpeebles wrote:If I put a bid in for Mister Smith do you think a QL master such as yourself could do something with the microdrive if I sent it to you?

Yes, but only if the felt pad is intact - actually, don't worry too much about this - I spoke with John Southern at the Quanta show who said he has it on disk

I tried it without the 68008 - made no difference. I also swapped the 8302 and 8301 ULAs amd even swapped the 8049 for a Hermes, still no difference. Unfortunately, I don't have a ZX Microdrive to test the unit with (and the QL is now all boxed up to be shipped to a customer). I am not too certain t...

Eeeee I wonder why it didn't sell? The first time it sold for around £90, also Mister Smith sounds like a rare game, the QL wiki has it down as missing in action. I wouldn't mind getting a couple of the cartridges, but at £5 each untested plus £3 postage for a microdrive cartridge on its own, it's ...

Looking at the picture again, I have it - the QL is sprayed blue - the lump on the right hand side is the external case for a Jurgen Falkenberg keyboard interface.

The black (heavy) metal casing of the Q+4 is clearly shown underneath the blue QL.

The mods are in place.

Alas anything beyond that is too much for me

I have now tried the same QL with a Trump Card and FORMAT ram1_mdv2 works fine. I have also tried the Super Gold Cards on another JS ROM machine and again the command works as expected. Just for some reason it does not work with SGC+ this QL ..... There must be something wrong somewhere... but where...

I have an oddity with a JS ROM QL (Issue 6 motherboard). The QL on its own works like a dream - the microdrive units are in really good condition. I have tried two Super Gold Cards and both give the same results. FORMAT ram1_mdv1 works fine to make a full image of the microdrive in mdv1_ FORMAT ram1...

The ZXpand has helped revive lots of interest in the ZX81, and with the 30th anniversary in 2011, we also saw a lot of new software releases.