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Hi I asked if I could build the QLSD v2, but was politely refused. Quite a revisionist statement. I wrote, literally "well, if you want we can talk about that, sure. But the problem with the current QL-SD is that there is much manual labor involved." and then a long text of what must be d...

Exile, XorA, Derek, .. I presume you put the whole system on the SSD and boot off that? Could you give a quick step-by-step overview of how you do that? One day soon, M$ are going to stop supporting W10; my desktop machine is not W11-compatible. This might be a good time for a serious paradigm shif...

Hi Per, With regards to moving the RPI to SSD, a simple eeb earch should enough results, however, try this: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb I would dump Windows now, and move to Linux, which Licence fee free. More secure operating system free of virus and spyware. Your ex...

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I asked if I could build the QLSD v2, but was politely refused.

So I would have make the QLSD v1, maybe with a dual SD Card reader.

But I have a few projects to do some behind time: Q68, Oqtadrive, QLUB...

Hi What sort of SSD do you use. I use 120GB 2.5" SSDs. I think the last one I bought was a Gigabyte one (currently £14.99 on Amazon). The Pi4 is quite picky on the SATA to USB3 adaptor chips that it supports, so I buy those cables from either Pimoroni or Pihut, to make sure they are compatible...

XorA wrote:I have a GeeekPi USB->SATA case for Pi4 and a SATA SSD inside.

Also get rid of Buster distro and move to the Bullseye one. The new GFX stack makes a huge difference in desktop usability!

Sorry, I meant Bullseye...

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What sort of SSD do you use.

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I use Fileinfo2 v3.50, which fixes a few bugs. Fileinfo2 is one the best software packages for the QL, I always foget it is running, just execute the file and load up the specified executable , display list options, just like all the Windos, Macos, Linix, in less than 640K.

lliont wrote:I published the pcb and EPM160S files at the hackaday.io site, https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/357657

Thanks I have downloaded all the files, I will see about making some PCBs...

HI, But it would be really nice if Launchpad's author would fix that bug that prevents it launching basic programs And maybe add the posibility of having more tabs than 4 and of having more icons in a tab, in higher resolutions Can you no execute the SBASIC program. When starting Basic programs, th...