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Hi Per, I have not used your program on the Q68 or any other system. What I do know is that I have used direct sector access on the FAT16 partitions of the Q68 to browse the full long filenames of files on these partitions, and that WinEd gives direct access to the first sector of the QXLwin drives ...

Per wrote:
Just use my program (above)

Why then are you unable to use your program to rename QXL.win files on the Q68?

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Hi,

There is direct sector access in smsq/e ie winX_*d2d if I remember correctly. The QXLwin file format has the win file name embedded 6 bytes from the start. Wolfgang Lenerz WinEd program allows access and editing of the hard drive.

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Thanks for that. I dont understand why it did not appear when I looked.

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I bought mine brandnew. Similar to this: https://www.amazon.de/JaiHo-Bildschirm- ... B07DC9WX3V

Hi Peter, Thanks for the link. I was intending to ask you the make and model of the monitor you recently bought. Its not on the UK site but I can easily order it from the German site.

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Peter wrote: It is for monitors with native 1024x768 resolution or at least 4:3 aspect ratio. Q60_OSC_11.jpg Here is the updated video chip with an older monitor with 4:3 aspect ratio. Again I still prefer the OSSC output. A lot of what you get with either solution is down to the quality of the mon...

Peter wrote; Not sure I would be satisfied with the OSSC.

This is my Q60 with your updated VGA chip same monitor : Of the two I prefer the OSSC.

Hi Derek, It is a 80Mhz Q60 - Serial A6-003

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Peter wrote : Curious if someone gets it to work on an up-to-date OSSC. Hi Peter, I bought an OSSC Kaico v1.6 scan doubler from Amazon for my Q60 during lockdown. Yes it was a bit pricey but I wasn't able to spend on much else, and if you think about the price of the scan doubler to what I paid for...

Andrew wrote :

In my native language scrot means scrotum (testicular sack)

You are thinking of scrote, the equivalent of gobshite or toerag.

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