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So all you need to do is make sprite for Santa's Sleigh and pan then over the background scenery.

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I thought the Trump Card could handle Double Density Disk Drives (720K or 1440 Sectors)

The Gold Card can do HD drives.

HI, This QL Emulator file header attachment is a real mess, I do not store QL executable files in a non-QL environment and extract all compressed files into a QWA or QUB container file. I rarely have a problem with files headers being missing. I know how the QDOS File Header system works and can add...

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Please look at Wolfgang Lenerz web site:
https://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff

Where you can get the QPTR toolkit, manual, Toolkit Source code and example programmes for programming in the Extended Envoirnment, which includes PTR, WMAN programming.

Hi, Since I have not much hardware to build, I will look into this. Please bear in mind that there are errors on the Aurora Schematics GIF file, which I am in the process of correcting. I have to compare the PCB file to the actual Aurora boards, I have to fix the schematic errors. This is a convolut...

Hi, I was given the Aurora PCB files, which created in an old Protel CAD format, I imported this into Altium Designer, then into KiCad 7. The Aurora is a 4 layer PCB, where the inner layers are the power and ground signal layer. In the original Aurora PCB file which was created in a primitive CAD pr...

Hi, I do not really worry about file header, I transfer any QL software in compressed archive format usually ZIP, and uncompress the file in a QL environment. If you do not have UNZIP software on the QL, then there is a version of unzip that will created the executable from a fil loaded into the QL ...

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All too expensive, I would put the Aurora to be £100

Hi, The Minerva ram test on power up is quite an aggressive ram test, I was told by the designers once that Minerva test the QL ram and return the best possible ram available, 64K was a lowest value, but whether this works in practise is another question. Using the RAMFAIL program will give the loca...

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NIce video, I will look into making one, I have some original PCBs, but not as good as your development.