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Lightning does work with the Gold Card / Super Gold Card - but basically they released Lightning SE which did away with the ROM, as running the routines in the Gold Card / Super Gold Card's own memory was so much faster than running it from ROM. Lightning SE you say.... Don't suppose you have a cop...

Time for a quick update, no more 3 foot long QL!
Just a nice Gold Card tucked away and a HxC Floppy Emulator hiding out of shot!

Just found the scanned manual for Lightning - http://www.speccy.org/sinclairql/archiv ... htning.pdf

I don't think Lightning works with the Gold/Super Gold Card, so keep that in mind!

Just thought I would show off my latest purchase too!
Not as good as Vanpeebles Super Gold Card, but I'm made up with it!

I messed up the letter sizes and spacing, but this was my first attempt with ACT!

The command to start the Lightning ROM is: _lngINIT

It depends what you mean by window manager - there is only WMAN (which works alongside PTR_GEN) to form the pointer environment and I would recommend v2.01 (for JM ROM), v2.03 for JS/Minerva etc If you mean desktops, there are: QDT (Commercial) Launchpad (Commercial) Qascade (public domain) Thanks ...

After tinkering with the QL for around 10 months, I've decided to delve into pointer environments. As usual there are some excellent resources on Dilwyns Site; http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/pe/index.html http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ptr/peig/pe.html From reading various guides, I see there are several dif...

Dave wrote:Mine arrived, and it came as a bare board with no instructions, pinouts, anything... Hrmmm.

Mine came the same way, it's fairly simple to setup and use, if you need any help, just let me know!

Loving the white QL there mate!

Any update on this?
Is a new run of Q60 boards on the horizon?