The Sinclair QL Forum

I have now rescued QLART (although it may be missing something called "LOGO GRAPHICS" which appears on the boot menu, but just reports "not implemented".

I have also rescued QL Poolswinner by Xenon

Very commendable and as a Sherlock Holmes and adventure fan, I ought to support this one :-) I might suggest that you consider writing this in Quill - on my website, there is a public domain utility to convert Quill based adventures to SuperBASIC, which can then be compiled (and even for you to add ...

vanpeebles wrote:What do you do on Farmer, bar the obvious

No idea - as it only flashes the screen once you get past the options screen for a second, before resetting..... Unfortunately, the only master cartridge I had was too corrupt to make a microdrive image.

I also have another QL game: Farmer by J.K.

Not sure how this was published - it looks quite good, but has copy protection (I think) - at least it just resets as soon as you press F1 to play the game....

Hi yes, I can do the repair for you but you have to take into account the costs of sending the QL to and from the UK.

Rich

It is likely you will at least need a new keyboard membrane - if the membrane tails are already damaged, they probably have cracks elsewhere which will stop them from working. It is hard to diagnose at a distance. It could just be that your keyboard membrane has failed, so you cannot press either F1...

If there is no response to the keyboard, then it sounds as though (presuming the membrane is OK), that it is a motherboard failure. This could be a ram problem, although I would normally expect the ram test to at least start. It is more likely to be one of the socketed chips has failed - 8302 or 830...

Hmm - this is very odd - you could risk using the Samsung keyboard to get the QL past the F1/F2 screen and then plug in the other keyboard whilst the QL is live - at least then you would know if it is just the function keys not working or all the keys.... If could be the lack of screws as they are n...

OK no picture at all (black screen) - presumably you get the power on light - does the F1 key fire up the microdrive?

If so then it is probably just the video controller chip - either the 8301 or MC1377P (probably the latter)

So can you describe what happens when you power up the QL? Have you looked to see if any of the pins in the expansion connector (left hand side of the machine) are bent or touching each other?) I have other QIMI interfaces here if you need a replacement. You can easily negate the QIMI by unplugging ...