The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Rich, Quanta did not fund the Q40 or the Q60 development. The Q40 and Q60 were already developed prior to the D&D Systems launch of a cased Q60 solution. The Q40 had major problems, mainly by the bad construction methods of Qbranch, but that is in the past. What the funding was given to buy p...

QLROM.jpg Here is a photograph of the underside of a standard QL ROM ard, with some wiring mods. This allows a eprom to be programmed with the QL ROM and other Toolkits that would fil the QL ROM space. Note that the internal QL Roms must be removed otherwise there will be a clash in Rom chips. Derek

The minimum spec. for the QXL is a 80386 MSDOS PC, but I have always found the whole system runs better on a 80486 machine, running MSDOS 6.22.

Derek

Hi, Quanta is the only remaining QL Support magazine, which can be delivered in paper or in PDF format sent by email. The Software Library is a very good resource, which is worth having. The Magazine, is like this forum, where all QL Users can read and contribute to. It is worth subcribing, as for t...

Hi, I notice in the PDF file describing the project, it is said, that Atari Mouse can not be used. I have just found my old ICE Rom Dongle Unit, which I used many years ago on a Supergold Card QL, but the ICE Mouse got damaged and did not work. I rewired the mouse interface to accept an Atari Mouse,...

Hi,

There was good CP/M emulator called CPMulator, which had a ROM in the QL Romport, which worked quite well. I used have a rom image on disk and could run the emulator on a Supergold card.

There is the SUCCESS CP/M emulator, marketed by Digital Precision, which di the job OK.

Derek

Hi,

Looks great, I would have a go at building this.

Do you have the PCBs already made.

Derek

How memory is returned by SMSQ/E, using PRINT FREE_MEM, when 8Mb is installed.

I am looking to upgrade a 2Mb QXL to 8Mb QXL, what ram chips are in the 8Mb QXL, I has assumed that that 16 x TOSHIBA TC514400AZ-60 ZIP RAM

I am interested what other Zip Ram chips are installed in QXLs

Derek

Hi Rich,

Works great under Ubuntu/Wine QPC2 v3.33 on a Dell D610 Laptop.

Not got a real QL running at present.

Any chance of 3D graphics programming...

Derek

For Sale QubIDE Hard Disk Interface, fitted with v2.01 Rom.

Comes complete with suport Disc.

Price: £50 + postage