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Greeting. While my ql +Gold Card working doing heavy math calculations the operation failed. I have attached screen fotos. I remove the gold card and ql works fine. I have removed and cleared two removable chips from Gold card, but after a while the system crashed again. Any help? Is it possible th...

There was however failures due user intervention, after removal of the CPU heatsink to look at the CPU serial number. This was detailed in QL Today, who never contacted me to establish if this was correct. What sort of heatsink did you use on Q60? BTW did anyone ever try using 68060/ 68040 adaptor ...

Hi, This type of ram in the Gold Card, Super Gold Card, QXL is called zig-zag in-line package (ZIP). Some Amiga accelerator board use Zip Ram in sockets, so it is a viable thing to do. If I remember correctly, the Gold Card was given away from Miracle to another QL Trader, not sure it was, but Qbran...

Hi, After scanning the QDOS Companion, I was reminded of the QDOS Traps (system calls) to PAN and SCROLL the screen or screen channel, which has S*BASIC keywords. This feature is not present in most computers, so the programmer has to write a horizontal scrolling rountine. I find this strange as the...

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Progress update, just starting to format Chapter 8, only 2 chapters and appdencies to complete.

Hi, The problem of porting BASIC programs gets worse, I have been porting some Spectrum programmes which apart from the Spectrum PRINT statement being different on the QL, that is no formatting statements allowed in the QL PRINT command. The main problem area is that Spectrum BASIC allows varaibles ...

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Which is the best Forth to use?

Hi, I find M68K and ARM assembler easy to understand, unlike Z80 and 8086, whether I am any good at assembler programming is debatable. I like the Forth way of thinking, which most books reckcon that Forth is as fast as assembler but at a high level. The Reversi supplied with SuperForth, is supposed...

HI Martin, The Q68 Clock setting is preserved by using a Super Capacitor that stores enough charge to backup the Clock settings. If the Q68 is left unpowered for a long length of time, the Super-Cap maybe of become discharged, so the clock setting is 0 or the default for SMSQ/E. I never really had t...