The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Dilwyn,

I see you have managed to find it - hopefully it will work for my purposes

Many thanks

Does anyone have a QL joystick adaptor (9 pin D to BT plug) which they could lend to me please. If you have an adaptor, please check that it is for a joystick, as the ones for the serial ports are more common (but are upside down!) I have a little oddity here I wish to try on the QL, but unfortunate...

So far as I know the Sandy SuperQBoard has the full Toolkit II built into it, so you should not need the Toolkit II EPROM at the same time. If there are commands missing (ie. the SuperQBoard has a subset of Toolkit II), then it should be possible for both to co-exist, although TK2_EXT would be neede...

Sounds good to me - As for disks etc, I have just basically copied them over so that disks and microdrives will work from within q-emulator, as that seems the best option for running and testing old software. There is a tool I have for making microdrive images - however, the issue is that so many no...

Well I would love to have more help in preserving the software and details on the Wiki - I have been asking for help for a couple of years, but with very limited success. I did suggest to Quanta that they help fund the software preservation site (about 3 years ago now), but alas they turned me down....

robheaton wrote:Picked this up on Ebay today!

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Hope you can save the files from this for preservation (although Tom Dolezal of Talent is sending me a master cartridge from this) - I could also do with scans of the inlay please for the QL Wiki.

The issue is that Windows XP and Windows 7 lack any real built in support for 720K floppy disk drives, although it is still available through DOS. I have had mixed results in reading / writing DD disk drives with an external USB floppy disk drive - the main issue is that you cannot load replacement ...

It is a good one - needs someone to take a picture for the QL Wiki if you win it!!

My guess is that the missing chip is the WD-1770 disk controller, as there is no sign of one!

Sorry, I can't divulge trade secrets - it is nothing to do with missing files, I had to patch the main executable itself - plus it was so many years ago now that I forget! You should not have any problems with using one of your existing masters as a key cartridge for some time to come. The other opt...

Many thanks to everybody. Does anyone remember how the protection of "west" by Talent can be passed? Someone suggest a simple trick before copying the MDV. Something to do with creating a blank file name. Is it possible? Well, I cracked West many years ago to allow me to offer it for re-s...