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by M68008
Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:30 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: CPLD replacement for ZX8301
Replies: 223
Views: 50105

Re: CPLD replacement for ZX8301

Am I right to assume that if you were to add more memory and a FPGA there would even more colors be possible ein Mode 4 and 8 and that this would rather be a 'graphics card' instead of a replacement board? Yes, and as an aside (I don't mean to hijack this thread) I started writing something like th...
by M68008
Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:53 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Found this cool article
Replies: 15
Views: 3002

Re: Found this cool article

I may be wrong, but wouldn't that have required 8 more inputs on the ZX8301? That would also have been expensive.
by M68008
Fri Dec 23, 2022 5:25 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: Q-emulator on PPC Mac and OS X 10.5?
Replies: 16
Views: 11100

Re: Q-emulator on PPC Mac and OS X 10.5?

Derek_Stewart wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:18 pm So back to OSX, can I run Qemulator on the Mac Mini G4?
Hi Derek, have you tried the link earlier in this thread to the old PPC version?
by M68008
Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:21 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Microdrive data line format
Replies: 73
Views: 48342

Re: Microdrive data line format

kladogen wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:05 pm Any ideas?
Are you sending the long gap of zeros between sectors? ZX8302 should detect it and generate an interrupt for the CPU.
by M68008
Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:21 am
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hi to all!!!
Replies: 11
Views: 10003

Re: Hi to all!!!

TitoxUnix wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 9:10 pm Tetroid's ISS.6 motherboard........ ALIVEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Cool!
(I wish I bought a PCB when it was available.)
by M68008
Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:41 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Keyboard from where
Replies: 59
Views: 12107

Re: Keyboard from where

You just described my problem & why I just lost the will to live. It would take ten times longer to assimilate the information than to design & implement the code. There must have been a design specification for the part but I suppose that was thrown out with the cat when Sinclair went toas...
by M68008
Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:46 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Keyboard from where
Replies: 59
Views: 12107

Re: Keyboard from where

Is there a concise specification of the other functions of the 8049? I had a look at the Hermes stuff but can't understand enough to code a PIC for the other functions. Apart from keyboard/joystick, the 8049 generates sound and handles the receive part of RS232. Plenty of info in the QL Service Man...
by M68008
Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:35 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Replies: 248
Views: 78243

Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)

XorA wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 10:05 pm sQLux now has a web edition
Very nice! I didn't know that it was possible to compile C++ to run in a browser.
by M68008
Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:12 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: ND-MQ - New Network Driver for the QLUB Adapter
Replies: 53
Views: 6289

Re: ND-MQ - New Network Driver for the QLUB Adapter

Serial ports are not supported on the Mac version of Q-emuLator, they are only available on Windows. They used to be supported pre-OS X, but then the OS and APIs changed and Macs no longer had hardware serial ports.
by M68008
Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:27 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: DALL-E
Replies: 1
Views: 3137

DALL-E

DALL-E 2 is an AI system that creates images in a variety of styles given a text description of the image. Here I've asked it to create a landscape from descriptions of the splash screen of the game Zkul for the QL. In the first result, the skull was too small: zkul1.jpg Here are nine more attempts ...