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I re-felted a couple of cartridges with some self adhesive felt that was designed to go on the bottom of ornaments or whatever, so that they don't scratch surfaces. It worked initially, but must have been too rough as I can't get a dir now. Can someone recommend a source of self adhesive felt so tha...

Hi, I have a beta version of the TDI Startup kit, written by Alain Haoui. If the official release is the same as my version. Please look in the ETC subdirectory where you will find "menuconfig" You need the Extended Environment or Pointer Interface installed to run Menuconfig. Thanks, yes...

Ah right, well that makes a lot more sense then!

I have QL zipped files all sussed out so will try that now.

Quite suprised that the +3 cable worked as well as it did! Losing bits of the screen edges are, believe it or not, pretty normal for a QL - the issues have been explained pretty regularly here. The Button Frame of QPAC2 can be reconfigured fairly easily to move the origin by using the MenuConfig pr...

As for the position of the buttons at the top - that is part of the QPAC2 button frame. From memory you need to use MenuConfig to configure QPAC2 (or possibly PTR_GEN / WMAN) to set the position of the button frame. It has been many years since I did that... Top left of a TV screen should be x = 32...

I now have a working mdv2_! That m/b and underside etc in that recent lot of spares looks absolutely mint. From the shiny lustre of the 7805 voltage regulators, lack of serial number, the satisfying cracks when undoing the screws and the empty sockets that don't look like they've ever had chips in t...

Hi Chr$ If you need spare microdrive units, I can supply them from working QL. I personally do not use microdrives, I prefer to CF Cards or SD Cards. With regards to your monitor ptoblem, the SCART cable for the Plus3, can not hanhle the QL 85 column screen mode. You need a video upscaler, which ha...

Thank you thank you. I simply used the RGB to Scart cable that I already had for the +3! I picked up an old flat screen TV locally (non HDMI) for 5 Euros. Actually that leads me to another question: When in F2 monitor mode, the final pointer screen with the top menus (I think it's the qman2 screen?)...

Thanks to all 3 of you. I think the mdv2_ problem is the ULA. I turned the rollers over on both of them and checked the gaps. Actually, is it possible to remove the rear PCB from the rest of the Microdrive? It appears to be held on by the tape head, which is of course soldered to the board, or possi...

Hello everyone, I'm Chris (see what I did there with the user name!). This is my QL experience to date... As a child in the 80s I used to get the hand-me-down computers from my uncle Peter, who has always been into technical advances. First a half wooden Atari, a ZX81 and then, circa 1987/8, a Sincl...