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Great work, Leon!

Hi again Jbizzel!

Jbizzel wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:59 pm Using the copy to CON idea, it seems that it is getting stuck at the buffer.
Which is about line 88 in the original code I was trying to copy

And how many characters would you say those 88 lines represent?

Hi Daniele! Interesting idea... It would certainly be helpful to potential QLUB users to have more ready access to the driver, rather than searching for it here and having to pull it off the Forum or else Dilwyn's site, but I think it does belong on the 'QL' side rather than part of the Emulator - i...

Hi Just start with Martin's suggestion below - copy directly with COPY 'ser1hz' to 'con_' on the QL to avoid latency waiting for tokenisation - and get a clearer idea of precisely how many characters arrive successfully before things 'hang' (and the I might suspect your USB to Serial adapter on the ...

Hi Per! Did you notice whether or not the Q68 bootloader detected a 'normal' or 'extended' PS/2 mouse at start-up? (It flashes-by a bit quick...) I find that my extended PS/2 mouse isn't always detected as such intermittently. Probably a timing issue, but not something I usually bother about (I hate...

That's a good call, Martin

Hi again Jbizzel! A few points: A. Did you use the device names 'ser1hz' or just 'ser1'? B. The 2x SER ports on the QL are indeed wired differently - RX/TX and RTS/CTS are swapped between them, so I would expect you to need a different wiring than you show in that image for SER2. (SER1 is wired and ...

Hi again! Glad to hear that. I shall assume that you are using the handshaking option as suggested, so as to avoid buffer overrun across the Serial link. Also, that your serial cable actually has the handshaking lines correctly wired (RTS/CTS). Depending upon just how long you are waiting before hit...

Hi JBizzel! From what you have described, it sounds like you are hitting a slight 'incompatibility' between the SAVE and LOAD commands between SMSQe (as running under QPC) and the version of QDOS and/or TK2 on the target QL. If that is the case, the cause is the missing 'Byte-serial header' expected...

Ciao Daniele! SER is supported on Mac... you just need a 68000-based Mac :D Yes, apologies - I should have been more precise in my terminology :-) I myself still have a PowerBook 190cs somewhere (68LC040) - but no USB port for the Virtual SERial port connection to the QLUB - I don't suppose any of t...