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Peter wrote:

janbredenbeek wrote:I just need to rebuild it.

Obviously, you uploaded the result already Works fine, thank you!
Peter

You beat me

Jan.

Hello Jan! I've been playing with your Minerva4Q68 recently as we continue to develop the QL-Net driver for the Q68 (ND-Q68, already working under SMSQ) and wondered if you felt up to the task of re-assembling your patched Minerva to incorporate the 'I/O Fix' that Marcel added to Min v1.98. Effecti...

Hi Jan, Your VT52 term works also nicely, as it can cope with many ANSI escapes. I use your earlier version `qlterm v232'. I've added some features in the meantime such as 512x256 in 8 colours on SMSQ/E. Possible to open port with handshake, i.e. SER2HR rather than raw SER2IR? Actually not sure if ...

What emulators would you recommend for QL end, I wish to test something simple, not PE driven for a start? You might want to try QLTerm, it's a simple terminal emulator supporting ANSI. It allows redirection of the input channel which enables it to work as a Telnet client when running under an emul...

Typical non-Minerva applications that make use of the second screen need do the following: Allocate any needed memory from the system Go into supervisor mode and never leave it again while the second screen is in use. Note that implies that your program will take over the machine entirely. ... and ...

Bottom half seems almost writable by a program, I wish to decompose the rest. At the top I can most likely see system variables, there comes somewhere superbasic area, QDOS stack. I wonder what is that piano keyaboard pattern, that looks very regular? The thin lines are the slave block table (8-byt...

Defining your own traps is fine for jobs, but would that be a good idea for a global device driver? Probably not, but that wasn't mentioned in the original post. Speaking of which, I recently discovered such a thing in the SD card driver for the Q68 supplied with Minerva. It was a TRAP #14 in the r...

Darn it - I thought I had researched thoroughly :-) So, what does it mean I wonder when the Guide states 'Therefore, all reads of the status register are emulated.' Does this mean that MOVE SR, <ea> can be used and, if it does cause an exception due to running on a later processor, that SMSQE will ...

I’m working at editing the 6850 driver I believe you wrote to work with a 68681-similar device. It’s tough going but I am making progress. I don’t suppose you have a commented copy of it? :D I don't know which version you have, but I believe the source on GitHub is reasonably well commented? https:...

I also had one of the very first USRobotics HST modems in 1987? It got destroyed by lightning in 1989 or 1990. I just googled it and they still sell a model in the exact same style, but supports 56K - I think mine topped out at 9,600 HST. I bought my first USRobotics in 1990, this was a 14400 HST m...