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Following on from a previous post it does appear, reading online, that on floppy disks each file does have a “modified date/time” stored Is there any Dir equivalent command or utility that displays this please? Many thanks Toolkit 2 has two functions to do just that. FUPDT(), FBKDT() will read the ...

... I've actually never tried formatting from Minerva. But it's indeed a pity that Minerva's SD card driver is very limited (AFAIK it originated from the original QLSD driver, which was later enhanced by Marcel Kilgus for SMSQ/E). The solution would be to backport the driver from SMSQ/E, which woul...

aalea wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:03 pm ...
Regarding the DA2, i can't found anywere, I will apreciate if you can post pictured of it "for the record"

This is my Miracle Disk Adapter 2. BSJR

... so... what is the history of this no sticker, no resistor adapter? Your Disk Adapter has the a "DA" mark, mine is "DA2" and has these resistors on the component side. Your 2nd PCB seems to be updated to a DA2 standard. There is also a "Gold Card Compatible" printed...

HI, I think this was to allow the Gold Card, which only supports 2 Floppy Disk Drives, to have an extras 2 Floppy Disks. If you look at the Super Gold Card, the same sort of interface is present on the Floppy Drive connectors. The Trump Card can access 4 Floppy Disk Drives. At the time some new dri...

... So it looks like if we want to use 68020 assembley language, this not recommended. The Assembley Language Mag, used GWASL, whivh is a 68000 assembler, but QPC2 v5 can emulate 68020 CPU, so GWASS can be used. I use GWASS on the Q60, which assembles 68060 assembley op codes, in SMSQ/E. The GWASS ...

Hello everyone. I am trying to get started with QPTR WMAN... Is there a simple example somewhere? I am looking for a simple managed window with only the standerd move and resize LIL Would be super if someone has that or can show that Thank a lot in advance The QPTR package contains some examples th...

Ahah! I say I'll look at the family tree one, but of course I forgot that I am not currently a QUANTA member and so alas cannot access the library. But that's a whole other conversation of course :D The link I gave to Dilwyn's site is a program by Andy Carmichael who also wrote the one in QL-World'...

The Quanta archives hold some family tree programs running in Archive. There was also a version published in the QL-World exchange series. Several _dbf's were linked together. For that each person is identified by a unique number that is generated automatically in field one when a new individual is ...

What software was provided with the QXL board? Was it just the original SMSQ or was there any support software? A customer has a QXL board, but not any of the supporting disks so I was wondering what I need to send him? Below is a copy from the disk that came with my QXL2 in '96. This SMSQ 2.76 did...