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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...

Hi everyone!

Just to say that, with Wolfgang's recent release of SMSQmulator v3.0 and it's support for the SERial port, the QLUB Adapter has another supported emulation platform!

See viewtopic.php?t=4720 for my test results.

Thanks Wolfgang!

Hi everyone! Not quite sure where to post this, but I'll start here... With Wolfgang's recent announcement of the v3.0 release of his Java-based QL Emulator, SMSQmulator and its new support for the SERial Port, I thought to test it with the QLUB Adapter (QL LAN to USB Bridge Adapter). To recap, the ...

Good morning everyone! Having received one of Leon's excellent (basic) ZX8301 ULA replacements recently, I proceeded to test a number of configurations. Full test results appear below but overall, the replacement ULA works perfectly in both my Issue-5 and Issue-6 QLs until a Gold or Super Gold Card ...

Hi tonyt

Just to add that TK2 also has the 'WSTAT' command that acts like DIR but adds datestamp and filesize to the usual directory listing.

Hi badaman!

badaman wrote: I refer to this in both comments.

Aha - ok, so that is just a tunable capacitor that was used on the Iss5 boards to tweak the 32kHz clock that drives the RTC timing on the ZX8302.

By the time the Iss6 boards came out, they just did away with that and used fixed timing for the RTC.

Hi Derek!

To my (one-track!) mind, I'd love to see some games that leverage the QL Network effectively!

Turn-based, strategy games could be a 'low hanging fruit', but I'm sure there are other genres that could be developed around a multi-player model...

Hi again badaman Thanks to both. I'm left with the mystery of the 8049 label and what appears under the empty socket. When you say 'what appears under the empty socket.', what are you hoping to learn? There are some traces, but nothing that you need to worry about. The socket is there only as an art...

Hi badaman! Your Issue-5 looks pretty standard to me, aside from: A. That disconnected flying lead from (what appears to be) AS on the exp connector (B25) to the otherwise not-connected pin on the ROM Port. Perhaps the previous owner had a non standard device attached there. No value in reconnecting...