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- Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:28 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Post here every time you get something QL based!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9666
Re: Post here every time you get something QL based!
Sounds good to me - As for disks etc, I have just basically copied them over so that disks and microdrives will work from within q-emulator, as that seems the best option for running and testing old software. There is a tool I have for making microdrive images - however, the issue is that so many no...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:15 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Post here every time you get something QL based!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9666
Re: Post here every time you get something QL based!
Well I would love to have more help in preserving the software and details on the Wiki - I have been asking for help for a couple of years, but with very limited success. I did suggest to Quanta that they help fund the software preservation site (about 3 years ago now), but alas they turned me down....
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:16 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Post here every time you get something QL based!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9666
Re: Post here every time you get something QL based!
robheaton wrote:Picked this up on Ebay today!
Hope you can save the files from this for preservation (although Tom Dolezal of Talent is sending me a master cartridge from this) - I could also do with scans of the inlay please for the QL Wiki.
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:21 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Microdrives, QL floppies and DOS floppies ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8534
Re: Microdrives, QL floppies and DOS floppies ?
The issue is that Windows XP and Windows 7 lack any real built in support for 720K floppy disk drives, although it is still available through DOS. I have had mixed results in reading / writing DD disk drives with an external USB floppy disk drive - the main issue is that you cannot load replacement ...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:01 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Kempston Micro Disk QL Interface
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9629
Re: Kempston Micro Disk QL Interface
It is a good one - needs someone to take a picture for the QL Wiki if you win it!!
My guess is that the missing chip is the WD-1770 disk controller, as there is no sign of one!
My guess is that the missing chip is the WD-1770 disk controller, as there is no sign of one!
- Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:55 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11588
Re: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
Sorry, I can't divulge trade secrets - it is nothing to do with missing files, I had to patch the main executable itself - plus it was so many years ago now that I forget! You should not have any problems with using one of your existing masters as a key cartridge for some time to come. The other opt...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:06 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11588
Re: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
Many thanks to everybody. Does anyone remember how the protection of "west" by Talent can be passed? Someone suggest a simple trick before copying the MDV. Something to do with creating a blank file name. Is it possible? Well, I cracked West many years ago to allow me to offer it for re-s...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Books by Mike de Sosa
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2705
Books by Mike de Sosa
I have recently acquired a copy of the excellent book Taking the Quantum Leap - The Last Word on the Sinclair QL.
However, this has raised a little bit of a puzzle as explained in the QL Wiki article
Does anyone know the answer to this, or maybe have a copy of the McGraw-Hill edition?
However, this has raised a little bit of a puzzle as explained in the QL Wiki article
Does anyone know the answer to this, or maybe have a copy of the McGraw-Hill edition?
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:50 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11588
Re: Hot to unprotect & backup microdrive cartridge software
Copy protection can be a problem on a lot of programs :( I wonder if a specialist microdrive copying program would work? You really need a floppy drive on your QL though :) Exactly what i am looking for! A specialist microdrive copying program. I know it is really difficult but is there a chance to...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:30 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Missing issue of QL World magazine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7387
Re: Missing issue of QL World magazine
Here they are sorted into year piles. I don't like the way the later issues have no date and are vol/issue. http://www.zen70509.zen.co.uk/ql/mags3.jpg Can anyone tell me what is going on with these two? They both have the same numbers but one is still sealed so I don't want to open it. http://www.z...