The Sinclair QL Forum

I'll take the Jan Jones book. PM sent.

Here's my position: I would love to do something SD-card based, but my understanding was that the system wasn't reliable on every system. SGCs are something of a black box to me, although with Nasta's fantastically detailed explanations that cloak is being lifted... I have a few things in the fire a...

What would be your price for all of them? I'm interested.

The possibility of making more romdisqs does exist - if Tony Firshman is interested. That said, his design does use the very smallest flash chips that are near-impossible to solder by hand. I would have used a larger flash package and made the PCB 5mm wider just to make them much easier to assemble,...

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I remember that article! I am at the feet of greatness!

If you give me a schematic, I'll build it.

I have been fishing to make that but with little success.

I'm confident a short run of low cost floppy interfaces with 512K of RAM will surface in the next few months from one source or another - there is sufficient demand.

I think it ceases to be a QL when it ceases to run QL Pawn ;) More seriously though... In a real sense the board I'm playing with is a real QL. It's simply a QL re-implemented with the exact same custom logic and a mostly-the-same CPU, with the commonest expansions inbuilt. It doesn't make sense to ...

Firstly, I strongly recommend that you grab yourself a copy of Minerva 1.97 or 1.98. It's going to resolve almost every issue you have with QDOS in one go, and will run on quite minimal hardware. a CPU upgrade, then SMSQ becomes an option too. Second, Jan Jones' excellent book "QL SuperBASIC: T...