The QL-SD driver seems to be finished (note that it currently doesn’t work with the MiST FPGA board, but there are no more known problems with either the original QL hardware or the MiSTer FPGA machine). Now the boring part has begun, which means hours of reading tax related stuff (selling stuff internationally is hard!),… Read More »
Update: the old code had a bug if the EXE was made resident using the HOT_RES keyword (thanks to Jan Bredenbeek for pointing it out), updated code below. Today I’ve had a short discussion about creating a QDOS executable that can both be LRESPRed (to install a thing) and EXecuted (to, erm, execute it). One important… Read More »
QL-SD So, a short update on QL-SD, I have spent another few hundred Euros on parts and everything has arrived except the package with the SD-card connectors, which seem to be lost in the mail. These are needed for the double-SD adapters, which I expect will be pretty popular. Instead of waiting for them to… Read More »
Just a slight update before I go on holiday for a week. The design of the MDV adapter board has been finalized and I already have the PCBs here: The board can be built into four different configurations of which I will probably offer two: Single slot drive using a ready-made daughter board soldered onto… Read More »
24 years ago Albin Hessler released his file manager Cueshell into the world. It was and still is one of the most advanced programs for the Pointer Environment ever written, featuring a Multiple Document Interface (smaller directory windows within the larger application window) and drag&drop file management. Managing large directory trees became incredibly easy and… Read More »
(Summary at the end if you’re not interested in the details) Some people know that I’ve been working for quite some time on making the QL-SD work with the late Stuart Honeyball’s masterpieces, the GoldCard and the SuperGoldCard. And I seem to have succeeded, but the way to success took a lot more time than… Read More »
Martyn Hill recently discovered a bug in later versions of Minerva, but couldn’t quite pin it down. I thought it might be nice to write up a little tutorial about how I try to tackle these kind of problems. The most important thing of course is being able to reproduce the problem, which was the… Read More »
Every since I got my QL-SD interface I was annoyed with the driver support, especially on the PC side. I didn’t manage to fill the SD card without destroying the image one way or another. Then came Wolfgang Lenerz awesome QLWA compatible driver and now it works like a charm. But only on my original… Read More »
A few years ago I got my old QL system out of storage and into working condition, but after 20 years of using QPC I completely forgot how much of a pain it really was. I never owned any of the Gold Cards, in fact all my BBQL hardware (640KB internal memory expansion, a 192kb… Read More »
Thanks to Jochen Merz I can now release a very new version of QMenu (menu_rext), along with the original manual: QMenu download page Earlier releases done by me had a few annoying bugs which I was now able to track down. The problems actually were not located in the QMenu source code itself, but Jochen… Read More »