Richard Kilpatrick wrote: > I just collected the QL system and have yet to sort through the > boxes, but my excitement at upgrading my QL meant that the Gold Card > has been installed already. It would appear to be a Super Gold Card, > version 2.49 on the ROM. Super Gold Card is the fastest QL expansion. He said Gold Card. You can recognise a SGC by the number of connectors. There will be one parallel printer connector, and two smaller floppy disk connectors for SGC. The top connector is flp1_ and flp2_. It will drive practically any floppy drive, but the usual is a standard HD drive as used on PCs. However you ideally will need drives with DS select jumpers. Modern drives often have none and default to flp2_(DS1) . You cannot use PC style leads. If you want to connect floppy disks then Roy Wood (Qbranch) can probably help - he reads this list.
To get the extra QL commands, type tk2_ext. You may well have the SGC manual. If not then I bet it is on Dilwyn Jones' site: http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/ SGC also protects the clock, and offers some boot defaults, like protecting the date/time (PROT_DATE n). That is what the battery is about. > > Obviously this is much faster than a stock QL, but what can I do with > it - is there any way of networking it, for example, via ethernet? Or > would I need something more sophisticated than a standard QL for that? You can only network to other QLs - or a QXL card on a PC. There is no other network for the QL. Look out for my emailshots - they will tell you about forthcoming shows. The next is the Quanta AGM in Manchester on 8/9 April. Tony Firshman -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
