Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 23:01 + schrieb Adrian Ives: > Tobias, > > Direct SPI to an SD card. Hmmmn. That's a good point, but actually the SD > card feature is almost a secondary feature of the USBWiz. Don't forget that > it also works directly with USB mass storage class devices (hard d

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tony, Sorry, but as I was poking around, clicking on links ... that link at the top of the page is wrong (Patched I2C drivers (I2C_IO_REXT) for SMSQ) it should be: http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/ftp/minerva/i2cio.zip and not http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ftp/minerva/i2cio.zip Adrian -Original

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tobias, Direct SPI to an SD card. Hmmmn. That's a good point, but actually the SD card feature is almost a secondary feature of the USBWiz. Don't forget that it also works directly with USB mass storage class devices (hard disks, memory sticks etc.) Just to be clear, I have not implemented a F

[Ql-Users] Talent Software

2011-03-12 Thread Rich Mellor
Does anyone have a copy of any of the following Talent software, which will run from disk (ie. without copy protection) as I can re-release it: Assembler Workbench (the latest version I have is v1.5) Basic Ally RAM Disk and Spooler I have working copies of these, but they are all copy protected

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 20:37 + schrieb Tony Firshman: > Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 12/Mar/11 13:21 | Mar12: > > Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: > >> Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? > >> > >> Cheers...Ralf > >> __

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 10/Mar/11 18:37 | Mar10: Does anyone have a manual for a Medic I/F to scan in and send to Dilwyn? An EPROM dump for examining would also a be good idea...;-) Medic circuit diagram (in two scanned A4 parts which need stitching!): http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/temp/medic.zip

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 12/Mar/11 13:21 | Mar12: Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Ralf

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Rich Mellor
On 12/03/2011 13:21, Tobias Fröschle wrote: Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Ralf, in cas

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 19:14 + schrieb Tony Firshman: > > All in all, I do think there's worse parts in the QDOS file system than > > its directory handling - like the length restrictions for path names (32 > > characters don't quite fit into the 21st century). > I always thought it was pa

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Tobias Fröschle wrote, on 12/Mar/11 18:59 | Mar12: Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 19:13 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: Tobias Fröschle wrote: (and there's no need to implement a FAT filesystem on the QL) ...which maybe has the advantage of true directories... Cheers...Ralf Ralf, well, maybe when

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 19:13 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: > Tobias Fröschle wrote: > > > (and there's no need to implement a FAT filesystem on the QL) > > ...which maybe has the advantage of true directories... > > Cheers...Ralf Ralf, well, maybe when FAT directories would be used, you'd r

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Tobias Fröschle wrote: (and there's no need to implement a FAT filesystem on the QL) ...which maybe has the advantage of true directories... Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 11:00 + schrieb Adrian Ives: > I agree 100% with everything you say. And ... by the way ... USBWiz can > talk SPI, which is where I'm coming from with all of this. With a faster Adrian, well, if you get the QL itself to be able to communicate using SPI, there's at

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-12 Thread Dave Park
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Tobias Fröschle < tobias.froesc...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Dave, I like your idea with an FGPA based QL very much as it has lots of > opportunities in it, but I think it's well beyond the capabilities of > the current (small) QL scene, both regarding to Hardware an

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Tobias Fröschle wrote: Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Works nowseems to be an hic

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Tobias Fröschle wrote: Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? Cheers...Ralf Well,it works for me? Tobias Not here. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: > Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? > > Cheers...Ralf > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Ralf, in case you're looking for Minnie source

Re: [Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: > Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? > > Cheers...Ralf Well,it works for me? Tobias ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Lau's place dead...?

2011-03-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Any idea about the dead http://www.bergbland.info/ ? Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] SPI (was Ser-USB on Minerva)

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Ives
Tobias, I agree 100% with everything you say. And ... by the way ... USBWiz can talk SPI, which is where I'm coming from with all of this. With a faster throughput it suddenly becomes more possible to use the other USBWiz functions, such as keyboard and mouse and maybe ... just maybe ... a USB e

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 07:20 + schrieb Adrian Ives: > Dave, > > That's all very nice and would be an absolutely fantastic piece of hardware > but it's very complex and likely to be expensive. I would have thought > that a better use of the development cost and time would be an FPGA-base

Re: [Ql-Users] QL replacements - state of play...

2011-03-12 Thread gdgqler
On 11 Mar 2011, at 22:38, Dave Park wrote: > A genuine 680X0: > + compatibility, already designed > - availability and price > Aren't these obsolescent or obsolete? > An emulated 680X0 in FPGA form: > + highly configurable, offers single chip solution, 68k VHDL sources in > public domain, very

[Ql-Users] New QL option...?

2011-03-12 Thread Stephen Usher
On the new QL hardware front, it would probably be easiest to build a system which boots directly into an emulator of some kind, probably under a stripped down Linux kernel. With this in mind, what about looking as this hardware platform?: http://beagleboard.org/ It's small (could fit

Re: [Ql-Users] Bug in French MG ROM

2011-03-12 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Rich Mellor wrote: Here's an interesting little challenge - according to "The Designer" program from Pyramide, there is a bug in the French MG ROM which it patches - see http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=116 Anyone have any suggestions as to what this patch does? I just know abozt

[Ql-Users] Bug in French MG ROM

2011-03-12 Thread Rich Mellor
Here's an interesting little challenge - according to "The Designer" program from Pyramide, there is a bug in the French MG ROM which it patches - see http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=116 Anyone have any suggestions as to what this patch does? -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://

[Ql-Users] QL replacements - state of play...

2011-03-12 Thread thorsten herbert
>Hi all, > >So here's the state of play in designing new QL replacements... > >Peter Graf is bogged down with some issues on his board. It has a decent >spec but it doesn't currently "work" in a meaningful sense. He has various >obstacles (working alone) that mean his design will be delayed or not