e work was in vain, because SMSQ/E does not seem to
support FLASH in MODE 8. At least not if I test with SBASIC.
All the best
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already the colour in
it's own colour bits?
Also, is there any exact info about the blink frequency?
> Hope you'll find this useful.
It is useful, thanks! But not yet sufficient for the implementation.
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area is determined!
Could anyone enlighten me? Quick reply would be nice, release date
nearing quickly...
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ophy?
> The first condition (a<>0) is NOT met and so, in any other programming
> language I use, the second condition isn't even tested, as the result
> will be "false" anyway because of this.
IIRC other languages also do not _guarantee_ to stop evaluation after a
lefthand A
s
reasons. If I find the time someday, I could adapt it to Q68 and SMSQ/E.
Since the Q68 ethernet hardware differs a lot from the Q40/Q60, this
driver part must be rewritten.
Also there are new difficulties, like the fact that most email providers
no longer offer unencrypted SMTP & POP
forum or mailing list.
3. There can be no promise of ethernet software drivers, although
I would like them for myself, building upon my QLwIP project.
4. Documentation may come delayed, or in limited fashion.
All the best
Peter
Derek Stewart via Ql-Users wrote:
> Q68 Price List - Batc
... Derek Stewart for his courage and lots of work manufacturing the Q68
hardware and making it available for the public
All the best
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for standard QL ROMs. In that setting
QL-SD should work.
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uch sw might not be negligible, but a
> utility which could manage to read native Qubide hard disks on a PC and
> transfer files to a .win file (and maybe vicecersa) I think would be very
> useful.
If you have a PC with IDE port anyway, then where is the problem to use
dd to
ry trees in one go, which is very useful.
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d.santachi...@libero.it wrote:
> His web site is still down, what happened? Is there any backup available
> somewhere (if not I think it is time to think about it being one of the more
> (most likely the most) comprehensive site with Sinclair QL information and
> software)?
Most.
> pullup.
>>> (The onboard ROM selector jumpered to "Normal Operation".)
>>>
>>> This sounds promising. Not afraid. Pins number please. Thanks
>>
>> Depends on size. Why not look into EPROM datasheet yourself? Simply
>>
Hi all,
thanks for your attempts to help. But no more please, I ran out of time
I can spend with the GoldCard. Changed that QL to SuperGoldCard, where
the latest SMSQ/E 3.31 "aurora.bin" works with RomDisQ. Thanks Bob for
confirming this difference to "goldcard.bin".
Hi Giorgio,
> Old versions of SMSQ \ E (executable and source) are available somewhere?
Good question... The only way I found, was to search archive.org.
But I didn't find version 3.13 there, only version 3.17.
Which does not crash in my GoldCard system, but kills RomDisQ.
Bob Spelten wrote:
> I have done some further testing on older GoldCard.bin files.
> After v3.13 something changed because with the v3.15 the ROMdisq is not
> initialised anew when the .bin is LRESPR'd. The same for any later version
> (3.19 to 3.31).
Then 3.13 is what I need. As 3.17 does
Andrea Carpi wrote:
> I tried "aurora.bin" on a standard QL with Gold Card
> and regularly boot from my romdisq
Was that the latest version? For me both "aurora.bin" and "GoldCard.bin"
crash in 3.31 on standard GoldCard with RomDisQ.
While the 3.17 version of "GoldCard.bin" works.
> My
Bob Spelten wrote:
> Op Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:57:46 +0200 schreef Peter Graf <pg...@q40.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> was someone else able to boot GoldCard SMSQ/E 3.31 on a real QL, not
>> Qemulator?
>>
>> Tried two machines in vain. GoldCard seems to work oka
Hi Alain,
thanks for the feedback. I mean the normal Gold Card, not the Aurora
binary. An older SMSQ/E version still works.
Peter
Am 30.04.2017 um 10:25 schrieb Alain HAOUI:
> Hi Peter,
> Maybe different from your config but on my SGC+Aurora+QL, SMSQ/E 3.31 starts
> fine with auro
Hi,
was someone else able to boot GoldCard SMSQ/E 3.31 on a real QL, not
Qemulator?
Tried two machines in vain. GoldCard seems to work okay without SMSQ/E.
Regards,
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Am 31.03.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Marcel Kilgus:
> Peter Graf wrote:
>>> It's fairly easy to built new versions, so nobody is stopping anybody
>>> to make different releases. I do this for my own amusement, mostly.
>> If mostly for your amusement, one more reason to giv
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> pg...@q40.de wrote:
>> The network code is an essential of the ROM version. If removed, I
>> would not call the result TK2 ROM anymore.
>
> Well, I do ;-)
> [Snip]
>
> It's fairly easy to built new versions, so nobody is stopping anybody
> to make different releases. I do
s, that we
might have to go back to 68K for internet use, simply because the
architecture is too exotic to be exploited. Also, security requires
lowest possible complexity.
All the best
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with any of these emulators. They are just mirroring the socket
interface of the host computer to the emulated side.
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Maybe! My original intent was just to explore the qxl.win
> <http://qxl.win> file. Then it got updated to extract files. I never
> intended it to do any updating on the grounds that a small error in my
> code could destroy some
(or Mac?)
>
>> But not the other way around.
>
>
>> Cheers,> Norm.
>
>
> Hi Norm,
>
> Any chance of adding an UNDELETE feature to the QXLWIN tooL?
> This could be a welcome addition.
Before developing such sophisticated feautures: How about normal writ
Am 15.02.2017 um 21:52 schrieb Giorgio Garabello:
> http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/preview/
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Wolf wrote:
> Marcel Kilgus has fixed a bug in SMSQ/E.
>
> You could write:
>
> a$="1243"
> PRINT a$(5 to)
>
> without any error, which was wrong.
>
> The new version is at wlenerz.com/smsqe
Thanks for maintai
Wolf wrote:
> and, just to be clear, you get the high colours only if your screen can
> handle a window height of over 300 pixels.
Ah, that's it :)
On my Q68 I was used to 512x256 resolution in highcolor.
Sound works also! Cool! Thank you very much!
Merry christmas
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Wow, I didn't know you had pimped it up to full colour. And I like how
> even the sounds are contained in the EXE, well done and thanks!
Is it highcolor? On Q68 it didn't appear that way. Maybe not Qx0 mode?
Merry christmas
Cool. Just tested it on Q68 ;-)
Am 22.12.2016 um 18:24 schrieb Wolf:
> Hi all,
>
> 'Tis the season to be merry.
>
> So, The Wall, a formerly commercial game, is now up on my website.
>
> www.wlenerz.com/QLStuff
>
> Seasons greetings to all.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Wolfgang
>
Nearby, i am eagerly watching this list since years; so i am the third
listener 8-)
regards
Klaus-Peter Greiner
Am 12.10.16 um 11:45 schrieb François Van Emelen:
Op 11/10/2016 om 18:15 schreef Ralf Reköndt:
What was the cure?
- Original Message - From: "François Van Emelen&quo
ms not prone to enthusiasts
> ideosyncrasies.
For me the main factor is: Who is writing QL software at all?
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Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
>> End of 2013 Peter Graf sent me a work-in-progress version of uQLx with
>> QL_BDI support (uqlx-src-peter-17-11-2013.zip). He stated that this works on
>> his (then) recent Debian 32-bit.
>
> It doesn't work on my 64 bit linux.
The point might be
do next?
TIA & Regards,
Peter
p.s. I have a nasty feeling that these problems may well continue but I will
have to try
and deal with them one at a time.
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I have a QXL3_win and need to open it. Not having the manuals anymore, what is
the syntax
to open QXL3_Win file, please?
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Peter Graf wrote:
> 2) Use the QLWA driver of SMSQ/E and change the intitialization / block
> operations for SDHC card. You could look at the QL-SD driver sources or
> at the sources of my Q68 bootloader (written in C) for that purpose.
For a start, SMSQ/E could consider the SDHC c
e how much help I can be. And like must of us,
I suffer from lack of time.
The Q68 is sort of a mix between QL and Q60, minus the difficult stuff.
A very simple machine from an OS perspective.
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still has some effect. I do not want to explain this to average users,
nor deal with the complaints if it only works "sometimes".
Mind you, in the late 68K / early PowerPC area, companies like Apple had
difficulties to make 66 MHz mainboards, even with multilayer PCBs and
ground planes! Ri
on the daughter
> board, but that RAM won't be dual ported, like the Q60 VRAM is, so the
> access to it would be much slower... Not really appealing...
You misunderstand. The FPGA and RAM would be so fast, that access from
video side and CPU side would interleave without any need for waits.
Effectively faster than the Q60 VRAM.
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Peter Graf wrote:
> Disadvantage: No 8 bit or 16 bit access possible - there are no such
> signals on the ROM sockets. It would be up to the driver to use only 32
> bit wide access! (This might be achievable by making the screen area
> copyback-cacheable and force a flush with
.
Just an idea... probably the Q68 should have priority over this.
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t they detect 800x600 from
the Q60's signal. I'm sure that in many cases, 1024x512 would be
possible if the converter just knew about the existence of this mode.
Maybe if we can find someone who has connections to a smaller converter
manufacturer, they would do a change if we c
Thierry Godefroy wrote:
> This said, an adapter is still the best solution. A quick search on
> the web lead me to this:
> http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/catalog/Content/Templates/PartGrids.cfm?StartRow=21=PL-PLCC44-H-01=PL-PLCC_TABLE
>
my Q68 at the "QL is 30" show, where someone took a picture:
>>
>> http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12=1087=10
>>
>> Meanwhile I replaced the wired components you see on that picture by SMD
>> for machine manufacture. QDOS Classic and Minerva are running, but
>> issues with QL-SD driver and Pointer Environment.
>
> Sounds and looks good... The small size would make it an ideal "portable"
> QL...
Thanks. Who would best be able to port SMSQ/E?
Peter
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Am 11.03.2016 23:30, schrieb Malcolm Lear:
> Assuming the PLCC has a through hole socket, would it be possible to
> solder a pcb carrier for a more modern chip on the back of the board
> using the PLCC pins that protrude through?
Probably yes. But soldering would require to heat up all PLCC
Am 11.03.2016 21:48, schrieb Thierry Godefroy:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:16:08 +0100, Peter Graf wrote:
>
>>> Strange... I'd have expected that the problem was the video memory,
>>> but 800x600 pixels consume less memory than 1024x512 pixels...
>>
>> Yes it
otivate me, is
to have fun and to keep the QL alive.
So the best thing will probably be to concentrate on the Q68. This cute
piece of hardware is in working condition for more than 8 years now,
only struggling with "soft" issues and my notorious lack of time.
> I'd personally vote for solution 1 (preferred) or 2. :-)
Solution 1 is MUCH easier than solution 2.
All the best
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not bad, considering the component is
still available off-the shelf after two decades, and that some bugs
could be fixed using post-mortem-debugging thanks to the NVRAN.
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d caches should deliver (almost) exactly
twice the clock frequency in BogoMIPS. And for my machines, it did, at
least under Linux.
I can't explain myself why it is 127.82 and not 132.0 BogoMIPS.
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Am 08.02.2016 19:15, schrieb Marcos Cruz:
>
> Some interesting BogoMIPS benchmarks from the Spanish QL Forum
> (http://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?f=15=4687):
>
> QL with GoldCard (1):
> 1.62, 1.62, 1.62, ...
>
> QL with SuperGoldCard (2) :
> 5.83, 5.83, 5.83, ...
>
> QemuLator (3):
> 96.55,
Am 08.02.2016 20:14, schrieb Marcos Cruz:
> En/Je/On 2016-02-08 19:59, Peter Graf escribió / skribis / wrote :
>
>> But BogoMIPS is not really a benchmark, the PC probably outperforms the
>> Q60 in practice.
>
> Is "CPU speed test" the right term?
Yes, it
?
Unfortuantely, I cannot remember how to increase the size of the QXL files
because I have
run out of space in QXL.win
Can anyone help please?
TIA and Regards,
Peter Fox
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Petri Pellinen wrote:
Having spent some time lately messing about with Qdos using assembly
[snip]
Good to hear that you are doing some QL programming ;-)
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access with
connection to the world. Thanks again to Derek for setting up the
ethernet to WiFi bridge.
All the best
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This is a check wether I can receive mail from the ql-users list under
QDOS on my Q60. Please ignore.
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cable.
Bridging should be pretty much an easy thing to configure.
Not for me, at least not under Windows. But good that you can do it.
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the Q60 as board, not cased machine, to save flight luggage.
Time allowing, I'll try to also prepare a little native TCP/IP demo, but
that would require ethernet access, not just WLAN. Is ethernet and a hub
or switch available, and are there long enough cables to my table?
All the best
Peter
for organizing all this!
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discouraged, in case of limited QL
skills. The more QLers come, the better.
For one personal example, Paul had no QL skills whatsoever, when we
first got in touch. Now he made QL-SD possible.
All the best
Peter
Sorry if I caused some confusion here. Of course everyone is welcome. I
Great news! :-D
Many thanks to you Geoff and all who work for QL is 30!
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Good luck!
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, but there I converted all
files to PDFs for easier viewing.
Ten years ago I converted the C68 docs to RTF, but apperently that
didn't make it into the download area. If someone wants them, please let
me know.
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. It has some potential to
allow easier porting of C written GUI programs. But finishing and
documenting it, was beyond the time I could spend.
I hope to be able to demo some of stuff we talk about at QL is 30.
Depends on wether I find the time to set up a portable Q60.
Peter
Dave Park wrote:
Peter, could you outline what is available for the CS8900A, please?
For the QL? Nothing, as far as I know.
Are you asking a different Peter? I proposed the CP2200.
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, no
highres graphics, etc.) which didn't motivate me for a release.
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is
very helpful but it remains time consuming work. There are other QL
tasks I must do first and even those are not done for weeks.
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.) If someone is
seriously interested, please contact me.
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Hi again,
sorry I replied to this post privately by mistake. I debugged that 68K
core myself. If it worked well enough for QL assembly code, the Q68 would
have been ready for ages.
Peter
Hi,
Just spotted this for $65. It's able to run a 68K core with 32MB RAM,
4096 VGA, and USB and SD
to be fixed is the main
challenge. Could be only one more instruction. If I had not spent a
terrible amount of time for QL-SD I might have found it already.
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Am 22.03.2014 00:57, schrieb Dilwyn Jones:
Now that QL-SD is available, albeit in small numbers so far, I've set up a
page where you can download the manual, software starter pack and the BDI
(Block Device Image) specification for emulators, thanks to Peter Graf for
supplying the software
at the hw_xxx routines in the QL-SD
source code and you can see how it's done.
Peter is the man who has custody of the current source, I believe. I do not.
The sources Adrian sent me do not seem to contain any code for IDE at
all. So Qubide is probably still what Dave needs. It could make sense to
ask
Hi Derek,
the QL-SD sources will be available under the GPL, giving credits to the
original authors, even in the manual. I see no problem here.
All the best
Peter
Derek Stewart wrote:
Hi,
The Qubide source code was made available with the permission of Phil
Borman and Ron Dunnett.
I
the CP2200 would allow similar or even
identical drivers.
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use in general.
By the way, does the W5300 include a unique ethernet address? IEEE
registration can become an expensive issue if you need to do it yourself.
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went
technologically ahead of the QL. In fact the Q60 was one of very few 68K
machines where the mainboard was directly designed for the 68060.
Peter
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the acknowledgements section. If you wish
your name to be removed, or unmentioned in general, please let me know.
I'm saying this for the hardware I designed, not sure if there is a name
clash.
Many thanks again,
Peter
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Hi,
I have seen that SMSQ/E has been ported to Qemulator, now that it is free
software. Makes me wonder wether there any plans or even ongoing projects
to port SMSQ/E to the QL?
With at least 512K RAM extension, i.e. 640K total, I can not see why
SMSQ/E would not work.
All the best
Peter
for the first time. Very well
done. I like that you collect information over longer periods of time.
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there will be a reliable
solution.
Peter
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.
This way, even an unexpanded QL has more mass storage than the ED floppy
interface of a (Super) Gold Card offers, and that at harddisk speed
without moving mechanical parts.
(Larger filesystems, like the 64 MB default, can not be used on an
unexpanded QL at all. This won't change.)
Peter
event can
be.
Maybe I'd drive 50 km for a general retro meeting, 300 km for an all
Sinclair meeting, but to motivate me for travelling to the UK, only the QL
will do ;-) Please consider this just my personal taste - if the majority
prefers a general event, it's fine.
All the best
Peter
card
interface for the QL, combined with the Minerva OS in EPROM. The QL-SD
design was given to the QL community for free, so it's not a product with
commercial support. After testing is completed, the source code will be
freely available.
Hope this helped
Peter
to support this repeatedly. Someone else
would need to write instructions.
If you want to make such a hardware, I can ask him if he'd like to explain
things to you, or even write a more general HOWTO.
All the best
Peter
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On 21 Nov 2013 at 12:34, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Peter, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I can't see problems in
soldering fine-pitch SMD devices. Of course the board will have to be made
in a professional setup (ever tried OSS and other chinese low-volume
suppliers? They make
projects you find at the forums. Nobody
else wanted to do it himself yet - for good reasons.
However, the QL-SD design and software is free. As soon as it is tested
and someone cares to publish it on the web, you can try your luck.
Peter
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Nobody else wanted to do it himself yet - for good reasons.
In the German forums, I meant. How many others like you will turn up, I
have no idea.
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Germany, or at least Europe.
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prototype meeting with Tony Tebby in Eindhoven 1997.
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SQLUG could probably find a location and maybe pay for the hall in
Edinburgh or even possibly Glasgow.
Would be somewhere different and attract people both from the continent
and Britain?
Who would come?
QL is 30 in Scotland sounds cool :) I would try to come.
Peter
. It is
possible that other setups, particularly with Aurora and/or better power
supply, give better results.
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Hi Dilwyn,
Thanks for the update, Peter. I really hope QL-SD makes it to market. I also
hope someone will be able to write software to make it easy to transfer
files between QL and non-QL media. Out of interest, what media format is the
finished QL-SD likely to use - QXL.WIN, Qubide
that compact flash (which is IDE compatible)?
Or does he use some sort of IDE to SD converter?
Anyway, Richard Zidlicky wrote native support for Qubide under Linux.
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XTC68 cross compiler
for the PC.
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Hi Urs,
Peter, there's a quite experienced and very active group (tied together by a
forum) of Sinclair related hardware hackers in Germany. Their members
recently developed and produced - among other projects - a very well done
ZX80 replica and some other nice hardware. See:
http
over the serial line, but that's not of much practical use.
About Amiga/Atari emulators I have no idea. I doubt there is even a
single user who would use internet on that.
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The goal is to save time, not to spend even more ;-)
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the sources if interested. But it didn't work
well, there seemed to be an endianess issue or something, and I had no
time to debug it.
(I do not yet support the CP2200 with QLwIP, but if I ever find time for
QLwIP again, the CP2200 will obviously be the first device of interest.)
Peter
suspect further bugs in the CPU.
Which project deserves a seat in the lifeboat? Which one would *you*
prefer to see finished - even if it comes with limitations?
All the best
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schematics at some point. In
this case, a person with FPGA skills could use the board for general
purposes. For example, I have successfully tried two different RISC CPUs
on the Q68, but I did not design any memory or video controllers for those.
Peter
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