Per Witte wrote:
> This recent spat of silences is really off-topic, imho. About time
we got
> the show back on the road. At least here, in this tiny corner of
unreality,
> our thoughts and opinions matter and can make a difference. So why
not put
> morbid thoughts aside and share with us the ver
In a message dated 30/03/2003 11:32:08 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What news on the membranes Rich (Mellor), are they available yet?
Not yet - anticipated middle of April...
Thanks for all the advance orders, that has been a great help towards financing this operation.
--
Rich
Here's a little oddity...
I have got 3 ZX microdrives which supposedly work with the Spectrum (and Interface 1). However, I have tested them by adding them to the QL's microdrive expansion port and using FORMAT ram1_mdv3 (thanks Miracle) with the following results:
1) All 3 plugged in together,
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hmm - is there a loss of signal when using more than one add-on ZX Microdrive
> ?? I seem to recall that these units were not up to the same standard as the
> built -in QL microdrives - am I correct??
I'm sure that I've used two ZX microd
I seem to recall the following information from many years ago:
1) cabling has to be reversed, i.e. using standard leads, the
microdrives end up facing away from you. (you probably knew this
already if you've actually got 2 of them working)
2) there is a slight speed difference between QL and ZX
In order to get some discussion going again, here's a potentially
useful little routine for generating graduated colours under GD2. This
is written for QPC2-style MODE 32 (I don't have a Q40 or Q60 to try an
equivalent mode 33 or an SMSQ/E to handle 256 colour modes) and
generates a gradually chan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Another minor project Ive been working on recently is fixing and updating my
>asm2htm utility (big yawn, everyone!) with a view to enabling it to html-ise
>the Smsq sources for easy, logical browsing, as an aid to understanding t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Here's a little oddity...
>
>I have got 3 ZX microdrives which supposedly work with the Spectrum (and
>Interface 1). However, I have tested them by adding them to the QL's
>microdrive expansion port and using FORMAT ram1_mdv3 (thanks Mir
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 at 09:17:48, wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Here's a little oddity...
>
>I have got 3 ZX microdrives which supposedly work with the Spectrum
>(and Interface 1). However, I have tested them by adding them to the
>QL's microdrive expansion port and using FORMAT ram1_mdv3
