On 09/06/10 21:21, Anton Preinsack wrote:
SD/SF Card Readers are quite easy to do, most CF readers can plug into
the IDE Interface. But the card has to be formatted to SMSQ/E or QDOS.
Reading and writing to FAT formatted Card is another story, no device
drivers.
... well that fits in well with the work Adrian Ives is doing.
I haven't heard from him for a while, but he had skeleton drivers to
write to the on-board FAT formatted SD card on UsbWiz, using a serial
interface.
That card could be written to on a PC, although execable files would
need to be zipped by a QL system or written from a QL emulator.
There are a few issue though.
1) I suspect it would need a QL with extra memory to be useful
2) It woud be very slow speed without at least Hermes
3) It needs a 5v power supply
superHermes has 5v available and could probably work at 230400 bps, but
this is moving away from a bare QL that Urs is looking to support.
Tony
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