Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROM and ToolKit II?
Hi Alexandre, I've seen around the net photos of internal ROMs of Minerva AND ToolKitII. How do I join both codes? Is that a matter of just concatenating files or there is something I should learn? Basically, you can have Minerva in the first 48 KB and TK2 in the following 16 KB. Resulting in a 64 KB binary stored in EPROM. However, the Minerva binary has to be padded up to exact 48 KB length, so TK2 is properly aligned. Please note that you need a ROM version for TK2, not a disk version. I'm refering to a 64 KB EPROM adaptor. If you have the original Minerva hardware instead, the upper 16 KB of the EPROM will be ignored, so the area is free for use by the external ROM slot. By the way, it is not always clever to have TK2 in ROM. For example, if you have a fast mass storage device. In this case, it is more important to have the drivers for the storage device in ROM, so the QL can boot from that device. TK2 can always be loaded later on. Provided you have enough RAM - but you won't get far without memory extension anyway. It might be of relevance for you that the first QL-SD devices are being built here in Germany while we write. QL-SD provides an SDHC 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROM and ToolKit II?
On 21 Nov 2013 at 11:07, Alexandre Souza wrote: Building QL-SD at home would be very hard, because of 0.5 mm pitch SMD components and a thin two layer PCB with 0.15 mm tracks. It took more than a year until someone came up, who has the skills and equipment to do it. I don't think so. I have resources to build a board like that here at home It took a quite an amount of email and phone support, even providing complete working samples, until someone (very skilled at building hardware) successfully reproduced the QL-SD. QL-SD has a much higher difficulty level than the other 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROM and ToolKit II?
On 21 Nov 2013 at 15:10, Peter wrote: 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. Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROM and ToolKit II?
On 21 Nov 2013 at 12:44, Alexandre Souza wrote: Soldering fine pitch SMD devices isn't that hard, if you have the right equipment, or tons of patience. Tons of patience, when I did it :( If you want I can do a video showing an easy way of soldering SMD ICs, but I believe there are lots of videos like that on the web. Of course, as soon as I put my dirty hands on the project and have the boards and ICs on hand, I'm planning in doing a video showing how to build it :) Will certainly be cool to watch. However, as much as I'd like to help spontaneously, I have to concentrate my time on other issues at the moment. If you wait until docs are out, you have the added benefit of a manual and maybe test experiences or bugfixes from others. And of course, I hope I can be of any help to the QL comunity with my simple resources. Simple resources are just great for the QL. Pity you are not located in Germany, or at least Europe. Peter ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROM and ToolKit II?
Sorry for the newbieness :o) I've seen around the net photos of internal ROMs of Minerva AND ToolKitII. How do I join both codes? Is that a matter of just concatenating files or there is something I should learn? I need to get better educated about the QL system, but I still think it is missing a newbie FAQ :o( Thanks, Alexandre (Minerva Board Ready! I'll install it today :D) --- Enviado do meu Motorola PT550 Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
