Hi all, Yesterday I've got my personal copy of QL Today which is great. I like the cover and Geoff's review of Volume 15 which both show what has been achieved in the passed QL year. I also like Wolfgang's Animal World and George's Queue Device articles to name just two. I share Wolfgang's view of OOP and (still) like the design of QDOSMSQ which (at least for me) is no contradiction. Reading George's article I was amazed how easy-peasy it seems to be to write a simple serial device driver (not to be mistaken by RS232c) for QDOSMSQ.
I still remember well the discussions at the 2009 Lucerne and 2010 Vienna shows of having an SD-CARD interface for the QL. I know that writing a directory device driver (e.g. for SD-Cards) for QDOSMSQ is far more complex that writing a serial device driver (see above). Well... TODAY I've got my personal "copy" (well, it's not a copy, it's an original unit) of Ser-USB from Memory Lane Computing (Adrian Ives). After collecting the package at my local post office this afternoon, all I could do today is unpacking the shipment and have a first sight on the items in the box. The unit itself and all the other pieces (cables, power supply, ROMport-Dongle, etc.) look great. As I did not have more time and there's no QL available at my current location I had to postpone the first usage to coming Thursday the earliest. It was Tony Firshman who, at the Vienna show, first informed me on the project Adrian was working on for a while. Well in the ql-users archive there's a first discussion on a QL USB interface with Adrian involved dated October 2009. The first USBwiz discussion dates from February 2007. No need to count the months (years) from vision to product, it's just great that the first USB-interface is now available for the QL and hopefully the others in development will also be available one day. Note: In my online Sinclair QL picture gallery (see link in message footer) under Peripherals/USBwiz there is a photo set of my brand new Ser-USB unit. As often said, but still true TODAY: QL forever! Enjoy the summer! Cheers, Urs QLvsJAGUAR - Much more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever! Website: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p Pictures: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/albums.aspx _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
