Re: [Ql-Users] Digital Precision Super Forth (+ Reversi)

2011-06-13 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 13/06/2011 10:13, Rich Mellor wrote: Gerry may have one which is not on blue paper, so can be scanned - he will check and get back to me. Would that be a problem if it where scanned and then OCR'd I mean if you scan it you could do some colour substitution to

Re: [Ql-Users] QIMI Mice

2011-06-06 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 06/06/2011 16:17, Rich Mellor wrote: On 06/06/2011 16:03, Tony Firshman wrote: Someone else has commented that this would need a mouse which is PS/2 compatible (ie. can work with a USB-PS/2 adaptor, not just a generic USB only mouse). Ahh so it's not really USB at all, it's PS/2 on a USB

Re: [Ql-Users] well, it's finally gone!

2011-05-04 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
prolly just a name that has been bought by someone else :( Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] One for the QL Collectors out there

2011-03-28 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Works in MESS on (emulated) QL hardware, ver$ prints TY05 Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-13 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 13/03/2011 08:18, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 10/Mar/11 18:37 | Mar10: Does anyone have a manual for a Medic I/F to scan in and send to Dilwyn? An EPROM dump for examining would also a be good idea...;-) Medic circuit diagram (in two scanned A4 parts

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-13 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 13/03/2011 21:48, Martin Wheatley wrote: At 10:03 13/03/2011, you wrote: On 13 Mar 2011, at 09:09, Phill Harvey-Smith a...@aurigae.demon.co.uk wrote: On 13/03/2011 08:18, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Ralf Reköndt wrote, on 10/Mar/11 18:37 | Mar10: Does anyone have a manual

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-10 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
for the QL at the time. Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Medic board

2011-03-10 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
), to give two banks of 256K for a total of 512k expansion, but that would depend on the other logic on the board. Cheers, Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-05 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
me a copy that would be cool. Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] SuperQBoard clone

2011-03-05 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
thank you very much for that, BTW they look very much like Cadsoft Eagle layout files, if that is the cas eany chance of a copy of the original files, as Eagle is what I use.. Cheers. Phill -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-05 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
be easy enough to fire up quill, and then print them to a text file. Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

Re: [Ql-Users] SuperQBoard clone

2011-03-05 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
of that would never be used. I guess the only component that would be hardish to get hold of would be the WD177x. Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-04 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 04/03/2011 10:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I don't know of those specific drivers, sadly. The sources for QDOS CLassic emulator (which includes a floppy driver) are available at http://www.mswift.unisonplus.net/ql/index.html Humm I'd not found that one, I'll take a look. And of course the

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-04 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 04/03/2011 12:13, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phill Harvey-Smith wrote: And of course the SMSQ/E sources are available, which can be downloaded in whole or part from http://www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe/ Yeah I found the SMSQ/E sources later on, problem is they use DMA which of course

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-04 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 04/03/2011 12:50, Keith Mitchell wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:24:36 -, Phill Harvey-Smith Phill, Tony Tebby gave me a copy of the Sandy SuperQboard ROM assembler code to help check my reverse engineering of the PALs. He also kept me up to date with copies of the ROM binaries, so that I

[Ql-Users] QL Disk driver

2011-03-03 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Hi all Does a dissasebily or better still the source files for the QL disk driver as used by the Trump card, Sandy Superdisk etc exist online anywhere ? Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't

[Ql-Users] Sandy SuperDisk / SuperQBoard.

2011-02-27 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
rom which does have these as standard (since TK2 has been released as freeware anyways). Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Sandy SuperDisk / SuperQBoard.

2011-02-27 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 27/02/2011 20:55, Ralf Reköndt wrote: Phill Harvey-Smith wrote: Hi all, I have here a Sandy SuperDisk interface which works fine. The board however has several (3) missing chips and a missing 9 pin socket, I know from the manual, that this can be upgraded to a SuperQBoard, by fitting

Re: [Ql-Users] Sandy SuperDisk / SuperQBoard.

2011-02-27 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 27/02/2011 21:44, Tony Firshman wrote: Phill Harvey-Smith wrote, on 27/Feb/11 20:46 | Feb27: I have a drawing for the bus mouse conversion on Issue III boards. Looking at the board with QL connector at top: [snip thanks that's helpfull] . and mouse version of ROM needed. Which

Re: [Ql-Users] Sandy SuperDisk / SuperQBoard.

2011-02-27 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 28/02/2011 07:22, Tony Firshman wrote: It should be clear from all this that we are talking bus mice (Atari and Qimi) and not serial mice. Indeed though there are a couple of projects kicking around on the net that convert PS/2 mice to Atari/Amiga machines (mostly just a microcontroler +

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K

2011-02-23 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
, and the rom test detects the TC rom ! Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On the subject of backplanes.. I have one of these : http://www.rwapadventures.com/images/q+4-interface.jpg But alas don't have the little interface board that connects it to the QL, does anyone have one that can take a couple of high quality piccies of it, or beter still have a

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-22 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
David Tubbs wrote: At 09:48 22/02/2011 +, you wrote: On the subject of backplanes.. I have one of these : http://www.rwapadventures.com/images/q+4-interface.jpg But alas don't have the little interface board that connects it to the QL, does anyone have one that can take a couple of

Re: [Ql-Users] Trump Card questions

2011-02-21 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Malcolm Lear wrote: Hi Phill, I produced a couple of Trump card clones in the 80's and still have the PCB designs at hand, so drawing up a schematic will not be difficult. Excellent :) If you can mail me the PLD dumps I'll label and comment the equations for you. I did this

Re: [Ql-Users] Trump Card questions

2011-02-21 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Malcolm Lear wrote: Ah, that brings all the memories back. I'm sure the chips were protected and I had to switch all combinations of input to deduce the equations. I did wonder about that :) :) I may have a go at hooking them up to an AVR and getting it to scan and record for me :) :) The

Re: [Ql-Users] Trump Card questions

2011-02-21 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Malcolm Lear wrote: Since the RAM on a standard QL was only ever intended to extend up to $B, would the test ever go beyond that. Yep it does, loop only stops when it finds a location where it gets a different value back than it wrote. Cheers. Phill.

Re: [Ql-Users] Trump Card questions

2011-02-21 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phill Harvey-Smith wrote: Indeed, I have worked out this much, however I think the RAM test takes place before this point so will hit the mirrored rom and only see 640K :( So there must be something else afoot :) RAM test is pretty much the first thing the OS does, long

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Backplanes...

2011-02-21 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
damaged / catch fire. Cheers. Phill. -- Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric ! You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge -- Rush. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm