Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 12/03/11 17:20, Dave Park wrote: I just want to repeat that the idea of an FPGA-based QL is not mine and belongs to Peter Graf - the only reason I found it necessary to mention his project was to establish that he has already done some work on a project of this type - informally. As a

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Lee Privett
Absolutely Lee - Back to the QL- - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva On 12/03/11 17:20, Dave Park wrote: I just want to repeat that the idea of an FPGA

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2011, 09:21 + schrieb Norman Dunbar: On 12/03/11 17:20, Dave Park wrote: I just want to repeat that the idea of an FPGA-based QL is not mine and belongs to Peter Graf - the only reason I found it necessary to mention his project was to establish that he has

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Dave Park
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.ukwrote: On 12/03/11 17:20, Dave Park wrote: I just want to repeat that the idea of an FPGA-based QL is not mine and belongs to Peter Graf - the only reason I found it necessary to mention his project was to establish that

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Lear, Malcolm J
From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] on behalf of Lee Privett [lee.priv...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 March 2011 09:41 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva Absolutely Lee - Back to the QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dave, I respectfully 100% disagree. :) No worries! When a community leaves everything to one individual, any number of problems can arise. Abandonment, accident, distraction, personal matters. That was my point too - although, unmentioned. If peter has been working for a while he may be

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-12 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 07:20 + schrieb Adrian Ives: Dave, That's all very nice and would be an absolutely fantastic piece of hardware but it's very complex and likely to be expensive. I would have thought that a better use of the development cost and time would be an FPGA-based QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-12 Thread Dave Park
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Tobias Fröschle tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: Dave, I like your idea with an FGPA based QL very much as it has lots of opportunities in it, but I think it's well beyond the capabilities of the current (small) QL scene, both regarding to Hardware and

[Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
Well it wasn't as bad as I had feared, but not as simple as I had hoped. And I'm certainly not going to mention the still unsolved mystery of the mm.alchp vectored call that reported success but actually zeroed out an entirely different area of the common heap, thus trashing the in-memory copy

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Park
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: btw If anyone out there (like, for example, Dave Park) would like to build an SPI interface for the QL that would significantly increase performance! I can do the hardware if someone else can do the driver. :) Dave

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
. -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park Sent: 12 March 2011 01:26 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: btw

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Timothy Swenson
With a USB/multi-card reader, it should be possible to create a QDOS file system on a Compact Flash card. I've scrounged about 13 512MB CF cards that are no longer needed at work. I can send them to someone in the UK if someone can use them. I also have two unopened boxes of TDK ED disks

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Park
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: Yes please. I'll do the driver. :) How about a board that plugs into the ROM port and has the necessary logic to implement the four wire SPI interface for a single slave device (namely the USBWiz). The board would

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva

2011-03-11 Thread Adrian Ives
: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park Sent: 12 March 2011 01:57 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB on Minerva On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Ives adr...@acanthis.co.uk wrote: Yes please. I'll do the driver