On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 at 18:14:21, David Tubbs wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>At 17:39 29/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Regular QL board
>>>Twin Roms: MGE+TK2 and JSL+TK2 , switch able
>>>Gnome brew Back plane, 3 extra conns
>>> Thru Mem512 expansion ram plus
>>> Home Brew 256 EPROM board
>>>
>>> FLP I/Face - firmware at 10000Hex
>>> Empty slot facing outwards,
>>>Runs on 12volts
>>>
>>>I did, may have a regular black box in someone's attic or shed but I
>>>am wondering, without too much hope, could I use the RimDisk in the
>>>dongle
>>ROmDisq.
>>
>>If you have a standard working ROM slot and extra memory, then yes it
>>will, as long as it will physically fit.
>
>My point is with the combined ROM filling the whole 64k will it work in
>the dongle slot ?
... then you don't have a working standard QL rom slot so it won't work.
>
>I realise there must be something clever going on to squeeze all that
>RAM into a tiny gap, is it clever enough to avoid the onboard Eprom ?
It is not ram - there are up to four 2mbyte flash chips.
It needs the whole 16k address space free.
It sends the data serially in much the same way as Miracle hard disk
does. That is where Sturat got the idea form.
>Do you see any danger in a suck it and see approach ?
Not sure what you are saying.
Depends on what you are sucking I suppose.
Tony
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