> Excellent. If it it will work with that, it'll probably work with > anything. Does anyone still use AH, when Minny is freely available? > > Jeremy Not many with AH, but plenty with the next two common versions (JM and JS). My Aurora has a JM ROM and my QL+Gold Card have a switchable JM and Minerva via a little ROM sitchboard I bought from Syd Humphries and some of the lads at an East Anglia QL group some years ago.
Some emulators such as QLay and QemuLator will let you choose which ROm version to install, so here too you can have a choice. The various ROM images are available on my website for download in countries where this is allowed. Some emulators include a freely distributable version of Minerva Mk1 (I think Minnie mk 2 is dependent on the Mk ii hardware so could not be used as an emulator image anyway). Software like Turbo works across all ROM versions anyway, and fixes the majority of problems in early Sinclair ROM versions in compiled programs so they work consistently across all ROM versions. Minerva is probably the best ROM version for a QL, while the most common version is probably JS. AH, JM and MG ROMs (and the national variants in JS or MG) are in fairly common usage. An AH ROM has a few bugs in the code which may cause a few minor problems when writing and running SuperBASIC programs, but these are not too significant and have been well documented by Simon Goodwin and Mark Knight in QL magazines in the past (I wonder if there's any interest in trying to get permission from Simon and Mark to make these "bugs" docs publically available to help people write BASIC programs which avoid nasties in given ROM versions and so work consistently interpreted on all ROM versions?) Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
