On 22 Mar 2006, at 17:59, Tony Firshman wrote: > Super Gold Card is the fastest QL expansion. He said Gold Card. > You can recognise a SGC by the number of connectors. There will be > one > parallel printer connector, and two smaller floppy disk connectors for > SGC.
Yep - it has two floppy connectors - I have connected the 1.44 drive unit provided with his QL to the upright one, and the Miracle Systems unit I had for my QL to the second one - it is addressing flp1_ through 4 correctly. The box said Gold Card on it, but the card itself said Super Gold Card. > To get the extra QL commands, type tk2_ext. You may well have the SGC > manual. If not then I bet it is on Dilwyn Jones' site: > http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/ I have a manual which is a bound A4 one, a Quanta manual for the Gold Card which has a couple of pages talking about the Super Gold Card's additional drives and... > SGC also protects the clock, and offers some boot defaults, like > protecting the date/time (PROT_DATE n). That is what the battery is > about. ...these features. I think the boot has been set, since it skipped the "press F1/F2" stage. > You can only network to other QLs - or a QXL card on a PC. There is no > other network for the QL. That's a shame. I've seen ethernet adaptors that work on serial ports modified for machines like the Atari 800; a card based around that solution exists for the Apple II range. I wonder if it would be possible to make something that works with the QL's serial ports. > Look out for my emailshots - they will tell you about forthcoming > shows. > The next is the Quanta AGM in Manchester on 8/9 April. Don't know if I'll be able to make it to that, as I've got a lot on in April, but Manchester is not so far that I couldn't make it! Richard (reading a 1985 copy of the A-Z of Microcomputers that was in one box - has a lovely bit on the Enterprise with a picture of Mike Shirley, and a paragraph about "Apple's preoccupation with mice - an animal whose utility, when all is said and done, remains less than that of a pig". So presumably whoever wrote that now feels a bit silly...) -- Tasty Other - Because Far Too Much in Life Makes Sense Music for download - coming soon (RIP MP3.com) G.A.S. http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/music/ Platform: PowerMac G5 2.0GHz Dual, 20" LCD, Logic, Hammerfall. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
