Tony, Yes, sorry about that. I was summarizing my original e-mail which seems not to have reached you.
>From what you say it looks pretty bleak for the ROMDisQ, so I might just embed it in a block of amber and keep it over the fireplace as a "technological fossil". ;) I was just thinking the other day how it might be possible to make a CF card interface for the ROM slot, thus creating a ROMDisQ Generation II. Fanciful, I know. It should be possible to use CF cards with QUBIDE, by plugging in one of the cheap CF to IDE adapters that are available, but that still requires the QUBIDE, which is no longer in production. So my final thought was that if anyone is ever going to produce any new hardware project for the original QL hardware, the one thing that would be really worthwhile is a basic bare bones USB interface. I was astonished to find a place called RetroClinic that does just such an interface for the BBC Micro! Such an interface would only really need the basic drivers to handle removable drives (sounds simple when you say it quickly) there would be no intention of even trying to support other types of device except, maybe, a mouse :) Anyway, these are just musings (although I did go as far as collecting the specs on the available USB controller chips). I suspect that the only practical future for the QL now is to live on through emulation, with programs like QPC2, on a fast Linux/Mac/Win PC delivering processing power far in excess of any QL or QL-like hardware available today. In fact emulated QLs will soon be travelling so fast they will be able to slingshot around the sun and travel back in time to 1985! ;) Regards, Adrian --- On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 10:24:26 PM, you wrote: TF> Ah you didn't say that. When you said you said it was 'happy formatting TF> and loading the driver' I assumed it had worked. TF> That was why I was puzzled. This explains it better. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
