Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jan/11 13:29 | Jan11:
Rich Mellor wrote, on 11/Jan/11 12:13 | Jan11:
<snip>
after all, Miracle's hard disk did
still allow use of a ROM cartridge (from memory) although I may be wrong
there.
It did. I remember he had designed it around the std eprom pack, and I
had to file the case to fit a full width romdisq card.
Tony
Speaking of the romdisq, I wonder how practical it might be to adapt the
romdisq drivers for Peter's card reader? I appreciate that (a) TT would
probably charge for this, and (b) it might conflict with Peter's "Open
Source" principles.
"Card reader" - I didn't read in detail, but will it be read only? I
assumed read/write.
Romdisq auto-load drivers will not fit in an unexpanded QL. I believe
he needed quite a large data buffer in ram, certainly, I would have
thought, at least one 64kB block. I have no documentation for TTs
driver code.
It did strike me that Peter's hope to use it in a std QL might not be
straightforward. Even if the drivers fit, will there be enough memory
left to do anything useful?
Tony
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