I have only ever seen the Minerva ROM in emulation packages, is it an actual ROM I can get hold off and replace the JS/JM type or is it a little more complicated than that? Lee Privett ¦--------------------------------------------------------¦ Sent from my Laptop running XP but emulating the QL using QPC2 ¦--------------------------------------------------------¦ ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralf Reköndt To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Hardware question
Lee Privett wrote: > Thanks guys, I am now giving some serious thought to a Retro Arcade > Console with the QL at the core, but at switch-on I don't want the user > to have to see or press the F1/F2 configuration choice, so the next thing > is in the EPROM code (which I assume will run first) can I get it jump > passed the F1/F2 choice and just to if F2 has been pressed so that it > finishes off the sequence as in TV mode and looks for a boot file or will > it just load in extensions from the memory locations in the EPROM? As far as I know, just Minerva supports an automatic start of the OS after a few seconds. With Jochen's tool, you can also put a SuperBASIC program into the eprom. This will be set as a device BOOT, which the OS searches first. Cheers...Ralf _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
