Adrian Ives wrote: > I know the Ser-USB works with superHermes and works very > well. Hermes is an unknown because I have never seen one, > but it would be useful to test it. > In any event it's not just the hardware itself; the driver > for the serial port also plays a part. Adrian, I'm following your development with great interest. As said a while ago in a pm "Great work"!
It's sad you decided to skip standard QL serial ports support. Maybe you can rethink the story as I see big chances for Ser-UsbWiz spreading. I'm following the world-wide Retro-Scene where collectors exchange (sell/buy) working QL's in a rate of approximately 3 QL's a week. Many of those newbies are interested not only to collect the machine but also to fire some software. As almost all second hand microdrive cartridges are in such a bad condition that they refuse to load those people have no other chance that to put the QL on their shelves as eye-catcher only. Even I'm also not going for the sake of Mammon, I see a market for Ser-UsbWiz. Think of easy loading SD-cards with QL software and up you go. Maybe you can develop the driver in a way that for standard QL serial ports it runs in a throttled/safe mode with reduced performance. What about 4800, 2400 or even 1200 baud for such environments? Hermes is another story. Even it is the same Intel 8049 chip as the QL's IPC it has completely rewritten IPC firmware which makes the QL's serial ports performing a lot better. If you cannot support the crappy standard QL configuration, maybe you can the Hermes configuration. It would be great if someone (Tony, Rich) could borrow Adrian a Hermes chip. Thank you and QL forever! Cheers, Urs _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
