[Ql-Users] Fwd: [Raspberry Pi] August update - boards back and running content
--- Subject:[Raspberry Pi] August update - boards back and running content From: Raspberry Pi i...@raspberrypi.org We've had a busy month! We received our alpha boards two weeks ago, and already have a desktop environment and hardware-accelerated 3d and video up and running. Work on the final board design is proceeding well. For more details, check out our website at: http://www.raspberrypi.org ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7
On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: Snip. I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access the floppies or not. I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy support. Can anyone confirm this? Bryan H ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Window Manager 2
On 02/03/2011 02:23, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I'm in the process of writing an article for Quanta mag about the new graphical capabilities of QL compatible systems. One of the things I've realised I've probably never seen despite using it so much myself is a short (one-line) description of what the Window Manager 2 is all about. Anybody (including Marcel, he wrote most of it) able to supply a suitable one line or one sentence (or failing that, one paragraph) description? It should offer a brief description of what the Window Manager is, to someone who may have neverused its facilities before or doesn't really know anything beyond the name. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I've not even heard of it! Bryan H ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Serial port fault revisited
On 12/10/2010 09:26, Tony Firshman wrote: Bryan Horstmann wrote, on 12/Oct/10 09:08 | Oct12: on 10/10/10 11:40 PM, ql-us...@q-v-d.com wrote: Rich Mellor wrote, on 10/Oct/10 10:33 | Oct10: On 10/10/2010 09:18, Bryan Horstmann wrote: One of my customary QL's has gone faulty on the Ser1 port and I dug out another one fitted with Minerva 1.97. It seems to be fine with a Sandy expansion, and Trump card, but when I fit a Super Gold card 2.49, the screen shows text Super Gold card, and the Minerva start panel, but there is no response to F1 or any other key. Aren't they compatible? Yes they are (of course) Does the QL eventually boot (in F2 mode)? If not then there certainly is something crashed. Does the SGC work OK in the other QL? Tony ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm The SGC came staight out of my previously working QL whose ser port went wonky. I was just about to print out a few lists, and my little printing program wouldn't set up the printer properly, so I just swapped the QL. The screen just stays on with Super Gold Cardat the top and the Minerva logo at the bottom, and doesn't progress from there. I've put an old Trump card in, as I need the disk interface, and that seems to be OK. I haven't the time at present to look into it further. I hadn't previously heard about the possible need to remove the 68008. Neither had I (8-)# I've six QL's of which three were fully working up the the recent fault. I obviously ned to put some repairs in hand! I wonder what would cause the Ser port to send wrong characters? Ah that is different. I had assumed you were simply getting nothing. I assume you *are* using handshaking (8-)# Have you tried a really slow baud rate - say 1200? However serial *output* has never really been a problem. 8302 is serial output and 8049 is input. I am getting rusty but the two relevant chips are 1488 and 1489 I believe. First check that the 8302 chip (1488?) is getting +12 and -12v. Should be as you are getting some output. Then change the 8302 for one frSGCom a working machine. Then scope the data, and particularly check the input handshake (CTS or DTR depending on the port). It is all a mite messy, hardware-wise. Tony ___ Revisiting this subject Recently I happened to see a reference to the Super Gold Card having an 8049 chip which handles the serial port (amongst other jobs). It could therefore. be the SGC which is faulty, as the original QL is now working OK with a Trump card, and the battery on the SGC is down. Bryan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL System information
On 17/02/2011 08:14, Lee Privett wrote: Might want to take a gander at some QL add-ons from this site, makes interesting viewing, some of them I wouldn't mind getting but alas! http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/museum/sinclair/ql/addons.php Lee snip The cognoscenti come up with useful information spread around, showing that there are a bewildering number of backplanes; how could a newcomer easily find this? I still don't know what sort of backplane the original enquiry, asking who would buy one, referred to. I must admit that this is an academic exercise, as I wouldn't expect to buy one anyway. Bryan ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm