[Ql-Users] QLSD tester sought
I've got a new QLSD driver release which needs some testing, so if anybody is willing to help there is a ROM and RAM version at https://www.kilgus.net/soft/qlsd105_bin.zip I'm mainly interested in making sure it still works as stable as before. There are 4 changes: 1. It solves a small problem with the card auto-detection when more than one card is used at the same time. Probably few people run into this with existing single slot QLSD hardware ;) 2. It adds some sort of API so 3rd party software can call into the driver to have raw access to the card sectors. In case anybody is interested there is some demo code at https://www.kilgus.net/soft/qlsd_demo.zip 3. The "QLSD is busy" flag moved into the system variables so several drivers or other software can share QLSD more easily. 4. It checks the version of the hardware and outputs it on startup. For this to work I added a new register to my hardware that encodes the version and variant. The original hardware is detected simply by not having this register. When the feedback is good I can go forward with releasing the new hardware. All the best, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] 68K/OS
Hi Malcolm, Do you have any pictures of the 3U Rack? It would nice to industrial application of the QL. RegardsDerek Original message From: Malcolm Lear via Ql-Users Date: 05/07/2018 10:34 (GMT+00:00) To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Cc: Malcolm Lear Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 68K/OS Ah, just found the document on Dilwyn's site, so nothing rare after all. Malcolm On 05/07/2018 09:55, Malcolm Lear via Ql-Users wrote: > Hi, > In the process of clearing out my lab here at the University of Essex, > I've come across a '68K/OS Systems Programmers Reference Manual'. > The document is around 65 pages long and I have some recollection at > the time an NDA was signed, but maybe that was due to some sort of > testing. I joined the uni around 1985,at which point there was a QL > lab with around 30 QL's all with a ribbon cable leading to a 3U rack. > The rack had memory expansion, serial ports, parallel port, GPIO ports > and floppy disk interface. > Malcolm > > ___ > QL-Users Mailing List > . > ___ QL-Users Mailing List ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [Ql-Users] 68K/OS
Ah, just found the document on Dilwyn's site, so nothing rare after all. Malcolm On 05/07/2018 09:55, Malcolm Lear via Ql-Users wrote: Hi, In the process of clearing out my lab here at the University of Essex, I've come across a '68K/OS Systems Programmers Reference Manual'. The document is around 65 pages long and I have some recollection at the time an NDA was signed, but maybe that was due to some sort of testing. I joined the uni around 1985,at which point there was a QL lab with around 30 QL's all with a ribbon cable leading to a 3U rack. The rack had memory expansion, serial ports, parallel port, GPIO ports and floppy disk interface. Malcolm ___ QL-Users Mailing List . ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[Ql-Users] 68K/OS
Hi, In the process of clearing out my lab here at the University of Essex, I've come across a '68K/OS Systems Programmers Reference Manual'. The document is around 65 pages long and I have some recollection at the time an NDA was signed, but maybe that was due to some sort of testing. I joined the uni around 1985,at which point there was a QL lab with around 30 QL's all with a ribbon cable leading to a 3U rack. The rack had memory expansion, serial ports, parallel port, GPIO ports and floppy disk interface. Malcolm ___ QL-Users Mailing List
