Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROMand ToolKit II?

2013-11-21 Thread Alexandre Souza
It took a quite an amount of email and phone support, even providing complete working samples, until someone (very skilled at building hardware) successfully reproduced the QL-SD. QL-SD has a much higher difficulty level than the other projects you find at the forums. Nobody else wanted to do it h

Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROMand ToolKit II?

2013-11-21 Thread Peter
On 21 Nov 2013 at 12:34, Alexandre Souza wrote: > Peter, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I can't see problems in > soldering fine-pitch SMD devices. Of course the board will have to be made > in a professional setup (ever tried OSS and other chinese low-volume > suppliers? They make q

Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROMand ToolKit II?

2013-11-21 Thread Peter
Hi Alexandre, > > It might be of relevance for you that the first QL-SD devices are being > > built here in Germany while we write. QL-SD provides an SDHC card > > interface for the QL, combined with the Minerva OS in EPROM. The QL-SD > > design was given to the QL community for free, so it's not

Re: [Ql-Users] Newbie question follows: How to join Minerva ROMand ToolKit II?

2013-11-21 Thread Alexandre Souza
Morning Peter, All! Basically, you can have Minerva in the first 48 KB and TK2 in the following 16 KB. Resulting in a 64 KB binary stored in EPROM. However, the Minerva binary has to be "padded" up to exact 48 KB length, so TK2 is properly aligned. Please note that you need a ROM version for