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by adev
Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:16 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: You know you're a QLer when...
Replies: 18
Views: 10845

Re: You know you're a QLer when...

...you try to use two keys to delete something with your PC keyboard Totally! I just installed QL2K on my work PC, just for amusement's sake... first mistake on the command line & I'm wondering why "ctrl+windows-key" isn't deleting the characters! Suddenly I feel 25 years younger (it'...
by adev
Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:33 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: The Future of the QL Wiki
Replies: 164
Views: 79259

Re: The Future of the QL Wiki

I'm a bit late to this discussion (sorry) having not been around at all for a while... Having gone through something slightly similar a couple of times now, albeit just with forums rather than a whole community, I hope I can add something useful. First - who takes it on? I'd suggest, based on experi...
by adev
Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:49 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Which video output do you use? Why?
Replies: 11
Views: 5604

Re: Which video output do you use? Why?

I have 2 monitors - a VisionQL (currently gathering dust in storage), and a CUB which was specially designed for the QL (it's black....). Both via a standard RGB cable. The CUB is in remarkably good shape, barely audible whistle (although that might just be my aging ears becoming less susceptible to...
by adev
Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:28 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Microdrive felt pads (again...)
Replies: 10
Views: 5711

Re: Microdrive felt pads (again...)

Thanks for all the replies! Most of my own cartridges are already dumped to disk, so they'll be the last ones on the list to do. Fortunately, my disks are mostly 5 1/4", which seem (amazingly) to be more robust than the 3 1/2" variety, despite the hard plastic shell. Don't talk to me about...
by adev
Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:11 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Microdrive felt pads (again...)
Replies: 10
Views: 5711

Re: Microsoft felt pads (again...)

Dave wrote:I have a small amount of the material left.

I'm very busy in a project right now, but if you PM me in 4-5 days, I will be able to help you.
Magic, thanks Dave.

For some reason, I wrote "Microsoft felt pads".....? Talk about a brain fart!
by adev
Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:02 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Microdrive felt pads (again...)
Replies: 10
Views: 5711

Microdrive felt pads (again...)

Help! Does anyone have any felt pads to refresh old mdv cartridges? Almost all of my (100+) carts are still on their original pads, which means most of them don't work very well/at all any more :( Fortunately, I've only lost one to jammed tape, and that's one of the many duplicate Psion tapes. I kno...
by adev
Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:49 pm
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Why was the QL never successful?
Replies: 32
Views: 22841

Re: Why was the QL never successful?

1024MAK wrote:
The Acorn BBC B computer can do it. So I do not see why the Sinclair engineers could not do it. And suitable monitors were available.
True, but it's properly headache-inducing on the standard Microvitec CUB monitor.
by adev
Thu Aug 07, 2014 4:02 pm
Forum: Wanted
Topic: Wanted: AH QL Motherboard
Replies: 3
Views: 2996

Re: Wanted: AH QL Motherboard

Hi Rich, It was a 2-ROM set, I can't remember the release no, I will dig that out tomorrow, if I can remember where I hid it. IIRC it had a D09 serial number, in case that helps. Symptoms are random changing patterns on the screen, random fizzes and bleeps from the speaker, random microdrive accesse...
by adev
Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:58 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello from the Sunny Wirral
Replies: 6
Views: 4663

Re: Hello from the Sunny Wirral

Hi Rich, MicroPeripherals rings a bell alright. It looked the part IIRC, with a nicely moulded end cap which matched the QL style. I never did update it, but TK2 included an "flp_use" command, so I added that to my boot disk, flp_use flp, which fixed the fdk issue (then, of course, I had t...
by adev
Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:09 pm
Forum: Wanted
Topic: Wanted: AH QL Motherboard
Replies: 3
Views: 2996

Wanted: AH QL Motherboard

Does anyone have an unmolested AH board that still works? It will have at least one (maybe 2) flying leads, a couple of cut traces, and I believe an inline resistor on one of the wires. My AH board has these, but the wire has become detached at one end and I've no idea where it goes (into one of the...